The sun was still hidden behind the dark clouds and still showed no intention of showing its head. The north wind roared past, hitting people's faces with a faint pain.
In the northwest corner outside Kaifeng City, smoke filled the air in front of the army's vehicle formation on Xuanzang North Road, but there were flashes of fire, and rockets dragged their tail flames and roared towards the rebel soldiers behind the hungry people.
At this time, if you look down from the air, at a distance of about five hundred steps south from the position of the car array, you can see traces of smoke, like a large dome, left by these rockets.
Each chariot is equipped with two boxes of rockets, and each box contains a hundred rockets. In this way, twenty chariots have four thousand rockets, roaring and flying towards the array of thieves.
Not to mention how much damage it can cause, the momentum has shocked the hungry people and bandit soldiers in front of the car formation. They have never seen such a formation before.
Not to mention these hungry people and newly recruited traitor soldiers, even Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and others who were commanding and watching the battle behind the battlefield were shocked.
Even Liu Zongmin, the general sentry who was assembled on standby outside the distant battlefield, and the nearly three thousand horse thieves under his command were frightened. They were secretly glad that they did not launch a charge at this time, otherwise it would be impossible to escape with their lives under such artillery and rocket bombardment.
"Master Tong, this car array fires hundreds of cannons and rockets, it's so powerful!"
Tong Shoushan, who had joined the thief, glanced at Bao Jiqiang beside him, and said with some disdain: "Hmph. You kid, open your dog eyes and take a closer look. There are still many chariots that are not moving on both sides of the big cloud of smoke. In my opinion, , the power of the army’s chariot array is only half as powerful at most.”
A little boss next to him continued: "Master Tong, do you think the commander-in-chief Liu will still ask us to break out?"
Tong Shoushan glared at him and said angrily: "What a silly thing, we all saw that the army's vehicle formation still had some strength left, but with less than half of the firepower, we drove away the hungry people and destroyed our infantry camp." Beat him to a pulp.
We are all the treasures of Prince Chuang, why would he ask us to die again? "
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"Third row...shoot, first row comes forward..."
There was a swan trumpet sound in the car formation, and there were bursts of popping noises like popping beans. Three rounds of intensive volleys of firecrackers were fired in succession. They were fired quickly and neatly, no less than the Those fire rifle soldiers in the infantry camp.
Each carriage of the carriage camp is equipped with ten sergeants, excluding one bargeman, one auxiliary bargeman, and three gunners. Each carriage has five men, all equipped with firecrackers, and they must also learn the art of sword, shield, gun, and stick combat.
The chariot is equipped with twenty sergeants, divided into two teams: the main team consists of two bargemen and two deputy bargemen, six gunners, and two rocket launchers; Killers who are gunners and trained with guns, sticks, swords and shields are responsible for guarding the safety of vehicles. They are full-fledged soldiers.
Because this side is the focus of the vehicle formation's defense, as many as forty of the sixty chariots of the Chariot Department are deployed here. In addition, there are nearly a hundred chariots on this side, so it has its own cannons. More than 800 people.
What's more, there are more than a thousand gunmen in Beijing guerrilla Chen Shihu's unit, and now almost all of them are deployed on this side. More than 1,500 gunmen form a three-tiered formation, with each row containing 500 people.
Although their five hundred gunmen in each row cannot form a dense array due to the artillery equipped on the chariots and baggage vehicles, the power of the salvo of five hundred fireguns on a front is also amazing.
Even if the misfire rate inside was as high as one-tenth or two-tenths, with the help of artillery and rocket volleys, with only two rounds of fire muskets, the hungry people who rushed towards them collapsed.
In fact, these hungry people were forced to rush into the battle by the bandit soldiers. After all, the bandit soldiers behind them were slashing and stabbing with real swords and spears. If they disobeyed even a little bit, they would be immediately killed on the spot.
After all, there are officers and soldiers on this side of the car formation. Although they are fierce, and many officers and soldiers even have the bad habit of killing civilians and taking credit for their merits, the threat from the bandit soldiers behind them is real.
As for whether the officers and soldiers behind the car formation are Bodhisattvas or devils, it is currently unknown. There is at least some distance before they are threatened by the officers and soldiers behind the car formation.
The people of Gu are like this. As long as they have a little chance of survival, they will not resist. After all, they have been tamed for thousands of years without any temper.
But when the threat from the officers and soldiers in the vehicle formation was greater than the threat from the thieves behind them, they would instantly forget the fear the thieves had brought to them, and turn around and rush back without hesitation.
But nearly 10,000 hungry people, old and young, were crowded together. The row in front fell down. The second row was threatened and turned around to run back, but the third row had not yet reacted.
The hungry people in front immediately crowded together. With the second round of volleys of firecrackers, another row of hungry people fell to the ground in front of them. At the same time, the iron cannons and rockets that kept flying in the sky also brought more trouble to them. For real fear.
After crowding, the hungry people abandoned three or four rows of corpses in front of the car formation, then turned around and fled in all directions. The thieves behind them were stabbed with swords and spears, and the archers kept shooting life-threatening arrows.
But compared with the sharp bursts of muskets fired by the officers and soldiers on the opposite side, the deafening "rumbling" sound of the cannons, and the iron cannons that kept whizzing past in the sky, they seemed insignificant.
Especially those rockets that pierce the dark sky with their brilliant tail flames, and the sound of their "squeaking" whistling through the cold wind is even more harsh.
Even a few years later, when many hungry people think back to today, they will never forget the big rockets flying in the sky and roaring.
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Liu Chengzu lay on the ground with dull eyes. There was no trace of panic in his eyes, let alone a trace of anger.
If it weren't for the fact that his nose was still breathing a trace of white air and his back was rising and falling, he would have looked dead to outsiders.
Just now, he was carrying his little daughter on his back, holding his eldest son, and supporting his wife as he staggered forward, walking on the road of dying generously. His heart was already full of despair. What he was thinking was, "It is a good thing for a family to die together, at least. We are reunited, and the children will not suffer!"
But suddenly there was the "rumbling" sound of cannons. He was so shocked that he had forgotten everything and didn't know how to react, followed by bursts of crisp sounds like exploding beans.
Fortunately, Uncle Wu is an old man who has lived for decades and has more experience. He first had a premonition that something bad was going to happen. Before he could speak, he hurriedly picked up his son who was being held by Liu Chengzu. He held Liu Chengzu tightly with the other hand and shouted. : "Run...turn around and run..."
In the distance, an archer who had mixed up with the hungry people saw that they dared to turn around and run back. He immediately drew his bow and aimed an arrow at Liu Chengzu in the middle.
But before his arrow could be fired, a hot black iron ball shattered his head, and continued to fly forward for a certain distance before landing and bouncing forward again.
Here Liu Chengzu stumbled and didn't even take a few steps back. The hungry people in front were like headless flies that had blown up the camp. They turned around and fled back. Because they were dragging their families with them, they were quickly caught up by the hungry people behind.
In the chaos, Liu Chengzu's wife was knocked to the ground by an old man. He couldn't bear to leave his wife and run away alone, so he came back with his daughter on his back and tried to help her up, but in the panic, he stumbled onto a corpse.
Liu Chengzu, who fell down, saw his wife in front of him at a glance, looking at him expectantly. He hurriedly crawled over, only to see that half of his wife's body was pressed by two corpses, and he couldn't see where the injury was. But one look revealed that she no longer had the strength to get up again.
Liu Chengzu hurriedly untied his little daughter from his back, let her lie in a small pit on his chest, and covered it with the greasy tattered cloak. He and his wife held hands, with smiles on their lips. A hint of a smile.
However, he never saw that less than twenty steps to the south of him, his son was crying and trying to crawl towards him, but the roars and screams of the hungry people covered everything up.
At this time, an old man who was not strong but looked very powerful rushed over, pressed on the body of the teenage boy, and shouted urgently: "Si baby, don't scream..."
