Chapter 732: The remnants of the army are defeated

As the leading Tang Gunfire Captain shouted, two rows of Tang Gunners formed a firing mode of kneeling forward and standing back, and quickly opened fire.

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 and dense guns used by the Tang army have a maximum accurate firing range of 150 paces, but now the Tang army and the left army on the opposite side are only more than 120 paces, and their accuracy and lethality have greatly increased, causing extremely terrible killing effects to the enemy troops on the opposite side.

Under the dim sky, the roaring death bee swarm, chirping and laughing, quickly burrowed into the body of the opposite Zuo Jun.

The small lead bullet weighing three coins drilled into the human body, broke bones, tore muscles, and the surging warhead churned the internal organs into a pulp, forming a terrible cavity effect, plus the almost incurable lead poisoning in this era, the middle was killed immediately, and the injured were helpless.

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 soldiers of the left army behind them, who still rushed straight away, and the scene was a mess.

In the first round of volleys, more than 2,500 of the 3,000 muskets were fired, killing and wounding more than 400 soldiers of the left army on the opposite side in one fell swoop.

In this drowsy night, the firecrackers could not aim accurately, and this first round of shooting could have such a shooting effect, which was already very impressive.

After the first volley, the left army's formation suddenly fell into chaos again.

The cavalry guarding the two flanks immediately went out and killed those soldiers who had left their posts without permission or even abandoned their weapons, and ordered them all to return to their positions for defense.

And for the young men in the city who quietly absconded after the battle, these fierce cavalry were even more mercilessly slashed and killed, and in a wail, the left army's formation finally returned to calm.

Speaking of which, fortunately, when the Tang army was bombarded first, the left army was already prepared, so the formation had been greatly dispersed, and most of the soldiers standing in the front were equipped with shields, which made the shooting effect of the Tang army greatly weakened to a certain extent.

And when the left army's formation was scattered and the speed was slightly sluggish, the Tang army seized the time to reload the gunpowder, and soon, when the sky completely turned dark, 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, because the Tang army was getting closer and closer, although the sky was getting darker and darker, the killing effect was becoming more and more violent, and this volley caused more than 500 soldiers of the left army to be killed and wounded.

The flesh and blood of the human body, in front of such a powerful firearm, is simply a joke that cannot be mentioned.

The formation of the left army suddenly became more and more chaotic, and many people showed extremely frightened expressions, because they didn't know when such a bad luck would befall them.

I don't know who shouted, and suddenly a large number of soldiers threw their weapons and fled backwards howling, and no one could stop them from escaping.

The cavalrymen, who were the overseers, scolded and slashed and slaughtered them in the back, demanding that they return to their positions immediately. Even so, they could not be stopped from fleeing in all directions, and the rout, like a flock of sheep lost in the night, fled in all directions without knowing the direction, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Wang Deren's remnants of the military array, in this dark night, there was no order, chaos, everyone who remained in the array, their hearts were full of fear, not knowing what fate would be waiting for them next.

At this time, the Tang Army's firearms were over, and the entire battle array fell into a brief silence in an instant.

The Tang Army's spear and shield battle array, which was the main force of the battle, finally rushed forward in front of the chaotic Left Army formation on the opposite side in the footsteps of Qi Rudrum.

These remaining left troops, who could not see the movements of the opposite Tang army at all in the dark night, stood indifferently until the rows of Tang army shields with sharp and long thorns rushed to them.

It was only at this time that the soldiers of the Left Army, who had just recovered from the chaos, realized the arrival of the Tang Army, and there was a loud scream, and many soldiers of the Left Army had not time to wave the weapons in their hands, and 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 stainless steel spears that had been accumulating for a long time, and stabbed at these left soldiers who were in a chaotic and demoralized formation.

A 4-meter-long stainless steel spear with a sharp and terrifying three-edged blood groove head stabbed at the unprepared Left Army soldiers as if they had eyes.

In the darkness, the three-edged stainless steel spear head engraved with a deep blood groove had a terrible viper's kiss, so that the left army on the opposite side would die when touched, and die when touched. Under the ferocious stabbing of the Tang army's spearmen, the left army screamed again and again, constantly struggling and wailing and fell to death.

No one was going to sit back and wait for the slaughter, and after the initial panic, the soldiers of the Left Army began to gradually stabilize and began to desperately organize a counterattack, fighting with the spearmen and shields of the Tang Army.

A brutal and bloody hand-to-hand fight has officially begun.

Above the solid shield wall, spears flew up and down, like a roaring poisonous dragon, constantly piercing the head, neck and chest of the soldiers of the left army, and the sharp and strong three-edged steel spear heads, like the claws of death, kept grabbing the lives of one left soldier after another.

At this point, the soldiers of the Left Army were fighting, and in order to survive on this cruel battlefield, everyone was forced to die with the courage to die, and they let out a roar like wild beasts, and rushed forward more and more frantically to fight. The spikes of each big shield of the Tang Army shield soldiers were like barbecue frogs, and they were full of corpses of the left army that kept pouring in. In order to survive, they were not afraid of death, and they rushed forward with the tips and spikes of their spears, and slashed and killed the spearmen and shield soldiers of the Tang Army behind them.

Because the left army had nearly 10,000 troops, and it was difficult to distinguish the real situation of the enemy and us in the dark night, in the face of the enemy's dense and powerful impact, the shield wall of the Tang army finally began to loosen. Gaps began to appear larger and larger, and the shield soldiers and spearmen who fought desperately against the Tang army also continued to fall, but as soon as someone died or fell, new soldiers immediately filled their positions and continued to fight, thus 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 big shield as a solid protection, and it was actually quite difficult for the left army to cross the big shield to attack the shield soldiers and spearmen behind, because this important factor aggravated the battle damage and death of the left army.

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 the initial impact, they have begun to gain the upper hand from the stalemate.

Seeing that the battle was stalemate, Zu Dabi, the main general of the Tang army, was very impatient, he turned his head and gave a loud order to the soldiers next to him.

Zu Dabi ordered that the rampant general members who had been staying on both flanks let these most elite heavy infantry in the Tang army attack and protect the two wings. At the same time, the cavalry of the Tang Army, which had been staying in the rear, divided into two parts and outflanked the enemy's back.

"Grandma's! Give it all to me, give it a fucking hand, and you must destroy all these damn guys! ”

"Order!"

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 left army was surrounded by both sides, and the resistance was instantly stifled, and under the fierce attack of the Tang army's rampant members, the left army in front kept screaming and falling, and the entire formation began to retreat continuously.

Seeing that the soldiers of the other side were becoming more and more inferior, the cavalry of the left army, as a reserve force, immediately roared out from their own formation. They quickly divided into two divisions and marched towards the flanks on both sides, preparing to rely on the strong impact of the cavalry to crush and kill all the rampant Tang troops who were fighting with all their might.

As soon as the cavalry of the left army moved, the cavalry of the Tang army, which was constantly advancing in the vast night, had already arrived quickly, and immediately rushed up with the cavalry of the left army.

The horses' hooves rumbled, the guns pointed at the knives, and the cavalry on both sides quickly strangled together.

The fighting was ruthless, and the swords and spears were waved at each other, and one horse after another fell down with a scream, and one cavalry after another fell off their horses screaming.

Compared with the poorly equipped cavalry of the Left Army, the well-equipped and well-trained cavalry of the Tang Army gained the upper hand in an instant.

At the forefront of the Tang Army's heavy cavalry Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, these elite Tang Army cavalry with heavy armor, although they failed to successfully charge in a group because the distance was too short, but in such a hand-to-hand battle, their combat ability and defensive ability were much stronger than the left army. Like tanks rushing forward one after another, they killed the cavalry of the left army who dared to stand in the way.

At this moment, in the Tang Army's main formation, the formation also began to change rapidly.

The more than 1,000 spearmen who were originally waiting behind the gun and shield battle array, as a reserve, quickly divided into two teams, and they rushed out of the formation, preparing to go behind the cavalry of the left army to completely encircle and destroy them.

Nearly 1,000 cavalry of the Left Army quickly fell into the extremely dangerous situation of being surrounded by the front and rear, and many people realized that the current situation was extremely dangerous and wanted to retreat immediately, but it was difficult to fulfill their wishes.

Because at this point in the battle, the two armies had become completely stalemate, and the cavalry of the Tang Army was wedged into a very deep wedge, in a state of dog's teeth, and the fight was very fierce, and it was impossible to break away from the whole team at all.

At this moment, as the command flag in the Tang army was waved high again, and a strange swan horn sounded, another elite Tang army cavalry with about hundreds of people surged out.

This team was personally led by Zu Dabi, the main general of the Tang Army, and a mixed cavalry force of more than 500 people composed of his own escort cavalry and the remaining Xuanhu heavy armored cavalry, as the final killer weapon, was thrown at the most critical moment of this battle.

This elite cavalry of more than 500 people, under the leadership of Zu Dabi, rushed around and around at a high speed, and they were like a hurricane that rose up from the ground, quickly detouring to the weakest back of the left army, and rushing towards the young men in the city who were panicked, shouting and rushing at high speed.

The men and horses were heavily armoured, and the Xuanhu heavy cavalry, weighing as much as half a ton, rushed to the front of the cavalry battle array, they were like terrible steel beasts, with a fierce and high-speed attitude, rushed into the unsuspecting and chaotic left army, and its impact reached an almost terrifying level.

Countless soldiers of the Left Army and the young men in the city were shocked by the heavy cavalry of the iron horses and flew like pieces of paper, and after crossing long or short arcs in the air, they fell to the ground with a snap, either dead or disabled.

More of the left army and young men were knocked to the ground by this iron-armored heavy horseman, and then their heads or stomachs were trampled alive by the thick iron hooves, and a terrible popping sound sounded on the ground.

In the midst of the screams of the left army, from the chaotic left army formation, with unparalleled violence and death, they plowed out a bloody road with blurred flesh and blood, covered with broken limbs and wreckage.

The entire left army formation completely collapsed.

Under the dark sky, countless soldiers of the Left Army and the young men in the city scattered and fled like headless flies. They abandoned their weapons one after another, wailing and running desperately, many of them took off their armor as they ran, in order to be able to escape as much as possible in this escape competition.

The cavalry of the Tang Army, and the thousands of spearmen and shields of the Tang Army, were like wild beasts that kept chasing their prey, and continued to bite and hunt them mercilessly.

At this point, the entire suburb of Macheng has become a place for the Tang army to slaughter to its heart's content, and the left army, which has fled all over the slopes, is like a cow, sheep, pig and dog that is frantically fleeing for its life, appointing the Tang army to chase and kill and hack to death, and there is no possibility of saving life at all.

What's even more terrifying is that in such a scattered rout, even if there were sporadic soldiers of the Left Army and young men in the city who wanted to surrender, they were immediately killed by the red-eyed Tang Army soldiers, cut or stabbed, and killed on the spot, without mercy.

In the end, it was Zu Dabi, the commander of the Tang Army, who judged the situation and issued an order to stop the killing in time, and surrendered to the remnants of thousands of left troops and young people, and this bloody battle in the dark night finally ended.