The scout captain only had time to lead his brothers to the expected location.
Before even the sturdy fortifications could be set up, the enemy's vanguard troops rushed over.
And this scout captain was also a veteran of the Liangzhou Army and had extremely rich combat experience.
I saw this posture now.
The scout captain immediately asked his men to blast a mountain wall with several huge rocks.
There were loud rumbling sounds in his ears, and several huge rocks embedded in the mountain wall were lifted up by the huge air waves.
It rolled down from the top of the mountain and hit the valley mouth.
The mouth of the valley itself is not very wide, and can only accommodate five or six people walking side by side.
Today, this huge rock lies across here, making the narrow valley entrance even narrower.
It used to be able to accommodate five or six people walking side by side, but now it can only accommodate two people walking side by side.
"quick!"
"Everyone, hurry up and find cover."
"Even if we all die here today, we still have to push them back!"
Having said that, the scout captain first raised the repeating musket in his hand and pulled the trigger towards the opponent's crowd.
Because of the encounter just now, Xue Yantuo's crowd was actually in chaos.
This burst of random gunfire caused many people to not even understand what was going on. They were pierced by the flying iron bullets and fell off their horses.
In such a war, falling off a horse is equivalent to death.
There is no need for the enemy to step forward to hit the target, as your own people who come up later can trample them into a pulp.
That moment.
The whole canyon was in chaos with people shouting and neighing.
And Grossan, who was in charge of the central army, did not expect that the other party would react so quickly.
He clearly gave the order to retreat as soon as the opponent fired, but he still asked others to block the retreat.
But at this moment, there was not much time for him to think carefully about the inside story.
Since the retreat has been blocked, the path forward must also be the same.
Grossang suddenly tightened his teeth, took out the saber from his waist and waved forward: "The whole army stops marching, the second column will clear the roadblocks, and the first column will provide fire cover!"
"No one is allowed to stop until the roadblocks are cleared."
"Even if you hit me with your body, you have to rush over!"
With this order, many of Xue Yantuo's cavalry were sentenced to death.
Upon hearing the order, the second column immediately took off the muskets hanging from the horses' necks and fired at the scouts on the mountain.
At the same time, another group of soldiers rushed out from the crowd, facing intense gunfire, to clean up the stones that had fallen at the entrance of the valley.
Of course, the scout team couldn't just look at them like that.
Seeing such a scene, the scout captain immediately ordered: "Target them all, and specifically target those who are clearing the roadblocks!"
"If you really can't hit me, just blast me with sky fire and thunder!"
This is the order.
People around you immediately have goals.
They simply gave up targeting the soldiers behind them and focused all their attention on those clearing the roadblocks.
Because of the long distance and many rocks below as shelters, they could not be hit at all from their position.
As a result, the power of the Heavenly Fire Thunder was highlighted.
The scout group throws skyfire thunder, which is the fundamental factor that determines whether they can be selected into the scout group.
Even though the opponent was thirty to fifty meters away from them at this moment, they threw the sky fire thunder in their hands without hesitation.
The sky fire thunder they threw was extremely accurate.
Almost every sky fire thunder that falls will never miss.
But this time, the soldiers of Xue Yantuo who ran up to clear the roadblock suffered a lot.
Some people haven't even met yet
The rocks blocking the road were thrown away by the sky fire thunder flying towards them.
What's more, without even seeing what was going on at the scene, his body was penetrated by the debris splashed by the sky fire thunder.
Suddenly, the condition of the entire scene was terrible.
Xue Yantuo's soldiers only held on for a moment, and then retreated because they could not withstand the opponent's powerful firepower. .??.
"waste!"
"They're all a bunch of useless trash, I'll take them all back!"
At this moment, Grossan had also moved from the Chinese army to a position close to the front army.
At this moment, when he saw these guys leaving and coming back, he immediately raised his musket and pulled the trigger on them.
Pity these Xue Yantuo soldiers.
They finally escaped from the guns of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but died under the guns of their own generals.
And saw this scene.
Those soldiers naturally understood that if they retreated, they would die.
When Grossan roared at them again, asking them to go back and clear the roadblocks.
They didn't dare to hesitate anymore, turned around quickly and ran to clear the roadblock.
But just when they turned around again, many people heard a muffled sound.
Immediately afterwards, a ray of fire was seen cutting through the night and falling directly into the crowd.
boom!
There was an explosion.
There were six or seven people in a circle around him, and they flew out sideways.
By the time they landed, almost all of them were covered in bright red blood.
There were even a few unlucky ones who were close by, whose arms and legs were completely missing.
And this is just the beginning.
Next, there were two more muffled sounds, and two more fires flew into the air, and finally crashed into the crowd.
And seeing this scene,
Grosang immediately recognized that this was the one who attacked them in the canyon just now.
Something?
At first, Grosang thought those things were the Heavenly Fire Thunder of the Tang Dynasty.
But when he looked at it like this, he realized belatedly that this was not the Sky Fire Thunder at all, but a new weapon developed by Datang that he didn't know about at all.
However.
Even if he realizes it, it will have no effect.
At this moment, the two scout teams have merged together.
The scout captain didn't say a word and just asked his men to set up the mortars.
Although there are only two mortars in the team, the advantage of mortars is that they are easy to load.
And because the cannonballs are small and easy to carry, they often carry dozens or nearly a hundred of them when they go out.
If converted to a battlefield between legions, these one hundred artillery shells may be nothing, not even enough for a round of carpet bombing.
But now, after all, we are not on the battlefield of a direct conflict, and we are still in such a narrow mountain col. These one hundred shells are like reminders, constantly harvesting the lives of Xue Yantuo's soldiers.
And saw this scene.
Grossan finally realized the gap between the two sides.
However.
Even if he realizes it, there is nothing he can do about it.
Because they have asked each other to block it.
The current plan is to break out as quickly as possible.
"Hold it to me, hold it to me!"
"Don't be afraid, those in the second row, just rush forward!"
"As long as the roadblocks are opened, they can't stop us!"
He made it clear that he wanted to use the lives of the soldiers in the second row to give more soldiers a chance of survival.
And this is not because he looks down on these second-tier people and sacrifices them. This is a choice that the general must make.
Given the choice between letting the people in the second row live and letting more people live, any normal person would choose the latter.