Chapter Seventy-Five: The First Cry of Fire

In the face of rolling cavalry, how many people can be nervous.

However, these people are all highly trained, veterans who have been in battle to kill people, and even if these veterans give them a long knife, they dare to fight with the cavalry.

The firecrackers they used were all asked by him to come over to Zhang Qian, and after the high-intensity training in Guangxin Mansion, he had lost a lot of firearms, so Zhang Xuan only equipped a thousand-person team.

However, this thousand-person team is striving for excellence.

Zhang Xuan knew that the tactics of lining up to shoot seemed simple, but in fact, the requirements for the soldiers were very high, and the first-class soldiers with second-rate firearms could also be first-class firearms, but second-rate soldiers with first-class firearms were not necessarily first-class firearms.

"Ready." Zhang Yuanhai shouted loudly.

Six rows of soldiers lined up one after another, and the lit fire rope was stuffed into the trigger, and the fire head could be stuffed into the chamber of the gun with just a hard hug.

"Put." Zhang Yuanhai silently counted the distance, waited for the cavalry to rush to a place of twenty or thirty steps, and gave a sudden order.

Salvo.

Countless gunpowder smoke erupted, and in an instant, this feeling of covering the sky and the sun.

Although the range of the bird gun was a little short, and the power of the lead was also a little light, but when it was sprayed out all at once, it still caught the officers and soldiers off guard, and almost stunned people in an instant.

In their opinion, this firearm was either fired in advance, or even if it hit, the probability of exploding the chamber of crude firecrackers is higher than the chance of breaking the armor, and it is generally just a matter of listening to the sound. But in an instant, countless cavalry with a hammer seemed to have been hit in the head.

Falling from their horses, even some of the horses fell to the ground on their front legs, neighing incessantly, and now half dead.

The stopping ability of the fire gun is far higher than that of the bow and arrow, and there are people who are still alive with dozens of arrows in a row, but there are very few people who still have combat effectiveness after being hit by a gun, even if it is hit on the limbs, it is also an amputation.

And lead bullet is poisonous, this kind of heavy metal poisoning, there are not many ways in this era. A lot of times you just have to wait for death.

"Bang." A crisp sound of guns came to mind again, but this time it was a little lower than the sound of the last salvo, because the last time it was a salvo of more than a thousand firebolts together, and now, it was just the first row of volleys, and after this volley, there was a second row of volleys.

And so on.

pressed the officers and soldiers out of breath.

Although the power of the firearm salvo has decreased, the previous speed is also gone, and the cavalry without speed is like a living target.

"Withdraw." Fang Guoan immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

When the cavalry heard the sound of gold, they immediately retreated.

"Qin Meng." Zhang Xuan heard the sound of Mingjin,

said: "It's time for you to appear, I want Fang Guoan's head." ”

"Yes." Qin Meng has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. Say yes loudly. Immediately, the horse team was divided into two hundred people, and they came out of the gap in the formation and infiltrated out, and as soon as they came to the battlefield and smelled the familiar smell of gunsmoke, Qin Meng felt that the nerves of the whole person were excited.

"Kill." Qin Meng rode his horse and chased after Fang Guoan's cavalry. I bit my tail and didn't let go.

This defeat hurt the morale of Fang Guoan's cavalry, where did they have the intention of resisting, almost the defeat was like a mountain, Qin Meng chased after him, when he saw the opposite brigade of men and horses, surging forward, and a lot of artillery, Qin Meng wisely stopped the pursuit. As soon as he pulled the reins, he took it when he saw it and retreated.

The first round of fighting between the two sides came and went as fast as it came, almost a storm, and it was gone in a blink of an eye.

However, this round of encounters has a very big impact on both sides.

"My lord, the lower officials are incompetent, and they have beheaded hundreds of people, but they have not killed Fang Guoan, and I ask your lord to forgive me." Qin Meng said.

"It's okay, you can't kill it today, just kill it next time." Zhang Xuan didn't care about this, what did Fang Guoan say, he was also a heavy general, and he would succeed if he said he could do it, but you had seen it before from the official army, what preparations did they have? “

When Qin Meng heard this, his face suddenly sank, and he said: "My lord, where are there many tiger squat cannons and Buddha machine cannons, there are a lot of them. ”

"You mean, the officers and soldiers want to attack with firearms?" Zhang Xuan said immediately.

"That's right." Qin Meng said.

Zhang Xuan frowned slightly and said, "Immediately let everyone dig a trench on the spot." Pile the dirt on the outside side. ”

Zhang Xuan's trench was extremely simple, almost a regular circle on the top, and the high side greatly reduced the amount of earthwork that needed to be excavated. With such an arrangement, it is no problem to persist for a while.

But even so, Zhang Xuan still has no bottom in his heart, who knows if the official army has other arrangements.

"How much gunpowder do we have?" Zhang Xuan asked Yao Qisheng beside him.

Yao Qisheng's face was pale at the moment, although he had followed Zhang Xuan for many days, but it was the first time he had seen such a critical situation, so he was naturally a little frightened. However, listening to Zhang Xuan's questioning, Yao Qisheng immediately said: "Most of the artillery is in the final baggage, except for a few small cannons, we have no other artillery. I have checked the gunpowder consumption of the musket, and it is estimated that in the battle just now, the gunners can fight for another half a day, and there will be no gunpowder. ”

After all, the artillery was bulky, and most of them were left in the baggage at the back, almost at the back.

As for the gunpowder carried by the gunner, to a certain extent, there is no ration, but each person carries a gourd of gunpowder, which is enough to shoot hundreds of times, and after hundreds of shots, this gunpowder is estimated to be scrapped.

After all, the craft system of this era simply cannot create a barrel that fires more than 1,000 times in a row.

So this gunpowder doesn't seem to be much, but when it's really finished, it is estimated that some of the barrels will break before the gunpowder is used up.

There was not enough firepower, there were not enough troops, even gunpowder was insufficient.

Zhang Xuan asked, "How much grain is there?" ”

Yao Qisheng said: "This is enough, each of our soldiers has brought ten days of dry food, these dry food has not been moved, and this is the south bank of the Baisha River, it seems that the underwater draft is not deep, you can dig the ground to get water, you can also take water from the Baisha River." In terms of food, we can still hold on. ”

This depends on Zhang Xuan's military law, when marching, everyone has to carry ten days of dry food, but they are never allowed to eat secretly. After each battle, it is supplemented with recounts.

It is guaranteed that Zhang Xuan's army will have ten days of dry food at any time.

"Ten days of dry food." Zhang Xuan secretly said in his heart: "It's probably enough." ”

He felt that this battle, whether it was won or lost, would not drag on for ten days.

Speaking of which, Zhang Xuan decided to be extremely annoyed today, since Zhang Xuan joined the army, he didn't dare to say that he had won a hundred battles, but he had never been so calculated. At this moment, Zhang Xuan was holding his breath in his heart, he had to teach Fang Guoan a lesson.

And Fang Guoan, on his side, also gritted his teeth in distress.

Attaching importance to cavalry and horsemen, the style of the righteous army and the official army are in the same vein. Therefore, Fang Guoan brought these cavalry, which was the elite of his headquarters, before the firecracker, the loss was not small, how not to annoy Fang Guoan.

"It's me who underestimated the enemy." Fang Guoan said: "I didn't expect that Zhang Xuan would dare to put the fire gun in twenty or thirty steps, and it was really bold enough. “

Of course, Fang Guoan also knows that this is not just a matter of courage.

The cavalry rushed through a distance of twenty or thirty paces, and the white horse passed through the gap, and suddenly. Almost a snap of a finger, a moment. A little later, I crashed in.

Even though the power of the bird guns was a little different, the more than 1,000 bird guns were enough to make Fang Guoan's more than 100 horse teams at the forefront suffer heavy losses, and few people survived. It can be said that Fang Guoan has never seen how many troops such as this firecracker team can calm down.

Fang Guoan used the method of dealing with other firecrackers to deal with Zhang Xuan's carefully trained firecracker team, which already has the shadow of a modern army, who wins and who loses, in fact, has already come out before there is no comparison.

Defeat is normal, undefeat is abnormal.

"I remind you, we're running out of time." Yang Tinglin said: "Today's battle is almost a tiger's mouth, and it will only be a few days from Peng Ze to support here, but within these days, to what extent it progresses, we must retreat." ”

"So, a quick fix." Yang Tinglin said.

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