Chapter 427 Defeat
Zhou Xiong suddenly rushed into the crowd a few steps, swung the hammer and swept horizontally for half a circle. The hammer body of 1.5 meters and the length of his arm, several thieves within more than two meters around him were swept, and they fell to the ground with screams.
Seeing that Zhou Xiong was extremely brave, the thieves avoided them in panic. The heavy armored infantry rushed to him under the leadership of Zhou Xiong. In a moment, the shield-holding thief broke a hole in the formation. The spearman behind him, the sword and shield hands quickly followed up, and the bayonet slashed, widening the gap that broke through.
Although the number of soldiers killed and injured the thief soldiers in the NN attack of the official army was not large, the destructive and deterrent power was sufficient. The two hundred people advanced to the forcing the shield-holding bandits to retreat to both sides, revealing the shield-free bandits behind them.
The rolling dragon was in front of the front. Seeing that the official army's armored soldiers were fierce, if they did not fill the gap in time, their subordinates would probably retreat. He gritted his teeth and shouted: "Follow me!", and then raised his long-handled machete and rushed towards the official army's armored soldiers. A group of brave thieves shouted and followed closely.
The rolling dragon rushed to a heavily armored infantryman, waved his sword with both hands and slashed at his neck. The armored soldier twitched the mace in his hand. The rolling dragon's life was numb, his arms were suddenly weak, and the long sword flew into the air. Then the official army's mace swept horizontally towards his body. The thief behind the rolling dragon reacted very quickly, grabbed the belt of the rolling dragon and dragged him back half a step. The mace passed by a few inches in front of him with the sound of wind. The rolling dragon was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat. In the flash, his life was almost gone.
A thief took the opportunity to pounce on him, and a short hammer in his hand hit the official army hard on the waist and abdomen. The armored soldier bent down in pain. A large mouthful of blood was sprayed out of his mouth, spraying on the face of the thief who was hurting him. The thief's eyes were instantly covered by blood. A hammer hit his shoulder. Amid the screams, half of his shoulder was smashed and the man fell down immediately.
A long hook and sickle spear hooked the injured armored soldier's calves. The gun-carried thief pulled him back and the armored soldier fell to the ground unsteadily. Before he could get up, several swords and guns fell on his face, and the armored soldier was immediately killed.
The rolling dragon changed into a long sword, and slashed forward with red eyes. Under his leadership, many thieves rushed forward without fear of death. Although the heavy armored infantry was brave, they were too few after all, and they were soon surrounded by large thieves and fell into a tough battle.
When He Shixian saw that the armies of the official army were trapped in a heavy encirclement, he immediately asked his personal soldiers to send orders to the cavalry on both sides to surround the flanks of the official army formation. As long as the flanks were opened, the infantry would have a dead end to the impact of the cavalry.
After receiving the order, the thief team rushed from both sides to the flanks of the official army.
The Sichuan soldiers, which had not participated in the war, were divided into two units, each with about 3,000 people, led by General Qin Yiming and Guerrilla Gao Qixun, in order to protect the two ribs of the Tianxiong Army. At this time, they saw the thief team rushing towards them, and they ordered that one thousand infantrymen in each camp on both sides would depart, holding a horse-resisting rifle toward the thief team, and a thousand shields and shields guarded both sides. More than a thousand archers gathered in a square formation and followed closely behind.
The snatching rifle in the hands of the official army was nearly four meters long. The spearmen in the front row stood the snatching rifle on the ground, stepped on the tail of the rifle and held the rod with one hand. The sharp spear pointed diagonally towards the enemy direction, and the rear row placed the snatching rifle on the shoulders of the front row soldiers, and suddenly formed a square formation like a hedgehog.
Gao Qixun stood on a horse with a gun and more than a hundred steps behind the side of the gun array. More than ten personal soldiers surrounded him, and everyone was eager to try.
In the Chongzhen period, when Hong Chengchou asked for money to kill Shangguan, he showed mercy and did not punish the officers and soldiers who caused trouble. Instead, he paid the money for several months. However, because he was still afraid of the Sichuan soldiers' wages, he led his troops to the northern Shaanxi to leave the Sichuan soldiers in the local area. Later, the court appointed Qin Liangyu's younger brother Qin Yiming as the general, and used Qin Liangyu's reputation to suppress them. Later, he transferred to Lu Xiangsheng's command to serve. With Lu Xiangsheng's kindness and power, the Sichuan soldiers' mental outlook was completely renewed and many bad habits were also improved.
In this battle outside Chuzhou City, Lu Xiangsheng still arranged for the Tianxiong Army to take the lead. The Sichuan soldiers only played a role in protecting the flanks, which made the Sichuan soldiers very dissatisfied. They believed that the Sichuan soldiers were brave and good at fighting, and they should be vanguards in order to make meritorious contributions and earn rewards. They were just a reserve team to protect friendly forces, and they were suspected of being useless. Several Qian Zhengshu found Qin and Gao, and asked them to come forward to find the Supervisor and asked to change positions with Tianxiong Army. Qin Yiming was weak-hearted and did not want to offend either side. Gao Qixun was not a vegetarian. With his personal prestige established in daily life, he scolded the generals before giving up.
The thief team had about 500 cavalry. When they rushed to more than 100 steps away from the official army, the gun formation had been set up. When the thief saw the Senran gun formation, their scalp was numb. Suddenly, the horse speed slowed down. Their nature was to plunder innocent people, but they didn't want to exchange their lives for money. They would not rush straight in this situation on weekdays, but now there is a fierce battle between the two armies. Once the horse team is afraid of the enemy, it will greatly affect morale. Once the battle is defeated, the big leaders will not bypass them. But if they want to assault the official army formation, then this gun formation cannot be avoided at all.
When the two armies fought fiercely, the dust rose from the ground covered the sky and the sun. The thieves, who were originally blocked from sight, rushed over and found that the official army's cavalry was two miles away from the infantry formation and had been covered by the infantry formation. In order not to be discovered by the thieves on the opposite side, they did not even hit the flag. A large number of red armored storm formations were eyeing. Once the charge order was issued, they would rush into their own formation in a moment. Now they were just waiting for the thieves to be broken.
The thieves rushing in the front row were so scared that they all pulled the reins and controlled the horses. The war horses drew a few dozen steps in front of the gun formation and were about to turn back. Gao Qixun reacted quickly and shouted: "Arrow!"
The archers who had already been ready to bend their bows and arrows, as the orders were ordered to release their fingers, more than a thousand long arrows flew forward. The thieves who were slowing down and turning suddenly screamed in pain. Dozens of thieves were either shot directly or got arrows on their mounts. The thieves who had turned around desperately fleeing. Although the thieves in the rear row were unknown, the tacit understanding formed over the years was that most thieves began to flee without entering the range of the archery of the official army, so the second wave of thieves only killed several thieves.
Gao Qixun cursed: "Tortoise son! He ran faster than a rabbit!"
Lu Xiangsheng found that the battle situation had entered a stalemate. The bandit army, which had rarely fought hard with the government army in the past, was abnormal today. Relying on the number of people, it had to withstand the huge impact of the heavy armored infantry, especially the nearly 10,000 thieves in the front row, had already fought bloody and fearlessly engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the government army. Two hundred heavy armored infantry had suffered dozens of casualties, and the formation of the spearmen began to loosen under the impact of the thieves.
Lu Xiangsheng decisively ordered: "Grenadiers come on! The horse team is ready to charge!"
One hundred grenadiers in the back formation were divided into two units. Under the leadership of the two generals, they strode forward and quickly rushed to both sides of the gun formation. Because the heavy armored infantry had already entered the bandit formation, the bandit army avoided its edge and rushed to both sides, and a large group of bandits were crowded together.
The spearmen had only three rows of square formations, and the last row was only ten steps away from the thief. They were ready to move forward at any time to fill the gap left by the casualties of the official army in the front row. As the battle deepened, the casualties of the spearmen gradually increased.
After arriving, the two grenadiers stood in a row. With the loud call from the general, they blew the fuse in their hands and lit the thunder fuze. After counting five or six breaths silently, they threw the two-pound thunder thunder forward.
Because the thunder made of clay pots fell to the ground and broke without b, under Chongzhen's instructions, the Jinyiwei found many craftsmen who cast bronze ware from all over the place and casted them into thin shells with pig iron. Except for the large size, they were basically similar to the SN in later generations.
These grenades have been strictly selected, not only strong, but also calm and careful. If they are not calm enough, panic at the moment, the fuse has just been ignited or have not exerted force to their own camp, the effect will be very different.
For safety reasons, the external fuze produced by the military weapon surveillance is long and takes nearly ten breaths to burn out. The fuzene must be fired after five or six breaths after it is burned. In this way, it will basically be b the moment it lands. Needless to say, if it is thrown out as soon as it is ignited, and it will continue to burn several breaths after it lands. In the dense crowd, the fuzene may be trampled to death, and then this fuzene is useless at all.
The latter is even more terrifying. After all, it is thrown behind the formation. Many people will lose their strength in panic. If the thunder of the sky falls into the front row of their own formation, the consequences will be devastating. Their tight formation will collapse instantly, because this is not the scattered formation of the hot weapons generation in later generations. The cold weapon formation must be close to have lethality. When delivering the thunder of the sky, the military weapon supervisor specially sent several craftsmen to make the thunder of the sky to guide. The selected grenades were also trained every day until they formed a subconscious reaction.
Hundreds of deafening thunders flew over the head of the spearman and fell into a dense array of thieves dozens of steps away. Many thieves were hit by the deafening thunder falling from the sky. Before they could react, the flames collapsed, and then the deafening b sounded in a series of sounds, broken limbs and broken arms flew everywhere. The improved black b power was extraordinary. In addition to the amazing damage of the fragments of the shell bp, the broken iron pieces and porcelain fragments were also splashed in all directions, causing huge damage to many thieves who were not even cloth armor. Many thieves' faces were covered with fragments, and their eyes were blinded by the bursting fragments. They covered their eyes and howled. The thieves who were not injured by shrapnel outside the b range were also dizzy by the huge sound waves. The rolling dragon and the Pili needle were all killed on the spot.
The huge b-sounding sounds and the thieves of the thieves rang all over the battlefield. The thieves who were fighting against the government troops in the front row suddenly slowed down. Some even ignored the spears that were stabbing, looked up at the sky. The bright sun was in the sky, and there was no cloud in the blue sky.
The government army has often seen the power of the thunder that shook the sky. When they heard the sound of b, they were immediately energetic. They stabbed forward with a spear in their hand. The thief who was so shocked by the sound of b were shot and fell to the ground in the screams.
The large thief who was rushing behind heard the b sound and saw the scene like the Shura field after the smoke disappeared, and was so scared that he was terrified.
"Grandpa is thundering!"
"The official army has cast spells!"
"Run quickly!"
Chapter completed!