Part 4 (48)
Five miles, three miles, two miles, Li Fei could already see a platform of about fifty meters on the top of the mountain, on which there were many figures, and they were rapidly concentrating.
Xu Yuyan looked at the row of iron carriages in front of her with great interest that were tied to stone piles with ropes and could not slide down, and suddenly asked Wu Ming, who was still expressionless like a dead man beside him, with a smile: "Hall Master Wu, although the big carriage that Mr. Xie made this time is not good-looking, I think it is terrifying." If you think about it, he is rumbling down on these tens of thousands of people, and I am afraid that a car will kill at least four or five hundred people. ”
The whole iron carriage is like a hedgehog. In addition to the wheels underneath and a bit of a car shape, the body is elliptical and streamlined, and there are iron spikes up and down, left and right, once this thing rushes down into the crowd from a high place, it is not a great catastrophe. I think everyone can understand at a glance that this is the idea of the iron plough car stolen by Bai Yunqi from "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue".
Wu Ming smiled rarely, took out his long knife and came to the iron car. "Mr. Xie, Wu will try it first" He said that he was about to cut the rope on it with a swing of his knife, Xie Donghai shook his hand gently: "Not busy, not busy, hehe, please wait a moment, general." ”
He came to the car with a smile and hugged his fists at Wu Ming and Xu Yuyan, and then introduced in detail: "This idea was given by His Majesty, and the design drawings were also sent by him." I just improved it slightly, stuffed some more gunpowder in the trunk of the car and put a long twist on it, please see.
He opened a small door next to the iron carriage, and a large iron box was fixed inside, and a fire rope was wrapped around it, similar to our modern cannon twist. Because the length of the cannon twist was accurately calculated, this car could not only kill and wound one or two thousand mountain attackers after it drove out. It will also explode when it is about to reach the valley. Sending the last gang to the rebels would be useless.
Xie Donghai unhurriedly handed over the torch from the soldiers beside him, "General Wu, after the fire rope is lit, please cut the rope on the iron car immediately, hehe, it's ugly." ”
He lit the fire, then quickly closed the door. Wu Ming swung his knife to cut the rope, and the first iron plough car rumbled down the mountain along the ropeway. Zhang Chubing, who rushed up the mountain, saw a big black guy rushing down the mountain, and immediately had an extremely ominous premonition in his heart.
Because Bai Yunqi never plays cards according to common sense. And every time the guy that comes out is more terrifying than the other, and one is more perverted than the other... First, there were five-round repeaters, then thunderbolts, iron watermelons, and chain horses...... These endless strange tricks make opponents scary to think about. So when you fight him on the battlefield, you are always uneasy and unsettled. Who knows when he made an evil thing so that you don't even know how to die?
When they saw the roaring iron car, their first reaction was to stop and wait and see what happened.
Because the commander did not order the withdrawal of the troops, none of them had the courage to retreat back on their own, which was directly looking for death. The iron ploughshare car didn't care what they thought, because it came down from a high place with gravitational acceleration. At this time, there was already a faint sound of wind and thunder, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to Zhang Chujun's forward.
"I'm a dripping mother...... Let's hurry up and flash first, this kind of battle is simply not a human fight......" The first soldier threw down his shield and hid to the side with his head, just bumping into the archers next to him, and the archers collided with another shield, and suddenly a group of people fell together under the chain reaction. The iron plough car puffed over the flesh and blood that had no power to fight back, and directly broke a bloody path in the crowd. Some of the soldiers who were lucky enough to arrive at the side had not yet reacted, and the second and third cars arrived.
The army on the mountain was suddenly in disarray, and the five iron chariots rushed down the mountain almost side by side, and the place they passed immediately became a terrible hell on earth. Pity these creatures who were still alive just now, and before they could even see the enemy's ground clearly, they had already gone to hell to prepare for the next reincarnation. And what makes people angry and ridiculous is. Some of the archers also regarded these cars as monsters coming down from the mountains, and actually released a lot of crossbow arrows at them, which was really pathetic and pitiful.
What's even more pitiful is that although the follow-up troops knew that something was going on in front of them, they didn't see clearly what was causing the trouble. Since they didn't even know the reason, let alone prepared to dodge in advance, these fatal carts rushed all the way down, and they continued to kill and wound three or four thousand enemy soldiers, and the death toll was still rising in a straight line. What's more, because there were too many people going up the mountain this time, they couldn't dodge even if they wanted to, so the soldiers who went up the mountain had no choice but to stand there and wait to be slaughtered or slaughtered.
Li Fei is worthy of being a battle-hardened veteran, and he can still maintain a calm and sober mind at this time. When he figured out the situation in front of him, he immediately and decisively ordered: "Heavy infantry and pikemen cooperate with each other, and we must stop these strange cars!" ”
As he spoke, he took the lead and raised a spear and poked it into the ground. The other pikemen followed suit, and dozens of soldiers quickly formed a field of spears, while the heavy infantry and archers pressed their shields against the cart in an attempt to slow it down, and some simply grabbed the iron spikes on the side of the cart with their hands and dragged it to prevent him from running.
But although the speed of the iron car has slowed down after continuous impact, after all, there is such a heavy weight resting there, and because the force area is too small, only a dozen people around each iron car can grab it, so after a period of buffering and crushing and stabbing nearly 100 people, it finally creaked and made a zero-distance contact with the newly formed gun forest.
"I'm Di Niang, Di Niang, why is this thing so ......" Another group of soldiers swarmed, and finally succeeded in stopping this monster that only wanted to die. Li Fei had just taken a breath and was about to raise his hand to wipe his sweat, when suddenly a soldier shouted with a crying voice: "The big hedgehog is smoking, and there is gunpowder in its buttocks!" ”
"Boom...... Boom ......"
Five cars exploded at almost the same time, and this time the gunpowder was not wasted at all, because there were at least 500 people in front of each car.
The explosion immediately sent more than 2,000 soldiers to the guillotine, and the iron filings and shattered parts of the car body radiated from all directions, causing at least nearly 1,000 casualties.
And the name of the image of "Iron Hedgehog" was firmly remembered by the surviving Zhang Chubing, who remembered this battle many years later. Many people will still shudder and say, "." The guy who made that guy wasn't human. Later, the guy who created the family did become famous all over the world because of this battle in Panlong Mountain, and the three words "Xie Donghai" represent a mythical character.
There is a famous saying in modern society: science and technology are the primary productive forces. If this sentence is changed to "science and technology are the first destructive force", it is estimated that it can also enter a certain page of the military book written by Bai Yunqi later, and even become a classic sentence. The war at hand is a powerful validation of this statement:
Just five cars destroyed nearly 10,000 people.
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Speechless.
Not only did I think so, but Wu Ming's troops on the mountain and Mr. Ning Da under the mountain were also speechless at the same time.
"Kill--yaw!" Wu Ming glanced at Xie Donghai with reverence. The order flag was waved suddenly, and the heroes on the mountain had already held back their strength, coupled with the encouragement of the outstanding achievements of the five "iron hedgehogs", one by one rushed towards the corpse of Zhang Chujun on the ---- mountain like a tiger descending the mountain.
They actually took advantage of this time to start robbing and initiating the death of the wealth. Of course, they also have a purpose, which is to clear the barricades. It is used to deal with an underground charge of enemy troops.
Several survivors surrounded Liu Qianli in the valley and described the glorious image of the iron plough car, and the appearance of the "iron hedgehog" slowly emerged in front of Liu Qianli's eyes.
Later, this name was officially used as the name of the weapon, and it was recorded in the annals of Chinese history with a very high evaluation: at the end of the spring of the fourth year of China, our emperor's subordinates Wu Ming, Xie Donghai and others smashed nearly 10,000 enemy troops with "iron hedgehogs", which made Zhang Chu frightened. Flee at the mere sight of the oncoming force.
It was already getting dark, and Liu Qianli thought about it for nearly ten minutes, and he was very nervous about how to deal with this new weapon. He had planned to retreat, but he couldn't swallow it, so he summoned his subordinates again, this time under his own command.
A few minutes later. Another group of sergeants modeled on Panlong Mountain, and this time they adopted the strategy of breaking it into pieces, going up along both sides of the mountain road, leaving the main road in the middle. According to Liu Qianlidi's idea, although your "hedgehog" will be run over and killed if you catch it, you will be blown up if you catch it, but we can't beat it, so we can always dodge!
A group of soldiers cautiously bowed their heads and walked forward. Morale was low to the extreme. Liu Qianli immediately ordered the sergeants to beat the war drums and shout and cheer and set up the battle team, and issued a death order: "Today swear to fight to the end of the bloody battle of the stubborn thieves on the mountain, and those who retreat from the battle will be killed!" ”
Anyway, the left and right are dead, so just rush up and fight with the opponent. Killing one is enough, killing two earns one. The current Zhang Chujun, catalyzed by this proverb, finally raised some spirit.
But this time it was no longer the terrifying iron hedgehogs that were waiting for them, but a dense array of bows and arrows like flying locusts and large pieces of stones, which instantly damaged nearly a thousand soldiers who had not yet had time to assemble.
Because Zhang Chu's army was scattered into two groups and went up the mountain from both sides of the mountain road, it has not yet completed the assembly. Suddenly, two teams of heavy horsemen rushed down like lightning, and at once they rushed them to a pulp, and in a few minutes they fell hundreds of people. At this time, Liu Qianli's main force had not yet climbed halfway up the mountain. The formation of the strikers began to loosen and disperse, and hundreds of black-clad killers came down the hill, and they began to clear out the terrified stragglers under the cover of night.
"Rush! Rush to the main peak as fast as possible to fight the enemy, and those who retreat will immediately correct the Fa. ”
Liu Qianli led the overseer team to shout and order the main force to start charging rapidly, but the team behind suddenly became chaotic.
"General Baoliu, about 30,000 enemy troops have suddenly appeared under the mountain, and our side is now under attack." Liu Qianli listened to the report of his subordinates, and his back was cold, he turned his head in shock, only to see a familiar figure faintly appearing in the burst of firelight, this person was a white horse and silver gun, dressed in flowing white clothes, it was the white cloud he hated and feared.
"It's over, I can't imagine falling for this guy's evil again." Liu Qianli's mind quickly turned hundreds of times, he weighed the situation in front of him, the army under the mountain would soon rush up, it was estimated that it would take less than an hour, and it was impossible for them to take the main peak of Panlong Mountain above in a short period of time. Coupled with the sudden appearance of Bai Yunqi, he brought him unprecedented pressure, he first lost in momentum, and at this time he had to order: "After the striker becomes a defender, the main force will turn back and go down the mountain, and break through with all his might!" ”
The defeat was like a mountain. When the defenders on the mountain saw the large pile of fires burning at the bottom of the mountain, they already knew that Baiyunqi's reinforcements had arrived. And what they were waiting for was this opportunity, when Wu Ming and his gang of nearly 10,000 people suddenly appeared, they opened the way in front of the remaining five iron ploughshares, and then rushed into the enemy army like a god.
As soon as Zhang Chujun on this side saw the black thing rushing down, he immediately scattered his courage and fled in all directions, allowing Liu Qianli to scold his mother first and then call his mother to maintain the formation, but he could no longer hold the already scattered military heart. Seeing his army rapidly shrink to less than 10,000 people, Liu Qianli's heart was completely cold.
Baiyun set up a suspicious formation, first creating the illusion of civil strife so that Liu Qianli carelessly underestimated the enemy and attracted Duanmu Ming's main force at the same time, and then sent Wu Ming to continuously harass the coalition army, luring Liu Qianli to Panlong Mountain by diverting the tiger from the mountain. And as soon as Liu Qianli left on his front foot, he suddenly appeared under the city of Jiezhou with the main force, and started a decisive battle with the main force of Zhang Chujun, who was leaderless.
Because Liu Qianli took away some of the men, the army on the side of Jiezhou was about 200,000, which was equivalent to Bai Yunqi's strength, but under the destruction of a large number of thunderbolts and chain horses, they took the initiative and controlled the situation in less than two hours, so Bai Yunqi handed over the command of the battle to Geng Zhicheng, and he led 30,000 elite cavalry to quickly gallop to Panlong Mountain, striving to catch turtles in an urn, and it was best to leave Liu Qianli's small life.
Liu Qianli finally gained a foothold on a commanding heights after sacrificing nearly 2,000 men, and then defended in a circular formation with cavalry and infantry behind. The 30,000 troops brought by Bai Yunqi and the more than 10,000 men and horses on the mountain had almost no losses, so under the personal command of Bai Yunqi, they surrounded the 8,000 enemy legions in the middle and slowly forced towards a dead end.
Zhang Chujun, who was already extremely wilted, once he fell into a desperate situation at this time, the trapped beast before his death was still not to be underestimated. Therefore, Bai Yunqi did not plan to attack hard, anyway, there was time, so the strategy he adopted this time was a attritional style of fighting that combined long-range attack and killer guerrilla, and began to slowly eat away at the besieged troops for a long time. The fourth part of the rampant text counterattacks