Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 142 Shenhuo Flying Crow and Pear Blossom Spear, Tang Jiabin Has the Head
All [-] chieftain troops left the city and attacked the Ming army camp.Qi Dazhuang hurriedly faced the battle. After laying down the line formation, he ordered his people to place the two "cowardly elephant lanterns" at the front of the military formation.

Tang Jingbin could not change his bad habits. When the two armies faced each other, he did not immediately order an attack. He still rode a two-wheeled wooden cart to the front of the battle, waving a goose feather fan and shouting.

"Qi Dazhuang, you were defeated by our army last time, you escaped by chance, and dared to go back. This time, this general will teach you whether to come back or not!"

Qi Dazhuang sat on the horseback and said: "Jain Tang, don't be crazy! Isn't it because you have elephant soldiers in your army? Hmph, if you have the ability, don't send out elephant soldiers, I guarantee you will beat the shit out of you!"

Tang Jiabin said: "With a sharp weapon in your hand, why not use it? Qi Dazhuang, this general will let you die at the feet of an elephant today, turning you into a pulp!"

"Hahaha, come and try if you have the guts! I've found a way to restrain the elephant soldiers, so I'm not afraid of you!" Qi Dazhuang shouted.

Tang Jiabin looked at the two cowardly elephant lanterns, and said with disdain: "How can you resist the war elephant with these two paper things? Qi Dazhuang, I think you are scared out of your wits and lost your head! Listen to the elephant soldiers!" Order, attack!"

As Tang Jiabin waved the goose feather fan, forty war elephants roared and ran wildly, shaking the ground.Sure enough, Chieftain Maitreya's army had more than [-] war elephants. It seemed that Guest Tang had reservations about the last battle.

The forty war elephants ran together, like forty solid cannonballs fired by Hongyi cannons, no, more shocking and unstoppable than cannonballs.

"Keep calm, don't panic, and prepare to shoot!" Qi Dazhuang shouted, waving his knife, and said, "We have a cowardly elephant lamp, and war elephants dare not approach..."

Before he finished speaking, the two war elephants rushing to the front swung their trunks, and suddenly knocked the cowardly elephant lights away.The oil lamp was overturned, and the paper-stuffed elephant lamp burst into flames, turning into flying ash in an instant.

"How could this happen?" Qi Dazhuang was annoyed.

Tang Jiabin laughed loudly: "Trying to scare off the war elephant with something made of paper, I think you Qi Dazhuang is just a whimsical idiot dreaming, die!"

War elephants rushed into the ranks of the Ming army and rampaged.The soldiers of the Tusi Army took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, and beat the Ming army to the point where they were running away with their heads covered.

Qi Dazhuang panicked and drove his horse to gallop, shouting: "Run away, run away..."

The Ming army was immediately defeated and scrambled to flee to the west. Their weapons and flags were thrown all over the ground, and even a lot of gold and silver fell down.

"Chasing!" Tang Jiabin stood up with a smug smile on his face.

The chieftain army followed the Ming army for several miles and killed many people.An aide said to Guest Tang: "General Tang, we have already won the victory. The poor should not chase after me. I am worried that I will be ambushed."

Tang Jingbin said disapprovingly: "The Ming army has become like this, how can there be any ambush?"

The staff member said: "There is a narrow road not far ahead, about three miles long, with hillsides on both sides, which is not conducive to the charging of war elephants. If the Ming army sets up an ambush there, it will be very bad!"

"Besides, they chased and killed them all the way. I have carefully observed that there were at most 2 Ming soldiers who fled. But this time Qi Dazhu came back and brought [-] soldiers. Where did the other [-] soldiers go?"

Tang Jiabin frowned, and then said: "The narrow road to the west is only three miles long. Even if there are ambushes, you can pass through quickly. What are you afraid of? The Ming army was helpless against the war elephants, and they happened to catch them all. Needless to say, continue Chase!"

In the time of a cup of tea, the chieftain army pursued to the narrow road.The elephant led the way, and the soldiers followed closely behind. They ran a mile away, and there was no other situation except that they saw the Ming army fleeing in a panic.

Tang Jiabin raised his brows and said to the staff member, "How can there be an ambush? Huh, you are purely worrying..."

Before the words were finished, fire crossbows were fired suddenly on the hillsides on both sides, and sharp arrows rained like rain.

At the same time, the Ming army who had been running away suddenly stopped and turned around. More than 2000 soldiers set up a formation, methodically moved out many strange things, put them on the ground, and then lit them on fire.

In an instant, those ignited things whizzed into the air and shot at the elephant.

As it approached, the soldiers of the chieftain army could see clearly that there were countless burning crows flying in the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and the flames were rising!

"It is rumored that the Ming army has a firearm that looks like a crow and can fly into the sky to attack the enemy. It is called the Shenhuo Flying Crow. Could it be this thing?" A staff member turned pale with shock.

"What, Shenhuo Flying Crow?" Tang Jiabin called out.

"Wu Bei Zhi" records: "Shenhuo Feiyao used thin bamboo as a basket, and thin reeds can also be used. The body is as big as a catty chicken, and it should be long rather than round. It should be sealed with tissue paper outside, filled with open flame explosives inside, and then sealed with tissue paper. Good; install the head and tail front and back, cut the mounted paper into two wings, and nail both sides firmly, like a crow flying; use four big fires under the body, nail two under each wing obliquely, drill a hole in the back of the crow, put it in Four gunpowder threads, about a foot long, are nailed separately and connected to the four fires, and the gunpowder thread ends are twisted in one place; before use, the fire is ignited first, and it flies more than a hundred feet away, and it will fall to the ground. Use paper against the enemy, burn camps on land, and boats on water, and you will be invincible.”

To put it bluntly, the Shenhuo Flying Crow is actually a gliding incendiary bomb with a rocket booster. Due to the rocket boost, it can glide through the wings and carry out long-distance attacks.

Elephants are ferocious beasts. With their huge bodies, rough skin and thick flesh, they are like meat tanks among ferocious beasts, and there are few opponents.

But beasts also have weaknesses, that is, they are afraid of fire, and elephants are no exception.

Thousands of divine fire flying crows descended from the sky, like raindrops pouring down.The gunpowder burned out, the crows' clothes were on fire, and they fell one after another. The war elephants were unable to avoid it and were in a panic.

The narrow path was filled with the howling of elephants, and the elephant soldiers were in chaos, unable to restrain the war elephants.

At this time, the ambush soldiers on the hillside suddenly jumped out, divided into two teams, front and back, and rushed towards the enemy with roars.

A group of soldiers in front ran to the elephant with pear blossom guns in their hands, took out the fire pocket and lit the fuse at the end of the gun barrel, and the gun spewed out a fierce fire, burning the elephant.

The predecessor of the pear flower gun was the flying fire gun that appeared in the Jin Dynasty.

Flying guns, the method of making it is to use 16 layers of yellow paper as a tube, about 2 feet long, use willow charcoal, iron residue, magnetic powder, sulfur, arsenic, etc. as medicine, pour it into the tube, tie it behind the gun head, and fire it. , burn more than 10 steps away, people dare not approach.When fighting, burn first and then stab, which increases the effectiveness of the spear.

In the Ming Dynasty, the flame-throwing tube of the Flying Fire Gun was improved from bamboo and paper to metal, and because it looked like pear blossoms blooming when spraying flames, it was renamed the Pear Blossom Gun.Until the Qing Dynasty, it was still one of the military equipment.

The frightening thing about the pear flower gun is that in addition to spraying fire, the smoke it emits is highly toxic, making it hard to guard against.

As soon as the flames of the pear flower guns of the soldiers in the front team were extinguished, the soldiers in the rear team rushed forward. There were about 500 of them, and they were the Modao team.

The trunk of an elephant is equivalent to a human hand, and its function is irreplaceable, but it is very fragile.

The elephants whose trunks had been cut off screamed and ran wildly. Some wailed and fell to the ground, crushing many people beside them to death;

Before the infantry of the Chieftain Army who followed could understand, they were trampled to blood by the fleeing elephant soldiers and cavalry.

Qi Dazhuang used the method taught by the emperor to cut down with three axes, and the situation on the battlefield was instantly reversed.

Previously, the Ming army pretended to flee, but now it was the turn of the chieftain army to flee for their lives, and they were defeated without compromise.

Tang Jiabin was out of his wits, couldn't recover for a while, and fled to Maitreya City in a daze while being carried by his subordinates.

"Impossible, it's impossible to lose, Xiang Bing is invincible..." Tang Jiabin roared, refusing to believe the facts in front of him no matter what.

Qi Dazhuang said with a smile: "Your Majesty is still resourceful, the invincible elephant army has been defeated! Soldiers, this time it is our turn to be elated, go back, capture Tang Guest alive, and take Maitreya City!"

The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted. Qi Dazhuang led [-] cavalrymen and chased out of the narrow road first, staring at Tang Jiabin's back.

In order to save his life, Tang Jiabin abandoned his two-wheeled vehicle a long time ago, jumped on a horse, and whipped the horse under his crotch with a whip, wishing he could grow wings.

"The one with the goose feather fan is Tang Jiabin, don't let him escape!" Qi Dazhuang shouted, and the soldiers also shouted.

Hearing this, Guest Tang hurriedly threw the goose feather fan.

"The one wearing the goose feather cloak is Guest Tang, don't let him get away!"

Hearing this, Guest Tang hurriedly took off his goose feather cloak.

"The one with the beard is Guest Tang, don't let him get away!"

Hearing this, Guest Tang hurriedly cut off his beard with a knife.

"The one with the head is Guest Tang, don't let him get away!"

Tang Jiabin heard this,...he was in a mess, wanting to cry but no tears.

The defeated remnant of the chieftain's army rushed to the gate of Maitreya City in panic like a bereaved dog. However, they were suddenly surprised to find that the flags on the city wall had been changed.

A man wearing a dragon robe stood on the city wall and said with a smile: "Prince Tang, I have been waiting for you for a long time!"

(End of this chapter)