Chapter 52: The Attack and Defense of Stone Bridge 2
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A flag bearer immediately waved a small green flag at Huang Shengqiang's side, and when Huang Shengqiang saw it, he immediately brushed the rat whiskers from his mouth and shouted: "Brothers, listen! Shoot! ”
After listening to the order, several gunners immediately pulled out the red-hot iron brazing from the charcoal basin behind them, and forcefully pestled into the fire door on the guns of these Furlong machine guns.
A few bolts of fire erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and several clouds of smoke immediately rose in front of the mound, and then the sound of the cannon reached the ears of the people, and several iron bullets immediately flew out at a speed that was almost discernible to the naked eye, and fell with a roar towards the east bank of the river.
The sudden sound of artillery frightened the group of officers and soldiers who had already begun to step on the stone bridge, and the people walking in front immediately felt that the hairs on their bodies stood up, and they immediately stopped, including the Lu Pin who led the team to fight, was also frightened, and they all stopped involuntarily and looked nervously towards the west of the river.
When they saw the smoke rising from the mound south of the Hexi Bridge, they were all frightened at once, and when they went out to battle just now, they didn't even see that there were still artillery in the thieves on the west bank of the river, and these cannons seemed to come out of the ground, and suddenly they opened fire, and the whistling cannonballs flew straight over their heads and fell behind them.
"Not good! The thieves still have artillery! Hurry up! After Lu Pin reacted, he immediately exclaimed in surprise and shouted loudly to his subordinates.
The officers and soldiers at the front breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly rejoiced in their hearts, these thieves were some stupid people, they actually hit the cannonballs so high, and they didn't fall on their heads at all, and they also said in their hearts that the thieves who operated the cannons were not accurate and missed the cannonballs, and after hearing Lu Pin's order, these officers and soldiers who squeezed onto the bridgehead did not dare to stay on the bridge more, and they all immediately began to run towards the west bank of the river as if they had been injected with stimulants.
But they didn't bother to turn their heads and look back, the landing point of those shells, after a few shells flew over their heads, they smashed heavily into the group of artillery arrays that had just stopped, and immediately raised several clouds of dust among them, so that the group of officers and soldiers operating the artillery immediately let out an exclamation, and several unlucky guys were immediately shot, hit by the shells that bounced from the ground, and immediately fell to the ground, and the broken limbs flew out in all directions.
The pupils of He Renlong's eyes, who were riding on horseback and standing behind to watch the battle, immediately contracted sharply, and his big hand clenched the horsewhip tightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hand jumped high, and scolded: "This donkey thief army actually hides a few cannons!" Quickly pass the order, let our artillery concentrate firepower, and kill the thieves' artillery first! Let's see what other tricks they have up! ”
Seeing that a large number of officers and soldiers had already flocked to the stone bridge, it was only when these soldiers confirmed that Xiao Tianjian really wanted to let them block the officers and soldiers this time, Xiao Tianjian shouted: "Zhang Bao! Lead your troops down from both flanks! Feng Gouzi lifted those nine-headed birds up! Let the musketeers and archers prepare! ”
Zhang Bao immediately shouted to the three hundred or so frightened soldiers in front of him: "Withdraw from both sides!" Hurry up! ”
These 300 or so soldiers who had already begun to hold the will to die suddenly heard the shouting behind them, and they all breathed a long sigh of relief, and said in their hearts, "My mother! Isn't this a deliberate attempt to scare us? Finally let us go down! So he did not dare to slack off, and immediately followed their generals and commanders from the slope to both sides.
After Feng Gouzi heard Xiao Tianjian's order, he screamed and cheered, then turned around and beckoned: "Quickly bring the nine-headed bird up to Lao Tzu!" Firecrackers and archers are ready for Lao Tzu! ”
Lu Pin urged his officers and soldiers to speed up and pass through the stone bridge in the ranks, but his eyes were always staring at the brigade of the Xingtian Army on the north side of the stone bridge, and suddenly he saw that the hundreds of thieves who were originally lined up on the dirt slope north of the bridge were like bombing the camp, and retreated to both sides with a hula, Lu Pin couldn't help sneering in his heart, "In the end, it's still a group of rabble, and before Lao Tzu rushed to them, they were so frightened that they were about to run away!" ’
"Brothers, hurry up and kill the thief! The thieves are about to disperse! A small flag officer holding a flag in front of him immediately cheered, shouted at the thief in the ranks, and asked his subordinates to speed up and rush across the stone bridge.
After hearing the order, more than a dozen soldiers of the Xingtian Army, who had been waiting for the rest of the slope for a long time, immediately carried the five-pole nine-headed bird to the top of the slope in pairs, quickly supported the tripod, and at the same time put the huge gun on the tripod.
The nine-headed bird they are talking about is actually a big lifting gun, to put it bluntly, it is a super-large bird gun, the caliber of this thing is close to an inch, the barrel is one and a half meters long, and it weighs more than 20 pounds.
The five-pole nine-headed bird equipped by the Xingtian Army, three of which were captured from Lijiazhuang, and two were captured by the officers and soldiers in the first battle of Shifo Temple, as a powerful weapon, Xiao Tianjian naturally did not eliminate them, but directly equipped them to the firecrackers of the soldiers, and was carried out by them today.
The five-shot nine-headed bird was already ready to be fired below, each barrel was filled with a dozen iron bullets the size of a little finger's belly, and the five gunners quickly set up the nine-headed bird, and then pulled the trigger together with the order of the commander of the pipe with them.
The burning rope landed lightly in the medicine pool with a click, and instantly rose up a cloud of smoke, and several nine-headed birds jumped violently, spitting out clouds of smoke.
A projectile was drawn like a whip towards the officers and soldiers who rushed across the stone bridge, and the officers and soldiers who rushed in front immediately heard a scream.
The distance of more than 50 paces brought the power of the gun into full play, and even the officers and soldiers who rushed to the front raised their heavy shields, but they could not block these flying projectiles, and the projectiles hit the shield fragments in their hands one by one, and even the officers and soldiers hiding behind were not spared, and their bodies were immediately splashed with blood, and they fell down in one fell at once.
The dozen or so sword players in the front row were almost swept away under this round of blows, and they all fell to the ground, exposing the officers and soldiers who rushed over behind the bridge deck in front of the Xingtian Army.
The sudden blow almost made the group of officers and soldiers led by Lu Pin not at all guarded, they were just immersed in the excitement that the thief army had fled, and in a blink of an eye, they were knocked down by a row of nine-headed birds, so that the area west of the bridge in front of them suddenly opened up.
At this time, Lu Pin realized that something seemed to be a little wrong, because he saw on the bridge that rows of people began to pour out from behind the dirt slope on the opposite side, and the group of thieves standing in front of the thief army just now was very different from the group of thieves who came out of the army was very well-equipped, each of them was either holding a black bird gun in their hands, or holding a hard bow, after they appeared on the dirt slope, they quickly lined up in several columns, and the thieves holding bird guns lined up in three rows, each row numbered about thirty people, From the dirt slope, they were lined up in three tiers, and behind them were more than a hundred archers with strong bows, all of whom began to place their arrows on the bowstrings.
'Fooled' This is the first thought that flashed in Lu Pin's mind, he almost instinctively wanted to stop his pace and lead his troops back to the east of the bridge, but he forgot that it was the order he gave just now, and ordered his subordinates to speed up and rush across the stone bridge, and now the stone bridge is densely packed with the officers and soldiers under his command, and the officers and soldiers behind are still struggling to squeeze forward, so that they have no room to turn back.
After realizing this, Lu Pin was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, seeing that he couldn't retreat, his only choice was to rush across the stone bridge as soon as possible, rush up the dirt slope, and disperse this thief army, otherwise he knew very well what was waiting for him.
"Don't panic, rush over! Hurry up and break them up! Kill the thief! ...... "Lu Pin has been fighting with He Renlong for many years, and he still has a lot of experience in battle, and as soon as he found that something was wrong, he quickly reacted and roared loudly in the team.
The officers and soldiers in front were a little stunned by the round of guns, and unconsciously stopped their steps, looked at the opposite side in astonishment, and didn't know how to act for a while, seeing that the sword players in front of them who were holding shields were swept down at once, and the injured colleagues were still wailing at their feet, they were a little overwhelmed, and the many murderous thieves who poured out of the opposite slope made them a little panicked.
It wasn't until they heard Lu Pin's roar from behind that they realized that they were waiting for death to be crowded here, and it was too late to turn around and run, so they could only survive by rushing forward and fighting with the firecrackers and archers of these thieves in close quarters, and most of them were also experienced veterans, and after thinking about this, they immediately reacted, and they all shouted "Kill the thief......" and rushed towards the location of the Xingtian Army.
More than 100 gunners lined up in three columns from bottom to top on the dirt slope, and a gun-wielding general on the left side of the first row shouted: "The first row is all here!" Gun flat! Aim! …… Put! ”
When the gang of firecrackers were preparing behind the dirt slope, they had already lit the firerope on the bird's gun, and had been carefully blowing the firerope to prevent the firerope from going out.
The modification of the butt made aiming much more accurate and stable, and each musketeer could aim at a target with great stability, and as the team commander gave the order, they pressed the dragon head together.