Chapter 61 Bombardment Battalion
The two armies faced each other across the stone river beach. Just when the war was about to begin, someone shouted in front of the Shun Army here: "Changbo, let's do it slowly, I want to talk to you for a few words."
Wu Sangui took Yihui and signaled the army to stop moving forward.
Two cavalry came out of the Shun Army and headed straight for Wu Sangui formation. The cavalry in front was Wu Xiang, followed by Liu Zongmin. Although Shun Army let Wu Xiang go on a horse, he was riding a slow horse, and Liu Zongmin behind him was riding a thousand-mile horse. If Wu Xiang wanted to play any tricks, he could not escape Liu Zongmin at all. Liu Zongmin could shoot Wu Xiang without armor at any time. Liu Zongmin himself was wearing three thick armor. It was impossible for Guanning Army to shoot Liu Zongmin with a bow and arrow.
The two of them arrived about seventy steps in front of the Guanning Army, one after another, and then they went out about seventy steps away. Liu Zongmin asked Wu Xiang to stop: "Old General Wu, please call the noble master."
Wu Xiang shouted: "Sangui Wuer, Dashun's arrival in the capital is the destiny of heaven. He has surrendered to the King of Breaking, and I hope that Sangui Wuer will obey the destiny of heaven and submit to the King of Breaking as soon as possible!"
Wu Sangui took his bow and shot an arrow at Wu Xiang.
Seeing the arrow shot by his son flew towards him, Wu Xiang was so scared that he lowered his head. However, the long arrow fell in front of Wu Xiang and penetrated heavily into the soil in front of the horse, and the shaft still couldn't stop shaking.
"Unfilial son!" Wu Xiang was so angry that he cursed.
Only heard Wu Sangui shouting opposite him: "Since your father cannot be a loyal minister, how can your son be a filial son? Please tell me about your son from today."
Liu Zongmin's face turned gloomy and he had no choice but to take Wu Xiang back to the Shun Army camp.
Seeing that Wu Sangui refused his surrender and broke up with Wu Xiang, Li Zicheng had to order a war.
Looking at Zhao Peng from the building from afar, he was puzzled: Didn’t Wu Sangui be a filial son? Why did he ignore his father? He also shot arrows at his father to show his breakup? So Zhao Peng ordered Wang Xin, who was driving the sky-rushing cannon behind, and said: "Start the cannon!"
But Zhao Peng didn't know at all that although Wu Sangui was a filial son, he was also subject to civil servants and gentry. Li Zicheng's torture in the capital had already angered the civil servants and gentry group. Wu Sangui, who did not dare to offend the civil servants and gentry group, could only accept Wang Yongji's plan to pacify the enemy. The so-called angrily fight for the beauty was completely written by literati and could not be taken seriously.
Although women generally have poor IQ and sometimes it is easy to make bad things, they cannot attribute the responsibility for the destruction of the country to the misfortune of beauty. The integrity of those shameless literati is better than remembering women.
"Bang bang" two sky-storming cannons made a dull roar, and the shells soared into the air and flew towards Wu Sangui three miles away.
In fact, this is also a gamble of luck. With the cannons of this era, it is almost impossible for them to kill Wu Sangui. However, if they hit the lucky ones and kill Wu Sangui with one shot, the next thing will be much simpler.
Two shells dragged the afterimage, with firelight, and smashed them in the direction of Wu Sangui one by one. Seeing the shells flying towards him, Wu Sangui quickly rode away. Only two loud "boom" sounds were heard. Two shells fell between the Guanning soldiers seven or eight feet away. Two groups of firearms exploded in the Guanning soldiers, and shrapnel shot everywhere. However, Wu Sangui had already exceeded the explosion and killing range of the flowering fire shells. The flying fragments swept over more than 30 Guanning soldiers.
The two sides officially started the war. The cavalry of the Shun Army, led by the Shun Army Li Guo and Li Laiheng and other powerful generals, divided into two groups, and surrounded the Guanning Army from left to right; the brigade of infantry on both wings merged into a team, and slowly walked towards the Guanning Army from the middle.
Wu Sangui was a soldier for half his life. At the age of eighteen, he rescued his father from thousands of troops and horses and became famous in battle. He was a first-class general. However, Wu Sangui was not a brave and unscrupulous man. Seeing that the cavalry of the Shun Army was powerful, he ordered the infantry and chariot camp to block the Shun Army cavalry. He led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to bypass the Shun Army cavalry and infantry platoon and suddenly detoured from the flank.
"Aim at the Guanning Military Vehicle Battalion!" Zhao Peng shouted and whispered the flag.
Wang Xin and his apprentices adjusted the muzzle of the sky-storm cannon and quickly filled it. The two apprentices stabbed into the fire door with a pointed cone and inserted a medicine twist into the fire door.
"Fire the cannon!" Zhao Peng shouted.
The two apprentices lit the cannons, and only two dull sounds of gunpowder gas expansion were heard. Two flowering artillery shells rushed out of the muzzle, pulled the fire into the sky, and smashed them hard on the top of the head of the Guanning military vehicle camp like a scorching meteor.
Although the accuracy of the sky-rushing cannon temporarily redirecting the gun port is a problem, for such a large target, the two shells can easily land in the middle of the Guanning Military Vehicle Battalion.
A shell hit a side van. To be precise, it should have hit the ground three feet away from the side van, and then jumped up and exploded in the air four feet above the side van. A dazzling flame flashed, and the hard and crisp pig iron bullet body exploded into countless pieces, mixed with five hundred iron beads flying out of the shell, which were scattered to the two side vans like heavy rain.
The fragments and projectiles hit the body of the Guanning Army infantry and ruthlessly penetrated the human body. More than 20 Guanning Army soldiers on the two side vans screamed and fell down. Each of them was beaten into a horse's nest, spewing out large masses of blood mist. The fragments that penetrated the human body and passed through the gaps between people hit the wooden boards, making a crisp sound. The bodies of the two side vans were suddenly spread across the boards, and the wooden boards of the car were stained with spots of radial blood.
Another shell landed under a side van nine zhang away. After the shell landed on the ground, it bounced up and just hit the bottom of the side van, overturning the whole car. Then the fuse in the cork fuse tube burned out, causing a violent explosion of new gunpowder loaded in the shell. The side van immediately smashed to pieces. At the same time, the gunpowder loaded in the car also triggered a violent explosion. Only a loud bang was heard, and a raging fire ejected from the convoy, and the Fran cannon on the side van was also blown into the air.
The big explosion of ammunition exploded affected four side vans around, overturning all four cars to the ground, and the Guanning military chariots on the car were seriously injured.
The two flowering artillery shells that hit the chariot battalion caused a commotion among the Guanning military chariots and infantrymen, but this commotion was quickly suppressed by the officers and servants, and the Guanning military chariot battalion continued to advance towards the Shun Army.
Li Guo discovered Wu Sangui's intention and immediately led the cavalry of the old camp of Shun Army to surround the Guanning Iron Cavalry. However, the cunning Wu Sangui turned his horse's head and the Guanning Iron Cavalry pulled an elegant arc in the open ground, beautifully avoiding the impact of the three walls of Shun Army. Only a few dozen cavalry and men and horses were hit by the three walls, and the people and horses were crushed by the Shun Army cavalry.
Nearly three thousand Guanning Iron Cavalry cleverly bypassed the Shun Army infantry spear formation, avoided the three walls of the Shun Army cavalry, crossed the Dongshi River, and rushed into the stone river beach between the East and West Stone Rivers. Although the horse galloping on the hard pebbled rock beach consumes horses' shoes and easily makes the war horses scrapped, Wu Sangui didn't care about so many. What he had to do was to destroy the two sky-storm cannons that pose the greatest threat to the Guanning Army as soon as possible. Just rush up, bypass the Tutai, and arrive at the Shun Army's artillery position, and destroy the Shun Army's sky-storm cannons will be victorious.
Seeing that all the Guanning Iron Cavalry had entered the Shihe Beach, Zhao Peng pointed forward in his hand: "Fire the cannon!"
The more than 200 Fran machine cannons and more than 100 large and small general cannons arranged by the Shun Army on the north and south wings of Tutai spit out flames. More than 300 solid iron balls of large and small flew from both sides formed an intersecting angle, and hit the stone river beach where the Guanning Iron Cavalry was like hail.
At least 30 Guanning cavalry were directly hit by artillery shells, and the cavalry that was shot in the body immediately turned into a dissipated blood mist; the Guanning cavalry who was shot in the war horse only felt that the war horse under his crotch suddenly softened and lifted himself out, and fell heavily on the stone river beach covered with pebbles, falling to a hazy fall.
After more shells hit the pebbles on the ground, the shells bounced up with gravels, and the gravels splashed, scattering like heavy rain onto the cavalry and horses of Guanning Army. Only the neighing sounds of war horses and screams of people were heard mixed together, and at least more than 200 cavalrymen turned over and fell off their horses.
Chapter completed!