The long whistling sound of the cannonballs in the air flew over the people's heads, and although the whistling of the cannonballs sounded like a ghost in the ears of the soldiers, it gave them courage and confidence.

The whistling cannonballs let out a devilish grin in the air and landed in the ranks of the enemy, although the killing effect of the bullets on the battlefield was mediocre, but if it could accurately hit the enemy's ranks, it would also set off a bloody storm in the ranks, it would break the enemy's heads, penetrate their chests, and drag their intestines out, even the bombs that rolled on the snow at the end would smash the surface of his feet if they hit the unlucky man.

Compared to the strength bullets that depend on luck at that time, when those grenades land in the ranks of the marching army, they will not explode in the first place. Its tubes will spew flames and smoke, and nearby soldiers will dodge it to avoid its radius. Although the explosion will explode in clouds of lead-gray smoke, the casualties will be limited, but if the grenade lands in the queue at the exact time it lands in the queue or explodes in the air, the damage is almost devastating. However, it always takes luck to time such accurate shells.

Even if it's luck, there's a certain percentage of luck. In the dense smoke, soldiers were constantly blown into the sky, and the artillery shelling successfully blocked the enemy's attack. And more often, those gunners were there like a training ground, constantly firing shells to block the enemy's attack, and the artillery of the Tang army was also not idle, although they were separated by four or five hundred zhang, but they still continued to shell towards the Ming army, and the two sides were competing with distant opponents there, and they made their own sounds with each other's shells. Instead of what they answered,

The gunners operated the guns according to the orders of the officers, and they repeated the mechanical movements again and again as they did during training, and even if the shells fell on their side, they continued to reload the shells quickly and fearlessly, and fired the shells at the enemy.

Of course, in many cases, it is difficult for the shells that fall around them to kill them - although the Tang army has a large number of Jiangbei-made artillery, but there are no Jiangbei-made grenades, even if they imitate a few grenades obtained from various channels, because there is no pocket watch timing, it is impossible to set the accurate time, and naturally there is no threat.

These fearless gunners occasionally raised their eyes to look at the battlefield filled with gunsmoke. There, the enemy's guns were aimed at them, and when a grenade with white smoke fell on the position, the brave gunner would even rush over to pick up the shell and throw it out, and it would take a few seconds for the thrown shell to explode.

Compared with the Tang Army, which could not accurately time and could only directly fire shells that were timed for more than ten seconds, the shells would not pose any threat to them at all. Compared with. The gunners of the Loyal Army were timing more and more accurately, each time half of the grenades were accurately timed, and those explosions either exploded in the ranks of the Tang army or exploded in the air, under the lead-gray smoke, it was difficult for the attacking Tang troops to continue to maintain their formation, and their columns had been shrouded in a layer of iron gray, which was the iron gray raised when the shells exploded on the snow and in the air. The once brilliant banner has now been blown up with thousands of holes, and even the standard-bearers have changed several people, and the commanders with sabers in the smoke of gunfire are constantly shouting, driving them on.

The Tang soldiers in black uniforms continued to march forward like cattle under the drive of the officials, and they didn't even know that they were walking step by step towards the mouth of this monster with a bloody mouth open. It was a monster of steel shards and black powder, a giant monster with its mouth wide open and trying to swallow it all.

Thanks to the efforts of the artillerymen, the defensive line, which was crumbling and almost crumbling, finally stabilized again at this time, and successfully stopped the enemy's attack at one time.

When the infantrymen, under the urging of the officers, formed a horizontal formation at one time, and then sent a dense rain of bullets towards the enemy, in the rear of the troops. Zhang Xiaowu rode on horseback. His horses are not those dwarf Mongolian horses. Rather, it was a Spanish Andalusian horse, a fine breed purchased from Luzon by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. In addition to a portion of the stallions used as improved breeds, a small portion was used for officers' mounts.

Riding on a tall Andalusian horse, Zhang Xiaowu was much taller than the officers around him, and the specially customized saddle and bridle were also very gorgeous, which also allowed everyone to see him clearly. Clearly see his tall war horse.

It will be the guts of the army.

When Zhang Xiaowu stood there calmly, the soldiers were no longer as panicked as before, and the officers were also calmly directing the battle. Only a few staff officers were running back and forth on horseback, and sometimes he stood alone, surrounded by only two heralds and trumpeters and standard-bearers. Sometimes he would be surrounded by officers on horseback, who would immediately give orders to adjust the deployment of troops.

He as a general. It is necessary to adjust its deployment at any time according to the changes in the situation on the battlefield.

Although it seemed that the line of defense was now solid, his expression was extremely solemn. He knew very well in his heart that the troops were undoubtedly in trouble.

Compared with the Tang Army, the reserves in his hands were extremely limited, and from the morning until now, the Tang Army launched more than a dozen charges. Although the Tang army seemed to suffer heavy casualties every time, with an absolute numerical superiority of the army, they could replace it with another intact unit to continue the attack after suffering heavy losses. In contrast, he does not have such power. Despite the fact that the Don army is now suffering heavy casualties. But his soldiers were also exhausted.

"They don't even want me to stay if they have the opportunity to change the flint, surnamed Li, damn it, do you play with human life?"

The most important thing in the flint is the flint, and for him, the flint is the equivalent of the arquebus. If there were no flints, a fire gun would be worse than a burning stick.

According to the infantry discipline of the Loyal Army, after firing 20 rounds, a new flint is required. Although in reality one flint can be used 50 times. Sometimes if the quality is good, it can even reach hundreds of times. However, the further he goes, the lower his firing rate becomes, and in order to ensure the firing rate of the flint, the corresponding replacement regulations will be formulated.

But now the Don army is charging again and again, and they are consuming his ammunition and flint with their lives.

"Aren't they trying to fill it with human lives? Don't you want to use up my bullets with human life like you do now? ”

Zhang Xiaowu muttered to himself. Each soldier only has a few dozen rounds of ammunition and two flints on his body, and it is not a good thing to continue fighting like this, it is time to change the reserves, let them remove the flints and replenish ammunition. If it goes on like this, not to mention the rest, if the ammunition runs out, no one can imagine what will happen at that time. Of course, I don't want to think about it.

At this moment, he saw that the Tang army had begun to retreat. This discovery made Zhang Xiaowu, who was still worried about ammunition, immediately seize this opportunity to give orders to the staff officers around him.

Staff Officer Li went to the front and told Commander Yu to launch an attack immediately and break through the Tang army's position from the middle ground. Tell him to hurry. ”

After the next order to strike. Zhang Xiaowu ordered another herald.

"Go and inform the cavalry to let their left flank launch an offensive and sign, the actions of the Don Army."

The emaciated herald, riding a diminutive Mongolian horse, received the commander's verbal order and immediately whipped the horse, and as the horse galloped, the horse's hooves raised clumps of fine snowflakes on the snow.

Looking at the Don Army, which had already begun to retreat. At this time, Zhang Xiaowu seemed a little excited.

"Well, the big picture is decided. We withstood it, and now it's our turn to give him a black tiger to dig out his heart. ”

Zhang Xiaowu, who was excited, clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and then he rode his horse and walked forward.

"Now our task is to beat them hard, beat them hard, and we must hurt them!"

Zhang Xiaowu suddenly turned to an adjutant and said.

"Will tell the cavalry immediately. Let them seize the opportunity to immediately plunge into the battlefield, go all out, fight hard, fight desperately. ”

Zhang Xiaowu excitedly raised the leather whip in his hand, and then whipped the war horse hard, and the front hooves of the painful war horse were raised violently and the horse was raised. When Ma went north, he scolded a few times, and then carnivaled on horseback alone.

He knew the most crucial battle of the day had begun. He wanted to punch Tang Jun with a punch. And then end today's battle.

"Zhang Xiaowu made a mistake......

Zhu Mingzhong, who was on the high ground, put down the telescope in his hand, and his tone was very calm, as if he was telling an ordinary thing.

Although Zhu Mingzhong, who was on the battlefield, did not directly participate in the command, he kept observing the battlefield through a telescope, although the battlefield was now completely shrouded in gunsmoke, and he could not even see the movements of the enemy army at all, let alone accurately mobilize troops, but Zhu Mingzhong did not forget that compared with the Ming army, the Tang army's military strength was twice that of him, and it was not a good idea to attack when the enemy's strength was twice as large. At this time. Defense is the best option. Have the enemy crash into the wall of cannons and guns again and again, and finally let them run out of energy on the wall at this point before attacking.

But it's too early.

At this time, Zhu Mingzhong had to admit that compared to Li Ziyuan's own subordinates, he had too little combat experience. It is not yet possible to accurately grasp the timing on the battlefield.

"Order the right flank to be ready for defense, ready to change formation into a hollow phalanx at any time......"

The reason why Zhu Mingzhong did not give the order to stop the offensive was because although he discovered the mistake of the previous side, he was powerless to change it, from the time he gave the order, to the messenger passing the order to Zhang Xiaowu's hands, and then to the front-line battalion, at that time, the two sides were already fighting, and the rash retreat would only increase the casualties of the side and cause chaos, and what needed to be done now was to make up for the mistakes of the side, not to withdraw the troops. While attacking, make your side invulnerable, so that the opponent can't find loopholes. is the right choice to make up for mistakes.

After giving this order, Zhu Mingzhong then began to remedy in other aspects, for him with insufficient military strength, the most taboo is to make mistakes, any mistake may lead to the defeat of a battle.

And when Zhu Mingzhong tried his best to save all this, Li Ziyuan, who had been observing the battlefield from the city gate, screamed like he was excited, this was the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time, before that, only God knows how uneasy his heart was, originally he thought that the loyal army used firearms, and the Tang army also used firearms, at least he could fight five or five.

But he didn't expect that although both sides used the same firearms, as soon as they arrived on the battlefield, the Tang army immediately showed its original shape, and the originally seemingly neat team was chaotic like a flock of ducks, while in contrast, the queue of the loyal and righteous army was neatly like a city wall, and when the two sides attacked, it was completely unaffected by casualties, on the other hand, the Tang army collapsed several times. If it weren't for the large number of people, maybe someone else would have been defeated by this time.

As for the gap between the gunners on both sides, it was even more heaven and earth, in just one day, he had already lost dozens of cannons, and if he continued to fight like this, he would not wait to defeat the loyal army, just artillery, and use artillery to crush the Tang army.

Just when Li Ziyuan thought that there was no chance, and even began to think about whether to withdraw the army, the other party's sudden attack made him see the long-awaited opportunity.

But his excitement did not last long, almost as soon as he saw the adjustment of the right flank of the Tang Army from the telescope, his face became ugly, and finally he sighed.

"It seems that there is no chance today......"

For Li Ziyuan, who had already made up his mind, when he saw the movement of the enemy army, he knew that there was no chance, at least there was no chance to counterattack today.

Originally, he prepared a big dish for Zhu Mingzhong. But I didn't expect the other party's deployment to be impeccable. If he throws the surprise soldier on it now. It's definitely just hitting the wall headfirst.

"Hey,"

Long sigh. Li Ziyuan looked at the Tang Army, which had become shaky in the face of the attack of the Loyal and Righteous Army on the battlefield. There were all kinds of feelings in his heart, and he didn't even know what to do for a while, and after a while, he ordered,

"Attack the enemy's attacking forces with cavalry and knock them down first."

That's all there is to it...... Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he seemed to see a new opportunity......