Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 178 'Firecracker' Thunder

Except for the assassination that killed one, this was only the second casualty since the establishment of the guard, but it was far more miserable and frightening than the first time only one died.

The shrill scream made some people's hearts tremble, and their faces turned pale, so that they slowed down their arrow shooting. Two Khitan cavalrymen had already started to jump over the corpses on the ground and were about to charge towards them.

"Kill!" Wu Sheng yelled loudly like thunder, and at the same time he let go of his hand, and the arrow pierced through the air, shooting a Khitan cavalryman who had jumped over the corpse and fell off his horse.

After all, these guards have been carefully selected and have been trained strictly by Li Fei for more than three years. In addition, this time they chose to come to Anton with Li Fei, and they all have the idea that one day they will go to the battlefield and do their best. They are afraid that there will be few dead. The man immediately came back to his senses, pulled the trigger of the god arm crossbow or bent the bow and threw the arrow out.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Immediately, three more Khitan horses were shot to death, and eight Khitan cavalrymen fell off their horses, and the bodies further blocked the pass.

Just when Wu Sheng and Zhang Shuo led a hundred guards to block the Khitan cavalry at the pass, Li Fei was also in the pass, hurriedly led thirty guards to abandon the horses, and carried the only two boxes of gunpowder to climb up the slopes on both sides. hide.

Although the formula of gunpowder is very simple, everyone who has studied in junior high school knows that Li Fei made it very easily, but it is only gunpowder, and it cannot be made into a bomb. together.

Ready, Li Fei gestured downwards, and immediately a guard galloped to the pass to give orders to Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo and others.

"Commander Zhang, Commander Wu, sir, you can let the Khitan cavalry in. Your excellency specifically told you to cover the ears of the horse as much as possible when retreating, so that the horse cannot hear the sound."

"What! Your Excellency really said that?" Wu Sheng thought he heard it wrong. He thought that Li Fei didn't know the fierceness of the Khitan cavalry. If he didn't stop him at the pass, he didn't know how Li Fei could defeat him with three hundred guards. More than 400 fierce Khitan cavalry.

On the contrary, Zhang said that he knew it well. He knew the existence of gunpowder, and he had tested it with Li Fei. He knew what Li Fei meant when he asked them to cover the horse's ears when they retreated.

"Commander Wu, my lord has his own way, let's listen to your lord." Zhang Shuo said to Wu Sheng confidently.

"Okay, then shoot another wave and retreat!" Although Wu Sheng didn't know where Zhang Shuo and Li Fei's confidence came from, he was not a stickler. Since he chose to follow Li Fei, he must obey. Li Fei's order.

"Deng deng deng-"

"Shhhhh-"

Another wave of arrow rain passed, shooting and killing the Khitan cavalry who wanted to rush into the pass.

Because of the large number of horse and human corpses at the pass, Wu Sheng Zhang Shuo and others continued to shoot arrows, the Khitan cavalry could not directly charge into the pass with their horses.Some Khitan cavalry had already given up their horses and used the corpses on the ground as protection to counterattack with arrows, or simply climbed up the slopes on both sides of the pass, intending to shoot Wu Sheng Zhang Shuo and others inside the pass from top to bottom.

Unfortunately, before the Khitan cavalry climbed to the top of the slopes on both sides of the pass, Wu Sheng and Zhang Yue had turned their horses and retreated with the rest of the guards.

"Withdraw!" Before leaving, Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo and others picked up all the crossbows and the injured guards.

Ran?

The Khitan cavalry who were breaking through and climbing to both sides of the pass were stunned, and immediately gave up continuing to climb, but got down and mounted their horses again.

"Chase!" Qu Sulv gritted his teeth and ordered, his expression was not good.

Because of the god arm crossbow, the Khitans were caught off guard. In the fierce battle just now, 24 Khitan cavalrymen were directly shot to death, and another 35 people including Qu Sulu were injured. Those who can fight, that is to say, the Khitans lost as many as 50 combatants.

On the other hand, Wu Sheng, Zhang Shuo and others left only ten corpses, and only eight people were seriously injured, and six were slightly injured and still able to fight.

Qu Sulu was very angry. He was indeed a very brave man. He ignored the half arrow in his left arm, grabbed the rein with his injured left arm, and held the knife in his right. After crossing the large corpses on the ground, he rushed forward Chase, if you don't kill a few Tang people with your own hands, you can't understand the hatred in his heart!

Qu Sulu rushed in through the pass with 410 Khitan cavalry who were still able to fight.

Inside the pass is a narrow road that is not wide, and there are a lot of slopes on both sides. It is not easy for the cavalry to spread out, and they can only charge forward in a straight line.Qu Sulu believes that Li Fei must not run far, and he will definitely catch up after a while.

Li Fei was hiding on a dirt slope, and a fire had already been lit beside him.

When Qu Sulu led the Khitan cavalry for 400 meters, he had already entered the range that Li Fei wanted to ambush.

As the first batch of Khitan cavalry rushed over, Li Fei waved his hand, and a loud arrow was shot into the sky.

At the same time, Li Fei ignited the fuzes of oversized bundles of 'firecrackers', and the others also ignited the fuzes.

Bundles of large 'firecrackers' were thrown down like this.

The Khitan cavalry who were charging forward looked in horror at what was thrown down, whistling white smoke, something they had never seen before.

Of course, none of them thought it would be dangerous. They were just surprised. After all, one of the Khitan cavalry was hit by the white smoke, but he was not even injured, and he was still able to charge forward.

However, they soon realized that they were wrong, and after only two breaths, the first bundle of 'big firecrackers' exploded.

"boom!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Afterwards, other 'big firecrackers' also exploded.

There were thunderous explosions, clouds of flames and thick smoke.

Although they were not covered with iron sheets, they were just oversized 'firecrackers' rolled out of pure paper. Even if four of them were bundled together, their power was extremely limited, but the blazing waves generated by the explosion still knocked several Khitan cavalry off their horses.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the flames, thick smoke and thunderous explosions scare the horses.

The horses that the Khitan cavalry sat on were frightened one after another, running like crazy and uncontrollably, and the Khitan cavalry was in a mess for a moment.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Li Fei and the others continued to fire "big firecrackers" on the slope, and the sound of the explosion intensified the shock of the Khitan cavalry sitting on their horses.

Not only the war horses, the Khitan cavalry were also stunned. They had never encountered such a thing, nor heard of such a thing, so they didn't know how to react.

There is always one word 'mess'! ——
(End of this chapter)