Chapter 19: Ambushes Rise
When Blackbeard's leaders heard this, they all began to gear up, screaming and screaming, and when the officers and soldiers came, they began to lead the crowd to rush down and slaughter.
But no one could have imagined that around the place where Blackbeard was standing, within a radius of hundreds of meters, there were a pair of eyes staring at Blackbeard.
On a dense tree, in the dense canopy, there are two people covered with branches and leaves, firmly attached to the trunk like lizards, hiding their bodies between the dense branches and leaves, and even some of Blackbeard's minions come and go from the tree, and no one notices their figures.
A ghostly figure poked out the leaves with a copper pipe and stared through the lenses at Blackbeard and the others, who were not far from them, while the other person built a stable platform with branches interlaced on the trunk of the tree, which could not only cover the figure, but also provide a stable platform for shooting.
At their hands sat two cleanly polished muskets with adjustable rulers, silently observing Blackbeard, who was roaring not far away.
At this time, Blackbeard never dreamed that not far from him, there were actually a few people, hidden in the canopy and grass nest, staring at him deadly, at this time he only felt that he was in high spirits, as if he had seen his own people defeat the officers and soldiers led by Yu Xiaotian and fled, the beard on his face was constantly shaking, and from time to time he let out a few rampant laughter.
Near noon, from among the mountains and forests on the other side of the mountain pass, suddenly a large flock of birds flew up, and Blackbeard immediately came to his senses, and said in a low voice: "Here it is! ”
Sure enough, after a short time, an army appeared on the side of the mountain pass, and Yuguan began to march into the valley below.
This officer and army did not look very energetic, and when they came over, they looked listless, and as for the equipment on their bodies, they were not much better, and some of them were even dressed like Hanako, showing their half-stretched naked feet, and as for the formation, it could only be said that it was unsatisfactory.
Blackbeard and others, who have been paying attention to these officers and soldiers, can't help but sneer at them after seeing the performance of these officers and soldiers, it turns out that there are many rumors that the soldiers and horses under the command of Yu Xiaotian are gods, and it seems that today, it is nothing more than that, so Blackbeard did not wait for the entire army to step into the ambush circle, and began to press impatiently, so that some of the leaders who followed him went down to prepare for an attack.
Under the command of Xiaotian, the three thousand officers and soldiers slowly stepped into the valley, but at this time, because Blackbeard and the others already had a preconceived impression, they didn't care too much about the one or two thousand soldiers who followed into the valley, and they didn't even observe carefully.
It wasn't until the officers and troops had basically entered the valley that suddenly a sharp arrow flew from the direction of the mountain pass.
Blackbeard stood on the mountainside, pulling his throat and shouting hysterically, "Brothers, kill! Slaughter them, let's have enough wine and meat tonight! ”
Just as Blackbeard was roaring, some of the bandits who were hiding in the high places on both sides of the mountain pass stood up one after another, and about two or three hundred archers began to bend their bows and arrows, ready to fire at the official army below.
But at this moment, from some inconspicuous place near them, a few smoking black iron bullets were suddenly thrown out, and the bones rolled into their crowd.
"Huh? What is this? "Someone spotted these smoking bullets, so they couldn't help but lean down and look at them.
Before they could figure out what these things were, the round iron bullets suddenly exploded one after another, emitting a series of roars and clouds of black smoke.
Looking at the bandit archers hiding on both sides of the mountain pass, they were unlucky, and they were suddenly blown up and screamed, and some of them were blown upside down on the spot, and fell heavily to the ground, covered in blood, and couldn't survive.
Before these archers could react, more than twenty ghostly figures stood up in the nearby bushes and grasses, all covered with leaves and straw, including their faces painted with sap or ink, all like mandrills.
When someone saw these figures that appeared near them for no reason, as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight, they were so frightened that they were scattered and exclaimed, but these more than 20 mandrill-like figures, without saying a word, showed their blackened swords in their hands, and let out a terrible strange scream, and directly pounced into these scattered archer crowd like hungry tigers, and began to frantically harvest the lives of these bandit archers.
But the movement here did not attract more people's attention, and at the end of the other end on both sides of the valley, the bandit leaders who had received Blackbeard's orders at this time led their men together, roaring wildly, letting out a roar like a tsunami, and rushed out of the hiding places one by one.
These bandits didn't pay attention to any formation or formation, but with their bloody bravery, wielding the rudimentary weapons in their hands, they rushed towards the officers and soldiers who entered the valley like a swarm of bees.
The miscellaneous soldiers who walked in front of the team were suddenly frightened one by one, and many of them exclaimed: "Enemy attack!" There is an ambush! Run! As soon as the words fell, the formation was chaotic, and he turned around and tried to flee back to the way he came.
But at this time, Mr. Zhang Qian, with his subordinates, suddenly lined up in the back to block these routs in front, and shouted loudly: "General Yu has an order, wait for the formation on the spot, if anyone dares to escape from the battle again, there will be no mercy!" Go back and form a formation! Formation! ”
Zhang Qianzong also just got a notice from Yu Xiaotian before entering the valley, informing him that there were blackbeard soldiers and horses in the valley in ambush, and ordered him to suppress these miscellaneous soldiers after entering the valley, so that he could not impact Yu Xiaotian's own team behind, no matter what method he used, as long as he persevered, those who survived this battle would be given a heavy reward, but if someone disrespects the order and hits the main formation when he escapes, he will be killed immediately!
When Mr. Zhang Qian received the order, he was at a loss for what to do, and he couldn't understand why Yu Xiaotian knew that there was an ambush in the Dao Valley, why he had to drive straight into the enemy's ambush circle.
But these days, he has thoroughly understood Yu Xiaotian's temper, and he doesn't dare to say anything at all, so he can only comfort himself, presumably Yu Xiaotian will definitely have a solution, otherwise he will definitely not dare to step into the enemy's ambush so swaggeringly.
So he had no choice but to stubbornly supervise the formation into the valley, at this time when the surrounding auxiliaries were around, sure enough, those miscellaneous soldiers were messed up on the spot, turned around and wanted to run back, and he could only put his heart sideways, led his troops to block these routs, raised his knife and fell, and took his own soldiers to cut more than a dozen routs, which barely blocked the way of these miscellaneous soldiers, and drove them to a slightly open place in the valley like a duck and began to form a formation.
Anyway, these miscellaneous soldiers have received some training from sea wolves these days, which is a little better than before, and they have learned some skills to form a formation for self-protection, although they are very panicked, but under the pressure of Zhang Qian's death, they are still crowded together in a mess, and they barely form a formation that is not square or round.
After the formation was formed, the pikemen were placed on the outskirts of the formation, all the spears were flattened, pointing to the outside of the formation like hedgehogs, and some of the rattan players lined up in front of the pikemen, all of them squatted down, covering the body of the pikemen with rattan cards and single knives, and a small number of foot archers hid in the formation, and began to desperately throw arrows at the bandits who were swarming outside the formation, trying to block the bandits who were surging outside the formation.
As for Yu Xiaotian's headquarters, not to mention, after entering the valley, when the ambush soldiers were everywhere, although some of the soldiers who did not know it were a little frightened, but the result of long-term training was that they had formed an instinctive way to carry out orders, and no one panicked because of this.
Under Yu Xiaotian's order, the more than 1,700 sea wolf infantry quickly formed a neat phalanx in the valley without saying a word.
The limited pikemen were arranged on all sides of the phalanx, and the musketeers were all lined up in the four corners of the phalanx, and all the musketeers at this time loaded their bayonets on their muzzles, and the spears were flattened, and immediately a phalanx like hedgehogs was formed, and the polished tips and bayonets shone brightly in the sun, and the thousand seventeen or eight hundred men were not at all confused, like the fingers of the arm.
Compared with the formation of more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers who formed a formation on the spot nearby, the two sides made a judgment, and the entire sea wolf phalanx was as neat as a knife cut, invisibly exuding a cold murderous aura.
But at this moment, Blackbeard's men had no intention of appreciating the violent beauty created by the phalanx of sea wolves, and thousands of chaotic bandits poured down from the surrounding mountains like a tide, and all of them pulled their throats and screamed with all their strength to cheer themselves up.
Although many of them knew that those who rushed forward might die, but at this time they could not stop, behind them, those fierce Blackbeard's cronies, were staring at their backs with knives, whether they stopped or tried to flee back, waiting for them were sharp blades, they could only rush over hard, hoping that they could still rush away as before, and then chase and kill them all over the mountains, and the battle would be won.
But what they didn't expect was that when they rushed close to the official army array, suddenly a white smoke rose from the official army array, and then a bean-like sound sounded in the valley, and the sound of the gun echoed in the valley, deafening.
(Unfortunately, the weather cooled down dramatically during the first morning swim yesterday!) The water was hot and the wind was cool, and there was a cold wind blowing on the shore after swimming ashore, and as a result, I caught a cold and was dizzy all day! Snot la-la! It's uncomfortable! )