The military formation of Ying Long's army and the rows of black holes and muzzles undoubtedly reminded Luo Rucai of the defeat of Wuchang a few years ago.

At that time, the Ying Long army had just exterminated Zuo Liangyu, and the power was winning, he took 100,000 troops to attack Wuchang, intending to capture the Ming Emperor, but was defeated by the 15,000 Ying Long army in a battle, and the 100,000 army lost more than 80,000, which was extremely miserable.

Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, although he only had 30,000 troops in his hands this time, he did not intend to fight with Ying Longjun, even if Ying Longjun was strong, there was no way to take him for a while, as long as he let his soldiers rush to within 100 meters of Ying Longjun's cannon, he would have hope of destroying Ying Longjun's cannon.

"Archers, prepare the rocket!" Luo Rucai ordered loudly.

In order to destroy the artillery of the Ying Long Army, Luo Rucai prepared a large number of rockets this time, according to his thoughts, the gunpowder and shells needed for the cannon are all explosive things when exposed to fire, as long as he can break through to a certain distance and let the archers shoot a rocket at the artillery position of the Ying Long Army, he will definitely be able to detonate the powder box and cannonball next to the cannon, and when the time comes, destroy the artillery of the Ying Long Army, and even severely damage the Ying Long Army!

Thinking about the huge results that are very likely to be achieved, Luo Rucai's heart is fiery and full of fighting spirit!

"Kill"

Although Luo Rucai, who knew that Ying Long's army was powerful, did not dare to rush to the front, in order to boost morale, he also rushed to the front position, and roared, wanting all the soldiers under his command to be able to hear his shouts.

Luo Rucai's trick has to be said to be somewhat useful, at least the morale of many soldiers who heard him roaring has risen a lot, the shouting and killing are louder, and the rush is more fierce, so that this army of only 30,000 people at this moment, the momentum is not worse than the momentum of an army of 40,000 or 50,000, in the final analysis, Luo Ru can become the third person in the Great Western Kingdom, and there is indeed some merit in commanding an army of 100,000!

"Ying Longjun lined up to meet the enemy, and the first row was ready!" The first row of soldiers of the Ying Long Army was on standby.

The thieves led by Luo Rucai are getting closer and closer! Two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, into range!

"Fire!"

"Bang bang bang" white smoke billowed as a line of thousands of lead bullets swept towards the onrushing thieves.

Some of the thieves were shot in the chest or in the face, and blood immediately splattered out, killing nearly 300 thieves on the spot and wounding nearly 1,000 thieves

Not only that, Zhou Cao also transferred twenty field guns to aim at the Luo Rucai army that was killed.

"Artillery ready!"

The gunner skillfully loads ammunition and maneuvers the cannon for aiming.

"Fire!" The commander of the artillery battalion slammed down the command flag.

"Boom, boom, boom" Twenty shells exploded in Luo Rucai's army, harvesting the lives of nearly 100 thieves.

Some of the thieves who were close to the cannonballs were torn apart by the fragments from the explosion of the cannonballs, and the stumps and severed arms were thrown in all directions with the air waves, and the blood mist began to fill the air.

Although the casualties of artillery fire are not more than those of intensive musket fire, the deterrent effect is greater, because no one can predict who will explode next to the next round of shells, and fear involuntarily permeates the heart.

Luo Rucai's face was also pale, and there was fear in his eyes, the current Ying Long Army was even more powerful than what he encountered in Wuchang back then, and the extra artillery fire made him even more frightened, and he couldn't help but have the idea of turning around and running away immediately.

Realizing that he was so cowardly, Luo Rucai's face turned blue and white all of a sudden, he was sure that if he turned around and ran away at this time, he would definitely become the laughing stock of the entire Great Western Kingdom, not to mention suppressing Li Dingguo at that time, even if he stood in front of His Majesty, he would not have any face.

For the sake of face in the future, Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and became bloody.

"Pass the order, kill those who are fifty meters away from the Ming army and be promoted to one level, and those who kill into the Ming army's military formation will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be one hundred taels of silver!"

"Overseer team, overseer!"

Luo Rucai lured and coerced, and ordered the supervision team composed of his own soldiers to start walking around to supervise the battle, and those who dared to retreat without obeying the order were executed on the spot!

Such inducements and coercion are extremely effective methods at all times.

The soldiers under Luo Rucai's command dispelled the fear in their hearts and began a new round of fierce killing.

"Kill"

Although there were heavy casualties, this group of thieves still broke through to a place within sixty meters of Ying Long's army under the leadership of Luo Rucai, and the rockets could just reach the artillery camp position.

Seeing that the thief soldiers were so fierce and not afraid of death, Zhou Cao couldn't help but show surprise, but it didn't stop there, the thief soldiers were not full of eight banners, and it was already a miracle that they could break through to within sixty meters of the Ying Long army's military array.

Luo Rucai was overjoyed, he finally let him succeed, and soon he would be able to destroy the cannon of the Ying Long Army!

"Rocket ready!"

Rockets were ignited rapidly, and archers bent their bows and arrows.

"Shoot!"

"Xiu Xiu Xiu" rockets cut through the dark night sky and shot at the artillery camp position of Ying Long's army.

Suddenly, the entire artillery battalion of Yinglong's army was illuminated by the bright light of rockets.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Cao's eyes narrowed slightly, he couldn't imagine that the thief soldiers would use this hand, but he thought that this would really cause damage to Ying Longjun's cannons, and he would underestimate Ying Longjun.

As Zhou Cao expected, the soldiers of the Yinglong Army Artillery Battalion were not in a hurry, and boxes of gunpowder and shells were closed.

Not to mention that in order to avoid possible fires, the artillery battalion of Yinglong Army suffered heavy losses, gunpowder and shells were wrapped in something with excellent fireproofness, even if they were burned on fire, they could block it, so that the soldiers of Yinglong Army had time to extinguish the fire, and moreover, not only the gunpowder and shells were protected, but even the boxes containing gunpowder and shells were also processed and had a certain degree of fireproofness, so Luo Rucai's plan was destined to fail.

Although it withstood a round of rockets from the thieves, except for two boxes of gunpowder that were directly punctured and ignited by arrows, everything else was fine, and the loss was very small.

The soldiers of Ying Longjun seemed to be enraged by this scene, and the speed of loading the bullet was much faster, and they fired fiercely at the thieves in front of them, and the thieves in rows and rows were knocked down, with heavy casualties.

Luo Rucai gritted his teeth, seeing that the round of rockets just now had no effect, which made him extremely unwilling, regardless of the heavy casualties among the soldiers under his command, he ordered the archers to shoot a round of rockets again.

"Rocket, shoot!"

"Woohoo"

The thief archers fired another round of rockets, but the artillery battalion had already prepared, and this round did not lose even a box of gunpowder.

Luo Rucai almost vomited blood, he fought with his soldiers to set up such a game with huge casualties, and he didn't get any results, Luo Rucai was still unwilling, and wanted to order the archers to shoot arrows, but Ying Longjun would not give him a third chance.

"Bang bang bang" Ying Longjun fired intensively, and soon killed the thieves under Luo Rucai's command to retreat, and they were killed out of a hundred meters in less than a moment, a distance that the rocket could not reach anyway.

"Ying Longjun attacked!" Zhou Cao Senhan's order.

not only killed the thieves out of range, but also let the Ying Long army take the initiative to attack and encircle and annihilate Luo Rucai's army.

After the advance at all costs just now, Luo Rucai's army suffered heavy casualties, nearly half of the soldiers were killed or wounded, and now there are only more than 10,000 soldiers left under his command who can still fight.

Luo Rucai's teeth were about to be crushed, although he was unwilling, but he was also extremely helpless, the artillery battalion of the Yinglong Army was not even afraid of rockets, even if he was forcing the soldiers to risk their lives to rush forward, it would not have any effect, at this moment, retreat was his only choice.

"Withdraw!" Luo Rucai endured extreme unwillingness to grit his teeth and retreat.

However, at this moment of the battle, how could Zhou Cao let Luo Rucai retreat safely.

Zhou Cao sneered: "Since it has been sent to the door, let's leave it all!" ”

"Ying Longjun attacked!" In addition to leaving 3,000 people to protect the artillery battalion, Zhou Cao personally led 9,000 Yinglong troops to hunt down Luo Rucai!

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