Chapter 45: The ambush is successful
Bang!
Gunshots echoed through the mountain passes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
A horse flipped to the ground at the sound of a sound - one of the horses pulling the metal carriage. This caused the other three horses to neigh and riot uneasily. Jussius, who was the coachman, hurriedly pulled the reins, desperately trying to calm them down.
The cowboys of Pelos weren't even too surprised, just calmly soothed the frightened mount with a solemn expression, and at the same time pulled out the guy on his back and the outside of his thigh and prepared for battle. Everything is so skillful, this is probably their daily routine.
"Enemy attack on the right!
Jusis gave the order, and judging from his frowning brow, the enemy this time did not seem to be simple. The other party knocked down a horse pulling a cart, which was enough to make the group lose the possibility of escaping. The main task this time was to escort, and once the duke's son got out of the carriage and was exposed to gunpoint, it was bound to be extremely dangerous. If you continue to use the carriage, even if you cut the reins of the horse, the carriage will lose its speed.
You know, what fell in front of Jusis was a war horse, all but four long legs and bare eyes, and the rest of the parts were covered in thick armor. Under normal circumstances, a bullet will at most hurt the horse, but it will not kill it.
But what Jusis saw was a pool of blood. There is no doubt that the war horse is dead. He stepped forward, only to find that its eye had been pierced by a bullet, so that it had not even had time to scream.
Before entering the pass, Jusis had observed the nearby terrain beforehand, and he warned of the high risk of an ambush. But the man in the carriage still stubbornly decided to take this road, and he could only do everything he could to keep it safe on the road.
The hills on either side, though easy to hide, are two hundred yards from the center of the road. So, the gun has almost zero accuracy. For melee combat, Jusis has full confidence. But the unknown enemy crossed a distance of two hundred yards and accurately delivered the bullet into the horse's eyeball...... The technology is self-explanatory.
"Get cover!" ordered Jussi. But as soon as his words fell, another gunshot followed.
Bang!
This time, the bullet passed through a cowboy's head, leaving an extra blood hole in it. The soulless body suddenly lost its strength and fell from its horse to the ground, and the frightened horse roared loudly and ran off into the distance.
The guards had no time to grieve the loss of their companions. If no further cover is found, any of them will probably die next. The bullets were fired from the right side of the road, and there were so few things that could be used as cover on this open road, and most of the team members chose to dismount and run to the left side of the metal carriage to dodge.
"Boss, you're really good! exactly like you say!"
On the top of the mountain, Fa Ying didn't care about the praise of his subordinates, and still prostrate on the ground with a spear, without saying a word. Because the next thing he aimed at was the gap in the horn helmet. The first two shots were just a test of the velocity and wind direction in order to improve the accuracy of the third shot. If you shoot Yusis first, if you miss, it will be difficult to hit him again later. It's safe to deal with the six-pointed star of Pyros. And judging by the results of the first two shots, the French and British are in excellent form today.
At the same time, I saw that the cowboys were hiding on the side they were facing, and there was movement on the other hill.
The cowboy, who was hiding behind the carriage, watched as a group of ill-wishers with the guys quickly appeared on the hill next to him.
Oh no! I didn't expect there to be an ambush here! But at this time, the cowboys of the Pelos family could no longer do anything to get out of the current predicament. They could even hear the laughter of the bandits, and a few of them tried to shoot at the top of the hill, but because of the distance from the bottom to the top, it was really not very accurate.
But for these people on the mountain, none of this is a problem. Having taken advantage of the terrain and numbers, they didn't even have to do the work of aiming. At a distance of two hundred yards, under the random guns of dozens of people, the accuracy rate is naturally no longer a problem.
A massacre!
After the dense gunfire, no one in a denim suit could still stand. The bandits swallowed their saliva one after another, this vote was getting closer and closer to success, and the money that could not be spent in the next life seemed to be within reach. And then all that's left is the hardest bone to gnaw.
Faying cursed, "Hell!" Jusis turned around and got into the metal carriage to avoid the rain of bullets, and disappeared into his crosshairs. Until then, Yusis did not forget to cut the reins and let the three still living horses run for their lives. However, in this way, the possibility of them escaping in a carriage was completely cut off.
"You, go down with your men, I'll see how long they hide in the carriage!" Faying ordered his lieutenant.
The people on the hills on both sides slowly moved towards the mountain pass, gathering around the metal carriage, and the weapons in their hands were aimed at the dazzling carriage. As the leader, Faying continued to stay on the top of the mountain, and if Jusis rushed out unprepared, he would capture and shoot him at the first opportunity.
But Fa Ying vaguely felt that things seemed to be going too smoothly, and that something was going wrong.
Those Pyros cowboys were shot by them without doing almost anything, is this the strength of the duke? As a first-class nobleman of Odin, these cowboys with good early warning ability look like "outcasts" no matter how they look at it.
Aristocrats are usually cold-blooded, and Pelos is no exception. But in this day and age, almost everyone is armed with a firearm. Once these outcasts died, Jusis alone would not be able to take care of the life of the boy in the carriage against the hordes of enemies. And if these people are only used to make the enemy visible...... Then what is really enough to protect the duke's son may be hidden in that carriage.
"Be careful, there may be something strange in the carriage!"
The bandits probably also understood that the more times like this, the more careful they should be, and they all slowed down. Their vigilance has also been adjusted to the peak.
As if in response to France and Britain, the metal carriage in front of everyone's eyes changed. The top of it splits in two and suddenly opens. Several black tubes flew out of the top of the carriage in different directions and landed on the ground not far from the bandits.
Fa Ying's eyes widened suddenly: "Disperse quickly! Beware of high explosives!"
The bandits, of course, did not think that anything good could be thrown out of the carriage, and in any case it could not be a delicacy to entertain them. So long before the French and British gave the order, their bodies had already reacted spontaneously and fled from those things as quickly as possible.
But what awaited them was silence, the expected explosion did not take place, and the tubes made a sizzling noise, and only puffs of white smoke rose from them.
Are these just bluffing things?
"Don't inhale the smoke! Stand upwind and wait for it to dissipate. Even if the advantage is great, Fa Ying does not dare to act rashly, he has heard that many alchemical potions can achieve the effect of causing a coma just by inhaling.
Hearing the leader's order, the bandits did as they did. And praised the head is the leader, the decision is always so foolproof, and there will be no chance left for the other party.
Several sources of smoke were not too far from the wagon, and they were scattered around the wagon, enclosing the wagon in the center. The wind was not very strong at this time, and the smoke was almost vertically upwards except for the downward wind direction, causing the entire metal carriage to be shrouded in smoke.
The bandits were all upwind of the rear of the carriage, and their eyes never took off the smoke. They were so desperate for this vote to succeed.
The smoke grew lighter and lighter, and the first thing that emerged from the smoke was a round piece of metal with ten small holes in it.
Fa Ying didn't know what it was, he had never seen it before. But the things that were connected to him were very familiar. Several black tubes form a circular shape, which together form a cylinder. Those tubes are often referred to as "gun barrels".
Fa Ying suddenly understood: the purpose of smoke was not to kill, but only to block the view.
Is that a gun?