Chapter 1731: Defeat is like a mountain
However, Duan Fengnian's laughter did not stop, and he suddenly heard a loud noise behind him, but dozens of shells exploded in the formation, the formation was so dense, the lethality of the artillery fire almost reached the extreme, and every shell exploded, it was full of flowers.
Within a few zhang of the surroundings, all the men and horses were shattered, and the powerful shock wave even extended to a range of ten zhang, and after the war horses were frightened, they ran off the leash, and the soldiers who were knocked to the ground were trampled into flesh!
As the artillery fire came round after round, tens of thousands of horses and horses were all in chaos, and the originally strict formation also collapsed in an instant.
As the artillery fire gradually extended back, Li Qiu and the others also launched a fierce attack, and under the chaos of the Langya army, they could not resist at all, and they rushed to a scatter in an instant, and tens of thousands of people lost their armor and fled in all directions......
However, it was Zhang Mingyuan who had completed the construction of the artillery position on Bald Mountain and was ordered to open fire, and they were only a few hundred steps away from the Langya Army, which was the best distance for artillery strikes!
As for the artillery fire in the city, it only played a cover role, so that the Langya army couldn't figure out where the shells came from?
Now they haven't figured it out, and they thought it was a new type of artillery that was suddenly mobilized in Wolong City.
And the artillery of Bald Mountain is hidden behind the mountain, and the Langya army can't see the flames from the muzzle of the cannon at all, because the artillery is a curved fire, the distance is so close, and the elevation angle is still high......
There are only fifty large-caliber guns in the Yanyun Army Artillery Battalion, and Zhang Mingyuan only asked for twenty, but Xiao Chen gave him forty guns, and forty guns were fired together, and the coverage of artillery fire was considerable!
The saddest thing is that Duan Fengnian's formation is too dense, and it only takes four or five rounds of artillery fire to cause thousands of casualties!
Of course, there are not many people who were killed directly by the explosion, but more were trampled to death, squeezed to death, and crushed to death by their own war horses and brothers......
Originally, Zhang Mingyuan's intention in launching the artillery bombardment was to disrupt the local formation, so that Li Qiu and the others could take advantage of the chaos to rush and kill, cover the retreat of the infantry phalanx, and then quickly leave the battlefield and retreat from the direction of Niutou Mountain.
When the Langya army pursued the soldiers, the muskets and bows and arrows of Niutoushan could launch a surprise attack on them from behind, so as to attract the attention of the other party and cover Li Qiu and their safe retreat to the city.
But the plan never changed quickly, no one expected that Zhang Mingyuan's fierce artillery bombardment would directly beat the Langya army into a daze, so that the whole army was defeated, and even their own battalion was rushed!
If that's the case......
Before Zhang Mingyuan could ask for instructions, the city head ordered the lights to go down, and ordered him to continue to maintain the extension of firepower, so he rushed to Duan Fengnian's camp to call me.
Hit as far as you can, fight as hard as you can, even if you scrap all forty cannons, you don't hesitate!
He also ordered Xue Guanshan to abandon the position that had been built, and immediately attack with the whole army! The phalanx of infantry that was about to withdraw also dropped their ballista shields and charged directly, and the order was simple and rude, so I kept rushing forward, and I was not allowed to stop until I was tired to death!
But Xiao Chen also saw that this was an excellent opportunity for counterattack, and the opportunity was fleeting, and it must be grasped tightly.
Ordered the 50,000 Yan Yun troops in the city to recuperate for several days, immediately assembled, all of them dispatched, and ordered Zhang Heng to be responsible for staying behind, and personally led his brothers to attack.
On top of Pegasus, he raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, success or failure is in one fell swoop, rush with Lao Tzu!" Kill! ”
Yan Yunjun's brothers rushed very fiercely, but to be honest, they didn't kill many enemies, because Li Qiu, Xiao Ye, and Ouyang Yunyi rushed even more fiercely, and they all rushed into Duan Fengnian's camp at this time.
In addition to the corpses and wounded soldiers left along the road, there were countless soldiers kneeling on the ground and raising their hands......
Once the morale of the army is broken, it is really like a mountain, and it will no longer be able to be cleaned up.
Duan Fengnian saw that the general trend had gone, and sighed, so he had to retreat, but fortunately, a biao personal soldier, as well as the two masters of Nangong Wuhua and Xiao Xinghan, desperately supported him, so that he was not captured alive by the Zhou soldiers who had rushed to the front.
ran all the way out of dozens of miles, and you can still hear the sound of shouting and killing behind you, fortunately, there is Shazhou Pass in front, and you can still block the Zhou soldiers by cleaning up the remnants here, relying on Chengguan.
ran to the city, but saw that the city gate was closed and the city was heavily guarded, Duan Fengnian was quite relieved, this Murong Yumen still managed the troops well......
Murong Yumen was neatly draped, standing at the head of the city, shouting and asking, who is coming?
"Special Murong Yumen, you are blind, can't you see that this is the prince? Hurry up and open the door! The subordinates shouted angrily in unison, scolding Murong Yumen for having no eyes.
"What prince? The prince rushed to the front line, how could he come back? Murong Yumen said with a smile, "This must be a spy of the Wolong Army pretending to be here!" Hmph, shameless man, so bold that he dares to play with a spear under the eyes of the general? If you don't die, when? Come on, give me arrows! ”
At the sound of an order, the bows and crossbows and muskets at the head of the city were fired in unison, leaving Duan Fengnian and the others confused, looking for teeth all over the ground!
After hundreds of dead and injured people, he finally reacted, is he the opposite of Murong Yumen, who is lying in the groove?
"The prince is panicking, wait for someone to go up and take his head!" Xiao Xinghan jumped up from his horse and rushed straight to the city like a big bird!
The soldiers at the head of the city shot their bows and arrows, but they were all gently pushed away by his hand.
"How dare you dare to be a thief? Tie Kunlun is here! A long-bodied man beside Murong Yumen roared, grabbed a spear, and swept up, the wind whirring, revealing the momentum and sinking.
Xiao Xinghan couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Tie Kunlun's name, didn't this kid follow Xiao Chen?
How did he end up here?
In such a moment's hesitation, the iron spear had already swept under his feet, and with a light tap of the barrel of the gun, he flew up again.
Suddenly, a sturdy young officer flashed out behind Murong Yumen, and he couldn't help but say that raising the musket was a random shot, but this musket turned out to be a continuous fire......
Frightened, he hurriedly made a thousand pound fall, and suddenly fell, so that he could avoid the bullet, and ran to Duan Fengnian's side without looking back, and jumped on the horse.
"How?" Duan Fengnian was still confused. "That man is Tie Kunlun, Xiao Chen's subordinates, there may be Yan Yunjun in this city, let's go around!" Xiao Xinghan said in a deep voice.
"Xiao Chen?" Duan Fengnian and the others were all taken aback when they heard this, how could he be here!
Before he had time to think about it, he hurriedly led the remnants of the army to avoid the bow and arrow at the head of the city and bypassed the edge of the city.
"Who is that person, so powerful!" Murong Yumen looked at Xiao Xinghan's back, and his heart palpitated.
"Hehe, Xiao Xinghan, the chief helmsman of the Tianxuan Society!" Tie Kunlun smiled, "My martial arts are ten times better than mine, if it weren't for Hai Bo's timely shooting, I'm afraid I would have died in his hands by this time!" ”
"How is this man like a ghost?" Li Haibo was also frightened into a cold sweat, watching him fly up, the speed was dazzling, and just now he was in mid-air, and the distance was only a few feet away, his own accurate marksmanship couldn't even hit him?
"He's so much better than a ghost." Tie Kunlun said, "It's more suspicious than ghosts, he probably thought that the boss Xiao Ye and they were also here, so he didn't dare to continue to shoot......