Chapter 599: A Narrow Road Encounter
"Desheng, what's going on ahead?" Wu Yazi personally sat under the tower, preparing to capture Zhang You alive, and Qiu Desheng took most of the people to prepare in front of the watch.
"The vanguard has already entered the range of the cannon, but they stopped, as if waiting for something, I came here to ask the senior brother, do you want to open fire?" That's more than 500 Ming officers and soldiers, as soon as the artillery goes off, it's tantamount to exposing a rebellion, Rao is already mentally prepared, and when the matter comes to an end, Qiu Desheng is still a little trembling.
"Wait, wait until they are all in range before firing, this time, the poor road will let them have no return!" Wu Yazi sneered and said, this moment of claiming to be poor is really a bit awkward.
"Oh no, no, don't leave the travelers and run away......"
An exclamation came from the window on the top floor of the stone tower, Wu Yazi and Qiu Desheng changed color at the same time, Wu Yazi raised his head and asked, "What nonsense?" Could it be that he can still grow wings? ”
The two Taoist priests who went up to the tower to investigate the situation nodded again and again, and said in unison: "It's similar to having wings, jumping off the cliff from the back window......"
As he spoke, Wu Yazi and Qiu Desheng had already jumped up, clicked the eaves of the tower twice, entered through the window, and jumped directly to the top floor from the outside.
"Unless he recovers his true qi, jumping from the back window is suicide......" Wu Yazi said as he walked quickly to the back window and looked down.
Qiu Desheng also followed, just in time to see a white cloud falling to the ground, he had seen the parachute training of the Tianbing Guard parachute in the palace with his own eyes, and immediately reacted, and scolded angrily: ", you actually brought a parachute, senior brother, didn't you search him?" ”
Parachute in fact, most people have heard of it, but not many have seen it with their own eyes, hearing Qiu Desheng say this, Wu Yazi has already reacted, grabbed the window lattice, and pinched it with a "click": "Who would have thought that there was still a parachute hidden in his baggage?" At that time, I flipped through it casually, but I didn't find the seal, so I just threw it in the corner...... No wonder he had to find a way to open the door, and the closing was just for the parachute in the baggage. Damn, the eighty old lady collapsed the child, and the poor road fought the wild goose all her life, and I didn't expect that there would be a day when I was pecked in the eye! ”
"Oops," Qiu Desheng said suddenly: "Our arrangements in front of us are clear without leaving travelers, and we must notify Zhang You when we escape from the cage this time...... What should I do, brother? ”
The two Taoist priests next to him also looked at Wuyazi nervously, the reason why they dared to fight more with less was that the people they relied on were the Hongyi cannons that came from the hands of the Dutch devils, and now the news has leaked, the other party only needs to withdraw from the range of the cannon to surround them without fighting, and they can be trapped to death.
Wu Yazi's face was cloudy, he hesitated for a while, and quickly made a decision: "Leave twenty people in front to fire to divert their attention, and the rest of me will break through from behind!" ”
Qiu Desheng stopped talking, sighed, and quickly went out of the door to make arrangements. The two Taoist priests didn't dare to say much when they saw that Wuyazi's face was sinking like water, and they retreated dumbly.
From the side of the cliff to the front of Ziyang Temple, it was necessary to go around for several miles, and before half of the walk, someone quickly caught up from behind and reported: "My lord, no travelers have escaped, so don't go to the front, there is a cannon ambush in front......"
"Lao Xu escaped?" Zhang You was overjoyed, and then surprised: "What did you say?" The other party actually has a firearm? ”
Baoxin'er gasped for breath, and nodded again and again: "Don't leave the traveler to say it himself, he fell from the sky, he is really like a god......" He also wanted to talk about the parachute, but was interrupted by Zhang You: "Auntie, you are fast, hurry up and inform Qi Shuai of the news, let him be careful of the other party's firearms, and finally divide the troops to help me, I guess Lao Xu's run must have disrupted the other party's plan, if you want to break through, you must choose the back mountain." ”
"Back Mountain?"
Zhang You nodded confidently: "Yes, the army is impermanent, and the opponent is bold, and he will definitely choose the most unlikely path." ”
Li Yan didn't say anything more and walked away.
Not long after she left, Zhang You heard a huge roar coming from the front of the mountain, the ground shook, and the color suddenly changed, and he secretly sweated for Qi Jiguang and them: It is impossible for Li Yan to deliver the news at such a short time, and he doesn't know that they are not within the range of artillery......
At the same time, I was secretly glad that thanks to the timely escape of the travelers, otherwise when the other party opened fire, I would not be able to keep myself within the firing range, and listening to the roaring sound was still a flowering bullet, I didn't need to hit myself, as long as one fell on the side, my little life would be explained.
The sound of artillery was one after another, endless, like thunder roaring, there was no end, Zhang You was secretly surprised while ordering to speed up: "How many artillery pieces has the other party prepared?" One after another, why didn't there even explode? ”
He is the head of the Gewu Institute, he is very familiar with the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and the firearms are definitely the top level in the world now, and the research of artillery is also being carried out, and the steel made by the wind-powered steelmaking method has successfully solved the current problem of easy explosion of artillery, but due to the limitation of steel production, it has not been mass-produced, and only ten are equipped with Tianbingwei, which outsiders will never be able to get.
As for the various types of artillery in various garrisons, the common problem is the explosion of the bore, and one cannon can hit ten shells is considered good.
When Zhang You led people to the bottom of the cliff, Chen Shun had already led people to fight with a group of Taoist priests.
Ropes hung from the cliff, and more than twenty Taoist priests were sliding down the three ropes.
Chen Shun led all the brave men personally selected by Qi Jiguang, and in the face of those Taoist priests, although they had a slight advantage in numbers, they were fighting and retreating.
Without him, those Taoist priests are not only brave, they are simply desperate, on the other hand, they have little actual combat experience, and secondly, Qi Jiguang's training time is still short, and the strict military discipline has not yet played a role, and no one is willing to fight hard if they are afraid of the enemy.
When the brave meet on a narrow road, the battle is a momentum, and the momentum is not good, no matter how many people there are, it is a rabble.
Zhang You found the crux of the problem at a glance, pulled out a knife from the waist of the soldier next to him, stepped forward quickly, and put a small man who was shrunk behind him to the ground with a single sword, and shouted at the same time: "If there is no one who fears the enemy, there will be no forgiveness!" ”
The bloody scene shocked the soldiers in shock, and they suddenly remembered the large number of military orders that Qi Jiguang had spoken about at the beginning of his tenure.
Zhang You was afraid that he would still not be able to deter them, and when he saw that a Taoist priest with a machete in his hand on the opposite side was retreating, he rushed over without saying a word, and while holding the opponent's right arm with a knife, the blade in his hand that had just been stained with his own blood had already stabbed into his lower abdomen.
As soon as the handle of the knife was twisted, the knife was drawn and his leg was raised, and the blood flew and splashed his face, but he didn't care at all, wiped it casually, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, kill them without leaving a piece of armor!" ”