7. Big guns stab each other
This Manjushri Bodhisattva flag, still in the Pixiu battle flag and Dingwu, Yining military tooth flag, but see the corners of the four sides are golden, the Bodhisattva in the inside, behind the lotus halo, riding a snow-white jade lion, holding a demon sword, the treasure elephant is solemn, majestic and majestic.
When this flag appeared in front of the eyes of the Western Tibetan people, many of their devout Manjushri soldiers exclaimed, and then they were cowering and timid.
"The chariot was a hundred paces away from the enemy, and the firearms, tiger cannons, and bows and crossbows were fired in unison, and then the left, center, and right wings of the chariot men stepped forward in turn, shooting out all the projectiles they carried, and there was no left behind." On the golden drum car, Gao Gu and Zhang Jing gave the order.
The wheels rolled, the pace followed, and soon the Tang army's chariot battalion arrived at the Xifan advance about a hundred paces away, facing the chariot with a tight carriage, covered with felt fur and animal leather, and only three large and small perforations (the middle is the tiger with the muzzle, and the two sides are the mouth of the divine thunder) - the cavalry of the Xibo also rushed forward one after another after receiving the order.
After the chariot stopped, the eleven gunners in front of each vehicle, under the command of the owner, all knelt down half-kneeling, holding the fire handle that filled the divine thunder medicine and lead pellet with one hand, and holding up the twist that had been lit in advance with the other, placing it in the clamp, and then "Cast, shoot!" After the thunderous sound, five or six hundred guns of various colors shot out a large cloud of gunfire, and the lead pellets rained down on the surface of the cavalry in front of the conflict, and many people screamed and fell backwards, but more cavalry were still undaunted, holding long lances and leading bows to pounce.
The firecrackers in front of the chariot eagerly retreated, and the boring rakers in the back workshop rushed up one after another, and at the same time, the tiger cannon and the divine thunder gun in the chariot were also unleashed, and the thunder and fire erupted from the chariot's perforation were endless.
This is the firepower of the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army, which suffer from "phobia of insufficient firepower"!
Forty light cannons, sixty thunderbolts, and the continuous rotation of the three-toothed boring rake, kept the approaching Xifan cavalry out of the perimeter of the chariot, leaving them under heavy fire.
Finally, the thousands of cavalry who rushed to the front couldn't resist it, and began to rotate and retreat to both sides of the formation.
Then the gate opened, and the swarming in was the armored foot soldiers of Xifan, and they were also the most outstanding and stoic warriors on the entire plateau, among them, the seven small Dongdai, although they suffered serious losses in the previous battle, but now they have readjusted the team, and with the coordination of thousands of elite Janissary warriors, they have an extraordinary momentum as soon as they come out, only to see that the entire hill and the plains are full of armor and strong banners, and the boundless Mount Tai is rushing towards the top, if it is just an ordinary team that engages with them, I am afraid that it will have already been defeated at this moment.
But at this time, the chariot in the center of the Tang Army, with two wings of the long side van, all stopped at the moment, the vehicle was a solid shield for the activity, and then the 30 teams of chariot drivers, with the original front of the car hundreds of chariot drivers, all converged, relying on the vehicles to form a horizontal line across the entire confrontation line, then the front and rear turns, standing and raising the hand in his hand, the god thunder gun, facing the face of the soldiers, pinching the head, turning down the clamps, bang shot continuously, some of them were dumb, and some gunpowder burst out, It burned the eyes of the gunskeepers, but they didn't care about panicking or wavering, and they couldn't shout, because of the rapid fire, in addition to the pre-loaded lead shots, they also put four lead shots in their mouths and did not send them, and their cheeks were bulging, and after a shot, they quickly retreated, cleaned the guns, filled the gunpowder, and then directly spit out a lead shot and rolled it into the gun's mouth, and after plugging it, they took turns to step forward and continue to pinch, ignite, and shoot.
And the wounded and dead hands lay silently on the snow, motionless.
This is the iron-like discipline formed by the generals and soldiers of the Dingwu and Yining armies in the long-term drills, and if you die, you will die, and if you are injured, don't call indiscriminately, just stay where you are and wait for help.
The generals and foot soldiers who followed behind could only see the smoke of gunpowder that filled the entire land and sky, and the violent sound of cannonballs.
After about a quarter of an hour, the smoke slowly cleared, and their eyes widened:
There were many corpses of soldiers and horses lurking in front of them, and the other soldiers who were still alive, whether it was Xiao Dongdai of Geruben or the forbidden army of Zampu, actually began to throw down the battle flag and slowly retreated.
"No retreat! The two wings are also attacked by the ontology, and the attack is carried out! He pulled out the sword that Zampu had given him to sharpen iron like clay, his face was bruised and his voice was hoarse.
"All spearmen and horses, inflated soldiers and fight with the enemy!" On the Tang Army's golden drum car, Gao Gu took a step forward, split the red flag in his hand, and the sound of drums shook the heavens and the earth.
The soldiers of the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army, a total of ten generals, including spearmen, rakers, and provoking hands, lined up, and the soldiers took a step back, and they went further, and soon in the wilderness in the central area of the old city and the Checheng, the twelve-foot big split spear against the twelve-foot crow-neck spear, dense like reeds, stabbed each other, and the sharp spear blade pierced the Tang Fan warriors who were also wearing heavy armor, and constantly splashed blood from the cracks in the armor, and some people couldn't stand it, so they knelt down and fell, and the successors took his spear and continued to stab forward with all their might, the footsteps advanced and retreated, regardless of Tang Fan, the soldiers in the first column of each team (or each Cao) were killed and wounded by more than half of them soon after the battle.
On the side of the spearmen, the Tang Army's boring rakers and knife players were also very brave and active, and they simply found their own angle from the gap between the spear assassinations on both sides, and fought forward, piercing the sharp teeth of the blade or the boring rake into the enemy's abdomen or thighs......
After a fierce fight for nearly an hour, the troops on both sides of Tang Fan retreated dozens of steps back, and as a result, on this vacated field, the corpses of soldiers on both sides were covered with them, none of them retreated before death, and all of them maintained the posture of rushing to the opposite side and fell, until the blood flowed out and died.
Far away, on the gun position of the middle base, Gao Yue squatted on the Hu bed, anxiously and restlessly gnawing on his nails, for the battle on the front line, he has lost the ability to specifically regulate the battle, the final victory can only depend on who can shed thicker blood on both sides, who has the most people who survive to the end, and whose morale can remain vigorous.
Blood, flowing down from Gao Yue's fingertips.
"Let Shang Qixin'er and Cai Bang. Mangtso, reinforce more Dongdailai, and pull the Chinese army and the three Rubenkan on the left and right flanks all here, Gao Yue is already at the end of the crossbow - so are we! Under the battle flag, when I saw the cruel fight on the front line, I couldn't help but be stunned at first, and then I was mad.
Soon Gao Yuefang's chariot gunners began to shoot in front of the platoon again, and each of them still had a few rounds of guns that had not been consumed, and the order given to them by Ji Gong was, "You must shoot all of them today, and if the Fan soldiers have not been defeated and retreated tomorrow, you will use the fire guns as weapons and engage the Fan soldiers in short combat." ”
At this time, from the team of chariot drivers, many people rushed out, and they all had a bamboo basket hanging in front of them......