Therefore, Sun Chuanting hurriedly ordered the generals to gather their soldiers and generals, not to mix together, and to sort out their establishment before crossing the river.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting ordered to transfer 3,000 soldiers and horses to line up behind the soldiers and horses on the north bank, ready to respond to the sneak attack at any time, in this regard, Sun Chuanting can be said to have the quality of a famous general, should be taken into account, he took into account as much as possible, this time he was also forced to have no way out, he knew very well that these soldiers and horses on hand could be said to be the best soldiers and horses that the court could take at the moment, if once this defeat and then defeat, his head is not guaranteed is a trivial matter, I'm afraid that this Ming Dynasty will never be able to come up with decent soldiers and horses in the future to deal with the Xingtian Army.

A large number of auxiliaries were driven into the river, and several temporary bridges were built quickly, and one by one the auxiliary soldiers were frozen in the icy river water, and their teeth were only lowered, and their lips were also frozen blue, standing in the chest-deep river, scolding while working, and many people were sent to collect materials for building bridges, cutting down some trees on the embankment, and transporting them to the river for bridge-building.

After that Ma Dazhi got the order, he secretly scolded in his heart for being unlucky, he knew very well how deep his water was, thinking about Wu Sangui's arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in Liaodong were not the opponents of the Xingtian thief, he was considered to have taken shit luck yesterday, and met an auxiliary soldier of the Xingtian thief, only to get a small victory, and now it must be the soldiers of the Xingtian Army, let him go will definitely not be pleased, but he blew the cowhide into the sky yesterday, and now he is a pioneer officer, Sun Chuanting sent him to support Wu Sangui, it is also a reasonable thing, I can't help but say a word, Otherwise, Sun Chuanting would not dare to kill those Liaodong soldiers, but if he dared to kill him, please take out Shang Fang's sword and behead him so much, he has no place to shout injustice!

Therefore, Ma Dazhi had no choice but to honestly order troops and horses on the south bank, and as much as possible, he collected some of the tiger squat cannons and more than a dozen light furlong machine guns that had been carried across the south bank and rushed to the front line of the two armies.

And taking advantage of the opportunity of Wu Sangui to collect his troops and recuperate, Liu Yaoben did not order the pursuit, he knew very well that the next official army would definitely carry out a more fierce attack, and it was a very dangerous thing for him to only use a phalanx of more than 2,000 horses to fight the enemy.

So after Wu Sangui was frustrated and retreated, he immediately ordered the soldiers and generals to start building simple fortifications on the spot, and let the soldiers and generals of the army around the camp use the sapper shovels carried by the army to dig the soil on the spot, dig a shallow trench around the perimeter of the large array, and use the excavated soil to pile a low wall over the chest and abdomen on the inside of the shallow trench, and now many infantry troops and even cavalry of the Xingtian Army have become accustomed to carrying such a delicate small shovel with them, and this thing can not only be used for temporary fortifications, And when necessary, after the spearman's spear is broken or lost, it can also be drawn out as a melee weapon to fight with the enemy, as long as it is split by a short shovel, it can still split the enemy's brains and break the tendons, there is no problem in killing people, one more weapon will be more security for them, although they carry more things, the march will be a little tired, but the generals are still willing to bring a guy like this.

Wu Sangui watched the Xingtian army busy from a distance, afraid that the construction of fortifications by the Xingtian army would not be conducive to his next attack, so he sent cavalry to attack the large array of the Xingtian army, wanting to interfere with their construction of fortifications, but Liu Yaoben left some firefighters on the four corners, waiting for their harassment, as soon as the cavalry arrived, they opened fire, and the result was that Wu Sangui lost twenty or thirty cavalry for a while, and dozens of horses were also killed and injured.

Wu Sangui saw that he couldn't stop the Xingtian thieves from digging trenches and building fortifications on the spot, so he simply stopped sending troops to attack and disturb, before the heavy artillery was not transferred, he felt that he couldn't fight with them like this, otherwise he would suffer too much, so he watched as this group of Xingtian soldiers built a simple and low chest wall around their position.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Sangui did not let his subordinates sit idle and watch the Xingtian Army busy, and he also ordered to find some wood on the spot and temporarily put together some oars to provide cover for his subordinates during the next attack.

When it was almost noon, Ma Dazhi led his troops from the river, brought 2,000 reinforcements, and brought more than a dozen tiger squat cannons and Fulong machine guns, Wu Sangui felt that it was too little after seeing it, and the range of the tiger squat cannon was not as far as the fire of the thief army, if you want to open the cannon, you must send gunners to fire in front of the large array of the Xingtian army, which is very dangerous.

However, Sun Chuanting also sent an order, asking Wu Sangui to defeat this group of Xingtian thieves blocking the road as soon as possible, after all, there was such an enemy army nearby when crossing the river, it was a big threat, and it was better to drive them away as soon as possible.

Wu Sangui also agreed with Sun Chuanting's opinion on this point, although the firearms are still not powerful enough to suppress the opponent, but at present, before the bridge has been built and the heavy artillery cannot cross the river, he can only use these light artillery to bombard the opponent first, hoping that the opponent will not be able to bear it and retreat by himself, so he will save a lot of strength.

Wu Sangui immediately ordered to advance in formation again, this time he learned to be a little more obedient, and evacuated as much as possible when the generals lined up, after a row of guns rang out in the province, the soldiers and generals on his side were knocked to the ground in rows, and at the same time ordered the gunners brought by Ma Dazhi to carry their cannons forward, and handed over some of the oars they had put together temporarily, as a cover, and began to outflank the large array of the Xingtian Army from three directions.

And Liu Yaoben here because there is no geographical advantage, can not put the generals into a horizontal column against the enemy, can only use a stable phalanx to resist the enemy, the phalanx of 2,000 people is actually not very big, just can control an area, so it is unable to open the battle line, can only take passive defensive measures, otherwise it may be broken through a little, the whole army will be scattered, in that case, the officers, soldiers and horses are superior, the pile can also pile them to death.

Seeing that the officers and troops were rushing up again, the battalion general Yan Shuting walked up to Liu Yaoben and asked, "Liu Dutong, shouldn't our three-pounder cannon also be pulled out and used?" ”

After Liu Yaoben looked at the situation of the official army, he nodded and said, "You can use it!" However, it is better for them to fire after approaching, and it is better to use scattered shots! Kill more officers and soldiers! ”

This time, when Xiao Tianjian led Liu Yaoben's four battalions to cross the river, because he was in a hurry, he didn't have time to build a bridge, and he was also afraid that his whereabouts would be exposed, so when he crossed the river, he only brought a dozen three-pounder guns, and he relied on manpower to carry them across the river. Therefore, Liu Yaoben agreed to invite these limited three-pounder guns in the army to go into battle.

More than a dozen three-pounder guns were immediately pushed out by the gunners, and they hit the gap in the breastwork that was improvised and framed, and the gunners immediately got busy, and quickly loaded the ammunition, and these gunners acted according to the order, first loaded a solid bullet into the barrel of the gun as a butt, and then stuffed a pack of loose bullets into it, so that a cannon out, it could hit a fan, and the enemy on the front could not defend it, some gunners simply stuffed a wooden butt, and then loaded a pack of grapeshot shells, This is also quite lethal.

The officers and soldiers trembled and advanced in formation, and the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army immediately took their positions behind the breastwork, and put the loaded self-generated firecrackers on the breastwork and aimed them outside the formation, and when the two armies approached seventy paces, the large array of the Xingtian Army once again spit out rows of gunsmoke and flames, and hundreds of gunpowder shells immediately flew out like flying locusts.

I saw that even if someone was shot and fell to the ground miserably, the wounded rolled on the ground in pain, and let out an inhuman-like howl, which shocked the officers and soldiers to be a little frightened, and the archers and firecrackers were even more at such a distance, so they hurriedly began to release arrows and fire back, but the bullets fired in such a panic did not cause any harm to the Xingtian Army at all, but they were in a mess first.

Today's Ma Dazhi is not as powerful as yesterday, so frightened that he hid behind the formation and shouted loudly, forcing his generals to advance, and screaming wildly for the gunners to hurry up and fire back.

The gunners who carried the Tiger Squat Cannon and dragged the Furlong cannon hid behind the relatively safe oars, and slowly arched forward step by step, not yet within their effective range, so Ma Dazhi's roar was also in vain.

The main reason why Xiao Tianjian was able to cast the cannon by himself basically eliminated the Fran cannon and the light Tiger Squat Cannon in the army, the main reason is that these two kinds of guns have a range that is too close, because of the structure of the Furlong machine, it is difficult to combine the sub-gun and the mother gun tightly, the sub-gun is seriously deflated after firing, the wall of the mother gun is also very thin, and the pressure-bearing capacity is not strong, so it is born with a limited range, and the Tiger Squat Cannon is because of the short barrel, although the weight is light and easy to transport, but it is mainly a scatter bomb that is fired. The effective firing range is only about fifty meters, and even the effective range of the bird gun can not catch up, and it can only be roughly aimed, and the loading is also very inconvenient, in wartime, the gunner can only be fired close to the enemy, or wait for the enemy to shoot after rushing, the defense is okay, a cannon blasts out more than 100 bullets, it is very effective to deal with the enemy army charging in clusters, but it is difficult to attack, which is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian finally canceled the tiger squat cannon equipment in the main battle barracks, even if the tiger squat cannon was captured, It was also basically distributed to the reserve battalion for the use of equipment.

Although the weight of this cannon is much more than that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, it is erected on the gun carriage and has a special aiming mechanism to operate the aiming, and the gunpowder loading volume is far more than that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, so the firing range is also many times that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the muzzle velocity of the cannonball is much higher than that of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Furlong Cannon, and the power is naturally much greater.