Chapter 457: The Power of Firearms
In the afternoon, Anton Wei was in peace, and most of the soldiers and horses went to reinforce the capital city of Yunzhou, and now there are only a few more than 2,000 troops in the guard. The capital city of Yunzhou was not far from Andongwei, and Lihui was also afraid of being attacked by the Jin soldiers, so he still left enough troops to deal with the war.
However, what Lihui never expected was that he was going to stay behind to defend against the soldiers and horses attacked by the Jin soldiers, but this would be a fight with the imperial army that came to sneak attack.
"Bang ......"
A thundering arrow suddenly shot straight into the sky, exploding like thunder in midair.
"Kill!"
The 5,000 vanguard troops of the imperial army rushed to kill as soon as they found out that Andongwei did have only a few soldiers and horses left.
Anton Wei's Dongjiang Army was suddenly attacked, and after a brief period of panic, it quickly regained its calm under the suppression of the various generals.
After the three Lihui brothers left, they handed over the safety of Anton Wei to Ma Ren and Wu Qiu.
Will the two of them lie on the wall tower of the guardhouse, using the binoculars in their hands to probe the soldiers and horses who suddenly came to sneak attack?
"Isn't this a Jin Bing?" Wu Qiu was slightly surprised.
"Indeed, it looks like a court army." Ma Ren said casually.
"Damn, it's really the imperial army, what do they mean by coming to attack us at this time?" Wu Qiu's face was full of doubts.
Now Shandong is nervous by the Jin soldiers, and the imperial army does not hide in the city and steal a living, but suddenly rushed to Andongwei to shout and kill?
"It doesn't matter what he's doing, as long as he dares to be unfavorable to our Anton Wei, the chief soldier has said it. There is no forgiveness for all of them, you guard here, and I will immediately go and arrange the artillery, so that these damned imperial soldiers can taste the power of our Anton Wei's artillery. After Ma Ren finished speaking, he left quickly without waiting for Wu Qiu to reply.
A trace of unhappiness flashed on Wu Qiu's face, but he didn't have a seizure, he just looked at the rushing imperial army, and his eyes flashed fiercely.
The vanguard of the imperial army is only 5,000 soldiers and horses, although it is twice the current Dongjiang army, but the Dongjiang army has a guard to shield it, and it is not afraid of these imperial army at all.
"Attention, the musketeers, try to get these Imperial soldiers within a hundred paces before you are allowed to shoot. If anyone dares to disobey the order, Lao Tzu will be the first to cut off his head. Wu Qiu viciously warned the hundreds of musketeers who were lying on the wall with him.
Naturally, the musketeers did not dare to disobey Wu Qiu, and they all said that they would obey the order, and Wu Qiu took the musket handed by his subordinates with satisfaction, and continued to wait for the approach of the imperial army.
The distance of a kilometer, under the rapid impact, is almost in the blink of an eye. When they were about 300 meters away from the guard, the archers of the imperial army began to shoot from their backs. This was used to cover the soldiers who were preparing to attack the city, and to the surprise of the imperial army, the guard did not react when he was fired from the bow and arrow.
"Keep rushing, quick!" The generals of the imperial army thought that the Dongjiang army in the guard station had no strength to fight back at all. Overjoyed, he immediately urged his subordinates to rush forward quickly.
"Two hundred steps...... One hundred and fifty steps...... One hundred steps...... Beat! ”
Wu Qiu's eyes stared at the attacking imperial army, silently counting their distance in his heart. When the imperial army reached a distance of a hundred paces, he immediately took the lead in shooting and roaring.
"Bang...... Bang bang! ”
Hundreds of arquebuses fired in unison, forming an invisible wall of death marbles in front of the imperial army. All the soldiers and horses of the imperial court who rushed up were shot and fell to the ground, because they did not expect that Anton Wei would have so many musketeers on defense.
In an instant, hundreds of imperial army troops were killed and wounded, which directly caused the momentum of the forward rush to stop. The front of the imperial army was full of wails and miserable.
One accidentally directly lost hundreds of people, and the generals of the imperial army were also shocked. Fortunately, the musket did not continue, but stopped after a volley. The generals of the imperial army speculated that this was due to a shortage of manpower.
Therefore, they began to boldly urge their subordinates to continue to rush forward, and under the pressure from above, these court soldiers had no choice but to continue to rush forward. However, as soon as they were within a hundred paces of each other, there was another roar of muskets in the guardhouse.
There is no suspense, and it is still these defenseless imperial army soldiers who have fallen again.
And this time, after the gunfire stopped, a deafening sound of artillery came from behind from Anton Guard. Hearing this sound, there must have been more than fifty tiger squat cannons, and the imperial army who was still in a daze soon saw that many black iron balls suddenly appeared above their heads.
"Boom...... Rumble! ”
Before the imperial army could react, black scattered bullets began to explode in the center of the imperial army.
"Grandma's, when did there be so many cannons in the guard?" Wu Qiu saw that the imperial army was blown up and flew everywhere, and he exclaimed with a puzzled expression.
A personal guard beside Wu Qiu smiled and said to him: "Mr. Qian, this is what Mr. Ma Ren Qianqian just moved from the warship yesterday, and he has made more than 200 doors, which is enough for these imperial soldiers to drink a pot." ”
After hearing this, Wu Qiu was stunned for a moment, and then scolded: "Ma Ren, you kid is cheating, you actually went to the warship to carry artillery." ”
No one answered Wu Qiu's angry scolding, only the sound of the cannon was still roaring, and the cannon sound lasted for more than a dozen breaths. When the ears of the Dongjiang troops in the guard post were about to be deafened, the sound of artillery gradually stopped.
The battlefield was already full of potholes, and not a single imperial army within 500 meters of the guard post survived. The corpses and blood on the ground, the strong smell of gunpowder wafted in the air, and the battlefield at this moment was so quiet that the needles could be heard, only those soldiers of the imperial court who had not yet lost their breath were humming and chirping on the ground.
The sudden bombardment directly caused the imperial army to lose nearly 2,000 people, and directly lost nearly half of its troops. The imperial army was scared, and they didn't dare to take a step forward this time, with such fierce artillery fire, even the Shenji battalion of the Beijing Division did not have this firepower.
The generals of the imperial army were even more cold sweat on their foreheads, fortunately they all stayed behind to supervise the army, if they also rushed up just now, they must have their share in lying on the ground and wailing.
"Surround Anton Wei and wait for the Governor to come." In desperation, the generals of the imperial army had to order the encirclement instead, and did not dare to act rashly.
Lu Xiangsheng arrived with the main force of the imperial army soon after, and when he saw the tragic situation in front of the guard, his face was so black that it was almost frozen. The general of the vanguard army was soon called by him for questioning, and when he learned the details, Lu Xiangsheng directly pulled out the treasure knife in his hand and cut off the head of the general of the vanguard army without hesitation.
"Damn, it's only been less than half an hour, and you have lost more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, what's the use of keeping you here." Lu Xiangsheng kicked the corpse that had not yet fallen to the ground, and scolded angrily.