Chapter 1085: Shoot at me
The most painful thing in the world is to see the people you care about, your loved ones fighting desperately in front of you, falling in front of you one after another, and you have no way to help them.
On the surface of the battleship, the sailors stood on the side of the ship, staring at the rocks on the shore, and from time to time they turned to look at the gray-haired man on the bow of the flagship like a javelin.
They were desperate for the man to give the order, and then they could go ashore without hesitation.
But the man remained silent.
The fighting in the rocky beach is getting fiercer. The circle of 1,000 people had been holding out for a whole hour, and at this moment, the number of people had decreased by nearly a third. And the enemies who fell around them were twice as many.
The circle was moving slowly, towards the sand, very slowly, but unswervingly.
Before they knew it, one side of them had stepped on the beach.
The sun is already in the west, and as long as you can hold out until dark, there is hope.
The greatest threat to Ma De's troops was not the Lingnan infantry who were now desperately besieging them, but the 3,000 cavalry who had been eyeing them from the side.
The long stretch of beach is a distance that can be swept through in normal times or just a few breaths, but today, it is the distance between life and death.
"If you can make it until dark!" The captain of the Fuyuan held the side of the ship and looked hopefully at the sun gradually setting westward.
"Hold out until dark!" Pan Motang's face was still dark, but the words he said shattered the captain's hopes: "See, some of the cavalry have already dismounted and prepared for foot battle, these cavalry must be the most elite part of the Lingnan army, at this moment Ma De They are exhausted, and if they are rushed by this new force, the military formation will collapse immediately." ”
The captain fell silent.
Above the entire battleship, there was a suffocating silence.
"Mard's signaling, he, what does he mean?" The captain looked at the flag waving by a soldier in the middle of the Mader army in the distance, and said in astonishment.
"He's going to move to the beach, and he's going to make his last effort to get these cavalry to charge him." The captain slowly read the flag from the opposite side.
Immediately, his whole body trembled.
"Shoot me!"
He said word by word.
Pan Motang raised his head and looked at the team in the distance that was still moving in a circle little by little. The standard-bearer stood on top of the highest rock, repeating the last four words.
"Shoot me!"
"Shoot me!"
The captain's tears flowed down his face.
At this moment, he finally understood why Ma De gave up fighting the enemy in the rocky thicket, and chose to move to the beach, he was not to break through, he wanted to attract the enemy to launch the deadliest and most ferocious death blow against him.
The beach was the biggest obstacle to their breakthrough at the moment, but it was also within the range of the guns on the battleship.
It was the moment when they broke the battle, but it was also the best opportunity to destroy the enemy.
"General, you can't!" The captain wiped his tears and said, "Let me gather my troops, go ashore and rush to meet them, as long as they can go down into the water, they can always escape some back." ”
Pan Motang slowly turned his head, glanced at him, turned his head again, looked at the Ma De department in the distance, and after a while, he said word by word: "Order all ships, line up in a horizontal line, all artillery ready to fire, tell all the artillery, this is the fighter plane that the brothers on the shore have won for us, if the hell cannonball is accurate, Lao Tzu will throw them into the sea to feed the fish!" ”
The four large battleships slowly adjusted their formation and turned into a horizontal formation, the gunners on the shore had faded their gun jackets, and all the artillerymen were busy gritting their teeth.
There was no need for Pan Motang to issue such an order, the commander of each cannon half-knelt beside the artillery, looked and looked, and aimed and aim.
Everyone knows that every time this cannon goes down, while reaping the lives of the enemy, it is completely impossible to avoid killing and injuring their own brothers.
The battleship Fuyuan had as many as twenty guns.
The other three ships were smaller in a circle, but there were also sixteen guns on each side.
At this moment, the four battleships with a total of sixty-eight guns were all aimed at that piece of sand.
Seeing that half of the Northern Tang army had already arrived on the beach, the cavalry under Xiang Jun's command turned over their horses, raised the cavalry in their hands, and waited for Xiang Jun's command to charge.
Once they reached the open and flat area, a broken infantry formation, an infantry army formation without any long-range weapon support, could not withstand their thunderous onslaught.
Of course, Xiang Jun knew that the Northern Tang Navy Division had the kind of weapons that could attack across miles, because after the defeat of the Eyue army, Wang had reported this matter to the Guangzhou court in detail.
However, people who have not experienced that kind of devastating attack in person will never be able to understand the fear of the person concerned, in Xiang Jun's view, this is just Wang You, the boss, they exaggerated and shirked responsibility in order to cover up their own failures and cover up their incompetence.
It's just another trebuchet. How much of a threat can it be to the cavalry that comes and goes like the wind?
Fuyuan, Pan Motang is a great enemy of Lingnan, it is this guy who cut off their ocean trade, including Xiang Jun, I don't know how many people's ships were sunk in the sea by Pan Motang.
Cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing parents.
Now, to be able to kill these Northern Tang troops in front of Pan Motang, for Xiang Jun, the pleasure of revenge cannot be described in words.
Kill someone in front of you, what can you do to me?
Kindly, you come ashore!
With this kind of pleasure, Xiang Jun slowly pulled out the war horse on his waist.
At this moment, Ma De's department had completely appeared on the beach, and the team of a thousand people, at most, only five or six hundred people remained, and they were still tightly gathered.
"Attack!" Xiang Jun pointed forward to the war horse and gave an order sharply.
With a shout, two thousand cavalrymen launched a fierce charge towards Ma De's headquarters from the left and right directions, and Xiang Jun slowly rode his horse and stepped into the rocky thicket, he wanted to see more clearly, looking at how these unstoppable and arrogant Northern Tang troops were trampled into flesh by his cavalry.
Mader looked at the cavalry rushing from both sides, laughed miserably, and shouted: "Brothers, scatter, scatter, run, run to the sea!" ”
Shouting these words, he was the first to take the lead, and then he ran wildly towards the sea not far away.
Ma De is naturally not afraid of death.
The first one he wanted to lure the enemy closer to the battleship.
As soon as he ran, the Lingnan infantry who had been entangled with them naturally followed, and the cavalry attacking on both sides also fine-tuned their horses' heads, and still aimed at the waists and ribs of these soldiers and rushed over.
Second, he also hopes that in the next chaos, he can run one by one, as long as there are so many melons and two dates that he can live a life, then he will not lose this battle.
The remaining hundreds, with their hair, ran towards the beach in a divergent pattern.
Ma De ran a distance, but stopped, he took a deep look at his soldiers who were running, took out something from his arms, leaned over and picked up a piece of firewood and grass that was still burning, turned around, looked at the Lingnan soldiers who were rushing densely, lit the fuse of the grenade in his hand, and then he rushed in the opposite direction.
"For all eternity, open peace!"
Mader yelled.
He stopped, not that he wanted to stop, but that several spears stabbed his body at the same moment, and more Lingnan soldiers rushed past both sides of his body.
Ma De raised the grenade in his hand high.
The Lingnan soldiers exclaimed.
When they besieged the Northern Tang soldiers before, they didn't suffer less from this kind of thing.
Before they could turn around and flee, the flames flashed, and a violent explosion sounded among the Lingnan soldiers.
But on the battlefield of thousands of people, in the midst of countless shouts, in the rumbling hooves of horses, the sound of this explosion is not the kind that can make people look sideways.
On the beach, from time to time, there will be a roar for the peace of all generations, and this roar is often accompanied by a violent explosion.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Northern Tang Dynasty on the beach fell into the unilateral slaughter of the Lingnan cavalry.
On the battleship, Pan Motang watched the battle on the beach, and at this moment, thousands of people gathered in a space of hundreds of meters.
"Fire!" He slashed down with his right hand, and the iron hook was embedded deep in the gang.
The rumbling loud noise, starting from the Fuyuan, rang out one after another, and one after another the shells rushed out of the barrel, crossed the sea, and fell to the beach, and fell to the battlefield where the enemy and I were mixed in a desperate struggle.
At the first gun position of the Fuyuan, where the first shell was fired, the soldiers used the fastest speed in their lives to clear the chamber, fill the gunpowder, load the shell, and then ignite the fuse again and again, and fired the second shell.
When they fired the second shell, the last gun of the fourth battleship just fired the shell.
All the shells, all of them are flowering shells.
Some exploded when they landed on the beach, while others exploded in the air during the fall.
Loud noises, thick smoke, and firelight mingle on the sand.
Xiang Jun behind the rocks opened his mouth wide and looked at the scene in front of him.
War horses, cavalry, heavily armed soldiers, in the explosion, like mowing grass, row after row fell to the ground, some were thrown up like ragdolls, and some were completely torn apart in an instant, under the gaze of everyone.
On the beach, it becomes a hell on earth in an instant.
Xiang Jun shouted, turned his horse and left. And beside him, the other thousand cavalry, who had not attacked, also galloped away in panic with Xiang Jun's horse.