Chapter 351: Taking the Fan Family's Head
Hearing Liu Youzhu's words, Fan Sanpao's face was extremely ugly.
Back then, Ao Bai led the elite of the two hundred Great Golden Kingdom into Lou Fu, which was the way he led.
I just didn't expect that Qin Chuan's life was so big, and he couldn't die after being so seriously injured.
Now, the revenge has come.
The opponent has about 1,000 men and horses, and the four families and horses of their own side are combined, and there are only about 1,000 people left, and they are divided into four chariot formations to fight separately.
No, we must not sit idly by.
"Quick, send a few people to inform the other families, and let them move the car formation closer to us and form a large array."
"Dismantle the extra mule and horse-drawn carts, take wood to make a big shield, and those iron pots, three or five iron pots are stacked together, and set up as shields, quickly."
"Some brothers escaped just now, here is only fifteen miles away from Shouyang, the news will soon spread to Shouyang City, Liu Zongbing and Master Zhang will soon lead troops to rescue us, we only need to hold on for two or three quarters of an hour, and the reinforcements will arrive."
"Remember, we just need to hold on, fight to the death and not retreat, those who kill the enemy will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and the wounded will be treated with soup and medicine money, eat and drink until they are healed, and the families of the dead will be given a pension of ten taels of silver."
Fan Sanpao has followed his father to the north and south for many years, has seen a lot of knowledge, and after calming down, he immediately gave orders in an orderly manner.
Several other clansmen of the Fan family, the head of the nursing home, the steward, etc., also kept shouting, commanding the deployment and boosting morale.
After a crack suddenly opened in the originally tightly enclosed car formation, a courtyard guard rode out of it and galloped towards the Wang family's car formation seventy or eighty paces away.
The Guan Emperor army, which was cruising nearby, did not rush over to intercept it, because the distance between the two car formations was not far, and now that it was already dawn, rushing in would only attract a rain of arrows from the other party.
But this does not mean that Emperor Guan's army will sit idly by.
After Liu Youzhu explained a few words to the side, someone raised a horn and shouted "marksman" to the 1,000 Guan Emperor soldiers who had just come out of the mountain.
Thirty of the 1,000 Emperor troops soon came out, bypassing the chariot formation from the gentle slope next to them, and came to Liu Youzhu's side.
Liu Youzhu gave a few words, and the thirty horsemen quickly divided into three teams, scattered between the four-seat chariot formation, and then dismounted one after another, lay on the ground, and set up rifled guns.
The nurse sent by Fan Sanpai stayed for a short time in the Wang family's car formation, and then galloped towards the Zhai family's car formation, which was only fifty or sixty steps away.
At that moment the shots rang out, three shots in all, and the guard fell in response, and the whole man fell backwards from the horse, followed by the mount, and the horse rolled on the ground several times with a mournful roar.
Fan Sanpao's face changed greatly, and he looked at the place where gunsmoke came out more than a hundred steps away, his eyes were full of disbelief.
The three gunmen were more than a hundred paces away from the guard, and at such a distance, the bird guns couldn't kill people at all, and there was no accuracy at all, and the chance of hitting people was less than 20%.
But the other party only fired three shots, but the nurse and the horse were all shot.
That is to say, the opponent's guns can reach more than sixty percent at the target of a hundred paces away.
What can be used to resist such sharp firearms?
When Fan Sanpao was panicking, the 1,000 Guan Emperor Army had already completed the mobilization, leaving only 300 people in place, erecting a shield wall, and placing five small Fulong machine guns to prevent Fan Sanpao and others from breaking through from the front.
The remaining 700 Guan Emperor troops bypassed Fan Sanpao's chariot formation from the gentle slope, 500 of them stopped near the Wangjia chariot array, and the remaining 200 people continued to go around to the rear of the caravan, preparing to block the caravan's rear road.
Of the 500 horsemen who had arrived earlier, 300 crossed the Shimen River with knee-high water and cruised on the opposite bank to prevent the caravan from escaping.
Seeing this, Fan Sanpao knew that the other party wanted to break through each one, first surrounded on all sides, and then broke through the four car formations one by one.
The Wang family's car formation will be the first to be attacked.
I hope Wang Youyi can hold out for a long time, preferably until reinforcements arrive.
At this moment, Wang Youyi was so anxious that he kept shouting, asking his subordinates to speed up and move the car formation over to be with the Fan family's car formation.
Among the four of them, the Fan family is the strongest, and there are still more than 300 nursing homes.
And in his car array, there are only 250 or 60 people, and there are only about 200 people in the family who can go into battle, and the rest are coachmen.
Emperor Guan's army wants to attack him first, and these two hundred people can't resist it no matter what.
The only way to survive is to join up with the Fan family, the two combined soldiers still have more than 500 nursing homes, relying on a solid car formation, they may be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrive.
Liu Youzhu did not stop the movement of the Wang family's car formation, but only lined up the troops in a panic.
It wasn't until the formation was lined up that there was a big wave of his hand, and the five hundred Guan Emperor troops pushed twenty tiger squat cannons and small Fulong machine guns, and held a hundred flintlock guns, and pressed towards the Wang family's car formation.
The sharpshooters with rifled guns were also redeployed, and after advancing to a distance of eighty paces, twenty rifled guns were pointed at the Wang's car formation, aiming for a moment, and then gunpowder smoke rose one after another.
At a distance of eighty paces, those marksmen can hit more than eighty percent.
Even if there were two layers of mule carriages to resist, there were still more than a dozen bullets that penetrated through the gaps in the middle of the mule carriages, the bottom and other gaps, knocking the royal guards behind them to the ground.
The cotton armor could not stop these high-speed rotating conical bullets at all, and the people who were hit were all bloody, falling to the ground and struggling and screaming, and some people struggled a few times before they stopped moving.
The extremely precise blow made the Wang family's nursing home panic, and they all hid behind the mule cart and did not dare to move, for fear that those ruthless bullets would suddenly come in and send them to the underworld.
At this time, twenty tigers squatted
The cannon and the small Furlong cannon were also reloaded and aimed.
Liu Youzhu gave an order, and the cannons roared in unison, and the whistling cannonballs drew arcs in the morning light and fell into the Wang family's car formation.
"Hide behind the grain truck, ...... quickly"
When Wang Youyi was shouting urgently, he suddenly noticed a two-finger-sized shadow falling in front of him as quickly as lightning, and then bounced towards him.
Before he could react, the shadow had already passed under him, splitting his right leg in two, and flipped him to the ground.
"Ah......h
Wang Youyi screamed and struggled desperately on the ground.
"The ...... of the Eldest Prince"
An attendant ran over, and after just one look, his whole face turned pale.
Wang Youyi's right leg was completely broken.
"The eldest son has an accident, the eldest prince has an accident......"
I don't know who shouted, and the people around looked over.
Soon, the news of Wang Youyi's accident spread throughout the entire car array.
The morale, which was already low, suddenly fell to the freezing point.
Many of the royal guards began to think about their own way of living.
After the second round of shelling, one of the guards ran away, got through the gap in the mule-wagon, and plunged headlong into the Shimen River.
With the first person, there was a second, and more and more guards began to flee for their lives, and some knelt directly on the ground, crying and begging for mercy.
Liu Youzhu, who had been observing the situation in the array with a telescope, naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and shouted "rush", and the five hundred Guan imperial troops who had already been preparing for it roared out, holding shields and javelins, and rushed towards the royal car formation.
This charge made the Wang family's guards completely routed, and they swarmed out of the mule cart and rushed towards the opposite bank.
The guards, who had no time to flee for their lives, threw away their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the Wang family's car formation was captured.
Wang Youyi, who was lying on the ground screaming, was also carried in front of Liu Youzhu by Emperor Guan's army.
Liu Youzhu saw that he was not lightly injured, and he was afraid that he would not last for two days, so he simply took out a long knife and cut off his head with his own hands.
Wang Dengku, the eldest son of Wang Dengku, one of the eight Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort, died like this.
As for the other prisoners, Liu Youzhu did not kill them for the time being, the purpose was to let the guards of the other families know that there is a way to survive if they surrender, and resistance is a dead end.
Most of the guards who rushed into the Shimen River were dead.
The 300 Guan Imperial Army, who were waiting on the opposite bank, pierced them into the river forever with javelins before they could cross the Shimen River.
This scene was seen by the guards of the other three families, and they were shocked to watch.
"Master Fan, it won't be long before it's your turn."
Liu Youzhu picked up Wang Youyi's head with a long knife and shouted at Fan Sanpao in the car formation not far away.
Fan San gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.
Liu Youzhu didn't bother to say anything, so he was only busy adjusting the troop arrangement.
This time, he put another 300 troops in the position of the original Wang's car array, so that the Fan family's car array has been completely surrounded.
But Liu Youzhu was not in a hurry to solve the Fan family, but aimed the finger at the weaker Tian family.
"Those who descend live, and those who rebel die!"
Emperor Guan's army first shouted in unison, and then aimed the muzzles of the twenty guns at the Tian family's car formation.
"I will surrender, I will surrender ......"
The guards of the Tian family did not even have the courage to struggle, and they did not dare to escape from the Shimen River, but put down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
As expected, the Zhai family also descended, and without waiting for Liu Youzhu to aim his troops at them, he took the initiative to open the car formation, walked out of it, and knelt in the open space outside.
As soon as the Zhai family landed, a loud shout suddenly sounded in the Fan family's car array: "Kill!" ”
It was Fan Sanpao, and I saw him riding on a tall horse, raising his waist knife, and shouting to kill again and again.
The Fan family's guards quickly pushed away several mule carts to the north, and then rushed out with a roar.
Obviously, Fan Sanpao had already had the idea of breaking through, and he had been secretly mobilizing the guards, waiting for this moment.
It's just that on the way they fled north, they were still stopped by 300 Guan Emperor troops who were waiting in battle.
When the more than 300 guards of the Fan family slammed into the sky, those Guan Emperor troops were unmoved, and immediately opened fire after they entered one hundred and twenty steps.
The Franc cannon had a very fast rate of fire, and after three rounds of live ammunition were fired, the gunners quickly switched to shotguns and waited for the opponent to come into range.
At eighty paces, the flintlock pistol also fired.
At a distance of forty paces, the Fan family guards began to fire arrows, and the Guan Emperor army also began to throw javelins.
At a distance of thirty paces, the five small Fulong cannons roared again, and countless scattered pear blossoms rushed towards the Fan family's guards like a torrential rain.
With just one round of scattered bullets, the Fan family's guards fell by more than thirty percent.
At this time, Liu Youzhu chased after him from the rear with five hundred horsemen.
The Guan Di army in front of them threw out hundreds of javelins again, carrying the lives of dozens of guards.
The five Furlong cannons were replaced with the last one with a shot shot.
"I will surrender, don't kill me, I will surrender ......"
A Fan family guard finally couldn't bear it anymore, threw the spear in his hand on the ground, and then knelt down straight, kowtowing incessantly.
"I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender ......"
"Don't kill me, I'll surrender."
"I am willing to saddle the horse for General Qin, and never give up."
The surrounding guards also knelt down.
Not far away, Fan Sanpao looked desperate and collapsed weakly to the ground.
"Master Fan, don't come unharmed."
Liu Youzhu suddenly appeared in front of Fan Sanpao and looked at him expressionlessly.