In just over a month in the beginning of the spring, the Xiagu Dao defense line that he had used most of the winter to disintegrate under the offensive accumulated by the thief army. The opponent did not even have any surprising means of winning or trickery. It just relied on the similar forces that the two sides could not deploy because of the terrain, and replenished the benefits of the equipment and the relative materials; only used the means of steady and steady attack all the way. , Destroyed the many strongholds he painstakingly arranged.
The methods and steps of the thieves are also very simple. They are within the sight of the official army’s battlefield. They plan to shovel and compact the ground, and then push up a large-tube firearm named "Cannon". , Uttering thunder against the wall of the Zhai Lei is one after another bombardment. And how can those barriers and fences built with earth and wood that are only for blocking arrows and obstructing the passage, how can they block these thunderous cannonballs
Either it disintegrated and disintegrated in the flying fragments, or the pillar was smashed and the people took the guard post and the arrow tower to the ground crashing, and by the way, a large area was knocked down; in this frenzied bombardment that resembled a mountain collapse and a cracked ground. During the intensive attack, the morale of the defenders, who were mostly in soil groups, fell like a waterfall, and even before the thief army blew the whistle and started charging, there were casualties and horror everywhere with collateral damage. Below, first abandoned the guard and fled.
While waiting for Song Hao to get the news, he hurriedly led the team, but he had already lost the six large and small formations in Xiagu Dao in one breath; he was killing the deserter and rewarding and promising before the formation, and it was easy to stabilize seventh. The position of the big base, but the next battle did not get much change. Those thieves were still repairing the road without hurries, and then pushed up and fired at the base.
However, when Song Hao sent aggressive men who took the initiative to attack these seemingly busy gun carts, it took a lot of effort to arrange the gun carts in front of the battle. As a result, these dull and slow gun carts were not guarded. Come on the other side that is even more hideous. A large swath of white smoke suddenly burst out of the iron tube, almost completely submerging these daring men.
But when the fireworks dissipated, the bloody mess was all over the ground and few people clustered; and then these survivors, who had lost their souls or were overwhelmed, had not had time to take a step to make a decision or escape or charge, but they were shot by the thieves. The firecrackers were knocked down one after another, and then rushed up to kill on the spot with spikes and blades. And this tragic failure was another heavy blow to the morale of the defenders in the battle.
If it weren’t for Song Hao’s decisive use of the new force he had brought, the Honshu united soldiers who had not seen fighting from the rear would replace those original defenders. I’m afraid they would have to imitate the story of the previous battle at the next moment. Regardless of this, he turned around and abandoned his guard and fled. But then Song Hao quickly discovered these thief army's firearms, a flaw that was not a flaw.
That is, when those round spherical cannons hit the thick foundation made of soft piles of soil, they tend to sink into it and can no longer bounce up, like smashing hard fences and rejecting them. Horses, stakes, outposts and the human bodies behind them caused more injuries and deaths. This discovery suddenly reduced the casualties, and also shot the foot with the Dongchuan characteristic strong bow and hard crossbow, which slightly blocked the routine impact of the thief army's artillery fire.
However, it failed to improve the unfavorable situation and decline of the Dongchuan Army horse beyond the range of the bow and arrow, and still had to be passively beaten instead of fighting back. So in the next match, Song Hao almost tried his best and exhausted Zuo Lao's brains. He worked out various countermeasures and tried methods to reverse and recover.
In addition to mobilizing a lot of manpower as a base, and continuing to re-defense in the rear; it also includes a raid on the enemy in the dark at night when the black wind is high, and the warrior who comes from the mountain to climb the mountain forest from the side, and sneak into the enemy’s army. The driver in the rear fires fire and kills as a disturbance. Some people bring golden drums to climb steep mountain walls, clamoring for harassment day and night, etc. . . . .
The result is that, whether it is a warrior who touched the night attack or a warrior who circumvents the forest and the money is more and more destructive, shortly after being sent out, it will cause a certain amount of firearms roar and the noise of horses and horses, and then no one can come back to report a quasi letter Up. The use of golden drums to harass them day and night quickly quickly stopped in front of the firearms that the thief army could shoot upside down on the cliff.
However, after two or three days of long-range attacks and trials, the thieves who believed they were well prepared finally launched a strong attack; under the head-on impact of the thieves who were pushing the baffle carts with firearms and still able to walk fast. , The bows and crossbows behind the battlefield had not yet come and played enough damage, they were already covered and rushed to the front;
Then, the people who greeted the soldiers who were standing in line after being really tired were not the rushing knives and guns, but another round of alternately throwing kerosene bombs and explosive bombs. Dust and smoke billowed and fragments were flying between them, bursting and roaring. . So this line of defense was suddenly wounded and demoralized defenders. Under the abrupt retreat, he was completely lost.
However, at this time, it was the new soil fortresses that Song Hao had to rush to work day and night to rebuild in the rear, which played an unexpected role. Under the deterrence of these strong bows and crossbows, which rely on the earth fortification, the thieves also had to stop and look for cover. While shooting at each other, they were struggling to dig open the occupied earth fort. Come.
As a result, when the rear artillery car was able to cross the gap and obstacles, and was pushed forward again to start bombarding the new earth fortress in the distance, only a few fleeing figures could be seen. Obviously, the Dongchuan Army also played a trick of planting flags all over the place, thinking of bluffing, but it was a trick to retreat with a vain shot.
Then in the subsequent offensive and defensive battles between the Chivalrous Dao formation and Fangzhai, the Dongchuan Army also seemed to have found a certain corresponding rhythm and strategy, which effectively weakened the original killing and deterrent effects of artillery and bombardment. They even chopped down large pillars according to local conditions, and tied them with sturdy homespun to form flexible shelters.
Although this can not completely block the bombardment from a distance, it can effectively deflect the bombardment force against the original target during the process of being smashed and broken. However, the Taiping thieves also changed their methods unscrupulously, firing a kind of burnt cannon, and igniting everything in it into a piece.
Then, in the smoke and blaze that burst into flames, Song Hao had to lose another city and lead his troops to retreat temporarily. When they arrived at the next battle, they had already tried to find out, and used the pre-prepared muddy water to deal with the emergency means of arson fired by the thief's artillery. As a result, the thieves were blocked for two days and two nights, and the thieves seemed to have stopped to confront because of insufficient medicine.
But new changes have appeared. As the dawn broke, the defenders who had been harassed throughout the night in the battlefield were exhausted and heard the long-lost shelling again. However, this time the roar came all the way through the valley and flowed through the back. On the water surface of the tributary upstream of the river. When the morning mist completely dissipated, they discovered that several strange vehicles and boats had appeared on the river surface.
And as the water wheels of these vehicles and ships slowly turned, there was a burst of fireworks that radiated one after another, and another cloud of dust and smoke was blown up from the battlefield guarded by the Dongchuan Army. However, compared with the serious front line, what suffered this time was the heavy piled up in the rear, as well as those civilians who were busy digging trenches and mounding soil, erecting obstacles and fortifications.
Compared with those frontline guards who were initially accustomed to shelling with some probability of killing, these civilians who were recruited and arrested from the rear were scattered without accident and hesitation. The tools left all over the place, and the messy fortification sites that were stepped on. A lot of the baggage was ignited, and the ground was knocked over by the frightened mule and donkey.
Although there were only a handful of vehicles and ships that suddenly appeared on the water, they hit the vital and fateful gate of the Dongchuan Army. With the collapse of these fortified civilians and heavy losses, the so-called resistance was calm. The tactical steps of retreat were once again completely disrupted and overturned. However, the Dongchuan Army was almost incapable of cracking and countering this for a while, and they couldn't immediately put on their wings and fly over the water to kill the enemy.
What's more, since these thief ships can bombard the first-line battlefield here, they can naturally continue to bombard the relatively empty battlefield behind them, and even transport troops to land to seize and intercept their back lanes, or directly take the same flooded current Under the state and city that has passed through; that is a more considerable disaster than defeating the frontier.
Therefore, Song Hao did not hesitate to issue the entire army's transformation, and after the enemy's formation had not yet reacted, he left all his burdens and retreated to the state city with all his strength. However, the so-called ideal is cruel to the beautiful reality. Originally relying on heavy arrays as alternate screens and the fighting and walking rhythm was disrupted, coupled with the morale and calmness that Song Hao barely maintained under the high pressure, there was a flaw.
After only a few miles of evacuation, Dongchuan soldiers and horses, who naturally stretched the team back and forth, inevitably suffered a chain reaction-style crash under the continuous bombardment of the following cars and ships. Although the cannons fired from these vehicles and ships have limited hit rate and killing effect on these elongated and scattered teams, they can't stand the shock of a rushing roar after another.
The Dongchuan Army, who walked within a few miles of ancient roads in a short period of time, lost the organization that was barely maintained in the panic that spread rapidly. Then when he encountered the obstacles of the next formation, he was urged by the shelling behind him to burst into fear again. They almost pushed and trampled each other on the intact formation, and rushed out of the corpses. The huge gap is coming.
But at this point, Song Hao, even if he had the ability and courage of the best in the world, could not stop these rushing routs. He even had to rely on his own tooth soldiers to guard from the left to the right, constantly cutting down and beheading the insurgents who blocked him, so as to ensure that they would not be engulfed in any weird place.
Therefore, when Song Hao, who could be called a lifetime at the end, took most of the tooth soldiers and the more than a thousand town soldiers and state soldiers who finally gathered, fled into the city of Qixian without looking back. Behind the stream are the corpses lying on the ground all the way, and there are a group of defeated soldiers kneeling on the river beach and shouting for mercy and begging for surrender.
However, at the gate of the city, Song Hao, in addition to Zhu Jingmei, the guardian military envoy who came to greet and explore, also unexpectedly saw the one who had stepped back earlier and was responsible for leading the other side of the division. Obviously, the results of the partial teacher led by him are even more unbearable. (End of this chapter)