Chapter 171: The Power of Mortars
With Niu Tiezhu's order, the twenty mortars that had been prepared for a long time finally opened fire!
Boom, boom, boom......
With a barrage of shells, twenty mortars, at this moment, opened fire almost simultaneously and fired shells.
I saw one after another arm-thick cannonballs roaring into the sky, and then fell into the officers and soldiers camp two miles away in a graceful arc, and a moment later, earth-shattering explosions sounded one after another.
At this time, Liu Chengfeng and others, who were standing on a high place, were surprised to find that the barracks of the officers and men were full of flames, and the mud, sand and gravel were splashed everywhere, and many camp tents and guardrails in the barracks of the officers and soldiers were torn apart by the bombing, and sawdust was flying endlessly. And those officers and men who were still sleeping in the tents were still asleep, and they were directly blown up by shells and died on the spot.
As the shells were continuously thrown into the camp of the officers and men, the camp of the officers and soldiers had gradually ignited a raging fire, and those officers and soldiers who were awakened by the sound of the explosion were all running around in rags, looking extremely panicked and embarrassed, and they could not figure out what was going on until now.
There was chaos everywhere in the barracks, and many officers and men were running around in the confusion, and they were bombed one after another, and their bodies exploded on the spot, and people turned on their backs.
However, at the same time as the mortars were bombing, Liu Chengfeng also quickly ordered and led more than 2,500 elite mountain bandits to start the operation.
All of them were armed with weapons, and they went straight to the camp of the officers and soldiers with murderous spirit, but whenever they encountered the fleeing officers and soldiers who blocked the front, they all became the souls of the mountain bandits under the knife one by one.
When Liu Chengfeng and the others arrived at the gate of the officer and soldier camp, at this time, the mortar shells were finally fired.
As soon as the mortar bombardment stopped, the first to restore order were the well-trained regular troops, who were seen to be under the leadership of their respective captains, dressed up in their equipment, armed with weapons, and formed small detachments rushing towards the enemy outside the camp, while the garrisons that had been borrowed were still like a plate of scattered sand, chaotic and panicked, and could not be arranged into a decent formation for half a day under the shouting and commanding of their respective officers.
After Liu Chengfeng led 2,500 mountain bandits to kill many stragglers along the way, he finally met with a group of regular troops of hundreds of people who rushed out of the camp.
At a distance of dozens of zhang, the regular army discovered the existence of the enemy, and suddenly, some warriors with bows and arrows were ready to shoot arrows at the mountain bandits who came to attack.
However, before those archers had set up their arrows, on the side of the mountain bandit camp, ten members of the Vulcan Hall immediately began to bombard their formation again, carrying bazookas on their shoulders.
Boom! Boom!
More than a dozen rockets were fired in succession, and suddenly, the formation formed by hundreds of regular troops was bombarded by bazookas again, and countless casualties were inflicted.
Just when those regular troops were still stunned by the power of the bazooka, Liu Chengfeng and other mountain bandit leaders had already led the fierce mountain bandits to rush over like wolves.
Suddenly, those regular soldiers who were killed were defeated and retreated, and they couldn't stop it.
Just when Liu Chengfeng had just repelled these regular troops who came to stop him, suddenly, he heard the loud killing sound in the camp in front of him, and when he stared at it, he found that there was another group of regular troops, forming a fairly neat formation in the chaos, and killing them.
The regular army that appeared this time is full of thousands of people, and the equipment and weapons of these soldiers are also quite complete, if they are entangled, then the remaining regular army will continue to eliminate panic and form an effective formation to support, at that time, it will be difficult for them to bargain.
However, when the regular army of thousands of people had just rushed to the front, and there was still a distance of more than ten zhang from the mountain bandits, suddenly, dozens of mountain bandits armed with AK47s poured out of the camp of the mountain bandits, and they saw that they were holding AK47s and shooting frantically at the regular troops who rushed over.
In the blink of an eye, the thousand-strong regular army that rushed out to resist fell hundreds of people under the joint attack of the elite of the mountain bandits led by Liu Chengfeng and dozens of AK47s, and their formation was beaten to pieces.
It has to be said that among the officers and men who led the army to suppress bandits, there were still some capable officers and lieutenants, and after a short period of confusion in the camp of the officers and soldiers, they soon gathered under the shouts of their respective commanders. In particular, thousands of regular troops, at this time, had all returned to their usual order, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, they were constantly rushing towards the mountain bandits who came to attack, preparing to rescue those defeated comrades who rushed to the front and were killed.
At this time, the mountain bandits in Qunyingzhai were also surprised to see that the officers and soldiers had made an effective resistance and counterattack so quickly, but before they did this, Ye Zheng had already arranged the offensive tactics for them, that is, the enemy advanced and I retreated, and the enemy retreated and I advanced.
In short, if the officers and men formed a tight phalanx to counterattack, they immediately opened up their distance, and with the help of long-range fire from various arms and guns, counterattacked and strafed the phalanx of the officers and soldiers, so as to ensure that the regular troops could not approach and fight them head-on.
Anyway, the thousands of regular troops who came back were beaten badly by this group of shameless mountain bandits.
All kinds of shotguns, pistols, rocket launchers, grenades, and strong bows and crossbows all beckoned to the places where there were many officers and soldiers, and the officers and men who fought suffered heavy casualties and lost their temper at all.
At the same time, when Liu Chengfeng and others attacked the camp of officers and soldiers, they also ordered the mountain bandits below, all of them shouted loudly, saying that the Ge people slaughtered the Black Dragon Valley and failed to attack the Black Dragon Valley, and the whole army killed by them was annihilated, and also said that you group of wine bags and rice bags in Linjiang City, don't do useless resistance, hurry up and all lay down your weapons and surrender, our alliance leader said, as long as you obediently put down your weapons and take off your armor and equipment, you will not be killed, and you will leave safely with your bare butts!
When those officers and soldiers heard this, they were almost not mad by this group of mountain bandits, but they were skeptical about the news that the Geren Tu soldiers were defeated and killed in battle, because according to the previous plan and agreement of the Ge Rentu, they should have taken the Black Dragon Valley at this moment, but they waited for so long in the Wild Horse Plain, and they did not receive any news from the Ge Rentu.
Moreover, they have also released carrier pigeons to contact Ge Rentu's army in the past few days, but there has been no response at all.
Just when all the officers and soldiers were wondering if Ge Rentu's elite troops were really wiped out by the gang of mountain bandits in Black Dragon Valley, suddenly, in the camp of the mountain bandits opposite, there was a burly man in a big man, holding a spear, and he raised a pair of armor with very exquisite workmanship.
When some officers and lieutenants in the camp saw the armor clearly, and found that it was actually the armor of the flying leopard general unique to Ge Rentu, suddenly, all of them changed their expressions, and their faces were extremely pale, at this moment, they finally knew that what these attacking mountain bandits said was the truth, and Ge Rentu, who led five thousand elites to attack the Black Dragon Valley, had been killed in the Black Dragon Valley by those fierce bandits at this moment, and those five thousand men and horses had not escaped back to pass the message, presumably, it was really as those mountain bandits said, they had been wiped out by the whole army they killed。
Thinking of this, the deputy commander who led the army was shocked, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and return to Linjiang City, because the main elite of Ge Rentu was completely wiped out in the hands of these bandits, so where would they, the men and horses who fought soy sauce, be the opponents of these mountain bandits. Moreover, the terrifying firearms used by those mountain bandits when they attacked the camp were so powerful and long-range that they officers and soldiers had never heard of or seen before.
Thinking that the mountain bandits had terrible firearms in their hands, they lost their fighting spirit, and began to retreat while resisting on the spot.