Lu Bu's team had six carriages, especially these carriages were equipped with steel plates, and they were very heavy, and the speed was not fast at all.

So they walked thirty or forty miles more, and they were chased by Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was still far away, and he saw that the caravan had all retreated to the top of the hill, the carriage was in a circle, and the team of more than a hundred people got off their horses and began to get busy.

They also lined up in a horizontal line, aiming at themselves, and there were only forty or fifty people in each line, most of them holding a long stick in front of their faces with both hands, and the front row was also kneeling on one knee, and only a few were holding repeaters.

None of them had ever seen a flintlock pistol, so naturally they wouldn't know what it was, but since it was with a repeater, it must also be a weapon like a repeater, and there were so many tricks in the Central Army.

Liu Bei believed that there were many people, and when there were still three or four hundred zhang away from the hill, he ordered Zhang Fei to lead the ordinary people to launch a wave of charges first to test the strength of Lu Bu and the others.

Zhang Fei arranged the 500 cavalry into a three-line horizontal formation of about 200 cavalry wide, and in order to reduce the damage of the crossbows, the formation was relatively loose, so he launched a charge.

Liu Bei's 1,000 elites were all lightly armored cavalry, the riders wore chain armor, the war horses were unprotected, and each cavalry was equipped with a crossbow.

Although their repeating crossbows are not as sharp as those of the Central Army, with a range of only more than 60 zhang, they are much stronger than longbows, not to mention that the gap of more than a dozen is a matter of charge for cavalry.

When they were in Xinye, they won a great victory in the battle to exterminate several groups of bandits, all relying on crossbows.

So Zhang Fei firmly believed that as long as he rushed within the range of his own repeater, five hundred repeaters and thousands of crossbow arrows, wouldn't he shoot these people into a sieve?

Especially listening to the eldest brother and the military advisor, it is likely that Lu Bu himself was mixed in the caravan of more than 100 people, and he was desperately slapping the war horse and shouting at his subordinates to speed up the charge.

Zhang Fei rode a black horse and a good horse in the Western Regions, so the speed of the sprint was faster than that of ordinary war horses, and he soon gradually stood out in the queue of charges.

Liu Bei, who was watching the battle from behind, secretly screamed badly, so he wanted to shout a reminder.

At this time, Zhang Fei's horse was fast, and he had already rushed to a place a hundred zhang away from the hill, and his subordinates were all left behind by him twenty or thirty zhang away.

I only saw a faint smoke rising from the direction of the convoy on the hill, followed by a crisp "ping" sound, and then I saw that something seemed to hit Zhang Fei's helmet, and blood was splashed.

Then there was another "ping", Zhang Fei's left chest was also splashed with blood, Zhang Fei's tall body was planted straight and straight under the horse, they did not have stirrups, but they would not be dragged by the war horse.

When Liu Bei saw Zhang Fei fall off his horse, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

He beat his spirit, looked at the top of the hill, the source of the voice, he saw a familiar figure, although the distance was very far, two or three hundred zhang, but he firmly believed that the person was Lu Bu.

It was Lu Bu who killed his brother Zhang Fei with the black stick he still held in his hand, and after Zhang Fei landed, he didn't move, and Liu Bei intuitively knew that he was dead.

Liu Bei broke free from Chen Gong's obstruction and led the remaining five hundred cavalry to join the charge, and the first wave of five hundred cavalry did not stop advancing because of Zhang Fei's fall under Liu Bei's reprimand, but accelerated the charge.

However, at the same time that Lu Bu sniped Zhang Fei with two flintlock pistols, behind the carriage defense line, there was a "bang" and "bang" sound in the unreachable place, and the soldiers of the Central Army were already very familiar with this sound, and even felt that the sound was pleasant.

Liu Bei's subordinates had never encountered it, and they didn't know what it meant, only the military advisor Chen Gong vaguely guessed it, and he shouted loudly, "Come back soon, the lord has mortars!" ”

The intelligence of the Qingzhou War had already reached Jingzhou, so Liu Bei, Chen Gong and others already knew that two new weapons had appeared in the Central Army, and they were both firearms, namely mortars and grenades.

In the intelligence, the description of the mortar is this very characteristic "bang" and "bang" sound.

But his shouts were drowned out by the explosion of two mortar shells that fell into the cavalry formation and exploded violently.

That's right, the guard company of this special operations division not only brought more than 100 "Han 200" flintlock guns, but also two improved mortars.

This improved model is faster to deploy, less demanding on the ground, and has a longer range.

However, the two test-fired shells were not fired at the maximum range, but were only set at a distance of 200 zhang.

Fortunately, in order to facilitate the accumulation of crossbows, Liu Bei's cavalry charge formation was relatively loose, and the lethal effect after the shell explosion was far less than that of Cao Jun, who encountered Guo Jia for the first time.

However, it still frightened many horses, running and jumping wildly, interfering with their own attack.

At the same time as the shell exploded, a loud command came from the hill, "Fire!" ”

Then there was a "ping-pong" sound, more than 60 muskets fired at the same time, and the lead bullet flew over a distance of 80 zhang faster than the crossbow arrows with the help of gunpowder, easily breaking through the protection of the chain mail.

The headshot must be killed directly, and if it hits other parts, it is basically a broken bone and tendon, and the lead bullet is poisonous, if it can't be treated in time, it will be crippled if it doesn't die.

These musketeers were all selected from the regiment that had been trained for half a year, and their marksmanship was excellent, and it was not a problem to hit a target as big as a man and a horse at a distance of eighty zhang, but they were not as perverted as Lu Bu, and they were not as perverted as Lu Bu.

When the first two rows finish firing, they retreat to the back and reload. The last two rows were already ready, and they immediately stepped forward to fill the gaps, and then waited for the password to fire a salvo.

They used paper shells, and before firing, they only needed to take out the loaded paper shells from the ammunition box, bite through the paper shells, and pour gunpowder into the pool.

Then pour the remaining gunpowder into the chamber, the advantage of the installation is that the dose of gunpowder is just right, and then stuff the lead bullet and the paper shell into the chamber together, compact it with a strip, and then shoot.

This is already the fastest reload speed for a front-loading flintlock pistol.

The entire Central Army completed a salvo, hitting nearly 100 of Liu Bei's cavalry, and the shelling continued.

And the outlaw Liu Bei's subordinates, the remaining two or three hundred cavalry in the first wave had already rushed into the range of their crossbows, and they hurriedly shot the crossbow arrows they had prepared for a long time.

At this time, the Central Army had already retreated behind the carriage, and with the pretended steel plates on the side wall of the carriage, it easily resisted the close-range fire of the repeater.

When Liu Bei's cavalry shot a box of crossbow arrows, the central army stood up again and fired a second volley of muskets, while the repeater crossbows in the hands of Ma Tie's subordinates and shadow team members never stopped firing.

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