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Chapter 242 Firearms Battalion Volley

"General, the Xia army is stationed at the Erdaokou of Linhe River, twenty-five miles away from here."

The scout reported back, and the Lords of Linzhou and Hanzhou looked at each other and sneered.

"Send the order, open the gate and release the water. Today I will follow the example of Ye Xuanfeng who flooded 80,000 soldiers of Western Chu!" General Linzhou laughed.

The general of Hanzhou laughed and said: "That Fang Jue is really a kid. When we evacuated Hanzhou, he really thought that I was timid. The journey was smooth and he lost his alertness. He couldn't even tell the difference in the valley!"

"Haha, God is really helping me. If we flood him now, even if his scouts notice, they won't have time to transport away the food, grass and baggage."

"When his army is exhausted, our army joins forces to attack, and we will definitely win a great victory!"

"Then give the order. The whole army will march towards Erdaokou. The cavalry will go up first to collect the people. Don't let them complete the deployment of crossing the river too quickly."

"Come on!"

"Alas……"

Nearly ten thousand war horses galloped, and the snow on the snow was trampled compactly. The army was obviously much shorter after passing by.

The chief generals of the Hanzhou garrison and the Linzhou garrison rushed ahead with their respective cavalry.

For them, this is also a great achievement. As long as they stop the enemy and win, no matter who wins, Luo Yang or the imperial court, they will have the merit of protecting the country.

"Kill Xia Jun and seize the firearms!"

On the war horse, the Beiliang sergeant shouted loudly, with a shocking tone.

More than twenty miles, which for Qingqi, was only a moment. In less than half an hour, the army had arrived outside Erdaokou.

"General, you see, the river has risen, and Xia's army must have suffered heavy losses."

"Listen to the sound over there, haha, Xia's army is wailing and cursing. Our army will surely defeat the enemy with one vigorous effort!"

"Hmph, what kind of genius in the world, I can't see it like this, so I'll behead him today!" General Linzhou sneered.

"No, capture him alive. Luo Shuai said he wanted to live, but if it's no longer possible, kill him again," said the Lord General of Hanzhou.

The Lord General of Lin Prefecture nodded, lifted his beard and said: "Come on, sons and daughters, capture Fang Jue alive, make him a marquis and a general! Reward ten thousand households in the city!"

"Kill!"

The cavalry galloped forward, and soon they saw the Xia army's tents and luggage in front of them, randomly placed on the river bank, with only a few hundred people crying and howling on the bank.

"Are these the only ones left?" Seeing this scene, the two Beiliang generals were surprised.

"Don't let Fang Jue drown, he is worth a lot of money!"

"Wait a minute!" General Hanzhou looked forward and suddenly ordered to stop.

The Linzhou troops did not listen to his orders. Then the leader of Linzhou saw the front clearly and ordered: "Stop!"

As soon as he finished speaking, streaks of fire lit up in the snowy field reflecting the moonlight, rose into the air, then flew into the Beiliang cavalry and exploded.

"boom!"

Ceramic shards flew around, streaks of blood appeared, the horses fell, and the sergeants were injured.

"What's this?"

None of the Shuangzhou defenders survived. Regarding firearms, the generals of the two states only knew about the muskets that Luo Yang told them.

Even with regard to muskets, they all knew very little, and with arrogance and conceit in their hearts, they naturally would not believe that there was such a magical weapon that transcended the times.

"What kind of magic?"

"It's not a magic spell, it's a catapult, I saw it!!" Although it was night, there was still moonlight, and some could be vaguely seen in the snow.

If it were dark, the two battalions of cavalry would not dare to rush over randomly.

However, by the time they could see clearly ahead, they had already entered the Xia army's attack range.

"What kind of catapult can actually explode? Is this a thunder from heaven?"

"Don't disturb the morale of the army!" a general shouted.

"No, they were not flooded and their formation was in order!" shouted the Beiliang soldiers with good eyesight.

Continuous ceramic fire mines were exploded by catapults. Seeing the casualties gradually increasing, the Beiliang sergeants also started to panic.

"Don't be afraid, rush over. They are leaning against the river bank. The cavalry has no distance to gather momentum. We have the advantage!" General Hanzhou made an immediate judgment and ordered the cavalry to charge into the formation.

General Linzhou also agreed: "Spread out a little and charge for me. As long as we fight hand to hand, the Xia people are no match for us!"

The excellent physical advantage gave the Northern Liang soldiers a powerful physique, making them stronger than the Daxia soldiers.

This is talent.

In the past, Beiliang always used less to defeat more, and their confidence in the Xia people was deeply imprinted in the hearts of every Beiliang person.

"kill!"

"Rush..."

Marching north to fight against the rebel army.

Fang Jue stood on a temporary high platform in the middle of the army and said: "Give me the order, start the salvo at three hundred steps."

"Five hundred steps!"

"Four hundred and fifty steps!"

"Four hundred steps..."

In the Chinese army, the firearms battalion was ready at this time. The sergeants holding the muskets could not help but tremble with excitement.

They knew that what they had to do today was to officially announce to the world that the era of powerful firearms was coming.

"You are too domineering, and you will never come back today!" Wei Feng stared forward, the flag in his hand dyed with fluorescence, which could be seen by all the soldiers of the Firearms Battalion under the moonlight.

"Three hundred and fifty steps!"

Wei Feng waved the flag: "First echelon, prepare to fire!"

The range of muskets is four hundred steps, which is longer than that of bows and arrows, but to be more accurate, the best range of current muskets is within three hundred and twenty steps.

Moreover, Fang Jue ordered to shoot again at close range because he was afraid that the opponent would run too fast and not many people would be hurt.

"Three hundred steps!" shouted the veteran who was visually measuring the distance ahead.

Wei Feng waved the command flag: "First echelon salvo!"

The soldiers of the firearms battalion stood with their guns in neat formation. They had already taken aim and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

The first echelon that finished shooting squatted down, took out the ammunition, picked up the purge and filled the ammunition in.

"Second echelon, salvo!"

In this cycle, after all echelons have completed one round, a new round of salvos can take over.

The enemy will face an endless stream of missiles and have no chance to rush over.

This is exactly what happened.

"Puff puff puff——"

As the firearms battalion opened fire, the Beiliang cavalry rushing in the front line was penetrated by lead bullets before they could figure out the situation.

Whether the war horse was hit or the sergeant on the horse was shot, they all fell down and lost their fighting power, and were trampled into pulp by the following war horses.

At this moment, to the east of the North River Bank, the entire Yulin Army battalion had already been mobilized and was hiding here, preparing to cut off the retreat of the enemy's vanguard troops.

"General, there's a gunshot over there!" Cheng Jie whispered.

Lin Bei sneered: "Get on the horse!"

Cheng Jie: "Are we going to support the general?"

"Who told you that we were going to support them?" Lin Bei laughed and pointed to the north, "to intercept their Chinese army!"

The Beiliang people like to use cavalry as the vanguard to harass or harvest, while most of the infantry will rush behind.

The speed of infantry and cavalry is naturally incomparable.

"What if they only come with cavalry?" Cheng Jie asked.

"The ones blocking their retreat are the cavalry from Lizhou Camp and Liangzhou Camp. We don't need to take care of them. We can just stop the Beiliang Chinese Army behind them."

"I see."

"Kill!" Lin Bei gave the order, jumped on his horse, and took the lead in rushing north.

At the same time, Fan Ji under Sun Yi and Wei Ran's lieutenants led three thousand cavalry and slowly wandered down from the upper reaches of the north bank.

"Are we going to join the battle so soon?" the deputy general of Liangzhou Camp asked.

Fan Ji shook his head: "No, the Firearms Battalion has not been approached. If we wait a little longer, if we rush out and the Beiliang Army will escape, we won't be able to complete our victory in one battle!"

"Then just wait..."



On the north bank, the Beiliang army suffered more and more injuries, but the cavalry in front could not cross 200 steps.

"Liangzhou camp!" Fang Jue, who was on the high platform, saw the Beiliang cavalry approaching and ordered.

All the bows and arrows from the Liangzhou camp were fired.

Then came Lizhou Camp.

Within a moment, they launched an even more intensive attack on the Beiliang cavalry.

In just a few dozen breaths, at least a thousand of the Beiliang cavalry fell, and so much damage had already been done before any contact was made, which was unacceptable to the generals of the two states.

"What's going on? Why can't we break through in front?" General Linzhou asked.

"Someone broke through, and they placed the baggage carts randomly so that the horses could not gallop when they were approaching, otherwise they would fall."

"Are they planning to defend?"

General Hanzhou made a decisive decision: "We underestimated the firearms, withdraw!"

The strange fire and thunder, and only the tongues of fire could be seen, and the cavalry kept falling off their horses. This scene was really scary.

However, with so many men and horses lost, the cavalry could not break through 200 paces. If the stalemate continued, more people would die, and it might not be possible to achieve anything.

The corpses of dead and wounded people and horses will block the following cavalry, making it impossible for the cavalry to run when they get close.

They knew that Xia's army had a numerical advantage and would be counterattacked if they delayed any longer, so both generals immediately ordered to turn back.

"withdraw!"

"Woooo..." Someone in the Beiliang army blew the horn.

Then Fang Jie saw the cavalry reining in their horses. They had already panicked, and after receiving the military order, they couldn't wait to turn back.

"Catapult!" Fang Jue shouted.

"Want to leave?" Zheng Jun, who was in charge of the catapult, said with a crazy smile, "You guys will die here!"
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