The Most Powerful Man in the World

Most of the hundreds of soldiers fled, and those who were nailed to the ground were unable to move, and could only watch the opposite phalanx slowly press over.

"Escape!"

As the so-called military mentality collapsed, it was like this. After two waves of arrow rain, hundreds of soldiers were nailed to the ground.The same is death, being slashed to death or stabbed to death by a spear on the battlefield is at least not as dazzling as being nailed to the ground alive, seeing your companions being nailed in front of you, unable to survive, begging for death No, the harsh screams and pleadings brought more pressure to the mind than a cold body.

Putting down the telescopic mirror in his hand, Governor George at the back of the phalanx said with a bit of disdain in his eyes: "Da Ming's army is nothing more than that."

"If the Scottish longbowmen can't defeat their opponents, then we'd better leave as soon as possible."

With the sound of a strange drum beat, I saw that the phalanx changed, and immediately saw a group of soldiers rushing out with long spears in their hands, shouting and rushing towards the scattered soldiers.

These scattered soldiers fled in all directions, and they didn't even have any weapons to resist.

The Tianjin Guards, as the guards of Tianjin City, shoulder the safety of Tianjin City, and command all the military forces of Tianjin City.

Not long ago, waves of messengers passed the news of the attack on the port to the garrison general Dong Ke.

As a veteran who has been in the army for more than ten years, Dong Ke has very rich experience against the enemy.After receiving Cheng Yan's warning, Dong Ke immediately assembled the entire city's troops and set off at the fastest speed.

Tianjin City is the gateway to Gyeonggi, and at the same time, a large number of military resources continue to go out to sea through Tianjin City, supplying the hundreds of thousands of troops in the overseas East Ying. It is conceivable that Tianjin City is definitely the most valued in the Ming Dynasty. One of the fortresses.

A total of [-] elite soldiers and horses were stationed in Tianjin City. Except for the [-] soldiers and horses led by Cheng Yan who were stationed in the port, the remaining [-] elite soldiers and horses were stationed in the city, and the remaining [-] were stationed in the barracks outside the city. .

Dong Ke, who was dressed in military uniform, rode on a horse, and behind him were [-] neatly dressed [-] men and horses, who went straight to Qingtian Town along with the smoke and dust in the sky.

Qingtian Town is almost located between Tianjin Port and Tianjin City. Dong Ke's speed in mobilizing troops is not slow, but when he arrived at Qingtian Town, he saw a troop of soldiers fleeing from a distance.

Dozens of fleeing soldiers fled in panic, and behind them were more than a dozen tall and tall aliens chasing these fleeing soldiers fiercely.

Dong Ke's heart sank when he saw this scene. Cheng Yan's management of the army can be described as rigorous. If it wasn't for the fact that the situation had eroded to an irreversible level, Cheng Yan would definitely not have allowed these soldiers to disintegrate like this.

Since the soldiers were scattered, it meant that Cheng Yan's troops who had retreated to Qingtian Town were no longer able to resist the alien army.

When those fleeing soldiers saw the army coming to help, one by one, it was like drowning people who saw hope, and they all rushed to the army.

Seeing these people rushing towards the army, Dong Ke couldn't help frowning. Fortunately, there were only a few dozen soldiers who fled, and there were only a dozen enemies chasing behind them, which would not cause any damage to the army. Impact.

If there are hundreds or thousands of soldiers who have fled, and there are hundreds or thousands of enemies who are chasing, then if these soldiers who are fleeing dare to attack the army, Dong Ke will definitely order them to be attacked at the first time. The soldiers who fled the army formation were bombarded and killed in front of the army formation.

Even so, Dong Ke still sent his soldiers to shout at the dozens of soldiers who rushed up by instinct, ordering them to flee to both sides of the army formation.

There were only dozens of soldiers, and the shouting from the opposite suddenly woke them up. The most important thing was that the enemy who was chasing behind them stopped.

As soon as he felt relieved, the common sense in the military that he had learned on weekdays suddenly came to his mind, and then he saw that the fire gun in the opposite army formation was facing them.

Cold sweat could not help oozing out from the foreheads of many soldiers. Almost like a conditioned reflex, they stopped, froze for a moment, and then ran to the sides.

Anyone who dares to attack the army head-on, whether it is an enemy or an opponent, Dong Ke, as the leader of the army, will never hesitate in the slightest.

The strong banner was fluttering in the wind. At this moment, several soldiers who had fled were brought to Dong Ke by the personal soldiers. Dong Ke frowned and looked at these embarrassed soldiers and said, "What happened, why are you waiting for this? As embarrassing."

As a soldier, I was frightened by the enemy. I calmed down now, and when I thought about it, everyone was ashamed. When facing Dong Ke, he didn't even dare to look up at Dong Ke.

Hearing Dong Ke's question, a soldier said: "Sir, those... those aliens have a kind of bow and arrow that is extremely sharp. Master Cheng Yan led us to fight against the enemy, which was broken by those aliens with archers. General Cheng Yan fought. Died in the enemy's formation, nearly a thousand brothers died in battle or fled..."

Dong Ke narrowed his eyes and looked at a few people and said, "Sharp bow and arrow?"

When several soldiers thought of the arrow that could almost pin a person to the ground, their faces turned pale, and they subconsciously shivered and said, "Yes, it is an extremely terrifying long arrow."

Without seeing it with his own eyes, Dong Ke naturally would not believe all the words of these soldiers, but Dong Ke could confirm one thing through the reactions of these soldiers, that is, the attacking power of the enemy on the opposite side is definitely very strong, otherwise it would not be possible to kill him. The soldiers looked so frightened.

The [-]-strong army was far less powerful than the less than [-] Malays. When the army arrived outside Qingtian Town, the coalition forces of the two countries that had already entered Qingtian Town also found these thousands of reinforcements.

When seeing that group of soldiers neatly appear outside Qingtian Town, both Governor George and Earl Harry showed a solemn look.

Although it is said that they have a certain psychological preparation for the brigade of the Ming Dynasty, after all, when they opened up the outside world, thousands of people even confronted the indigenous army of tens of thousands.

Now they have thousands of men and horses, and they can win a battle even against such a thousand or two thousand indigenous people and horses.

In the eyes of George and Harry, although Daming is stronger than the natives they have seen, it is also limited. Especially, the smooth start of the game made George and Harry look down on Daming. point.Therefore, even if the soldiers and horses led by Dong Ke are very strict, they are elite at first sight. Under the influence of preconceived ideas, George and Harry ignored these, and did not take Dong Ke and others to heart at all.

On the one hand, he doesn't take his opponents to heart. As for Dong Ke, he regards the opponents as one of the strongest opponents he has ever encountered in his life.

"The army is in formation, follow this general to meet the enemy, and avenge General Cheng Yan."

Cheng Yan, as the first general under Dong Ke, said that he was strict in governing the army, but he did not put on any airs in front of his soldiers, so he was loved by his soldiers. One was stunned, and then there was a bit of anger in his eyes.

Step, step, step.

It was just a cup of tea. When Dong Ke used Cheng Yan's death to incite the hatred of thousands of soldiers towards the enemy, and successfully boosted the morale of the army, a drum beat came from Qingtian Town, and a team The soldiers lined up in a neat formation and slowly pressed up.

When the coalition forces of the two countries came out of Qingtian Town with drums, the few soldiers who were defeated and fled saw this similar scene, and seemed to think of Cheng Yan's attack on the army and ended up dying. His whole body trembled, and he said in a trembling voice, "That's it, that's it..."

At this moment, Dong Ke squinted his eyes and stared solemnly at the neatly arranged enemies in front of him. They were pressed up without much defense, which made Dong Ke a little puzzled.

"It doesn't seem to be difficult. When the artillery fires down, the military formation in the district looks scary, so why not collapse on the spot?"

The five hundred and seventieth chapters pierce the paper tiger [2 more]

Such thoughts flashed in Dong Ke's mind, but he actually did the same.

Compared with Cheng Yan's retreat from the port, there was no artillery fire in the army at all, but Dong Ke led the army up. Although there were only [-] people, the army was carrying dozens of tiger squat artillery.

As the most common and most common auxiliary small artillery in the army, the performance of the tiger squat artillery is quite good.

As an improved tiger squat gun, the power is naturally increased by several percent compared to the original. Although dozens of tiger squat guns are not many, if they are placed in front of the battle, they will not be flesh and blood if they are fired at once. tolerable.

Following Dong Ke's order, he immediately saw a team of soldiers come out carrying a door of artillery.

These artillery pieces look like fierce tigers, so they are called tiger squatting cannons.

Chu Yi had a deep memory of the name of the Tiger Squat Cannon, so he ordered the craftsmen of the Ministry of Engineering to improve it on the basis of many artillery pieces of the Ming Dynasty, and personally named it the Tiger Squat Cannon.

A large number of tiger squat guns were built and distributed to the Ming army. The most obvious one was among the hundreds of thousands of troops who conquered Dongying. The new tiger squat guns alone were equipped with no less than a thousand guns.

According to the proportion of Qi Jiguang's army equipped with tiger squat guns, it was almost three guns for every [-] people. Chu Yi almost doubled the equipment on this basis. Therefore, the [-] soldiers and horses led by Dong Ke were almost the same. Equipped with fifty or sixty tiger squat guns.

Dozens of tiger squat guns were placed in front of the army in a row, which was naturally quite spectacular.

Through the telescopic mirror, every move of the Ming army was naturally seen in the eyes of Governor George and Earl Harry. When the artillery of that door was pushed out, the two couldn't help but stay for a while.

For artillery, Governor George and the others are naturally no strangers. During this period, artillery had already been equipped in the army in the West, and artillery warfare was the most common way of fighting.

But in their impression, the bigger the artillery, the better, but when they saw the artillery that seemed to weigh dozens of kilograms, George and Harry couldn't help but wonder, could it be considered an artillery? ?

Anyway, in the impression of Governor George and the others, according to the specifications of artillery, these seemingly small firearms are not enough to be classified into the category of artillery.

The two of them were naturally a little confused about the firepower of the Tiger Squat Cannon. After all, this was the first time they had seen this type of artillery. They said that the artillery was not big enough. A lot.

As for ordering the army to stop, George and Harry didn't have such thoughts at all in their hearts, and advancing in the face of artillery fire was the most common way of fighting between the two countries in the West.

After all, the artillery in this period was almost all solid bullets, so the lethality of the artillery shells was not that great at all. The biggest role of the artillery was to form a psychological deterrent to the army. After the big iron ball rolled over, the bloody corpse on the ground was so dazzling.

If you really want to talk about the lethality of artillery, it is far worse than arrows and guns.

"Up the shield!"

Although Dong Ke didn't believe the words of the soldiers who had fled, as a general of the army, even if he didn't believe it, he had to take precautions.

When he saw that the distance between the two sides was getting closer to about [-] meters, Dong Ke gave an order and saw that the large shields were erected on one side.

After gathering all the shields in the army, the shields stood in front of the army.

Thousands of Scottish longbowmen drew their bows and arrows in unison, thumping, thumping, and a wave of arrows washed the ground. Suddenly, there was a crackling sound and the screams of the soldiers being shot.

I have to say that the lethality of this Scottish longbow is really amazing. Even if Dong Ke has taken some precautions, the penetration rate of those arrows is extremely amazing. hole through.

Many soldiers were still injured by that wave of arrows even if they were hiding behind their shields. Fortunately, they were prepared in advance, so even if this wave of arrows caused a certain amount of damage, the damage was reduced to a minimum. .

Dong Ke waved the spear in his hand to push an arrow away, feeling the power coming from the spear. Dong Ke understood why these arrows could break through the defenses of many shields.

It is because these arrows are long enough, so when they are thrown down from the air, the potential energy is extremely large, and the lethality caused by the conversion into kinetic energy is naturally large.

Dong Ke may not understand the principle of converting potential energy into kinetic energy, but as a general, he knows how to shoot arrows to maximize the power of arrows.

"Archer, fight back!"

The best killing distance of the tiger squat gun is about [-] meters. Compared with the Scottish longbow, which can cause a certain lethality at a distance of almost [-] meters, if the tiger squat gun is used at this time, I am afraid there will be no What a great effect.

The tiger squat gun can't be used, but the archers in the army can shoot.

Both are archers, even if the range of the Scottish longbow is not close, but the archers in the Ming Army are not too different, even if the range is different because of the different bows and arrows in the hands of the two sides, when the combined forces of Portugal and the Netherlands gradually approached. At that time, a rain of arrows flew out, covering the opposing coalition formation.

If this wave of arrows fell, at least hundreds of people could be killed.

But just at this moment, the shields stood up on one side, covering the wave of arrows, but it only caused a little disturbance to the coalition forces.

The casualties and casualties of a mere dozen people did not affect the overall situation at all, and even the formation of the phalanx was not affected. All the coalition soldiers still marched forward step by step according to the sound of the drums.

The arrows poured down like a torrential rain. Dong Ke understood why the nearly [-] soldiers led by Cheng Yan collapsed in such a short period of time. The arrow rain was really lethal.

In a short time of less than a stick of incense, at a distance of [-] meters, at least thousands of arrows fell, causing great damage to the army. Almost hundreds of soldiers were shot and killed on the spot, and hundreds more. Soldiers were injured.

Finally, when the coalition forces entered the shooting range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, Dong Ke could be heard shouting: "Open the cannon."

The artillerymen, who were desperately guarded by the shield players, heard a military order, and almost instinctively set up their tiger squat guns, and then lit the lead.

Boom, boom, boom.

Between the smoke of gunpowder, the front of the army of both sides was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the gunpowder smoke of dozens of cannons covered it, but through the fog-like gunpowder smoke, you could see the neatly arranged coalition troops on the opposite side. It was like a sudden collision. On top of the invisible wall, a figure suddenly fell.

At least the hundreds of soldiers in the three or five rows in the front row were like being struck by lightning, and blood splashed on their bodies.

The faces of Governor George and Earl Harry, who had watched the army march forward steadily and even caused a lot of damage to the Ming army on the opposite side, were full of smiles.

For their army, both sides are very confident, and they think their troops are superior to those of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the roar, Governor George and Earl Harry were stunned.

Dozens of artillery pieces spewed flames like monsters, and the gravel shot out of the sky, completely covering the space in front of them.

Under the coverage of dozens of artillery pieces, it can be said that almost no one in the front row can escape the coverage of the artillery fire.

Therefore, under the gaze of Governor George and the others, at least three or five rows of soldiers fell directly like reaping wheat.

The coalition soldiers in the first two rows looked the most tragic. Almost everyone had more than a dozen blood holes on their bodies, and almost died on the spot. As for the two or three rows of soldiers behind them, although there were people in the front row They blocked a large wave of artillery for them, but they were also hit with several blood holes. These blood holes were not fatal but were very painful.

With blood flowing all over his body, the pain of not being able to survive or dying made these coalition soldiers fall to the ground, rolling and wailing.

The coalition soldiers, who had never suffered such a big loss in their external battles, were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

The psychological quality of these soldiers is not very good. After all, the coalition has always been smooth sailing. The targets of foreign expeditions are some indigenous people with spears and short swords. Allied troops armed with guns, Scottish longbows and even large ship artillery.

A smooth sailing is naturally able to cultivate a heart to dare to fight. As long as the wind is smooth, it is indeed possible to train an army of constant victories, but such an army may not be able to withstand a defeat.

This is the case with the current coalition army. The soldiers watched hundreds of their companions suffer heavy casualties. In particular, some soldiers were bombarded with blood and almost turned into rotten flesh. Many people have never seen such a tragic scene at all. , To be precise, I have never seen my own people so tragic, so some soldiers actually vomited on the spot.

This kind of scene is very shocking for any army, but if it is placed on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who have fought for the rest of their lives, it may bring a great impact, but those soldiers may be equally heartbroken. Fear, but definitely not staying there with a confused look, either turning around and running away, or burying their heads and attacking furiously.