This time against Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zhi still used a three-stage round shooting formation. www.biquge.info However, in this round firing array, the soldiers in the front row who have completed shooting no longer retreat to the back, but directly crouch down to reload, allowing the soldiers in the back row to stand and shoot.

In this way, the soldiers can stand closer together with each other, eliminating the space required for the soldiers to walk backwards. Originally, a soldier had to occupy a meter of width, but now more than half a meter is enough. There were more than 15,000 Tiger Divisions in the Formation Formation, and the width of the battlefield in each direction was no more than 800 meters, which also included the 100 artillery positions reserved.

A tighter formation brings more firepower, which will inflict more severe blows on enemies who charge into the formation.

In front of the Tiger Ben Division, Zhang Xianzhong's army of more than 50,000 people was mighty and surrounded Li Zhi's Circular Array. In the middle army of the thieves, the drummers beat the cowhide drum desperately, inspiring the fighting spirit of the soldiers, as if they wanted to eat the tiger master in one bite.

Seeing that the Xianjun was pressing, Li Zhi's soldiers hurriedly spread the thistle terrestris twenty meters in front of the battle.

At the forefront of the Xian army were 30,000 foot soldiers, who spread four or five miles across the battlefield, not only to confront Li Zhi's head-to-head, but also to surround the left and right sides of Li Zhi's army at one time, and to attack Li Zhi's circular formation from three directions.

30,000 people filled the entire field of vision of the soldiers.

Being surrounded by tens of thousands of thieves from three directions did cause some psychological pressure on the soldiers of the Tiger Division. But at such a critical time, the rigorous training on weekdays comes into play. More than 15,000 soldiers remained motionless in the face of pressure, clutching their weapons and preparing to meet the enemy.

At a distance of five hundred meters, a hundred on the front of the Tiger Division and a hundred field guns on the sides opened fire.

Two hundred six-pounder cannons spat out tongues of fire, and the flames suddenly brightened the bright daylight. A huge rumbling sound was heard all over the world, and it spread throughout the battlefield at once. The earth seemed to be shaken by the recoil of the artillery, trembling slightly. After the black powder was ignited, it emitted a huge force, shooting a solid projectile weighing more than five catties towards the thieves who rushed over in a dense manner.

In the face of such a dense army of thieves, not a single shell missed. The high-speed flying cannonball smashed into the thief soldiers in the front row, shattering the flesh and blood of the thieves in an instant, splashing a piece of flesh and blood, and then continued to rush towards the thieves behind.

The thieves in the back also couldn't resist the cannonballs, and the solid bullets pierced through the second and third layers of the body like a wooden plank, knocking out countless flesh and blood along the way, and then bounced on the ground, and then pierced through the body of one or two thieves, and then lost their strength and crashed into the body of a certain thief and stopped.

Two hundred shells, two hundred flesh alleys were punched out in the dense rogue formation.

The screams were like an accompaniment to the movement of the cannonballs, which erupted from the crowd of thieves as the cannonballs advanced. However, these screams were short, and the thieves who were crushed were quickly dead. Only a few of the wounded who had their hands and feet broken did not die, but fell to the ground groaning incessantly.

The tragic condition of the deceased made the others feel chills in their hearts, and the hearts of the 30,000 foot soldiers were trembling by the cannons. The cannon of this official army is also too powerful.

But the thieves who were hit by the cannon were only a few after all. The big drum of the Rogue Army beat louder, encouraging the charging foot soldiers to continue to sprint forward. Hearing the sound of the drums, the thieves' soldiers threw away their cowering and screamed and charged at Li Zhi's platoon of guns.

But before they could rush to the range of the array, they had a lot to endure.

Each six-pounder gun of the Tiger Division had seven gunners, and it was well manned. These gunners worked together to reload the gun in twenty seconds without cooling the barrel.

By the time the soldiers rushed to the 300-meter mark, the shotguns of the Tiger Ben Division had already targeted them to death.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom! Rumble! ”

The sound of a huge artillery bombardment sounded again, first the front of the 100 guns fired one after another, and not long after, the charging thieves on the left and right also rushed into the range of the shotguns, and the 100 cannons on the left and right also fired. Twenty thousand shotgun projectiles swept across the battlefield, like a hurricane that could not be lowered, shattering everything he encountered.

Flesh and blood burst out of the massive wounds caused by the shotgun like worthless water, splattering across the battlefield. The more than 1,000 thieves in the front row fell down one by one like a hurricane in the woods, unable to get up again.

The artillery of this officer army is also too fierce, this is simply a massacre. Some of the thieves were frightened by such a slaughter and fled to the back. However, behind the foot soldier was the Tang Horse who supervised the battle. They swung their swords at the fleeing foot soldiers, forcing them to continue charging forward.

There was no way back, and the foot soldiers had no choice but to continue to charge forward with their swords.

They rushed a hundred meters and rushed into the range of the rifles of the Tiger Division.

In the order to fire from the various platoon commanders, the three thousand five hundred rifles on the front and left and right sides of the Papering Formation opened fire one platoon after another.

Boss Wei was also in the queue for this salvo, and his platoon was arranged on the east side of the front of the entire Roundabout, which was considered to be in the first line. At this point, he aimed at a thief. Unlike the other thieves, this chief was well-armed, dressed in cotton armor and carrying a sword. Boss Wei aimed at the thief's stomach from the rifle crosshair and pressed the trigger.

In the continuous sound of gunfire in his ears, a gunshot on Boss Wei's rifle "snapped" and was almost obliterated. After Boss Wei finished shooting, he hurriedly looked at the enemy in front of him through the smoke coming out of the muzzle.

To his great disappointment, the thief was not shot, but still grabbed the sword and sprinted in this direction.

Boss Wei's bullet flew away, and he was so anxious that his face turned red, but he heard the platoon commander shouting: "Boss Wei! Get down! ”

Boss Wei squatted down helplessly and gave up the shooting position to the shooter behind him. He squatted and loaded while looking at the thief Shi Chang, for fear that this Shi Chang would be killed by others.

But to Boss Wei's disappointment, this chief was quickly killed. This long man is better equipped than the other thieves, and he rushes to the front, so he is naturally a good target to attract attention. The shooters in the second row aimed well and shot him in the left chest. Blood spurted out of his chest several feet high, and his upper body was carried back by the impact of the bullet, and he fell to the ground screaming, convulsing a few times before there was no movement.

Boss Wei scolded the thief, and quickly loaded the charge in his hand. Boss Wei doesn't remember how many times he has hit the target, if not 2,000 rounds, but 1,500 rounds, in short, he is now extremely fast. There is no need to wait for the platoon commander's given loading time to arrive, and he will be able to complete the reload.

Before the shooters in the third row could shoot, Boss Wei loaded the ammunition. He crouched on the ground and used his eyes to search for the most worthy targets among the rogue hordes.

But before Boss Wei could find his target, the rogue foot soldiers had been crushed by the platoon of guns, like a piece of glass suddenly shattered. The 30,000 foot soldiers left behind thousands of corpses and wounded, and without a little fighting spirit, they fled in all directions in a panic.

The soldiers of the third platoon aimed their guns at the fleeing rogue foot soldiers, but never heard the platoon commander's order to shoot.

Until behind the foot soldiers, 23,000 old thieves and Tang horses rode horses and rushed towards the front of the tiger master. (To be continued.) )