Not all soldiers knew about black powder. Many soldiers had never even heard of it, and even if they had, they had never really seen it.
The soldiers of the State of Chen were simply bombed!
The originally orderly cavalry camp suddenly became chaotic. This time, the cavalry was led by a general from the Rong family, also named Rong, called Rong Can.
Rong Shen was one of the few people who had seen black powder. When he followed Rong Yao to visit Liang, he encountered Yan people showing off their black powder, but he stood far away. He heard the sound, but he didn't see how powerful it was when used.
Rong Yao described them to a few Rong family members afterwards, but how could they imagine it
So at this moment, even Rong Shen was dumbfounded.
But he tried his best to hold back, not letting the soldiers see anything strange, he tightened the reins and said sharply, "Don't panic, everyone, it's just a stone! It's nothing—"
Boom!
Another huge stone rolled down, and Rong Shen's words were drowned in a terrifying movement.
Rong Shen's knowledge of black powder is too limited, and of course it may be the first time he has seen such a lethal attack.
In order to prove to the soldiers that this thing is not terrible, he decisively pulled out the sword from his waist and slashed towards the falling stone!
With a loud bang, Rong Shen was blown away!
In order to achieve a sufficient deterrent effect, Gu Jiao used all the black fire beads. In fact, it was impossible for her to come for the third time.
The power of this kind of black powder is sufficient, but it is still inferior to the explosives of the previous life. To put it bluntly, lethality is second, mainly shock.
To be honest, Tang Yueshan and his army are also a little confused, what is this riding on a horse? Firecrackers? Not like...
Tang Yueshan was the first to react, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the low or high morale was sometimes only a momentary thing.
Tang Yueshan didn't care what this thing was. He looked back, drew his long sword, pointed forward, and said loudly, "The reinforcements from the imperial court have arrived! The Gu family army has arrived! Everyone kill me!"
Everyone was dumbfounded by the two rounds of black powder, and they had no brains to think about whether Tang Yueshan's words were true.
The headless cavalry of Chen State became more and more chaotic. When Tang Yueshan's army saw this, their morale soared. Even the body that had been hungry for three days and three nights seemed to be full of energy at once. The national cavalry killed the past invincible!
Although Zhao Kingdom is weak, there is not a single coward in Zhao Kingdom's son!
Tang Yueshan took the lead, rushing at the forefront!
This time, it was Gu Jiao who opened the way for him.
Gu Jiao pulled the bow and arrow, and wherever he killed, Gu Jiao's arrows chased.
He also completely handed over his back to Gu Jiao.
Tang Yueshan found out that Gu Jiao had an amazing talent in archery, but her days of practicing archery were still shallow, and she was not as accurate as Tang Yueshan, and almost shot Tang Yueshan in the ass several times.
Tang Yueshan's cold sweat broke out!
Girl, I suspect you did it on purpose!
Tang Yueshan was attacked from three sides and was forced to dismount. An arrow flew into the air and shot from under his crotch!
Tang Yueshan, who was only half an inch away, was shot in the small Tang Tang: "..."
The arrow passed between his legs and shot straight at the foot of a soldier of the State of Chen who had attacked him behind him. The soldier of the State of Chen screamed and fell to the ground!
Gu Jiao's arrows are bold enough, which even many excellent archers can't match.
When they faced a grand marshal like Tang Yueshan, they would worry about their insufficient archery skills and accidentally injure him.
Gu Jiao is not like this.
Tang Yueshan was impressed by her decisiveness.
How many sons in the world can do like her
A wave of heat suddenly rolled across Tang Yueshan's chest. He couldn't tell what it felt like. He just killed more bravely and fearlessly.
There seems to be someone in the world who understands him.
And he knew the man.
At this moment he forgot that she was his enemy.
The 5,000 cavalry were finally defeated by the brave fighting of Tang Yueshan and others. They fled with the wounded and went to join the 15,000-strong army of Chen Guo more than ten miles away.
Tang Yueshan sat paralyzed on the ground, gasping for breath.
"How many people did we kill?" he asked breathlessly.
"One hundred and sixty-seven people."
A voice sounded from the top of Tang Yueshan's head.
Tang Yueshan looked up and found that it was Gu Jiao and a soldier from Yecheng who came down from the mountain along the rope, and it was the soldier who spoke.
"I have seen Marshal Tang." Hu Dong forced a salute.
He carried Gu Jiao's small backpack on his back. Tang Yueshan understood that this small backpack was very important to Gu Jiao. He could carry it on his back, indicating that he was chosen by Gu Jiao.
It is indeed somewhat observant.
Tang Yueshan nodded secretly.
Gu Jiao was not wearing a mask, her face was completely exposed to the sun, and everyone looked at her in surprise.
The soldiers who licked blood were not much interested in the birthmark on her face, but her age aroused everyone's curiosity.
Looks smaller than them.
Everyone looked behind Gu Jiao, and also looked at the top of the mountain where Gu Jiao came down.
They... Really thought that the reinforcements from the imperial court had arrived
It turns out that the big movement just now was all made by this young boy in Tsing Yi
His red tassel is so ugly!
"Is anyone injured?" Gu Jiao asked Tang Yueshan.
Tang Yueshan and Gu Jiao counted the injuries in the team together. There were hundreds of minor injuries and 50 serious injuries. Among them, 23 people needed on-site treatment and 3 critically injured soldiers.
Gu Jiao said to Tang Yueshan, "Those who are not injured and those who are slightly injured will go back first, leaving 50 people behind, and carrying back the seriously wounded and critical soldiers later."
Tang Yueshan nodded. Among the fifty people, he himself had a place.
"General! We're not going!" said one of the archers.
Tang Yueshan said sternly: "This is a military order!"
The archer gritted his teeth: "...Yes!"
Two lieutenant generals under Tang Yueshan died. He ordered a lieutenant general Li from the archers and a lieutenant general Cen from the infantry, and the two led the army first.
Of course, they did not forget to clean up the battlefield and take away the dry food, weapons and horses left by the soldiers of the Chen State.
"The armor is also peeled off. It can be melted and made new." Gu Jiao said.
Tang Yueshan took a deep look at Gu Jiao and hesitated.
Xiao Hu climbed up the mountain along the rope, always paying attention to the movements of the army of Chen Guo.
"I need a stretcher." Gu Jiao said to Tang Yueshan.
"How much?" Tang Yueshan asked.
"Ten." Gu Jiao said, "In addition, we also need cloth strips to take off the belts of the soldiers of the Chen State."
Tang Yueshan and his subordinates searched for planks and sticks for Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao began to rescue three critically ill patients,
A wounded soldier's heart had stopped beating. Gu Jiao took out adrenaline and injected him with two injections, and his heartbeat resumed.
Tang Yueshan was stunned for a while looking at those strange injections.
Not all soldiers who died on the battlefield were killed on the spot, and many were seriously injured and died of ineffective treatment.
Chen State's medical skills were better than Zhao State's, so their casualties were much lower than that of Zhao State's army.
If they also have superb medical skills, the death rate of wounded soldiers will be greatly reduced.
That girl just came back to life, right
Chen Guo's doctor can't do this, right
Tang Yueshan's heart began to get excited again.
The bridal chamber has never been so excited before.
Hu Dongqiang shouted down on the mountain: "Sir! You have to hurry up! Chen Guo's army is coming! After one more mountain, it will come to us!"
Gu Jiao asked, "How long does it take to go to the top of the mountain?"
Hu Dongqiang replied: "The cavalry is fast, half an hour, and the infantry takes an hour."
Gu Jiao nodded, cutting the opponent's thigh without any pause: "Come at the speed of the infantry." The cavalry had been frightened for a while, and temporarily had no morale to take the lead.
"The third pliers on the right." Gu Jiao said, she had no time for her hands.
Tang Yueshan was stunned for a moment before realizing that she was talking to him. He skillfully found the third... pliers, he looked like scissors.
"Clamp here." Gu Jiao gestured to Tang Yueshan with her eyes.
"Are you going to cut his tendons?" Tang Yueshan frowned.
"This is a hemostatic forceps." Gu Jiao said, "Hurry up."
Tang Yueshan "cut" it suspiciously, and found that the meridians were not broken, and the blood at the break was really stopped.
Tang Yueshan was neither dizzy nor afraid of these wounds. After watching the whole process, he felt that it was not easy for this girl.
Gu Jiao stopped the bleeding for the last critically ill patient, took off her gloves, and said, "Okay, get on the stretcher, these three go first."
Tang Yueshan ordered ten soldiers to take turns carrying three stretchers.
Of the remaining 23 seriously injured patients, only seven needed a stretcher, while the rest could ride horses.
Gu Jiao raced against the clock to deal with the wounded soldiers. There was not enough time, so she could only do simple treatment. For this reason, time passed by minute by minute.
Hu Dongqiang said, "Sir! They're going down the mountain! It's less than six miles away from here, we have to hurry up!"
"These two soldiers can be put on stretchers."
"This soldier, get on a stretcher."
"Get on the stretcher!"
…
The wounded soldiers left one after another, and Chen Guo's army was approaching step by step.
And the last two wounded.
When Gu Jiao was about to take care of the injuries for one of them, the man suddenly grabbed Gu Jiao's hand. He heard Hu Dongqiang calling her lord, so he called as well: "Sir, you and Marshal Tang go first!"
"Shut up." Gu Jiao took his hand away.
Tang Yueshan didn't urge Gu Jiao, he just silently clenched the bow and arrow in his hand, the quiver filled with arrows on his back again.
"The archers are ready." Tang Yueshan said solemnly.
The archer took his place, drew his long bow, and used his body as a shield to protect Gu Jiao and the wounded soldiers behind him.
"Xiao Hu, come down!" Gu Jiao finished dealing with the last wounded soldier.
Hu Dongqiang hurriedly slid down the rope.
Everyone got on their horses and ran out of the canyon when the army of Chen Guo was about to catch up!
I just finished writing about Lao Tang's tetanus, and it's my turn so soon... After dodging in the treatment room for a while, I was ruthlessly held down by the nurse.
Alas, Lao Tang's pain, I feel the same!
(End of this chapter)