Chapter 129: The battle is over, and the exercise continues
Yan Sanniang drove her mule to trot all the way, and in a moment it was half a mile away from the battlefield, and those bandits also rushed to the front of the horizontal formation of a hundred paces, waving knives and guns, shouting high and low.
Boom Boom Boom ...... Countless explosions sounded intensively, seeing a long row of white smoke gushing out, Yan Sanniang was difficult to look at carefully, not only her mule was so frightened that she was sneezing and flirting, but her heart was also suddenly tightened, and the majesty of the mule's head that had been shot by Li Shi poured into her mind again, making her face pale and her phoenix eyes out of focus.
"This little thief ......"
Just as he was about to put Li Xian's cold face into his mouth and chew, there was another explosion in Pengpeng, the mule screamed, the hooves scattered, and she simply spread it on the ground.
Lifting the red tassel gun, and looking forward again, the white smoke rising in front of the thin horizontal array in the distance, the third row of guns just fired, and the loud noise followed the white smoke that erupted violently from the muzzle of the gun, and what he saw and heard converged into a complete perception, and he also crashed into a door in Yan Sanniang's heart. Behind the gate was a world of blood and fire, where there was a powerful force she had never touched. No, she had touched such a force, which had forced her to kneel and hold her head, and it was difficult for her to resist in the slightest. And Li Shi, who has this power, can't beat her with a finger in terms of skill.
"Miss Yan, the general secretary invites you to come to him."
A guard appeared and woke up Yan Sanniang, whose eyes were still straight.
"Zhang Hanjin and Zhang Hanwan advanced fifty paces, if Jia Hao's flank attack is timely, set up a front on the spot, otherwise it will be pressed until a hundred steps later."
Li Shi stood on a boulder, observing the enemy situation with the monocular sent by An Jia, while issuing orders.
"Hu Hanshan will take a sentry to occupy the high ground a hundred steps away on the left, and the artillery posts of Zhao Hanxiang and Lu Hanshan will follow, and they must suppress the attack of the thief's den on Jia Hao."
Yan Sanniang came to the boulder, the gunpowder smoke in front of her was dispersing, Li Xian gave an order, and a deliberately elongated shout sounded in front of her: "Bayonet - up!" ”
The sound of gold and iron colliding sounded at the same time, and after a while, a forest of knives was erected in front of him, and the cold light of winter was circulating on the blade, and people subconsciously shivered.
"Let's go!"
Forty or fifty people were three people wide and three people thick, and the crowd with a distance of less than one meter followed the order, neatly penetrating the already thin gunpowder smoke, advancing forward, and faintly saw the figures lying in the distance, and the bandits who were originally like a crowd of people were gone.
Yan Sanniang looked further down the hillside, only to see the bandits pushing and shoving in a mess, some of them stood stupidly, some of them turned in place like rats, some of them ran wildly with their heads in their hands, and some of them quarreled with each other and even waved their fists and feet. The original crowd of hundreds of high-spirited bandits was broken up by these three rows of guns...... Turning her eyes to look at Li Shi on the boulder again, she saw him staring into the distance, frowning slightly, as if he was contemplative, and as if he was very dissatisfied with the scene in front of him, Yan Sanniang's heart trembled slightly, she suddenly felt that the martial arts she knew, in front of such Li Shi, it was really ridiculously powerless.
"Sanniang, come up."
The arrangement has been decided, and Li Shi saw Yan Sanniang and beckoned her to go up to the boulder.
He was dissatisfied, Jia Hao's two outposts of more than 100 people had just been inserted into the rear of the bandits from the right side, and they were shifting from the rapid marching army to the battle formation, because it was a hillside, so the formation was a little messy. Jia Hao is cautious, especially follows the dogma, must adjust the formation, during this time, many bandits have fled into the thief's den, and failed to play the role of closing the door and beating the dog. It's Wu Ya...... No, he estimated that he would rush closer with people, and it was difficult to ensure that he would form a hand-to-hand combat with the thieves who jumped over the wall in a hurry.
It's all inexperienced...... Li Xi sighed so emotionally, and then the fragrance around him reminded him that there was a curious baby who had no battlefield experience at all.
"Just follow it, don't dangle on the side of the battlefield, bullets don't have long eyes."
Li Shi reprimanded her angrily, he had long known that she was following, but Yan Sanniang was not his subordinate, and her kung fu was high, so she couldn't drive away if she wanted to, so she had to let her watch. But I didn't want her to just watch from the side of the battlefield, it was very dangerous.
Yan Sanniang only felt that her heart was empty, and she forced herself to restrain herself, wanting to save face with two sentences, but she didn't want the explosion to rise again, wave after wave, and it turned out to be three consecutive rings. It was the guards on the right who had already lined up firing, and the already chaotic group of bandits exploded into a colorful scarlet.
Hit by this fatal side blow, the bandits had no way to escape back to the thieves' den, and suddenly froze in place, the first person knelt down, and then led countless people to kneel on the ground and raise their hands to forgive, not daring to move again. And the horizontal formation, which was marching in order, also approached, and the hillside was full of lying and kneeling people, and there were hardly any bandits standing.
"Hu Hanshan's side move quickly, he should have fired before Jia Hao, is the clock hanging on his body only used as a urinal?"
Li Xi continued to give orders, his plan was to press forward head-on, Hu Hanshan suppressed the thief's nest, and Jia Hao attacked on the side, which should have been done in one go, but the three links were loosened. This is just a few rows of guns can be basically solved by bandits, if you really meet a strong enemy, his set of annihilation of the enemy under the city, while looking for opportunities to attack the city, is full of loopholes.
The herald below retreated, Yan Sanniang listened to Li Xian's calm and angry tone, and then looked at the battlefield of thousands of people who were turned by his words, and the original tremor in his heart rose again, pushing into a circle of strange fine ripples. The "lupine scarf, flick your fingers by the railing, and the captives will be wiped out" in Mr. Storyteller's mouth, the kind of heroic man who makes her fascinated, originally thought that it was only available in ancient times, but at this moment, Li Xian ...... "God...... What am I thinking......"
A slight flush spread on her cheeks, Yan Sanniang turned her head away, and she was clumsy and speechless.
"You shotguns, you don't seem to be ordinary."
Li Xian didn't notice Yan Sanniang's movements, he was staring at the situation on the battlefield, and when he heard this question, which seemed to have been delayed for several days, he couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.
This was the first battle he had fought with a flintlock pistol in his time!
Now Si Wei is no longer a "shotgun" in his hand, but a real flintlock pistol, Tian Dayou threw away the pain of losing his son, painstakingly pondered out the flintlock machine, not only has few parts, the mechanism is simple, but also reliable and durable, by no means much worse than the foreigner.
The two rounds of three rows of guns just now were all fired by dense crowds, and the barrels made by finely grinding the waterbed could allow the guards to have a considerable hit rate at a distance of 100 paces, so this time he gave the order to shoot without waiting for the bandits to rush close to fifty paces. Sure enough, in the first round, at least thirty or forty bandits were brought down, and then Jia Hao's flank attack knocked down twenty or thirty people, although there were four or five hundred bandits in this wave, but there were no guns, bows and crossbows in their hands, let alone a strongman organization, and they completely collapsed dozens of steps away, which was worse than tofu scum.
It's just that this gun still has a mystery, and the flintlock faucet can also hold the fire rope, and when necessary, it has to be replaced with a fire rope to pretend to be a bird gun, which is an indispensable cover at the moment.
This operation was not undertaken by Li Xi alone, and Zhenbiao also sent Zhang Ying's battalion, but Li Xi specially threw Zhang Ying's team to another road, so that he could practice flintlock tactics without outsiders.
"What's the difference?"
Li Xian asked with a smile, Yan Sanniang bit her lip lightly, her eyes drooped, and her mind became even more confused.
"I can't see it."
Li Xian thought to himself, Wing Chun Patriarch, ignorance is not a fault, and there is no need to blush.
"It's very different!"
Yan Sanniang suppressed the strange mood in her heart, and barely found the difference on the handle of the gun, but it made Li Xian laugh even more, the laughter was high, and the sound of thunder and cannon echoed in this mountain.
The bandits surrendered, but Siwei did not stop, and the bandits watched dumbfoundedly as their den of thieves was bombarded with a cannon, and bricks and wood flew in all directions.
Li Xi had two big killing weapons in this battle, one was a flintlock pistol, and the other was this cannon. In October last year, Bai Daolong reported the loss of the twelve cannons in his town mark, and it is estimated that he also learned from his predecessor and resold them to an unknown place. Li Shi had no choice but to add twelve doors to him, and the right should be filial piety. There was a previous cannon model, and it only took a few days to build the same cannon, and taking advantage of the opportunity to make a cannon, Li Xi tried to build two more small cannons.
These small cannons were completely different from the previous cast iron cannons, in fact, they were large muskets, but they did not have a butt, and they had a tripod in front and a wooden handle that stood diagonally in the back. The length of this cannon is about the same as that of a musket, the caliber is less than an inch, it is forged from wrought iron plates, the whole body is three layers, and there is an extra layer at the rear end, and the overall weight is less than thirty catties. The role played was similar to that of the Qing army's carrying guns a hundred years later, that is, the supporting firepower of the musket team.
This cannon whistle carried by Hu Hanshan uses these two "god arm cannons", why did you take this name? Because this cannon can be carried on the shoulders of one person, and the other on the gun carriage. This aroused the associations of the guards, and they felt that this cannon could be held in their hands. Later, I learned that no one could withstand the recoil, so the two of them could only launch with the palms of the crossbar on the left and right sides. But they still took this name unwillingly, looking forward to the day when they can really go into battle with a cannon.
It's not that this wish can't be realized, but the time and technology are not yet ripe...... The gunners happily fired more than 10 or 20 wall-breaking bullets at the walled gate, and fired a few shotguns at the walled walls on the left and right sides of the wall, and then Hu Hanshan took a dozen or so strong men, hugged a thick long log, and crashed into the already tattered wooden gate. There was also a sentry guard in the rear who shot at the wall where no one was there, as if he were fighting a hypothetical defender. On the one hand, the bandits who have become captives say in their hearts that these guys wearing the uniform of Lian Yong are a group of crazy people...... Rumble...... The gate of the fortress collapsed, and the guard rushed in with a musket with a bayonet, and dozens of bandits inside were all lying on the ground trembling, not daring to move half a minute, and a corpse with the upper body had been shattered lying not far away, becoming a bloody lesson in moving indiscriminately, which should have been blown up by the divine arm cannon.
"This ...... That's it? ”
The smoke cleared, the battle ended, and twice as many enemies, occupying high ground and covering the walled fort, collapsed in less than two moments. I don't know the specific results, but Yan Sanniang can see the casualties on Si Wei's side, that is, when four or five people climbed the mountain, they were too anxious and gave their feet to Wei. She blinked, feeling a little unrealistic.
"The battle has long been over, and now the exercise is over."
Li Shi said this, turning a battle into a fortified drill can be regarded as squeezing battlefield resources as much as possible.
(To be continued)