East Factory Governor

Chapter 225

The raging fire ignited on the bodies of countless Houjin soldiers, wailing heart-piercingly, some people rolled all over the ground, and some ran around, but this was useless except to make the fire spread faster!
Narrow roads and dense crowds are simply the best conditions for a fire attack.Chihuoqi, who is well versed in this way, caused the coalition forces of the Northern Beggars and the Cao Gang to suffer a lot when they were in Qingwu Town, but the fire attack conditions at that time were far less favorable than they are now.Now the densely packed Houjin soldiers are trapped in the narrow mountain road and cannot be evacuated at all. For Chihuoqi, this may be the easiest massacre.

In just half a stick of incense, Duan Jia was in charge of more than 300 post-golden soldiers, and more than half of them had been burned to death!Countless corpses were burning, sending out billowing thick smoke, choking people a little out of breath!The pungent burnt smell, desperate screams and wailing of collapse were intertwined and resounded throughout the valley.Many surviving Houjin soldiers tried to attack up the mountain, but a dense rain of arrows caused them to fall down again.Among the two thousand defenders in Section A, there were one hundred crossbowmen and one hundred archers, who were dedicated to dealing with these survivors.

At the same time, the massacres in the defense areas of Section B, Section C, and Section D have also begun immediately.The Red Fire Banner men in these ambush points did the same thing, first showed off a fire attack fiercely, and suddenly the whole trail was full of flames!Then, bows and arrows and crossbows were fired together, and they shot again.

After that, the Thunderbolt of the Chihuo Banner began to show off its power.These thunderbolts are actually the prototypes of early landmines, but because this trail is formed by a stream, most of the soil underneath has been washed away, leaving only an extremely hard rock layer, so "thunderbolts" are not easy to bury, so The red fire flag was thrown by hand instead.

The lethality of landmines in the Ming Dynasty was already extremely high. According to historical records, the landmines at that time could achieve the effect of "carriages and horses splitting apart" after detonation.In addition, the Red Fire Banner has improved it. The landmine is filled with sharp barbed caltrops. Once it explodes, it will explode in pieces, causing great damage to people.

One after another, "thunderbolt thunder" exploded in the dense crowd, and each sound would sweep down a circular piece, just like the ripples caused by a boulder thrown into the water.It's just that after the stone enters the water, the ripples will soon recover, and those fallen gold soldiers will never get up again.

It can be said that if there are only these six thousand post-golden troops in the encirclement, this battle will be extremely easy!However, Qin Shuhuai and the others were facing the [-]-year-old Jin army, so it was destined that this relief would only be temporary!

After being stopped by the boulder outside the ambush circle, the Hou Jin army quickly organized a counterattack after a short period of panic.

The counter-offensive was commanded by Yang Guli, the first-class commander-in-chief who was deeply trusted by Huang Taiji.Being seasoned, he did not command the soldiers to remove these boulders, but directly commanded the army to go up the mountain, touch it from the mountain, and go straight to the [-] defenders stationed in Section A.

Qin Shuhuai knew that the key to completely annihilating the six thousand Tartars in the ambush circle was whether Duan Jia could hold on.Duan Jia was at the forefront of the ambush circle. If he could use the advantages of the terrain to block the Houjin army who came to rescue him, then the Tartars in the ambush circle would definitely be wiped out.But if it can't be stopped, then once they keep rushing in, it's hard to say whether everyone can withdraw smoothly.

Therefore, he took Meng Hu, Bu Er San Ren, Yi Yi and other masters to station himself in Duan Jia.

It took Yangguli a quarter of an hour to mobilize three thousand troops.The reason for this slowness is very simple, because the army of Hou Jin was lined up, and the 3000 people stretched for more than one kilometer. They had to be notified in place, and they had to be divided into two groups to gather on the mountains on the left and right sides of the trail. A quarter of an hour was considered fast. up!
Yangguli divided the 3000 people into two groups, one group consisting of 500 people, and attacked the mountains on the left and right sides of the trail.

Qin Shuhuai led Buer Sanren and Wu Lie to guard the hilltop on the left side of the trail, while Meng Hu led Yi Yi and Chen Hou to guard the hilltop on the right side of the trail.

Yanguli led 500 people to personally attack the hill on the left side of the trail.Among the 500 people, 500 were servants, and only 1000 were the elite Tartars.

This is Hou Jin's first effective counterattack.

Qin Shuhuai quickly organized the defense, and the shield soldiers rushed to the front first, using their shields to build an iron wall.Behind the shield soldiers, fifty crossbowmen stood ready.

The one hundred red fire flags and one hundred yellow earth flags formed formations by themselves, and they didn't need Qin Shuhuai's command at all.

Yang Guli led [-] Tartar soldiers and charged forward.Among them, one thousand elites are in the central army, while the two flanks are all soldiers.

The Huangtu Banner was the first to attack and began to show the results of their continuous hard work on the hillside the previous two days.When Yangguli's counterattack force was still 50 meters away from the defender's position, the Yellow Earth Flag detonated three thunderbolts!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After three loud bangs, the whole hill suddenly trembled, and then on the mountain within a radius of about one mile in front, some soft soil on the surface slid down the mountain, as if a powerful mudslide had erupted!The turbulent soft soil devoured everything in a destructive manner. Along the way, the grass and trees fell, and everything was urged. Countless golden soldiers were instantly wrapped in the mud and stones, annihilated amidst wailing and screaming!
It turned out that the Huangtu Banner saw that the mountain was mainly composed of extremely soft loess, so it used a special method. First, it loosened the frozen soil, then dug many holes underneath, and then buried three "thunderbolts". Once the "thunderbolt thunder" explodes, a landslide will form, burying the enemy soldiers who attacked alive.The size of this landslide area is mainly controlled by the pits dug underneath, which are currently controlled within a radius of about 500 meters.

Qin Shuhuai was dumbfounded. Although he had traveled from a later age, after seeing this scene, he felt as if he had seen black technology!The Yellow Earth Banner of the Devil's Cult once again opened his eyes!
The collapse continued to expand, and nearly half of the golden soldiers were buried in the blink of an eye after fifteen hundred!Even Yang Guli was almost buried, but fortunately, he was good at lightness kung fu, and avoided the fate of being buried after a few vertical leaps.

The mountain continued to tremble, and the collapse continued, Qin Shuhuai watched in amazement.

At this time, a small leader of Huangtu Banner said lightly, "Oh no, it seems that Thunderbolt released one more."

"Huh? What did you say?" Qin Shuhuai asked.

"The landslide seems to be bigger than we thought." The man replied.

"How big is it?"

"It might bury us too."

"Damn it! How reliable can I be for your black technology!" Qin Shuhuai jumped up, and hurriedly shouted at the crowd, "Everyone retreat!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately ran backwards desperately, running a full 200 meters before stopping.At this time, I saw that the place where they were originally began to collapse rapidly, and a huge gap was suddenly opened.

After counting, except for two people who were injured by the rocks, the others were fine.Qin Shuhuai thought to himself, after all, it was still in the Ming Dynasty, it would be good if the Huangtu Banner didn't collapse the whole mountain.

On Yanguli's side, because the collapse happened almost right under their feet, the loss this time was extremely heavy.There were originally 500 people under his command, but suddenly there were only less than [-] left!
And after losing so many people, he hasn't even met his opponent yet!

"My lord, I'll help you!" At this moment, a loud roar suddenly came from behind him!
(End of this chapter)