Chapter 57: The Attack and Defense of the Stone Bridge 7
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The officers and soldiers on the stone bridge pushed two shield carts forward slowly, and at the same time kept rushing out and throwing the bodies of their colleagues on the bridge deck off the stone bridge, and the not wide river was suddenly filled with headless corpses, which slowly drifted downstream along the current, and the originally clear river water was suddenly stained scarlet by blood.
The officers and soldiers who had not yet been on the bridge lined up the shield carts in the east of the river, using the shield carts as a cover, constantly rushing to the west of the bridge to defend and firing artillery, and from time to time using strong crossbows to fire at the position where the guns of the Xingtian Army Furlong were located, although the cannons of the officers and soldiers in the rear stopped firing because they were afraid of accidental injury, but their firepower still hit the earthen embankments and mounds on both sides of the bridge The pictures flew sideways, and the scattered cannons and crossbow arrows also injured several gunners who operated the guns, so that the remaining four Furlong planes could not continue to fire.
Huang Shengqiang bent over, revealing half of his head from the cover, but as soon as he stretched out his head, there was a bang on the helmet, and a lead was hit, which shocked him and quickly shrank his head, took off the iron helmet on his head and saw that it was dented by the lead.
"Damn, it's really arrogant! It's all for Lao Tzu, change into loose bombs! Fuck me up! Huang Shengqiang put the iron helmet on his head again, turned his head and shouted to the gunners behind him.
Several gunners quickly took out the empty gun from the big belly behind the mother, and immediately filled a pound of loose bullets into the belly of the Furlong cannon, struck the gun with an iron wedge, and poured primer into the fire door of the gun.
Gunpowder smoke once again spit out from the muzzle of the cannon, dozens of five-dollar guns immediately swept out like a broom, several cannons were concentrated on the stone bridge, the flying cannons whip-like on the officers and soldiers crowded on the bridge deck and the slowly advancing shield car, hit the skin on the shield car like a sieve, the wood chips below splashed everywhere, and although the shield in the hands of the officers and soldiers can provide a certain amount of protection, but in front of the flying cannon, there are still people's shields that are immediately pierced, The two unlucky fellows were immediately thrown out of the stone bridge and fell into the river, because they were wearing iron armor and immediately fell into the water, leaving only a pile of blood-colored gas and a large area of blood-stained river water.
However, because of the use of scattered bullets, although the killing area was relatively large, it did not defeat the shield cart of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield cart were still slowly pushing the shield cart forward, and finally pushed it in front of the corpse wall built by the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the Xingtian Army.
Stepping on the bloody water covering the bridge deck, the officers and soldiers rushed out from behind the shield cart and knocked down the corpse wall, some officers and soldiers could not bear this bloody scene, and were made to vomit by the strong smell of blood, but they were immediately squeezed aside by the people behind, and a group of officers and soldiers who had been thoroughly enraged poured out from behind the shield cart with shields and rushed across the bridge like wild beasts.
The officers and soldiers finally rushed across the stone bridge, and the twenty or thirty officers and soldiers who were the first to step on the west side of the bridge seemed to have been ordered, and as soon as they stepped on the ground on the west side of the bridge, they immediately divided into two groups, and rushed straight to the earthen embankments on both sides of the bridge, and their intention was very obvious, that is, to first deal with the few furlong cannons of the thieves who posed the greatest threat to them on both sides.
Then the officers and soldiers who crossed the bridge did not rush forward in a chaotic manner, but raised their shields at the bridgehead in an orderly manner to cover the officers and soldiers behind to cross the stone bridge, and began to assemble at the bridgehead under the orders of the officers, and gradually controlled the position of the bridgehead.
As soon as Huang Shengqiang saw that some officers and soldiers rushed towards their location, he immediately screamed, pulled out a handcuff from his waist, leaned on the torch and lit the rope of the handcuff, and shouted: "Brothers, copy guys, these eight sons of the king want to kill us!" Get ready for Lao Tzu! ”
Huang Shengqiang raised his hand to an officer who ran the fastest way up the mound and pressed the dragon head on the handcuff, and with a bang, the guy's body paused violently, scolded angrily and rolled down the mound with his back facing the sky.
But these officers and soldiers are obviously the fierce pawns in the official army, each wearing an iron armor, each of them is quite athletic, as soon as they set foot on the west of the bridge, they did not hesitate to separate their heads and pounced on a position where the artillery of the Xingtian Army was placed, no one shouted like ordinary people, their eyes flashed with a cold cold, pursed their lips, and silently rushed onto the earthen embankment.
Their generals gave them a death order, so that as soon as they arrived at the west of the bridge, they would first seize the artillery of the two wings of the thief army, to put it bluntly, these people were the dead soldiers in the army, so not only did their kung fu be good, but they were also not afraid of death, that is, in just a few breaths, they rushed to the top of the mound, and some of them even began to show a cruel smile on the corner of their mouths, as if they had seen the scene of their killing of the thief army, but the moment they stepped on the mound, all these people's eyes suddenly widened, A look of extreme horror flashed in his eyes.
And after Huang Shengqiang let go of his hand, he didn't rush up to draw his sword and fight with the dead soldiers of these officers and soldiers, but turned around and fled to the back, turned around and immediately showed a treacherous smile with a successful trick.
In the middle of the artillery array, there were actually two tiger squat cannons that had already been loaded, and the two gunners were already holding torches, sneering and standing behind the side of the tiger squat cannon, and the torches were placed not too far from the fire door.
As a fierce pawn in the official army, these officers and soldiers who rushed up are all veterans, who has never seen the tiger squat cannon, and does not know the power of the tiger squat cannon! The moment they stepped on the mound, their hearts sank to the bottom.
"Fire!" Huang Shengqiang laughed and yelled.
Two torches fell at the same time and pressed against the fire door of the Tiger Cannon......
Looking at the dead soldiers who rolled down from the mounds on both sides, Huang Qiang's eyes were red when he led the team to fight, these people were all carefully selected by his subordinates for several years to accumulate the fierce soldiers, today because He Renlong was furious, so he had to attack the west of the bridge in a battle, so he pressed these treasures that he was usually reluctant to take out, in the hope that these subordinates could fight for him and snatch the cannons of the thieves on both sides of the bridge.
I thought that after they rushed up, with their skills, it would be a piece of cake to slaughter the gunners of the thief army, but I didn't expect that in the end, they still fell short and were overshadowed by the thief army.
Seeing that these thugs of him were rolling down with blood spurting all over their bodies, and some of them lost their breath before they could roll down the slope, Huang Qiang almost roared angrily: "Rush over to Lao Tzu!" Avenge the brethren! Kill the thief! ”
The more than 200 officers and men who had already crossed the stone bridge and gained a firm foothold on the west side of the bridge were also completely enraged, and one by one they roared angrily at the bullfight, and the sound of "killing thieves" resounded on the banks of the Wanzi River.
Huang Qiang led this group of officers and soldiers did not dare to stay at the west end of the stone bridge for a long time, a little whole team, then strode towards the front, behind those officers and soldiers who were still on the bridge in front of the empty, so they followed, also flooded across the stone bridge, caught up with the officers and soldiers in front, and merged into them, this group of officers and soldiers under the leadership of Huang Qiang, quickly rushed through the earthen embankment that blocked their vision, and immediately became cheerful in front of them.
But immediately they all stopped their steps again, and gathered up in formation in some panic.
"Lord He! Huang Qiang: They finally rushed over! A subordinate under He Renlong pointed in the direction of the stone bridge and shouted loudly to He Renlong in an excited tone.
"Huang Qiang did a good job this time! Come! Beat the drum to cheer for them, He Zhen, lead another 300 infantry troops over, help me Huang Qiang, and defeat this thief army for me in one fell swoop! I want the head of the person surnamed Xiao to sacrifice the flag! ”
A general of He Renlong immediately stood up, shouted the order, turned around and went down to greet three hundred soldiers, and with a roar, they lined up and ran towards the stone bridge.
After Huang Qiang led his team to rush through the earthen embankment, he once again sent two young people to rush up towards the two wings of the earthen embankment, vowing to take the thief cannons on the mound, and at the worst they would not be able to turn around and fire at them, while he led nearly 300 officers and soldiers to rush across the earthen embankment, intending to rush into the Xingtian army and kill them.
But the scene in front of him made him suddenly taken aback again, only to see that the thief army behind the earthen embankment was not as chaotic as he imagined, but in an orderly manner on the open ground on the west side of the embankment, three phalanxes were placed in a zigzag shape directly against their group of officers and soldiers, and behind the three phalanxes, there were dozens of cavalry of the thief army, who were watching them with fierce eyes, as if they were waiting for their arrival.
Moreover, the number of enemy troops was also more than he had imagined, not counting the group of auxiliaries in the distance, the three zigzag infantry phalanxes alone exceeded the strength of a thousand people, far more than the number of thieves he expected.
What made his heart beat even more was that the group of thieves on the other side were not at all like the thieves they had seen before, but all of them maintained a solemn posture, neatly arranged in the open field, except for the leader who constantly gave orders in the military formation, the rest of the soldiers all stood silently in the formation, invisibly exuding an awe-inspiring murderous aura.
After Huang Qiang looked at the formation of this Xingtian Army, he suddenly gasped, and immediately beat a small drum in his heart, weird! The scene in front of me can only be described as weird.
He followed He Renlong to fight in the south and the north, over the years, he has seen a lot of poles and chaotic troops, when has he never seen such a neat army among the thieves, and the quality of the equipment of the thief army he saw needless to say, except for a few thieves wearing armor, the rest of the people are basically wearing tattered, and the weapons in their hands are even more varied. After cutting and killing a group of thieves, the thieves will naturally lose their morale, and then they will be defeated collectively, and all that remains is for their officers and soldiers to cover up and kill, and finally beat the thief army and fled.
And today's Xingtian army is very different from the usual thief army, the soldiers of the Xingtian army are obviously a thief army formed after some rigorous drills, everything seems to be in order, so that it has a kind of military appearance and neat momentum, after the formation, people have a sense of pressure like Mount Tai towering, which greatly surprised all the officers and soldiers, including Huang Qiang.
Suddenly, just now they were still rushing over and wanting to rush over and slash and kill, but after facing the purging formation of the Xingtian Army, they all immediately cooled down, and one by one the officers and soldiers stopped their steps, and involuntarily began to move closer together, and they no longer dared to rush over and kill rashly.