Chapter Twenty-Seven: Drag the Knife Three

If this is a pocket array, the iron plate at the bottom of the pocket arranged by Zhang Xuan is the Runing Army.

In the time of the repeated beatings of the Runing army, it had already become Zhang Xuan's most trusted army, and even a pawn among them was an old pawn with a year or two of military experience and at least one person.

They were as indifferent as Zhang Xuan, lined up in a neat formation, spears, swords, shields, tiger squatting cannons, firearms, and even the cavalry wandering around. Layered, silent, like steel.

A sharp whistle sounded, and then a door tiger squatting cannon sounded, and a large area of iron sand sprayed out, and the fire guns mixed with knives and guns also opened fire one after another, suddenly setting off a steel storm in front of the formation.

For a time, hundreds of riders fell to the ground.

Large swaths of blood spurted out, and for a while, bright red blood and white gunsmoke became the thickest color between heaven and earth.

However, these casualties did not stop these people, but aroused their ambitions. Everyone felt that this was Xia Jun's dying struggle, as long as he broke through this formation, Xia Jun would never have the strength to fight back, plus Zhang Xuan's banner was here. 、

When Zaoyang was broken at the beginning, he killed a duke of Great Xia. Now to kill another prince of Great Xia, this credit is enough for many people to raise the flag.

As soon as the flag is raised, it becomes the master.

The temptation is big enough.

Under this temptation, one after the other.

It's just that they ran wildly for dozens of miles, and then attacked the formation of the Runing army, and naturally attacked for a while, even if there were some fierce generals, they crashed into the formation of the Runing army, and then they were stabbed to death by 10,000 guns, and even a few people were thrown out with people and horses.

But the Runing Army was not unscathed.

The entire Runing Army's formation retreated a few steps, and the line became distorted, as if someone had taken several bites on it.

"Take." A long arrow passed by Zhang Xuan's face and was nailed to the flagpole behind him, the arrow feathers were still trembling, Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, and secretly said in his heart: "My reaction is still too slow." ”

Zhang Xuan had actually seen this arrow, but the speed in his hand couldn't keep up with the speed of his eyes.

Seeing that it is easy for many people to cut off arrows, Zhang Xuan only realized by himself today that it was not that kind of thing at all.

Seeing this, Cao Zongyu's eyes narrowed slightly and said, "Guogong can give an order." ”

"Okay." Zhang Xuan said: "Give the order to start." ”

In fact, in Cao Zongyu's opinion, you can wait a while. There were about 350,000 cavalry in the Qing army, all of which collided in front of the formation of the Runing army, and the formation of the Runing army was limited, and some people already wanted to attack the rear in a roundabout way, and because the people and horses of the brigade were scattered, the people who rushed to the front were all junior officers.

Even if there are a few higher titles, they are not an army, and they are not very similar to each other, so they cannot reach a consensus at all, and this chaos will continue for a while, until an officer who can control the field arrives.

But Cao Zongyu was a little worried about Zhang Xuan's safety. This is only ready in advance.

A firework shot up into the sky.

Exploding in the sky, in the daytime, the red fireworks are not too clear, but they are enough to convey the message. One after another, fireworks spread to the north, and it seemed that Xia soldiers and horses were hidden in the grass. What news is being delivered to the rear of the Qing army.

Soon, they knew what the news was.

"Boom." There was a loud bang. It's like rolling thunder in the sky.

This sound was much louder than the sound of cannons, and the whole world seemed to be moving, and for a while, even Zhang Xuan's ears were buzzing, and he didn't seem to be able to hear anything clearly.

One after another, waves of qi rushed out from the Qing army's formation.

All the vehicles left by Xia Jun on the road exploded in an instant.

Zhang Xuan's location was specially selected by Cao Zongyu, there is a river on one side, although the river is not too careful, but it is not a horse that can be crossed by a leap, and there are large areas of wild grass on the other side, but this section of the river is used by the Xia army many times, and a road is forcedly stepped on, and even the grass on both sides of the road is much lower than other places.

Originally, the Qing army team chased very quickly, and met the iron plate of the Runing army, and was forced to stop, and many cavalry from behind were in the narrow strip of one or two miles north from the Runing army's formation.

And this section is where Xia Jun discarded the vehicle.

There were dozens of gunpowder trucks, each of which contained more than 1,000 catties of gunpowder. There was also a dead man hidden in the car. Most of them are people who have a deep blood feud with the Qing army and are willing to die with them.

Immediately after receiving the signal, the gunpowder was ignited.

Even if these gunpowders were discovered by the Qing army, they would not be suspicious, and gunpowder was an important military material. It is also common sense that Xia Jun did not discard gunpowder until the end.

Speaking of which, it's very long, in fact, it's almost an instantaneous feeling, dozens of explosions in a row, sounding within a minute or two, this is all the gunpowder that Zhang Xuan has hoarded on the front line, these gunpowder can certainly be piled up under Xiangyang City, and the Xiangyang City Wall can also be smashed hard.

A large number of Qing troops died in the explosion.

The road that was originally stepped out by the march of the brigade turned into a road of flesh and blood in an instant, and the grass on both sides was dyed red.

However, such lethality is not too great, gunpowder is not explosives after all, and the Qing army is not stupid, and will not blow it up for you honestly. More than 1,000 people should have died in the explosion, but what was even more terrifying was the chaos caused by the explosion.

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Horses are brutes no matter what. The sound of the fierce explosion here makes even a person go crazy for the rest of his life, let alone a horse.

Almost most of the war horses of the Qing army went crazy, and for a time the Qing army trampled on each other, storming indiscriminately, and it was chaotic.

"Kill."

In the grass, suddenly a row of cavalry jumped high, it was none other than Luo Dai and Yang Shenzu, the two cavalry, and all the cavalry in Zhang Xuan's hands.

On the other side of the river, there are also I don't know how many people suddenly came out to line up, countless rushed into the river, the calves did not enter the water, one by one the fire guns were erected, and the sound of fried beans broke out quickly, and countless lead seeds entered the Qing army.

For a time, the Qing army was even more chaotic.

Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Cao Zongyu's arrangement was not without flaws, but the Qing army naturally messed up first, Cao Zongyu used forty Hongyi cannons, more than 100 tiger squat cannons, and thousands of stone grain to successfully establish an image in the hearts of the Qing army, that is, the Xia army had fled in the wilderness.

Of course, the more important point is that Duoduo's attack on Xiangyang gave Azig every reason to believe in the reason for Zhang Xuan's retreat.

Under such circumstances, most of the cavalry that rushed to the front of Luo Rucai's formation fought separately, and there was no unified command. Many officers are of the same rank, and the bigwigs naturally won't chase after them so quickly, they are all behind. At this time, many details were overlooked by them.

When people are faced with temptation, they can often only see the temptation itself, but look down on what is behind the temptation.

However, Zhang Xuan was still a little distressed at the moment, although this battle was won, all the supplies on the front line were almost empty. And most of the people who support the Zaoyang front are Chengtianfu. If a lot of materials in the Chengtian Mansion are also collected, I am afraid that there will be a transfer from Wuchang next.

Thinking about Zhang Xuan, he has some distress, whether it is food, artillery, or gunpowder, everything else can be summed up in one word, that is money.

Where this battle was fought with gunpowder, it was clearly smashed with money.

It's just that being able to stone people to death with money is also a kind of ability.

Zhang Xuan said secretly: "We must not let this money be spent in vain." ”

So he gave an order and ordered the Runing army to attack, and the Runing army lined up in a horizontal line, like a nail board, and slowly pressed down. Countless musketeers hidden in the queue sent large quantities of lead into the chaotic Qing army.

I don't know if the Qing army couldn't withstand such pressure, or if the Runing army finally broke the last string of the Qing army. In short, the Qing army, which had lost its organization, finally collapsed.

The Qing army didn't dare to do anything, so they turned around and ran.

Luo Dai and Yang Shenzu naturally chased after them, and the rest was a battle royale.

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