Chapter 0072 Fierce Battle Dong! Boom! Boom!

The roar of cannon fire broke the silence of dawn. The earthquake trembled, waking up the sleepers.

"What's going on?"

Liu Lichuan, the leader of the Little Knife Society, had just taken a nap and was suddenly awakened by the sound of cannons.

"Report! The officers and soldiers outside the city began to attack the city! ”

Liu Lichuan didn't sleep all night, and the drum tower and the AIIB building in the city were stuck in his throat like fish bones, which made Liu Lichuan quite uncomfortable. But Liu Lichuan racked his brains and couldn't think of a way to pull out this nail, but instead suffered more than 10,000 casualties, so angry that he scolded his mother.

Now Li Weiguo's army has arrived in the north of Shanghai County and launched a siege war, at this moment, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Little Knife Society have to divide their troops into two routes, 30,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, and 10,000 soldiers and horses continue to attack the AIIB building and drum tower.

Liu Lichuan left Chen Tao in charge, while he personally led his troops to climb the city wall and command the army to resist the fierce siege of the Li army.

However, the moment Liu Lichuan landed on the top of the city, he was dumbfounded. I saw that on the head of the city, there were bullets and bullets, countless corpses, and rivers of blood.

The 6,000 soldiers of the Li family army stood twenty or thirty meters away from the city wall, lined up in twelve large squares, of which there were a total of ten squares in front, each with 500 people, divided into five rows.

I saw that the soldiers of the Li family's army held high their foreign guns, firing round after round, in an orderly manner, completely ignoring the defenders on the head of the city.

This is because the number of muskets held by the Knife Society is too small, and after repeated battles, countless ammunition has been consumed, but it cannot be replenished, and even the artillery has been transferred by Liu Lichuan to attack the AIIB building.

Rows of bullets were fired at the head of the city, dense like rain, and the soldiers of the knife would be shot one after another and fell, and the walls were stained with blood.

Shells bombarded the city wall, and the solid bullets could instantly shatter the female wall where the Knife Society soldiers were hiding, and the flowering bombs were even more powerful, and every time they exploded, they could blow up the Knife Society soldiers within a few meters of the attachment.

After only half an hour of fighting between the two sides, the soldiers of the Little Knife Society were killed and wounded by thousands, but the Li family army under the city was unscathed.

This one-sided situation is surprising, and Liu Lichuan can't figure it out.

"It's not going to go on like this!"

Liu Lichuan realized that he had been a little arrogant before, he didn't expect the army under Li Weiguo to be so powerful, it was even more powerful than any Qing army he had encountered before. Of course, this includes Liu Lichuan's lack of attention to foreign guns and artillery, and the light of the enemy.

"Open the city gates and kill the enemy with me!"

Liu Lichuan immediately made a decision, and led 30,000 soldiers of the Little Knife Society to rush out of the city gate, preparing to fight with Li Jiajun in close combat, making use of their strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

Li Weiguo has been paying attention to the entire battlefield situation, when he saw that the knife would be killed from the city gate, he immediately ordered the two reserve phalanxes to take the lead in receiving the enemy, and then withdrew the ten phalanxes in front, one left and one right, three phalanxes to outflank the two flanks of the knife army, and the other four phalanxes were transferred to the reserves, and decided whether to enter the battle according to the battlefield situation.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Li Jiajun's artillery team adjusted its position and aimed at the small knives pouring out of the city gate.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Where the cannonballs passed, a huge cloud of flaming mushrooms suddenly rose, blasting people within a few meters of the surrounding flesh and blood.

These Knife Society congregations have seen this kind of artillery fire in the Qing army before, but the Qing army is mostly solid bullets, even if there are flowering shells, because the technology is not up to standard, the charge is very small, even if it explodes, it often only bursts a few petals, and the lethality is limited, not to mention that most of the flowering shells of the Qing army in actual combat almost do not explode and become dud bombs, so that the Xiaodao Society congregation is almost not afraid of the artillery fire of the Qing army.

Now it is different, Li Jiajun uses advanced Western artillery, the flowering shell technology is perfect, there are few non-exploding duds, each shell contains a large number of steel balls, making the lethality after the explosion amazing.

Under Li Weiguo's teaching, Li Jiajun's tactics were basically to shell both sides of the wheel first, and then the musket team. Previously, the soldiers of the Li family army had already experienced the battle of Baoshan, and the elimination of the thousands of small knife soldiers guarding Baoshan made the officers and soldiers of the Li family stabilize their mentality and be able to give full play to their usual training results.

"First team, shoot!"

"Second team, shoot!"

"Third team, shoot!"

As the commander gave the order in an orderly manner, the soldiers of the Li family army took turns to release their guns in an orderly manner, and rows of bullets hit them, which simply crushed the charge of the knife club.

At a distance of more than 30 meters, the soldiers of the Little Knife Society just couldn't rush through, leaving behind corpses and a large number of wounded.

If the bloody spectacle did not frighten the Knife Society's soldiers, then the screams of those who had been shot and died in the middle of the battle were deeply frightened.

"Rush me! Rush up and reward a hundred taels of silver! Death to those who retreat! ”

Liu Lichuan shouted stubbornly, he knew that if he didn't use special means, these captured strong men would collapse in an instant.

Sure enough, as soon as they heard that the retreater was dead, the soldiers of the Little Knife Society could only grit their teeth and rush forward.

However, how the flesh and blood could break through the rain of bullets and bullets of the Li Jiajun could only increase the corpses and wounded.

Seeing that he couldn't rush over, Liu Lichuan was scared, he couldn't figure out why his 10,000 army couldn't even rush over a distance of dozens of meters. He is really too outdated, just like the truth that the more you play chess with a stinky chess basket, the more stinky it becomes, he is confined to the backward feudal era of the Qing Dynasty, and it is impossible to understand the absolute overwhelming superiority of firearms over cold weapons.

At this time, the musket team phalanx of the Li family army on the left and right flanks of the Little Knife Club was constantly approaching, and with the advantage of firepower, the enemy army was cut off at the waist, so that the enemy army was divided into two sections.

Liu Lichuan was trapped in the middle of the encirclement of Li Jiajun, and lost contact with the follow-up troops, and the follow-up troops saw that Li Jiajun was strong and did not have Liu Lichuan's supervision, so they were suddenly timid and took the initiative to retreat to the city gate.

Seeing that the fighter plane had arrived, Li Weiguo immediately ordered three musket phalanxes of the four reserves to enter the battle, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, and at the most critical moment, shattered Liu Lichuan's confidence.

The cannons roared, the guns and bullets whistled, and the soldiers around Liu Lichuan were left with less than 10,000 people in the blink of an eye, that is, they couldn't rush over, and they couldn't retreat.

Liu Lichuan slashed and killed more than a dozen deserters one after another, and his hands were soft, but unfortunately his deterrent power became smaller and smaller, and there were more and more deserters, one took away ten, and ten took away a hundred, forming a big rout in the blink of an eye.

At this critical moment, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared in the rear of the Li family's army, which was not large, about 500 people.

Li Weiguo was shocked, but fortunately, he had always been cautious, and still left a reserve phalanx, which came in handy at this time.

"Turn back!"

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

The reserve of 500 men, under the orders of the commander, reversed the formation and fired at the enemy who suddenly attacked from the rear.

In the Musket Age, cavalry was a living target under the musket, but if used well, it could also have miraculous effects.

The commander of this cavalry was Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying, two brothers and sisters who were core members of the Little Knife Society, who were originally in Jiading to protect the Ming court they had just established. So Zhou Lichun obeyed his sister's advice, and the two led the only 500-strong cavalry team to come to reinforcements.

Zhou Lichun originally wanted to take the opportunity to directly attack Li Weiguo's main formation, cooperate with Liu Lichuan to attack back and forth, and eliminate Li Jiajun in one fell swoop.

However, he never imagined that Li Weiguo had a reserve team from beginning to end, which played a life-saving role at a critical moment.

Seeing that Li Jiajun's reserve team turned its guns, Zhou Lichun saw that Liu Lichuan was in danger and had to be rescued, and it was difficult to ride a tiger, so he led the team forward.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After each round of muskets, there will be dozens less brothers around Zhou Lichun, and his sister Zhou Xiuying hurriedly said: "Big brother, rushing forward like this has no effect, it is better to hide on the side of the horse, so that you can avoid the enemy's musket." ”

Zhou Lichun was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered the others to hide on the side of the war horse.

In this way, unless the musket attack of the Li Jiajun hits the war horse and kills the war horse on the spot, the war horse will always charge forward if it does not die.

"Not good!"

Li Weiguo saw the enemy cavalry use this move, his heart suddenly became nervous, he was worried that the enemy cavalry rushed into the musket phalanx of the Li family's army, which would bring huge casualties to the soldiers of the Li family's army, if it was crushed by the opponent's cavalry, and threatened other phalanxes, then the end was probably the defeat of the Li family's army.

"Rejection of horses!"

At this time, the phalanx commander also realized the danger and hurriedly gave the order.

I saw that the 500 soldiers of the Li family army quickly changed their formation, and the original large phalanx suddenly broke down into ten small phalanxes, each with 50 people, in a circle, squatting in the front row, the butt of the gun was propped on the ground, and the bayonet was outward at a 45-degree angle. The same is true for the second and third rows, forming a Mo sword rejection array similar to the Tang Dynasty to meet the enemy.

The rest of the soldiers were back to back, in groups of three, with bayonets rushing out, ready to fight bayonets.

"Huh, what's going on?" Li Weiguo looked surprised, he didn't teach the soldiers this set of horse rejection formations, but the enemy was at present, he didn't care about asking, nervously looking at the results of the battle between the two sides, if the reserves couldn't withstand it, he could only give up the plan to encircle and annihilate Liu Lichuan this time.

Not only Li Weiguo was surprised, but Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying, brother and sister, were also dumbfounded, they had only seen muskets kill people with projectiles, but they had never seen that muskets could be used as sabers after being loaded with bayonets.

Seeing that after paying a huge price of more than 300 people, the brothers finally escaped the fire of the opponent's musket and rushed into the opponent's formation, but they collided with the opponent's long bayonet.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying, brother and sister, didn't have time to think about it, the two shouted loudly, and rampaged through the formation with the last hundred or so cavalry.

However, there was no situation where the cavalry slaughtered the infantry, and the soldiers of the Li family army gradually stabilized their positions after the initial panic, in a group of three, a small formation of twenty people, and the musket with bayonets could be used as long hair, which was very effective against the cavalry with sabers and short weapons. In less than ten minutes, they killed more than 90 cavalry of the opponent, while their own side only suffered 20 casualties.

"Withdraw!"

Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying, brother and sister, saw that there were only a dozen people left, and they knew that if they continued to fight, they would be a dead end, so they turned around and rushed out to kill.