Chapter 168: Operation Clean-up (Part II)
But most of the shields of these bandits were nothing more than some simple wooden shields made by themselves, where could they withstand the powerful armor-piercing heavy arrows and musket bullets of the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire!
Under the bombardment of arrows and bullets, these shields were quickly shattered, and the bandits with shields were naturally shot to the ground.
However, these shield-wielding bandits at least bought some time for their companions in the rear, allowing them to rush closer, and the distance between the two sides was only about a hundred meters by this time.
At this distance, the bandits' rudimentary hunting bows barely came into range, so the bandit archers also opened their bows and arrows and shot arrows at the enemy troops on the opposite side.
Unfortunately, the arrows fired by these rudimentary hunting bows were so weak that even the light plate armor on the skeleton musketeers could not penetrate them, and they landed on the armor, only to make a clanging sound.
On the other hand, on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire, as the distance closes, the hit rate of the archers and musketeers has also greatly improved, and almost every round of shooting can shoot down hundreds of bandits.
That Wang Ergou was also anxious when he watched a large number of his soldiers being shot down, after all, these bandits were the basis for him to cut off his hegemony in the future! If they all die, it will be difficult for him to pull up such a large team in the future.
At this time, the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire on the opposite side threw grenades at his subordinates who had already rushed to within fifty meters of the large array on the opposite side.
After a violent explosion, thousands of bandits were killed, many of whom were senior thieves under Wang Ergou, who were the most powerful in equipment and combat effectiveness among these bandits, but now in the face of the bombardment of a large number of grenades, they were also blown up and bruised and died miserably.
Without waiting for the remaining bandits to react, the artillery of the Blue Dragon Empire on the opposite side pushed the five guns that had been reloaded with scattered shells to the front of the formation, and opened fire on the bandits who had been blown up by the explosion of the grenade.
Thundered! With a loud thunderous sound, a large number of tiny steel balls were suddenly fired from the muzzles of these cannons.
These steel balls were only about a centimeter in diameter, and each cannon could be loaded with hundreds, and after firing, only five cannons immediately intertwined a dense metal rain in front of the formation, hitting those bandits fiercely.
As this metal storm composed of a large number of steel balls swept by, more than a thousand bandits were swept down, and the group of bandits who rushed to the front, the most brave and good at fighting, was completely reimbursed.
And this terrible scene also completely woke up the other bandits, so frightened that they threw away their armor and fled to the rear in embarrassment. Wang Ergou on the side kept shouting, and even killing seven or eight deserters with his own hands could not prevent the rout of the army.
Seeing this, the black sledgehammer on the opposite side immediately ordered the whole army to attack and began to hunt down these bandits who had been completely killed.
At the same time, this battle also made him understand that what His Majesty the Emperor said was indeed not wrong, to deal with these rabble, just these three axes were enough, and there was no need for too advanced weapons at all.
First bows and arrows, muskets volleyed, then grenades beckoned, and finally artillery scattered bombardments, how can the ordinary rabble withstand these three axes! I'm afraid that even the regular armies of many countries will be defeated in the face of such a fierce blow like a storm!
Under the pursuit of the soldiers of the Qinglong Empire led by Wu Da Hammer, these bandits fled one by one, and some of them even stumbled over their companions in an extremely insidious way, wanting to let these companions stay and delay the pursuit of the enemy, and the insidious cruelty of these bandits and bullies was completely displayed in this process.
However, even if most of the bandits tried their best to escape, they couldn't fight the tireless undead soldiers.
In the end, most of them were overtaken by the skeleton musketeers, and then turned into corpses under the volley of guns and bayonets.
Only Wang Ergou with dozens of cronies with fierce beast mounts finally managed to escape the pursuit.
And Wu Da Hammer did not continue to pursue Wang Ergou and the others, this bandit leader who had basically been beaten into a bare-bones commander had others to deal with, and his task was to recover Linchang Town as soon as possible.
Just when Wu Dazhui led the troops into the town, a small number of bandits left in the town by Wang Ergou had been caught by the people in the town, obviously these townspeople hated these bandits who were powerful in the town, and several of them resisted too fiercely, and they had been beaten to death by the townspeople, and the death was really miserable, and they basically couldn't see the human appearance, because these townspeople didn't have any serious weapons in their hands, and they basically stoned these bandits to death. So the death of the corpse can be imagined.
After confirming that there were indeed no bandits in the town, Wu Da Hammer began to start a public trial of the captured bandits and bullies according to the practice of His Majesty the Emperor, and asked the townspeople to come out one by one to identify the crimes of these bandits.
Those who committed the most heinous crimes were beheaded in front of everyone, while those who did not die were sent to the mines to dig or to build roads and walls.
Only those who really have no crime at all will be released, and this kind of bandit almost does not exist, after all, those who will join Wang Ergou's command are not good people in the first place, not those robbers who like to rob houses, kill people and steal goods, or bullies who like to bully men and women.
And those townspeople, watching the bandits and bullies who had stepped on their heads and did evil unscrupulously were beheaded on the spot, they couldn't help but cheer excitedly, and they were not as resistant to the rule of the Blue Dragon Empire as before.
Wu Da Hammer was also very happy to see this situation, you must know that when they first came, the local people were very hostile to them, and they didn't trust them at all, the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire.
Before the Golden Eagle Empire's million-strong army was killed, Guo Dafu, the emperor, asked them to move all the people to those big cities, but many people were very uncooperative, either deliberately delaying time, or fled to the mountains, or refused to relocate, for fear that this was a scam, and they would be killed once they followed.
And it turned out that the Blue Dragon Empire did not deceive them, and those people who followed the migration all escaped, and these people who insisted on staying ended up miserable.
They were first robbed of almost all the food and money by the passing Golden Eagle Empire soldiers, and then they encountered those bandits and bully landlords who took advantage of the chaos to rob, and I don't know how many people were killed by these bandits and bully landlords during this time.
It is precisely because of the hardships and comparisons that these people now finally understand who is the ruler who is good for them, and they will consciously begin to support the new regime of the Blue Dragon Empire, which is still very young.
And just when Wu Da Hammer and others led the townspeople to start rebuilding the town and resuming production after cleaning up the bandits and bullies in the town, Wang Ergou and his dozens of cronies were being chased to the sky invincible and had no way to enter the ground.
Before he was on the battlefield, although he escaped by luck, his whereabouts have been under the surveillance of the aerial scouts sent by the Green Dragon Empire, even if he fled back to the mountains and forests he was most familiar with his cronies, he couldn't get rid of the tracking of these birds.
And with the guidance of these blood-billed finch, the war beast troops of the Qinglong Empire also arrived quickly and entered the mountains and forests, for these war beasts, it was almost like going home, it was really like a fish in water, not adapting at all, and there was a fierce beast with a keen sense of smell such as bone spur wild dogs, at this time, even without the guidance of the blood-billed finch, it would be difficult for Wang Ergou to escape the pursuit.
In the continuous pursuit and round-up, Wang Ergou watched his cronies being pounced down and dragged away by those war beasts of the Blue Dragon Empire one by one, but he didn't dare to stay for a moment to rescue his subordinates, because as an innate master, he could vaguely perceive that there was an extremely terrifying existence that was secretly staring at him, and once he stopped to rescue those subordinates, the other party was likely to immediately attack him.
After about a week of escaping like a cat and mouse, Wang Ergou couldn't hold on, and after eating the last dried meat he brought with him, he turned around and shouted to the jungle behind him: "Come on! If you have a kind of come out and fight me head-on! Let you see the power of this king's axe! ”
Looking at Wang Ergou, who was only left with a bare-rod commander, the fierce beast that had been following Wang Ergou also seemed to feel that this prey had no fun to play with, and slowly emerged from the jungle.
And at this time, Wang Ergou finally saw the appearance of the other party clearly, this was a second-order terrifying caracal.
This terrifying caracal has innate triple strength, and it is a fierce beast that has recently joined the Qinglong Empire, but this guy is also worthy of a big cat, obviously stronger than Wang Ergou, but he did not kill the other party immediately, but kept following the other party, just slightly releasing some of his own breath coercion, constantly creating pressure on the other party, so that this bandit leader was actually played hard in the end, and his spirit was about to collapse.
Seeing that this fierce beast that played with itself like a mouse finally appeared, Wang Ergou couldn't care about the difference in strength between the two sides, and immediately brandished his battle axe and rushed towards this terrifying caracal.
But only the congenital one-fold cultivation of him, in the eyes of this terrifying caracal cat with the strength of the innate three-fold cultivation, the movement was as slow as a snail, just a slight leap to avoid the opponent's attack, and then with a claw, Wang Ergou's neck was cut open, his trachea and blood vessels were cut off, and immediately streams of blood gushed out from it.
Wang Ergou tried hard to raise his hand to cover the wound on his neck, but he still couldn't stop the blood from spurting out, and at the same time, he couldn't breathe in a breath of air, the strength in his body quickly disappeared, and his eyes gradually became dark.
Three days later, Wang Ergou's body was sent back to Linchang Town, and then it will be like his subordinates who have done a lot of evil, and it will be hung on a wooden frame near the town for three days before being hit and disposed of, and finally become the material for making the corpse of the undead, but I don't know if the undead warrior made by the corpse of this innate warrior will be more powerful and potential than the corpse of ordinary humans and fierce beasts.
And the townspeople of Linchang Town, seeing that Wang Ergou, the former bandit leader, was also captured, and they completely let go of the last trace of worry in their hearts, and many townspeople gathered together that day and held a bonfire party to celebrate the ambush of Wang Ergou, the fierce bandit leader.
During this period, there were many villages and towns like Linchang Town that were recovered, and the number of bandits and bully landlords who were exterminated during this period was more than 200,000, and the troops sent by Guo Dafu to exterminate these guys had very little loss.
And those original artillery guns that were cast can be regarded as having passed the test of actual combat, began to be mass-produced, and then equipped with militias in various towns, and at the same time, there was also a simple structure of the Demon Exterminator Flint Rifle, which was also a primitive musket that had been tested in actual combat.