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Chapter 214 Lone Assault
Following Yang Chao's order, the five General Cannons and the four Qianjin Frang Machines immediately started firing.

These heavyweight cannons are not small cannons like tiger squatting cannons. Tiger squatting cannons can only cause serious injuries to infantry, but these heavy cannons are simply big killers.

Flesh and blood cannot stop a five-jin lead bullet from flying out. It is like a plowshare, plowing out a ditch of blood.

Five big general guns plowed five bloody furrows in the enemy's formation to the north, and four thousand gold Francois machines plowed four similar bloody furrows in the enemy's formation to the south.

Especially this Qianjin Frang machine, which is a rear-loading cannon. After the gunner unloaded the rear sub-cannon, he immediately installed another sub-cannon barrel, and continued to ignite four more blood grooves.

Moreover, this Qianjin Frang machine is a rear-loading cannon, which is somewhat similar to the cannons of later generations. Once a cannon is fired, it does not need to be reloaded. Launching, the firing speed is faster than that of the blunderbuss. Within a few breaths, the Qianjin Frang machine has already fired ten shells, and after forty three-jin lead bullets plowed through the enemy's formation, they immediately plowed out more than a dozen shells. The blood ditch stunned the captive cavalry in the south, and the formation was in a mess.

The captive soldiers who were already in a dense formation and were about to launch the final charge now left corpses all over the ground, and the formation became loose. It was not all caused by killing. The people who were killed at the scene were far from the shocking scene. Proportionally, fifty lead bullets are indeed very powerful. In fact, the casualties caused are only twenty or thirty, but the death conditions are too tragic. No matter whether it is a man or a horse, anyone who is hit by a shot is sure to die. Moreover, he was directly beaten to pieces, and he was simply dead without a whole body.

Those who did not die were definitely maimed, and they were seriously injured. There was no chance to stand up, and they could only lie on the ground and howl. They were impressed, as was the horror of reminding them of the cannon.

This kind of weapon that has no ability to counteract it caused an extremely serious blow to the mentality of the captive soldiers, and the horses were frightened and ran around indiscriminately. The captive soldiers on the horse were also stunned, and even forgot to control the mount for a while, and were led blindly by the mount.

The scene of the cannon bombardment made Wang Pu stunned for a while, and he couldn't help but grow his mouth, and cursed his mother!
He swallowed his saliva again, so many corpses were smashed to pieces, can the heads be cut off?
Sweeping his eyes across the enemy line and heading straight to the last captive general, Wang Pu immediately put aside the issue of the leader of the captive soldiers in the field. There were a total of seven or eight war horses. It seemed that the captive general was very unlucky. Not only was he hit by a shell, but he seemed to be hit more than once. Behind the low wall, so the field of fire was affected, and the several guns were fired almost straight.

Although it is impossible for two shells to fall into one crater, the distance will not be too far. The captives and more than a dozen guards are here, and it is entirely possible to receive two shells. Who told them to stand with the street so desperately? in a straight line.

Of course, if they could look through the low wall and see the cannons on the street, they probably wouldn't stand on this line if they were killed. If Yang Chao used the cannon yesterday, they wouldn't stand here, even They may not be able to attack. After all, they have suffered too much from cannons in Liaodong, but in the experience of the captive soldiers, cannons are used to defend the city. Who would have thought that the opponent would put them on the flat ground and shoot them directly.

It was precisely because they didn't know that Yang Chao had cannons, and they didn't expect Yang Chao to use them, so the captive soldiers didn't think about this issue at all. Even the generals chose to stand in the middle of the frontal attack, which is the extension line of the warehouse street, for the convenience of the officialdom. , and this is exactly the firing range of the cannon. Due to various coincidences, their generals were also directly bombed by the cannon.

Even the captive cavalry in the last row suffered heavy casualties, and several red-armored generals protected by leather-armored elites were also attacked, and the chaos was a mess.

It's a pity that the Qianjin Fulang machine gun stopped shelling at this time. This kind of cannon fired ten rounds in a row, which was already the limit. If it continued to fire, the barrel would heat up and deform, damaging the barrel.

Wang Pu swallowed his saliva, and immediately found the gunner. After the gunner said that he could not fire for a short time, he actually felt lingering fear. It was not because he was so kind, but because he felt that if the cannon could be fired infinitely, why would he need soldiers in the future? Pull out the cannons and bombard his mother, what army can last before such a bombardment.

But he was a little reconciled. Seeing the miserable scene of the captive soldiers on the field, less than a hundred cavalry rushed in disorder, and the shield chariot infantry without cavalry support in front was almost strangled. The gunners and archers on the roofs on the front and both sides shot and killed. It would be fine if someone came to support them later. The one who came here on foot behind the shield car didn't have a horse, so even if he wanted to run now, he couldn't escape.

When Wang Pu saw the scattered battlefield and the infantry being strangled by musketeers and archers, he suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with him.

He couldn't help being a little sad, and felt a deep sense of loss. Compared to this sense of loss, he no longer cared about the taunts of the bird gun and the archer's banner chief Li Wuliu after the war.

In the past, he relied on his military merits and his ability to kill Jiang bandits to compare with many men, but since the start of large-scale battles, Li Wuliu has suddenly emerged and surpassed him in military merits very quickly. What's the use of it, the blunderbuss, bow and arrow kill captive soldiers like cutting melons and vegetables, and it's no problem to kill Jiang bandits. Then why do you need his infantry in the future? There are loyal and brave infantry like them in the army Is it the place of martial arts?
With the last gunshot, all the captive soldiers and shield chariot infantry who rushed to the front of the formation were all strangled, and Wang Pu was even more dejected.

I couldn't help but looked up at the battlefield, and found that the captive soldiers were already trying to appease the horses and gather their formation under the shouts of some small bosses.

Glancing across the battlefield, after seeing the formation, he found a group of captive soldiers surrounding the wounded general. These soldiers got off their horses and protected the general, but they did not leave immediately.

"useless!"

Wang Pu couldn't help cursing secretly.

I feel that this group of captive soldiers is really too disappointing, and even the captive chieftain was killed before they could fight sword to sword with guns.

"It's a pity that the head is gone."

But there is also some regret, although it is not yet confirmed whether the general was killed, but in any case the head will not be obtained.

The captive general was located 150 steps away from the warehouse. Needless to say, bows and arrows, he couldn't hit the blunderbuss. Unless he could rush over and chop off his head, no one would be able to get this military merit.

Thinking of this, Wang Pu's blood suddenly surged up, as if a voice in the dark was calling to him: "Rush over and chop off the head!"

After rushing through the cavalry array of captive soldiers and heading straight to the enemy's formation, behead the general's head!

This is something unique to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but when he thinks of this, Wang Pu feels that he can't control himself.

This is a crazy idea, but Wang Pu couldn't help thinking about it.

The captive soldiers are recovering their formation, and if they rush out, they may be surrounded by cavalry, and the infantry will be entangled with the cavalry, and they will not be able to run away.

But if we win, the captive cavalry is in a chaotic formation at this time, and the number is no more than a hundred people. There are also a hundred people in our own general team. , Wang Pu felt that if he lost to them, he might as well find a piece of tofu and crash him to death.

Common sense tells Wang Pu that his idea is crazy, but no matter how he thinks about it, Wang Pu can't find a reason why he is not suitable to attack at this time. Like a volcano erupting.

Wang Pu yelled and jumped onto the low wall, taking a deep breath of cold air but couldn't suppress the heat in his chest.

"Brothers! We have all of them, rush to Lao Tzu, rush to kill the chieftain!"

Wang Pu raised his arms and shouted, his subordinates, like him, jumped out of the low wall, rushed out of the warehouse area, lined up in a column of mandarin ducks, and approached quickly.

At this time, Yang Chao, who was commanding in the north, was still delighted at the killing and wounding of the captive soldiers by the artillery. The general fired two rounds and fired ten shells, killing several captive soldiers. The captive soldiers were shocked, and the cavalry was stunned for a moment, and they didn't have time to support the infantry on the shield chariot in front. As a result, these infantry were all strangled. , they took the initiative to withdraw back, this round of attack, they left at least ten more corpses, and the fighting spirit of the storm was greatly hit.

Yang Chao, who has been paying attention to the north, naturally has no time and no chance to notice the situation in the south, so he didn't find out about Wang Pu's attack.

Therefore, after receiving the news, Yang Chao was shocked immediately, and then quickly ran to the south, but it was too late, Wang Pu had already led his troops to rush thirty steps away.

Wang Pu's formation at this time is exactly the mandarin duck formation that he has always disliked.

With his head in front, like a sharp knife, he stabbed all the captive soldiers he encountered with one shot.

Behind them are two rows of columns, stretching out their spears to both sides, and stabbing the captive soldiers nearby when they see them.

This mandarin duck formation was divided into ten pairs in total, and they stabbed directly into the chaotic captive cavalry.

The cavalry lost their speed and did not have much advantage over the infantry. Although they were condescending, they also lost their flexibility.

The captive soldiers were already stunned by the sudden blow from the cannon, but suddenly Wang Pu rushed out, which immediately confused the captive soldiers and cavalry.

Without a formation, they couldn't attack, so they could only fight on their own. The rational ones still drew their bows and arrows from a distance, but found it difficult to shoot through the iron armor to kill the Ming army behind them. There were those who escaped, and the captive soldiers were immediately confused under this blow, and the rout began.

Yang Chao admitted that this scene made his blood spurt, the lone army went deep, and the infantry launched a decisive charge against the cavalry, it was really a man!

But Yang Chao still cursed: "Wang Pu, you bastard!"

He didn't give an order for Wang Pu to attack, it was an unauthorized attack.

(End of this chapter)