After the troops retreated to a distance of four hundred paces, the thieves' artillery was no longer lethal, and after a few bounces, the projectile could not even break the shield in the front row. The net is worth your collection.

"Artillery, aim at the enemy artillery, start firing." Li Yan commanded.

At this time, the artillerymen began to place the guns, and then compared with the firing table, the angle was measured with a protractor. After that, under the command of the captain, three guns in a group began to fire at the enemy's large artillery.

However, they had been preparing for a bit of a long time, and by the time they were ready, the guns in the Rogue Formation were all retreating, which adversely affected their aiming.

"Boom", "boom", "boom", the cannon finally opened fire while the thieves' artillery had not yet been completely withdrawn. The projectile flew towards the position of the thief's artillery. Although the three projectiles hit far and near, the difference will not exceed six or seven steps. So even though the thieves' artillery had begun to retreat, the shell still hit a Franco cannon after bouncing, and caused more than dozens of casualties to the artillery and foot soldiers around the artillery.

"Hurry, hurry! You want to die?! Shi Jincai shouted loudly in the distance. He specially went to the side of the gun emplacement, because he knew that the distance of Li Yan's shell bouncing on the ground was seventy or eighty steps away, and it would be very dangerous behind the gun emplacement.

The artillerymen dragged the guns backwards with all their might, and no one paid attention to the ammunition that was placed on the side. The surrounding infantry was also in a panic, but with Li Guo's strict orders and Shi Jincai's troops as the supervising team in the back, there was no confusion in the troops.

The artillery on Li Yan's side only fired one round, and the thieves' artillery was hidden behind the foot soldiers. Li Yan asked the artillerymen to stop firing, and he found that the thieves had been crossing the river from the bridge, and the number of people on the bank was increasing.

He sneered and ordered, "Let the baggage soldiers dig the soil and pack the bags." ”

The baggage soldiers had many empty sacks, which were usually loaded on two carts, and did not occupy much capacity, but at this time they came in handy. Although he knew that the enemy would learn, he could not stop using new weapons and tactics for fear of being learned by the enemy. As long as you don't stop moving forward, and your weapons and tactics are always better than the enemy's, you won't be defeated by any enemy.

The baggage soldiers moved quickly, and they took out picks and shovels from their carts and dug quickly into the ground. Two quarters of an hour later, thousands of bags of dirt were loaded.

Li Yan ordered: "Troops advance quickly!" 300 paces away from the enemy! ”

The teams and battalions that received the order were all units and ran forward quickly under the orders of the officers. When they reached a distance of 300 paces from the enemy, they stopped, and the baggage men and crossbowmen behind followed by carts or dirt bags. After that, the earth bags were placed at the front of the procession, and the earthen walls were built more than three feet high like bricks.

The crossbowmen returned to the back of the line after building the earthen wall, while the baggage soldiers returned to the back of the group and continued to dig and bag the earth on the spot to fill the gaps in the earthen wall.

And Li Yan still has artillery and the rest of the baggage troops, which are carrying the baggage vehicles and artillery to advance at the end.

All this happened so suddenly, the thieves didn't react, they saw Li Yan's army in chaos, and began to rush towards this side. But it soon stopped again, and quickly piled up a wall of sacks in front of it, and I don't know what it was for.

"What are they going to do? Do you want to build a camp? Yuan Zongdi asked suspiciously. They lost the opportunity to attack in the hesitation, Li Yan's infantry had already rearranged their formation, and the cavalry was also on guard behind the ranks.

Li Guo shook his head, and then asked Shi Jincai: "Shi Jincai, what kind of trick is this?" ”

Shi Jin thought for a while, not remembering that he had seen this kind of arrangement when he was there with Li Yan, but he knew that this must be useful. He clenched his fists and replied, "General, we still have to be careful. Now the artillery should be brought up immediately and the artillery should continue to fire. ”

Li Guo nodded, and immediately asked the soldiers to do it.

When the artillery under his command pushed the artillery up, and before they were ready to fire, the artillery on Li Yan's side began to fire first.

"Boom", "boom" After a burst of cannons, the two generals' guns on their side were knocked down from the artillery trucks, and the shooters next to the other guns were also very damaged.

Li Guo kept urging his artillery to fire, and finally in the time it took Li Yan's artillery to reload, they finally fired a few projectiles. However, this time it did not cause any casualties to Li Yan's troops, and the projectile bounced on the ground and jumped to the earthen wall in front of Li Yan's army formation. Although the bags on the earthen wall were broken and a lot of dirt was splashed out, the soldiers behind the earthen wall did not suffer any casualties.

Li Guo and the others were all very surprised, they finally knew that in addition to the city wall, there could be such an inconspicuous earthen wall that could also block the cannonballs.

"Hah! Good stuff! Li Guo suddenly said: "Quick! Let's go get this thing too, no matter how powerful Li Yan's cannon is, it's useless! ”

"It's too late." Shi Jincai muttered.

At this time, Li Yan's artillery fired again, and this time two more cannons were hit, and the casualties of the artillery were even greater. Some of the artillerymen had already begun to flee backwards.

"Get them back!" Li Guo ordered: "Kill two, let the others go back and continue firing!" Use the mound to pile up a gun emplacement for me! ”

After his own soldiers received the order, they caught up with the fleeing artillerymen and cut off three heads with knives in their hands. After that, he carried his head to the various gun emplacements to display, and as for the remaining artillerymen, they kicked and drove back to the side of the cannon.

After that, he commanded: "Let the people behind dig the earth!" Ship me to the front! ”

Li Yan used a telescope to observe and found that only one or two of the large-caliber artillery pieces among the thieves were still intact, so he ordered: "The troops are advancing, two hundred steps in formation!" ”

The teams began to advance rapidly, the sword and shield men and pikemen rushed over the earthen wall, and the tiger squat artillery immediately followed, ready to provide cover for the infantry in front. The crossbowmen in the back carried the dirt bags and followed, and finally the artillerymen began to push forward with the guns.

Li Guo and the others saw Li Yan's troops begin to move forward again, and this time they finally reacted.

"Let the cavalry rush forward!" Li Guo immediately ordered.

But as soon as his cavalry was ready, they saw Li Yan's cavalry also appear opposite them. At this time, the cavalry under his command hesitated, they were afraid of Li Yan's cavalry, if there was another round, it was estimated that there would be no more of them left.

So the cavalry of both sides faced off on the flanks of the ranks, neither of them attacking each other. Li Yan's troops, on the other hand, quickly erected an earthen wall two hundred steps away from Li.

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