met free Chapter 1356
Chapter 1356
The two groups of people charged head-on.
In an instant, this place was transformed into a fierce battlefield—and what followed was already predictable: the two sides clashed, fought, blood flowed like rivers, and corpses littered the ground...
However, to everyone's complete surprise,
Just as both sides were gathering their strength to charge at each other, before they even had a chance to clash, a deafening roar that pierced the wilderness suddenly rang out: "Bang—"
The voice was exceptionally sharp and penetrating.
Even amidst the sounds of horses' hooves and the clash of weapons, the noise was exceptionally clear, and echoes reverberated from afar—which undoubtedly startled both sides' soldiers.
Lan Yu and the other military officers, who had been watching the scene from the rear without making a move, frowned: "What was that sound just now? So sharp?"
"Hiss... what I'm hearing... sounds like a musket?"
"But it doesn't quite look like it?"
Although cold weapons are still the mainstream, firearms and muskets are still used in certain situations, so they are certainly familiar with the sound of firearms.
However, the current version of the flintlock musket has made great progress in terms of its structure, gunpowder formula and shape, so the sound when it is fired is naturally different.
Immediately, a military officer watching the battle retorted, "Exactly! Firearms, my foot! Aside from the sound not being quite right, the two sides are currently locked in combat, using firearms now would kill both the enemy and themselves. Have they gone mad? They're firing firearms! They..."
But he hadn't even finished saying his sentence.
He was interrupted by a gasp from beside him: "Wait! Look ahead! Cao Zhen fell off his horse!!? What... what happened to him?!"
The many Huaixi military commanders, who had been chatting with great interest because of the sudden gunshot, immediately stopped talking and turned to look ahead.
Just as expected!!
Marquis Jingchuan, Cao Zhen, who was leading his troops in the charge, had fallen off his horse and was lying stiffly on the ground. Only the warhorse that had been riding him continued to gallop forward. After running for a while, it realized that its master was no longer on its back, stopped, and paced around the Marquis Jingchuan who was now lying on the ground.
Meanwhile, the many soldiers and generals who were originally following behind Marquis Jingchuan, Cao Zhen, were also present.
As if suddenly struck by a great shock, their formation crumbled, and they all reined in their horses and stopped. As the saying goes, to catch the thief, you must first catch the king. With the commander of the army falling down without warning, the rest of the soldiers lost their leader and were at a loss.
Of course, Xu Huizu and the others did not expect such a thing to happen.
Out of caution, they temporarily reined in their horses and stopped.
Lan Yu narrowed her eyes and took a closer look.
His expression froze, and he said in a somber tone, "There's still a pool of blood on the ground, and a bloody hole between his eyebrows. Cao Zhen is dead..."
Lan Yu, a man who had made great achievements by charging through the desert, naturally had excellent eyesight. Even though there was some distance between them, he was able to roughly determine the situation ahead with just one glance.
Upon hearing Lan Yu's words...
The other Huaixi military commanders were immediately taken aback, their faces showing disbelief and disbelief. They stared wide-eyed and exclaimed, "Cao Zhen is dead?! How is that possible? Xu Huizu, who was leading the charge, was still some distance away from him!"
"Exactly! The two sides haven't even clashed yet! How could someone be dead?"
"..."
Clearly, everyone felt that the results observed by Lan Yu were completely illogical!
Lan Yu gritted her teeth, puffed out her cheeks, and after a moment of contemplation, said coldly, "Perhaps that sound just now... was indeed the sound of a musket..."
As a commander who had led troops many times, he was familiar with all kinds of cold weapons, such as swords, spears, halberds, and firearms. Before he even made contact, he fell off his horse with a bloody hole between his eyebrows. It was only possible that he was hit in the forehead by a firearm!
Although……
To use a musket with unparalleled precision to hit the leader of a general right between the eyebrows in the midst of chaos—this is something that seems utterly absurd no matter how you look at it.
But for now, it seems to be the only possibility.
So it is.
This was utterly unbelievable to everyone who heard it:
"A musket?! How is that possible?!"
"If a musketeer unit fired hundreds or thousands of shots at once, and one of them happened to hit Cao Zhen in the head, then it would be somewhat believable!"
"Exactly! You're saying that like it's a joke!"
"..."
The group argued with furrowed brows.
At this moment, Lan Yu shouted, "What the hell are you all arguing about? He's dead, with a bloody hole in his head. That's what Cao Zhen looks like now, that's a fact!"
"The most important thing now is to resolve the current trouble, teach those overconfident people a lesson, and then completely pin them down in the Qianqing Palace! There's a bunch of people in front of us who are leaderless and hesitant to move forward. Someone needs to go and stabilize the situation!"
It must be said that Lan Yu's skills and intellect on the battlefield are the strongest. Even when faced with something completely unreasonable and seemingly impossible, he is still able to remain calm.
Although an extremely outrageous thing had happened to Cao Zhen, no one among this group of people, whose understanding of firearms was already deeply ingrained, believed that what had happened to Cao Zhen could be replicated a second time.
Of course, someone immediately seemed to have snatched the opportunity, shouting, "I'll go!" and then spurred their horse forward, as if afraid someone would steal the job.