Kai Fu Han

Chapter 413
As the passionate drum beat sounded, the long pontoon on the east bank of the river was carried by hundreds of people towards the river, dipped into the water, and then extended little by little towards the other side of the river.

Iron chains are connected to the pontoon, and wooden boards are tied to it to form a simple pontoon bridge.

As long as the pontoon bridge extends to the opposite side, the Xinghan League Field Army will be able to cross the Jiaoshui River unimpeded and intersect with the puppet Qi army on the opposite bank.

Naturally, the puppet Qi army would not just watch the Xinghan League build the pontoon bridge. The military formations on standby began to move forward, and giant ballistae began to shoot rockets towards the pontoon bridge.

"Shoot!!" came the command from the Xinghan Alliance warship.

boom!boom!
...

The ship's cannon began to roar.

A small part are ship-borne artillery, and the majority are tiger crouching guns.

The Crouching Tiger Cannon's power against ships may be somewhat lacking, but its power against land and people appears to be somewhat surplus.

The puppet Qi army formation that was bombarded instantly fell on its back.

Some soldiers first swam to the other side holding the rope and began to drag the pontoon bridge to speed up the erection progress.

The puppet Qi army was so bombarded that they had no time to care for themselves. Some fish that slipped through the net ran to the river bank, and were called one by one by the sailors on the ship with muskets.

The pontoon bridge quickly passed through the gap reserved between the ships and was successfully fixed on the other side, connecting the two sides of the glue. The soldiers of the Xinghan League began to cross the river.

The pontoon bridge with a width of one foot can run three people side by side. A total of five pontoon bridges have been erected. In half a quarter of an hour, two field regiments of musketeers have already lined up on the opposite bank.

The free safety area behind is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more Xinghan League soldiers are passing through.

Seeing that his side's battlefield situation was so disadvantageous, the Puppet Qi commander quickly sent all the soldiers who had left camp to the front line. For a time, the Xinghan League faced the enemy head-on at the same time, almost to the point of being "shoulder-to-shoulder".

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Go up three more camps."

Liu Xinang saw that the enemy's front line had advanced to about thirty steps, and immediately sent forward the musketeers who had just crossed the river and had not yet organized their team.

"Notify the warships in the rear, and the ship-borne artillery will fire shells to support."

"Yes!"

The simple herringbone ladder was quickly erected, and the signal trooper stood up, waving the flag in his hand, and conveyed orders to the warships in the rear.

After a while.

I saw a violent explosion behind the Puppet Qi Army's formation. A single shot of explosive shells could clear out the enemy forces within a radius of two feet. With the support of ship-borne artillery shells, the Puppet Qi Army's fearless offensive was suddenly reduced. .

Gradually, the accumulation of dead bodies in front of the musketeers has affected the shooting of our own personnel. Fortunately, the accumulated dead bodies have also affected the passage of the enemy troops. The battle situation has formed a stalemate. The Puppet Qi soldiers continued to suffer casualties and casualties. The front line could not move forward. Xinghan On the Alliance side, gunpowder and ammunition are also being consumed rapidly, and they cannot hold out for long.

"Let the Tiger Crouching Cannon come over first."

The land artillery of the artillery battalion passes through the pontoon bridge, which greatly affects the passing efficiency of the pontoon bridge.The Tiger Crouching Cannon is different. One soldier can hold the barrel and run away, while other accessories can be carried by another person.

Soon, ten tiger squatting cannons were erected behind the musket array.

"emission!"

The Tiger Crouching Cannon with reduced propellant fired at a very close range. The shells fired from the high muzzle crossed a parabola, just passed the musketeers in front, and landed in the puppet Qi army formation fifty steps away.

The same explosive bombs, the same shrapnel flying everywhere, the same large number of pseudo-Qi soldiers were blown down.

A steady stream of tiger squat cannons were still being delivered, and the number of artillery added to the shooting increased rapidly, twenty or forty.

Under the roar of artillery, the last bit of courage on the other side was blown away.

The weapon generation gap was too serious, and they could only be beaten passively without fighting back. The rout quickly took shape and broke through the supervising soldiers behind the military formation.

"The other side is ringing with gold." Liu Xin'ang shouted. "We are attacking. What's the use of their gold medals? Keep pushing forward!" Liu Xinqi ordered.

The musketeers began to advance in rotation, and when they approached the line of dead bodies, the soldiers installed bayonets on the muzzles of their muskets.

According to the training tutorial, all corpses of pseudo-Qi soldiers and seriously wounded soldiers that the bayonet can encounter must be greeted with the bayonet first to ensure that they are dead before moving on.

Poof!Poof! …

The sound of the bayonet piercing into the human body was densely superimposed, and it turned out to be a bit "deafening".

Some Xinghan League soldiers couldn't stand this cruelty and vomited. As they vomited, their bodies lost strength.

The other soldiers passed over the soldiers who were incapacitated by vomiting and continued to advance.

For a moment, the musketeer array line seemed a little thin because there were too many people missing.Fortunately, the puppet Qi army was only focused on escaping and did not seize the best moment to counterattack.

"Stop advancing, the puppet Qi have established a foothold in front of the camp." Liu Xinqi ordered Liu Xinang.

Liu Xinqi stood higher than Liu Xinang, and it can be seen that the puppet Qi's reserve army is not in chaos, and it is now in formation.On the other hand, due to too much vomiting, the front line has been messed up.

"whole team!!"

Each platoon leader began to come forward to organize the team in platoon units.

"Count the numbers!"

"one two three"…

After about five breaths, the musketeer array became orderly again, and most of the soldiers who had vomited also returned to the team.

"Keep going!"

The Musketeers continued to advance towards the puppet Qi army step by step.

"Follow the artillery." Liu Xinang ordered loudly.

The three artillery battalions that had already participated in the battle immediately pushed the Tiger Crouching Cannon to keep up with the advance of the musketeers, while the land artillery had not yet been transported.

……

Li You was sitting cross-legged in the observation deck of the main mast of the Hengshan. He held a drawing board in his left hand with a pile of white paper stapled to it. He held a charcoal pen in his right hand and was rapidly scratching on the paper. Parts of the battlefield on the west bank of the Glue River quickly appeared on the white paper. .

They are all simple drawings, which look very sloppy. After one drawing, another one is drawn.

The array on the shore was neatly arranged, and the musket array that was moving forward step by step, as well as the dozens of squatting tiger cannons following behind, were all included in the painting.

Outside of our own side, there were also the Puppet Qi soldiers who were fleeing in panic across the musket formation. Some of them had already thrown away their weapons, just because their parents didn't give him two extra legs.

To the west of the defeated army was the Puppet Qi army waiting in formation. This part of the army had not yet engaged in battle and was still in order.

Some of the defeated soldiers had a trace of reason in their minds and ran diagonally towards both sides of the battlefield, not facing the neatly arranged pseudo-Qi soldiers.

Some of the defeated troops were relatively stupid. They were scared out of their wits by the artillery and muskets, and ran straight towards the rear army.What greeted them was not the warm help from friendly forces, but the cold swords.

"Behead those who rush into the formation!"

The cold orders of the Puppet Qi officers sounded one after another.

From a pseudo-Qi perspective, this order is absolutely correct.

If the rear army is overwhelmed by the rout, the battle will be considered a complete defeat.Therefore, killing the defeated troops and ensuring that the rear army formation is not scattered by the routed troops is the only choice for the puppet Qi generals.

(End of this chapter)