As his spear fell, a loud trumpet suddenly sounded in the big array, and I saw that on the red stone mountain on the left side of the big array, after hearing the sound of the trumpet, it instantly spit out a series of flames, raising clouds of gunsmoke, and then the huge cannon sound roared like rolling thunder on this land.

Huang Shengqiang stood in the middle of the artillery camp position on the hillside with high spirits, and shouted: "Open the cannon!" Fire! Fire! ……”

The six-pounder and eight-pounder guns that lined the hillside were lit up with his roar, and the huge recoil caused the gun carriage to tremble violently and retreat a few paces, and then a large number of gunners swarmed up, pushing the heavy gun carriage with all their might, resetting them once more, and reloading them again at flying speed.

A cannonball with green smoke swept through the sky, with a grim smile, and smashed heavily into the large array of officers and soldiers who were also in the formation at the foot of the mountain, first with a huge impact force in the official army formation to open a bloody alley, and then after losing kinetic energy, there was an explosion, tearing the surrounding officers and soldiers to pieces on the spot, of course, there were many dumb bombs, and a small number of shells exploded in the air, but these volleys that flew above the heads of the officers and soldiers brought greater damage to the officers and soldiers. The shrapnel swept over the heads of a large number of officers and soldiers like a torrential rain, instantly cutting their bodies apart and harvesting their lives in an instant.

This is the first time that the Xingtian Army has used such a large-scale flowering shell in a war, and this time the position of the artillery array selected by Xiao Tianjian also happens to be on the slope of the Hongshi Mountain on the left flank where the two armies are holding each other.

The range of the artillery of the Xingtian Army is far beyond the range of all kinds of artillery commonly equipped in the official army, and at present, in addition to the kind of dead and heavy Hongyi cannons that the official army is equipped with a small number of equipment, the general cannons, Dalian Zhu Cannon (Furlong machine) and other messy artillery that are generally equipped cannot hit such a long distance at all, if Huang Degong, who has not suffered the loss of the Xingtian Army's artillery, cannot be predicted in advance, so in his opinion, the place where he stopped the formation should be hundreds of steps away from the hillside, and it should be safe. That's why he will be so big at the foot of the mountain, this is also a trap set by Xiao Tianjian for Huang Degong after personally inspecting the terrain in this area in advance, the thing of war, the pursuit is the right time, place and people, which is full of deceit, not to mention any war morality, the most important thing is to win, so for the yin enemy, it is Xiao Tianjian likes to do very much, and today he did it again, making full use of the terrain advantages here, and Huang Degong's group of officers and soldiers did not understand the advantages of the Xingtian Army's artillery, so they made a big deal out of them.

And through the repeated experiments of the craftsmen of the Shuangfeng Village Craftsman Battalion, now the Xingtian Army has already overcome the difficulty of flowering bombs, and the six-pound and eight-pounder guns in the army are generally equipped with this kind of explosive flowering shells, although they have been used in war before, but today is the first large-scale centralized use of this flowering bomb by the Xingtian Army, and it can be said that it is a blockbuster, and it immediately achieved very good results, even if it is because of technical limitations caused by a lot of dumb fire phenomenon, But it also caused huge damage to Huang Degong's department.

The power of the salvo of more than 30 medium and large-caliber artillery pieces was also a very terrifying scene, and the entire Hongshi Mountain was like a volcano erupting, and Huang Degong's large array was immediately filled with gunpowder smoke and flesh and blood.

Huang Degong's war horse was also shocked by a near-miss bullet, and the air wave generated by the explosion even rushed to Huang Degong's body, and suddenly overturned the family around him, and the war horse neighed wildly, and jumped high with his front hooves. At the same time, fortunately, the explosion power of the flowering bomb in this era is far less than that of the grenades of later generations, and the fragments are relatively few, otherwise, this cannon may have sent Huang Degong to drive the west on the spot.

Huang Degong then understood, why the Xingtian Army lined up to meet his army in this inconspicuous small place, it turned out that the other party had already dug a pit and waited for him to lead his troops to jump, what made him even more frightened was that he didn't expect that this thief army actually had so many cannons, and these cannons should obviously belong to the category of Hongyi cannons, they hit far and accurately, and they also used flowering shells, as a general from Beijing, he Huang Degong had seen this kind of Hongyi cannon, and he had also seen flowering shells, But I didn't think that this kind of powerful thing that was regarded as an important weapon of the country by the Ming Dynasty actually had it, and there were so many of them, that Huang Degong immediately understood that this time he was unlucky.

"Steady! Order the armies to stabilize, fire artillery, and quickly fire back! Don't mess around! Beat the drum and beat the trumpet to push forward! Although Huang Degong was shocked in his heart, as a general from the famous Beijing camp in the late Ming Dynasty, Huang Degong immediately made the right choice.

Although the power of artillery in this era is far less than the power of artillery in later generations, even if it is the use of flowering shells, because the power of black powder is limited, the power of the explosion is not much, really even if it causes damage, for the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the official army, if the officers and soldiers are well-trained and have excellent psychological quality, the damage caused by this artillery bombardment is only a drop in the bucket, but unfortunately the officers and soldiers do not have such psychological quality, they have not been bombarded with cannons like this, Therefore, even though the casualties were not as great as imagined, such a fierce and sudden shelling still caused a considerable shock to these officers and soldiers, so that after the shelling began, the officers and soldiers quickly showed chaos.

At this time, the artillery bombardment of the thief army has caused chaos to the official army, if once the chaos of the army cannot be controlled now, and the army retreats in a hurry, this battle will be directly defeated, and the Xingtian army only needs to take advantage of the opportunity of their panic retreat to urge the army to cover up and kill, then the result of this battle will be very miserable for the officers and troops under his command, so even if Huang Degong is frightened, he still quickly made a correct response.

When the panicked officers and soldiers heard the sound of drums in the big array, they hurriedly looked towards the Chinese army, saw Huang Degong's command flag waving, and ordered the whole army not only not to retreat, but also to advance forward and fight against the opposite thief army. Isn't this a search for death? Huang Degong is crazy! This is to fill in the lives of Lao Tzu! Leave him alone, withdraw! Hurry up and leave, it's all over if you leave late! ”

This guerrilla Zhang is not a general like Huang Degong, this person is as timid as a mouse, this guerrilla general also relied on money and whiskers to shoot horses in exchange, which is why he was ordered to gallop to Ruzhou until Huang Degong led his troops from Jiangbei to Runing Mansion, he slowly swallowed the reason why he led the Guangzhou soldiers under his command to join Huang Degong in Runing Mansion, he didn't dare to move forward alone, if he was faster, although it can't be said that he can save Ruzhou, but at least he can catch up before the Xingtian Army attacks Baofeng, rushed to Baofeng to strengthen the garrison of Baofeng County, at least not to let the Xingtian Army take Baofeng County in one go.

After today's formation, as soon as he saw the lineup of the Xingtian Army opposite, he was already a little numb in his heart, and when he was wondering if they could win this battle, the Xingtian Army began to shell them on the hillside, and several shells also fell in his army, killing and wounding dozens of officers and soldiers under his command on the spot, although the loss was not big, but this Zhang guerrilla had already been frightened out of his courage, at this time Huang Degong ordered to advance forward against the artillery fire of the thief army, and Zhang Dacheng immediately ignored the order to retreat.

Hearing Zhang Dacheng's order to retreat, these Gwangju soldiers, who had long been numb, all let out a frightened scream, and they began to retreat without looking back.

The 3,000 Gwangju soldiers pushed and pushed each other together, scrambling to flee the battlefield as if the camp had been bombed, which suddenly caused even greater confusion on the entire front of the officers and troops.

Huang Degong turned his head and saw the movement of the Gwangju soldiers on the left flank, and immediately became angry and almost vomited blood, Zhang Dacheng, as a general who obeyed his orders, actually fled without obeying the order, and this battle seemed to be in big trouble.

And the right flank of his Chinese army is the officers and soldiers of Runing Mansion, these officers and soldiers are no better than the Gwangju soldiers, and the main target of the artillery bombardment of the Heavenly Army is concentrated on them, and the general who was hesitating whether to obey Huang Degong's order to advance forward turned his head and saw that the Gwangju soldiers on the left flank had retreated, so he immediately ordered to turn around and retreat, and in an instant, the officers and troops with the right wing also collapsed on their own.

Huang Degong was angry at this time and sat on horseback and scolded, claiming that he was going to behead these two wastes, this battle was really impossible to fight, and then looked at the Xingtian Army on the opposite side, but at this time, he took advantage of the opportunity to open the cannon, and had already begun to step on the drum like a wall neatly, and pushed it towards the direction of the official army.

Clusters of glittering spears began to be flattened like a forest, and every soldier of the Heavenly Army flashed a fanatical gaze in their eyes, holding their breath and striding forward step by step.

At the same time, the firecrackers in the army, while controlling their own pace and moving with the army, also began to unload the firecrackers from their shoulders and began to reload in the march, and the loading between the marches is a compulsory subject in the training for the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army, although some recruits are a little nervous about the battle, and the loading is a bit rushed, but most of the firecrackers still completed the loading relatively smoothly, or lit the fire rope, or pulled the head of the flint stuck in the flint, and carried the prepared firecracker on the shoulder again, Hu Biaobiao stepped on the drum and pressed towards the official army.

Poor Huang Degong has the heart to make contributions, but his subordinates don't give their strength, they run one by one and are scared of weak legs, how can they not meet and fight hard with this Xingtian army, seeing that the two wings collapse by themselves, if the main force under his command catches up again, it will be in vain, Huang Degong can only sigh, and orders the horse: "Withdraw!" ……”

This battle can be said at the beginning of the shelling, has already decided the fate of the official army led by Huang Degong, with the retreat of the official army, the already chaotic formation can be said to collapse on the spot, because the official army is this virtue, as long as there are comrades to collapse, then the fear will spread infinitely to all the soldiers and horses, this is the case in the north against Jiannu, and now in the face of both equipment and morale are far higher than their Xingtian army, the official army once again carried forward their fine traditions as always, There was a big meltdown.

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