Chapter 41 Firearms Destroy the Enemy
The soldiers were dumbfounded, they had never seen such a strange scene before. Looking at the generals who looked at him, Li Jie pouted, "It's just a pit!" Everyone was stunned. On the other side, the Tianxiong army suffered heavy losses.
The Tianxiong army rushed up like a wolf, and a lieutenant rushed to the front and shouted in his mouth, "Rush up, rush up, kill them!" Chang Yu in his hand pointed straight ahead, and suddenly the captain felt that he was flying in the air, and then he saw the earth rushing towards him at a rapid speed, and before he could react, the person had already fallen to the ground, and there was a huge pain in his neck, and then he fell into boundless darkness.
Many people fall off their horses before they know what is going on, and before they can get up, the horses behind them have already rushed up, and when the horses run over, the people are already dead and cannot die anymore. The speed of the entire cavalry had slowed down, and there were dead horses and dead men everywhere.
Zhao Wenben and the others are already stupid, what is the situation in front of them, why did the horse fall all of a sudden? But you can't stop if you want to, and the tens of thousands of cavalry can't stop when they move.
The soldiers of the National Army had recovered from their panic and were watching the battlefield excitedly. Li Jie saw that when the advance of the cavalry was only a hundred meters away from him, he ordered "Firearms battalion, all firearms fire!" Sword and shield soldiers step forward! ”
The soldiers of the firearms battalion who had already prepared began to prepare for the ignition, and Cheng Moyu held the command flag and shouted, "Zhuang crossbow ten percent force, release!" The soldier cut the arquebus to the length of the choice, and dozens of bed crossbows were smashed open with a "bang". Dozens of gunpowder bullets flew into the air, swept over the heads of Zhao Wenben and the others and fell backwards, "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The sound of an explosion came from behind. A large amount of iron slag contained in the gunpowder bullet was shot in all directions, mercilessly on people and horses.
At the same time, the earth-shattering thunder was also launched, and countless explosive packets fell into the cavalry camp and exploded. The men and horses in the vicinity of the blast site all fell to the ground, bleeding from their noses and mouths. Many horses were frightened! Running around frantically, some of the knights on the horses have been thrown off their horses and trampled to pulp! Some hugged the horse's neck tightly, desperately urging the war horse, hoping that they would be lucky enough to escape from this hell.
Zhao Wenben and others are stupid, completely stupid! What kind of means did the other party use, looking at the Tianxiong Army with many casualties, Zhao Wenben was anxious! He pulled out his waist knife and shouted loudly, "Rush, rush with me!" Rush up! ”
The striker was about to rush up, when the elm of the firearms battalion burst into flames, and the elm spray was all loaded with shotguns, and with a "boom" a huge number of people and horses fell in front of us, and the horses and people were full of blood holes, and the blood flowed out and stained the earth red.
"Shoot the arrows!" Li Jie gave the order again. Liu Tie raised the command flag and shouted: "The first team is ready to shoot one by one!" With a breathtaking scream, the black pressure pressed thousands of giant arrows and swept away, and when Zhao Wenben and the others felt that something was wrong, the sound of giant arrows entering the body and screaming soldiers and horses was already heard behind him.
Zhao Wenben turned his head and saw a scene that frightened him, at a distance of a few hundred meters from the national army, his cavalry fell no less than four hundred cavalry, what made him even more frightened was that he didn't see the usual way, some brothers who were hit by arrows continued to shout and charge with arrows, and those giant arrows were like javelins, all of them passed through their bodies, almost wearing the soldiers on horseback and their war horses together, without any hope of survival.
"What is this?" Zhao Wenben shouted hoarsely, but no one answered him. The second row of giant arrows fell again with a terrifying sound, and the third row and the fourth row, like continuous hail, smashed into the charging ranks of the Tianxiong Army, and every time the giant arrows landed, they would take away the lives of a group of Tianxiong Army.
Before Zhao Wenben could give another order, another batch of giant arrows roared, and all the people around him were nailed to the ground, explosions continued to sound, and giant arrows also fell in batches, and countless people and horses were shot to the ground.
A lieutenant led the remnants of the cavalry to just rush out of hell, and Li Jie once again ordered "Assault musket attack!" Two thousand firearms battalion soldiers and two thousand sword and shield soldiers who made a makeshift cameo lit the assault rifles, "Bah! Bang! Bang! The sound of fire was incessant, shooting the lieutenant and the remnants of the cavalry into a hornet's nest.
The firearms battalion ran out of ammunition, the battlefield was filled with screams and dying groans, and some of the remaining cavalry finally rushed out and launched a final assault on the national army under the leadership of an officer. "Spearmen in front!"
A group of captains of spearmen stepped forward and lined up in a tight formation, and the officers rushed up with men, seeing that they were about to rush into the big formation, "First row, stab!" A spear stabbed out, and a spear appeared in front of him, and his war horse couldn't dodge, so he crashed into it directly. In an instant, a bright spear came out in front of his eyes through the neck of the war horse, and if it weren't for the officer's quick reaction, it would have stabbed directly into his chest, stringing him and his war horse together.
At the moment when the dead war horse fell, the officer flew and jumped off the horse, twisted his body, dodged the cavalry behind him and his war horse, and saw that the cavalry was immediately directly strung together by two spears, and the cavalry died without even having a chance to shout.
"No!" The officer screamed wildly and rushed forward with his saber brandished, but no sooner had he been met by a spear, and he dodged it with all his might. The spear pierced the air, and he was about to swing his knife to cut it out, when another spear stabbed like a poisonous snake, and his knife immediately swung out, swinging the spear, and he wanted to rush forward again, but a spear appeared in front of him again, and this time he could no longer dodge. The spear stabbed him in the chest at once, and the blood gushed out desperately, and the spear was withdrawn, and the officer fell to the ground and gradually became confused, and then he knew nothing.
There were no more cavalry standing on the battlefield, there were dead people and dead horses everywhere, and a group of panicked cavalry was fleeing the battlefield in the distance. Li Tang rushed out with the cavalry, and Li Jie's order was to annihilate them and take Weizhou by chance.
Looking at the hellish battlefield in front of them, the power of gunpowder was completely displayed, and people were shocked by this almost devastating power, looking at the corpse mountain and blood sea in front of them, the recruits didn't know who was the first to retch, and then it infected the entire team like a plague, and immediately a huge retching sound resounded throughout the battlefield, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
Li Jie ordered "The whole army will attack, and no one will be left!" "The pikemen, swords, shields, and firearms battalions are all dispatched, and they are lined up in a neat queue forward, forward!
Looking at the overwhelming momentum of the soldiers, Li Jie nodded: "Training is the foundation, but no matter how hard the training is, as long as you have never been on the battlefield, it is a showcase, and the battlefield is the real training ground. ”
"Don't bow your head, look ahead, and attack with all your might!" Qin Fang roared with all the strength in his chest, allowing his voice to reverberate over the entire phalanx, so that every subordinate could hear it clearly.
"Don't look down, look ahead, attack!" One officer after another, repeating Qin Fang's orders loudly,
The effect of hard training every day was revealed, and tens of thousands of people habitually followed Qin Fang's orders to raise their heads and strode into hell.
The neat footsteps began to step into the flesh and blood battlefield, they only felt the blood and stench, and the slipping under their feet was very greasy, they knew what they were stepping on, but at this time, the excited emotions and serious military orders made them move forward firmly!
Li Jie's order reached everyone, don't take prisoners! Although Qin Fang didn't understand, he still gave the order. Watching the soldiers move forward, Qin Fang asked at this time, "Your Highness, why don't you take prisoners, these people are all cavalry, and they can greatly expand our cavalry!" ”
Li Jie looked at the people who were looking at him and said, "These cavalrymen were not ordinary people before, they have been passed down from father to son for several generations, and they have long lost the simplicity and kindness of ordinary people, they are greedy and arrogant, and treat human life as child's play." The knots are slightly less than they want, and they are also cut down with a knife. I don't dare to ask for such soldiers, and I won't want them. My soldiers will observe strict military discipline and protect the people. And if they are accepted, the military economy will be scattered, and the people will be bullied. Instead of spending time rectifying, don't! "Everyone suddenly realized!
Half an hour later, there were no more living Tianxiong troops on the battlefield. "Kill horses for meat!" Another order was given, and the soldiers were busy. Tens of thousands of horses! Millions of catties of meat are enough for the soldiers to eat for a year. The corpses were carried away and buried, and the armor on the corpses and the weapons scattered on the battlefield were all collected together. The carts of the firearms battalion were also pulled out, and there were so many things that they piled up, and many things were taken back and repaired and could still be used.
A fast horse came running from a distance and came to Li Jie, and immediately the knight arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, Wei City has been taken by General Li!" Li Jie was overjoyed, and immediately ordered Lieutenant Chi Baolin to take a thousand pikemen and a thousand sword and shield soldiers to Weicheng. He also ordered Jinyiwei to immediately send back the news to Xinxiang, and at the same time recruited carts to pull the supplies back.
Li Jie, who felt that his troops were insufficient, at the same time ordered Han Yue, who was left behind, to recruit 10,000 troops again, and immediately occupy all the surrounding counties of Xinxiang County, and at the same time ordered Liu Yunzhang to recruit 10,000 soldiers, and 5,000 recruits to come to Weicheng immediately! After giving the order, Li Jie pointed in the direction of Weicheng with a horsewhip, "Let's enter the city!" ”
Two thousand Chinese troops bypassed the battlefield and marched towards Weicheng with Li Jie and others. Li Tang led a thousand cavalry and followed the rout from a distance to advance towards Wei City. The defeated soldiers were less than 1,000, and they desperately fought their horses to flee back to Wei City. It's horrible! It's horrible! Get out of this hell! That's what these routs are thinking about now!
Looking at the tall walls of Wei City from afar, the defeated soldiers finally put their minds at ease, and shouted "Open the city gate quickly!" Open the gates! Li Tang saw it from a distance, and pointed at the saber in his hand, "Rush!" Capture the city of Wei! ”