With many officers being shot and killed, there are mortars raging on their heads, and there are dense bullets shooting in front of them, these Yizhou troops still have the courage to charge, which is already a rare elite, and Yan Yan's army is still a hand.

These Yizhou infantry were not equipped with hoplites, and the iron armor and chain mail on their bodies could not stop bullets at all.

When they finally rushed to the front of the formation, hundreds of grenades flew out of the central army's formation and completely broke up their attack.

The officers were all dead, and naturally no one organized cover when retreating, but just like herding sheep, they ran around with their heads in their hands, and in this wave of attack, at least 6,000 people fell in front of the defense line of the Central Army.

Although it was not the first time he had seen the power of the musket, Liu Bei was still shocked.

The last time in Jingzhou, when Zhang Fei died under the muskets, Lu Bu only brought more than a hundred guns, but this time it was a salvo of 3,000 muskets, the scene was too spectacular, and the number of mortars was much more than last time.

comforted Yan Yan, who even rolled and crawled, and escaped back, lead bullet hit him on the arm, and Lang Zhong, who was with the army, didn't know how to treat gunshot wounds, so he could only sprinkle them with medicine powder to stop bleeding, and then bandaged it simply.

The lead bullet was not taken out in time, which also caused Yan Yan to lose one of his left arms.

Liu Bei ordered Wei Yan to lead 20,000 Jingzhou infantry and more than 10,000 Yizhou troops attached along the way to attack again.

This time, Wei Yan attacked both the center and the left in the center.

On the hill on the left side of the Central Army was the 1st Garrison Division defending, and it was the first time they had used muskets to participate in actual combat, but after all, they had practiced several times, and they often fired live ammunition in normal times, so they were not nervous.

The 1st Garrison Division is also fully capable of infantry and amphibious combat, so unlike the 1st Rong Division, which still retains hoplites, they are also all musketeers, the same as the Special Operations Division.

Anyway, the range of the flintlock pistol has reached one hundred and twenty zhang, which is not much more than the bow and crossbow, and it can fire outside the range of the bow and crossbow, so there is no need for hoplites to resist the attack of the bow and crossbow.

The Jingzhou army brought by Liu Bei was all elite, with 5,000 hoplites among the 20,000 infantry, all equipped with large shields, 5,000 crossbowmen, a pair of crossbows, and 10,000 spearmen.

Therefore, when they attacked, they naturally sent out the large shields that relied on the hoplites as cover, and the others hid behind the large shields, relying on the large shields and heavy armor to resist the fire of the muskets.

In such an offensive mode, the casualties were of course much smaller than Yan Yan's army.

Under mortar and musket fire, they rushed into range of the repeaters and immediately began to attack.

But as they stepped out from behind the shield, they also exposed themselves.

The snipers of the Central Army immediately targeted them, and when they could not hit the officers, they suppressed their crossbowmen.

At such a close distance, snipers can almost shoot their heads with guns, and by the end of the day, it is already a great courage to stand up and fire a repeater.

The hoplites were still desperately pushing forward, trying to cover their spearmen in hand-to-hand combat with the center.

The musket is indeed a weapon for long-range attacks, but I don't believe it can be so useful in hand-to-hand combat?

The Central Army naturally had a way of dealing with their tactics, and each platoon of musketeers, after firing, would retreat sharply from both ends of the queue and reload their ammunition.

Then the musketeers of the second platoon fired a volley, and the cycle repeated, and the entire line of the Central Army began to slowly retreat.

The hoplites of the Jingzhou army were heavily armored and shielded, carrying a lot of weight, and those attacking the hills had to attack on their backs, and the advance speed was very slow.

The musketeers were much lighter, so they kept plenty of distance between them. If you want to fight hand-to-hand, you have to catch up first.

Seeing his robes fall one by one around him, while he could only hide behind the big shield, finally the spearman couldn't stand this passive beating.

So the spearmen of the Jingzhou army came out one after another, and despite Wei Yan's resistance, they launched the final charge against the central army, and at this time, the mortars never stopped attacking.

As we got closer to the Central Army, there were fewer and fewer shells overhead, but the bullets still whistled past our ears.

It was close, and the spearmen in Jingzhou could even see the faces of the Central Army clearly, everyone had a cold expression, and there was only killing in their eyes, and the Jingzhou Army was just a military feat in their eyes.

When they saw the spearmen rushing out of the big shield, the company commanders and platoon commanders of the Central Army all smiled, with a cold smile, "Don't move them, let them get closer, and greet them with grenades!" ”

Finally, the last thirty zhang became a trench between the Jingzhou Army and the Central Army, and the grenade easily smashed the charge of the spearmen with weak protection.

At such a close distance, the musketeers did not need to aim carefully at all, and they could hit each other's bodies no matter how they could hit each other.

The light armor of the spearmen could not hold back the fragments of the grenades or the lead bullets of the flintlock muskets, and a large number of spearmen fell in an area of thirty feet.

Seeing such a huge loss, Wei Yan could only retreat from Mingjin.

Liu Bei didn't blame him, his strength was inferior to others, and such a result was expected.

Seeing that the firearms of the Central Army had completely formed a three-layer firepower network in the far, middle and near, and there were no more loopholes, Liu Bei felt a deep despair.

Pang Tong saw that Liu Bei was a little delirious, and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Lord, the matter of entering Sichuan is no longer possible, let's withdraw our troops quickly!" ”

Liu Bei woke up like a dream, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, yes, withdraw the troops, withdraw to Jingzhou!" ”

Yan Yan on the side heard that Liu Bei was going to withdraw his troops, and he wanted to persuade a few words.

Liu Bei said with a wry smile on his face: "General Yan Yan, you have also seen that neither you nor I can break the defense of Lu Bu's army, and we can't even get hand-to-hand combat!" ”

"If we continue to attack forcibly, you and my two armies will be lost here, and now the plan can only be to withdraw to Jingzhou first, leaving Qingshan without fear of no firewood, and then we will think about it in the long run."

"You can't go to Chengdu anymore, it's better to go back to Jingzhou with me, and I will send someone to find a way to pick up your family and Brother Liu Zhang from Chengdu!"

Yan Yan also knew that what Liu Bei said was the truth, so he no longer blocked it, and the two armies were like a tide, and the rear team became the front team, and returned the same way.

After the battle, only more than 10,000 corpses and wounded were left in front of the line of defense of the Central Army.

Lu Bu and Zhuge Liang, who had been watching the battle from the rear of the central army's middle defense line, both smiled slightly when they saw Liu Bei start to retreat.

"Kong Ming, it seems that you still know this Pang Tong Pang Shiyuan best, he won't give up if he doesn't make a shot! It's just that he has already gone so far into Shudi, and it is not so easy to return to Jingzhou safely! ”

(End of chapter)