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Chapter 85: Encounter on a narrow road, two rounds of cannons collapsed!

"About four to five hundred." The spy who reported the news was obviously not sure.

Wang Yingtai said angrily: "It's hard to even determine the number of thieves, so what's the use of you? Go and investigate quickly!"

"Yes."

The spy left in a muffled voice.

Wang Yingtai turned to Zhou Chengdong and said: "Go and tell the auxiliary soldiers to stop. You lead 500 people and set up defenses two hundred steps outside the city gate to guard against the bandits inside.

The remaining auxiliary troops gathered quickly and asked Chen Gui to take him to the mountain road behind to listen to my orders! "

"As ordered!"

After giving the instructions, Wang Yingtai immediately took his servants to the small slope behind where the soldiers were stationed.

Here, you can already see the two hundred soldiers stationed more than 200 steps further west.

As for the bandit soldiers, because the mountain road is winding, only part of them can be seen, and it is difficult to determine how many there are.

The mountain road leading outside from the west gate of Dashui Pingzhai may be narrow, but it can still be used by a carriage.The first time Ma Jinliang went out to "do business" with Liu Sheng, he took this road by carriage.

Enough to walk six or seven people abreast.

But because there are very steep hillsides on both sides of the road, although the weeds and trees are not dense, there are many rocks and ravines.

Unless you are a mountaineer who walks on mountain roads all year round or a specially trained mountain infantry, it is difficult for ordinary people to stand in this kind of terrain, and it is even harder to walk, and it is easy to fall.

However, Wang Yingtai's soldiers were all out of the vicinity of Fucheng, and most of them lived on the Huaibei Plain before.

Therefore, only 70 of the two hundred soldiers guarded the mountain road, and more than 30 archers were placed on both sides of the mountain road in places suitable for standing and defending.

The remaining 100 people were actually resting in the back.

Seeing the rebels coming from the mountain road, these soldiers were startled, and then the archers started shooting arrows.

However, the vanguard of the rebel army was composed of 20 soldiers, and dozens of people behind them were also sword players.

More than thirty arrows were shot sparsely, and most of them were blocked by the shields. A few shot into the formation, causing the leather armor and cloth armor to reduce their strength, and at most they caused some flesh wounds to the sword player. .

Wang Yingtai saw it and gritted his teeth.

'Damn, the thieves really have a lot of armor, and they even have ten or twenty iron armors? '

Seeing that the traitors continued to approach, he hesitated to let the soldiers retreat.

He has a lot of combat experience, and he can tell at a glance that he is a brave and courageous person fighting on such a narrow mountain road.

However, this kind of battle is also very cruel, and the casualties will be huge.

The soldiers under him were all trained with great difficulty, and if they were used here to consume the thieves, he would be heartbroken.

But if he retreated, he was afraid that the traitors would rush up and cause his side to be defeated.

'It seems that we can only let the servants go up first, wait for the soldiers to retreat to the slope behind, and then let the auxiliary soldiers go forward to consume the traitor soldiers.

Moreover, with the elite servants in front, it is easier to seize the opportunity and directly defeat these thieves! '

Thinking of this, Wang Yingtai first sent someone to urge Chen Gui to bring the auxiliary troops over quickly, and then sent a servant officer to lead 50 people to replace the soldiers...
When Liu Sheng saw that the officers and soldiers did not dare to block the road and fight to the death, but instead fought and retreated, and the distance between them and the rebels gradually narrowed to sixty or seventy steps, he knew that it was time for the Tiger Crouching Artillery to appear.

So an order was issued for the standing army to make way for one person wide, and the seven squatting tiger cannons were quickly moved to the front.

In the front, Huang Gan led 20 pro-army soldiers and [-] sword players. The pressure increased sharply because Wang Yingtai's servants gradually took the place of soldiers.

Almost all of these servants can shoot on foot, and their archery skills are much better than those of the warrior archers. Some of them who are strong even use armor-piercing heavy arrows.

puff puff!

As several heavy arrows fell under the shield from a tricky angle, the soldiers in the front row were fine, but the standing saber players in the back who only wore leather armor and cloth armor were not. Even if the person who was shot was not seriously injured, he was injured on the spot. Without combat effectiveness, it will be difficult to hold the shield.

The injured could not help but howl, which was quite demoralizing.

The most important thing is that so far, the rebels have failed to fight back.

Advancing in this way against the enemy's attack is a great test on the psychological quality of Rebel Sword players.

After all, the rebels had never fought a tough battle. Only a few people were seriously injured and wailing. The formation suddenly became a bit chaotic, even affecting the soldiers in the front row.

The team officer Wang Dexiong who was leading the servants in front was a brave and militant man. When he saw more gaps exposed in the rebel shields shaking, he couldn't help laughing and said: "These rebel soldiers are not that good, they will be unable to withstand a few arrows!" Don’t even retreat, just stand here and shoot me, all with heavy arrows!”

Later, Wang Yingtai was surprised to see the shield array in front of the rebels shaking and loosening so easily. He also ordered: "Let the soldiers stop retreating! Send the order to Wang Dexiong again, and I will allow him to choose the opportunity to counterattack!"

More heavy arrows from the servants fell into the rebel shield formation. However, although the rebel shield formation was unstable and stopped moving forward, it never really collapsed and was full of resilience.After a while, dozens of saber players suddenly dispersed and moved to the slopes on both sides of the mountain road.

Some people even fell down because they were unable to stand for a while.

"The bandits have collapsed now?" Pan Zhuoer, who was following Wang Yingtai, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this.

Wang Yingtai also showed joy, but then his expression suddenly changed.

"No! It's a Crouching Tiger Cannon!"

After the Rebel Sword player stepped aside, three rows of Crouching Tiger Cannons were placed on the mountain road behind.

There are three guns in the first row, two in the second row, and two in the third row, and the fuses on the tails of the first row of squatting cannons are burning!
"artillery!"

"The thief has a squatting cannon!"

"Run!"

The moment the Tiger Crouching Cannon appeared, before it could be dismissed, the servants who showed off their power earlier collapsed and scrambled to escape.

The smart ones dodge directly to both sides of the mountain road, while the few who are impatient just turn around and run back.

The next breath, three consecutive muffled thunderous sounds drowned out the frightened shouts of the officers and soldiers.

Only three rounds of loose bullets were seen, spraying into a three-foot fan-shaped bullet net and firing towards the officers and soldiers.

The rebels could not afford lead bullets and iron bullets, so most of the shotguns contained pebbles and broken ceramic fragments.

Because the mountain road is narrow, the firing ranges of the three tiger squatting cannons intersect quite a bit, which makes the "marbles" shot out extremely dense.

In an instant, almost all the dozens of people at the front of the army were shot.

Less than ten people were killed on the spot, but the scene of everyone being injured was frightening and had a huge impact on the morale of the officers and soldiers.

Watching the rebels withdraw the first row of squatting tiger cannons, the three rows of squatting tiger cannons in the second row were carried forward for more than ten steps and sent away again. The two hundred soldiers behind the servants could not hold back anymore and were equally panicked. Escape to the slopes on both sides!

Bang bang bang!
Three muffled sounds.

This time the gunners deliberately raised the elevation angle, and the shotguns fired farther, hitting many soldiers who had no time to escape.

In this way, the rebel tiger squatting artillery fired only six rounds, and nearly half of the main force of the official army was beaten to collapse!

Wang Yingtai was dumbfounded. He was hit by an escaping soldier before he came back to his senses. He shouted quickly: "Don't run away, mother-in-law, go around the slope and seize the thief's cannon!"

Most of the servants ran away, and for a while no one listened to him at all.

Wang Yingtai had no choice but to retreat back with the remaining servants.

When they retreated to the small slope behind, they saw that the remaining three hundred soldiers also had panic expressions on their faces.The hundreds of auxiliary soldiers brought by Chen Gui were even more difficult to control and had already fled downhill to the roadside.

The guides sent by the squire family such as Gao Xiucheng and Pan Zhuoer did not expect that because of the appearance of the squatting tiger cannon, the army was defeated in a blink of an eye. They followed Wang Yingtai to the slope like headless flies before they recovered.

"General, what should we do now?" Panzhuoer asked anxiously.

Gao Xiucheng said: "General, you must quickly prevent the auxiliary soldiers from escaping in order to stabilize the position."

Wang Yingtai was angry and said: "The thieves have several tiger cannons. What's the use of holding our ground? Are we going to get shot?"
It's all my fault that idiots like you were beaten up by the thieves and didn't even know they had cannons, causing this general to suffer such a defeat! "

After speaking, Wang Yingtai directly kicked Gao Xiucheng down in front of him, and then ran downhill with dozens of servants, three hundred soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

The downhill slope on the roadside is difficult to walk on, but it is better than staying on the mountain road and getting shot.

The most important thing is that the morale of the thieves and soldiers was destroyed by the cannon fire. Most of the officers and soldiers were frightened and ran away. Even he could not reverse the situation.

Kill deserters?Can most of the people be killed?

When pressed, the auxiliary soldiers dared to use a knife on him.

Standing on the gate of the village, Lady Hong heard several cannon shots and saw the officers and soldiers fleeing quickly from west to east on the mountain road. She was dumbfounded for a moment.

She didn't expect the officers and soldiers to be so afraid of the enemy.

Looking at the narrow terrain of the mountain road, she understood - in this kind of terrain, the enemy had artillery but she didn't, so it was really impossible to fight.

After coming back to his senses, he saw most of the officers and soldiers running downhill like ducks down a river. Rebels also appeared on the mountain road ahead. The red lady immediately gave the order——

"Open the city gate! The standing army will follow me out of the city to pursue the enemy!"

(End of this chapter)