Chapter 176: Sneaking Through the Sky
So, in the end, he could only greet the guard beside him unwillingly and retreat to the rear.
As for Pi Potian, after deliberately avoiding Zhang Xiangwu, he rushed all the way, and after killing several more cavalrymen, he killed the spearmen and musketeers who were still treating the wounded.
The spearmen and musketeers had not had time to recover from the previous strike! As a result, they found that the rebels had returned, suffered heavy losses, and their morale was low, so how could they continue to resist! If they didn't say anything, keep running! Anyway, the main general Zhang Xiangwu was also leading his personal guards to escape, and it would be embarrassing that they would run away with them.
One of the two gangs escaped and the other chased. Because the bandits like Pi Potian and others were the best at crossing mountains and ridges in such complex terrain, even if there were no cavalry, they could chase the officials and soldiers all the way.
After more than 2,000 people were killed, the remaining officials began to throw away their armor one by one, trying to reduce the weight on their bodies, and try to increase the speed of escape and get rid of these rebels.
This move is really useful. After all, the rebel soldiers are very poor. After seeing the weapons and armor thrown by the government army, they can't help but pick them up. Some people will fight for a piece of equipment. This greatly delays the speed of the rebels' pursuit, causing many officials to successfully get rid of each other.
In the end, because of the five thousand air force arrived in time, the rebels did not dare to continue chasing and hid back into the mountains and forests.
These air soldiers who were ordered to come to rescue the siege did not rashly enter the mountains and forests to pursue the other side, but instead stood there, waiting for the arrival of Agukos, the imperial marshal.
After Agukos arrived, he heard Zhang Xiangwu report the battle process and was so angry that he slapped the subordinate on the spot, slapped the other person's cheeks immediately swollen, and two teeth in his mouth were knocked away.
In Agukos's view, his subordinates really have a pool of mud that cannot be supported by the wall. The reason why he allocated the opponent's vanguard troops that had finally been newly built was to be familiar with the soldiers' combat methods in actual combat.
As a result, Zhang Xiangwu commanded a good army in a mess and failed to exert the true combat power of the new firearm army. After barely repelling the rebels, he pursued them rashly because of his greed for merit, resulting in a defeat in the army.
After statistics, there are only about 3,000 vanguard troops left. Not to mention that the rest were killed by the rebels, they would have fled. Most of the firearms were also seized by the rebels, so how could Agukos not be angry? If it weren't for the fact that Zhang Xiangwu had been with him for many years and had been loyal to him, he would have asked someone to drag the guy down and chop him down.
Zhang Xiangwu also knew that his defeat in this battle was so miserable, so even though he was slapped by Agukos, his head was still buzzing, and he still struggled to get up and knelt obediently in front of the other side.
On the other hand, after discovering that the enemy air forces appeared on a large scale, Ta Potian and the others knew that they could not continue to chase them, so they decisively retreated back to the mountains and forests. Then Ta Potian took his men and the men's equipment and prepared to return to the city happily.
As a result, they met a group of players halfway through. They looked like more than 100 people. They were also the ones who were recently contacted by the Flying Eagle of the Desert, and were preparing to go to the Qinglong Empire.
When these players from Oran Star saw a group of bandits and rebels carrying muskets and cannons, they thought they had met a fellow villager! So they showed up on their own initiative to recognize their relatives.
As a result, after the two sides exchanged, the players realized that they had made a mistake. These guys were indeed a group of natives from the Xuan Gu Continent, but they had just defeated a group of official troops from the Golden Eagle Empire and seized these equipment.
These muskets and cannons from the Golden Eagle Empire are obviously also prevented from being equipped by the Qinglong Empire.
In order to be able to create these firearms in such a short time, the Golden Eagle Empire must have spent a lot of effort. As a result, the new firearms army was defeated by a rebel army for the first time, and the equipment was basically stolen by the rebels. I believe the head coach of the Golden Eagle Empire was also very angry at the moment. The next step would definitely lead heavy troops to encircle and suppress the rebel army.
In view of the fact that both sides were barely considered to be the same camp, these players kindly reminded the rebel leader, telling the other party not to go back, so as to avoid being surrounded by the government troops of the Golden Eagle Empire.
Ta Potian also felt that these players were right. After seizing so many new weapons from the official army in this battle, the opponent's coach must be very annoyed, and he will definitely send heavy troops to wipe him out next. At that time, he may not even have a chance to beg for mercy Zhao'an.
So for his own life, he asked these players about what he should do next.
Faced with Ta Potian's inquiry, one of the players took out a copy of "On Guerrilla Warfare" and handed it to the other party, and told Ta Potian that this guerrilla warfare is the most suitable method of fighting now. As long as you fight according to the method mentioned above, at least in the short term, you will not be wiped out by the official army of the Golden Eagle Empire.
After saying goodbye to these players, Ta Potian opened the booklet curiously and prepared to take a look at what was written on it, which would be so highly praised by those players.
It's also magical. The languages and words used on the Xuangu Continent are actually the same as those on Aolanxing, both Chinese and Chinese characters, so there is no problem with the communication between the two sides.
Some people on Oranxing speculated that this may be because the two worlds had some connections since the beginning of the development of fleets, and then there was an exchange between various materials, which led to the subtle transformation of the small foreign world of Xuangu Continent being assimilated by Oranxing. The "Chineseization" of language and text is a change that took place.
In short, since the words used in the two worlds are exactly the same, Ta Potian can understand the words in that book.
Speaking of which, Pi Potian was actually a hardworking, studious and motivated young man in the past. Otherwise, he would not have known words when most of the humans were illiterate.
Unfortunately, the ascending channel of the Golden Eagle Empire has long been controlled by those demonized beasts and some human lackeys who defected to them, so Pi Potian just wants to make progress, so there is no way to go!
So after several setbacks, he almost became a beggar who couldn't afford to eat and decided to go up the mountain and become a bandit.
Originally, he thought his life would pass like this, but he did not expect that he would encounter such a huge change in the Golden Eagle Empire in his lifetime, which gave him the bandit leader a chance to turn things around. Now he has become a rebel leader with more than 20,000 troops.
After carefully reading a booklet given to him by players, Tra Potian felt a sudden enlightenment and suddenly realized how to go in the future.
He immediately ordered the army to turn around and head towards the depths of the mountains, and not to return to the city.
The decision of Pi Potian saved his life because at this time his base camp, Dakang Town, was surrounded by more than 20,000 air forces. These were elite troops specially sent by Agukos, in order to completely wipe out the rebels who were brave enough to defeat his vanguard troops, and at the same time, they also snatched back all the lost firearms.
In Agukos's view, those rebels would definitely return to their nests to celebrate after they had seized so many spoils. At that time, the air force he sent immediately would be able to catch the other party.
As a result, he did not expect that the group of rebels would go on an unusual path and, under the leadership of the leader Ta Potian, plunged deeper into the mountains.
This caused the air force sent by Agukos to wait for several days in vain. Until Agukos brought his men to arrive, he could not see a trace of a rebel.
Although it was very regretful for not being able to wipe out the rebels and snatch those firearms back, it was a contribution to conquering the towns and villages occupied by these rebels.
So Agukos asked the army that had been rushing for several days to rest, and he began to write a war report to the little emperor Ling Feng, telling the other party that he had successfully recovered several towns occupied by rebels.
At the same time, Guo Dafu led a large army and had already arrived at a big city belonging to the Hanhai Empire.
When he led his army to land, in order to facilitate defense, the towns he occupied were all from coastal areas.
This second march, his troops were much stronger, so he dared to march towards a more inland area.
According to the spies sent by Da'er in advance, this big city called Tielan City has as many as 200,000 defenders alone, and the people are also as 800,000.
Before, Guo Dafu captured so many towns in one breath, and the Dragon Emperor of Hai was also very distressed. So in order to prevent the other party from continuing to capture his own town, he had been expanding his army some time ago. A large number of young and strong men were forcibly recruited by him. After a little training, he was incorporated into the army.
As for firearms, the Sea Dragon Emperor also asked his subordinates to imitate them, but the Sea Dragon Emperor was much more cautious than Ling Feng and did not immediately put those firearm troops that had not been thoroughly trained onto the battlefield. The troops stationed in various cities now use the previous cold weapons.
Just like this iron railing city, there are still a bunch of crossbows on the top of the city, not artillery.
Guo Dafu was desperate for this. After all, if the other party really equipped with artillery, it would really cause some casualties to his troops.
But just these crossbows will have no threat at all.
Under the gaze of the defenders in the city, Guo Dafu asked his artillery soldiers to build artillery positions slowly beyond the range of enemy crossbows, and one artillery was arranged one after another.
The defenders in the city also knew that once the opponent was allowed to completely build the artillery position, it would be their doomsday.
So after discussing, several generals in the city decided to take the initiative to attack and fight to the death. If they could successfully destroy most of the opponent's artillery through this raid, then they would have some attacks next.
After unifying the opinions, the gate of Tielan City suddenly opened wide, and a heavy cavalry unit rushed out of the city gate first. It was obvious that the Hanhai Empire also created its own heavy cavalry unit during this period.
Compared to the kind of firearm that I was not familiar with, this cavalry unit still belongs to the cold weapon unit, so even the somewhat conservative old antique, the Sea Dragon Emperor agreed to the suggestions of the heavy cavalry unit of the Qinglong Empire under his command.
However, unlike the Qinglong Empire and the Golden Eagle Empire, the heavy cavalry mount of the Hanhai Empire is a ferocious beast called the Land Lizard. This ferocious beast has extremely thick limbs and runs very fast on land. In addition, it also has good endurance that most lizard-like beasts do not have. The most important thing is that there is a thin bloodline of the earth dragon in its body, so the Sea Dragon Emperor was very optimistic and personally ordered the generals to make it the heavy cavalry mount of the Hanhai Empire.
Chapter completed!