Vol 5 Chapter 273: Take a sharp turn

Under the cover of the black fog, the Nanzhao barbarians stubbornly carried the loss of firearms and approached within 500 meters of the Central Plains army's phalanx. The fire blunderbusters in the Central Plains army were still in chaos, and the shooting of the guns gradually began to sound. Sparse.
Jing Xiaolou, who was watching the battle from a distance, quickly communicated the order again, and the artillery immediately changed the ammunition, replacing the long-range solid shells with shotguns for progressively firing killers.
Li Xiaoyao also jumped on the flying sword, led the Shushan disciples to fly over the battlefield, and commanded the disciples who were good at spells to cast the wind curse together, spurring the violent wind to blow away, and it was about to envelop the black mist of the Central Plains army.
The black fog had just dissipated, and the artillery who had gained the view of shooting lowered the muzzle slightly and lit the fuse of the artillery. The fine lead bullets were scattered like hail. The direction the muzzle was facing, the crowded barbarians fell in pieces and shot Just sweep out a large fan-shaped area.
The black mist that enveloped the barbarians gradually dissipated, and the firecrackers finally saw the target. The chaotic gunfire became gradually orderly under the restraint of the officers of the battalions, and finally returned to the state of volley of guns.
The barbarians had rushed to a hundred meters away, but in this short instant, the loss of manpower was more than before combined, and the two armies had not touched, and the battlefield had been corpses everywhere.
The Nanzhao barbarians survived this round of shotgun shelling, and their morale rose instead of falling. The barbarians of the army shouted: "The people in the Central Plains are cowards. They only dare to attack from a distance. When we rush to the front, they will Scared! Victory is in sight, everyone rush to avenge the warriors and people who died in vain!"
The barbarian warrior echoed loudly, screaming and speeding up the charge, really thinking that as long as he fights with the Central Plains army, he can easily win.
The pikemen in the Central Plains array slowly put down their high spears, and the sharp tips of their spears faced the barbarians who had rushed to snoring. The sword and shield soldiers also came to the forefront of the array, raising their shields and ready to attack. Preparation for the enemy's impact.
The blazers retreated one after another, retreated into the "return" army formation, and loaded ammunition under the protection of the pikemen and the shield soldiers.
The Spanish phalanx in close hand-to-hand combat seemed to have become a fire-breathing hedgehog. The rushing barbarians hit the dense spears and were strung into a gourd. The shield wall composed of swords and shield soldiers blocked the barbarians’ slashing. The blade of the firecracker, who had completed the reloading, 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 couldn't do anything to get the hedgehog array for a while. They surrounded the hedgehog array and brandished weapons and dialed their spears. The martial arts they worked hard were not useful.
A few savage generals wield sword energy outside, and can kill the target several meters in the air with a single sweep. However, there are also martial arts masters in the Central Plains army. They also use sword energy to help the army stabilize its position and protect the soldiers from being taken. The masters of the enemy army were slaughtered by martial arts.
The Nanzhao barbarians who came up gathered more and more, but they were blocked by the phalanx. The soldiers who came later couldn't squeeze in front at all. They could only push their colleagues in front of them impatiently. On the contrary, it killed the friendly army, shoving the barbarian facing the gun forest in front of him, and lost the space to move, and he couldn't help but put his life on the gun blade.
Neither the Central Plains Army nor the Nanzhao Army had many cavalry. The pace of battle suddenly slowed down, and the entire battlefield was clearly divided. The North was the phalanx of the Central Plains, and the South was a chaotic mass of brutal soldiers.
The most intense area of ​​the battle between the two sides is a line across the battlefield. The corpses are constantly stacked on the line. At present, the deaths and injuries of the Nanzhao barbarians are even more serious. At least seven of the ten corpses on the ground are wearing gray-blue coarse cloth. Black Miao tribe soldiers in uniform.
The firecrackers couldn't find a shooting opportunity, so they took out compressed gunpowder grenades from their pockets, lit the fuse and threw them to the Nanzhao Army. The thrown grenades exploded in the crowd, killing several lives each time.
The Nanzhao barbarian army mainly suffered from backward tactics. Its military thinking lags far behind its opponents, its arms are relatively single, and its equipment is not very sophisticated. If it weren’t for the extraordinary personnel in the army, it would basically be equivalent to fighting this battle. Lost.
The armor of the Nanzhao barbarians was very low. Not to mention the plate armor, they were not equipped with chain armor or cloth armor. The soldiers wore a thin layer of coarse cloth and Miao clothes and went to the battlefield.
The Miao people are not good at riding and shooting. The mountains in the south are difficult to tame horses, and they cannot make strong bows. Usually, the bamboo bows used by black seedling hunters for hunting use poison to kill the beasts. The strength is too weak to shoot through the Central Plains saber and shield soldiers. Shield.
The scimitars and horizontal knives that Nanzhao barbarians are good at using are relatively short, and when confronted with a three-meter long spear, they were stabbed to death without touching the spearman.
The Central Plains Army had swords and shield soldiers in front of them, long spears lined up in the middle, muskets and artillery shots at long distances, and the gunmen behind the wall could also throw bombs. The range of damage and attack methods were far beyond what you knew. Brute force.
Speaking of fighting alone, it is easy for a Hmong warrior to cut down five or six pikemen soldiers, but the significance of the pikemen warfare is to greatly smooth the gap between the martial arts of the soldiers, even if the martial arts is low, as long as there is a hand of strength If you are willing to obey the order, you will be able to put up the spear forest, making it difficult for enemies with martial arts far higher than them to approach, and cover your colleagues to kill the enemy with muskets and grenades.
Luo Feng’s formation of the Divine Machine Army has only a short time, and the recruited soldiers are only ordinary young men, and their personal strength is not worth mentioning. Only this kind of warfare is able to compete with many hunters and strong folk customs. The Hei Miao barbarians are facing the enemy, otherwise once the two armies get into a melee, they will only be slaughtered unilaterally.
The battle between the two armies was anxious. In the Xuanzheng Hall of the Chang'an City Palace thousands of miles away, Luo Feng and the Manchu civil and military were watching the live video broadcast from the front line.
In the Central Plains Army, there was a Shushan disciple who was specifically responsible for camera shooting. He patrolled the battlefield with flying swords and used video snails to take pictures and send them back to the rear in real time.
Whispers were endless in the hall, and the officials lowered their voices to discuss the battle.
"Nanzhaoman is really a bunch of lunatics! Fortunately, Luo Guoshi's art of war is surprising, and he even figured out such ingenious tactics. In my opinion, it is only a matter of time before our army wins such a fight."
"Yes, so far, almost all the dead soldiers have died, and our army suffered very little."
"Our military strength is superior to that of the Nanzhao Army, and the battle damage is also lower than that of the Nanzhao Army. It seems that these barbarians are really arrogant and arrogant, and the people are not enough. and also!"
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The atmosphere in the hall was quite tense before the battle. When the spear army blocked the barbarians' charge, everyone was greatly relieved and the atmosphere relaxed. Most people were optimistic about the battle.
However, Luo Feng frowned, his attention long since he was not on the battlefield video. He already saw the limitations of the phalanx of the magic machine army, and began to reflect on the experience and lessons of the establishment of the magic machine army, and he had no choice but to admit that he tried It is a wrong decision to apply the real-world war experience to build a magical army to deal with the war on the Xianxia side.
In this battle, if there is no accident, the winner will be determined soon, and the winning party will never be the sacred army!
As if to verify his judgment, he saw the black fog surging again in the Nanzhao army in the video, and the moon worship Gu masters once again showed their power, but saw countless poisonous insects breaking through the ground from the feet of the pikemen, wasps, centipedes, poisonous scorpions, and human skin flies. And many unknown mosquitoes and flies circling and flying, pounced on the exposed skin of the pikemen, biting frantically.