Chapter 174: Platoon of guns

"Boom ......"

People who have not experienced this kind of battle can not understand that hundreds of cavalry are rushing in their direction, the sound of horses' hooves can't stop beating the earth, and even the heart is shocked to the point that they can't stand that feeling, in the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the most deterrent type of troops, except for those veterans of a hundred battles who have put life and death aside, no one can turn a blind eye to such a scene, at least these soldiers who have never experienced actual combat in Nanjing Shenji Battalion cannot.

Like a taut string, when these gunners of the Shenji battalion saw the other horsemen rushing towards them in a daze, only more than two hundred meters away from them, one of the gunners could no longer help but pull the trigger in his hand, the firewire ignited the gunpowder, and with a low muffled sound, the gunpowder in the gun ignited instantly, and the energy burst out to excite the lead bullet in the chamber.

"Bang!"

The sound of this fire gun was like a primer, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who had already been nervous to the extreme, pulled the trigger in their hands one after another, and with bursts of white gunsmoke, the three hundred soldiers of the Shenji Battalion shot out the ammunition in the chamber of the gun in just seven or eight seconds.

"These fools, they don't even know that the rebels are luring them into firing......"

Xu Hongji, who was watching the battle from behind, was so angry that he scolded angrily, and he knew clearly that the firecrackers who had no ammunition in the bird guns would have what would happen when they faced the cavalry armed to the teeth.

Compared with Xu Hongji, who was thunderous, Yang Daniu shouted excitedly: "Brothers, the miscellaneous people in front of you have run out of ammunition, everyone kill!" ”

"Kill!"

In the midst of the shouting, the more than 100 cavalrymen who were originally just acting as bait to lure the other party to open fire immediately changed their tactics, they began to concentrate from their original scattered state, and before the Shenji battalion on the opposite side could react, they rushed towards the Shenji battalion in front of them, which was busy loading ammunition for the bird guns in their hands.

"Quick, order the Shenji Battalion to withdraw!"

Xu Hongji in the back had already been scared into a cold sweat about this, and immediately issued an order for the Shenji Battalion to withdraw, but it was too late, the distance of more than two hundred meters was only more than ten seconds for the war horse out of the sprint stage, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who saw the cavalry roaring in front of them were in chaos, they threw away the bird guns in their hands and ran away, but they were still sensible and did not run towards the front of the battle formation, otherwise it would be lively. But even so, they couldn't run a few steps before they were caught up by the cavalry behind.

"Bumper ...... Bumper ......"

Contrary to the expected scene of sabers, the cavalrymen did not draw their swords and slash after approaching the musketers, but pulled out their handcuffs and pulled the trigger.

As the person who rushed to the front, Yang Daniu aimed at a soldier of the Shenji Battalion who was less than five meters away from him, pulled the trigger, and with "Bang! There was a loud bang, and in the billowing smoke of gunpowder, the soldier flew straight away with the rising smoke, and the blood hole in the back of the soldier was constantly sprayed with blood in mid-air.

"Bang ......"

With the continuous sound of handcuffs, a soldier of the Shenji Battalion who fled for his life was named one by one by the cavalry chasing from behind, like killing chickens and dogs. When the cavalry ran out of handcuffs, they slashed with swords, and in less than a cup of tea, the three hundred soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were lost, and in the end, there was not one out of ten who could escape back.

Looking at the corpses of the Shenji Battalion, Xu Hongji closed his eyes in pain. After more than half of his cavalry was lost, a formed Shenji battalion was gone, and at this moment, he felt a sense of regret for the first time, was it really worth it to go against Yang Feng like this?

Some people may ask, where did Xu Hongji's cavalry go, didn't he still have half of the cavalry left? In fact, Xu Hongji is to blame for this, in view of the large losses of the cavalry, Xu Hongji just ordered the cavalry with heavy losses to retreat behind the phalanx for a simple rest, but it was this order that buried the entire Shenji battalion, otherwise if his cavalry was still protecting on both sides of the phalanx just now, even if the Shenji battalion made a mistake, it would not end up annihilated.

"Retreat...... Retreat to the back! ”

After killing the Shenji battalion, the satisfied Yang Daniu gave the order to retreat, and more than 100 cavalry teams retreated to both sides of their own teams. And when they were fighting, the firearm phalanx commanded by Yang Feng did not stop, but continued to move forward, slowly approaching the phalanx composed of pikemen of the Nanjing battalion.

Seeing that the opponent's firearms had approached more than a hundred meters away from his own spear phalanx, Xu Hongji knew that he could no longer let the other party approach like this, his Shenji battalion had been completely annihilated, if he did not move like this, what was waiting for him was the end of the whole army, and in desperation, he issued an order for the whole army to assault.

"Assault...... Assault of the whole army! ”

Under Xu Hongji's order, the phalanx began to move, and the four hundred pikemen at the front rushed towards the oncoming firecrackers first.

"Stop!"

"Raise the fire!"

Seeing the pikemen on the opposite side rushing towards them, a hundred households Li Zheng on the left side of the firecrackers gave the order to stop advancing, and as a sergeant stopped advancing, they raised the guns one by one, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the pikemen who were rushing towards them in front of them.

"Rush!"

After all, the pikemen were foot soldiers, and the distance of more than two hundred meters was enough for them to run for tens of seconds, so when they ran to a distance of one hundred meters away from the Jiang Ning Wei sergeants, the firecrackers on the opposite side were ready to shoot.

Silently calculating the distance between the other party in his heart, and when the distance between the two sides was about eighty meters, Li Zheng raised the long knife in his hand and shouted loudly.

"Fire"

"Bang ......"

A thick white eye rose at the same time, and one lead bullet after another advanced rapidly at a speed of more than 500 meters per second, until it finally hit the target.

A spear in his hand suddenly burst out of the body of the soldier who rushed to the front, many people were hit by the huge impact of the lead bullet and then rolled to the ground, and those who did not die on the spot fell to the ground and rolled on the ground, and the mournful wail resounded in front of the battle, and for a time the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke permeated the front of the battle.

Suddenly, I saw dozens of fallen comrades, which had a huge impact on the morale of the army, and many charging soldiers hesitated. At this moment, a chief with a long knife shouted loudly: "Rush forward...... The rebels have been hit by firearms, and they are out of bullets! Rush up and cut off their heads! ”

"Bang ......"

Just as the general finished speaking, another neat sound of firearms rang out, and it turned out that the firecrackers in the second row had opened fire, and dozens of pikemen fell in this round of shooting.

"The second row is back, and the third row is forward!"

"Fire!"

"Bang ......"

With the sound of the neat firecracker, the soldier who had just waved a long knife and ordered the soldier to step forward had a bloody hole in his chest, and after rolling several times, he fell heavily to the ground, and the wound was "moisturizing" blood, and he screamed hoarsely before he died......