serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 39 Fighting again
At this time, Liu Fang's troops were attacked on three sides, and tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers launched a fierce attack on the army formation. Fortunately, the gunners of the Shenji Battalion successfully suppressed the Tartar artillery.

Unexpectedly, the situation took a turn for the worse. The general soldier of Henan was killed in battle, and the patrol battalion of Baoding Sanfu was defeated.

How long has it been?In less than a stick of incense, tens of thousands of troops collapsed.

Emperor Jianwu was stunned at first, then turned livid, glanced at Niu Jizong, and asked, "How to save him?"

Niu Jizong's face was already pale at this time, so pale that there was no blood at all.

King Zhongshun coughed lightly, and said: "Liu Fang is all gone, let's get the routs gathered."

Immediately there was a slight commotion in the city.

Those civil servants showed a pair of eyes with different expressions, anxious, indifferent, a little smug, and some even looked happy.

And those nobles looked sad.

And at this moment, suddenly, a low-pitched horn sounded, breaking the silence.

Niu Jizong raised his head abruptly, raised his clairvoyance to look, and saw a burst of red clouds coming quickly from the sky. When he got closer, he saw clearly that it turned out to be a large Zhou cavalry, and the leader was Xie Qiong who hadn't seen him for several months.

"Haha, it's Xie Qiong! The Yongwei Battalion is here!" Niu Jizong laughed.

Shi Ding: "The reinforcements have arrived, we are saved."

"Good Jia Hu, a heavenly soldier has come to me!" Emperor Jianwu felt relieved, and a smile appeared on his face.

King Zhongshun's face suddenly became gloomy.

The strange thing is that the expression on Bei Jing Wang Shui Rong's face is also uncomfortable.

Song Chengliang saw it in his eyes, and thought of the words of the Supreme Emperor, his heart skipped a beat.

More than [-] Sauron soldiers formed a circular formation, tightly protecting Yong Qi and the others and Shuai Qi.

Three thousand cavalrymen from the Yongwei Battalion came rolling with Xie Qiong, the earth trembled under the iron hooves, dust was flying, and several miles long yellow dragons rolled up in the field, the momentum was astonishing!
Under the banner, Yong Qi was riding on his big white horse. At this moment, his eyes were fixed on the rushing Han Chinese cavalry without the slightest panic. When he found that there were only thousands of cavalry, he sneered, when did the Han Chinese become so rampant!

Turning his head to look at the anxious battlefield, he said to the white-armored soldiers beside him, "Lead Sauron's soldiers to attack and wipe out this group of Han cavalry."

The white-armored soldier responded loudly: "Promise!" A horse stepped out of the circle and roared: "Kill!" He took the lead in galloping over.

There was a roar like howling wolves, and Sauron's soldiers rushed out.

E Bi: "My lord."

"Don't worry!" Yong Qi interrupted him, "The ten-strength bow of a Sauron soldier can break through a single layer of iron armor at two hundred steps."

Suddenly, a low-pitched horn sounded again from a distance, and under the setting sun, a row of neatly lined up Han Chinese infantry gradually appeared in everyone's sight
E Bi: "My lord, be careful of falling into the tricks of the Han people."

Yong Qi was startled, and then pretended not to care: "The Sauron soldiers will destroy them."

The horses were galloping, and the distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and soon they entered 350 steps. Xie Qiong had seen these Sauron soldiers in colorful armor a long time ago, and saw that they were still charging forward indomitably. Such arrogance, when Shanhaiguan came down, the [-] Battalion wiped out the [-]-man Sauron Battalion by outwitting the few.

However, times have changed.

Xie Qiong took off his musket, and the three thousand cavalrymen behind him also untied their guns. The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the Sauron soldiers. After seeing the sharpness of the musket, Xie Qiong proposed to Jia Hu to give it to the cavalry. Equipped with a musket, although it can only be shot once, the cavalry at the front are either officers or veterans, which is very cost-effective.

Three hundred steps, 280 steps, 250 steps, just as Sauron's soldiers raised their bows and arrows, the cavalrymen of the Valiant Guards slammed their firecrackers, the sound of dense firecrackers sounded, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose, and both sides were galloping The horse on his horse entered a distance of two hundred steps in an instant. The colorful armor on Sauron's soldiers could not resist the high-speed projectiles. The Lun soldiers underestimated the enemy and gathered together, and the Sauron soldiers who rushed to the front were swept away.

The white-armored soldier was beaten to the head, and the originally dense phalanx became sparse in an instant. The minds of the remaining thousand Sauron soldiers were blank, and the horses under their crotches were frightened and lingered.

At this moment, Xie Qiong led the cavalry to kill. Amidst the whistling sound, countless white lights flashed, and human heads rolled to the ground. Under the onslaught of the cavalry of the brave guard battalion, Sauron's soldiers were powerless and could only retreat steadily.

Xie Qiong took the lead, slashing left and right with the saber in his hand, his body was covered with the blood of Sauron's soldiers, and finally hundreds of Sauron's soldiers made a bloody road and fled to the distance.

Xie Qiong did not order the pursuit, but reloaded the musket and waited quietly for the arrival of the infantry battalion.

Seeing Sauron's soldiers in a state of distress, Emperor Jianwu laughed, "Is this the Sauron's soldiers who are comparable to the white-armored soldiers? That's all!" He had already learned about the past achievements of Sauron's soldiers from Niu Jizong.

King Zhongshun: "Your Majesty, Xie Qiong just took advantage of the firearms, so he caught Sauron's soldiers by surprise."

Emperor Jianwu rolled his eyes at him unhappily, and Song Chengliang, the chief assistant, said, "As long as the Yongwei Battalion can defeat some of the Eight Banners Jiabing soldiers, Old General Liu will be safe."

King Zhongshun also wanted to say that Emperor Jianwu shouted loudly: "Beat the drums and cheer!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

With the sound of earth-shattering drums, the general artillery on the city began to shell again, iron bullets roared and smashed into the army formation of Zhenglan Banner, stirring up blood mist in the crowd, one by one. A seven-pound iron bullet passed not far from the guard of Jinzhou, scaring him into a cold sweat.

At this time, the horn sounded, and then the handsome flag was waved, and the Zhengbai flag besieging Liu Fang's left flank receded like a tide, and after a while, an attacking queue formed in front of the big flag.

A cold light flashed in Yongqi's eyes: "How many troops were lost?"

Lieutenant General: "I haven't counted yet, maybe one or two thousand."

Yong Qi snorted coldly, and ordered: "Annihilate Zhou Jun on the opposite side, or kill your whole family!"

Lieutenant General Yilin: "Hey!" He drew his sword out of its sheath and shouted loudly: "Kill!"

Yongqi besieged seven or eight thousand Zhengbai Banner armored soldiers in one breath, which shows his determination to destroy the Yongwei Battalion. He looked at Liu Fang's troops who were being besieged by Zhenglan and Xianghuang Banners, and sighed in his heart. He deserved to be the most elite Zhou army. field infantry.

Looking at the Tartar armored soldiers pouring in like a tide, Jia Hu took a deep breath and looked at the firecracker soldiers around him. There was some nervousness in their eyes, but there was no trace of fear in them. Musket guns, one hundred sub-cannons lined up in front of the formation, and three thousand cavalry wandered on the two wings.

Jia Hu said to Yang Dayong: "You give the order."

"Fire!" Yang Dayong shouted.

A messenger holding a red flag waved the flag.

A hundred sub-cannons fired at once, and the black powder produced a lot of smoke that filled the front of the entire army formation. No one paid attention to the results of the battle. The gunners immediately replaced the sub-cannons, followed by another round of salvo, followed by the third round, and the third round. In the fourth round, in the fifth round, all five sub-drugs were shot in an instant.

Such a rapid bombardment blinded the Tartar cavalry. Except for the 20 taels of iron bullets fired in the first round, the rest were all small five-cent lead. Tens of thousands of small lead shot away like raindrops. The blood mist was stirred up on the Zhengbai Banner armored soldiers in cotton armor, and the cavalry who rushed to the front were almost wiped out.

The Tartar cavalry behind still charged forward, reaching a distance of three hundred steps.

"Fire in the first row!"

The [-] firecrackers were divided into four rows, and [-] firecrackers fired a volley. The Tartar cavalry on the opposite side fell off their horses one after another. He was thrown up and down, and was then trampled into flesh by the cavalry rolling in.

"shooting!"

"put!"

"Let it go!"

After the fourth row of gunners fired, the first two rows of gunners had reloaded their ammunition and started a new round of shooting, and the gunners in front of the formation also started a new round of shelling.

The deputy general was already dead, and the body did not know where it fell.

Two hundred paces, the cavalry was blocked at two hundred paces, not to mention the raindrops of lead, even the muskets of the Yongwei Battalion made them do not know how to deal with them, the range was long, the rate of fire was fast, and the lethality was huge. The cavalry caused great damage, and the horses under their crotches also showed fear and lingered.

The cavalry who turned around from the two wings were also blocked by the cavalry of the Zhou army. After a fight, not only did they not take advantage, they were also killed and injured hundreds of people by the muskets in their hands.

(End of this chapter)