Chapter 220: Night Attack 3
Mosin immediately led the middle battalion army to the rear camp.
The rear camp of the army is mainly to store the army's heavy grain and grass, etc., and naturally accumulates a lot of flammable materials.
The more than 200 Shengfan troops guarding the rear camp could not stop the charge of thousands of Ming officers and soldiers, and they were soon defeated and fled.
The Ming army who entered the rear camp did not forget to set fire to the granary, and the fire burned the camp for a while.
When Mosin led the reinforcements of the middle battalion arrived, there was a sea of fire as far as the eye could see.
The smoke swirled around the entire rear camp, and the horses, chariots, and grain and grass tents were all engulfed by the fire, and a soldier who was accidentally stained with the flames let out an exclamation, and the flames quickly ignited the rattan armor on his body by the wind, and the fire spread all over his body in an instant.
The man screamed, and his uniform turned into a raging fire, burning him and rolling on the ground.
A few soldiers beside him wanted to step forward to help, but the smoke was so thick that they couldn't open their eyes, where could they take care of him.
Some war elephants scattered in terror, like out-of-control chariots crashing into the horses and opening the tents, and even the soldiers who had no time to hide were trampled to death.
These war elephants are a kind of livestock unique to Southeast Asia, and the first soldiers use war elephants to escort grain and grass to carry heavy loads, and travel through the rainforests of Southeast Asia, which is much stronger than donkeys and horses and other animals.
But now, because of the fire in the camp, these originally unusually docile war elephants all fled in panic, making the already chaotic rear camp even more chaotic.
"Don't mess around, put out the fire." Mosin, who had arrived from the middle camp, shouted.
The soldiers who rushed to fight the fire hurriedly put out the fire, but the Ming troops who rushed from all directions from time to time continued to harass with firearms, bows and arrows.
"Put!" Dozens of archers with bows fired rockets into the camp tents of the large camp in front of them.
Some of the soldiers who had no time to dodge were shot by the rockets, and the arrows stained with fire oil immediately ignited the rattan armor and the placket.
Some of the soldiers who were killed by the Ming arrows were fine, and those who were not dead and fell to the ground and were still panting, could only watch as the flames rose from their bodies and burned all over their bodies.
Looking at the tragic situation in front of him, Mo Xin was also very anxious, not only because of the Ming army's sneak attack on the camp.
The most important thing is that most of the food and grass materials of the entire army under Nongnai City are stored in the back camp, and the sky-high fire in front of me does not know when it will be extinguished.
Looking at the big camp that turned into a sea of fire, Li Shi also smiled.
After Lin Xu and the others set fire to the elephant house, they followed the crazy war elephant all the way.
"My lord, the main force of the Fan army camp is coming." A Ming officer and soldier saw that the army of the middle battalion was coming, and hurriedly ran back to report the news.
When the officer and soldier ran back, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves behind him.
It was a horse team under the command of Mosin, who had not suffered much loss in the previous battle, so they survived and galloped with the army of the middle battalion.
Li Liu smiled indifferently, "It's good to come, let's just kill a few soldiers, and then make a note in the impermanence book when we go back." ”
"Okay." Lin Xu nodded.
"The soldiers of Huben Town set fire to the remaining granary camp tents, and the soldiers of Fubo Town followed me into the middle camp."
Seeing that Li Liu led hundreds of Ming officers and soldiers to the front, Lin Xu took the remaining dozens of officers and soldiers to the middle camp.
This night attack battle was naturally planned by Lin Xu.
The purpose is actually to rescue Zhao Shen, who has been missing for more than 20 days, and to burn the heavy grain and grass of the Fan army.
Now the army of the middle camp is pouring out, and it is just the time for Lin Xu to save people.
In these days, some people who have avoided the epidemic have also entered the camp of Fanren by transporting heavy grain and grass for the Fanren, which is why the Ming people can enter the camp of Zhenla so calmly without getting lost.
Under the leadership of several epidemic avoiders, Lin Xu and others successfully touched the big tent in the middle camp.
"Someone."
"Bang bang bang!" A burst of fire rang out, and more than a dozen Zhenla soldiers guarding outside the big tent were all killed by the Ming army.
Lin Xu hurriedly set up his bow and shot three arrows skillfully, killing the three soldiers on the lookout post.
Not far from the tent of the Fanren people was a bloodstained prisoner cart.
"Brother, it's too late." Looking at Zhao Shen, who was no longer human, in the prisoner car, Lin Xu coerced the Fanren prison officer on the side to open the prison car.
At this moment, the guards of the main tent of the Fanren army also reacted and began to converge towards the Ming army.
Seeing that dozens of Ming officers and soldiers dared to attack the Chinese army's big tent, he was naturally furious.
Immediately ordered the defenders guarding the Great Tent to shoot back immediately.
The Ming people did not love war, and after seeing Lin Xu rescue people, they hurriedly left the vicinity of the big tent.
At this moment, several war elephants frightened by the fire rushed to the camp tent of the Chinese army in a panic, directly disrupting the pursuing army.
"Bang bang bang!"
The neighing of war horses reverberated in the camp.
The officers and soldiers of Huben Town directly erected four Baizi guns and five squad dove foot guns on the aisle.
The five or six horsemen who were charging in response fell off their horses.
The rattan armor on his body was beaten by lead bullet and lead slag.
Dark red blood seeped out of the cracks that the buckshot had hit.
Seeing this, the seven or eight horsemen in the rear did not fear, but continued to rush forward.
Because they know that the heavy fire of the Akito can only shoot once.
"Fire and thunder ready." When Li Liu saw the cavalry rushing to kill, he immediately ordered the soldiers to take out the fire thunder.
After lighting the fire rope, one by one the fire mines were thrown by the Ming army at the cavalry rushing forward.
One by one, the fire and thunder were directly thrown by the Ming officers and soldiers for thirty or forty steps, and they landed on the muddy ground that the fan rode on, and the horse's hooves stepped through the fire and thunder.
"Bang bang bang!" There was a loud bang, accompanied by the light of the fire, which bloomed among the horses.
The cavalry fell from their horses screaming, and even the horses fell in a pool of blood.
The fire thunder used by the soldiers of Huben Town was the latest developed by the Ming army.
It is different from the iron fire mines used by the Ming army before.
The fire thunder in the hands of the soldiers of Huben Town is made of lead shell, not the iron shell that has been used before.
Previously, the Ming army fire mine was made of a thin piece of pig iron or a dozen thin pieces of iron sheet.
After such a fire mine is filled with a large amount of gunpowder, it is ignited by the fire rope and the explosion produces a huge momentum, but it cannot kill by fragments.
Because the black powder itself has limited lethality, the energy generated by the explosion is not enough to completely blow up the entire iron shell, so for a long time, the fire and thunder used by the Ming people were actually only used to delay the enemy's attack.
It is mainly the explosion that frightens the horses or infantry with the loud momentum generated by the explosion, thus disrupting the charge of the large army.
The new generation of fire mines uses lead, which is easier to crack than iron, and the black powder inside it is exploded.
The lead shell will shatter completely, and countless pieces of lead will burst and explode to kill and injure the enemy.
In addition, lead is highly toxic, and once lead slag enters the human body, it is difficult to take it out.
In the end, those injured by the explosion are often in agony.
When the remaining cavalry saw this, they were so shocked that they no longer dared to rush forward.
The officers and soldiers of Huben Town accepted it when they saw it, and hurriedly pushed the cart to the rear.
Under the city of Nongnai, the Ming army and the Fan army fought repeatedly in front of the Lu bus.
The Quang Nam soldiers in the chariot relied on the sturdy and tall chariot to fortify layer by layer.
The Ming army that rushed in with fire guns and bows and arrows continued to kill and injure.
Outside the chariot, the front camp of the Fanren, and the thousands of troops on the left and right battalions fought with the Ming army.