open sea

Chapter 1385
Shibaozi under the night, bursting with fire.

At a distance of a hundred steps, two hundred Cossack households set up heavy Tsarist Russian-made muskets with moon blade axes, and sprayed projectiles at the black shadows running left and right, and at the stacked trenches ahead.

At the same time, feather arrows are also used for throwing.

After a brief silence, the Long Live Army in the trench returned with more intensive fire.

At the sound of the first salvo of Taiping guns in the world, the deepest fear has surrounded the spoon.

The last time they suffered such intensive firepower was many years ago, when the Tsar sent troops to encircle the Cossacks in Yermak.

In just a few battles, thousands of Cossacks under Yermak's command died and fled, and in the end only 540 remained.

The memory of the fiasco deeply affected Yermak's officers and Cossacks at all levels.

In the past, even if they were blocked by the Siberian Khanate on a boat along the river and lost more than a hundred people, they were not so panicked, because those losses were within their expectations.

But it's different.

The enemy and the battle process were different from what was expected. Since they crossed the Ural Mountains, they had never encountered such a blow.

Therefore, when encountering a dense firepower salvo, the dozen or so musketeers who had just fired at the beginning of the formation were shot down again and again, and their morale was close to collapse.

Before the first round of the Ming army's volley was finished, the Mongolian light soldiers on the two wings shouted, saying that the enemy had retreated.

This disappointed the Long Live Army Baihu who had stepped on landmines.

What they built was a double-layered trench called "Wanli trench". The outer edge was short and divided into several sections, and the inner side was long with several sections of earth ladders arranged in the trench. This kind of trench was commanded by Emperor Wanli in Tsinghua Garden. The unusual 'Chen Muhao' created by the Imperial Forest Army's offense and defense.

Chen Mu's trenches are used to defend against attacks, while Wanli cares more about prestige. He believes that soldiers should not stay in the trenches. Even if they get into the trenches, they must prepare for the next attack. of.

After the trenches are dug, concave wooden planks are laid underneath, gunpowder is poured, and a layer of wooden planks is covered after the trenches are dug. Scattering tubes and gravel are prepared according to the situation. The lead wires are controlled by the trenches on the inner edge.

The mission of the soldiers entering the trenches on the outer edge is to feign an attack. After blocking the enemy for a while, they retreat to the trenches on the inner edge.

Wanli was very useful in Tsinghua Garden's military deduction without soldiers. King Lu, who was familiar with this method of warfare, was so frightened that he didn't dare to occupy the emperor's trenches.

I have a memory of bombing the two sessions, and I saw the trenches hiding far away.

The Long Live Army did not know that the Cossacks of Yermak had been defeated by the Russian regular army before, and they had lingering fears. They did not expect that the famous Cossacks on the grassland could not even hold the first salvo of the two general flags and began to retreat. at a loss.

Baihu also specially sent banner troops across the trenches to Shibaozi to ask Commander Zhu Yu whether to pursue them.

Zhu Yu, who had been thinking about fighting the Cossacks for a long time, was also at a loss: the Japanese pirates would never flee just because of a few musket shots.

The staff officer next to him, Qianbai, had heard too much news about the Cossacks' bravery and combat skills from the tribal leaders of the Kuchu Khan Alliance, so he insisted preconceivedly, and reminded: "General, be careful under the night, the enemy may be deceitful if it is abnormal. "

It was really covered in the light of night, and it was impossible to see anything a hundred paces away in the wind and snow. No matter how the Mongolian cavalry shouted from the two wings, the Ming army did not attack rashly.

The Cossacks were indeed in retreat.

The two frontline commanders, Mavit and Shao, are well-known among the Cossacks, but they are not the backbone after all.

Whether you shoot feathered arrows that can't penetrate armor or projectiles that can punch holes in armor has a very different effect on morale.

Just like Chen Mu's different understanding of desperate and dying.

The Cossacks scrambled and retreated on the snow field, coming slowly and going quickly. The first to pursue them was the Mobei Mongolian cavalry. They chased and killed the defeated army with sabers and bones as usual, but with little effect.

A saber will break the armor when it is cut, and a bone can smash half of the helmet if it is smashed on the helmet, but there are very few people who can really hurt people.

The severe cold in Siberia made their shoddy and thin weapons not durable.

On the contrary, it was the Cossack's Moonblade Axe. This heavy weapon still had unparalleled lethality when swung.

Once the riders got into a fight, they quickly fell off their horses. After losing a few riders, the Mongolian riders all watched from a distance and shot with bows and arrows that were more difficult to kill.

Bows and arrows are more durable than cold weapons that have been exposed to the outside for a long time due to the habit of baking and bowstrings in the arms to keep warm.

The dilemma encountered by the soldiers of the Siberian Khanate once again fell on the Mobei riders.

It's too difficult, and it's hard to hit accurately under the night sky with riding and archery, but now it's probably hard to injure the enemy if you hit it.

When Zhu Yu told the Mongolian riders that the enemy was indeed retreating and ordered the troops to go out of the trenches to pursue them, the Cossacks were not far from the wagon camp they had set up.

"General, the scouts said they got into the wagon camp."

Zhu Yu scratched his head and asked, "Do they have guns?"

There is also a car camp in the Raksha Kingdom, which is information that neither Dong Yiyuan nor Baibai know, which makes him a little worried.

It's not worrying about being helpless, but worrying about the way to break through the car camp.

The nomadic cavalry on the grassland may lack offensive means to the car camp, but for the Ming army, the car camp is not worrying.

The only thing to consider is cost, time and so on.

So he decided to leave this trouble to the six hundred households fighting on the front line, and let them use their own means to break the car formation.

Fran's machine is partial to the box car, so it's right, it's nothing more than pulling the chariot over to get some time.

It's not as fast as the Long Live Army marching with tiger crouching cannons on horseback.

The six long-lived army hundred households who were leading the army were very decisive. They briefly observed the Cossacks' four-square chariot formation, and quickly completed the task assignment. The way the Cossacks escaped.

None of the four besieged Baihu tribes came within the range of the enemy's guns. They cleared the snow from all sides at a distance of nearly [-] steps, cleared an open space, and nailed the tiger squatting cannon.

They did not choose the aggressive tactics of rushing forward and throwing grenades into the car formation, nor did they wait for the support of Fran's van to arrive. Stopping the country's car wall, the tiger squatting gun can also carry out air strikes.

The Cossacks besieged in the car camp did not know what fate awaited them, carefully observing any shadows that might be regarded as enemy troops in the snowy wilderness behind the shooting holes in the wooden wall.

They knew that there was a large army just outside the car formation, and they could even hear shouts in a language completely different from the Tatars in the distance, but they couldn't hear or understand them.

Until a certain moment, there was a distant gunshot from the east, followed by gunshots from three sides.

Immediately afterwards, there were huge cannon fires from all directions.

Amidst the sound of cannons, scattered bullets swept towards them.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)