Chapter 11 Burning and Bombardment

The northeast side of Lushun South City is a hill several hundred meters high, and there is a small road between the mountain and the city, which can only accommodate an ox cart to walk, and the path winds to the southeast of the city. The trees on both sides of the road are dense and the grass is dense.

Niu Lu Zhang Jing Kutu and Fu Ha led nearly 400 people to ride two horses side by side and move forward quickly, Kutu smelled a slightly pungent smell during the march, and looked at the dense pine forest between the marches, perhaps the smell of the pine forest, but it was a little weird, Kutu didn't care, and urged the whole team to continue to move forward. The successive victories against Nikan made these two Niu Lu careless.

At the end of the southern foot of the trail, Yu Dabao, Huang Han, and Li Hu surrounded Zhao Lie, several people were wearing Wenshan armor, and they lined up in front of them with firearms and armor.

At this time, many of the armor-clad firearms soldiers of the Fuhai who had barely gone ashore to fight on foot were nervously looking into the distance, even if they were blocked by trees, didn't they still have ears, Zhao Lie was also listening carefully to the sound of the horses' hooves galloping south of the Jiannu brigade, dense and fast south, Zhao Lie felt that his heart was beating faster and his breathing began to be short, Zhao Lie took a few deep breaths and controlled his mind, even if he was a rookie and had never experienced a bloody battle, the current situation could not allow him to retreat, once defeated, the strength of his family was lost, In these troubled times, that means surrendering one's fate to others.

The sound of hooves in the distance came, dust flew up, and the Jiannu cavalry trotted along the sheep intestine path into sight.

Zhao Lie, Li Hu and other Ming soldiers looked nervously into the distance, after all, this was the first battle with Jiannu.

The first Pashku looked at the small phalanx of dozens of people, and did not turn around to ask Niu Lu, just this point of infantry, one charge disrupted the enemy, and the next thing was to chop melons and vegetables. With a shout, the horse sped up in order to charge into battle.

"Flat gun." Li Shan gave an order, and the six people in the front row of the musket group were placed in Lu Mitong.

The soldiers fought with Jiannu for the first time, their whole bodies trembled with nervousness and excitement, their panting became thicker, Huang Han, Yu Dabao and other junior brothers were even more red, and only Li Hu remained calm. Zhao Lie tried his best to keep his breathing steady, flattened the two stone step bows, his eyes were level with the arrows, and his right hand with a fine iron wrench held the bowstring steadily.

"Put." When Jiannu was more than a hundred steps away, Li Shan shouted.

In a matter of seconds, three firebolts rang out. With the sound of gunshots, both sides of the trail suddenly flew out of the thick grass on the east side, large and small jars, crashed into the Jiannu cavalry, the horses that were marching were in a hurry, some with knives and guns to resist, some on guard, people called the horses neighing, but listening to the crackling sound, the jar or crashed on the knife and gun to shatter, or crashed into the centaur body to shatter, the gray and black liquid splashed everywhere, and then a large number of rockets were launched in three batches one after another, and the people and horses instantly burned into torches. Very few have been spared. The incident happened in a hurry, the trees on the side of the road were vigorous, and the enemy's position could not be seen clearly, and the Jiannu soldiers were engulfed in flames by just sending sporadic bows and arrows.

Some of the golden soldiers put out the fire with their hands, and even their hands burned, some began to unload their armor, hoping to take off the burning outer armor, but it was difficult to escape if their hands were glued, and some jumped off their horses and rolled on the ground in the hope of extinguishing the flames on their bodies. Niu Lu Zhang Jing Fuha in the middle of the queue is also one of them, and the fire on his body burns up this Niu Lu Zhang Jing is jumping in pain, completely without the bearing of the master, more like a wizard who jumps the gods. Niu Lu Zhang Jing Kutu in front is the lucky one, he didn't stick a little spark on his body, and Kutu, who has been in battle for a long time, understands that it is impossible to stop and retreat, only to rush out of the fire There is still a glimmer of life.

The front of the team did not have this trouble, and the more than 20 horsemen in front of him listened to his order to speed up the formation, and went out of the ambush circle, although they heard the chaos behind them, they rushed up regardless of it.

When he reached sixty steps, Li Shan gave an order:

"Put."

The first row of gunners fired, and there was a burst of explosion, white smoke rose up, and the deformed lead bullets made their own strange noises and crashed into the golden soldiers.

Pashku, who was in the lead, flew first, he only felt a few sharp pains in his upper body, and then his body took off, and he was knocked away by several war horses behind him, and he lost consciousness in an instant.

The gunners in the first row put down their empty guns, and when they received the empty guns handed by the second row, there was another volley, four consecutive rows of fire, and there was already a cloud of smoke all around, and the gunners retreated, and the two rows of fully armored pikemen were fixed in front, and they could only faintly observe. Fortunately, a gust of wind blew, most of the smoke flew away, only twenty steps away from the remaining four, five cavalry slave soldiers roared and rushed, Zhao Lie let go of the bowstring, the bow returned to its original state, the instant explosive force, the heavy arrow quickly popped out, the first row of a slave soldier away from the horse, the first row of another slave soldier fell with two arrows, the remaining three slave soldiers arrived in front of the formation in an instant, but the crotch dismounted saw the gun formation did not dare to move forward, ran away to both sides, on both sides of the forest, the branches swept the slave soldiers off the horse, the slave soldiers were in seven meat and eight vegetarian food, more than ten people in the armor group stepped forward and shot randomly, Three people died.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they saw two horses galloping towards them, one of them was on fire in his back, the other was on fire in one arm, and there were several small flames on the horse.

Kutu endured the pain in his left arm, which was left after hitting the two burning men in succession to open the way, and one of his own guards accompanied by fire on the other side, Kutu saw the dead bodies of men and horses in front of him and the Ming army blocking the road, and knew that there was no way out, and rushed towards the Ming army with dying fanaticism.

Due to the killing of a few slave soldiers, the armored people ran to the side of the road, the forest, only the musket group was left in front of the battle with empty guns, the soldiers who did not go through the battle formation were instantly sluggish, the two horses collided with three or four people, and the speed also dropped greatly, Kutu raised his long-handled saber and was about to slash at a Ming army in front of him, and suddenly saw an iron spear head flying towards his chest, and hurriedly blocked with a saber. The big gun was thrown by Zhao Lie as a flying gun. The other guard was knocked away by Yu Dabao's iron rod.

Zhao Lie frowned, he still hadn't gone through the battle formation, including himself as a junior brother, and the engagement was extremely chaotic, if it was a field battle this time, he would undoubtedly lose, and he would have to train immediately when he went back.

Some of the others rescued a few wounded, and some stepped forward to cut off Jiannu's head, which was all busy, Zhao Lie was annoyed for a while, he was really a miscellaneous soldier, it seemed that he had something to do, but in fact, he was dealing with it inappropriately.

More than ten Jiannu cavalry rushed out one after another, all of them were extremely embarrassed by the flames, and they all fell in front of this small military formation one after another.

At this time, the crossbowmen on the Fushan, Fuhai and other ships returned to the formation from the forest one after another, Zhao Lie ordered to use rockets to ignite all the trees on both sides of the path, only to see hundreds of rockets flying into the forest, after a while, the fire engulfed the entire woodland, the smoke was filled, and the sound of crackling fire was mixed in.

None of the people who were knocked into the air died, but two were broken and were lifted by the crowd and returned to the dock.

Niu Lu Zhang Jing Hailai led another cavalry along the official road between Baiyu Mountain and the south city in the west of the city, this official road is the avenue connecting the wharf and the north city, two ox carts can be side by side, relatively spacious, when galloping on the road, you can clearly see the Ming army in the city pointing and pointing, Hailai can't help but be happy, knowing that the uncles are cutting off your way back, how can you be so Nikan, it is really a turtle with a shrunken head.

The avenue passes through the west of the city, you can see the wharf when you turn around the southeast corner, the wharf is better than the southwest wharf, the wharf is closer to the southwest of the city, the forward leader leads the people to enter the south of the city through the southwest corner, the distance is densely packed with people, the leader seems to see the bloody scene again, he can't help but speed up the horse, suddenly, he heard a continuous roaring sound, he raised his eyes, more than ten big ships near the shore rose a large puff of white smoke, and then his body flew up in severe pain, at the same time, he heard the sound of puff, and then the whole body was in severe pain, Gradually, he lost consciousness.

Hailai just arrived at the corner, but also heard the continuous cannon fire in front, when he turned the corner, only to see the flag soldiers with people and horses fell into a piece, no less than 100 horses fell to the ground and struggled, the miserable screams of the people echoed the sorrow of the horse, Hailai hurriedly stopped the horse, only to see that there was another cannon sound on the boat, and then a large number of scattered bombs scattered in front, Hailai's heart was extremely painful, they were all the bannermen of the neighborhood, this battle could not be fought, dozens of cannons were staring at this, on both sides of the road was a steep mountain, on the other side was a deep moat, how many people died were not enough to fill. Hailai immediately ordered him to return to the army.

It turned out that a few days ago, Zhao Lie took a look at the topography of the two cities, and decided to use the narrow road and dense forest on the east side to burn it, the west side to use the corner to be close to the sea, the slope moat on both sides to cover it, and the narrow terrain in the middle, and use naval guns to snipe at the plan.

Go back to discuss with my father, after several persuasions, my father finally agreed, and transferred the crossbowmen, firearmsmen, and armor groups on the Fushan Fuhai to be led by Zhao to block the attack, and at the same time issued a reward as long as the battle is facing the enemy, ten taels of silver per person, if the battle does not give the family a pension of three hundred taels of silver, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, these silver money generals and soldiers screamed excitedly, everyone is brave, just kidding, even if they die, the future life of the family is also worry-free, it is worth it. Zhao Lie collected the oil and jars from several ships. In this way, nearly 400 soldiers were gathered and ambushed on the side of the road under the command of Zhao Lie's army. This time it was finally successful, but it could only be blocked for one day, on this day, the fire passed through the forest, and it burned everywhere, and Jiannu didn't want to enter.

On the west side, more than 20 ships and ships were used to test their guns, and the four guns fired scattered shells one after another, maintaining the continuous shelling and blocking the road.

The ambush on both sides of Lushun finally caused the Jiannu striker to suffer a big loss.