Chapter 1471 Thunder rolls in the sky
The clanging sound was endless, and the crackling sparks were also splashing. The horses of the Iron Float cavalry swayed as if they were about to fall, and their horses seemed to be unable to move because of the resistance. However, when everything calmed down, under the expectant gaze of the Jurchens, the Iron Floating Cavalry in the front row raised their heads again, shaking their bodies, and the iron armor on their bodies made a clicking sound. They re-instigated their horses and continued to rush forward. The black armor on their bodies showed no signs of breakage, except for dense tiny grooves and marks of blows visible in the sunlight on the side. The iron bullets fired by the Wang Ba Box were not all powerless, but they could only leave these traces on the thick heavy armor of the Iron Floating Slaughter.
"Hahaha, invincible, invincible, what do you do now?"
"Tiefu Tu is invincible in the world, long live the big leader!"
"Rush over and trample them into flesh, the firearms are useless, hahaha, see how you can resist?"
"Kill, rush."
The Jurchen army thundered with joy, and this result boosted their morale. They shouted so loudly that they resumed attacking from all sides without even giving orders from their generals. Because they all knew that the opponent's circle was about to break immediately. The army from the west is about to rush into the enemy's ranks, and the opponents are about to collapse. At this moment, it is the time to charge to pick up cheap heads, if you don't rush at this time, when will you wait?
On the high platform, Lin Jue quietly looked at the Jurchen soldiers and horses who were frantically attacking the formation, and sighed softly. He looked away from the ant-like crowd and turned to the setting sun on the horizon. The sunset is like blood, and the sunset is as scarlet as the river of blood flowing in the sky. The sky and the earth seemed to be covered with a blood-red color, which looked strange and terrifying. Everything was so unreal, like an illusory and terrifying dream, but everything was so real, because of the hustle and bustle of shouting and killing all around, the blood in the air had filled Lin Jue's senses.
"Husband, they have rushed to the front of the battle." Bai Bing's soft voice sounded in Lin Jue's ears, as if separated by a thin veil, ethereal and ethereal.
"Got it." Lin Jue nodded slightly, he knew that this moment was going to come after all. If the emergence of firearms has broken the balance of force in this era, Lin Jue himself still has some restraint in using it, and has not further developed and promoted it, and tries not to open Pandora's box. Today, he can no longer keep the devil in a cage with firearms. In today's situation, he can only use the firearms at hand to complete a lore that has never been seen in the world. He had to untie the chains with his own hands and let the devil go. Perhaps this decision of his own will mean more bloody conquest and killing, and will make the history of this parallel world more bloody and tyrannical, which is also a helpless thing.
"If I am the one who must be held responsible, please punish me." Lin Jue muttered in a low voice, then slowly raised his palm and waved it violently in the direction of the setting sun.
Red firework projectiles pierced the sky, bursting into tiny sparks under the blood-red sky, and disappeared into nothingness. Thousands of throwers had already been prepared, and they were already in place under the leadership of Liang Qi, and they were distributed in all directions of the circular horse rejection formation, with a team of every hundred people. They didn't have any equipment on them, and they all went into battle lightly. Even in order to make their arms more flexible and not hindered, some people show half of their arms. Everyone makes way for them, and they are the protagonists at the moment.
Little melons were taken out of the wooden box, and the small clay melons wrapped in straw nets were inconspicuous, but the throwers treated them as if they cared for the people they cared about most in the world. They carefully lifted the top cover, pulled out the fuse, and then lit the fuse with a fire breaker and threw them out. They throw gracefully and skillfully, as they have been trained countless times. These throwers have been trained to throw these little melons exactly where they can reach them.
The direction of each squad's throwing is very tacit. The team did not say anything, but pointed the small flag in their hands to a certain place, and everyone knew the direction and distance of the throw, because they already knew all this information from the direction and angle of the flag. Based on this information, they can spread the melon all over the place, resulting in the most effective explosion result.
Thousands of small melons emitting green smoke were thrown out of the array, and immediately after, the surrounding area of the circle collapsed and the ground shook and the mountains shook. A huge roar resounded across the land, making everyone's ears buzz. Puffs of black smoke and dirt rushed into the sky, quickly filling the battlefield. The sky seemed to be covered with the palm of its hand, and it became dark and dark. The rising smoke and dust obscured the sun, as if night had fallen in advance. In the midst of the black smoke were bursting fires, followed by strong scorching currents of air, flying iron bullets and pieces of iron. Everything fell into chaos and tragic death, and everything seemed to have entered the apocalypse.
With a violent roar, bloody limbs flew in all directions, and blood and stumps swirled into the sky. The armor of ordinary cavalrymen and soldiers was useless under the blast of the little melon, and before they even understood what was happening, their armor and flesh were shredded by the fragments of the melon, and their bodies were torn apart by the strong air current. A momentary explosion emptied the air around them, and they couldn't breathe in with their mouths open, and their screams were like the last gasps of their life. They are plunged into a slaughter from which there is nowhere to escape.
The Iron Floating Cavalry had already rushed to the front of the formation, and the iron hooves of the heavy cavalry horses in the front row had already stepped on the slope of the horse rejection wall. The iron spears in their hands had already penetrated the logs of the Horse Barrier Wall, and they only needed to rush forward together, and they could break through the barrier of the Horse Barrier Wall and break through the opponent's defensive formation. But at this moment, countless small melons exploded at their feet. In an instant, they were as if they had stepped on the pass of a volcanic eruption.
The Tiefutu cavalry was naturally the most cared for by the Luoyan Army, and more than fifteen hundred-man throwing teams were distributed on the left, so when the attack order was given, more than 1,000 small melons were thrown in an instant in the Tiefutu heavy cavalry formation. They plummeted from the sky, bones rolling on the ground between the horses' hooves, and then bursting.
Objectively speaking, the lethality of the little melon is not enough for the heavily armored Iron Floating Heavy Cavalry to cause a catastrophe. Because the explosion of air and the fragments in the grenade and some iron bullets burst out of the power is not much different from the power of the shotgun fired by the Wang Ba box. And it is absolutely impossible for the blast and shrapnel to penetrate the Iron Floating Heavy Helmet. However, if these Tiefutu heavy cavalry were just a group of heavy infantry, they would indeed be helpless, but unfortunately, they were heavy cavalry. Their weakness lies in their mounts.
When the Iron Relief Heavy Cavalry was first established, the biggest difficulty was that such a heavy armor would overwhelm the mounts. Both knights and horses need to wear heavy armor to become an invincible Iron Float, but the weight of heavy armor and blades is too great, and the horses will be crushed. Therefore, in order to reduce the weight of the mount and not crush the war horse, Li Guoqiu adopted the method of putting on half of the heavy armor on the war horse. This line of thinking is understandable, but after all, people are the first goal, and only by protecting the knight from injury can he have combat effectiveness. The war horse is only a walking mount, and it is enough to protect the front and sideways. Therefore, the half-body armor of the war horse should be enough. So, Li Guoqiu equipped the war horse with an iron mask on the horse's head and heavy armor from the horse's neck to the horse's body. This method effectively reduced the weight, allowing the Iron Floating Tu Heavy Rider to run, and allowing the war horse to survive at least one or two charges. However, it is precisely because of this design that the Iron Float has suffered repeated losses in previous battles, because the armor of the war horse is not complete, resulting in the attack on the bare hind rump and the horse's legs, resulting in the horse being injured or shot, and the knight immediately fell off the horse and was incapacitated and killed. However, because of the few casualties, it seems that it did not attract the sufficient attention of Wanyan Agu and Li Guoqiu.
But in fact, Li Guoqiu was also eager to prove his ability in order to push this kind of heavy cavalry onto the battlefield, so he failed to further improve the Tiefutu. Li Guoqiu actually understands in his heart that if he wants to reduce the weight of the overall heavy armor, he should make a fuss about the technology of refined iron smelting, so that the armor becomes thinner and thinner without reducing the protective power, which is the most correct direction, rather than sacrificing the protective power of the war horse. However, Li Guoqiu really didn't have the extra time to slowly study the technology of iron smelting, and Wanyan Aguda would not give him too much time to study these things.
And now, these flaws are all exposed under the power of the little melon, so that they are fatal.
The small melon fell to the ground and exploded, fragments and iron bullets flew everywhere, and the horse's legs and belly were the first to be attacked, not to mention the exposed horse's rump and other large areas of bare places. It's not like a firearm shot or an archery, you have to have an accurate head to hit, the little melon bursts apart, and the three hundred and sixty degrees splash these killers without dead ends, as long as there is a gap and a weak point, it is not immune. A large number of melon grenades exploded almost simultaneously, and the lethality produced was so amazing that Tiefutu could not withstand it.
With a violent crackling sound, a large number of Iron Floating Cavalry were overturned to the ground. The blast of the air even tossed over their massive and bulky bodies, throwing them up and down. The greatest confusion was caused by the flying fragments and iron bullets that pierced the horse's legs, severed the bones, penetrated the horse's belly, and pierced the internal organs. The hind rump and hind legs of the war horse, which was not protected by armor, were exposed under the air wave of the explosion, and the result can be imagined. Many warhorses instantly became three-legged lame horses, because one of their legs was blown away so hard. Some even had their entire hind buttocks blown away, flowing out of the ground with internal organs and dirt.
The horses died in a moment, and fell to the ground rolling and neighing wildly. Of course, the knights on their horses were also thrown to the ground, and they were all over the place in the roaring and exploding air waves. Although they were not too injured, the heavy armor made it difficult for them to move, and the waves tossed them around, and finally they could only lie on the ground weakly, wriggling like a swarm of maggots in the black dirt. They can't afford to stand up, let alone do anything about it.
The invincible Iron Floating Tu Heavy Cavalry, under the service of the little melon of the Luoyan Army, the formation was in chaos. Nearly half of the 4,000 Iron Floats entered the throwing range of the throwers, which also meant that nearly half of the formation was under the melon bombardment. In just one round of bombing, more than 800 heavy horsemen fell off their horses. Knights who lose their mounts lose their souls, and they are transformed from noble heavily armored knights into headless flies scurrying through the dirt and dust, and wretched insects who are bombarded by the air of explosions.