I want to be emperor

Chapter 55 This Is Unreasonable
Zhang Malin's artillery team did not live up to his expectations, and killed half of the enemy's gunners in a single round of shelling.

Even if the enemy's artillery is still intact, it can't play a big role.

Because more than half of their gunners were dead or injured, and the half of the surviving gunners didn't know that they were in an ambush at this time, and they were all very upset. Their parents gave them two missing legs, and they ran very fast. ran back.

There were only three lone guns still on the cannon carriage, the cannons that hadn't even been deployed, and nearly ten dead or wounded gunners around the cannon carriage.

The artillery force of the Ming army stepped onto the battlefield and suffered a devastating blow before it had time to deploy. Moreover, after the artillerymen of the Ming army suffered a devastating blow, it directly caused panic among the archers and county warriors behind. They ran away in a swarm.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhixue couldn't help yelling loudly, and the other people around him couldn't help cheering either.

A round of approaching artillery bombardment wiped out the enemy's artillery power. Even if the Ming army was able to drag the three artillery back later, they didn't have enough gunners to control them.

Not to mention, if they wanted to drag the three cannons back again, they would have to send someone over again.

But... a hundred meters away, there are two artillery pieces from the Baoxiang Battalion aimed at this place.

No, after a while, the soldiers of the Ming army dispatched and forcibly suppressed the retreating county warriors and archers.

Let them organize the formation again, and there are still 30 people who went straight to the cannon carriage empty-handed, and they knew at a glance that they wanted to pull the cannon carriage back.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Malin's artillery fired again.

Under the flying shrapnel, the people who rushed up and tried to grab the artillery back were hit hard again. Seven or eight people were killed or injured on the spot.

Such a scene made the remaining people dare to stay there, and turned around and ran away one by one.

Huang Guangmao was furious and cursed at the back!

It's not about scolding the bandits in front of them for their insidiousness, playing with artillery to get close to the shelling, etc. After all, the two armies are fighting, and the bandits are not allowed to use some tricks.

What made Huang Guangmao angry was that these bastards once again disobeyed his orders and ran away without taking the artillery back.

These idiots, the cannons of the thieves could not be fired for a short time after they were fired, and it was enough time to bring the cannons back, but these idiots ran away directly after being beaten, leaving the cannons in place again.

When he was bombarded for the first time, Huang Guangmao paid more attention to the thieves in front of him, and he no longer regarded the thieves in Songshan as ordinary thieves.

After all, ordinary thieves can't come up with at least two cannons.

So the next move he chose was very cautious and cautious. He didn't send troops directly to charge in anger, but only wanted to drag the artillery back first.

After all, artillery is a powerful killer. If you want to attack these rogues, these three artillery can display great courage. Even if more than half of your gunners have been killed or injured, half of them are still not. Later, I will add some ordinary soldiers Helped in the past, barely able to continue to control the three cannons.

He also knew that when he went to drag the artillery, he would definitely be bombarded by the bandit army, but so what.

The rate of fire of the artillery is so low, it's just a round of shelling to survive.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses, he didn't even send the county brave to pull the artillery back, but just mobilized dozens of young and strong peasants to go up empty-handed.

But, these folks, young and strong, have experienced this kind of battle. After being hit by artillery, they all ran away in their minds. No one even remembered what they were doing.

Huang Guangmao was very angry when he failed to drag the cannon back, so he ordered his soldiers to enforce the law strictly, chopping off the young men who had escaped from the cannon.

After beheading people, Huang Guangmao once again selected people to drag the cannon. This time, he didn't want those young men.

These young men are completely unreliable, no matter how strict the military law is, they can be scared away by the enemy's artillery, and next time it is estimated that these people will not forget their own formation and run, but run to the sides, or He simply ran to the valley and joined the bandits.

In order to avoid any accidents, Huang Guangmao directly sent more than 30 county braves.

In his eyes, these county braves are also cannon fodder, but they are also cannon fodder, but they are much better than civilian men who have not been trained at all.

This time he became ruthless, and directly stated that if he did not bring the artillery back, even if he escaped, he would all be executed.

Of course, he also sent someone to explain in detail to these county braves: "The artillery of the bandit army can only fire one round at most, and they are still alive after the first round of shelling, so as long as you move faster and come back with the artillery, you will die." No!"

"The thieves don't have enough time for the second round of artillery."

"Whoever dies and who lives depends on luck!"

"However, if you can't bring back the artillery, you will die under the ruthless military law!"

Huang Guangmao became ruthless. Although those county warriors were terrified, many of them were still cursing inwardly, but under the threat of strict military law, um, that is, soldiers, they would do it again even if they were unwilling. Set off.

This time the action of the Ming army was also not smooth.

After they rushed up, before they got close to the three cannons, they were unsurprisingly hit by two shotgun shells, killing or injuring seven or eight people on the spot.

Even though the others looked at the friendly soldiers lying beside them, they were terrified, but Huang Guangmao's words echoed in their minds. If they couldn't bring back the artillery, they would all be executed.

In addition, they also knew that the bandit army might fire a second round of artillery within a short period of time. As long as they moved fast enough, they could leave with the artillery when the enemy fired the second round of artillery fire.

Ever since, they continued to rush forward!

However, just as they approached the artillery, dozens of arrows suddenly shot up from the mountainside.

A few seconds later, another seven or eight people fell near the three cannons.

The remaining nearly 20 people were a little stunned.

Didn't it mean that he was safe after a round of shelling, why did he start to be shot again.

Some of them began to try to move the cannon carriage, and some of them already started to retreat.

At this moment, dozens of arrows flew out from the mountainside...

Then came the third round...

With the coverage of three rounds of arrows, these county warriors no longer have to hesitate, because one counts as one and all lie down...

These county warriors don't have any armor on them, let alone helmets, and they don't even have knives to carry the artillery quickly for the convenience of movement...

It is impossible for them to survive after being densely covered by arrows like this!
On the mountainside, Luo Zhixue watched the enemy's rescue of the artillery fail again, the corners of Luo Zhixue's mouth curled up!
After seeing the officers and soldiers snatching back the cannons last time, Luo Zhixue asked An Yongduo and the two teams of soldiers with the cavalry post to go out quietly. After the enemy sent people up to grab the cannons again, he decisively gave them a wave of.

This effect is great. It is estimated that the other party will no longer dare to send people to grab the artillery.

Are you thinking about sending someone to drag the three cannons back?

Just looking at the lineup of the Ming army waiting in front of him, especially the number of Ming army archers and musketeers inside, and the distance is just right, so he resisted this thought.

If you send someone up to pull the cannon, you will probably be beaten into a hedgehog by the other side

At the same time, Huang Guangmao on the opposite side looked at the scene ahead with dull eyes...

Even Wang Jida who was next to him kept his mouth half open and didn't speak for a long time.

What happened in the past few moments far exceeded their expectations.

This is not reasonable!

According to their previous judgment, those entrenched in Songshan are just a group of ordinary thieves, and they are still stupid thieves.

This can be seen from the crude wooden wall fortifications they made.

Later, they discovered that these thieves actually had artillery on hand, and they hid it when their own artillery was close to a hundred meters away, and then suddenly opened fire, causing heavy losses to their own artillery in one fell swoop.

Even so, Huang Guangmao did not lose confidence!

Artillery, this thing is not so rare, especially this kind of short-barreled iron cannon, not to mention that officers and soldiers have a lot of it, even in the manor fortress of some big landlords and gentry, short-barreled iron cannons similar to bowl-mouth cannons can be seen .

The thieves fought with the officers and soldiers for a long time, and they attacked the city and plundered the manor everywhere. It is not surprising that some lucky thieves got some artillery, and this kind of bowl-mouth gun is also very simple to use, without complicated aiming calculations, as long as you know It can be used with an approximate amount of gunpowder or something.

Therefore, don't be surprised to see thieves with cannons, this is normal, especially large-scale thieves basically have bowl-mouth cannons and so on.

It's just that most of the elite backbones of the contemporary thieves are usually cavalry for mobility, or even infantry on mules and horses, so the elite backbone of the thieves will not be equipped with artillery.

Therefore, Huang Guangmao didn't find it strange that the bandits in Songshan brought out two cannons.

But suddenly such a dense and rhythmic arrow formation on the opposite side made Huang Guangmao frown directly.

This time, I'm afraid I've encountered a tough guy. The opponent is either an old thief or a bandit from the rebel army.

Huang Guangmao has fought against bandits for many years, and he knows what kind of bandits are like. He has fought many ordinary bandits, and he has also fought against a few elite old bandits several times.

Judging from his experience, the thieves who can shoot this kind of arrow array are definitely not ordinary thieves.

Encountering such a stubborn stubble, Huang Guangmao couldn't help but be careless!

If this one is not done well, maybe it will capsize in the gutter.

Huang Guangmao frowned, while Wang Jida was stunned for a while, but soon showed greed.

Elite old thief?

OK!

The head of this elite old thief is much stronger than ordinary thieves!
If this group of elite old thieves can be wiped out, if another famous big thief leader can be killed or captured alive, plus his previous contribution to leading the team to destroy Tatianhu and other messy thieves.

With so much credit here, it would be contemptuous of him just to promote him to a colleague, Zhihu is so-so.

He is going to spend a lot of money to operate it well, and if he is lucky, he may be able to set up a Nanjing Sixth Division to make things happen.

After all, he was born as a top three Jinshi, which is not the same as an ordinary county magistrate who was born as a supervisor!

(End of this chapter)