Chapter 508: Becoming a Demon
It was the first time for Meng Hu to command such a large army, and because Qin Shuhuai thought that he was impulsive by nature, he did not let him bring too many soldiers.
Tuo Cao Huachun's blessing, he finally had such an opportunity, and naturally wanted to behave well - he thought that the helper had a misunderstanding of himself, and he was not a person with developed limbs and a simple mind!
The place where the Ming army was ambushed was at the mouth of the valley. Because the sides of the valley were too steep and had just experienced a landslide, it was not possible to garrison troops. Meng Hu deployed all his troops on a high ground directly opposite the mouth of the valley, which was only twenty or thirty meters away from the collapse area, and it was condescending and extremely advantageous. And if the Demon Cult wants to support the gentle slope, it must climb this high ground.
As soon as the battle on the gentle slope began, Jin Gang sent a good hand to inform Zhao Wuxian, so at this time, Zhao Wuxian had already received the news.
He was anxious to cross the last landslide out of the valley, and then climb over the hill in front of him, so that he could immediately support the gentle slope, and join forces with the brothers on the gentle slope, so that the Ming army would be taken by surprise.
The Ming army on the high ground, under the command of Meng Hu, watched with bated breath as the demon sect soldiers below passed through the landslide area one after another, and then climbed up towards the high ground where they were.
After about three or four hundred demon sect soldiers passed through the landslide area, Meng Hu roared, "Brothers, do it!"
As soon as the voice fell, several flares immediately went up.
The three hundred crossbowmen immediately pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrows roared and rushed past the collapse area, and the demon cult soldiers who were climbing the slope were caught off guard, and they were all hit by arrows and rolled down the slope.
At the same time, the thunderbolt of the Flame Banner was in full swing. The two hundred and fifty brothers of the Flame Banner were all selected from the strong Jianghe gang and had been specially trained in throwing, so they were very good at throwing accurately.
"Boom! boom!"
Countless thunderbolts rained down on the landslide area. The soil in the landslide area must be soft, and after the thunderbolt explosion, it will set off a burst of reddish-brown soil, and as soon as the number is large, the soil will fly all over the sky, covering the sky and the sun, which is extremely spectacular!
The Rivers Gang Fire Banner men threw only one round (one thunderbolt per person), and the blast surface completely covered the entire collapse area. The area of the landslide area is about 2,000 square meters, and there were originally three or four hundred demon sect soldiers passing through, except for a few who were lucky enough to run away, and almost all of the rest were killed or seriously injured.
Why? Because the soil is soft, you can't run fast at all, and sometimes the whole calf is not in the soil when you step down, and it is difficult to pull it out!
And the three or four hundred demon sect soldiers who had already passed before, immediately rushed towards the high ground frantically when they saw this, wanting to enter the thunderbolt camp of the Ming army as soon as possible and cover the passage of the brothers behind.
Waiting for them were a dense array of crossbow bolts and a liquid with a pungent smell.
Many Demon Cult soldiers fell in the rain of arrows, and many Demon Cult Soldiers began to smoke and fester, and pus and blood flowed all together after being drenched by this liquid, and some could even see Sen Sen's white bones.
The Demon Sect soldiers were all terrified! This kind of liquid was very familiar to them, it was the "rotting corpse water" unique to the Qingshui Banner of the Sect, how could there be the Ming army on the other side? Could it be that the brothers of the Qingshui Banner had already encountered an accident, and their equipment had been captured by the Ming army?
However, whether they were shocked or puzzled, the cottage Qingshui Banner of the Jianghe Gang on the high ground was powerful! This was the first time they had sprayed people with "green gong water", and they were usually trained to spray scarecrows only with water, and they were ridiculed by the other brothers in the gang as children playing in the water, and they held their breath, but now when they saw that this thing was so powerful, they couldn't help but raise their eyebrows one by one.
Under the double service of crossbow arrows and green Gongshui, there were only about a hundred of these three or four hundred demon sect soldiers left, and they no longer dared to get up and rush up, but lay on the ground motionless, waiting for changes.
Seeing this, the Ming army on the mountain ignored them, only about 100 people, and they couldn't send troops down to engage with them in a short battle, so they disrupted the deployment. The Ming army is concerned about the Demon Sect in the collapse area.
However, to their disappointment, the Demon Cult temporarily stopped advancing after being attacked.
Zhao Wuxian was taken aback when he learned that the army had been attacked, and immediately ordered the march to be suspended!
The practical problem soon lay before him: to continue to advance, if he wants to rush to the high ground ahead, the loss must be small, and it will take at least nearly an hour to return to the gentle slope if he retreats the same way, and it is difficult to say how many brothers will be left on the gentle slope by then.
After only thinking for a while, he immediately ordered all the experts in the Xuantong Realm above the third rank to gather in the team, except for the Five Elements Banner, and charge first as a death squad, striving to rush to the opponent's high ground in one fell swoop, disrupt the opponent's thunderbolt camp first, and then ordinary soldiers rush again.
Soon, more than 1,200 Xuantong Realm third-rank and above masters were assembled. Whether in the army or in the martial arts, the warriors of the Xuantong Realm are considered to be strong soldiers, and the third rank or above in the Xuantong Realm is considered to be a strong soldier among the strong soldiers. In the Demon Sect team, not counting the Five Elements Banner, a force of 10,000 people can draw out 1,200 people above the third rank of the Xuantong Realm, and if you count the Five Elements Banner with 1,500 people (the cultivation of the Five Elements Banner is at least the third rank of the Xuantong Realm), this proportion is as high as 27%, which is unique in the world. It is necessary to know that the proportion of ordinary Ming troops is about 3%, and a martial arts sect can only reach about 20% at most, such as Shaolin.
All of these good fighters have an extra layer of armor, and the hundreds of people who rush to the front are equipped with large shields to improve their defensive capabilities.
Zhao Wuxian gave an order, and more than 1,200 Demon Sect masters immediately rushed forward in a fast and orderly manner, including the two masters of the Three Apostles and the Five Apostles.
The soft soil does not slow down their pace, and the more than 200-meter-long landslide area can be passed by an average of only a dozen steps per person. At their speed, more than a thousand people were in a posture of seven or eight people in parallel, and it only took more than a minute to pass through.
The officers and soldiers frantically threw thunderbolts at the collapse area, and in just one minute, at least one of the people of the Flame Banner threw two, which is five hundred!
Of the five hundred thunderbolts, at least four hundred and thirty exploded. I only heard the loud sound echoing in the valley, the smoke of gunpowder filled, and countless pieces of broken iron and soft earth hidden in the thunderbolt flew together, and the whole valley shook.
The whole valley was covered in mud and smoke!
But at a certain moment, one after another demon cult soldiers rushed out of the fog, like ghosts breaking through the fog!
Most of them were covered in muck, blood, and soot, and most of them were in rags, and each of them had more or less wounds, some with a broken hand, some with their intestines, but they still killed them like demons.
In this situation, it is a veteran of the Ming army who has been in battle for a long time, and he can't help but tremble in his heart!
The Demon Sect is really a Demon Sect, and these people have become demons!