The Selector Regiment walked in the deserted fields, led by the scouts, all the way east, looking for the soldiers and horses who had returned to the old country. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After walking seventeen or eight miles to the east, the scouts reported that the thief camp of Lao Hui was three miles away. Li Zhi rode on his horse and looked up, and he had already seen Lao Hui returning to the huge thief camp. There are more and more Tangma scouts around the old return, and the scouts of the selection group can no longer stretch.

From time to time, there were a few gunshots in front, and it was the scouts of the Selective Regiment who began to shoot at the old returning Tangma.

Li Zhi withdrew the scouts, and instead of letting the Selector Regiment advance, he asked the soldiers to load their rifles and line up in a semicircle on a slightly higher mound. The whole formation is a side of a semicircle, on the side are three layers of soldiers, and the middle of the side of the semicircle is facing the soldiers and horses of the old return. Li Zhi also asked the artillerymen to unload the cannons from the artillery carts and arrange the cannons on the two wings of the semicircular array.

Li Zhi asked the soldiers in charge of calibrating the cannons to stand on the highest point of the mound to observe the landing point of the shells, and then let the artillery start bombarding the barracks of Lao Huihui.

The artillerymen used moments to measure the straight-line distance from the old Hui thief camp to the artillery, and used the gun gauge to measure the elevation angle and adjust the angle of the artillery. Then the amount of gunpowder was calculated with a ruler, the packets of gunpowder with a fixed weight were torn open and charged to the artillery, the gunpowder was solidified with a wooden spoon, a solid shell was inserted, and then a solid gunpowder was filled. Then the artillerymen poured a little gunpowder into the ignition at the tail end of the cannon as a firing charge, and then the artillerymen stood on both sides of the artillery, and the gunner loaded the fire rope at the ignition place and prepared to fire.

Li Zhi shouted and fired, and the gun commanders lit the arquebus. Only forty loud bangs were heard, and the soldiers of the Election Regiment subconsciously covered their ears.

Huge sparks and smoke came out of the muzzles of the cannons, and forty solid iron cannonballs were fired at the old returning thief camp.

The thief camp was very large, and it was impossible for such a huge target six-pounder cannon to miss it, and all forty cannons were hit in the thief camp. The cannonball landed on the ground, on the tent, and even on the body of the rogue, piercing everything they hit, sending out a splash of debris and blood, and then with a flick on the ground, it continued to hit forward, and then hit a military horse or the body of a rogue, and then hit the ground, and then bounced forward, beating the old returning thief camp into a mess.

In just one fire, forty guns wounded and killed seventy or eighty thieves.

The neighing of the half-dead horses and the screams of the wounded thieves immediately resounded in the thief camp, and the frightened thieves who didn't know what was going on panicked and fled in all directions.

The timid and fearful hungry soldiers were originally the people who were carried by thieves, but at this time, they were frightened when they saw the shells falling from the sky, and they couldn't help but want to escape.

Lao Hui Ma Shouying heard the noise, rushed out of his big tent, and looked at his own camp in some panic. He grabbed the collar of a herald who had fled and shouted, "What's the matter?" ”

"The officers and soldiers are here! Officers and soldiers, officers and soldiers have artillery! ”

Just now, Lao Huihui heard a report from the scout, saying that a small army of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers had approached his main camp a few miles away, and Lao Huihui didn't take it seriously -- he had more than 10,000 hungry soldiers and 8,000 soldiers and horses, and 1,000 officers and soldiers would not dare to attack unless they came to send them to death! Ma Shouying estimated that those officers and soldiers were here to investigate, and they would go back after a while.

Unexpectedly, this army of officers and soldiers not only dared to attack themselves, but also artillery, so they opened fire on their own battalion.

Ma Shouying was so angry that he jumped like thunder, and said loudly: "The whole army is going to attack and take these sons of bitches to the officers and soldiers!" ”

Only then did the heralds find their backbone, and one by one they took action to convey the orders of the horse guards to the battalions. The 8,000 thieves gradually mobilized, took up their weapons and mounted their horses, and began to drive the hungry soldiers who were in a hurry to the outside of the stockade.

The hungry soldiers, armed with rudimentary swords and even scythes and hoes, were assembled and sent to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder.

However, it took time for the troops to assemble, and the thieves had not yet assembled, and the second batch of forty shells flew over. Under the guidance of the corrector, this time forty six-pounder guns were aimed at the middle of the old Hui Hui barracks. With the help of moments, gauges, and rulers, the forty shells were very accurate, and even if they deviated from the target, they only deviated by more than ten meters, and crashed into the huge team of thieves who were gathering.

Six-pound iron cannonballs bounced off the ground, piercing wildly through the assembled ranks of thieves. Each time it encounters a flesh and blood, the cannonball shatters the flesh and bones, penetrates them, and continues to pierce the body of the next soldier, bouncing on the ground, and then continuing to stab. Forty shells were like forty Grim Reapers, pulling out forty lines of flesh and blood in the ranks of the soldiers guarding the horse.

In just a few seconds, more than 100 soldiers were broken by the shells and fell in the middle of the thief camp.

The hungry soldiers have completely lost their fighting spirit, they are originally wrapped in people, how dare they use their fragile bodies to fight against this cold cannonball? Some of the hungry soldiers were going to flee.

But the 8,000 soldiers of Ma Shouying had not lost their fighting spirit, and they raised their swords and slashed at the hungry soldiers who tried to escape, forcing the hungry soldiers who fled in confusion back.

Ma Shouying was also shocked by this murderous shell, more than a thousand officers and soldiers actually had forty cannons? Where did this come from? I have been wandering around the Ming Dynasty for seven years, and I have never seen an officer or army with such strong firepower.

The artillery was fierce, and there was no time to carefully form the team, so Ma Shouying shouted: "Attack!" Rush over and kill these sons of bitches! ”

Eight thousand old thieves shouted loudly, drove out thirteen thousand hungry soldiers out of Dazhai, and killed the officers and soldiers four miles away. Ma Shouying was a little afraid of the firepower of these officers and soldiers, and did not rush to the front as usual, but rode in the middle of the three thousand pond horses.

The thieves had walked less than a mile, and when they had reached a distance of two miles from the Selection, forty cannons opened fire again.

Forty shells whistled sharply in the air, mercilessly crashing into the massive ranks of thieves.

Another piece of flesh and blood flew sideways, and the cannonball bounced and pierced, piercing through the bodies of the third and fourth layers of soldiers. Whether it is a hungry soldier armed with a scythe or a pond horse equipped with two war horses, they are all dead at the touch of this deadly cannonball. Even if it is hit by a shell, it will be immediately cut off, and there will be no combat ability at all.

Severed limbs and blood flew out of the trajectory of the cannonballs, pig-killing screams rang out everywhere, and more than a hundred more people fell in pools of blood.

The timid and fearful hungry soldiers could no longer stand such bombardment, they were farmers who cultivated the land, where did they have the courage to fight such an enemy? Where is this official army? This is a heavenly soldier! Only a "boom" was heard. The hungry soldiers scattered and fled in all directions. Even if there were ruthless horses chasing after them, they would never look back, and resolutely did not go to those death-like officers and soldiers.

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