383 Epilogue
By the end of the evening, the battle that had taken place near Beimen Street had finally come to an end.
The ground of all the streets and alleys is full of corpses of Hu soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
This street battle, which lasted from morning to evening, directly reduced the number of more than 200,000 Hu soldiers to less than 30,000 still alive.
Its casualties are heavy, not to mention the worst in recent years, and it can even be said to be a fiasco that has never been seen in the past hundred years since the founding of the country.
On the other hand, on the side of the Northwest Army, only a few dozen people were injured by the Hu people's bows and arrows, and the number of deaths so far has not been a single one.
The Hu Iron Cavalry, who was originally brave and good at fighting and sweeping the world, has completely become the party that was slaughtered in the face of such powerful firearms as muskets.
Especially in the narrow streets, the Hu cavalry, which was unable to form a large-scale charge due to the terrain, was completely restrained by the musket array.
As more and more Hu soldiers were shot, the ground was full of war horses and Hu corpses.
Under the strafing fire of the Northwest Army row after row, any charge launched by the Hu people was futile, and everyone would be shot mercilessly halfway.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th......
When this futile charge lasted dozens or even hundreds of times, they originally thought that the Han muskets would be like bows and arrows, and there would always be a time when they would run out.
But when the Hu people saw the musket array in front of them suddenly retreat together after fighting for almost an hour, giving up their position to the new musket team behind, all the Hu people finally felt what real despair was.
It turned out that in every street and alley, there were three musket teams, which took turns to fight.
When each musket team is about to run out of ammunition, they will retreat under the command of the captain, allowing the other reserve teams to take their place and continue fighting, and they can take advantage of this time to rest and replenish ammunition, flint, etc.
Therefore, there will never be a situation in which the musketeers of the Northwest Army will run out of ammunition and food sooner or later, as imagined by the Hu people.
In the end, there was really no way, so the Hu people had to use the corpses of their companions to build simple barrier walls to block the musket attacks of the Northwest Army.
By now, not only have all the arrows on their bodies been shot, but all the Hu soldiers hiding behind the corpse wall have fallen into despair, and almost all of them are numb and waiting for death.
Even the Hu people, who have always fought fiercely, will inevitably have this strong sense of despair when they witness their companions rushing forward to their deaths like moths to a flame, but failing to do any harm to the enemy.
After so many years of fighting, it is the first time that the Hu people have encountered such an aggrieved and powerless situation.
The eldest prince Arobu, who was hiding in the crowd, and the high-ranking generals of the military such as the capital commander Akayi, were also at a loss at this time, and they didn't know how to break through.
The tragedy and desperation of the war were beyond their imagination.
Especially the Dutong Akayi, who had fought with the Xie family's three thousand firecrackers outside Wanzhou City, never dreamed that the same firecracker array would be so different from the Ning family's hands in the hands of the Xie family.
Their more than 200,000 Turkic troops were slaughtered alive by these musketeers to the point that only a few tens of thousands remained.
In the future, if the other Hu armies face the Northwest Army again, how will this battle be fought?
At this time, let alone him, even ordinary Hu soldiers could already see that they had lost this battle to the point that it was impossible for them to turn over again, and if they continued like this, they would only be wiped out.
Turning his head to look at His Royal Highness the Great Prince, whose expression was numb and his face was like ashes, Dutong Akay even couldn't help but want to say to him a few times: Your Highness is a great prince, so it is better to descend. Maybe the Ning family, for the sake of you being the prince of the Great Turk, will spare you from dying.
Akay is the confidant of the eldest prince, so he naturally doesn't want to watch his master die here like this.
However, every time the words came to his lips, he couldn't speak.
He was scared.
He was afraid that even if His Highness took the initiative to surrender, he would not be able to exchange the mercy of the Ning family's subordinates.
If it was the Great Wei army on the other side, he would definitely advise His Highness to do so.
Because the Great Wei court has always cared more about face, if it sees the enemy prince surrendering on his own initiative, it will most likely agree to the request to take prisoners and not kill them, so that His Royal Highness will have the opportunity to be ransomed in the future.
In the words of the Han people, this is called staying in the green mountains, not afraid of running out of firewood.
However, on the other side is the Ning family, who has been guarding the northwest for hundreds of years, whether the other party will accept this condition, Akayi really has no bottom in his heart.
In case the Ning family is determined to kill all the Hu people here, His Royal Highness will not only fail to survive, but even after death, he will have to bear the infamy of taking the initiative to surrender to the enemy.
What a shame this is for a great royal family.
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, Dutong Akayi, who was hiding behind the corpse wall with many Hu soldiers, suddenly saw a new movement on the side of the Northwest Army.
Hundreds of soldiers of the Northwest Army, much taller and stronger than the average soldier, appeared in front of each musket array, each holding an oval object as thick as a bucket in his hand.
Seeing these big men who suddenly appeared, Akay felt a little uneasy in his heart, and he didn't know what kind of demon moths the Northwest Army wanted to do, but there would definitely be no good thing.
Akay's premonition was soon fulfilled, and after standing still, these big men took out a lit stick of incense from their waists, and then leaned over to the big balls and didn't know what they were doing.
Immediately after, those people suddenly threw the large round balls in their hands one after another into the Hu people behind the corpse wall.
When the bucket-sized balls hit the ground, it was as if nothing had happened, and at most one or two would have smashed into the soldiers.
When Akay looked closely at the nearest orb, he was surprised to see that something seemed to be burning on the side of the strangely shaped orb, emitting sparks and smoke.
Although he didn't know what it was, Akay instinctively felt that it was dangerous, and quickly shouted to the soldiers, "Throw these things out of the ground, quickly!" ”
When the Hu soldiers heard this order, they had to walk cautiously over and prepare to pick up the things and throw them out.
But it was still too late, and with a loud "boom", a large amount of fire and air currents suddenly exploded in the crowd, killing and injuring more than 100 people in an instant.
This sudden explosion instantly stunned everyone, and no one knew what was going on.
Even the eldest prince Arrob, who was in a daze, was awakened by the sound of the explosion, and looked around blankly.
But what happened next was the real horror.
Boom, boom, boom, boom......
I saw that the oval objects as thick as buckets on the ground suddenly exploded one after another, blowing up the surrounding Hu people in piles and piles, and the scene was so terrifying that everyone couldn't believe their eyes.
In particular, tens of thousands of Hu people are crammed into a very limited space, densely packed with people.
In such a situation of concentration of personnel, the lethality of the flowering shell is brought into full play.
When each flowering bomb exploded, the powerful impact and high temperature could kill dozens of people almost instantaneously.
As these continuous explosions sounded, countless Hu soldiers fell one by one.
Those who were far from the center of the explosion, even if they were lucky enough to avoid the powerful shock wave caused by the explosion, could not escape the attack of the thistle terrestris that stuck on the ball.
Once these sharp thistles exploded, they would fly out like a rain of pear blossoms, stabbing the surrounding Hu soldiers into a bloody and miserable one.
But their nightmare was just the beginning, and the explosions barely stopped as more and more flowering shells were thrown in by the Throwers from outside the corpse wall.
Because there are people everywhere, a large number of people are often blown up at random, and the lethality is very amazing.
The Hu people have been fighting for so many years, where have they seen such a scene, almost all of them are scared silly.
Many even stood there dumbfounded, watching their companions fall to the ground covered in blood, rolling and screaming.
Even the high-ranking military generals such as the eldest prince Arobu and the capital commander Akay were blown apart by these explosions one after another, and the six gods were left without a master.
Even big people like them have become like this, not to mention those ordinary Hu soldiers.
Screams, screams, and wails are incessant.
Everywhere there were Hu people who had been blown up and fled in all directions, and many of them even directly knocked down the corpse wall that had been built with great difficulty, and then ran away as soon as they saw the road.
However, for these panicked Hu soldiers, they were greeted by the sound of muskets that rang out again.
Row after row of musketeers began a new round of strafing at these fish that had slipped through the net, shooting all the Hu people who rushed out, leaving no one alive.
Whenever the Hu soldiers retracted behind the corpse wall, the grenadiers would reappear and throw a large number of flower bombs into the corpse wall, giving the Hu people no respite.
Hiding inside will be blown up, rushing out will be shot again, and the tens of thousands of Hu people who survived will have no way to escape like locked rats.
Finally, the eldest prince Arobu was blown up and couldn't stand it, he pulled out his waist knife and said loudly with red eyes: "Since everything is dead, the great warriors, rush with Lone." We only have warriors, no cowards, kill me! ”
"Your Highness is right, we only have warriors, no cowards, we will accompany Your Highness to kill together!" Hu Rendu Akayi also drew his waist knife with red eyes, and echoed loudly.
Other Hu soldiers who were still alive also drew their swords in response.
"Kill!" The eldest prince Arobu took the lead and led all the Hu people to rush forward.
The remnants of the army, which had less than 20,000 men left, trampled on the corpses of countless companions along the way, but they still couldn't stop their last charge.
Looking at the remnants of the Hu people who rushed out, Meng Ping, the commander of the Shenji Battalion, sneered: "It's a good time, sons, give me a good fight, we will kill all these Hu dogs for the commander, so that they will never dare to set foot in the Central Plains again."
The first platoon prepares, fires ......"
The last round of new slaughter began again.
In the winter of the eighth year of He'an, in the new capital, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Northwest Army strangled more than 240,000 Hu people's army in street battles, including the great Turkic prince Arobu, the whole army was exhausted, and none of them were spared.
In the years following the war, these blood-soaked streets became some of the most famous haunted places in the region.
It is said that every night in the middle of the night, people living nearby can hear the wails and screams of countless Hu souls, which make it difficult for people to sleep.