Kerr couldn't figure out why there was an explosion underground. After panicking, he cautiously stepped forward again, and the explosion happened again.
"This is a trick of the Han people," said the Yellow Sect master beside Di Limei, tightly wrapping his brown robe:
"It doesn't matter, replace the warriors in front and let Ku'er (slaves) and Na Ke come forward. They just buried gunpowder underground. The more they do, the more it proves that they are there. In Chinese terms, they are called hiding their ears and stealing their bells."
"Master is right!" Di Limei nodded. In fact, he thought it was more appropriate to use "There is no silver here, three hundred taels", but that was secondary. "Adjust the manpower and ask the warriors to retreat." He ordered majestically:
"Go down and tell Nako who rushes up that mountain to be rewarded with two hundred sheep (Nako is not allowed to have his own property unless given by the master), and the poor boy can be reincarnated in Nako and marry a wife and have children (slaves cannot marry and can only wait for the master to assign them) )."
This order was indeed effective. Immediately, thousands of slaves and Nako crossed the river and divided into two large groups (not arrays). Then they swarmed forward after roaring. For a moment, it seemed that the mountains and slopes were filled with people rushing up.
What shocked everyone was that these people were neither wearing armor nor shields; they were holding all kinds of objects in their hands, from regular swords and guns to sticks, wooden forks and straw sickles; some were wearing boots and some were barefoot!
The officers met each other behind the parapet and looked at each other: "What's going on? Are all the Kerrs so poor?"
The landmines exploded one by one, and some people were blown into the air. Some had broken legs, injured their abdominal cavities, and those who fell to the ground were wailing.
For technical reasons, landmines at that time could only cause misfortune to anyone who stepped on them, and they were not able to cause a single explosion to affect an entire area. The effect of intimidation was actually greater than the effect of killing.
Under such a group charge of thousands of people, it would not be a big deal if they stepped on dozens of landmines. The crowd was still rushing upwards desperately, encouraged by the reward.
"Prepare the firecrackers!" After the sharp whistle, each platoon leader and squad leader shouted. The gunman immediately jumped from the trench where he was hiding on the parapet.
"First row fire!" The whistle sounded and a new order was conveyed, and smoke and dust were everywhere, accompanied by the "crackling" sound of ammunition being fired. "Clean the gun barrel and refill the gun barrel!" the platoon leaders shouted.
At this time, I remembered a crashing sound above my head, and then after the whistle, there was an explosion of "cracking". That was the second row shooting, and then the third row...
This time it was different from the landmines in front. Running, running people felt like they had been hit hard. After falling down for a while, they felt pain and weakness. When they touched it with their hands, they were dripping with blood.
Looking around, there were comrades who had been hit and fallen everywhere, and people screamed instinctively. Others were so frightened that they either lay on the ground or stood there not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
It's not scary if one person falls down, but it's scary if a dozen or more people fall around.
After the three rows of fire cannons were fired, almost all those who were standing had fallen down. The rest did not dare to continue forward and began to turn around and run down. More and more people ran. In the end, the dead and wounded were all left on the hillside. .
Cheers and whistles came from the opposite side. The people on the shore were still confused. They only saw smoke and fire, and then one of their own fell down. What was going on?
If someone has an idea, go back and ask the master for advice! So someone with quick legs returned to the other side to report. Here, Di Limoshe was losing his temper. Why did those people stop attacking?
He heard that there were more than 400 casualties in one charge, and he couldn't even see the opponent's face clearly. He was stunned and turned his head to look at the master involuntarily. The master pondered for a moment and sneered, "This is a fire gun."
"Firegun? What is this? Can it set fire?" Youzuo asked quickly.
Kerge was far away in Mobei and had not interacted with the Central Plains army for decades. Most of the old soldiers who had seen firearms in the Central Plains were dead or too old to participate in this expedition.
Therefore, most people don’t understand this new term when they hear it, let alone have seen it before. Dilimei had seen the wounds caused by firearms on the returned corpses a few days ago, and knew how terrifying these things were.
But because of his ***, no one else knew that this one-sided killing had ever happened, so they heard the word "fire gun"
He still looked confused.
After all, the master has traveled extensively and experienced a lot. He spread the knowledge to everyone and pointed out that this thing actually has loopholes, that is, the launch interval is relatively long. As long as it charges uninterrupted, it will be difficult for the opponent to resist it.
"After a hundred steps, they will die, but if they hesitate, it will be the warriors of our army who will die." He warned everyone.
"Do you understand? They can only fight within a hundred steps, and they won't be so lethal if they are farther away!" Di Limei looked at everyone with a murderous look: "The army continues to cross the river, and I need a warrior to supervise the battle in front. Who is going?"
"Please, Lord Steward, appoint me!" a burly man requested loudly.
"Chu Mier, I believe you!" Di Limeishi raised his hands:
"Go and prove to the southerners across the way that you are a real hero, unlike them who only dare to hide in the soil like a cowardly rat!" Chu Mier roared, jumped on his mount, took a pair of subordinates, and ran towards the pontoon bridge. go.
But a quarter of an hour later, someone came to report in a hurry. Chu Mier led the charge, but was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died. Di Limei was so angry that he immediately appointed another general to step forward.
When Kerr was replaced by the fourth commander, Li Dan finished transcribing the letter to the emperor, put it in an envelope, and handed it to the courier to send to Liaoyang. He listened to the thick shouts of killing outside and asked what was going on.
Zhao Jingzi reported that tens of thousands of enemies had been crossed. "They failed to succeed in several attacks, but they were changing positions repeatedly and seemed to be testing our weak points." He said:
"I think Di Limenshi may be about to take the field himself, or he may mobilize more troops to attack the position. Should we put the Tiger Crouching Cannon up?"
"There's no rush, just wait." Li Dan smiled and said, "The more enemies come to that area, the more they need a safe beachhead. The Kerrs will definitely continue to fight for the high ground. We can't be careless. They are also very persistent. !」
Sure enough, after the attacks failed one after another and the high ground was filled with corpses and wounded, Dilimei lost his patience. A large number of cavalry began to circle north and south, looking for gaps to surround the defenders. The entire front was filled with shouts of killing and the roar of the squatting cannon.
Reports kept flying to Li Dan. When everyone in Kerr was shocked to find that this front line was several miles long and the number of defenders exceeded 10,000, they confirmed that the opponent was not a small-scale blockade, but a conscious and purposeful battle!
Di Limeishu ordered his half-brother Aqiuhai to lead five thousand cavalry to attack southward because the terrain here was relatively low and gentle, but they fell into an ambush by Du Wenshui, the Southern Group's Dengzhou general.
The Japanese troops suddenly appeared in the hills and used spears, hooks, sickles, fire guns and other weapons to prevent the cavalry from taking advantage of the situation. They also threw thousands of weapons at the cavalry from a high position, causing chaos among them.
These horses, which do not know what firearms are, suffered enough today. Their owners were more busy controlling the horses than fighting.
When he discovered that there were more and more opponents, Dili Meishi began to feel a little uneasy. "How many people are there?" The chief steward murmured, with an ominous premonition rising in his heart.
The master still had a calm expression on his face. He believed that there would be nothing surprising even if there were 20,000 enemy troops on the other side. What he had to do now was to crush the thin front line of the Han people in one go and not be frightened by the superficial losses.
Under his instigation and encouragement, Dili Meishi may have thought of Ye Bihan's cold eyes staring at him from behind, so he ordered the troops who had already crossed the river:
"There is no more ground fire, and their fire blunderbuss is about to be broken. Don't be afraid! With so many warriors, how can they not even take down a small mound? Do you still have the nerve to go back and see the Great Khan?"
After he finished speaking, he sent his general Pingzhang Harita and asked him to cross the river with two thousand elites to command the battle with full authority.
"I can go alone," Harita hesitated and said slightly uneasily:
"If I take away half of the besieging army, except for the other half of the besieging army, only ten thousand households will be left on the left wing. They suffered a lot of losses during the siege. Now there are only more than 6,000 capable warriors. The remaining They are all old and weak, this..."
"It's okay. There is no Han army on this side of the river anyway. Even if there is, they are mostly infantry. What can they do to me?
? Di Limeishi sneered:
"Unless Shi Hao suddenly comes to life and comes down from Wulong Ridge with his 20,000 cavalry. But he has to think about how to cross the giant river first, right?"
Halita thought it was right, so she led the people to the other side. His position is equivalent to Dilimei's deputy. After arriving at the front line, it will naturally boost the morale of the army.
Haraita was indeed an experienced man. He immediately started to make adjustments. At the same time, he asked the soldiers to use wooden rafts to make large shields and stand in front of the Lele cart. He chose strong and powerful soldier carts from behind, and also made rough shields for some soldiers. A wooden shield can be placed in front of you.
When charging again, the shield is in front and the people are behind. This trick was indeed effective. After Raozhou soldiers fired the guns, they found that they could not kill several people and immediately panicked.
The Kerrs quickly advanced to the front of the position, and then they realized that there were some ditches and traps ahead. Some of the shield vehicles fell into the ditch and created a gap. The fire gunners seized the opportunity to open fire and caused some casualties.
But this was a minority after all, and it could not prevent a large number of Kerr soldiers from approaching the trenches. Suddenly the horn sounded, and groups of figures in gray uniforms jumped out from the trenches where they were hiding and rushed towards the Kerrs, and the hand-to-hand combat began.
Watching the brothers of the Shandong New Army fighting with the enemy below, the Raozhou gunmen immediately poured projectiles towards the Ker soldiers below, attacking the enemy rear lines that kept appearing behind them.
But there were too many opponents, and some people had already jumped into the trenches below, trying to use ladders to climb into the positions of the gunners. Shi Dajun swung his iron whip and cracked open an outcropping of the head, stared at him and shouted, "Brothers, fix your bayonets!"
The bayonet of the Raozhou fire gunner is a three-edged bayonet, which is uniformly manufactured by the Anren Arsenal.
Usually it stays in the leather sheath. After pulling it out, put the guard ring at the hand guard into the blunderbuss tube, and then tighten the screw at the end to fix it. Take off the two-foot-two-inch long sword and it can be used as a hand-held dagger to participate in fighting. .
However, today is the first time that this thing has been taken out of its sheath and participated in actual combat since it was equipped to the team. Upon hearing the order, the soldiers opened their leather scabbards, drew their swords, and installed them. There were "click, click" sounds everywhere on the position.
At a glance, Shi Dajun saw that the trench where he was was covered in silver light, and he couldn't help but feel his blood boiling. "Group of three, go for it!" he shouted.
There are gaps at both ends of the parapet for entry and exit. Soldiers holding bayonets and muskets poured out from here and rushed towards Ker's men amidst the sound of whistles (at the company level) and the sound of bamboo flutes (at the platoon level).
At this time, the Tiger Crouching Cannon from a higher place also fired, and the bullets roared towards the enemy's rear formation, providing cover for their own team.
When the messenger stumbled into the headquarters and reported that hand-to-hand fighting had begun even at Jinshan Camp, Li Dan stood up.
Zhao Jingzi glanced at the sweaty face of the first battalion who was delivering the order, and asked him to go back and deliver the order to stop the enemy at all costs. Then he came over and frowned and asked:
"Should we bring the reserve team up? I'm worried that the losses on the front line will be relatively large!" His meaning was obvious. The Raozhou regiment training had never experienced such a large-scale fierce battle, and he was worried that too many casualties would affect morale.
"A team must go through blood and fire to grow, and those who survive will be the backbone of the future." Li Dan said softly and waved his hand:
"Don't support us yet, and wait. I believe brothers, whether they are from Raozhou or from the Shandong New Army, they are not cowards!"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a loud and loud noise outside. Two camp leaders from the Xunshan Camp and the Ningjin Camp: Mr. Hu Bai from Qianqian and Mr. Zhu Taimao from Qianqian reported loudly.
"What are you two doing here?" Zhao Jingzi was confused. He looked at Jin Shijun who was chasing behind him, and his face darkened: "Old Jin, what are you doing?"
"This..." Jin Shijun was embarrassed and stuck.
The two people behind were laughing, and Zhu Taimao, who was a senior, asked: "Zhao Gaosen, I heard that the fight was lively in front, is it time for us to go up?"
"Nonsense!" Zhao Jingzi glared in a showy manner: "You jump out again when there is a military order. Why are you so anxious when there is no order?"
Li Dan smiled slightly, walked to the observation window, turned around and took the telescope from Mao Zaidi and looked at it, then turned around and said, "It's still early, wait a minute."
I don't think anyone in Kerr used his full strength. It's not worth it for you to go up now and expose our power too early. Don't worry, the credit goes to you.
! "
The battle lasted until noon, when both sides withdrew to rest and eat. The observing staff officer came over and whispered a few words to Zhao Jingzi. He turned around and leaned into Li Dan's ear:
"There are more than 30,000 people on the river. In addition, the observation post just now discovered that Kelge cavalry was heading upstream. I don't know what the purpose is!"
Li Dan was holding a piece of steamed bun in his hand, frowning and thinking, then suddenly raised his head: "They won't see the problem with the river water, right?"
"How can everyone be so smart?" Zhao Jingzi doubted.
"You don't have to be smart, just look at the water level marks on the shore!" Li Dan stuffed the last piece of steamed bun into his mouth, stood up and turned around twice, then walked to the window to look through the telescope and said:
"I see they are all young and old women crossing the river now. Are there any soldiers who haven't come over yet?" He looked at the opposite bank: "The big banner is still there, and the obao is here."
"What do you mean?" Zhao Jingzi found it puzzling after reading it: "Does this guy not want to come over?"
"Send a signal to the dam to release the water!" Li Dan said decisively: "Basically all the enemy's elite troops have arrived. I'm worried that if they find out that the water line is low, the duck will fly away, which will outweigh the gain!"
He looked at the reserve team commander Jin Shijun who had been staying here and said: "Go and call the two presidents Qian, it's time for them to play!"
Jin Shijun pulled Zhu Taimao and Hu Baifeng into the headquarters. After hearing Li Dan's order to mobilize the troops, the three of them rushed out again.
News of a general attack soon spread throughout the entire position, and the morale of the troops was immediately boosted. Li Dan then asked Gu Da to lead his four hundred soldiers to the southernmost point of the position, and the four imitation steel cannons he brought there also arrived there to wait for orders.
There was a flag signal and he rushed out. At this time, the horns of the cows sounded, and the big cowhide drums also started beating.
The enemy is about to attack again! With experience, the enemy became more and more organized, and actually formed three long offensive arrays at the foot of the hillside.
There were more than 10,000 people left by the river, and the remaining nearly 20,000 people came like dark clouds under the instructions of trumpets and horns.
Kerr roared and stamped on the ground. They are full of confidence that they will be able to break through the Han defense line this time. Even if they are not on horseback, they still have to prove that the Kerrs are real warriors. Read the book
Offering sacrifices to the fluttering banner,
Beat the war drums of the cowhide curtain;
I ride on a black-ridged horse,
Put on armor as strong as iron;
My sharp spear,
The long arrow with the goose feather;
With the Han army in the Southern Dynasties,
Mount your horse and go to fight——!
Li Dan softly translated the war song they sang. Zhao Jingzi glanced at him in surprise, shook his head and said nothing. After all, Zhao Jingzi has seen too many strange things about him in the past few years!
The warriors at the front waved their steel swords and made various exciting movements, while the shaman followed behind them and prayed to the earth and the sky.
The surging crowd from behind stamped hard on the ground. The sound of footsteps made the defenders stunned. Some were frightened and were immediately scolded by the officers.
"Take the medicine!" Shi Dajun roared with all his strength. He had sacrificed sixteen brothers in the hand-to-hand battle just now. They were all veterans! He gritted his teeth and was determined to get his place back!
The enemy is getting closer and closer, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps..., even the faces of the other parties twisted with anger can be seen clearly, but this time the fight will obviously be more painful, because the enemy takes advantage of During the break, I rushed to make more wooden shields.
Liao Changyong's injured arm was wrapped in a white bandage. When he saw the big shield entering the shooting range, he immediately ordered: "Fire with the Crouching Tiger Cannon!"
"Boom, boom!" The squatting tiger cannon on the position fired, but it caused little damage to the wooden shield. But for some reason, those wooden shields stopped one after another, and then everyone felt the earth tremble.
Everyone in Kerr looked around in panic, not knowing what was going on. Someone shouted loudly, but the roar in the air became louder and louder, and got closer and closer.
The huge waves swept in from the upper reaches of the north and rushed towards the lower reaches. Everyone in Kel screamed and headed towards the river bank in despair.
Wave.
But it was too late. The flood swept away everything it could touch, including the seemingly stable pontoon, people, livestock, and vehicles. The crowds on the other side were also running away, and Aobao and Dahu were submerged in the water without a trace.
"Okay! Victory!" The defenders cheered and jumped with joy. Then, not knowing who was taking the lead, they jumped out of the trench and rushed down.
The faces of the Kerrs suddenly turned pale, because they not only saw the defenders rushing down, but also saw a forest of bayonets appearing behind them.
Looking around, there are thousands of bayonets. The Xunshan Battalion and the Ningjin Battalion, which are the general reserves, are the two battalions of the New Army that are all equipped with muskets.
Seven thousand bayonets gleamed in the afternoon sun and poured out from behind the woods, seemingly endless.
"Run!" Someone shouted, and with just this sound, Kergo's army collapsed.
But when they came to the river, the water was still swollen, and many livestock were swept away. Everyone had to snatch horses from each other, and some people simply fled along the river.
However, they did not know that General Du Shen commanded the Southern Group and the student soldiers were waiting for them there with four steel cannons.
At this time, Li Dan was already discussing with the town governor Cao Junyou, Xie Guiting, and the inspection envoy Wang Shuanghe of the Shenyang Inspection Department on how to detain and identify prisoners, and how to use these labors to open up roads from Shenyang to Liaoyang, Fushun Coal Mine to Shenyang Nanguan It's straight.
After the war, making full use of these hard-earned labor forces and letting them contribute and sweat for the construction of Liao Dynasty would be worthwhile for everyone to come all the way.
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