Shocking thunder, this title was used in the Song Dynasty, which generally refers to throwing firearms filled with gunpowder and wrapped in iron sheets. After the Ming Dynasty, it was carried forward, in the battle of Baihegou during the Jianwen period, the southern army had been used in actual combat, but at this time it has evolved into a mine-like firearm buried in the ground with a fuse ignited, when the Jiajing Dynasty was a military department squire Lang had milled the governor of the three sides and Qi Jiguang to guard the town of Ji, they had used a large number of earth-shaking mines, buried in the traffic arteries and dangerous places, played an excellent role.

Li Maozu served as a soldier in the Ming Dynasty, and of course the people around him were also familiar with the firearms of the Ming army, so when he saw the explosives package released by the Kuizhou army, he reflexively shouted out.

"Earthquake Thunder?" Li Maozu was shocked in his heart, and tried his best to control the frightened mount under him, and his mind instantly turned: "The earth-shaking thunder is an extremely powerful firearm, it has always been only manufactured by the Beijing Military Bureau, and the Shenji battalion is a unique equipment, after the thieves occupied Beijing and the Shenji battalion was wiped out, the earth-shaking thunder was never seen again in the Ming army, where did these Ming troops find it?" ”

Time did not allow him to think about it more, in just a few breaths, followed by more than ten explosive bags that flew into the sky, with a dull whistling sound, fell to the ground one after another, the explosive bags were light and heavy, and the places where they fell were also near and far, some flew away, and fell to the distance outside the Qing army array, and some flew closer, shooting out more than ten steps and falling to the ground, plus the missed, more than ten explosives bags shot out and really fell into the Qing army's formation, but only three or four.

That's enough.

The sparkling explosives bag on the fuse rolled in the crowd, the Qing soldiers were all from the Ming army, and naturally knew that this was definitely not a fun thing, plus the shocking explosion effect of the first explosive pack, everyone knew with their toes that as long as these cover rolls were blown up, no one would want to live.

Some people shouted loudly to let the crowd disperse, some people rushed forward desperately, trying to put out the fire with their feet, and more people, under great fear, instinctively avoided the explosive bags that fell to the ground.

One of the explosive packets was trampled on, and the rest, moments after hitting the ground, exploded.

The earth shook violently in an instant, and it could be felt within a radius of several miles, black gunpowder smoke mixed with gray dust, spiraling straight up, forming huge mushroom clouds, rising under Xinhua City in the wave-like shock wave.

Iron nails and gravel flew horizontally, penetrating armor and flesh, cutting people's blood vessels, dismembering human organs, and the Qing soldiers who were close to the explosion point were directly blown into countless pieces of meat, and a little farther away, those with missing arms and legs were blown up in the air and then fell heavily, and a little farther away, under the strong shock wave shock, they vomited blood and died.

Few people could hear the successive explosions, because almost all the Qing army and Chinese soldiers were shocked in the first explosion and fell into a state of deafness, unable to hear anything.

The great array of 5,000 people, wrapped in gunsmoke, like a city engulfed in a sandstorm, collapsed so fast that it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Li Maozu in the back, Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin on both wings, and the Kuizhou army under the Xinhua city wall, all opened their mouths wide, looking at everything in front of them with great fear and surprise, almost unbelievable.

The large array of 5,000 people, even if they stood still and bombarded with red-coated cannons, would not collapse so quickly, and the solid iron bumps hit by the cannons would not be as big as a dozen lines, and they would not produce such a large-scale killing effect.

In the center of the entire battlefield, the sky was filled with smoke, and the smoke rose into the sky, blocking the scorching sun, and the sun's rays seemed to be swallowed up by the explosion, adding an endless panic effect to the killing.

Even though they are on their own side and far away, they can still empathize with the extremely powerful shock wave, as well as the violent explosion sound and the air wave that is still in their ears, everyone feels the cold sweat on their bodies, and they are glad that they are with the right person.

Just looking at the more than 100 steps away, those tumbling human tissues and blood splashing in the sky have made these bloodthirsty veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time feel a burst of heart palpitations, shocked, and will be full of awe-inspiring eyes, cast to the initiator of all this, the chief general of the Kuizhou army, Daming Pingliang Bo Wang Huan.

Even Li Dingguo is no exception.

He ignored some faintly painful eardrums, and in his eyes of admiration and submission, he had admired to the point of madness.

But Wang Huan was still smacking his lips, his hands covering his ears were driven by the shaking head to shake, and he couldn't stop muttering to himself: "The accuracy is too poor, it seems that the way to directly dig a hole in the ground instead of the launch tube is too primitive, that is, it is impossible to control the range and not ensure accuracy, and it is a waste of gunpowder. ”

The corners of his mouth grinned again, looking at the army of Li Maozu who had fallen into a sluggish state behind the collapsed Qing army, and smiled contemptuously: "Thousands of catties of black gunpowder are enough to blow up a city, can't it kill your two-skinned faces?" ”

The wind in the wilderness blew gently, dissipating some smoke, at this time, from the inside crying and howling ran out of some stumbling people, these people have been frightened, throwing away their armor and running in embarrassment, like flies in a mess, scurrying in all directions, some people are dizzy, do not distinguish things, actually ran in the direction of the Kuizhou army, ran for a while to come back to their senses and found that something was wrong, and then panicked and turned back and fled.

The overseers in the rear were also stunned by the vision in front of them, and even forgot to carry out their own duties, and were stunned in place, allowing the scattered soldiers to flee back, not at all strictly enforcing military discipline as just now.

The 5,000-strong Chinese army, excluding those killed by the bombing and those who fled in all directions, rushed back to the rest of Li Maozu's rear formation, about 2,000 people, but these 2,000 people were like frightened birds, lost their weapons and did not know what to do, and had lost their combat effectiveness.

Li Maozu's main formation, which was overwhelmed by the rear army, also had 2,000 pro-military battalions, and Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin on both wings, each with 3,000 soldiers, and in terms of numbers, the Qing army still had an overwhelming advantage.

Wang Huan took out the cotton stuffed in his ears, clapped his hands, motioned to the people around him to do the same, and then ordered: "Order, blow the trumpet, and the army will be exhausted!" ”

Beside him, there were four guards with large horns on their backs, followed Wang Huan to take out the cotton in his ears, and then turned the huge horns on his back to his side, took a deep breath, puffed out his cheeks and blew hard.

"Woo~~~!!"

The unique low horn sound of the horn resounded in the sky, like a wave into the sea, stirring up echoes.

Li Dingguo urged him to step forward and stood a few steps away in front of Wang Huan, and Ma Wannian had a tacit understanding with more than ten guards to follow and surrounded Wang Huan in the middle.

Li Dingguo's expression was grim, his face was sinking like water, his shining eyes exuded a terrifying cold glow, and his cold expression showed the ruthless state of mind before the fight.

He slowly raised an iron spear in his hand, and the red tassels on the tip of the spear fluttered in the wind, like a raging fire, so conspicuous in the solemn air.

The officers and men of the Kuizhou army rode their horses closer to the middle, forming a closer horizontal formation, with their spears raised, holding guns in one hand and the reins in the other, keeping on a horizontal line with Li Dingguo, quietly waiting for the moment of the charge.

"Kuizhou Army, Wansheng!" Li Dingguo burst out with a roar from the depths of his throat and with the strength of his whole body, and at the same time used force under his feet to beat the horse slowly forward.

"Wan Sheng!" Countless responses rushed into the mouths of every soldier of the Kuizhou Army, following Li Dingguo's pace, in order from the middle to the two sides, one after another, forming a "human" shaped impact array.

Wang Huan pulled down the iron nose guard on the eight-petal iron helmet, took a deep breath, clenched the spear in his hand, followed behind Li Dingguo, maintained the same speed as him, and merged into the array to urge the horse to move forward.

Li Dingguo's horse ran in the front, his speed controlled the speed of the entire array, I saw his eyes staring at the rear of the Qing army looming in the smoke in front of him, controlling the reins with one hand, controlling the horse with both legs, slowly speeding up the horse's speed, from slowly moving forward to speeding up.

The Qing troops on both flanks immediately discovered the movement of the Kuizhou army, and immediately understood that the Ming army was going to attack Li Maozu's rear head-on.

But so what? Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin are both foot soldiers, and the original task given to them was to guard the flanks, not to give the Ming army room to escape, and there was no plan for them to take the initiative to attack.

The white armor of the Kuizhou army turned into a dragon in the black smoke, pierced through the clouds and fog, smashed the yellow dragon, passed through the sea of corpses and blood formed by the explosion of the explosive package, and went straight to Li Maozu!

Thousands of war horses flew over with their hooves, and the hooves rumbled and horns in the sky, like a sharp sword, slashing towards the rear of the Qing army.

Li Maozu had recovered at this time, and of course the movement of the Ming army was also in his eyes, his eyes were blood-red, full of dissatisfaction.

"Ben Fu is both civil and military, and he has won a hundred battles, how can he be defeated by an unknown miscellaneous army!" Li Maozu gritted his teeth, kept waving the sword in his hand, and scolded the soldiers around him not to panic and line up to defend against the enemy.

"What about your cavalry? The soldiers are all elite, as long as the formation is not dispersed, you can't eat me, and when the reinforcements from the two wings converge, the number of people is several times more than yours, and I can't help me. Li Maozu said secretly with hatred in his heart: "Although I can't catch up with you now, but when the Benfu cavalry at the north gate rushes over, two flanking attacks, this group of Ming troops will not be able to escape!" ”

Under his supervision, his personal battalion was really brave, fearless in the face of the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and neatly arranged in a phalanx as if he were at home, with pikemen in front and archers behind, waiting for the Kuizhou army to rush over.

Li Maozu was in the middle, staring at the Kuizhou army that was charging under heavy protection, his teeth were clenched, in this battle, he had already lost the first move, and suffered heavy losses, if he couldn't take it, everything would be over.

He didn't want any horses anymore, and there was only one thought in his mind, which was to slaughter this group of heavenly killing Ming soldiers and sacrifice the souls of the five thousand elite soldiers who had lost.

The speed of the Ming army's horses gradually rose, and the distance of hundreds of steps was enough to accelerate to the speed of the horses galloping at full speed, and it could also maximize the huge advantage of the cavalry's impact.

In the Qing army's formation, the archers were already aiming at the approaching Ming army, raising their short bows diagonally, ready to throw a wave.

At this moment, on the ground on the other side of the Qing army's rear formation, it also trembled.

It was an earthquake formed by a thousand healthy horses stepping on the ground.

Li Maozu turned his head back in disbelief, and in his pupils, a rush of smoke and dust and a row of black cavalry lines were immediately reflected.

"Behind, there are also Ming cavalry behind!" Some Qing soldiers had already exclaimed loudly, which immediately made the soldiers of the entire phalanx panic, and they all turned their heads to look back.

In the rear of the Qing army, a group of white armor Ming army emerged from a forest, almost at the same time as the horn sounded, and the Ming army under Xinhua City launched a charge at the same time, because the attention of the Qing army was attracted by the Ming army in front, and no one found that there was also a Ming army outcropping behind.

Yu Shizhong and Ma Jiaolin, who were on both wings, helplessly watched the rear formation being attacked by the two Ming cavalry in front and behind, their faces were pale and helpless, they were too late to help, and Li Maozu's defeat was unsolvable.

(End of chapter)