Chapter 1167 A Sudden Turn of Events

Under the cover of the black mist, the Nanzhao barbarians carried the losses of their firearms and approached within 500 meters in front of the Central Plains Army's formation. The firecrackers in the Central Plains Army were still in chaos, and the sound of gunfire gradually became louder. Sparse.

Jing Xiaolou, who was watching the battle from a distance, quickly conveyed the order again, and the artillery immediately changed the ammunition, replacing the solid artillery shells used for long-range shooting with shotgun shells for progressive shooting to kill personnel.

Li Xiaoyao also jumped on the flying sword, led the Shushan disciples to fly over the battlefield, and directed the disciples who were good at magic to cast wind spells together, urging the strong wind to disperse the black fog that was coming and was about to cover the Central Plains military formation.

The black fog had just dissipated, and the artilleryman who had obtained the shooting sight lowered the muzzle slightly, ignited the artillery fuse, and the fine lead bullets splashed away like hail. In the direction where the muzzle was facing, the crowded barbarian soldiers fell in pieces, and one shot Please sweep out a large fan-shaped area.

The black fog that shrouded the barbarians gradually dissipated, and the gunmen finally saw the target clearly. The chaotic gunfire gradually became orderly under the restraint of the officers of each battalion, and finally returned to the state of firing volleys.

The barbarian soldiers had rushed a hundred meters away, but in this short moment, more men were lost than before combined. Before the two armies came into contact, the battlefield was already littered with corpses.

The Nanzhao barbarian army withstood this round of shotgun shelling, and their morale rose instead of falling. The barbarian generals in the army shouted loudly: "The people in the Central Plains are all cowards. They only dare to sneak attack from a distance. When we rush close, they will I’m scared to death! Victory is in sight, everyone rush to avenge the warriors and clansmen who died in vain!”

The barbarian warriors responded loudly, yelling wildly and speeding up the charge. They really thought that they could easily win as long as they fought the Central Plains army in hand-to-hand combat.

The pikemen in the Central Plains Square Formation slowly lowered their raised spears, and the spear points faced the barbarians who were rushing towards them while shouting and fighting. The sword and shield soldiers also came to the front of the array and raised their shields to prepare for the attack. Preparation for enemy attack.

The gunmen retreated one after another, retreating into the "Hui" military formation, and reloading ammunition under the protection of spearmen and sword and shield soldiers.

The Spanish phalanx in close combat seemed to have turned into a fire-breathing hedgehog. The barbarian soldiers who rushed forward hit the dense spears and were strung into gourds. The shield wall composed of sword and shield soldiers blocked the barbarian soldiers' slashing. The gunman, who had finished loading the blade, took the time to poke out the muzzle from the gap between the shields and shoot at close range.

Although the barbarians were brave, they could not do anything against the hedgehog formation for a while. They surrounded the hedgehog formation and waved their weapons and spears indiscriminately. The martial arts they had honed so hard were of no use.

Some barbarian generals swung out their sword energy and killed the target several meters in the air with one sweep of the sword. However, there were also martial arts masters in the Central Plains military formation, who also used sword energy to retaliate, helping the army stabilize its position and protect the soldiers from being attacked. The masters of the enemy army were slaughtered with superior martial arts.

The Nanzhao barbarians who came up gathered more and more, but they were blocked by the phalanx. The soldiers who came from behind couldn't push forward at all. They could only impatiently push their colleagues in front of them. As a result, they pushed each other. Instead, he harmed the friendly troops. He pushed the barbarian soldiers facing the forest of guns in front so that they had no room to move. They could not help but die on the blade of the gun.

Neither the Central Plains Army nor the Nanzhao Army had much cavalry. The pace of the battle suddenly slowed down, and the entire battlefield was clearly divided. In the north were the phalanx soldiers of the Central Plains Army, and in the south were the barbarians crowded together in chaos.

The most intense battle between the two sides was a line across the battlefield. Corpses were constantly stacked on the line. At present, the casualties of the Nanzhao barbarians were even more severe. At least seven of the ten corpses on the ground were wearing gray and blue coarse cloth. Black Miao tribesmen in Miao uniform.

The gunmen couldn't find a chance to shoot, so they took out compressed powder grenades from their pockets, lit the fuse and threw them at the Nanzhao army. The grenades they threw exploded in the crowd, killing several people each time.

The Nanzhao barbarian army suffered mainly from their backward tactics, their military thinking was far behind their opponents, their arms were relatively single, and their equipment was not very well-equipped. If it weren't for the presence of extraordinary men in the army, the battle would have been like this. Defeated.

Nanzhao's barbarian soldiers had very low armor. They were not equipped with chain armor or cloth armor, let alone plate armor. The soldiers went to the battlefield wearing a thin layer of coarse cloth Miao uniform.

The Miao people are not good at riding and shooting. The mountains in the south make it difficult to tame horses, and they cannot make strong bows. Usually, the bamboo bows used by black Miao hunters for hunting are usually quenched to poison the beasts, but their strength is too weak to shoot through the swords and shields of the Central Plains soldiers. shield.

The scimitars and horizontal knives that the Nanzhao barbarians are good at using are shorter. When faced with a three-meter-long spear, the spearman will be stabbed to death without even touching it.

The Central Plains Army has sword and shield soldiers blocking the front in the near range, long spears in the middle range, and muskets and artillery shooting in the long range. The gunmen behind the human wall can also throw bombs. The killing range and attack methods are far beyond those who only know how to swarm them. Barbarian soldiers.

When it comes to fighting alone, a Miao warrior can easily cut down five or six spear formation soldiers. However, the significance of the spear formation method is that it greatly smoothes the gap in martial arts among the soldiers. Even if the martial arts is low, as long as there is a handful of strength If they are willing to obey orders, they can set up a forest of guns to force enemies who are far superior in martial arts to find it difficult to approach. They can cover their colleagues and kill the enemies with muskets and grenades.

The Shenji Army formed by Luo Feng has only been established for a short period of time, and the soldiers recruited are just ordinary young men. Their personal strength is not worth mentioning. Only this kind of turtle-like hedgehog-style fighting method can compete with those who are mostly hunters and whose folk customs are sturdy. The black Miao barbarians must fight against the enemy. Otherwise, once the two armies get together and engage in a melee, they will only be massacred unilaterally.

The war between the two armies was intense. Thousands of miles away in the Chang'an City Palace, Luo Feng was watching the live video feed from the front line with the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.

There are Shushan disciples in the Central Plains Army who are responsible for photography. They patrol the battlefield with flying swords, take pictures with video snails, and transmit them back to the rear in real time.

There were constant whispers in the hall, and the officials discussed the battle situation in low voices.

"The Nanzhao barbarians are really a bunch of lunatics! Fortunately, Luo Guoshi's military skills are amazing, and he actually figured out such a clever tactic. In my opinion, if we continue to fight like this, it is only a matter of time before our army will win a complete victory."

"Yes, so far, almost all the dead are barbarians, and our army's losses are very small."

"The strength of our army is superior to that of Nanzhao's army, and the battle damage is also lower than that of Nanzhao's army. It seems that these barbarians are really arrogant, and their hearts are not enough. They are like a mantis in a small country. It is really a way to die. also!"

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The atmosphere in the hall was quite tense before the battle. When the spear formation blocked the charge of the barbarians, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and the atmosphere relaxed. Most people felt optimistic about the outcome of the battle.

Luo Feng frowned, and his attention was no longer on the battlefield video. He had already seen the limitations of the Shenji Army's formation tactics, and began to reflect on his experience and lessons in establishing the Shenji Army. He had to admit helplessly that trying to It is a wrong decision to apply the experience of the war on the real side to establish the Shenji Army to deal with the war on the Xianxia side.

If nothing else goes wrong, the winner of this battle will be decided soon, and the victor will definitely not be the Shenji Army!

As if to verify his judgment, in the video, he saw black mist billowing in the Nanzhao army formation again, and the Gu Masters of the Moon Worshiping Sect were showing off their power again, and countless poisonous insects were seen emerging from the ground under the feet of the spearmen, including wasps, centipedes, poisonous scorpions, and human skin flies. Many unknown mosquitoes and flies flew around, pounced on the pikeman's exposed skin, and started biting crazily.