Chapter 259: Furlong Machine
Qi Rongxun looked at Lan Ziyi and they were turned upside down in the thief formation, and indifferently ordered the sergeant next to him:
"Order the gunner to prepare, charge the furlong."
The sergeant asked:
"What kind of ammunition?"
Qi Rongxun says:
"Grapes."
The sergeant on the side nodded obediently, and then blew a trumpet,
The sergeants who were operating the Furlong machine next to them heard the order, so they took the charge from the sergeant who kept the ammunition behind them, put it in the bomb bay, locked the medicine chamber, and raised the muzzle of the gun to aim.
The thieves are still moving forward, although Lan Ziyi can't move the right flank of the thieves, the drums in the thieves' formation have also been scattered, and the few remaining small formations in the first column that have not been charged by the Jihu battalion are still advancing towards the official and army front.
Most of the thieves were surrounded by friendly forces lined up in dense formations, and although they heard the sound of horses' hooves, shouts of killing and scolding, they did not know what was happening, and they looked around in the formation, at a loss, until they heard the leader of the formation shouting loudly, and then they retracted their heads and continued on.
Those thieves who were on the edge of the formation were fortunate enough to see what was happening around them, and perhaps this could not be said to be their luck, because watching the murderous cavalry pass by them and then go around behind them would only make people tremble.
However, Lei Youde is now leading his own elite division after all, and the leaders of the bandits at all levels are quite determined, even in this case, they still reprimand their soldiers according to the orders of the officers of their own formation, stabilize the morale of the army, and ask them to continue to advance.
The remaining three phalanxes in the first row are still moving forward, facing the leader of the thief phalanx of the official army and the army when there is still some distance to see a lot of black and thick iron pipes sticking out of the official army array, he had heard that the official army has a Shenji battalion when he chatted with an old buddy before, and the Shenji battalion invited the grandfather of the god of fire to go down to earth, and he can use thunder and lightning to split people, but when Yuzhou defeated the demon a few days ago, didn't the brothers have already captured the red-clothed cannon of the demon? What other means can the demon have?
Despite this thought, the leader still felt that he was at a loss, and he continued to scold his soldiers, because he could not let his subordinates see that he had wavered.
The leader looked at the two friendly phalanxes on his left flank, the lanterns lit high in the phalanx were still bright, and the pace of the allies was still so steady, as steady as he was here, they didn't waver, so what about here? Do you want to stop here? The white-clothed ghost of the demon behind him had already led people to break through their defense again, even though they had practiced countless defenses and practiced countless formations to deal with the demon cavalry, but they were still broken through.
Thinking about this, beads of sweat the size of soybeans oozed from his head.
At this time, the commander next to him asked him:
"General Earthshatter, we've reached the charging distance, do you want the brothers to rush up?"
The leader listened to the question and did not answer,
Another sergeant, who looked like a small leader, answered:
"General, the front pestle of the demon on the opposite side is the same as the hard thorn in the wild forest, so we will rush over it and nail it to the wall, and those long black cylinders sticking out of the demon army don't know where they come from, and the people who look at it are straight in their hearts.
General, let's go back, those horseback Tartars under the white-clothed ghost behind are attacking the Thunder Celestial Phase, and we retreat to protect the Celestial Phase. “
When the leader heard this, he was furious, and raised his sword, and struck the thief with the handle, and scolded as he struck:
"Waste, seed, the Heavenly Aspect let us attack, but you want to escape? How could a demon not be prepared if he wasn't blind? You're scared away just because of the spears and those broken iron barrels? Let me tell you, before we attacked, the order of the heavenly phase was to storm the demon, and we must not retreat without an order, and today we have advanced and retreated, and there is death and no life! ”
Speaking loudly, he proclaimed:
"rush me, slay demons and eliminate demons, and ascend to immortality in one step!"
After hearing the order of the earth demon in the array, all the sergeants in the formation trotted up, and shouted together:
"Slay demons and eliminate demons, and ascend to immortality in one step!"
The thieves shouted, roared, and finally turned into a collective crazy roar, as if this slogan really had the magic of inspiring people to be brave, so that these thieves forgot their fears, they may really believe that the power of the true gods can make them invulnerable, or they may believe that they can really ascend to the sky in one step, all in all, the shouts in the mouths of the thieves are getting louder and louder, and the three thieves phalanx who are charging together in the front row have all fallen into a state of madness that the officers and soldiers are very familiar with at the same time, and they shout and pounce on the well-defended official and military lines.
Qi Rongxun stood in the middle of the formation and looked at the thieves rushing from the opposite side, he had long observed that all of these phalanxes were equipped with archers, but why didn't the thieves show up for a few rounds of arrow rain to attack? Could it be that it was because Lan Ziyi's cavalry threatened them and made them dare not stay? Or do they just don't care about any tactics once they go crazy?
Qi Rongxun shook his head with a smile, and then gave orders to the soldiers next to him as if mocking:
"Furlong, fire!"
The commander yelled at the command and repeated:
"Furlong, fire!"
The furlong machines arranged around Qi Rongxun were immediately ignited by the gunners after the order was given, and the gunpowder smoke ignited after a thunderclap, and the other gunners arranged in the front row also ignited the furlong machines in turn after hearing the order, and the thunder rose from the ground, and the sound shook the sky, so that the birds on the other side of the Slender River flew up from the trees, and did not dare to fall back into the court.
The grape shells in the breech of the Furlong machine were pushed out by the violent gas expansion caused by the ignition of gunpowder, the chamber was already narrow enough, but the space in the chamber in front of it was even narrower than the chamber, dozens of lead shots were crowded and collided in the barrel, and after the eruption, they finally did not have to suffer from squeezing, the infinite field and the vast sky were waiting for these firepower, menacing projectiles, they flew in all directions directly opposite the barrel, and dozens of lead pellets shot by each Furlong machine converged into a barrage in the air, A number of Fran planes distributed on the front line of the official army shot directly out of a wall and pressed against the dense thieves in front of them.
The thieves originally launched a fierce attack on the official army, but the sudden thunder interrupted their shouting, but after seeing a burst of smoke and fire, the thieves heard the sound of breaking the air in front of them.
The human body collided with the high-speed projectiles scattered in all directions as if a living creature had been pushed down a cliff into a deep ravine, and only the human body or living creature could be smashed to pieces.
Lead shot or hit the head, or hit the body, anyway, the bullet cost all the flesh and blood turned into mince, fog scattered in the air, there are thieves who have been shot several times and then have no head, want to hide even the corpse capital can't be found,
The lead shot shot by the Fran machine was already very lethal, and the dense formation of the thieves doubled the damage caused by the lead shot.
The projectile was slowed down after passing through the human body, but the speed was still high enough to kill, but after slowing down, the projectile no longer flew in a straight line, but turned around in the thief formation, killing the thief who was no longer in a trajectory.
It's just that a round of shelling has made the thief array flesh and blood fly, and the ability of the Shenji battalion is not limited to this, the charge and shells of the Furlong machine are wrapped in groups before the war, and after a cannon is ignited, the gunner only needs to open the medicine room to take out the abandoned package, replace it with new ammunition, and then it can be ignited immediately,
In this way, the Furlong machine of the Shenji battalion fired several rounds in succession, and the most densely arranged middle formation of the Furlong machine had already killed more than half of the casualties of the thieves before they rushed over.
Qi Rongxun saw that the thief was about to come up, and he lightly pouted his tongue, he looked at the stumps and broken arms all over the ground in front of him as if he was inspecting the construction of his subordinates, he only felt that this kind of killing was barely passing, because there were too few artillery in the Shenji Battalion,
Then Qi Rongxun ordered:
"Musketeers prepare, listen to my command to shoot,
Other archers began to fire volleys. “
When the soldiers heard the order, they gave orders loudly, and the other officers in the formation also repeated the order loudly when they heard it, and sent Qi Rongxun's will to every corner.
The archers in the back row immediately began to fire their arrows when they heard the order, and the thieves were so close that the archers did not need to throw arrows into the air, they only needed to go over the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row and shoot the arrows straight out.
The thieves had just been killed and wounded by the grape bullets of the Franco, and now they were greeted by a rain of arrows, with heavy casualties, and the spearmen who rushed to the front were originally used to defend the cavalry and break the gun formation of the officers and soldiers were the first to be killed quickly, but the thieves did not flinch, the heavy casualties were demoralizing them, but they did not collapse, anyway, they had already crossed the ghost gate, and now if they did not step forward to fight with the officers and soldiers, they would have to bear the next round of firepower of the officers and troops if they retreated.
The thieves shouted and rushed to the official line, Qi Rongxun did not arrange shotgunners on the left and right wings, and only Francophone and bows and arrows continued to shoot on the two wings, but in the Chinese army where Qi Rongxun was, the shotgunners of the Shenji battalion were lined up in two rows, just like blocking the city gate just now, the front row was half-kneeling, the back row was upright, and the muzzle of the arquebus was lit and aimed at the thieves rushing in front of him.
These shotgunners quietly watched the thieves approaching in front of them, motionless, like wood, while Qi Rongxun, who was standing beside them, slowly put down the long knife in his hand, his eyes seemed to be closed, and he watched the thieves impact calmly.
The thieves' loud shouts have reached their eyes, and the thieves' waist knives in their hands began to pull the spears stretched out by the officers and soldiers.
At this time, Qi Rongxun suddenly roared angrily:
"Fire!"
Hearing this, the soldiers on the side repeated Qi Rongxun's order loudly, while the two rows of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion pulled the trigger in their hands, and for a moment the gunfire was loud, lightning and thunder, and the shotgun neighed and sprayed out the lead bullets, and after hitting the armor of the thieves, the iron filings were splashed everywhere, and the blood plasma flew horizontally, and the projectiles were ejected in the dense group of thieves, and the two rows of thieves in front instantly fell under the spears of the officers and soldiers.
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