The vanguard selection group walked in the deserted fields, led by the scouts, all the way east, looking for Lao Huihui's soldiers and horses.
After walking seventeen or eight miles eastward, the scout reported that Lao Huihui's bandit camp was four miles ahead. Li Zhi looked up from his horse and saw the huge bandit camp of Lao Huihui. Lao Huihui was surrounded by
There are more and more Tangma scouts, and the number of scouts in the selection team can no longer be extended.
Several gunshots were heard from time to time in front. It was the scouts of the Selection Group who started shooting at Lao Huihui's Tang Ma.
Li Zhi withdrew his scouts and no longer allowed the vanguard group to advance. Instead, he asked the soldiers to load their rifles and line up in a semicircle formation on a slightly higher mound. The entire formation was one side of a semicircle, with three sides on each side.
Layers of soldiers, the middle of the protruding side of the semicircle faced Lao Huihui's soldiers and horses. Li Zhi asked the artillerymen to unload the cannons from the artillery carriages and arrange the cannons on both wings of the semicircular array.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers responsible for calibrating the cannon to stand on the highest point of the mound to observe the impact of the cannonballs, and then asked the artillerymen to start bombing Lao Huihui's military camp.
The artillerymen used a caliper to measure the straight-line distance from Lao Hui Hui's camp to the artillery, and used a bludgeon gauge to measure the elevation angle and adjust the angle of the artillery. Then they used a blunderbuss ruler to calculate the amount of gunpowder, and then tore open the packages of fixed weight gunpowder and loaded them into the artillery.
To use the gunpowder, use wood to pound the gunpowder, put in the solid shells, and then pound it again. Then the artilleryman pours a little gunpowder into the ignition point at the rear end of the cannon as the firing powder. Then the artillerymen stand on both sides of the cannon, and the gunner ignites the gun.
Attach a match rope and prepare to launch.
Li Zhi shouted and fired, and the gunners lit the match ropes. Only hearing forty loud booms and booms, the soldiers of the vanguard selection group subconsciously covered their ears.
Huge sparks and smoke emerged from the cannon's muzzle, and forty solid iron cannonballs were fired at Lao Huihui's bandit camp.
Lao Huihui's camp was very large, and it was impossible for the six-pounder to miss such a huge target. All forty cannons hit the camp. The shells landed on the ground, on the tent, and even on the body of the bandit.
, piercing through everything they hit, shooting out flying debris and blood, then bouncing on the ground and continuing to hit the front, then crashing through the bodies of several military horses or stray thieves, then landing on the ground, bouncing forward, and jumping a few times.
The next time they stopped, they overturned all the tents, ordnance and weapons that were blocking the way, and left Lao Huihui's bandit camp in shambles.
After firing only once, the forty artillery pieces wounded and killed one or two hundred rebels.
The neighing of the half-dead army horses and the screams of the injured soldiers immediately rang out in the camp. The soldiers who didn't know what was going on were so frightened that they panicked and fled in all directions.
The timid and fearful hungry soldiers were originally civilians who had been carried away by bandits. At this time, seeing the shells falling from the sky, they were all frightened and could not help but want to escape.
Lao Huihui Ma Shouying heard the noise and rushed out of his tent. He looked at the explosion of his camp with some panic. He grabbed the collar of a fleeing messenger and shouted loudly: "What's going on?"
"The officers and soldiers are coming! The officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers have cannons!"
Just now, Lao Huihui heard a report from a scout, saying that a small army of more than a thousand soldiers had approached his camp a few miles away, but Lao Huihui didn't take it seriously - he had more than 8,000 hungry soldiers.
Soldiers and horses, a thousand officers and soldiers would not dare to attack unless they were here to die! Ma Shouying estimated that those officers and soldiers were here for reconnaissance, and would go back after a while.
Unexpectedly, these officers and soldiers not only dared to attack themselves, but also had artillery, so they opened fire on their own camp.
Ma Shouying was furious and shouted loudly: "The whole army goes out to arrest these sons of bitches!"
Only then did the messengers find their backbone, and they took action one by one to pass Ma Shouying's orders to each battalion. The eight thousand bandit soldiers gradually mobilized, picked up their weapons and mounted their horses, and began to drive the frightened and famished soldiers outside the village.
The hungry soldiers were gathered together with simple swords and even sickles and hoes, and were sent to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder.
However, it took time for the troops to assemble. Before the rebels could assemble, the second batch of forty artillery shells flew over again. With the guidance of the correction soldiers, this time the forty six-pound cannons were aimed at the middle of Lao Huihui's barracks. At the moment
With the help of speed, gun gauges and gun rulers, the forty rounds of artillery shells were very accurate. Even if they deviated from the target, they only missed by more than ten meters, and they all crashed into the huge group of bandits that were gathering.
The six-pound iron cannonballs bounced rapidly on the ground, piercing wildly through the assembled bandits. Every time they encountered a flesh-and-blood body, the shells smashed the flesh-and-blood bones, penetrated, and continued to pierce the next soldier.
The body bounced on the ground, and then continued to stab. The forty shells were like forty gods of death, drawing forty straight lines of death with blood and flesh flying in the queue of Ma Shouying's soldiers.
In just a few seconds, two to three hundred soldiers were broken by shells and fell in the middle of the bandit camp.
The hungry soldiers had no fighting spirit at all. They were just ordinary people who were being carried away. How could they dare to use their fragile bodies to fight against the cold shells? Some of the hungry soldiers wanted to flee.
But Ma Shouying's eight thousand soldiers had not lost their fighting spirit. They raised their swords and slashed at the hungry soldiers who were trying to escape, forcing the chaotic fleeing hungry soldiers back.
Ma Shouying was also shocked by the murderous artillery shells. There were more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, but there were forty cannons. Where did these officers and soldiers come from? He had been traveling around the Ming Dynasty for seven years, and he had never seen officers and soldiers with such strong firepower.
The artillery was so fierce that there was no time to carefully organize the team. Ma Shouying shouted: "Attack! Rush over and kill these sons of bitches!"
The eight thousand old thieves shouted loudly and drove the thirteen thousand hungry soldiers out of the stronghold, killing the officers and soldiers four miles away. Ma Shouying was a little afraid of the firepower of these officers and soldiers, so he did not rush to the front as usual, but
He is riding in the middle of the three thousand pond horses.
The bandit soldiers had walked less than a mile, and when they were still three miles away from the vanguard selection group, forty cannons opened fire again.
Forty rounds of artillery shells made a sharp whistle in the air and crashed into the huge bandit army without mercy.
Another piece of flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the shell penetrated the bodies of the soldiers on the fifth and sixth floors. Whether it was a hungry soldier equipped with a sickle or a pond horse equipped with two war horses, they would die at the touch of this deadly shell. Even if they were
If a corner of an arm or leg is hit by a cannonball, the arm or leg will be severed immediately, leaving no fighting ability at all.
Severed limbs and blood flew out following the trajectory of the cannonballs, screams like slaughtering pigs rang out everywhere, and more than two hundred people fell in a pool of blood.
The timid and fearful hungry soldiers can no longer stand such bombings. They are farmers who cultivate the land. How can they have the courage to fight against such an enemy? Where are these official troops? These are heavenly soldiers! I only heard "Boom"
"With a sound, the hungry soldiers scattered and fled in all directions. Even if there were fierce pond horses chasing and driving the hungry soldiers away, they would never look back, and they would not go towards those death-like officers and soldiers.
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