Chapter 63: The Battlefield
Like the tanks in the Battle of the Somme, the appearance of gunpowder shells brought Dou Jiande a huge shock. No one knows what that loud noise is, but the power of that thing is in the eyes.
Corpses everywhere, stumps and broken arms covered almost the entire battlefield. There are people and horses, and there are no flies at the beginning of spring. Otherwise, it must be a world of flies here, it's too scary. The heavily armored cavalry, who was heavily armored and invulnerable, would have been defeated so quickly and so miserably!
Also shocked was Li Er, who dropped a thigh less than a foot away. I can't imagine how one thigh can fly over the distance of three hundred steps. Wei Chigong's arm strength is amazing, but it is still an impossible task to throw a human leg three hundred steps away.
Although his heart was shocked, Li Er knew what he should do at this time. With the command flag waving in hand, the infantry of the Don Army began to advance on all fronts. On weekdays, it should be Duan Zhixuan's Xuanjia Army who goes into battle at this time, but Li Er, who has a divine weapon, is not ready to let his heart and soul charge into battle. The Xuanjia Army is the army that started the Li family, and everyone is carefully cultivated by the Li family. After a series of battles, there were already heavy losses. Now that there is Yun Hao, let them do some hunting and killing work. Anyway, after Dou Jiande's rout for a while, a lot of cavalry was needed to chase and kill.
"Huh! Hehe! The Tang sergeant struck the cuirass with the blade in his hand, and shouted a trumpet in his mouth. With each sound, take a step forward. There was a loud roar that seemed to make the earth tremble. As soon as he took two steps, Dou Jiande's Great Xia army formation began to be chaotic.
"Those who are hindered will be killed!" The war is imminent, and Dou Jiande has also put away his kind eyebrows and kind eyes in the past. Compassion is not in charge of soldiers, righteousness is not wealth! Now is the time to work hard, and the guy who doesn't work hard for the sake of the great cause of the future has only one way to die.
The guy with the red cloth wrapped around his head was holding a ghost-headed broadsword, staring at the soldiers with fierce eyes. As long as someone dares to flee backwards, it is absolutely unambiguous to be stabbed in the head.
Standing in front of Dou Jiande's army were all some people who had been temporarily organized. For this big battle, Dou Jiande can be regarded as ruthless. A human leader can lead ten acres of land, and if he can cut off ten human heads, he can return to Hebei to be the landlord. Compared with the official position of wealth and wealth, land is more favored by these people. For generations, they were people who worked in the soil and had an instinctive desire for the land.
In front of the fierce Tang Army, it was them who were calm. They looked at the Tang Army on the other side, not one by one. It's acres of land that can be reproduced by children and grandchildren, and it's nothing if the opponent is fierce. It's easy to kill a pig, but who will pay the price of a ten-acre land? Risk is proportional to return, which is the most simple concept of the peasant brothers.
The Warlord slashed dozens of people before the soldiers were quiet. Dou Jiande sadly found that these guys were only temporarily quiet. If the war really doesn't go well, there is no doubt that they will flee immediately. I can't stop it if I want to!
Dou Jiande was a little embarrassed, and the tigers and wolves he trusted had now become quails. But those people who don't trust him have now become the mainstay. He wanted to give the weapons and armor of his soldiers to the people, but it was too late.
The tiger wolves were overfed, and they all became fat pigs. After defeating Meng Haigong, the lavish rewards have made the whole army lose their fighting spirit. They all wanted to go back to Hebei as soon as possible to enjoy their happiness, and now Dou Jiande regretted that he had not followed Ling Jing's advice and postponed the distribution of those loot.
The Tang army approached step by step, and suddenly the Tang soldier stopped. One by one, the shields were erected, and Dou Jiande let the Eight Bull Crossbow be fired. Finding that Tang Jun was accurately stopped outside the range of the Eight Bull Crossbow, those big black guys appeared in the field of vision again.
Dou Jiande felt that his throat was a little dry, and he swallowed his saliva but found that there was no saliva in his mouth at all. I've just learned the power of things that make loud noises, and if you smash them down again, you won't have to fight this battle. The generals under him tightened their horses one by one. If the Don Army continues to throw those things, they will barge their horses and leave.
Yun Hao also wanted to use gunpowder shells to continue to smash their military formations, in fact, he used the trebuchet as a howitzer for later generations. Now it looks like it's working well, especially since the explosion creates a huge shock wave. I just looked at the corpses on the ground, and many of them were intact. They were all shocked to death, on the battlefield of the Hereafter. There are far more soldiers killed by shells than by shrapnel.
It's a pity that the weak gunpowder workshop of the Tang Dynasty can't withstand this kind of war. The gunpowder bullets that had been accumulated so easily had just been exhausted. Fortunately, I still have incendiary bombs in my hand. I don't know how powerful the incendiary bomb under the sheepskin wrap will be. I have experimented with pigs and dogs, and it is the first time that it can be used on the battlefield.
After calculating the distance, Yun Hao stood on the roof of the carriage and gritted his teeth and turned around and ordered: "Sheepskin bullet, three shots in a row!" ”
The infantry is no better than the cavalry, and it does not have high mobility at all. Three salvos will not deal with cavalry, but it will be suitable against infantry.
Sheng Yanshi immediately adjusted the ruler to the highest level, and the operators ignited the sheepskin incendiary bomb and immediately struck the hammer. They've all seen the power of incendiary bombs. Looking at the incendiary bombs that are sparkling, I always feel a little panicked.
Twenty more things with Mars flew over, and they had just been launched. Xu Yuanlang did not hesitate to leave the horse, and many generals around him did the same.
The orange flames rose high in an instant, and then countless burning people ran for their lives. Hearing the screams, people's scalps exploded, and even Cheng Biting Jin, who was used to killing people, couldn't help but take a few steps back. This is not a human movement, and this sound should come from hell and not from the human world.
Li Er licked his lips and saw the power of the incendiary bomb. He had imagined the explosion of this thing on the battlefield in his mind, but seeing it still made him feel terrified. Look at the people who are on fire and running around in a terrible way. Li Er felt that the roots of his hair were standing on end, and it was definitely not too much to describe the scene in front of him with a tragic death.
Those who are driven crazy by the fire, they will hold on to everything in front of them. It's like a drowning person grasping at a life-saving straw, and those who are not burned frantically greet their robes and even their relatives with weapons in their hands. As long as they are picked up by those people, both of them are dead.
The air was filled with the smell of barbecue, and Qu Tutong, who usually liked the smell very much, felt very disgusted, and now the most important thing to do was to vomit.
Li Shentong's face was calm, and his hands kept rubbing his beard. But the constant regurgitation betrayed his not calm stomach.
"Oh my God!" Niu Jinda's hand fell to the ground with three strands of Tuotian fork, and he didn't know it.
Wei Chi Jingde calmed the black horse, and looked at the chaotic enemy formation in a daze.
Master Sheng Yan only does one thing, and that is to load and launch, launch and reload. After the three sheepskin incendiary shells were fired, the gunners seemed to be drained. I sat on the ground, not tired but scared. If the oil bomb is not done well, they will be the fate of those people on the other side.
Sixty incendiary bombs did not cause much damage for an army of 100,000. However, the mental blow was extremely violent, even if he covered his ears. The screams of those soldiers who were set on fire continued to drill into their brains. It is unimaginable that the brothers who are still stirring horses and spoons in a pot in the morning. Now it has become a pile of burning coke, and many people are not afraid of death, but they are really afraid of this way of dying.
After three rounds of incendiary bombs were fired, smoke was already billowing in Dou Jiande's military formation. Dou Jiande's face turned pale, and the army was completely in chaos. Many generals were busy fleeing, and they didn't know what kind of weapons Li Tang's army had. Those guys in heavy armor couldn't run away with fire all over their bodies, and the scene of howling there scared many people.
The army was crumbling at an irrepressible rate, and the soldiers threw away their weapons. He even took off his armor and just wanted to stay away from hell on earth. The gunpowder bomb had already brought them a huge shock just now, and the tragic scene after the explosion of the incendiary bomb completely broke their fighting spirit.
Countless people were howling and running, and they didn't understand why they were howling. All people's minds are empty, and there is only one word that governs their will, and that is "run".
The shock of the incendiary bomb to Li Er was huge, but as a qualified commander, he knew what he should do. At the sound of an order, the horn sounds!
"Knock" "Knock" "Knock" ...... The beat of the war drums became more and more rapid, and the infantry in the front row of the Tang Army immediately dispersed to both sides. Countless cavalry rushed out from the rear, and the sound of the horses' hooves was more urgent than the beat of the drums. The tide-like cavalry shouted and rushed towards Dou Jiande's Great Xia military array.
The front formed by the panicked people was broken through like soft eggs. Li Tang's cavalry was like a fierce hungry wolf pounced on the Great Xia soldiers in front of him!
The already chaotic military formation collapsed in an instant. The undecided soldiers made up their minds in an instant, and they followed the example of their robes, throwing away their blades and taking off their armor as they ran. It seemed that as long as you were lightly armed, you would be able to get rid of the cavalry behind.
Li Tang's cavalry shouted, and the horse lance had already been left on the enemy's body. The horizontal knife is the most durable weapon at this time, with the help of the speed of the war horse. They were able to slice through the backs of the enemy with ease, and many of them took off their armor. They don't even have to use force to inflict huge wounds on them.
"Flameout! Flameout! Yun Hao yelled eagerly, Dou Jiande was finished. These bastards are still lighting torches, ready to fire a fire at any moment. At this time, the incendiary bombs were fired again, and it was not Dou Jiande's men who were burned to death. And the cavalry that killed Li Er, if he accidentally burned Li Er, Li Yuan would tear himself to pieces.