Chapter 229: Shelling Tong'an

At this time, the rout of the official army had already opened a distance of several miles, and fled towards the mountain pass one by one, and had completely lost its command.

Suddenly, the mountain pass was blocked by the sea wolf again, which made the officers and soldiers even more frightened, and some of the officers and soldiers who were running in front saw their companions being knocked to the ground by the sea wolf's rifle, so frightened that they lost their guys and turned around and ran towards the valley, and collided with the fleeing rout.

Liu Wutang, under the escort of his own soldiers, finally ran to the mountain pass, and saw the rout soldiers running in front of him turn around and rush back, and also heard the sound of gunfire from the mountain pass.

"What's going on up ahead!" Liu Wutang was so panicked that he was already stunned at this moment, and hurriedly asked loudly to the rout soldiers who ran back.

"There is an army of thieves in the mountain pass! They sealed the mountain pass! Those who ran past were killed! We can't get out! ......" A man who looked like a petty officer stood on his heels and pointed to the mountain pass behind him in a panic and shouted to Liu Wutang.

When Liu Wutang heard this, he cried out in his heart, and secretly said that my life is over! Now there is an interception in front, a chasing soldier in the back, and mountains on both sides.

At this time, the officers and soldiers gathered more and more here, and some generals who had been separated from their subordinates saw Liu Wutang, so they came over tremblingly and asked what to do.

At this time, Liu Wutang could only grit his teeth and insist, he turned his head to look at the chasing soldiers who were getting closer and closer behind him, and yelled ruthlessly: "What can I do now?" Follow Ben to kill out, there is a way to live, otherwise you will be finished here! Gather together, you follow the general, if anyone turns around and escapes back, Hugh blames the general's knife for not recognizing people! ”

After being yelled at by Liu Wutang, the defeated soldiers had some backbone, so they agreed one after another, and began to rush towards the mountain pass under Liu Wutang's supervision.

Now they are doing the battle of trapped beasts, if they can't rush out, then they will all be finished, so at this time, even if it is a rout, it has aroused a bit of fire, one by one gritted their teeth and clenched the weapons in their hands, some people because of the time when they fled for their lives just now, in a panic, they lost their weapons, and at this time they could only run forward with their bare hands, and some people lowered their heads and picked up a stone, holding it in their hands to give themselves courage.

More than 1,000 officers and soldiers, under the leadership of Liu Wutang, rushed towards the mountain pass with a hula.

At this time, blocking the mountain pass were two infantry companies of the Seawolf Army, but these two companies were the elite of the Seawolf Infantry, one of which was still a battalion of wolf tooth rifle company, and the other was also the first company to be formed, mostly composed of veterans.

These two companies, under the command of the deputy commander of the second battalion, had actually secretly moved to the area around the mountain pass last night and found a place to hide.

It was not until the scout came back in the afternoon that the official army had suffered defeat in front and had retreated, that the deputy battalion commander led two companies to fight out from both sides of the mountain pass and blocked the way for the officers and troops to break out.

Five hundred against two thousand, the official army still has the advantage in numbers, and the official army is a rout army that jumps over the wall to seize the road and escape, although the morale is not high, but at this time it is already desperate.

Therefore, this deputy battalion commander did not dare to be too careless, in case one of them was accidentally scattered by the officers and soldiers, then they would be disgraced and thrown home.

So he immediately ordered the Wolf's Tooth Rifle Company, which had come with him, to line up in the middle, in three rows, and stand in the middle of the pass, while the other company was lined up on either side of the company, and the pikemen were ready to come forward at any time.

Seeing one or two thousand officers and soldiers rushing out of the valley with a howl, the deputy battalion commander gave an order, and the wolf tooth rifle company in the center began to fire a volley of guns.

This time, they did not dare to put the officers and soldiers too close before firing, and seeing that the officers and soldiers were still nearly 300 paces away from them, they began to fire a volley of guns.

At this distance, even if a sniper is allowed to aim and shoot, it may not have a high hit rate, but for a volley of guns, this is not a problem.

At a distance of 300 meters, the Wolf Tooth Rifle still has considerable lethality when it fires Mine, at least there is no problem in killing and injuring unarmored personnel.

The volley of the platoon guns does not pursue accurate shooting, but relies on a dense barrage to block the enemy, so at a distance of three hundred meters, it is still enough.

The officers and soldiers did not know where to go, and when they saw that they were still nearly 300 paces away from the thieves who were blocking the mountain pass, the thieves began to fire volleys of guns.

The officers and soldiers who rushed to the front did not feel nervous, but still shouted wildly and shouted with knives and guns, and rushed towards the mountain pass.

But after an instant passed, some of the people who were running in front of them suddenly fell to the ground, let out a terrible scream, and some of them spewed out blood arrows, and then the routs realized that the sea wolf's musket could shoot so far, and it could also knock people over.

This scared the officers and soldiers half to death, what is the concept of 300 steps, even if they let them pull Dafa Xi over to fight, they may not be able to hit 300 steps away, their tiger squat cannon can only hit 30 to 50 steps away at best, but the pirates' muskets can kill them at a distance of 300 steps.

You must know that these three hundred paces, even if they are allowed to rush forward at full speed, they will have to run for a while, and the sea wolf's musket can fire many salvos, which some officers and soldiers have already experienced, because they have already tasted the bitterness of the sea wolf musket salvo just now.

The sea wolf's musket salvo, the highest single record within a minute is three shots, ordinary musketeers can generally shoot two shots, when using three shots, three rows of musketeers alternately fire, can fire six volleys, three hundred steps even if the fastest infantry charges, it takes five to six minutes, the sea wolf can shoot nearly thirty rows of salvos during this time.

Every time a salvo fires a company of seawolves, the musketeers can fire about 70 projectiles, so when the officers and soldiers rush in front of them, a company of seawolves can fire more than 2,000 shells.

And that's not counting the nearly 150 musketeers with smoothbore flintlock muskets in another company, and when the officers and soldiers approached the distance of about eighty paces of these musketeers, these musketeers could also join in the salvo, so there was not much possibility for the officers and soldiers to rush to the front of the sea wolf queue.

Of course, no one will calculate this at this time, the officers and soldiers did not stop advancing after being shot once, and a large number of routs were under the supervision of Liu Wutang, in order to escape for their lives, they still rushed forward.

The Seawolf infantry blocking the mountain pass did not dare to relax, and after the first shot was missed, they began to fire three volleys of guns, and the three rows of musketeers stepped forward alternately, and kept aiming at the officers and soldiers rushing in the valley to launch a volley.

The whole mountain pass was also lively at this time, the sound of guns came and went, and the officers and soldiers were knocked to the ground by muskets one after another, and they were still rolling forward.

The people in front were knocked to the ground, and the officers and soldiers behind could only move forward, stepping on the corpses and wounded people lying on the ground, and continuing to move forward, because they had no way to retreat at this time, so they could only grit their teeth and push forward.

Of course, there were also some officers and soldiers who were unwilling to be killed like this, and rushed for a while to see more and more comrades in front of them being knocked to the ground, so they stopped, and some people turned around and began to flee to the back, but behind them, Liu Wutang led his own soldiers to supervise the battle, and they chirped over some of the routs who turned around and fled back.

These routs are now in bad luck, there is a dense barrage in front of them blocking their advance, and they will be killed if they go forward, but if they turn around and run, they will be chopped over by their main general's own soldiers.

Some of the smarter officers and soldiers saw whether they were dying in the front, running backward or dying, so they simply did not face forward or backward, and directly climbed towards the mountains on both sides.

After suffering huge losses, the officers and soldiers were never able to rush to the mountain pass, more and more officers and soldiers began to lose their guys, climbed the mountains on both sides, and more and more officers and soldiers were killed in the mountain pass, so the courage that the officers and soldiers finally mustered up was completely exhausted at this time, and the remaining more than 1,000 officers and soldiers finally could no longer bear to be slaughtered like this, and fled towards the valley again en masse.

Liu Wutang is so depressed in the team! In the blink of an eye, he was caught in the middle of the rout again, and began to flee for his life, at this time Liu Wutang understood that their Ming army was really enough compared to these sea wolf troops!

Where are these pirates, these people are simply fierce gods! Being transferred to deal with them this time is considered to have poured blood mold for eight lifetimes, and now he doesn't want to turn the tables for a long time, and the only thing he has to think about next is how to save his life! As for how to be held accountable afterwards, that's all for later, in short, if you die here, everything will be over!

Liu Wutang had completely lost his fighting spirit at this time, so he was wrapped in the chaos of the army and fled back to the valley.

When it was dark, a group of officers and soldiers laid down their weapons in the valley, took off their armor, and were roped by the sea wolf infantry, tied their wrists in groups of ten, and began to escort them back to the temporary camp in Luotian Village.

Liu Wutang himself, in a desperate situation, finally chose to surrender, and was proposed by Meng Fei alone and placed in another place to be detained.

Just when Meng Fei led the second battalion to fight a big victory in Luotian Village, at the same time, on the side of Tong'an County, gunfire and artillery also sounded.

Several twelve-pounder guns were unloaded from large ships to small boats by the Sea Wolves, and then transported to Dongxi on the east side of Tong'an County, where they were unloaded ashore outside the city.

Li Dazui led the first battalion of the army to build an artillery position outside the city, and built an artillery fort based on local materials.

Six twelve-pounder cannons were lined up, and the muzzles of the cannons were raised to aim at Tong'an County, and at the same time as the battle of Luotian Village began, Li Dazui also led his troops to start the battle of Tong'an County.

Six twelve-pounder cannons, which were placed in a fort 400 paces north of the city, began to bombard the county seat of Tong'an in the morning.

The six cannons, after firing several volleys, began to fire alternately, and the shells whistled down on the city, and the bricks and stones on the walls flew wildly.

(Today's mission is complete, hurry to the hospital!) Brethren, for the sake of my hard work, let's get some monthly passes! Thank you very much! Tomorrow to continue! )