Chapter 4 Frontal Crushing

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou led a large army into battle and faced Meng Huo's barbarian army head-on. Guo Youzhi and Fei Yi asked Liu Hou if he had thought of any good way. Liu Hou said no, to deal with these rabble, you only need to crush them head-on.

Then, Liu Hou asked Guo Youzhi to help Zhang Bao on the left flank, Fei Yi to help Guan Xing on the right flank, and he and Zhao Yun stayed in the Chinese army. Liu Hou told them to just form a formation to fight the enemy as they usually trained.

As soon as the Shu army set up its position, it only heard an earth-shattering shouting and killing sound from the opposite mountain, and the black barbarian soldiers poured down from the mountain and confronted the Shu army on the flat ground between the two mountains.

It is not very accurate to say that they are soldiers, they do not have a unified military uniform, they wear everything, there are colorful national costumes, there are also those wearing animal skins, straw skirts, and there are many naked people.

The weapons are not uniform, there are scimitars, mountain axes, hunting forks and sickles, in short, eighteen kinds of weapons and eighteen kinds of agricultural and animal husbandry tools can be seen. However, the most common is a spear, because the cost of this thing is low, a long stick and a spearhead will do.

The spearhead is also made of a variety of materials, the best is a variety of metals, copper, bronze, iron and some unknown metals or alloys, most of them are made of stone and bone, the worst is to sharpen the end of the wooden stick to be a spear, these spearheads fully reflect the economic situation and productivity level of the Nanban tribe.

They rushed out without a formation at all, and the only thing that could be called a formation was that they were all in a tribal unit, clustered around the leaders of their clan, so that a strange formation was formed on the left and a pile on the right. And these piles of people are of different sizes and shapes, because each tribe sends out different people, and the number varies greatly.

The biggest common denominator of these barbarians is that they are all black and do not slip in autumn, which is obviously different from the Chengdu Plain, which causes people to have a fair complexion because of more fog and less sunshine. Liu Hou looked at these whining sounds in their mouths, some of them still had various chicken feathers and bird feathers on their heads, and the wild men holding wooden spears in their hands automatically overlapped with the images of cannibals seen on TV in later generations.

In the largest group of people in the middle, there was a strong man, I saw that he was wearing a purple and gold crown full of peacock feathers, wearing rhino skin armor, riding a curly-haired red rabbit horse under his crotch, holding a large axe to open the mountain, and the end was mighty.

And the three big men on his left and right are the marshals of the three caves, the first cave is the marshal of the golden ring and the three knots, the second hole is the marshal of Dong Dana, and the third cave is the marshal of Ah Huilan.

Since the commanders of the two armies have come out, according to the usual practice, they must first say something about the scene and ask for some verbal bargains. For this, Liu Hou is very confident in himself, and he doesn't believe that he can win Lu Meng, and he can't say that he is just a barbarian.

So, he took out the brass trump. Beat the horse forward, and shouted loudly to the opposite side: "Meng Shu, my Han Dynasty has always been kind to you, and my father and emperor have also rewarded you a lot, why are you ungrateful, why do you want to rebel?" ”

"Hmph," the land of these two rivers was originally occupied by others, and your father relied on strong force to seize it, and he dared to call himself emperor!" We have lived here for generations, and you have been rude and invaded our land, how can it be said that we are rebelling? Meng Shu also rode forward to a distance of about 50 steps from Liu Hou and shouted.

"Uh......" Liu Hou was dumbfounded by Meng Yu's words, this, what this Nanban said seems to be the truth, and the most difficult thing in the world to refute is the truth.

Liu Bei himself is a rootless Ping wandering around, and he has been moving to various places for decades, but he has not been able to find a foothold. He is like the Beipiao clan and migrant workers in later generations, no matter how prosperous the metropolis is for many years, he finally finds that this is never his home, and he can never find his home.

Yizhou Mu was originally Liu Yan, and later passed on to his son Liu Zhang, no matter how you look at it, Liu Bei didn't have anything to do, until ten years ago, Liu Zhang, in order to resist Cao Cao, welcomed Liu Bei into Sichuan, and planned to use Liu Bei's strength to fight against Cao Cao, but he didn't expect that this time it was really a wolf into the house, and finally Liu Bei occupied the magpie's nest and robbed Liu Zhang's territory by force.

And Meng Huo and Yonghong are both big clans living in the local area, local natives, and aborigines, on the contrary, Liu Bei is an invader and an outsider. No matter how you look at it, it is Liu Bei's not to say that it is not them.

Liu Hou didn't expect that this Southern Barbarian was not a stupid and rude man, but had such eloquence and wisdom. He thought about it for a while, and then he figured it out, and he secretly changed the concept and changed the topic for Meng Shu. So he said:

"Chief Meng's words are wrong, and there are clouds in the Book of Songs: Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. The Nanzhong area is part of our Dahan River. Cao Pi traitors plotted to kill the first emperor and wanted to destroy my Han family, but as everyone knows, my Liu clan is all over the world.

My father is a descendant of Emperor Taizu, shouldering the heavy responsibility of reviving the Han family, and now that he has ascended the throne as emperor, then the land of the whole world should belong to my Han family, and the people of the whole world are naturally also the subjects of my father.

If you dare to raise an army to attack my father's state capital, you will naturally be committing rebellion. Besides, you are just a family of Yongchang, but you gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses and came to Yuewang County, no matter who is the emperor in this kind of behavior, you are rebelling. Do you want to be the emperor yourself? ”

Liu Hou is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he first pointed out that Meng Huo's identity is just the chief of a tribe, no matter how big this tribe is, no matter how high his prestige in the Nanban, he can never get rid of the identity of a small chief, and even he does not have an official identity, so he gathered 100,000 horses to attack the state capital, what is this not chaos?

This is the essence of the matter, what kind of circle to go around with him, what to say about the natives and outsiders.

"Hmph, Huangkou Xiaoer, it's useless to talk more, let's see the real chapter under our hands, I will definitely chop you, the ignorant boy who dares to block the progress of this king, into meat sauce and send Liu Bei to drink." Seeing that he didn't take advantage of anything, Meng Shu ordered a fight, preparing to seek justice by force.

The two turned their horses' heads, beat their horses and returned to their own armies, and dispatched their troops to prepare for a fight.

Meng ordered Marshal Jinhuan Sanjie to lead his troops to attack Liu Hou's middle route army, Marshal Dong Dana to lead his troops to attack Zhang Bao's left flank, and Marshal A Huilan to lead his troops to attack Guan Xing's right flank. With an order, the barbarians rushed towards the Shu army in a chaotic manner.

"Boom!" Before they could rush to 400 meters, the artillery of the Shu army rang out. Although he had to take the mountain road this time, Liu Hou did not give up bringing the cannon. Considering the rugged mountain road, Liu Hou brought a relatively light 95 mm copper cannon this time, and the total weight of this cannon and artillery truck was 1,200 catties (about 300 kg).

Each cannon was equipped with 4 horses, which were pulled in turn, and 8 gunners and 8 civilians were waiting. Once you encounter a higher step, the gun truck can not go up directly to the road section, you can also disassemble the gun body and gun car, lift the steps respectively, and then assemble them to continue to use horse-pulled.

In this way, the horses carried all the way, and finally transported these cannons here. This is also one of the reasons why the Shu army can only advance 30 miles a day, and Liu Hou would rather walk as slowly as an ant than give up these cannons. Now it's finally time for them to show their might.

There were not many cannons, 10 each of the left, middle and right route armies, and the total was only 30, and at this time they were almost fired together, making a rumbling sound that shook the earth and the earth, which frightened the barbarians at that time. Everyone thought it was the sound of thunder in the sky, but when they looked up at the sky, they found that the sky was clear and cloudless, where did the thunder come from? Could it be the legendary dry day thunder?

But the smoke and dust that exploded in the crowd reminded them that no matter what kind of thunder, it seemed that these thunders had fallen on their own people.

This time, all the shells fired by the Shu army were flowering shells, which was definitely a meat grinder-like storage in the dense crowd, and a cannonball passed by, taking at least a dozen lives.

The barbarians who saw their comrades blown up wanted to turn around and leave, but there were too many barbarians, and they swarmed up, and those who didn't see the details continued to rush forward, pushing those who wanted to retreat had to continue to move forward. The number of cannons of the Shu army was too small, and hitting the barbarian army was like throwing a stone in a pond, and after splashing a splash, it quickly returned to calm.

As some of the brutes wanted to retreat, the momentum of the charge was slightly slowed down, but this effect was quickly eliminated by the frenzied brutes behind.

It wasn't until the brutes rushed within the distance of 100 soldiers that the muskets began to sing, and the barbarians who rushed ahead began to fall in rows. It was only after each of the three musketeers fired a shot that the guns reloaded and began firing a second shot. However, this time it was not a flowering bomb, but a shotgun, which is very scary.

In addition to gunpowder, the barrel of the cannon was stuffed with small iron pellets the size of flies, and as soon as these things were sprayed out of the muzzle, they began to spread in a fan, and at a distance of dozens of paces, the area spread was already quite large. And the barbarian will be opened in the charge of a fan of blood, and the brute will be like a tractor-crushed crop, falling to the ground one by one and wailing.

Many people were killed by iron pills, and more were injured but not dead, but without exception, they all shed blood. The strong smell of blood Liu Hou could smell from dozens of steps. 30 cannons fired 30 flesh fans, some of them were bleeding, some were missing arms and legs, and all kinds of terrifying injuries and deaths were displayed in front of the Shu army.

Unlike the group of veterans who had been trained for many years last time Liu Hou brought to Jingzhou, most of this batch of Shu troops were newly recruited, and their training time was not enough, and they had not been trained in bloody scenes, let alone such a large-scale and terrifying scene. Many of them vomited on the spot, and even those who did not vomit were pale and trembling.

This weakened the fire output of the Shu army a lot, and the enemy's charging line advanced a lot. Liu Hou mixed all the veterans into the recruits, and the platoon leader, captain, and team leader, all these low-level officers were all veterans. At this time, while they kept firing the guns in their hands, they also did ideological work for the recruits around them, cheered them up, and encouraged them to continue fighting without stopping.

This was specially confessed by Liu Hou before the war, because he had personally experienced the battle of Jingzhou, and he had already expected this situation. However, the methods of these veterans in doing ideological work are really not flattering.

I saw a veteran kick a recruit who was squatting on the ground and vomiting, and scolded: "Dog, you get up for me, this is vomiting, are you still a man?" Don't embarrass us for the second shift. Follow closely, get up and continue to fight Lao Tzu, don't pretend to be a dead dog, I think when my brother was in Jingzhou, I saw a scene ten times bloodier than this, and my brother didn't blink his eyes. ”

This guy who bragged about not paying taxes didn't mention that he was so scared that he peed his pants at the beginning, but fortunately, his comrades around him at that time were now officers in other classes, and he was not heard bragging on the side, and there was no chance to tear his cowhide apart.

Another veteran slapped a recruit next to him who was as pale as paper and his hands were shaking like chaff and scolded: "Look at your bear-like, what are you panicking, hold your gun steady, don't hurt your own people by mistake." It's really useless, isn't it just a few drops of human blood? As for you, hurry up and charge, slow down the enemy rushed up and was the first to cut off your head. ”

One can imagine how good the effect of ideological work will be in this way. Seeing that the enemy was approaching to 20 paces, Liu Hou gave an order, and a long group of gunners crossed out of the gap between the musketeers with their waists, squatted down half before the musketeers took 5 steps, and pointed their spears diagonally upward. Another group of sword and shield men followed them out, crouching behind them.