Chapter 232: Blood and Fire Blocking 2
As a red flag was unfurled, the terrible roar of the Huzun cannon came to an abrupt end, and the choking gunpowder smoke on the river valley at the west entrance began to slowly dissipate, and the battlefield suddenly became deathly silent, but then the official army suddenly erupted into a neat and powerful roar: "Kill-"
In the midst of this confident killing, the three thousand fire commanders and archers stepped forward and steadily advanced to the range of firearms amid the shouts of the officers.
"Preparation - Shoot ββγ"
"Shootβ"
"Shootβ"
In the midst of the shouts one after another, a row of firefighters raised the loaded fires and lit the fire ropes together.
With the bursts of green smoke from the fire gate, the roar of popping beans was endless, and rows of lead whistled out, with a hellish scream, and pounced on the simple and low fortress of the Black Tiger Army, immediately stirring up bursts of green smoke from sawdust on the giant trees of the fortress.
"The rear team stepped forward, raised their guns, and shot." The colonel shouted again, and another wave of fire commanders stepped forward to fire, and there was another rain of bullets.
Guo Weiquan has understood the strength of the pole in front of him through Gong Weixian's report, as a soldier, as a commander, he will no longer be blindly arrogant, but begin to attack step by step. Whether it is facing Mongolian Tatars, or former food and clothing parents.
The firearms of the Ming army were originally the most equipped and perfect in this world, but only because of the quality of the construction made the firearms in the Ming army in the large array could not reflect his own advanced nature, rough and superb, inferior aiming, very easy to blow up, all made the fire commander become the highest casualties of their own troops, slow loading, weather restrictions, but also let the fire commander become a chicken rib, but this can not stop the development of firearms in the historical trend of being valued, for the roaring Mongolian Tatar cavalry, in the face of the fierce Manchu Tatars, After a blow, the fire commander is a burning stick, but in siege warfare, the fire commander is still the sharpest type of troops in the army. In this calm and good time, he exerted his greatest power.
In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, it was very mature in the rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been used perfectly, (I have seen such records and detailed pictures more than once in the vast information) Now, Guo Weiquan showed the Black Tiger Army the sharpness of the official army's firearms in the offensive battle.
After bursts of bean-like shooting, before the smoke cleared, the second row of gunfire started again, and before the brothers of the Black Tiger Army raised their heads to observe the movement, the third burst of gunfire rang out again, and those brothers who wanted to observe the enemy's situation were immediately hit by the flying projectiles and hot lead, and suffered heavy losses for a while.
No matter where they were hit by the scorching lead, under the blow of the lead close to the liquid, those brothers didn't even have a chance to snort, or fell headlong, or broke bones and tendons and lost their combat effectiveness.
When the hot lead hits the logs of the fortress, streaks of green smoke immediately rise, which slowly expands under the howling north wind, and becomes a prairie fire.
"Quick, quick, firefighting." The captains and military commanders could no longer care about comfort, and flew to their feet, shouting loudly for the brothers to start fighting the fire.
This fortress is made of logs, and once there is a fire, it is hopeless, and everyone will become a roast suckling pig in the next moment.
At this time, the housekeeping baby of the Woniu Mountain Cottage, the quilt ** went into battle again, and the colorful quilt was urgently poured with cold water, so that several brothers were held outside the fortress with a gun, and the fire lead of the official army hit the quilt, and immediately lost his effectiveness, and even the quilt could not be penetrated, which made the brothers hiding behind the quilt happy.
Under the protection of the quilt, groups of brothers poured the cold water they had just brought in the Wuding River on the flames of the fortress logs, and with a burst of white gas, the small fire was quickly extinguished, not only the fire was extinguished, but the cold water froze, making the fortress even stronger.
After three rounds and nine rings, the fire commander retreated, not because the officers and soldiers saw the power of the quilt and gave up useless work, but after three rounds, the fire commander was already hot, plus everyone was worried about the quality of the fire commander, how could it explode, so they had to withdraw their guns, make way for the archers, and then force the fire, then it was not killing the enemy but committing suicide.
Three thousand archers stepped forward, under the command of the leading general, Ke Jin inserted a cluster of wolf's tooth arrows in front of his feet, and then picked up the bow and began to try to pull away and relax, and when everything was ready, the leading officer raised the long knife, as the long knife was raised, the three thousand archers took the arrow and wound it, pulled the bow and arrow with all their strength, and pointed the arrow into the sky.
The officer slashed his long knife down and shouted, "Releaseβ"
For a moment, the bowstring buzzed like the roar of thousands of bees, and long arrows shot into the sky like locusts, and then turned at the highest point and pounced on the fortress.
"Lie down, lie down, avoid arrows."
The captain and the captain stared at the direction where the feather arrow fell, and roared loudly.
This time no one panicked, everyone not only has rattan armor protection, the most important people have almost a quilt, so a few people shouted, pulled open the four corners of the quilt up, put it on the head, for a time the fortress became a colorful world, feather arrows flew, but were blocked by the watered quilt, after the pop sound, but it was just to add many feather arrows to the quilt, increasing the seizure of the cottage.
A military commander took the time to look at the feather arrows that were raining, and couldn't help but spit a mouthful of spit on the ground angrily, and said hatefully: "***, the longbow that bullied us is not there, if our five hundred longbow brothers are here, just the seat where the rabbit cubs are standing, just like that, the armor is torn, as long as it goes down in two rounds, they will immediately let them die and can't die anymore." β
A brother laughed under the quilt and said, "This *** is really sparse raindrops, it's not interesting." β
Another veteran said neatly under the quilt: "We have collected so many feather arrows for the cottage at once this time, I don't know what the Grand Commander and King Chuang will reward us." β
A greedy soldier poked his head and blinked, salivating, "What more?" In the evening, everyone will definitely get a fat meal of horse meat, which is guaranteed to have enough for everyone. β
"That's not counted, the horse meat is still given by the official army, it's not a cottage reward, besides, how unpalatable the horse meat is, where does the mutton come from is delicious and tender, with a bowl of hot soup and a white film, that is, authentic rice fat mutton steamed buns, hehehe."
"Lao Wangtian, you don't know how to pickle things, why, just after eating two meals of horse meat, you don't know the north? The horse meat is unpalatable, let me ask you, if there was no military advisor to break into the king, would you have eaten meat before? β
Wang Tian, who was scolded, smiled and said in a low voice: "What the martial chief said is reasonable, before I finished breaking through and didn't go up the mountain, I was still running around to ask for food, not to mention meat, even the bark of the grass roots and trees was all eaten on and not down." When he said this, his original expression suddenly darkened, and he said in a low voice: "If you want to say that you have eaten meat, you have also eaten, but it is just ββγ "No more words.
Everyone immediately stopped laughing, and the atmosphere suddenly became dull, everyone knew what the meat in Wang Tian's mouth was, and in this group, who hadn't eaten that meat?
A young brother sobbed lowly, and a brother next to him slapped him, "I have eaten, I was forced to eat by my mother, and I ate my father's bones, because, because my mother said, I am the hope of our family, and I will inherit the ancestry-" At this point, he had already wailed.
No one despises his unfilial piety, no one reproaches him for his greed, who lives in this world, who is not so?
A military commander suddenly stood up and said loudly: "What are you crying about, what is the reason why everyone has yesterday's suffering?" Just yesterday's grievance meeting, the military advisor King Chuang told everyone that it was those high-ranking lords, those powerful landlords, who had taken everything from us, yes-ah-" In his excitement, the military commander exposed half of his body outside the quilt, and was immediately shot into a hedgehog by the rain-like feathered arrows. When everyone pulled him in, he was already dying.
This is an unnecessary casualty.
"Wang Tian, you take my place." The military commander made intermittent arrangements, and Wang Tian, as the deputy military commander who had just been promoted yesterday, immediately replied with tears, "Don't worry, I will." β
The military commander looked at everyone, and looked at the direction of the brigade behind him with eyes that were lost due to excessive blood loss, "Everyone hold on, because behind us are fathers and fellow villagers, and in front of us, there is a military advisor who gives us hope, and we are the last person to fight, and we must also ensure the safety of our military advisor Chuang Wang." β
Receiving everyone's firm nods, the martial artist took a bite and passed away suddenly.
"Get up, get up, get ready for battle, the officers and soldiers are attacking." With the call of summoning, all the brothers lifted the quilt above their heads together, stood up straight together, clenched their guns, and firmly clenched their guns in the face of the overwhelming rolling officers and soldiers.
After each person finished shooting ten arrows, the three thousand archers were numb in their arms one by one, and it was difficult to support them, so Guo Weiquan ordered: "The archers retreat, the cloud ladder army stepped forward, the sword and shield men followed, the long scramble followed, and the whole army pressed up, we will teach these soil bun thieves a lesson, let them know what a dignified battle is, what is a powerful border army." β
"Kill-" The seven thousand border troops shouted together, although the border army declined, although the border army was embarrassed, but the border army naturally had the pride of the border army.
After hundreds of years of fighting with the Mongol Tatars, although there were countless casualties every year, the border army did not let the Mongols get even an inch of Ming land in the intermittent salary of lack of food and clothing, and the defeat the day before yesterday was not defeat in the confrontation and fighting, but in the conspiracy and tricks of the other party, and this was not a dignified battle.
Now, in order to regain the confidence of his subordinates, Guo Weiquan has shown all the siege procedures of a regular army in this small west entrance and in front of this thousand-strong thief.
Now, when it is time for the ants to attach to the city, there is no reserve left, and the whole army is pressing, that is, to use this dignified battle to break the city in one battle.