Chapter 408: New Guns
It was night, a group of people were riding horses at night, it was the time of the tailwind, and it was riding horses, and the group seemed to be about to take off.
When I got closer, it was the Northwest Army led by Yu Jingning.
They fought guerrilla warfare with the rebel army in Ningbo for a long time, and finally figured out a little routine - as soon as the enemy came ashore, the spies and scouts under the three hands of Che San were no longer ambiguous, and carefully investigated their situation.
Taizhou's troops were obviously more than Ningbo's, and the three counties were affected, and the little scouts had been ambushed for a long time, but they had results. The number of officers they saw in Taizhou was much higher than that in Ningbo, and some even said that they vaguely seemed to see Lao Jiang.
Gong Laoba estimated that it was not yet time for him to be able to go to the battlefield after his injuries, and seeing Lao Jiang meant that the army was here.
The main force of the Northwest Army is in Ningbo, but the main force of the chaotic army is in Taizhou, which can't help but make people feel strange.
Later, the little scout under Che San's hand came back with the news, only saying that the rebel army in Taozhu had not harassed the sea anymore, and looked at the direction, it turned out to be further south
Yu Jingning immediately made a decision and led a group of soldiers from Ningbo to the south to Taizhou.
If Yu Jingning had not misjudged the situation, the previous behavior of the rebel army constantly harassing the sea of Ningbo and fighting guerrilla warfare was a trick to attract the attention of the Heng army, while the real purpose of the shrouded in this fog was to attack the capital city of Taizhou, which was not the main army.
Everyone didn't dare to delay for a while, and rushed to the capital of Taizhou overnight to support Che Si, who had fewer troops.
Before he set off, he had already sent a message to Che Sifeige, saying that they would do their best to support Taizhou, and if the reinforcements did not arrive and the rebel army had already arrived, then do not care about gunpowder and lead bullet, and try to delay.
Yu Jingning thought in his heart, if the rebellious army of Taozhu goes to the capital city of Taizhou, it must have successfully landed on the water surface of Taozhu, and now if they want to walk to the capital city, they will definitely have to pass through this boundary, if they arrive in time now, they may not be able to meet them before the rebellious army arrives at the capital city of Taizhou.
When the first few scouts came back, they did not dare to shout, but they all hurried to learn to call partridges.
This is the code they specially used to transmit messages, no one can not understand, Che San immediately heard it, and hurriedly turned his head and said to Yu Jingning: "Lord Wang, there is news coming back from the front!" ”
Now although it is said that it is going with the wind, it will not be a mouthful of wind when speaking, but it is still very uncomfortable to talk like this, Che San was blown by the wind and his face was hideous, and he listened carefully to the whistle of the little scout in front of him, and said excitedly: "Lord Wang, this is to say that the enemy army has been found in front, and it is less than five miles away from the city!" ”
Yu Jingning pinched the horse's belly fiercely and ordered: "Hurry up, stay within the firing range, immediately release the arrows, and at the same time set off signal flares, and notify the Taizhou capital city to prepare for defense!" ”
The order was quickly delivered, and the Northwest Army was running so fast in the night that the horses' hooves almost flew up.
When the Northwest Army released the first arrow, Yu Jingning personally set off the signal flare.
The flare suddenly exploded in the sky, startling the rebels in front, and before they could react, many of the infantry who fell behind had already died.
As soon as the signal flare was fired, the city instantly began to fire ten thousand arrows, and the rebel army that was preparing to attack the city was hit again before they could take a stand.
The four chariots in the city did not dare to use cannons, for fear of hurting their own people under the tower, so they only used arrows, but at the same time they also used a lot of firearms.
For example, the god machine rocket and the 10,000 enemies, both of these things are combusting, plus now the wind is strong, the wind is helping the fire, the fire is fighting the wind, and the old high flames suddenly burst out, and the people in the rebellious army are eager to start rolling on the ground to extinguish the fire.
Today's Taizhou capital city does not have to be Jiaxing at the beginning, this is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, and the cavalry led by Gu Cheng was much stronger than Taizhou today, so Yu Jingning did not give Che Si an order to them to go out of the city with cavalry to meet the rebels, but stayed in the city and cooperated with him.
Now, it seems that the cooperation is really good.
Now the rebel army is busy extinguishing the fire, and they are being attacked from the left and right, and they are beaten into a burning formation, obviously to attack the city, but they are surrounded by two sides of the people, which can be described as miserable. I had to work hard inside to find a way to break through.
A group of rebels were busy putting out the fire, when someone shouted in the middle of the formation: "Is it going to rain?" I feel like water is dripping from my face! ”
At first, everyone ignored this man, only thinking that he was probably splattered with the blood of his companions, and after a while, it actually began to rain.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Lao Jiang rubbed his eyes in the rain and sneered: "Okay, good, their Northwest Army's firearms can't be used now!" Shoot the arrows! Give me all arrows! Even if we can't break into this state capital city, we have to follow the group behind our butts a few more! ”
Yu Jingning also laughed in the rain, he quickly gestured to the people around him, and sure enough, the people around him stopped shooting with the guns in their hands.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the cold-weapon heavy cavalry in the rear made up for the front, blocking Yu Jingning's group of firecrackers behind him.
At this moment, Lao Jiang's side became even more proud, and cheered up the soldiers around him: "Now that all the firearms of their firecrackers are useless, just a gunshot knife poked in front, what is the difference between that and a long knife?" We also have long knives, could it be that the knives of their Northwest Army are better than ours? ”
After hearing this, the rebel army was indeed greatly encouraged, and advanced a lot towards Yu Jingning's side.
The two sides are locked in a fight.
The cold-armed heavy cavalry in front of them was fighting with the chaotic army, but they suddenly heard the sound of the horn in the rear, and this voice clearly asked them to change formation!
This group of cold-armed heavy cavalry immediately stopped fighting, and quickly retreated backwards, revealing all the firecrackers who had retreated to the rear earlier.
Yu Jingning held the bird gun in his hand and immediately sent out the first buckshot.
As if they had received some order, the soldiers behind him began to pull the trigger of the fire gun with Yu Jingning. For a while, lead bullets scattered in all directions, knocking all the rebel troops who rushed in front of them into holes.
Looking carefully, the bird gun in Yu Jingning's hand was not as before, and the long-lasting fire rope dragged at the tail was gone!
This is not an arquebus that cannot be used in the rain at all, this is the batch of bird guns that Yu Zhiwei gave him before Yu Jingning went south.
All of them are flintlocks, and they can still be used in heavy rain!