Liu Xiu invested 8,000 troops in his first attack and captured two mountains respectively. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The 8,000 troops are divided into three echelons: the first echelon in the front row is 3,000 cannon fodder soldiers, that is, new recruits who have not undergone any training or only have a short training but have no combat experience. The second echelon in the middle is 3,000 people, veterans with some combat experience. The 2,000 people in the third echelon of the rear are all young and strong elite soldiers who have gone through more than ten battles.

The three echelons are lined up in a long phalanx, and there is a clear gap between the teams, the veteran team supervises the cannon fodder team, and the elite team supervises the first two echelons.

The commander of the left school is the captain Wang Xian, after the original Hongnong Peng was appointed as the school captain, he attacked Zuo Fengyi, and did a good job, and he had been promoted to a partial general, and was expected to seal the Neihou of Guan. Unexpectedly, he was defeated in a battle with the cavalry of the New Han Army, only to be spared, and his previous achievements were wasted. If it weren't for the generals' plea, and for the sake of his previous contributions, it would have been light to lose his head. Therefore, when Liu Xiu assigned combat tasks, Deng Ye asked him to fight the first battle, with obvious intentions: to atone for his crimes. Therefore, Wang Xian is holding back his strength to fight a turnaround.

The commander of the right colonel is Sima Cho of the Chunling Army, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai in another time and space history, and he can be described as full of spirit at this time. This was the first time he had commanded so many soldiers and horses to attack the fortifications, and the pride of scolding the Fang chieftain and slamming the swoops was strong. He is also secretly holding back his strength, and he must reach the top before Colonel Zuo. If he knew the famous slogan of later generations, he would definitely shout: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win!" ”

Eight thousand first troops, six teams on the left and right, launched an attack on the hill with the beat of passionate drums.

From the top of the hill, it is clear that the soldiers in the first few rows are disheveled, almost armourless, and the weapons they hold are very rudimentary, most of them crude spears or halberds. The soldiers in the middle were a little better, some of them had ring-headed swords and were dressed in thin armor. The soldiers in the back row are the most sophisticated weapons, all of them are refined spears and halberds, with knives on their waists, wooden shields in their hands, and half of them are wearing armor, which has caught up with the standard equipment of the county soldiers.

When the first army had entered the hundred paces, the soldiers with shields began to erect shields to cover them, and those without shields bowed their heads, secretly praying that the enemy's arrows would not fall on their heads.

However, to the surprise of the attacking soldiers, the legendary storm of arrows of the New Han army did not appear - the cavalry of the New Han Army gathered or scattered in the mountain bags, at the foot of the mountain, on the ridges of the fields, and on the banks of the river, confronting the cavalry of the own army from afar, and did not have the slightest intention of rushing over. Isn't it that the New Han army is only stronger than cavalry archery, and the infantry long-range attack is lackluster?

The low-level soldiers didn't know anything about the New Han Army, but the middle-level officers like Wang Xian and Choshi knew that the infantry of the New Han Army was equipped with muskets. Wang Xian had suffered the loss of muskets, but the muskets in his impression were the short guns of cavalry, which had great close-range lethality, but could not shoot far. The Choshi period had seen it in a merchant's house, and had tried it, but felt that the operation was complicated, and it was not as good as a bow and crossbow, so he was not optimistic.

No matter what the reason is, since the Xinhan army has not moved, hurry up!

Fifty paces, the more rapid the drumming. Wang Xian and Choshi glanced at each other, took a deep breath, and at the same time slashed the command flag in their hands, and the soldiers of the two schools rushed to their respective target hillsides with a roar.

Overhead, the sound of the herald was clear:

"Let the enemy go to ten steps, and the one who walks the fire will be killed."

"Finally check the flint, reload, and get through."

"End the gun."

"First row ready."

With this shout, behind the wooden fence and on the wall, a black barrel stretched out.

At this time, the cannon fodder soldiers who rushed to the forefront had rushed to the antlers and refused to resist the horses, and the cannon fodder who had not suffered the slightest blow had a great sense of happiness and desperately stripped the antlers and rejected the horses with tears in their eyes. Just destroy this last obstacle, behind the trench, ten paces away, is the wooden fence. Behind the wooden fence, there is the New Han Army.

In the midst of a frenzied shout, Wang Xian hurriedly looked up and saw the muzzles of the black holes, his heart beat wildly, and he subconsciously shouted: "Raise the shield!" Raise your shield! ”

"Target, behind enemy lines, launch!"

Bang bang bang! Bang bang!

When the dense and resounding bean-like loud sound sounded, Liu Xiu's heart on the watchtower contracted suddenly, and his eyes widened to the maximum. Behind him, the generals, including the generals who were in all directions, were almost bulging out of their sockets.

The 200,000 soldiers of the First Army were completely stunned at this moment.

The two fortresses seemed to have turned into fire-breathing fortresses, and the firelight that lit up at that moment formed a giant red flame dragon, spanning the middle of the mountain, was extremely shocking.

The first round of salvo is always the most powerful. 5,000 musketeers were distributed on two hills, with 2,500 troops each, firing in three rows, each platoon of more than 800 men. Eight hundred muskets were fired at the same time, and the lethality was amazing. Because they were condescending and could choose targets at will, Zhang Chun and Chen Yu, the two musketeer commanders of the New Han Army, invariably pointed the first round of strikes at the elite soldiers in the back row of the First Army, which was also the reason why the enemy was ordered to be released to ten paces before shooting.

At this moment, the flesh and fire in front of the two villages flew together, and the lives were scattered together.

Less than fifty paces (the distance of the rear team), no wooden shield can stop the projectile fired at high speed. The first blow kills half of it; Three shots in a row, 2,000 elite soldiers and ten pavilions went to nine pavilions.

In just five breaths, after three rounds of shooting, the elite soldiers of Colonel Zuo, including Wang Xian, were wiped out. And the cannon fodder soldiers at the front who were vigorously destroying the fortifications were like ducks listening to thunder, and they were all stupid. After a few breaths, the whole team collapsed, and the wolves rushed to the pigs.

Gunfire rang out one after another, flames extinguished, and every time a flame was spewed, a life was taken away - so close that it was impossible to think of a high hit rate.

This is a road of flesh and blood, but also a road of corpses, every inch of the small hillside is soaked with blood, and there is no loess in sight of corpses. Two ordinary mountains that are no more than 100 feet tall are as straight as ghost domains at the moment.

Of the 8,000 soldiers, less than 3,000 escaped, many of them were wounded, and it was unknown whether they would survive or not, let alone fight again.

"Dragon! The fire dragon is here! ”

Wang Kuangjun, who was watching the battle, shouted at some point, which immediately caused a commotion. Then the panic spread at an incredible rate, and deserters began to appear on the battlefield, and more and more, and it could not be stopped.

Being at a loss is a true portrayal of Liu Xiu's heart at this time. It wasn't that he had never seen muskets, and he had fired them himself, but he never thought that the power of thousands of muskets under precise command would be so terrifying. The current pattern of war was completely beyond his common sense, and he no longer knew what to do, let alone how to fight next. The generals behind him were also collectively speechless.

The bloodied military Sima Cho period, stumbled to the watchtower, crying and bowing: "Cho period is incompetent, please the lord march the military law." ”

Liu Xiu sighed: "The second situation (Cho period character), the enemy strength is like this, and it is not a crime of war......"

Liu Xiu was thinking about how to excuse Choshi when he was suddenly interrupted by a loud noise, and it tended to get louder and louder. Liu Xiu raised his head in shock, and the expression on his face became indescribably weird like the generals behind him.

Xinhan Army, what do they want to do?

On the surface of the river of Shuishui and Bashui, there are more than 20 big boats respectively, which are the ships of the New Dynasty Navy from Kunming Lake at a glance, but at this moment they are flying high the red flag of the New Han Army, especially the huge "Gan" character will be particularly eye-catching.

Liu Xiu's think tank, Feng Yi, suddenly said: "Hit the bridge!" ”

Liu Xiu snorted: "That's right...... Wrong! There is a bridge on the water, but there is no bridge for the water, why ......"

Under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of pairs of shocked and uncertain eyes, Gan Chengzu wiped his beard and smiled to the sky: "Sons, let the turtles open their eyes!" ”

The artillerymen, who were already hungry and thirsty, shouted in unison: "Get up! ”

Hohohoho!

The cannon jacket was torn off, revealing bronze cannons of different models and calibers, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed to Liu Xiujun's left and right flanks respectively. Since these two wings were too close to the river bank, they turned out to be the preferred targets for shelling.

Boom Boom Boom!

Tongues of fire gushed out, and the sound was like thunder. Sub-mother bombs, flowering bullets, grape bullets, and six-pound bullets roared in the air, overwhelming the world, turning the entire battlefield into a pool of blood and a sea of fire.

When a six-pound bullet whistled and hit the watchtower where Liu Xiu was, the fate of the battle was finally locked.

This is the crushing of cold weapons by hot weapons; This is a subversion of the old one by the new mode of war; This is a hundred battles of elite soldiers who conquered Central Asia and swept through the Western Regions, and showed sharp minions against a peasant army.

The great men of later generations said it well -- "power comes out of the barrel of a gun."

Amid the roar of gunfire, a new regime is about to be born.