Chapter 1610 the bayonet
Long before departure, the First Association Staff Department had already formulated several combat plans.
As the supreme commander, Zhang Sanzheng only needs to choose one of them and issue execution orders.
Soon, the artillery troops quickly launched operations under the cover of the infantry.
The night is getting darker, the moonlight is flashing and the conditions for the cannon trucks to advance are not ideal.
However, the artillery soldiers who had experienced countless night training had not been greatly affected.
With the efforts of the artillerymen, the pack horse with horse's mouth blocked and the horse's hooves wrapped, dragged artillery carts of all sizes and quietly arrived at the launching position.
Unloading the gun, laying the gun, removing the rain cloth, and placing the ammunition are all carried out in the dark.
Facts outweigh words.
The benefits of sweating more in normal times and bleeding less in wartime are no longer needed to say anything Li Zhongyi said.
According to the principle of small cannons in front and heavy cannons in the back, more than one hundred cannons were lined up in three rows.
Under the bright or dark moonlight, the cannon tube flashed with bronze light, revealing its true face of hideous bloodthirsty, and pointed at the camp of the Goryeo mob.
At this time, with a command, countless torches suddenly lit up on the artillery position, illuminating the entire launch position as bright as day.
"Calibration cannon, three rapid fires, release!"
Artillery is a very scientific type of troops. According to the artillery code, before the artillery group opens fire, there must be live-fire shooting that verifies the firing boundary.
"Bang..." When the first flowering artillery shell hit the camp of the Goryeo mob, the prelude to suppress the rebellion was also kicked off.
"Boom..." The flowering artillery shell happened to explode above a fire in the mob camp. The iron shell shell exploded instantly, and countless small projectiles then flew all over the sky.
"Ah..." The mobs who were hit by the small projectile fell to the ground one after another.
If their heads were shot, they would definitely die. They twitched a few times and fell silently into a pool of blood.
Near the fire, some people covered their stomachs and screamed, some people rolled around the ground with their legs in their arms, and more people died without even enough to call.
Flowering fire shells are not particularly profound things.
With the prophet Li Zhongyi, the craftsmen in the artillery shop finally invented the "flowering bullet" after several years of technical research.
The difficulties in flowering firecrackers are mainly new time delay fuses and wooden bullet holders.
Both ends of the wood-pipe fuse are wood, and a large section in the middle is hollow, and a medicine with a very stable combustion speed is placed inside.
Mark the scale in advance on the wood pipe. When firing, the artillery will estimate the time of the shell flying based on the distance, then dig a hole in the corresponding scale (can contact the gunpowder inside the shell), and then insert the wood pipe fuse into the shell.
In addition, installing a wooden bracket on the bottom of the shell can protect the "flowering bullet" when the launching drug explodes.
Moreover, after the wooden support "flowering bullet" is launched, the front is heavy and the back is light, similar to a badminton, making the ballistic more accurate.
When firing the wooden bracket "flowering bullet", you don't need to ignite the flowering bullet in advance, just ignite the cannon-firing fuze.
After the launching drug explodes, part of it will spray out from the gap between the shell and the barrel directly ignite the "flowering bullet" fuse, and then fire it out.
The best killing effect of "Blooming Bullet" is to explode over dense crowds.
In the artillery unit, all artillery soldiers who are good at calculating air explosion time receive three times the military pay.
After the three rounds of the verification artillery test, the artillery staff quickly gave reasonable ballistic parameters and the woodwind scale of the air explosion after intense calculations and combined with the changes in wind direction and wind speed.
The result of the three-fire test shots has already made the camp of Goryeo mobs with poor military discipline a mess.
"Run quickly..."
"God punished us..."
"What are you panic? Stop it all."
At this time, the rebel leader who had already discovered that the chaos in the military camp decisively threw down the naked beauty in his arms, carried a big knife in his hand, and led his own teeth troops to kill more than a dozen running soldiers, trying to restore order in the camp.
However, as the order in the mob camp gradually recovered, the situation had undergone amazing changes.
After obtaining the launch parameters, the artillery troops began to load the bullets and medicines in full swing.
"The First Artillery Battalion is ready, set off." As the officer waved the small red flag in his hand, the thirty six-pound cannons in the first row made a shocking roar almost at the same time.
"The first battalion loads the bullets, the second battalion prepares."
"Second Battalion, release."
"Boom boom boom..." Amid the rumbling cannons, the mob camp was blown up and corpses were everywhere.
"Raising the heavy artillery ten degrees, aiming at the depth of the thief camp..."
"Prepare, let it go!"
"Boom boom boom..." When the 12-pound heavy cannon fired, the whole earth began to tremble.
Li Jiyi, who was riding on the horse, sighed secretly while comforting the frightened war horse under his crotch.
My father said nothing wrong. He would fight any weapon.
If the Han army, who had horses, had horses, had galloped directly and suddenly entered the unprepared rebel camp, they would have won a great victory.
However, the night is vast and the chaos is in the chaos, and the soldiers of the Han army will inevitably suffer unnecessary casualties.
Now, with the help of a large number of fire "flowering bullets" artillery, you only need to aim at the rebel camp and hit a few rounds, and the rebels will collapse without fighting.
Neither Li Jiyi nor his brothers entered the martial arts lecture hall. However, in the military textbook written by Li Zhongyi himself, the writing is extremely clear about how to chase the enemy with the least cost.
Chasing the defeated army with the back of the war horse is the thing the cavalry is most willing to do, and it is also a combat mode with the most killing of enemies and the least casualties.
Now, Zhang San was ordering intensive bombardment, which was obviously taking advantage of the huge loopholes in the mob's military lax discipline and trying to drive them out of the camp.
Sure enough, after three rounds of artillery, the mobs of Goryeo threw down their weapons and ran away from the camp in their arms.
It was time to blow the trumpet and charge. Before Li Jiyi's thoughts could be finished, he heard a loud trumpet sound that resounded throughout the night sky.
"Did it..."
All the officers and soldiers of the second and third targets waved the swords in their hands and ran out wildly.
The first bid where the Li brothers were located was regarded as the general reserve team of the battle by Zhang Sanzheng and remained under the military flag of the First Association.
The robes of friendly troops rushed out to kill the enemy and made contributions. Both Li brothers could only stay where they were staring blankly, and they couldn't help feeling angry.
There is no way, Zhang Sanzheng is not only not a fool, but is extremely smart.
In this dark environment, even if it is a one-sided pursuit, casualties will inevitably occur after the first bid is thrown out.
What if the two princes have a good time, even if the emperor is generous, can the empress dowager and the prince’s biological mother be spared easily?
Hehe, even if Zhang Sanzheng used his feet to think, he could guess that the two princes were very upset, right?
"Order the first sign to rest on the spot, and clean the battlefield after dawn." Zhang Sanzheng did whatever the princes were upset.
After following Li Zhongyi's military career for so many years, Zhang Sanzheng has long been a veteran general who has experienced many battles.
All the generals under the emperor know a strong fact: the emperor can completely tolerate the use of your incompetence in the people and the people who are in trouble, but the emperor will never allow you to make a rash move and suffer heavy losses due to your greed for merit.
The power difference between the enemy and us is huge. You can choose to retreat or even escape with light equipment. The emperor will not blame it.
In the emperor's concept, as long as the soldiers run back alive, this is a good thing to keep the green mountains without fear of burning firewood.
However, if you are not sure about the enemy's situation or are greedy for merit, you will be able to bear the emperor's powerful anger!
As the founder of the Imperial Army, Li Zhongyi's personal style of fighting cautiously has penetrated into the bones of the entire imperial army and can no longer be separated.
After the sky was bright, the battle reports of the pursuit troops were sent back one after another.
The army with more than 3,000 horses had penetrated the mob's defeated army and surrounded it back.
At present, in addition to the more than 20,000 mobs who have surrendered, the second and third-target soldiers have enclosed the defeated mob leader in a small depression.
At this time, the first target soldiers had already had a full breakfast and were waiting for the order to fight.
"Everyone has it, stand at attention, get on the horse, and set off." As Zhang Sanzheng's order was passed down, the soldiers of the first target set off quickly and marched in the direction of the mob leader being surrounded.
Following the direction of his advance, Li Jiyi, who was riding on a horse, suddenly discovered that there were corpses of Goryeo mobs everywhere along the way.
However, as the horse team accelerated its progress, the bodies of barefoot women and children continued to appear along the way.
Because there were too many corpses and there was no time to clean them up, Li Jiyi's horse's hooves under his crotch had already stepped on the corpse many times.
The cruelty of the war suddenly came to his face, making Li Jiyi, the first brother on the battlefield, unable to defend himself. At this moment, the bloody smell filled the air was rushing to his nose, and he really wanted to vomit.
Not far away, Li Jixiao was lying on the horse's back, and he was already vomiting so dark that the sky was dark and tears flowed.
War is so cruel. Death will not distinguish between old people, women or children!
After the First Bian arrived at the concave where the mob leader was besieged, Zhang Sanzheng ordered the horse to abandon his troops.
Amid the crisp and rhythmic snare drums, the soldiers of the first target quickly unfolded the attack formation of the infantry line.
I don’t know if it was intentional or unintentional, Li Jiyi and Li Jixiao were both in line with the third platoon of infantry online, which was also the safest position.
The remaining mobs did not have long-range strike weapons such as bows and arrows, so they could only watch the Han army's line infantry gradually approaching with the sound of snare drums.
When the distance was about one hundred meters, the line infantry stopped moving forward.
"First row, raise the gun and release it."
The mobs fell in rows in horror.
"Second row, release." After ten breaths apart.
"The third row, release." After ten breaths apart.
This is simply a massacre with zero casualties!
After Li Jiyi shot his gun for ten rounds, he was already numb.
At this time, he was like a murderous machine, loading the bullets mechanically, stepping forward, shooting, then backwards backwards, and then moving forward, and repeating the rounds.
Chapter completed!