Chapter 667: Wolf of the Night
More than twenty small trebuchets that had been urgently assembled were spaced out in the grove and then squeaked and twisted until they reached their tightest point. Then, immediately, an auxiliary soldier stepped forward quickly and placed the cluster of sky-shaking thunder on top of the dropping box that was pulled down.
"Ignition!"
Zizi's continuous sound was soft, and more than 20 ignition torches were immediately ignited, and immediately, these auxiliary soldiers reused the ignition rope and lit the fuse that was twisted into a single strand of cluster earth-shaking thunder.
The flickering fuses, glowing with blue flames, shimmered with tiny sparks, like the eyes of the devil.
"Put!"
With the angry shout of the leader of the auxiliary army, the winch of more than 20 trebuchets that was twisted to the extreme was released almost at the same time, only to hear a loose string sound, and the throwing rod that was pressed down to the horizontal position bounced violently, and the lead burned half of the cluster earth-shaking thunder, with a faint whistling sound, crossed a long arc in the air, and rushed straight towards Liu Zongmin's camp in the distance.
In the dark night, the little blue fire in the grove had actually quickly attracted the attention of the cavalry of the Dashun Army patrolling in the distance, but they were so surprised that they had time to let out a terrible whistle, and the more than 20 cluster earth-shaking thunderbolts had already been thrown together.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
One after another, the cluster of earth-shaking thunder, like a bird of death, fell from the sky, roaring straight to Liu Zongmin's camp, this first round of volleys, because it could not be well aimed in the dark night, only less than half of the earth-shaking thunderbolts hit the enemy camp.
Rao is like this, every ten cluster earth-shaking thunders tied into a bunch, the explosion power is still extremely impressive, causing huge damage and shock to the unprepared Liu Zongmin middle battalion.
The dazzling golden firelight, the deafening explosion, the bloody and bloody rogue soldiers, the continuous screams that sounded everywhere, the burning tents and the warehouses in the camp, made Liu Zongmin's camp instantly turn into a chaotic and miserable hell on earth.
Coincidentally, one of the cluster earth-shattering thunderbolts hit the mast of the Chinese army's big tent, and with a click, the high fluttering banner of the Dashun army on the Chinese army's big tent was interrupted.
Fortunately, it was on this flagpole that the cluster of earth-shattering thunder did not just smash on the tent and explode, so that Liu Zongmin, who was sleeping soundly, was able to save his life.
In the end, this earth-shattering thunder rolled not far from the tent before it exploded violently, and the dense iron marbles in the warhead created a wide range of death areas, and knocked out the thick cowhide tent one after another terrifying bullet holes, and the afterflames and high temperature generated by the explosion immediately ignited the tent where Liu Zongmin lived.
Rao is such a thick cowhide tent, it is still difficult to resist the power of the Tang army's cluster earth-shattering thunder explosion, there are still many iron bullets, stubbornly through the thick cowhide tent, screaming into the tent, and immediately killing a guard who was blocking in front of Liu Zongmin, bloody flesh and blood.
Liu Zongmin, who had just been awakened by the loud explosion and had not had time to get up, was splashed with blood on his face by the guard who fell down with a howl, and he shouted loudly in horror.
"What's going on? Did the dog-in-law Tang army attack the camp? So many parade sentinels, why don't you come to report, are they all fucking shit-eating?! ”
Liu Zongmin wiped a handful of blood on his face, and yelled at the frightened guard closest to him in the tent.
The guard's face was bloodless and horrified, he met Liu Zongmin's fierce eyes, and stammered: "Hey, Yu Ruhou, the Tang army did not send troops to attack the camp directly, but hid in the small woods in the northeast, throwing earth-shattering thunder to attack our army from a distance, so that our army can be so passive......"
"Fuck! Are you dead? What are you doing in a daze, immediately extinguish the fire, and at the same time organize troops to slaughter all the Tang troops who threw earth-shattering thunder! ”
Liu Zongmin's face was furious, and while he was hurriedly putting on his armor, he gritted his teeth and yelled.
Without waiting for the guard to speak, Liu Zongmin, who quickly put on his clothes and armor, picked up his portable sword again, quickly left the tent where the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and hurriedly ran out of the tent.
At this moment, more than 20 clusters of sky-shaking thunderbolts fell from the sky with a roar.
In the second round of shooting, the Tang Army adjusted the projection position in time according to the results of the first round of test firing, so this second round of salvo, the cluster of thunder that roared out, as if it had eyes, basically all hit Liu Zongmin's middle camp.
The continuous sound of explosions almost burst Liu Zongmin's eardrums, and the dazzling fire and the flames in the sky were like devil's flowers, blooming throughout the camp.
The terrifying scene in front of him immediately stunned him.
He was horrified to see that on the ground, the corpses of the soldiers who had been blown apart were shocking, and there were many wounded soldiers rolling on the ground with their limbs broken and wailing. There are even some soldiers who happened to be seen by Liu Zongmin, they were struck by the earth-shattering lightning, and the flesh and blood flew in an instant, leaving only the stumps and fragments, not humanoid at all, and the whole body was burned like charcoal, and at a glance, it was miserable.
And in the distance, the rows of tents next to each other have been burned like a fire dragon by the raging fire, and a large number of soldiers, like headless flies, rushed to the fire, but to no avail.
Seeing that Liu Zongmin, the winner of the award, was standing outside the Chinese army's tent with a stunned face, a person who looked like a lieutenant hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground to ask for his life.
"Ruhou! The enemy attacked the camp one after another, and our camp suffered heavy losses, and I hope that Liu Shuai will give an order to let the sergeants withdraw from the camp and leave......"
Before he could finish his sentence, Liu Zongmin had already pulled out his sword and stabbed it into his chest fiercely.
The lieutenant's eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, and his expression was mixed with fear and confusion, as if he hadn't figured out why Liu Zongmin had killed him.
"Confusing the army's heart, cowardly as a mouse, you deserve to be a capital crime!"
Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and twisted the sword in his hand vigorously before pulling it out of his chest.
Just as the lieutenant's body fell on his back softly, Liu Zongmin inserted his sword into the sheath and coldly ordered: "Pass on our military order, the cavalry in the camp will immediately dispatch and go all out to kill the Tang soldiers who are hiding in the grove and sneaking up on our army, and they must all be cut into pieces!" ”
"Order!"
"The rest of the people, immediately take precautions, try their best to extinguish the tents that have been burned, put away all the unburned tents, scatter and retreat, dodge in time, and avoid the attack range of the shells as much as possible."
"Order!"
More than 800 cavalrymen who were ordered to attack rushed out of the barracks that had already hurriedly moved away from the horses and collected the spikes, and immediately rushed towards the grove where the Tang army was lurking.
At this moment, more than 20 earth-shattering thunderbolts roared down from the sky and accurately hit Liu Zongmin's middle camp.
There was even a sky-shattering thunder, which very coincidentally exploded at the camp gate, killing dozens of cavalrymen who rushed out of the camp gate at the end and had no time to dodge, as well as the deputy captain who was marching backwards.
was rear-ended and bombed by the Tang Army, and before he could get out of the division, he first folded the deputy captain, which made the originally high-spirited cavalry immediately fall into a small chaos, and their morale was naturally very depressed.
At this moment, no one noticed that the east gate of Shanhaiguan had been opened violently, and a large number of Tang cavalry surged out, and then the troops went in two ways.
The whole team, in the captain's continuous shouting and scolding, finally eliminated the chaos, and the whole team regained order and integrated the formation, and then the cavalry continued to howl and rushed towards the grove.
When they approached the woods, the cavalry could already see clearly that in the faint moonlight, at the trebuchets lined up in the woods, there were only hundreds of Tang Army auxiliaries dressed in light armor and not even carrying weapons!
These Tang Army auxiliaries, when they saw the cavalry of the Dashun Army rushing towards them, suddenly everyone's faces showed a look of horror, and many of them began to subconsciously retreat and drill into the depths of the woods.
The frightened expressions and cowering expressions of the Tang army's auxiliaries further provoked the strong killing intent of these cavalry, and the cavalry captain who rushed to the front had bloodshot eyes and a greedy murderous aura, he waved his sword and pointed forward, and shouted loudly: "Quick! The whole army sped up, and they must slaughter all these bastards. ”
The cavalry, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, roared like wild beasts, and rushed towards the retreating Tang army auxiliaries in the woods.
That's when something they didn't expect happened.
They clearly heard the rumbling hooves of horses coming from the north more and more intensively, like ten thousand drums beating the earth, and this earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves was occasionally mixed with many shouts of killing, all in their own direction, quickly attacking.
At this moment, all the cavalry of the Dashun Army were instantly stunned.
"it! I didn't expect Tang Jun to be prepared, but now we haven't made it to the fox, and we've made a commotion, it's really hateful! The cavalry captain reined in his horse's hooves and cursed through gritted teeth.
"Captain, what now?"
"Withdraw, withdraw! If I didn't withdraw earlier, I was afraid that I would all become ghosts under the sword of the Tang Army. With a worried face, the captain took the lead in turning his horse's head, and prepared to gallop towards the camp.
However, what he never expected was that as if he had expected them to escape on the spot, from behind them, there was the rumbling sound of horses' hooves.
At this moment, the faces of all the people in this Shun army cavalry were almost yellow with fright.
It turned out that the Tang army had premeditated and knew that they were very likely to escape, so they divided their troops into two parts, one to press forward and the other to outflank the back road, so as to wipe out all of themselves and leave no one behind.
Caught between two sides, this is a dead end.
Without waiting for the cavalry captain to give another order, the two cavalry of the Tang Army, the Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry and the Flying Harrier of the First Town of the Tang Army in front, and the Manchurian cavalry under the command of Ao Bai in the back, were killed almost at the same time.
In the dim moonlight, two groups of more than 2,000 elite cavalry, like two black sharp arrows, flanked back and forth, quickly breaking the 800 or so cavalry of the Great Shun Army into two sections, and firmly sandwiching the remnants of the cavalry of the Shun Army in the middle.
For a time, the cavalry of the Shun army screamed again and again, and the people turned on their backs, and quickly fell into collapse.
Before the cavalry captain of the Shun army could speak, a fierce tiger knife immediately snorted softly, slashing his neck, leaving his head and body connected only with a bit of flesh and skin.
When the column of blood that soared into the sky immediately erupted from his neck, the head of the captain of the cavalry of the Shun army drooped down like a child's toy, and the whole person immediately fell from the horse.
The captain was killed, and the remnants of the Shun cavalry no longer had the fighting spirit, and they all filled their weapons and cried for surrender.
It's just that at this time, the cavalry of the Tang Army, which was flanked in front and back, each made a semicircle formation, and slashed and killed the cavalry of the Shun Army who were sandwiched in it, and they were already red-eyed and couldn't stop at all. Pity the cavalry of the Shun army, who were about to surrender, they were killed on the spot, and there was no repatriation.
After killing this cavalry, the two Tang cavalry became one, and went straight to the rear of the middle camp of Liu Zongmin's department, where they were ready to stay and wait for Liu Zongmin's troops to abandon the camp and flee, and then give these deserters in the battalion a deadly pursuit and blow.
The Tang Army auxiliaries, who were originally preparing to retreat and flee for their lives, saw that the 800 Shun cavalry who raided them had been completely wiped out by their own cavalry, and their morale suddenly soared and they were very happy.
They didn't have any worries, and immediately began to reload and project, and the bundles of cluster earth-shattering thunder were projectile fast and fierce, almost as if they had eyes, and they really rushed towards Liu Zongmin's middle camp.
Liu Zongmin's camp was in flames, the sound of explosions could be heard in the distance, and the situation was very terrifying.
When the Tang Army auxiliaries launched to the tenth round, the fire in the entire Liukou middle camp was getting bigger and bigger, and the flames as high as several zhang rose into the sky, and the entire camp was almost a sea of fire.
Throughout the camp, countless tents were burned, there were stumps and fragments that had been blown away, and there were screams of dying and wounded everywhere, and even the camp entrance and barracks were in flames, which could no longer be extinguished.
And Liu Zongmin, who personally led his guards and worked hard with the soldiers in the palace to put out the fire, by this time, his beard and hair were already burned black, and his face was as black as charcoal, and he looked very embarrassed.
He was saddened to see the growing fire, and he couldn't help but sigh, and threw down the bucket under his hand in a dejected manner, with a look of remorse on his face.
"Alas, I regret not listening to the words of the marquis, so that now I am so embarrassed." Liu Zongmin shook his head painfully, and finally ordered in a deep voice: "The whole army obeys the order, immediately abandon the camp, and the whole army immediately moves back." ”
"Order!"
A large number of rogue soldiers, after receiving this order from the commander, were immediately amnesty, and they immediately swarmed out of the burned camp gate like a group of wild boars who did not care about their heads.
As they scrambled to flee for their lives, they had no formation or discipline to speak of, and everyone squeezed forward with all their might, hoping to escape from this terrible sea of fire and hell on earth before the people next to them.
Seeing this scene, Liu Zongmin was very angry, and he gave a loud order to let his soldiers stay in formation, line up and retreat, but this order was of no help at all in the current situation of no discipline and no distraction.
Just as the Liukou swarmed and fled backwards, more than 4,000 Tang cavalry finally arrived on horseback.
Like a group of Grim Reapers, they let out a sharp howl, and immediately began to pursue and kill the rogue soldiers all over the slopes.