From river to bank!

Although the cavalry led by Li Guo used bows and arrows to fight back from time to time, the range of the bows was much shorter than that of flintlock guns. Moreover, most of the bows of the Dashun Army were quite inferior, even inferior to the low-quality military goods. The effective range was about

That is about fifty meters, or even less than fifty meters. Compared with a bow, a flintlock gun has an effective range of up to a hundred meters, and can often hit the target accurately at about seventy meters.

Although they were caught off guard by the muskets, they still immediately used bows and arrows to fight back. As soon as they released arrows, the ancestral servants on the other side of the boat fired a round.

"boom!"

Along with a burst of gunpowder smoke, dozens of riders rushing ahead were knocked over.

Before they could react, there was a second round of volley, knocking down more than a hundred riders one after another.

Then came the third salvo...

Directly knocking over hundreds of riders.

For the Dashun Army, they may have come into contact with the firearms of the official army, but where have they encountered this kind of tactics? They have never encountered the official army with such sharp firearms.

After all, the officers and soldiers they encountered at that time only used bird blunderbuss, or even three-eyed blunderbuss. Who knew how powerful the flintlock gun was.

For a moment, facing such sharp firearms, they were unable to chase or escape.

If you chase them, you will definitely not be able to catch them. After all, the enemy is on the boat, and they are on the shore. If there is no boat, what is the pursuit? Is it possible to jump into the river to feed the fish like this?

Of course, there is no need to escape. After all, the officers and soldiers are standing on the boat like that, with no intention of coming ashore. But we can't just stand here and let the officers and soldiers fight.

Seeing that if he continued to fight like this, he would be killed, Li Guo immediately said in a loud voice.

"Go forward, I don't believe there is no bridge on this river! Let's stop them on the bridge..."

How could there be no bridge on the canal? In fact, just before the pursuers came over, they had just passed the Bali Bridge. There must be a bridge further on.

"Uncle, the pursuers have withdrawn!"

"They didn't withdraw!"

Looking in the direction where the smoke was going away, Zu Dashou frowned and said.

"They are looking for a bridge ahead. Where there is a bridge, the river will become narrower. Not only can they shoot arrows from the shore, but they can also put nets on the bridge to block the bridge opening. Mingsan, I asked you to collect them.

Where’s the kerosene and firewood?”

As a veteran on the battlefield, Zu Dashou did not believe that those people would retreat. The reason why they pursued them all the way was because they felt that the "Emperor" was on the boat, so they pursued them desperately.

withdraw?

It's impossible for them to retreat without beating them painfully!

…

The sound of gunshots fired from flintlock guns was like exploding beans, and the river was filled with smoke. The servants of the ancestral family standing on the bow and side of the boat kept shooting with flintlock guns. The bandits on the shore and on the bridge were all fired.

Clouds of smoke enveloped the fleet, and the side panels of the ship, which were bought at high prices from ordinary people's homes, were covered with arrows.

The river was filled with smoke.

After the intensive gunfire, there was a cry of killing!

Groups of soldiers wearing white felt hats poured out from both sides of the river embankment. They held the door in their hands and the iron flying claws for climbing the wall. They surged up the river embankment like a tide, and then threw their flying claws one after another.

The claws dragged the rope onto the boat on the river. As soon as they got on the boat, they pulled on the rope desperately, trying to pull the boat to the shore.

"Cut the rope!"

The servants on the side of the ship drew their knives and cut the ropes one after another. At the same time, other people's muskets also fired. Along with a burst of gunfire like exploding beans, lead bullets as big as chestnuts were sprayed from the muzzle, fiercely.

It hit the bandits who were desperately holding on to the ropes, and beat them into sieves, including their armor.

However, even so, those rogue bandits still came over like a tide, and they did not even take a step back because of the sharpness of the guns. It has to be said that these elite soldiers who fought all the way from Henan to Shaanxi, Shanxi to the capital,

Without exception, they are all very brave.

"Shocking thunder!"

Zu Dasheng, who was standing on the roof of the cabin, ordered.

In return for their cooperation with the Pinglu Army, the Zujia Army not only received a large number of firearms, but also learned to make hand grenades according to the pattern, but those were early models of wooden handle grenades. With the order, the servants started using them one after another.

The thick incense ignited the fuse at the top of the grenade, and then threw it towards the rogues on the shore.

Although the imperial court had obtained the drawings and physical objects of this early hand grenade as early as two years ago, the lag in weapon manufacturing, especially the lack of funds, prevented the officers and soldiers in the pass from being in a hurry to equip such weapons.

When they saw a group of iron lumps flying towards them, the officers and soldiers of the army on the shore who were desperately pulling on the ropes to bring the boats closer looked at these iron lumps with some confusion.

Why is it smoking?

The next moment, accompanied by a burst of explosion sounds, fires exploded one after another at the feet of Shun Jun. For a while, the smoke filled the air and the fires scattered. Due to the quality of the lead, nearly 23% of the grenades did not explode at all, and the remaining grenades did not explode at all.

Those grenades, one in the east and one in the west, exploded one after another.

In the smoke of the explosion, hundreds of soldiers on the shore were blown up by grenades, and then fell down screaming. Their limbs and broken arms fell to the ground. The injured covered their wounds with blood flowing like pillars.

When those soldiers who were not injured by the bombing saw this situation, they all retreated one after another.

"Shoot arrows, shoot them, don't let them have a chance to escape across the bridge..."

When the Shun army kept firing arrows at the boats from behind the river embankment, they also kept throwing trees, door panels and other objects from the bridge, using them to block the bridge opening and block their way.

However, Zu Dashou had already been prepared for this. Seeing that the bridge hole was blocked, he immediately asked someone to release a fire boat. When he watched the fire ship float toward the bridge hole, he moved in the other direction with worry.

Look.

If more rogues come to kill them, it will be really difficult to escape!

At the same time, arrows continued to fall like raindrops. Although they obtained a lot of door panels in Zhangjiawan, and the door panels also blocked a lot of arrows, there were still arrows falling from overhead or from above.

It came in through the gap in the door panel.

The gleaming feather arrows landed in the crowd and immediately splashed with blood. Because they "sneaked" into the capital in the name of servants, not everyone had a full set of Ming iron armor. In fact, there were people with full armor.

There were only more than 300 people, and more than 300 people only had breastplates. The remaining people had no armor at all. When these arrows hit the unprotected bodies, they always splashed with blood.

For a time, arrows rained down from all directions like a heavy rain. This attack lasted for a long time, but it took the lives of dozens of people.

"Throw the Thunderbolt! Throw the Thunderbolt over..."

In the rain of arrows, although the servants on the boat could not reach behind the river embankment with firecrackers, they still tried their best to throw out the grenades.

Hundreds of grenades were thrown to the river embankment more than ten or twenty meters away, and some rolled down the river embankment. Immediately, a deafening explosion sounded behind the river embankment. For a while, thick smoke billowed.

Amidst the flying dust, another scream came from behind the river embankment.

The rain of arrows suddenly stopped, and the Shun soldiers hiding behind the river embankment retreated one after another to avoid the thunder that would fall from the sky and explode under their feet.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring the mother cannon with me..."

The double-combination cannon that Li Guo mentioned was the Folangji, and a lot of them were captured along the way, but the cavalry rarely carried those things. If they had the double-combination cannon, there would be a stalemate like now.

At the moment when this idea came to his mind, a group of cavalry came from a distance. After learning that his son was coming with a large group of troops, Li Guo immediately asked.

"Did they bring the cannon?"

"Bring it!"

As soon as you heard that your son had brought a cannon, you asked excitedly.

"Where are they? Where are the cannons?"

If there were multiple cannons, how could he stand here like now and let the officers and soldiers beat him?

Now it's good, with the mother-and-songy cannon, these officers and soldiers are not enough to watch, that is, they will sink into the river to feed the fish.

"However, we left them all to General Tang. The Major General led the cavalry to kill them along the canal first!"

Yes...he came on horseback again. Hearing this, Li Guo felt blocked in his heart. Why is this stupid son so confused? Doesn't he know that what he needs now is not a horseman, but a cannon that can attack ships.
Chapter completed!