Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 330
It was like the scene in the movie "Tou Ming Zhang". Faced with the firecracker attack in the mortuary, the Qing soldiers rushed into the attacking distance, and immediately fired arrows quickly.

Thousands of arrows rained into the Taiping army, and immediately shot the gunners of the Taiping army so that they were thrown into disarray.

The two sides fired wildly at each other within the range of each other. The archers had an absolute advantage in the rate of fire. They quickly shot into the Taiping army's shape, and then rushed in with swords and spears to seal the victory.

But... this scene didn't happen here.

Random arrows were shot down, both projectiles and direct shots, and the sound of puffing arrows hitting the paper armor was endless.

The few direct arrows were so powerful that they knocked the gunner down, but the gunner got up quickly and continued to shoot.

As for the thrown arrows, they can basically only play a role in interference.

Xiao Jun, the commander of the Fire Gun Camp, was also hit by two arrows. He cut them off casually with a knife, and shouted: "His grandma's! This paper armor is better than the ones made for Qi Shuai and the others! What are you afraid of?" Yes, keep shooting, keep fighting them! Anyone who is afraid!"

The Fire Gun Battalion shouted in unison. The rain of arrows did not disrupt their formation, nor did it damage their morale. After seeing that their equipment completely crushed their opponents, their morale soared.

The speed of reloading and firing was faster, and under the counter-shooting, the archers of the White Lotus Sect suffered heavy casualties.

Even the sword players couldn't resist the bombardment of lead, and they died after being shot through their shields one by one.

The gunpowder that Fan Zhuoyuan used for the Fire Gun Battalion was the best formula refined gunpowder, which was more lethal than the firearms commonly equipped by the Ming army in this era.

If the caliber of the bird gun is not too small to limit the power, the shooting range is only extended, otherwise it is changed to a larger caliber, and a single shot is like firing a cannon, which can directly smash the long card!

The White Lotus Sect only ran forward to a distance of 1.5 steps. One step is a step with each foot on the left and right, so it is equivalent to [-] meters.

That is, a distance of more than forty meters. At this distance, the power of bows and arrows can be fully exerted. Some arrows that use heavy arrows can also shoot through paper armor and hurt the human body, but they are limited to direct shots.

All of a sudden, there were scattered casualties in the Fireball Battalion. The soldiers who were already familiar with the fire were not frightened by the casualties. Instead, they sped up their speed due to the crazy secretion of adrenaline, reaching the high efficiency of firing three bullets in one minute. .

This time, the swordsmen and poker players guarding the front of the White Lotus Sect were the first to be unable to bear it. Seeing that every time the gunfire sounded like beans bursting, a large number of people fell to the ground, and every soldier who followed the charge was full of great psychology. pressure.

The soldiers in the back row, seeing the soldiers in the front row vacant in an instant, were naturally filled with fear, turned around and ran away. When the first person to escape appeared, the panic immediately spread, and a group of people ran back and go.

When the archers saw that the swordsmen and poker players who were in charge of hand-to-hand combat had already withdrawn, of course it was impossible for the archers to stand still and fight to the death with this group of elite imperial officers and soldiers in white armor, and ran back screaming.

Seeing this, the elder of the Bailian Sect was stunned. He turned his head and glared at the Baihu, "Why did they withdraw!"

Baihu opened his mouth, feeling very bitter, and muttered in his mouth: "This mother has fired more than ten rounds of guns, but there is no explosion? Grandma, if the court's ordnance is so good, how can I... ..."

The thief behind didn't dare to speak out, looked at the elder, and smiled awkwardly.

"This group of officers and soldiers are so elite, look, general, they are wearing white armor, that is..."

Immediately afterwards, he explained the paper armor again, and finally spread his hands and said: "It is really impossible to shoot through with bows and arrows, so they are not opponents at close range."

The elder was furious, "You can't do this, you can't do that, what do you want to do! Are you sticking out your neck and letting these officers and soldiers chop it!"

Baihu gritted his teeth, "They are few in number. No matter how we have tens of thousands of people, we divide them into three sides. If they want to defend three sides, the density of firepower will inevitably decrease, so they won't be able to deal much damage."

The elder looked at the city wall of Zhenjiang, the defenders on it were cheering loudly for the victory of the officers and soldiers outside the city, their morale was fighting, and even occasionally they saw people running out of the cave of the soldiers, seeming to want to fight back with both inside and outside.

"We must take down this group of officers and soldiers, otherwise we won't be able to do what the leader told us to take down Zhenjiang. Then we won't be able to deploy defenses in Jiangbei, and we will be at a strategic disadvantage in the face of the army coming from the imperial court."

Baihu had no choice but to call several generals over and ask them to select 500 refugees each, and then lead them with more than a thousand elites, trying to divide the group of [-] officers and soldiers into three breads.

Xiao Jun, the commander of the Fire Gun Camp, turned his head and said to Pang Xu, "Hey, they're starting to move, and it looks like they're going to outflank us in three parts!"

Pang Xu frowned and said, "General Fan is making arrangements. Let's stay put and wait for his orders."

"Should we still follow the original plan?"

Pang Xu nodded solemnly and said: "Even if we are very elite, but the number is so small, it is impossible to form a positional battle, only a little breakthrough!"

Just as he was talking, there was a sudden sound of gunfire from the east. This was the sound of dozens of small cannons bombarding.

At this time, I saw that the 800 people led by Fan Zhuoyuan had escaped from the protection range of the battleship's artillery, and were only a mile and a half away from the enemy's central army. gun.

All filled with solid ammunition, a volley is really shaking the mountain.

The small cannon was not as powerful as the heavy cannon, but its lethality was still good, and it went straight to the White Lotus Sect's central army, causing the crowd to explode and cry.

Pang Xu saw a letter arrow rising from Fan Zhuoyuan's, which was a signal agreed at the beginning.

He immediately grinned and said, "There's no need to wait, let's kill them now, only the central army! Don't care about the two wings!"

"Run forward!" Xiao Jun roared angrily, and all the musketeers trotted towards the White Lotus Sect's central army.

The thousand spear phalanx behind him also trotted to keep up, the two battalions paused every thirty steps, and then trotted for dozens of steps, the formation was not scattered.

Seeing this, the Baihu member of the White Lotus Sect dropped his jaw in shock, "Oh my God, Qi Shuai's Qi family army has never seen a queue that can maintain a strict order during the march!"

The elder slapped him on the face, "Now you still have the heart to think about this? They are attacking from front to back! Three flanks, why three flanks, I only know that dozens of cannons from the east are blowing on the head!"

Baihu held back his anger and said, "I didn't know that these [-] officers and soldiers actually hid so many small cannons!

Then we can only continue to encircle the more than 2000 officers and troops in the front on three sides, and then gather all the elites to try to charge the 800 people. There are few of them. The official army is just right! "

The elder pointed at him and said, "You personally lead the elite to charge, if you can't make it down, don't come back, just die at the hands of the officers and soldiers!"

Baihu gritted his teeth and apologized, and immediately rode down to call for help, but his eyes were flickering, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"His grandma, it's not a good life to follow these white lotus rebels. If I can, I really want to vote for the official army in front of me!"

(End of this chapter)