Chapter 394: True Widow
It was very difficult to play with mouth cannons in an era when there were no loudspeakers, but fortunately, there were not many soldiers in front of Qian Yuan, and dozens of guards repeated it aloud for him.
Qian Yuan didn't know exactly how many effects he had, but at least he was steady, but how much the soldiers could play in the next battle depended largely on the performance of the leading generals.
So Qian Yuan seized the time to continue bragging.
"Don't worry, this battle will be won." Qian Yuan, who returned to the queue, had a confident expression on his face, and said categorically: "I'm sure!" ”
"Like Changshui Town, the Yiwu soldiers and escorts are in front, the Tianzhou wolf soldiers are in the back, Lu Bin is preparing in the rear, and Hou Longquan is preparing to attack from the flanks."
"Sortie?" Hou Jigao's eyes glared out, and on the opposite side was the notorious Xu Hai, who was defeating the 4,000 army led by Lu Bo most of the month ago.
"You don't have to go, let Wu Chengqi lead the army." Qian Yuan reprimanded unceremoniously: "If you don't have the heart to die, regardless of life and death, you will definitely fall short!" ”
"You think I'm scared to death?!" Hou Jigao pointed at Wu Chengqi, "Follow me, if I retreat, cut off my head!" ”
Qian Yuan took out his telescope to determine the location again, stretched out his finger to the right, "That's it, when will you listen to my signal." ”
Qian Yuan doesn't directly command the battle, he doesn't have the talent to calmly deploy and the ability to control the rhythm, but he knows very well that according to the regular battle mode, he will be defeated, so he needs a little surprise.
He didn't know if the accident would have an effect, but there was no other way.
After holding Zhong Nan and whispering a few words, Qian Yuan looked up at the head of Tongxiang County, he knew that unless the Japanese were defeated, Wu Baipeng would never open the city gate to answer.
The Japanese on the opposite side have gradually approached, and all branches of the official army have been adjusted, and a big war is about to break out.
Qian Yuan raised his binoculars again to observe carefully, and the forwards who rushed into the formation seemed to have changed a batch, with strange hair buns and snowy long knives, all showing that this was a batch of real widows.
It is said that Lu Bo's defeat was because these real widows broke through the front line...... Qian Yuan sneered, waved his hand and roared, and made a gesture at Zhou Ze, who was waiting impatiently.
The wolf tooth whike in the front formation has been raised flat, and the shields on both sides tightly protect the wolf whizzers and the spearmen on the back side, which is different from the mandarin duck formation of the Qi family's army, and the formation of the Qian family's escort team has thirty people per squad, and there are three wolf tooth whives.
In the interval between the wolf tooth and the shield lined up, the Songjiang soldiers holding the bird gun quietly appeared, and under the command of Zhou Ze and Yang Wen, the shield hand pressed forward slightly and the bird gun hand side by side.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty wars, there was often an embarrassment that the firecrackers could not cause damage when fired from a distance, but on the premise of having guards around them, the battle-hardened and well-trained firecrackers could be stable.
"This battle is a big victory, including the first level outside Changshui Town, and it will be redeemed when you enter the city!" The guards of the Qian family continued to cheer loudly, "Brothers, if you win this battle, you won't have to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of your life!" ”
"Listen to my orders and light the fire!" Colonel Songjiang brandished his waist knife and ran all the way in front of the formation, "Stabilize me, steady!" ”
I don't know when the autumn wind is rising, Wu Baipeng pressed his hands on the masonry at the head of the city, leaned forward slightly, he really won't go out of the city, keeping Tongxiang is the most important thing, he can only helplessly and painfully watch more than a thousand officers and soldiers go to death and carry the three thousand Japanese soldiers under Xu Hai.
The strange roar became louder and louder, and the real widows who raised their swords and rushed into battle were a little surprised, according to the experience of fighting against the official army in the past, there should be a wave of arrow rain at this time, but there was nothing.
Qian Yuan, who was riding on the horse, was a little nervous, but he knew that he had done everything he could, and the rest could only be handed over to the officers under specific command...... and fate.
"Don't move, don't move!" Zhou Ze roared, and suddenly there was a roar in his ears, and he immediately raised his unsheathed waist knife and smashed it on the face of a bird hand, "Don't move!" ”
Xu Hai, who was three miles away, raised his eyebrows, "Firearms? ”
Nowadays, the bird gun has not yet been popularized among the officers and armies in the southeast, and only Dong Bangzheng has an establishment under him, but Xu Hai and Wang Zhi have been fighting for a long time and are also very familiar with firearms.
However, at a distance of three miles, the roar of the wolf was already close to his ears, getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, and Qi Jimei clearly saw large drops of sweat rolling down the faces of the birds beside him.
One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps......
"Ignition!" The hoarse roars of Zhou Ze and Songjiang suddenly sounded, and the crunching mechanical knocking sound sounded continuously.
"Boom, boom!"
A spectacular scene appeared, the Japanese who had rushed to fifty paces in front of them fell neatly, and in the field of vision of Wu Baipeng at the head of the city, nearly one-third of the front end of the more than three hundred Japanese who were still rushing wildly just now suddenly disappeared.
There was a few seconds of silence on the battlefield, and even the murderous true wives seemed a little overwhelmed, but under the effect of inertia, they continued to rush forward.
After firing this shot, the Birdmans immediately retreated and ran towards the wings, their mission accomplished.
Wang Yi's roar broke the silence, "Javelin! ”
Under the command of the Qian family's guards scattered everywhere, the Yiwu soldiers hiding behind the wolf's tooth and shield threw javelins violently.
Hundreds of javelins neatly crossed the wolf's fangs, drawing an arc, and the sharp spear tips went down, piercing at the still charging pirates.
More than a hundred bird guns, plus hundreds of javelins, have made the three hundred true wasks lose most of their combat effectiveness, and the remaining hundred or so true wedges have rushed to the front of the battle, but the sharp long knives that can easily cut the opponent's ordnance in the past are useless.
The sweep of the wolf's tooth made the wolf helpless, and the huge shield blocked the occasional swing of the sword.
After the spear left a transparent hole in the body of the wolf, Liang Sheng dodged to the shield, and after a dull sound, the helpless wolfer frantically fit and crashed into the shield, and the Qian family guard next to him immediately stabbed the opponent in the ribs, and with a wild shout, the wolfmaster was picked up and landed in front of the battle.
In this era, the real widows who came out to beg for a living could not survive in the country, they may not be samurai, but most of them are cruel by nature and do not take human life into account, whether it is the opponent or their own life.
Even if they were killed one after another by birds and javelins, the remaining hundred or so would-be robbers still showed good combat power, and the area in charge of the most central Qian family guards was fine, but three or four squads on the left and right sides had fallen into a scuffle.
The wolf wheath either fell off the wolf tooth gask because of the slippage of the hand, or was rushed into the fit by the wolf because of the poor protection of the shield hand, and a real wat in red frantically swung the knife, and three or four people were cut down by it in a moment.
Qian Yuan kept opening his palm, his palm was wet, and his other hand quietly rubbed his shirt, and then held the handle of Miao Dao.
"Talent?" Lu Bin, who had been watching and waiting, couldn't help but ask.
Qian Yuan swallowed his saliva and said inarticulately, "Don't worry. ”
The biggest weakness of this formation of the Qian family's escort team is that once the opponent breaks into the formation, after the wolf tooth is ineffective, it is difficult to expel the opponent in the chaotic battle, and it is easy to collapse the whole line.
But Wang Yi was prepared for this, and the Tianzhou wolf soldiers who followed behind were specialized in this dirty work, and dozens of wolf soldiers wearing blue and black cloth clothes quickly pounced to fill the gap.
More than a dozen spears kept poking forward to drive the would-be robbers out, Zhong Nan roared and danced two Miao knives, and after slashing the two would-be robbers in a row, he knocked over the red-clothed robbers at the cost of being slashed in the shoulder.
The shield bearer on the flank immediately protected Zhong Nan, and a spear stabbed the red-clothed widow in the thigh, and the guy rolled on the ground hard, but the other spear silently pierced into his vest.
"It's okay, it's okay......" Qian Yuan let go of the handle of the knife and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead vigorously.
The front formation was already uneven, and more than 100 true widows disrupted the formation in a short period of time, Wang Yi was commanding loudly, letting the brothers in the back make up for it, and the lost wolf tooth whisk was raised again.
At this moment, the sound of swords and guns hitting Jin Ge sounded at the head of the city, Qian Yuan opened his eyes and looked carefully, the smoke caused by the launch of the bird gun had gradually dissipated, and the main force of the Japanese had pressed up, through the smoke, Qian Yuan clearly saw that the "Xu" character flag was moving forward.
Xu Hai regretted a little, the tiger and the rabbit also needed all his strength, he should have invested in the three hundred true widows and broke the formation in one fell swoop, but it was still too late, the front of the official army was chaotic, as long as he broke his front formation, a big victory could be expected.
Coincidentally, Qian Yuan also thought so, the tiger also needed all his strength to fight the rabbit, but he was forced.
The enemy is outnumbered, and a protracted war cannot be fought, not to mention that the Yiwu soldiers are all newcomers, and it is difficult to say whether it will collapse after a long confrontation, which is too much of a test of willpower.
Therefore, it takes a short time to determine the winner and loser.
"Wang Yi!"
"Qi Jimei!"
The two looked back, and Qian Yuan, who was approaching the horse, closed his palms in the air, and then separated left and right.
When the decisive moment came, Qian Yuan's eyes fell on Lu Bin, who was gritting his teeth and staring at the banner of the word "Xu".