Chapter 19: Dragoons
Su Chengyu looked at it from a distance, and he was very apprehensive in his heart, after all, after only an hour of practice, his people were still very unskilled in cooperating. In order to prevent accidents, as soon as the enemy had rushed ten paces, he ordered his guards to remount their horses and run diagonally to the rear.
The rebels rushed halfway, only to find that the men and horses on the opposite side had run a hundred paces away, and they were still on their side. Then I saw the men unhurriedly dismounting, reloading, raising their guns, and firing.
After two rounds of shooting, the White Lotus Sect members who seemed to be swarming up with great momentum fell a dozen or so.
Wang Gu hated it so much! But he can't help it if he can't reach the other party.
Finally, after nearly half a quarter of an hour, Zhao Hei ran to him and said, "Senior brother, the horses are assembled!" ”
Wang Gu looked at the more than forty disciples on horseback behind him, and scolded Yu Wu in his heart for being a fool, if he hadn't divided thirty percent of the horses to intercept something, he would now have a cavalry equivalent to the other party!
But it doesn't matter, as long as he can entangle the opponent's horse team for a moment, he can overwhelm the enemy with his numbers.
He pointed in the direction of Su Chengyu and shouted to the horseback riding disciple: "Up! ”
Zhao Hei took the lead and shouted, "No Life Holy Order, kill the evil demons!" He raised his bow and rushed out. More than 30 people behind him also shouted and went straight to Su Chengyu and the others.
When the people saw their cavalry go into battle, their morale was immediately boosted, and slogans such as "killing evil demons" and "robbing the rich and helping the poor" were shouted in a mess, and they rushed forward.
Su Chengyu's side did not engage the opposing cavalry, and after knocking over a few riders with a round of guns, he got on his horse and ran south.
Zhao Hei was overjoyed when he saw this - you must know that in the cavalry confrontation in the era of cold weapons, whoever wants to use his ass against the enemy is looking for death, and the other party can "hug * chrysanthemum" at will behind you, and it is basically impossible to turn back and cut people when riding on a horse.
When Su Chengyu and the others galloped across the mound where they were hiding at the beginning, they suddenly slowed down their horses.
Zhao Hei saw that the two sides were getting closer and closer, and immediately took out his bow, and was about to set up an arrow, when his men and horses happened to run past the mound, and his afterglow seemed to catch a glimpse of someone behind the mound.
The Zhu family brother who was hiding behind the mound waited for a few horses to run in front of him and pulled the rope in his hand violently, only to hear three loud noises, and three fires instantly burst out on the ground behind Zhao Hei.
Although the explosion itself only knocked over seven or eight horses, the loud sound startled the horses, some of them were so frightened that they stayed in place, and some even turned around and ran back. The riders on the horses were equally shocked, and the crotches of the few men closest to the explosion were wet.
Su Chengyu collectively reined in his horse, turned his head, lined up in a horizontal queue, hung the firearm on the saddle unhurriedly, took out swords, spears and other weapons, and launched a wave of charges towards Zhao Hei and the others who were stunned. However, Su Chengyu, a novice cavalryman, could only watch from afar.
Zhao Hei saw that the other party was killing him, and he had the intention to command his subordinates, but the horse under his crotch was seriously startled, and he actually ran wildly towards Shi Lin's side, as if he wanted to find the same kind of people for comfort.
There was no suspense in the result, on the one hand, it was well prepared and the whole team charged. The other side is still in a circle, and there is no formation to speak of.
Zhao Hei was the first to be picked off by the oncoming Shi Lin. Immediately after that, the guards rushed through the chaotic enemy formation, and Zhao Hei's subordinates basically followed him to see the childless old mother.
Su Chengyu followed and ordered everyone to change back to the firecracker.
At this time, Wang Gu's army had just run a hundred and ten paces when he saw dozens of horses running towards him, and at a glance, he knew that it was not his own.
It's still the old routine, get off the horse, let go, and get on the horse to open the distance.
Cold sweat had begun to ooze from Wang Gu's head, although the enemy only had a few dozen men and horses, there were almost no casualties so far! On his side, plus the cavalry and those killed by the carriage, a total of hundreds of people were lost.
As a veteran rebel, he keenly smells danger.
Sure enough, when Su Chengyu's side dismounted and released the gun again, the incense people began to be frightened.
"These people must be demons and monsters, please be a lifeless sage!"
"Master Wang, please come up to God! I can't stand it......"
"Fu Seal! That's right, swallow the talisman! ”
A word woke up the person in the dream, and at that moment, dozens of incense people took out the talisman seal and swallowed it, and the movement under his feet naturally slowed down.
The disciples in the sect urged forward, but these people blocked the way of the team, and suddenly the team began to be chaotic.
When the incense people found out that they would still be hit through their bodies by lead bullets after swallowing the talisman, they began to cry and shout "Mother without a child, save me" and fled in all directions.
The chaos has finally turned into a collapse!
The disciples of the White Lotus Sect also had the intention of running away in the face of an enemy that they couldn't touch, and they didn't need to let Su Chengyu put another shot, just these people trampled on each other and killed a lot.
At dawn, the chaos was finally brought under control.
Shi Lin led the people to surround the rebels to the river, and gathered together near the blown up carriage.
"Squat on the ground with your hands behind your head!" Shi Lin shouted in a thunderous voice according to Su Chengyu's request.
There were about 300 people in total, and they immediately squatted down. At this time, in their subconscious, Su Chengyu and these people were the "monsters" they couldn't attack, and everyone couldn't resist in the slightest.
The Zhu family brother took away the weapons of the rebels with more than a dozen guards, and they didn't have so many ropes to tie them up.
Before the team collapsed, Wang Gu took a few henchmen to jump into the river and escape.
He looked back at the disciples and incense people who were pointed at by the fire gun, and felt very sorry in his heart for provoking this "rich man", thinking that when he swam to the other side, he would have to go to Qingliu to inform the master.
Seeing that the riverbank was only three or four feet away from him, he took a hard breath and was about to speed up the paddling, when he saw dozens of elegant scholars standing on the other side of the river, looking at him with a smile.
Wang Gu couldn't laugh, because these scholars were holding fire guns in their hands.
Brother Zhu looked at the swords, sticks, bows and guns all over the ground, and couldn't help but sigh, "Your Highness is really like a god with soldiers!" He knew that there was still a place of gunpowder buried on the other side of the mound that had not been used, and that no matter how strong the enemy was, he might not be able to please him.
In fact, Su Chengyu didn't expect this simple dragoon tactic to be so useful.
The name of the dragoon is domineering, but it is actually a kind of mounted musketeer that first appeared in France. They rode horses and dismounted to line up their guns, mainly to move behind the enemy's phalanx, and then to disrupt the enemy's formation with rifle attacks.
However, Su Chengyu's side had the advantage of weapon range, and the opponent's military quality was too low, so he quickly defeated these White Lotus Sect rebels.
Chen Xiongfei, Xia Fuxian and others escorted Wang Gu and his three subordinates across the river, and when they saw the hundreds of prisoners on the shore and the corpses scattered on the battlefield, they were terrified, and they couldn't believe that this was the result of His Royal Highness the King of Chenzhou with less than sixty guards.
Su Chengyu glanced at Wang Gu and asked, "Run to report the news?" ”
"Yes, ah, no, don't dare ......"
"How many of you still have in Qingliu County?"
"This ...... The little one is an errand runner, I don't know! ”
When the incense people saw that they boasted about their invulnerability all day long, Master Wang, who could be on the body of the gods, actually looked like a soft bone, and immediately reported and exposed.
"He is a disciple of Lord Ye Xiang, Grand Master Wang!"
"We're with him!"
"The little ones are all bewitched by this trick, so they are enemies of the adults......"