Chapter 42
Feng Hu and Feng Xiong were two soldiers and thugs. They looted several villages along the way, and their hands were stained with blood. Most of the "war supervisors" they recruited were bastards with the same experience. The last generation of this dynasty
In troubled times, under the choice of life and death, human nature is destroyed and the beast is rampant.
This group of thugs were released from Jin Shiqi's cage.
Although Feng Hu also gave orders: "Use a stick! Don't hit your head!" "Use the back of your knife, don't really chop me to death!" But it was difficult to take care of these during the real fight. There were hundreds of defeated troops in front of him like a tide.
The stick was swung at them mercilessly, and it was unclear which head and butt it belonged to; the blade was covered in blood, and it was unclear whether it was the back or the blade.
Dozens and hundreds of defeated soldiers were knocked to the ground, rolling and wailing, and many were killed on the spot. Those who came from behind saw a miserable scene in front of them, and the war supervisors were pressing forward with blood in their hands.
Some people turned around and ran away, some collapsed on the ground, and some were knocked to the ground by people behind them and others stepped on them. The crowd was in turmoil and chaos.
Gradually, the balance tipped.
One mile away, the Jiannu cavalry was divided into two groups. One group was shooting arrows from a distance to suppress the Ming army retreating on the pontoon bridge. The rest were desperately cutting the cables and trying to use their horses to pull away the base of the pontoon bridge.
.Suddenly, they heard the sounds on the coast change... The strong men who had been dispersed just now were running towards them again.
Like a flood.
They actually shouted and rushed over.
They were carrying wood, hammers, saws, and iron pliers in their hands, and more of them were bare-handed. Almost everyone had a look of panic on their faces, and they were shouting and wailing. The men were rushed by the crowd in the panic.
They were all caught up in the collision, and all fell into unconscious panic, like lonely little fish struggling in the whirlpool. They could only blend themselves into the flow of people, and kept running, running! Anyone who was a little slower would be bumped into.
Fall down, be trampled on.
What kind of devil is that who is driving them behind the scenes! Is it even more ferocious than the Jiannu cavalry?
Jin Shiqi was almost crazy. He ran wildly with his sword and shouted: "Floating bridge! Protect the floating bridge! That is our life!"
The war supervising madmen also roared: "Go back! Protect the floating bridge! Trample the slaves to death! Hack you to death!"
"Floating bridge!" "Protect the pontoon bridge!" "Our pontoon bridge!" hundreds of people shouted, and in an emergency there were thousands, tens of thousands...
When the cavalry saw the spectacular team, they hurriedly mounted their horses, grabbed their weapons and prepared to fight. However, the rolling flow of people was really frightening. Even ten thousand pigs could overwhelm people, let alone a mob of ten thousand collapsed.
The leader suddenly remembered: "Hey, I am a scout..." He pulled up the reins and turned around to leave. The other cavalrymen clapped their horses to catch up!
The cavalry galloped on horseback, turning around and shooting a few arrows at random. There were thunderous cheers behind them, and thousands of people were shouting, cursing, and roaring on the beach, and countless people were whining and crying. They rushed to
Beside the pontoon, people fell to their knees and fell on the snow. Some people still chased them out like crazy.
The group of Jiannu cavalry left quickly. As soon as they climbed up the mountain ridge, they encountered the sailors head-on.
The short mountain ridge was blocking the sight of both sides. More than 1,000 infantrymen from the Longwu Middle Camp's two units (Qian Corps) were rushing toward them in a flying geese formation, and the formation had not yet been deployed.
No more than a hundred steps apart.
The leader of the Jiannu cavalry immediately made a judgment: "The Ming army is stupid and opened fire indiscriminately. Get away." He quickly pulled the horse's head away and led the team to bypass the flank of the Ming army. In an instant, the sailors opened fire, and there was another burst of fire.
Lightning, thunder, and fire shot into the sky. When the smoke cleared, the cavalry had already flown into the distance like wild birds returning to the forest.
The cavalry team only ran along the ice floe. They detected the Ming army's construction of the pontoon bridge, which was a huge gain. They got rid of the Longwu sailors and slowed down their horses, bypassing the bridge frozen with Juehua again.
Yangshan Island is together. As long as you bypass the woods on the island, you can go straight to the northwest mainland coast...
Another blast of firecrackers came from the pavement.
Dozens of firecrackers erupted almost simultaneously, turning into a rumbling thunder. Of the 90 Jiannu cavalry advancing slowly, more than 20 of them immediately fell to the ground.
"Ambush!" the cavalrymen immediately shouted, "In the woods!"
The leader of Jiannu immediately judged: The forest was small and there were not many people in ambush. This round of fire and gunfire was intensive, which was a good time to charge and kill.
"Kill." They were only about 30 steps away, and the cavalry turned their horses and charged forward.
Sure enough, there was a group of elite soldiers ambushing in the forest. The gunmen were retreating and the archers were shooting sparsely. A few more people were hit by arrows, and the cavalry came forward to kill them. The war horses rushed up the gentle hills and sparse trees.
There's no way to stop them.
In an instant, a dazzling brightness bloomed in front of the leader!
Accompanied by gunpowder smoke and flames, the thunderous sound of firecrackers continued... At that moment, the leader of Jiannu was thinking, "How can we fire again so quickly?" But a sharp pain was coming from his neck.
It was open everywhere. He tilted his head and fell off the horse, his soul was gone.
A round of angry shooting, a small number of cavalry fell from their horses!
The elite soldiers in the forest had abandoned their firearms and grabbed their spears to form an array. The cavalry were shouting in panic and preparing to continue charging, when they saw another spear flashing from the side, slowly approaching under the cover of more than a dozen blue shields.
The leader fell off his horse, and the remaining Jiannu cavalry hurriedly picked up the injured, turned around and rushed out. When they set foot on the ice field again, there were only about 40 cavalry left. The killing in the forest continued, with more than a dozen
The seriously injured slave soldiers continued to fight hard, and were eventually stabbed to death by spearmen one by one in the cold forest.
"40 heads." Master Tian finished counting.
"Two thousand taels of silver!" The private soldiers of the Jin Mansion calculated it immediately and shouted wildly. They had earned a year's worth of silver in this one action.
Master Tian sighed: "But we were exposed."
…
The passion dissipated, and the shore where the floating bridge was under construction was miserable.
In this war, more than 200 people died in Jin Shiqi's camp, and more than 100 were seriously injured. It is estimated that they will not survive tonight. Some of them were hacked to death by the slaves, some were beaten to death by the supervising team, and some of them were killed by each other.
Those who died due to crowding and stampede, and those who fell into the ice while fleeing in a hurry... plus the rest of the injured and those who had mental breakdowns, the total loss was more than 1,000 people.
Fortunately, the pontoon was unobstructed.
Jin Shiqi's pontoon has a one-month warranty. This is because it takes into account the multiple attacks of waves, ice floes and north winds, as well as the circulation of tens of thousands of people. It naturally has a reliable design. More than 20 wooden piles have been driven into the base of the pontoon.
, deeply sunk into the ice and pebbles on the beach, only four were destroyed by the cavalry. There were more than a hundred cable-stayed ropes on both sides of the pontoon to constrain the angle of the pontoon, and more than 30 of them were cut off. Despite the brutality,
But the pontoon can withstand it.
President Jin Qian gave the order: Call the people to line up, count the number of people, and prepare to start work!
7,000 strong men slowly gathered. The atmosphere was dull and the mood was bleak. There were endless cries on the coast. There were nearly a thousand people taking care of the injured and collecting the corpses. More than 200 corpses were gathered together. They were
Dragged from all over the coast, the corpses left radial drag marks on the ice and snow, and the ice and snow were covered with blood stains.
Jin Shiqi looked at the ferocious scene. He went over and knelt down and said loudly: "We have saved the bridge. Tomorrow, I will send you to the island."
The north wind howled, the waves roared, and the people were speechless and choked...
He prostrated on the ground and kowtowed three times to the deceased.
When he stood up, thousands of people on the entire coast knelt down and began to cry violently. Even hundreds of soldiers from the war team burst into tears and cried softly.
"Cry, I'll give you a quarter of an hour." Jin Shiqi ordered, "We will start work in a quarter of an hour."
…
After arranging matters on the floating bridge, Jin Shiqi led people to Yangshan Island, the hill near the coast. He was going to meet the elite soldiers who ambushed the Jiannu cavalry...
That was a group of soldiers from the Jin Mansion.
"Master Tian, it is indeed you." Jin Shiqi got off his horse and said, "No wonder I haven't seen you in the past two days."
"Mr. Qian." Master Tian clasped his fists. "I just heard that there is a legend on the island that you ordered..."
"Kill the defeated soldiers." Jin Shiqi nodded.
Master Tian stared at Jin Shiqi, then waved his hand towards the camp in the middle of the mountain, "Would you like to have a drink?"
"I don't want to. I came here to confirm something." Jin Shiqi refused to leave. "Cha Shouwei told me about six ships. Is this right here?"
Master Tian took a long breath and said, "I can't hide it from you."
Jin Shiqi followed Master Tian through the hills and walked to the south side of the island. Sure enough, he saw several outlines in the ice and snow under the rocks. They were well hidden. The terrain here is steep and the swells are high.
The ice floe is only a hundred paces wide. Although it is still very difficult, it is possible to push the boats into the water. Moreover, the six boats are flat-bottomed sand boats, which put little pressure on the ice and are not easy to sink. Even if you only push three boats, you can bring them down.
Remove all officers and family members on the island.
Jin Shiqi stared coldly at the sand boats hidden under the snow, like a hungry wolf staring at a lamb.
Master Tian was a little nervous, "What are you going to do?"
Jin Shiqi said softly: "Look, I just want to take a look."
They turned back to the woods, where there were several dilapidated small houses. They were filled with private soldiers of the Jin family, 40 fire gunmen, as well as archers and sword and shield bearers, a total of 70 people. It was they who ambushed the team
Jiannu Scout Cavalry.
Master Tian said: "We originally had a hundred people, but we left 30 people at Shanhaiguan just to find you. Otherwise, the remaining cavalry wouldn't be able to escape."
Seeing Jin Shiqi come in, the private soldiers stood up to greet him one after another, but their mood was different from before. Jin Shiqi found that they were obviously much more solemn, no one was joking, and they almost did not dare to look directly at Jin Shiqi. They no longer even called him Young Master.
, just call him Mr. Qian. After saying hello, they dispersed, lowering their heads and pretending to be in a daze.
The current Jin Shiqi has blood on his body and hands. He is completely different from the cheerful young master in Shanhaiguan.
"At critical moments, we still have to rely on private soldiers." Jin Shiqi said secretly. Suddenly a bright light flashed in his head. "Master Tian, have you heard of the 'Three Strikes'!"
Three consecutive attacks: the battlefield magic weapon of the time traveler, the invincible technique.
"What?" Master Tian really asked.
Jin Shiqi then instructed him: The gunmen should be divided into three groups and shoot in batches. After firing, they can step back to clean the guns and load ammunition. This method can make the fireguns continuous, which is a winning method in the age of firearms.
"It's a pity. I just remembered this now. I'm afraid you didn't train well enough. It's all my fault..."
"Oh...that's it." Master Tian understood, "Archers have always behaved like this for a thousand or two thousand years."
"...I'm talking about the firecracker."
"Since the advent of fire blunderbuss, this method has been followed for two hundred years." Master Tian looked into the void, as if recalling history. He added: "And there are more than three groups. A truly good general must issue orders based on the enemy's situation.
——If the enemy is slow, fire in three or four rounds; if the enemy is close, fire in two rounds or even all at once. We also need to control the haste and slow down, wait until the enemy is close before shooting suddenly, and even play tricks to prevent the enemy from guessing me.
The shot is empty... As an officer, you only have a loud voice, you have many ways to do it!"
"..." Jin Shiqi nodded, "Master, you are really a master! I watched you ambush the Jiannu cavalry from a distance, and I just shot two rounds?"
"Two rounds? In fact, it was a volley fired by the whole team. At that time, the cavalry was attacking head-on. There was no chance of rounds."
"Ah?" Jin Shiqi exclaimed, "I clearly saw two puffs of smoke at the front and back. How could you reload so fast!" The interval in Jin Shiqi's memory is only a few seconds. Is there any skill that I don't know about?
Chapter completed!