Some of the previous preparations made the gunners use the lead bullets and powder packs that had been prepared for a long time to reload a lot faster, and when the enemy cavalry approached a distance of about 100 paces, they couldn't help but hesitate a little when they saw the reloaded muzzle.

Just when the enemy cavalry approaching the two flanks in the distance was just agitated, the six heavy guns of the three detachments opened fire in turn under the supervision of the backbones, at least for a short time to curb the impulse of the enemy cavalry to attack forward.

It's just that at this time, the huge infantry team attacking from the front has approached to a distance of only about forty meters from the front of the entire team. At this distance, the three-eyed guns and even the dense attacks of bows and arrows were not very powerful, so that the spear and shield men in the front row, who were weak, immediately fell into great pressure, and many people were shot in multiple places all over their bodies. If it weren't for the guns and arrows of the infantry team attacking from the front of the Zhongshun battalion, which were not too sharp, and had been quite serious when preparing protective equipment before, in the face of such a disparity in strength, the team would probably fall into a rout before it could take the battle.

The disparity in strength between the two sides, and even the panic on the verge of battle, finally reached a critical point when the distance between the two sides was less than 20 steps, that is, about 30 meters, and under the continuous firing of thousands of projectiles and even hundreds of arrows, more than half of the people began to hang the lottery, and the entire front row of more than 20 gun players was instantly defeated. Zhang Lixin led less than 100 people, not to mention how brave and good the team was, and soon came out of the basket when they were about to engage in battle.

At this time, only the five front-row fighters, including Zhang Wen, had completely lost their combat effectiveness without panic, but they had to retreat back when the enemy group with absolutely superior forces swarmed in. After all, even if it is Zhang Wen, he is not the legendary martial artist with the ability of Xue Xiang with excellent armor and many years of martial arts foundation.

However, at this time, the soldiers who were responsible for operating the six catapults were not facing the pressure of the enemy, and they had hung up the boxy cotton blankets with the shells open in advance at the moment of crisis.

During the previous test, Zhang Lixin found many problems that he had not thought of before: the weight of the quilt was much heavier than he imagined, even if it was not very thick, at least about a kilogram per square meter. The old quilt often weighed about four or five catties or seven or eight catties, and it felt heavy on the body. If you stitch and sew a huge square quilt of about ten square meters, it will still be scratched around because of the large area of the ride when thrown, and it is also very unstable to land not far away, and it is easy to roll up to reduce the coverage area.

However, the solution was finally figured out by people, and finally a wooden frame like a door frame was used to make the "inner bone" of this large quilt, and there were some gaps in the middle of the horizontal and vertical links with a width of about one foot and leakage. In this way, when the catapult pulls the wooden frame gunpowder quilt forward like an open scroll, it can be more stable and not out of the rapid flight of the basket and land. In order to ensure ignition, a spare arquebus lead mechanism was also prepared on the entire wooden fire carpet, and of course the fuse time was as long as possible to play a second or two of surplus just in case.

In this way, when it was about seven meters wide and twelve meters long, covering an area of more than 80 square meters, and about 60 square meters of fire cotton quilt was covered by some leaky gaps, the reaction of the enemy group, which was about to fall into hand-to-hand combat at a distance of about 20 meters, finally hesitated a little. But even then, they scattered and fled before the huge wood-framed quilt covered them.

However, even so, because the density before preparing for hand-to-hand combat was much higher than that of a normal military formation, at least a dozen soldiers of the attacking Chungshun Battalion were covered in wooden-framed cotton blankets. Before the gunpowder fuse could burn, the five-eyed gunners in the freshman battalion who had already prepared for the fire quickly tapped the five-eyed guns and began to shoot. The five-eyed gun, which was specifically designed for ignition, did not have a large charge, with a slightly larger opening and a slightly smaller bore. The breech can be placed in the chamber with a red-hot iron projectile, and it can also be continuously burned on the fire without detonating the gunpowder behind. When fired, the lead bullets fired from inside will push the red-hot iron ball out. Of course, in this way, there are great problems in the accuracy and power of the red iron ball, and it can be said that the speed of the discharge is slightly faster than that of the ordinary bow and crossbow, and the accuracy is barely enough to hit the arrow target of about twenty or thirty meters. However, as a special ignition tool for wood-bone cotton quilts, it is just right. It can ignite the cotton quilt with a high probability in the blink of an eye.

About 40 kilograms of the total weight of the 100-kilogram flasse was gunpowder, and the fierce burning quickly engulfed the 12 soldiers who were shrouded in the sudden flames, and the sound of wailing came one after another. In the blink of an eye, the second to fourth trebuchets also threw a fire cotton quilt that could cover an area of eighty or ninety square meters at the approaching opponent. Although the effect was poor, more than 30 enemy soldiers were killed in the fire one after another.

After such a fierce blow, first of all, the four fighters, including Zhang Wen, who had not panicked before, reacted and took the opportunity to attack the opponent who was very close and thus escaped with a torch lance, and then some other fighters who reacted did the same, and in this way, almost in a few breaths, they eliminated more than ten enemy soldiers who were also in a panic.

In a short period of time, dozens of people died in the flames, and the screams of those people greatly deterred the approaching enemy soldiers, and many of them retreated one after another, which finally gave time to hang the fire carpet again. Zhang Lixin knew that the team at this time was still in danger, and it had to continue to move forward and attack. If you stop and give your opponent a chance to breathe, you will fall into an unforeseen crisis

When burned, a cotton quilt filled with enough gunpowder erupts into intense flames and smoke, more than a person tall enough to appear to engulf everything covered. It didn't last long, though, and it didn't stop the whole team from moving on through charred enemy corpses or badly burned opponent wounded.

When the whole team launched an attack, it finally caused panic among the opponents who retreated dozens of meters away, especially the truncated fire wool was thrown not too far away from them. Sensing the threat, General Ma gave the order to launch rocket fire. At the same time, the trebuchet was ordered to continue the attack. Fierce fireworks burned not far from the position of the team led by Zhang Lixin before, releasing yellow poisonous smoke. However, due to the direction of the wind, it did not pose much of a threat to the whole team. After the catapults re-hung a round of quilts, Zhang Lixin quickly ordered and supervised the entire catapult and the gunners in front of them to continue to move forward until they could pose a threat to the opponent's trebuchets and the nearest few artillery arrays...

In this way, when the flen was engulfed by a poisonous smoke bomb ignited by a catapult, the team operating the trebuchet finally broke away in the face of a great threat. The enemy troops in the distance have not dispersed and are still trying to besiege from a distance with projectile troops. It was only at this time that Zhang Lixin secretly felt that the most dangerous time for the entire team should have passed.