C593 A crushing defeat! (1/2)
white phosphorous bullet, this is a very vicious weapon. You can classify it as a firearm, or as a chemical weapon, or even as a large smoke signal.
In Xiao Letian's previous life, other than the United States, the only other country that used white phosphorous bullet for actual combat was Israel. Xiao Letian had seen the miserable state of white phosphorous bullet's body after it had been attacked.
To deal with this kind of flame, unless one was in an environment where the entire human body was isolated from the air, relying on ordinary watering techniques and sand covering techniques would be a waste of effort.
The firestorm formed by five hundred fat men intimidated everyone present. Even those new recruits with unusually strong hearts showed an expression of being unable to bear it.
Looking back at those young and strong men kneeling on the ground, crying and shivering, this group of people had probably been traumatized for the rest of their lives.
”Sky fire!” This is the Heaven Flame. This is the Heaven Flame that isn't afraid of water … The prime minister is not a mortal, the prime minister is a god that came down to the mortal world! ”
”Prime minister, have mercy, we didn't mean to pry into the secrets of the heavens, please don't take us away, we have parents and wives and children, please spare our lives …”
The group of refugees gathered in a circle and kowtowed to Xiao Letian. These commoner who had received the conventional wisdom and education all thought that they had discovered the secrets of heaven, and all of them were afraid that Xiao Letian would silence them.
At this time, Xiao Letian did not have the time to care about these people's nonsense. His entire focus was now on the battlefield, the blazing hell.
The blazing war horses scattered and fled in all directions, messing up one formation after another of the Huai Army. The miserable wails of the eight-winged cavalry rolled in the water in an attempt to extinguish the fire, but no one expected that the white phosphorous floating on the water could still burn, causing the flames to grow bigger the more they rolled.
The sniper and the Gatling machine gun were stubbornly guarding the battlefield. All the war horses and soldiers who were charging towards the primary matrix were killed on the spot.
”How expensive!” An Dehai, who was standing behind them, looked at the miserable scene in front of him and shouted loudly before turning around and running away. As he ran, he continued to vomit all the food that he had snatched away.
The other stewards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not much better off. They took a whiff of the smell of human flesh in the air, and each one of them vomited with a bitter face and bile from their horses.
Li Hongzhang was completely dazed now, he let the Eight Flag soldiers beside him run for their lives without knowing how to stop them, and muttered to himself, ”This is Zhuge Liang's Fire Vine Armoured Soldiers! Xiao Letian, you want to die... You will be punished! ”
”Retribution... Xiao Letian, you have used such a deadly poison, you are going to get your retribution... ”
Li Hongzhang was shouting and shouting on the battlefield, but his nephew guards didn't care about it anymore. They spurred their horses to rush over and hold onto the reins of their horses as they fled towards the south.
”Everyone, retreat... The men of the Huai Army retreated to the south. Damn it, Xiao Letian is not a human, we can't handle him, let him die … ”
If he had known earlier that Xiao Letian could control the Heaven Flames, he would have been a fool to fight this battle. He would have pity on his brothers who died for nothing.
Li Hongzhang had already gone mad. He used the horse whip to whip left and right, ”Let me go, the imperial government is not bad to me … I can't just sit by and watch the demons become like the capital. I can't change the mountains and rivers of the Great Qing … How can I face those brothers who died miserably! ”Sob, sob, sob …”
The guards by their side were all juniors of the Old Li Family, holding onto their whips and saying, ”We have grown hair, killing the Twisted Army is already enough to be worthy of the imperial court. Now, this trouble is f * cking Ci Xi's fault, why would we bring it up that they died? The food rations for our Huai Opera was all raised by Jiangnan, it has nothing to do with the imperial government! ”
”Withdraw, let's withdraw …” A group of guards escorted Li Hongzhang as he headed south at a high speed.
When An Dehai who was behind them could no longer see a shadow, Li Hongzhang suddenly changed his expression and said, ”Enough, don't surround them anymore. Immediately send troops to the capital and mobilize our network to spread the news of the defeat of the imperial government.”
”Damn it, now we can only say that Xiao Letian's Heavenly Flames are godly, and only by defeating Eight Flags even more miserably than we do, will we be able to cover our losses … This is truly a hard to come by monster, why is this Xiao Letian so monstrous! ”
Humans were always afraid of the unknown. When an unprecedented weapon appeared in front of them, when an inexplicable phenomenon occurred, the timid humans would immediately be connected to the various superstitious legends.
Especially this group of playboys with eight flags. They were naturally uninterested in natural sciences. When these kinds of flames that weren't afraid of water started to burn, they immediately treated it as a heavenly fire.
”Run, run, all of you …” Fuck, the imperial government is really cheating. They already know that Xiao Letian is a demon but they still let us go, where are the monks and Taoists raised by the imperial government? ”How can we not let the monks of Jingxi...”
”Brothers, the food we get is for us to fight with others, that Xiao Letian is a demon from hell, he is not our concern, run for your life … …”
The three thousand cavalrymen were already burnt to ashes, the remaining ten thousand steps were already enough to scare them senseless. When they turned around to see that An Dehai and the supervisors had escaped, even Li Hongzhang and General Li had escaped.