Chapter 118: Two Long Miles

The captives formed a formation to the beat of drums, lined up in a large formation, and faced the enemy in a neat formation

"Check the firebolt," shouted the hundreds.

The soldiers inspected the firecrackers, branches, medicine packets, and projectiles in unison.

"Charge bag, load."

The soldiers reflexively reloaded quickly, but they were still a little slower than their usual drills.

The Jiannu army approached two miles, the Han army under the command of Liu Xingzuo was in front of two rows of soldiers wearing leather armor and cotton armor, holding spears, and behind them were infantry with firearms, bows and arrows without armor, and the formation was quite neat and coercive, after all, under the threat of Jiannu's sword, the combat power of the Han army was still higher than the general Ming army, Liu Xingzuo looked around, and found that Jiale Zhang Jinggutai led two thousand taels of white flag soldiers to follow closely behind the Han army, one is to supervise the army, and the other is to use the Han army to damage the combat strength of the Ming army, and take the opportunity to break the formation. Liu Xingzuo did not think that the Ming army on the opposite side could resist this offensive, and perhaps they could hold on to the Han army for a while, but when the Jiannu armor soldiers pounced on from behind, the Ming army would definitely collapse.

Liu Xingzuo has been lost to the Jurchen for more than ten years, he is a helpless thief, the Jurchen nobles have never looked down on the Ming people, and even some Jurchen nobles have beaten and scolded Hanchen, Liu Xingzuo is fed up with humiliation, and privately communicated with Dongjiang and Denglai for a long time, but the family population is large, and several younger brothers are on errands in different places, so there is no suitable time for the whole family to surrender to Ming, and now on the battle array, Liu Xingzuo can't keep his hand, so he can only sigh, and the Ming army on the opposite side asks for more blessings.

In the jingle of the nail leaves, Qi Buchen walked behind the armor soldiers wearing the only chain mail in the house, holding a longbow in his left hand, and the index finger of his right hand kept stroking the iron wrench on his thumb, feeling a little nervous, after all, it was the first time he went into battle, he looked forward for his cousin's figure, only to see the tall and strong Dahasu marching calmly in the first two rows, he was covered in iron armor, holding a mace in both hands, he was the front row of the two rows of heavy armor. found his cousin, Qi Buchen felt a lot more at ease.

At this moment, the roaring cannon sounded, and I saw the people in the Han army column in front of him turning over on their backs, screaming again and again, Qi Buchen watched several Han soldiers in different directions being beaten and falling down, blood splashing. The projectile carved out several alleys in the dense crowd, but it was nothing more than a human flesh alley. Qi Buchen shuddered, and the fear of death struck.

"Quick, quick." The guns of the Broken Army shouted loudly, the gunners cleared their chambers, charged the packs, loaded the projectiles, compacted, the guns returned to their positions, opened fire, and the second artillery was fired after more than 30 breaths. The burst propellant pushed the nine-pound projectile into the enemy line and flew towards the enemy line, bouncing a dozen steps on the frozen ground with blood and stumps.

Qi Buchen saw that one of his auxiliaries who was two people away from him was hit by a cannonball, and the person was broken into several pieces, and blood splattered everywhere, some of which splashed on his quiver, which made him sick to his stomach, and Qi Buchen did not expect that it was his own people's blood that was stained first. At this time, he could only pray that the enemy's artillery in the heavens would slow down, and he found that the whole team did not need Niu Lu Zhangjing to speak, and all of them involuntarily accelerated their speed, wanting to take over the formation as soon as possible and take one less shelling, but unfortunately, after more than thirty breaths, another shelling began, however, Qi Buchen was pleasantly surprised to find that no shells fell near his left. Elsewhere, of course, there was a howl of ghosts and wolves.

In the past, the Ming army only had tiger squat cannons, shooting scattered bullets, the range was only dozens of steps, and the other Fran machine guns and general cannons were extremely heavy, and they couldn't fight in the field at all, today's small artillery of the Ming army shot extremely far, and the interval was short, although the killing and wounding of the army was not too big, but it was a great blow to the morale of the formation, fortunately, it was not far from the enemy formation, and the Ming army would definitely collapse if he got through the battle, and then he caught the general of the Ming army, and Zilharang planned to let him understand what it was like to die well, Then use his head to make a wine bottle to play with, hum, and ring for the latecomers.

When the Han army approached more than 100 steps, the nine-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon issued the final blow, and the propellant bombarded hundreds of thumb-thick iron to the front of the Han military camp, whether it was an iron shield, a leather shield, a wooden shield and armor, the iron broke in, the Han military camp was quite neat The front of the attack seemed to have been gnawed by a wild boar, there were a number of large gaps, the Han army that was shot made a miserable howl that was not like a human voice, rolling on the ground, blood was flying everywhere, and the Han army that was not hit nearby was also frightened and strung around, The spear array in front of the Han camp was shattered.

However, due to the fear of the swords and guns of the soldiers who followed closely behind, the Han military camp finally did not collapse and continued to approach the broken army. But the sluggish and trembling faces revealed the fear in their hearts, which was so miserable, the first time in several years that they had been so traumatized in the field.

Liu Xingzuo, who was advancing with the two white flags, was also frightened, he was the first time he had seen this kind of tragic battlefield, damn, where is this Ming army, ruthless enough, it really deserves it.

Qi Buchen, who was in the back row, was shocked by the deafening sound of artillery and screams, and his whole body tensed nervously, and he felt that he was about to suffocate.

Jilharang, who was watching the enemy from behind, gritted his teeth and saw that the Han army camp finally approached the Ming army under artillery fire, and felt that the journey of more than two miles was too long.

After the gunners put the last shot, they hurried through the gap to return to the rear, their mission was over, the artillery was put in place first, and after the battle, if they didn't leave, Jiannu's bows and arrows would come. When the time comes, they can't go if they want to, in order to clear the chamber, reload, reset and other actions quickly, the gunners are not wearing armor, and staying here are some targets.

Huang Han saw that the enemy was approaching nearly 100 paces, and shouted, "The trumpeter sounds." ”

Dozens of brass trumpeters and suona players blew out the loudest and loudest long sound, and when they heard the long sound, the flag-bearers of the thousand generals in the front row put the flags flat, and the thousands of general commanders shouted and opened fire.

More than 300 firecrackers in the first row burst into flames, and a large area of smoke burst out for a while, Liu Fugui, who was standing behind the firecrackers, was higher behind the terrain, and vaguely saw more than 100 enemy soldiers falling on the opposite side, and then he smelled the pungent smell of sulfur, and saw the enemy's blood splashing everywhere, scattering and falling made his blood boil, very happy.

"The first row of firecrackers retreats, the second row is on top, and the third row is ready." The various thousand presidents shouted.

The firecrackers in the first row stepped back, and the second row was raised,

The commanders of the Han military camp on the opposite side shouted loudly for the soldiers to speed up and run, shorten the time to be targeted, and at the same time allow themselves to reach a position where they can attack the Ming army as soon as possible.

The rear is another horn sounding, the second row fired, a large area of smoke dispersed in the roar, and more than 100 soldiers in the Han military camp fell to the ground screaming in various strange postures, most of the Han army was dressed in leather armor and cotton armor, they were easily broken by lead bullets, there was no defensive effect at all, the Han military camp began to scatter, some people continued to move forward, some moved to both sides, and some turned back to escape, however, the people who fled backwards were cut down by the Jiannu behind in an instant, and the weapons of the armor soldiers were instantly stained red with blood, The fierce Jiannu armor soldiers controlled the situation again, at this time, the crossbowmen in the Han army camp threw feather arrows upward, only the sound of the buzzing bowstring was heard, nearly a thousand feather arrows trembled and bent and flew into the sky, when they reached the highest point, they turned around and fell down in a hurry, at this time, the third batch of firecrackers had just fired, and more than a hundred Han troops fell to the ground, and at this time the enemy's blow also arrived, a sound of striking iron sounded, and arrows continued to hit the iron armor, some were inserted in the iron armor, and some fell after scraping with the iron armor, There were also unfortunate firecrackers who were shot in the face by iron arrows and fell to the ground with a miserable howl.

It's still slow, about five or six breaths slower, Zhao Lie looked at the rear formation, and saw that the handover speed of the two columns of firecrackers and the speed of the volley of guns decreased compared with the training, it seems that no matter how good the drill is, it can't compare to the training on the battlefield.

The firecracker in front of Ji Gang was shot into the right eye by an arrow and pierced into his brain, killing him instantly, Ji Gang's eyes did not blink, he stared at the enemy formation on the opposite side fiercely, holding the spear with both hands, he had only one thought in his heart, revenge.

Zou Huaien had a pain in his shoulder, he knew that he was hit by an arrow, he shook it with his hand, feeling that it was not deep in the flesh, and broke the arrow shaft with his hand, so as not to affect the hand-to-hand combat for a while.

Then another batch of feathered arrows whistled down, and the clanging sound of iron was accompanied by a scream.

At this time, the fourth row of firecrackers stepped forward, because it was the first battle formation, there were constantly casualties around them, and there were feathered arrows flying in the sky, and the salvo of the firecrackers this time was not very neat, but there were still nearly 100 Han soldiers who staggered to the ground.

With a rush of drums, the last platoon of musketeers quickly withdrew, and when they returned to the rear, four rows of pikemen rushed forward and rushed quickly towards the enemy.

"Flat gun, flat gun." Thousands of people shouted incessantly, reminding the pikemen to pay attention to the flat guns.

The four blows swept away the pikemen of the Han battalion, and at this time the front row became light infantry with bows and arrows in hand, and after shooting the last arrow, they hurriedly threw away the bow, drew their waist knives from under their ribs, and rushed towards the Ming army with a roar. At this time, the arrows thrown by the Jiannu auxiliaries and the coat also rained down, and the pikemen kept falling to the ground, and the surrounding land was already full of arrows, but fortunately, the arrows thrown were limited, and the pikemen had iron armor to protect their bodies, and even their faces were armoured, and there were not many people who died, most of them were injured and fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind them automatically substituted for them according to the drill requirements.

"On the other side is your mortal enemy, they robbed you and other acres of land, killed your parents, brothers and sisters, and killed them to take revenge." The propaganda envoys of the hundred generals were shouting to stimulate the nerves of the soldiers and make them even more crazy.

Which of the soldiers of the Broken Army from Liaodong did not have a blood feud with Jiannu, and the pikemen were stimulated and rushed towards the Han army.

The men and horses of the two sides collided together in an instant, and the hundred generals shouted: "stab" The pikemen of the captive army frantically stabbed, collected, and stabbed, and the soldiers of the Han army camp on the opposite side were pitiful to find that their waist knives were so short, and they could only listen to the other party's spears raging.

Liu Fugui had quickly collected and stabbed no less than four times, but three times he stabbed into the body of the same person, and Zou Huaien beside him also stabbed the enemy in front of him twice, and this Han army fell to the ground with several bloody holes.

Liu Fugui saw a Han soldier with a spear in his hand to fill the position of the dead, pikemen are really rare, most of them died under the artillery and firearms, the spear in the hands of the fierce Han army with a full face and beard stabbed Liu Fugui fiercely, the guns of the two collided halfway, Liu Fugui's spear head pierced into the shoulder of this person, the enemy's spear head squeaked against Liu Fugui's breastplate, Zou Huaien on the side stabbed this person in the chest, a large stream of blood shot out, and the bearded mouth vomited blood and fell to the ground with resentment in his eyes, at this time, Zou Huaien rushed on the opposite side of a Han army, the waist knife in his hand slashed Zou Huaien, Zou Huaien's spear has not been pulled out, Liu Fugui was in a hurry, the spear in his hand had just been pulled out and hung on the ground, hurriedly turned to the enemy soldier, the spear hit the waist of the enemy soldier, the enemy soldier stumbled, the waist knife grazed Zou Huaien's left shoulder flashed, a spear on the side pierced the abdomen of the enemy soldier, Liu Fugui made up a shot, the enemy soldier let out a piercing scream, rolled on the ground, and was not dead for a while.

Ji Gang stabbed to death the Han army who slashed at Zou Huaien, and the second, he silently recited it himself, four members of his family died in Liaodong, and he had to kill two Jiannu to be enough.

ps I have collected too much in the past two days, and I feel that the scene of the iron-blooded battle array is not badly written in the middle of the night, and I can't always Zhao Lie fight bloodily in the front, and the collection is scattered in the rear, please recommend the collection, thank you.