Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 132 Rout
Ping Pong Pong!

Next, there was a sound of metal clashing.

However, in the face of the guarding soldiers in plate armor, Sun Quan's soldiers who finally rushed to the city wall with a lot of casualties were immediately beaten.

Although there are musketeers, archers and other unprotected units behind the plate armor infantry, they cannot approach at all under the attack of the plate armor infantry.

Moreover, the archers behind are also constantly attacking, protected by plate armor, they don't have to worry about hurting the friendly troops in front at all.

Facing the plate armored infantry who could not be hurt by swords and guns all over their bodies, Sun Quan's soldiers who attacked the city wall were soon defeated.

This kind of defeat is an avalanche style. At the beginning, there were only one or two defeats, and then the entire line was defeated.

In the face of an almost invincible enemy, no one has the courage to fight to the end.

Moreover, Sun Quan's soldiers are not elite soldiers who regard death as home. When they find that there is no way to win, they will naturally run away.

At the same time, on the moat, more than a dozen gunboats were also attacking the approaching enemy. Facing the dense army at close range, all the gunboats used shotgun fire.

Often, a single shot of cannonball can cause a large number of Sun Quan soldiers to be killed or injured.

Seeing the power of the gun boat, many Sun Quan soldiers chose to avoid the attack range of the gun boat.

The final result is that whenever the gun boats go, the Sun Quan soldiers there will disperse and avoid them.

As Sun Quan's soldiers on the wall began to collapse, it soon affected the soldiers attacking the city below the wall.

The soldiers started to run back, which soon affected the soldiers on the other side of the moat.

Finally, the rout began, sweeping through the entire siege army.

Facing the defeated Sun Quan army, the guarding soldiers on the city wall would naturally beat the dogs in the water. Bows, crossbows, feathers and arrows greeted the fleeing Sun Quan soldiers free of charge.

The [-] musketeers on the city wall also played the fastest loading speed, and kept shooting at the back of the fleeing Sun Quan soldiers.

Facing the attack on the city wall, Sun Quan's soldiers collapsed even faster.

Not far away, when Sun Quan saw the collapsed army, his face was immediately ashamed.

In fact, the failure of Sun Quan's army was already doomed after the Youzhou fleet came to Hefei.

Youzhou's artillery can not only destroy Sun Quan's siege equipment, but also inflict a lot of damage on the siege soldiers.

The [-] Musketeers in Youzhou began to massacre the enemy's troops even before Sun Quan's soldiers rushed under the city wall.

As a result, Sun Quan's army had suffered heavy casualties and losses before rushing to the city wall.

Then, when the soldiers who managed to attack the city wall realized that what they were facing was an unkillable monster, they were naturally defeated under multiple blows.

In ancient times, it might be fine to hide knives and guns, but it must be a felony if you hide armor.

In ancient wars, whoever has more armor and whose armor is of better quality can gain more advantages in the war.

Now, just thousands of plates have completely shattered the morale and confidence of Sun Quan's soldiers.

"General, good opportunity, the enemy is defeated, let's go out of the city."

On the city wall, seeing Sun Quan's army being defeated, someone immediately asked Zhang Liao for his orders.

"Okay, this is a rare opportunity, so let's fight out of the city." Zhang Liao nodded in agreement.

If he hadn't witnessed the collapse of Sun Quan's 10,000+ army, Zhang Liao would not have dared to leave the city for fear of being tricked by the enemy.

But now it was different, the enemy's rout was not staged, and Sun Quan didn't have many reserve troops left, so if he didn't go out of the city to attack at this time, he would have no chance after Sun Quan gathered the rout soldiers.

Soon, the gates on all sides of Hefei City were opened, and then thousands of cavalry rushed out of the gates, and then chased and killed the defeated Sun Quan's army.

Seeing that the enemy had chased them out of the city, it was enough to run away. Sun Quan's soldiers were frightened immediately. They ran forward frantically, hoping to escape the enemy's attack.

Thousands of cavalry were just the first group of people to leave the city. Next, countless infantrymen left the city through several gates, and then lined up to attack Sun Quan's army.

Outside the south gate, thousands of armored infantry guarding five thousand Youzhou Musketeers also left the city.

Their speed was very fast, and they formed a neat formation when they left the city. After arriving outside the city, they formed a linear formation in just a few minutes.

After forming a formation, all the musketeers uniformly approached the defeated Sun Quan soldiers. After approaching a certain distance, they all pulled the triggers of the long-barreled flintlock rifles in their hands.

Bang bang bang bang!

Countless gunshots rang out, and in the distance, Sun Quan's soldiers who were frantically fleeing backwards were knocked to the ground one after another.

Facing the attack of the Musketeers, Sun Quan's soldiers became even more flustered.

Still the same sentence, when 10,000+ people are crowded together, the people behind can't escape if they want to escape.

Just like a group of people running, the people behind can only run after the front ones run a certain distance and leave a certain space. This process takes a certain amount of time.

Now, Sun Quan's army is facing such a situation, the people behind want to escape, but there are still countless people blocking the way in front.

Everyone wanted to escape, and a stampede inevitably happened.

In ancient wars, the heaviest casualties were often when one side collapsed and fled and the enemy chased after them.

But now, the five thousand Youzhou Musketeers were the ones with the highest lethality efficiency. Under the continuous firing of rows of flintlock guns, countless Sun Quan soldiers could only fall to the ground row by row.

Seeing that there was no hope of escaping, many people knelt down and surrendered directly, and then many people found out that kneeling and surrendering would be accidentally injured, so they lay down on the ground directly.

At this time, on the outskirts of the army, many generals under Sun Quan were trying to gather the rout, and achieved some results. At least 3 horses were gathered together.

However, the rout soldiers gathered were all skirmishers, at the point where they didn't know the generals and didn't know the soldiers, and they didn't have much combat effectiveness.

Moreover, these soldiers and horses are located in all directions of Hefei City, and they are not gathered together, and there is no way to go into battle at all.

"My lord, retreat?"

Just when Sun Quan's generals gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses and Youzhou musketeers who had chased out from Hefei City began to kill in the direction of Sun Quan's commander-in-chief camp.

Everyone knew that as long as Sun Quan could be captured or killed, the battle would be over, and it would be a brilliant victory, enough for many people to be promoted to nobility.

"Retreat!" Sun Quan gritted his teeth, staring at the enemy attacking in the distance, sighed and finally gave the order to retreat.

As Sun Quan gave the order to retreat, countless Sun Quan soldiers and horses immediately began to retreat quickly.

There were rebels blocking the front, and the Hefei defenders chasing out of the city could only watch Sun Quan retreat, and had no choice.

Moreover, when Sun Quan retreated, he also sent a cavalry of thousands of people to break the rear. As long as Zhang Liao's army pursued them, they would be blocked by this cavalry.

The first to encounter this broken rear cavalry was Zhang Liao's thousands of cavalry.

Although in the end Zhang Liao's cavalry defeated the broken cavalry, it bought time for Sun Quan's retreat.

The battle lasted from morning to afternoon.

After the whole battle, the defenders of Hefei City killed more than 500 people and captured nearly [-] enemies.

Calculated in this way, more than half of Sun Quan's 10,000+ army disappeared at once.

The other half of the people, except for the tens of thousands of soldiers who fled with Sun Quan, many of them have severed contact with Sun Quan's main force.

After the Hefei garrison gathered the captives, they detained the captives and sent some people to guard them.

The next day, Zhang Liao dispatched most of his soldiers and horses to chase after Sun Quan in the direction in which he fled.

As a famous general recorded in history, Zhang Liao will not give up the opportunity to beat the dog in the water.

At the same time, the Youzhou fleet also took action. They marched along the waterway, with the purpose of blocking the river and preventing Sun Quanquan from escaping by waterway.

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