"Wei Qi!"

"The subordinates are here."

"Command the armies, put on their bayonets, pull the stumbling horses, and be vigilant against the cavalry of the guards. All grenade launchers fire flares in their own heads, each firing five rounds first. ”

"No!"

Large-scale cavalry fighting in the rain is extremely disadvantageous, because mud puddles and pools can overturn the horses, and the violent movement of the horse's hooves in the rain can easily cause inflammation and damage to the horse's kicks, so cavalry combat will mostly avoid continuous rainstorm seasons to launch battles.

But this is not an absolute rigidity, and the needs of war ultimately determine the principles of tactics. Dekang's guards were equipped with nearly 150,000 horses of various types, more than 40,000 light cavalry, and it was a night attack, and the probability of using horses to transport troops and attack the Xian army was very high.

At this time, the rain was like a waterfall, and the orders were received by all the armies and battalions, and the sound of cold metal striking came one after another, and the officers shouted and urged each soldier to load his weapons with bayonets:

"All of them, bayonets!"

A short time passed, and a white light shot up into the sky, piercing the dark night sky to illuminate the front. At this time, Du Ruixun was less than two miles away from the Xian army, and the white light that suddenly appeared in front of him surprised him:

"Wang Xie, you can see the white light ahead!"

"The last general saw that Xu was a bluff of the Xianjun."

Du Ruixun was silent, he couldn't imagine what the white light was just now, let alone that the white light was used for lighting, but he couldn't help but be vigilant in his heart. The Xianjun's every move made him think it through, and the opponent in front of him made him rush to the unfamiliar, and he couldn't see what the Xianjun was really doing.

"Order all armies and battalions to hasten their advance, stop their advance when they reach two hundred paces, and prepare for a swarm."

"No!"

Since the appearance of the "swarm of bees", several versions have been developed, and the version of the country even appeared to use cowhide to prevent rain and hang a canopy, and at the same time realized the technology of early modular filling.

By quickly replacing the launch box, the spare launch box is filled into the wooden launch frame to achieve the purpose of rapid launch, so as to save the manual repeated loading of gunpowder arrow clusters after launching, and greatly improve the launch efficiency. Du Ruixun's confidence in defeating the Xianjun Army also came from the improved nest bee and overlord cannon.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than seven hundred meters, and the footsteps of the other party could be heard almost through the air.

"Wei Qi, there are traces of guards in the southwest."

"Back to the deputy marshal, there was no movement after ten miles of reconnaissance horses, and the scouts sent from the northwest did not return for a long time, and they should have been killed by the guards. The defenders in the direction of the Huwei River on the west side of our army were still thirty to twenty-five miles away from our army, and the night was too dark to find out the details of the guards on the west side. ”

Wei Qi said quickly, and after a little thought, Bai Liyan said:

"On my order, Eighth Town will send five grenade launchers to push forward fifty paces and fire a flare."

"No!"

Due to the judgment that the guards were mainly attacking the northwest, Bai Liyan commanded the eighth town and the seventh formation to be responsible for the northwest defense line, Xue Sheng was responsible for the west and southwest wings, and the southwest Pancheng was the farthest away from Jiangquan, so he couldn't catch up with Hukou Bay tonight.

The Huwei River Guards on the west side came with great fanfare, although it was a feint, but they would also rush to Hukou Bay before the second half of the night, so the west side was also the focus of defense, but the real threat was the Northwest Swordfish Beach Guards, the number of which was unknown, and they did not raise fire, and the threat of a sudden assault was great.

At a short time, the five grenade launchers stepped forward fifty paces away, each firing a flare in the northwest direction, and the guards were immediately shocked:

"General Du, look, it's the white light of the Xian army again!"

Protector Wang Xie pointed to the night sky, Du Ruixun was shocked, the place where the white light passed was as clear as the day, and then he suddenly understood that these white lights were some kind of "firelight"

"It's not good, the Xianjun is cheating. A swarm of bees will come forward immediately, quickly! ”

"No!"

At this time, the vanguard of the guards was exposed, and thousands of guards from the southwest to the northeast were in a large array, which really surprised Bailiyan:

"Hell, it's already over. Wei Qi, call people back and blow the battle horn. ”

"No!"

The Guards' ability to make thousands of people list up in the dark and heavy rain shows the Guards' combat qualities, at least from the perspective of cold weapons, the Guards' battle formations are already a peak of the current era, and they will be the last glory.

The passionate brass horn resounded in the night sky, the sound of guns and bolts and instruments that could be asked one after another, and even the sound of rain falling beside them were endless, and the guards pushed out a swarm to the front of the formation, which was only more than two hundred steps away from the front of the Xian army.

In the face of the continuous flares fired by the Xian army, the whereabouts of the guards have been exposed, Du Ruixun is determined not to continue to hide, and immediately ordered the whole army to raise fire. In a few moments, tens of thousands of fires lit up half of the night sky, and the momentum was unprecedentedly amazing.

"General Wang Xie, is it appropriate to prepare in a swarm."

"General Huidu, a swarm of bees is ready, and the cavalry on the left flank is already in place."

"Pass my general order and launch three swarm bees."

"No!"

The "three arrays" are equivalent to each swarm firing three times, and each time firing a hundred arrow clusters. Unlike the traditional and early swarm of arrows, the improved swarm of arrows is needle-shaped, more like a shuttle gun, and it has two specifications, both of which are quenched with steel wrought iron.

The first type of arrow is about 5 to 6 mm in diameter and more than 50 mm long, and the second type is 8 to 9 mm in diameter and more than 100 mm long, which is enough to penetrate any important organ of the human body. Usually two kinds of arrow clusters are half loaded, the former is conducive to piercing the chain mail, the latter is conducive to breaking through the iron armor, the power is very huge, for ordinary leather light infantry, a swarm of bees is enough to pierce the human body before and after.

Du Ruixun prepared 500 swarms of bees lined up, one salvo is 50,000 arrow clusters, three salvos can pour 150,000 arrow clusters in two quarters of an hour, the lethality is very huge.

At the same time, the flares fired by the Xian army exposed the guards, and a huge black square pestle could be seen in front of the guards two hundred paces away through the telescope.

"Wei Qi, order the grenade launchers of each battalion to explode two anti-personnel shells two hundred paces away and fire freely."

"No, two anti-personnel shells exploded two hundred steps away, free fire!"

Compared with the threat of artillery in various countries, the threat of swarming bees and overlord artillery is actually greater, and the artillery of various countries is still mainly solid bullets, which have limited lethality to personnel, and before the principle of ricochet is mastered, solid bullets can only pose a threat to city walls, buildings and cluster targets and fixed facilities.

But a swarm of bees and overlord cannons is different, a swarm of bees is a surface cover strike, and a large area and high-density coverage of exposed personnel are implemented, which has an excellent armor-piercing effect on iron armor.

Even if black powder is used, a projectile weighing more than ten catties and dozens of catties falls in the crowd, which is enough to cause dozens of deaths and injuries to hundreds of people.

The grenade launcher largely compensates for the lack of firepower within 500 meters, and at the same time poses a threat to a swarm of bees and Overlord guns, suppressing them.

Almost at the same time as the order was given, the guards ignited a swarm of bees, and the ignition of the improved swarm of bees was changed to an embedded type to avoid rain erosion, and when used, the wooden cover covered with cowhide at the back of the box was uncovered, and the fuse could be lit at the same time by inserting the fire, and a hundred arrows were fired in a group of ten arrows in half a minute.

Like a rocket launcher, rows of arrow clusters roared out with firelight, making that creepy whistling sound that made people shudder, Bai Liyan looked at the rocket clusters that were rising in surprise, and his heart was half cold:

"Oh, what the hell!" After speaking, he shouted fiercely: "Enemy attack! ”

As soon as the words fell, the first wave of arrow clusters had already landed, and the dense arrow clusters roared past, thirty paces away from behind them with firelight, and twenty steps ahead of the second line of defense of the Xian army. These are the top ten of the 100 arrow clusters in a swarm of bees, and they are only thirty steps away from the line column, so it is estimated that the fourth row and the fifth row of a swarm of bee arrow clusters have a lower trajectory and will fall directly on the top of the line array.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense at this moment, the ears were whistling, the sound of grenade launchers firing one after another, and the second and third rows landed one after another, and people were hit by arrows one after another.

Almost at the same time, a flash of fire exploded in front of the guards, but unfortunately, the first grenade landed twenty paces away from the swarm and did not affect the guards. Immediately after that, more grenades landed one after another, and the explosions continued one after another, most of them were either missed or crooked, and less than 20% of them hit, and some fell into the formation of the guards, killing and injuring more than a dozen people in the blink of an eye, causing quite a commotion.

Seeing the explosions in front of the formation, Du Ruixun was shocked:

"What the hell!"

"I don't know what happened, it was like the Xian army threw gunpowder in front of our army, and the power was amazing."

Wang Xie said quickly, Du Ruixun didn't believe it:

"Manpower can throw two hundred steps, and it must be the secret of the Xianjun army who has made a light earth-shattering fire to get to the shore. Quick, quickly retreat a swarm to the back of the formation and reload, and the cavalry on the left flank will attack! ”

"No!"

In Du Ruixun's cognition, he only thought that the Xian army had created some kind of light artillery that was smaller than one size, and the range would never be too far, but it was enough to threaten a swarm of bees.

At this time, the first salvo of the nest bee landed firmly on the head of the Xian army on the western flank. Although the lethality of a swarm of bees is huge, it has a fatal problem, no guidance, no explosion, low hit rate, and can only be thrown over a large area with density and quantity, which has absolute lethality to dense phalanxes and much less threat to linear arrays.

Despite this, 50,000 arrows fell in front and behind, causing considerable casualties, wailing and blood dripping in the rain.

"Quick, carry the wounded down."

……

"Calm, composed, not allowed to retreat......"

……

"Hold the battle position, no retreat, those who escape from the battle will be severely punished, return to their battle position, and go back quickly......"

The soldiers, organized by the officers, quickly restored order and stabilized the front, the wounded were sent off the line of fire, and the vacant posts were quickly filled by others.

However, due to the first actual battle, the experience of the Xianjun shooters was seriously insufficient, and the range of explosive bombs was extremely limited, and the range of most grenades was far from the limit range of 200 steps, so it failed to pose a substantial threat to the swarm of bees and the large array of guards behind them, but the explosions and fires one after another still caused great pressure on the guards.