"Good!" When he saw the Italian artillery shells accurately falling into the Ming army on the river beach, Xie Ziwei, the first officer of the artillery team, couldn't help but shout hello.

This was the first time that the artillery team he led was put into actual combat, and it was also the first artillery he commanded after changing from a musketeer to an artilleryman.

For this reason, he was under great pressure before, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hit the first shot, so let alone make a good start, it would be good not to be laughed at by others.

Fortunately, this time the aim was quite good, and the first shot hit the crowd of Ming troops on the other side of the river.

Of course, it can't be said that they are lucky, because the Ming army is now crowded in the river beach, and there are people everywhere, as long as the aim is not too far or too close, this cannon can always hit the Ming army in the past.

Xie Ziwei applauded himself, and Li Xuan nodded slightly when he looked at the effect of this first shot!

Zeng Ziwen on the side said with joy on his face: "General Xie's artillery is good, and the power of this cannon has eroded the enemy's ranks and killed countless people!" ”

After saying that, he still felt that the praise was not enough fun, and immediately continued: "With the help of Italian artillery, the puppet Ming thief army is afraid that if it does not board the boat to cross the river, it will suffer countless casualties, and my Datang will win this battle!" ”

Li Xuan turned his head to look at Zeng Ziwen, and felt that this Zeng Ziwen was becoming more and more Liu Bagou's demeanor, and he would brag about it if he had nothing to do.

Although the effect of this cannon just now is good, but at most it killed and injured seven or eight people of the Ming army, although the Ming army is relatively dense on the river beach, but after all, it is not the time to fight in a queue, it will not be crowded, and the mud on the river beach is relatively soft, and the cannonball falls into these soft mud ground, and its kinetic energy will be greatly absorbed, resulting in the inability to bounce too many times.

And what does a solid ball rely on to kill? It is by relying on the cannonball to fall to the ground, constantly bouncing up and falling, and in the process killing and injuring enemy troops along the way.

If it is on hard ground and the enemy happens to be a column, this solid-ball shell can reimburse an entire column of soldiers.

Of course, this situation generally only exists in theory, and is unlikely to occur in practice.

The killing and wounding of seven or eight members of the Ming army just now seems to have a good result, but in fact, the impact on today's battle is limited.

On the one hand, the Italian gun was a front-loading smoothbore gun, the rate of fire of which was very low.

On the other hand, the artillery of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is still too small, and it is unlikely to play a decisive role in this kind of big war with thousands of participants.

But even so, this cannon brought great confidence to the Datang New Army and effectively boosted morale.

As for the Ming army on the other side of the river, many people still don't know what happened, after all, there are two or three thousand soldiers on the river beach, and how many people were killed will not be known by many people.

And the few people who knew that their side had been shelled and that there were no fewer casualties, except for some of the soldiers involved, were the generals of the Ming army who watched the battle and commanded on the mountain behind.

"The puppet Tang thief army's firecracker is really sharp, and it can hit so far!" Among the crowd, the leader was a middle-aged general wearing scale armor.

"But they only have one of these big guns, what's the use of hitting them farther!" At that moment, someone said: "Our army has 3,000 tigers, and it is easy to cross this Lanjiang River, how can these thieves of the pseudo-Tang thief army be able to resist!" ”

"Yes, according to me, we will be able to kill the river in less than half an hour, and then capture Li Yi alive!"

"Lord Song said that if Li Yi can be captured alive, he will personally report to the imperial court for us!"

"Haha, after this battle, Lord Lin, you may be able to take a step forward!"

Although a group of Ming army generals saw the artillery of the Tang New Army on the other side of the river, they were not frightened and panicked.

These people are all high-ranking generals, and the most inferior is also the deputy Qianhu, this big fire, they have naturally seen and even used it, and they have brought two bowls of cannons.

Although their bowl mouth cannon is not as far as the artillery of the puppet Tang thief army, but what is this, when they cross the river, swing the two bowl mouth cannons in front of the formation, and one cannon can kill and injure the puppet Tang thief army.

However, this is just the thoughts of the senior generals of the Ming army, and for those who have personally felt the sharpness of the artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army, their hearts are broken!

One of the Ming army Xiaoqi was watching his comrades around him being hit by cannonballs, and then the whole person was stopped and broken, looking at the corpse that had become two, only a little skin and flesh were left, and his whole person collapsed, at first he vomited, and then the whole person screamed like dementia, screaming and screaming, he threw down the knife in his hand, and then ran and jumped in the open space.

He's crazy!

The first cannon fired by the new army of the Tang Dynasty, although the impact was not small, greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but the battle did not stop because of this, because the Ming army did not stop the pace of crossing the river, on the contrary, they also increased the speed, the soldiers climbed on the simple raft under the urging of the officers, and then began to row with the same simple pulp.

The simple rafts were crowded with as few as seven or eight people, and as many as more than ten people, so that many rafts actually almost sank into the water, but the Ming army obviously didn't care whether their clothes would get wet, as long as they could cross the river, who cared if they were comfortable on the way to cross the river, whether they would capsize!

However, although the Ming troops got on the boat one after another, the official crossing of the river that Li Xuan was looking forward to by the Ming army was still not started, and it was obvious that these Ming soldiers did not plan to play any refueling tactics, but to play a wave of streams, and wait for all the available rafts to cross the river together after they were on board.

"Looks like they still have smart people!" Seeing this scene, Li Xuan frowned slightly, the situation in front of him was not a good situation for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, if there were too many Ming troops landing on the shore at the same time, then it would not be easy to fight.

After all, the musketeers and archers of the Datang New Army are limited, which means that the bullets and arrows they can throw per unit of time are also limited.

With more than 200 musketeers and less than 100 archers, it was not easy to intercept all the 3,000 Ming troops crossing the river on the way.

But this is just a lot of difficulty, it doesn't mean that there is no hope!

And now, what Li Xuan wants to fight for is this hope!

Another loud bang sounded on the fort, and Xie Ziwei's artillery fired a second shot!

However, at this time, Li Xuan was no longer in the mood to pay attention to these artillery, because at this time, most of the Ming troops on the other side of the river had already boarded the raft they had prepared for half a month, and then left the bank one after another and rowed towards the other side of the river.

Seeing this scene, he immediately said to the herald beside him: "Beat the drum to face the battle, and you must not let the puppet Ming thief army cross the river one soldier at a time!" ”