Chapter 32: Defeated

As mentioned last time, Bu Qi wanted to send troops to support the two wings, but found that the Chinese army of the Shu army began to attack, so he had to give up for the time being, wanting to see the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army of the Shu army before making a decision.

The Chinese army of the Shu army was only wearing green cloth clothes, and did not wear the kind of yellow and invulnerable rattan armor, which made Bu Qi breathe a sigh of relief.

He found these Chinese troops very strange, they did not charge, but just stepped forward neatly to the beat of the drum. He immediately ordered the archers to get ready, but the Shu army stopped outside the range of the bows and arrows. The archers had no choice but to lead but not fire.

After the Shu army stopped, he began a series of movements that he couldn't understand, he only knew that these Shu army's movements were very neat and neat, obviously well-trained, but he didn't know anything about what they were doing.

Of course, the Shu army was loaded, and after the three rows of musketeers were loaded, they lined up and waited for orders. Zhang Bao, as the commander in charge of the first wave of attacks, issued an attack order, and the musketeers in the first row raised their guns, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

And the second row repeats the action of the first row after crouching in the first row, and after the second row crouches, the third row repeats the same action. After the third platoon squatted, the first platoon had completed the loading process, and under the order of the officer, stood up and repeated the shooting action just now.

At this time, thick black smoke was already rising from the three platoons of musketeers, and their vision was very unclear, but they only needed to shoot the lead bullet out according to the direction they had just shot, and they didn't need to aim at any specific person.

This is because the opponent's military formation is so dense that it can be hit by any shot, and in addition, although these guns have been repeatedly improved and rifled, the accuracy still cannot be compared with the muskets of later generations, so sometimes it is meaningless to aim.

As expected, the archers of the Eastern Wu army who were preparing to shoot arrows in the front row were knocked down in rows. After all the archers were knocked down, the pikemen who were exposed behind them suffered the same fate. When he landed, there was a pool of blood in front of the Dongwu array, and the ground was full of mourning.

After five rounds of shooting, the smoke had largely obscured the view, and the officers gave the order to all stand and walk in unison. It took 20 steps to stop before stopping, not only because the smoke obscured the view, but also because the front of the Soochow army was swept away, and the rest of the people retreated in horror, already out of the range of the muskets.

After advancing 20 steps, the Soochow people re-entered the firing range, and the officer shouted and stood still. Then he continued to repeat the shooting process just now, and there was another scream in the Soochow army.

More than a dozen rows of the entire Soochow army were cut off, and from the height it looked like a piece of cake had been bitten into a piece of cake. It was only at this time that Bu Qi reacted, and without caring about the horror, he immediately ordered the sword and shield soldiers to charge forward. He knew that as long as he rushed into the opponent's formation, there would be a chance of survival.

The sword and shield soldiers of Eastern Wu crowded into a pile, shielded their heads and faces, chests and abdomen, and rushed towards the Shu army with a shout. From a distance, it looks like a shield wall advancing towards the Shu army's defense line. Not to mention, these shields are very thick, and as long as the lead bullet does not hit the same place at the same time, it is basically impossible to penetrate, and I don't know what material it is made of.

Obviously, after suffering the loss of the Shu army's muskets in the Battle of Jingzhou, the Eastern Wu army changed to this thick shield, hoping to rely on it to prevent the Shu army's shooting.

The Shu musketeers continued to lay their guns unhurriedly, and when the sword and shield men of Eastern Wu rushed to a distance of thirty paces, Zhang Bao ordered the grenadiers to go up and throw thunderbolts.

The Shu army had 10,000 musketeers, of which only 7,000 actually had guns, and 3,000 were reduced to substitutes because they did not have so many guns. However, they are not just substitutes, they are also multi-purpose troops.

If the cavalry is charging, they will be spearmen and shield men in front of the musketeers. Now they're grenadiers.

I saw that they quickly penetrated through the gap between the musketeers to the front, lit and threw in one go. Just listening to the sound of "boom, boom", the shield wall of Soochow was torn apart in an instant.

Black dirt, shield fragments, human body fragments, clothing fragments, all sorts of debris were blown into the sky and then rained down on the earth. The Eastern Wu Army, which was followed by the sword and shield soldiers, involuntarily stopped the pace of the charge, and stared blankly at the hellish scene in front of them, and there was a brief dead silence at the scene after the explosion.

However, soon, the officer command of the Shu army sounded again, the grenadiers crouched on the spot, and the musketeers continued to shoot. Under the three rows of musketeers taking turns firing, the charging Dongwu soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and at this time, the Dongwu army also woke up, and those who were not shot turned around one after another, and rushed to their own camp without their lives.

By the time they returned to the front of Soochow, only about 2,000 of the 5,000 men who participated in the charge remained. And the panicked 2,000 people crashed headlong into the Dongwu main formation, and smashed the Dongwu array to pieces.

The musketeers of the Shu army took another twenty steps forward, this time unlike the last time, they continued to shoot and reload as they walked, because the enemy was still within range.

The Eastern Wu Army finally collapsed, and the front was already a little chaotic, and it was even more chaotic when it was rushed by those charging deserters. They had long been frightened when they saw with their own eyes that the killing efficiency of this terrible weapon of the Shu army was so high, and now that the Shu army was pressed up, they were even more afraid. Since there were already deserters fleeing backwards, many people followed suit.

As a result, the domino effect appeared, more and more people turned and fled, and finally there was an unstoppable rout, and finally even those who did not want to flee were trapped in it and went backwards, such as Buqi, who was still waiting to issue an order to resist to the end, but when he rushed to a bunch of routs, he also retreated under the coercion of his own soldiers.

As soon as the Eastern Wu army broke and fled, the muskets on the Shu army's side stopped firing and stood by in place. Under the leadership of Guan Suo, 10,000 vine armor soldiers interspersed with musketeers, quickly ran to the front of the formation, and then chased them in the direction of the Eastern Wu army's rout, and finally it was time for them to exert their might.

The whole battle took place on two flanks first, and the Chinese army fought on the flanks for a while before starting the battle. However, the fighting of the Chinese army ended faster. From the first shot fired by the musketeers to the rout and escape of the Eastern Wu army, there was only about a stick of incense before and after, and at this time, the Shu army on both sides was still cutting the knives of the Eastern Wu army layer by layer.

However, the rout of the Soochow Central Army soon affected the flanks. The Eastern Wu army on both flanks itself was at a huge disadvantage, and the casualties were very large, if it weren't for the strict military law of the infantry and the strict military law of the infantry and the well-trained soldiers in peacetime, they would have been unable to support it for a long time.

Now that the people on both sides look at it, the Chinese army has fled, and the handsome flag has moved from the back to the end and disappeared, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and flee yourself, so soon the wind of rout will spread to both wings. The vine armor army on both flanks soon began a thousand-mile pursuit.

Of course, it is an exaggeration to say that the thousand-mile chase is an exaggeration, in fact, it is only about 20 miles, and it is to Guangxin County, which is the seat of Cangwu County. Bu Qi led a group of remnants of the army to hide in the city, and the Shu army had no choice but to stop the pursuit and gather outside the city, ready to attack the city.

Liu Hou, Zhao Yun, Guo Youzhi and others stood on a makeshift watchtower and watched the battle from time to time, pointing and commenting on the battle from time to time.

"The advance of the vine armor army is still too slow, and the vulture bone is a little better, although he is rushing and rambling, but he and his own soldiers have cut through the enemy formation, accelerating the rout of the enemy army on the right flank. Ehuan's side fought decently, although the advantage was also obvious, but if it were not for the drive of the Chinese army's rout, it was estimated that it would take at least an hour to defeat the left flank. Guo Youzhi commented.

Mr. Guo is right, this is the limitation of cold weapons, or rather, this is the inevitable result of the fact that the weapons of the two sides are not very different. Tens of thousands of people, one by one, even if the other party stands there and lets you cut it, it is very time-consuming, and the killing efficiency of cold weapons is relatively low after all.

Firearms can greatly improve the efficiency of killing, especially thunderbolts and artillery, which can not only kill people quickly, but also bring great fear to the enemy's psychology because of the loud noise, which can prompt them to collapse quickly. Liu Houdao.

Today, everyone witnessed the killing speed of the cold weapons unit and the firearms unit, and they all agreed with Liu Hou's assertion.

"Because the vine armor army has a set of invulnerable armor, it only needs to blindly attack without defending, and even if it attacks, it only has one move. It's just this trick that can make such a big difference. It can be said that it is possible to achieve such a great result so easily thanks to the rattan armor on their bodies.

Is this not enough to say that in future wars, as long as we see who is well equipped, we will win? Does it mean that the role that martial arts can play in battle will become smaller and smaller in the future? Zhao Yun said melancholy.

As one of the few people who have pursued the highest level of martial arts all his life, and at the same time really practiced martial arts to almost the highest level in the world, Zhao Yun has reason to feel melancholy that martial arts are gradually losing their effect.

Liu Hou didn't know how to comfort Zhao Yun, because he knew that what Zhao Yun said was almost the truth. Of course, the appearance of rattan armor will not lead to the demise of martial arts, but the appearance of firearms will definitely make martial arts useless.

This is something that has been confirmed by later generations, and it is known that the martial arts of later generations have become the routines of performance and the embroidered legs of fists, and of course, there are tricks that have become in movies and television.

The martial arts of later generations basically only retained the two functions of performance and fitness, but lost the most primitive and original role of martial arts - technical attack. Of course, in addition to the reason for the appearance of firearms, it is also related to the long-term peace in the world.

"Fourth uncle, what you said is not right or not. If weapons and equipment are developed to the extreme, they can indeed determine the outcome of the war. Especially when the weapons and equipment of the two sides are too far apart, the situation can almost be said to be one-sided, and at this time, no matter how clever the strategy, no matter how brave the soldiers, no matter how high the morale, or no matter how many people there are, it is useless. Liu Houdao.

"How is this possible? It is important to know that there are many factors that determine the outcome of a war, such as the training process of the soldiers, the morale, the will of the people, the number of soldiers, the strategy of the generals, the personality of the generals, the salary, the terrain and even the weather will have a huge impact on the outcome of the war. Guo Youzhi, he was a little surprised that Liu Hou would say such a thing.

That's why I said that the fourth uncle was right or not. No, as you just said, there are many factors that can affect the outcome of the battle. But it would be right to say that he is right, because if the level of weapons and equipment of the two sides is very different, then other factors are basically negligible.

One side is much stronger than the other in terms of force, then any strategy is useless, in the face of absolute strength, as long as it is directly crushed by an upright division, there is no need for too much strategy. Just like we're doing now. Liu Houdao.

"We still can't ignore other factors, such as the pressure on our logistical supply, once we are cut off from the logistical supply route, we will be reduced to a cold-weapon force, and we will be slaughtered by others." Guo Youzhi.

"That's right, that's because our equipment hasn't been developed to the extreme, and we haven't been able to distance ourselves enough from each other."

"How is this possible? Our firearms troops are already very different from the troops of Wu and Wei, and they almost think that these firearms are not things that should be in this era, or in other words, they should not be mortal things. Could there be more powerful weapons than these firearms? ”

"Hehe, Mr. Guo, first of all, I want to tell you about the problem of the logistics supply route you just mentioned being cut off. If our equipment is well developed, we will create a kind of machine that can fly into the sky, that is, a machine that can fly faster, higher, and farther than our current hot air balloon, and at the same time can carry more people and things.

Do you think we still need to worry about logistical supply routes at that time? If there is any need for us to directly let this kind of spacecraft fly and transport it over, then the logistics supply route will be a dispensable thing, and robbing grain and grass is just a joke, unless the other party also has the same equipment, how to rob the grain and grass in the sky? ”

"Is there really one kind of ship that can fly around the sky and transport supplies?" Guo Youzhi.

"Of course there can be, our current hot air balloon is just a Kong Ming lantern that has been magnified thousands of times, so what if this hot air balloon is magnified several times?"

"This, it seems to be ......"

"If I tell you again, you can launch a huge thunderbolt from thousands of miles or even thousands of miles away to blow up the target, do you believe it?"

"The prince is joking, this is something in the Zhiwei novel, I know what His Highness is talking about, it is the so-called Shushan Sword Immortal. Legend has it that the sword fairy can fly the sword to a thousand miles away to take people's heads, is it referring to this thing? I would like to advise Your Highness not to indulge too much in these illusory things. ”

"Of course you don't know what I'm talking about, unless you're also crossing and know that there are missiles." Liu Hou thought.

"Huh." Liu Hou did not answer him this question and continued:

"Then let me tell you, you can use the spaceship you just mentioned to fly to the enemy's city or even the national capital, drop thunderbolts, and blow up the enemy country, don't you believe it? If I tell you again that these flying machines don't even need people to sit on them, and people can sit comfortably in their own country and fly them anywhere in the world, will you say that I am telling myths and stories? ”

"This, this ......" Guo Youzhi really felt that what the prince said today was very unreliable, did he read too many myths and stories recently, and he hadn't come out of any fantasies.

"Actually, this is easier to understand, you can just look at our hot air balloons, they can now fly into the sky and bomb targets at very short distances. It's just that it hasn't been able to operate without people on it.

Didn't you dare to believe that people could fly into the sky? Now that the hot air balloon has successfully flown into the sky, who dares to say that what I just said will not be possible in the future? ”

"This, this, this hot air balloon is indeed a miracle, but what you just said is too unbelievable to kill the enemy thousands of miles away, how can you see the enemy thousands of miles away? Is there really clairvoyance in this world? "Guo Youzhi.

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