The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 434 The Tradition of Korean Soldiers
Because Cui Nanzheng was worried that the soldiers pretending to be Kim Sang-heon and others would be found out, so he didn't let them take bows, guns and the like.At this time, someone suddenly ran out to warn the Ming army, but these people stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

That lean young man ran fast with his bare feet, still speaking in woolee-wala Korean.Although Zheng Chenggong didn't quite understand it, he could tell the difference from his demeanor and tone, and hurriedly called the guards, "Cover that man over here!"

"Yes!"

At this moment, the Korean soldier reacted and threw the spear in his hand at the warning person.

Just as Zheng Chenggong and the guards took a few steps forward, they saw spear darts thrown by "Master Jin" and at the same time heard the interpreter behind him shout: "Master Admiral, he said there is an ambush, so you should go!"

Zheng Chenggong frowned when he heard the words, pulled out the short spring-wheeled blunderbuss around his waist, tightened the spring, and fired a shot into the sky.

The roar of the firecrackers made Cui Nanzheng's people stagnate. Taking advantage of this gap, several soldiers of the Ming army took the young man to stand behind them, skillfully took off the flintlocks to reload the ammunition, and then pointed directly at the grain carts. .

"Xiba! Where did the wild bastard come from to spoil my good work?!" Cui Nan was on a broken thatched hut at the port when he saw Zheng Chenggong and others retreating, and angrily shouted to his subordinates: "Beat the drums! Rush up and kill these bright men!" military!"

With the sound of intensive drums from all around the abandoned port, the brigade of ambush soldiers shouted and rushed out, and more than 100 people beside the grain truck were the closest to the Ming army, and they also rushed up with swords and spears.

Liu Guoxuan saw the admiral firing a gun, and hurriedly led his troops to help.The interpreter next to him stopped the young man who called the police and asked a few words, then turned around and said: "General, he said that Mr. Kim Sang-heon was arrested by rebel officials just now, and there are more than 2000 ambush soldiers around here. They want to put us to death. Let us Hurry up and escape from the sea!"

Liu Guoxuan was shocked. There were less than 600 Ming soldiers who landed this time, and when they came, they said they would move food, so more than half of them didn't bring guns.But the water in the harbor here is very shallow, and the big ships can't get close to the shore, even with the cover of the cannons on the ship.

He hurriedly said to Zheng Chenggong: "Master Admiral, you get on the boat first, and I'll take the men out!"

The latter frowned, and said in a deep voice: "No, His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince said that Mr. Jin's wholehearted resistance to the captives is our greatest help in North Korea. He must be rescued!" He looked not far away again "And we have to bring this batch of grain, otherwise we won't last long in the Bohai Sea area."

"But, my lord, there are two thousand bandit soldiers..."

He only said half a sentence, and heard Zheng Chenggong suddenly shouted: "Let go!"

Suddenly there was a burst of gunpowder smoke, and more than 30 soldiers beside him pulled the trigger at the same time.The North Korean soldiers rushing over from the grain truck were within twenty paces, and the lead bullets flew by, knocking down sixteen or seven of them immediately.

Military discipline is too good and sometimes troublesome.The Ming soldiers didn't get the password just now, but they kept holding their guns and watching the enemy rushing forward, but no one opened fire.Liu Guoxuan hurriedly took over the command, drew out his saber and pointed forward, "Bayonet is ready!"

"We must not withdraw!" Zheng Chenggong simply ordered, "Send the order to let the infantry land for reinforcements. The rest of the people lean against the pier and form an array to defend against the enemy!"

"Yes!" Immediately, a guard turned back to convey the order.With the shaking of the command flag on the shore, more than 20 small boats were immediately lowered from the naval warships, fully loaded with naval infantry, and rushed to the port.

The hundred or so North Korean soldiers of the "grain guard truck" who rushed up first only heard a burst of gunshots, and then screamed in their ears, and nearly half of them stopped immediately.When the other half got into the gunpowder smoke raised by the gunfire, they immediately heard a thunderous chorus: "Kill!"

In the smoke, more than 30 bayonets stabbed out at the same time, and then retracted at the same time, and they were raised at the same time with the shout of "Kill!"It was such a simple two movements, but they were performed so neatly in the army formation, the 40 or so people who rushed to the front had no chance to fight back, and they all fell dead.

Those North Korean soldiers who were a few steps behind only heard two "kill" sounds, and when they looked up again, they had lost sight of their front team.

Seeing this, Liu Guoxuan couldn't help grinning, "What if there are 2000 people in such a combat force?"

In fact, the strength of the North Korean army is the weakest in the entire East Asia region, and the surrounding neighbors—Japan, Houjin, and Ming Dynasty—are far from opponents in any of them.

Zheng Chenggong saw that the former enemy retreated temporarily, so he hurriedly ordered Liu Guoxuan to lead his men back to the brigade.

At this time, the [-] Ming troops on the shore were divided into two teams, formed in the shape of a "person" with their backs against the sea.It's just that due to the small number of people, only two rows of infantry lines can be formed, which seems a bit thin.

But there was no fear on everyone's face, they all watched the enemy army approaching calmly.

Cui Nanzheng planned to "lure the enemy to go deep" at the beginning, so the ambush was a little further away, and it took a long time before he finally ran to about a hundred steps away from the Ming army.He was a little surprised when he saw that Mingren didn't escape back to the sea, but he was still ecstatic in his heart—these heads are all military achievements!As long as the Manchu master is happy, he will have to look at his own face when it comes to discussing politics in the future.

Thinking of this, he waved his knife and shouted: "Give it to me! Anyone who kills one enemy will be rewarded three times!"

Hearing the bountiful reward, his soldiers immediately sped up their speed a bit with ghost screams.When the North Korean soldiers in the front row were about [-] steps away from the Ming army, they heard a chorus of shouts, "Aim!"

They were also amazed that the sky-shattering blast of firecrackers was heard in front of them, and even hundreds of people were shot and fell over.

However, the number of firecrackers held by the Ming troops who landed is really limited, and they can only discharge two rows of lines, and the firepower density is far from being able to form the effect of a "lead bullet wall".

Although there were many gaps in the enemy's "torrent", the rest continued to move forward.

After the Ming army fired another round of rapid fire, Liu Guoxuan was about to give the order to prepare bayonets, but he was surprised to find that the North Koreans stopped in their tracks!

Just so abruptly not rushing...

Later, another North Korean officer ran back and forth to restrain the team.It took a while for Liu Guoxuan to see the clues—the spearmen in the front row, the musketeers in the middle, and the archers in the back row—this is going to stick to the face and shoot each other!

He guessed right.In fact, Koreans have this kind of tradition in war. Those who can shoot bows and arrows will never release guns, and those who can shoot guns will never engage in combat. When it comes to hand-to-hand combat...we can still run, run farther and continue to shoot arrows!

So when Japan invaded North Korea during the Wanli period, they used bows and arrows to shoot at Japanese iron cannons, which was a miserable...

Later, when the Jianlu invaded, they planned to shoot the Jianlu with iron cannons, but they encountered something like a chariot, and they lacked cannons to deal with the chariot.So they were chopped down by the elite infantry of the Qing army again...

They could see clearly this time that the Ming army used muskets like them, and they didn't have chariots or anything like that. They were so happy-finally they were able to attack the enemy happily from a distance.

It's just that they didn't know that using bows and arrows, matchlock guns and flintlock guns to shoot at each other, the result can only be a tragedy...

(End of this chapter)