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A team general immediately shouted under the village wall: "Obey! Then he turned around and ran to the low wall outside the village, and at this time, behind the low wall outside the village, there were already more than a hundred troops of the Heavenly Army, including sixty musketeers, and the rest were sword players and pikemen, ready for battle.

At this time, several light Furlong machines were also erected by the generals on the Zhuang wall, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed at the open ground outside the village, and some gunners had already put the guns into the tail of the mother guns, ready to ignite.

Soon the officers and soldiers of the group took the sword player as the lead, and the killing sound rushed close to the low wall outside the village, and when they were still one or two hundred steps away from the low wall, several cannons of the officers and soldiers opened fire first, and after only a few roars were heard, several projectiles flew by, and smashed heavily into the village wall of Xihe Village, so far it also completely opened the curtain of the battle of Xihe Village.

The members of the Xingtian Army Department inside and outside the village stood straight one by one, facing the crowds of officers and soldiers, unmoved, as if they hadn't seen them at all, no one made superfluous movements at all, just stared coldly at their respective fronts, only in their eyes, there was a flash of cold light, quietly waiting for the officers' orders.

Long-term rigorous training, has made the soldiers of the Xingtian Army form an absolute obedience to orders, even if Mount Tai collapses in front, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army will never mess up, although today they are facing several times their enemy, but not many people put these officers and soldiers in their eyes, at most, they are tense up, ready to engage in battle, as for how to fight, it is not their concern, their own officers will give them orders, they just need to do it when the time comes.

The gunners of the officers and soldiers were really not good, several guns fired one after another, and the shells fired were either too low or too high, originally trying to collapse this section of the low wall outside the village, but they failed to hit the target, and basically did not cause any damage to the Xingtian army.

Xu Yishi stood in the army, looking at the thief army above and below the wall of Hexi Village, seeing that Ma Qian had already led his troops to rush over, and they also fired cannons on their side, but the other party did not move at all, and still stood up and down the village wall like javelins, as if they were all wooden people, which couldn't help but surprise him.

As the person who leads the soldiers, he also has a hundred and ten family members under his command, so he also knows what the quality of an elite soldier should look like, although the official army also requires the soldiers, but the official army has never really done this, and the whole army can be so neat and uniform when the battle is about to happen, and he is not alarmed, just this, he realized that the enemy army he was facing in front of him was probably not as simple as he thought, so he couldn't help but make him feel an ominous feeling in his heart.

Seeing that the more than 500 officers and soldiers were screaming and rushing towards Zhuangzi, a team general standing behind the low wall silently calculated the distance between the enemy and them, and did not observe the landing point of the enemy's shells and the damage caused to them by the shells, and his expression was as calm as usual, as if this was a drill rather than a serious battle, and there was no trace of nervousness at all.

Just when this group of officers and soldiers rushed to eighty steps in front of the low wall outside the village, the general of the squad shouted: "The first row raises guns!" ”

The first row of the three rows of firecrackers lined up behind the low wall immediately lowered the already loaded bird's guns from their shoulders and put twenty bird's guns on the low wall with a brush.

This low wall is very interesting, just enough to allow the soldiers standing behind the low wall to show their positions above the shoulders, except for the head, the rest of the whole body is hidden behind the low wall, and it is also just right for the firecrackers to erect their bird guns, without affecting a little aiming action, to put it bluntly, this low wall is a standard breastwork, which can provide effective protection for the soldiers hiding behind the wall.

At this time, the firecrackers had already lit the firerope on the bird's gun, and they all carefully puffed out their cheeks, gently blowing the fire at the front end of the firerope to keep the fire from going out.

"Fire!" It wasn't until he saw that the officers and soldiers had rushed to a distance of sixty paces outside the low wall that the general on the far right of the team let out a loud roar.

The twenty firecrackers in the first row immediately pulled off the dragon head stuck in the fire rope, and immediately saw a row of gunpowder smoke erupt from the low wall, and a burst of bean-like banging sounded sound.

None of the twenty musketeers in the first row had gone to check the effectiveness of their shots, so they immediately withdrew their hands and removed them from the breastwork, turned around and passed through the two rows of musketeers behind them to the last row, placed them on the ground, and began to nervously reload.

"Second row forward!" The team in charge of commanding the musketeers kept their eyes on the enemy troops outside the wall, only to see the group of officers and soldiers who were rushing forward with a roar, and the soldiers in the front row fell to the ground one after another as if they had hit a wall together, and this round of volleys knocked over seven or eight officers and soldiers, so the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile, and he roared again.

The second platoon of firecrackers stepped forward at the sound of the gunner, came behind the breastwork, put the bird's guns on the breastwork, and after taking a slight aim through the smoke that had not yet dissipated, they opened fire again and fired a volley under the command of the general.

In this way, it can almost be said to be a standard three-stage strike, and twenty firefighters in each row of three rows kept coming forward all the time, taking turns to fire, and the gunpowder smoke from the bird's guns almost enveloped the chest wall, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of gunsmoke.

Looking at the group of officers and soldiers who rushed up, they were unlucky, fifty paces away from the front of the low wall, it almost became a forbidden place for them, and all the officers and soldiers who rushed to this area were beaten by such rows of salvos of birds, and even if some officers and soldiers held shields to cover their figures, they could not stop the shooting of the firearms of the Heavenly Punishment Army at such a close range, as long as they were shot, they would be beaten and fell to the ground.

He never thought that Zhuangzi's thief army would have such ferocious firepower, and almost all of the elite soldiers under his command were pressed in front of him, but in an instant, he was shot and killed by the fierce firepower of the thief army, at least dozens of casualties, and the rest of the officers and soldiers did not dare to rush forward anymore, they shouted in horror, turned around and fled to the back, no one wanted to be the next target to be shot.

And the Ma Qian, who led the team, did not become a victim of this round of shooting by the Xingtian Army because he followed the crowd to supervise the battle, but at this time, he was already frightened and numb, and he didn't dare to oversee the army again, so he had to lead his troops to flee back to the main camp in embarrassment.

"Stop shooting! Ready to reload! Seeing that the officers and soldiers who rushed forward had been repulsed, the commander of the squad ordered to stop firing and told the musketeers to step back and prepare for the next shot, and he also looked ahead from the gradually dissipating smoke.

All this fell in the eyes of Li Xuanzhu and other Xingtian army members standing on the wall of the village, just in the first round of fighting, the officers and troops suffered a big loss, at least forty or fifty corpses were left outside the village, and the attacking officers and soldiers were cut by more than 10% of their troops at once, and it is no wonder that this group of officers and soldiers will flee back so quickly.

So Li Xuanzhu's iron-like black face showed a smile, and his expression relaxed: "Haha! These officers and soldiers are really just a bunch of bears! Well played! Ha ha! ”

After seeing such a scene, the people of the Xingtian Army who were standing on the wall of the village also cheered loudly for their comrades outside the village.

Looking at the group of officers and soldiers of Ma Qianzong who fled back to the formation in embarrassment, the man surnamed Xu was also taken aback, his ominous premonition just now was still fulfilled, this group of bandits entrenched in Hexi Village is indeed not ordinarily powerful, no one thought that there were so many sharp bird guns in the hands of the bandits, in comparison, in the battle just now, the officers and soldiers on his side performed very poorly, except for the two cannons that fired twice, and strengthened their prestige, it can almost be said that they did not cause any damage to this gang of thieves. But at the cost of dozens of people, the morale of the entire army was suppressed a lot, and the soldiers and generals in the army all showed frightened expressions when they looked at this small Hexi village anymore.

So this Xu Yishi no longer dared to despise the small Hexi Village in front of him, seeing that such a rush could not solve the problem, so he had no choice but to order to stop first, and began to order the soldiers and villagers to build a shield car on the spot, and after the shield car was built, the shield car was pushed to attack again.

At this time, Xiao Tianjian had just led Luo Liyi's sentry horses to leave Lotus Village, and on the way he received the news that the official army from the direction of Qinyang had invaded Yangcheng, so he immediately ordered to rush to the north of Yangcheng County again at the speed of a rapid march to support Li Xuanzhu in Hexi Village.

In comparison, the distance between Lotus Village and Hexi Village is three times more than the distance between Qinshui County and Hexi Village, and although Xiao Tianjian is in a hurry to march at the speed of a rapid march, he has to constantly incorporate the rural villagers on the road into the team, so that the speed of the march has been slowed down a lot, and he also has to meet the new barracks led by Liu Bao on the road, which should have been completed in one day, but it took two whole days.

However, Xiao Tianjian was not very worried, although the number of officers and troops from Qinshui County far exceeded the strength of the Xingtian Army under Li Xuanzhu's jurisdiction several times, but with his understanding of the quality of Li Xuanzhu and the generals under his command, even if the official army could break through Hexi Village, I am afraid it would be impossible without three or five days.

Unless it is a crazy attack by the generals who lead the army, it is not as simple as they imagined to take Hexi Village.

So by the time he led his troops to Hexi Village, it was already the evening of the second day when the officers and troops arrived here.