Chapter 106: Eternal Parade (2)
"Standing firm and walking in unison does not mean that the combat effectiveness is strong...... The army, after all, has to rely on fists to speak! β
Although he obviously lost for a while, Zheng Guo thought that he still had a follow-up move, and his mood was much more relaxed, and he immediately received the order flag from the honor guard, glared at Lin Xiao and gritted his teeth and ran down the high platform, personally leading the army to practice.
Zheng Guo's confidence in his heart is not unreasonable, Sun Kewang's bandit army has been living in the east and west for 20 years, and it is one of the four elites under Zhang Xianzhong, they not only fight with the Ming army, but also fight with the militia forces everywhere, and fight with the rest of the rogue armed forces, and the team is full of veterans of a hundred battles.
At the moment, Zheng Guo, together with Cao Yansheng and Hu Zhengguo, the three teams coordinated and cooperated to successively practice cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, infantry and cavalry combined attack and other projects.
Lin Xiao saw all this in his eyes, although from the tactical standards of later generations, this pure crowd tactic is really very naΓ―ve, but in this era that still mainly relies on cold weapons, I have to say that Zheng Guo's drills are very imposing, and the foot and horse coordination is also very skilled, although these soldiers are actually farmers who put down their hoes and pick up knives and guns, but more than ten years of combat career have indeed trained them into a real warrior.
For a while, all the ministers who watched the ceremony nodded in approval, and there was a burst of cheers from the gentry of the lower echelons, and even Emperor Yongli on the high platform temporarily forgot his grievances and bowed his head frequently.
After the drill, Zheng Guo's team retreated to the sidelines, and he trotted all the way to the high platform to resume his life, and the honor guard officer took back the order flag and ordered him to retreat to the side and continue to watch the ceremony...... It's finally perfect, and now, the first two sides can be tied, right?
Next, it's time for Lin Xiao to appear.
The ministers on the high platform looked at Lin Xiao one after another, although there was a trace of expectation in their eyes, but they were more gloating, waiting for this rocket-like new marquis to show his eyes.
Just now, Zheng Guo's team performed so well, Lin Xiao and there were only a few of them in total, except for the thorny firearms, they didn't see any powerful weapons, and even the banners were only a few, no matter how big your ability was, it was impossible to surpass Zheng Guojun's performance, right?
Lin Xiao really didn't do anything amazing, I saw that he, like Zheng Guo, took the order flag in an orderly manner, and then ran down the field.
Yu Cheng was waiting for the "Chiji" who was all over the body, and immediately turned over and rode the horse into the big school.
Emperor Yongli and a group of courtiers were hung up and waited with great interest that a good show was about to begin......
A strange thing happened, Lin Xiao's hundreds of people didn't go out at all, only eleven cavalry followed Lin Xiao into the field, and there were only twelve cavalry including Lin Xiao.
What's even stranger is that these eleven cavalrymen are carrying a scarecrow in armor on horseback!
Each scarecrow wears a shiny metal helmet.
"Huh?" What the hell is going on?
Yongli turned his head to look at Qu Shiyun who was sitting on the side of him in confusion, Qu Shiyun was also puzzled, and shook his head shamelessly, what could he do? He's desperate too!
This is completely beyond the previous parade script! This kid, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?
Yongli looked back helplessly, his eyes were full of disappointment, it seemed that he was one of the few people who really hoped that Lin Xiao could win.
I saw the eleven cavalry galloping to a distance of about 300 paces on the south side of the school field, laying down the scarecrows and sticking them into the ground, like eleven guards in armor standing in a row.
Immediately, they got on their horses one after another, beat their horses and galloped to the west side of the review stand, lined up in a neat queue, and rode their horses slowly to the review stand, and the leader was Ding Shuai.
The ten cavalrymen behind him were all sharpshooters carefully selected by Ding Shuai from the reconnaissance platoon......
Approaching the review stand, I saw that the eleven horsemen were in unison, and they all drew their sabers, and Ding Shuai shouted: "Salute~!" β
Eleven horsemen raised their sabers with a cold light, the blades were close to the side of their faces, and the eleven horses slowly passed through with neat and uniform steps as if they were psychic, and the eleven knights on horseback had straight backs and did not move......
"Why is it still in military posture?"
Zheng Guo on the stage couldn't help sneering slightly, and continued to watch Lin Xiao's performance with great interest.
Lin Xiao had already been waiting on the east side of the school grounds, and when Ding Shuai and the others got close, he nodded slightly, and motioned to Yu Cheng behind him to hand over the carbine.
I saw that the eleventh horseman returned the knife into the sheath, took the carbine, turned the horse's head, and trotted westward......
Gradually, the speed of the eleven horses increased, and the trot turned into a gallop, and when Ding Shuai drove past the review desk at high speed, the horses under his crotch were even four hooves in the air, as if flying in mid-air......
In an instant, I saw Ding Shuai leaning down and leaning up slightly, clicking and pulling the bolt, raising the muzzle of the gun and aiming slightly......
The ten horsemen in the back were concocted in the same way, and suddenly the gunfire was loud, and the unique roar of the repeating guns was so wonderful, and the countryman on and off the stage opened their mouths wide one by one......
When the horse team galloped past, the smoke and dust cleared, and Yongli, who was frightened, finally saw clearly that the eleven scarecrows three hundred paces away had no heads.
"Three hundred steps?!"
The one who was even more frightened was Zheng Guo, whose jaw was about to fall off with a pair of bull's eyes!
He didn't know that Lin Xiao was already very conservative, and the effective range of this gun was no more than three hundred steps!
Suddenly, there was a bang on the review stand, and the ministers' festival fell to the ground!
The most calm are Qu Shiyun, Zhang Tongchang and Li Yuanyin, the corners of their mouths are slightly owed, and they look at the chaotic ministers around them calmly.
I see! They had seen the power of this musket for a long time.
Wait a minute! β¦β¦ And that's not all!
"Smack!"
I only heard a crisp horsewhip sound, and the Chiji BMW let out a long neigh, and Lin Xiao in the field had already beaten his horse and ran westward.
The sharp-eyed Li Yuanyin found that three abandoned trebuchets had appeared on the west side of the school field, and he immediately reacted to what Lin Xiao was going to do, not only smiled, this guy, what a thief!
These three trebuchets were inadvertently found by Lin Xiao in the abandoned warehouse, and yesterday he ordered Ding Shuai to send someone to repair them, and they will be used today.
Yongli and the ministers stared at the sound when they heard the sound, and saw Lin Xiao riding a horse galloping like lightning, and the four hooves of the "Chiji" horse soared into the air, flashing like a rapidly rolling fiery red flame, and the divine horse was incomparable.
Seeing this, everyone was shocked, and suddenly, three black wine jars flew up at the west end of the school yard, which turned out to be fired by trebuchets in the southeast direction.
The soldiers of the cannon platoon operating the trebuchet used their best strength to shoot the three wine jars into the air at high speed according to Ding Shuai's orders.
Unlike Ding Shuai, Lin Xiao was still lying on the back of the galloping "Chiji", and he didn't raise his head to aim at all, he quickly raised the M16 muzzle in his hand, and shook his hand to shoot three shots.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! β
The three wine jars exploded in response, and large and small fragments scattered in the air, flying all over the sky like a goddess scattering flowers......