Chapter 87: Battle Suqian (Second Shift, Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Less than 100 meters apart!
At this distance, Zhu Mingzhong felt that he could even see the faces of the Qing soldiers wearing gray armor, the bows and arrows in their hands, and the birds of the Qing army.
Thirty zhang!
These thirty zhang! It will be a dead place between the two armies, and the bows and arrows of the Qing army and the bird guns can cause damage to the armored loyal and righteous army.
As long as you rush past these thirty zhang, the rest is all to speak with martial arts!
"Shield!"
With an order, the armored soldiers in cotton armor who were originally in the back row moved forward, and their left hands held a square shield one foot five wide and three feet high, which was Zhu Mingzhong's bulletproof shield borrowed from later generations, and the shield made by the weapons factory, although it was a little bulky, but it could block the attack of the arrow in a certain program. However, due to the limited time, only more than 300 faces were made, and because of this, it was not moved forward until now, after all, the shield had no meaning in front of the shells.
Although the artillery of the Loyal and Righteous Army only fired a round of artillery fire at the Qing artillery team, for the heavy infantry of the Loyal and Righteous Army, which was originally under the fire of the Qing army, they successfully rescued them from the artillery fire of the Qing army. Just a moment of chaos is enough.
"Kill!"
Just when Zhu Zhongming shouted these two words, the archers of the Qing army loosened their strings and released their arrows, and the gunners also opened fire one after another, the sound of strings and guns stirred in the air, and thousands of arrows pierced the air and flew towards the loyal army, and the scorching projectiles flew over with a roar......
Even though there was the protection of the shield in front of him, there were still bows and arrows that kept falling on Yao Wuguo's side, and there would always be a brother who let out a muffled snort because he was shot in the front door or other places, and then fell down limply.
"Kill!"
There was another neat shout, their speed did not lag at all, it seemed that the Qing army's bows and arrows, guns and bullets could not stop them, at this moment, the fire gun soldiers standing in the rear pulled the trigger again, originally at this distance, the bird guns could not cause any damage to the Qing army in armor at all, but to their surprise, with a dense whistle, the Qing army in the front row did not even have time to scream in a hurry, and fell.
But the situation on the battlefield was not at all surprising to them, hundreds of bullets were constantly sent out from the barrels of the musketeers lined up in a phalanx, and when people kept falling, they involuntarily retreated, but their camp was slightly loosened.
Compared with the Qing army, the official of the loyal and righteous army, as the attacking party, saw the opportunity when the camp of the Qing army was a little loose, and without any hesitation, the pikemen of the two battalions surrounded by heavy armor soldiers immediately threw out their killer weapon - grenades!
Thousands of grenades rained down on the Qing army's camp, and although the Qing army did not know what the white smoke iron lump that fell at their feet was, everyone realized the danger, and just as the instinct of life drove them to disperse, an explosion sounded like thunder.
"Boom! Bang! ”
Explosions like summer thunder rang out one after another, and the pikemen threw grenades lit with fuses into the Qing army's formation, instantly blasting their opponents to the ground.
Those Eight Banners soldiers who were originally holding shields and steel knives and lined up in a phalanx were suddenly put down in a large area, like celery that had been cut down, and in that phalanx, one was blown down on the left, and a group was blown down on the right. Not to mention the grenade exploding directly under the feet, even those Qing soldiers who were a little far away from the explosion point would also be blown up by the deafening explosion and couldn't hear the sound, their minds were dizzy, and even the hurried people couldn't stand, and their bodies were swaying.
For a time, the entire Qing army's home formation was completely surrounded by the smoke raised by the explosion. The sound of explosions was incessant, and the flames and smoke clouds were mixed together, and when they saw that they were about to swallow up the Qing army's already chaotic main formation, suddenly, a roar like a thunderbolt sounded in the ears of those Qing soldiers who had been blown up.
"Kill!"
Almost at the moment when the grenades exploded one after another, the heavy infantry of the Loyal Army in the front row had rushed to the front of the Qing army's main formation, and even before those Qing troops recovered from the loud explosion of the explosion, the shield bearers of the Loyal Army who rushed to the front slammed forward, and at the same time crashed away from the Qing army, the knife they held in their right hand slashed over, although their knives could not cut through the armor of the Qing army, but the knife that suddenly cut was enough to make the Qing army frightened.
And the really deadly was the heavy infantry who rushed from behind and held a long-handled saber, they were dressed in iron armor, holding a sabre, lined up in rows of heavy infantry, even under the fire of the Qing army, the queue did not have chaos.
"Kill!"
Under the command, the blade of the knife is three feet, the handle of the knife is three feet, and the chopping knife weighing more than ten catties is suddenly cut down from their hands, these heavy infantry are all selected from the loyal and righteous army, they are nearly six feet tall, completely relying on their physical advantages, wearing heavy armor, which will fall into their hands again in terms of strength, when the chopping saber dragged the whistling sound to fall, the Qing army in front of them, although they were all wearing armor, but the armor could not stop the sharp edge of the chopping knife, under the heavy knife chopping, all of them were broken and broken.
This Eight Banners elite, who once relied on a suit of armor to make many Han family sons hate the battlefield, this would not be the opponent of the heavy infantry of the Loyal and Righteous Army at all, with a burst of shouts and killings, the thousands of long-handled sabers slashed through the air with a cold light, and then slashed forward.
Simple!
This is the biggest characteristic of the loyal army, even if it is a heavy infantry, they do not have any flowery swordsmanship, only the simplest slash from the top right to the bottom left, in the training ground, they only carry out such simple training, and only such simple sword skills are enough.
"Kill! Kill! ”
In the midst of this wanton killing, the shouts in the military array became even more fanatical, as if the opposite side was full of mustard, and they could slaughter it wantonly. The heavy armored soldiers of the loyal and righteous army who are now arrayed in a phalanx are like an effective killing machine, these tens of thousands of armor soldiers are the main body of the machine, and the horse chopping knife in their hands that is enough to break the armor is the tool of this killing machine.
Even if the Qing army tried to block it with the knives and guns in their hands, when they blocked the blade in front of them, the blade from the other side had already slashed at his body, cutting his arm in two, and after completing a round of chopping, they did not even look at the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground, but walked forward directly, and the brothers behind them would shout again and slash forward.