Chapter 177: No Retreat

"Sneer......, sneer

In an instant, a dense rain of bullets erupted from the two sand bases, and the bullets with tracer instantly flew into the remaining gunners and the group of artillery guards who were still stunned and stunned.

These 300 artillery guards, their task is to protect the artillery and gunners, because they are wearing cotton armor and holding iron shields, they are generally not afraid of the enemy's musket fire, even if they encounter the iron nails and stones fired by the enemy's light artillery, they can roughly resist it, so when the gunners are named by the snipers one by one, these people did not scatter and flee, but under the orders of the officers, according to the combat regulations, they gradually shrank around a piece of artillery, raised the iron shield and formed a personal wall circle.

Unexpectedly, this time, not only did the cotton armor lined with iron pieces and copper nails have no protective effect, but even the iron shield in his hand failed to block these machine gun bullets, and the thin layer of iron covering the shield was like paper paste, and in a blink of an eye, it was beaten into a hornet's nest one by one.

These Manchurians, who had never seen the power of modern firearms, finally paid the price for their arrogance and greed, if they were more cautious, there was no need to enter the range of the machine gun arranged by Lin Xiao, after all, the effective range of the M249 machine gun was only one thousand meters, that is, two miles.

And now, in order to get a better shooting effect, these Manchurian artillerymen took the initiative to enter the best firing range of one and a half miles, but they just sent themselves into the ghost gate.

These two machine guns are the only ones in He Shouxin's guard company machine gun squad, originally Lin Xiao was intended to be used to strafe the charging Qing cavalry, but now Lin Xiao saw that the Qing generals on the small stone hill in the distance were killed, and it was expected that the full cavalry who had lost their backbone might not have the courage to charge, so what are you waiting for? Let's fire!

As the machine guns rang out here, the four machine guns lying in ambush on the earthen mounds on both sides also roared immediately, and the rain of bullets from the four machine guns all fell on the heads of the full cavalry at the front.

These full horsemen were frightened by this sudden shock, and they were all stunned and at a loss, and suddenly they were violently strafed by the machine guns around them, and in an instant dozens of horsemen fell off their horses, and the rest of the people were only stunned for a moment, and then shouted and turned their horses' heads back and forth.

However, not far behind them were 20,000 green battalion infantry, these teams of infantry soldiers carrying all kinds of siege equipment, had already crowded a winding mountain road, where there was still a way to escape, and the cavalry running in front encountered Xia Guoxiang's obstruction not long after.

"Brothers, come on! Kill the Tartars! ”

Li Dingguo, who was in front of the formation, saw that the Qing army was in chaos, where could he still bear it, and at that moment he waved the long knife in his hand forward, shouted and jumped out, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed to a small group of artillery guards who were crying for their father and mother.

"Keep up! Protect the prince and rush up and kill! ”

The main general took the lead and bravely marched forward, the morale of the cavalry of the Ming army was greatly boosted when they saw this, and in the shouts of generals and colonels at all levels, they rushed out one by one, and it didn't take long to catch up with the rear team of the full cavalry, and the two sides were in a scuffle.

Lin Xiao was taken aback when he saw it, and hurriedly ordered the machine gun to stop firing, Made, if you accidentally hurt your own people, how wrong!

Because Lin Xiao fought a war of annihilation in the previous battles in Guangxi, and there were few fish that slipped through the net, people only heard of Lin Xiao's murderous reputation for ambushing Kong Youde and killing prisoners in Beijing, but they did not have an intuitive impression of how terrifying the firearms in their hands were.

Not only did the Qing generals on the opposite side never see the power of machine guns, but even Li Dingguo didn't know how to cooperate, and the experience he had cultivated in the perennial cold weapon war told him that once the enemy showed signs of cowardice, it was a good time to wave the army and attack, so before the fire attack was over, he couldn't wait to come forward and fight.

As soon as they rushed, the machine gunners on the hills on both sides had to stop firing, the Manchurian cavalry in front of them couldn't fight, and the green battalion soldiers behind were too far away to fight, so they could only stare at each other and be anxious.

Lin Xiao saw this situation, his heart was a little anxious, this has not killed a few full horses, Li Dingguo's 1,000 people will all pounce up, once the full people find that there is no hope of escape, turn around and fight hard, Li Dingguo, who is still at a disadvantage in numbers, they can't say that they have to suffer, this, if you don't get it, it's a pot of raw rice.

Lin Xiao frowned, turned his head and shouted to He Shouxin, who was standing behind him: "Order, send a signal, and send out an ambush!" ”

"Yes!" With He Shouxin's command, the conch in the hands of the signal soldier behind him whined.

"Guard company, all get on the horse and rush forward!" Lin Xiao continued to drink the order.

"Yes! All on the horse, kill! ”

As He Shouxin turned around and shouted, in addition to the soldiers of the machine gun squad and the cooking squad of the whole company, more than 100 people got on their horses and quickly lined up.

Unlike other troops, the carbines in the hands of the soldiers of these guard companies could not be loaded with bayonets, and Lin Xiao equipped them with a saber at the beginning, so that when they could not shoot in close combat, they could also use the saber to kill.

The clever ghost Wang Dong had already brought Lin Xiao's mount over, Lin Xiao turned over and got on the horse, and rushed out with a slight knock on the horse's belly with both legs, followed by Wang Dong and Yu Cheng, He Shouxin pointed forward with the muzzle of the gun, and followed closely with the soldiers of the whole company.

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Xia Guoxiang was frightened and immediately stood in front of the green camp formation, and was hesitating to organize his subordinates to turn around and retreat, when he suddenly saw the full cavalry in front of him fleeing quickly, and suddenly secretly complained in his heart.

Haklan is dead, if these cavalry are allowed to run around, without Li Dingguo to kill, these foot soldiers under his command will be rushed to pieces, if so, will there be good fruits to eat when he goes back to Luzhou to meet the king of Dingxi?

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire like bursting beans in his ears stopped, Xia Guoxiang looked around in surprise for a while, and after confirming that there were no more bullets flying sideways, he immediately suddenly realized that although the Ming army's burst muskets were weird, I am afraid that the sustaining ability was also limited, right?

Or do you want to rely on hand-to-hand combat? It's not terrible!

Xia Guoxiang turned his head and yelled at the generals beside him:

"Order, stop them, don't retreat!"

The current plan is only to try their best to suppress and let these full riders turn back and go back to fight, so that there may be a glimmer of hope for a reversal.

More than 100 of Xia Guoxiang's personal soldiers hurriedly rode their horses and jumped out, waving a command flag and a long knife to stop the defeated full horsemen, especially shouting orders to several Niu Lu Ezhen.

Although Xia Guoxiang is only the nominal chief general, he is like a dog in front of Haklan, and he only wags his tail and begs for mercy, but he still has a little deterrence against the Manchurian junior officers.

These Manchurians were just stunned just now, but in fact they were still very fierce, and now they saw that the green battalion soldiers blocking the road in front had not yet fled, and the terrifying rain of bullets was gone.

Seeing that the front was not running, and there were not many Ming troops chasing behind, the full cavalry of the rear team saw this, gritted their teeth and turned back to join the battle group, and fought with Li Dingguo and them.

Suddenly, the sound of knives and guns, the neighing of horses, the shouting of horses, the snorting of sharp knives into the flesh, and the screams on the mountain road dozens of meters wide were all over the place, and the scene was quite chaotic and extremely bloody......

A full-fledged armor La'e Zhen, in the chaos was waving a knife and shouting at his subordinates to fight back, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a Ming army banner embroidered with the word Dou Da Li not far in front of him was constantly moving forward, and dozens of Ming troops under the banner were fiercely slashing his people in succession under the leadership of a Ming general in silver helmets and white armor.

"Mom, pull a, release arrows, and kill him for Lao Tzu!"

This Jia La's forehead really shouted viciously at the soldiers around him.