Chapter 402: Siege and Massacre
"Cavalry! It's Xiao Shilang's cavalry! A soldier of the artillery unit suddenly shouted loudly, and the sound of trembling in terror immediately spread this panic over the position, and all the soldiers were so frightened that they stopped their hands and feet, looked at a loss, and stood still in place.
"Didn't their cavalry be stopped by our infantry? They went beyond the infantry, didn't entangle with them, and then continued to charge at the artillery position, could it be that their target was your artillery unit in the first place? Wei Xiangyuan said in shock.
Then looking at Zhang Dabao, who was also pale with fright, Wei Xiangyuan suddenly came to his senses: "Their target is you, Zhang Dabao!" This battle is the first battle for Xiao Yao to return to the battlefield, so they must arrest you, a traitor! And this artillery unit, as long as these artillery pieces are destroyed, no one in the whole world will be his opponent! Xiao Yao will still sweep the battlefield like last year on the Huainan battlefield, and the world is invincible! ”
Hearing that Xiao Yao's target was himself, this made Zhang Dabao even more frightened, and hurriedly ran out, ready to ride a horse and escape, but he was still kicked to the ground by Wei Xiangyuan, and stepped on his chest, pointing at Zhang Dabao and scolding fiercely: "Your subordinates haven't left yet, you want to run away first?" Escape and slash you on the spot! ”
Then Wei Xiangyuan looked at the infantry unit in the distance that was responsible for blocking the cavalry, although it had already launched a battle formation, built a shield wall, and kept firing bows and arrows at the opponent, but because the distance was too far, these bows and arrows could not penetrate the paper armor worn by the opponent at all! On the contrary, because they had formed a defensive phalanx, they could not disperse and move at all, and now they could only stand there like live targets, being constantly fired with muskets by the soldiers of the musket battalion, and many of the soldiers were shot and fell down one after another!
"This infantry can't stop for long, and the cavalry is about to rush over, it seems that now we can only fight to the death with them!" Wei Xiangyuan said to himself, and then suddenly made up his mind, raised his sword and shouted: "Everyone stop carrying artillery, their cavalry is already rushing over, even if we run, we can't outrun their horses!" Obey my orders, everyone pick up the ceramic bombs, and when they rush over, light the bombs and blow this cavalry back to me! Even if you die, you have to pull a cushion back! ”
In the face of the cavalry that was rushing towards him, at that speed, even if he wanted to attack with artillery now, it was too late, so Wei Xiangyuan could only use this strategy of burning jade, at least he could die vigorously, instead of waiting to die!
But although they had this idea of ending up together, Huang Wenyuan's side didn't give them a chance, because Xiao Yao had told him to be careful of Qi Jun's use of bombs, after all, the first trick Gao Changgong learned from Xiao Yao was a ceramic bomb!
"Don't approach them yet, surround them! The first team is responsible for shooting, and the second team is responsible for throwing grenades! Huang Wenyuan shouted loudly.
Xiao Yao had already guessed that Gao Changgong would prepare a large number of homemade bombs, so he specially prepared weapons for Huang Wenyuan's cavalry troops to deal with these homemade bombs: the cavalry of the first team was equipped with two muskets, while the cavalry of the second team carried a large number of grenades!
Although the range and power of the Sui musket are not as good as the Minnie rifle, but within a range of more than ten meters, the lethality is still not to be underestimated, and because they are cavalry, they can move quickly on horseback, so even if these soldiers want to throw homemade bombs at them, they can easily avoid it!
And those cavalry with grenades, although the principle of their grenades is the same as that of homemade bombs, but the weight is much smaller, and they can be thrown dozens of meters away casually, while the homemade bombs on the side of the Qi soldiers, because they are all pursuing the power of explosions, so each weighs more than ten pounds, and now if you rely on human hand throwing, there is no way to still go too far!
So when Huang Wenyuan ordered his cavalry to divide into two teams to surround this artillery position of the Qi army, Wei Xiangyuan, who was ready to die with the enemy, immediately felt bad in his heart: Why didn't they rush in, couldn't they die with them?
Sure enough, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion did it! A group of cavalrymen with muskets moved and shot at the soldiers who were about to throw homemade bombs, so that some of them had already been shot and fell to the ground before they could throw the bombs in their hands; Although some of them lit the bomb and threw it out, the target cavalry had already moved on horseback, and then after an explosion, a pit was blown out of the snow, but there were no casualties!
And the cavalry of the second team is also vigorously throwing grenades at the Qi position, although these grenades are not loaded with much black powder, but when they explode, they can still blow up the bullet casings cast in pig iron, and the fragments are flying around like bullets, and the cavalry of the second team has nearly a thousand people, which means that just one round down, nearly a thousand grenades have been thrown into this artillery position of the Qi army!
As a result, countless grenades exploded, bang bang bang! Suddenly, these righteous and awe-inspiring Qi soldiers who were still thinking about ending up together just now were blown up again, and they no longer had the fighting spirit to fight to the death!
"It's so disgusting, they not only surrounded us, but they also attacked us with muskets and these little bombs, so that we couldn't even pull our backs if we wanted to! Concentrate firepower, blow up a bloody road with bombs, break out of the encirclement, and then flee in the direction of Xia Pi County, if you can escape, one counts as one! Wei Xiangyuan ordered loudly, although he had the consciousness of death, but he didn't want to wait to be surrounded by the enemy and die like this!
Hearing that even the deputy commander of the army said that he could escape one by one, he was so discouraged that these Qi soldiers had even less morale to fight, but in order to survive, they also burst out of the desire to survive, and then ignited the homemade bombs, and threw them vigorously in one direction, and after a burst of explosions, they forced the encirclement to blow up a passage!
Wei Xiangyuan saw that the encirclement had been blown out of a passage, and without saying a word, he took his own guards and rode a war horse, and rushed through the passage first, galloping in the direction of Xia Pi County, and completely ignoring the Qi soldiers behind him! And the soldiers of these artillery units saw that the deputy commanders had already run away, and everyone threw away everything in their hands and ran desperately towards this passage!
"Want to escape? It's not that easy! They didn't have many bombs left, and all the officers and men of the cavalry battalion drew their sabers, rushed in, and cut them down, leaving not a single one! Huang Wenyuan ordered loudly.
Therefore, more than 2,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion drew their sabers one after another, like wolves entering a flock of sheep, surrounded these Qi soldiers who had no time to run far, and then rushed into the Qi army artillery unit that had collapsed.
The cottage artillery unit led by Zhang Dabao originally had more than 5,000 people, but after the first round of grenade shelling and the combined attack of pistol grenades just now, there were only less than 2,000 survivors left who could still run, but these survivors were now unable to outrun the cavalry riding war horses, so they were all chased by the cavalry, and then they were cut to the ground with a knife, and then they were trampled into meat by the iron hooves of the war horses behind!
The white snow is also dyed a bright red!