Chapter 59: The Battle of Wuyang Pass
"Lord Qin, this thief has already left Xinyang and gone west, I think we can go back to the house! Just leave a few dozen people watching. Ma Qianhu said, at noon, I got the news that the anti-thief army in Xinyang City had been plagued in Xinyang for a long time, and the entire army went west, and everyone speculated that this army was going to find the big army, and it should not go south.
After getting the news, Ma Qianhu and Yang Yanshi thought about going back to Qianhu, they were unwilling to come over to send them to death, but now they have a reason not to hurry up, and they stay in this wilderness place, sleeping in the open all day, their delicate bodies can't bear it.
"My lord, no! The thieves have only been away for half a day, and if they suddenly turn south, it will be impossible for us to stop the thieves. Yang Baihu was the first to object, Ma and Yang were both ruthlessly white Yang Baihu, recently they have seen this Yang Baihu more and more unpleasant, they feel that after Qin Yiming became a Zhengqian household, the previous Yang Baihu who could only protect himself has become more and more arrogant.
"Yang Baihu, the chief speaks, what are you talking about, what are you talking about, and you will commit the following crimes!" Deputy Ma Qianhu lectured, but Yang Baihu was not afraid at all.
Qin Yiming said angrily: "Okay, I have my own decision!" Qin Yiming left with a gloomy face, and Yang Baihu also went to the city tower.
"Ma Qianhu, why don't we withdraw first, this surnamed Qin can't do anything to us, we are all hereditary Qianhu, to deal with it, we must get the consent of the people above, why should we be afraid of this kid surnamed Qin." Yang said.
"No, I said so, but now the people of the entire Qianhu Institute support him, let's run back like this, it will be even more difficult to raise your head in the Qianhu Institute in the future, wait, anyway, now that the thieves are going west, we have to endure for a few more days, the surname Qin can't bring so many people to guard here all the time!" Ma Qianhu said.
"But what if those damned thieves turn back and go south? Do you really believe that with this Wuyang Guantian Insurance, we can hold it with a few people? Yang said worriedly.
"Of course it's not credible, it's just that it's not appropriate to go now, it's better to wait, if the thief army really comes back, it's not too late for us to run away with our family at that time." Ma Qianhu and the two agreed and decided to wait and see.
At night, everyone slept, only three or four people remained on the city gate, but they were also staggered and drowsy, at this time Yang Baihu suddenly walked up, saw those soldiers who neglected their duties, and taught a lesson.
Suddenly he found something strange around him, indescribable strangeness, as if his intuition told him that there was danger, he carefully observed the surroundings and the whole valley, as if he heard the sound of many birds and beasts flapping their wings, although there was moonlight tonight, but it was too far away to see, but he clearly heard the sound of those birds and beasts in the forest being frightened and rushing to flee for their lives.
His instincts told him that danger was imminent.
"Quick, someone is stealing the pass, let everyone get up for me and get ready to fight!" Yang Baihu shouted, the three or four soldiers who were originally staggering were so frightened that they were already dozing off at this time, and immediately ran down, and soon all the soldiers were woken up, Qin Yiming also went to the city gate at a speed, and the big cow and little monkey Yang Baihu and others were all on the head of the city, looking at the darkness in the distance.
"There's nothing, Yang Baihu, are you too nervous?!" The little monkey complained that he was sleeping soundly, but he was so harmed by Yang Baihu that he couldn't sleep now.
It is not the little monkey alone who has this idea, but the general flag of many of his subordinates, including the little monkey.
"Lift your spirits to me, Yang Baihu, transfer the archers and bird gunners to me, as well as those ** fire oil, etc., Da Niu, you lead the shield battalion to guard below, and wait for my order!" Qin Yiming became serious, because he clearly felt the danger, and his feeling was the same as Yang Baihu, on the other side of the night, there was indeed movement.
"Yes!" Under Qin Yiming's orders, everyone quickly moved.
Everyone looked at the other side of the canyon, not far in the moonlight, it was dark and silent in the distance, and before long, many people could hear the noise of the beasts in the mountains fleeing for their lives.
"There's the sound of horses' hooves, it's coming!" Qin Yiming looked at the dark night in the distance.
Soon, they saw a team of several hundred people, all of them riding war horses, galloping towards them.
"Prepare to meet the enemy! Light the torch! Qin Yiming shouted, the archers and musketeers were ready.
"Damn, I still want to go west during the day and sneak attack this pass with the cavalry team at night, I didn't expect this group of officers and soldiers to be so vigilant, they are on guard, sweeper king, do we still attack, we just brought a few hundred people." When the Taiping King saw the torches on the city pass lit up, he knew that the sneak attack had failed, and asked as he galloped his horse.
"It's all here, of course we have to fight, we have few people, and there are not many of them, no matter what, let's fight again!" Said the Sweeper. The sweeping king was ready to go south from Xinyang during the day, but the spies reported that this Wuyang Pass was guarded by officials and soldiers, so he took the team to the west with a swagger during the day, and waited until night He and the Taiping King brought hundreds of cavalry, lightly armed, and wanted to take Wuyang Pass by surprise, but he didn't expect his strategy to fail.
"Brothers, rush me!" The Taiping King shouted loudly and commanded the team to rush over.
Qin Yiming on the city gate snickered in his heart, just a few hundred people obviously came to sneak attack, but unfortunately it didn't succeed, if it wasn't for Yang Baihu's high vigilance, he would have been really succeeded by these anti-thieves.
"Call me!" When the peasant army entered and fired muskets, Qin Yiming gave the order to open fire.
Those bird gunners put the bird guns on the battlements and fired, and after firing a shot, they handed it to the people behind them, each bird gunner was equipped with two people behind them, one person was responsible for handing guns before and after, and one person was responsible for filling the projectiles and **, they worked together, this was Qin Yiming's reference to the history of the Warring States period in small Japan, so that the person in charge of shooting was specifically responsible for shooting, and the other two did not need to have shooting experience, but it could greatly improve the shooting speed and hit rate of the entire bird gun battalion, making the firepower more powerful, This is also a model of the three-stage type, speaking of this three-stage shooting, the earliest inventor is Ming Chengzu Zhu Di.
Bang bang bang
After a round of muskets fired, the thieves fell three or two, and under the high-speed movement of the cavalry at a long distance, even the effect of volley fire was very limited.
"There are firearms!" Some of the thieves roared.
"Don't be afraid, this firearm shoots very slowly, our cavalry rushes to him, this firearm is only two shots at most, charge me!" The person in charge shouted, obviously having a lot of experience.
Bang bang bang
Soon another round came, and several more people fell, and the closer the thief came, the more accurate the firearm became, and the more people fell.
"Something is wrong, why is this firearm so fast?!"