The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 199 How did you shoot this?

A large number of caltrops were scattered on both sides of the army formation.

Qi Jiguang stipulated that every rattan shield bearer must carry six strings of caltrops, with ten caltrops in each string, for a total of sixty caltrops.

At this time, the shield bearers held the shields in their left hands and took out the caltrops in their right hands, continuously throwing them to both sides of the army formation.

Originally, the chariot formation was arranged in a circular shape, which was sufficient for defense, but it was very inconvenient when advancing.

But now that the caltrops have been spread out to both sides of the army formation, the chariots no longer need to be arranged in a circle, and the two wings no longer need to be strictly guarded, and the chariots can continue to advance slowly forward.

There is no need to rush, let’s just push it slowly!
Gu Wei felt that the distance between the three enemy chariot formations in the shape of a Chinese character "品" was constantly shrinking, and the Jin army surrounded in the middle had less and less room to move.

He suddenly woke up and realized something was wrong. If he allowed the three enemy chariot formations to merge and covered both sides with caltrops, he would not be able to escape.

Gu Wei roared, "Han'er is despicable. He actually wants to use infantry to surround the cavalry. It's ridiculous."

It's really ridiculous, it's impossible to do.

But this demonstrates the opponent's confidence and momentum.

All the Han troops they encountered before were good at defense but not good at offense. As long as they could stop the Jin cavalry, the Han soldiers would be thankful and would want to sing and dance. But the group of Han people in front of them actually showed an attitude of "not being satisfied with defense, and wanting to surround and destroy the Jin cavalry."

This is fucking unbearable!

But how should this battle be fought?

He didn't think clearly for a while, and then he heard "boom, boom, boom", and the rebel army's tiger squat cannon opened fire again.

As the Tiger Crouching Cannon fired, a volley of small iron bullets flew over, turning the Jin cavalry within a fan-shaped area of ​​20 to 30 meters into sieves, including both men and horses.

After the cannon fired, the bird gun started to fire, "bang bang bang". The bird gun made a crisp sound and its killing range was not as large, but it was more flexible and had a faster firing rate.

The firing holes on the rebel army's large wooden carts spewed out flames from time to time.

The Jin cavalrymen didn't even understand what was happening before they felt a pain in their chest and fell off their horses and died.

Guwei felt that if they continued fighting like this, they would be dead.

He pointed to the west, the area between Zhang Yong's army and Wu Jialiang's army, and shouted, "Break out of their encirclement from here."

"Ouch!"

The golden cavalrymen howled and rushed towards the west...

At this time, the three armies in the shape of a Chinese character "品" were constantly closing in, and the passage for breaking out was not very wide. On the north side of the passage were Zhang Yong's army, and on the south side were Wu Jialiang's army. If the Jin army broke out from here, it would inevitably face attacks from both the north and the south.

"Shoot!" Zhang Yong roared.

"Shoot hard!" Wu Jialiang also shouted.

The bird-gun soldiers of both armies loaded and fired desperately. The rattan shield bearers could not help but take out their javelins and threw them forward. The melee soldiers such as spearmen and halberd soldiers also took out their bows and fired wildly at the Jin cavalry.

The Jin cavalry shot arrows to the north and south while rushing madly to the west. They were greeted by the "welcome" of cannonballs, gun bullets, javelins, and bows and arrows. Nearly a hundred cavalrymen fell off their horses before they finally rushed out from between the two chariot formations.

"Damn it! The golden thief actually ran away." Yu Fanwen was furious and wanted to chase after him.

But he saw Guan Sheng holding his spear in front of him and blocking him: "Yu Dutou, don't chase me." Yu Fanwen: "?"

Guan Sheng said, "The Jin army is defeated but not disintegrated. If you break away from the protection of the chariot formation and chase them, they will turn around and attack you immediately."

Yu Fanwen: "..."

Don't mention it, don't mention it. The Jin army was truly defeated but not disorganized. They were bewildered by the chariot array and firearms. It was obvious that they were defeated, but their morale did not collapse. The Jin cavalry did not throw away their armor and weapons when they fled. Instead, they kept turning and shooting arrows, which kept flying over the gates in front of the chariot array and falling into the rebel soldiers behind.

This caused many soldiers who were greedy for merit and advanced rashly without taking shelter under their rattan shields to be injured.

One of the tank commanders was too excited. When he waved his flag gun and ordered a pursuit, he stood too high and was completely out of the protection of the shield bearer. He was hit in the shoulder by an arrow falling from the sky. He was bleeding profusely and was seriously injured.

The movement of the chariots was not as fast as that of the war horses, so it was impossible to pursue them.

Soon, the Jin army ran westward to a distance of more than an arrow's length. When they reached that distance, the Jin army stopped running. The entire army stopped, reined in their horses, looked back, and soon formed the sharp arrow formation again.

But after forming the formation, they did not rush forward. Gu Wei stood at the tip of the sharp arrow formation, looking at the rebel army's chariot formation with a fierce look on his face.

At this time, the traffic is turning...

They had to change their original formation facing the center of the V shape to turn to the west.

While changing formations, he also had to be on guard against the caltrops he had scattered earlier.

The soldiers at the edge of the chariot formation were constantly picking up caltrops and returning them to the rattan shield bearers...

Chariots weren't as agile as cavalry, and turning was a bit slow. This was due to insufficient combat training. This was the soldiers' first time using chariot formations in large-scale combat, so changing formations was naturally a bit clumsy. Occasionally, you'd see the "steersman" pushing the chariots collide with their comrades due to their clumsy handling.

This was actually a great opportunity to attack, but Gu Wei did not dare to call for an attack.

What he had to face was not only the chariot array, but also the strange firearms.

As the sounds of "boom" and "bang" were heard, some of his men fell off their horses and died.

Before he figured out what was going on, he no longer dared to let his soldiers charge easily.

Gu Wei turned around and yelled to his men, "Did you get the body back?"

"Have!"

A subordinate came running over carrying a corpse, placed it on the horse's back, found the wound, pried it with a knife, and pried out a lead bullet: "General, our man died from this."

Gu Wei took the lead bullet and looked at it carefully in his hand.

The lead bullet was originally round, but it was squeezed by the explosion of gunpowder when it was fired, and then deformed by the flesh and bones when it hit the human body. Now it has been twisted into a flat shape, like a small round cake.

This is also where Lead Bullet is shameless!
Because lead bullets are soft, they will deform when they hit the human body, expanding the contact area and forming a trumpet-shaped cavity. The trauma area is hundreds of times the cross-sectional area of ​​the bullet, severely tearing muscle and organ tissues, which is extremely cruel.

In 1899, the Hague Convention, commonly known as the "Hague Convention," was signed by various countries in The Hague, Netherlands, prohibiting the use of lead bullets. Of course, it was only a decline, but some people still used it. For example, a country with a very sweet air, which disdains all conventions, did not sign the Hague Convention at all. At the time of the signing of the Hague Convention, the United States was using this bullet to suppress the Philippine independence movement. To this day, the United States' COP still uses hollow-point bullets.

Gu Wei took the deformed lead bullet in his hand and took a look. He gasped: "How did they shoot something like this into our bodies?"

(End of this chapter)