Chapter 736: Collapse before and after
Just when the left army in the front was bombarded repeatedly by the Tang army's single hill hand throwing earth-shaking thunder, and was almost on the verge of collapse, the left army in the rear finally roared and hit the range of the Tang army on the opposite side. javascript:
At this time, the Tang army that had been copied from the back bread had quickly prepared, and in the hands of each of the three thousand musketeers, the muzzle of the black hole was already aimed at the left army that was roaring and rushing on the opposite side.
A general commander of the Tang Army with a grim face, the bright red order flag in his hand, waved down violently.
"Ready, fire!"
With an angry shout from the chief of the firebolts, the three thousand firecrackers fired in unison. There were 3,000 flint shots, and a total of more than 2,500 shots were fired.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
Rows of bright red embers flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, as beautiful as hellfire, with a unique beauty like a death ritual. A large cloud of choking white gunpowder smoke poured up, and more than 2,500 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like a swarm of death bees flying away together, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the left army on the opposite side.
The flintlock rifle used by the Tang army has a maximum accurate range of 150 paces, compared with the current distance of 200 paces, of course, the accuracy is impossible, but in the case of such a dense charge of the left army, as long as it is within the maximum range, even if there is no accurate intensive shooting, it can still create a terrible killing effect.
The roaring swarm of death bees, chirping and smiling, quickly burrowed into the body of the opposite Zuo Jun.
The tiny lead bullets weighing three coins burrowed into the human body, breaking bones, tearing muscles, and the surging bullets churned the internal organs into a pulp, forming a terrible cavity effect.
In the front row of the left army, many people immediately bloomed with blood flowers like a trick, and those who were hit fell on their backs as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer.
The impact of this buckshot was so great that those left troops who happened to block the lead bullet with their shields could not withstand the huge impact, and they staggered backwards and fell. It's just that as soon as they fell, they were immediately trampled to death and injured by the fanatical leftist soldiers behind them who still rushed straight away, and the scene was a mess.
The first round of shooting, although it was completely impossible to aim, also caused at least more than 600 left troops to be killed and wounded on the spot, so that the formation of the left army, which was desperately rushing forward, suddenly appeared in chaos.
When the left army's formation was scattered and the speed was slightly sluggish, the second round of fire salvos of the Tang army began again
"Bang bang bang! ……”
The guns rang out, the embers flew away, and more than 2,500 guns were fired, and more than 2,500 lead bullets roared out, causing more than 800 casualties to more than 800 soldiers of the left army as the left army rushed closer and closer.
The formation of the left army suddenly became more and more chaotic, the speed of the impact became more and more reduced, and the original fanatical and bloodthirsty expressions on the faces of those soldiers of the left army who rushed to the front began to fade, and many people showed extremely frightened expressions, because they did not know when such bad luck would befall them.
Jin Shenghuan, who was monitoring behind the battle, saw that his own soldiers were in the dense concentration of fire of the Tang army, and before they could reach the firing range, they began to appear chaotic and wavering, and the speed and strength of the impact were greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but be angry again.
Damn, two rounds of salvo fire, it disrupted its own formation, this damn battle, eating everywhere, can really wronged people to death.
"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! If anyone doesn't rush, they will be killed! ”
Jin Shenghuan was furious, and shouted at these rushing left troops: "The dog entered!" The Tang Army's two volleys disrupted you, what's the use of Lao Tzu raising you such a waste! The more afraid you are, the faster you die, all for Lao Tzu! Rushing to engage the Tang army in hand-to-hand combat is victory! ”
Jin Shenghuan scolded sharply, and ordered his guards to step forward to supervise the formation, reorganize the formation, and force these soldiers of the Left Army, who were driven to be no different from pigs and sheep, to continue to rush forward, attack the place of the shield, and go to fight the Tang army in hand-to-hand combat.
With no way back, they were shot forward, and these poor fellows, whose courage and will had been weakened at this time, were still forced to rush forward, and the situation was quite miserable. It's just that they have no choice, knowing that their current self, the only way to survive is to rush to the front of the Tang army as soon as possible, and engage the Tang army in hand-to-hand combat, so that they can no longer fight the firecrackers, the only way to save their lives.
As a result, the left army still stared at the blood-red eyes and rushed forward with shouts, while the Tang army's firearms were also ruthlessly fired round by round, and in this distance of only about a hundred paces, the left army soldiers kept wailing and falling.
The left army relied on the large number of people, without fear of death, they desperately advanced, and finally arrived about dozens of steps away from the long shield formation, at this time, in the Tang army array, those more than 2,000 Tang army auxiliaries who had been holding still, have used their strength to eat, the burning individual soldiers in their hands shook the sky, and threw them vigorously towards the rolling left army formation.
Bang bang! ……”
Dozens of steps away, the deafening sound of continuous explosions resounded into one piece, almost bursting people's eardrums, the dazzling golden firelight, in the large cloud of suffocating whistle smoke from time to time, broken limbs and blood in the air burst out in all directions, screams one after another, the scene was like a bloody hell.
The Tang Army's unexpected earth-shattering thunder bombardment can be described as a fatal blow to the soldiers of the Left Army.
These fragments had a killing radius of more than 10 paces, and the killing effect on the soldiers of the left army was very terrifying.
More than 1,600 of the 2,000 single-hand-thrown thunderbolts exploded smoothly, killing more than 3,000 of the leftist troops who were charging intensively, and countless people were wounded.
Many people's ears have been shaken to the point of deafness, and they are stunned in place, not knowing what to do next.
For a time, the formation of the left army was in chaos, and the morale fell to the bottom.
At this time, the second round of individual thunder throwing by the Tang Army's auxiliaries began again.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
Dozens of paces away, there was another continuous violent explosion, human stumps and blood and internal organs flew in all directions, and as many as 2,000 soldiers of the Left Army who had no time to retreat and disperse were killed in an instant.
Immediately after that, another third round of throwing began.
And when the earth-shattering thunder was mighty, the three thousand flint guns were fired in unison, and the dense gunfire and the deafening explosions were intertwined with each other, deafening, and did not stop for a moment.
In the face of such a powerful firearm attack by the Tang army, in the face of this violent massacre that was almost absolute death, most of the left army that rushed into battle with flesh and blood, only ten steps away from Haogou, and almost a stone's throw away from the Tang army, these left troops who rushed to death completely collapsed.
A large number of left troops threw away their weapons one after another, turned around and fled in tears, like a group of pigs who did not care about their stomachs, and there was no organization and discipline anymore, everyone was desperately retreating and running, lest they fall behind, and they would become the ghosts of the Tang army.
"Don't run away! If there are escapees, kill them! ”
Seeing that the seeing side was already close to the Tang Army, but the formation was in such a chaotic situation, Jin Shenghuan was furious, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Go, kill all those who escaped from the battle!" ”
A large number of cavalry of the left army roared away, slashing and slaughtering those who had managed to flee to the rear, killing the poor fellows in a wailing and screaming miserably.
Under Jin Shenghuan's strong suppression, the soldiers of the left army began to restore order, and they rushed over quickly without fear of death like crazy beasts, and began to make a strong impact on the Tang army's gun and shield battle array.
Because the enemy had arrived in front of the battle, in order to avoid killing and injuring their own people, the Tang army auxiliaries had to retreat together with the musketeers, but at this time in the battle, they had already killed and wounded thousands of left troops together with the musketeers, and the efficiency was amazing.
However, the left army was huge, and although there were many people killed and escaped, more than half of the left army was extremely lucky to rush to the row of straight shields in the Tang army's gun and shield battle array.
It's just that before they had time to wave the weapons in their hands, a large number of Tang Army spearmen with complete armor and sharp steel spears could not hold it back, and they used all their strength to use the 4-meter steel spears that had been accumulating for a long time to stab at these chaotic and low left troops in formation.
More brutal and bloody hand-to-hand combat has officially begun.
Above the shield wall as solid as a city wall, spears flew up and down, like a roaring poisonous dragon, constantly piercing the head, neck and chest of the left army, and the sharp and strong three-edged steel spear head, like the claws of death, kept grabbing the lives of one left army after another.
At this time, in order to save their lives and for their military exploits, everyone rushed forward more and more frantically, and the spikes of each big shield were like barbecue frogs, and they were full of corpses of the left army. Fearless of death, they rushed forward with the tips and spikes of their spears and spikes, and frantically slashed and slashed the spearmen and shield soldiers of the Tang Army behind them.
Because the left army was too many, in the face of this dense and powerful impact, the Tang army's shield wall finally began to loosen, and larger and larger gaps appeared, and the Tang army's shield and spearmen also continued to fall, but as soon as someone died or fell, there were immediately new soldiers to fill their positions, ensuring the integrity of the entire battle array.
In such a pure cold-weapon fight, the army's guts, courage, organization, discipline and other key factors were extremely tested, and in these things, the Tang army was far stronger than the left army.
What's more, the Tang army had a large shield for solid protection, and it was quite difficult for the left army to cross the big shield to attack the shield soldiers and spearmen behind. Because of this important factor, the battle losses and deaths of the left army were exacerbated.
After a bloody battle, the battle loss exchange ratio between the Tang Army and the Left Army was basically maintained at about 1 to 4. For the Tang army, after resisting the initial onslaught, they have begun to gain the upper hand from the stalemate.
However, the left army soon relied on the superiority of troops, and the entire battle array continued to extend to both sides, and they tried to encircle the Tang army's gun and shield battle array from both sides to achieve the effect of a joint attack on three sides.
The intention of the left army was quickly recognized by the Tang army.
In the Tang army's formation, the flag was flying, the drums were thundering, and the rampant general members who had been staying on both flanks let these most elite heavy infantry in the Tang army begin to attack and protect the two flanks in time.
After the military order was issued, those rampant team members who were covered with heavy armor from head to toe and armed to the teeth were like tigers coming out of the mountains and dragons going down to the sea, roaring loudly, waving heavy weapons such as tiger knives, tiger spears, long-handled pick knives, and Houbei army sickles, and jumped into the two wings of the left army, slashing and killing.
These most elite heavy infantry in the Tang Army, they were like miniature tanks, in the left army formation that was caught off guard, rampage, as if entering a no-man's land. They slashed mercilessly, slashing and screaming everywhere they went.
The momentum of the left army's encirclement was instantly stifled, on the contrary, under the fierce attack of the Tang army's rampant players, the left army in front kept screaming and falling, and the entire formation began to retreat continuously.
Seeing his own soldiers, the strength was still twice that of the outflanking Tang army, but in such a cold-weapon battle, he could not even gain the upper hand, but began to gradually decline and become chaotic.
At this moment, when Jin Shenghuan was paying full attention to the battle situation of the soldiers and horses in the rear, the soldiers and horses of the left army in the front line, which had been bombarded by the Tang Army one after another, finally fell into complete chaos and almost collapsed.
A large number of left sergeants threw away their weapons one after another, turned around and fled in tears, like a group of pigs who did not care about their stomachs, and there was no organization and discipline, everyone was desperately retreating and running, lest they fall behind, and they would become the ghosts of the Tang army.
"Bastard! Don't escape, give Lao Tzu back! ”
Jin Shenghuan roared hoarsely, but it had no effect at all.
Just when he was at a loss and didn't know how to clean up the mess, Huang Degong, the commander of the Tang Army on the opposite side, saw the enemy army collapse in front, but his heart was ecstatic, and his eyes were even brighter.
Here's your chance!
Take advantage of your chaos and kill you!
"Pass on the military order, the auxiliaries will retreat to their own formation, all the cavalry will immediately cross the bridge to attack the enemy's rout, and all the spearmen will follow the attack, and try their best to expand the results of the battle!"
"Order!"
After receiving the order, in the Tang army's formation, the cavalry that had been standing still finally roared out like a hideous death, like an arrow that shot out of the string, rumbling from the pontoon bridge, and rushing straight to the left army on the opposite bank.
After the cavalry, a large number of spearmen were like a black heat wave rolling out, holding sharp and shining 4-meter stainless steel spears, shouting loudly to chase the tail dust of the cavalry, and rushed forward to kill.
Such a one-sided battle to hunt down the remnants of the enemy is simply the happiest thing in the world.
The two cavalry, which were the assault arrows of the Tang Army, roared and rushed across the pontoon bridge, and the horses' hooves rumbled all the way, but they were very skillfully divided into two teams, like two large and sharp black arrows, and chased after the large number of routed soldiers and surrounded them.
They quickly approached the enemy soldiers, and these Tang cavalry were like bloodthirsty beasts, making a sharp roar, like a tiger coming out of the mountain, and like a sword out of the box, everyone fought bravely, one by one, and rushed towards the fleeing Daxi army like a tide.
In the middle of summer, the sun was shining at noon, and the more than 4,000 armored and murderous Tang Army cavalry were like death, with horses' hooves rumbling, guns pointing at knives, slashing and killing the rout of the left army that could not escape.
At this point in the battle, the situation of the entire battle situation had already shown a state of completely one-sided to the Tang army. Everyone on the battlefield knows what the final outcome of this battle will be.