Zhang Xianzhong led the cavalry and began to rush towards the valley mouth, and did not forget to release arrows on the hillside while rushing. However, compared to the fierce artillery fire of the officers and soldiers, their bows and arrows looked so pale and weak in return.

Taniguchi, where the fighting is even more intense.

At this time, there were not only more than 1,000 people on the left side of the nine-headed bird baggage camp, but also the unified battalion of the former battalion Hu Principality under the prime minister's mark. Not only did they have to defend against Zhang Xianzhong's desperate breakthrough, but they also had to block the fierce attacks of more thieves outside.

They have to face attacks from both sides at the same time, like a membrane inside.

The bandits outside saw that Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in the valley, and attacked desperately, trying to open the valley mouth to rescue Zhang Xianzhong.

"Put!"

Facing the dense bandits in front of the horse rejection wall in front of the van, the officers and soldiers in the car formation couldn't help but feel numb. But at this time, there is no room for retreat.

Zhang Donggou raised his waist knife and roared loudly, facing the forty vans outside the valley, eighty Franc machines fired shotguns one after another, and large pieces of iron sand shot out, and the bandits who rushed to the front immediately fell down. But the bandits were not defeated this time, as soon as they fell in front, they rushed up countless times from behind.

Principality Hu gritted his teeth and stood in the middle of the car city, surrounded by forty vans on both sides, and in this open space surrounded by forty vans on both sides, was a battalion of people from Principality Hu. These horses are still on standby to prepare for battle, but the cannons under the jurisdiction of the first battalion of the Principality of Hu are already firing.

There is an artillery department in the camp of the Duke of Hu, and they have ten Hongyi cannons. Among them, there are eight thousand-pound Hongyi cannons, and two 3,800-pound Hongyi cannons.

In fact, the most important thing about these Hongyi cannons is to siege the city, and they are clumsy in defending the city, let alone fighting in the field. But at this time, in the face of countless bandits and sea tactics, the Principality of Hu couldn't control this.

All ten Hongyi cannons have already fired.

The Hongyi cannon of the Principality of Hu could shoot a thousand paces away, and the effective range of the small one was three hundred steps.

After a round of shelling, Hu Gongguo found that although this cannon was large, its lethality was far inferior to that of the van Franco cannon on the nine-headed bird baggage car. And after a shot. The Hongyi cannon is also far inferior to the Furlong cannon with nine guns, which can be immediately replaced with loaded guns and continue firing.

Hu Gongguo could only watch the Franc machine continue to fire, while his red-coated cannon still had to pour water into the muzzle to extinguish the fire star. Then he had to take a dry cloth tied to a stick and poke it in to dry the barrel.

"Change the grape bomb!"

Hu Principality shouted, and immediately gunners brought several wooden boxes.

When I opened the wooden box, it was the grape bullet that Hu Gongguo said, in fact, the grape bullet was not a very high-grade thing, but it was just a net pocket to pack many small lead bullets together. A grape bullet has 30 buckshot bullets, divided into three layers, each separated by a thin iron plate in the middle, and then enclosed by a net bag on the outside. A barrel shape is formed.

This is similar to, but not shotgun, which was originally used on ships in the West.

Use the Hongyi cannon to fire grape bullets for close fire, and I guess I'm the first one. However, Hu Gongguo can't control so much at this time, what is the use of fighting far away, and now it is necessary to fight more.

"Put!"

The ten Hongyi cannons finally completed their second reload, all loaded with grapeshot. With the shout of Hu Duguo, the Hongyi cannon fire that was simply corrected under the gun position was under the impact of gunpowder. The disemboweling grapes burst through the nets and scattered.

The Hongyi cannon had a longer range, and this round of shells fell directly into the rear of the bandits.

Yes!

Thirty buckshot smashed into the charging crowd of thieves, splattering large streams of blood at once. Then these shells did not stop immediately, and after killing one person, they began to bounce again, hitting the second, and the third.

One grapeball, thirty large buckshots. At once, the bandits in a range of dozens of paces were swept away, and at that time, at least forty or fifty were killed.

Ten Hongyi cannons. Ten grape bullets emptied a large area of Fan Yuan more than 100 steps in front of the car formation at once, killing and wounding at least three or four hundred people.

"This grape bomb is so fucking powerful." Hu Gongguo couldn't help but exclaim, and then after coming back to his senses, he shouted excitedly, "Damn, that's what you want, come again!" ”

When the gunners on the side of the Nine-headed Bird Heavy Battalion saw the effect, they couldn't help but admire and envy it. Zhang Donggou smacked his mouth and said with some pantothenic acid, "That's the stupidity of the thieves, rushing over so densely, otherwise, using the Hongyi cannon to fight the infantry in the field, isn't that the cannon bombarding mosquitoes?" In the field, we have to have a car battalion and a Franco machine gun, which is fast and dense, and the thieves can't get close at all. ”

Cai Yuan glanced back at the Hongyi cannon a few times on the side, "Actually, this Hongyi cannon is not bad, if we can also equip a few, damn it, it will be even more powerful." ”

However, although the artillery was fierce, the thief army launched the tactics of the sea of people, and it continued to advance. Soon they had rushed to the wall of rejection, and the bandits, holding shields and broadswords, began to cut down the horses, and rushed towards the vans like a tide.

"It's our turn, up!"

Hu Gongguo looked at the soldiers of the front battalion who had been resting for a long time in the car city, shouted, and then rushed through the car formation with a big knife and killed the bandits who rushed to the bottom of the horse rejection wall.

The soldiers of the front battalion erected a shield wall with their backs to the chariots and a wall of horses in front of them, and then the spearmen began to hold spears and stab the bandits on the opposite side.

At this time, separated by two car formations, Zhang Xianzhong in the valley was also desperately leading his troops to attack the car formation.

It's a pity that although the cavalry is fierce, but in the face of the three-dimensional defense composed of thistles, horse rejection walls and van car arrays, although Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits are desperately attacking, they still only hit their heads and bleed.

repeatedly rushed to the car formation, but the endless Franco machine guns and firecrackers in the car formation ruthlessly smashed their desperate breakthroughs again and again.

Liu Jun knew that the car formation outside might be broken through by bandits at any time, so he didn't give Zhang Xianzhong more chances. The car formation at the south exit had been quickly turned over, like a moving wall squeezing in.

Following behind the car formation, it was Lu Yuansun and Lu Yuan who asked the brothers to re-gather the people and horses that had been put together.

Listening to the rumbling of cannons in the valley, the eight kings and other thousands of horsemen were never allowed to break through, and the bandits outside were in a hurry, especially Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates.

Cao Cao, Luo Rucai and others did not rush up, they put the men and horses of each battalion in place, and watched Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses of each battalion rush to the battlefield of the officers and soldiers at the mouth of the valley as if they were sent to death again and again.

It's not that Cao Cao deliberately wants to see death and not save him, but that the valley mouth is so big, and the chariot formation of the official army swings to that side. It just happened to block the valley mouth. The officers and soldiers had countless artillery pieces and guns, and the more they rushed up, the denser the formation became, and they would only be hit worse by artillery fire.

Pan Duao, who had been left behind by Zhang Xianzhong to take care of the old camp, rushed to Cao Cao with Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo, and asked them loudly why the men and horses of the six battalions did not attack.

Faced with the rudeness of these young generals, Cao Cao and Luo Rucai did not get angry, but sighed slightly, "Don't you see the cunning arranged by the dog officers and soldiers." ”

Then a narrow valley ditch. As soon as Zhang Xianzhong rushed in, the thieves immediately blocked the valley mouth, and now they occupy this valley mouth, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not possible to attack it with many people at all. On the contrary, the more people there are, the worse they will be beaten.

It's fucking like a siege battle, although they are now in the field, but the arrangement of this officer and army. It's harder to fight than to defend the city. There were mountains on both sides, and they could only rush into it through the mouth of the valley.

A field war actually turned into a pass offensive and defensive battle, how did the hell it get to this point.

"Can you send troops to climb the mountain into the valley from both sides of the valley?" Zhang Dingguo asked. Now the officers and soldiers are guarding the valley mouth. They also set up a car formation, the valley mouth is so narrow, and the officers and soldiers have artillery, so they went to charge the car formation. It can only be sent to death. But the Father is in the valley, and they cannot help it. Every time passed, the chances of my father-in-law being rescued were less.

Since the front cannot be broken through. And they still have plenty of troops, so why not attack from the mountains on both sides. It's not easy to attack in the mountains, but it's much easier than climbing the walls during the siege. The city wall had to be climbed on a ladder, and although the mountain was steep, it could be climbed with both hands and feet.

"Ouch, we didn't think of this before. Yes, we climbed the mountain from both sides, bypassed the defense of the thief Taniguchi, and fought our way into the valley. Pan Duao said excitedly.

"But Taniguchi doesn't take it, aren't we throwing ourselves into the net?"

Cao Cao shook his head and said, "No, how many people can there be in the official army, at most twenty or thirty thousand people." This is the same as siege warfare, if the official army can defend the city gates, then the siege will be difficult. But if you can break into the city, then the advantage of the defender is gone. If we can kill into the valley, with tens of thousands of us, can't we defeat the official army? ”

"Even if we can't beat it, we can save the Eight Kings."

In Dachang City, dozens of miles away from the mud ditch, Shaanxi deputy generals He Renlong and Li Guoqi led Shaanxi soldiers to enter this empty city.

"Report!"

"Report to the general, the scout brothers who went out found that eighty miles south of Dachang City was in a muddy ditch, and two armies were fighting fiercely. It is very likely that Prime Minister Xiong's ministry will fight with the two thieves and thieves. ”

Hearing this news, He Renlong asked loudly, "How is the battle going?" ”

"The scout returns, it seems that Prime Minister Xiong has set up an ambush in the muddy ditch, but the number of thieves is huge, there are tens of thousands, and the two sides are still fighting fiercely, and the outcome is unknown."

He Renlong slapped the table, "His mother finally let them arrive, give the order, and the whole army will set off to immediately reinforce Premier Mei." ”

"Wait!"

Li Guoqi hurriedly called He Renlong, "Brother He, wait a minute." ”

"Why?"

Li Guoqi first let his soldiers out, and then said to He Renlong, "Brother He, don't forget the military order of the previous superintendent, our task is to enter Dachang City, the superintendent has words first, if there is no military order from him, our department must not leave Dachang, otherwise the military law will be engaged, and the sword of Shang Fang will be cut first." ”

"Yes"

"I heard that Inspector Yang is very dissatisfied with Premier Mei." Li Guoqi added in a low voice. He Renlong was stunned, "Could it be that the superintendent had expected this to happen today?" ”

"Who knows, but the gods are fighting, and we mortals are suffering, so I think that we should report this news to Inspector Yang first, and we will only listen to Inspector Yang whether to reinforce or not."

"But Inspector Yang is still in the north, and it will take a lot of time to ask for instructions back and forth. If Inspector Yang agrees, I'm afraid that the daylily will be late. ”

"But in case we go, but when the time comes, Inspector Yang will settle the account afterwards, and ask Shang Fang's sword to kill you and me, what should we do? Don't forget, Inspector Yang just used Shang Fang's sword to slash Yin Dabai. Then Yin Dabai is still a civilian official and supervises the army, he said that he will be killed, we are just two lieutenant generals, a martial artist, if you want to get us, don't you just find an excuse to kill a bed bug? ”

"Maybe the people of Meduji have their own natural appearance." Li Guoqi added.

He Renlong frowned and thought for a long time, the battle between Premier Mei and Inspector Yang. They don't seem to be able to get along, and between the governors, it seems that the Yang Pavilion has the upper hand.

"Hey, let's just send someone to report to Yang Du first and listen to his decision."

He Renlong's messenger rushed all the way to Yang Sichang's army and reported He Renlong's military situation.

Yang Sichang read the letter and said to the messenger, "When you came, did He Renlong send troops?" ”

"Go back to the Cabinet. The two lieutenant generals He Li are stationed in Dachang City, waiting for the cabinet to make a decision. ”

When Yang Sichang heard the news, a slight smile appeared on his face and he nodded, "You go back immediately and tell He Renlong and Li Guoqi that the most important task for the two is to guard Dachang City and prevent the bandits from returning." In addition, He Renlong and Li Guoqi can send some troops and horses to the mud ditch to reinforce Premier Mei. ”

Wait for the messenger to leave. Yang Sichang took the map, carefully found the location of Dachang City and the mud ditch on it, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then looked at the sky. Summoning his own soldiers, "pass on my military orders, stop the march, and camp on the spot." ”

"Cabinet Department. It's just past noon, isn't it too early to set up camp? "When Li Shuchu, the governor of Henan, heard that he was going to set up camp, he hurriedly rushed over.

"The soldiers marched for many days, and the soldiers and horses were tired. It's time to take a break. Yang Sichang said casually.

Sludge ditch.

The thieves began to divide their troops to attack from both sides of the mountain, which suddenly put great pressure on the officers and soldiers.

"General Da Lu and Xiao Lu, you immediately lead your troops to stop the thief army." Liu Jun hurriedly dispatched troops.

Liu Jun looked at the sky, and the rain was still continuing, without stopping. This heavy rain also made Liu Jun very passive in tactical arrangements. The most elite firearms unit of the Nine-headed Bird could only stay under the canopy of the trench and could not move away at all. Otherwise, in the face of the heavy rain outside, their artillery fire would not be used.

Liu Jun could only transfer the soldiers and horses of the big and small Lu to stop the bandits who climbed the mountain to attack, although it was inconvenient to climb the mountain, but there were many thieves, once they broke into the valley, the situation would be quite troublesome.

"Intensify the attack on the thief riders of the valley!"

The fierce battle in the valley continued, and the more than 3,000 thieves led by Zhang Xianzhong were worthy of being elite, even if they were surrounded by this desperate situation, they still did not stop the crazy counterattack and breakthrough.

"Killer team, up!"

Originally, Liu Jun wanted to annihilate Zhang Xianzhong to the bottom of the valley with artillery fire, but now, Liu Jun had to send the cold weapon troops. If it drags on any longer, Zhang Xianzhong, a big fish, may run away.

As the trumpets and drums sounded, the infantry killers of the Hydra Brigade stepped out, they were in a tight formation, wearing cotton armor, ponchos, and bright helmets. Flag guns, long cards, rattan cards, hook guns, boring palladium, waist knives, all kinds of long and short weapons are complete, and the queue is orderly.

Each team marched forward in a mandarin duck battle formation, the gun flags of the team leaders were eye-catching, and the back flags of the flag leaders were conspicuous.

A team of warrior killers came out from both sides of the hillside, approaching the thief cavalry who were fighting the trapped beasts at the bottom of the valley.

Seeing the infantry of the officers and soldiers killed, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits also knew that it was the most critical time, they held their bows and kept shooting, but the nine-headed bird killers who lined up in the mandarin duck battle formation column The shields in front of the team members blocked the arrows for the team members behind, and some of the arrows that flew to the back were mostly blocked by the cotton armor and helmets on the soldiers.

Soon, the two sides approached.

Zhang Xianzhong smiled cruelly, "I actually rode with steps, looking for death!" ”

He kept waving his hands and shouting again and again, telling the cavalry to charge the officers and infantry who were coming downhill.

When the infantry of the nine-headed bird saw that the thief was ready to charge, the shield men in the front row immediately crouched down and held their shields in front, and behind the two shield men, a group of soldiers stood in each of them, and waist knives, hook guns, and boring palladium were raised one after another.

The core of the mandarin duck battle formation is to cooperate and cover each other. The shield player blocks the arrows and guns in front, while the man behind guards the sword player and attacks. Moreover, the skills learned by the soldiers of each army are different, the configuration of martial arts is different, and the position of the battle is also different.

A thief rode up with a shout, a spear in his hand, and stabbed him down.

The long player stood sideways, leaned half of his shoulders and body against his shield, and slammed into the spear. With a loud bang, the spear was pierced with a large shield lined with planks and cowhides lined with iron sheets, and the tip of the spear stabbed into the shield, but it was difficult to penetrate deep after a little bit of wood. The body of the gun quickly bent under the huge momentum, and then the barrel of the gun could no longer withstand the huge force, and broke from it with a snap.

The shieldman snorted and took a step back, steady.

Behind him was a tall palladium boring man, holding a bayonet and stabbing directly at the thief who had lost his spear, behind him a hookgunner stabbed the horse with a hook spear, another archer slashed the horse's legs, and the last fireman smashed the horse's head with a knife stick in his hand.

After the thief on the horse broke his gun, he quickly drew his knife again, and he swung his knife to block the boring palladium, but the horse under him could not block the attack from behind, and the horse was stabbed in the belly, and the blood was dripping, and then the archer cut off a horse's leg with another knife.

The horses fell to the ground with a wail, and the firemen slammed their swords and sticks at the neighing horse's head.

The rider picked up the bench from the horse and dismounted in time with his superb riding skills, so as to avoid the tragedy of being crushed under the mount. But as soon as he jumped off the horse, the team leader was already holding the flag gun with the fiery red triangular flag and stabbed it fiercely.

He swung his knife again, but another boring palladium stabbed it. The palladium man slashed his knife at once, and he didn't twitch a few times, when an archer pounced on him and stabbed him in the ribs. The blood flowed, he screamed in pain, the knife in his hand was forked away, and the team always stabbed down with another shot, this time he was unstoppable, and watched the flag gun pierce through his throat.

These tactical moves are compulsory subjects that have been trained countless times in peacetime, and even often compete against each other within the flag team. But when everyone finally completed this set on the battlefield and successfully killed a fierce horse thief, the team of nine-headed birds was still extremely shocked.

"Beep!"

The team always blew the iron whistle and pulled the distracted players back. In front of them, another thief rushed forward with a spear.

The rain kept falling, but the fighting intensified.

At the mouth of the valley, on the hillside, and in the ravine, there were all the officers and soldiers and bandits who were killing in a group. (To be continued......)

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