With Wang Zhi's order, the soldiers of the Wang family army marched slowly with neat and firm steps, and the sound of footsteps resounded all day long.

Wang Zhi wanted to use the phrase "every step is like stepping on the enemy's heart" to describe the situation of this matter, but in fact it was not the case, Wang Zhi's side was advancing, while the Ming army was still nervously and slowly arranging troops, as if he did not see the advancing Wang army.

This is not because the Ming army on the opposite side is a super elite soldier who can collapse in front of Mount Tai without changing his face, but because the distance between the two sides is too far. What is the concept of five miles, it may sound very close, but in fact it is very long, one mile in the Ming Dynasty is about 576 meters, and five miles is equal to 2,880 meters, with the current speed of Wang Jiajun's march, it will take nearly an hour to walk.

Because the effective range of ancient bows and arrows is generally about 100 meters, the engagement distance of ancient wars is between 100 and 200 meters, and because Wang Jiajun is equipped with machine guns, the engagement distance has increased to less than 1,000 meters for the first time, but in order to facilitate the pursuit of the rout, the engagement distance was set at 600 meters by Wang Zhi, and the Ming army artillery can hit them.

Wang Zhi's troops are not large enough to be used as consumables for the time being, so he cherishes the lives of every soldier.

With the passage of time, the Ming army has already lined up the formation, and the Wang army has also moved to a position 600 meters away from the Ming army, which is the battle distance of the Wang army, but the Ming army has no movement, according to their habits, even if they use artillery to hit the cavalry charging the formation, they have to go to a distance of 300 steps (about 450 meters) before firing the cannon.

So when the machine gunners of the Wang family army installed all the tripods and arranged the machine gun positions, there was still no movement on the side of the Ming army. Probably still wondering why they stopped.

But then. They couldn't be curious.

"Shoot!"

Wang Zhi gave an order. Immediately, the battlefield sounded like the sound of death's footsteps, dense like raindrops.

The bullet speed of the machine gun is generally more than 800 meters per second, which is much higher than the sound propagation speed of 340 meters per second, so the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army array did not even hear the sound of gunfire, and the bullet penetrated the body, even if they hid behind the shield car, it was useless, and the bullet of the machine gun could completely penetrate the quilt and cowhide on the shield car and the shield car itself and continue to kill the soldiers hiding behind.

Hit in the torso and head. It's a good fate, one blow kills, no pain. If you are hit in the limbs, the powerful kinetic energy carried by the bullet will tear the human body apart, causing great pain to the injured person, and because it is not injured to the vital point, it will not die for a while, and will not die until the blood is dry after the pain is exhausted.

Novices who are fighting with machine guns for the first time, completely unaware of saving bullets, hold the trigger and shoot continuously, swinging the machine gun from side to side. Harvesting the lives of enemy soldiers like wheat.

In less than half a minute, a hundred rounds of ammunition in one cartridge box were fired. The rain-down gunfire stopped, and the co-shooter hurriedly took out another magazine and prepared to load.

At this time, the soldiers of the Ming army, who were frightened by the powerful power of the machine gun, reacted.

"Charge, rush over with the shield cart, melee with the thieves, and smash those firearms." Liang of the Shanxi General Soldier roared at the deputy general beside him like crazy, more than a thousand of his men died in just one face, if he didn't rush over and destroy those firearms, everyone should be killed in a few minutes.

"General, the shield carts have been smashed, a distance of four hundred paces, and when his subordinates rush over, the people should die." The adjutant general wept blood and said, "This battle can't be fought!" ”

He was watching the battle behind the formation, although it was called the rear of the formation, but it was only a few hundred meters away from the front of the formation, and it was also within the range of the machine gun, a stray bullet that did not hit anything and maintained strong kinetic energy shot past him, hitting a family next to him, and the elite family in iron armor was instantly torn in half, blood splashed on his body, and he was so frightened that he fled to the camp behind him, and came in the name of reporting the military situation, so there was the scene just now.

"You coward, do you want to escape?" Wang Guoliang kicked the deputy general to the ground, and pulled out the big knife on his waist with a bang: "I'll kill you coward." ”

The big battle was imminent, and no one stopped him, Wang Guoliang's hand fell, the deputy general's head was cut off, blood splashed Wang Guoliang's face, and his blood-stained face looked very hideous: "Who else wants to ...... battle"

"Report!"

Before the word escape could be spoken, a man in leather armor rushed into the camp tent with an anxious face: "General, the front army has collapsed, and the rout is rushing towards the camp." ”

"As for my family, if you don't hurry up and crush the rout, whoever dares to escape will kill him." Wang Guoliang shouted viciously.

"The whole army has collapsed, we can't stop thousands of people, let's run away from the general, stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood." The family members shouted loudly, even their family members were frightened by the machine guns, and they wanted to flee the battlefield with the rout, who would shoot and crush the rout.

"Lao Tzu is deeply favored by the country, how can he escape from the battle, Lao Tzu wants to fight to the death with the thief army." Wang Guoliang roared and rushed out of the camp, looking at the routs in front of him who were panicked and hated that his father and mother had given birth to two legs, his eyes were split, thinking that he Wang Guoliang was also a famous general, and these soldiers under him were also nine-sided elite soldiers who had dealt with Tartars all year round, and now they were killed by a little-known thief army in a photo, and he didn't even hold on to a pillar of incense, he couldn't accept it.

Looking at the routs with hideous faces and beginning to kill each other in order to rush the road, Wang Guoliang's generals knew that this kind of frightened rout could not be suppressed, and saw that Wang Guoliang was holding a knife to cut down the rout, and one by one stepped forward to hug them.

"My lord, defeat is inevitable, so it's better to leave it to a useful body for the future. Now retreat into Taiyuan City to defend it, the outcome is not yet known, otherwise there is no need for the thief army to kill the generals, and the frightened routs can trample us to death! ”

Being persuaded like this, Wang Guoliang put down the knife in his hand, he was impulsive before just because he couldn't accept the defeat so quickly, and now he has somewhat regained his senses, since his subordinates gave him a ladder, he naturally went down the slope.

"Hey~" sighed sadly, Wang Guoliang ordered: "The generals gathered their soldiers and horses and went to Taiyuan City." The city is fortified. ”

"The last will obey."

Get the order to retreat. The generals breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately let go of Wang Guoliang and ran to collect the soldiers and horses

Because the Wang Jiajun only had twenty machine guns on the front, in order to concentrate firepower, they only hit the middle, so all the firepower fell on the Gangshan Shanxi Army, which chose the front. The field battalions arranged on both sides were to deal with the attack on the flank, and they did not take the initiative to attack, so the Liaodong Army and the Shaanxi Army, which were located on both sides of the Ming army's military formation and were ready to outflank from the flank, were not attacked by machine guns.

Seeing that the Shanxi army in the middle suffered such heavy losses under the attack of machine guns, the commanders of the two armies made the same decision as Wang Guoliang - to charge. Rush closer and smash the firebolts.

Because they were not attacked by machine guns, the soldiers were not frightened, and they still had some courage, and the commander gave an order, and the cavalry and infantry successively charged the army formation of the Wang family's army.

So at this time, there was a very strange scene on the side of the Ming army, the Shanxi army in charge of the front gang hated his father and mother for having two legs and fled, while the Liaodong Army and the Shaanxi Army responsible for the flank outflanked launched a charge.

Facing the Ming army rushing in with the sound of drums and horses' hooves, Wang Zhi remembered a description - like a tide, more than 10,000 Ming troops in gray robes were densely packed. From Wang Zhi's point of view, it is indeed like a tide.

"It's a pity, they're not the people's army. It is destined to be against the sky. ”

Thinking so, Wang Zhi sent twenty tractors to pursue the fleeing Shanxi army, asking them to drive the fleeing Ming army to Taiyuan City, and then split the twenty machine guns on the front line into two to support both sides.

Originally, there was only one field battalion on both sides of the guard, and the nine machine guns were a drop in the bucket in the face of the cavalry charging on the wide flat ground, and those who had already begun to charge must have more courage than those who had not yet charged, because in the crowd of chargers, once they stopped, they might be trampled to death by those behind, so they would not stop until the corpses in front were piled up into a pile of corpses that could block the charging of those behind.

Gradually, the cavalry in front were killed, but the infantry behind still kept advancing, and the corpses had not yet been piled up, and there were also those who were timid and wanted to stop, but then they were trampled to death by the people behind.

At this time, the Ming army was only less than two hundred meters away from the Wang army, and the arrows shot by some heavy bows might still have lethality in this range, but there were few archers in the charging Ming army, so they could only continue to charge.

According to this momentum, they can get close to the Wang Jiajun army before they die, but the war is not a long-distance race, it doesn't mean that you can win by running to the front, there are two spear teams next to each musket team to protect them, and there are two AK47s in each musket team, the Wang Jiajun is not without melee ability, and if you get close, you can only die faster.

However, after the ten machine guns were transferred from the front, it was impossible for the Ming army to get close to the Wang army's army even if all the people were dead.

Liaodong had few soldiers, only more than 5,000 people, and they died evenly on the way to the charge, until only a few hundred people remained, and the corpses could not be piled up, but these lucky survivors began to turn around and flee after discovering their situation.

And because Wang Zhi once told his soldiers that the strategic purpose of this time was to encircle and annihilate, in the face of the fleeing enemy troops, the machine gunners still did not stop shooting, these lucky guys still failed to escape, and died faster with their backs to the muzzle.

So nine minutes after the start of the battle, the Liaodong Army, one of the three major armies, except for the generals and a few personal guards, the rest of the army was annihilated.

And the Shaanxi army, because of the large number of people, more than 10,000 people, dense array, and few cavalry, they only ran halfway through, and lost half of them, and the rest of the people immediately turned around and fled in fright, and were defeated before the Liaodong Army was annihilated.

At this point, this war can be said to be over.

This battle, known as the Battle of Taiyuan, ended with the defeat of the Ming army, with nearly 10,000 deaths on the Ming side and no casualties on the Wang army's side, and the whole war took nine minutes. (To be continued.) )

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