Late Tang

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Standing in the trench, Zhang Guiba had mixed emotions in his heart.

Looking at the extremely ferocious Beihu cavalry, at this moment, it was extremely difficult as if they were involved in the violent storm and the shocking waves at sea. He couldn't help but think of the few limited battles he had with the Qin army as the opponent of the Qin army.Every time, they have encountered the same encounter as today's barbarians.No, they were lucky at that time. At that time, the Qin army did not have such a strong logistical capability as today. The Qin army only relied on arrows, crossbows, knives, and guns.But now, the Qin army still has cannons, extremely powerful cannons.

He couldn't help but feel a little lucky that he finally surrendered to the Qin army in Xuzhou city, otherwise, sooner or later, they would have to experience all the fear and despair faced by these barbarian people in front of them.

If in the past, facing the charge of 1000 Hu Qi, they had only 1000 people standing in front of the formation, this is unimaginable.If it was the Qi army in the past, it would have collapsed in the roar of iron hooves.But looking around now, there are only [-] people, but they stand in the trenches like steel, and no one takes half a step back.

Zhang Guiba, in his early forties, is thick and strong, with an ordinary appearance and a slightly dark complexion.Usually silent and few words, but very brave and capable of fighting.Although at the beginning of Huang Chao's rebellion, he immediately led his brothers Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guimou to abandon their homes and defect to Huang Chao, becoming a general of the grass thief, especially he and Ge Congzhou and Huo Cun shared the same loyalty and formed a friendship. Life and death brothers.Followed Huang Chao to the north and south, and made many military exploits.However, Zhang Guiba and Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi and others had different backgrounds. Zhang Guiba was from Qinghe, Hebei. His grandfather Zhang Jinyan once served as the magistrate of Yanggu County, and his father Zhang Shi also served as an official.Although the Zhang family is not as powerful as the Qinghe Cui family, they are still local tyrants in Qinghe.

It's not as good as Zhang Guiba's unrestrained and unrestrained since he was a child, because Yizong was fatuous and immoral, and natural disasters [***] continued, after Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi raised his troops, Zhang Guiba went directly to Huang Chao.After Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor, he was immediately granted the title of Zuofan hero, the title of general and the post of governor.Xuzhou was finally rescued and trapped for more than half a year. If Huang Chao refused to send troops to rescue, he would not have abandoned the thief and surrendered to Qin in the end.After surrendering to Qin with Huo Cun and Zhang Guihou, they really sat on the bench for a while. This time, it was Li Jing who was fighting for recruits, so he had the opportunity to put on armor again.

When the previous combat mission was assigned, he even took the initiative to ask Ying to serve as the cover of the artillery battalion.Li Jing also trusted them, and agreed that Zhang Guiba and the three would each lead a thousand men to guard the three frontiers.

Looking at the two battalions behind him, which consisted of various tribes of cavalry, township soldiers, united soldiers, and student soldiers, and seeing their tenacity and bravery, Zhang Guiba narrowed his eyes slightly. It seems to be scattered, but there is a spirit that twists them. It can be believed that he leads this army by himself.

There are a total of two battalions of 1000 horses. Before them, there are three anti-cavalry trenches, as well as hidden horse traps, barbed wire, deer feet, and pickets in front of the formation.In the trenches, there are long iron wires, which can be quickly stopped in front of the trenches at critical times.

But it's not a last resort, you can't reveal all of these at once.It is necessary to attract Hu Qi to rush up a little bit, hold them back, and make this place a real meat grinder.

Apart from those fortifications, they are the last guardians of the artillery battalion.

These two battalions are the new cavalry of the Iron Cavalry Legion. Although the origin is a bit mixed, half of them are Tibetan soldiers, and some are student soldiers and rural soldiers. Each of them is quite good at archery.At this time, they gathered in the trenches as a group. Instead of looking up and firing salvos, they took aim and shot. With a group as a unit, they were divided into three small groups, a group of three, and the group leader for command.Three targets and one shot, try to kill.

The sound of whistling sounded, and the Hu people approaching the position had already started riding and shooting on horseback.

Zhang Guiba held an iron tire bow and stepped on the earth platform outside the trench, showing half of his head. He stretched the bow and aimed at a barbarian standard bearer rushing forward. He easily pulled the three hundred catty iron tire bow away. With a full moon, there was a buzzing sound, and the three-edged armor-piercing cone whizzed through the air. Eighty steps away, the tribal warrior who was galloping with the banner was pierced through the throat by a powerful arrow, bringing up a pool of blood, followed by Falling off the horse, the battle flag fell.

There was a burst of cheers, and all the soldiers praised Zhang Guiba's amazing shot.

"Shoot the flag first, then the officer, and then the horse!" Zhang Guiba also had a slight smile on his face, and continued to nock the arrow while shouting loudly.

Capture thieves and capture kings, shoot people and horses.

The flag is very important when the cavalry is charging. Shooting down the flag can not only damage the morale of the enemy, but also make the cavalry behind lose command.Shooting down officers is also to make the enemy lose their command and cause confusion. As for shooting horses, a charge of this scale, without horses, is nothing for cavalry.Especially if the horse is shot to death, it can also bring great obstacles to the cavalry behind. As for the cavalry on the horse, without the horse, it is almost the result of being trampled to death by the horse behind.

These are Zhang Guiba's experience on the battlefield.

Arrows from both sides staggered and shot at each other continuously.

However, it is obvious that although the Hu people are generally very good at riding skills, their accuracy is significantly reduced when riding and shooting while charging.What's more, Zhang Guiba and others were hiding in the trench at this time, only half of his head was exposed, and there was an extremely hard and shiny wolf head helmet on his head!The target is too small, and most of the shots are blocked by the helmet.

On the contrary, Qin Jun lay in the trenches and could shoot arrows with peace of mind. Three people in a small team, three people at a time shot one target, and if they were not careful, they would hit three arrows.I can hide one, but I can't hide two, let alone three.

But at this moment, the barbarians were at the time when their madness was aroused. Although the cavalry fell from their horses from time to time, they were still approaching with that momentum.

Many Hu people also found that ordinary arrows could not deal with Qin's steel helmets, and began to replace them with five-dollar armor-piercing heavy arrows, and the cone-piercing arrows with armor-piercing effects also began to cause damage to the defenders in the front line.There were casualties on both sides, but it was obvious that the Hu people suffered more casualties.

The Hu people rushed fifty steps ahead, and were about to break through the Qin army's position in one fell swoop. When they destroyed the artillery formation, the cavalry in the front row suddenly screamed, and there was a loud noise, and the cavalry in the front row was suddenly shrouded in a cloud of smoke. There was a cry, and broken limbs and pieces of meat kept flying out.

"It's a mine!" Bala immediately thought of something when the explosion sounded.The landmines of the Qin army have also been seen in the city of Yunzhou.This thing is dead like barbed wire, but it is extremely useful in such a positional battle.As long as they are buried outside the formation, they will definitely step on it.

Damn!

The minefields began to explode, and within a distance of [-] steps, one after another the mines began to explode. The cavalry who could not rein in their horses rushed up one after another, and were blown to pieces.

Bala gritted his teeth and swung the mace fiercely: "Come on, there are only fifty steps left!"

It is indeed insidious that the people of Qin planted landmines, but this landmine was only a one-off event.Hundreds of horses were lost, but they still couldn't hurt their bones.

And with the explosion of the minefields, the fire coverage of the Flying Thunder Cannon finally arrived.

Five hundred flying thunder cannons were fired at the same time, and the sound of the cannons shook the heavens and the earth. Disc gunpowder packs whizzed over, the whole sky was darkened, and the sun was covered by clouds, and then they hit Hu Huo like a rain of meteors and fire. On the way of riding the charge, a barrage of fire was quickly built!

Like a landslide, like a crack in the ground!

After half an hour, the ten rapid-fire shots stopped, and the smoke of gunpowder had enveloped the entire battlefield, as if a thick fog had suddenly descended, covering the sky and the earth.

A total of 30 rounds of flying thunder, and three battlefields, consumed [-] flying thunders, a full [-] catties of gunpowder. Except for half of the gunpowder that the Gunpowder Bureau has vigorously produced in the past few years, it was sent to the Northeast battlefield. This time, the remaining half that was brought this time was knocked out.

30 catties of ammunition, what a hand.

When other feudal towns had just begun to realize the power of gunpowder, they searched around and bought those elementary formulas with a lot of money, which could only be produced in small batches. 30 catties of gunpowder were dropped.

All the hustle and bustle on the battlefield suddenly stopped, and it became extremely quiet.

The world seemed to be shocked by it.

Bala shook her head and struggled out of the mound of dirt, disheveled.He just felt dizzy, but couldn't hear anything.

As if the world had fallen into silence, he felt nauseous for a while, struggled to kneel there and vomited, but couldn't vomit anything.Moreover, he was horrified to find that he couldn't even hear his own voice.He opened his mouth wide in horror and shouted loudly, but there was still no sound.

He stumbled to his feet, the land under his feet had been completely plowed by the gunfire, and there were large pits all over the place, and the black soil was stained with blood red, turning purple-black.Gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the smell was pungent. He saw war horses scurrying beside him, dragging their dead master along.He saw the wounded warrior's mouth open, shouting something, but he couldn't hear anything.

He turned his head and looked around, and all he saw was a piece of hell on earth!

hum!

His ears finally heard the sound, but the sound made him have a splitting headache.He covered his ears and knelt down, and it took a while for the pain to subside a little. Then, all kinds of voices came to him like a tide.

The neighing of war horses, the screams of soldiers, the screams of fear and despair, the wailing of unbearable pain...

Bala's eyes were bloodshot. He didn't know how many cannons they were bombed by and for how long, but there were not many soldiers standing around him.

1 people, his 1 horses, were blown up by this cannon during the charge just now, and they were already beaten badly.He didn't expect that the Qin army had so many flying thunder cannons, so fierce, and the most terrifying thing was the continuous shelling.

This feeling of oppression and fear made him almost crazy, wars are not fought like this, there is no such way of fighting.They're not fighting people, they're fighting a bunch of hellish demons.

He made a rough estimate. In the burst of artillery just now, at least 1 of his [-] people died, at least [-] were seriously injured and disabled, and everyone was slightly injured.The rest of them were all injured, and their morale was completely defeated. It was impossible for them to charge together in a short time.

At this time, the front row of the Qin army on the opposite side began to shoot arrows again, and the sound of the arrows roared. Some former tribal warriors who were still in a state of sluggishness were shot and killed like chickens and dogs.

The ground shook slightly, and Bara subconsciously realized that it was cavalry galloping.

Did Yelu Shilu send troops to respond?

No!His complexion suddenly changed, because he felt that the voice did not come from behind, but from the front.

That is the cavalry of the Qin army!

How is it possible that Qin Jun dared to take the initiative to attack?He looked up, but just in time to see in the slowly dissipating gunpowder smoke, a cavalry of the Qin army was stepping on the wooden passages quickly erected by the soldiers in the trench, swift as the wind, guided by the high flying eagle flag , they stepped on that passage, and rushed straight towards them who were in chaos, collapse, panic and despair.

After a hundred steps, the cavalrymen of the Qin Army picked up the crossbow, and under the cold wolf-headed iron helmet, he could feel the cold gaze.

At eighty paces, iron whistles began to sound among the cavalry of the Qin Army, and the cavalry were ready to shoot arrows.

In the artillery position, the flag soldiers were waving the command flags, and the flag bearers of each capital team also immediately conveyed the order to the captains of the capitals.

"The artillery fire is ready, the target is one hundred paces, and the artillery fire extends forward!"

"Extended artillery fire!"

Zhao Zhang's face was flushed, and he was still a little immersed in the big barrage scene created by the devastating group shelling fire coverage just now.

Following the orders given by the chiefs of each capital, the Feilei Cannon, which had just stopped shelling, roared again after a brief cleaning, adjustment and calibration.But this time, they were not as violent as before.This time, it was the extension of artillery fire. The artillery shells seemed to lead the way for the attacking cavalry, exploded not far in front of them, and then extended all the way forward.

Clearing the way, Liu Zhijun kicked the horse's belly fiercely with both legs, leading the horse, prancing the horse with a gun, and leading Qianqi like a sharp arrow straight into the battlefield that had been plowed by artillery fire again.

The shelling just now was really scary, but it still couldn't kill tens of thousands of people at once.The real kills were only a few thousand horses, but at this time tens of thousands of Hu soldiers were frightened by the shelling. At this time, the cavalry attacked, and it was time to take the opportunity to kill them vigorously.

"Rush, Rush, Rush!"

Bala stared at the cavalry rushing like a storm, although the cavalry only had a thousand soldiers, it made him palpitate endlessly.He gritted his teeth, then turned his head and ran away abruptly, grabbed a surviving battlefield horse, turned on his horse, and fled south without looking back.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"

While fleeing, Bala yelled at the tribal fighters who were still stunned on the battlefield.

Many tribal warriors finally woke up at this moment, got up from the ground one after another, followed Bala, and fled in embarrassment, only hating their parents for losing two legs! (To be continued.)