Chapter 162, Deserter
If those soldiers in Anjue City didn't pay attention to it, they would be waiting for death.
Especially after the well-known arquebusiers have cleared some of the caves near the foot of the mountain, hiding in them is even more unsettling.
They would launch a surprise attack on the mountains at night.
If nothing else, if there were no obstacles, it would be no problem to clean thirty or forty caves in one night.
In such a situation, the gunpowder master who is in charge of guarding the mountain has to face a choice.
Do you continue to squat like this, or organize a counterattack?
Soon, he made a decision to organize a counterattack with manpower!
After all, with the passage of time, under such a situation where it is difficult to fight back after being beaten, the psychological tension of the soldiers has become more and more serious, and the morale has become more and more low.
It is conceivable that if they had waited a few more days, not to mention whether these soldiers still had the strength to fight, they might have collapsed and fled for their lives at the sound of a shout.
But it wasn't until this gunpowder master organized a wave of counterattacks that he realized that he had actually made a wrong choice, and maybe he could continue to squat for a longer time.
Under his command, in the middle of the night, more than three thousand soldiers jumped up from the cave and launched a surprise attack on the enemy at the bottom of the mountain.
Gunpowder's request is very low, and he only needs to inflict a heavy blow on the enemy, so that the opponent cannot continue to bombard it so unscrupulously.
This would at least ease the nervous and low morale of the soldiers.
But what Master Gunpowder never expected was that just as his soldiers rushed out of the cave to launch a surprise attack, a large number of new enemies appeared behind the enemies who were bombarding the mountain, and the arquebuses in their hands shot evil projectiles at the soldiers who rushed to the foot of the mountain!
Boom Boom Boom ......
Explosions spread from the base of the hill to the top of the hill, and the previous group of enemies aimed their guns at the retreat of the soldiers.
The combination of the two made it so that the more than 3,000 soldiers did not make it to the foot of the mountain, nor did they escape back to the cave, and some of them lay halfway up the mountain, and some of them lay halfway up the mountain to the top of the mountain.
With the death of more than 3,000 soldiers, the entire mountain was filled with a thick blood and gunsmoke.
This made the morale of the remaining soldiers low again, and if it weren't for Master Gunpowder himself leading the Overseer to block the road to the back mountain, I am afraid that these soldiers would have abandoned their arquebuses and fled.
But even so, after nightfall, many deserters were killed on the spot at the intersection of the road back to the back mountain.
I have to say that the gunpowder lord of Anjue City is extremely tenacious, and even in this situation, he is still persevering.
After bombarding the mountain for a week, Zhou Mingyue himself couldn't stand it, so he simply ignored the possible increase in casualties, and at a dawn moment, he issued an order for a general attack.
But what he didn't expect was that just when the fine arquebusiers stopped bombarding the hill and the sophisticated arquebusiers were ready to launch the first wave of attacks as cannon fodder, the soldiers in the caves on the mountain actually drilled out one after another and fled towards the top of the mountain.
What's going on?
They don't fight? Ran away?
Zhou Mingyue immediately suppressed the idea that the high-quality arquebusiers were preparing to attack, and let the excellent arquebusiers rush ahead, following behind those soldiers of Anjue City, and rushed towards the top of the mountain.
Obviously, if their side continued to attack, those soldiers in Anjue City felt that they could not escape, and if they were bent on resisting, they would lose even more.
It's better to follow behind them, as long as they don't resist and take over this mountain, the next thing will be much more resolved.
After all, compared to Nias City, which has many mountains, the territory of Anjue City can be called an incomparably flat grassland!
One horse and a flat river!
This kind of terrain is Zhou Mingyue's favorite, and it is the most capable of giving full play to the power of high-quality arquebusiers!
When the good arquebusiers reached the top of the mountain, they saw the escaped soldiers of Anjue City clash with the intercepting warlords.
Naturally, the Gunpowder Master would not allow these to flee the battlefield, and was driving those soldiers back with the Warlord, and even shot a few soldiers who rushed to the front directly, in an attempt to deter those deserters.
But since those deserters have fled, they will still care about the majesty of your gunpowder lord.
Seeing that they were about to be shot, the soldiers turned their guns on the Warlords.
The scene suddenly fell into a stalemate.
The stalemate didn't last long, and it is not known who pulled the first shot.
In short, with the sound of a gunshot, the two sides immediately began to exchange fire.
To say that the arquebuses used by the Gunpowder Lord are naturally stronger, at least above the ordinary level, and there are many excellent arquebuses.
But the distance between the two sides is too close, only about ten meters before and after.
Although the Inspectors were instantly knocked out of the deserters after they fired, as the deserters fired back, Master Gunpowder was the first to die, followed by all the Inspectors.
After finishing out the Overseer, it was naturally impossible for those deserters to stay and hold their ground, and they continued to run towards the foot of the mountain after stepping over those corpses.
That speed is so fast, I am afraid that they are frightened, and they use their strength to feed.
With the capture of this hill, the soldiers fled in a hurry, and the road to the urban area of Anjue City was completely opened.
Although they also encountered a lot of resistance in the following march, these attackers in Anjue City were only two or three hundred people, and they couldn't have much impact on the army under Zhou Mingyue's command at all.
And the last battle broke out when they arrived in the urban area of Anjue City.
An army of more than 30,000 men stopped Zhou Mingyue's path, and then the battle broke out.
The whole battle ended faster than he could have imagined.
After just one round of fire, the opposing army exploded, and most of the soldiers threw their guns away, got up from the ground and fled, not caring for the Warlords standing behind them.
There were so many deserters that the Overseers couldn't stop them.
And after easily eliminating the soldiers of Anjue City who were still fighting, after the army under Zhou Mingyue launched a general attack, those overseers could only helplessly flee with the deserters.
After capturing a lot of prisoners, Zhou Mingyue learned that more than eighty percent of the 30,000-strong army in Anjue City were actually recruits who had just left the training camp, and their will to fight was extremely weak.
No wonder they crossed as soon as they struck, and then they deserted all over the ground.
With the last formed army in Anjue City being defeated, the next thing was much easier, and as Zhou Mingyue dispersed the arquebusiers, the entire urban area was controlled.
Diagram of the Avenue of the Heavens