Chapter 734: The Greater Danger Behind It

Take advantage of your illness to kill you.

Seeing that the enemy army was losing ground and falling into chaos, the Tang Army's battle formation, which was originally advancing steadily, certainly would not let go of this rare opportunity.

The first to be dispatched were the more than 3,000 cavalry of the Tang Army, who were like lurking beasts, following behind the battle array.

A sharp order sounded, and the three thousand cavalry divided into two parts, and came out from the left and right sides of the battle formation, and then rushed out from the left and right sides, and swooped down on the vanguard of the left army, who were in disarray and wanted to squeeze across the bridge again.

With horses' hooves rumbling and guns pointing at knives, the 3,000 Tang cavalry in armor and murderous spirits saw the chaotic enemy army in front of them, and they were immediately like wild beasts smelling blood, and they were extremely excited and high-spirited.

They galloped on their horses, roaring like a wild man, and quickly rushed to the front of the enemy from the left and right, almost in unison.

The cavalry of the Tang Army, which rushed all the way at high speed, was neat and sharp in formation, and the black sharp arrows of the assault, like a fierce fist, rushed into the vanguard of the left army who were rushing to escape across the pontoon bridge in an instant.

The cavalry of the Tang Army, which was heavily armored and weighed half a ton of Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, made the arrows of the Tang Army's assault, and their impact was fierce, like a galloping tank, which was originally scattered and demoralized, and the vanguard soldiers of the Left Army rushed into the sky like pieces of paper, and countless soldiers of the Left Army crossed long or short arcs in the air, screaming and falling, either dead or disabled.

Under the violent impact of the cavalry of the Tang Army, the already chaotic Left Army suddenly became more and more scattered.

The Tang army succeeded in striking a blow, and immediately slashed and killed the enemy troops in front of the horse formation, swords, heads flying, blood and flesh splashed, and screamed again and again.

Such a one-sided and merciless slaughter, don't be too cool.

The clanging of swords, the tooth-aching porphyry of slicing bones, the dull popping sound of stabbing into the human body, the screams of dying and the chirping of horses, like the song of death.

The vanguard of the Left Army, which numbered more than 2,000 people, collapsed on the spot, and the remnants of the Left Army scattered and fled like headless flies without any purpose. 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, on the other hand, was like a group of terrible beasts chasing their prey, and continued to bite and hunt these poor routed soldiers mercilessly.

At this point, the wilderness outside the entire wooden bridge has become a place for the Tang cavalry to slaughter to their heart's content, and the left army that fled in all directions is like a cow, sheep, pig and dog that is frantically fleeing for their lives, appointing the Tang army to chase and kill and hack to death, and there is no possibility of saving their lives at all.

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

More than 2,000 vanguard troops of the Left Army were immediately killed by the Tang Army.

At a glance, the entire empty outskirts of the western side of the Ba River are like a slaughterhouse, and the ground is covered with the corpses of enemy soldiers, banners and weapons, all over the place, shocking, and the blood overflowing everywhere has actually merged into a red river of blood.

This long and winding river of blood, winding and long, red and dazzling, flows into the Ba River, and dyes the originally clear water of the Ba River into a palpitating scarlet.

The death of more than 2,000 left troops may be of only value to buy a rare escape time for those soldiers on the wooden bridge who rushed to retreat.

After the cavalry of the Tang Army finally killed the vanguard of the Left Army, which was too late to retreat, the wooden bridge, which was originally crowded and noisy, was empty, and the soldiers of the Left Army on the bridge had fled one after another.

At this time, in the left army formation on the other side, Jin Shenghuan, the chief general of the left army, who had been postponed to supervise, saw that this vanguard of more than 2,000 people of his own family was completely defeated and killed in a short period of time, like the Tang army chopping melons and vegetables, and the anger and frustration in his heart were simply difficult to describe in words.

Fuck, this fucking fight is so damn that it can suffocate people to death!

It wasn't until the large number of soldiers who retreated from the bridge rushed all the way back to the battle that Jin Shenghuan recovered from the contemplation of anger and humiliation.

He clearly saw that the Tang cavalry, who had slaughtered the vanguard of the left army, wanted to chase after them again, and soon approached the bridgehead.

"Quick! Quickly block the bridgehead! Don't let the Tang army cross the bridge! ”

Jin Shenghuan's face was so anxious that his face was purple, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped violently, and he shouted almost hoarsely at the scattered rout.

His most elite personal entourage is also aware of the extreme danger now. Therefore, he ordered his subordinates, and a large number of elite infantry around him, panting heavily, ran quickly to fill the entrance to the bridge.

Jin Shenghuan was lucky, and when his personal infantry almost blew up their lungs, when they ran to the entrance of the pontoon bridge, the Tang cavalry had just rushed to the opposite side of the bridge.

Seeing that the enemy infantry on the opposite side had urgently set up a position to block the entrance to the other end of the bridge, the Tang cavalry saw that they had lost a good opportunity to assault, and they had to restrain their horses' hooves at the entrance of the bridge and suspend further impact.

At this time, the battle between the Tang army and the left army came to an end temporarily, and the city of Huangzhou in the distance had been blocked by the Tang army with four gates, and it was so tightly surrounded that even a fly could not escape. And the left army, which was finally in a hurry, and the Tang army, which rushed across the riverbank, confronted each other across the river.

Soon, the follow-up Tang army reinforcements marched all the way, quickly pressed, and almost in the time of a pillar of incense, they quickly arrived on the opposite side of the Ba River, and then lined up on the spot.

Jin Shenghuan saw that the Tang army battle formation came all the way in a hurry, and it was able to roughly maintain a strict formation, and after the array across the river was placed, it was even more strict and orderly, leaving no flaws at all, which showed that its military discipline was strict, and he couldn't help but be surprised in his heart after a long time of battle formation.

Jin Shenghuan sighed in his heart, but took out a clairglass mirror to carefully observe how the Tang army battle formation on the other side of the Ba River was displayed.

He was surprised to see that although the Tang army on the other side of the Ba River and facing him across the river seemed to have a total strength of about half less than his own, the formation it formed was a long snake formation with a width almost equal to that of the square, and nearly 10,000 shield soldiers were lined up, and the two rows of sharp and sharp shields were like a temporary steel wall, shining with a cold light under the bright sun of nearly noon.

Behind the shield soldiers, there are dense spearmen, and on the steel wall built by the shield soldiers, above each shield, there is a 4-meter stainless steel spear with a cold light, like a poisonous dragon ready to attack, waiting for the prey that is getting closer and closer on the opposite side.

The Tang Army's spearmen had three layers, which could ensure that there were enough troops to fill the losses, and the entire formation was very strict and full of awe-inspiring murderous aura.

Behind the spearmen, there were a large number of Tang Army auxiliaries armed with earth-shattering thunder, and these unarmored auxiliaries were actually the killer existence of the Tang Army. Each of them had more than a dozen one-handed sky-shaking thunderbolts hanging from their waists, and they seemed to have no offensive power, but they were actually the Tang Army's biggest secret weapon. Because, only the enemy army who has tasted the power of the Tang Army's single soldier earth-shaking thunder knows how powerful they are.

At this time, behind the entire Tang Army's gun and shield battle array, there were two cavalry units that had withdrawn from the bridgehead. On the left and right sides of the entire battle formation, there is a heavy armored rampant team member, and these two forces are used to protect the flank.

It's just that the most conspicuous thing in their formation is still at the front, the fire gunners who have been selected from the two battalions A and B, as many as nearly 6,000, are standing in two rows in front and back.

These firecrackers were simply lined up in two rows in front and back, standing and kneeling, but they were extremely strict and full of an indescribable majesty.

On the whole, the battle formation of the Tang Army on the other side of the river was like a precisely combined war machine, extremely orderly and not chaotic at all, but there was an extremely awe-inspiring and strong coercive momentum, which made the left army on the opposite side feel invisible and tremendous pressure.

Soon, something happened that made Jin Shenghuan feel even more depressed.

That is, in the hastily arranged battle formation of his own family, the front army position, with the continuous exhaustion of the Tang army on the other side, began to subconsciously shrink back and retreat across the river, causing the entire formation to appear in a chaos.

Seeing such a scene, Jin Shenghuan clenched his teeth tightly, his face trembled, and his face was very complicated and ugly.

Damn, I didn't expect the momentum of the Tang Army to reach such a point!

"Tell the whole army, don't panic." Jin Shenghuan looked around at his panicked subordinates and shouted: "Compared with us, the strength of the Tang army is nearly half less, and there is a long way away from this Ba River, as long as we can hold the pontoon bridge, what is there to fear!" Even though our army is tired now and its morale is not high, it is completely possible to defeat these Tang troops from afar here with the separation of the river, as long as they can be dragged here, it will be a victory, and you should have confidence! ”

Jin Shenghuan's military order was issued, and the entire battle array gradually recovered from the chaos and began to stabilize, and the original nervous and panicked appearance was greatly dissipated.

However, just as the left army was re-stabilized, in the Tang army battle formation on the opposite side of the riverbank, the two rows in front of a total of nearly 6,000 musketeers began to stride forward to the beat of drums, until they reached the bank of the Ba River before stopping.

Seeing that the Tang army was constantly approaching, and posing as shooting across the river, Jin Shenghuan's heart sank, and the secret way was not good.

However, he thought again, now the Tang army and his own battle formation in front of the Ba River, its distance is nearly more than 150 steps, according to the Ming Dynasty common firearms, generally can only shoot a maximum of 78 steps, when it is impossible to directly shoot their own military formation, so whether the Tang army is bluffing, but it is also suspicious.

However, seeing that the Tang army was preparing to shoot, for the sake of safety, Jin Shenghuan did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the whole army to open up the gap, leaving a few gaps between each soldier, which was much looser than before.

He hoped that in this way, even if the Tang army was lucky enough to have stray bullets, the entire battle formation could be reduced as much as possible, and the soldiers of the left army in the front row were almost all the main elite of the left army, everyone was densely armoured, and they were holding large shields, but they were well prepared.

It's just that Jin Shenghuan wouldn't have thought that he still underestimated the power of Tang Jun's flint Lu Mi gun.

Just when Jin Shenghuan was nervously thinking about how to act next, a clear shouting order came from the front of the Tang army, and then the sound of a dense burst of fire guns sounded from the opposite bank.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

Of the 6,000 firearms, more than 5,500 were fired, and the muzzles of the upper and lower rows of black holes spewed out bright red afterburners. The flames that flew together were like two long bright red ribbons, and even more like hellfire, with a kind of palpitating and deadly beauty.

A large cloud of choking white gunpowder smoke poured up, and more than 5,500 small three-coin lead bullets, like a swarm of death bees flying away in unison, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the left army on the opposite side.

The maximum accurate firing range of the flint Lumi gun used by the Tang army is 150 paces, but the available firing range is more than 200 steps, so compared with the current distance of more than 150 paces, although it has slightly exceeded the accurate firing range of the flint Lumi gun, it is still within the effective range.

The roaring death bee swarm, chirping and smirking, quickly burrowed into the body of the soldier of the left army on the opposite side.

The soldiers in the front row were separated by large shields, but the inaccurate intensive shooting of the Tang army still caused a rather terrible killing effect.

Immediately, many people, like a trick, bloomed with blood flowers. The man who was struck fell on his back as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer.

After all, of the nearly 6,000 firearms, more than 5,000 have been successfully fired, and the killing effect of these 5,000 flintlocks has been very impressive.

At least more than 600 soldiers of the Left Army were killed and wounded on the spot by the Tang Army in the case of being far away from the Ba River, and those wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and did not die rolled in a loud and miserable manner.

Moreover, the impact of these lead bullets was so great that those soldiers of the left army who happened to block the lead bullets with shields in their hands could not withstand this huge impact force, and they stumbled backwards and fell, and the scene was chaotic.

In the face of this sudden attack, all the soldiers and horses of the left army immediately began to be chaotic, and the soldiers in the front row were crowded and uneasy, not knowing what to do next.

At this moment, Jin Shenghuan deserves to be a battle-hardened veteran, he saw Tang Jun immediately made a decision, and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order!" Immediately defend on the spot, retreat thirty steps back in formation, and never mess with your own formation! ”

"Order!"

If the left army encountered an amnesty, they retreated one after another, and even those soldiers who were blocked at the bridgehead began to retreat, and the whole formation was even more chaotic because everyone was in a hurry to flee for their lives.

At this moment, what the more than 60,000 left troops did not expect was that just behind them, there was a faint commotion.

Jin Shenghuan subconsciously turned his head to look back, his face suddenly turned pale, and his mouth opened into a round O-shape.