Sun Cheng personally led five thousand cavalry and launched an attack on the Yan army in Suyang.
These five thousand light cavalry came from the land of Liaodong, and most of them were composed of Liaodong rangers, who were well-equipped and well-trained.
The situation in Liaodong is complicated. There are a large number of Mongolian, Jurchen and other barbarian tribes who often harass the Han people. Therefore, the Liaodong cavalry are in fighting and fighting all year round, and their combat power is outstanding.
It is precisely because of this that when the new emperor Zhu Yunwen learned that Geng Bingwen's 130,000 miscellaneous troops were defeated, he immediately became red-eyed and ordered military leaders from various places to hand over their elite soldiers to Commander Li Jinglong.
For example, Qu Neng and his son brought their elite soldiers from Sichuan and Sichuan. Another example is that the current commander of the Liaodong capital, Yang Wen, also handed over his brave and capable Liaodong cavalry, which was commanded by General Ping'an, the adopted son of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
Sun Chengcheng is a member of the Liaodong cavalry, and his men are also Liaodong warriors!
So he had enough confidence to look down upon the Yan army in front of him who didn't even understand the battle formation!
The distance between the two armies was about five hundred steps, and the war horses needed to accelerate. The Southern Army used high-slope dives to greatly reduce the acceleration time of the war horses.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Sun Chengcheng had already led five thousand light cavalry to charge forward, about three hundred steps away.
"coming!"
Su Yang's eyes narrowed, staring at the situation in front of him.
"Master!"
"The distance is enough!"
Xu Xiang was so anxious that he was holding the sword tightly in his hand.
But Su Yang didn't give any answer and remained silent.
The effective range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon is limited, and it may not be able to hit the enemy if it is too far away.
"Artillery ready!"
Su Yang shouted sharply.
After receiving the order, the artillerymen in front of the formation took a deep breath.
They had long used large iron nails to fix the gun body to the ground to prevent the recoil from overturning the gun body.
To put it bluntly, the Crouching Tiger Cannon is the simplest mortar, like a large grenade with a low depression angle. In order to facilitate shooting, the cannon is placed in a fixed posture, much like a tiger squatting, hence the name.
However, because the cannon body is too light, large iron nails must be used to fix the cannon body to the ground before firing. Each shot can be loaded with hundreds of small lead pieces or pebbles weighing five cents, and a large gun weighing thirty taels is used on top. Lead bullets or large stone bullets are pressed against the top. When fired, large and small bullets fly out together with a roar like thunder. The lethality and radiation range are very large. It is especially suitable for field battles, such as the current scene.
All the artillerymen were rushing to launch. Although they were already familiar with the firing procedures, they had never actually been on the battlefield, so they were inevitably extremely nervous now.
But thanks to the strict military discipline training that the Xishan Military Camp has maintained for a long time, even if the enemy troops have charged towards them, no one has retreated and fled. They are all waiting for someone to give an order!
"Master!"
Xu Xiang spoke again, almost roaring.
The enemy's army is only two hundred and fifty steps away from our own army's formation. This distance is definitely enough.
If they don't launch an attack, the enemy cavalry will easily enter the formation at the next moment, and they don't even know how they died.
"fire!"
Su Yang gave an order.
The artillery that had been prepared fired quickly, and a row of thirty Tiger Crouching Cannons suddenly let out a deafening volley of artillery fire.
In an instant, stones and lead bullets shot out all over the sky, and the Confederate cavalry rushing at the front was instantly beaten to a pulp!
Thirty squatting tiger cannons fired a salvo. In an instant, the bullets in front of the formation were dense like rain, and they were fired at the Confederate cavalry overwhelmingly. The Confederate cavalry never thought that the Yan Army's firearms were so ferocious. From the beginning, they set up a dense charging formation, so that In an instant, he became a rare good target!
The artillery fired the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and the gunmen were not idle either.
After a whole year of training, they are already familiar with the firing procedures and can fire a firecracker with their eyes closed.
The front row of firecrackers finished firing and quickly retreated to the rear, while the second row of firecrackers took over. When they finished firing, they were the third row. This cycle continued, which greatly improved the efficiency of firing cannons.
But in the blink of an eye, the Confederate cavalry that had been charging towards them with howls and howls was now wailing all over the field, with their internal organs flying and stumps everywhere. Countless people had their hands and feet broken off, and the people who were charging at the front were even beaten to death. sieve.
Their fall caused chaos in the formation of the Confederate cavalry. However, the dense lead bullets continued to fire, giving them no chance to resist. One after another, the Confederate cavalry fell in a pool of blood. He died on the spot, having been trampled into a pulp by the horses behind him.
Because the distance was too close, it was impossible for the Confederate cavalry to stop charging and there was no buffer time. They could only keep moving forward and face the hail of bullets from the Yan army!
The artillery soldiers finished firing and continued to load the second round of ammunition, while the firecrackers made up for the time gap and poured the lead bullets in the firecrackers at the enemy according to the three-stage shooting they usually trained.
In the blink of an eye, the originally arrogant Confederate cavalry was beaten to the point where they were wailing all over the place. Broken limbs and broken arms could be seen everywhere. Blood was flying all over the sky, but not a single intact person could be seen.
Even Sun Cheng, the chief general of the Southern Army, was directly hit by the lead bullet fired from the Tiger Crouching Cannon. The lead bullet weighed thirty taels, and coupled with the kinetic energy from the gunpowder, it directly penetrated Sun Cheng's waist and turned into " Two people".
Sun Cheng's upper body fell to the ground, and the war horse continued to impact with his lower body.
He never understood until his death how the power of firearms could be so great!
As an old man in the army, Sun Cheng had never used firearms, but those weapons were easy to explode and could not hit the enemy, so they had long been abandoned by the soldiers.
Especially for the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the firearms were of no use at all.
Even if the enemy controls firearms, the worst they can do is charge for a while and sacrifice the soldiers in the front row. When the enemy loses fire, they can just rush over and cut them all down. There will be no chance for them to resist.
However, in today's battle, Sun Cheng witnessed the correct use of firearms and personally experienced the terrifying lethality of firearms!
However, the price he paid for this was fatal.
He paid with his life.
Horse hooves stamped down one after another, and Sun Cheng's upper body was trampled into a pulp!
This sudden and terrifying scene scared everyone to the spot. Only the Shenji Battalion was still executing military orders and frantically pouring out the ammunition in their hands.
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Ergou discovered to his horror that he had no ammunition.
"Out of ammunition!"
"Do you still have any, please give me a break!"
"It's gone! We're gone too!"
The soldiers in the same company spoke one after another and looked up in confusion.
The enemy troops that had rushed over like crazy had turned into pieces of meat at some point.
They had defeated the enemy a long time ago and killed the enemy until they were reduced to human form, but they didn't notice it.
Under the high-intensity tension and pressure, the Shenji Battalion burst out with unimaginable terrifying combat power. They frantically loaded ammunition and continued shooting until all the lead bullets were completely emptied, and then they finally stopped.
Xu Xiang and other five thousand soldiers were dumbfounded. They looked at Wang Ergou and other Shenji Camp soldiers with horrified faces, and were speechless for a long time.
Won!
Really won!
And he still won with no injuries and zero formation losses!
The enemy cavalry didn't even rush to the front of the formation, but they were shot to pieces by the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion!
Such a divine machine camp is too terrifying!
Su Yang suppressed the throbbing in his heart and quickly ordered.
"Clean the battlefield quickly and retreat to Xishan!"
