Chapter 93: Volley
The Rocket igniter took out the scythe and lit the fuse taken off from his shoulder strap to act as a fire-driving device.
"Turn the fuse!"
The Rocket Shooter adjusted the screw rotation handle and adjusted the length of the rocket's internal fuse.
"aim!"
Fifty rockets aimed at more than 100 pond horses two hundred meters away.
The pond horses on the mountain were still discussing whether to set up a chain of formations to attack the Ming army at the foot of the mountain. After all, the discipline of this Ming army is a bit strange. If it cannot be destroyed once it rushes, the pond horses will fall into the quagmire of fighting with infantry. For elite cavalry, fighting with infantry is very unprofitable.
The pond horses are still arguing.
The Ming army at the foot of the mountain cannot escape. There are still sixty miles away from Jiayu. This official army can escape slowly.
But the rocket soldiers at the foot of the mountain are no longer ready to give the Tangmas time.
Qin Zheng suddenly shouted: "Light up!"
"Swoosh swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish!"
Fifty rockets were like fifty lightning bolts, spewing out huge tail flames and smashing hard at the Tangma team two hundred meters away.
Everyone was attracted by the huge sound of breaking through the air and opened their mouths to look at the rocket in the air.
It was Qin Zhao who personally trained rocket soldiers several times, and it was the first time he saw fifty soldiers firing live ammunitions. The spectacular scene of these fifty rocket launchers was really amazing, like a starving tiger pounced on the target.
The rocket instantly fell into the crowd where the pond horses gathered.
Some pond horses were pierced by rockets in an instant. Qin Zhao saw a rocket stabbed into the waist and back of a pond horse leading a horse. The sharp rocket head penetrated the pond horse's belly and penetrated it out of its belly, nailing him to the hillside.
He let out a heart-wrenching scream, and subconsciously touched his stomach with both hands, but only touched the cold rocket.
Some of the pond horses were stabbed by rockets and plunged into the meat.
The horses screamed and neighed.
However, the screams of the thief and the neighing of the horses lasted only two seconds, and were completely covered by the deafening explosion.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!"
I saw sparks suddenly explode on the mountain, as dazzling as a blooming flower. Fifty rockets formed fifty explosion points, turning the area ten feet in front and back into a death penalty area. All the steel sheets in the Rocket Operations Department were sprayed out, splashing everywhere, and they would die if they touched.
A huge black smoke emerged, gathering in the sky into one, forming a large area of black smoke, and ascending upwards as a whole.
One hundred pond horses did not even have the ability to scream. The screams were completely covered by the explosion. Anyway, Qin Zhao didn't hear a scream, and he saw that the pond horse was cut into a corpse by flying steel sheets.
Except for a dozen pond horses that were blown away by shock waves, the other pond horses were cut to death by broken steel pieces.
Many corpses were not complete, but were cut off by broken steel pieces, their hands, their feet, and even half of their heads were even cut off.
Blood and brain matter, like water that costs money, shot out of the corpse, sprayed on the darkly bombed land.
In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred horses who broke into the pond disappeared, leaving only the wounded and corpses on the ground.
Only seven or eight pond horses standing on the edge were not bombed. Seeing this rocket like a heavenly soldier descending to earth, where would these still alive pond horses dare to stay? They slapped the horses and fled to the north, urinating.
Qin Zhao smiled and said, "The Rockets team did a pretty job and each person would be rewarded with five cents of silver!"
The Rockets' Rockets team immediately became a group of joy.
This was the first time they had really fought against the enemy, but they had achieved such good results. This result was really joyful. They hugged each other happily, either waving their fists in the air, or laughing at the corpses on the hills.
The other soldiers looked at the Rockets team enviously, looking eager to try and operate the Rockets.
The morale of the entire army suddenly became new. The tension of the new recruits on the battlefield for the first time was dispelled by the joy of victory.
Zhao Liangce rushed out with fifty cavalrymen, and then after a while he ran back, laughing and said, "Master Qianhu, there are seven horses that are not injured by gunpowder. Even if there are injuries, they are minor injuries and are still useful."
Nowadays, war horses are getting more expensive, and one war horse is sold for 100 taels and there is no market price. Seizing seven war horses is also a good harvest.
Qin Ning ran out almost at the same time and took more than 200 infantrymen of the First Battalion to touch the corpse. These soldiers were in groups of five, each group was responsible for a corpse. They carefully searched for the things on the corpse, supervised each other and did not allow hiding their own personalities. Finally, they obtained a series of gratifying seizure lists.
"Master Qianhu, one thousand six hundred and thirty taels of silver were found on the body."
"There are twenty-one sets of chain mail that are useful, seventy-one sets of damaged chain mail, and fifteen sets of damaged scales. One hundred and twenty-six sabers, one hundred and seventeen sets of bent bows, and one hundred and three sets of arrows.
Qin Ning said happily: "Brother Zhao, these armors are worth a lot of silver."
Qin Zhao smiled, looked at the dead horses on the hill, and said, "Eat horse meat today."
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On March 12, Qin Zhao's troops arrived at Jiayu.
There were countless Ming troops gathered near Jiayu. Yuan Jixian did not gather all the troops into a unified camp, but allowed all the Ming troops to set up camps separately. Qin Zhao walked along the official road and saw only countless Ming troops, big and small, and he didn't know which army sent aid team from which army town.
Most of these Ming troops were strong troops from various towns, and many soldiers were equipped with mandarin duck war jackets. Some veterans even wore chain mail, which was of different temperament from the soldiers wearing ordinary cloth jackets on Qin Zhao.
Qin Zhao's soldiers didn't know where to camp, so they searched for Jiayu County. Halfway through, the three messengers in front came over and asked Qin Zhao to choose a place to build a village. After they settled, they went to the standard army camp north of the county to find the governor.
Qin Zhao then built a village in an abandoned village next to the official road. There was no village wall outside the village, and the villagers had already fled. Qin Zhao went in and took a look and found that the villagers had some pots and pans left in the room, which was obviously recently fled. This small Jiayu county town now brings together various Ming troops, and ordinary people really have no way to survive.
The so-called bandits are like combs, and the soldiers are like combs.
The bandits came to plunder, combed the property of the house like a comb. The officers and soldiers came to plunder, and they plundered carefully, and they were more time-consuming and plundered, just like a finer comb.
The advantage of this small village is that it has a well that can get drinking water at any time.
After Qin Zhao set up his village, he took Qin Ning and Zhao Liangce to the Biao Army camp. The so-called Biao Army is the personal soldiers hired by the Governor or the Governor, and is personally commanded by the Governor and the Governor, and is not commanded by the generals or generals, such as the generals and generals.
The governors and governors were usually civil officials, and the standard troops generally had little combat power. However, there were exceptions in everything. The flag troops under the command of the governor Lu Xiangsheng of the Chongzhen Dynasty were extremely powerful and were called King Lu Yan by the bandits.
Chapter completed!