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Xiao Tianjian did not give a loud order until this moment: "Breaking the enemy is today, my Xingtian Army will take it as its own responsibility to suppress the soldiers and calm the people, and today Xiao Mou and the brothers of the army will fight together, and they will definitely crush Zuo Liangyu's bandit army here!" Kill! ”

With a burst of fierce military horns sounded, the camp gates of several large camps were opened in an instant, and a group of soldiers and generals of the Xingtian Army rushed out of the camp in a row with loaded guns and ammunition, and they stepped on the drum beat one after another, almost in a dazzling way, and opened a large array outside the camp at a rapid speed, and in the area of Gaoyang Town, west of Qixian County, more than ten phalanxes of different sizes were suddenly densely arranged, and they were lined up in front of the camp like fish scales. （..)

Zuo Liangyu reined in the middle of the army, his expression suddenly stiffened, and he watched the Xingtian Army rush out of the camp like a trick, and arranged a series of phalanxes in front of his army, its speed was so fast, the peak of the army, and the neatness of the formation, almost he had never seen it, and suddenly his heart chuckled, and after scanning the large array of the Xingtian Army, he immediately asked a thousand general who was in charge of the sentry under him: "Where is the cavalry of the thief army?" ”

This sentry detective Qian Zong also looked at the large array of the Xingtian Army in front of him in horror, and after scanning a circle, he didn't see the team of the thief cavalry, so he stammered and replied: "Lord Qiyu, I didn't find out where the thief cavalry is!" ”

Zuo Liangyu is a very smart guy, when he looked at the lineup of the Xingtian Army, he did not find that a large number of cavalry of the Xingtian Army appeared, and he realized that there was probably something big going on today, and the thief army had no reason not to bring out a large number of their cavalry in such a battle, if the Xingtian Army did not bring out the cavalry, then it means that these days, the cavalry of the thief army is not in the camp at all, so they are not in the camp, where can they be?

"Quickly send a sentry to search for the thief cavalry in the surrounding area! Report me as soon as you have news! Zuo Liangyu was furious after hearing this, but he didn't have time to deal with this Qian Zong at this time, so he ordered angrily.

This Qian Zong also realized that the situation was wrong, and began to arrange for the sentinel Pegasus to search for the cavalry of the Xingtian Army in all directions.

Zuo Liangyu used to work under Cao Wenzhao in his early years, and served as a soldier in the border town, accumulated over the years, large and small have fought hundreds of battles, he is still quite keen on the battlefield, has defeated Zhang Xianzhong many times, and even disrespected Xiong Wencan, and finally proved that his judgment was correct, Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Guoneng were defeated, so he accumulated quite a wealth of war experience, and found that a large number of cavalry of the Xingtian Army did not appear, and realized that he may have been tricked, But at this time, the two armies have already opened their positions, and he can't choose to withdraw from the battlefield at this time, and evacuate this place, because the morale can be boosted but not vented at this time, once he brazenly orders the withdrawal of troops, it will definitely make the morale accumulated in the army for several days be severely defeated, and once the Xingtian Army takes the opportunity to cover up and kill, he will definitely lose this battle.

So at the moment, he can only continue to wave his army forward, and face off with the Xingtian Army, looking forward to relying on his military superiority to crush the Xingtian Army, otherwise the consequences may be unimaginable, and he can also see that the Xingtian Army is actually hiding its strength in the past few days, which is to consume his morale.

As the drums and trumpets of the two armies sounded, the two huge armies began to rush towards each other without hesitation, but in comparison, it can be found that the officers and troops on Zuo Liangyu's side had almost no formation at all, and they only deployed various arms and advanced towards the Xingtian Army in a straight line.

On the other hand, although the Xingtian Army was also moving forward, it maintained a neat formation, and the various phalanxes were staggered and coordinated with each other to advance forward, and there was no scene of a swarm of swarming forward, and the soldiers and horses of the two sides showed their gap at this time.

With the sound of a cannon, the prelude to the battle of Gaoyang Town, Qixian County was completely opened, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the artillery array in the Xingtian army array, and then the roar rolled to the battlefield like thunder, and one after another the shells flew out of the cannon chamber and smashed heavily into the formation of Zuo Liangyu's official army, and then there was a roar one after another, and some of these shells quickly exploded in the official army array. Quickly blasted out pieces of open space in the dense crowd, and the flesh and blood of the soldiers and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command flew sideways, and the stumps and broken arms flew into the air with gunsmoke, and the screams immediately rang out.

Although Zuo Liangyu also has cannons on his side, he also began to fire and open fire, but how can their cannons be compared with those of the Xingtian Army, although a small number of cannonballs have fallen in the Xingtian Army, but most of these shells are solid bullets, at most, they can open a blood alley in the formation of the Xingtian Army, far less powerful than the flowering shells used by the Xingtian Army, and their cannon range is limited, and the use is far less mature than the Xingtian Army's norms. On the side of the officers and troops, a large number of soldiers and horses will be beaten to pieces, either scattered on the spot, or they will turn around and run away, while the battalion's three-pounder light guns will be pushed to the front of the array and directly bombard the officers and men in the vicinity.

Such a dense formation is the best target for artillery, and there is almost no need to aim carefully, as long as it is not fired too low or too high, every cannon will hardly miss.

The short and intensive artillery bombardment immediately let Zuo Liangyu know that the Xingtian Army was powerful, and seeing the scene of flesh and blood flying in the formation of his own side in front of him, Zuo Liangyu suddenly retreated, but he didn't dare to order the troops to be withdrawn at this time, so he could only continue to supervise the army forward and use human flesh to bear this kind of iron rain.

As soon as the two armies exerted their strength, they began to approach rapidly, and the soldiers and horses of the reserve battalion were arranged in a slightly further position between the phalanx of the main battle battalion to make up for the lack of the main force of the Xingtian Army.

As the distance between the two armies approached, and when the other side approached the distance of sixty or seventy paces from themselves, the archers of the officers and soldiers and a small number of musketeers began to be transferred to the front of the army.

The officers in the army roared, and a row of firecrackers came out of the crowd, flattening the bird's guns or self-made firearms on their shoulders, and with the roar of the officers, they immediately rushed towards the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

With such a dense crowd, there is no need for too precise aiming, not to mention the distance of sixty or seventy paces, it is basically impossible to accurately hit a target with this kind of smoothbore gun on the size of a human body, so the gunners do not do fine aiming, and after the gun tube is put down, they immediately start firing.

A row of projectiles flew out quickly, and a field of blood rose in front of the officers and soldiers, and many of the archers of the officers and soldiers did not have time to release an arrow, so they wailed and rolled over on their backs, and a cloud of blood mist rose from their bodies, and they fell to the ground and howled in pain.

And the nightmare of the official army has just begun at this time, just as before the invention of the machine gun, some military experts said, the war depends on who has the most rifles, can win, the Xingtian Army is equipped with a large number of bird guns is actually the prototype of the rifle, and now Xiao Tianjian under these generals, just all kinds of bird guns and self-generated guns are equipped with more than 2,000, the number of fire guns basically reached 30% or even 40% of the strength of the battalion, once the collective turn to fire, almost every salvo, It can shoot hundreds of projectiles, and even if the hit rate of these shells is limited, they can knock over nearly 100 officers and soldiers in one round.

And although the officers and soldiers also fired arrows at the same distance, the damage caused to the Xingtian Army was very limited, fifty steps can be said to be the limit of the range of the infantry bow, and the number of bows equipped by the officers and soldiers is not very much, after all, this thing is much more complicated than the manufacture of knives and guns, and the manufacturing time and cost are even far more than the manufacturing speed of the firecracker, and it takes two years for the craftsmen with good craftsmanship to make a qualified strong bow, so many archers in Zuo Liangyu's army are even equipped with a single bow, The use of light arrows, for the armored enemy, a little farther away from the body will not cause any damage to the enemy, the two sides close the distance and then fight each other and then the sentence is high, the sound of the Xingtian Army in a row, almost like raindrops stretched, the three-stage strike at this time in order to ensure the continuity of firepower, was adjusted to a five-stage attack, the firecrackers were divided into five waves, back and forth to fire, never stopped.

It was only a short time, in front of the Xingtian Army, there were a large number of officers and soldiers who were shot to the end, and the archers who were transferred to the front of the array were even more seriously wounded, so frightened that some archers lost their bows, turned around and ran to the back, but there were still people who were knocked to the ground by the bullets from behind, and the entire army formation was immediately chaotic under such intensive shooting, and some generals saw that the situation was not right, so they sent the sword players to raise their shields to block the guns of the Xingtian Army, trying to let the knife players block the projectiles and continue to press the soldiers and horses. This was more effective at first, after all, the penetration of the smoothbore gun at a distance of sixty or seventy paces was already limited, but when the officers and soldiers finally approached a distance of about thirty paces, the shield of the knife player also lost its effect, and one by one the bullets pierced the shield in their hands, and hit the body of the shield bearer, and immediately the knife player fell in rows.