"Stupid, do you think you can still go back to Ami Prefecture?" Sha Dingzhou cursed loudly, "Do you think the Guangxi wolf soldiers will stop and stop attacking Ami Prefecture after they capture Mengzi Prefecture?"
"Husband? You dare to scold me." Wan looked at Sha Dingzhou at a loss.
"Why are you scolding you? If you continue to talk nonsense and disturb the morale of the army, believe it or not, I will kill you? You are a stupid, vicious and jealous woman. I have tolerated you for a long time! You'd better be smarter and more sensible!"
After Wan's pain, Sha Dingzhou called Li Rifang again, "Li Rifang, I usually treat you well, right?"
"What are you talking about from the General Office?" Li Rifang said in panic, "You have treated me and our Li family with great kindness. Even if I risk my life, I, Li Rifang, will not be able to repay your kindness to the General Office."
"Okay, then now is the time for you to repay me." Sha Dingzhou said in a deep voice.
"The Ming army's Hongyi cannon is indeed sharp, but they also made a fatal mistake. They should not have pushed the Hongyi cannon so close to the city gate. This gave us an opportunity."
Li Rifang said: "General Office, do you mean to go out of the city for a surprise attack?"
"Yes, let's go out of the city and make a surprise attack." Sha Dingzhou said, "Blow up the Hongyi cannon!"
"Yes, the general government can rest assured!" Li Rifang said, "The general will definitely blow up the Hongyi cannon!"
After saying that, Li Rifang began to gather the three thousand elite soldiers under his command, preparing to leave the city to attack the Ming army. These three thousand soldiers were the direct descendants of Sha Dingzhou's direct line, with the best equipment and the best treatment.
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However, the Ming army had already taken precautions.
At the sound of the bugle, a total of ten new troops with a total of 2,700 troops appeared behind the artillery position.
As a result, the new army had just stood up in formation when the east gate of Pingyi City suddenly opened, and groups of Yunnan native soldiers wearing armor came out of the city gate with roars and screams.
Almost at the same time, hundreds of ropes were also hung from the city wall.
Immediately, thousands of rebels followed the zipline and stepped down the wall. These rebels were probably used to climbing over mountains and ridges. They held hemp ropes with both hands and stepped down the city wall, almost as if they were walking on flat ground.
In a matter of seconds, at least three thousand rebels had already fought their way out of the city.
After leaving the city, they didn't have time to form a team, so they moved towards the Ming army's artillery position to cover up the enemy.
"Oh God, these barbarians." Qu Shawei cursed and quickly stopped the bombardment.
The 2,700 new troops lined up behind immediately stepped forward to the sound of war drums, and quickly formed a three-row line array in front of the artillery position.
As soon as they formed a formation, the rebels were already covering the mountains and plains to cover them up.
Five hundred steps away, the rebels who rushed quickly could not even take three minutes.
In the blink of an eye, the rebels were already within eighty steps.
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Sha Dingzhou had high hopes for this counterattack.
Because the three thousand soldiers he handed over to Li Rifang were the elites of Ami Prefecture and Mengzi. They were all equipped with iron armor, iron bowl stomach, rattan brand and a Miao sword!
This level of equipment is absolutely top-notch in Yunnan.
Except for Mu Tianbo, the de facto king of Yunnan, who could provide better equipment to his servants, the other Yunnan chieftains simply could not afford to equip such an army.
Most Yunnan toasts can only get red vine armor.
Sha Dingzhou only equipped these three thousand elites with iron armor.
The remaining soldiers can only be equipped with red vine armor, red vine helmets and red vine medals.
So Sha Dingzhou really went all out this time, even using three thousand of his most elite soldiers.
It was also because these three thousand elite soldiers were well equipped that Sha Dingzhou had high hopes for this raid.
After Li Rifang led 3,000 elite troops to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, Sha Dingzhou bravely returned to the city, mainly because he wanted to witness with his own eyes the process of Li Rifang destroying the Hongyi cannon.
Sha Dingzhou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that the Ming army musketeers blocking the Hongyi cannon were only wearing cloth armor.
The Ming army general opposite was so stupid that he only sent two to three thousand musketeers to protect the artillery camp, and these musketeers were actually divided into three rows, front and rear. Isn't this looking for death?
Whether it is a Lumi gun or a bird gun, loading is very troublesome.
Generally speaking, there must be six rows in the front and rear to ensure uninterrupted shooting.
It’s just three rows. What should we do after defeating three rows? Taking advantage of the brief moment when the firepower was interrupted, the three thousand elite soldiers from Amizhou and Mengzi had already moved closer.
Sha Dingzhou couldn't wait to see the tragic scene of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers being chopped off and their heads rolling.
At this time, Tang Jiabin, who was squatting next to Sha Dingzhou, suddenly whispered: "Strange, why are the formations of these Ming army musketeers so dense? Aren't they afraid of misfire?"
"Huh?" Sha Dingzhou looked carefully and realized that the Ming army's musketeers were standing very densely.
I saw that these Ming Army musketeers were almost close together and had to stand sideways so as not to affect their companions on the left and right sides. What was going on?
Sha Dingzhou suddenly felt uneasy in his heart.
At this time, three thousand elite soldiers had already approached within thirty steps of the Ming army.
It was also at this time that Sha Dingzhou suddenly realized that these Ming Army musketeers were extremely weird and completely different from the Ming Army musketeers they had seen before. Not only were these Ming Army musketeers close to each other, but they were also taller than those in Mu Mansion.
The musketeers were even more able to keep their composure. It was already thirty steps and they still didn't fire.
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Xu Wuniu, who was standing in the first row, looked up and could clearly see the faces of the rebels. He saw colorful patterns painted on the faces of the rebels, and they kept making weird oh-oh-oh sounds in their mouths.
Yelling, as if to intimidate them.
However, Xu Wuniu's heart was untroubled. After experiencing battles with Dabie bandits and Yongshun soldiers, Xu Wuniu had completely grown into a veteran, and at the same time he also deeply realized that for a soldier
, calmness or composure is really crucial. The calmer you are, the greater your chance of survival.
"First row, raise your guns and aim!" Xu Yingwei, who was standing sideways in front of the team, shouted and raised his musket.
The battlefield was so noisy that Xu Wuniu couldn't hear Xu Yingwei's shouts clearly, but he could see that Xu Yingwei had raised his short musket, so he also raised his flintlock gun and aimed at the rebels in front.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let it go!" Xu Yingwei roared and pulled the trigger hard. The anvil of the short gun immediately wiped out a string of sparks, and then there was a bang, and thirty people in front of him
A few steps away, a rebel fell to the ground.
Xu Wuniu followed suit and pulled the trigger hard. The gunshot rang out, and the rebel he was targeting fell to the ground.
Another person was killed, but Xu Wuniu felt no worries at all. He put away his flintlock and retreated to the rear. Then he skillfully pulled out the paper shell bullet from the bullet bag, bit open the end and introduced the powder first.
Pour a little gunpowder into the chamber, and finally stuff the remaining half of the can of gunpowder and the paper shell through the muzzle of the gun, and press it to the bottom of the gun chamber with a purge bar.
Then load the lead bullet, press it to the bottom with the purge bar, and then pull the trigger hard.
The entire loading process went smoothly and took no more than ten seconds. At this time, the third row of musketeers had just changed and had not yet completed shooting.
Then there was another blast of gunfire.
"First team, keep changing!" Xu Yingwei raised his right hand high again.
Xu Wuniu held the flintlock gun vertically with both hands, stepped aside to let the retreating third team pass, stepped forward to stand in the front row, then pressed down the muzzle of the flintlock gun and aimed at a rebel in front.
At this time, the rebels had already approached within twenty steps.
Xu Wuniu could even clearly see the fierceness in the rebel's eyes.
In the past, even after experiencing the bandit suppression in the Dabie Mountains, Xu Wuniu might have had mood swings, because the rebel's eyes were really scary, and his strange screams were too harsh.
But at this moment, Xu Wuniu's heart was not disturbed at all, like a wooden man.
Seeing Xu Yingwei lower his right hand from the corner of his eye, Xu Wuniu decisively pulled the trigger.
"Bang!" The flintlock gun pressed against his right chest vibrated violently, causing Xu Wuniu's right chest to feel a faint pain.
Looking further forward, I saw that the rebel had a hole in his chest, but the simple armor made of thin iron sheets could not block the direct fire of the flintlock gun at close range.
The rebel's body suddenly leaned back, and then slowly fell to the ground.
There was no blood spilled, so the wound was probably covered by clothes.
But the rebel's eyes had become hollow, no longer full of sternness as before.
Another person was killed, but Xu Wuniu still didn't make any waves in his heart. It was as if he had just swatted a mosquito to death. After firing the gun, he raised the flintlock gun, retreated to the back and started loading again.
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On top of Pingyi Acropolis, everyone in Sha Dingzhou was stunned.
I saw three thousand elite soldiers from Amizhou and Mengzi rushing forward row by row, and row after row fell under the guns of the Ming army. The elite soldiers in the back row continued to rush forward, but in the blink of an eye they fell to the Ming army again.
Under the gunpoint of the military.
The distance between the two armies was obviously only thirty steps, but our elite soldiers just couldn't rush through.
Occasionally, a few particularly brave elite soldiers rushed within ten steps, but before these elite soldiers could swing their swords, the Ming Army musketeers in the back row suddenly threw a black bullet of unknown object.
Then there was a bang, and these elite soldiers were knocked to the ground.
Seeing this, Sha Dingzhou was completely stunned. How is this possible? How is this possible?
How could the muskets of the Ming Army musketeers reload so fast? Just three rows of rounds and fire continuously? This reloading speed is more than twice as fast as the bird gun and Lumi gun?
Furthermore, why can the Ming Army musketeers get so close?
Why could Ming army musketeers create such a dense rain of bullets?
And what are the explosives thrown by the Ming army from the back row? How come you haven’t seen them before?
In addition to doubts, Sha Dingzhou was even more distressed and almost suffocated. These three thousand elites were his bosses, but in just a moment, almost half of them had been killed, and the remaining half would probably not come back.
Thinking of this, Sha Dingzhou felt his eyes turning black. This time, he suffered a big loss.
However, even if you lose all your money, you can't withdraw your troops. You must kill the Ming army's Hongyi cannon.