Nanming Engineer

Chapter 200 The Power of the Spear Formation

The boss swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and slowed down. Although he was reckless, he was not stupid. As a veteran who had survived countless fights, he could tell at a glance that the front was like a white wave. The gun array cannot be shaken by the bravery of ordinary people.

Brave and brave warriors can kill all sides in a melee. A hundred such dead men can crush an enemy army of 1000. The premise is that the opponent's 1000 people are not a whole, but only a thousand people.

Many armies of the Ming Dynasty were like this. They lacked organization and discipline. They went into battle in a swarm. Fighting relied entirely on numbers. When there were more people, they were stronger. When there were fewer people, they ran away. They were noisy like chickens and ducks being driven away. There was no strict formation of the army, even if it was The scale of 1 people is only [-] people, not a whole made into a fist.

To put it bluntly, it is 1 hooligans fighting in groups.

This commander-in-chief was originally a refugee. He was forced to join Zhang Xianzhong's team due to hunger and cold. He accumulated military merits and was promoted to commander-in-chief. He traveled to several provinces with the peasant army and fought more than a hundred battles with the Ming army. He had already seen through the corrupt Ming army. , planted a profound impact in my mind: It turns out that the aloof and arrogant military master is just a group of cowards who bully the weak and fear the strong. As long as you can be more tyrannical than them, you can defeat them.

But at this moment, the Kuizhou army that was overwhelmed was obviously different from the Ming army under his influence. He couldn't explain why, so he instinctively slowed down his pace, letting the fanatical soldiers of the Great Western Army pass by, hiding himself in the Sea of ​​people.

After all, there are only a small number of people with such vicious eyesight as Mr. Ba. Most of the soldiers of the Atlantis Army didn't realize it. A cold light of steel.

Editor-in-Chief, you rode your horse and walked slowly in the center of the three pointed spear formations in the formation, followed by more than a dozen horse-riding guards, including two fat guards with two huge horns on their backs, and Zu Bian He had already pulled off the mask of the iron helmet on his head, and through the eyeholes reserved on the mask, he looked coldly at the beast-like Daxi Army who was getting closer and closer.

"end!"

When the two armies rapidly shortened the distance between each other, the original space of hundreds of steps was reduced to less than [-] steps in a very short period of time, Zu Bian gave a loud order.

Two fat trumpeters quickly put the horns to their mouths and blew the horns.

"Woo~~~!!"

The sound of the horn was long and deep, overwhelming some noise. Even the deafening sound of the cowhide drum could not compete with it.

Hearing the sound of the trumpet, the two huge gun formations stopped at the same time. Under the big green and blue banners, all the soldiers of the Kuizhou Army put down their spears, took off the mountain-destroying crossbows at their waists, and pointed them at the sky. The flat-end crossbows in the first row , and the rear pointing obliquely at a 45-degree projectile angle, ready to go.

At the same time, the archers of the Western Army who had entered the shooting range also bent their bows and set their arrows, stood still and pointed upwards obliquely, and the former army commander running behind with the bow and arrow losers brandished a long knife and shouted uncontrollably: "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Be careful not to shoot your own people!"

Hundreds of archers held bows and arrows of various colors, including walking bows, riding bows, and even hunting bows. They probably aimed at the direction of the Kuizhou army, loosened their strings and shot arrows into the sky.

If the arrows of the Daxi Army are like rain, then what rises from the Kuizhou Army is like a sea!

The black crossbow arrows were fired one after the other, as Zu Bian and Li Tingyu roared louder than the horn horn, they flew towards the charging Daxi army and the feathered arrows of the Daxi army.

Because the arrow branches were too dense, some of the arrow branches from both sides even collided in the air, interfered with each other, and fell to the ground.

Some of the arrows of the Daxi army landed in the empty space, some shot to the side, and most of them still shot into the dense Kuizhou army. The arrows shot on the human body were covered by thick fire raccoon cloth and rattan It was basically impenetrable. Only some arrows shot on the head caused casualties. The arrows penetrated the fire cloth wrapped on the heads of the soldiers and went straight into the skulls. The people who were shot immediately fell to the ground. Sorry.

But the people around them turned a blind eye. Their daily training has already formed a routine. As long as they don’t fall, they will continue to fight according to the order. The officers instilled a concept day after day: comrades are dead, you are not dead, if you want to live If you go down, you have to copy the guy and continue to do it!
The white-robed soldiers mechanically pulled the trigger of the mountain-destroying crossbow one after another, and the arrows in the arrow box were fired quickly, with a density and speed far beyond that of the archers on the opposite side.

Four thousand mountain-destroying crossbows, in just a few breaths, fired forty thousand crossbow arrows, like machine guns in the cold weapon era, swishing and swishing over the entire battlefield.

Faced with such a dense rain of arrows, what can a person without armor do other than become a hedgehog?

Part of the crossbow arrows crossed the distance of [-] steps between the front army of the Daxi Army and the Chinese army, and flew into the Chinese army formation, causing a panic. Except for Liu Jinzhong's two thousand iron-armored servants, the rest of the Chinese army were basically in civilian clothes. , When encountering a crossbow arrow, either death or injury.

Liu Jinzhong stared blankly at the 3000 soldiers of the former army turned into dead bodies all over the ground in the rain of arrows, and almost forgot to give the next order.

Too soon, in just one face-to-face, his former army was gone. Although they were some miscellaneous soldiers, they also had combat power and could fight against the regular Ming army, but they just disappeared.

"Captain, the crossbow arrows of the Ming army are too fierce! Brothers can't stand it!" The former army commander ran back with a pale face. Fortunately, the armor swallowing beast was made of pig iron, and the crossbow arrows did not shoot through Yoyo's arrows.

Liu Jinzhong didn't say a word, his eyes were full of fear, he lost his mind in a hurry as to what to do next.

The front army is gone, the central army and the Kuizhou army facing each other, the triangular battle formations start to move again. The white-robed soldiers put away their crossbows, picked up their spears, and slowly charged towards the Western army again. Approaching.

"Attack!" Zu Bian was full of vigor, holding the spear tightly in his hand, shouting loudly and pointing forward, the drumbeat that had been stopped briefly by the crossbow shooting just now sounded quickly again, and it was even more urgent, several sharp cone spears formed With the rhythm of the drum, he changed from stepping to trotting, and accelerated to rush.

"Captain, the Ming army is here!" A lieutenant approached Liu Jinzhong and reminded him with a low growl: "What to do, come up with an idea."

Liu Jinzhong woke up from the confusion, his eyes flashed, and he said with hatred: "Don't be afraid, although the crossbows of the Ming army are fierce, they are now rushing forward. Once they rush, they can't shoot arrows, and the crossbows can't be used. We people More, you won’t lose to them in a head-on confrontation.”

He gritted his teeth: "Order the left and right armies to move closer to the central army, change the triple formation into a phalanx, and confront the Ming army! The 1000 cavalry in the rear array still go around from the right wing and rush to his left wing. They are infantry, they will disperse as soon as they charge, as long as we defeat his side, our army will definitely win!"

If the deputy general found a treasure, he immediately asked the messenger to convey Liu Jinzhong's order.

But it was too late, and the Kuizhou army rushed over before the horse that ordered the soldiers arrived.

The six pointed spear formations were arranged in the shape of "Pin", forming two larger spear formations, which rushed into the left and right armies of the Daxi Army respectively.

The two-foot-long spears, like a forest of thorns, did not give the officers and soldiers of the Atlantis Army any chance at all. They stabbed out row by row, and retracted row by row. As they stretched and retracted, countless soldiers of the Atlantis Army screamed to the ground. , The spear was too long, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the Western Army could hardly touch each other, so they were stabbed into sieves.

A brave dead soldier, with red eyes, desperately moved forward, roared and jumped up, holding the weapon in his hand high, and fell from the sky with the posture of splitting the Huashan Mountain with force, staring at the tall white-robed centurion at the top of the spear array. , to cut him in two.

The centurion didn't even raise his head, he just stabbed the spear in his hand fiercely, bringing up a cloud of blood mist, then retracted it, and stabbed out again.

When the dead man jumped to the highest point, he stretched out two long spears from the third row behind the centurion, and nailed him firmly to the blades of the spears. body so that he would not slide down the body of the gun, the dead soldier bulged his eyes unwillingly, opened and closed his mouth, as if shouting something, but no sound came out, the two white-robed soldiers who copied the gun, immediately With a shake of the gun body, his body was thrown away, and he was thrown on the ground like a ball of dead flesh.

This is the power of the gun array. The super long gun body makes it impossible for the Atlantis Army with ordinary weapons to get close. Those who touch it will die, and those who touch it will die. The two armies on the left and right rushed through the formation, and within a quarter of an hour, the two army formations of 2000 people turned into defeated skirmishers and disappeared in smoke.

(End of this chapter)