Chapter 497: War
Jin Gang didn't know how Qin Shuhuai learned that he had a sharp golden flag in his array, but since it was broken, he didn't refute it.
As a result, the soldiers on both sides were furious.
They all think that the other party tore up the agreement first, and harbored evil intentions, and wanted to put themselves to death!
The soldiers in the Ming army rejoiced, fortunately, our commander was the Marquis of Qin, and he saw the tricks of the Demon Sect at a glance, and arranged an ambush early! Otherwise, I am afraid that none of us will be able to escape!
And the soldiers in the Demon Sect Array were even more furious, this Qin Shuhuai was really a villain who didn't believe in his words! It was really puzzling that this kind of person could become the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance and trick so many masters into coming to serve him! Or, these self-proclaimed martial arts people were originally a group of villains! They were all in the same stream, but it was also a matter of course!
Zhao Wuxian was holding a long knife (since he was captured, his iron claws were naturally "confiscated" by Qin Shuhuai), Jin Ge pointed at Qin Shuhuai ironically, and shouted, "Vertical thief, the old man will ask you one last time, will you let go of my apprentice?"
Qin Shuhuai said sharply, "Ben Hou, with the greatest kindness, released the five apostles you taught, as well as you, the old horseman. But you want revenge, and you insist on killing us completely, and you ask the soldiers behind me, do they agree to release them?"
When Qin Shuhuai's skilled soldiers heard this, they immediately roared in unison, "Disagree! Disagree!"
Zhao Wuxian was furious, "If you don't let me go as an ambassador, today the old man will ask you forty or fifty thousand people to bury the ambassador's apprentice!"
At this time, Qin Shuhuai would not have lost his momentum, and immediately shouted, "Old horseman, are you really a dead man for the 45,000 soldiers of my Ming army? Since you insist on fighting, then Benhou will accompany you to fight! Meng Wei, where is the head of the Demon Sect ambassador?"
When Meng Wei heard this, he immediately pulled out his waist knife and slashed through the neck of the ambassador apprentice with the momentum of a flash movie, and the ambassador's head flew up in an instant.
Meng Wei took his head, threw it at Qin Shuhuai, and shouted, "The ambassador's head is here!"
Qin Shuhuai slapped his hand in the air casually, and suddenly set off a strong wind, scraping the head of the ambassador disciple under Zhao Wuxian's horse, and rolling several meters away with a grunt.
The Demon Cult Array suddenly exploded.
"Ambassador!"
The exclamations in the Demon Sect array came and went. Several demon cultists ran up quickly, picking up the head of the ambassador's apprentice, grief-stricken.
Kill the ambassador and a bloody battle is inevitable.
Zhao Wuxian waved his knife and shouted, "The whole army is ready to attack!"
But before his words fell, a brilliant firework rose in the sky.
Red, like blood.
Then, countless bows and arrows shot towards the Demon Sect array, like stabbing a hornet's nest, dense and roaring.
The Demon Sect didn't expect that Qin Shuhuai had already set up an ambush here, and there were so many ambush soldiers. They didn't have many big shields on either side of their ranks, so they suffered heavy losses at once.
In this case, the best way is naturally to kill it immediately and get entangled with Qin Shuhuai's army, so that the arrows of the Ming army are useless.
Zhao Wuxian raised his knife and swung his sword, and roared, "Kill!"
The Demon Sect soldiers suddenly rushed towards the Ming Army like a tide.
In the front row of the Ming army, a full four or five hundred shield soldiers were arranged, and these shield soldiers immediately stood shoulder to shoulder in the middle of the road, blocking the Demon Sect like a breakwater.
The road was about six or seven meters wide, and it was all blocked by dense shields of the Ming army. So the Demon Cult soldiers immediately spread out to the weeds and shrubs on both sides of the road, extending to the foot of the mountains on both sides, intending to surround the Ming army on both sides.
The Ming army was not stupid, and under the calm command of Cao Wenzhao, it also quickly spread out to both sides, blocking the impact of the Demon Sect.
No matter how strong the Demon Sect is, it can't break through the defense line of the Ming army in an instant.
The soldiers on both sides on the front line fought fiercely on the road and in the grass! Zhiren, Shangshui, Wang Datong, and others naturally did not sit idle, and when they saw that the shield soldiers on the road could not collapse for a while and a half, they went to help the Ming army in the grass one after another. With their joining, the Ming army in the grass would naturally be able to hold on for a little longer.
In short, as soon as the battle began, the soldiers of the Demon Sect wanted to rush up, but they were stopped by the Ming army.
This action of the Ming army is very important.
Because the front was blocked, the soldiers behind the Demon Sect couldn't go up, and they crowded together. What's more, after they went from three columns to five, the personnel became more dense.
The Ming army's archers, crossbowmen, bird-fired soldiers, and thunderbolt throwers were happy.
In the face of the densely packed Demon Cult soldiers, they almost didn't need to aim, and they shot accurately. As for the thunderbolt thrower, it was even cooler, a thunderbolt went down, and with a bang, a circle of demon sect soldiers fell.
If the Demon Sect knew that there was an ambush on both sides, it would not have appeared in this formation if it was killed. Of course, if the Demon Sect was still led by Jin Gang, it was estimated that it would not be so miserable. It's just that Zhao Wuxian was consciously humiliated, was eager for revenge, and forcibly seized the command, which led to the current situation.
"Whoosh!" "Boom boom!" "Bang bang!"
In the Siling ditch surrounded by four mountains, the passionate slaughter movement reverberates.
The ambush soldiers of the official army were not in a hurry to attack, they could harvest the demon cult soldiers in pieces with just arrows, bird guns and thunderbolts, and they fought happily.
In the Demon Sect Array, in order not to let Qin Shuhuai see it, Rui Jin Qi did not equip them with their standard weapon strong crossbow, and there were only 800 archers among the 15,000 people. These 800 archers immediately found a suitable position and immediately launched a counterattack against the dense Ming army.
The Ming army was not iron-clad, and fell one by one with arrows.
However, as soon as these Demon Sect archers were exerted, they were "taken care of" by the Ming army archers and thunderbolts, and with a dense rain of arrows and thunderous explosions, these archers fell one after another, and the firepower was quickly suppressed.
Among Hong Chengchou's army of 30,000, there were 1,000 skilled archers and 300 crossbowmen, while among the 45,000 soldiers brought by Qin Shuhuai, there were 2,500 archers, 7,800 crossbowmen, and about 1,000 bird soldiers, most of whom were ambushed on both sides of the road. If you fire in one salvo, you can shoot more than 5,000 bows and arrows, crossbow arrows and projectiles, and it is not difficult to imagine how dense and lethal it is.
Some people think that the lethality of the archers will not be too strong to break the armor. This is a misconception. If the range is right and condescending, when the bow and arrow draw a full parabola, the force of the dive is enough to pierce the armor.
Not to mention the strong crossbow, the strong crossbow of the Ming Dynasty will break the armor within 100 meters.
Therefore, when ambushing, the Ming army must let the strong crossbowmen ambush at the foot of the mountain, and the archers ambush at a higher position, so that the double-layer firepower can reach the strongest. Generals who know a little about military affairs know this.
In addition to bows and arrows and crossbow arrows, the thunderbolts brought from Lanzhou were treated as stones by the Ming soldiers and thrown down without money. Condescendingly, throwing it down is not a matter of effort at all.
The demon cultists in the back had no choice but to brave the rain of arrows, projectiles, and thunderbolts to attack the mountains on both sides. Otherwise, when the Ming army's archers, crossbowmen, bird-gunned soldiers, and thunderbolt fighters are finished, the Demon Sect can simply admit defeat.
Naturally, the Ming army would not rush down too early, and they would only fire arrows and fire before the Demon Sect came up.
When the Demon Sect rushed up the mountain and engaged the Ming army in a short battle, they had already suffered at least 4,000 casualties! To put it bluntly, no matter how strong a soldier was, he would only be a mortal in the flesh after all.
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