The seven hundred and seventy-eighth chapter the battle of the Wuding River (3)
The melody of silk and bamboo and the sound of golden drums in "General's Order" were played passionately between the smoke of gunpowder. The roaring cannons were like the lightning and thunder in the sunny day, and the earth was trembling.
People were shocked by the wrath of the gods. On the battlefield in the east, many soldiers of the coalition forces, Xiang, looked up at the sky, but saw the chaos all over the mountains and fields in the north.
Xu's infantry were also mobilizing the military orders, and the nearby trumpets seemed to be urging, and rows of two-color pennant flags were waving, and the air was noisy and dirty.
Yao Erniu and other soldiers could understand the flags, but they didn't need to pay attention to the military orders. They just followed Bendu's team by yelling the top ten generals. The queue was slowly advancing in a horizontal line, and Yao Erniu carried the iron pipe firearm and followed the people on the left and right.
The sword and shield weighed infantry, and the divine arms and men turned around in the column to retreat. Many of those brothers were covered in blood, and the smell of fishy floated from the gaps between the teams, and Yao Erniu was even more nervous. He has now become the first row, and even though the elite soldiers who have fought many battles, he still can't feel relaxed in such a battle formation with mountains of corpses and blood.
After a while, the enemy soldiers chasing the retreating Xu army had already run across the hillside. In fact, the frequent roar of cannons had made the attack of the infantry in the east seem very hesitant, and the speed of the coming up has obviously slowed down.
"Preparation!" A scream of hissing shocked Yao Erniu. The brothers on both sides knelt on one knee after the order. Yao Erniu also quickly knelt alone and made his body shorter. Without thinking, he blew the sparks on the fuse, opened the lid of the medicine pot, and skillfully lifted the firearm flat.
The surging crowd of the coalition forces was only twenty or thirty steps away. Yao Erniu clearly heard their fear and anger screams, and could see their eyes clearly. They were covered with dirt and dust, and even the ragged armor made of armor. A large number of faces appeared in front of him, and no one knew anyone, let alone had no hatred. But this is the evil thing about the battle formation. Those who had no grudges and no hatred were holding weapons and shouting, hoping to crush their bones and throw themselves into ashes! Yao Erniu believed that they would definitely chop themselves into meat paste without hesitation!
Someone shouted in somewhere: "The official family is kind and well-dressed and fed, and repaying the emperor's kindness today!" "The Han family is loyal and brave, and the enemy of the emperor is our mortal enemy, and we will never be ruthless..."
Yao Erniu has heard a lot of these morale words, but he is not particularly concerned about it. Because the righteousness has nothing to do with the fact that he may be injured by a knife or an arrow in front of him at any time. At this time, the arrows on his head are still twitching like raindrops!
However, the generous words and the shouts of the troops resounding throughout the valley made people excited. Yao Erniu also felt the atmosphere of courage and unity. Now there is no fear.
The crane flag was raised, "Bang!" The sound of the gong sounded. Yao Erniu heard the "crackling..." sound on his head. The dense infantry nearing him screamed in tears. The lead bullets were invisible. Only blood was seen on the bodies of those people and weapons were thrown everywhere.
As soon as the volley was heard, about the time of a marching drum, Yao Erniu pulled the copper mechanism on the firearm, and the entire row of firearms rang out at this time. While pulling the mechanism, he turned his head to the left and closed his eyes, the sound of gunpowder bursting out from outside the skin and ear protection.
After the sound passed, smoke filled the front of me. I couldn't see the scene ahead clearly, and I could only hear the hissing sound of heart-breaking pain.
The shouts of the head sounded at the right time. Yao Erniu and others quickly stood up and turned around and followed the man named Zhang in the second row. Soon the men facing him wiped Yao Erniu's shoulders and walked forward.
The ten generals shouted: "Okay!" Yao Erniu quickly stopped, pulled out a wooden stick wrapped in cloth strips, and quickly stabbed it into the barrel of the gun and rubbed it roughly clean the residue inside. He then blew it hard at the hot pot.
The cannons behind roared like thunder, and smoke filled the front, arrows flew over their heads, shouting and killing sounds. But Yao Erniu didn't care, staring at the complicated things at hand, and his hands and feet must be fast, otherwise when others are busy and about to move forward, it is equivalent to taking a fire stick forward.
He used his teeth to cleave the straw paper plugged on the bamboo tube, poured the black particles the size of corn into the barrel of the gun clamped on his legs, then pulled out the wooden stick, poked it in with a smooth end, and tried to compact it lightly and heavily; then took out a lead ball wrapped tightly from the leather pocket at his waist, and there was slippery tung oil on it, and immediately stuffed it into the pipe mouth, and then poked it hard with a wooden stick. Now this iron pipe is much smaller than the copper guns that were cast in the past, and the lead balls are very tightly inserted into it.
Then he had to put the medicine in, cover the medicine in, check the fuse, etc.... This job seemed very trivial and troublesome, but Yao Erniu would rather go into battle like this! Although it was very troublesome, it was not very laborious. I heard that the chamber might even hurt himself, but these iron pipes were numbered. If the specified number of use was less than the number of times, the soldiers would be injured, and the craftsmen would be punished! Those who encountered such a broken thing might be much smaller than being hacked to death, so they would not be afraid at all. Otherwise, they would rush forward with swords and guns and fight to the death... All the soldiers who have experienced the imperial guards understand!
Yao Erniu was busy and had no idea what had happened just now. When he looked up, he saw that the various coalition troops on the battle formation ahead were fleeing down the hillside. The infantry formation was already dense and was in chaos for a while. Many people were trampled and screamed loudly.
A few hundred feet below the hillside, tens of thousands of coalition infantry formations were arranged there without moving, while the riots in front were rushing towards the square formation on the formation.
Yao Erniu looked back in a daze and saw that the front line on the entire hillside was in chaos, and the Dangxiang people and the infantry were fleeing! The crowd rushed down the hillside in a mess like a mountain torrent!
Yao Erniu and Zhao Dagen and other soldiers around him were all stunned, looking at the sudden and huge scene.
...At this moment, the sound of cannons on the western cannon formation was deafening, and some muzzles were aimed at the coalition infantry formation under the hillside! Iron balls flew into the infantry formation below the hillside!
Whether it is the Central Plains army or the troops of any tribe, as long as it is infantry, the formation is definitely very dense! Because in terms of individual tactics, two people will almost win if they cut one person; the more dense the formation, the more they will fight less in part. No infantry army will go into battle, as sparse as cavalry.
Feng Chi Dianzhi's iron lump flew over the heads of a group of people, and the height was getting lower and lower. "Bang!" One head suddenly exploded! The bloody head of the bone suddenly tilted backwards, and the neck broke. The iron ball continued to fly into the crowd. "Bang!" Another terrifying impact sound was made. Another soldier's chest was hit by the cracks and his ribs were vaguely broken, and his body was tilted backward. The iron ball fell heavily when it hit the torso, and the speed slowed down a lot, but it still hurt several people again. The screams of horror came out of the crowd, and the atmosphere of fear spread like a plague.
After a while, another iron ball fell in front of a crowd. With a "bang", sand and soil splashed everywhere. The iron ball immediately jumped up and flew straight into the crowd.
As the shelling continued and the chaos continued to spread, the formation of tens of thousands of people was faintly turbulent. The sudden defeat in front of them added signs of failure and despair!
The sound of skin drums on the hillside sounded from the entire front line, and the Xu army's infantry lined up in an orderly manner. Ten generals led from the left side of each team. The troops followed the ten generals to trot forward in two teams and two columns as columns. On the loess hillside, teams of people rushed down like weapons.
The Xu army's infantry discipline was purified, the battle formation was skillful and orderly, the columns advanced very quickly, and the formation of horizontal teams was very quick to form dozens of steps away. On the entire hillside, the people in each capital were different, and when the horizontal team was formed one after another, it seemed that the entire crowd was detouring like a whirlpool, and countless iron helmets were surging. But every unit, every team, the fireless people were mobilized with the military orders of the generals, and the details were very orderly. Arrows were constantly flying over the heads of the coalition forces, and from time to time, the armor junction of the Xu army soldiers were shot through and injured, but the rain of arrows did not affect the battle formation at all.
The coalition troops squeezed into a formation of tens of thousands of people in chaos. They could not retreat from the gap between the various formations, because artillery disrupted the large camps, and the scattered and running people made the battalions in front of them chaotic.
"Bang bang bang..." The volley of firearms sounded one after another on the front line from south to north. The invisible lead balls penetrated into people's bodies nearby, and the screams of despair and fear were like howling ghosts and gods. Blood mist and gunpowder filled the battlefield together.
Xu's military robots and horses adapted to tactical changes. One city had about 200 people, and one command reached 600 people. One city soldiers had six teams, and one round of volleys actually had two volleys. One team kneeled in front of them, and the other team stood... One city had one cycle, which was six volleys, with only twenty or thirty steps away, and it was still shrinking as the attack continued!
The Dangxiang people and Xi people's infantry could not bear the large amount of casualties caused by this intensity of firepower at all in the atmosphere of failure! The army had already collapsed, but the dense infantry formation was in chaos, making it difficult for the people in the middle to run... There were people in front, back, left and right sides, and they could only squeeze back desperately. The scene was simply unbearable to look at it, just like the riots in the downtown city.
Xu Jun, who was in a team, held a simple mesh gun and stood against the panicked crowd, which was like a massacre! The few men in front could not escape, and rushed over with iron swords screaming.
"Pi Li Pa..." A whole row of white smoke rose, and the fire stars flashed. The men twitched like they were epilepsy, and blood splashed on their chests. They knelt on the ground, leaned forward, and their weapons fell to the ground, "crashed" into the loess.
In front of the crowd, corpses were piled up! Dark red blood was flowing along the sand. In the entire Shura field, it was useless to cry for fathers and mothers and call the sky. The wounded soldiers were covered in blood, and their throats were hoarse and ignored because they were shouting from all sides.
Chapter completed!