Chapter 822: Striking from three sides, destroying with one drum
Soon, something happened that shocked Hao Shaoqi.
As if by magic, above each of the shields of the iron, next to each of the spearmen who were ready to attack, there was a firecracker with a flintlock gun.
They quickly prepared, and the muzzle of the black hole in everyone's hand was immediately aimed at the Hao Shaoqi soldiers who were messing up the whole team on the opposite side.
A red flag at the head of the city was raised high and waved down with all its might.
"Ready, fire!"
With the angry shout of the chief of the firecrackers, nearly 13,000 firecrackers were gathered from three sides, and a total of more than 11,500 firecrackers were fired.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
The flint flint guns fired cross-fired from three sides, the muzzles of the black holes, and the rows of bright red afterburns flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, as beautiful as hellfire, and even more unique beauty like a death ritual. A large cloud of choked white gunpowder smoke poured out, instantly filling the entire position, and more than 11,500 three-coin heavy lead bullets with fine particles, like a swarm of death bees flying away together, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the opposite side of the panicked and restless Hao Shaoqi.
Shooting from three sides, there is no way to dodge, for these besieged Hao Shaoqi soldiers, it is almost a one-sided massacre.
Countless swarms of whizzing death bees, chirping and smirking, quickly burrowed into the body of the enemy camp opposite.
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.
The Shun army in the front row, many of them immediately bloomed like a trick, and the people who were hit fell on their backs as if they had been slammed with a heavy hammer.
The impact of this lead bullet was so great that those Shun soldiers who were armed with small shields, and the rogues who happened to block the lead bullets, could not withstand this 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 chaotic and chaotic coaxing of their own soldiers behind them, and the scene was a mess.
The first round of cross-fire from three sides, at least 2,000 rogue soldiers were killed and injured on the spot at such a close distance, and the casualty rate was quite alarming. The entire rogue formation instantly became even more chaotic.
"Don't be chaotic, the whole army gathers and assaults backwards, and you must break out of the encirclement!"
Seeing that the army's formation was becoming more and more chaotic, Hao Shaoqi was full of anger and yelled at the group of subordinates.
His personal guards immediately went out, flying with their waist knives to slash and slash the fleeing soldiers, and finally the entire formation recovered slightly.
When the formation of Hao Shaoqi's troops was scattered and the command was at a loss, the second round of fire of the Tang army crossed the salvo on three sides and began again.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
The gunfire rang out, the embers flew away, and more than 12,000 guns were fired, and the countless lead bullets that roared out were like a swarm of death bees, causing more than 1,000 casualties among the soldiers of Hao Shaoqi's army.
A lead bullet flew at high speed, and with a soft sound, it pierced the neck of a guard next to Hao Shaoqi, and the splattered blood splashed Hao Shaoqi's face, making him scream in horror, very embarrassed.
At this point, the formation of Hao Shaoqi's army suddenly became more and more chaotic, and the speed of the forward impact became less and less, and the original fanatical and bloodthirsty expressions on everyone's faces of those rogue soldiers who rushed to the front had already receded. Many people looked terrified, because they didn't know when such bad luck would befall them.
At this time, in the middle of the formation, Hao Shaoqi, who was urgently protected by the guards, saw that his own soldiers were in the dense shooting of the Tang army, and before they rushed to the Tang cavalry behind, they began to be chaotic and shaken again, and the speed and strength of the impact were also greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but be angry again.
Damn, you useless bastards!
The Tang Army's two rounds of salvo fire disrupted your formation, these death-fearing ghosts are really useless, really humiliating!
"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! If anyone doesn't rush, they will be killed! ”
Hao Shaoqi was angry and shouted: "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 cavalry of the Don Army in hand-to-hand combat is victory! ”
After Hao Shaoqi scolded sharply, he ordered his guards to step forward to supervise the formation, reorganize the formation, and force these soldiers who were driven away from pigs and sheep to continue to rush forward and attack the place where the cavalry stood, and go to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Tang army.
Surrounded on all sides, shot everywhere, but still able to charge backwards to survive, these poor fellows, at this time their courage and will have been weakened, but they were still forced to rush forward, the situation is 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 cavalry as soon as possible, engage the Tang army in hand-to-hand combat, and fight a bloody way to break through from these miniature tank-like cavalry, which is the only way to save their lives.
As a result, the enemy soldiers were still staring at their blood-red eyes, shouting and rushing forward, and the Tang army's firearms were also ruthlessly fired round by round, and in this distance of only about 100 paces, Hao Shaoqi's soldiers kept wailing and fell.
Hao Shaoqi's almost vicious order also had an extremely powerful deterrent effect on this group of soldiers and mobilized their extremely strong desire to survive. Under the order, more than 2,000 cavalry took the lead and rushed towards the Tang cavalry, which had already lined up on the opposite side.
The cavalry of Hao Shaoqi's department had just started, and the cavalry of the Tang Army, which had already lined up in battle, also attacked at the same time.
The more than 3,000 Xuanhu heavy tiger riders at the front, lined up in skillfully organized and precise wedge tips, took the lead in attacking forward, and the Flying Harrier light cavalry in the back followed closely behind, forming a thick and wide wedge tail.
Looking down from the sky, the assault Tang cavalry was like a black spike, stabbing towards the cavalry of Hao Shaoqi's department who rushed towards the semicircle formation opposite.
The twilight was blank, the horses' hooves were flying, and the mud was splashing and the grass was flying, and the rumbling horses' hooves mingled with the shouts of both sides like the roar of a bloodthirsty monster.
Everyone is staring at the target opposite, pointing at the knife and gun, with the help of fast horses, fighting with blood and gas, winning or losing is often a matter of microseconds, life and death are only in a moment, this is the hedge of riding and fighting, and it is the highest honor for a hot-blooded man!
The horses' hooves rumbled, the shouts shook the sky, and almost in an instant, the two armies that were hedging at high speed, and the two torrents of steel colliding at high speed collided together in the blink of an eye!
Rumble!
The clanging sound of swords and guns, the dull pop of piercing into the human body or the body of the horse, the screams and wails of the wounded, and the neighing of the war horse, all burst out collectively for a while, like a song of death.
The Xuanhu heavy armored cavalry weighing 530 kilograms of men and horses had already accelerated as much as possible, and the Tang Army's Xuanhu heavy cavalry that charged in a wedge-shaped battle formation reached an almost terrifying state of impact.
They were like a sharp blade, cutting fiercely from the top of the semi-circular formation of Hao Shaoqi's cavalry, and immediately tore this semicircular cavalry formation in half from the middle like a knife cutting butter, and quickly rushed through a wide bloody path, through the formation!
This terrible impact of concentrating on one point is almost impossible for them to resist. The tip of the wedge is the scythe of death to harvest life, and the cavalry of Hao Shaoqi's department cannot withstand such a terrible impact. They screamed and fell off their horses.
The Tang Army's cavalry array rushed in fiercely, but all the cavalry of Hao Shaoqi's troops who stood in the way of this bloody road were almost all killed instantly, either people or horses, and the terrible blood holes were quickly poked out of their bodies.
After the cavalry of Hao Shaoqi's troops were killed or wounded, they fell from their horses like out-of-control noodle bags, and the horses that lost control were scurrying around in terror, but because of this, they trampled to death the wounded soldiers who were rolling and wailing underground, and at the same time rushed the remnants of Hao Shaoqi's troops into even more chaos.
The wedge tip that broke through, after penetrating the formation, was still in an unstoppable attitude, straight at high speed. Rushed to the place where Hao Shaoqi's cavalry was guarding.
"Quick! Stop them! Hao Shaoqi looked extremely frightened, and suddenly shouted again.
It's just that as soon as he finished shouting, those fierce Tang cavalry roared and killed.
The two cavalrymen in front of Hao Shaoqi, one of them, was hit by a whistling cavalry spear in his chest, and with a bang, it broke through the solid chain mail, blood spurted out of his chest, and the tip of the cavalry spear that did not stop drilling out of his back, making the stainless steel heart guards behind him bulge high.
He rolled off his horse like a rotten bag of flour and did not move.
The other cavalryman, who was sitting on his horse, was quickly pierced through the horse's neck by a sharp cavalry spear, like a knife stabbing butter, and this bloody cavalry spear, its momentum was still unabated, and it rushed through his left arm sharply, and the people next to him could even clearly hear the sound of fractures.
The horseman screamed loudly, and then fell to the ground with the horse, and was immediately smashed to the chest by the smashing of the horse's body, and then, like a flattened worm, moved violently, and then did not move again.
Seeing this bloody and violent killing in front of him, Hao Shaoqi was stunned and trembled.
Before he could react, a tiger knife stretched out from the side immediately roared.
A Tang Army Xuanhu who rushed over rode heavily, and when he saw the opportunity, the stainless steel tiger knife in his hand struck sharply, and came straight to Hao Shaoqi's head.
Hao Shaoqi secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly raised his gun to meet him, and with a bang, the bloody tiger knife immediately knocked the tiger gun in the hand of Hao Shaoqi, who was caught off guard.
With that, the momentum of this tiger knife was still unabated, and the cavalryman's hand was slashed downward, and a white light slashed, and this Hao Shaoqi's thigh was actually cut off alive by him!
Hao Shaoqi, whose broken leg was as flat as a mirror, roared in pain, but the person fell from the horse at once, and his head hit the flat ground heavily, leaving only a burst of convulsions.
"General, General Hao!" The guards next to him shouted in mourning, but Hao Shaoqi couldn't hear it clearly.
He felt in a blur that the world in front of him had suddenly become hazy, as if he had been placed in a foggy room, where he could not see or hear anything clearly, only the extreme pain was still reminding him that he was still in the world.
However, this pain did not last long, because a Tang army heavy armored cavalry rushed over, and the sturdy war horse covered in iron armor stepped down fiercely with iron hooves, and immediately stomped his head like stepping on a watermelon, and pink brains flew everywhere.
As soon as the main general died, the remaining cavalry suddenly had no more fighting spirit and fell into an uncontrollable chaos.
Take advantage of your chaos and kill you.
The Flying Harrier Light Cavalry, which followed Xuanhu's heavy horse, immediately showed its skills in this chaos, and all the light cavalry drew their swords one after another, slashing and killing the panicked Hao Shaoqi cavalry on both sides.
For a while, there were a large number of Hao Shaoqi's cavalry, screaming and falling off their horses. What's even more terrifying is that from time to time, you can see that the cavalry of the Ming Army was directly cut off by the flying harrier with a charged blow, and each head flew straight into the sky with a column of blood that soared to the sky, as if performing a cruel magic.
At the same time, the Tang infantry surrounded by the other three sides was also getting tighter and tighter, and the dense sound of guns was still firing non-stop, causing tragic casualties to the soldiers of Hao Shaoqi's department.
Under such a powerful impact and killing, the soldiers of Hao Shaoqi's army, who had died in general, finally collapsed completely.
They are like a group of wild boars who have no desire to fight, throwing their weapons and fleeing frantically. It's just that they are surrounded on all sides, and they can't escape at all.
Under the fierce pursuit of the Tang cavalry, and under the continuous stabbing and pursuit of the Tang army's spearmen on three sides, a large number of enemy soldiers screamed and kept falling to the ground and died, which was very miserable and embarrassing.
At this point, the huge wilderness has become a place for the Tang army to slaughter to its heart's content, and its bloody and cruel is comparable to the Shura Hell.
At this point, even a fool knows how to make a decision.
The remaining soldiers of Hao Shaoqi's army finally understood that they could no longer escape, and it was better to surrender as soon as possible than to be killed in vain. Therefore, they knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowed in the face of the approaching cold blades of the Tang army, and begged for surrender.
In the end, it was Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army, who quickly issued an order to stop the killing, and surrendered to the remaining 23,000 or so Hao Shaoqi soldiers, and the whole battle finally ended.
At this point, the 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Hao Shaoqi's department, only about 200 cavalry, escaped with their lives, and they fled north in the drowsy twilight and returned to Xuzhou.
Including Hao Shaoqi, a total of nearly 4,000 soldiers of the Shun army were slaughtered on the spot by the Tang army, and on the entire battlefield, corpses were all over the field, blood flowed all over the ground, dead people and dead horses were all over the ground, like piles of death sculptures, at a glance, shocking.
At this moment, the continuous cheers of the Tang army were like rolling spring thunder, resounding through the field.
Liu Guoneng, the commander of the Tang Army, also had a smile on his face, and he immediately ordered that after the whole army quickly cleaned up the battlefield, the infantry returned to Pei County, and the deputy mayor of the town led the second battalion of the sixth town to temporarily garrison Yancheng.
And all the cavalry, still with the momentum of chasing the poor with the remaining bravery, continued to chase the cavalry of the Hao Shaoqi Department that had broken down, and reached the city of Xuzhou.
Now that the main force of the enemy army has been destroyed, the remnants of the defenders in Xuzhou are estimated to be terrified. Liu Guoneng decided in his heart that he should be able to force Xuzhou City to surrender with the momentum of his cavalry.