Chapter 35: The Attack on Zengtou City (2)
Shi Wengong's eyes opened angrily, and he shot straight into Qin Ming's throat.
Qin Ming's heart tightened when he saw it.
Finished!
A big hole was stabbed in the shoulder, and the mace fell to the ground, and Qin Ming had no way to resist Shi Wengong's fatal shot.
However, Qin Ming worked all the way to the position of commander of the Qingzhou Soldiers and Horses, and he experienced countless battles of all sizes.
Seeing that Shi Wengong's shot was about to kill him.
In a hurry, Qin Ming pushed the saddle violently with one hand, leaned back hard, and was stunned to dodge Shi Wengong's fatal shot.
Shi Wengong didn't care when he saw it, put away the gun, twisted his body, and quickly stabbed at Qin Ming behind the horse with the power of turning.
Shi Wengong returned the pistol with a move, ready to make up for Qin Ming.
He couldn't dodge a shot, and he didn't believe that his opponent could dodge his return pistol again.
But what made him angry was that Qin Ming also knew that it was already lucky to dodge the Iron Horse Bridge with one move, and he never thought that good luck would always accompany him.
Qin Ming leaned his back against the horse's buttocks, didn't get up at all, kicked his feet to the right, rolled his body over, and rolled off the horse's back beautifully.
Shi Wengong thought that he was sure that this move was a stab in the air.
Due to the inertia, the force of the return pistol is very strong, and it can easily penetrate the armor, but it is difficult to quickly retract.
Seeing Qin Ming turn over and dismount, Shi Wengong took back the gun again, turned the horse's head, and wanted to kill Qin Ming.
In order to save his life, Qin Ming even used such a humiliating move as the difficult Wang Ba turning over, where would he stand stupidly in place and wait for Shi Wengong to kill him.
As soon as he got off his horse, he ran back.
Qin Ming dodged a move that he thought he was sure of, Shi Wengong was so angry that he hurriedly urged him to step forward, ready to catch up with this guy.
Seeing that Qin Ming was in trouble, Yan Shun hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Brother Qin, don't panic, Yan Shun is here!" ”
Qin Ming's ability, Yan Shun also knows that he is incomparable. Even Qin Ming is not Shi Wengong's opponent, where can he win the other party.
Yan Shun didn't have the idea of going head-to-head with his opponent at all, and the others rushed up with soldiers and horses at the same time.
I saw the soldiers of the Liangshan Army rushing up. Shi Wengong looked at it, it was not impossible to kill Qin Ming's house, but he might fall into the encirclement of the enemy.
Shi Wengong made a decision in an instant, and said loudly: "If you have no guts and rats, you will kill me with me!" ”
The people on the wooden village in Zengtou City saw that Shi Wengong had beaten the enemy general and fled, and their morale was strong, and they knew that now was a good time to beat the opponent.
Immediately, the gate of the village opened, and Su Ding, Zeng Tu, Zeng Mi, Zeng Suo, and Zeng Sheng rushed out, followed by more than 3,000 villagers.
They were the vanguard that was ready to annihilate the Liangshan army in one fell swoop and deal a heavy blow to the enemy.
Although Qin Ming was already under the protection of the soldiers of the Liangshan Army, he retreated to the rear.
But Shi Wengong's marksmanship is superb, fast as lightning, Yan Shun is not an opponent at all, if it weren't for the desperate protection of the soldiers around him, he would have died a long time ago.
But even so, he was shot twice, although it was not a vital part, but it was also bloody.
Just when Shi Wengong took the Zeng family army to show off his might and show off his might, Shi Jin, who got the battle report, also arrived.
Shi Jin, who was riding on horseback, just took a brief look at the situation and understood.
The soldiers and horses of the Zeng family army were not afraid, it was Shi Wengong who was too brave, and no soldiers were his generals, so that Shi Wengong was able to rampage in the Liangshan army and completely disrupt the formation, which gave the Zeng family army a chance.
Shi Jin immediately gave the order, and the spear battalion of this formation stepped forward, and the sword battalion spread out left and right, lined up as two wings. The firearms battalion and the bow and arrow battalion are in the rear.
As soon as the formation was in place, Shi Jin ordered the forwards of the Liangshan Army to slowly retreat from both sides of the Central Army, and they were not allowed to impact the camp of the Chinese Army, and those who violated the order were killed!
As Shi Jin's series of orders were handed down, the sound of gold bells rang out, and the tall and bright flags kept swaying.
The forwards of the Liangshan Army, who were still resisting, heard the order to retreat, and most of them obeyed the order to retreat slowly. Only a few people were so frightened that they turned around and ran.
Shi Jin saw it and shouted, "Li Kui, kill those deserters who disobeyed the military order!" ”
When Li Kui heard this, he immediately rushed out, axe by axe, and killed the soldiers who had fled in disobedience to the order.
The former army, which was about to be loosened and defeated by Shi Wengong, was shocked, gathered again, and retreated to both sides step by step.
That Shi Wengong was killing energetically, and when he saw that he had defeated the opponent's front army, and when he could impact the opponent's Chinese army, he saw that the opponent had rearranged the lineup. Although he was a little unwilling, Shi Wengong didn't care, the fight just now made Shi Wengong proud.
The grass coke is really the grass coar, and it is vulnerable!
Shi Wen Gong then ordered his subordinates to follow him and bravely advance forward, directly disperse the Liangshan army, and obtain more results.
A few panicked Liangshan sergeants were killed as soon as they ran closer, and the Liangshan Zhongjun faced Zeng's army directly.
The two armies were about to fight, and the archers on both sides were the first to strike.
With Pang Wanchun shouting angrily. "One hundred and twenty steps, throw!"
The 500-man archery battalion drew their bows and arrows and pointed their arrows towards the sky.
As soon as the hand was released, the five hundred arrows suddenly flew into the sky, and then crossed an arc and fell like raindrops, harvesting the lives of Zeng's villagers.
Seeing that the archers of the Liangshan Army were powerful, Shi Wengong shouted: "Fight back, give me a counterattack!" ”
With Shi Wengong's order, the 200 archers in the Zeng family's army and the 200 cavalry who could ride and shoot also began to counterattack.
Dark clouds flew through the sky, bringing not rain, but death.
The arrows of the Liangshan army fell, mercilessly piercing the bodies of Zeng's villagers, nailing them to the earth, and the blood stained the land red.
Similarly, the arrows of the Zeng family army also harvested the lives of many soldiers of the Liangshan army.
Seeing the attack of the arrows, some of the soldiers who had newly joined the Liangshan Army became commotion because of fear, and the dense formation was a little loose.
Shi Jin suddenly shouted: "Calm down! Our army will win this battle, and whoever dares to act recklessly will be killed immediately! ”
With Shi Jin's angry shouting, those recruits who were afraid of the commotion were so frightened that they didn't dare to act rashly anymore when they thought of Liangshan's strict military law.
The formation stabilized again.
After a hundred paces and two or three rounds of arrow rain, the two armies were about to start the most brutal and bloody hand-to-hand combat.
All of them were killed in front of him, and the Liangshan army was still as calm as a mountain, Shi Wengong was a little puzzled and worried.
Seeing that the enemy was about to approach, Shi Jin immediately shouted: "Earthquake thunder prepare!" ”
Shi Jin chose the name Grenade at first, but unfortunately none of his subordinates thought the name was good.
I think the name Shocking Thunder is good, and it is imposing enough.
Since his subordinates all shouted earth-shaking thunder, Shi Jin had no choice but to follow the public.
Hearing the order, the hundreds of grenadiers at the head of Liang Shanjun took the bamboo handle from the hands of their teammates behind them, lit the fire, and then threw it forward with all their might.
Only a dozen steps away from the Liangshan army, Shi Wengong clenched the spear in his hand, and was about to rush into the Liangshan army first, only to see hundreds of sparkling black dots flying out.
Shi Wengong sneered at the corner of his mouth, it was this move again. Do you think we're going to be unprepared this time?
There is a possibility of a dud bomb with such technology as in modern times, let alone in ancient times.
After being blown up once by the earth-shattering thunder of the Liangshan Army that day, when the Zhuang Ke of the Zeng family cleaned up the battlefield and cleaned up the disabled soldiers, they picked up two duds and handed them to Shi Wengong.
Shi Wengong also had been in the Great Song army for a period of time, and knew that the Great Song army had firearms made of gunpowder such as earth-shattering thunder and thunderbolt cannons.
Seeing that the earth-shattering thunder of the Liangshan Army seemed to be more powerful than that of the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, Shi Wengong took it back and imitated it.
It's just that no one in the Zeng family knows the recipe for black powder at all, and the sky-shaking thunder they created themselves does not have the power of Liang Shan.
It is not much more powerful than the folk using paper tubes and hemp stems wrapped in gunpowder to make strings to make "woven cannons".
It can only scare people, and it has little effect on killing the enemy at all.
The cost is high, the lethality is insufficient, and in Shi Wengong's eyes, the earth-shattering thunder is simply a chicken rib, so he gave up the plan of large-scale manufacturing.
However, in order to be afraid that Liangshan Caokou would use this to catch him off guard again, he deliberately put a few "cannons" when training Zhuang Ke, so that they knew that this thing was not very powerful and basically could not kill people.
Shi Wengong immediately shouted: "Don't be afraid, this earth-shattering thunder is all bluffing, and it can't kill people!" Keep rushing! ”
Hearing Shi Wengong's shout, remembering the effect of his own soldiers igniting these guys, the soldiers of the Zeng family army continued to rush without care.
Shi Wengong also calmly watched as the earth-shattering thunder smashed into the Zeng family's army.
Some of the fuses of this earth-shattering thunder burned fast, some burned slowly, and some exploded above Zeng Jiajun's head.
Some fell to the ground and rolled around a few times before exploding.
But no matter whether it exploded fast or slowly, as soon as it exploded, half of the surrounding area suddenly became purgatory, and broken limbs and broken arms flew all over the sky, raising a rain of blood.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Shi Wengong was suddenly stunned!
This?
How could the earth-shattering thunder of Liangshan have such power before!
Shi Wengong's face changed when he saw it, and even Su Ding was stunned, muttering, "This ...... How did the power of this Liangshan's earth-shattering thunder become so powerful? ”
There were a few that smashed directly on the soldiers of Zeng's army, and they were in terrible pain.
After the last actual battle, Shi Jin found that the power of black powder was not enough, and this time the newly made Sky Shaking Thunder was an enhanced version!
One weighs more than three pounds. It is still a bamboo handle, but the shell is made of pig iron.
Hundreds of grenades with iron-shelled bamboo handles were thrown together, and even if they couldn't kill people, they could smash people's heads and blossom.
The weight is large, and this power should not be underestimated.
Of course, the weight is heavy, and this is thrown by arm strength, and the distance is naturally shortened.
Gather the guys with good arm strength in the whole army, that is, they can throw more than ten or twenty meters.
Without waiting for the Zhuang Ke of the Zeng family to react, he kicked away the grenades that fell beside him, and a series of violent explosions sounded in their formation again, and the scorching air wave rushed up, and the shrapnel flew and splashed, tearing the flesh and releasing a large stream of blood.
The earth-shattering thunder kept flying out of the Liangshan army and landed in the army, blowing up the flesh and blood of the soldiers!
Suddenly attacked violently, the Zhuang guests supported by the Zeng family were in chaos. The quicker ones were looking for cover and lying on their stomachs, but more of the bankers were screaming in horror and scurrying around like headless flies.
Seeing this, Shi Wengong stabbed to death a banker who ran in front of him, shocking the other bankers on the spot.
The red cherry blossom wall in Shi Wengong's hand pointed in the direction of the Liangshan Army and roared: "Keep attacking for me!" ”
Su Ding also raised his sword and shouted: "Attack!" Offensive! Just rush over and you're safe! ”
Zeng Jiajun looked at Liangshanjun in horror, looked at each other, and finally let the earth-shattering thunder blow up unbearable, Zeng Jiajun let out a howl, mustered up the courage to continue to attack Liangshanjun with knives and guns, and rushed forward desperately!
Seeing that the enemy dared to continue to charge, the soldiers of the Liangshan Army threw harder, and threw two more rounds in one go.
One after another, the shells exploded, and all those who were in the center of the explosion fell to the ground and wailed in the explosion, and the screams even overwhelmed the sound of the cannons.
Seeing that the enemy was rushing in front of him, the grenadier finally stopped throwing.
The enemy is in front of him, and he can't throw it anymore. If you throw it again, it's not killing the enemy, it's opening your chest to the enemy.
The grenadiers at the head immediately retreated.
When the soldiers of Zeng's army saw that the enemy had stopped throwing earth-shaking thunder, they all thought that the other party had no such thing as a terrible thing, so they rushed forward with more confidence.
Rushing to the near future despite the dead and wounded, the soldiers of the Zeng family army were angry one by one, as if they were going to swallow the Liangshan army alive.
Shi Jin didn't care when he saw it, because he also prepared better gifts to give to his opponent.
Zhu Wu ran over from behind and shouted, "Big brother, it's already set up!" ”
When Shi Jin heard this, he immediately shouted: "Then beat me hard and tell my subordinates, don't save it, and beat me out." I'm going to win or lose! ”
"Yes!"
Zeng Jiajun was killing the swords and spears in the front row of the Liangshan Army.
The newly formed firearms battalion in the rear of the Liangshan Army finally set up catapults, and several soldiers were working hard to resist an artillery shell weighing more than 100 catties into the iron disc.
After being placed, the soldier lit a fire and immediately shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”
The soldiers at one end immediately untied the ropes, and the end of the heavy stone tied to the horizontal log fell rapidly under the pull of gravity.
One end falls, and the other rises sharply.
When the rising beam reached a 45-degree angle, the cannonballs on the disc were thrown out under the tremendous inertia.
The shell arced through the sky, flew over almost 300 meters, and then smashed headlong.
Before it reached the ground, the fuse burned out.
When the shell exploded, the soldiers of the Zeng family army who rushed forward saw the most terrifying scene in their lives.
Not to mention that the 100-pound shell directly blew people into meatloaf, the shell exploded in the crowd.
At the moment when the flames rose, thousands of fragments and iron beads burst and shot out in all directions with a rapid sound of wind, and each light of fire would take away the souls of more than a dozen people.
Countless blood splashes within a few feet!
Some of the bankers were directly killed, and some were directly shocked to death by the shock wave after the explosion. Some of them didn't know whether it was good or bad, and although they were not killed in the first wave, their hands and feet were festered by the explosion, and they were falling to the ground howling in pain.
The empty flat bottom outside the entrance of the village of Zengtou City has become hell!
When Su Ding saw the scene in front of him, he was so frightened that his eyes almost burst out, and he said to Shi Wengong tremblingly: "That...... The weapons of those bandits are so fierce that they are unheard of, so let's withdraw first, and then think about it in the long run! ”
Shi Wengong roared: "Don't retreat, you must kill it." Otherwise, we don't know how many such weapons the other side has, and if we retreat to Zhuangzi, that will be a dead end. Rush me, rush over and win! ”
Su Ding yelled at Shi Wengong: "Teacher Shi, we must retreat first!" Dodge this bombardment! If we are bombarded by our opponents like we are now, our people will soon be killed and injured by them! ”
Hearing Su Ding's shout, Shi Wengong roared unwillingly: "Withdraw!" Withdraw now! ”
The Zhuang guests of the Zeng family ran back in a swarm of amnesty, running towards Zengjia City, and they couldn't even take care of the wounded soldiers.
Boom Boom Boom!
The catapults were fired again, and the firearms battalion was able to erect only fifteen catapults in a hurry.
Fifteen catapults were fired in unison from the center of the enemy's central army.
A red light flashed, the black mist rose, and hundreds of iron pillars and fragments sprayed in all directions, intensively spraying towards Zhuang Ke, and the fragments shot from multiple directions wrapped the entire Zeng family army soldiers in the impenetrable fragmentation group.
A single shell used to be hundreds or thousands of pieces of iron, spraying people and horses into hedgehogs.
Nine out of ten of the bankers at the center of the explosion were covered in blood, and they became hedgehogs and fell to the ground, never to get up again.
The smoke cleared, and the loud and miserable screams of Zhuang Ke almost toppled the entire city of Zengtou.
Outside the city of Zengtou suddenly became a slaughterhouse!
Zeng Sheng was the most unlucky, just a cannonball fell beside him, and even the people and horses were directly cut into pieces by the fragments.
This terrifying blow not only caused heavy casualties among the soldiers of the Zeng Family's army, but even some soldiers of the Liangshan Army shuddered.
When those leaders saw the scene in front of them, although they often heard the big leaders say that in the future, the world of firearms would be used, and the commanders would still be useful, and the generals would have no future.
They just listen, they don't care.
Until now, looking at this scene in front of me. They chilled from the bottom of their hearts.
My mother, how can you hide from such a horrific killing?
Even the most powerful generals are afraid that they will be blown up and blurred, and their limbs and arms will be broken, and they will not let the generals have a way out!
The firearms battalion fired three rounds and then ......
And then there is,
The earth-shattering thunder and thunderbolt cannons conquered Qingzhou City, Xucheng, and Dongping Mansion and looted a lot of saltpeter and sulfuric acid, so it can only be made so much.
War is about attrition!
Although the cannonballs ran out, the continuous shelling of incense made the Zhuang guests of Zengtou City feel like they were in hell, and the rain-like spraying of iron pieces and the heart-rending wailing made the Zhuang Ke who was lucky not to be hit by the attack tremble.
The terrible rain of bullets has finally ended, and the fighting spirit of Zengjiazhuang, who was blown out of his body, has already been blown up, with blood stains and corpses all over the ground.
When the shelling stopped, only the corpses were left in the center of the battlefield, and the wounded wriggled in a pool of blood like a pool of blood, letting out a faint wail!
The Zhuang Ke who was alive in the Zeng family was blown up and collapsed, and he was fleeing back like crazy.
Metallurgical technology is not up to par, artillery will not work for the time being, and for the time being it will only be possible to fire shells with catapults.
The power of using catapults to fire cannonballs is not small, but the range is a bit unsatisfactory, and the farthest distance is only three or four hundred meters.
And the worst part is that it's so bad that you don't know how far it can fly and where it will end up when you throw it away.
Even if the arrow only attacked, Shi Jin could only ask his archers to fight back, and he didn't dare to ask his subordinates to charge, because he was afraid of being accidentally injured by this thunderbolt.
The shells ran out, and Shi Jin shouted: "Attack!" ”
Hearing the sound of war drums, Lu Zhishen shouted: "The brothers of the sword battalion follow me!" ”
He was the first to rush out, and as soon as he rushed in front of the Zeng family's bankers, a round of crescent shovels, and with a sweep, he put down the two still stunned bankers.
The soldiers of the Knife Barracks have always been at the forefront, rushing towards those terrified bankers, raising their big knives and slashing them down, hacking them to the ground!
Lu Zhishen was currently rushing ahead, followed by the cavalry battalion led by Luan Yanyu to attack.
Although they started slowly, they quickly caught up with the sword barracks and rushed to the forefront.
rushed over from behind, and used the saber to harvest the lives of Zeng's villagers.
They rode on the back of a galloping war horse and swung their knives one after another, and as the knives fell, the fleeing villagers fell down one by one with blood spurting from their heads and necks.
In other words, Shi Wengong would definitely rush up and slaughter the other party's leader with high morale and turn the tide of the battle.
But now he doesn't have such courage, because the Liangshan behind him rushed over like a tsunami, as long as he dared to stop, he was afraid that he would be able to drown him immediately and trample him to death!
At this time, who dares to be a hero, and running away is the last word!
The Liangshan army is like a tiger entering the flock, and the Zengjiazhuang guests killed are like frightened birds, they dare not turn back, they can only run desperately!
Like sheep waiting to be slaughtered, Zeng's villagers fled to Zeng's village in embarrassment by a group of lions.
The frightened screams came out of the mouth of the Zhuangke Zengjia, and during the running, many of the Zhuangke thought that the weapons were in the way and threw them away. In order to escape the pursuit of the Liangshan army, many villagers saw that the drawbridge was crowded with people, and they couldn't cross it at all, so they jumped directly into the deep canal and fled to the other side!
Those who were blocked by the moat and could not pass were surrounded by the Liangshan Legion.
"Those who descend will not be killed! If you want to live, surrender quickly! ”
"Those who descend will not be killed! If you want to live, surrender quickly! ”
"Those who descend will not be killed! If you want to live, surrender quickly! ”
With the shouting of Liang Shanjun, those Zeng family Zhuangke who had collapsed did not hesitate to choose to surrender.
The Liangshan army captured nearly 700 villagers, and only more than 1,000 villagers were able to escape back to Zeng's village.
The sky was getting dark, and the Liangshan army set up a military camp outside Zengtou City.
Although Shi Wengong and Su Ding retreated to the village and had a comfortable house to live in, they were in a bad mood.
Several people sat in the hall of Zeng's house, discussing today's battle.
"Those thieves are not thieves at all, and even the officers and soldiers don't have the firearms as good as them. Damn those earth-shattering thunderbolts and thunderbolts, where did they get them, the officers and soldiers are not as good as them. We were completely defeated today by their powerful firearms, and in just one hour we suffered nearly 2,000 casualties! ”
And they used a very powerful thunderbolt cannon in battle, and most of our casualties today were killed on the spot thanks to this thunderbolt! ”
"A new type of catapult was used in this battle, which had a long range, and could even throw heavy objects from three or four hundred paces away. We don't have any weapons in our village that can suppress the opponent's bell catapult! ”
Such heavy casualties were something that Elder Zeng and Shi Wengong did not expect.
They didn't expect that Liangshan's thunder would strengthen the gunpowder, and it was ferocious.
They didn't expect the bandits to have catapults.
Damn, even the officers and soldiers don't have such good weapons and equipment.
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