Chapter 58: Breaking the Thief Part 4 "What is this?"
Fang Guozhen asked knowingly, holding the monocular telescope in his hand.
The purpose of this thing was demonstrated to Liu Ji with his own hands on the first day when he went to his military camp as an envoy.
As an old pirate who has been traversing the water for many years, Fang Guozhen probably knows better than anyone else what it means to be able to see miles away.
However, all of the above did not prevent him from continuing to act stupid.
For no other reason than to force Liu Bowen to utter a few more promises, so that he can use them to bargain with the Huaiyang General Manager's Office in future cooperation.
Wishful thinking was shrewd, but it was a pity that he found the wrong person.
Although Liu Bowen was depressed in his official career, he was also a Jinshi after all, and he had been in the officialdom for several years.
Both his intelligence and experience in intrigues with others surpassed him by countless ways.
He refused to answer the question at all, and just continued to pretend to be a carefree god with his eyes closed.
Fang Guozhen asked three times in a row, but didn't get even a word of reply.
He had no choice but to curl his lips angrily, raise the monocular, and begin to carefully observe the entire battlefield.
Directly ahead and slightly to the left, the shark soldiers under his command and Dong Tuanxiao's servant camp were stalemate in a stalemate, fighting inextricably.
On the right side of the battlefield, there are other elite pirates holding on to the various furry gourd soldiers.
Separated by a sea of people and a wall of people, the gunmen from the Huai'an army and the archers from eastern Zhejiang competed with each other for their accuracy, tilting projectiles and sharp arrows at each other's heads.
The power of the fire gun is huge, and almost every round of firing can take away hundreds of children from eastern Zhejiang.
However, the archers took advantage of the speed of fire and used armor-breaking cones to cause huge damage to the pirates at extremely close range.
On the entire battlefield, the most powerful thing at this time was still the artillery.
If it doesn't scream, that's it.
If it does, it will be littered with corpses.
However, the reloading speed of the artillery was several minutes slower than that of the firecrackers, and because the enemy and our soldiers were completely mixed up at this moment, we had to be extra careful.
The main reason for this situation is the lack of coordination between the soldiers of the Fang Jiajun and the artillery of the Huai'an Army.
If they were also the soldiers of the Huai'an Army and the artillery of the Huai'an Army, Thinking of this, Fang Guozhen suddenly trembled slightly in his heart.
He quickly turned the telescope and pointed it at the Huai'an army that had previously fought out of Jiangwan New City.
They are a bit far away from the Zhejiang Army, but they should have been in contact with the Zhejiang Army at this time.
Although that group of Mao Gourd Soldiers from eastern Zhejiang was large in number, it was not the main force under Dong Thief.
They, they, oh my God, how are they so fast?
Even though he had some expectations in his mind in advance, what he saw in his field of vision still made Fang Guozhen open his mouth in surprise.
The Mao Gourd Soldiers had collapsed.
In the short time it took for Fang Jiajun and the Zhejiang Army to come into contact, the Mao Gourd Soldiers from Yixing blocked in the east of the battlefield had been beaten to the ground and returned.
The battle flag with the word "king" written on it had already fallen into the hands of a Huai'an scout.
The man rode a war horse and dragged it backwards and forwards behind him for display.
And some of the Mao Gourd soldiers who were still gathered in a group and seemed ready to struggle to the death, quickly collapsed in front of this flag that was riddled with holes.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The four small cannons placed behind the Huai'an army's position suddenly fired a volley.
It was not aimed at Mao Hulu's defeated troops, but at the Tanma Red Army who was confronting the Huai'an cavalry not far away.
The black projectiles passed over their own war horses that were retreating to both sides of the military formation, and smashed into the dense gun formation of the Tanma Red Army, leaving four terrifying alleys of flesh and blood.
The Tanma Red Army under Dong Tuanxiao's command rushed towards the Huai'an army like an enraged bull.
Using spears and steel knives at the same time, they routed their own troops who dared to block the road along the way, killing them to death.
Everywhere.
"Form up, quickly form a strong formation on the spot, and then let the cavalry attack in a roundabout way behind the Tanma Red Army."
Even though his voice could not be heard.
Fang Guozhen still couldn't help but roared in a low voice.
The Tanma Red Army is not a gourd soldier.
Both its combat effectiveness and fighting will exceed the latter several times or even dozens of times.
More than 2,000 Huai'an troops and 5,000 Tanma Red Army faced a head-on challenge.
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Fang Guozhen could not think of any countermeasures except forming a formation to defend.
However, what made his heart beat wildly was.
The Huai'an army that had just defeated the Mao Gourd Soldiers of Yixing actually quickly shrank its formation, then pointed its flag forward and headed straight towards the Tanma Red Army.
The long and thin snake formation is like a thin embankment.
Trying to block the oncoming waves.
This is undoubtedly an act of seeking death, because once the two sides are completely strangled in one place and the Huai'an cavalry retreats to the two wings, it will be difficult to be of any help.
And behind the five thousand probing Red Army, there were clearly a large number of archers and crossbowmen hiding.
Through the monocular telescope, Fang Guozhen could see clearly.
No matter how clearly he could see, it was useless.
The distance was too far and he had no time to warn anyone.
We could only continue to watch helplessly as the two teams quickly approached each other, from two hundred steps to one hundred and fifty steps, then from one hundred and fifty steps to one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred steps, and eighty steps.
"Swish, swish, swish, swish" The archers in the back row of the Tanma Red Army took the lead in attacking, shooting a wave of arrows towards the Huai'an Army's line.
Although the distance was far away, Fang Guozhen felt that he still heard the terrifying sound of arrows piercing the air.
Then, he closed his eyes in pain.
"Dang-dang-dang-dang-dang!"
The arrow flew across a distance of eighty steps and plunged down from mid-air.
It hit the Huai'an army like rain hitting banana trees.
"Zhi Zhi Zhi" Tu Xiaodi, the leader of the battle corps, blew the copper whistle in his mouth with all his strength, then lowered his head and faced the direction of the arrow with the broad brim of his helmet.
The soldiers in the first two rows of the Long Snake Formation, a total of more than 600 soldiers, also lowered their heads slightly, imitating the appearance of their captain, and tried to face the arrows with the broad edges of their helmets and front breastplates.
At the same time, continue to move neatly and advance towards the enemy.
The cold-forged steel helmet and breastplate made most of the arrows fly backwards, without causing any harm to the brothers.
However, occasionally one or two of them, due to angle problems or various other inexplicable reasons, happened to hit the connection between the chest armor and the arm armor, or penetrated other weak points that required flexibility, causing the target to be hit by the arrow.
He groaned and fell to the ground.
The vacated positions were quickly filled by soldiers further back.
The entire military formation continued to move forward despite the violent storm and sharp arrows.
No one stopped or tried to turn around.
Although some veterans in the team were still in their stomachs, they were already greeting some people's immediate family members.
The person they scolded the most was usually Huai'an Army Commander Shi Su Mingzhe.
In terms of power, he was the second-largest figure in the entire system after General Zhu.
Because veterans all remember clearly that in March and April last year, every soldier wore a set of full-body plate armor.
And just because the man named Su wanted to save money, he cut off half of the full body armor of all the soldiers.
They have all become the current kind where only the front is made of fine iron and the back is sewn with thin soft pigskin.
In this way, the weight of the armor is indeed reduced by half, but when it comes to battle, the soldiers are left with only one marching direction, move forward, and always face your enemy.
Otherwise, you will definitely die faster after turning around.
No one would scold Zhu Chongjiu, although everyone knew that no one named Su would dare to do anything without the permission of General Manager Zhu.
However, both new recruits and veterans clearly remember what life was like before they joined the army.
It was Manager Zhu who pulled them out of the refugee pile, and it was Manager Zhu who made them eat well for the first time.
It was Manager Zhu who made them feel what it was like to be human for the first time.
Therefore, they must repay Manager Zhu's kindness like human beings.
Although, Manager Zhu is always surrounded by all kinds of "treacherous ministers" "Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang" the second wave of feather arrows came in the sky again, denser and more urgent than the first wave.
The warriors of the war corps still lowered their heads, facing the rain of arrows with their breastplates and helmet rims, and marched forward in formation.
Each warrior holds a sharp spear in his hand.
The spear head is three feet long, has four edges, is sharp at the front and thick at the back, and finally turns into a round casing.
Inside the casing, there is a white wax pole one foot to five feet long, thick as an arm, and moderately heavy in the hand.
Each spear is erected diagonally in front of the body, swinging gently with the person's footsteps.
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On the one hand, this can block many arrows and provide maximum protection for the fire gunners in the back row.
Secondly, this is relatively coordinated and labor-saving, and will not affect the angle of the head and forward movement.
"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" and "Boom" the four small cannons fired another salvo.
This time, they used explosive shells.
A huge explosion sounded in the phalanx of the Tanma Red Army, and four dark red smoke pillars soared upward.
At least twenty Khitans were killed, and a dozen more were left missing arms and legs.
They lay writhing and wailing near the bloody crater.
But for a team of five thousand people, this number is insignificant.
Xiao Yanzhao, who was following the Tanma Red Army at the back of the center of the square formation, slightly curled his lips, picked up the drumstick without hesitation, and knocked hard on the huge drum in front of him, "Boom!"
"Dong dong dong dong dong" the continuous sound of war drums jumped up in the military formation, and the entire Khitan phalanx accelerated again.
At seventy steps, sixty steps, and fifty steps, "Pingzhao" had a general on horseback shouting loudly in the team, and at the same time blowing the horn at his mouth, "Woooooooo, oooooo, oooooooo " "Brush" more than six hundred spears and suddenly flatten them.
The sharp spear tip was aimed at the chest of the Huai'an soldiers who were approaching.
"Whoosh whoosh, whoosh whoosh, whoosh whoosh!"
The third row of feather arrows rose into the sky again, blocking the sunlight above their heads.
The archers quickly picked up the fourth one, and the arrow tip was entirely made of armor-piercing cones made of hundred-refined steel.
Strive to draw the bowstring to its fullest.
The next round will be the last salvo.
They are preparing to use the armor-piercing awl to clear the way for their own robes and reap the fruits of victory
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