Chapter 399: Bitter Fruit
"Smack......
A leather whip slammed on Liu Agen's back, and the clothes that were already so tattered that they couldn't see the color instantly turned into a rag, and a hot feeling immediately came from Liu Agen's back, and the severe pain made him stumble and almost fall to the ground.
"Hurry up, you...... If you procrastinate any longer, be careful that Lao Tzu cuts off your dog's head! A small leader next to him holding a waist knife in one hand and wielding a leather whip in the other hand kept scolding and scolding Liu Agen to drive a homeless person like Liu Agen forward, in his eyes, such a homeless person is just a group of cannon fodder sent to death.
Liu Agen, who was whipped, did not show an angry look or do anything else like ordinary people, because he knew that once the leaders behind him realized that he had a grudge against him, he would definitely hack himself to death, because countless celebrities had set an example before that. The only thing he could do was to stagger and follow his companions in front of him until he was killed by the Ming army on the opposite side or rushed through the opponent's position alive.
The leader of the rogue who commanded this charge was called Liu Tugen, of course he didn't know that there was a family in the crowd in front of him whose name was only one word different from him was being driven to death by his people, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care, since the day he became a rogue Liu Tugen has already regarded himself as a dead man, and he didn't live another day to earn it.
"Sue the people in front of them, let them speed up, the firearms of the dog officers and soldiers are very sharp, if you want to live, run desperately for Lao Tzu, otherwise there is only one way to die!" Liu Tugen opened his big mouth, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and the fishy saliva couldn't stop splashing.
"Yes!"
The little leader in front agreed, and then the leather whip in his hand whipped the back of the homeless person in front of him even more fiercely, and the blood marks were so bright and dazzling in the sun.
On the opposite side, five or six hundred meters away from the homeless, a thousand general manager had a sharp whistle in his mouth. Calmly looking at the approaching homeless, his eyes showed a calm gaze, the war knife in his hand was already raised high, and he silently calculated the distance between himself and the rogue in his heart, and waited until the other party rushed to a distance of three hundred meters before the Qian Zong waved the war knife in his hand down, and then the bulging cheeks also blew outward.
"Beep beep ......"
As the mournful whistle echoed in the air, so did the sound of a loud whistle.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ......"
Bursts of white smoke accompanied by the dull sound of gunfire resounded in the air, and the black gunpowder burned rapidly after being ignited, and the heat generated quickly expanded in the barrel of the gun, and they had nowhere to go, they could only push the lead bullets to fly forward at a speed of more than 300 meters per second. Either it will fall to the ground after running out of kinetic energy, or it will knock down anything that stands in its way.
"Puff...... Puff ......"
Countless projectiles flew in less than a second and hit the targets that stood in their way, only they were neither stones nor emotionless dead objects, but a group of flesh-and-blood humans. In a scream of pain, the displaced people who ran at the front fell to the ground one by one, and in an instant a large row fell. Countless homeless people lay in pools of blood, lying on the ground with their pupils blank, allowing their companions to step on their bodies and continue to move forward, while some of them lay on the ground and groaned with all their strength or begged their companions to save themselves.
"The first row is back, the second row is forward!"
"Fire...... Fire! ā
And the initiator of this qiÄ. The musketeers listened to the commander's orders with expressionless faces and continued to repeat the process of loading, aiming, and shooting, and no one showed any sympathy for the miserable situation of the displaced people in front of them, and for these professional sergeants, pity was the most important thing. On the first day they put on this uniform, their instructor had told them that any mercy to the enemy was cruelty to oneself, and that it would kill you, your companions, and even your relatives. If you don't want to hurt others and yourself, then throw away this useless love as soon as possible.
The firepower of the Xuan army was so ferocious, the whistling projectiles raged among the displaced people like a storm like a scythe of death, and the originally dense crowd fell down in rows like cutting leeks. The originally dense crowd soon became sparse.
Liu Agen fell to the ground, listening to the projectile swishing sound constantly flying overhead, at this time he only felt that the limbs on his body no longer belonged to him, in the burst of gunfire just now, rushed to the front of the companions fell in rows, originally the dense flow of people in front of them fell one by one like broken sacks, they were either lying motionless or rolling on the ground wailing, for a moment Liu Agen thought that his life was about to leave him and but, he just staggered forward, Waiting for a projectile that flew out of nowhere to end his life, but at some point he tripped over a corpse and fell to the ground, and the whole person fell and ate.
In this way, Liu Agen, who fell to the ground, escaped by luck, lying on the ground, he still watched his companions around him being hit by lead bullets one by one, and then fell to the ground in various strange postures, he only felt that his heart was about to jump out.
"This thief still doesn't let people live, why is the life of the poor so miserable!"
Liu Agen wanted to shout loudly, but he couldn't shout, he wanted to struggle but found that he seemed to have lost control of his body, and could only watch a celebrity fall around him, and the whistling projectiles kept flying overhead. At this moment, he saw that hundreds of paces away from him were shooting in an orderly manner in front of the enemy.
"Are these people the Xuan army?" Liu Agen looked at the sergeants in front of him who were slaughtering his companions with a rigorous and elegant movement with a confused and incomprehensible gaze, but even he himself felt strange that he did not hate the sergeants in front of him for killing so many of his companions, in his thinking, officers and soldiers and thieves are naturally opposites, since he is a thief, then he must have the consciousness of being killed by officers and soldiers, and now the most hated in his heart are those rogues who have coerced him and his family.
Thinking of this, Liu Agen suddenly felt that his body, which was originally too nervous to move, could start to move again, he slowly turned his head to look to the side, just in time to see the leader in the distance wearing leather armor and wielding a war knife threatening one homeless person after another to die.
Liu Agen remembered that it was this leader who led people to burn down his home in Qufu and snatched the little food left in the house. forced his family to join the army of rogues. In fact, the vast majority of the people in the army of the rogues were coerced in this way, although these people swore that joining the rebel army was all voluntary, and they would never force the poor, but their homes were burned to the ground, and the only remaining food was also robbed by the thieves, and if they did not join the rogues, the whole family would have to starve to death, and since then Liu Agen has seen through the hypocritical nature of these people.
In these days, Liu Agen can be said to have suffered enough, he was originally a bitter person who relied on strength to eat, although he was not rich, he was passable, and he thought he was a person who could endure hardship. But since he joined the rogue family, the old mother of the family has been starved to death, and now he and his daughter-in-law are left with a pair of children struggling, this morning looking at a pair of hungry sallow little faces, he gritted his teeth and carried the hoe brought out of the house to go into battle.
Suddenly, Liu Agen noticed that the bastard named Liu Tugen was driving a group of homeless people running in his direction, and he was so close to him that he could already see the big black mole on his jaw and the hideous face.
"Quick...... Run, you damn mud legs, if you don't run quickly, Lao Tzu will kill you with a knife! Liu Tugen's voice faintly reached his ears amid the gunshots. Soon, a pair of barefoot homeless people hobbled past him.
Liu Agen, who was lying on the ground, naturally didn't know that the successive rounds of guns of the Xuanda army had scared the rogues. In the face of the fierce platoon of the Xuan army, Liu Tugen, a habitual bandit, was also frightened enough, and this was also the last attack he mustered up the last courage to launch, and he was going to slip away after this fight.
"Bang bang...... Bang bang ......"
There was another soft sound in the distance, and dozens of homeless people who were running at the front fell to the ground in unison. A string of blood flowers appeared on many people's bodies and fell to the ground screaming, and a rogue, who happened to run next to Liu Agen, was hit by a lead bullet in the front door, and his whole head burst open like a big watermelon that had been opened. Red blood and white brains splashed Liu Agen's face.
"Ah......h
A miserable scream sounded next to Liu Agen, and Liu Agen saw that it was Liu Tugen, who drove them to death, running towards him in a panic. The hideousness that hung on the face at any time in the past has been replaced by horror.
"It's this guy, it's he who ruined his family, it's he who starved his mother to death!" After seeing someone coming. Liu Agen was angry from his heart for a while, evil was born to the side of the guts, and he didn't know where it came from, he stretched out his originally bent right leg and stretched it to the side, and looked back at Liu Tugen, who was only caring about running for his life, was caught off guard and fell to the ground in a vicious dog posture of grabbing food, and the steel knife in his hand was also thrown aside.
Seeing such a situation, Liu Agen grabbed the hoe and jumped up with the strength out of nowhere, and then knocked down on Liu Tugen on the ground with all his strength. Speaking of face-to-face fighting, the three Liu Agen tied together is not the opponent of Liu Tugen, a habitual bandit, but at this time, Liu Tugen just fell to the ground and didn't react for a while. Second, Liu Agen may not know how to hold a knife, but a farm tool like a hoe is simply not too familiar to him, and after a habitual action of plowing the ground, the hard hoe has made a close contact with Liu Tugen's head.
I only heard a "pop", Liu Tugen's head, the hard hoe of the wine glass smashed out a hole the size of a cup, and blood gushed out from it like a spring, only to see that his body twitched for a while and then stopped moving, so a bandit under Liu Zongmin was beaten to death on the battlefield by a peasant who could only hold a hoe.
After killing Liu Tugen, Liu Agen saw that no one around him noticed him, so he threw down the hoe and ran backwards unusually......
By now the battle has already been in chaos, and after they returned to their own camp with heavy casualties, they counted the men and horses, and the number of people who could come back from the two thousand rogues was less than five hundred, which means that most of the two thousand men and horses were lost in less than a quarter of an hour just now.
Liu Zongmin, who saw this scene, dropped the clairvoyant mirror in his hand that was usually like a treasure on the ground and didn't know it, and muttered to himself: "What's going on, how can the firearms of the Xuan army be so sharp!" ā
In fact, it was not only Liu Zongmin, but the leaders next to him were also made Liu Zongmin's eyes as big as oranges by the ferocious shooting of the Xuan army, and he held back a sentence for a long time: "Grass grandma, when did the firearms of the dog officers and soldiers become so powerful?" ā
In fact, after dealing with the Ming army for so many years, Liu Zongmin thinks that he has a very good understanding of the performance of the Ming army's firearms, and the Ming army's firearms have a short range and are not very powerful. And it's very easy to blow up, not to mention the army, even the rogue doesn't want to see it, but this scene just now has re-subverted Liu Zongmin's perception of firecrackers. The firing range of more than 300 meters (more than 400 steps) is simply a pillbox for him, which is almost the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, coupled with the continuous rain of bullets, how can this battle be fought?
A stammering voice came from the side: "Mr. Liu, let's ...... Let's ...... Still fighting? ā
Liu Zongmin turned his head and found that it was a big boss under his command, a trace of hideous color flashed on his face, and he said fiercely: "Why don't you fight." Didn't those dog officers and soldiers rely on their own firearms to be sharp? Well, this time I'll let him fight enough and give the order...... Except for the brothers in the old battalion who supervised the battle in the back, everyone else launched an attack on me, but anyone who dared to take a step back was killed! ā
"What...... All attack, let's not ambush? After hearing the order, the leader only felt that his scalp was a little numb, and the whole person was a little stunned.
"Everyone has found out about us, and they are still ambushing a fart! How? Didn't hear me? Seeing that the leader didn't react, Liu Zongmin's face quickly sank.
"Yes...... Obey the orders of Mr. Liu! The leader was stunned for a moment. immediately knew that he had inadvertently committed Liu Zongmin's taboo, so he hurriedly bowed his head and obeyed. Liu Zongmin is a native of Lantian, Shanxi, and was born as a blacksmith (that is, a blacksmith), so he has a good strength. He is cruel and murderous. Since following Li Zicheng to do this rebellious act, he has regarded himself as the chief sentinel, and what he hates most on weekdays is that someone does not listen to his orders, and if there is a criminal, he will be whipped and beheaded.
Seeing the leader run away, Liu Zongmin snorted lightly, bent down and picked up the clairglass that fell on the ground again, and re-observed the battle situation in front of him.
At this time, the situation presented in front of him was that thousands of people and horses of the Xuan army were still standing in place. There was no intention of moving, and thousands of people were quietly looking ahead, as if they were not the ones who had just eliminated more than a thousand rogues in a quarter of an hour. See here. Liu Zongmin couldn't help but gasp in his heart, this group of Ming troops was so different from the Ming army he had come into contact with in the past, it would never be an exaggeration to describe it as plundering like fire and moving like a mountain.
Seeing this, he muttered to himself, "Could it be that the Xuan army is really invincible?" No...... There must be a way, don't believe it, Lao Tzu will let 30,000 people go over and let you kill them, see if you will kill softly! ā
For Liu Zongmin, let alone 30,000 homeless, even if 303,000 died in front of him, he would not frown, in his heart, how many homeless people should be, if they are gone, they will only need to capture another city. There is no one else in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many of them, just catch them if they die!
Soon, under the expulsion of the cavalry of the 3,000 old battalions, nearly 30,000 homeless people came out of all corners of Xiaotaoshan, and soon the black pressure rushed towards the front of the Xuan army.
As the saying goes, there are more than 10,000 soldiers, and the scene of nearly 30,000 people charging together is very amazing.
"I'm cĒo, is this how Liukou fights?" Seeing this dense figure, even Chu Di was startled.
It stands to reason that Chu Di is not a person who has never seen the market, let alone 30,000 people, and it is not unexperienced in the battle with more than 100,000 people outside the Tartar Gate. There are many Tartar people, but when people fight, it is also orderly, more than 100,000 people are also in a radius of dozens of miles, round after round, how can tens of thousands of people like now are all crowded in the mountain col of less than three miles and rush densely, if the Tartars also fight like this, Chu Di will have to die of laughter, how many people will die in such a dense crowd with one shot!
"My lord, the rogues are rushing over, shall we fight?" A guerrilla general on the side asked as he swallowed his saliva.
"Why don't you fight?" Chu Di gritted his teeth, today Lao Tzu also let out, and ordered the artillery battalion to open fire immediately and fuck him!
"Yes!" The signal corps used walkie-talkies to notify the artillery battalion in front.
Soon, a roar sounded in the infantry phalanx, and six or twelve pound projectiles were propelled by gunpowder to leave the chambers and fly forward.
"Whoosh ......"
The black projectiles flew in a graceful arc in the direction of the rogue, and soon landed on the rookie's head.
Due to the use of black gunpowder, the muzzle velocity of the artillery in this year is not very high, and even the naked eye can see them flying towards them slowly, seemingly slowly, as if they can grasp the projectile with their hands. But in fact, the power of these solid projectiles was very great, and soon the rogues tasted the bitter fruit...... (To be continued......)