Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 36 Destroy the enemy in one battle

Rows of five-eyed cameras were fired, and hot bullets roared out. It seemed that a wall of death with bullets had been built in front of the charging enemy. Those brave soldiers who broke into the army were like moths flying into a flame, they were beaten into sieves and fell down.

The first row's muskets were discharged, and the second row immediately fired again, and then the third row, and so on. The brothers behind him passed on the loaded muskets, maintaining the continuity of the firearms.

This kind of shooting method does not require Lu Mou, a time traveler, to be troublesome. This kind of three-stage shooting and subsequent hand-off of the gun has been practiced and matured as early as Qi Jiguang's time.

The reason why they often failed in every battle against the Manchu cavalry was because the single-shot fire blunderbuss was really a suicide weapon. Once it was shot, it would explode immediately. Who would dare to fire a second shot? Facing the overwhelming cavalry, your only option is to turn around and run away.

And now, all today's soldiers are equipped with thick-walled five-eyed machine guns with the barrel in front, away from the shooter. Although the shooting distance is short, the density is high. One shot will fire five times, and even if the barrel is exploded, it will still be far away from the shooter.

In the end of this battle, most of the enemies stayed in front of the volley of guns. Like Li Guo, there are not many who can break into the enemy's formation.

The moment Li Guo had just inserted himself into the enemy's formation, gunshots sounded like exploding beans to his left and right, and then there were shouts of men and horses, and the two sides were in a melee in the blink of an eye.

Li Guo rushed into the enemy formation, but he lost his target. Li Yan took advantage of the thick smoke from the artillery to hide somewhere.

Li Guo chopped down a Ming soldier and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Li Yan, come out here. Don't hide like a mouse. Let's have a life-and-death duel today."

No one responded to him, but enemies rushed towards him like a tide and surrounded him.

Countless five-eyed machines were used as long-handled hammers and were thrown at him. The sword in Li Guo's hand seemed helpless against such hammers. An iron hammer hit, and he blocked it with his sword. There was a click, and the hundred-refined sword was broken directly.

He discarded it and grabbed a five-eyed machine. He followed the trend and grabbed it in his hand. He swept it without stopping, forced back the enemy in front of him, and took the opportunity to observe the battlefield.

Li Guo's heart was bleeding because he saw his eight thousand soldiers, who did not dodge the five-eyed machine to block the wall of fire during the charge, fell on the road of the stormtroopers. There seemed to be less than three thousand of them still fighting.

Three thousand people, facing ten times as many enemies, in this huge military formation, were like a lonely boat in the stormy waves, bumping up and down, and seemed about to capsize in the blink of an eye.

With no hope of victory, Li Guo smashed an officer to death and shouted at the flag bearer behind him: "Follow me, charge."

Then go straight to the west.

Li Guo's banner moved, and the soldiers of the invading army followed the banner and fought.

Li Guo is indeed a fierce general, and he has no opponent in front of him. However, the enemy's formation was too thick, and it seemed impossible to kill them all.

He also saw his opponent across from him, his frightened eyes, and his desire to escape.

However, the people who set up this large formation had dark hearts because this formation was too dense. Even if the enemy in front of him wanted to escape, he would be tightly surrounded by his companions, leaving him with no way to escape. They were thus restricted and had to fight to the death without retreating.

Just when Li Guo was about to be exhausted, suddenly his eyes lit up. He actually fought through the formation and reached the Liuli River.

The water of the Liuli River was crystal clear and flowing rapidly. Without hesitation, Li Guo swung the long-handled hammer in his hand and hit his beloved horse's butt hard.

The war horse was in pain and knew it was time to fight. It burst out with the last bit of strength, rose into the air, and rushed directly towards the Liuli River.

Amidst the splashing water, this leap actually made him cross the middle of the river, and then he climbed up to the other side without hesitation.

When he turned back, he saw that although some of his brothers had broken through the enemy formation, they were all driven into the Liuli River. In a blink of an eye, they were washed down by the seemingly calm but undercurrent of the river, and they drowned one after another in the river. The final count of those who survived to climb ashore was less than a hundred people.

Li Guo raised his face and looked at the sky. It was already close to noon. He let the warm sunshine shine on his face and let the gentle spring breeze blow away the hot tears flowing out.

Then facing the silent enemy formation on the other side of the river, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Li Yan, I will fight you until death."

As a result, two war horses came out of the formation. The one on one was Li Yan, and the one sitting on the other horse turned out to be a child wearing a yellow robe.

Only then did Li Guo suddenly realize that the king of love was not in Wuxiang City. That kid there was just bait for his own fish.

From the very first step of my relationship, I fell into the well-designed trap of Xiao Dingwang, which made me passive step by step, and I had to step into this desperate situation, and suffered such a disastrous failure.

Now that he had figured it out, he turned his horse's head without hesitation, took the remaining defeated soldiers and ran towards his old camp in Wuxiang.

The battle at Dingwangqu was a hearty one. Li Guo's main force of 8,000 elite cavalry was wiped out in the first battle. Only Li Guo and his more than a hundred remaining soldiers escaped.

His own army, with the blessing of firearms, still suffered as many as 5,000 casualties in battle.

Li Yan whispered: "If the prince hadn't put up this square formation at the beginning so that the soldiers in the core had nowhere to escape, this would have been a defeated battle. Your theory of firearms defeating cavalry seems to be It’s not working.”

Lu Mou defended himself: "It's not that I don't have enough theory and foresight. It's because I'm really afraid that the cannon will be loaded with cannonballs and that thousands of cannons will fire at once, accidentally injuring Li Guo. Even though he had already rushed into my cannon." formation, I am still worried about his safety. Fortunately, God bless him, he fought through the siege and escaped without any danger."

If Li Guo heard Lu Mou say this at this time, I don't know what he would think.

"If my cannons and five-eyed machine guns were all loaded with shotgun shells, I can imagine that this group of charging cavalry would have been piles of meat before they even rushed in front of my soldiers. You Think about that scenario carefully."

Li Yan really squinted his eyes and imagined in his mind the scene of locust-like shotguns starting to kill the cavalry from a long distance. In the end, he couldn't help but trembled all over before he recovered.

"British man."

"Wei Chen is here."

"Bury the dead martyrs, rescue the injured and return to the city. Cut off the enemy's heads, clean the battlefield, and return to Beijing to report victory."

"Then, my lord, you——"

"I still have to go to Wuxiang. My battle is not over yet." Then he turned around and said to him: "By the way, the last capture I made has been made into silver coins. The first time you return to the city, you will immediately kill the battle." The pension for dead brothers should be given to their families. This must not be delayed or discounted in the slightest. Also, every soldier who participated in the war should be rewarded with two silver dollars."

"Wei Chen understands."

Those who dare to fight still need financial training, so that soldiers are not afraid of life and death, and they still need generous post-war pensions to make them think that it is worthwhile to risk their lives in exchange for the subsequent food and clothing of their wives, children, and children.

This is also the choice and responsibility of Han men.

(End of this chapter)