Traveler Major League

Chapter 66 Death Battle

The tips of the arrows all came out from the palm, and the blood flowed from the wound, but Liu Ze didn't feel any pain, he just felt numb and sore in his palm, as if it wasn't his own hand, Liu Ze's first reaction was this The arrowhead is made of iron, and the top seems to be made of steel. Fortunately, there is no rust, because in the Ming Dynasty, if you were to get tetanus, it would be hopeless.

"Raise the shield and throw the gun!" The squad leaders shouted separately. The four people in the front row raised their shields, and the six people behind them held a spear in one hand and threw it in the other, attacking the cavalry rushing up.

"Scatter! Spread! Go around from both wings!" Deputy Liang Qianhu shouted.

The cavalry who were able to control the horses after hearing the order circled to both sides to increase the distance. Normal light cavalry seldom directly attack the strict infantry formation, especially when they lose their speed advantage on the hillside. The normal Ming army's tradition The tactics are heavy infantry clusters in the middle, and the cavalry on both wings will outflank and harass and disrupt the enemy's formation. When the enemy is scattered, the cavalry is also responsible for the pursuit.

This is also Liang Fuqianhu's current fighting method. The more than [-] people who lost their horses in the middle formed a formation on foot, and surrounded by about ten horsemen on each side. Although Liu Ze had a large number of people, the Ming army could break through in close combat with the advantage of their armor. .

After all, forty pairs of more than 100 local thieves, the advantage lies with me!
Deputy Liang Qianhu thought so, now his only idea is to kill Liu Ze and ask for a reward, so as to make up for the loss of more than 20 horses and soldiers.

Two cavalrymen who were not startled suddenly fell off their horses. Fortunately, the horses were not fast enough and no one was injured.

"There is a horse pit!" A cavalryman fell to the ground and exclaimed when he saw the densely packed potholes on the ground.

"And barbed wire!"

"Ambush on both sides!"

The so-called horse trap is a small hole with a diameter of about ten centimeters and a depth of about thirty centimeters. When a horse steps into it while running, it is easy to break its legs, and it is very easy to arrange.Caltrops are iron spikes spreading obstacles, which can be used to hinder the enemy's movement by spreading the caltrops on the ground.There is a hole in the center of the caltrops, which can be connected in series with ropes for laying and collecting.

"Six Taos · Tiger Tao" records: "Narrow roads and small paths, Zhang barbed wire, four inches high and eight inches wide."

As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, barbed caltrops had become a commonly used defensive device in the army. In addition to being deployed around roads, defensive areas, and cities, they were also deployed around the camp when troops were stationed.

The upward spikes of the caltrops, once stepped on by a horse, will stab the horse's hooves straight, causing the horses to suffer unbearable pain and lose their fighting power immediately.

This is also the defensive equipment commonly used by the Ming army. It was originally stored in Chengcheng County treasury and was taken away by Liu Zeshun, but it really came in handy.

The upper part of the hillside is full of horse pits, and the key parts are equipped with barbed caltrops to prevent cavalry raids.

The distance of only a few tens of steps, the javelin arrived in an instant.

At this time, the pain in Liu Ze's hand had just reached his brain. This was a pain he had never felt before. His hands were like holding a bunch of red-hot swords, which he couldn't shake off no matter how hard he shook them. During the process, the wind from the mountain seemed to blow in along the wound, and the chill immediately reached the bones.

Liu Ze reluctantly covered his body with a shield, and peeped out his head to observe the battle situation. Seeing Deputy Liang Qianhu fighting proudly not far away, Liu Ze immediately shouted to the bow and arrow team: "Shoot that official, shoot quickly! !"

With an order, twenty arrows flew over, "Puff puff puff", the horse under Deputy Liang Qianhu neighed for a while, and he quickly jumped off the horse, staggering, almost unable to hold on. , Liu Ze saw that he was hit by four or five arrows in the front and back, but they were all pierced in the cloth mask, and it seemed that they hadn't pierced through.

Another burst of arrows came.

After several rounds of attacks, the team of more than ten people led by Deputy Liang Qianhu lost nearly half of the casualties, and almost everyone who was alive had a few long arrows nailed to them. That's all, not a serious injury.

"Kill!" Without a chance to breathe, a dozen or so members of the People's Army rushed forward. Taking advantage of the gravity of the downhill, the flat-ended spears were fast and ruthless, like a boulder falling from the sky, crashing into the cavalry with lightning speed. among.

Seeing this, two cavalrymen immediately slapped their horses and fled in the opposite direction. They even turned around and shot arrows, "swish" and shot a soldier in the chest. Difficult to control the horse, all shot empty.

Oops, two screams were accompanied by the neighing of the horse, and the horse's hoof broke again.

Deputy Liang Qianhu was not at all afraid, and led the remaining four soldiers, relying on the armor protection on his body, smashed the spear with a waist knife, rubbed his body forward, and pulled it horizontally along the barrel of the gun, only to hear a few miserable "Oh!" Shouting, the severed fingers and hands of several People's Army soldiers danced in the air along with the blood.

Three of these five men attacked the center, one on the left and one on the side, stepped forward and slashed left and right, and easily pierced through the pike formation of ten people from the People's Army. The broken spear ran away up the mountain with a strange scream, but it was easy to go down the mountain, but not so fast to go up the mountain. After a few steps, he was chased by the soldiers and hacked to death on the hillside.

Before Liang Fuqianhu and the others could catch their breath, another burst of javelins flew in, and then a dozen more arrows.

This time the distance was even closer, and the few people simply stopped dodging arrows and concentrated on splitting the incoming javelin with their knives, a burst of sparks flashed from the blade.

Looking at the javelin stuck obliquely on the ground, someone scolded: "This is the iron spear head."

Before the words fell, there was a scream of "ah", and the man rolled down the hillside, with two javelins stuck in the cloth face armor on his body.

A dozen more people rushed over with long guns in hand.

"Come and save me!" Deputy Liang Qianhu shouted anxiously upon seeing this.

The two groups of people collided fiercely, the "aggressive" sound of the knife chopping the wooden gun barrel mixed with the "pop" sound of the knife chopping the wooden shield, coupled with the continuous screams from the crowd, this was completely will A contest of flesh and blood.

The faces of the soldiers of the People's Army were full of fear at this time, but few of them ran away. This bloody scene was like a flesh and blood mill. A group of people went up, and a group of people fell down. The soldiers roared to embolden themselves, relying only on the desire for victory, no, perhaps the desire for food and the fear of hunger.

There is also obedience to Liu Ze's brainwashing teachings and heart-to-heart talks during this period.

Deputy Liang Qianhu stepped forward with a horizontal slash, slashed and slashed from left to right, and slashed through him again.

Suddenly, I saw a long gun inserted into the lower abdomen of a soldier on the far right. The soldier was bleeding from his mouth and clenched his teeth, but his hand was still tightly gripping the gun, and the pike soldier on the opposite side was desperately moving backward Pull, the two are competing with each other.

He took a few steps, and cut the soldier from the right shoulder and right hand with a knife from the upper right corner. The blood sprayed into the air due to the aorta, and it was more than one meter high, like a small fountain. The soldier's legs softened and he knelt on the ground, his chin resting on his chest, unable to get up again.

At this time Liang Fuqianhu had time to turn his head to look at the battlefield out of breath. One of the other ten-man cavalry escaped, and the others were all killed. One of the archers behind did not survive.

Looking at the sea of ​​corpses on the mountain, he angrily raised the waist knife in his right hand. The edge of the knife was full of gaps, which were left by the fierce chopping just less than a cup of tea. He cursed secretly: "These thieves are really tenacity!"

Liu Ze's team lost another forty people. The cold weapon era relied heavily on the courage of the soldiers. After these elite cavalry were wiped out, it was obvious that the momentum of the remaining soldiers was even stronger.

"Shoot the arrow! Kill him! Don't fight melee!" Liu Ze pointed his spear at the only remaining Deputy Liang Qianhu and shouted. His blood feud was too deep to survive.

The role of the armor is too great. In the short-term fight just now, even if the soldiers of the Ming army wearing cloth face armor were hit with a dozen arrows, they could still slash and kill them bravely. They relied entirely on the cooperation of javelins and multiple long guns plus the loss of human life, and then relied on explosive packs, numerical advantages, and terrain advantages to win this victory.

Even under the careless and refueling tactics of the Ming cavalry, they suffered huge casualties. It is roughly estimated that the casualties were nearly three times that of these cavalry.

If it weren't for the huge loss ratio of the soldiers of the Second Company that caused Deputy Liang Qianhu to underestimate the People's Army, then the victory and defeat would inevitably be reversed if the distance was widened.

"Whoosh whoosh."

Deputy Liang Qianhu stopped fighting when he saw this, turned his head and ran down the mountain, ignoring the fact that the arrows only pierced his back. The lethality and armor-piercing ability of these hunting bow arrows are still too weak, and the enemy will not be injured after being stabbed. delay its action.

"Javelin shooting!" Someone shouted, the javelin was thrown in the past ten minutes, and with an "ah", deputy Liang Qianhu fell down on the slope and rolled twice, and then stopped beside a big rock , it can be seen from a distance that its neck has been folded into a strange angle, and it should be dead.

"Chop off his head! Hurry back to the top of Fangshan Mountain!" Liu Ze cheered in his heart. Just in case and to boost morale, it's better to chop off his head.

The two soldiers who were close to him ran over quickly, picked up his waist knife, raised his helmet and hacked a few times, then ran up the mountain with his bloody head.

The Ming army formation at the foot of the mountain has reached the foot of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)