492 suicidal breakout

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"This time, Liu Tichun was tossed by Han Tong, and he successfully entered the set, and this muddy bay will be the burial place of this thief army."

Li Zixiao stood on the hillside at this time, and said with a smile to the quartz and others beside him.

"The general has laid such a net here, since they have already come in, don't even think about escaping." Quartz also laughed and said.

"Haha, Stone, I didn't expect you to learn to say flattery now. But you're right, I came in, and I didn't want to leave.

Give me an order Huo Gang, Zhao Zilong, hit me hard, as long as the other party does not take the initiative to disarm and surrender, then kill me. ”

Li Zixiao's eyes showed indifference, and he gave such a ruthless order.

Because this time, Li Zixiao's purpose is to completely annihilate this army of thieves and horses, mainly to kill and injure the enemy, so as to weaken the power in Song Xiance's hands to the greatest extent.

Liu Tichun was frightened by the war horse and was thrown off the horse, although he did not die, but he suffered a lot of injuries.

At this time, he listened to the howls coming from in front of him, and his heart was full of remorse.

However, at this time, he knew that it was not the time to blame himself, and the important thing was to break out quickly, and he shouted loudly to the surrounding thieves: "Don't mess up, the cavalry continues to rush forward."

The rest of the people turned around with me and killed them from the valley mouth, quick! ”

Liu Tichun's words somewhat calmed the hearts of the thieves, and they immediately followed Liu Tichun's order, turned back towards the entrance of the ravine they had just entered, and killed them.

The reason why Liu Tichun ordered this was because he had 3,000 cavalry in front and 4,000 foot soldiers behind.

At this time, if the cavalry were to turn around with the foot soldiers and kill at the entrance of the ravine where they had entered, it would not give full play to the advantages of the cavalry.

This ravine, called the 'mud ditch', has a narrow terrain, and after the cavalry turns around, they can only follow behind the foot soldiers, so it is better to let them continue to charge and rush out through the exit of the ravine in front.

And because he was wounded, he could not continue the cavalry, so he could only follow the foot soldiers behind him and turn around and kill through the entrance of the ravine he had just entered.

I have to admit that Liu Tichun's decision to make this temporary order is quite correct.

But unfortunately, it was already too late, and now that they had already drilled into the pocket of the White Dragon Army, whether it was from the entrance of the valley or the exit of the valley, it was estimated that it would not be easy to rush out.

Thundered!

More than 3,000 thieves and cavalry received Liu Tichun's order,

Soon, Huo Gang, who was arranged by Li Zixiao at the mouth of the valley, could already see a large group of bandits, turning around and rushing towards their valley mouth.

"Haha, it's a good time, it's Lao Tzu's turn to receive awards for meritorious service this time."

Huo Gang saw the thieves and horses who came back towards the entrance of the valley, and he did not have the slightest fear, but shouted excitedly.

Huo Gang immediately raised his head and looked at the hillsides on both sides of the ravine in front of him, where every other distance, there would be a wooden pole inserted.

It was a mark they had made yesterday, and since it was not easy to judge the distance in the valley, they used these poles as a criterion.

Each of these wooden poles was ten meters apart, so that Huo Gang could judge the distance from them through these erected wooden poles at this time.

Thundered!

Just when these thieves fought desperately and turned around and ran back to the entrance of the ravine, they were ruthlessly ravaged by the artillery of the White Dragon Army.

Every time an explosive bomb falls and explodes, in such a dense crowd, in a narrow ravine, a few people, or even a dozen, will fall.

The screams and wails had already resounded, but Liu Tichun didn't care about the injured subordinates at all.

Because in this case, once injured, the consequences are actually very obvious, Liu Tichun is now in a hurry to lead the troops to break out, so he won't care about those injured soldiers.

Liu Tichun's order, at this time, there is only one, charge, charge without dying, as long as they rush out of this ravine, they still have hope of escaping.

If they can't get out, they trapped in this ravine will have only one way to die sooner or later.

As a result, before they could rush to the entrance of the ravine, they had already been killed and injured by the artillery of the White Dragon Army.

Now, the thieves who rushed to the front had rushed two hundred paces ahead, which had already entered the range of the Furlong machine guns carried by the baggage battalion.

The vehicle-mounted Fran machine equipped with the baggage battalion weighs 150 pounds, which is generally lighter than the howitzers carried by the artillery battalion, but the firing range is closer, and the firing range can reach 100 zhang, which is also 200 steps.

This is also after Li Zixiao reformed the artillery of the White Dragon Army, he assigned the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc Machine to the baggage battalion and other war battalions to be used as support firepower.

The six-pounder gun to the thirty-two-pounder gun was assigned to the special artillery of the artillery battalion.

However, at this time, Huo Gang did not rush to order the cannon.

One hundred and eighty steps, one hundred and sixty steps, one hundred and forty steps, Huo Gang's eyes were aimed at the tree trunks erected on both sides of the ravine, always paying attention to the distance of the thieves and soldiers.

"Now, fire!" When the thief soldiers rushed to a distance of one hundred and forty paces, Huo Gang suddenly shouted.

The gunners in the back hurriedly lit the Franc machine on the car.

"Boom!"

In front of the array, puffs of white smoke came out of the cars carrying the Franc machine.

At the entrance of this hundred-step-wide ravine, the front row of the car formation commanded by Huo Gang was composed of forty chariots, all of which were equipped with Franc machines.

Each chariot was equipped with two Franc machines, a total of eighty Franc machines, which were launched at the same time.

Eighty three-tael buckshot shot out of the muzzle of the cannon first, whistling out of the cannon chamber, setting off a bloody storm among the thieves in front of the car formation.

At the entrance of this hundred-step-wide ravine, there were thousands of intruders crowded at this time, and such a dense crowd was really the gunner of the White Dragon Army who opened fire with his eyes closed, and he could hit it.

The lead bullets fired by the Franc machine do not look big, but the lethality is extremely amazing, and those who hit them will die.

It's just that, but compared to the big lead bullets shot out by the Franc machine, these 80 Franc machines caused the most terrible damage, or the shotgun lead that flew out one step later than the big lead bullet.

Each cannon is loaded with hundreds of small leads, small iron sand, as soon as the cannon sounds, countless iron sand comes out with the spray, flying sand and stones, dense, there is no way to hide, there is no way to avoid.

The intruders, who had just been plowed a few gaps in the bandits by eighty large lead bullets, were immediately hit by such a more violent blow.

The thieves who rushed to the front were swept down by the iron sand at once, and they fell down with all the brushes, directly killing dozens of people.

Those who followed behind had not yet recovered from their panic.

Huo Gang had already asked the gunner to conduct a second round of shooting, and with a burst of cannon fire from 'Peng', eighty Franc machines fired another salvo.

A large lead bullet roared, flew into the group of thieves, and directly smashed Liu Tichun's battalion flag flagpole, which made it even more chaotic.

The thieves who were injured and fell to the ground were trampled to death by the thieves who rushed up desperately from behind.

A large lead bullet flew in, and an unlucky thief was shot in the head, and then a thief next to him was directly frightened and vomited.

Because, the thief next to him saw it directly, and half of the head of the thief soldier who was shot disappeared directly, and the scene was extremely terrifying.

Immediately afterward, countless small lead bullets were fired, sweeping through like a sandstorm, and countless fallen thieves fell head-on.

"Go on, don't stop!"

The gunners in front quickly pulled down the bolt and took out the empty sub-gun from the belly of the mother.

Another gunner quickly cleared the chamber of the gun, while the other put another preloaded sub-gun into the belly of the mother, and then inserted the bolt to complete the loading.

After a set of actions, like flowing water, these White Dragon Army gunners didn't even aim at all, and directly held torches to ignite and launch.

The thieves who rushed in front were so dense that the gunners didn't need to aim at all, not to mention that they shot out with scattered bullets.

The vehicle of the White Dragon Army's baggage battalion was already a little hot after the machine fired three shots in a row.

A gunner hurriedly took out a damp cloth from the bucket next to him and surrounded it around the barrel to cool the barrel to prevent the chamber from overheating and exploding.

"Damn, the entrance to the ravine is blocked by the official artillery, so you can't rush out at all, everyone quickly turn around and rush forward!"

Liu Tichun saw at this time that after several rounds of intensive shelling by the White Dragon Army, they had left hundreds of corpses in the valley.

Liu Tichun also finally came to his senses, knowing that the White Dragon Army had obviously expected that they would turn around and rush back from the entrance of the valley, so so there were so many Franc machines arranged here.

Forty Franc machines guarded the entrance of the valley, the dense shotguns were too lethal, and Liu Tichun even saw a white dragon soldier with a musket in front of him, and he hadn't fired yet.

In this way, Liu Tichun knew that they obviously couldn't rush out from here, so he had to order the thieves to turn their heads and rush towards the exit of the ravine on the other side.

In less than a single cup of tea, the thieves were killed and hundreds of people were wounded.

And they didn't even rush over in front of the White Dragon Army's car formation, this kind of battle is the most terrifying.

In particular, many of the thieves were just recruits recruited by Li Zicheng in the Luoyang Valley, and they hadn't even seen blood.

Now they were suddenly bombarded by such dense artillery fire, and the earth-shattering explosion, like thunder, directly destroyed their psychological defense.

Liu Tichun was protected by several personal soldiers, and at this time, he was caught in the ranks of many thieves, and he was also fleeing in embarrassment.

Liu Tichun is really desperate at this time! This kind of people are blocked in such a narrow valley, this abominable terrain, coupled with the sharp muskets and artillery of the White Dragon Army.

It's just too hard for them to break through.

From the sound of the cannon just now, Liu Tichun could tell that at least 70 or more Franc planes were firing, and they never stopped.

Each salvo, first dozens of large lead bullets, ploughed a death passage in their ranks, and then followed by terrible iron sand.

After these two rounds of attacks, the thieves in front of them fell one by one, like a farmer cutting wheat.

"Rush forward, rush out of the ravine exit in front, and you will be alive."

Liu Tichun shouted loudly, boosting the morale of his thieves.

It's a pity that all this has long been expected by Li Zixiao, who has arranged a large number of musketeers on both sides of the valley.

As a result, Liu Tichun took his subordinate thieves who were beaten back, and fled towards the exit of the valley in front of him in the direction of the valley cavalry rushing.

At this time, on the hillsides on both sides, there was a thunderous sound, and the continuous sound of gunfire crackled like fried beans.

At this moment, the unsuspecting thieves and soldiers fell in pieces, and Liu Tichun was already desperate, with soldiers around him, who were constantly falling in order to protect him.

Before he saw it, a soldier stood in front of him, and a lead bullet hit his head, and suddenly his whole head burst open, like a smashed watermelon.

"Uh-uh......"

At this moment, Liu Tichun's head was blown open by his subordinates, and he was splashed with a red and white thing, and he suddenly felt nauseous.

Liu Tichun has followed Li Zicheng to rebel for many years, and the number of people killed by him has long been uncountable, and he has tried all kinds of killing methods.

However, at this time, when death was so close to him, Liu Tichun trembled in his heart, it turned out that deep down, he was also afraid of death.

Helplessly, Liu Tichun, who was shot, could only order his subordinates to lie on the ground, which was a good way to deal with shelling and shooting.

However, as soon as they lie down like this, they will not be able to continue to break through, and time will drag on, which is still not good for them.

At this moment, Liu Tichun was in despair, he knew that today, he was probably going to explain here, and the chance of him succeeding in standing out was very small.

Although the unlucky Liu Tichun took his thieves and ran out of the entrance of the ravine, Huo Gang's artillery fire range.

But then they came within range of the musketeers on the slopes of the valley on either side.

The trenches that Li Zixiao had dug on both sides of the valley before were very close to the roads in the valley, only sixty steps.

No matter how desperately the thieves ran forward, it was impossible to dodge, and the muskets from both sides of the ravine were firing, and the thieves were constantly falling.

Every moment, there are thieves who are shot by lead bullets, either die directly, or fall down and scream with their wounds, which makes many thieves desperate and crazy.

After all, as the saying goes, 'a rabbit bites when it's in a hurry', let alone a human.

Some fierce and violent thieves could not bear the pressure at this time, and jumped up from the ground and let out a burst of angry roars.

Then, wielding their long knives, they slew at the White Dragon Army musketeers in the trenches on the slopes of the two wings.

Bang bang bang!

There was a fierce gunshot, and the thieves who rushed forward had just rushed out only about 20 paces before they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the lead bullets that came down.

In the end, there was a 'plop', and all the thieves fell to their deaths.

Although their courage is commendable, this method is no different from suicide, which is completely a suicidal breakthrough.

"I hope the cavalry can rush out, God willing!"

At this time, Liu Tichun prayed in his heart.

Now it seems that it is difficult for these more than 4,000 foot soldiers to rush out, and Liu Tichun hopes to keep the 3,000 cavalry.

(End of chapter)