Kai Fu Han

Chapter 360 Battle of Zhenzhou 2
"Jiao Rui, you go and help too." Liu Xinqi was worried and called Jiao Rui to give instructions.

"Or are you waiting for an opportunity from the outside?" Jiao Rui asked.

"Yes, you don't have to hold back when dealing with foreign races. But you have to choose the right time. It would be best if you can achieve success in one fell swoop." Liu Xinqi explained.

If the beheading cannot be successful in the first attempt, the Goryeo generals will definitely learn their lesson later and deploy heavy troops to guard the central army, and the chance of trying to "hang the head" again will become smaller.

Seeing Jiao Rui leading a hundred soldiers and following Liu Xinyuan's first battalion out of the city, Liu Xinqi finally relaxed and stood at the top of the city to watch the battle with peace of mind.

With these one hundred soldiers, even if the battle ahead is unfavorable, they can completely protect the soldiers of the first battalion and retreat into the city.

The commander of the Koryo army outside the city saw that the Han people in the city dared to go out to fight, and they were fighting with less than a thousand people against 2 of their own. He was also shocked by the courage of the Han people and sent people to the front of the battle to persuade them to surrender.

Liu Xinyuan did not harm Goryeo's envoys who persuaded him to surrender, but explicitly rejected his attempt to surrender.

After the messenger returned, the Goryeo army began to slowly advance forward.

Zhenzhou City is a port city with no moat. The south of the city is the port, the west and east of the city are some scattered warehouses and residential buildings, and the north of the city is open space and cultivated land.

Now more than 4 people are stationed in the north of the city. In addition to the camps previously set up by the Goryeo Army, the wheat seedlings on the cultivated land in the north of the city have long been trampled.

Now the Goryeo army was advancing forward on the corpses of the crops, while the soldiers of the first battalion were waiting in formation with their backs against the city wall.

When the two armies were approaching [-] steps, Liu Xinqi looked at the squatting tiger cannon on the top of the city. He did not order the artillery to fire, but continued to wait.

When the two armies approached a hundred paces, the Korean army stopped and began to form a team.

Two rows of archers came to the front of the formation, while the sword and shield bearers stood behind the archers.

Then the rhythm of the drums behind the military formation became much slower, three slow and two fast.

After every two fast-paced drum beats, the entire military formation took a step forward together.

This step-by-step approach to the Xinghan League's military formation reflects the excellent training of the Goryeo capital garrison.

When the two sides were approaching [-] steps, Liu Xinqi heard Liu Xinyuan at the bottom of the city shouting an order: "Get ready!"

In the front row, more than 100 soldiers raised their muskets, while the two rows behind continued to stand by. The muskets in the hands of the soldiers in the three rows were all loaded with ammunition.

When they approached sixty steps, the archers in front of the Goryeo army still did not shoot arrows, but continued to advance.

Liu Xinyuan didn't know the range of the Goryeo army's archers, so he didn't dare to let them get closer, and loudly ordered: "Shoot!"

Bang, bang...!
Neat gunshots rang out, and the first row of archers facing the Xinghan Allied Forces formation immediately burst into blood. They were shot to the end. Even some of the second row of archers were shot through the gaps in the human wall, or The bullet that passed through the body of the archer in the front row knocked him down.

Seeing that the weapons of the Han army on the opposite side had such a long range and were so powerful, the Goryeo army immediately fell into chaos.

The first few rows did not continue to advance to the rhythm of the drums, but those in the back continued to advance, and the formation became more chaotic.

Bang, bang...!
The gunfire from the Xinghan League did not stop. According to the rhythm of the three-stage shooting formation, the first three formations of guns were prepared in advance, so the shooting intervals were very short.

Bang, bang...!
After three bursts of gunfire, in a military formation more than 100 meters across, the two rows of archers in the front row had all fallen to the ground.

Bang, bang...!
Some of the swordsmen and shieldmen in the front row ran backwards and were cut down by the officers supervising the battle in the rear. The military formation continued to move forward. The military formations on both sides that were not attacked accelerated and planned to attack from both sides of the first battalion.Bang, bang...!
The Marines on the city wall also started shooting, and the Korean military formation below the city became even more chaotic.

Without extremely rigorous training, in this era, no army can maintain formation and advance steadily under the attack of lining up to kill.

Bang, bang...!
The King of Goryeo began to retreat.

Bang, bang...!
The soldiers of the first battalion continued to shoot at the retreating Goryeo soldiers, and the Goryeo army formation showed signs of collapse.

Finally, after withstanding two rounds of shooting from behind, the Goryeo soldiers finally withdrew to a hundred steps away from the first battalion. Liu Xinyuan ordered the shooting to stop. The Goryeo army was barely suppressed by the generals and did not form a major rout.

"Why don't you shoot anymore? They are still far away from the effective range." Jiao Rui asked from the side.

"Look over there, Goryeo has cavalry. I can't show my trump card at once." Liu Xinyuan explained.

Jiao Rui looked in the direction of Liu Xinyuan's finger, and sure enough he saw Goryeo's cavalry troops, estimated to exceed three thousand.

Half an hour later, the previously disabled military formation was moved to the rear of the large military formation, and fresh troops were replaced in front.But this time was different from before. There were three thousand cavalry at the front of the military formation.

The Koryo Army did not suffer a defeat as Liu Xinqi said, but stood firm and planned to attack again.

After a burst of rapid drumbeats, the Korean cavalry began to accelerate slowly, and the infantry behind them also followed.

The cavalry's speed became faster and faster until it accelerated to full force.

The distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer, five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps.

"Shoot!" Facing the cavalry, Liu Xinyuan did not dare to neglect. As soon as the cavalry entered the shooting range, he immediately ordered to shoot.

Bang, bang...!
Some cavalrymen were shot off their horses, and some horses were shot down. However, the overall impact of the cavalry formation did not change, and they were still rapidly receiving shots, bangs...!
Bang, bang...!
After five rounds of shooting, the cavalry had reached a hundred paces.

boom!boom!
The tiger crouching cannon on the city wall began to fire, and the explosive bombs exploded in the cavalry formation. The huge roar panicked the Golima who encountered this situation for the first time, and the assault formation was immediately thrown into chaos.

Bang, bang...!
boom!boom!
The cavalry formation was in chaos, with only a few frightened crazy horses rushing towards the Xinghan Alliance musket formation, causing brief chaos in the military formation.However, these frightened horses were quickly put down by the soldiers and did not cause any casualties to our own soldiers.

The infantry formation following the cavalry formation saw this formation and no longer dared to move forward. Instead, the formation was disrupted by some of the cavalry brought back from the front line.

"Press it up!"

The "three-stage firing platoon formation" began to rotate forward.Each time the front row fired, they no longer retreated. Instead, they stood still and reloaded, and the second row passed over the first row and fired.Taking turns in turn, the three-stage gun formation slowly advanced forward.

The cavalry formation, which was completely suppressed and beaten, could no longer hold on and began to retreat backwards at a wide range.

The rotation of the "three-stage firing platoon formation" also began to accelerate.

Every time the second row passes the first row, they take a few steps forward and then shoot.

When the central army behind Goryeo saw the rout in front, they quickly sent their reserve troops forward to stabilize the situation. Seeing that the reserve army was somewhat unable to withstand it, the Goryeo coach even sent his own bodyguards, leaving only a dozen personal guards around him.

(End of this chapter)