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Chapter 885

(Thanks to the Grandmaster Zuixiao for his support, thank you!)

"Report to Dutou, the barbarians have entered the range of artillery firing!" Shi Yong, an observer of the artillery battalion, held an observation mirror in his hand, turned his head and rushed towards Dutou, loudly shouting Zhao Zhang.

Zhao Zhang, who was in his forties and was originally a carpenter, was biting a grass stem in his mouth, wearing a helmet without a mask on his head, and was also holding an observation mirror and watching the Hu people who were approaching the southern camp. His mouth was slightly raised, revealing a cunning smile.

It is said that the flying thunder cannon is also called a conscience-free cannon. It is famous for its head, with a range of 200 steps, but its accuracy is extremely poor. It often refers to shooting from east to west and can deviate by about ten feet. But despite these shortcomings, as long as it is used well, in Zhao Zhang's opinion, this thing is much stronger than a stone caster and a crossbow. After all, the flying thunder cannon cannon is only three feet tall and one foot caliber, and the weight of less than 30 kilograms makes each infantry team equipped with two gates, and the cavalry also has two gates, and you can stop and fire at any time. Especially for those fortresses and dense arrays, it is simply not very useful.

As a professional artillery battalion, Zhao Zhang has a total of twenty flying thunder cannons. Anyway, this thing is cheap, simple to manufacture, and easy to transport.

"Hehe, third brother, come first according to the predetermined target!"

The Qin army has not only dealt with the more than 10,000 miscellaneous fish Hu soldiers here in the past few days. In fact, they have built a very powerful fortification and artillery position here. Behind the simple wooden fence that looks like it can be collapsed by wind, there are trenches, with wooden boards of arrows piled up, and only a line of space to shoot arrows. A little behind the back is the artillery position. A flying thunder cannon was prepared here for a long time. They even had adjusted the ballistics in advance before the Hu army arrived, set the artillery point, and inserted various small flags in front of the camp fence.

Everything is ready, only those who are beaten.

"Boom!" A stream of white smoke emerged from the flying thunder cannon barrel. The third ace gunner in Zhao Zhangdu was bare-armed, raised his hands and raised his thumbs and glanced for a long time, then lit the lead. The twenty-pound bomb bag tied into a disc shape flew out, and then landed next to a small red flag about three hundred steps in front of the formation. There, a group of barbarians had just rushed by like a tide.

Accompanied by a tragic scream, the twenty-pound flying thunder deviated about three feet from the little red flag. This accuracy was quite amazing. Zhao Zhang patted the third brother on the shoulder, worthy of being the ace gunner of Bendu. Although it was three feet away, it sounded very different, but it didn't matter. Those stupid donkey-like Hu people had eaten a lot of shells under Yunzhou City. When they arrived here, they had not learned a lesson yet. They were still densely lined up in arrays. They were holding various shields in front of them and erected a wall, but they didn't know that a disaster was flying from the sky.

Two hundred steps away, even exceeding the range of most catapults, but it is still within the attack range of the thunder cannon.

The twenty-pound flying thunder deviated from the little red flag, but accurately smashed into a group of Wei Qianmen. Although the gunpowder was not very powerful, it was at least very powerful than a stone bomb. Amid the swaying of the ground, the exploded flying thunder broke out and overturned all Wei soldiers within three meters. Seven or eight people within one meter of the explosion center were directly killed by the bomb. Dozens of people farther away fell to the ground, bleeding from the ears and noses, dizzy, and the remaining 100 people in the Thousand People team were scattered and were directly shocked.

Shiwei Tiger Bala lay on the ground and vomited a few mouthfuls of mud in her mouth. She panted and took her thousand-man team back with fear, and retreated for more than 200 steps in panic, and then stopped after running to a mound. Bala is known as Shiwei Tiger, who is skilled in riding and shooting, but she can deal with such things that can not even see the enemy's face, but can overturn a group of people at once. This thing is even different from a catapult. The catapult creates trouble, and it often takes a good time to continue. Even if it is not lucky, it will only kill a few people. It is completely different from a cannon. It is not only lethal, but also the sound of a giant thunder and the firelight soaring into the sky, which makes the men in Mobei almost have no resistance.

These Shiwei people didn't know that when facing artillery bombardment, the dense array was dying. If they were lined up in scattered lines, the lethality of such artillery would be much smaller. And if they saw the shells coming and lie down directly, it would be safer. Unfortunately, they didn't know that the artillery bombardment in Yunzhou City did not let them understand these.

After a good start, Zhao Zhang's mouth rose even more.

"The Hu people who were so angry that they retreated two hundred steps after just one shot. If there were ten thousand cannons of fire, they would not retreat to grandma's house?" Zhao Zhang's words were filled with pride. The carpenter who fled the desert back then now became the commander of the capital, the 9th rank. Moreover, if this battle is done, I will be promoted to the next level, and I will almost get a county police chief. "The third brother, I will come up again later. Let them be closer and put them closer to two hundred steps. This time, we all fire twenty flying thunder cannons. If it is done, I will go to the logistics camp in person at noon and get pork stewed taro noodles for everyone."

The third brother wiped the cannon fodder on his face, grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, "Give me another roasted lamb, and I will try my best to win the face after I'm assigned it!"

"Damn it, you can bargain. Isn't it for you to earn your face? If you fight well, the King of Qin will lose your reward. You kid, save the reward when you get the reward. This time, you will ask your sister-in-law to tell you a good girl to get married, so that she can save you the whole thing. If you have money, you either bet or drink."

The third brother, who was almost thirty years old, felt a little embarrassed when he was said, smiled embarrassedly, turned his head and pretended to observe the Hu people.

Under the Hu people's central army, Yelu Shilu saw Bala being shot back by the Qin people, his face turned pale. These damn guys were getting more and more cunning and knew to preserve their strength. He didn't believe that Wei Zhihu was so brave. It was obvious that this guy had a little idea of ​​not working hard. Thinking of this, he sighed a little. If it weren't for the great loss in Yunzhou City, plus the defeat of Jincheng, and the idiots of Tatars, the 200,000 people were left with only 70,000 people. The leaders of the tribe would not have shrunk so timidly now.

Especially the current King's Banner, the Li character, was inserted there, which made all tribes even more afraid. Before the situation was clear, they did not intend to work hard as cannon fodder.

"Beat the drum, cheer for Wei Zhihu in the room, issue the flag, and urge Bala to break the formation!"

The rumbling drum sounded like a shocking sound. Bala looked back helplessly. He knew that Yelu Shilu was urging him, so he quickly calmed himself down. Without any chance, he still did not dare to force Yelu Shilu. He had experienced many battles, but he was indeed embarrassed to face the Qin people's flying thunder cannon. But when he turned around, he thought that when he retreated, Yelu Shilu could not spare him, so he might as well give it a try. After all, the Qin army had only more than 20,000 people, and they were still attacking from three sides. Perhaps Li Jing would abandon the camp and leave.

He leaned his head behind the mound and saw that the other side had just fired this gun and there was no sound.

Several thousand men and women were behind him and said angrily: "These southern barbarians only dare to set off fireworks, they are all cowards of rats!"

Bala shouted: "Those flying thunder cannons just sound scary, but they are actually not as good as our bows and arrows. Look. They were lucky and only dozens of people died. When our children fought against each other, a rain of arrows often made hundreds of enemies fall down. Besides, we have seen many of these cannons under Yunzhou City. It is rare to hit one of the ten cannons. Just now, they just met a dead rat."

To boost morale to several subordinates, Bala called all five thousand commanders over. He had the intention to preserve his strength just now, but brought a thousand-person team to the battle. This time, he planned to pull out his five thousand people to the other five thousand people from his small tribes, and all 10,000 people were thrown into it together. According to their traditional tactics, they did not set up any array, and they no longer tried. They directly charged with ten thousand cavalry and defeated the southern barbarians in one fell swoop.

"Can a few small cannons scare our warriors in Mobei? Let's rush over and fight in close combat. Can they still install spears on their cannons?"

"Hahaha!" The people who were so scared just now immediately laughed wildly. Indeed, being careful was not their style. They rode a horse and approached, rushing, archery, and close combat. This is their tactic of war.

"Destroy the Southern Barbarians!"

"Kill them all!"

Bala looked proudly at the morale that was aroused again and nodded with satisfaction.

"rush!"

The Hu people started to attack again, but this time it was already much larger. Ten thousand cavalry charges were launched just south. On the vast grassland beside Baishuili, tens of thousands of cavalry roared on the southern grassland of more than ten miles, and the sound of thunder-like hooves sounded, and the knights were shouting and screaming.

"King, the Hu Guan is fierce. You should retreat to the Zhan Hao Command to take charge of the overall situation." Zhang Chengye looked at the Hu Qi who was coming overwhelmingly and carefully persuaded Li Jing. He was not a timid eunuch, and he had participated in several major battles with Li Jing, and the scale was no smaller than this. But now Li Jing's identity is different from the past, so he can't make any mistakes.

Li Jing was wearing a cricket dragon golden armor, and the four-clawed python dragon wrapped around the golden armor. The gold-plated steel-plated gold wire gloves were pressed tightly on the jade sword, and stood on the high arrow tower. In the hot July, even wearing such a set of armor outside the frontier would suffer. Li Jing actually wanted to take off his armor and lay down in Zhan Hao's command center to drink herbal tea. But now it is a war, especially this battle is very important.

The Hu people had failed to move south, with 70,000 left in 200,000 people, but these 70,000 were the elite part of the 200,000 people. Li Jing didn't want to let them go back, and no one was going to let them go back. However, it was easy to defeat a Hu cavalry, but it was difficult to annihilate a Hu cavalry. Especially since they had already left the Great Wall, on this vast barrier, these Hu people on horseback would roar away once they failed and could not catch up. That was why he tried his best to use his body as bait to lure the Hu people here. What he wanted was to wipe them out.

How could he leave at such an important moment?

With him standing here, the morale of the Qin army will increase a little.

"The Hu barbarians have reached the death ground. This is a death battle. Even if we have already made arrangements, if we want to annihilate these fierce Hu people in one net, we still have to do our best. The trapped beasts will fight to the death, so we must not be careless at all. I stand here to let the whole army know that in this battle, we will all fail to let a Hu person go."

After Li Jing finished speaking, he raised the Mile Mile Mile and observed the Hu people, ignoring Zhang Chengye.

"Gongsun, how many more do our troops need to encircle?"

"In order to hide, the four ambushers were far away and they would not arrive in about an hour." Gongsun Lan replied.

It was Li Jing's idea to put the ambush fifty miles away. Li Jing personally lured the enemy here, and it was impossible for the Hu people to crash in without any defense. Especially after they had just experienced several failures, they would become more and more careful. In order to successfully lure the enemy to come, Li Jing only brought 20,000 people here, and the remaining troops were divided into four, fifty miles away.

These four armies are Wang Chong's personal guards' 15,000 troops, the Yingyang army and the Iron Cavalry Army led by Li Wei, the Leopard Cavalry Army and the Iron Cavalry Army led by Qiu Shengong, the Leopard Cavalry Army and the Iron Cavalry Army, the total number of 10,000 troops, and the Feixiong Bear Army and the Iron Cavalry Army. A total of 45,000 troops were just fifty miles away from here. It took about an hour to start sending troops when he heard the sound of cannons.

Li Jing had 20,000 troops, and he had to deal with the 70,000 Hu people alone for at least one hour. Then, 65,000 people had to encircle and annihilate the Hu army, which was a bit stressful.

I feel the pressure is not because I can't stand the Hu people for an hour, but because I still have a few people, and it's easy to defeat and annihilate it.

"How much will the follow-up troops arrive at the fastest time?" This time, the Qin army dispatched more than 200,000 troops.

"The fastest one to reach is the 20,000 Shatu soldiers from Niupi Pass. Li Siyuan has sent people to summon him, but it is estimated that they will not arrive tomorrow morning. Moreover, the combat power of these 20,000 people is not strong." Gongsun Lan replied that the 20,000 subordinates of Li Siyuan from Niupi Pass, 10,000 auxiliary soldiers were summoned after he entered Datong. The remaining 10,000 soldiers were also some old and weak. However, they were the closest to this. The Hu people had never taken this miscellaneous soldier seriously before, but now they are the closest soldiers to this.

"In addition, Marshal Zhang Zimian's new permanent victory legion has to stay in Yanmen Town for the time being to stabilize the results and it is difficult to participate in the battle. Liu Xun's Wansheng legion is coming, and it cannot be at least arrived the day after tomorrow."

20,000 Shatuo arrived tomorrow, and 30,000 Liu Xun arrived the day after tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, they could increase 50,000, but it was still not enough to wipe out the Hu people. If Li Jing was in the Central Plains, he was already sure, but on this grassland, it would be easy for the Hu people to escape without terrain.

"Where are the military guards?"

"There are still ten remaining armies of the Iron Cavalry Army on the Jundu Pass, who have been assembled and are rushing here. It is expected to arrive in three days. In addition, 80,000 troops from each town have also arrived at Jundu Pass, and it is estimated that they will arrive in five days."

Li Jing frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Immediately send orders to Wang Chong, Li Wei, Qiu Shengong, and Xuancheng four armies to stop sending troops and continue to stay on standby! Without my king's order, exposure is prohibited!"

"Your Highness!" Gongsun Lan exclaimed.
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