Chapter 1027: Escape
"Boom...... Boom Boom Boom ......"
Shells continued to fall on the boar ridge, and countless shrapnel accompanied by the iron balls in the shells kept harvesting the lives of the rogues at a speed of hundreds of meters per second.
The rogues, who had never experienced such a scene, immediately collapsed, and the archers who were still gritting their teeth and bending their bows and arrows to shoot the Ming army below were either lying on the ground and not daring to move, or they were so frightened that they ran around aimlessly, and the entire top of the mountain was in chaos.
Li Zicheng hid behind a big tree, staring blankly at the archers around him who were scurrying around like headless flies, his eyes were a little dull
Thinking about him, Li Zicheng liked guns, horses, and sticks since he was a child, his parents died when he was young, and he was a post guard and an officer and soldier, and then killed people because of his wife's adultery with others, and finally had to become a thief, during which he killed a lot of people, and also fought with the officers and soldiers who surrounded and suppressed them, and experienced a lot of large and small battles during the period.
Some time ago, he also fought with Lu Xiangsheng's New Army, and during this period, he also tasted the hardships of the New Army's artillery, but today he realized that compared with the artillery bombardment he received today, the New Army's artillery fire was as gentle as everyone's ladies.
Li Zicheng is not a rookie, he used to be an officer and soldier, of course he knows that there is such a thing as a flowering bomb, but he knows better that although the flowering bomb is powerful, its price is even more good.
An ordinary flowering bullet costs at least ten times more than a solid one, and this is no joke. When Li Zicheng was an officer and soldier, his superiors once told him that the purchase price of a flowering bomb would cost at least two taels of silver, which means that one stone of white rice would be gone.
But now he saw something, the flowering bullets fired by the other party were like raindrops, constantly exploding around, and the originally dense archers were now as if they had been ravaged by a flood, leaving only a few sparse big cats and small cats.
"Team Li is ...... Team Lee is ......"
A hurried voice sounded in Li Zicheng's ears, and Li Zicheng, who had been buzzing in his ears by the explosion of the shell, raised his head and saw a man with a dirty red turban tied to his head and a sheepskin jacket stained with a lot of blood on his body shouting loudly to him.
Shaking his groggy head vigorously, he recognized that this man was He Yilong's henchman Kong Xiaoer, didn't he command the archers in front, how did he come here.
Kong Xiaoer obviously had a rough temperament, and after seeing Li Zicheng raise his head, he couldn't help but say: "Team Li, right now, the dog officers and soldiers are attacking fiercely, I want to go back and send reinforcements to He Dangjia's request, and you are here to command the brothers to resist." Remember, you must wait for me and me to bring reinforcements back, otherwise you can't afford to blame the boss. ”
After that, Kong Xiaoer didn't wait for Li Zicheng to answer, and ran away with a few henchmen.
Li Zicheng "............"
Li Zicheng, who has been beaten by this world for so many years, doesn't understand that he was sold, Kong Xiaoer obviously wants to make himself a substitute for the dead ghost.
He looked again, and there were only two or three big cats and small cats around except for the corpses, and there was no one else except for a few archers who had been stunned, so what could he resist in this case.
"Hmph...... Do you want me to be a substitute for the dead ghost, I'm sorry, I won't accompany you. ”
Li Zicheng resisted the urge to catch up and hold the other party, and when Kong Xiaoer walked away, he hid behind the big tree and looked left and right for a while, and immediately ran towards a place with few people, and soon disappeared......
The shelling lasted only two rounds, and the rain of arrows shot down from the mountain quickly disappeared without a trace, and the Jiangning army, which had been suppressed so much that it could not move, was overjoyed to see this, and they immediately pressed up to the top of the mountain under the command of the officers.
Seeing this, the commander of the artillery battalion under the mountain hurriedly ordered the shelling to be stopped in order to avoid accidental injury.
"Smack!"
A crisp sound sounded, and a red slap print quickly appeared on Kong Xiaoer's face.
"Waste...... Idiot ......"
He Yilong pointed at his nose and scolded.
"Two thousand archers, that's two thousand archers, and you lost them like this?"
He Yilong's heart is dripping blood at the moment, as one of the thirty-six battalions, although he claims to have 15,000 men and horses, he can actually fight about 7,000 people, of which 2,000 archers and 1,000 old battalion soldiers are the strongest.
In the days before firearms were widely available, archers were the most powerful ranged unit in the army.
And unlike any other, a qualified archer is not something that can be trained in three or two days, and must go through at least a year of rigorous training to be useful, of course, this is only for the regular army.
Liukou's archer requirements are not so strict, but even so, these two thousand archers are the most important strength and reliance in He Yilong's hands, and now they are all gone, and the sudden bad news almost made him angry.
"Don't worry."
Kong Xiaoer also knew that he had messed up the matter, and he was afraid that he would kill people, and now He Yilong just gave himself a slap in the face, which was already very restrained, for fear of continuing to be beaten, he hurriedly said.
"You dissipate your anger first, although the artillery of the dog officers and soldiers is sharp, but in my opinion, our two thousand archers have been killed in the hundreds, and the rest of the archers should be scattered, which is not a big deal."
"Idiot!"
He Yilong was so angry that he kicked him.
"Now that you know about it, why don't you go and get them back! I'll only give you two quarters of an hour, and if I can't get them back, I'll skin you!" ”
Kong Xiaoer didn't dare to speak, and ran away.
"He is in charge, the officers and soldiers are starting to fight!" As soon as Kong Xiaoer left, a rogue came to report with a crawl.
He Yilong hurriedly looked down the mountain, and sure enough, a group of officers and soldiers in green uniforms began to slowly advance towards the top of the mountain again, seeing that they were getting closer and closer.
"What are you afraid of!" He Yilong kicked the rogue to the ground, reached out and held a heavy ghost-headed knife on the ground in his hand, and said loudly to the rogue around him: "Brothers, the dog officers and soldiers have already fought, and those who want to live should follow me to beat them down, otherwise you will all die, do you understand?" ”
"Got it!" There was a sparse sound of answers.
"That's good!" He Yilong nodded, and said to a sturdy rogue: "Wang Mazi, these people are all under your control, if you can beat these officers and soldiers today, I will reward you with three women when you go back, if you can't stop you, you will die in front of me." ”
"You'll see." After listening to He Yilong's words, a greedy gaze flashed in his eyes, and he answered loudly and rushed forward with Liukou.
After these rogues left, He Yilong turned around and whispered to a few henchmen around him: "You immediately take the brothers from the old camp and withdraw quickly, it will be too late." ”
"Okay, don't worry, you are in charge, we promise to bring all the brothers in the old camp back." The rogue quickly dispersed......