Chapter 1197: Slaughter
However, an even greater catastrophe is yet to come. Three red fireworks shot up in the sky above the woods, bursting into a rain of flowers in an instant. At the same time, countless tongues of fire suddenly erupted from the edge of the dark woods. The shrill howl filled my ears like a demonic sound, and countless arrows spewed tail flames and dragged long plumes of smoke into the air, as dense as a raging storm. In an instant, the entire charging formation of officers and soldiers was drowned out by the sound of explosions and screams.
Smoke rose and enveloped the entire officer and soldier formation. The smoke flickered with firelight, and violent explosions followed. Then more smoke was raised, plunging the entire battlefield into fog and panic.
A swarm of bazooka launchers is finally starting to wield power.
Lin Jue didn't want to do this, he didn't want to expose it. There is no doubt that a swarm of bees is the killer weapon of the Falling Goose Army. Killer features are generally not used until the critical time, and if they are exposed too early, it will not be a killer feature. Just like the Wangba box, now the officers and soldiers also have a countermeasure for the protection of the rattan shield, which shows that every new weapon will eventually be found to be targeted. For this war, Lin Jue hoped in his heart that Guo Xu would be able to retreat in the face of difficulties. The flame car that destroyed the opponent before and the Rolling Stone Tepe on the slope were enough to deter the opponent, Lin Jue thought that if Guo Xu was smart, he should think about it after experiencing this series of blows, whether it was worth it for him to do so. However, Lin Jue was disappointed. Guo Xu obviously didn't stop until he reached his goal, he had lost his mind.
In the afternoon, Lin Jue stood on the top of the hillside and watched Guo Xu personally supervise the battle, and all the officers and soldiers attacked upwards regardless of life or death. Lin Jue frowned and thought for a long time, and finally thought clearly. Guo Xu is the kind of person who can't reflect, can't introspect, and can't shed tears when he doesn't see the coffin. He had to deal a devastating blow to him before he felt fear, and he withdrew out of fear.
In view of this, Lin Jue ordered people to be prepared. Although a swarm of bazookas has only made a dozen of them, it is enough to have a dozen of these mass killing weapons. The only thing needed is to occupy the vantage ground and maximize its power. So Lin Jue asked Ma Bin, Liang Qi and others to order that the soldiers and horses of the Luoyan army did not have to fight hard with the other party, and mainly consumed the opponent's vital strength, and did not have to care about the gains and losses of the fortifications.
Therefore, the Luoyan army gave up the mountain beam and did not compete with the other party for this important terrain. Early this morning, when the opponent bombarded with bed crossbows, in fact, Lin Jue, the arrow tower and fortifications above, had already ordered to give up most of them, leaving only some soldiers and horses to symbolically counterattack. Lin Jue wanted to lure them to the slope of the firebreak in the forest, so that the 'swarm of bees' could exert their terrifying power. There's nowhere better than here. A swarm of bees can launch unscrupulously.
It wasn't an easy decision to make. For Lin Jue, although there are irreconcilable contradictions with Guo Xu, Lin Jue still regards himself as a member of the Big Monday in his heart. The civil strife in the Great Zhou was actually not what Lin Jue thought. Even though Lin Jue had announced a crusade against Guo Xu, he had not made any moves, and that was because Lin Jue did not want to fight with the imperial court. It was a complex and indescribable emotion, to put it simply, Lin Jue didn't want to cause chaos within the Great Zhou and consume the national strength of the Great Zhou. In today's Great Zhou, as long as there is chaos inside, it is likely to lead to total chaos and trigger the invasion of powerful external enemies. Lin Jue was worried about this, so his mood had been very conflicted and complicated.
However, when a strong enemy attacked in front of him and faced the disaster of annihilation, Lin Jue naturally couldn't sit still, and he had to fight to the death and kill a large number of opponents. And this is actually the contradictory point in Lin Jue's heart. There are actually reasons for the reluctance to use a swarm of bees.
But at this moment, Lin Jue knew that he had no choice. The fire burns the eyebrows, so naturally I don't think too much about it. He ordered a dozen swarms to be placed at the edge of the woods at a distance of forty or fifty paces, ready to lure the enemy deeper. In fact, he had some hope that the other party would retreat in the face of difficulties, and he could smell a hint of danger and choose to retreat. But the other party attacked without reluctance, without the slightest hesitation. Lin Jue had no choice but to order a swarm of swarms to fire and block the attack.
More than a dozen doors opened fire at the same time, and the scene was spectacular. A swarm of bees is a fan-shaped area covering the front area, and each door and a swarm of bees can cover an area more than 100 steps wide below, which makes more than a dozen doors and a swarm of bees perfectly connected, completely blocking all the areas.
At this moment, if you look at the battlefield from above, you will find that the entire forest firebreak is a battlefield of chaos and killing. At the edge of the forest above, rockets dragging green smoke and tongues of fire shot out in rows. The smoke at the tail is crooked and irregular. Some even flew sideways and became a mess. But the killing and wounding inflicted on the officers and soldiers was terrifying.
The shield has long been useless, because you have no way of knowing where the rocket is coming from. There is really no pattern to the rockets flying around. Even if he could block the rocket, the explosion of the rocket would be enough to shatter the shield in his hand.
The battlefield was chaotic and bloody, with flames burning, flesh splashing in the explosion, whistling arrows flying everywhere, and poisonous snakes gnawing at human bodies. The smoke was full of flames, the smell of blood, the pungent smell of burnt flesh everywhere. People have headless flies that don't know where to go, and they are bumping around indiscriminately. Many people were trampled to death on the ground.
This is not only a battlefield, but also a Shura field.
A swarm of bees shot seven rounds in a row, shooting out all the newly crafted rockets. A swarm of bees can shoot sixty-four arrows at a time, and under seven rounds, there are nearly four hundred and fifty arrows. Fifteen doors and a swarm of bees poured out six or seven thousand rockets in a short period of time.
Although it is only six or seven thousand rockets, the lethality brought by it is really amazing. The lethality of the rocket itself, even if all six or seven thousand arrows hit, will only kill and injure six or seven thousand people. In fact, it is impossible to hit them all. So, in fact, less than 3,000 officers and men were killed or wounded by rocket shooting. However, the horror of a swarm of rockets is not in how many people are killed, but in the ferocity and frightening effect of their launch. Sharp whistling, loud explosions, scenes of flesh and blood, suffocating smoke. All of this gives people a great fear that the end is coming, and there is nowhere to escape.
Many officers and soldiers who participated in the attack had seen the power of the firearms in Lin Jue's hands. The battle on the long street and under the fortress of the martial arts school that night was unforgettable. They originally thought that it was already all the strength that Lin Jue had, and they had already built and guarded against it psychologically. But at this moment, the power of this swarm of rockets was completely beyond their expectations, it was something more ferocious and brutal than those firearms of the day. That alone brought them to the brink of collapse. How else can such an opponent fight against it?
More than 5,000 officers and men were killed or wounded, some of them by arrows, some by explosions, and some by trampling caused by chaos and panic. Under the ferocious blow of a swarm of rockets, the officers and men were on the verge of collapse. At this moment, the horn in the forest above sounded, and the shouts resounded through the mountains, and at the edge of the woodland, countless soldiers of the Falling Goose Army rushed out with their blades high.
"Onward, onward, onward! We are the heroic army of fallen geese. Foot on the mountains and jungles of the Falling Goose Valley. Burdened with the hope of a cottage. We are an invincible force.
We are the children of the cottage. …… Listen, the mountain wind is howling, and our singing is so loud. Brothers, don't be afraid of hardship, don't be afraid of tiredness, brothers, don't be afraid of death, don't be afraid of injury, although today is bitter and tomorrow is sweet, today I will live after death. Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward! ”
The shouts were mixed with loud singing, which was the battle song of the Falling Goose Army. More than 10,000 soldiers of the Luoyan Army descended the mountain like fierce tigers and pounced on the chaotic enemy formation. The officers and soldiers who were already close to collapse still had the slightest intention of resisting, although their number was still several times that of the Luoyan army, but they had already collapsed psychologically and had no morale. As soon as the two sides clashed, the officers and men were defeated, and a great rout was staged.
The soldiers of the Luoyan Army shouted and chased and chased all the way down. The officers and men on the hillside in the rear did not know what was happening, and when they saw that there was a big rout in front of them, they hurriedly turned around and ran down the mountain. The Falling Goose Army pursued and fought fiercely until it reached the top of the mountain beam below the mountainside. The officers and soldiers hastily organized bed crossbow carts and archers to block the attack, and the Luoyan army stopped the pursuit and disappeared into the mountains and forests above.
This battle started from the hour to the end of the two sides for only an hour and a half, but it experienced a big reversal. The officers and men lost their helmets and unloaded their armor, suffered heavy casualties, and cowered on the mountain beams and never dared to attack again. Although the Luoyan army failed to recover the entire eastern slope, it annihilated tens of thousands of enemies and defeated the opponent. Luoyan Valley Dazhai stood still, and all the soldiers were high-spirited.
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In the valley, Guo Xu was stunned to witness the situation when the army was chased back to the mountain by the Luoyan army, and saw a large number of wounded soldiers fleeing into the valley, and roared angrily.
"What happened? Why retreat? No retreat is allowed, violators will be killed! ”
A general rushed down the hill with a bloody face and came to Guo Xu. Guo Xu recognized him Bai Qi, so he roared angrily: "Bai Qi, why are you retreating? Why not conquer the top of the mountain in one go? ”
Bai Qi wiped the blood on his face, knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty, we have been ambushed, and the army has to retreat with heavy casualties. They...... They had unknown ferocious firearms, and we were ambushed in the mountains and forests above, and all the soldiers and horses were in disarray......"
Guo Xu shouted in surprise: "What fierce firearms? How many soldiers and horses does the other side have, how can my army be ambushed by them? It's a big joke. What about Zhao Yuankang? Where are the others? I will punish him severely! ”
Bai Qi shook his head helplessly and sighed: "I haven't seen any trace of the palace marshal. However, this is not the fault of the palace commander, but the other party...... The other side is really hard to defeat. Emperor...... I advise you, let's ...... Let's quit the army. This cottage can't be attacked. ”
Guo Xu was dumbfounded and shouted: "Bai Qi, do you dare to shake the heart of the army? I killed you. ”
Bai Qi sighed and said: "The minister is thinking about the overall situation, and the emperor's personal expedition this time has already worked hard and hurt the muscles and bones. This time, a large number of elite soldiers and horses and material and financial resources were consumed for a small cottage, which was not conducive to the overall situation of my Great Zhou. While our losses are still small, it is better to withdraw our troops. ”
Guo Xu's face was pale, he jumped off the horse and drew his long sword and rushed at Bai Qi, he wanted to kill this guy who bewitched the army's heart and shook his morale. Bai Qi knelt on the ground and bowed his head without moving, neither begging for mercy nor pleading. Guo Xu rushed in front of him and raised his long sword, glaring at Bai Qi for a moment, but did not cut it down. It was not appropriate to kill the general at this moment, not to mention that Guo Xu didn't know what was going on, so he decided to figure out the situation.
"Deliver the decree, remove all Bai Qi's officials, and detain him pending trial. Go and call Zhao Yuankang to see me immediately, immediately, immediately! Guo Xu slashed the long sword on the ground and cut a piece of bluestone into two pieces.