Chapter 51 Firelight
Yang Zhen followed the footsteps of Xu Changyong's Mongolian soldiers and rushed forward regardless. Yang Zhan'ao, who was guarding the left and right, quickly followed with flags.
Zhang Guogan also shouted and led the right wing of his musketeers closely behind him. As he ran forward, he shouted to the left and right: "Keep the formation! Keep the formation! You fucking keep it to me."
Stay in formation!"
For the musketeers of this era, individual soldiers basically cannot achieve much combat effectiveness in movement. If they want to form combat effectiveness in the field, they must maintain a relatively dense formation and rely on the dense rain of bullets fired by the dense formation to inflict heavy damage on the enemy.
Cause damage.
From this point of view, Zhang Guogan's self-proclaimed proficiency in firearms seems to be somewhat genuine.
However, although Yang Zhen heard Zhang Guogan's shouts and realized that as the supreme commander of the musketeers, it was wrong to rush forward regardless, but he could not stop at this time.
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As the leader of the advance battalion, if you stop and wait at a critical moment when you are working hard, it will definitely have a negative impact on other people around you.
So Yang Zhen had no choice but to bite the bullet, cross the collapsed fence, rush forward, and rush into the Tatar camp. On the other side, he slowed down and waited for Zhang Guogan and Zhang Degui's rear team, hoping that they would catch up as soon as possible.
Get on yourself.
During this process, there were several explosions in the Tatar camp, and haystacks and grain hoards were set on fire. Yuan Jin's troops poured tung oil on the haystacks.
, fire shot into the sky.
Yang Zhen rushed into the camp and looked up. He saw that inside the huge Tatar grain and grass camp, there were people and fire everywhere!
Yuan Jin's "Marine Death Squadron" held a torch in one hand and tung oil in the other, setting fires everywhere, and the wind from the sea continued to expand the fire.
Xu Changyong's three hundred Mongolian soldiers had long lost the density and formation they had when they rushed into the Tatar camp. They had long been scattered in various areas of the Tatar camp, and disappeared as if in an instant.
silhouette.
Amidst the sound of explosions, wind, shouts of Tatar soldiers, and the yells of real Tatars wearing pajamas, Yang Zhen looked through the dispersed crowd and saw Xu Changyong, escorted by a group of soldiers.
He was jumping to his feet and yelling something at the top of his lungs.
Including the most disciplined Zu Keyong's troops, they were also rushing towards a group of Tatars wearing inner clothes but holding knives, axes and bones in their hands!
Seeing that the situation was so chaotic, Yang Zhen simply gave up his attempt to organize and command and allowed the various ministries to fight randomly.
Fortunately, at this time, he finally arrived at the right wing of Zhang Degui's gun team and Zhang Guogan's musket team.
Zhang Degui and Zhang Guogan, uncles and nephews, had been looking for Yang Zhen among the crowds of people since they entered the Tatar camp.
In the eyes of people like them, it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses this battle. As long as Yang Zhen doesn't have any problems, everything else will be fine.
Zhang Degui came to Yang Zhen's side and shouted to Yang Zhen: "Sir! The Tatar camp is already in chaos! Just follow me behind me and take command on the spot! Don't rush in anymore! Our purpose is not
Instead of killing people, burn the food and grass!!"
The arrival of Zhang Degui made Yang Zhen regain some consciousness. After listening to Zhang Degui's words, he immediately pointed to a watchtower in the distance and shouted to him: "Zhang Guerrilla! Let your gun team set up the nine-headed bird and aim at that watchtower.
!Knock it down! Quick!”
Since Yang Zhen broke into the Tatar camp, he has been looking for the commanding heights of the camp. Soon, he discovered the watchtower in the northeast corner.
Just below the watchtower, there were vast areas of grain stores, but the Tatar shooters on the watchtower were very active. The moment Yang Zhen saw them, there were already six or seven carrying tung oil.
A member of Yuan Jin's "Marine Death Squadron" who was holding a torch fell down on the way to set the fire.
As soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, Zhang Degui turned around and left. While running towards the watchtower, he shouted at the pairs of soldiers following him on his left and right who were carrying nine-headed birds: "All the gunmen! The one on the right front
At the watchtower! Find the location and aim for me!"
The gun is very long and large. It is a kind of firearm between a musket and an artillery.
Because the barrel of the gun is very long and the body of the gun is more than ten feet long, it is relatively heavy and cannot be operated by one person. It requires the cooperation of two people to move it.
Therefore, this kind of firearm that requires two people to carry it while traveling and requires two people to cooperate closely to operate it is called a carrying gun.
It is precisely because the body and barrel of the gun are very long that although it has many shortcomings, it has one advantage that cannot be compared with other guns, and that is its range and power.
The shooting range of the gun can reach more than twice the range of ordinary matchlock guns, and its power is not comparable to ordinary muskets.
The watchtowers in the Tatar camp are all made of wood. Although there are wooden boards around them, these wooden boards can block bows and arrows, but they cannot block the projectiles of guns at all.
As the distance between the bearer and the watchtower continued to close, a projectile finally hit the wooden board of the watchtower, causing sawdust to fly across the watchtower, and screams continued.
The Tatar archers on the watchtower also stopped to hide. Taking advantage of this moment, Pan Xi held a torch in his left hand and a conch "grenade" with a lit fuse in his right hand. He rushed to the bottom of the watchtower, threw it hard, and threw the grenade in his right hand.
The simple version of the "hand grenade" was thrown into the Tatar watchtower more than one foot high.
Just a moment later, an explosion sounded, and the only commanding height in the northeast corner of the Tatar camp instantly turned into a ball of fire.
Four or five Tatar figures also fell from the watchtower to the ground amid the explosion, and were killed by Yuan Jin's troops who had quickly followed up.
The cooperation between Zhang Degui's gun team and Pan Xi's grenadier team destroyed the only commanding height in the northeast corner of the Tatar camp. Yuan Jin's "arsonists" suddenly felt like an amnesty. Without the arrow rain that had previously suppressed them, they all
Jump out from the hidden corner and continue to set fire everywhere.
Fueled by tung oil and strong winds, a large area of grain storage in the northeastern area of the Tatar camp quickly turned into a sea of flames, illuminating the surrounding area with a glowing red light.
Under the reflection of this bright light, Yang Zhen saw from a distance a large group of dense torches in the southwest of the Tatar camp. They were moving quickly towards the grain storage area and were quickly approaching the only ancestor who had maintained their formation on the battlefield.
Ke Yong's department.
According to a rough calculation, there may be about a thousand people!
Yang Zhen knew that the southwest direction was the direction of the main entrance of this Tatar camp, facing the main channel of Xiaoling River, and across the Xiaoling River, it was far away from the Tatar camp in the Empress Palace area.
This group of people should be the main guard force in this Tatar camp!
As soon as Yang Zhen thought about this, he quickly stopped Zhang Guogan, who was taking advantage of the opportunities around him to shoot cold shots. He pointed at the fast-moving torch in the distance and said to him: "Did you see it? That's the fire! I guess that's the fire.
The main force of the Tatars in this battalion! Our formation has been dispersed. If we let them charge forward! We will be in danger! We must find a way to break them up before we can hope to continue fishing in troubled waters!
"Take the right wing of the musketeers and go immediately to support Zhang Chen! Tell Zhang Chen to use the left and right wings of the musketeers in a dense formation to disperse them! If they cannot be dispersed, stop them!"
After hearing this, Zhang Guogan shouted "Follow me", and then led the other nineteen people on the right wing of the Musketeers and quickly ran in the direction of Zhang Chen and others.
The current chaotic situation in the entire Tatar camp has begun to become clearer.
The Tatars' defense focus was on the main channel of the Xiaoling River. The few real Tatars and the large number of coated Aha were mainly concentrated in the direction of the camp along the river.
In other words, in the entire Tatar camp, the tent areas where people live are mainly concentrated in the west and south. The distribution area of stables is not far from the tents where people live.
The eastern part is mainly filled with haystacks, which are fodder reserves for the horses brought by the army.
To the north of the camp, there are large areas of grain storage.
This is a land route and is the closest to the Tatar territory in Liaodong, so it was chosen as the location for the grain harvesting.
Chapter completed!