Chapter 175: Breaking through the Sky and Defeating First and Winning Later
Seeing this situation, he immediately took his little brother and slammed into the gun array that was already messed up.
I saw that as the big knife in his hand swept fiercely, the barrels of several spears were cut off on the spot, and the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire looked at the spear that only half of it was left in their hands, and they were stunned for a moment and then directly began to turn around and flee.
When a nearby Golden Eagle Empire officer saw the deserters, he scolded and drew the long sword at his waist, and was about to come over and kill these deserters.
At this time, Ta Potian was already holding a big knife, successfully approached, and launched a crazy slashing against those pikemen.
Stepping through the sky with a ghost mask, the big knife in his hand danced wildly, and every time he went down, blood was splashed, and a soldier must have fallen to the ground. The blood that spilled out quickly dyed the armor and mask on the body of the stepping heavens red, like a Shura demon crawling out of hell. And more rebels followed the gap created by the sky, and quickly poured into the spear array, and launched a massacre.
The surrounding elite Imperial soldiers couldn't help but be terrified in the face of this god-like rebel leader, and deserters began to appear again.
And this time, it was not as few as three or two people, but at least dozens of soldiers began to abandon their spears and flee all of a sudden.
This immediately caused a large section of the spear array to disappear directly, and the rebels quickly poured into the spear array through this huge gap, slashing and slashing at those pikemen.
After all, the spearmen in their hands must form a gun formation, relying on the collective strength to be able to exert their power, so that after being close to the enemy, it is useless to start a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight. And the secondary weapon equipped with these Golden Eagle Empires is nothing more than a short sword, where can it be fought in the face of the elite of the rebels who generally cooperate with the big sword and big axe! The scene was soon toppled with corpses on the ground.
And these rebels are a must-have to fight against the wind, and when they saw that these officers and soldiers still looked vulnerable to the previous gang, they all followed behind Tapo Tian one by one, and kept rushing to kill.
Several officers of the Golden Eagle Empire wanted to go over to block Tapotian and the others, but they were also coerced by the more and more defeated soldiers to retreat, but they were getting farther and farther away from Tapotian and them.
In order to turn the tide of the battle, he directly ordered the cavalry and chariot troops to rush together with the defeated soldiers and rebels, asking them to contain the rout of the army.
And just as the cavalry and chariot troops of the Golden Eagle Empire began to assemble and prepare to charge, Ta Po Tian had already killed all the way through the spear formation and came to those musketeers.
Several musketeers, who had just been reloaded, hurriedly opened fire on it, only two of their guns fired, and their hands were shaking so badly that the bullets did not know where they flew.
As for the rest of the men, one of them blew up his musket when it opened fire, blowing up half of his face, probably because he was too flustered and had too much gunpowder.
Looking at these officers and soldiers who had been frightened, he couldn't help but let out a wild laugh in his mouth, combined with his bloody body and the hideous and terrifying ghost mask on his face, it was really as terrifying as a demon god, and it scared those musketeers to retreat again and again.
However, at this time, the more they retreat, the faster they die, if they can muster up the courage and successfully reload the ammunition for the last round of volleys, then even if they are the nine major consummation martial artists of the day after tomorrow, they can barely achieve the internal force and release the external force is also certain to die.
But now they were frightened to retreat just because of a burst of laughter, which further fueled the arrogance of the bandit leader.
I saw that he held the broadsword in both hands, and swept through the thousands of troops with one move, and suddenly a blood-colored sword shot out towards the musketeers in front of him.
As the sword swept by, more than a dozen musketeers were cut in two, and blood spilled on the faces of the surrounding officers and soldiers.
Those officers and soldiers, who already had little morale, were frightened by this terrible scene, and immediately collapsed completely, and dropped the muskets in their hands that were as useless as burning sticks.
At this time, the cavalry and chariot troops of the Golden Eagle Empire were finally assembled, and then under Zhang Xiangwu's order, they rushed towards the defeated soldiers who were fleeing.
When the defeated soldiers saw the cavalry and chariots that were rushing up quickly, many of them instinctively avoided them, revealing the rebel soldiers who were chasing after them.
Faced with these enemies, who had almost crushed their entire army, the cavalry and charioteers crashed into them without mercy.
Suddenly, these rebel soldiers, who had no formation, were knocked over on their backs, and many of them were constantly run over by horses' hooves and wheels after being knocked down, and in the blink of an eye, they were crushed into a puddle of flesh that could not be seen in human form. And there were still a lot of Golden Eagle Empire soldiers who didn't have time to avoid it, after all, the scene was too chaotic, and the cavalry and charioteers didn't have time to distinguish in detail, in order to be able to contain the enemy's rapid offensive, they could only rush those defeated soldiers together.
The rebel soldiers, who had never seen such a scene before, were immediately blinded, and then their morale quickly plummeted, and they began to turn and flee after holding out for less than a minute.
At this time, he had already entered the depths of the enemy formation with dozens of cronies, and when he saw his little brother suddenly start to flee, he was also a little caught off guard, and was almost surrounded by the enemy cavalry that caught up.
Fortunately, these guys who followed the broken sky were all old bandits who followed him around to rob and kill people in the early years, and in order to survive, they had a ruthless spirit, and under the leadership of the broken sky, they fought back frantically, quickly killed seven or eight cavalrymen of the Golden Eagle Empire, and successfully killed the encirclement that had not yet been completely formed, and chased after those little brothers who ran wildly.
Although he reluctantly repelled this group of rebels, Zhang Xiangwu took a closer look and found that the round of cavalry and charioteers just now did not kill many enemy soldiers at all, but his own people went and were crushed to death by at least hundreds, plus those who were killed by the rebels before, at least more than 2,000 people died! The leader of the enemy army also successfully broke through, and he failed to leave a few people on the other side at all.
Zhang Xiangwu, who was unwilling to achieve this disastrous result in his first battle, was ruthless, so he ordered the cavalry and chariot troops to continue the pursuit, and he also led dozens of guards and heavy cavalry to chase after the rebels who retreated quickly.
And when he saw that those officers and soldiers were still chasing and killing without knowing what to do, he also felt a breath of breath in his heart, thinking that if it wasn't for the lack of courage of these little brothers under him, you officers and soldiers would have been defeated in a battle, and now they dare to continue to chase and fight, is it really easy to pinch when he breaks the sky!
Angry, he immediately ordered a few of his quick-legged and light-hearted subordinates, and quickly rushed to the woods where they had set up an ambush before.
Then, when the pursuing officers and soldiers passed through the woods on both sides of the road, they immediately activated the traps that had been set up in advance.
Suddenly, a large piece of flying blocks and thick horizontal logs were thrown out from the woods on both sides, smashing the heads and faces of the pursuing Golden Eagle Imperial cavalry and charioteers.
In the face of these heavy boulders and beams, even if you are wearing heavy armor, once you are hit, it will inevitably end up with broken bones and tendons.
And this is not the end, when the officers and soldiers were smashed by the stones and crossbars that kept flying on both sides of the road, several tripropes made of tough old rattan were also violently lifted from the ground.
Shortly after the transfer, the Golden Eagle Imperial Cavalry, who was not skilled in riding, looked at the tripwire that suddenly rose in front of them, and frantically pulled the reins, trying to stop the war horse from advancing, but with little success.
In the end, I could only watch the war horse crash into those tripwires, and if it was an infantryman, it would be a dog to chew mud at most.
But Zhang Xiangwu used to pursue the cavalry and chariot troops, and now he tripped over the tripwire, and many of the war horses that were galloping at high speed directly broke their legs, and the knights on their backs were also thrown out by the inertia of the advance, and many people were thrown to the spot with half their lives.
The slightly slower chariot troops, although they were not tripped by the tripwire, but in the face of the horses and friendly cavalry in front of them, they had no time to brake, and the chariot crashed into the horses that were still struggling on the ground and wanted to get up, and the two suddenly fell together, and after the chariot overturned and fell, the charioteers above fell even worse, and some of them were pressed by the fallen chariots, directly crushed the heavy chariots into meatloaf, or were crushed arms and legs, and the scene suddenly sounded a hoarse scream.
Zhang Xiangwu, who was in the rear, was also taken aback when he saw this sudden change, and then looked at it, and the five hundred cavalry and five hundred chariots in the vanguard army were actually damaged by more than one-third in the blink of an eye, and the rest were too frightened by this sudden blow to dare not move forward.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiangwu knew that the troops had lost their strength and could no longer continue the pursuit, so he wanted to order a retreat.
As a result, before he had time to give the order, he also led a large group of men to kill him again.
"Kill me, brothers! Kill those officers and soldiers, and those weapons and armor will be ours! Stepping into the sky and roaring, he slashed the throat of an officer and cavalryman who had fallen on the side of the road with a broken leg, and then snatched a sharp spear from the opponent's hand.
Because these cavalry are going to charge into battle at a critical moment, their equipment is indeed good, the weapons in their hands are made of fine iron, and the armor on their bodies has a lot of fine fish scale armor, which is indeed much more generous than most of the rebels who are only equipped with leather armor.
But at this time, the luxurious equipment also became the cause of death of these guys, and when they were trampled into the sky, those rebels were all red-eyed, and they used their strength to run wildly, rushing towards the officers and soldiers who had been beaten. After all, these rebel soldiers are not stupid, they are on the battlefield, a good armor is a thing that can make them able to face the enemy's arrows and swords to save their lives, and a good weapon can make them like a tiger, and when they fight with officers and soldiers in the future, they will not have to retract their strength because they are worried that the sword will be broken.
So at this time, when I heard the roar that broke through the sky, and then saw that the equipment on those officers and soldiers was indeed a good thing, these rebel soldiers naturally killed them again one by one, and relied on the numerical advantage to quickly drown the hundreds of officers and soldiers who had been beaten in an instant.
He looked at the enemy general wearing golden bright light armor, and guessed that this was most likely the enemy commander, so he directly threw out the spear in his hand with the strength of a quick sprint, wanting to shoot the enemy commander off the horse.
However, Zhang Xiangwu is also a master of the innate fivefold, and when he saw the spear flying towards him, he immediately pulled out the long sword at his waist, and slashed it out with a sword, and suddenly the silver-white sword qi blew the spear into pieces.
"Holy! is a congenital master, then I will spare your dog life today! Seeing this, he also knew that the other party must be an innate master with profound cultivation, so he immediately changed the direction of the pursuit and went to chase and kill the other officers and soldiers who were fleeing.
And although Zhang Xiangwu smashed a shot that stepped on the sky to sneak attack him, but looking at the black pressure of the rebels on the opposite side, he also knew that he had to retreat, after all, although he was a congenital master, it was impossible to beat more than 20,000 rebels! Once his internal strength is exhausted, he is just a mortal with relatively strong physical strength, and a cold arrow from those rebels may kill him at that time.