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Chapter 1708
Niu Jizong was also hit.

He didn't see this scene with his own eyes, but the soldiers who came to report described the situation in detail. Looking at Guo Yungui's pale complexion, his hanging arms, and Li Daming's restless expression, Niu Jizong knew this. A wave of offense has lost half of it before it even started.

Hundreds of people suffered huge losses under this volley blow. The number of people killed on the spot was no more than a hundred, but the number of injured exceeded 400, and almost all of them lost their combat effectiveness. If they survived, the key is that morale was hit hard.

Who can concentrate on attacking forward when a fatal blow is dropped on the top of the head at any time?
Suppressing the irritability in his heart, Niu Jizong's face remained the same, even better, and said gently: "It's my fault. I didn't expect them to have tiger squatting guns, but how did the tiger squatting guns come here?"

"It is said that there is a platform on the east side of the bridge, which is much higher than our side. Maybe they used this platform to condescend to fire their cannons, but they didn't expect their tiger crouching cannons to be so powerful that they could cross the river. And the shooting range is at least a hundred paces away."

Li Daming bit the bullet and explained that he expected the enemy's firecrackers to be quite powerful, but he didn't expect the tiger crouching cannon to be so powerful.

Firecrackers and artillery are completely two concepts. It does not mean that if you can produce powerful firecrackers earlier, you can also make artillery more powerful.

The artillery of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been around for a long time. During the Yuanxi period, it fought with the Japanese on the coast of the south of the Yangtze River. The tiger squatting cannon made great achievements, but the range of the tiger squatting cannon was between fifty and sixty paces. Casting cannons is difficult.

In particular, iron artillery is either too heavy to be transported, or the wall is too thin or the iron is not good enough to easily explode the chamber. They can only maintain their inherent state, so it is rare to break through [-] steps and cause huge damage, but this one The range of the returned tiger squat cannon was as far as a hundred paces, which once again dealt a heavy blow to the group of people.

Niu Jizong remained silent.

The threat of the tiger squatting cannon is only around the bridgehead, and it needs to be charged again after firing.

"Which high ground might Shaochun's archers hit?" Niu Jizong finally asked.

Li Daming shook his head: "It's no problem to shoot across the river, but the platform is more than ten steps away from the river bank, and the terrain is a little higher, so I'm afraid it won't have much lethal effect if you shoot it over, and the opponent also has Covered by a shield, this kind of strong shooting may not be able to stand the archers."

The firearms of the Xuanfu army are not worth mentioning, so Niu Jizong didn't even bring them this time, but Ji Shaochun's archers are well-known in the Xuanfu army. You also need to suppress the opponent, Daming, your manpower will not affect you much, if you add another hundred people, rely on the camp van, and launch the attack immediately, I don't have much time for you!"

The last sentence already had a bit of murderous intent, Li Daming's heart trembled, he quickly saluted to show his compliance, and hurried out.

Niu Jizong had to admit that Niu Jizong still had some courage. When hundreds of archers began to spread out along the river bank and started shooting at the Henan highlands, Li Daming immediately organized his soldiers, regrouped, and quickly launched an attack on the bridge relying on the camp car.

The extremely well-covered camp formation cannot be penetrated and destroyed by firecrackers. It is filled with sandbags, which makes it have a strong defense capability. Two hundred soldiers pushed the camp car to the front south section step by step, and encountered the set Mud barriers and earth and rocks hindered. At this time, the death squads in full plate armor could only go out, and while covering with wooden shields, they began to clean up the mud barriers and earth and rocks, but this inevitably gave the eagle mouth that had already been erected. Gunners have a chance.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of gunshots, the eagle-billed gunmen started firing methodically.

Even if the plate armor is only twenty steps away, it can't resist the shooting of this kind of heavy firecracker, unless the shield and the plate armor are overlapped.

But how could it be possible to cover it so well when clearing mud barriers and earth and rocks?

In just one stick of incense, more than a dozen Banjia soldiers have been shot and killed, and the project of clearing mud barriers, earth and rocks has not even been completed by one-third.

But at this moment, Li Daming couldn't care less, and the supervising team was behind him, whoever dared to back down would have to kill him with a knife, and even if he died, he would have to go to the south bank of the river.

He Huchen on the south bank of the river also noticed the Xuanfu army's attack regardless of casualties. The mud barriers and earth and rocks on the bridge were quickly cleared away. The formation advanced to the south end of the bridge.

Accompanied by a protective wall formed by the car array, Li Daming gritted his teeth and ordered all the soldiers to start marching along the south side of the bridge.

At the same time, the spearmen gathered together by the hedgehogs had already assembled in place, ready to deal with the attack of the Xuanfu army once they rushed out of the bridge.

"Ding Yuan, Pengfei, pay attention to your two departments. When the Xuanfu army's camp car comes out, ignore it for now. Wait until they rush across the bridge and start looking for opportunities to open fire."

He Huchen ordered the spearmen to stand by, and at the same time ordered the firecrackers to assemble into four square formations, encircling the entire south end of the bridge within a radius of fifty steps from four angles, and could use the built mud wall as a cover, so that they could spend their leisure time Shoot and kill the soldiers behind the exposed camp van.

If the battalion cart is pushed in front of the mud wall, the spearmen can give full play to their ten-foot-long spears to stab them, and these soldiers who intend to charge will encounter a second round of interception and killing.

One after another, the battalion vehicles began to push out of the bridge head, and more and more soldiers swarmed along the stone bridge to the south end of the bridge. Soon the camp vehicles formed a huge arc-shaped protective formation at the bridge head, and the soldiers began to Holding the shield and bowing, he continued to push the camper towards the mud wall crazily.

He Huchen's face turned slightly cold, and he suddenly raised his hand.

Following an order, the eagle-beaked guns on the high platforms on both sides fired intensively first, and first shot at the soldiers pushing the camp cart.

When the soldier pushing a camp cart was shot, the camp cart stopped immediately, while the camp cart next to it continued to move forward, and a huge gap immediately appeared between the two carts.

The musketeers, who had already aimed at the gunners, began to shoot intensively at this time. The dense storm of metal projectiles immediately became a butcher's knife for harvesting people's names within such a short distance.

A round of thirty soldiers hardly needs to aim. Under the torches held high around them, they only need to point the direction and pull the trigger. The soldiers immediately collapsed to the ground.

Unhurriedly turning around along the arc to let go, the second wave of firecrackers who had already been ready to go repeated the same movements, the same screams, flying blood foam, splattering plasma, and occasionally Mixed with broken limbs and veins, the gurgling blood didn't even have time to penetrate the frozen hard soil, flowing out along the terrain, like a dark night Shura field.

When the camping vehicle next to it discovered the gap, it hurriedly retreated to make up for it, but the camping vehicle that had already moved forward in line with the other end immediately showed a gap, and the fire gun who had been waiting for this moment for a long time The soldiers opened fire mercilessly, and then savagely stabbed the camp that showed flaws from the other side.

This situation continued to play out in the entire formation of three and forty-two battalions that had been pushed over, and the gap was getting bigger and bigger because of the chaos.

The eagle-beaked blunderbuss attacked first, breaking the rhythm of the camping vehicles, causing a hole in the camping vehicle formation, and then every 100 people assembled into a small square formation, the firecrackers took the opportunity to follow up and shoot from the hole to make up the knife.

Within a distance of not more than twenty steps, this kind of continuous shooting hardly gave the Xuanfu soldiers in the camp any chance. No matter whether they were wearing armor or holding shields, they were useless. The shot is enough to penetrate any armor and shield.

This is purely a one-sided massacre.

It's just that the Xuanfu army at the north end of the bridge had no idea that such a huge trap was waiting for them.

Follow-up soldiers poured in like a tide, and in the circular arc surrounded by mud walls at the south end of the bridge, it was like an endless sponge, continuously swallowing up the influx of new blood. clean.

The explosions of the firecrackers that sounded successively enveloped the entire south of the bridge in a layer of pungent gunpowder smoke. This repeated shooting made the gun barrels of the firecrackers heat up rapidly, but beside each team of firecrackers There is also a reserve team. Once the gun barrel becomes overheated, Qianhu will order an immediate adjustment, let the reserve team press up, and keep firing at a pace.

The spearmen who had been watching were almost useless. Even if a few brave men rushed out, they could only turn into corpses under the thrust of dense spears.

It was the best example of a successful combination of new weapons and tactics, and the truth of the price of not knowing the enemy.

When Niu Jizong and Li Daming realized that the situation was wrong, they had invested nearly a thousand people to charge, but they did not see any progress in the breakthrough. Only then did Li Daming understand the inside story.

The reason why it was so easy to break into the south end of the bridge was because people had already set up encirclement and traps there, waiting for their own side to jump over, but their own side didn't notice it.

Li Daming's department has basically been disabled, Guo Yungui's morale has been frustrated, but they can still fight, but the question is how to break the situation now?

Looking helplessly at a stone bridge, tens of thousands of troops were behind him, and he was unable to use it. This depressed and irritable state of mind made Niu Jizong want to explode.

He had never encountered such a bizarre thing.

(End of this chapter)