Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 429 Thunderbolt Formation
On the Twin Female Peaks, flags were flying, and many people were watching the battlefield below from a distance. Looking down from here, the battle by the river was very clear.

The two sides have been deadlocked by the river for nearly half an hour.

Of course, everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, because in places where the Southern Han army cannot see, behind the Qin army's forward position, the Shenhuo army's cannons have roughly completed the stabilization, loading, and proofreading procedures, because the distance is very close. Put on aiming without difficulty.

At the rear of the artillery position, the auxiliary soldiers also carried a large number of rafts and prepared.

The battle enters the next stage.

The horn sounded from the rear, and the Qin army began to retreat slowly.

Seeing this, the Southern Han army on the other side burst into cheers. They probably thought that the Qin army was afraid of retreating. After all, the Southern Han army had not won a single victory since the start of the war. Wouldn't this break the myth that the Qin army was invincible!

Many Southern Han soldiers were even more excited, and even the formation moved a little too fast, and the front line was a little scattered, but they quickly pressed down to the river.

To be honest, Pan Mei looked down on all this and understood their excitement. As a person who has been fighting for a long time, he understands the hardships of war best. Many times, many lives are filled, but there is no satisfactory result, not even comfort. No.

But this is the cruelty of it, it is the ultimate means of violence that transcends moral humanity, there is no morality at all, and there is no benevolence at all.

The excitement of the Southern Han army lasted only for a while. When they were excited and thought that they would repel the Qin army and advance to the river, the Qin army retreated in advance, revealing the prepared artillery positions behind.

The pitch-black muzzle and the reinforced gun carriage to prevent huge recoil force were the reasons why the Qin army stood against each other for half an hour.

Seeing that the Shenhuo Army was ready to go into battle, Pan Mei almost breathed a sigh of relief. Not only him, but also the generals, clerks, and judges who were watching the battle seemed to all breathe out at the same time, and they were all very neat for a while.

After many battles over the years, everyone has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Shenhuo Army.

Yun was by the river, and when the Southern Han army on the other side hadn't reacted to the change of the Qin army, the loud noise instantly tore the river surface, and the ripples on the water surface spread rapidly. Bursts of blood blossomed at the front of the Southern Han Army.

The high-speed roaring stones and iron beads instantly turned the splashed blood into a mist. The blood-colored mist diffused in the Southern Han army, and a large number of soldiers in the front line wearing heavy armor fell down like straw swept by a strong wind. A huge concave gap spreads deep into the position.

The people in front had been beaten to pieces, the blood mist filled the air, flesh and blood were mixed with gunpowder smoke, and thousands of projectiles wrapped in subsequent shelling rushed to the rear to be exposed, and the archers of the Southern Han Army who had not yet reacted to what happened.

Those unlucky people who died didn't understand why they were obviously in the rear, and the front was a dense front line, and they were colleagues in heavy armor. Why did they suddenly change from the rear army to the front army?

Not enough time for them to think, the bloody bullets instantly knocked them down in large numbers.

They were really unlucky, because the Qin army's artillery did not strike across the board, but concentrated its firepower on several points in the front to open up paths.

After the preparation of artillery fire, the Southern Han Army's position was in a mess, with heavy casualties, the front line was completely disrupted, and the organization was in chaos. The Qin Army did not give them time to recover from their bewilderment. When they got to the river, they took it directly. In some places where the water surface was wide, the auxiliary soldiers jumped into the water to move the pontoon bridge in desperation.

Then the Qin army's heavy troops immediately stepped on the unsteady pontoon bridge and killed it aggressively. The river with a width of more than ten steps can be easily crossed. The formation no longer existed, and the Qin army easily rushed in, interspersed and divided the Southern Han army's large formation, forming a partial flanking attack on two sides and three sides.

On the Twin Female Peaks, the situation of the battle is even more clear at a glance. The cannons hit the infantry in a dense formation. Even veterans who have experienced many battles feel scalp numb every time they watch it, it is too bloody and cruel.

After the Qin army landed on the south bank, they rushed forward and quickly penetrated the formation of the Southern Han army through the gap opened by the artillery. The southernmost troops had already penetrated the line of the Southern Han army and went to the rear, chasing several officers. He wanted to run on horseback, but the Qin army behind him threw a spear in his hand and stabbed him to death beside the horse.

Another small group of passing cavalry rushed towards the main banner of the Southern Han Army from the side. The general of the Southern Han Army fled to the rear under the protection of dozens of cavalry. They did not dare to take the main road but crossed a paddy field. The horse got stuck in it and dismounted. walk.

The handsome flag at the rear was directly chopped down by the cavalry with giant axes, and replaced with the red and black flag of the Qin army.

Soon, the resistance in the front also collapsed, and a large number of Southern Han soldiers began to flee to the rear. The soldiers in the front line were the most unlucky. They didn't even have a chance to escape, and they were already surrounded.

However, in just two quarters of an hour, the situation of the battle turned forward. The wide land to the south of the river and the fields criss-crossed with rice paddies became a situation where a large number of deserters fled around like ants, like headless flies, and the soldiers of the Qin army were chasing after them. In general wars, this stage is also the most fruitful.

However, because there were too few cavalry troops crossing the river, the Qin army's pursuit and killing was obviously not enough. Many soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty who ran fast fled into the mountains and forests on the east and west sides and survived.

However, some unlucky people ran towards the camp in the south, but the comrades there did not dare to open the gate of the camp to let them in, because the Qin army was chasing after them, and in the end they were all shot and killed by the Qin army's rangers on the outskirts of the camp. , fell by the ditch, and the Southern Han army in Dazhai did not send troops to respond, nor did they organize a counterattack.

The follow-up Qin army did not chase randomly, but guarded the river, let the reserve team of the follow-up ten battalions cross the river, and assembled a large number of troops in the south of the river.

But what surprised Pan Mei and the others was that, from their point of view, in the southwest of the rout, some routs regrouped at the mouth of a large field. It seemed that there were hundreds of people. They didn't flee, and they weren't going back Battalion, but continued to rectify and slowly drove towards Qin Jun's direction.

This was different from all the Southern Han troops they had seen, and everyone was a little surprised. Maybe it was a loyal minister and good general of the Southern Han Dynasty, a man of death festival?
But it was just a momentary surprise.

On the north side of the river, tens of thousands of troops from the Qin army have already crossed the river to reach the opposite bank, and there will be reinforcements in the future. These hundreds of people can't make any waves at all. Although their integrity is noble, nobility cannot save the defeat.

Pan Mei glanced at the hundreds of people who were not advancing but retreating, and then ignored them, but ordered in an orderly manner, "Let the Chinese army cross the river, move the Jiannan army forward, and tell Cao Bin to come see me immediately when we arrive.

Go to the fish oil in the warehouse, prepare the gunpowder, and transport them across the river.
Let the cavalry of the flanking cavalry also cross the river. "

(End of this chapter)