open sea

Chapter 242 Confrontation
Chen Mu regretted digging the trench so low.

Looking at the Shuanma Bridge from this perspective, all you can see at the same level are horseshoes. Those Mongolian horses that were originally short in stature have become extremely tall, and their galloping gallops have brought great pressure to the banner troops in the trenches.

It is not surprising at all that there were flag soldiers who fired their blunderbuss early in the first battle.

Chen Mu, who was holding the gun, couldn't help but want to fire the gun at a distance of hundreds of steps, but he held back.

Without artillery to deter them, rows of warriors from Tumet's army dismounted and cleared away the caltrops on the bridge, followed by cavalry and cavalry striding across the bridge. The Ming army's arrow rain ran and spread out to form a shield wall, just dozens of steps in front of the trench.

Then the archers on horseback circled their horses in the shield wall and returned fire with bows and arrows on the wings.

Chen Mu held the blunderbuss stand on the wooden shield in front of the trench, licking his dry lips. It seemed that their blunderbuss team had been selectively ignored—he thought they would be the first to be shot, but unexpectedly As if those Tumed people didn't see this place, they directly fought with Deng Zilong and Hu Daxiong on the two wings.

Can't they see hundreds of densely packed heads protruding from behind the shield in such a large trench?
They really couldn't see that there was heavy rain every tens or hundreds of steps, and there was a barrage of inverted spears outside the trench. Even some Mongolian soldiers who were repelled in the first battle didn't think there would be people hiding here, let alone... those who were beaten The northern soldiers, who were terrified of the artillery bombardment, even the tribal leaders were killed, and they have long since failed to form an organization, so how could they be sent by Ji Neng again.

When people attack the Shuanma Bridge, they will subconsciously think that this is a trench and a slope to block the cavalry. Even if there are people, they should be behind the slope.

Chen Mu felt relieved, but for Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, it was a tough battle.

"Strong crossbow, release!"

Deng Zilong had forgotten how long he had not commanded a bow and crossbow unit. The cold weapons that he was familiar with in the battalion and could no longer be familiar with now seemed like a world away.The surrounding recruits followed their orders and hurriedly raised the crossbows of different sizes and strengths, raised the crossbow high and pulled the trigger. Amidst the sound of crumbling strings, the arrows shot like locusts.

"Turn on! Archers shoot!"

Hundreds of strong crossbows fired like the enemy's cavalry position, and everywhere there was a sound of crossbow bolts being nailed to wooden shields, and then there was a tooth-piercing sound of strong crossbows being stringed around, also mixed with the soldiers of our own being hit by Tumed archers And the shot made the screams of crying father and mother.

Deng Zilong wiped the rain from his face, and Yuruya pinned it to his chest with a whistling sound. He was caught off guard by the momentum and took half a step back. He subconsciously lowered his head to look, but he hardly felt anything on his body, just like being pushed. , causing him to raise a smile and continue giving orders.

No one cares about the impact of rainy weather on the bow and crossbow strings. It doesn't matter if all these bows and crossbows are destroyed after the battle, not to mention that rain is not that destructive.

It's nothing more than animal tendons and fish gelatin swell with water and become soft.

Following Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, who was used to using the bird gun, saw that the bow and crossbow became soft and not soft, but they were actually very soft. The Tumed infantry blocked it with a broken wooden sign, and a large number of thrown arrows fell into the enemy's formation, but it was not necessarily true. Being able to kill and injure the enemy made him anxious, and he looked at the trenches from time to time.

General Chen is too calm.

There were only two arrows before the battle. Although Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng's subordinates kept firing seven or eight hundred bows and crossbows, they did little damage to the enemy cavalry. On the contrary, a steady stream of enemy cavalry on the bridge were crossing the river in large numbers under the protection of the infantry's outer shield wall. The circle of cavalry swimming in the shield wall is getting bigger and bigger, constantly throwing arrows to the two wings.

These vanguard cavalry have good protection, thick leather armor and iron armor to protect them from crossbow damage to the maximum extent, but the recruits of Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng do not have such good armor, even if they are also leather armor, they Compared with the Tumets, the armor is horribly thinner.

Can't stop the bow and arrow at all.

The two sides did not engage in close combat, but the casualties continued to rise. Every moment, soldiers in the formation screamed and fell to the ground, bringing deeper fear to Paoze. If you don't retreat a step, the army formation may collapse immediately.

However, within half an hour of the battle, Deng Zilong had already handed over the task of giving orders to the hundreds of households under his command, and he led his own soldiers to stand on the side of the formation and kept shouting: "Don't mess up, don't retreat! Those who advance will live, those who retreat will die!"

The situation on Hu Daxiong's side was not much better, so he simply held a long knife and led his own soldiers to stand in front of the formation with a big banner, in an attempt to arouse the morale of his subordinates. He relied on wearing double armor and a Nanyang breastplate He was not afraid of his protection, but before he waved the banner twice, he was a live target with a few arrows pierced on him, and four of the seven soldiers around him fell down in a blink of an eye.

"Why didn't the general give the order!"

The tide is irreversible.

Standing in the trenches, Chen Mu gritted his teeth and forced himself to calmly look around the battlefield not far away. For the general, this was an extremely rare learning opportunity. The past hard study of the art of war was imprinted in his mind, and at this moment, sentences and paragraphs emerged. In the mind, as long as you can grasp a few sentences, you can fully enhance your combat ability.

The enemy formation he saw consisted of two layers of infantry crouching forward and standing behind holding round shields holding bones, and cavalry galloping and shooting around the inner circle, and it was also a maelstrom ready to go, even though his two wings had been in a short period of time. There were more than [-] casualties, and the recruits even left the rear, but for the enemy, the battle had not yet begun.

Their running was just a process of gathering troops. Chen Mu in the trench clearly captured this process, and then grasped the enemy's tactical purpose in his hands-gathering troops, damaging morale, and breaking through in one fell swoop when there were enough troops.

"Those who shoot guns without orders - cut!"

The battle formation will change, because he has grasped the enemy's target, and he can predict their next move. They will gallop and attack at the place where the two wings are about to be crushed by huge pressure.

At that time, it was also the time when the infantry posed the least threat to the cavalry, and only a small price was needed. After the enemy's formation was overwhelmed, the entire bank of the Juma River would be trampled under the trample of iron hooves.

"Raise the gun and get ready."

Chen Mu's voice was very soft, and the two nervous messengers beside him shouted out the general order in the trench, and then conveyed it from left to right. This is a useless military order, because all the guns have been set up Let go, but this military order is very important.

Let the flag army waiting to be replaced in the rear cheer up.

The trenches were filled with the unbearable deep breathing of the Banner Army because they didn't dare to breathe out loudly. Chen Mu didn't look sideways, but he knew there was a Banner Army trembling beside him, and his eyes were fixed on Tumot who was galloping around The military cavalry looked at the enemies who kept shooting his subordinates with feather arrows, and also watched them being overturned by the arrows, until the whistle of the changed tone came from the enemy's formation.

The Mercedes-Benz circle formed two left and right formations in front of his eyes, and the shield-hands in front of the formation rushed forward. At this moment, Chen Mu screamed hoarsely.

"Bird gun team, let go!"

Boom, boom!

In the sky full of gunpowder smoke and heavy rain, the trenches sprayed projectiles and shot directly at the enemy's formation.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)