Kai Fu Han

Chapter 425

"shooting!"

Without waiting for the puppet Qi army to gain a foothold, Liu Xinang directly ordered the soldiers of the Ninth Field Regiment to start attacking.

The roads in the city were too narrow, which greatly affected the attack surface of the field army. Even if there was a large open space in front of Zhizhou Mansion, there would only be less than fifty steps to the left and right.

Liu Xin'ang had an idea and directly added a row, turning the "three-stage gun volley array" into a "four-stage gun volley array."

After attacking for two rounds, I found that the effect was good, so I added another row.

When it was increased to the "five-stage firing platoon formation", the increase in the rate of fire slowed down significantly, and Liu Xinang stopped changing formations.

The "Five-Stage Firing Array" had already compressed the shooting speed by half a breath, but as the cooperation became more proficient, the gap was gradually narrowing.

"shooting!"

"shooting!"

...

The battalion commander's orders were issued continuously with almost no interval.

The Puppet Qi Army on the opposite side was in dire straits. Faced with this "swift and rainy" attack, the military formation could not move forward at all. Instead, because the front row continued to fall to death, the entire formation was gradually retreating, gradually approaching the Linyi Zhizhou Mansion Office. door.

"Whoosh!!"

There was a sound of piercing the air that was different from a bow and arrow. Before Liu Xinang could react, he saw two soldiers in the "five-segment platoon formation" strung together by a crossbow nearly ten feet long.

"Fed Crossbow!"

This was the first time Liu Xinang saw his own soldiers shot to death by Fangzi's crossbow.In the previous wars with the Puppet Qi and the Jin Kingdom, although the bed crossbows were captured in the end, those bed crossbows did not play a role on the battlefield. The artillery shooting range of the Xinghan League exceeded the bed crossbows by much.

"Quick! Kill the crossbow man!" Liu Xinang ordered loudly.

The ten guards, five officers, and fifteen soldiers around them quickly formed an assault formation and rushed towards the direction of the giant crossbow bolt.

When rushing into the Puppet Qi army formation, the Puppet Qi generals commanding the battle ignored the fact that they were stalemate with the enemy. They commanded the archers in the rear to fire a wave of arrows at the assault team. The soldiers used shields to protect their heads and faces, regardless of the arrows. Arrow, head straight ahead.

With shields and heavy armor, the warriors were basically uninjured. On the contrary, large pieces of pseudo-Qi soldiers around the warriors were shot down, further speeding up the warriors' thrusting speed.

"Swoosh!!" Another giant crossbow shot out, and the shooting path was blocked by a rushing warrior.

Reflexively, the soldier slashed at the crossbow bolt with his knife. There was a "ding" sound, the knife was knocked back, the bow was knocked a little off, and shot on the warrior's shoulder.The steel shoulder pads were shot through and penetrated.

In the end, the crossbow bolt got stuck on the warrior's shoulder, and the warrior's heavy armor made its first contribution.

"Don't worry about me, just rush over!"

shouted the wounded warrior.

One person from the commando team stayed behind to look after the injured soldier and protect him as he retreated, while the others continued to advance.

"Throw a grenade!"

Lighted grenades were thrown onto the wall, where the crossbows were set up.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang.The bed crossbow was blown off the wall.

With this loud noise, the defenders of Zhizhou Mansion finally collapsed.

"We won!" Liu Xinang said.

"All-army assault!"

The soldiers of the first battalion, who had never been able to participate in the battle, directly bayoneted their guns and rushed towards the fleeing Puppet Qi soldiers.

...

"Here, help me hold the arrow shaft." Liu Xin'ang saw the injured soldier still wielding a crossbow arrow nearly ten feet long.

Two officers came over and helped stabilize the arrow shaft. In front of the mountain, Liu Xin'ang slashed twice, cutting off the arrow shaft to only a little more than a foot.

The shock caused wounds, and the soldier shivered in pain. "Be patient, wait until the medical soldiers enter the city, and they will diagnose and treat him. He will not die." In the training camp, everyone has learned basic medical knowledge and knows that the arrow shaft cannot be pulled out and can only wait for the doctor to come and deal with it.

"You are so stupid, you don't know how to hide when an arrow comes at you?" an officer laughed and cursed.

With a warrior's physique, if you are prepared, you can still avoid it by hiding.

"There are ordinary musketeers behind me. I hid. I don't know how many will die."

Everyone was silent after hearing this. Liu Xinang stepped forward and patted his uninjured shoulder and praised: "Good job."

……

Chengxian County, where Diting is stationed.

"How many people were involved in this matter?" Mu Fei asked his subordinates who came back from the investigation.

"More than [-]% of the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Chengxian County participated." His subordinates replied.

Some time ago, news came that the Xinghan Alliance troops were marching westward. The gentry and merchants in the Puppet Qi territory were panicked by their victorious battles.

Listening to an official's subordinate who had infiltrated in Chengxian County, he passed on the news that the businessmen, gentry and officials in the city were working together, with money and strength, to organize a militia, planning to fight against the Xinghan Alliance army that might come next. .

The unprecedented unity of these people was a hundred times more united than when they faced the Kingdom of Jin.

Cheng County is located in Yizhou, southwest of Linyi, very close to the Henan area notified by Zhao Guo.

These gentry had never had such a strong sense of resistance when facing the Jin Kingdom or when they were informed by the Puppet Qi.

"How many troops are there?" Mu Fei asked.

"Nearly [-]."

Hearing this number, Mu Fei was very shocked. If all the cities in the west did this, the westward journey of the Xinghan Alliance would become very bumpy.

"Hurry and report the situation here to the commander and leader of the alliance who are attacking Linyi."

"Yes!"

……

When Liu Xinqi received the information from Cheng County, he was standing on the west gate of Zouping County.

The army set off on the [-]th and arrived in Changshan County on the [-]th. It encountered unprecedented resistance, stronger than the resistance in Zichuan, where the state capital was located.

The gentry in the city organized a desperate defense of more than 6000 people.

Liu Xinqi led the army and killed nearly half of the defenders before taking the city. He also suffered nearly a hundred casualties and wasted a lot of ammunition.

Later I learned that the army led by Sun Li encountered the same stubborn resistance when attacking Gaoyuan County. Because of the help of naval warships, there were fewer casualties than Liu Xinqi.

On the [-]th, the two armies joined forces to attack Zouping County.

Zouping County was on the north bank of Jishui River. With the help of the navy, it was finally captured within two hours.

However, Zouping's resistance was even more severe than that of Changshan County. The gentry almost emptied their wealth, hired young men in the city, and also recruited a large number of young men from outside the city.

"How could this happen?" Sun Li looked at the information Liu Xinqi handed over and was a little confused.

"The vested interests have reacted, and we have touched their roots." Liu Xinqi replied.

I have received a lot of information recently, except that the city in the west is organizing a large-scale defense.The cities previously occupied by the Xinghan League were also ready to move. Militiamen had even gathered in the countryside. Xu Han's grain transport team had begun to encounter attacks.

Liu Xinqi had long expected that he would be resisted by the entire class, but he did not expect this resistance to come so quickly.The territory he occupied hadn't even reached the first level, and the gentry were already hysterical like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

The proportion of people in this era who are illiterate is too high, and the governance of the country cannot be separated from scholars.

This is also the capital for scholars to remain calm in the face of changing dynasties.

He learned martial arts and sold his goods to the emperor's family.

This "emperor" does not specify a surname, which means that any surname can be used.

(End of this chapter)