Chapter 1481 When a warrior meets a lunatic
Guo Kang is from Niujia Village, Fancheng County, Xiangyang Prefecture, and is from a military household. According to the "Military Household Field Grants" in the Western Song Dynasty, his family owns 200 acres of flat land and dry land, which was passed down from his ancestors and inherited by his eldest son from generation to generation.
But he is not the eldest son of the family... He also has an older brother. He joined the Imperial Knights Order two years ago and married the daughter of Doctor Huang, Xiangyang City, who was so proud.
However, his younger brother failed in the sword contest, and did not even go to Huashan (the Huashan sword contest is also a one-level and one-level discussion. The masters from Xiangyang Prefecture went to Wudang Mountain to discuss sword contest first). Moreover, his father Guo Xiaotian had no great prospects and only left a 200-acre farm, so it was impossible to divide the farms in the Western Song Dynasty. The farms in the paddy field are now divided into two types: water and drought. The paddy field farms are one unit, and the dry field farms are two hundred acres. The farms in a unit cannot be divided again, and can only be inherited by one son (in principle, the eldest son).
In other words, not only did Guo Kang not join the Knights of the Imperial Front, he was also not qualified to inherit the farm. As for the beautiful wife, don’t think about it. He now has almost nothing and can only join the army to fight for his life...
By the way, the "military household system" of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty has declined to varying degrees. Only the "military household system" of the Western Song Dynasty is still operating well.
The knight farms and the mansion farms of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song dynasties can now be resold openly! However, they cannot be divided and resold, and the buyer must be a natural person and can replace the original owner to assume the obligations of the knights and mansion soldiers.
In other words, not only the resold farms, but also the identity of knights and mansion soldiers. The identity of knights and mansion soldiers is also valuable to many people. Because knights and mansion soldiers are both citizens, they are qualified to serve in public offices. They can also be treated preferentially in the education of their children. It can be said that it is a shortcut for the little rich people in the people to improve their own class.
Through this method of adaptation, the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties were able to obtain military resources from the land military service system, but the quality of military resources inevitably declined.
Of course, the wealthy middle and upper-class knights were still the main source of military officers of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties. With these elites who entered the Army Primary School since childhood for rigorous military training and then conducted professional officer training in the Knight Academy. The army of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song dynasties could still ensure the combat effectiveness of the army by strictly training and strict discipline for soldiers.
However, if strict training and strict discipline are required, soldiers will inevitably be allowed to serve in the military camp for a long time. In this way, the original unity of soldiers and farmers will not be able to maintain.
The army of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty required soldiers to serve continuously from decades ago, that is, not to return to their hometowns for a few years and serve continuously. Once the service period is over, they will be transferred to the reserve for a few years, and will not be recruited again unless the country faces a crisis of survival.
And this kind of continuous military service naturally requires military pay... In other words, the Great Zhou and Eastern Song countries actually implemented a special military system of conscription and recruitment.
They recruited soldiers from specific targets, and at the same time they gave preferential military pay, and they did not refuse the recruitment of heroes outside the specific target.
However, both countries are "renminbi players" who bring their own New World, and some are money! They don't care about this little military pay expense.
But the Western Song Dynasty, who had no money, could only fight to maintain the military household system, otherwise it would be dead!
In the Western Song Dynasty, the land and identity of military households were strictly prohibited!
Moreover, it is not strictly prohibited that no one buys it because no one has money.
Even a few wealthy businessmen are willing to take the opportunity of shooting and seizing soldiers, and are unwilling to have too much property exchange with the military households.
Because the Western Song Dynasty court issued more than once the "Military Household Ethics Order" to openly abolish all debts of military households to merchants and declared that the private transactions of military households were invalidated!
He even arrested a group of buyers who refused to return the farm, and sentenced them to exile to the Western Regions.
In this case, no one dares to encroach on or sell military farms, even lend money to military households.
At the same time, the Western Song Dynasty court also strictly prohibited the sons of military households from participating in the target shooting and seizing soldiers. They could take the Warsaw martial arts lecture hall and participate in the "Huashan Sword Contest", but they could not participate in the target shooting and seizing soldiers.
Such regulations are to force the sons of military households to actively join the army and make contributions and go to the battlefield to gain fame.
Especially those sons who are not the eldest sons, because they do not have inheritance rights and cannot take the imperial examination for the target, so joining the army and fighting is their only way out.
Guo Kang is such a bad second son of a military household. Because he is not as talented as his stupid brother (his brother is a person with developed limbs and simple minds. He has nothing to do except fights, so he has been beaten up by his father since he was a child!
That's just a slinger. It's really a ruthless move. It's not like beating a son, it's like beating a robber!
After finally enduring his father's death, the legacy he left was a piece of armor, a fine comb, a long bayonet, a short-handled mace, and a few Shujins used him as travel expenses to join the army.
His brother didn't force him to join the army, and promised to rent part of the land to him and let him be a tenant... He almost turned Guo Kang's nose into pieces. Before his father could be buried, he went out to join the army with his plate armor, muskets, bayonets, maces and travel expenses.
However, Guo Kang was not lucky in the army. Although he was sent to Yili Fortress on the front line, he was an infantryman, but he was not a "sharp gun soldier", so he had no chance to go to the battlefield.
I spent almost a year in Yiliebao, and I had no progress in martial arts except training and farming. I had no progress in martial arts (it was very good, but it was difficult to make any progress). The crop style has improved a lot.
If you go to be a tenant for your brother after you have been discharged from the army, you can get enough food and clothing...
But how could Guo Kang be willing?
Not only Guo Kang was unwilling to give up? Tonight, at least half of the Western Song infantry who were preparing to risk his life to launch a night attack were in his situation... If you don't want to be a miserable tenant in this life, you have to kill the enemy and make meritorious service.
But did the enemy escape?
Guo Kang poked his head out of his chest and stared at the darkness ahead, feeling anxious!
At this moment, dozens of flames suddenly flashed in the dark night!
Before he could react, the earth under his feet and the chest wall on which his body relied on trembled, and finally there was a deafening roar!
Boom boom boom boom...
Bombardment!
The word "bombardment" popped up in Guo Kang's mind.
At the same time, I don’t know who pulled him and pulled his head back behind the chest wall.
Boom boom boom boom...
The shelling continued, and shells kept whizzing past the heads of the Western Song infantry hiding behind the chest wall, and then fell heavily, either smashing through the roof somewhere or breaking the thin walls.
However, the Western Song soldiers hiding behind their chest walls all cheered in their hearts.
That's great, the Mongolians didn't escape!
This is the right person! If you don’t let go of your hands and feet, what kind of man is a hero?
"Minderman, light the fuse and put on the bullet!"
An officer immediately gave a loud order.
After the shelling, of course, the infantry charge!
At that time, the Mongols will have to take a round of muskets first.
The flintlock rifle has not appeared yet. The muskets used by the Western Song Army are all clamp guns, which are very complicated to operate. However, for infantrymen like Guo Kang, it is not a problem at all.
Although the son of a military household cannot shoot targets and get soldiers, Huashan also needs to take the target test!
Moreover, the proportion of musketeers in the Western Song army is getting higher and higher, and the sons of military households who join the army are also very likely to become musketeers.
So they are also more suitable for landlord-class literati (called "gun doctor" or "gun doctor"?), they can skillfully operate muskets and conduct accurate shooting.
In addition, their ability to compete in bayonets is much better than that of target scholars, target juren and target Jinshi.
In addition to bayonets, they can also fight hand-to-hand combat with maces. Now is an era of alternating hot and cold weapons. Plate armor has not been eliminated, but has become lighter and cheaper.
Nowadays, plate armor does not pay much attention to full-body protection, but focuses on key protection. It pursues the best balance between factors such as cost, weight, flexibility and protection.
Just as the Mongolians were still bombing, Guo Kang had already put bullets on his mezzanine. He was also calm and hid behind his chest wall with his head shrank, just waiting quietly.
Although he had never been on the battlefield, he had to hit the fat man even if he was slapped in the face.
I can only hide my fear in my heart and dare not express it.
Otherwise, it will be looked down upon!
These military household soldiers and musketeers who were born in target shooting are not allowed to be afraid of death, otherwise they will be subject to unimaginable discrimination and pressure. They will be looked down upon by everyone, rejected by everyone, including their own relatives... Even if they are destroyed in this life, it will be even more uncomfortable than death.
Therefore, the supervision team and other things are not very useful in the Western Song army.
The military households and "gun doctors" in this country are a little crazy!
When the Mongol cannon fired hundreds of shells, the sound of the shelling finally stopped abruptly.
After the shelling, of course, the Mongolian warriors charged. With the melodious sound of horns sounded everywhere on the front line. The Mongolian warriors in the brigade rushed out from behind the bunker made of sandbags with shields and maces. In the shortest time, they formed square formations. Then thousands of Mongolian warriors shouted the slogan "Long live the Great Sweat" and launched a tide like a tide under the cover of night.
In front of them, there is still only unexpected tranquility.
In the darkness, a low chest wall could only be seen standing there, as if mocking the Mongols' shelling was useless.
But where did the Song army soldiers go? Why didn’t they react at all? Are they asleep? It’s impossible. Can you sleep peacefully if you bombard me?
Run away? It's even more impossible... That's a lunatic who dares to charge when his own muskets open. How could these lunatics be afraid?
Just when the Mongolians were surprised, the person walking in the front was already quite close to the chest wall, and there was only about 20 steps left.
A harsh whistle suddenly rang.
Then countless heads emerged from behind the chest wall, and then countless standing figures.
At the same time as them, there were Mars that flashed in the darkness.
This is a musket! The musketeers in the Western Song Dynasty were too immoral. They didn't sleep at night, and they squatted behind the chest wall with muskets in their arms. What are you doing? What do you want to do? Do you know that our Mongolian warriors are going to attack at night?
Is this still natural?
The Mongolian warriors in the charge suddenly felt a chill on their backs, but it was too late and there was no room to hide.
"put!"
With the sound of shouting that seemed to have been torn to the throat, the Western Song infantry holding muskets pulled the trigger at the same time.
At least 2,500 mesh guns fired at the same time!
On the battlefield covered by night, a flash of fire suddenly flashed and smoke rose. No one can see what is going on in front of us now?
Guo Kang also completed a shooting. He fired in a half-kneel position. After the attack, he stood up immediately and stopped loading. Instead of climbing over the low wall in front of him, he picked up the musket with a bayonet and shouted loudly: "Kill the Tartars, Kai Enko!"
In fact, military household soldiers do not participate in the "target shooting and seizing soldiers", so there is no Enko at all, but they followed a group of "gun doctors" and called this Enko at all.
While shouting, he started charging!
It was not Guo Kang who was rushing alone, but thousands of military soldiers launched a desperate attack.
A distance of just 20 steps was rushing over in a blink of an eye. In the darkness, Guo Kang pointed his gun at a Mongolian warrior who was still silly. This guy was probably scared by the volley of the Song army's muskets!
"kill!"
Guo Kang roared, and used all his strength to stab the musket's gun out.
The so-called spear stab is actually a root-breaking cone. The force generated by running is conducive to the violent stabbing of the momentum. There is a certain chance that the Mongolian plate armor can pierce the Mongolian plate armor. The quality of the Mongolian plate armor is not good. If it is replaced with the plate armor of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty, it will be basically difficult to pierce.
But it doesn't matter if the pierce is not penetrated. Guo Kang's purpose of this piercing is to knock the other party.
With a dull sound, the Mongolian really fell backwards. I wonder if he was stabbed to death by the armor-breaking cone?
Without hesitation, Guo Kang immediately threw away the musket, took out his mace, and used all his strength to hammer the head of the Mongolian man who was falling to the ground.
Before this poor Mongolian warrior could figure out what was going on, he had already returned to the pure heaven of light.
Guo Kang just felt warm blood splattering on his face and smelled a bloody smell.
The fight was launched, and the Mongolians who were shot by muskets at close range were suddenly attacked by a resolute hand-to-hand attack, and immediately became panicked. At least 2,000 people died just at the beginning of the battle. The rest were also attacked by the powerful Western Song soldiers...
Mongolian warriors met the madman from the Western Song Dynasty this night!
Chapter completed!