Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 557 Solving the Bandits 10
The speed of the bandits was very fast, almost in the blink of an eye, they had already rushed to the foot of the mountain.Sun Kewang took the lead and rushed to the forefront. He was proud of the bravery and swiftness of his brothers, but looking at the Heluo new army, he seemed not at all surprised by their assault, and he didn't even react much. There were three rows of crossbowmen holding strong crossbows in front of the artillery position, looking at them indifferently.That cold gaze made Sun Kewang feel a little uncomfortable, and he hummed inwardly.What are you crazy about, don’t you rely on your own equipment?But you think that a mere thousand crossbowmen can stop us, you are too arrogant!Yes, if you fire so many crossbows at the same time, we will indeed suffer a lot of casualties, but after shooting one arrow, the crossbowmen will have no combat effectiveness, and they will only be massacred by us!

Sun Kewang raised his sword and roared wildly: "Don't worry about these crossbowmen, rush over and kill them all!"

The bandits then shouted wildly, the bloodthirsty roar echoed the rumbling guns, it was extremely frightening.

Then, they saw a large cloud of white smoke suddenly rising from the artillery position of the Heluo New Army. There was a loud scream, and a large continuous and dense curtain of fire rose from the ground and covered it fiercely!Multiple rocket launchers fired at the same time, and more than 100 shells equipped with high-explosive incendiary warheads screamed all the way, hitting the hillsides, at the foot of the mountains, in the ravines... followed by an airtight explosion, and the flames seemed to The giant beast tore through the ground and roared out. The trees were either cut in half or the crowns of the trees were ignited in fire. The rocks were shattered in the deafening roar of the explosion. The gravel and shrapnel flew everywhere at explosive speed. Whoever got involved would be unlucky!I don't know how many bandits suddenly became as light as a swallow at the moment when the explosion point shone out, and were thrown into the air by the explosion shock wave. More of them were torn into pieces and disappeared in the firelight that shot up into the sky.

Sun Kewang looked back in horror and saw a sea of ​​flames.Yes, the entire hillside was turned into a sea of ​​flames, and most of the two thousand old battalion elites who followed him had disappeared.There were endless screams in the sea of ​​flames. Many brothers from the old camp were covered in flames. They screamed and rushed out of the sea of ​​flames, twisting their bodies, trying to put out the flames on their bodies. It can still be extinguished!

All the rogues were stunned, looking at the balls of flames rushing up high like a demon, their faces turned pale.They were not less bombarded, but had they ever seen such a horribly lethal firearm!With just one blow, most of the old battalion elites were gone, and the rest were blocked by the fire and most likely couldn't come back!Zhang Xianzhong's eyes were a little distracted, and he murmured: "Demonic law, demonic law, it must be demonic law!" He suddenly remembered something, and shouted wildly at the foot of the mountain: "Back back! Come back quickly!"

withdraw?Where to withdraw!

Sun Kewang wanted to retreat, but the problem was that the back road had been cut off by the hell-like sea of ​​flames, and the formidable formation of the Heluo New Army was ahead, and they were caught in the middle, making it impossible to fly!Even before he recovered from the shock of being covered by rockets, those Heluo new troops who had been silent since the beginning of the war suddenly let out a deep roar: "Wind! Wind! Wind!" In other words, this roar is more terrifying than the roar of the devil. If it were them, the first reaction would definitely be to raise the shield to cover the vital parts of the body, and pray that the shield is thick enough to block the crossbow arrows—although this is not realistic.But Sun Kewang and the others have no experience in confronting the Heluo New Army head-to-head. In the past few months, the Heluo New Army has been sticking to the barracks to block the mountain pass, and rarely took the initiative to attack. This also means that they have a good understanding of the tactics of the Heluo New Army. Limited, such a dangerous signal, they don't know anything about it.

It doesn't matter if you don't know anything, because they will know when they put it.

thump thump thump———

The first row of archers pulled the trigger, and a foot-long crossbow shot out of the air. It took only a little more than a second before there was the terrifying muffled sound of the arrow tearing flesh.A large number of rogues who were still in a daze fell down, most of them were shot in the chest, with arrows in the chest and out in the chest, and some of them were shot in the head and chest several times, and they were dead before they fell down.After a round of volleys, the bandits finally came back to their senses, screaming and raising their shields, but it was useless. The second round of crossbow arrows followed, and the small round shields in their hands were blown away. They nailed their arms to the shields. As for those who didn't look at the cards, it was even worse. Under the arrows, they instantly turned into hedgehogs!

Sun Kewang's heart sank to the bottom.They suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the rockets, their retreat was cut off by the fire, and a large number of crossbowmen stood in front of them, unable to advance or retreat, they were already in a desperate situation!The crossbow arrows were shot like raindrops, there were screams everywhere, blood splashed, so many people crowded together, it was the ideal target for the Heluo New Army, each crossbowman was pouring out the crossbow arrows at a speed of five arrows per minute ...they will change their muskets in the future, so they have to act quickly, otherwise they won't have a chance to act.This was the most thorough massacre. Those elite rogues had no power to fight back, and they fell in clusters under the arrows. No matter whether they were advancing bravely or retreating, no matter whether they were crying for mercy or cursing loudly, respond to their , It is always the continuous metal trill and the rainstorm of crossbow bolts when the formation-breaking crossbow is fired.When Sun Kewang came back to his senses, there were only three to four hundred people left around him, and the rest were either blasted to ashes by rockets or shot down by crossbow arrows, unable to stand up again.

The elites of the old battalion all looked at Sun Kewang with pale faces, hoping that this brave and cunning general would find a way to lead them out.Looking at these brothers, Sun Kewang gave a wry smile and said, "Rush forward and fight them to the death!"

It can only be the.The elites of the old battalion stared at the bloodshot eyes, roared and rushed towards the crossbow array, like trapped animals, making people intimidated.

Xue Siming nodded slightly: "Very brave." Then he added: "Unfortunately, victory is not won by being brave!" He sat still on his horseback, and under his gaze, the three rows of archers were silent, Fired in turn, the rogues who rushed up fell down one by one, and when all the crossbow arrows in the second arrow box were shot, there were not many of the three or four hundred rogues left.

Sun Kewang is lucky, he has not been hit by an arrow until now.His mind went blank, he just stared at the group of crossbowmen who were firing crossbow arrows continuously, shooting down his brothers one by one, with a terrifying roar in his throat, and swung their long knives fiercely.Now there is only one thought left in his mind: "Rush over and kill them all!"

This is an impossible task.

After the last crossbow arrow was shot, the three rows of archers retreated, exposing four large Francois cannons, the bowl-sized gun muzzles were facing them with black holes, and more than 200 longan-sized steel balls were wrapped in silk in the gun chambers. Strictly attached to the medicine pack, the fuse connecting the medicine pack is smoking...

Boom boom boom!

Four chilling cannon shots sounded in no particular order, and thousands of steel balls swept over like an iron broom... There was a loud scream, and at the moment when the cannon sounded, Sun Kewang He didn't know how many steel balls had been pierced into his head, chest, shoulders, and abdomen. He suddenly felt unprecedentedly relaxed, and his whole body flew up...

He did fly up, a dozen steel balls knocked his feet off the ground, flew backwards, and broke in two in the air.At a young age, he followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the north and south, and with his bravery and cunning, he repeatedly defeated powerful enemies and gained a great reputation. The titan who turned against Li Dingguo and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty was killed by the terrifying war machine of the Heluo New Army before he had time to display his talents.The four Franco cannons dealt the final blow to the surviving elite rogues. After the four cannons rang out, there was no one left standing.

The elite of the old battalion of two thousand bandits were wiped out.

Zhang Xianzhong threw away his hat in pain, pulled his hair and wailed heart-piercingly.Whether it was the discount of the two thousand elites of the old battalion or the death of the titan Sun Kewang, he was deeply hurt, but now he didn't even have time to cry. It became more fierce, and their infantry began to attack the mountain pass, trying to capture the mountain pass and surround the Emperor's Temple. At this point, King Zhang was basically a salted fish.He saw that those who took the initiative in the mountain pass were monsters of unusually tall stature and covered in thick iron armor, striding forward with big axes on their shoulders. .And behind these monsters was a group of grenadiers, with horizontal knives in their mouths, holding long-handled grenades in their hands to ignite, and threw them at the camp of the rogues with all their strength.Grenades rained down, and the camp of the rogues exploded and wailed.In the era of cold weapons, morale is very important. Zhang Xianzhong's troops are more than six times more than Xue Siming's. The problem is that they are bombarded by howitzers and rockets in turn, and then they are bombed by grenades. They have no morale at all.When they saw the hoplites hacking open the gate of the village with big axes and rushing in, the rogues guarding the mountain pass collapsed and either surrendered or fled. The side rear wings outflank the past.

Now, the rebellion expert has no time to think about how to preserve his strength. He has to think about how to preserve his life.

The Heluo New Army gnawed past one camp after another, like a broken bamboo.For them, the biggest problem is not how to take down these outlying camps defended by only a few hundred people, but how to destroy troublesome things such as Juma and Deer Village in the shortest time, and clear a passage for the cavalry to pass through—— ——This is indeed more troublesome than capturing these camps.Zu Dale's thousand Guan Ning cavalry were impatient for waiting, because the cavalry in the mountains could not use their skills, so these Guan Ning cavalry had sabers in their hands, and they were waiting for the massacre. For a long time, I didn't even pass the mountain pass, what a joke!

Zu Dale was about to say something to Xue Siming, when suddenly there was a shout from the mountain pass: "Zhang Xianzhong has escaped! Zhang Xianzhong has escaped!"

The back door of the Emperor's Temple camp was full of flames, and Zhang Xianzhong led a group of old battalion elites out of the way, and fled towards Xiaoshan as if they were flying down the mountain.At this time, his entire defense line was in disarray. Many rogues rushed to fight for the sky and rushed wildly, blocking the road for a while. I found a way and left without dust.As for the life and death of the tens of thousands of rogues, it doesn’t matter, it is their blessing to survive, and they will accept their fate after death. As long as these old camp brothers are still there, he can pull tens of thousands or even 10,000+ people in a year or so team!

Zu Dale yelled: "Damn it, follow me!" Kicking the horse's belly, the Liaodong war horse neighed wildly, and rushed out like a cannonball, leaped over the remaining deer village, and chased Zhang Xianzhong.Thousands of Guanning iron cavalry followed closely behind on their horses, rushing away like a stream of iron.Everyone is cavalry, but cavalry is different from cavalry. Most of the cavalry among the rogues are monks halfway or surrendered.Guan Ning's iron cavalry was extremely fast, stepping straight across the blindly fleeing bandits, they didn't even bother to swing their knives to kill the flies running around, they just bit Zhang Xianzhong and didn't let him go.In the blink of an eye, Guan Ning's iron cavalry bit the tail of Zhang Xianzhong's old battalion, and the sabers made of high-carbon steel were raised, forming a series of blue-gray curtains. This is basically a vivid lesson of riding and slashing that every survivor will never forget. Thousands of Guanning cavalry rampage, no matter how they slash, there is only a dead end in front of them One!
Zhang Xianzhong couldn't fly without wings.

(End of this chapter)