Turbulent Times Chapter 1621: Weapons and equipment are the first combat power

No matter which of these two battalions came, Li Shimin believed that with his deployment in Sichuan and Shu these years, he could defeat the Far East Army.

In fact, so far, his plan has been quite smooth, but the result of the current battle between the two sides made him start to worry again.

Of course he knew that Xu Shiji would definitely come to support him, so he planned to destroy the 20,000 cavalry led by Cheng Yaojin before Xu Shiji's reinforcements arrived.

Don't mention Li Shimin's expectations and worries on the top of the mountain in the distance.

The three rows of soldiers at the front of the infantry phalanx of the Wagang Battalion watched a black wall of people rushing towards them on the opposite side, with dense gun barrels on their heads, like a long wall of weapons.

Before the melee battle, the fighting style is actually the same as that of the cavalry. As usual, there are some archers and skirmishers in the front of the infantry battle formation on both sides.

After listening to the howl of the captain, the soldiers of the Wagang camp raised their right hands slightly, and blew the brisk copper whistle. The soldiers felt relaxed for a while. During half a year of training, they have heard it countless times, which has already formed a conditioned reflex in their bodies.

The tune that the whistle blows is the legendary and mysterious owner of Snake Island, who is also the chief instructor of all the troops of the Far East Army.

The two sides approached quickly, and when they reached two hundred paces, Cheng Yaojin sounded another bugle, and all the phalanx of thousands of people in the Wagang Camp shouted "Kill", stopped and stopped, and each captain shouted At the order, the soldiers in the first three rows immediately touched the ground with their spears and leaned on their shoulders.

They only walked a short hundred steps, and they were more of a gesture of confrontation to improve the morale of the soldiers. Relatively speaking, the soldiers of the Li family army on the opposite side walked very fast, because they didn't have much time to dawdle.

During this process, some throwers in the Wagang camp kept throwing grenades, which caused a lot of casualties to Li's army and forced them to speed up and rush towards the phalanx of the Wagang camp.

Because they all know that once the two sides engage in battle, the grenade will naturally not be thrown again.

This distance, and the dense battle formation, every grenade caused a lot of damage, but it still failed to completely shake the determination of the infantry of the Li family army. Every time the battle line was damaged, people from behind would come up to make up together.

"Then Li Shimin and Duan Zhixuan trained good soldiers!" Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but sighed when he saw the morale and will of the enemy, thinking that if his side didn't have grenades, nine-shot crossbows, and steel armor With a low-browed helmet and a long spear with a steel tip, it's really not certain who will win this battle!

The faint smell of gunpowder smoke brought by the explosion of the grenade was blown by the wind and permeated the front line. Contrary to the thoughts of the generals of the Li family army, the soldiers of the Wagang camp hoped that the enemy would move slower and let the grenades and crossbow bolts fire a few more rounds , it is best to kill all the enemies on the opposite side.

The speed of the powerful soldiers throwing grenades is gradually increasing. Obviously, they also understand that the enemy will approach quickly, and there is not much time for them to throw grenades.

The closer the distance, the more people will be killed by each grenade. At this time, the distance is less than 100 meters, and the screams from the opposite side are one after another, but the gap is quickly filled again, and the people on the ground The corpse was quickly covered by the human wall.

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The enemy infantry entered within a hundred paces, and they had already suffered four rounds of hand grenades. The Li family's army had already lost nearly a thousand people before the two sides came into close combat.

Finally within the range of the bow and arrow attack, the stragglers sent by the Li family army crossed the square and began to throw light arrows. The light arrows landed in the queue, making a tinkling sound. For the steel plate armor produced by the Fanyang County Salt Field Weapon Equipment Production Base, a light arrow a hundred steps away is almost like tickling.

After another round of grenade bombing, Li Jiajun's stragglers quickly entered sixty paces, and the howls of the enemy officers at all levels in the rear formation resounded again and again.

At this time, the first row and the second row of crossbows in the Wagang camp had already started firing in turn, but they only had time to shoot one round each.

After Cheng Yaojin gave an order, the orderly next to him blew his horn.

Cheng Yaojin turned his head to the drummer again and said, "Normal pace, blow the forward horn."

As for the rear of the Li Family Army, Duan Zhixuan suddenly ordered to dispatch 3,000 cavalry to go around to both sides of the infantry phalanx of the Far Eastern Army, to harass and shoot the infantry of the Far Eastern Army with bows and crossbows, and to contain the infantry forces on the two wings and the rear of the Far Eastern Army. .

In fact, this is indeed the case. Because of the appearance of the three thousand cavalry on the two wings, Cheng Yaojin had to order three rows of soldiers on both sides and the rear of the infantry phalanx to turn around and face outwards. Influenced, in order to minimize the impact of rigor, Cheng Yaojin had to order the army to stop in place and wait for the infantry of the Li family army on the opposite side to rush over by themselves.

One side is rushing over, and the other side is standing still, there will still be some differences. After all, the Li Jiajun who is rushing over can have a certain momentum when he stabs the weapon in his hand.

Li Jiajun was afraid of the grenades and fast crossbows of the Wagang camp soldiers, but when they had approached fifty steps, they began to switch to heavy arrows. This kind of arrows at this distance can break through the armor and helmets of the Wagang camp. Defense, causing some damage to the Wagang camp soldiers.

The long phalanx rolls forward, no matter how close the distance is, there are always quick crossbow salvos from both wings.

The archers of the Li family army in front of them drew their bows and shot at the crossbowmen. The heavy armor-piercing cone pierced through the steel plate armor of the soldiers of the Wagang camp with the sound of breaking wind, and there were screams from time to time

Now, of course, Li Jiajun's screams kept coming and going.

After the formations of both sides marched, they left a lot of casualties, and the battlefield was filled with the screams of those who were hit.

The soldiers of the Wagang Camp wore steel plate armor and helmets with low eyebrows on their faces. Only their eyes were defenseless. Li Jiajun had sharpshooters who aimed specifically at the eyes of the soldiers of the Wagang Camp, not to mention shooting nearly a hundred of them to death one after another.

The same line of spears on the Li family's infantry was getting closer and closer, but their front row and two wings suffered heavy losses. Under the repeated attacks of the Wagang camp's grenades and fast crossbows, they had already lost in just one or two hundred steps. There are more than a thousand people, especially in the position where the fast crossbowmen on the two wings of the Wagang camp continue to shoot. There is a gap in the Li family army's long spear formation. , Li Jiajun was penetrated in those places, and was wiped out by the next round of salvo just after making up.

The heavy arrows of Li Jiajun's stragglers also pose a great threat to the soldiers of the Wagang camp. Although it took more than 20 steps to shoot through the steel plate armor of the Wagang camp, it also caused more than 200 casualties in the Wagang camp in a short time. , but the power of the bow and arrow is limited, and the number of direct deaths is not many.

Finally, there were only twenty steps left. The two sides endured the blows of long-range weapons and approached the distance to engage in combat. A close-range death battle was about to come.

"Long spear flat stab!"

Twenty steps away, the roar of the captain and the centurion sounded, and the three rows of long spears in front of the ten thousand-man square in front of the Wagang camp were all leveled, and each soldier turned his body to the right, with his left hand in front The right hand is behind, and the spear is aimed at the direction of the enemy. This action uses the left hand as the support point, and the right hand plays the role of controlling the body of the spear. It can be held all the way to the tail of the spear shaft, which can not only save energy relatively, but also keep the spear Attack range increased to max.

Since the lengths of the spears on both sides are similar, it is difficult for the soldiers to accurately judge the timing of the thrust. Looking for an opportunity is the most suitable for the battle with the Wagang camp's long spear.

Densely packed gun heads appeared in front of the array, and the Li Jiajun's drumbeat slowed down, and their spearmen also leveled their spears, keeping a flat front and approaching step by step, but there were various methods of holding them, far from The Wagang camp is in an orderly formation.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Li Family Army on the two wings tried to charge many times during this process, but they were all forced back by the Wagang Battalion with quick crossbows and grenades. Step back and continue to shoot wildly at the Wagang camp phalanx with heavy arrows, causing more than one hundred Wagang camp soldiers to die tragically.

At this time, in front of the infantry battle formations of both sides, each other fired the last round of volleys, causing the last long-range damage to the other side.

At the same time, the infantry in the fourth row of the Wagang Camp square drew out their daggers and waist knives, squatted down along the line and got under the line of spears, and then hid in the gap between the first row of spears.

Different from dealing with cavalry, in the combat regulations of the Far Eastern Army, the infantry of the Far Eastern Army has different tactics and tactics when fighting against infantry.

The bows and crossbows behind the battle formations on both sides kept firing, and they used intensive long-range attacks to suppress the enemy soldiers beyond their own front lines.

The soldiers of the Wagang camp only responded to the drumbeat, and they took a step forward every time the drum sounded. The other sounds seemed to be far away in the sky. As they got closer, the soldiers' eyes turned red, and they subconsciously approached the enemy step by step according to the slow drumbeat.

Li Jiajun is not an idiot, he will not rush forward to the muzzle of the gun. As the two sides get closer and closer, the pace becomes smaller and smaller. Carefully close to the attack distance.

The soldiers of the Wagang Camp did not look at the opponent's spear blade not far in front of them, but stared at the opponent's shoulder position without blinking, paying attention to each other's movements, moving their feet slowly, judging each other distance between.

The soldiers of Wagang Battalion can’t keep their super-long guns lying flat for too long. The ones who should come will come sooner or later. Slowly passing by, the guns and spears made a light collision sound from time to time. At this time, the drums had stopped, and the soldiers confronting each other on the front line were all focused on the frontal opponent, judging the most suitable assassination while slowly approaching. Timing, no one had time to make a sound, only the captain and the centurion shouted reminders, and the rustling of footsteps.

Every soldier is like being in a jungle of long spears. On both sides are the gun heads of his comrades in the back row, and in front of him are his own and the enemy's gun barrels. They were all within the last four feet.

Thanks to the countless infantry spear confrontation training in the past six months, the soldiers of the Wagang Battalion are no strangers to this feeling of facing the head of a gun.

But this is not a drill after all. The gun heads in front of them swayed slightly, probably approaching the attack range of the assassination. The soldiers of the Wagang Camp did not dare to approach any further. The threat stimulated the nerves of every soldier, and beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the soldiers in the front row.

The soldiers of the Li family army on the opposite side were even more hesitant and frightened, because the spears of the Wagang camp soldiers were also in front of them, and they were longer than them, and looked sharper.

In particular, the formation of the Wagang camp phalanx is very straight, and the right hand of each soldier is hidden behind, so that the enemy cannot judge their assassination distance, so that every soldier of the Li family army feels that if he takes another step, he will be attacked. To three spears attack.

Moreover, Li Jiajun uses the downward grip to hold the gun, which is not only difficult,

It is also necessary to leave a section of the tail of the gun at the back, which reduces the attack range. As time goes by and physical strength continues to be exhausted, the soldiers of the Li family army must extend the length of the tail of the gun to maintain the balance of the gun body, so the longer the time delays, the more they will More worried and anxious.

During the slow approach, only the heavy breathing of the two sides and the light clashing of nail leaves remained on the front line. Occasionally, officers shouted, but almost no one listened.

In the silence, the soldiers of the Wagang camp faced the guns on the opposite side and rubbed forward with the smallest strides. Before life and death, the hearts of all the soldiers almost jumped out, and the whole body was in a state of high tension. The short period of confrontation is as long as ten thousand years for everyone.

At a certain moment, a squatting Wagang battalion soldier in the third row at the back quickly crossed a short distance, avoiding the rear row of spears beside the enemy soldier, and smashed an enemy soldier's thigh with a dagger superior.

"Ah!" The infantrymen of the Li family army, who were tense all over their bodies, let out an earth-shattering scream. The scream finally broke the nerves of both sides who were extremely nervous. The densely packed gun barrels went back and forth between the front lines, and after the gun bodies moved, the sound of collision was as dense as raindrops.

Among the chaos, the soldiers of the Wagang Battalion reflexively took a step forward to occupy the attacking position. Just like they have practiced countless times in the past half a year, they stepped forward with their left legs and leaned forward slightly. They all protruded forward at the same time, and the long spears stabbed out like lightning. When they were still a foot away from the opponent's spear blade, they felt a stagnation in their hands. .

The annoying long guns in the hands of half of the Li family soldiers in the first row in front of them fell to the ground with a clatter, and when a large wave of Li family soldiers were two or three inches away from the soldiers of the Wagang camp, they fell to the ground clutching their necks.

The soldiers in the third and fourth rows at the back of both sides drilled around under the spears, with clusters of sharp spear blades shuttled back and forth on their heads. Before retreating quickly, the spearmen who were killed were often distracted and killed by the spears on the opposite side.

At this time, the battle line has become a mess. More and more soldiers rushed to the middle ground, struggling in front of their respective formations. The pain caused by the cold weapons was very intense. The dense contact surface quickly brought huge casualties.

I have to say that Duan Zhixuan's decision to send infantry to the field was very wise, because compared with the previous cavalry charge, although the infantry seemed to be at a disadvantage from the beginning, at least they caused continuous casualties to the Wagang Camp.

In a dozen or so breaths, the first row of Li Jiajun's infantry phalanx was dead, the second and third rows had already stood up, and soon the first row of the phalanx on the Wagang camp was also lost. Quite a few, and the pikemen in the back row kept filling forward. The tidy rear quickly turned into a zigzag.

Wagang camp soldiers almost all fought in a state of numbness, completely relying on the body's instinctive reaction developed by countless times of training, repeatedly assassinating.

After the first batch of casualties occurred, the two sides fought more and more frantically, and there was no more cautious temptation. Rulin's spears were puffing and puffing in clusters, quickly harvesting lives, and someone fell down every breath in the middle, and often even two people Stabbing each other at the same time, the corpses almost covered the battle line, and the two armies still did not retreat, showing the strongest combat power of this era.

Just as the deaths intensified and the number of deaths increased rapidly, the morale of the infantry of the Li family army gradually began to shake, and those who were beaten began to retreat, while the spear battle formation of the Wagang Battalion kept advancing, and more and more of the enemy infantry More and more people fled back.

No way, aside from the fact that the Far Eastern Army’s battle array is more dense and orderly, the difference in weapons and equipment between the two sides is too great. It is very difficult for the soldiers of the Li family army to seriously injure or die with a single shot from the long guns in the hands of the soldiers of the Li family army.

What's more, during this process, the nine quick crossbows and grenades behind the Wagang Battalion infantry phalanx never stopped firing and throwing.

The only disadvantage of the Wagang Camp is that their troops are limited, and now they have all become infantry. When the enemy wants to retreat or retreat, they cannot pursue them.

In fact, Duan Zhixuan, Li Shimin on the hill in the distance, and Zhu Can on the other side, whose expression is changing and he doesn't know what to think, all want to see the soldiers of the Wagang camp chasing and killing their defeated soldiers in excitement .

Because, in this way, the infantry phalanx of the Wagang Camp will be destroyed without attack. Duan Zhixuan and Zhu Can will not hesitate to suppress all the troops and start a scuffle with the Wagang Camp. The 20,000 people killed.

But with the shrewd Cheng Yaojin in command, naturally he would not make such a stupid mistake. Whenever there are red-eyed or complacent soldiers who want to leave the infantry battle formation and rush forward, Cheng Yaojin will pass by his side The orderly stopped with the sound of a horn.

Duan Zhixuan's face was ugly, and he had already dispatched their remaining nearly 20,000 cavalry to respond to the infantry's retreat or escape, but in fact there was no need to respond at all.

After the Li family's army retreated to their own camp, except for the desperate screams of Li's family's wounded soldiers who lost their mobility on the battlefield, the audience had once again returned to silence.

It's just that, compared to the beginning, the morale of both sides has been ebb and flow. The faces of Li Jiajun and Zhu Can's troops are already frightened.

However, in the infantry confrontation just now, although tens of thousands of Li's army were killed, nearly 2,000 people died in the Wagang camp.