Chapter 257 Broken Village

Qingyan Village is a large village with nearly 4,000 people, and it is also the first pass to the core position of Wufeng Mountain. The old and young in the village have been transferred to Tianmen Village in the depths of the mountain, and the owner of the village, Cai Zang, led thousands of famous mountain people to stay in the village, and the main force was 4,000 Shuixi reinforcements led by Gang Fei on the order of An Bangyan.

The previous time he repelled An Yunao's attack, Cai Zang wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but was stopped by Gangfei. Since the beginning of the reception of Luxury Chongming at the Liuchong River, first Zhijin Laozhai was uprooted by Sun Jie, and then Rouyuansuo, Yachi, Luguang, Chishui, Yongning and other places suffered successive defeats, especially Wu Mi and A Grasshopper and other leaders were defeated under the absolute superiority of their own forces and the whole army was wiped out - according to those who fled, they were only one or two battalions fighting, and the opponent had almost no losses, and the most courageous of the coalition forces, Luxury Yin and An Xiaoliang, have not been found...... This series of fiascos made Fei Fei have to be cautious. Fei Fei noticed that the main attack this time was only the unarmored native soldiers of Zhenxiong Mansion, and not a single Ming soldier was seen, for fear of falling into the Han army's plan to lure the enemy - if Qingyan Village was lost in a daze, no one could afford this responsibility, so he pulled Cai Zang and firmly guarded the village.

Whether it is a bad fee or a pick, they are very confident in the watchtower. No one expected that in order to sit firmly in Zhenxiong Mansion, An Yunao would fill it up at the cost of hundreds of lives. Therefore, when Liu Tieniu's cannon was heard, it was only thought that the Han army was attacking in vain.

As soon as dawn dawned, a report was received that the Ming army had driven here. Fei and Cai Zang realized that the watchtower must have been conquered, but at this time there was no need to think about anything else, the most important thing was to hold Qingyan Village, and the two immediately gathered all the Miao soldiers to prepare for battle.

The gate had been burned by An Yunao, but the two thin new doors that had been temporarily installed to attract him to rush into the ambush circle had been replaced at the moment. Not only was it specially reinforced, but in order to meet this fierce battle, the gate and wall were smeared with a thick layer of wet mud.

The Han army must have heard from An Yunao that he was ambushed, and this time they should not rush into the stockade rashly. This is the best - unlike the Zhenxiong native soldiers, the Ming dogs have iron armor, and they will take a big advantage when they are in close combat. At the same time, the wall can also be quite effective in counteracting the armor advantage of the Ming army: not only can it provide all-round protection for its own defenders, but the high wall is also a difficult obstacle for the Han army to overcome - it is not easy to climb the wall of Zhangxu with an empty body, not to mention the Ming dogs who wear iron?

Along the inside of the walled wall is a long slippery more than a person's high pedal, standing on it, the defender is above the shoulder above the wall, you can condescendingly throw stones, poke, chop, a little shorter body can hide behind it, dodge the Ming army's bow feather arrows - that thing is very powerful, the Miao soldiers are generally armorless, if they take a hit, even if they are not shot, the person is almost useless. The footrest is in the shape of a ladder and has three floors, with the highest level being piled up with stones at intervals. The bamboo bow of the Miao family did not do much damage to the armor, and Fei Fei had seen the Han dog soldiers more than once insert seven or eight arrows crookedly in the iron armor, and still cut people alive. To deal with them, you have to smash them with stones!

Listening to the heavy footsteps and the friction of the nail leaves piercing through the hazy morning mist, Fei Fei and Cai Zang knew on the walled wall that it was the regular army of the Ming Kingdom that drove up this time. When they got closer, they were greeted by all the sonorous iron armor and the military flags. Cai Zang, who saw such a battle for the first time, licked his lips and looked at the Ming army, who looked at the Ming army that had driven to a hundred zhang away with a gloomy face, and was thinking rapidly in his heart: no armor against armor, it is absolutely impossible to open the door to meet the enemy, and the Ming army in front of him is far from being comparable to other waste firewood and dogs, and the combat effectiveness can be described as terrifying. It's better to wait for work, let them take the initiative to attack and climb the wall - the action of wearing dozens of pounds of iron armor will definitely be affected, even if you set up dozens of ladders in one go, you have to climb up one by one, right? I don't believe that a big rock can't kill you guys!

After receiving Elder An's order to guard Qingyan, Fei Fei has already saved the determination to die: risking his life, as long as two or three battalions of Han troops are consumed here, the whole situation is likely to be completely reversed in one fell swoop: Elder An and King Hao will definitely use all their strength to pursue the victory and kill back along the way they came! The Sichuan army is still in Yongning, and there is only one Zhu Laogou bare pole in Guizhusi, even if some people are temporarily put together, most of the military towns in the Ming Kingdom are like Zhang Fang, Huang Yunqing, and Zhongren, Liu Chao is already very good. Seeing the most elite military town of the empire being broken in the mountains, who else would dare to stand in the way regardless of their lives? If you run out of blood, you are not as good as a wild dog, do you dare to exchange lives with our warriors? Guizhou Province is not still the world of our seedlings!

The Ming army was still approaching in great strides, and he watched intently. The open space outside the wall where troops could be assembled was not too large, barely enough to accommodate two battalions, and the people behind them had to be crowded on the narrow mountain road. This kind of terrain is obviously not conducive to the Ming army to launch wave after wave of continuous attacks: the retreat of the wounded will inevitably hinder the investment of new attack forces, and the look at the wounded soldiers who are blurred and wailing will definitely have a great impact on the psychology of the guys who have just opened, and everyone will wonder how to protect themselves, lest they fall into this field of life and death - this will be directly related to the intensity of their attacks!

A group of Ming troops drove straight to the outside of the wall, and then, with a whistle, the four columns spread out to the two wings, extending to the edge of the clearing, listing a horizontal formation three or four rows deep. This group of Ming troops was about six or seven hundred people, and it should be a battalion, and the same was true from the flag: a guerrilla flag and six thousand flags. However, they carried a lot of flags, and almost every soldier in the first two rows had one hand, and one by one they stood with their left hand holding the flag and their right hand crossed their waists, and their chins were almost proudly raised to the sky.

In the days when there were no instant communication and telescopes, soldiers had to carry a large number of flags in order to mark the battlefield situation. In this way, the generals in the rear can judge the local battle progress and make timely adjustments by observing the number of flags on their own side (where there are more flags means that their own side has the advantage, and where there are fewer troops - people will naturally not see the flag if they are cut down), and then give orders to the front-line commander through the flag (order flag), golden drum or herald (in order to prevent the enemy from impersonating or defecting, it is necessary to hold an order arrow), and the general in front will indicate to the commander that he has received the order through the "response flag" (his own command flag makes a prescribed action). Convey the corresponding orders to your subordinates. In order to free up their hands to fight, the soldiers planted the trumpet flag in their waists - this is also the origin of the "back flag" of the martial arts in Peking Opera.

Seeing that the Ming army put on such a battle, the gang Fei was a little confused. Sun Jie is so big, do you think that you can climb the wall with the charge of one battalion? However, this is not a wilderness, and the goal is a conspicuous stockade, so why do you bring so many flags? Or...... These guys are Sun Jie's elite, just to guide the real attacking troops behind them in the direction of attack and be the supervising team themselves? Yes, no one carried a ladder to climb the wall, only more than 100 people in the first row carried bows, this is a standard field battalion! Well, this is the defense force, their task is to prevent the people in the stockade from rushing out and disrupting the attack deployment, they are not responsible for the attack! Thinking about these things in his heart, his face unconsciously showed a resolute look: Come on! It doesn't matter who you are, we're ready, and we're going to make you hit your head under this wall! He glanced at Cai Zang beside him, nodded, turned around and shouted, "Prepare for war!" ”

The emotions of the two leaders quickly infected all the Miao soldiers, the people on the wall of the wall put their hands on the stone pile beside them, and they all showed half of their heads to observe outside the wall, and the people with guns and knives held the weapons in their hands tightly, and the battle spirit in their chests was surging and agitated, almost breaking out, and the crowd under the wall moved a few times, ready to rush to the wall at any time to replace the injured brother, and called the invading Han dog to pay the price of life and blood......

There was another long and sharp whistle, and the Han army with bright armor actually changed formation! The Ming army in the center of the front turned left and right respectively, and then drove to the two wings, and the entire battle battalion was divided into two, and retreated back along the foot of the hill on both sides, revealing the open space that had just been blocked by the flag......

Fei Fei and Cai Zang were stunned to find that a row of black hole guns pointed at them.

A roar shook the valley. One hundred and fifty steps before Qingyan Village, twelve tiger squatting cannons lined up, and one after another iron bullets shot out of the cannon chamber like an angry thunder god, cutting through the misty morning mist between the dense forests, and the air with the fragrance of plants and trees was suddenly torn apart, emitting a terrifying and terrible scream. The churning heat wave instantly drove away the coldness left by the night in the valley without a trace, and the gates of hell seemed to be opened, and countless fierce gods and evil spirits suddenly rushed to their faces, greedily grabbing all the lives in front of them.

The thick wooden wall of the sea bowl fell apart in an instant under the bombardment of the iron ball, and there were broken logs flying everywhere, and the stones stacked at the foot were broken into stones of different sizes, and the fragments of the wall were unevenly shot back aimlessly, and they were invincible. A human body and severed limbs flew up in the air on the wall, and blood arrows soared in the air, and bright red blood beads sprinkled a series of crystal arcs like ruby necklaces in the sunlight, scattered on the ground, and then swallowed up by the raised dust, announcing the death of a life.

The tall white feathers on the turban make Fei Fei and Cai Zang stand out in the crowd. After the first round of shelling, the two leaders were gone, and only half of the red-mottled broken feather was carried by the air waves, jumping and falling.

In the ranks of Miao soldiers gathered behind the wall, a terrible howl suddenly rang out, and most of them were knocked to the ground by the huge shock wave without knowing what was happening. Faces mingled with earth and blood were everywhere, struggling, moaning, and twitching, the wounded rolling, crawling, and crying, while the dead stared at the godless as if to silently tell the sorrow of a humble life like weeds.

After four or five rounds of direct-aim shelling, the wall in front of it was already in tatters, and the thick wooden wall was full of large gaps exposed with shocking stubble. Through the gap, the corpses and figures struggling to escape in the village were visible at a glance. However, Iron Bull didn't plan to stop there: "Change the shotgun and keep casting!" ”

Bullets rained down.

In the deafening explosion, the artillery array was drowned in the smoke from the muzzle and the smoke and dust raised by the recoil. Thick smoke obscured the shooters' vision, but it didn't matter, it was a rough shot now. Listening to the crackling sound and screams of the crushed stone and iron pellets smashing on the bamboo buildings and earthen houses, the blood of the gunners boiled all over their bodies, and they quickly reloaded and ignited. Fragments flew at the place where the bomb fell, dust poured up, and patches of dust jumped up from place to place, churning and spreading; As the earth trembled one after another, clusters of dust clouds tumbled and spread, connecting together, obscuring the clear blue sky and enveloping the entire Qingyan Village. Miao Village, which was still vibrant not long ago, has been completely swallowed up at this moment, a hellish scene.

"Extended Shot!"

The muzzle of the cannon was slowly raised, and then hundreds of projectiles were scattered at the crowd behind the wall. At the same time, Liu Chao took out a long knife and pointed forward: "Enter the village and kill the thief!" After speaking, he took the lead in leading the Ming army from the gap in the wall, and a little dazzling white light flashed from time to time in the smoke and dust, which was the reflection of the iron armor and the cold glow of the sharp blade.

Before noon, Qingyan Village was broken.