Chapter 121 Revival Counterattack (3)
Looking at the left and right wings of the Shu army opposite, surrounding the protruding parts of the side as if two flat palms were slowly closed. Deng Ai smiled disdainfully, turned his head to usurp the Shi, "This man is still very heartful, and he actually wants to wipe out our army. Be careful that the whole army will collapse if he is not good at speaking."
Shi Qiang also had a smile on his face, and was about to respond to Deng Ai, but when his eyes glanced at the midline of the battlefield, his pupils suddenly shrank rapidly, and his fingers were trembling: "Shizai..."
"Huh?" Following Shi Hun's gaze, Deng Ai also turned his gaze to the middle. But when he saw the scene in the middle, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Because at this time, the arrows of the Wei army's front arrow formation had already collided with the central army of the Fuxing Army.
"Let the spear team flat!"
"Wow!"
With the orders of officers at all levels in the Fuxing Army's gun formation, the miners from Zigongting Salt Well neatly placed the spear that had just been raised upright to a horizontal position. Then the tip of the gun was towards the enemy, and amid the clear rhythm of the copper whistle, they began to steadily advance towards the Wei army.
Then, the vanguards of the Wei army, the gun and shield soldiers, became embarrassed.
The Wei army's guns and shield soldiers held a gun in one hand and a shield in the other. Compared with the Revival Salt Gun Team, which only had a long spear in its hand, its defense was much stronger on the surface. However, because one hand had to hold a shield, it could only hold a gun in one hand. If this gun was held in one hand, the length of the gun could not be too long, otherwise it would be uncontrollable. Therefore, the Wei army's guns and shield soldiers, the spear in the right hand and the tip of the gun, were only 1.8 meters long.
The Revival Salt Man Gun Team holds guns in both hands, and the long spear in its hand and the tip of the gun are as long as three meters long!
When the Wei army's spears and shield soldiers were several steps away from the spears of the Fuxing Army, the spear head of the spears of the Fuxing Army was already greeting them brightly.
"First row, stab to the right!"
"Wow!"
Following the officer's command, hundreds of shiny gun heads stabbed forward half a meter in an orderly manner. Suddenly, countless screams rang out from the Wei army's camp.
"Tighten the queue and form a shield formation!" The Longxi army of Cao Wei fought old wars. Faced with such casualties, the middle and low-level officers on the front line did not blink and quickly responded.
The Cao Wei's gun and shield soldiers, who had been through the battle formation, quickly executed the order. The gap between the two soldiers could accommodate half of the body quickly closed. The entire gun and shield soldiers detachment was closely linked with the shield of each soldier's left hand, forming an airtight shield array.
Seeing the enemy forming a shield formation, the front-line commanders on the Fuxing Army smiled softly: "The first three rows of pirate soldiers narrowed the distance, the first row, stabbed to the right, the second row, the third row, the downward, the gun!"
"Wow!"
As another copper whistle sounded, a batch of bright spear heads appeared in the salt workers' gun array. Since these spear heads were made by three rows of soldiers at the same time, compared with the teeth of hundreds of beasts just now, this time, there were thousands of teeth of beasts, biting them hard at the soldiers of the Wei army!
"Dong~~" "Dong~~" "Dong~~" Most of the gun heads poked on the other party's shield, making a dull dong dong sound.
"Ah~~~!!" The shields of Cao Wei's gun and shield soldiers were not as high as two meters, and could effectively cover the large shields on the whole body - such large shields cannot be held with one hand. So although there were not many, a few spear heads still poked the bodies of the opponent's soldiers, either heads, feet, or torso. As these poked soldiers fell down, many tiny gaps suddenly appeared in the shield array that was originally tightly slit.
"Di~~Di~~DiDi~~DiDi~~~" Seeing the enemy's formation scattered, the commanders of the Salt Man's Gun Array quickly blew the copper whistle in their mouths faster. As the frequency of the whistle sounded faster, the frequency of the gun array's gun was released faster and faster.
"The whole army comes forward and fight in close combat!" The commanders of Cao Wei originally wanted to rely on the shield formation to slightly consume the opponent's spirit and find a better way to deal with it to gain time. Who knew that the other party would easily crack the shield formation by one of the two rows of snatchers in the back. The reason why the shield formation is effective is that it is not airtight. If there are several loopholes, it will soon collapse. Since that is the case, don't think about confronting the opponent first, just take the knife.
Cao Wei's gun and shield soldiers who received the order breathed a sigh of relief: Finally, they can fight back freely! These fools thought that they would be invincible with a three-meter-long spear? When they were in close combat, they would let you coolies who were said to have climbed up and down in the deep well a month ago see our various shooting skills!
Unfortunately, the idea is beautiful. The reality is cruel. Before the soldiers of Cao Wei could show their picturesque shooting skills to the coolie in their eyes, they heard "PuPuPu" and other sounds constantly. As old Yu's battle formation, they knew that this was the sound of a long spear entering the flesh. Sure enough, shortly after the sound rang out, there were waves of screams again.
The commander of the Cao Wei spear and shield soldiers was Deng Ai's eldest son Deng Zhong. He could see clearly from the back: the spearmen of the Shu thieves were simply broken. No matter which part of the soldiers on the side, all spearmen were stinging to the right without exception!
Imagine. The Han army's spearmen stood opposite the Cao Wei's spearmen. The Han army's spearmen held a long spear in both hands and stabbed towards their right side - for the Cao Wei soldiers, the attack came from the right side of their body - and most Cao Wei soldiers held guns in their right hands and raised their shields in their left hands. This caused the shields in the hands of Cao Wei soldiers to lose their effect.
Not only that, if the soldiers of Cao Wei want to stab the gun in their right hand, the first thing they need to do is to lean back on the right side, and then exert force forward. When the body on the right side leans back, the soldier's chest will open wide - that is, he will hold his heart and hit the tip of the enemy's gun!
"This... is this what the master thought of? Why is it so vicious!" Seeing the soldiers in front of him fall down in rows, in the cold winter day, Deng Zhong's forehead was covered with large strings of sweat: "Back row of short axe soldiers, throw the axe!"
With Deng Zhong's order, hundreds of axes were thrown out from the Cao Wei rear formation, and the Shu Han gun formation suffered a large number of casualties for the first time.
"It's time to collapse, right? It's time to be in chaos? It's said that these guys were still a coolie who climbed up and down in the mine a month ago! They had never been to the battlefield. They had fallen so many people and shed so much blood. It's time to be afraid!"
However, the performance of the salt worker gun array was very disappointed. He clearly saw that when he was injured and killed, the gun array on the opposite side did shake for a while. But with the annoying copper whistle sounded, the gun array on the opposite side almost returned to normal in an instant.
The unswerving salt workers' gun array continued to move forward with the axe flying all over the sky. When the whistle sounded, it sprinted! Then, no matter whether it hit the target or not, it would rotate the gun clockwise to the right half a circle, and then it would collect the gun neatly. During this process, there must be some unlucky guys who fell to the ground by the axe, but the entire gun array was still repeating those simple movements that could not be simpler in the sound of the copper whistle.
"Where did these guys come from? They are definitely not coolies! Even coolies are not ordinary coolies!" Deng Zhong's face was pale at first - it was cold in the middle of winter. Later it was flushed, but now it was blue and gray!
He gritted his teeth with trembling: "Giant shield! Go on the giant shield!"
The so-called giant shield refers to a thick wooden shield with a height of more than two meters, a width of one meter, and a thickness of less than 30 centimeters. The side of the enemy also has iron or leather skin. The weight of this big guy is certainly not something that a soldier can easily push. Of course, the speed of his advancement is also very slow. However, Cao Wei soldiers, especially the army led by Deng Ai, were quite elite. Before receiving the order to retreat, no matter how heavy the casualties were in the front, the soldiers in the back row still fought forward one after another.
Finally, in the time when a large number of Cao Wei soldiers exchanged their lives, the huge shield formation of the central army was finally arranged.
The commanders of the front line on the Shu Han side were Zhang Zun and Liao Yong. The emotions of these two people also experienced great changes in the past half an hour.
The conception and training method of the salt gun array were proposed by Guan Yi, but the one who really put it into practice was Zhang Zun and Liao Yong. Although these two people had a long experience of the strength of their own gun array during training and exercises. But this was the first actual combat of the salt gun array, so at the beginning, the two people were still unsure.
When the gun formation of our side was not shaken when it faced the axe blade, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts were filled with pride.
But when the other party put out the giant shield formation, the two of them still felt nervous.
When Zhang Zun was about to step forward, Liao Yong grabbed him.
"Old man, you are seventy-two years old. How much strength can you have to break the formation? Or let me go?"
"Hmph, you are a silver-shaped gun. After so many years in Jiangyang, you have slept with so many girls, but there is not a single man or a half woman... If you have descendants, I wouldn't bother to go into battle."
"Hey, I heard you say that it seems like I'm going to die if I go up..."
"Okay, I dare not let the Queen of the Xixiang Hou family be defeated here. Young man, our army will win in today's battle. But this is just the first time in thousands of battles later. Keep your life well, you are the hope of the great man!"
Looking at Liao Yong's indomitable body, Zhang Zun's eyes were already wet: "Brother Yong, take care of him!"
As Liao Yong broke out, facing the enemy's giant shield, countless roars rang out from the salt gun array, whose speed of advance was slightly weakened: "Breaking the formation, advance!"
Chapter completed!