Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

At the same time that Zhou Chuyun ordered the artillery to be extended, the company commanders at all levels of the First Division stood up from the trenches and blew their whistles one after another.

When the soldiers of the First Division heard the whistle, they took out the bayonets from their waists and attached them to the muzzles of their guns. Then they formed a line of skirmishers and fought towards the trenches of the Koryo Army.

According to imperial infantry regulations, when soldiers attack, they do not run at full speed from the beginning.

You know, battlefields in this era usually involve confrontations between one kilometer and two kilometers away.

If you run with all your strength from the beginning, then when you run to the opponent's trench, you will basically have no energy left.

You know, fighting for one's life on the battlefield, every bit of strength will determine one's life or death.

Therefore, the Imperial Infantry Regulations stipulate that soldiers need to line up neatly and advance slowly to a distance of two to three hundred meters in front of the enemy's formation before slowly accelerating. When they are only fifty meters away from the enemy, they will sprint at full speed.

This is also the main strategy of Western powers in this era.

Lin Yi felt that such a tactic was not advisable, especially in front of an army equipped with heavy machine guns. Such a slow advance would inevitably become a target for the enemy's heavy firepower.

Therefore, in the First Army, a relatively dispersed skirmish formation was adopted, with alternate cover.

However, in this situation, it seems that there is no need for alternate cover.

Because after the artillery began to extend, the Korean soldiers in the first row, closest to the outer defense line, saw the first division begin to attack.

Those Goryeo soldiers, who had long been blasted by artillery and had no intention of resisting, simply chose to flee.

These Korean soldiers were not stupid enough to run directly through the artillery bombardment. They chose to run from both sides.

Lin Yi frowned slightly as he looked at the Korean soldiers running away to both sides, obviously trying to escape from the battlefield.

He didn't dare to let these broken soldiers with weapons run around in Daxia. Otherwise, God knows what these broken soldiers with weapons and no food supplies would do in Daxia.

"Fang Zhong, take a cavalry company to hold back those defeated troops! Don't let them flee the battlefield! Allow them to surrender. If they don't listen to advice, they will be killed directly!" Lin Yi didn't look back, facing behind him, Fang Zhong, who serves as the guard battalion commander, said.

As Lin Yi's domestic servant and personal attendant, Fang Zhong, Lin Yi's words were more effective to him than the imperial edict.

Hearing Lin Yi's order, he loudly replied "yes" and turned around to leave the command post.

Although the First Army was mainly an infantry army, this did not mean that the First Army did not have cavalry.

According to the configuration, each infantry division of the First Army has a cavalry battalion. These cavalry battalions are not equipped with artillery, but they are still equipped with light machine guns and Maxims.

Moreover, each person has a 98K weapon, plus a cavalry scimitar.

As the commander-in-chief, Lin Yi has a battalion of guard battalions. For this battalion, Lin Yi alone equipped them with weapons more suitable for cavalry.

First of all, the main weapon for mounted combat is the Mauser M1916 semi-automatic rifle, which is fed by magazines. Each magazine can hold 25 rounds of 7.92 bullets.

Secondary weapons include a Browning Hi-Power pistol and an Empire 1880 cavalry scimitar.

Coupled with the Maxim and ZB-26 light machine guns, it is enough for the cavalry to occasionally perform blocking and pursuit tasks.

Fang Zhong quickly came to the guard cavalry company and gave the cavalry company the order to pursue.

Originally, the elite cavalry responsible for guarding Lin Yi thought that this battle had nothing to do with them, but they did not expect that Lin Yi would let them chase the defeated troops.

Upon hearing this order, the young men of the guard cavalry company got on their horses one by one, drew out their scimitars, and with a sound of "hoo ho ho" in their mouths, they chased the defeated Korean troops.

This cannot be blamed on the lack of military discipline among the soldiers of these guard cavalry companies. You must know that many of these guard cavalry companies are actually Mongolians.

As a nation that once roamed the grasslands, the Mongols are natural cavalry. They grew up on horses and in the company of horses.

However, these cavalry also have a shortcoming, that is, these people are quite cruel.

They rode on war horses and caught up with the defeated soldiers. They didn't care about the situation. When they caught up, they used the cavalry scimitars in their hands to stab the backs of the defeated soldiers.

After several back and forth attacks, out of the hundreds of Korean soldiers who had escaped, there were less than [-] left.

It was not until this time that these guard cavalry, who were enjoying their killing spree, began to force the Korean soldiers to surrender.

Seeing this group of killing gods asking them to put down their weapons, the group of Korean soldiers who had been killed immediately dropped their weapons and knelt down on the spot.

Just as the guard cavalry went to chase the defeated troops, the soldiers of the First Division had already rushed to the middle of Dandong's peripheral defense line under the cover of artillery.

At this time, the soldiers of the First Division encountered almost no decent resistance. It can only be said that the artillery attack just now put too much pressure on them.

After finally waiting for the artillery fire to pass, they had not yet taken a breath. I saw that the soldiers of the First Division were less than [-] meters away from me.

Looking at those bright bayonets, all of the Korean soldiers who were sent out figured it out one by one.

They decisively chose to give up resistance.

As for why you don’t resist?

Is this a joke?

The defense line on our side is about to collapse, and the people have not yet recovered from the artillery attack. How can they resist?

Besides, they were originally coerced by the Sakura people to come here to fight against their former suzerain country, so their morale was not high to begin with.

After experiencing this random bombing, the last trace of morale was gone, so what else could we use to fight?

As a result, a funny scene occurred on the battlefield.

The soldiers of the First Division raised their hands before they entered the trenches and were still some distance away from the Korean soldiers.

As for escaping? Why run away?

This is a battlefield. A group of you are running around casually. Do you really think you are invincible? With such a large group of people, as soon as you run away, you will be noticed immediately, and then a hail of bullets will hit you.

Therefore, these Korean soldiers put their guns aside, then knelt in the trench, raised their hands above their heads, and quietly waited for the soldiers of the First Division to arrive.

Of course, there were also Goryeo soldiers who wanted to resist. They raised their guns and shot at the attacking soldiers of the First Division.

However, they only fired two or three rounds before the soldiers of the First Division rushed forward.

Facing such an enemy, the soldiers of the First Division were not polite and just shot at those people.

There were also more bizarre Goryeo soldiers who chose to shoot before the First Division came close to their trenches. And when the first division approached them, they chose to surrender.

For such Korean soldiers, the First Division also had no mercy, and the same bullet killed the opponent.

Soon, the outer defense line with [-] Goryeo soldiers was breached by the First Division. Their next task was to enter Dandong City through the gap in the damaged city wall and eliminate the Sakura Kingdom soldiers in the city.