Chapter 183 Battle of Qi County 1

Xiao Tianjian didn't order loudly until this moment: "It is today to defeat the enemy. Our Xing Tianjun will take the suppression of the troops and the people as its own responsibility. Today, Xiao and the brothers of the army will fight together and will definitely defeat Zuo Liangyu, the bandit army, here!" Kill it!"

With the sound of an extremely exciting valley, the gates of several battalions were opened in an instant. A team of soldiers of the Xing Tianjun rushed out of the camp with live ammunition. They stepped on the drums one after another, almost in a dazzling way, opening outside the battalion at a fast speed. In the whole area of Gaoyang Town, west of Qi County, more than a dozen square arrays of different sizes were densely arranged, like fish scales, and they were lined up in front of the camp.

Zuo Liangyu was in the middle army, and his expression suddenly stiffened. He watched Xing Tianjun rush out of the camp like a trick, and set up a series of phalanxes in front of his army. His speed was so fast, the military appearance was at its peak, and the team was almost what he had never seen before. Suddenly, his heart thumped. After looking at the Xing Tianjun array, he immediately asked Mr. Qian, who was in charge of the sentry, "Where are the thief cavalry?"

Mr. Qian, the sentry, also looked at the Xing Tianjun array in front of him in fear. After scanning around, he did not see the team of the thief's cavalry, so he stammered and replied, "Your Excellency, I didn't find the thief's cavalry!"

Zuo Liangyu is a very smart guy. After reviewing the lineup of Xing Tianjun, he did not find that a large number of cavalry of Xing Tianjun appeared, and he realized that there was going to be a big deal today. There is no reason for the thief army not to bring out a large number of their cavalry in such a battle. If the Xing Tianjun did not bring them out. If you are a soldier, then it means that the thief cavalry is not in the camp at all these days, so they are not in the camp, where can they be?

"Soon send a sentry to search for the surrounding area to search for the thief cavalry! Come and report me as soon as you have any news!" After hearing this, Zuo Liangyu was suddenly furious, but now he didn't have time to deal with this Mr. Qian and ordered angrily.

This Mr. Qian also realized that the situation was wrong. He went down and began to arrange a sentry to spy Pegasus and began to search for the location of the Xingtian Army's cavalry.

In his early years, Zuo Liangyu worked under Cao Wenzhao's command and served as a soldier in the border town. Over the years, he has fought hundreds of battles, large and small. He was still quite keen on the battlefield. He had defeated Zhang Xianzhong many times, and even disrespected Xiong Wencan's life, which finally proved his judgment. It's right. Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng were defeated, so he accumulated quite a lot of war experience. As soon as he found that a large number of cavalry of the Xing Tianjun did not appear, he realized that he might have been tricked. However, at this time, both armies have opened their posture. He could not choose to withdraw from the battlefield and withdraw from this place at this time. Because at this time, morale can not be vented. Once he brazenly orders the collection of troops, it will definitely bring down the morale accumulated in the army for several days. Once the Xing Tianjun takes the opportunity to cover up, he will definitely be defeated in this battle.

So at present, he can only continue to swing forward and fight against Xing Tianjun, looking forward to crush Xing Tianjun by his military advantage. Otherwise, the consequences may be unimaginable, and he can also see that Xing Tianjun is actually hiding his strength these days, which is killing his morale. At this time, the generals under his command He has long been slacking off. On the other hand, Xing Tianjun has been recuperated these days. He has suffocated his breath and is about to come out desperately.

With the sound of drums from the two armies, the two huge armies began to rush at each other without hesitation, but in comparison, it can be found that the officers and soldiers on Zuo Liangyu's side had almost no formation. They just allocated various arms. A straight line is advancing towards the Xing Tianjun.

On the other hand, although the Xing Tianjun side is also moving forward, it maintains the neat formation. The various phalanxes cooperate with each other and push forward, and there is no scene of a swarm of bees swarming forward. At this time, the two soldiers and horses show their gap.

With the sound of a cannon, the prologue of the battle in Gaoyang Town, Qi County was completely opened. In an instant, a mass of gunpowder smoke rose in the artillery array of the Xing Tianjun array, and then the continuous roars rolled around the battlefield like thunder. The shells roared out of the gun and hit it heavily. In the array of Zuo Liangyu's officers and soldiers, there was a roar after another. Some of these shells quickly exploded in the officers and soldiers' array, and quickly blew up the dense crowd into pieces of open space, so that the soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command flew across, and the broken limbs and arms suddenly flew with the smoke. In the middle of the sky, the scream immediately sounded.

Although Zuo Liangyu also has cannons on his side, he has also begun to fire one after another, but how can their cannons be compared with that of Xing Tianjun? Although a small number of cannonballs have fallen into the Xing Tianjun, most of these cannonballs are solid bullets, at most they can open a bloody alley in the Xingtian army's array, far from The flowering bombs used by Xing Tianjun are powerful, and their gun range are limited, and their use is far less mature than that of Xing Tianjun's norms. On Xing Tianjun's side, it is gathering fire and firing. When a round of shells are hit, a large number of soldiers and horses on the side of the officers and army will be beaten in a mess. They will either disperse on the ground or turn around and run away, while the battalion's three The pound light artillery was pushed to the front of the array and directly aimed at the officers and soldiers. It was also a fire-conveling launch. Each round of firing opened a large area of blood alleys among the officers and soldiers.

Such a dense formation is the best target for the cannon. There is almost no need to aim carefully. As long as it is not too low or too high, almost every shot will not fail.

The short and intensive shelling made Zuo Liangyu know the strength of Xing Tianjun. Seeing the scene of flesh and blood in his own team in front of him, Zuo Liangyu immediately retreated, but he did not dare to order the withdrawal of troops at this time. He could only continue to supervise the army forward and use human flesh to withstand this kind of iron rain.

As soon as the two armies exerted their strength, they began to approach quickly. The soldiers and horses of the reserve battalion were arranged in a slightly back position between the phalanx of the main battalions to make up for the lack of the main strength of the Xingtian Army. They lacked effective firepower, so they were used as a melee assault force, while the main battle camp was protruding in front of the army. Give full play to the advantage of their firepower.

With the proximity of the two armies and seeing that the other party was approaching their distance of sixty or seventy steps, the archers and a small number of firemen of the army began to be transferred to the front of the army. They loaded their bombs, opened their bows, and made a posture to shoot arrows.

And the several barracks of Xing Tianjun's marching in parallel suddenly stopped moving forward in a rapid sound of drums. The officers in the army roared, and rows of firearms came out more and more, flattening the birds carrying on their shoulders or self-fires. With the officers With a roar, he then hit the officers and soldiers on the opposite side in rows.

Such a dense crowd does not need to aim too accurately at all, not to mention the distance of sixty or seventy steps. It is basically impossible to use this kind of smoothbore to accurately hit a large target, so the firemen do not do fine aiming. After the pipe is put down, they immediately start to fire.

A row of projectiles flew out, and a piece of blood flower floated up in front of the officers and soldiers. Many archers of the officers and soldiers had no time to release an arrow, so they wailed and turned over. A mass of blood fog rose on their bodies and fell to the ground and howled in pain.

And the nightmare of the officers and soldiers has just begun at this time. Just as some strategists said before the machine gun was invented, war depends on the number of rifles that can win. The large quantities of Xing Tianjun's equipment are actually the prototype of rifles, and at present, among these generals under Xiao Tianjian's command, it is only All kinds of birds and self-made fire are equipped with more than 2,000. The number of firemen is basically as much as 30% or even as 40% of the troops of the battalion. Once they fire in turn, they can shoot hundreds of projectiles almost every time. Even if the hit rate is limited, they can overturn nearly a hundred officials in a round. Soldier.

Although the officers and soldiers also shoot arrows randomly, the killing and damage caused to Xing Tianjun at the same distance is very limited. Fifty steps can be said to be the range limit of the rifle, and the number of bows of officers and soldiers' equipment is not very large. After all, this thing is much more complicated than knife and gun manufacturing, and the manufacturing time and cost are very much. It far exceeds the manufacturing speed of the fire gun. It really makes a qualified strong bow. It will take two years for well-crafted craftsmen to make it. Therefore, many archers in Zuo Liangyu's army are even equipped with single bows and use light arrows. For armored enemies, a little farther away and shoot on the body can't make it for the enemy. In any form of injury, after the two sides got closer, they were sentenced as soon as they fought. Xing Tianjun's rows of gunfires stretched almost like raindrops. At this time, in order to ensure the sustainability of firepower, the three-stage attack was adjusted to five-stage attack. The firefighters were divided into five waves and opened fire back and forth, never stopped.

In just a short time, in front of Xing Tianjun, a large number of officers and soldiers were shot to the end, and the archers who were transferred to the front of the array were killed and injured. Some archers were so scared that they lost their bows, turned around and ran back. However, someone was still knocked to the ground by the bullets from behind. The whole army was in such a close position. Under the shooting, it immediately became a mess. Some generals saw that the situation was wrong, so they sent the knife hand to raise the shield to block the bullets of Xing Tianjun, trying to let the knife hand block the bullet and continue to press the soldiers and horses. At first, it was more effective. After all, the penetration of the smoothbore gun at a distance of sixty or 70 steps was limited, but when When the officers and soldiers finally approached a distance of about 30 steps, the shield of the knife player also lost its function. The bullets heavily penetrated the shield in their hand and hit the shield holder. Suddenly, the knife player also fell down in rows.