Chapter 222: Battle (2)
On the top of the mountain, Bai Yuxing and Tao Jixin each led their troops to hold their positions, and when they saw that more than 30,000 thieves were swarming in, and they were only less than 100 steps away from the large horizontal formation of the Central Military Headquarters, they ordered to open fire.
"Fire!"
"The second row is coming forward! Put! ”
"The third row is ready, put!"
In this way, Bai Yuxing, Tao Jixin, and the other two took turns to lead the troops to shoot, and immediately released a dense line of fire on the top of the mountain, blocking the more than 30,000 thieves led by Wang Neng in front of the formation, unable to get closer than half a step forward.
Liu Juntao looked at the battle situation in front of the formation with cold eyes, and saw that the more than 30,000 thieves did not have any formation at all, but just rushed up like locusts, and then fell in pieces in front of the horizontal formation.
But even so, the battle line of the thief army is also moving towards the big horizontal formation with difficulty, getting closer and closer, and the price paid is huge casualties.
"It seems that the head of thieves can really be desperate!"
Liu Juntao looked from afar, and saw that Wang Neng commanded two thousand thieves to supervise the formation behind, and had already killed hundreds of thieves who were retreating from the battle, constantly driving a large group of men and horses to rush up, and never allowed those thieves to retreat alive.
At this time, the army of thieves was less than fifty steps away from the big horizontal formation, and Liu Juntao saw that the time had come, so he ordered the thunderbolts to attack, and first beat the attack of the army of thieves.
"Ignition!"
The sentry commander roared, and rushed up from both sides of the great horizontal array with more than 80 mine-throwers, and the soldiers rushed towards the army of thieves in two directions, stopping at a distance of twenty or thirty paces away from the army of thieves, and lit the fire folds in their hands one after another, ready to ignite the earth-shattering thunder.
Wang Neng also noticed the abnormal movement in front of him, and was immediately taken aback, and hurriedly pointed to the thunder thrower and shouted, "Kill them!" Kill them! ”
The thieves in the array also discovered the traces of the thunderbolts, and they all roared angrily and rushed forward.
"Cast!"
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The raindrop-like earth-shattering thunder fell one after another, exploding one after another in the army of thieves, and immediately set off bursts of wolf smoke in the army of thieves, sending one thief after another into the air.
However, the thieves also rushed to the thunder thrower, and the sentry commander, seeing that there was no second chance to throw, roared, drew his waist knife with his companions, and fought with the thieves who rushed to the front.
Wang Neng was overjoyed when he saw this, thinking that he could capture some earth-shattering thunder, so that there would be great hope for breaking through the horizontal formation of the guards of Yushan Town.
So, Wang Neng excitedly mobilized people and horses to encircle and suppress the more than 80 thunder throwers.
Seeing this, Liu Juntao couldn't help frowning and said loudly: "Long knife hand! Rescue Strike! ”
"Rush!"
A chief swordsman also rushed out in two ways under the leadership of the commander, and the thieves on both sides of the battlefield were scuffled, while the dozens of miners retreated one after another and returned to the horizontal formation.
At this time, a total of long knife hands have been entangled by the army of thieves, Wang Neng saw that his plan to annihilate the thunder throwers was not realized, and he was also angry, and mobilized men and horses to besiege the long knife hands of Yushan Town with all his might.
Although the thieves are gathering more and more, the battle situation on both sides of the battlefield is always stalemate, everyone in Yushan Town is fully armored, the long knife is sharp, and everyone is still cooperating with each other, fighting in formation, where are the opponents of those swarming thieves, they can only rely on the strength of the crowd to temporarily stalemate.
Liu Juntao is not worried about the safety of the chief swordsman, at least in a short period of time, the army of thieves will not be able to take it.
"Order a salvo across the line!"
At this time, Liu Juntao focused all his attention on the battlefield in the middle lane, preparing to break through the attack of the army of thieves directly from the middle lane.
After Bai Yuxing received the order, he immediately shouted: "The second, third, and fourth platoons are ready to fire a salvo!" ”
At the same time, Tao Jixin, who was in the first platoon, gave the order to put on the bayonet, preparing to cover his companions behind him to load the firearms.
At this fork, the thieves took the opportunity to kill them and collided with the bird gunners of Tao Ji's new office.
But in the face of more than 400 bird-swordsmen with bayonets, the thieves paid the price of more than 200 people at the first time of contact, and the front of the battle was suddenly empty!
"Forward!"
Tao Jixin glared at the thief in front of him viciously, yelled, and pushed forward with his companions.
With the bird guns and bayonets in their hands, everyone pressed back the army of thieves who rushed up, and pushed forward more than ten steps.
At this moment, the three rows of musketeers in the big horizontal formation had already loaded their ammunition, and a swan whistle came, Tao Jixin immediately ordered all of them to squat, and then after a loud noise, the dense lead bullets swept over, beating the army of thieves to the point of rolling over and collapsing on the spot!
"Get on the bayonet!"
Bai Yuxing also roared, and then let out a beast-like roar, and launched a charge with more than a thousand bird gunners in the Great Horizontal Array.
I saw a total of 1,600 or 700 bird-swordsmen charging in formation, and the bayonets like a dense forest "advanced like a wall", killing the army of thieves and robbers backwards.
At this time, the long knife hands on both sides of the battlefield also began to exert their strength, launching fierce attacks from both sides, which further exacerbated the rout of the thief army.
Seeing this, Wang Neng was already dead, and hurriedly retreated with a thousand elites and two thousand soldiers around him, and only regrouped until he retreated to the bottom of the mountain, which was able to stabilize his position.
Looking at the defeated army all over the mountains, Wang Neng's heart was dripping blood, and he hurriedly divided hundreds of thieves, and immediately stepped forward to collect the defeated soldiers and return to the battle.
However, under the all-out counterattack of the military headquarters of the Yushan Town Guard, how could the rout of more than 20,000 thieves be easily stopped?
The hundreds of thieves were "devoured" in an instant, and fled with the large group of people.
Wang Neng was also shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly retreated two miles with his men and horses, so that he escaped the impact of the large group of men and horses, and began to collect the defeated soldiers.
And Liu Juntao saw that the thief leader Wang Neng had begun to gather people with thousands of thieves, and the army of thieves still had the strength to fight, so he ordered the central military headquarters to withdraw and focus on the battlefield under the mountain.
At this time, Zhang Xiaojun's department had been fighting fiercely with 20,000 thieves for a long time, and the four general bird guns opened the "Death Wheel", round after round of fierce shooting, so that the 20,000 thieves were killed and injured.
At this point in the fierce battle, Zhang Xiaojun found that the army of thieves in front of the formation had shown a declining trend, so he was ready to launch the final blow, so as to be able to free up men and horses to support the Chinese military department at any time, but he did not think that Liu Juntao's side had ended the battle in advance.
Zhang Xiaojun looked at the flag on the hill to keep safe, laughed loudly, and said to the herald soldiers around him: "Tell Liu Youcai, Liu Youfu and other generals, all of them fire a salvo, and prepare to charge!" ”
After Liu Youcai, Liu Youfu and other generals received the order, they immediately ordered to stop shooting, and then the four rows of bird gunners urgently loaded lead bullets and prepared to fire a salvo.
At the same time, Zhang Xiaojun also ordered the thunderbolts to attack to stop the thieves from rushing up.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
After a violent explosion, the thieves retreated slightly, and by this time, the four chief bird slenders in the horizontal formation had also been loaded.
"Put!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
The salvo of four generals, 1,600 people, and 700 people can be described as earth-shattering, and it was as if a tornado was blowing on the battlefield, cutting most of the thieves' brigade in an instant, and at least hundreds of thieves were killed on the spot!
"Get on the bayonet!"
"Charge!"
The brothers Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu roared hoarsely and launched a charge with the team.
And a long knife hand took the lead, rushing ahead of everyone and pounced on the already defeated army of thieves, waving long knives in the crowd, constantly harvesting the lives of one thief after another.
At this time, Wang Neng had just gathered the defeated army, and there were only a little more than 20,000 left in the army of more than 30,000, and tens of thousands of horses were lost in the first battle!
Just when Wang Neng was heartbroken by this, he suddenly saw that the 20,000 horses under the mountain were also defeated, and the remaining more than 10,000 defeated troops rolled back, and they were about to rush over.
"Stop the defeated!"
Wang Neng roared loudly and hurriedly mobilized men and horses to block the routed troops in front of the formation, so as to prevent the defeated troops from attacking the newly reorganized formation.
Suddenly, the cavalry of Zhou Zongsheng's brigade appeared on the flank, aiming at Wang Neng's formation, and rushed straight up, so frightened that Wang Neng almost fainted and fell to the ground.
"It's over!"
At this time, Wang Neng even had the heart to die, and let his cronies around him pull him to flee for his life, and he didn't have the heart to pay attention to the collapsed subordinates around him.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Zongsheng led the army of iron cavalry to rush into the crowd of thieves and began to kill in all directions.
And Zhang Xiao's army was also killed, and he and Zhou Zongsheng's army were attacked from both sides, and the remaining army of thieves fled one after another.
Liu Juntao stood on the top of the mountain, seeing that this battle had been won, his heart was extremely happy, and he said to Bai Yuxing beside him with a smile: "After this battle, the thieves dare not go out of the city for half a step!" ”