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Chapter 1236 Sweeping the Thousand Army!

The officers and soldiers who saw this scene felt their scalps go numb at the same time. They had never seen so many artillery pieces densely covering the entire hill, almost as many as a thousand!

The cavalry who rushed ahead could see more clearly that the style of those artillery pieces was short and sharp that they had never seen before!

Different from the huge artillery that the officers and soldiers can only use to defend and attack the city, these small cannons are no more than three feet long, with several iron hoops around them. Grasping firmly on the ground, it looks like a tiger that chooses to eat people head by head, majestic and majestic!

There are three gunners around each small cannon, and the division of labor skillfully fills the shells, inserts the fuse, lights the torch, and completes the shooting preparation in a few breaths!Obviously I don't know how many times I have practiced it!

In an instant, all the officers and soldiers had an ominous premonition, and Zhu Zhanji stood up all at once!He felt that he seemed to have made a fatal mistake——Wang Xian's Chinese army was not a soft persimmon at all, but a deadly killer!

"Don't worry, Your Highness, cannons are not very effective against cavalry!" The nobles hurriedly comforted Zhu Zhanji, and they also comforted themselves: "Although it looks scary, it can't kill a few people!"

How could they say that Zhu Zhanji didn't know that the solid shells would not cause much damage to the scattered cavalry!But since Wang Xian dared to arrange this way, there must be his reasons!

But at this time, it was too late to say anything, the cavalry of the official army had rushed within one mile of the enemy, so they could only bite the bullet and continue to charge forward!

"Let go!" Fifth Lord Long, beard and hair all stretched out, shouted with all his strength.

The gunners ignited the fuze of the cannon in unison, and the fuze burned rapidly with sparks, and the rumbling sound of the cannon shook the sky!
The power of the thousands of cannon fires was so terrifying that even Wang Xianjun's soldiers were so shocked that their ears were ringing and they couldn't hear anything.The war horse was also startled and jumped up and down, almost losing control!

But everyone ignored their ears and stared dumbfounded at the officer cavalry who were facing the artillery...

I saw only half of the more than 1 cavalry who rushed into the range of the cannon...

No one could forget the scene in front of them. The ground was densely packed with soldiers and horses, and the wounded horses and soldiers were screaming and struggling on the ground. There were bloody bullet holes all over their bodies. Everyone who watched was dying!
The 5000 surviving troops were all wounded!Although they were terrified, they were already advancing and never retreating, and they didn't dare to stay where they were. They could only beat their horses desperately, wanting to rush through this death zone and kill them under the hill!That's the only way out for them...

At this moment, the only group of people who were not shocked were the gunners on the hill. They raced against time to clean the barrel, refill the ammunition, and insert new fuses into the cannon.

But the speed of the cavalry of the officers and soldiers was too fast, and they had rushed a hundred feet down the mountain, and the loading had not yet been completed!
"Come on!" Zhang Fu's eyes were also bloodshot, and he urged the follow-up cavalry to continue pressing forward. He must not let the artillery of the officers and soldiers show off their power again!
Zhang Fu's shout hadn't finished yet, the frightening sound of cannons rumbled again, and Wang Xianjun's cannons fired again!
The five thousand cavalry who survived the first shelling were wiped out on the battlefield!

They could not die with peace in their eyes, because they clearly saw that the enemy's gunners hadn't finished their shooting preparations!
Zhu Zhanji in the distance knew clearly in his heart that when the cannon was fired for the first time, only half of Wang Xian's thousand cannons must have been fired, and the other half had been fired at an interval of more than ten breaths.

This is a segmented shooting method that the Ming army is all too familiar with, but it was used by Wang Xian on artillery!

He could also see clearly that what was fired from the bores of those cannons was not solid shells at all, but hundreds of scattered shells!
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"Come on! Don't stop!" Zhang Fu was already insane, he desperately urged his horse, and charged directly at the enemy!It was with great difficulty that he won the opportunity from the prince to lead the cavalry to attack and trample Wang Xian into mud!How could he be defeated so easily? !
Under the leadership of Zhang Fu, the cavalry of the official army launched an even more crazy attack on Wang Xianjun!
Different from those motley troops, they are proud straight guards!The Royal Guard under the direct command of the emperor!
The crown prince is right behind them, and the capital and the others are right behind them. They have a sense of mission immersed in their flesh and blood, and they will never be allowed to bow their heads to the enemy!

They charged forward another thirty feet, and Wang Xianjun's cannons roared for the third time, and thousands of cavalry disappeared again...

But the cavalry are already desperate, they only have the approaching enemy in their eyes!Under the leadership of Zhang Fu, the more than a thousand cavalry in the forefront finally rushed within [-] feet of Wang Xian's army, and they were about to enter the enemy's formation and avenge the death of Pao Ze!
However, at this time, dense and crisp gunshots sounded!The [-] infantry troops deployed by Wang Xian under the hillside fired at the cavalry rushing forward!
The [-] infantry are all armed with muskets and lined up in six rows against the hillside. They are also half loaded and half fired. Although the power is far inferior to artillery, it is better than accuracy!
More than a thousand cavalry screamed that they were shot and fell off their horses. In a blink of an eye, there were only a few cavalry left. Zhang Fu's men and horses were all shot several times, covered in blood, and still charging forward with screams.

There was another burst of gunfire, and Wang Xianjun's shooters made up for the remaining enemy soldiers, and there was no one in front of the formation.Zhang Fu rushed to the distance of only one zhang from Wang Xianjun's shooter, the horse finally couldn't hold it up, and fell to the ground with a loud crash, throwing him on the ground fiercely!

Zhang Fu sprayed blood from his mouth and nose, exhausted his last strength to look up at the person on the hillside, and finally passed away...

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While Zhang Fu was killed in battle, the follow-up cavalry were still charging, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not break through the forbidden zone of life intertwined with guns and cannons.The distance of a mere hundred feet, the horses charge only a few breaths, but all the cavalry who rushed here were ruthlessly wiped out!

All this sounds very long, but in fact, half of the cavalry of the official army died in front of Wang Xian's army in just one hundred breaths of time.On the half-mile-square battlefield, corpses of soldiers and horses were piled up layer upon layer, and the flowing blood had formed small ditches...

The remaining officers, soldiers and cavalry finally stopped, and their courage was finally wiped out in the horrible roar of guns.This is not the war they understand at all, this is a unilateral massacre!

Even if they still have the courage to charge, the pile of corpses is enough to make it difficult for the horses to move forward and become a living target for the enemy!
Wang Xian immediately ordered someone to blow the horn, and the Shandong cavalry on both wings froze for a moment before recovering from the boundless shock!

That was their order to attack!

Deng Xiaoxian and Yang Rong quickly put away their mixed emotions and urged their subordinates to outflank the cavalry of the officers and soldiers!
The cavalry of the official army was frightened, and they barely raised their weapons to resist, but their attacks were weak, and they were no match for the Shandong cavalry!
As soon as they fought, they almost collapsed at the touch of a finger.Turned their horses' heads one after another, and fled backwards crazily...

This escape didn't matter, it immediately caused a chain reaction, and the officer infantry who were also frightened and stupid also turned around and ran away.

Seeing the rout soldiers coming overwhelmingly, the infantry in the rear also fled.Even Zhu Zhanji's central army had to retreat in embarrassment under the impact of the defeated army.His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was helped to the horse by the guards, refused to turn the horse's head. He couldn't believe it at all, and couldn't accept it at all. He was defeated like this...

It was too fast, so fast that he had no time to react, and he didn't even issue an order to respond, so the army was defeated like a mountain!

"Your Highness, let's go, or it will be too late!" Chen Wu anxiously urged Zhu Zhanji's horse.

Because of too much emphasis on the coordination of infantry and cavalry, Zhu Zhanji's Chinese army followed too far forward, only three miles away from Wang Xianjun.Seeing that Wang Xian's [-] cavalry were already following the rout, they were about to kill his Chinese army!

"I won't go!" How could Zhu Zhanji accept such a failure, and roared like a mad tiger: "Why did those damned infantry run away? They can clearly block Wang Xian's cavalry!"

What Zhu Zhanji said is correct. If the infantry of the officers and soldiers maintains their courage, it is no problem to block Wang Xian's 12 cavalry at least, that is a full [-] people!
However, war is never a simple arithmetic problem, but an extremely complicated equation, in which psychological factors are the biggest variable!Once the mental breakdown, how many soldiers and horses are all equal to zero!
Wang Xian's rumbling guns completely defeated the psychology of the officers and soldiers.They can't do anything except flee, and once the flee begins, it will spread rapidly to the entire army like now, and no one can stop it!

"This battle is over, Your Highness, so you won't be afraid of running out of firewood to keep the green hills alive!" Chen Wu pulled Zhu Zhanji hard, trying to bring the bewildered Crown Prince back to reality.

Only then did Zhu Zhanji turn around in a daze, but the two of them found out in horror that just this delay, Wang Xianjun's cavalry had penetrated deeply into their own formation like two sharp cones!

The cavalry guarding the central army had no intention of fighting, and fled away on horseback one after another, leaving behind thousands of infantry who did not run away, surrounded by His Royal Highness and a group of guards, making it impossible for them to escape even on horseback...

Wang Xian's cavalry penetrated Zhu Zhanji's central army without hindrance, and then completed the outflank...

Obviously, Zhu Zhanji is their first target!

Seeing that they were surrounded by the enemy, the infantry of the officers and soldiers naturally tried their best to break through, but Wang Xian's cavalry gathered more and more, wielding sabers and slashing and killing the infantry in the encirclement.

The encirclement became tighter and tighter, and there were fewer and fewer officers and infantry.In the end, only Zhu Zhanji, Chen Wu and dozens of guards were left, surrounded by Wang Xian's cavalry in three layers.

A group of guards were unwilling to give up like this, and wanted to fight a way out to protect His Highness the Crown Prince and escape!However, no matter how high their martial arts were, they could not stand up to the formidable cavalry, and they were soon beheaded to death.

Zhu Zhanji looked desperately at the Wang Xian cavalry around him, and drew out his sword to kill himself!But the sword was blown away by a cold light...

He gave a wry smile and watched the cavalry parting a passage.

Wang Xian appeared in front of Zhu Zhanji.

Xian Yun followed behind Wang Xian, the cold light was obviously his masterpiece.

Zhu Zhanji only had Wang Xian in his eyes. He lowered his hands and fixedly looked at his best friend in the past, but now he became an enemy who completely defeated him, and he was speechless for a while.

Wang Xian also stared at Zhu Zhanji, but also said nothing.

(End of this chapter)