"Hidden weapon! It's a hidden weapon! Li Yuanyin suddenly shouted.

"Hidden weapon! Hidden weapons? Ji Qingwen was stunned in his heart - he didn't expect that what he only saw in movies, TV series and books really existed in history. And the description of hidden weapons in these works is close to a logical weapon - the shot must be hit, and the hit will be killed.

This made Ji Qingwen a little nervous, and he was so frightened that he just took half a step back, and saw that the knights on the opposite side raised their hands one after another, and struck their own unique secret weapons.

On the side of the officers and soldiers.

In the face of the attack of the hidden weapon on the opposite side, the soldiers of the Ming Wu Army instinctively raised the rattan card they wore in front of them, and at the same time squatted down, hiding all the weaknesses on their bodies in the shield - from a distance, the formation of a thousand people of the Ming Wu Army seemed to have turned into a fish with neat scales, and several main generals were the internal organs of the fish, which were covered up under the protection of the fish scales.

As the backbone of the RUF, the white-pole soldiers were naturally attacked much less because of the cover of two chariots in front of them, and they also obeyed the order to constantly swing the white-pole spears in their hands, forming a dynamic defense line in front of them, and knocking down the hidden weapons that attacked like flying locusts one after another.

And the forbidden army of the Jingshi Battalion in the southernmost part of the formation, because it was slightly behind, there were not many hidden weapons that hit their formation, and the forbidden army also had a shield to guard, in fact, it did not cause much loss.

Ji Qingwen waited for this array of hidden weapons to be finished, and got up tremblingly and ordered to count the casualties, but he didn't expect that there were only about 100 soldiers in the whole army, and they suffered some insignificant injuries such as scratches and abrasions, and none of them were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness.

It turned out that although this array of hidden weapons was lively, the damage caused was extremely limited, leaving only a pile of scattered iron lumps on the ground.

Ji Qingwen picked up a palm-sized dart on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Startle me, I didn't expect the hidden weapon to be so powerful, but the power is so small......"

Yang Zhan continued: "That's nature. If the hidden weapon is so easy to use, the use of hidden weapons in the army has long been promoted, so why bother to make bows and arrows and practice archery? To do such things that are more effective than worth the losses? ”

Li Yuanyin said: "The hidden weapon is not useless, the two of them look at each other and suddenly launch it, which often has miraculous effects, but when the two armies fight, it is useless." ”

Ji Qingwen nodded when he listened, but he was thinking in his heart: In individual combat, the hidden weapon may still have some combat power, but the power of the two German imported pistols pinned to his waist is also very powerful, and he once injured Xu Hongru, the leader of the White Lotus Sect with high martial arts, in Nanjing City......

As soon as he thought of the pistol, Ji Qingwen suddenly remembered another weapon of war in his hands, and said: "Xu Daoqing used a hidden weapon to hurt people over there, and that was to make yin." Give him a yang here, pass my order, chariot artillery salvo! ”

The artillery uses gunpowder, and when the gunpowder is fired, it can shoot flames, which is naturally "yang" - Ji Qingwen has some truth in what he said.

A dozen or so sergeants in the Ming army who had learned to fire artillery heard the order, and immediately lit the artillery that had already been loaded and properly aimed, only to hear a few loud noises like earth-shattering, and the four artillery pieces installed on the two chariots placed at the forefront of the formation rang out at the same time, and the shells fired went straight to the enemy position.

These four cannons were extremely powerful, and they used flowering shells, causing four huge explosions in the crowd of troops led by Xu Daoqing. The power of the explosion is also extremely terrifying - no matter which sect you are the head of, which mountain you are the boss of, or which set of fist sects you are; It doesn't matter if you practice the golden bell jar of the outer gate, the taijiquan of the inner family, or the sword and weapon, all of them are given equal blows, and two or three hundred casualties are caused at once.

And these high-rollers brought by Xu Daoqing - when they died, they naturally died on the spot; The lightly injured slowly got up from the ground, still cursing and swearing; The seriously injured lay on the ground and groaned, completely losing the posture of a martial arts master on weekdays; As for those who were not injured, they were also stunned by this scene: what kind of weapon is it, it has such a powerful power, and he may not be able to be so powerful if he uses ten times more serious martial arts training and ten lifetimes of training......

Xu Daoqing was in the formation, although he was not injured by the artillery of the Ming Wu Army, but he was also knocked to the ground by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the blood in his chest surged for a while.

When he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and when he got up from the ground, he saw a miserable scene, which made him both a little fortunate and a little annoyed - fortunately, he was not hit by artillery, and if he was really hit by artillery, then he would have to give an account for a few lives; Annoyed that he led so many martial arts masters to fight the vanguard, and before he touched the enemy's hair, did he already lose?

Before Xu Daoqing set off, he had guaranteed a ticket in front of Xu Hongru, if he retreated so stupidly, not to mention it in front of Sect Master Xu, even in front of Zhou Xiuying, he would lose face greatly.

This is unacceptable to Xu Daoqing.

So Xu Daoqing shouted loudly: "Brothers, don't be afraid, this is Ji Qingwen's dog thief's trick." The spell has already been recognized by Sect Master Xu, as long as everyone rushes hard and kills Ji Qingwen, when the time comes, his demon law will be broken, and the brothers who were killed by him will naturally be able to come back to life! ”

Xu Daoqing's explanation may not even believe it himself, let alone the group of high-rollers under him.

This group of high-rollers in the rivers and lakes is different from the rural villagers who usually believe in the White Lotus Sect, most of them have some reputation and status in the martial arts, and they have seen a lot in the world, just relying on Xu Daoqing's empty words to say these few words, how can they be willing to fight with the officers and soldiers equipped with artillery?

Just as the White Lotus Sect hesitated slightly, another burst of muskets came from the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

It turned out that Ji Qingwen saw that the White Lotus Sect was directly hit by the four cannons in his hand, and although he did not immediately recover his combat effectiveness, he did not immediately rout. Therefore, Ji Qingwen ordered the musketeers in the Ming Wu Army to immediately charge and fire, firing a volley at the White Lotus Sect.

The power of artillery is great, but the power of muskets should not be underestimated.

This burst of bullets struck, and more than a hundred White Lotus Sect disciples were killed and wounded in an instant. Practice has proved that when it comes to the power of the two armies in battle, it seems that muskets are much more reliable than hidden weapons.

Most of the White Lotus disciples who were killed by muskets were martial arts people who had just stepped forward to fire hidden weapons at the official army, although this burst of musket attacks made them dizzy, but it also made many people's minds suddenly clear: times have changed, and a set of proud hidden weapon kung fu that he has worked hard for decades to practice has no effect in the face of the musket salvo!

Such a reality has undoubtedly shaken the life creed accumulated by these chivalrous men for decades and for more than ten years, so that their spiritual pillars are almost collapsed.

Ji Qingwen was only twenty or thirty steps away from Xu Daoqing and them, and he saw the situation on the other side clearly.

He only wanted to be able to quickly defeat the White Lotus Sect now, so as to force them to retreat to Wenzhou City immediately, and did not force all the White Lotus Sect disciples who attacked in the future to be annihilated.

So Ji Qingwen urged the soldiers of the Ming Wu Army under his command to hurry up and reload and continue to shoot at the opponent.

Ji Qingwen's musketeers had long been equipped with the "paper bullets" they had learned from Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Shandong. The so-called "paper bullet" is to encapsulate ammunition and gunpowder in a paper cylinder in advance, which is the most advanced way to load muskets before the invention of metal bullets, which can greatly improve the efficiency of musket firing.

Therefore, in the blink of an eye, the musketeers of the Ming Wu Army completed the second round of reloading, and fired a flurry of muskets into the opposite direction, killing and wounding dozens of hundreds of people again.

The so-called martial arts high-rollers led by Xu Daoqing totaled no more than 2,000 people, first a burst of artillery and then two bursts of muskets, and this set of attacks was defeated, which had already caused one-third of the opponent's casualties.

In ancient times, where there was no effective organization, such a large casualty ratio had already crossed the threshold of army defeat, and the men and horses led by Xu Daoqing were really on the verge of collapse.