Chapter 473
Originally, because Yang Quan was injured, the soldiers who were a little chaotic, under Yang Quan's shout, suddenly began to get busy in an orderly manner, the tribulus fireball smashed out by the stone thrower, intermittently smashed into the nest car, in a sound of explosion, several scattered nest cars suddenly appeared under the city wall, the army was just such a moment's effort, the early army, but it has been blown up and lost its combat effectiveness. Burn? Wen??? ??.? r?a?n?? e?n?`org
And those bombed-up nest cars, scattered along the city wall, blocked the way of the thieves behind. Slowly, the thieves also figured out the range of the catapult, and they all stood outside the range of the trebuch.
Yang Quan frowned, this Shunde Mansion is in the mainland, the city defense is damaged, and several cannons on the city wall have not been used for a long time and are not properly maintained, most of them can not be fired, although he saw the dense crowd of thieves in the distance, Yang Quan could only watch, but there was nothing he could do.
Just when both sides were deadlocked, in the woods in the distance, a cavalry suddenly sprang out, grazing the edge of this army, thinking straight about the Chinese army. Looking at the cavalry galloping out, Yang Quan really couldn't help laughing, Hou Qi, who was hiding in the woods, finally started.
Although the thieves have not continued to attack the city now, but due to the continuous attacks now, the army on the front line has suffered heavy casualties, and the attack is too fast, resulting in the Chinese army and the front has been disconnected, and now Hou Qi is seizing this opportunity to pass through the gap between this army and the Chinese army, and go straight to the opponent's Chinese army.
"It's a pity, there are no cannons, if there are cannons to help, I believe that Hou Qi and they should be able to succeed easily" Yang Quan looked at Hou Qi galloping and couldn't help but say.
Saying this, Yang Quan paused suddenly, he looked at the weapon in front of him blankly, and asked with a little puzzlement, "This, this is a bed crossbow?" ”
Wang Dong, who was following Yang Quan, glanced at it, nodded and said, "My lord, this is the bed crossbow, but although this thing shoots far, this thing can't explode, so it must be useless." ”
Yang Quan glanced at Wang Dong, "Who said it was useless?" ”
As he spoke, Yang Quan pulled out the crossbow arrow on the crossbow of the bed, although this thing is called an arrow, but if you really want to talk about it, it is thicker than a spear, Yang Quan reached out and took off the iron head of the crossbow arrow, and then, from here, he chose a long strip of weapon with a fuse and tied it to this spear. Reaching out and lighting the twist, he placed the arrow into the groove of the bed crossbow. Only then did he reach out and knock on the switch next to him, only to hear a buzz, and the arrow with a slight trill, thinking of flying away in the distance.
The arrow staggered into the depths of the crowd, fell straight down, and then disappeared into the crowd. Just a moment later, only to hear a bang, the crowd suddenly burst out of the fire, and quickly several people screamed and ran out of the army, the surrounding people hurriedly dodged to the side, only to see these few fire men rolling on the ground in pain, when they rolled over, the ground began to leave a layer of flames. Finally, someone couldn't bear to see the screams of these people, and stabbed the spear in his hand into the hearts of these people, and several people twitched a few times, and then there was no sound, only the flames on the corpse remained, still beeping and burning.
Yang Quan took a breath of cool air, this bamboo-like thing, the fire oil contained in it, is similar to the incendiary bombs of later generations, as long as the explosives inside explode, the fire oil here is contaminated with people, but it is extremely difficult to extinguish. It can be seen that in fact, if you really want to talk about it, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty and even some civilian officials are constantly developing new weapons, but the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is a treasure trove of countless treasures, but, because of the economic shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty, this countless sophisticated weapons, but they have not been equipped to the front line of the army, do not say these, that is, the weapons that have been equipped to the troops, because the officials at all levels want to eat and take cards, the quality is so poor that the soldiers are unwilling to use it, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party fought and overthrew the eunuch party. This situation is getting more and more serious, at least, during the reign of Wei Zhongxian, the Ming Dynasty established the Guanning Iron Cavalry and established the Ningjin Defense Line, both of which are pure money-burning machines.
If it is really compared, the eunuch party may be corrupt and take a lot of bribes, but there are many people who can do things and work hard, and the Donglin Party, when the party fights, is really powerful, and when it comes to making money for themselves, it is also very powerful, but when it comes to governing the country, all the big guys have begun to collectively pull Daming's pants. Therefore, in addition to various reasons at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the insatiable greed of the scholar class was another important reason for promoting the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, most of the firearms used by Yang Quan are all things made in the past few thousand years, as for the weapons distributed after Chongzhen's year, Yang Quan did not dare to let people try again, because he just shot several arrows, either they did not explode, or they were shot in the air and exploded in advance.
As Yang Quan's burning sheet kept shooting into the enemy's position, the intruding army, which was barely maintaining the formation, was instantly chaotic, and then the panicked soldiers (refugees) rushed towards the invading Chinese army, and then the soldiers of this phalanx dispersed, driving the surrounding soldiers to flee in embarrassment. The soldiers of the Chinese army, barely maintaining their formation in the flow of people,
"Steady, steady, steady! Don't mess up, don't mess up! The general of the Chinese army shouted at the soldiers at the top of his voice, in this case, the most feared thing is that the soldiers will be disrupted by the chaos.
The soldiers of the Chinese army, under the orders of the generals, barely stabilized their positions, but they were just guarding against the chaos, but they forgot that the small cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was in the middle of the soldiers, barely standing on their heels, but the crowd was suddenly rushed away, and then an iron cavalry rushed towards the soldiers of the Chinese army.
The screams, moans, cries, and even the sound of kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, mixed with the rumbling hooves of horses, reached Yang Quan's ears, but the chaotic soldiers still rushed into the soldiers of the Chinese army, and then, the soldiers of the Chinese army also followed the crowd and fled in embarrassment.
In this case, Yang Quan didn't expect that in the military tent in the army, the general also didn't expect it, but it was only a moment of effort, both sides woke up, Yang Quan began to arrange people to start preparing to help Hou Qi pursue, and the general of the other party had already reacted at that moment, went out of the tent, took the guards around him, and fled into the distance.