I want to be emperor

Chapter 119 The thieves' guns are sharp

Amidst the sound of the rumbling guns, Chen Yongfu looked at a phalanx of guards that had collapsed with a dark face.

"The artillery of these thieves is not easy to deal with!"

At the same time, Chen De, the eldest son beside him, also frowned and said: "Although Li Shoubei's battalion is just an ordinary guard battalion, there are more than 100 soldiers in the formation, but how long has it been? We haven't stepped forward yet, more than 600 Hundreds of people were killed or wounded in the battalion of men.”

"Father, why don't you wait a little longer, otherwise, the guard camps in front are probably..."

Chen Yongfu said with a dark face at this time: "Let them retreat first!"

Just ten minutes ago, Chen Yongfu ordered the phalanx formed by the front guards to continue to advance, but when they were more than 200 feet away from the bandit army, the bandit army had already opened fire.

The artillery fired by the rebel army spanned a distance of more than 200 feet and then got into the dense formation formed by the guards.

The shell, which seemed to be no more than two catties, fell into the crowd, causing many deaths and injuries on the spot, and it did not stop after landing, but continued to bounce and roll forward. Death is disabled.

Many shells killed and wounded more than a dozen people before they stopped completely.

After the bandit army started shelling, the guard phalanx in front inevitably shook after suffering casualties, but under Chen Yongfu's order, they still had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to move forward, and they were still speeding up.

However, not long after, another round of artillery from the bandit army came.

The continuous sound of cannons brought shells that continued to cause casualties to them.

In front of this kind of solid shell, even the few armored soldiers in the guards can't stop it at all, but if you are hit by this kind of solid shell, no matter how many layers of armor you wear or how strong you are, it is very powerful. The end of death or disability.

As time passed bit by bit, the phalanx of the first few guards finally couldn't hold on anymore. Although they had already advanced at least two or three hundred meters, they had suffered heavy losses in the process.

The battalion under Li Shoubei's command collapsed first, and then several other guard phalanxes that had not been hit hard saw the collapse of their friendly troops, and their morale was also unstable.

Even if Chen Yongfu didn't give the order to retreat, it is estimated that the remaining phalanxes of the guards would turn around and flee completely in the near future.

Seeing the soldiers in front of the guard retreat one after another, Chen Yongfu sighed and said, "The bandit army's artillery is sharp and invincible!"

"Order to go on, all the guard battalions will rush up in three directions, and the headquarters will send out a thousand soldiers to raid the formation."

"Don't slow down this time, just speed up and rush over, regardless of the formation."

"They don't have many long cannons, but only six. Even if they fight, they can only break up one or two battalions, and the other battalions can still charge forward."

"The car battalion and the archers must follow up in time, and fire their cannons and arrows as soon as they get close."

Although Wei Suobing's first attack failed, Chen Yongfu did not give up the attack directly.

The attack just now also allowed him to test it out. Among the bandit army, there are only six cannons that can fire from a distance, and the rest should be short cannons that can only fire within a few tens of feet like our own. .

The long cannons of the six bandit army are amazingly powerful, but the number is still too small. One or two battalions of my own were destroyed by their long cannons, but as long as the other battalion heads can rush up, then these bandits can still be taken down. soldier's chance.

Don't dare to say it, Chen Yongfu has a military advantage.

Excluding the [-] peasants who couldn't fight on the battlefield, he still has a full [-] troops under his command.

As for the bandits on the opposite side, except for the civilian husbands and auxiliary troops, there are only a thousand people who can fight to death.

He still has hope of winning.

Under Chen Yongfu's order, at about 600:[-] in the morning, the Ming army launched an offensive again. This time, Chen Yongfu dispatched all the remaining guard soldiers of more than [-] people in one go.

Behind the guards, there are more than 1000 soldiers from the headquarters.

A total of more than 3000 troops dispersed to form small square formations, which continued to approach from a distance of about 800 meters.

On the top of the low mountain in Zhaozhuang, Luo Zhixue squinted his eyes and the Ming army launched an attack again, and he couldn't help shaking his head slightly when he was still using the same attack routine as before: "Is this a lack of memory or stubbornness?"

In front of a large number of guns on one's own side, if these troops equipped with only cold weapons and a small number of guns can force their way through, isn't this too contemptuous of guns?
Luo Zhixue asked himself that it was difficult to understand Chen Yongfu's approach. If it were Chen Yongfu, the first attack failed, and after seeing the sharp artillery of the Township Protection Army, he would attack in another way.

For example, try to dig trenches and advance, use the traffic trenches to maneuver the two to three hundred catties of light artillery under your command to the front line, and launch shelling on the rural protection army after approaching.

There are many other methods, but Chen Yongfu chose the least tactical method, which is also simple and rude: increase troops and launch a strong attack again, trying to directly use the superiority of troops to offset the artillery superiority of the rural protection army!

Luo Zhixue didn't understand that it was because Luo Zhixue didn't know that Chen Yongfu didn't treat the front guard soldiers as his own soldiers at all, but just as cannon fodder.

Since it's cannon fodder, it won't hurt to use it. Why spend so much work, just let all the guards rush up and it's over.

Digging trenches does not mention in advance whether he will know it or not, has he prepared a concept, but before he has a hand tool, it is not easy to dig a traffic trench that can accommodate thousands of troops. As far as their level is concerned, it will take a few days. Can't finish.

However, Chen Yongfu also has a limited time. Hong Chengchou gave him a time limit. Within half a month, he must clean up the army of the township protection army, and then go to the Lu family.

After many considerations, Chen Yongfu finally chose the most simple and direct method, and asked the guards to step up their attack.

Fight if you can beat it, if you really can't beat it, you can't beat it, anyway, it's not his own soldiers who were killed or injured, and he doesn't feel sad when all the guards are dead...

Moreover, with the heavy casualties of the guards, it would be reasonable for him to delay the attack for a long time.

Hong Chengchou couldn't blame himself because he couldn't beat the Township Protection Army because he worked so hard. He had said it before.

At that time, it is estimated that reinforcements will come, and it is very likely that they can continue to consume, neither need to fight with the Township Protection Army, nor need to go to Lu's.

Yes, even now, Chen Yongfu doesn't want to go to Lu's.

In the recent period of time, he has continuously heard the news that the main force of the rebel army and the main force of the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains are fighting.

He doesn't care about winning or losing. The key thing is that he knows that the main force of the rebel army of more than 20 now wants to go to Shaanxi.

If he turned around and garrisoned Lu's, and the rebels were running towards Lu's, facing the main force of the rebels, which could be tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands or even 20, Chen Yongfu simply wiped his neck and let it go.

All these things made Chen Yongfu's strategic and tactical decisions appear to be hesitant, and did not seem to be in line with military common sense.

To put it bluntly, Chen Yongfu didn't want to fight to the death with the rural protection army, nor did he want to fight with the main force of the rebel army.

He is still trying to delay time!

He had already planned it out. It would be best if the storm was successful this time. If the storm failed, it would depend on the number of casualties.

If there were fewer casualties, then he would continue to launch a third strong attack.

When the casualties are almost gone, he will not hesitate, but will directly retreat and return to the camp two miles away to garrison.

At the same time, a letter will be sent to Hong Chengchou to inform him of the situation of the battle.

Well, there is only one meaning: it's not that I don't want to fight, and it's not that I didn't fight, but the bandit army is too strong to fight!

You see, there are 2000 dead and injured, and the casualties are extremely heavy. If the fight continues, all the soldiers under my Chen Yongfu will be wiped out.

Then let Hong Chengchou send reinforcements over.

In a word, don't expect him to lead the soldiers of the headquarters to fight the Township Protection Army, let alone lead the soldiers of the headquarters to fight the main force of the rebel army.

Not to mention that Luo Zhixue didn't know about Chen Yongfu's thoughts, even his son Chen De didn't know about it.

After all, this kind of thing can't be said to the outside world, if it is really said, it is very likely to cause big trouble.

For example, those guard soldiers.

What Chen Yongfu told the generals of the guards was that Hong Chengchou forced him to fight, and Chen Yongfu had no choice but to bite the bullet and fight, so even if the casualties were heavy, don't blame me, but you, blame Hong Chengchou.

Now if they found out, Chen Yongfu planned to let them fight to the death. It would be best if they won the fight. If they didn't win, they could use the heavy casualties of their guards as an excuse to retreat.

I'll show you how to play mutiny every minute...

So Chen Yongfu kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything to anyone. Instead, he put on an appearance that he was desperately trying to take down the thieves of the rural protection army.

His son Chen De saw this appearance, and even Chen De was greatly encouraged to take the initiative to fight: "Father, the bandit army's artillery is sharp, and it is difficult to attack. I am afraid that only more than 2000 guards can't do it. My son is willing to lead the headquarters." Soldiers go out to fight and try to defeat the enemy with one blow!"

Hearing Chen De's words, Chen Yongfu was stunned.

This silly son, what are you doing, you want to tear down Lao Tzu's platform, right?

I also want to bring the soldiers of the headquarters up to fight the bandits, to fight to the death.

Those [-] soldiers in the headquarters were maintained by Lao Tzu with all his efforts, how could they be easily damaged!
If too many soldiers in the headquarters die, your father and I will be dismissed from office in a matter of minutes, and you and my father and son are more likely to die on the battlefield.

I'll slap you twice when I get back from get off work after the battle...

But Chen Yongfu glanced at the other generals around him, especially those generals of the guard who were not very good-looking, and Chen Yongfu swallowed back the words that he wanted to reprimand his son.

If he reprimands his son directly, saying that you are an idiot, if you want to die, don't take Lao Tzu's precious soldiers with you!

But if he really wanted to be reprimanded like this, I'm afraid these generals of the guards who were not his subordinates but temporarily under his command would go berserk on the spot.

(End of this chapter)