As for the previous idea of the team, the luckiest situation was nothing more than when the enemy who came to attack at night thought that the position of the team had been determined, so that the village of the sages and several nearby villages would be guarded.

In this way, as long as the number of troops is not tens of thousands, the forces besieging the decoy land will be directly exposed to the attack range of the concealed position.

However, it seems that all the luck of the last round of the river war seems to have run out of luck. This time, neither Wang Wenqing nor General Ma had any intention of venturing into the mountains at night to encircle and suppress.

It had been the experience of both men, from the junior officers to the men who were in charge of the battle in and around the river, that it was dangerous to confront such an adversary at night who were proficient in firearms and trebuchet tactics, and that the main force of the army should not be ventured.

However, in the second half of the night, Wang Wenqing finally sent a letter to a villager from a nearby place to persuade him to surrender.

The gist of the letter is nothing more than to say that the talents displayed by you in the Battle of the River are by no means possessed by ordinary bandits. Maybe it was the talent in the Dengzhou Weiyuan Camp and the Fuzhou Camp back then. The new emperor ascended the throne and Vientiane was renewed, which was also the time to employ people. If you have enough talent, you must reuse it, and so on.

In fact: Wang Wenqing at this time did not have enough evidence to determine that this unusual group of "thieves" was Zhang Lixin and others from the former Weiyuan Battalion who disappeared in the Battle of Fuzhou. The system is deliberately assumed that even if the wrong person is recognized, it is not impossible for those thieves to keep a fluke mentality and choose to impersonate Zhao'an or choose to recruit along the slope.

In the end, Zhang Lixin still didn't plan to order someone to reply rashly. Because if he did that, the biggest danger would be to give Li Wencai, who was in charge of the Dengzhou New Army nearby, and others the opportunity to dispatch the Weiyuan Battalion in Dengzhou Town to eliminate the biggest hidden danger.

With its own weak forces and strength, as well as the previous targeted combat preparations in order to maximize efficiency, if it is not very sharp against firearms and the protective equipment is not very good against ordinary Ming troops, even in the face of thousands of people, it will have the strength to fight. But if you face the encirclement and trouble of hundreds of new troops of the Weiyuan Battalion, you may be confined to an extremely dangerous situation prematurely.

Therefore, Zhang Lixin did not rush to reply at night. It's this behavior of pretending not to trust the other party, and it's been sticking to it.

When the sky gradually brightened, the artillery team gathered from the direction of Baoding Mansion gradually gathered. This time, in order to have full confidence in the attack, a total of 25 battalion guns, three general guns, and even more than 500 gunners and auxiliaries were gathered. Each gun carried hundreds of shells.

At the same time, learning from the lessons of the previous battle between the rivers, Wang Wenqing also organized people to specially make some trebuchets that were not too large for storming purposes. In the past few days, a total of ten trebuchets have been made, with two or three thousand pounds of counterweights, capable of throwing thirty pounds of stones to a distance of about 100 paces, and have longer armbars.

In addition to the absolute superiority of troops, the obvious superiority of attacking equipment is also the confidence of this clean-up operation...

Seeing that the men were all in place, the sky gradually brightened, and most of the previous worries of the officers in the Zhongshun camp such as General Ma Shen dissipated.

Of course, even so, everyone did not dare to act rashly. First of all, a lot of people were sent to reconnoiter and release the wind, and during the day, they climbed the high ground near Shengxian Village to investigate and see if there were any hidden ambushes.

The terrain near Shengxian Village was relatively flat, and it didn't seem to be too suitable for hiding a large number of ambushes, and because of this, a large group of thousands of men and horses only started to move after setting up their positions. Because most of the people who came this time were cavalry, and they were not afraid of the thieves who were exposed, a team of about 1,500 people gathered in a mighty place and gradually approached the location of the Sage Village.

In order to avoid the misunderstanding of the empty city plan, the people in charge of luring the enemy in Shengxian Village launched a bombardment of the approaching group of men and horses with pine cannons and rockets one after another.

White smoke rose from the village, and thousands of small lead bullets like flying locusts fell one after another in front of the team, and even in the team. Many officers and men and horses began to become restless, and a few were slightly injured in the bombardment.

However, because the lead seems to be quite weak at a distance of about 200 paces, even if it hits the limbs without armor protection, it is often only a small swollen bag. There were no people in armor who were killed or wounded, and it only caused a little trouble to the advancing ranks of officers and soldiers.

If it is a person in the Weiyuan camp who has studied the art of artillery very deeply, he will notice a trace of strangeness from these incoming artillery fires. It's just that whether it is Wang Wenqing, General Ma or others in the team, they uphold the habits of many people and are not good at studying details.

"The artillery team is in this position, let's fire! Let those thieves know what 'Dong Shi Xiaofeng' is, hehe! With General Ma's order, the artillery team that had long been ready to open fire began to fire in the distance.

At this time, not all the armies of the Ming army would pay as much attention to shooting and ranging as the Weiyuan battalion or some gunners trained by foreign missionaries, but there were still some experiences that had been passed down over the years. For example, the artillery team in the Zhongshun battalion also knows that when many artillery pieces fire at a target, each gun has different standards and the same angle for test firing, and then selects a reliable standard for each gun to load.

Of course, even so, a distance of about two hundred paces is definitely not a suitable distance for light artillery fire. It's just that the situation under this absolute superiority of forces is completely different...

The rumbling cannon outside the Sage Village went from slow to fast, and although the incoming artillery fire was still not very accurate after several adjustments, the goal of bombarding the village at a distance of about 200 paces was gradually hitting the target.

Some of the two or three pounds of solid bullets mounted on small shotguns were like ballista shells, which were still unbearable for ordinary earthen walls, and many houses in the village were smashed and trampled under the continuous shelling.

Of course, it seems that for the fortification: more than 20 camp cannons and three general cannons are obviously not powerful enough, so General Ma Shen ordered the slingers prepared by Wang Wenqing to be projected into the village at a distance of about 100 paces under the cover of artillery fire.

Hundreds of fist-sized pieces of rubble were soon thrown into the village, and moans and panic seemed to come from the village, in addition to the sound of tiles and roof collapsing.

Then the trebuchet launched an arson attack, and the whole village began to burn gradually, and the cavalry that had been prepared for a long time began to gradually approach the village.

Wang Wenqing is not a person with much military experience, but at this moment, he also subconsciously feels a little strange: under such an attack, if there are defensive thieves gathered in the village, won't one of them flee in a panic and surrender? Of course, such thoughts are also fleeting.

When the cavalry took turns approaching the village to investigate, they finally discovered something wrong...

"There doesn't seem to be anyone in this village?"

"Will there be an ambush! Let's withdraw first! ”

It's just that Zhang Lixin at this moment understands that at this time, he has to fire in advance at a distance that is not optimal. Otherwise, when the other party retreats further, I don't know what variables will be, and I can't let the previous situation of the field battle between the rivers reappear...