Chapter 588: Heavy Rain
"It's bloody. Writing "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info", Li Chen saw with a telescope that those nomadic coalition troops had demolished their camp tents and filled in the trenches dug in imitation of the Tang Dynasty.
The coalition army had to camp and imitate the Tang Dynasty as much as possible, they dug trenches, set up arrow towers, and kept bow and arrow shooting points. Although in the eyes of the Tang army, this is just a ridiculous imitation, if the Tang army wants to fight, it is not difficult to break through that camp at all.
It's just that no matter how ridiculous they have to camp is, it is also a camp, which can provide them with psychological protection, just like the Great Wall, although it has been proven to have no effect, but the Ming Dynasty still spared no manpower and material resources to repair it as much as possible.
Now they have dismantled this umbrella themselves, obviously planning to fight against the water, leaving no way back for themselves at all, and almost desperate.
However, many things are useful without making up their minds, and besides, haven't they really been cut off? These steppe peoples, as long as they have horses, are the back road, and the camp is demolished and defeated, and they just get on the horse and run.
Then, Li Chen saw the fire horse, the fire ox and the fire sheep array, and he was sure that they had made a bloody investment. After all, cattle and sheep are their foundation, and if there are no livestock, even if they flee back, there is no way to live. In this way, Li Chen felt that they were really fighting.
If you look down from a high altitude, you can find a wide black tide on the ground, which is like a thunderbolt, charging towards the Tang army camp. The cattle and horses ran crazy, holding spittle, and rushed towards the Datang camp in a frenzy, even if the Datang artillery continued to fire, it could not slow down the tide a little.
Li Chen swallowed his saliva when he saw it, this momentum was really amazing, the huge, indomitable and terrifying power was really enough to break people's courage.
He set his eyes in front of the Tang army, and the Tang army also opened fire at this moment, and the formation was strict and not chaotic at all. No one was so nervous that they put their guns first.
Li Chen looked at a sergeant with a young face, tanned by the sun, and a little sparse stubble appeared above his lips. The childish face is full of perseverance, not wavering at all, the eyes are staring forward, and the hands are constantly moving, even if they are young, but the skills in their hands are already very old under strict training.
Because of the angle, he could only look at the side of his face. There was no fear on the side face, no fear, calmly doing his own thing, constantly shooting. He continued to look at the others, who were similar. Li Chen secretly praised it, this training did not fall behind.
Generally speaking, in the era of muskets, a soldier can be trained in about three months, can shoot, and can walk in line. And Datang, at least half a year, at least. In general, it usually takes a year. Everyone was required to be able to ride a horse, or at least to ride a horse, and to learn how to face the onslaught of cavalry, and they were used to such immense momentum.
Gunshots rang out continuously. With nine people as a section, the captain of each section has to decide whether to fire or not according to the situation, because these rushing cattle and horses, the speed is different, the distribution is uneven, and some of the more sparse parts are slower to shoot more frequently, dense, and rely on the assistance of grenades in the rear.
However, whether it is dense or loose, there are no cattle, horses or sheep to break through the Tang army's defense line, the Tang army is densely covered with three lines of defense, the front is a trench, twisting and turning the trench, making it impossible for people to move straight forward, many crazy cattle and horses, directly fall in, and the back has to be pressed.
Then there was the barracks, wooden barracks, and in front of them was a relatively flat but continuous wide trench. On the back are sturdy antlers. The antlers are firmly rooted in the ground, and these antlers are painstakingly cut down from the nearby mountain forest, and the front ends are processed, sharpened and carbonized, strong and easy to use. Occasionally, there was a mixture, shining in the sun with a cold sharp spear head. It's chilling to look at.
Further back, there was another layer of tall carriages held together by chains. Under the three-layer defense line, if you want to break through, you have to pay a lot of costs, and it is not enough to have cattle and horses.
Of course, these cows and horses are strong, and their buttocks are on fire, as if they are crazy, but after all, they are creatures, and they can't overcome the nature of creatures, and the violent explosion sound still makes them instinctively confused, and many cows and horses directly bump into each other by themselves.
Although the body is strong and can take a few more bullets than a person, but no one controls it, it looks very messy and disorderly, if it is used to deal with the Tang Army in the past, it may have a good effect, but before the long range and penetrating Mini bullets, it is really not enough, and the Tang Army still has a secret weapon.
"Prepare a swarm." , On a high platform, Xiaohu is controlling the overall situation, although there are many shortcomings of Niu Ma and it is difficult to break through the camp of the army, but Xiaohu is unwilling to take the lives of soldiers to the temple, and the Tang Army has many hole cards.
"Put." After Xiaohu gave the order, the rear camp of the Tang Army, many densely packed rectangular objects wrapped in oilcloth were revealed, rectangular, and the top was densely covered with holes, like honeycombs. A group of soldiers, busily operating the thing, tilted it upright at a forty-five degree angle.
After placing it and confirming that it was correct, someone held a torch and lit the fuse behind it, and saw that the fuse burned rapidly and quickly extended into the rectangular box. Then I saw that countless bows and arrows shot towards the sky like a swarm of bees, and then the parabola of the city fell on the crazy cattle and horses, and in an instant, the cattle and horses were out of business.
Bow and arrow from the sky, the arrow is sharp, it is no longer a problem, or it is diamond-shaped, this is a special armor-piercing arrow, and the iron armor can shoot through, not to mention the cowhide.
The herd of cattle that charged was killed in large numbers under the almost endless rockets of Datang. Although the allied army had a lot of casualties due to the cold weather before, and a lot of money was taken out by the Tang merchants, but there were still three inches of rotten boats, and they still made up an astonishing number of livestock to charge the battle.
But these are useless, Datang has a nest of beacon rockets, and the number of reserves is amazing, and then the cannons are not fired much, and they all watch a swarm of bee performances. This is the embodiment of Datang's industrial power, showing joy and despair.
On the battlefield, there was a river of blood, corpses piled up like mountains, the cattle and horses were still groaning if they were not dead, the Tang army was cheering and rejoicing, and the morale of the coalition army had fallen to the bottom, and it was so desperate that it was about to collapse.
"Heaven, have mercy on the poor prairie people." , Ye Lan muttered to himself, he was a little desperate, he was still counting on these cattle and horses to help them break through the position. But who knew that the Tang Army still had such weapons, which were more terrible than artillery.
A swarm of bees is more terrible than a cannon? It can only be said that each has its own use, even during World War II, didn't the Soviets also make a swarm of World War II boards, Katyusha?
Yelan was desperate, and the morale of the coalition forces hit rock bottom. If they can't break through the position of the Tang army and grab more food from the Tang Dynasty, those who survive will also starve to death. Who would have thought of being pinned on high hopes
He didn't know, Li Chen was also struggling with his brain, so many cattle and horses, it was a pity, he just hoped that after the war, he could quickly send someone to grab some, otherwise these people would die and there would be no need to eat, and they would have to feed those people left. It's a waste, it's all death anyway, and it's good if you can't charge it yourself. It's a waste of so many cows and horses that have died.
is unreasonable, Li Chen has long regarded the cattle and sheep on the grassland that have not been exchanged as his own property, and it hurts a little to see that they are being squandered wantonly like this.
"It's our turn." , not everyone is desperate, but someone has also exploded. Da Rebu held the horse frontier tightly, the situation of the cattle and sheep charging, he saw it in his eyes, he felt that the effect had been achieved, although he failed to break through the Tang army camp, but the Tang army's front defense line was also broken by the cattle and sheep.
The trench was filled, although the camp did not rush away, but it was slightly broken, and a small number of cattle and sheep even rushed to the front of the Datang car formation, and their sacrifice was not in vain. Now look at the steppe warriors.
Yelan is hesitating, what to do? The weapons of the Tang Army are more terrifying than artillery, and the lethality to personnel is more terrible than artillery. It was supposed to be time to charge. The cattle and sheep are almost dead, and there is not much left. Now that such a wave of charges, he is almost dead, and it is time to speak with real knives and real guns.
However, the Tang army is obviously very confident, and the cattle and horses rushed into battle without achieving the intended effect. It's a death. It's still miserable to die, don't rush? The camp has been destroyed, in case the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty launches a charge, how to deal with it? The Tang Army's breakthrough in heavy riding is still hard to forget. They simply can't stop it.
Besides, the cattle and sheep are dead, and if they don't rush, they will starve to death when they go back. Yelan is in a dilemma, is he staying in the green mountains and not afraid of running out of firewood, or is he really leaving no room for death, and seeking survival in death?
If he can't make a decision, Ye Lan is used to praying again, not only today, in fact, since the Tang Dynasty sent troops, he has become a devout believer, and he has been praying constantly. However, his beliefs are very extensive, and they also ask for the gods in the grassland, and he also worships religion, Buddhism, and Taoism from the Tang Dynasty. He also vowed that if the Tang army was defeated, he would build a temple for the gods and order the people to believe.
It's just that it has never worked, he didn't see miracles, Tang Jun didn't get infected with the plague, and he used to deal with the Han people, but it didn't work here, not to mention, Tang Jun also showed him many miracles, he was almost sure that all the gods had abandoned the believers on the grassland and went to bless the Tang Dynasty instead.
However, Ye Lan soon realized that he was wrong, he felt that his face was hit by something, wet and cold, he touched it, and found that it was water, and soon, pouring heavy rain to vent down, at this moment it actually rained heavily.
Ye Lan couldn't help but dance, but there were still gods who did not give up on the people on the grassland and favored them. Although the imitation gunpowder on their grassland is not very good, they also know that this kind of thing cannot be soaked in water, and there is a more terrible weapon, which is also afraid of water.
Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, it can be surmised that the weapon also relies on gunpowder, and since it is gunpowder, it will be affected by humid climate. Besides, it was also an arrow, and the body was more affected by the heavy rain. Now that it is raining heavily, the Don Army is in trouble, and the opportunity for the coalition forces has come.
He understands it, and so do the others. Suddenly, everyone cheered loudly, their morale was boosted, everyone was shouting, even the heavy rain could not suppress this cheer, everyone thought that the victory was decided.
"It's not the right time." , Li Chen looked up at the sky, and stretched out his hand to the front of the canopy to cover the rain, this rain is really not the right time, but those people will not think that they will win in this way.
Taking advantage of the heavy rains, the steppe coalition launched a surprise attack. Arranged in the forefront, there are women and old people, who are very cruel, that is, they are to use them to consume the gunpowder of the Tang Dynasty and cover the rear, then there is the child army, and finally the strong soldiers.
The sturdy warriors also had a part, with ordinary herdsmen in the front, and professional soldiers who had lost their jobs and the personal guards of the leaders of the tribes at the back.
In order not to let this opportunity go to waste, Ye Lan made the horn sound, and the heavy rain made the sound of the horn unable to reach far, but as long as many of them continued to blow, the marching horn could still be spread throughout the army.
The march was a chaotic mess, because it was raining, and the horn relay was too slow, allowing some people to go first, and some people to come behind, and the charge was sporadically launched.
The heavy rain not only reduced the accuracy of the Tang Army, but also made it difficult to fire firearms, which was a great opportunity. At that moment, the army charged, and the cavalry that charged, hundreds of thousands, millions of hooves, trampled on the ground as if thunder had struck in the sky.
The Tang army was also angry, and the artillery was still powerful, but it was completely imperceptible to the effect, and it was impossible to even see it, and the artillery that was placed in the rear could only rely on the usual training and the impression just obtained, and constantly had to fire ammunition. As for the swarm of bees, in this weather, it is really difficult to use, in order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops, only the artillery fired.
One team after another of the coalition forces, according to the original plan, launched an attack, completely ignoring the effect, and wanted to take advantage of the rain to break through the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop.
Ye Lan was in the rain, holding a pergola with his hands, wanting to watch the situation, but he couldn't at all, this rain not only hindered Datang's vision, but also made him unable to see the situation on the front line at all, so he could only follow the arrangement, constantly urging the rear to march.
He could only see that there were constantly fireworks lit up on the battlefield, and the sound of explosions could not be heard at all. How's the battle going? Did you break through the Datang Front? He had absolutely no idea.
"Saint, this place is dangerous, please transfer the dragon first." , The heavy rain fell, the coalition side rejoiced, thinking that it was divine help, Li Chen frowned, feeling troublesome, and the people with the army were in a hurry. This rain is too opportune, Li Chengyu came forward and asked Li Chen to shift his position.
"If I don't go, I'll go." , Li Chen didn't shake it off, what's the matter if he leaves now, heavy rain, what's there to be afraid of? It rained heavily, and the 200,000 elite Tang Army couldn't defeat the 600,000 rabble? So, say nothing and don't go. was so stubborn that he stayed where he was, and even Li Chengyu suggested that he change the location to symbolize his status as emperor and not move the yellow umbrella cover.
I was so persistent that I stayed where I was. Let the people around you be anxious. Li Chengyu secretly glanced at a young guard beside Li Chen, and the guard nodded to indicate that he knew, and Li Chengyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, it's up to the war. Soon, the clouds and rain will disperse, what is the situation of the battle?