Blood from Daming

Chapter 312 Sneak Attack
Hadan Zhaorige wanted to tell General Xue Yun what was in his heart. At this moment, there was a burst of shouting and killing from the south. Xue Yun had already focused on the troops in the south. Hadan Zhaorige With interest, he stepped back to the side.

The morning in the grassland was very early. Although it was only the fourth watch, the sky began to be hazy, and some vague shadows could already be seen. Xue Yun ordered his soldiers to lead the way along the shallow water, and then Xue Yun led the way. The guards descended from the high ground and walked slowly towards the south.

Xue Yun ran into a messenger sent by Yu Si after walking for a while. It turned out that the firearms battalion led by Yu Si had arrived at a highland in the south to rest and was basically not affected by the flood. However, Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and even Xiong Wei all It is a general who has fought old battles, and he knows that the enemy must have countermeasures after the flood.

So Yu Si, Ji Tianen, Lian Xiong Wei and the others made preparations to prevent the intrusion of the enemy army. After about half an hour, there was no movement. The soldiers in the firearms battalion were a little relaxed. As if he had discovered something, he put his ears on the ground and listened carefully.

Yu Siyou followed Ji Tianen and listened carefully on the ground with his ears close to his ears. After listening for a while, Yu Siyou asked Ji Tianen, "Old Ji, what are you listening to?"

Ji Tianen said: "Of course I'm listening to the sound of horseshoes."

Yu Si said: "There are horseshoes on all sides, what kind of tricks do you hear?"

Ji Tianen said: "Boss Yu, I heard a large number of war horses approaching us from the south."

Yu Si was surprised when he heard Ji Tianen's words and said, "Old Ji, isn't it?"

So Yu Si lay down on the ground with his ears close to his ears and listened carefully. After a while, Yu Si raised his head and said to Ji Tianen: "Old Ji, the water is too loud. Our old Yu's ground auditory skills have failed. I really can't hear it." Can you be sure of your judgment with the sound of hooves of a large group of people?"

Ji Tianen said seriously: "Boss Yu, I learned this listening skill from my old brother Wang Kui Wang, and I have already made a good judgment. If it wasn't for the loud sound of the water, I should be able to judge the horseshoe with ten to ten chances." The direction, and the distance of the person coming, and so on."

Seeing that Ji Tianen was so sure, Yu Si immediately issued a combat order to his subordinates, and then Yu Si took Ji Tianen, Lian Xiong Wei and other officers forward to investigate the enemy's situation. A slight vibration of horseshoes was heard on the ground, and a large number of people and horses were actually discovering that they were coming towards the Datong Army.

Yu Si immediately stepped forward to fight with the officers and soldiers of the firearms battalion, and sent people to report the enemy's situation to the general Xue Yun. Then Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiongwei arranged the [-] firearms battalion around the high ground. The slingshot and fire commanders also began to line up to prepare for the battle, and the spear and shield soldiers brought in the serial chariots and began to form formation.

To the slight disappointment of Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiong Wei, the messenger soldiers only contacted the cavalry unit that originally belonged to General Xue Liu on the right wing for the time being, but it was also a surprise for the Firearms Battalion to have this cavalry unit come to support them. Great joy, Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiong Wei believed that after the battle started, General Xue Yun and other brother troops would come upon hearing the news.

According to Ji Tianen's own judgment, the Lang family army has at least 3000 people. Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiongwei think that this group of troops should be the largest military force of the Lang family army. It almost became a toothless tiger.

The Firearms Battalion led by Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiongwei was basically ready, but the Lang Family Army who came to attack from the opposite side had hardly discovered the existence of the Firearms Battalion. Lang Jiajun still walked forward with his head in a daze.

As the figures of the knights of the Lang family army gradually grew larger, the knights of the Lang family army were getting closer and closer to the preset positions of the soldiers of the firearms battalion. The Lang family's army, who walked in the lowlands of the water, put most of their energy into the arduous march.

Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiongwei watched nervously as Lang's army entered the attack range of the Firearms Battalion. They tried their best to show off the enemies who wanted to drown the Datong Army, but the Lang's army who attacked them did not find the Firearms Battalion. The sneak attackers instead became the targets of ambushes.

Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiong Wei had been restraining the urge to attack, waiting for the Lang's army, who were struggling in the water, to get closer. At this time, Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiong Wei were still discovered by the Lang's army. The first thing to realize that something was wrong was that several knights vaguely saw the towering bomber.

These knights probably didn't quite understand what these tall stands were for, and they started asking each other. More and more knights from the Lang family army stopped advancing, pointing at the bombing vehicles of the Firearms Battalion. Debating what these tall things are.

Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiongwei looked at the sparse Lang family army and sighed a little. It would be great if the density of the Lang family army was higher. It would be a bit expensive to use large-scale firearms to attack in such an out-of-order skirmish formation. However, Yu Si, Ji Tianen, and Lian Xiong Wei knew that if they didn't order an attack, even such an uneconomical opportunity would slip away.

So Yu Si issued an attack order to the bombardiers. The bombardiers who had already prepared to attack took the lead in launching the attack. Fifty bomber vehicles started dropping bombs together. The bombardiers carried out covering attacks according to the area. The first ones were Xue Jiajun's latest invention. Short-lead sealed explosives, these explosives can be launched in rainy days, that is, the explosion of the explosives can be completed in water, and it is a multi-purpose gunpowder weapon that can be used in complex situations in all weathers.

Soon the first batch of explosives flew to the heads of Lang’s army knights. Most of the explosives exploded in the air, which made the shrapnel in the explosives wider and more lethal. The sudden explosion made Lang’s army The soldiers lost a lot, at least hundreds of Lang's troops were able to withstand the attack.

Under the cover of the explosive package, the hundreds of Lang's troops were basically injured to varying degrees, and the horses around them were not spared, especially those wounded horses ran wildly in the water, causing the surrounding Lang's troops to be injured too. Many people were injured by the wounded horse, and some people were trampled into the water by the horse.

At this time, the second batch of explosives from the Datong Army flew over again, and the biggest weakness of Lang's army came out. The Lang's army was in the low-lying area of ​​the grassland. There are many deep pits, and the soldiers of the Lang family army will be wiped out if they are not careful.

Not to mention fighting in such a place, even turning around is very difficult. Standing in the water, the soldiers of the Lang family army have become living targets for being beaten. Standing on the ground to be bombed, but a few soldiers used their horses and buried in the water to more or less reduce the attack of some explosive packages and reduce some damage from the explosion of explosive packages.

This time the Lang family army also suffered dozens of casualties. The most annoying thing was that another group of wounded horses made trouble in the water. The number of people killed and injured was not small. The most troublesome horses were seriously injured. It interfered with the assembly of the Lang's army, which made some soldiers of the Lang's army have to kill the wounded horse cruelly.

Then the third and fourth batches of explosives from the Datong army also flew into the crowd of the Lang family army. The courage of the Lang family army was rapidly disappearing. For most soldiers of the Lang family army, death was not a terrible thing. They joined the Lang family army and followed Lang Shouyi to resist. In the Ming Dynasty, there was the idea of ​​being ready to die at any time, but standing in the water was attacked by the Datong army, and then everyone fell into the water to die one by one. Not many people could accept this unilateral massacre.

The big slingshot that can reach the attack distance also began to release grenades. Unfortunately, there are very few Lang's troops within the attack range of the big slingshot, and the sealing effect of the grenades is obviously not as good as the newly improved batch of explosives. [-]% of the grenades fell into the water and did not explode. This made the slingshot soldiers have to give up the grenade attack.

However, with the explosion of three or four batches of explosive packages and the addition of slingshot grenades, the soldiers of the Lang family army could not bear this passive beating situation, so the soldiers fled to the back with dripping water. The Lang family army outside, seeing that their dead and wounded comrades couldn't use their strength, everyone could only stand aside and worry, but they had the opportunity to gain a certain understanding of the firearms of the Datong army.

The leading leader, Lang Dusheng, is even more sympathetic. The Datong army's style of fighting against the enemy outside the battle formation of both sides is very scary. Although the Lang's army did not suffer many casualties, this kind of unilateral casualties is very harmful to the subordinates. In terms of morale, Lang Dusheng had fought against Yu Jiajun once in Datong Mansion. Lang Dusheng knew how powerful the Ming army's firearms were, but he didn't expect Xue Yun's Datong army's firearms to be much more advanced than Yu Jiajun's.

Lang Dusheng knew that the best way to deal with this kind of firearm was to order the troops to rush into the camp of the Ming army for melee as soon as possible, but the bad thing was that the water was released in the middle of the night on his side. The attack speed means that the soldiers of the Lang family army were barely close to the position of the Datong army, and they did not form a sufficient force advantage.

Lang Dusheng understood that such a battle was impossible to fight, so he did not ask his subordinates to stop the soldiers in front from retreating. Instead, he ordered his soldiers to assist those retreating soldiers, because Lang Dusheng knew that in this sparsely populated desert, every soldier is precious. Wealth, without these soldiers, the Lang family is finished
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