Chapter 321: The Fate of Cannon Fodder
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Although the previous battle was fierce, these cannon fodder were still fighting desperately, because they knew that they had reached the point where they would die if they didn't fight. Whereas they had been driven to their deaths in front, starved and cold on the road, and killed by the soldiers of the Overseer for their slowness in battle, today they are fighting for themselves, they have weapons and a goal, which is to take revenge on the executioners who killed their relatives and friends.
At this moment, the group of executioners were fleeing backwards in terror, and they were already killing at this moment, and one by one they rushed forward with red eyes and weapons held high. Zhang Cunmeng's troops were defeated and fleeing because they were dead and in defeat at the moment, so they had no ability to resist the charge of this group of cannon fodder at all, but just ran backwards with their heads, and many soldiers even lost their weapons in the process of fleeing, lest they would not be able to run fast because the weapons dragged themselves down and would be caught up by the cannon fodder behind. What's more, they also brandished their weapons and slashed and killed the "comrades-in-arms" who started faster than themselves, at least one more unlucky person fell behind, and they would be safer, as for this person who was their comrade-in-arms, they didn't feel guilty at all, anyway, the dead friends didn't die in the poor way.
Wang Ziyong's face turned red at this moment, his hands clenched into fists and trembled again and again, he was not afraid, but angry! The cannon fodder in front of them obviously set off without weapons in their hands, without complete warm clothes on their bodies, and without shoes under their feet. His elite soldiers were equipped with clothes, shoes and socks, and many of them wore cotton armor taken from the officers and soldiers, and although this group of troops sent to lead the battle was not the most elite of his 36th battalion, it was still a first-class unit. But now the situation is just the opposite, the cannon fodder has taken off the clothes and shoes from a large number of corpses, put them on their bodies, and are holding weapons in their hands to chase and kill their own high-ranking troops with high morale, but the subordinates who have high hopes are scrambling to turn their heads and run wildly, and most of them have even lost their weapons, and they really feel ashamed to say it.
"Someone! Pull out the Warlord Camp and stop these brutes for me! Wang Ziyong couldn't help but shout angrily, "The archer battalion is also pulled out!" Whoever dares to flee backwards is a dead end! ”
As the horns sounded continuously, a large number of soldiers with various weapons in their hands drove out of the camp and spread out in three horizontal columns in front of the camp. The War Camp is the most elite team used by Wang himself, all of which are composed of veterans of a hundred battles. These soldiers were now wearing thick leather boots on their feet, which could not be equipped by ordinary troops, and even the more than 600 people in this area were selected from all the captures. The weapons of the camp are also very particular, the soldiers in the front are holding swords and shields, the soldiers in the middle are holding spears more than a foot long, and the soldiers in the back are holding crossbow machines, and they are staring at the large group of routs rushing at the moment.
Behind the team are more than 300 archers, these archers and Zhang Cunmeng's junk archers are not comparable at all, most of the bows they use are from the armory of the best bows, the arrows used are even better matching arrows, not only the arrows are mostly made of pig iron, the tail feathers are also meticulously glued, and the trajectory is accurate after shooting, and the lethality will not be discounted in the slightest.
"Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" With the three neat roars of the Warlord's Battalion, the sound spread far away from the battlefield, and even the snow fell from the towers of Taiping City. The routs must have heard the roar of warning, and they couldn't help but feel a little weak on the soles of their feet, they all knew what the consequences would be if they encountered the Overseers on the battlefield, but now that they had no weapons in their hands, and behind them were a group of vicious pursuers, they really didn't know what to do, so they had to continue to flee forward.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! With another three roars, the crossbowmen of the third row were the first to strike, and hundreds of crossbow arrows were shot out of the camp at the same time, shooting straight at the group of "own people" who were still rushing towards them, and the soldiers who fled in front immediately fell down in unison like wheat harvested by a sickle, and the soldiers who were fleeing behind them also stopped in fright.
At this moment, the cannon fodder who followed closely behind also caught up with the target, they didn't care about what was happening in front of them, they just raised the weapons in their hands and slashed and stabbed on the enemies who were blocked in place and could not move, and the outermost rebels were chopped melons and vegetables by the cannon fodder to harvest their lives, the rebels were even more frightened at this time, and many people knelt down to the cannon fodder who caught up and begged for mercy, wanting to ask for a way to live, but they were often greeted with knives and axes, and none of the cannon fodder had even the slightest mercy to them. The rebels who had fled to the front before also knelt down towards the Overseers, crying loudly and begging to spare a way out, but the Overseers did not sympathize with them at all, they just looked at them coldly, and their weapons did not change direction in the slightest.
"Turn around and kill back!" Someone in the Overseer shouted loudly, causing the Overseer soldiers next to him to shout in unison, "Kill back!" Kill back! Kill back! "But how easy is it to let these routs fight back? They have no will to fight now, they have been terrified of the group of cannon fodder who were slaughtered by them before, and the weapons in their hands have been lost in the rout, and most of them are now grabbing and harvesting the lives of their companions in the hands of that group of cannon fodder, even if they turn their heads, they are just holding their own bodies to face the swords of the cannon fodder, which is tantamount to death.
But the Overseers will definitely not let them flee back, these soldiers can't help but cry loudly when they see this situation, many of them kowtow in the direction of the camp, but there is no response, the Warlords' swords, guns and crossbow arrows are still coldly towards them, they can only turn around and kill back, there is only one way to die. In this case, someone roared, got up and turned around and rushed back, but was soon cut to the ground by the cannon fodder who were fighting in the back, and was slashed several times. More people were disheartened, just kneeling on the ground and waiting for the cannon fodder behind them to put the knife on their necks.
"Shoot the arrows!" Wang Ziyong finally had enough of this farce, he was very puzzled as to why his group of soldiers would rather sit and wait for death than turn around and kill back, but this army is also his own lineage, and it is not a matter of letting a group of cannon fodder kill them all, he decided to save these troops, and immediately issued an order.
But the problem is that he didn't say who the archer battalion was targeting, before the archer battalion stood behind the warlord's battalion, watching the overseer shoot rows of crossbow arrows into the array of its own people, and now the group of their own people are kneeling on the ground waiting for death, as soon as they heard the order to release the arrows, they naturally thought that they were going to fire at the group of "their own people", so with a burst of bowstrings, hundreds of arrows fell with a whistling sound to the crowd of people mixed with axemen, warlords, archers, and standard-bearers. These people had already lost their fighting spirit, and at this moment they were covered by arrows and shot, and a large number of people fell at the moment, and they were soon completely "drowned" by the group of cannon fodder.
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"! It's a bunch of fools! Wang scolded himself, but it was useless for him to scold, the group of routs had basically lost all of them now, and almost all the cannon fodder was left in the face of his own team.
"What should I do?" "To kill or not to kill?" "There are so many of them!" "What are we going to do next?" As this group of routs was slaughtered, the cannon fodder suddenly saw nothing, only to find that more than a hundred steps away was a well-organized army, this army was wearing neat clothes and armor, and the weapons in their hands flashed with cold light, which made them shudder. The ferocity of the previous killing and the ecstasy of revenge were now gone with the death of the rout, and the strict army in front of them brought them an infinite sense of oppression.
"They're nothing remarkable!" "That's it, thousands of them were killed, what are these hundreds?" "That's right!" "That's it! Kill it! There was such a shout from the cannon fodder, and they emboldened each other, and some tried to advance a few steps towards the line, but the other did not move, and the people next to them also followed a few steps, and the two sides fell into an eerie calm atmosphere.
"Don't be afraid to die! There's nothing to be afraid of them! "That's it! Go up and kill them all! Grab their clothes! A few of the cannon fodder who were still trembling roared loudly, and there were still a large number of cannon fodder behind them rummaging and stripping off their clothes and shoes on the corpses, or using knives to harvest the rebels who were pretending to be dead or not yet dead, and searching for their belongings, while the few who shouted were because they were too slow to move just now, so they had not yet stripped off enough clothes to wear, so they simply did not do anything, and encouraged everyone to go up together and get themselves some clothes and shoes to wear.
With the momentum of the victory just now, many cannon fodder also came to the strength, after all, they had just fought a turnaround battle, and they were wearing a lot warmer, and they had weapons, of course, they came to the momentum, and when they heard the call, many people roared and rushed forward with their weapons, but they didn't see that their positions had already left the effective range of the rifles on the city wall.
In fact, the cannon fodder's own lethality is limited, and because of frostbite and long-term malnutrition, they originally had no way to fight against so many rebel troops, and the only reason for their victory was from the rifle fire support on the city walls. However, it is a pity that none of them noticed this, and they did not realize that their lethality output was actually scum, and at this moment, because of the excitement of "it is advisable to chase after the poor man", they ran far away from the range of the rifle, and almost approached the camp of Wang's own army.
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"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Wang Ziyong shouted out the order with some chagrin, and the archers did not hesitate now, and aimed directly at the group of cannon fodder, and shot deadly arrows one after another. But now the attack was limited to the archers, and the infantry and crossbowmen of the camp did not advance, but remained standing still waiting for orders.
With a continuous whistling sound, many arrows suddenly shot out from the queue of the overseer team, these arrows were different from those shot by the archers, more powerful and accurate, and the group of brave cannon fodder who rushed to the front were shot down dozens of people one by one at this moment. Such an efficient killing made their previously suppressed horror rise again in their hearts, and many people had begun to slow down the speed of running under their feet, not to mention the long battle just now, many of the cannon fodder had no strength, and many of them fainted and fell into the snow with such a relief.
With the random arrows coming, the cannon fodder now realized the fear of the previous routs, they gathered very closely, and there was no place to dodge at the moment, and many people fell to the ground because they wanted to dodge. "Oops!" "Help!" There were cries for help one after another, but this group of cannon fodder had already seen blood, and this casualty was not too much of a shock to them, and more people just rushed towards the horizontal column of the overseer team with their heads stuffed and their weapons.
"Whoosh" With a continuous whistling sound, many arrows suddenly shot out from the queue of the overseer team, these arrows were different from those shot by the archers, more powerful and accurate, and the group of brave cannon fodder who rushed to the front were shot down dozens of people one by one at this moment. Such an efficient killing made their previously suppressed horror rise again in their hearts, and many people had begun to slow down the speed of running under their feet, not to mention the long battle just now, many of the cannon fodder had no strength, and many of them fainted and fell into the snow with such a relief.
The fainted person looks no different from the person who was shot to death at first glance, and most of the clothes on his body were ripped off from the dead person, covered with bloodstains, and the surrounding people couldn't tell whether they were dead or not, and mistakenly thought that the shooting had killed so many people just now, and they couldn't help but feel weak one by one, and they all turned their heads and ran, and this run drove the cannon fodder around them, which immediately became birds and beasts scattered, and ran in the direction of Taiping City.
Xu Wei showed a sneer on his face at this moment, raised his right hand high, and shouted loudly, "All riflemen, prepare!" ”
"What are you doing here?" Zheng Zhihu couldn't help but hurriedly grabbed him and asked loudly, "You want to kill them?" ”
"Yes," Xu Wei nodded, "this group of people has fallen into thieves, and they have just seen blood again, if we don't kill them, they will flee and join other bandits and continue to do harm." ”
"Just put them in the city!" Zheng Zhihu hurriedly said, "Let's lock them up so that they don't run out and do harm." ”
"Do you have the food to feed them?" Xu Wei pointed to the cannon fodder outside the city and asked, "They were originally sent to die, and we are still doing what we should have done from the beginning, but it's just a little late." These people have already seen blood, and if they are released into the city, they will not be burned and looted in the city, don't you think there are enough things? Saying that, Xu Wei raised his hand again.
When the soldiers of the Zheng family army heard the order, they couldn't help but look at Xu Wei and Zheng Zhihu with some suspicion, but no one dared to speak, they all stared at Xu Wei's raised hand.
Zheng Zhihu sighed, he really didn't have any choice but to watch in vain as Xu Wei's hand waved down heavily, and then he heard the sound of dense rifle shooting.
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