Chapter 175 Defeat
After the tricycle, more than 100 spearmen who charged at them lay down more than 100 people, and the rest were also stunned by the sudden blow.
With just three rounds of guns, their people fell down almost one-third, and this casualty rate was enough to destroy the nerves of most people. The spearmen who followed the unshot behind stopped for a while. They didn't know whether they should continue to charge or turn their heads to escape. Seeing this situation, the General Manager of the Foreign Affairs Office, the General Manager of the Soldier, and others quickly ordered the soldiers to continue moving forward.
"Why are you still standing there? Those thieves have exhausted all their gunpowder. There is no lead bullet in their muskets. Everyone rushed up and killed them all. The Duke will be rewarded!"
Under the strict orders of officers at all levels, these spearmen mustered up the courage to continue rushing up. However, more than ten seconds of delay had passed. When they rushed to more than 30 meters away from each other, someone in the spearmen suddenly shouted, "Spout!"
With this order, dozens of javelins flew out of the pike soldiers and drew a large parabola in the air to shoot at the musketeers.
These javelins are not arrows, but big guys weighing several kilograms and are about one meter long. Ordinary people are shot by this thing to shoot their bodies against each other.
“Bo…”
A musket soldier was thrown into the chest by a javelin and made a harsh sound. The musket soldier was beaten backwards by a huge force and fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, the armor made of high-strength steel plates on his body saved his life. Yang Feng had asked Hangweihu to make this plate armor at the beginning that the thickness of the front breastplate of this plate armor should reach two millimeters, which was enough to withstand the attacks of most of the heavy weapons in this era except for maces and hammers, so after the initial numbness, he struggled to stand up again.
However, some musket soldiers were not as lucky as him. A musket soldier who had just put ammunition on the musket and was waiting for the shooting order suddenly screamed and rolled to the ground. A javelin just pierced his left eye. The sharp arrow instantly pierced his eyeball and penetrated his brain deeply. Blood and brain plasma splattered. He struggled for two times and died.
"Open fire!"
Just then, a loud voice rang again.
With this sound, the trembling musket sounded again.
"Bang bang bang..."
Accompanied by the crisp sound of muskets, thick smoke rose up, and dozens of soldiers rushing to the front were shot to the end, and some were even hit by the huge impact of lead bullets. The heads of the spearmen who were raising the javelin to throw were bursting like cracked watermelons. The scarf on their heads flew out, and even the skull turned into pieces, and the brains were flying everywhere like splashing bean juice.
"Open fire!"
"Open fire!"
Flashes of white smoke enveloped the formation. Nearly three hundred spearmen who were rushing towards the phalanx of the muskets were hunting down a large area like harvesting wheat. After the tricycle, less than one hundred people were left in front of the entire phalanx. At this point, the spearmen finally couldn't bear it anymore. One spearmen was stunned for a while, and suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream. He threw away the spear in his hand and turned his head to run back without hesitation. Then the second and third soldiers also turned around and ran towards the back like crazy. The remaining officers also followed the soldiers and ran away.
After Yang Feng, who was commanding behind, saw that the enemy's spearmen formation after the Shenji Camp was also defeated, he ordered without hesitation: "Order, all troops should come forward and suppress the enemy. We must destroy them!"
"yes!"
As Yang Feng's order was issued, loud horns began to sound again. The original large square formation immediately changed into three square formations. Then they quickly pressed towards the enemy in an arrow shape. Yang Daniu led the cavalry to guard both sides of the square formation. As long as Xu Hongji and his last eight hundred sword shield soldiers defeated the battle, they would definitely win.
As Yang Feng expected, when he saw that the platoon formation of the spearmen was defeated in just a short while, the morale of the military in the camp to which Xu Hongji began to shake, especially the sword and shield soldiers who were originally following the platoon formation were immediately scared. There were a total of 400 people, plus the Shenji Camp, and the total 700 people were almost completely lost in less than half an hour.
All seven hundred people were defeated. Could it be that these people were more powerful than the brothers in the Shenji Camp and the Spear Square in front?
Liao Yongquan swallowed a breath and said to Xu Hongji with a trembling voice: "Mr. Xu, the traitor is too cruel. Let's withdraw back to Nanjing first?"
At this time, Lu Jianshen no longer had the arrogance he had earlier, and the resentment on his face had long disappeared. He also panickedly grabbed Xu Hongji's arm and echoed, "Yes, Mr. Xu, the traitor is too cruel. We might as well withdraw it first and keep a useful body until we mobilize the troops to fight this traitor in the future!"
"Brother Xu Shi, Yang Ni and the others are coming!" At this moment, Zhang Weixian also rode his horse and ran over. He should have brought his personal guards to supervise the battle in front, but the spear formation and the Shenji Camp were defeated one after another. He could no longer care about so many and ran back with his personal guards.
"I can't leave!" Xu Hongji smiled sadly. Among the people, he was the most proficient in military affairs. He pointed to the Jiangning Guard sergeant who was constantly pressing forward and said, "If we escape, they will definitely rush over, and their cavalry will definitely trample our retreat. By then, we will only have a dead end."
"Are we all going to die here today?" Lu Jianshen was about to collapse, and his whole body was about to fall off immediately.
At this time, Zhang Weixian also became ruthless, "No matter whether he is Brother Xu Shi, since he escapes, he will die, and if he does not escape, he will die. Let's fight with them!"
"Okay...I'll fight with them!"
Xu Hongji also felt a ruthless spirit, "Brother Zhang, let's fight with them! You and I went forward to supervise the battle together, and took everyone to charge together. Even if we die, we would bite Yang Feng off a piece of meat!"
"good!"
Zhang Weixian nodded heavily, the two looked at each other, and soon took their respective guards and the remaining cavalry to launch the final charge together with the sword and shield soldiers.
The air was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke. Under Xu Hongji's instigation, the remaining more than a thousand soldiers were ready for the final charge in the face of the Jiangning Guards who were constantly pressing. Just as the final battle was about to go, more than ten war horses suddenly broke into the battlefield. The leader waved his hand and shouted loudly, waving a flag in his hand.
"Stop...all stop...the imperial edict is here..."
Chapter completed!