Chapter 120: Fierce Battle
The thieves holding all kinds of weapons and torches high are like black pressed ants, and the more than 1,000 troops on the south wall have been in chaos, and most of the border troops are also newly recruited recruits, they have never been on the battlefield at all, so when they are dying of the sea, let the 3,000 Mongolian cavalry collapse in one rush.
Although the thieves are not stronger than the Mongolian cavalry, there are many thieves, and suddenly seeing such thieves swarming, they are inevitably frightened.
"Don't panic, listen to me." A tall and burly Qian Zong was standing on the battlement and shouted hoarsely, "The thieves are just some vulnerable rabble, the big guys will pour them back when they pee, everyone calm down, don't panic......"
"Archer, where are the archers?" The general commander of the border army, who was in charge of bow and arrow defense, looked for a few of his bow team commanders in the chaotic crowd, and turned around and yelled at the soldiers behind him, "Damn, where did He San and Zhao Si go?" What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and get these two bastards back for Lao Tzu. ”
"Lao Jiu, Lao Jiu, come here." A border soldier with five big and three thick always pulled a thin border soldier behind him, and said loudly, "When the thieves come up, you hide behind the eldest brother, don't run too far, your eyes are brighter, if someone releases a cold arrow, shout, do you hear?" ”
"You two idiots." A veteran raised the waist knife in his hand and taught the two recruits a vicious lesson, "What are you doing there, hurry up and help Lao Tzu put this stone on the battlement, hurry up, and be careful Lao Tzu kicks your eggs." ”
"Fire, who the fuck borrows a fire." A veteran stood by a large vat of gold juice and shouted, "Who has the fire?" Borrow a fire and help Lao Tzu burn this fire. ”
"Seventh brother, I'm afraid."
"Third child, I'm scared too."
In the dark corner, two recruits were hugging their heads and crying: "There are too many thieves, we will die, we will definitely die......"
"Hurry, brethren, hurry up." A general finally ran up the tower with more than a hundred archers, and then commanded his men and horses to start a nervous formation behind the battlements, waving the waist knife in his hand, and shouting hoarsely, "Array, hurry up and start array, hurry up and ......"
"It's been killed, the thieves are here." A veteran ruffian suddenly rushed in front of the archers, shouting as he ran, "Shoot the arrows, let the fuck release the arrows, and shoot those thieves who are raised by the sons of a bitch." ”
"Woohoo."
Two recruit archers who had never been on the battlefield drew their bows and arrows at great speed, and then fired two arrows indiscriminately in front of them, and one of the recruits, who was standing on the battlements and tried to pee outside the walls, was unfortunately shot in the back, and then tumbled and tumbled off the city with a scream.
"Idiot." The archers kicked the general on the ass of one of the recruit archers, and scolded angrily, "Who told you to release the arrows, listen to Lao Tzu's orders, Lao Tzu said that you can only release the arrows...... Now they all listened, buckled the arrows, filled the bow, and when they saw it, they all followed Lao Tzu......"
While demonstrating, the chief of the archery team gave a loud order, and the helpless recruit archers buckled their feather arrows and filled the bowstrings, and two recruits who were not very good at their ears heard this as "all for Lao Tzu", so they stupidly turned the arrows and aimed them at their own commanders.
"Hey, you two dogs, what are you doing with the arrow at Lao Tzu? Shoot the thieves outside the city, the gunslingers! ”
"Huh?"
"Oh, I know."
The two recruits turned their arrows and aimed at the dark night sky outside the city, and the archers shouted and let go of their hands, only to hear the sound of the strings, and the feather arrows on the strings had been shot, and the remaining hundred or so archers also loosened their strings, and a canopy of arrows roared up from the city tower, flying more than a hundred steps in the air, and then fell viciously towards the large dazzling fire on the ground.
In the dazzling light of the fire, thousands of thieves are swarming.
"Brothers, Li Dashuai said that as long as you enter the city, you will have a big bowl of rice to eat, as well as a large piece of bacon."
"Brothers, the gold and silver treasures in the palace of the king are piled up and the city is laid, and these gold and silver treasures are ours, hahaha......"
"Brethren, do you want a woman? If you want women, you will kill these dog-called officials and soldiers, and if you take them down, the women in the city will be ours. ”
"Hahaha, woman, Lao Tzu wants the most beautiful woman in Datong City......"
Under the dark night sky, tens of thousands of burning torches pulsated, accompanied by bursts of hysterical roars, and the faces of the firelight were so excited that they distorted, and under the temptation of full food, silver, and women, thousands of thieves were like wild men who smelled the smell of the widow's nakedness, and their red eyes were round, and they were prancing on their horses and marching forward bravely.
The sharp arrows finally fell viciously with a sharp roar, and a continuous wail suddenly sounded in the surging crowd.
"Tuk!"
With a muffled sound, the foot of a rogue's foot had been pierced by a sharp arrow, and it was nailed to the ground, and the thief immediately bent down, hugged his own foot with his hand, and howled in pain, "My foot! Damn, my feet were shot through, help me, who's going to help me......"
"Poof! Burst! ”
Two more thieves were shot directly in the throat by the arrow, and they fell to the ground without a snort, and only twitched twice before there was any movement.
"Tuk!"
A thief who was shouting and shouting with a wooden shield in his hand only felt that the wooden shield in his hand trembled, and when he looked up urgently, he saw that a feather arrow had penetrated the wooden shield he was holding high, and the sharp arrow cluster was only less than two inches away from his eyes.
A thief who happened to run by couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Dude, I didn't shoot you, your life is really big." ”
"Poof!"
The thief's voice fell, and another sharp arrow swept through the air, and shot through the head of the thief holding the wooden shield just now, and the thief ran forward under the drive of his habitual surname, and then fell to the ground, and the thief who spoke just now was stunned for a moment, and quickly accelerated the pace of rushing forward.
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Three miles south of Datong City, there is a small hill bag.
Li Yan and the Red Lady are standing on the mountain bag to watch the battle surrounded by Jing Maocheng, Li Hu, and Li Xuan.
Although the sky was dark, through the thousands of torches lit by the officers and soldiers of the city and the soldiers of the rebel army under the city, the battle situation up and down the south gate could still be seen clearly.
"Okay, great." Li Hu sighed, "Back to the camp has been killed to the city!" ”
"The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are really getting more and more ineffective." Jing Maocheng's face suddenly flashed with a trace of disdain, and he said, "Let the people who return to the camp kill at the foot of the city wall so easily, what are their archers doing?" In this case, it will not take half an hour for our army to strike at the head of the city. ”
"General Jing thinks things too easily." Li Xuan, who defected from the official army, was obviously unhappy with Jing Maocheng's words, and sneered at each other, "It's not that I underestimate the brothers who returned to the camp, don't say half an hour, even if they are given two hours, they may not be able to kill the head of the city." ”
"Really?" Jing Maocheng pursed his lips and said disapprerovingly, "Then I'll have to wait and see." ”
Jing Maocheng and Li Xuan exchanged words and words, but Li Yan turned a deaf ear to the quarrel between the two, the red lady standing next to Li Yan turned her head to look, only to see Li Yan frowning, looking preoccupied, the red lady couldn't help but ask: "Xianggong, what do you seem to be worried about?" ”
Li Yan shook his head, as if he was muttering to himself and guessing: "The defenders on the city wall don't seem to be Wang Pu's army, it's not like it, it's definitely not!" ”
As he spoke, Li Yan's tone suddenly became resolute, and then he said loudly: "This is definitely not Wang Pu's army, Wang Pu's army is not on the city wall!" ”
The red lady said: "Where will Wang Pu's army be?" ”
Li Yan pondered for a moment, and then said with certainty: "Wang Pu's army must be in the urn city, he will wait for the most dangerous situation before he will put in the most elite army to counterattack and crush our offensive in one fell swoop!" ”
"Huh?" The red lady said coquettishly, "Wang Pu, this guy is really insidious, he wants to sneak attack us." ”
Li Yan's gaze turned to Li Hu and Li Xuan, and shouted, "Jing Maocheng, Li Xuan." ”
Jing Maocheng and Li Xuanting stepped forward and responded loudly: "The end will be there." ”
Li Yan said: "Immediately gather the men and horses of the old crow camp and the lonely mountain camp, assemble outside the city gate and stand by, if Wang Pu's army goes out of the city to counterattack, the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution will be caught off guard and will not be able to resist, at this time, you will press on the marshal, and resist the officers and troops at all costs, hehe, the marshal will make Wang Pu self-defeating, and stealing chickens will not be a handful of rice!" ”
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Jing Maocheng and Li Xuan agreed and took the order.
When Jing Maocheng and Li Xuan walked away, Li Hu asked with some worry: "Big brother, Jing Maocheng's crow camp only has 800 people, and Li Xuan's Gushan camp only has 2,000 people, they may not be able to stop Wang Pu's elite, otherwise, the younger brother will also gather the children of the Qixian battalion?" ”
"No need." Li Yan shook his head and said, "The city gate is narrow, and the brigade of men and horses can't pass through quickly, as long as Jing Maocheng's crow battalion and Li Xuan's Gushan battalion can be pressed up in time, they can form an arc-shaped encirclement posture against the officers and troops who sneak out of the city, so that Wang Pu's men and horses can't be deployed, and they will be at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, and when Wang Pu reacts and wants to send the elite ambushed in the urn city to the city wall for reinforcements, hum, it's already too late......"
"Understood." Li Hu nodded and said, "At that time, the brothers of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo had already killed the city wall and gained a firm foothold on the city wall, and it was too late for Wang Pu to fight back. ”
"Hmm." Li Yan nodded and said, "Wang Pu sang this play, is to destroy the enemy's edge in Zhengrui, turn the tide in the fall, and use this to stimulate the morale of the Datong border army, this commander wants to see if he can really destroy the spirit of our righteous army, whether he can really save the fate of the fall of Datong, hehe." ”
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Above the arrow tower, Wang Pu was watching the battle.
Seeing that the thieves approached the foot of the city wall so easily and set up a ladder, Wang Pu's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, he had long known that the Datong border army was weak, but he still didn't expect the Datong border army to be so weak!
When the sea was dying, the 10,000 poly army was rushed by more than 2,000 Korqin cavalry, and it was okay, because after all, it was a Mongolian cavalry, and it could be regarded as a strong force, but these thieves outside the city were an out-and-out rabble, and against such a rabble, the Datong border army actually fought like this, which could not help but disappoint.
"Damn." Lu Liuyi slammed his fist on the wall, and scolded angrily, "These guys are too useless, they let the thieves kill the thieves at the foot of the city wall so easily, and let the thieves set up all the ladders, what did the archers do?" And what about the musketeers? Rice buckets, all a bunch of rice buckets! ”
"General." The young lady timidly reminded, "Why don't you ...... Let's get out of here, shall we? ”
Nen Niang's worry is not unreasonable, in case the officials and troops on the city tower can't resist it, and really let the thieves really kill the city, then Wang Pu is in danger of being blocked on the arrow tower, just with Lu Liuhe's more than a dozen personal soldiers, no matter how high the martial arts are, there are not many thieves, as Wang Pu's personal soldiers, of course Nen Niang doesn't want Wang Pu to be in danger.
"There's no hurry." Wang Pu shook his head indifferently and said, "Although the officials and troops below are not good, the thieves will not be able to fight for a while." ”
"Then ......" Nen Niang's beautiful eyes turned, but she still insisted, "Then the general should transfer the seventh brother's men and horses." ”
The seventh brother in Nenniang's mouth is Xiao Qi, and Xiao Qi's men and horses are the family troops stationed in the Wang family's compound.
Of the more than 200 Jiading who had followed Wang Pu to Liaodong, about half had been transferred to the 5,000-strong team to serve as the general and chief officers, and Xiao Qi reorganized the Jiading army with the remaining 100-odd Jiading as the backbone, and this Jiading army has now expanded to 500 people.
With the men and horses of Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, and Monk Zhang, these five hundred families have broken away from Wang Pu's army system, and they have actually become the caravan of the Wang family.
Nen Niang was concerned about Wang Pu's safety, and insisted on transferring Xiao Qi's caravan up, Wang Pu saw that Xiao Nizi's tone was very resolute, if she didn't agree, she was afraid that she would cry again, so she had to nod and agree, and Nen Niang was looking for someone to go to the Wang family compound to move Xiao Qi's family team.
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Under the arrow tower, the fierce battle between the officials and the thieves has become white-hot.
"Wow!"
A large vat of gold juice poured down from the top of the city, and several thieves who climbed on the ladder had nowhere to hide and were poured all over their faces by the hot gold juice, and several thieves immediately howled like pigs, tumbling down from the ladder, falling to the ground and still rolling there, the pain caused by the scalding was enough to make anyone crazy.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way for Lao Tzu!"
A small leader of the thieves separated the thieves who were huddled together, flew up the ladder, and then climbed towards the city with his hands and feet.
The little leader, who was like a swallow, climbed to the top of the city in a moment, but before he could jump onto the city, the hideous figure of an officer and soldier suddenly appeared in front of him, and the officer and soldier had a bow and arrow in his hand, the bowstring had been full, and the sharp arrow cluster had been aimed at his face.
The little leader of the thieves was taken aback and was too late to dodge, only to see a flash of cold light, a sharp arrow had been shot out of the string, and a pop shot through the door of the small leader of the thieves, and the sharp arrows went straight through the back of the neck, and the little leader of the thieves screamed and fell down from the city tower.
The officers and soldiers shot the general arrow over the small leader of the thieves, and when he was about to pull the bow and arrow again, a sharp arrow shot up from under the city wall, which happened to hit his right leg and leg bend, and the officers and soldiers threw the general scream and the right leg fell from the city wall with a soft fall, and the officers and soldiers who fell to the city wall were still not breathing, and when they were about to turn over and get up, dozens of thieves had already swarmed up, and they cut him into pulp in an instant.
Rolling wood and stones poured down from the city tower with hot gold juice, and the thieves climbed up the ladder one by one, but they were pressed down by the officials and soldiers one by one, and half an hour passed quickly, and the corpses were already piled up under the city wall of the south gate, and the stench of gold juice and the strong smell of blood were mixed together, and the people wanted to vomit.
"Archers, archers come to Lao Tzu."
One of the big bandits finally came to his senses and began to roar hoarsely.
In fact, there are many archers in the border army who surrendered in the thief army, and many of the 3,000 elite soldiers in the fifth battalion of Gezuo are archers, hearing the shouts of the big leader, thousands of thief archers who are fighting separately gathered over, and the big leader stretched out his hand and pointed at the officers and soldiers on the city wall, and shouted: "Shoot to Lao Tzu, shoot these bitches!" ”
The big leader of the thieves gave an order, and the thieves archers shot arrows at the city tower at the same time, and a splash of arrows was like a dense raindrop pouring into the city, and the lethality of each fighting and intensive archery was obviously not comparable, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall were caught off guard and suddenly fell down, and the thieves took the opportunity to erect more ladders, howling and starting the second attack.
On the top of the city.
An officer and soldier had two feather arrows stuck in his back, one of which pierced his right shoulder, but this guy still ran back and forth on the city with a waist knife as if he was nothing, and shouted with a hideous expression as he ran: "Resist, resist Lao Tzu, you must not let the thieves rush up!" ”
"Master, I can't stand it." A timid recruit said with a sad face, "Let's run away, there are too many thieves." ”
"Look for death!"
The officer and the soldier roared angrily, cut off the head of the recruit with a knife in his hand, and then shouted with a bloody waist knife: "If this south gate can't be guarded, the general can't spare Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu can't spare you, who the fuck dares to say another word to escape, this is the end!" ”
All the officers and soldiers who saw this scene were suddenly silent.
"What are you doing in a daze?" Mr. Guan Jun Qian scolded angrily, "The thieves have been killed, all fucking guys, and Lao Tzu will kill them...... Kill! ”
It happened that a little leader of the thieves flew to the head of the city, and the general manager of the official army shouted loudly, and his backhand was a knife that happened to cut on the right shoulder of the little leader of the thieves, and the sharp steel knife cut through the shoulder blade like cutting tofu, and the right arm of the little leader of the thieves was slashed along with the right shoulder.
The little leader of the thieves was dying and wanted to fall off the city wall with the official army Qianzong and die together, but the Qianzong avoided the fall of the little leader of the thieves with a light flash, and flew up from behind and kicked the little leader of the thieves off the city tower.
Seeing that there was no movement from the officers and soldiers behind him, Mr. Qian, the officers and soldiers were anxious and angry, and shouted: "What are you doing in a daze, waiting for the thieves to come up and cut off your dog's head?" ”
It was only at this time that the officers and soldiers who were frightened by the scene just now woke up like a dream, shouted and rushed forward like a swarm, picked up the rolling wood and stones, and smashed them frantically towards the thieves on the ladder.
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Outside the city of Datong, the hill is wrapped.
"Ugh." Li Hu sighed with pity, "It's a pity, it's almost possible to attack." ”
The expression on Li Yan's face was as calm as ever, and he said indifferently: "Li Hu, now you can let the people who go back to the camp withdraw and replace them with the people from the Zuojin camp." ”
"Yes."
Li Hu answered, turned over and got on his horse to give the order in person.
The red lady looked back at Li Yan with admiring eyes, and said in a coquettish voice: "Xianggong, you are so powerful, let you calculate everything in advance, the sharp spirit of the officials and soldiers at the head of the city has been exhausted in the fierce battle with the return to the camp just now, and the people and horses of the Zuojin camp will definitely be able to kill the head of the city in one fell swoop." ”
"It doesn't have to go this way." Li Yan shook his head and said, "General Li Xuan is right, the officers and soldiers of Datong Town can't be underestimated, and I'm still worried about ......."
The red lady asked with concern, "What else is Xianggong worried about?" ”
Li Yan eyebrows for the first time with a hint of worry, and said in a deep voice: "I am also worried that the officers and troops in the city will become stronger and stronger, after all, they are officers and soldiers, whether it is training or equipment, they are above our rebels, our rebels can only fight with a momentary bravery, if they can't seize the city and gain a firm foothold within an hour, this battle ...... It's defeated. ”
"Huh?" The red lady exclaimed, "An hour? Won't we have half an hour left? ”
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On the Arrow Tower.
Wang Pu turned back to Lu Liu and said, "Liu'er, do you recognize the Qian Zong who was injured and killed on the head of the city just now?" ”
"I don't know." Lu Liu shook his head and said, "The villain doesn't know." ”
Wang Pu asked Xiao Qi who had just arrived: "Xiao Qi, what about you?" ”
Xiao Qi also shook his head and said: "I don't know the lowly position, it is said that the generals and villains above the thousand generals of Datong Town know each other, and you should also know the general, but this person is so tight-faced, why have you never seen it before?" ”
Wang Pu said: "This person is not chaotic in the face of danger, and he has the demeanor of a general, so he will send someone to touch his bottom when he goes back." ”
"Yes." Xiao Qi replied respectfully, "This matter is on the humble duty. ”
"Hmm." Wang Pu nodded and said to Lu Liu, "This battle is almost over, the second echelon of the thieves is about to press up, Zhao Liujin's people have already suffered a lot of casualties, it seems that they can't hold out for too long, and immediately ordered the bearded, his musket team can go out of the city to fight back." ”
"Yes."
Lu Liu promised and took the order.
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South Gate, Urn City.
A thousand musketeers led by the bearded man stayed quietly.
The wall closest to the city gate, a veteran was leaning against the city wall with his eyes closed and napping, allowing the sound of killing outside to shake the sky, and the solid city gate was also swelled by the thief's hammer, this veteran just didn't move, and he didn't even jump his eyelids, but the new soldier next to the veteran was so nervous.
"Lao He, the thieves are about to break open the city gate."
"Lao He, the voice above is not quite right, is it that the thieves have already killed the city?"
"Lao He, don't sleep, listen to whether the thieves really killed the city?"
The recruit looked at the city gate nervously for a while, raised his head nervously and listened to the sound of fighting on the city, squatted down and counted the dragon king cannon on his waist again and again, and quietly picked up the musket in his hand, gestured twice at the city gate, and said with words in his mouth: "Kill you thief, horn!" ”
The nervousness, fear and excitement before the war made the recruits in the musket team all become neurotic one by one, if it weren't for the fact that there were still half of the veterans in the formation, with these recruits, I was afraid that before the thieves could kill them, they would be in chaos first, and even blow up the nest!
"Puffy!"
The closed city gate was slammed again, shaking the mud in the hole in the city gate, and the recruit stood up with a tiger, raised his musket and aimed it at the closed city gate, and screamed loudly: "Lao He, it's not good, the city gate is really going to be knocked open by thieves!" ”
The recruit Danzi shouted, and dozens of nearby recruits all stood up.
It wasn't until this juncture that the veteran lazily opened one eye and scolded very unceremoniously: "Boy, the gate of our Datong City is solid, according to the thief's collision method, even if it hits for ten days and half a month, it can't be opened!" Look at your little bit of talent, you haven't seen the thief yet, you're afraid of being like this, it's really useless. ”
Another veteran also laughed and said: "These cowards, if they catch up with the battle of Sanbula River, they will have to pee their pants all ......."
"Boy, you all listen to Lao Tzu." Another veteran said in a threatening tone, "Don't run away when you go to the battlefield, if you really become a coward, I will definitely screw off all your wasted heads one by one as a night pot." ”
The veterans burst into laughter, but the recruits blushed one by one.
The recruits never thought that they were cowards, and naturally they were a hundred unconvinced, but they were usually used to being cleaned up by these veterans, and they didn't dare to say anything against them, but they all held back their strength in their hearts, thinking that when they met the thieves, they must kill others to show those veterans.
These recruits didn't know that they were no longer nervous and scared when they let a few veterans make such a fuss just now.
At this moment, the tall and fierce figure of the bearded man suddenly strode in, and the veterans who had just been lying on the ground and pretending to be asleep listlessly immediately turned over and climbed up, and one by one they all became energetic, and these veterans had already sniffed out the murderous aura from the beard.
The bearded man's gaze swept coldly over the faces of a thousand soldiers, and he shouted: "Fuck me up." ”
The ten generals who followed behind the bearded man immediately rushed forward and commanded their respective teams of 100 to begin to form formation, and in less than a moment, a thousand musketeers were already in a neat formation.
The bearded man strode to the front of the queue and shouted: "After the city gate is opened, five hundred veterans will be in front, and five hundred recruits will be in the back. ”
"I heard you all!"
A thousand soldiers responded with a bang.
The thunderous sound of the bearded man buzzed and echoed in the urn city, shaking the soldiers' eardrums with a faint pain, which even the deaf could almost hear.
"Okay." The bearded man nodded and shouted, "First team...... Preparation. ”
The first hundred-man team composed of one hundred veterans quickly moved forward, lined up in the city gate hole in the front and back ten rows, except for the ten veterans in the first row who were about to open the city gate, the remaining ninety veterans had already carried the muskets to their shoulders, holding a fire twist in one hand and a dragon king cannon in the other, ready to go.
Seeing that the veterans were ready, the bearded man shouted: "Open the city gates!" ”
The ten veterans who were about to open the door quickly chiseled down the mechanism of the city gate, and the two boulders that had been twisted in advance slowly fell from the side of the city gate, and under the pull of the boulder, the closed city gate slowly opened in a piercing creak, and when the city gate had just opened a crack, the ten veterans in the first row had already ignited the fuse of the dragon king cannon with a fire twist.
The thieves who were slamming the city gate saw the city gate suddenly open, and immediately rushed forward with a cheer, but they were greeted by ten black and sparkling iron bumps, and before they could understand what was going on, the dazzling fire had already burst from under their feet, and a huge wave of qi tore these unlucky thieves to pieces in an instant...... "The second squad took ten steps forward, throw!" ”
"The third squad takes fifteen steps forward, throw!"
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The commander of the hundredth team repeated the order mechanically and indifferently, and the ninety musketeers who had already been ready continued to rush forward, and constantly threw the prepared dragon king cannons into a row into the narrow open space outside the city gate, and the thieves who were crowded here were blown up on their backs, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
The thieves who crowded the outer gates of the city were suddenly struck by this, and they were in chaos in an instant.
"Cannon, the artillery of the officers and soldiers is coming."
"God, the artillery of the official army is too powerful."
In the chaotic army, I don't know which thieves shouted, the thieves who were already a little frightened collapsed in an instant, scattered and fled, the thieves are thieves after all, under the temptation of full food, silver and women, their morale can be unprecedentedly high, they can be fearless of death, but their morale is not disciplined after all, and they are drummed up and discharged quickly.
Inside the city gates.
The bearded man gently flicked forward with the waist knife in his hand, and shouted, "Second team...... Sortie! ”
The second hundred-man squad entered the city gate in a row with neat steps, and these musketeers, whether they were recruits or veterans, had received the strictest training in normal times, and as long as they were on the battlefield, they had to maintain a rigorous firing formation at any time and place.
Because the firearms of this era are still only flintlock muskets, if it is only the individual combat of musketeers, neither power nor rate of fire can form a real advantage over the cold weapons army, and the musketeers can only form an overwhelming advantage over cold weapons if they line up in a dense firing formation and carry out intensive three-stage shooting.
However, in this way, the speed at which the musketeers drove out of the city was invisibly affected.
(To be continued)