Chapter 234: The Battle of Mianzhou (3)
Yao Shuochuan also saw the Tiance Army on the opposite side lighting a bamboo tube or something, but he didn't care, after all, he had never seen this weapon, so he naturally didn't know the power of this weapon.
Although the Qiang people are now in decline, Yao Shuochuan, as the patriarch of the most powerful Qiang tribe in Weimao Erzhou, did not expect to integrate the Qiang tribes in the two states and change the current predicament, not to mention betraying the Tang Dynasty, but also deserving of better treatment.
This dispatch was a time for their Qiang tribe to show their strength, and Yao Shuochuan was the first to take the lead.
Just when he rode a war horse and rushed to less than thirty steps away from the Tiance Army camp, suddenly there was a 'bang' sound from the opposite camp, and he didn't react, or he didn't know what these sounds meant.
He saw a glimmer of fire coming from those bamboo tubes, and his intuition told him that something was wrong, but before he could realize it, there was a sudden miserable howl from the war horse under his crotch.
Yao Shuochuan suddenly felt that something was wrong, but before he could react, a strong force suddenly came, and the war horse under his crotch suddenly knelt forward, and he was thrown out heavily by the inertia of the impact.
He didn't foresee such a situation, and before he could wake up, he heard more screams, and then a heavy thing pressed over. Feeling the thing, although he couldn't open his eyes to see it, he knew that it was a war horse.
He didn't promise to come over until he died, what the hell was going on.
If you can look at it from the sky, you will find that the Xichuan cavalry, which was still unstoppable just now, seems to have hit an impregnable wall, and no living cavalry can cross twenty steps away from the Tiance army camp, and the interval between twenty and fifty steps is a hellish appearance.
After a few rounds of firing, there were no standing Xichuan cavalry in the thirty paces area, only the lonely war horses and the wails one after another.
The Divine Machine Gun didn't have any accuracy to speak of, but most of the buckshot hit the galloping horses. Xichuan's war horse is not equipped, how can the flesh and blood resist lead bullets?
After the high-speed galloping war horse was concentrated by the lead bullet, it fell to the ground in pain, and directly threw the cavalry on its body into the mud. And the Tiance Army's divine machine guns are also constantly firing, and the cavalry behind is also running at high speed, but the cavalry behind is either loaded with lead bullets or crashes into the cavalry in front, the scene can be imagined.
In less than a quarter of an hour, more than 5,000 Xichuan enemy troops were annihilated in front of the Tiance army camp, and most of them were thrown off their horses and trampled to death by their own horses.
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and seeing the tragic situation in front of the Tiance army's camp, the cavalry behind reined in the reins of their horses one after another, not daring to rush forward. It was as if there was an insurmountable barrier in front of them, and many people were terrified when they saw those comrades who died tragically.
However, these cavalry could not retreat if they wanted to, because the infantry in the rear had pressed up, blocking their retreat.
Li Shun naturally also saw that the cavalry attack in front was blocked, although he didn't know what was going on, but seeing that the Tiance army camp was close in front of him, it was impossible to retreat. And if they want to retreat at this time, they can't retreat, so they can only attack hard.
"Rush, rush up, kill them, and capture King Shou alive."
"Capture the King of Shou alive, upgrade five levels in a row, and reward ten thousand!"
After a series of encouragement, the Xichuan army, which had been frustrated by the cavalry attack, continued to attack.
Seeing that the Xichuan infantry advance had entered a distance of a hundred paces, Li Ye ordered, "Let's start!" ”
With Li Ye's order, the Tiance cannon located in the rear of the camp began to work.
"Tiance Cannon, fire!"
"Collapse! Collapse! Collapse! ”
As the power arm of the Tiance cannon waved, stone bullets were thrown into the sky.
"Whew!"
The Tiance army that was fighting on the battlefield heard this familiar voice, it was the Tiance cannon, and very few people knew that it was a secret weapon, but no one looked up to see it, because the reality did not allow them to do so.
"Boom!"
The entire earth suddenly trembled violently, and dozens of large pits suddenly appeared in the advancing Xichuan army.
A Xichuan soldier stood there stunned, and one of the stone bullets landed not far from him. When he turned his head, the comrades who had been charging together just now were gone, and in their place was a large pit with a stone in it, and several people pressed down below.
As for who it was, he couldn't recognize it, this soldier was just at the moment when the stone bullet fell, as if a muffled thunder sounded in his ears, and his ears were still buzzing until now. He suddenly felt a warmth on his face, and subconsciously touched it to find that it was blood, he was not injured, but how did this blood come from?
He subconsciously looked down at his comrades who had been pressed into meat sauce.
"Ahh
The soldiers, who had never seen such a scene before, suddenly screamed, and the people around the stone bullets were frightened, and turned around and wanted to run, but what was waiting for them was their comrades behind them and forced them to continue advancing.
Li Shun also saw these stone bullets, although they looked scary, but they couldn't actually cause much damage, only the people around the stone bullets were a little unlucky, and each stone bullet couldn't even cause ten casualties. Naturally, he would not give up the offensive because of this, everyone knew that trebuchets were suitable for sieges, not such defenses, as long as his army rushed into the camp, the bulky trebuchets had no use.
But after a while, there was another loud noise, but here the Xichuan soldiers found that it was not a stone that fell, but something black. As they got closer and closer to the ground, the sharp-eyed Nishikawa soldiers realized that the black thing was a clay pot.
"Crockpot?"
Seeing the second round of 'stone bullets' of the Tiance Army, Li Shun couldn't help but sneer, "This Shouwang is really stupid, just relying on these stones to repel our army?" It's just childish and ridiculous. ”
Seeing the 'stones' falling one after another, the surrounding Xichuan soldiers all subconsciously ran away, and if they were to be smashed by this thing, they would really be done with the game. Of course, they didn't realize what it was, and just as they were about to hit the ground, the lead on the crockpot finally burned out...
"Boom, boom!"
A deafening explosion sounded in the camp of the Xichuan Army, and at the same time, the dense firelight flickered instantly, and thick smoke and flames enveloped the surrounding area for several zhang.
The shock wave of the explosion swept through the dense camp of the Nishikawa Army, splattering around with countless pieces of broken iron and broken porcelain from the powder canister. Everywhere they passed, they all screamed and fell to the ground.
The stump and severed arm flew everywhere with the explosion, and compared with the previous stone bullets, the killing effect and deterrent effect of the gunpowder canister were more obvious, and the offensive position of the Xichuan army was suddenly pulled by something.
Many of the Nishikawa soldiers didn't know what it was, and the Nishikawa soldiers around the explosion of the gunpowder canister only felt a huge wave of qi coming from the side. Then they saw the fragments scattered everywhere, and some people found that the fragments were iron slag, and they touched them, and before they could touch the wound, the whole person was swallowed by the air wave.
The people at a distance were only deaf in both ears by the violent explosion, and they were lucky compared to those around the explosion.
There were violent explosions and fires in the distance, and it was impossible for Li Shun not to see them. After the smoke cleared, there was hardly a complete corpse in the center of the explosion, either missing an arm or a leg.
"What the hell is this?"
No one could answer him, for no one had ever seen such a weapon before.
Subconsciously, Li Shun could only hope that there were not many weapons like this in the Tiance Army on the opposite side, after all, the launch of the trebuchet was very slow.
I don't know if Tian Cejun knew his thoughts and responded to him quickly. The dense array of arrows struck again, and unlike the previous ones, this time the arrows were strapped to a bamboo tube with gunpowder. Although the power of a single is not great, but under the dense rain of arrows, the power does not need to be worried at all.
There was no shortage of capable people in the Xichuan army, and from the counterattack of the Tiance army, they realized that as long as they rushed into the camp, they could stop all this.
Although the continuous explosion was amazingly powerful, the Nishikawa army had 30,000 after all, and even after the losses just now, there were still 20,000 left. Moreover, in the charge just now, many of them had already rushed into a distance of less than thirty paces from the Tiance Army.
There is a fatal problem in the Tiance Army, that is, there are few people.
Zhao Yi is a mid-level general in Xichuan, to be precise, a general.
Unlike many other people who rely on various relationships to be promoted, he relied on his own military exploits to get to this position step by step.
He has more than ten years of military experience, participated in the battle against the invasion of Nanzhao, fought the Tibetans, and participated in many battles to quell the rebellion. When he attacked Dongchuan before, he was appointed as a general because of his great achievements on the battlefield, which was not easy for him in his thirties.
Years of combat experience mean he has a lot of battlefield experience.
The Celestial Cannon and the Divine Arrow didn't do much damage to his troops, as his troops rushed fast enough.
When he rushed into the camp less than fifty paces away from the Tiance Army, he found out how the cavalry had been hindered before. One of the weapons of the Tiance Army caused heavy losses to the cavalry charging at high speed, and his men also lost a lot.
Soon he discovered that this weapon could not penetrate the shield, to be precise, the wooden shield could not penetrate, and the bamboo shield was difficult to say.
However, this discovery allowed him to find a way to storm the Tiance Army camp, allowing the sword and shield soldiers to advance with their shields in front. As soon as someone falls, those behind will make up for it, and through this it will be possible to get close to the camp.
As long as the Tiance Army camp is breached, everything that happens later can be over.
And the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the large battalion also discovered this enemy army less than ten paces away from the main battalion, not that they did not stop it, but that the Shenji gun could not penetrate the shield, and could only watch these enemy troops approach.
Seeing the enemy approaching, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the large camp also showed a trace of panic.
Suddenly, the Nishikawa soldier who was in front heard a voice.
"Earthquake Thunder!"
Hearing this voice, the Xichuan soldiers found through the gap that the Tiance Army in front of them suddenly squatted down.
What does this mean?
Zhao Yi also didn't understand a little, but he saw the chaos of the Tiance Army, and even if he was experienced, he was a little slack.
"Rush in and kill them all!"
Zhao Yi took the Mo knife in his hand, as long as he was close, no matter what happened to your Tiance army, he would have to let Uncle Ben tear off a piece of meat.
"Kill!"
Just as the soldiers carrying the bumping wood quickly rushed towards the Tiance Army camp, black things were thrown out of the Tiance Army camp.
Looking at the smoking iron bumps, thinking of the explosions behind him, Zhao Yi's heart suddenly jumped.
"Small..."
Before the 'heart' was shouted, a roaring explosion sounded, looking at his subordinates shrouded in black smoke, Zhao Yi stood there stupidly.
The strong wind blew, the thick smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the men who were still attacking just now basically fell to the ground, and there was only a scene of corpses strewn in front of him.
"General, help me!"
A soldier whose legs were blown up and whose flesh was blurred saw Zhao Yi in a daze, and crawled over with difficulty, his eyes full of desire to live.
But in Zhao Yi's sight, one black thing after another was thrown out。。。。。
(End of chapter)