Chapter Ninety-Seven: Gritting Teeth and Fighting to the Death
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Early this morning, the thousand households received the life-saving weapon at the bottom of the county government's pressure box, and hurried to the west of the city with the master and son, according to his ideas, the west of the city is the main direction of the pole attack, although the south of the city is crowded with people is just a bluff to attract the main force of the official army, the west of the city is the main direction of the silent attack, and now, he will take these treasures to the west of the city to give the thieves a surprise dismount.
When he was shouting at his master to advance, a personal soldier of Xue Deputy Qianhu in the south of the city ran with his helmet and oblique armor to catch up with him.
As soon as Qianhu saw the appearance of the pro-soldier of Deputy Xue Qianhu, he immediately felt that something was wrong, and he didn't wait for the pro-soldier to run to him, and hurriedly asked, "What is the situation in Nancheng?" ”
After the pro-soldier saluted, he said urgently: "Lord Qiyu, the thieves in Nancheng are all elite today, and they also use longbows and sharp weapons, and they also use the quilt demon method, and they are very loss-making for us to sign Ding, and they are very lossy, and the quilt demon method makes us helpless, and the Lord Xue Qianhu bravely supervises the battle, and he is also lost and shot, and he can no longer command, and the personal soldiers of Xue Deputy Qianhu are also suffering heavy casualties. ”
When Qianhu Xu Zhong heard the news, his head buzzed at that time, as if a thunderbolt was ringing in his ears.
The thief is so cunning, yesterday he gave himself an old and weak together, showing weakness to our side, and attacking the west, this today this is a plan for myself to divert the tiger from the mountain, fortunately, I am slow, or it is really a big deal.
"How many longbows are there in Southtown? How many quilt demons, how many pole elites? ”
"There are no less than five hundred longbows, with three or two thousand ordinary bows and arrows, no less than twenty quilt demon formations, and no less than ten thousand elite poles."
"It's broken, it's broken, this is the real main force of thieves. This is to give me another four-sided flower, no, the most dangerous thing now is Nancheng, everything has to be repelled by the thieves in Nancheng. ”
Thinking of this, he shouted: "Come, carry things, and follow me to support Nancheng." ”
So Qianhu Xu Zhong led a large team of people and horses to rush to Nancheng with a heavy guy.
When he arrived in Nancheng, he saw that Xue Deputy Qianhu was being carried down from the city wall shouting, Xu Zhong didn't care much, rushed up with an arrow, and hurriedly asked, "How is the situation in the city?" ”
"Fortunately, the thieves didn't climb the city, and they were still filling in the moat, but the thieves' longbows were powerful, and we didn't have the slightest strength to parry."
Xu Zhongcai let out a sigh of relief, and did not comfort Xue Qianhu, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up, the musketeers hurry up to the city, the master raises the cannon, hurry, now the time is pressing, if any of them do not have the power to die, Lao Tzu's knife will not recognize people." ”
So more than a hundred musketeers shouted, led by a hundred households, and rushed to the city, and hundreds of masters shouted trumpets, carrying all the same tiger iron cannons in their hands.
This is the sharp weapon that the county order used to protect the life of the Great Wall - the fire system and the tiger iron cannon.
In the Ming Dynasty, fire gas has been very common in the army, there are musketeers in the military brigades all over the country, but in the face of the enemy's roaring cavalry on the battlefield, the fire artillery is slow, and at the same time the weapons of the Ming Dynasty are generally of low quality due to the craftsman system, often those firearms do not blow up the hall a few times, kill the enemy but hurt themselves first, so they are not liked by the soldiers, but these things are very powerful when defending the city.
Due to the rough workmanship and the different sizes of the running holes, the elm cannon can only use lead, which is now a large shotgun, so the lethality in the face of hordes of enemies is far greater than that of the Huzun cannon, but the elm cannon is far inferior in range and siege.
Tiger Zun cannon, the head and tail of this cannon are 2 feet long, 7 iron hoops are added around the body, the gun head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron trips, the total weight is 36 catties. It looks like the tiger is powerful and majestic. Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, and each launch can be filled with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 yuan, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels is used to press the top, and the large and small bullets fly out together when fired, and the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large.
Yesterday, the elm cannon was also called the elm spray to deal with the quilt of the heavenly star had no effect, so the thousand households saw that only this tiger cannon could deal with the quilt demon method, and at the same time, although the musket was dangerous, but the shooting distance itself was stronger than the bow and arrow, and then there was a geographical advantage factor on the city wall, so it was not a problem to deal with the longbow, so he told the county to take out this life-saving thing.
The Mizhi arsenal originally had five hundred fires, but it was not in good condition for many years of disrepair and maintenance, and it was only two hundred that could be used, and the county order allocated all the two hundred fires to thousands of households, and now it is important to keep the city wall, and it must be held out for five or seven days no matter what, and the thieves will run out of food. Otherwise, everything is just a joke.
When the thousand households got these fire commands, they immediately transferred a hundred soldiers who knew how many points from the original thousand households to form a fire command team, and then according to the method handed down by their ancestors, each person had two guns, and one master loaded them with ammunition, in order to fire continuously (this is not the author's beautification of these thousand households, two teams and one person, two guns and one hand, which was stipulated in the early Ming Dynasty.) )
As soon as the city wall was reached, the thousand households saw that the far city was covered with pole elites, and outside the nearby one stone's throw away, five hundred poles and longbows were just searching for the target in the city, and once they found that there were officials and soldiers who dared to take the lead, they immediately gave a blow, and there were more than 2,000 ordinary archers who showed off their might in the land of one arrow.
As soon as Chihu came to the city with musketeers, he was immediately sent down by the thief longbowmen, shouting and starting to form a team, ready to shoot these new officers and soldiers.
These musketeers are all old military households of Qianhu, and fate determines that what they do is to despise life and death, so they are not hesitant to do things when they see the thief as soon as they see the thief like Dingding, they were arranged to be loaded with gunpowder and lead as early as the city, and they did not wait for the command of Qianhu when they went to the city, and immediately lit the fire rope under the protection of the shield, and only aimed slightly, and immediately opened the gang, after a roar. The unsuspecting longbowmen fell a dozen at once. This caused the longbowmen to panic for a moment, and the suppression effect was immediately less effective than before.
Before everyone could understand the reason, the master behind these musketeers had already handed over the loaded muskets, and the musketeers lit the arquebuses again, stood up violently, and more than a hundred shots were issued, because of the chaos in this section of the longbow, the suppression effect was not good, giving those musketeers more time to aim, and this time the shooting put down dozens of people.
The lead bullet of this musket is not as fast as the arrow, not only the muzzle velocity is fast, the most important thing is that the lead hits the body, after the high-temperature collision, as long as it enters the flesh, it immediately melts and softens, and immediately rolls in the body, and the bones of the victim are broken on the spot, and the person immediately screams and wails.
The longbow position was in chaos, and those sign-Ding archers got the opportunity, and in the shouts of the general flag of the team, they all stood up, and they didn't have to aim, and shot at the ordinary archers under the city who were splitting their heads and covering their faces, and the archers who were fighting at that time turned on their backs. By the time everyone reacted, they had lost their active advantage.
Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, the masters who carried the Tiger Zun cannon also went to the city, stared at the feathered arrows that had become scarce by the thieves, quickly set them up, adjusted the angle, and then ignited the cannon that had been loaded long ago.
Wumen Huzun was launched in an instant, two cannonballs flew away, and the remaining three projectiles weighing two catties flew out of the muzzle with huge kinetic energy, and smashed directly on the quilt dragon, as the projectile hit, the three quilt dragons immediately collapsed, and there was a heart-rending cry from below, two of the shells remained unabated, and continued to bounce and roll along the quilt dragon, everywhere there was a burst of wailing and screaming, the two quilt dragons were completely scrapped, and there was a gurgling blood under the collapsed dragon.
This accident immediately made all the people in the city and the city stop their work, and they were stunned to see this incredible result, and the entire battlefield, except for a scream, there was no sound.
Suddenly, the signers in the city erupted in a burst of cheers, and there was still a dead silence in the city.
"How can this be so, how can it be so? I did it according to Lu Shi's arrangement, yesterday he also had a rumbling cannon, but Lu Shi said that the casualties were very light, could it be that Lu Shi was lying to me? "Sticking to the waterproof wall of the roof with both hands, staring at blood-red eyes, I couldn't believe that all this was true. Those who fell to the ground were all their own elites, and they were the foundation of their own survival, why didn't they make him feel distressed? The same few blows can demoralize you.
In this stunned moment, five earth-shattering loud noises erupted again on Mizhi City, and two more quilt dragons collapsed, followed by another scream and exclamation.
At the same time, in the midst of a burst of cheers at the head of the city, the sound of bursting beans continued to come, and his archers fell one by one under the double blow of the fire system and the feather arrows in the city.
Looking at the fallen subordinates one by one, he suddenly went crazy and grabbed a big flag, shook it desperately, and shouted hoarsely: "Collect the troops, collect the troops-"
There was a sound of gongs, and the allied forces that had been granted amnesty immediately withdrew like a tidal wave, leaving behind dead and wounded in one place.