Kai Fu Han

Chapter 507 Battle in Cangzhou 12
As a wave of grenades were thrown out, Liu Xinqi saw that the cart array, which was already close to its limit, finally collapsed!
All the people who were forced to push the cart cried and ran towards the rear. The Jurchen Tatars were also shocked by this wave of "bombing". When they recovered, the people pushing the cart in front were already in chaos. Can't hold back the formation either.

"The Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Sixth Brigade, charge into the formation from the west immediately!" Liu Xinqi quickly ordered.

"Yes!" The commander of the fourth regiment, who had been impatient for a long time, immediately turned around to execute the military order.

Liu Zhijie, who was directing the battle from the front, also seized the opportunity. The gun formation began to move forward in rotation, shooting at the gaps where the enemy might rush out and the gaps created by the artillery shells. With each round of shooting, the formation moved forward one step (one step with each foot on the left and right feet). One step counts as one step).

At a distance of 30 meters, another grenade was thrown in the middle, cleaning up some of the Jin army who were lucky enough to try to push the cart.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the gun volley array passed the two-level cart array. The Jin army and civilians behind had already ran a hundred steps away. Only some injured soldiers and corpses who could not move were left on the position.

Continuing to move forward, there was actually a cart formation behind the Jin army's formation. A foot-long spear stretched out between the carts. Any broken soldiers who dared to rush into the formation were stabbed by the spears.

The defeated troops could only cross over from both sides of the position, allowing the cart formation behind the military formation to stabilize their position.

"Keep moving forward and break it with a grenade." Liu Zhijie found that grenades were more effective than artillery against the cart array, so he simply continued to move forward.

A regiment on the western flank had already crossed the gun formation and was quickly chasing down the fleeing troops.

The musketry formation quickly advanced to a distance of thirty steps from the cart formation. The Jin army fired a wave of arrows from behind the formation. The musketeers raised their arms and lined them up in front of their faces. They had arm guards on the outside of their arms to block the arrows. , with thin steel armor on their bodies to block arrows, most people were unharmed.

Unfortunately, there are still a small number of musketeers who are unlucky, with arrows shot through gaps in the armor, calves, and between several arms.

It was okay to be shot in the torso, but only injured. A few unlucky ones were shot in the face and fell to the ground immediately.

"Throw a grenade!"

Between the arrows, a wave of grenades was thrown into the back of the cart.

boom!boom! …

Then he rushed forward a dozen steps quickly, and threw another wave of grenades.

boom!boom! …

The cart array also collapsed.

In the era of cold weapon war, grenades were regarded as artifacts.

"Chasing the enemy in a skirmish line!" Liu Zhijie issued the last order.

The musketeers formed small military formations in small groups or squads and rushed towards the Jin Army camp.It can be seen that the Fourth Infantry Regiment has followed the broken troops and rushed into the Jin Army camp.

Like dominoes, more and more troops were defeated, and the impact became stronger and stronger. The Jin army in Yanshan County was defeated and out of control.

……

There was only one company of guards left around Liu Xinqi, and all the troops that could be sent out had been sent out. Even civilian military officials picked up muskets and swords and went to the front line to expand the victory of the Xinghan Alliance.

After the "Jingyan Three-Year Type Heavy Artillery" fired several rounds of explosive shells at the cavalry formation to the west, the Jin Army cavalry could no longer bear such huge casualties and began to turn their horses and retreat.

"It's a pity that our cavalry was sent to attack the city, otherwise we could have chased and killed them." Xu Zhong sighed.

"We have too few cavalry. Without a dense formation, the power of the muskets will be greatly weakened. Our four thousand cavalry may not be able to defeat the elite cavalry of the Jin Kingdom." Liu Xinqi replied.

The Jin Army who can be sent here by the commander-in-chief of the Jin Army to help Yanshan County as a vanguard must be the most elite cavalry in the army. "I think we should build more cavalry units." Xu Zhong suggested.

Liu Xinqi also agreed with this view, but the Xinghan League did not have enough horses to establish a cavalry.

Because not all horses are suitable to be used as war horses. Most of the horses raised by the people are used to pull carts and plows, and very few are qualified to be war horses.

Even if the horses are raised specifically as war horses in racecourses, and they strive for excellence in breeding, raising, training, etc., only a small number of them will eventually become war horses.

Some excellent stallions and mares were sent to Jeju Island before, but no foals have been born yet.

"I already have a plan to build a mounted infantry that uses horses instead of horses and dismounts to fight." Liu Xinqi replied.

Horse infantry has much lower requirements for horses. Horses are just transportation tools and do not need to participate in combat.

Later generations called this "mounted infantry" "dragoon".

"That's good, otherwise the Jin Army's cavalry comes and goes like the wind. If they don't fight us, we really can't do anything to them." Xu Zhong nodded, understanding that with weapons like muskets, it is indeed possible to establish "mounted infantry" very suitable.

Its mobility is comparable to light cavalry, and its combat capability is no worse than that of musketeers.

At this time, the battle on the west side had also ended, and the cavalry of the Kingdom of Jin, relying on their maneuverability, left the wounded and fled. Zhao Yinghao was organizing the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

"Let Zhao Yinghao dedicate part of his troops to Yanshan County to help." Liu Xinqi ordered the signal corps.

After speaking, he led his guards and walked towards Yanshan County.

At this time, the main force of the Jin Army in Qingchi County had not yet arrived, and they should have been held back by Jiao Rui.

The official road to Yanshan County was covered with Jin Jun's corpses, and the blood plasma had gathered together, making it difficult to see the original color of the land.

There were wreckage of carts shattered by artillery everywhere, and some wounded soldiers were still alive, lying among the dead and wailing.

Only when this battle is completely over can the Xinghan League's army be free to treat these injured Jin soldiers. Most of them will not survive.

He died of serious injuries, the man with Han blood on his hands died, and the Jurchen Tatar officer died.

In the end, only some soldiers and civilians with minor injuries will be treated as "reserve labor force" and then put into labor camps.

When he entered Yanshan County, Liu Xinqi discovered that there were basically no civilians in this county, and all the strong men had been requisitioned by the Jin army.The rich people who originally lived here had already headed west or to the sea when the Jin army went south. The poor were either forcibly recruited as civilian husbands or fled west.

This man-made disaster made the city look desolate. The most obvious point was that along the way, apart from horses, I didn't even see a larger animal.

Cats, dogs, chickens and other domestic animals and poultry were all harmed by the Jin army in the city.

Yanshan County, which has only 20 gold soldiers, is already so miserable. I dare not imagine what kind of desolation it will be like in Qingchi County, which has more than [-] soldiers.

When approaching the bell tower of Yanshan County, Liu Xinqi saw Liu Zhijie, who was directing the soldiers to clean up the mess.

There was still sporadic resistance in the city, and a small number of Jurchen Tatars hid in private houses. The soldiers of the Xinghan League could only search one by one.

"Where is the main force of the Jin Army?" Liu Xinqi asked.

(End of this chapter)