Chapter 972: Watching the Battle

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After walking for about an hour, a large light suddenly appeared in front of him, but the boat had already left the cave.

They all passed through the Jade Dragon Mountain, which was already the end of the mountain.

Zeng Laosan rowed the boat to the shore and put them in a dry place, before he smiled and said: "If you go further, it will be where you are going, I still have something to do, so I will not be far away." ”

Guo Wenying thanked him with a smile and gave him twenty taels of silver as the capital of the ferry.

Zeng Laosan was very grateful, and he smiled and held the silver and went back the same way.

The three of them each carried a burden and walked along the mountain road, unable to distinguish the direction for a while, so they could only go wherever they wanted. I wanted to find someone to ask for directions, but I didn't see a single figure after looking for a long time.

Just as he was wondering why there was no one in this square area, he suddenly heard the sound of war drums in the distance.

The fierce war drums were like a burst of stimulants for people who had been on the battlefield for a long time, Guo Wenying immediately came to his senses, and said to Zhang Mingchang: "There should be a war over there." ”

Zhang Mingchang looked at her rubbing her hands and looked eager to try, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, she had been holding back in the palace for many years, and it seemed that only the battlefield was the most suitable for her.

After walking a little further, they stepped on a dirt slope on the high ground in front of them, which is located in the hinterland of Yulong Mountain, with many undulating hills, and in front of them is a battlefield, with an open terrain within a radius of 100 miles, the land is dry and flat, and the two sides of the army, one side is the black foreign cavalry, and the other side is the regular army of the Han nationality, and a big flag in the army flutters a big road word.

Looking at the costumes of the cavalry, it seems that they are Miao and Zhuang, the one wearing cyan armor on the left is Miao, and the blue armor on the right should be Zhuang. And the regular army on the opposite side should be the army led by Lu Weixin.

It's not strange to meet two sides fighting here, but what makes Guo Wenying strange is that these Miao and Zhuang people are both active in the mountains and hills, and they shouldn't be good at equestrianism, why do they have such a huge cavalry now, and even have some Tatar meaning.

On the open land at this moment, the scene is extremely shocking, the Pingxi Army is a huge character formation, about a giant phalanx composed of five thousand people, the formation is set in the array, the personnel are dense, it looks like there should be three phalanxes each with a general to lead the troops, two phalanxes on the left and right in front, a large array in the back, the flag in the formation is flying, the giant shield and spear are lined up in front of the formation, there are rows of sword and axe hands lurking behind the giant shield, and a large number of archers and firecrackers are shuttling in the phalanx.

Several cannons were pressed in the rear, but they didn't seem to have the intention of using them, they were all covered with thick felt cloth, and they didn't know what they were doing until they were uncovered. Only a battlefield veteran like Guo Wenying can guess what it is just by relying on the vague image of a few small dots in the distance. I'm afraid that those Miao and Zhuang people can't imagine that there are very powerful weapons of destruction after the army.

The production of artillery is not easy, and it is extremely expensive, the cost of a cannon is extremely high, and the number of firearms bureaus in Beijing is very small every day, and most of them are used to deploy defenses in the northwest to prevent the Tatars from invading the Central Plains again. On the one hand, because of the high cost, and on the other hand, there are many mountains here, which are extremely difficult to transport, and it is extremely labor-intensive to transport artillery.

It was also Lu Weixin who relied on his different identities, his father was a general, and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War gave him face, so he sent a lot of artillery, and was willing to spend a huge amount of money to transport it to Yunnan.

Of course, this is also the credit of the group of people led by Guo Wenying, Lu Weixin usually looks weird, but he is actually a very thoughtful person, he knows that it is not good to fight outside without a weapon in hand, and no one is even worse. So when he was leaving, he found Liang Ruoyu in the Firearms Bureau and asked him to transfer many good players from Tianjimen.

Liang Ruoyu was picked up by Guo Wenying, and now he is the owner of Tianji Gate, so he naturally helps Guo Wenying in his face. Along the way, thanks to the man-made means of transport, gears, pulleys, and cranes on the machine door, they would not have been able to cross the mountain without these things.

Fortunately, there are not many mountains nearby, and most of them are not very high, so I barely managed to move these treasures to the battlefield. Today is the first day of its debut....

When Guo Wenying and they arrived, there was already a charge, the roar on the battlefield was huge, and the sound of the galloping hooves of the war horses drowned out the war drums on the battlefield.

The earth is trembling, the Lingqi in the phalanx keeps calling for the command to shoot, the Lingqi rolls in the wind, thousands of archers in the array open their bows and arrows at the same time, the sky darkens, the arrows are like locusts, such as rain, the cavalry of the Miao and Zhuang two teams galloped away, they echoed each other, covered each other, shielded on the horse, the arrow arrived, with the dull sound of the arrow entering the body, the war horse neighed, and the soldiers screamed sadly.

Men and animals swooped down on one after another with arrows, and countless horses' hooves that rose and fell in order suddenly blurred the flesh and blood they trampled.

Long arrows flew in the air, covering the sky and the sun, Guo Wenying and they didn't dare to show their heads when they hid behind the hills, Zhang Mingchang asked her: "My lord, what should we do?"

Guo Wenying looked at the battlefield below and said, "Wait a minute, there are only three of them here, can they still rush down to help?"

But she was also a little strange, at this time, why didn't Lu Weixin use the firecracker?

On the battlefield, the leader of the Miao side rushed to the middle of the ranks and shouted hoarsely: "Charge! Charge! Rush to their formation!"

The horn of the "woo" constantly blew the order to attack.

The Miao people behave strangely, but at the same time, they are an extremely cunning and fierce people.

They trampled on the corpses of their own people, and the whole team rushed towards them with a fierce spirit, shouting and howling.

The rain of arrows had brought them dead and wounded but had not stopped them, and they were riding small mountain horses that were not tall in stature, but they were extremely enduring, and they were more durable, and they were more effective on rough roads. In comparison, although the horses brought by Lu Weixin from the north were tall, they did not occupy the land, and they were already at a disadvantage at this time.

The Miao and Zhuang people together are a team of 5,000 people, they consume up, and the number of cavalry is also large, as long as they can rush to their front and tear through their defenses, then the rest will be their world.

This kind of fighting can be said to be fatal, and there have been many rebellions among ethnic minorities in Yunnan in previous years, but it is rare to see such a large scale and such a fear of death as this time.

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