Lu Ming

Chapter 458 Huarong Road

The corpses of dead people and horses were scattered all over the bumpy mountain road, and every stone on the ground was stained red with blood.

It was the darkest moment before dawn, in the reception hall to the west of Santunying City, Shuotuo was stretching his arms, his face expressionless, his armor and horse prepared by his personal guards, ready to charge.

This time he had to go in person, because the remaining number had reached a critical point, and the pursuers behind him were also approaching.So this time it was Stud, or escaped from birth, or died under the city of Santunying, there was no third way to go.

Yesterday morning, when Shuo Tuo led 1500 cavalrymen to the city of Santunying, he couldn't help but gasped.

The mountain road, which was originally fairly flat, has completely changed its appearance at this moment.

Within the boundary of the city head, from west to east, there is a section of "Pockmark Road" with potholes.

There are dense small potholes all over the Mazi Road.These small pits seem simple, but they were dug with an engineer shovel, but the vertical planes of all small pits are also from west to east.

Trapped in a horse pit.

The principle of trapping a horse is very simple, just like a person descending a step, the vertical plane is at the heel.When the horse is running at high speed, the heel of the horse's hoof stepping on the pit will have a "slip" step on the air, and then the horse's hoof will break.

In fact, when people sprain their ankles, most of the accidents happen when they go downstairs. This is the reason.

It seems inconspicuous, but in fact, after a section of pockmarked road that is extremely vicious, there is a section of stone road next.

The Luan River is next to Santunying City, so there are many stones in the river.These stones have now been picked and placed on the road.

The stones are big and small, messy.The only thing in common is that the sharp side of the stone is all facing upwards.

This section of the road is not only used for trapping horses, even people walking on it must be careful to find a foothold, otherwise the soles of the feet will be pierced and the ankle will be broken.

After studying this malicious road against the cavalry, Shuotuo raised his head, and immediately saw the wretched opponent's name: the big banner with the word "Cao" flying on the top of the city.

"Dismount, go to a Niulu, and attack the city."

No matter how dangerous the mountain road in front of Santunying Gate is, it is only used to prevent the rear golden cavalry from joining Amin in the east.However, the Shuotuo Department said in theory that the best strategy is to take Santunying itself, and then enter the mountains from the north of the city, and rendezvous with Amin can only be regarded as the middle strategy.

So Shuotuo quickly made a judgment, and he ordered a soldier of Niulu to test the siege to see what kind of opponent was in the city.

The 300 cavalry were ordered to dismount, carrying shields and sabers, and with hooked ropes behind their waists, they walked slowly down the city wall.

To tell the truth, this level of siege can only be regarded as a feint.As long as the defenders are reliable, the cavalry without the slightest preparation for attacking the city cannot pose a threat to the city at all.

If a well-regulated military city like Santunying really wants to attack with a stance, it will first need a large number of auxiliary soldiers to manufacture equipment such as ladders, and then it will be possible to talk about using human lives.

When Hou Jin entered the bandits, he originally planned to pile up human lives insanely. As a result, no one expected that the redundant soldiers in the city opened the city gate in order to avenge the court's long-term arrears of wages. , and gained a new layer of understanding.

Today, Shuo Tuo does not intend to encounter such a good thing again.

Since the opponent was able to sneak attack on the Santun camp under such circumstances, it must be a small-scale army composed of elite soldiers and family members, and it would definitely not affect the battle situation because of the salary.

On the top of the city of Santunying, except for the fluttering banners and the howling northwest wind, there seemed to be no one there.

However, at the moment when the attackers were 50 meters away from the moat, a row of heads suddenly appeared on the top of the city, followed by continuous volleys of guns.

Like all the Tartars who were dealing with the time-traversing people for the first time, these 300 people did not hesitate to accelerate their charge after receiving the first shot, trying to make something out of it while the muskets were reloading.

The outcome of the matter is of course not unexpected.

Also like all the Tartars who dealt with the time-traversing crowd, after a few quick rounds of gunfire, the casualties of this bull record have been hit unreasonably to less than 50%.

In the era of cold weapons, weaker troops, such as the Ming army, would retreat when their casualty rate reached 5%. Even the elite of the late Jin Dynasty, a casualty rate of up to 10% would also cause the troops to collapse.

Note that the above casualty rate refers to the number of battlefields when both sides have mutual casualties.

If the opponent does not die, but just firing a gun in the distance can cause the death of one's own personnel, then whether it is the Houjin or the Ming army, the casualty rate will never exceed 3% and they will collapse-watching the opponent leisurely killing themselves When a person is killed, the powerlessness and fear will crush the soldiers in an instant, which is far more powerful than melee combat.

Shuo Tuo's Niu Lu killed more than 2 people within 150 minutes.This has far exceeded the tolerance limit of everyone, so the remaining soldiers fled back in despair.

"I can't complain that I can steal the city. It turns out that the equipment is sharp!"

Shuo Tuo now finally knows how Santunying was lost.

Seeing the faint smoke spreading from the top of the city, and looking at the pile of corpses beside the moat, Shuo Tuo knew that his best plan seemed to be unworkable: with this row of strange guns, even if the top of the city The number of people was actually not many, and the cavalry in his hands couldn't fly up to the top of the city to take down the three camps in a hurry.

"Send someone to open the way to Yongping."

Shuo Tuo quickly grasped the weakness of the defenders at the top of the city according to the situation: there were few people, and they could not go out of the city to fight in the field.After seeing this layer clearly, Shuoto gave up his illusions and made the best choice under the current situation.

After that, a group of people started to fill in the hole with some temporarily collected branch shields in their hands.Others walked through potholes, stooping to clear rocks from their feet.

When the scavengers cleaned the road, they chose a location on the south side of the road, near the foot of the opposite mountain, more than 400 meters away from the city.Their task was simple: to clear a narrow road, just enough for the troops to lead their horses to walk through this bad road about three miles long.

The next moment, a row of gunfire continued, and several scavengers fell in response.

After seeing this scene, Shuo Tuo couldn't help being taken aback, and quickly pulled his horse back to a safe distance.Even if he killed him, he would never have imagined that the range of the firecrackers at the top of the city would be so far. It seemed that in the battle under the moat just now, the opponent still kept his strength.

"Scatter, scatter, continue on the flat road, don't stop!"

Seeing that the row of guns had knocked down several scavengers, Shuo Tuo quickly ordered that the scavengers keep a distance to avoid being shot.

Humans learn very quickly in harsh environments.The scavengers quickly learned without a teacher, and learned to dodge with a cat's waist and move forward in a snake shape in the constant rain of bullets.

Although people were knocked down from time to time, the road surface was still being cleared.

But this situation was quickly stopped again: a different gunshot sounded from the top of the city tower.

The frequency of this kind of gunfire is not high, it only rings once every few seconds, but the hit rate is quite high, reaching [-]% to [-]%.So hundreds of scavengers broke down again not long after, and collectively withdrew to the safe zone.

"We can't pass the day, let's wait until night." Seeing that the matter had come to this point, Shuo Tuo could only hold back his thoughts and wait for the dark.

It is said to be waiting, but it is not that simple: there are still thousands of Ming cavalry hanging behind Shuotuo.

Just when he ordered a timeout, the letter behind him came: The Ming army in Shankou had already tangled up the brigade and charged twice, and the broken Niulu couldn't stand it anymore.

Shuo Tuo said indifferently: "Stand back, let the dog cavalry come over."

In the afternoon of the same day, 3000 cavalry led by Zu Dashou successfully broke through the block.After that, the Ming army was on the mountain road 20 miles away from Santun Camp, but was confronted head-on by the 1000-year-old Golden Cavalry led by Shuo Tuo.

The Tartars, who had no way out, were extremely vicious, and everyone was desperate to kill Zu Dashoubu. More than 500 corpses were left on the mountain road.

Having just captured Zunhua, he was standing on the top of the city wall and was about to chant a doggerel to pretend to be a forceful horse Huihui, so he witnessed Guan Ning's cavalry fleeing from the mountain pass like a wolf galloping like a hog.

The large troops of the Ming army immediately centered on Zunhua and set up an eight-door golden lock array: It seems that Shuo Tuo is going to return to the carbine!
After killing Zu Dashou, Shuo Tuo gained precious rest time.

When it was about to fall into the night, the restless Tatar soldiers began to clear the road again.

This time, the big men under the flag have learned their lesson.

They formed a team of captured horses and their own horses, and then the scavengers led the horses out in a straight line-the horses were on the left hand side, which was a movable city wall used to block bullets.

This method is very effective.

Although a few people with night vision goggles on the top of the city fired in time to stop them, the bullets could only kill the horse, not the scavenger.

In this way, the scavengers lined up in a straight line finally solved the opponent's terrible long-range firepower in the most primitive way.Now, the Shuotuo Department can finally settle down to build roads.

At four o'clock in the middle of the night, a ten-meter-wide corridor was finally cleared.Following Shuo Tuo's order, the knights lined up in four rows began to cross the short road of death in silence.

The process was very safe. The defenders on the top of the city seemed to know that the bullets were useless. At this critical moment, they allowed the Tartars to pass by without firing a single shot.

After the queue of thousands of Tatar cavalry had all entered the "safe passage", the belated killer finally arrived.

The first is to blow up.

Just after the forward ran tens of meters out of the safe passage, on a camouflaged tree trunk by the side of the road, the last TNT box of the crossing crowd exploded.

The loud noise was accompanied by the flames rising into the sky, and even the Ming army in Zunhua heard the movement.

At the same moment, the M2 machine gun finally started to show off.The Tartars lined up in four rows gave the M2 the best fan-shaped shooting angle, and the dazzling fire whip in the dark night swept down the Tartars in front of the three camps.

The killer move doesn't stop there.

Not long after the big bang, the cavalrymen with torches came out from the valley in front of the safe passage—these were the [-] soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion sent back to escort the prisoners two days ago.

Just in time for this battle, the soldiers of the Feihu Camp raised their sabers and slashed and killed the hooded and turned Tartars at a high speed. With a whistle, they all ran into the Santun Camp again. They waved their hands and left hundreds of soldiers behind. Ten lives.

After the M2 machine gun fired a belt, the old rules stopped.

In this short period of 5 minutes, the Shuotuo Department lost thousands of people.After counting the losses, there were only 500 people who could ride on horseback.

From the moment the number of people was counted, Shuotuo sat blankly in the reception hall without saying a word, looking at the starlight above his head without knowing what he was thinking.

This can't really blame him.Anyone who encounters such a blow beyond their own understanding will have doubts about fate.

This set of combo moves in the dark completely broke the Shuo Tuo Department.

So Lord Baylor just sat in the booth like this, without issuing any instructions.Even at dawn the next day, Lord Baylor still didn't move.

It wasn't until noon that the men who had regained their vitality came down to report: The Ming Army Brigade attacked along the mountain road again.

After listening to the report, Lord Baylor got up, and while motioning to his subordinates to help him put on the heavy armor, he said blankly: "Get on the horse, keep charging, and if you die, please. If you don't charge, you will be caught by the dog, but It's too late!"

The remaining 500 people certainly understood what Baylor meant.They are too aware of how much evil they have done in the Ming Dynasty, so at this time, everyone agrees with Lord Baylor's opinion: either die on the way to charge, or return to Liaodong, there is no other choice.

Therefore, at noon on April 4, the desperate Shuotuo Department launched a death charge for the last time.

Then came the terrible chorus of gunfire from above the walls.

However, these are no longer relevant.

Shuo Tuo rode on the horse, concentrating on it, lightly manipulating the horse under his crotch to jump over corpses, and didn't take those bullets flying in front of him seriously at all, as if these flaming bullets didn't exist.

Perhaps it is the gist of dodging bullets: the more you are afraid of bullets, the more you will attract bullets.Therefore, Lord Belle, who put life and death aside, miraculously passed through the dense bullet rain at this moment, including the horse under his crotch, which was extremely brave.

There was no such earth-shattering explosion, and no cavalry came out of the valley again. After avoiding the rain of bullets, Shuo Tuo ran forward a few hundred steps and found that the bullets had finally gone away from him.

The first time he escaped, Shuo Tuo looked back, and there were less than 50 people who escaped with him.

The entire team of 2000 people before, the elite of the 20 banner who had been confronting the 2000 troops of the Ming Dynasty, was buried under the hands of this devilish enemy army for no apparent reason.

What made Shuo Tuo even more uneasy was that apart from knowing his opponent's official name and surname, he was beaten and wiped out by hundreds of paces away without even seeing the soldiers' faces.

"I must go back and report to the Great Khan, the Ming Kingdom has an extra powerful enemy!"

Once he escaped from the sky, the mentality of being detached and indifferent to life and death just now will be gone.After Shuo Tuo came back to his senses, he immediately thought of what he should do most: pass the news to Da Khan.

With this in mind, Shuotuo took the lead and hurriedly ordered the remaining subordinates to speed up, and the remaining team frantically ran towards Yongping.

The next moment, after turning around a mountain depression, Lord Baylor pulled the reins urgently, and the horse under his crotch stood up, neighing continuously.

The opposite side of the mountain road was densely packed with people and horses.

At the beginning is a row of people in floral dresses.

Now Shuo Tuo finally knew what the group of people at the top of Santunying City looked like—behind the men in floral clothes on the opposite side, there was also the general flag of General Cao Dabing.

After the two sides confronted each other for a few seconds, the only middle-aged man who was wearing the uniform of a Ming army general among the row of men in floral clothes on the opposite side turned to say something to the man in floral clothes.

The next moment, the most burly figure among the men in flower clothes laughed loudly: "So it's Lord Belle, this is definitely a way out of Huarong today!? Lord Belle, did you laugh three times just now?"

(End of this chapter)