Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 662 Your Excellency, Sin Will Be Defeated

As Cao Wenzhao got closer, the soldiers of the Guards became more and more excited.

The people who can be selected by Zhao Wen into the Guards are all veterans who are happy after hearing the war. For these soldiers, fighting is the greatest joy in life.

"Ready to fire!" The battalion commander looked at Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses in front, and at a messenger standing behind him.

The messenger quickly came to the artillery position with the command of the battalion commander.

The launch of the mortar is relatively simple compared with the 152mm cannon howitzer.

The gunners on the artillery position quickly completed the preparations before launching.

Cao Wenzhao rode his horse and looked ahead.

"Brothers, rush over to me, the time has come to be loyal to the country, kill!!!" Cao Wenzhao pulled out the waist knife from his waist, waved it forward, and screamed loudly.

The soldiers following him also followed behind him, rushing forward.

For a while, the shouts of killing resounded non-stop, and the soldiers and horses following Cao Wenzhao rushed forward with weapons in hand.

"Fire!" The battalion commander saw through the binoculars Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses rushing towards this side, and directly gave the order to fire.

After a few breaths, the gunfire rang out.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Mortar shells flew through the air, making crackling noises.

After a short flight, these shells landed among Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses.

"Boom boom boom!"

The explosion sounded, and the flames produced by the explosion kept flashing among Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses.

"Quickly disperse the formation, quickly disperse the camp!"

Seeing the continuous explosions in the camp, Cao Wenzhao hastily shouted loudly.

The messengers following Cao Wenzhao rushed down with Cao Wenzhao's orders.

Some of the soldiers and horses led by Cao Wenzhao were soldiers and horses brought back by Sun Chengzong from Shanhaiguan.

These soldiers and horses are all veterans who have fought for many years. Although these soldiers and horses panicked after seeing the explosions, they quickly calmed down.

After receiving Cao Wenzhao's order, they hurriedly dispersed.

At this time, the most flustered was the new army recruited by Chongzhen.

Although these soldiers and horses are well-trained, they have never been on the battlefield. At this moment, they panicked for a while.

Because the number of mortars in this battalion is limited, the explosions are not intensive.Under the pressure of military officers at all levels, these new troops quickly dispersed according to Cao Wenzhao's order.

"kill!"

A veteran brandished a waist knife in his hand, his face was full of ruthlessness, and rushed forward.

Behind him, there are seven or eight veterans like him.

They moved towards the front line of defense, charging non-stop.

When these people charge, they don't rush forward blindly.

They ran to the bottom of the nearby mountain and rushed forward through the woods.

The power of a shell on a flat road is not the same as that produced in a wood.

After the shell explodes in the woods, it will be blocked by the trees, and the power and fragments produced will be greatly reduced.

Although the speed of these veterans slowed down in the woods, they were much safer than on flat roads.

Not only these veterans, but other veterans also ran into the woods and charged towards the defense line.

Even the recruits in the team rushed into the woods and charged forward.

Continuous explosions frightened the horse under Cao Wenzhao's crotch and knocked Cao Wenzhao over.

The Ming Dynasty was an era of alternating hot and cold weapons. Many war horses in the Ming Dynasty army had undergone professional training, and their resistance to artillery fire was much better.

However, this resistance is also relative to this era.

Although the mortar is not as powerful as the 152mm cannon howitzer, the momentum and power it explodes are not much greater than the red cannons and Francophones of this era.

"General!"

Cao Wenzhao was thrown off the horse by the war horse, and the guards who were also thrown off the horse rushed over, helped Cao Wenzhao up, and ran into the nearby woods.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the constant explosions, but a smile appeared on his face.

The guards supporting Cao Wenzhao looked at the smiling Cao Wenzhao, and for a moment they couldn't understand why Cao Wenzhao was smiling at this moment.

"Although Zhao thief's artillery is powerful, their artillery density is not very high now. From this point of view, there are not many soldiers and horses defending here. That is to say, at this time, Wu Xiang and Wu Jisheng have completed the master's plan. plan out."

Cao Wenzhao yelled again and again, and the excitement on his face became more and more intense.

"Notify me, kill me, kill me. After killing one enemy, you will be rewarded with a thousand gold, if you kill two people, you will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, if you kill three people, you will be rewarded with a thousand households!" Cao Wenzhao waved the waist knife in his hand. , roaring again and again.

As the saying goes, under heavy rewards, there must be brave men.Stimulated by Cao Wenzhao, these soldiers and horses under his command erupted with a powerful momentum and rushed forward.

The battalion commander still stood on a high place, holding up his binoculars to watch Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses rushing towards him.

A disdainful smile suddenly appeared on the corner of the battalion commander's mouth, "Hehe, do you think you can survive the bombardment of artillery? What a joke, what a joke."

The battalion commander has fought with Zhao Wen for a long time. In this kind of field battle, the battalion commander understands that although the artillery can deal a great blow to the enemy's momentum and morale, when it comes to the number of enemies killed, it is completely different from the machine gun. can not be compared.

"When facing the machine guns later, I hope you will have the same courage." The battalion commander looked at the orderly and shouted: "Get ready for the machine gun position and the subsequent positions."

"Obey!" The orderly hurried down with the battalion commander's order.

As Cao Wenzhao got closer to the machine gun defense line, the machine gunners on the machine gun positions were also ready.

"Hehe, you will know what you are facing with the military merits you have brought to your door." A machine gunner looked at the soldiers and horses approaching disdainfully and murmured.

Not long after, Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses came to the front of the machine gun positions.

The machine gun position is very long, not only in the flat ground below, but also on the mountainside next to the flat ground.

Although the density is not very high, there are rifles that supplement firepower at the back.

The rifle position for supplementary firepower behind the machine gun is composed of 56 punches and 56 and a half.

Therefore, it can completely supplement the lack of machine gun firepower.

"Shoot!" The battalion commander gave the order to shoot.

"Da da da da!"

In an instant, the machine gunner on the machine gun position pulled the trigger of the Type 56 light machine gun.

For a moment, the bullets slanted forward like a pouring rain.

The bullets flew forward with a whistling sound like an iron curtain.

These soldiers and horses who escaped the bombardment kept rushing to the ground for a while.

The bullets hit the chests of the soldiers running at the front, piercing their chests.

In this era, there are almost no armors that can block bullets, let alone these soldiers and horses who only wear cotton armor or mandarin duck battle jackets.

Soldiers in the woods didn't live because they were in the woods.

Although the bullets were affected a lot in the woods, they couldn't pass through under the dense firepower.

One soldier after another fell down, and one soldier after another lost his life.

Cao Wenzhao was protected in the middle by his personal guards. He looked at the soldiers who were charging forward and were being beaten to death, his teeth were about to crack.

"Zhao thief, dog thief!" Cao Wenzhao looked up to the sky and shouted.

Cao Wenzhao had never faced Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses before. Although many people who faced Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses had told him how powerful Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses were, how could all this be true from personal experience?

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Bullets shuttled non-stop in the woods, and the tracer bullets used to indicate the direction flew in the woods with a green light.

Wherever the tracer hits, it attracts a series of bullets.

The strafing of the machine gunners has also become burst fire. On this kind of battlefield, burst fire means that the machine gunners have captured the target and carried out targeted killing.

Blood flowed from the chest of the dead soldier and flowed down the ground to the low-lying places.

Soldiers died one after another on the way to the charge, which dealt a huge blow to the morale of the army.

"I can't beat it, I can't beat it, it's terrible, it's terrible!"

A soldier of the new army threw away the weapon in his hand, turned and ran.

He originally thought that the bombing just now was the scariest, but he didn't expect that now is the more terrifying moment.

Although the power of the explosion was great, it was limited by the terrain, the density of soldiers, and the number of artillery pieces. At this time, the lethality could not be compared with that of a machine gun.

"Pfft!"

A bullet hit the forehead of a guard in front of Cao Wenzhao.

After a muffled sound, the guard's skull was blown away.

The red ones and the white ones were sprinkled in the air, then fell backwards and landed on Cao Wenzhao's body.

Cao Wenzhao smelled the bloody smell and the death of the guard in front of him, and his stomach was overwhelmed.

During the many years of stationing at Shanhaiguan, Cao Wenzhao fought many hands with Jiannu, but he had never seen such a cruel scene.

"General, we can't kill him!" A guard who was following Cao Wenzhao shouted in panic.

However, before he could finish speaking, a bullet hit his chest.

He grunted and fell back.

Under this blow, Cao Wenzhao's troops were inevitably defeated.

Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses, whether they were veterans or new soldiers, ran back all over the mountains and plains.

With the war going on to this extent, Cao Wenzhao already understood that the general situation was over.

Looking at the soldiers and horses fleeing all over the mountains and plains, he looked up to the sky and sighed, "The sky will kill my Ming Dynasty, the sky will kill my Daming!"

"Retreat, retreat, retreat!" Cao Wenzhao's eyes were scarlet, and he gave the order to retreat with great reluctance.

In fact, no matter whether Cao Wenzhao gave the order to retreat or not, the soldiers all ran away.

The battalion commander looked at the broken soldiers all over the mountains and plains, with a smile on his face.

"Hehe, it's just a mantis arm as a car, and it's delusional to fight against our army? What a joke, what a joke!"

……

When the sun set on the western mountain, Cao Wenzhao fled back more than ten miles.

For these fleeing soldiers, the battalion commander did not let his soldiers pursue them.

Because of the limited manpower and the relatively large Zhuolu Mountain, Zhang Dong's order to them was to prohibit entering the mountain to pursue them, and they were only allowed to guard the main traffic routes.

Cao Wenzhao kept retreating with the soldiers and horses gathered.

There was almost no voice in the team, and everyone lowered their heads.

Cao Wenzhao walked in the front, his body trembling constantly.

Not long after, a Ye Bu Shou sent by Sun Chengzong appeared in front of Cao Wenzhao.

The group thought that Cao Wenzhao was Zhao Wen's soldier, and they hurriedly hid around when they saw Cao Wenzhao and others.

When they saw Cao Wenzhao and the others clearly, they showed incredulous expressions.

Ye Bushou came to the front of Cao Wenzhao.

The commander who didn't accept Yebu stopped and shouted forward, "Is it Cao Wenzhao's soldiers and horses of General Cao?"

Cao Wenzhao stopped, looking at Yebushou in front of him, his face was full of depression.

"We are General Cao's troops!" A guard standing behind Cao Wenzhao replied.

"How did you become like this?" Commander Yebushou then asked.

At this time, no one spoke anymore.

Cao Wenzhao let out a long sigh, and then walked forward.

When Yebu received them in front of them, Cao Wenzhao glanced at them and led the team forward.

Seeing Cao Wenzhao and others leaving, Commander Yebushou also understood what happened.

"I'm afraid we've lost the battle. Please report the news to your lord quickly." Commander Yebushou shouted, and led his men to rush towards Sun Chengzong.

In the middle of the night, Commander Yebushou came to Sun Chengzong's big tent.

Sun Chengzong lit a very small candle in the center of the big tent, and he was looking at the map of Xuanzhen on the table through this candle.

Sun Chengzong has already begun to plan the war after leaving Zhuolu Mountain.

At this moment, a personal guard rushed into Sun Chengzong's big tent with the leader of the previous night.

Before Sun Chengzong could open his mouth to ask, the leader of the night did not accept him and shouted, "My lord, General Cao has been defeated!"

Sun Chengzong was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly asked: "What did you say? Cao Wenzhao failed?"

"My lord, it failed. We encountered rout soldiers and horses on the way forward. Although they didn't say it clearly, but judging from their appearance, they have already failed." Commander Yebushou continued.

"Failed? How could it be so fast? How could it be so fast?" Sun Chengzong muttered a few times in disbelief.

Sun Chengzong had already thought that Cao Wenzhao would be defeated, but he didn't expect that he would lose so quickly.

"Go out first!" Sun Chengzong waved at them.

At dawn, Cao Wenzhao returned to Sun Chengzong's garrison with his defeated troops.

Cao Wenzhao walked into Sun Chengzong's big tent and knelt directly in the center of the big tent.

"My lord, Sin General has failed. Sin General failed to attract the attention of Zhao Bandit soldiers and horses. Zhao Bandit soldiers and horses didn't even have reinforcements. Sin General is incompetent!" Cao Wenzhao knelt on the ground and kept wailing.

The main goal of Cao Wenzhao's dispatch of troops this time is to attract the attention of Zhao Wen's soldiers and horses and to find out the truth, so that Sun Chengzong can take the opportunity to rush out.

However, the current Cao Wenzhao has not achieved a single goal.

(End of this chapter)