"Boom Boom"

The cannon roared, the shells exploded, and the scattered shrapnel and blazing air waves killed and injured the thieves.

With the support of the 100 field cannons of the Yinglong Army Artillery Battalion, Qin Liangyu's nearly 80,000 troops over there suddenly recovered from the decline of the defeat and retreat just now, resisted the powerful offensive of the 170,000 thief army, and was inseparable from the thief army.

Almost every round of artillery shelling by the Ming army was accompanied by hundreds of casualties among the thieves.

"The artillery shells of the Ming army have not run out!" Seeing that the Ming army's artillery was so powerful, and its lethality and deterrence were amazing, Luo Rucai's face was gloomy.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was watching the battle on the city wall of Chengdu, did not look good.

Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong has always dared not be careless, even if he knew that the artillery of the Ming army had withdrawn to the center of the Ming army's camp, could not reach the city wall, and the shells might have run out, he was always careful to make people pay attention to prevent the Ming army from having any shells left, and secretly approached the cannon to re-include the city wall into the firing range, threatening his life.

"Tell Luo Rucai that the Ming army's artillery shells will never be too many, and they will be finished soon, let him lead the army to continue the onslaught!" Zhang Xianzhong ordered.

In this great war, the Great Western Kingdom must win a big victory, even if the artillery shells of the Ming army can continue to support, he will destroy the Ming army.

Luo Rucai received Zhang Xianzhong's order, but he didn't think much about it, and the annihilation of this Ming army was also what he thought. At this time, Li Dingguo was left out in the cold, His Majesty reused him, and even let him command this battle, he could not live up to His Majesty's trust, and at the same time, he also needed to rely on this war to completely suppress Li Dingguo.

"Kill!" Luo Rucai commanded the army to storm onslaught.

In order to keep the soldiers from being afraid of the artillery of the Ming army and continue to attack fiercely, Luo Rucai also sent the supervising team out in advance to stabilize the army.

The thief army is outnumbered, the 170,000 thief army is more than twice as large as the Qin Liangyu army that was fiercely attacked, once the army is cleaned up, it will soon be able to suppress the Qin Liangyu army again, and the situation is also not optimistic for the Ming army.

In order to support Qin Liangyu's army, when the thief army attacked fiercely, the 100 field cannons of the artillery battalion also brought the rate of fire to the highest level, killing the thief soldiers on their backs.

"The artillery of the Ming army is too rampant!" Luo Rucai hesitated slightly, and decided to divide an army of 20,000 to attack the Ming army's artillery camp, at least not to let the Ming army's artillery be so rampant.

Under the order of Luo Rucai, the 20,000 thieves slaughtered the Ming artillery camp.

The artillery battalion has 2,000 artillery and 3,000 Yinglong troops, a total of 5,000 men and horses, so it is naturally not afraid of the attack of the 20,000 thief army.

The soldiers of the Yinglong Army surrounded the artillery camp in a radius of more than 100 meters like an iron bucket, which was as stable as a mountain, and no matter how fierce the 20,000 thieves attacked, they could not break through the defense line and enter the artillery camp, and the artillery fire of the artillery camp did not decrease at all.

The main force of the Yinglong army, Zhou Caozheng led 10,000 Yinglong troops to defeat the 40,000 thief army, and looked in the direction of Qin Liangyu from time to time, with a strong worry in his eyes, as the commander of the Yinglong army, he knew very well that the artillery camp's shells would not be able to support it for long, and when the time came, without the support of the artillery camp, Qin Liangyu's army would face more than 100,000 thieves, and it was dangerous and unpredictable.

"Find a way to tell Governor Qin and Miss Ma that there are not many shells left in the artillery camp, once the shells are used up, the army will suffer a great loss if it fights on such a large scale with the thief army, let them immediately retreat to the center of the camp according to the plan, and the army will hold together to resist the thief army!" Zhou Cao said.

This is the plan he and Qin Liangyu made before the battle, the army is in one place, it can reduce the contact with the thief army, and under the attack of the thief army, it can support for a longer time.

Now they can only wait for the reinforcements of the imperial court to come, which is related to their lives and the lives of the 100,000 army, if the reinforcements of the imperial court arrive in time, then they can take the opportunity to defeat the thief army is not necessarily, on the contrary, they will be destroyed here, and the prestige of the Ming Dynasty will also be hit because of their downfall.

Qin Liangyu and Ma Yue'e received Zhou Cao's notice and began to consciously guide the army to withdraw to the center of the camp.

The battle between the white pole soldiers and the Qing army led by Tuo Yue was extremely fierce, relying on the white pole spear, the white pole soldiers were not afraid of the charge of the Qing army's war horses, and the Qing army was almost a one-to-one casualty ratio.

Ma Yue'e suddenly fought and retreated, fighting with Tuoyue.

Suddenly, Ma Yue'e made a sudden move and temporarily repelled Tuoyue.

"Dog thief, let you go for the time being, and I'll take your dog's head later!" After Ma Yue'e scolded, she quickly fought and retreated towards the center of the camp with the white pole soldiers.

Tuo Yue glanced at the direction of Qin Liangyu's army and Zhou Cao's Yinglong army, and found that they were also consciously retreating, and immediately figured out the intention of the Ming army, which was nothing more than that they couldn't support it anymore and wanted to resist in a group.

Tuo Yue stopped his iron cavalry from pursuing the white pole soldiers, and allowed the white pole soldiers to retreat.

In less than an hour of fighting with the white pole soldiers, the children of the Eight Banners killed and wounded more than a thousand people, although they also killed thousands of white pole soldiers, but such casualties still made Tuo Yue feel heartache.

You must know that the Eighth Banner Army can only replenish more than 10,000 troops every year, and the first battle of Lizhou and the battle just now have already caused him to lose thousands of people on the Red Banner, and it will take several months to recover.

His purpose was just to assist Zhang Xianzhong in dragging down the Ming army, at most he would find a way to make the Ming army lose both Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Xianzhong, and there was no need to lose more Eight Banner disciples.

With the Ying Long Army, the White Pole Soldiers and Qin Liangyu Army gradually closed together, and the artillery fire of the artillery battalion also stopped at this moment.

"Haha! The artillery shells of the Ming army must have run out! Luo Rucai was overjoyed.

The morale of the thieves was also boosted.

The artillery battalion had indeed run out of shells, and without the support of artillery, the Ming army was undoubtedly under more pressure.

After running out of shells, the 2,000 artillery soldiers of the artillery battalion and the 3,000 soldiers of the Ying Long Army also joined the main army of the Ying Long Army and fought against the thief army together with the main army.

Because of the grouping together, nearly 100,000 Ming troops formed a circular defense line around a slope valley in the center of the camp, so that the contact with the thief army was greatly reduced, relying only on 15,000 Ying Long troops and nearly 7,000 white pole soldiers to resist the attack of the thief army in three directions, while Qin Liangyu's army of more than 70,000 people only guarded one direction, which was undoubtedly temporarily stable.

The thief army couldn't be disturbed for a while, and it became a hard-headed Ming army.

The two armies reached a stalemate.

Relying on the circular defense line, although the Ming army temporarily resisted the fierce attack of the thief army, however, the strength of the Ming army is an absolute disadvantage, especially in the direction of Qin Liangyu's army, because it is the weakest breakthrough, the attack suffered is the most fierce, Qin Liangyu's more than 70,000 troops in the hands are constantly consumed, as time passes little by little, sooner or later it will be consumed, once it reaches that time, the Ming army will be weak and will be defeated!

With the consumption of the strength of the Ming army, the two armies will be able to distinguish the victory and defeat as early as tomorrow morning.

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