Chapter 263 The two sides' submachine guns are different

When Lao Piao and his men rushed towards Shashi Town, Yunhua also led the army out of Jingzhou City.

Yunhua was facing against the 20,000 Green Camp troops, and Yunhua had 5,000 main forces and 10,000 vassal troops. Originally, the vassal troops had 16,000 to 17,000 men, but several thousand of them were killed or wounded in the past two days, and the rest were left to defend the city.

Since the enemy has submachine guns, this battle is not easy to fight, at least charging into the formation is definitely not an option.

The attack range of the imperial court's cluster cannon is only about a hundred meters, and its effective killing power is even less than a hundred meters, but one of the cluster cannon's shotgun shells has a very large killing area.

A shot from a scattergun within fifty meters can cover a twenty-meter plane, so even a sparse and loose formation charge will be useless.

Since we can't charge into the formation, let's just compete in armaments face to face.

So Yunhua also brought out the Huaxia tribe's cluster cannon, ready to compete with the enemy in terms of gun and artillery power.

After Yunhua led his army out of the city, he first placed the 10,000 vassal troops at the back to serve as a support, while the artillery and riflemen continued to approach the front.

When the two sides were 300 meters apart, they began to fire at each other with their submachine guns. The imperial court used solid shells the size of eggs, while the Chinese side used shrapnel shells the size of duck eggs with secondary explosions.

After the two sides bombarded each other for a quarter of an hour, the imperial court could not bear it anymore. The ranges of the two sides' submachine guns were not at the same level, and the accuracy and power were also very different.

If a lump of iron hits the target, it can be quite powerful and can even destroy a submachine gun, but it can only cause single damage.

An exploding shell can cause damage within an area of ​​several square meters. Although the destructive power of a single shell is not high, the shock wave generated by the explosion and the lethality of flying shrapnel can easily kill a person.

So after the two sides bombarded each other for a quarter of an hour, the losses of the Huaxia tribe were minimal, while the imperial court suffered hundreds of deaths. The most crucial thing was that the losses of the artillery were very large, and there were not even enough people to operate the nearly 100 submachine guns.

If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we'll just end up being the passive defenders.

However, since both sides had submachine guns, the Green Camp Army did not dare to charge rashly. After all, the other side not only had 5,000 main forces, but also 10,000 vassal troops with good cold weapon combat capabilities. If they charged rashly, they would definitely suffer a heavy loss.

They couldn't win the bombardment, and they didn't dare to charge, but they couldn't retreat either. After all, if they retreated, the more than 20,000 main forces led by Song Jun would be attacked from both sides.

After repeated considerations, the Green Camp commander decided to retreat, but not to retreat. Instead, he planned to build fortifications in the rear and then retreat a little in the hope of relying on the fortifications to stop the enemy.

The Green Camp Army commander had good ideas, but Yun Hua did not give him any chance. Seeing that the other side was short of artillery, Yun Hua ordered his own artillery to speed up the attack rhythm, and soon further expanded his own advantage.

Just when the Green Camp Army finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to start retreating, the main force of the Huaxia Army moved, and the 5,000 main forces launched a full-scale charge in a sparse and loose formation.

It is not right for hot weapons to charge while shooting.

The Green Camp Army's own artillery was short-handed, and a part of it was wiped out by the charge of the main force of the Chinese army. In the end, it was unable to organize an effective counterattack.

Especially when the two sides were one hundred meters apart, the remaining artillery was almost wiped out, and what followed was a one-sided massacre.

The 5,000 main forces of the Huaxia Army only needed one round of shooting to cause 1,000 to 2,000 casualties to the Green Camp Army. They shot once every 10 meters they charged, and the Green Camp Army completely collapsed before the two sides even engaged in close combat.

Especially after the vassal army also rushed up with a cry, the Green Camp army began to flee in all directions. Because the battle in the main camp was also fierce at this time, the Green Camp army had no choice but to flee to the north.

Looking at this situation, Yunhua slowed down his pursuit. He needed to drive these defeated soldiers to attack Songjun's main force.

Now that the battle has come to this point, there is no possibility of holding back. It would be best to completely cripple the imperial court's 100,000-strong army in one fell swoop.

As for how the imperial court will respond, whether the world will be in chaos, and how the Huaxia tribe should deal with it, that is not something Yunhua should consider. He is just a general, and his job is to kill as many enemy troops as possible and achieve the greatest results possible.

At this time, Song Jun had already led the main force to intercept the 5,000 main forces of the Huaxia tribe returning from Jingmen.

The area between Jingmen and Jingzhou is flat and there is no place suitable for ambush. Moreover, it is impossible to ambush in a hurry. It is also difficult to ambush the other side when the two large armies are marching.

After all, any army that marches will send out a large number of scouts to explore the way.

The first to engage in combat were the scouts of both sides.

When the two armies encountered each other, no one was surprised.

The faint sound of artillery fire coming from behind reminded Song Jun that the fighting had already started in the rear. Although there were 50,000 Eight Banners soldiers left behind and 20,000 Green Camp soldiers blocking the city outside, Song Jun was not sure that he could stop Yun Hua.

So after the two sides encountered each other, Songjun launched a charge, with a cart pushing a submachine gun leading the charge, followed by 3,000 jogging Eight Banners cavalry. As long as the submachine gun could break through the opponent's formation, the Eight Banners cavalry would launch a charge.

Although hot weapons are powerful, cold weapons can also have a huge effect as long as the cavalry can charge forward. The charge and impact of three thousand war horses alone can cause heavy casualties to the enemy, and it is even possible to defeat them in one battle.

Facing the charge of the imperial army, the Huaxia tribe immediately chose to dismount and set up positions, also with the mother-and-child cannons in the front.

The same clustered cannons blasted against each other, and the imperial court suffered heavy losses.

Song Jun did not choose to retreat, but instead resolutely ordered the Eight Banners Cavalry to charge.

At a distance of three or four hundred meters, a cavalry charge would take no more than twenty to thirty seconds. During this period of time, even the submachine guns could not fire many shots. As long as a loose formation was used for the charge, the loss would not be too great. As long as one cavalryman rushed in and opened a gap, the enemy would only be slaughtered.

Ideas are always good.

But reality is often different from imagination.

The speed of the cavalry charge was indeed very fast, but the rifles in the hands of the 5,000 main forces were even faster, and the cavalry's target was very large. Even if it was a moving target, it was relatively easy to hit a warhorse.

The three thousand cavalrymen were wiped out before they even reached the enemy's formation. They didn't even get within fifty meters of the enemy's formation, because fifty meters was the attack range of the cluster gun shotgun.

The annihilation of the cavalry made Song Jun completely lose confidence. Without the speed of the war horses, it would be even more difficult for the infantry to attack the enemy's formation.

(End of this chapter)