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Zhang Ling saw that the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army attacked, so he set up a square formation, the sword and shield soldiers were in front, and the shield was formed on all sides to form a shield wall, followed by the pikemen, when attacking, as long as the shield wall was pulled apart, you could assassinate the approaching enemy soldiers, behind them, near the center of the position, but the archers, they couldn't see the enemy outside clearly, but the sword and shield soldiers were their eyes, once they got the information of the enemy soldiers, they could be thrown into the air for long-range strikes.

He had eight more guns, and the distance was even longer, but unfortunately, almost all the gunners were shot by the rogues.

Although the square array has three layers of security, and it is both offensive and defensive, Zhang Ling is still a little worried, the rogue on the opposite side is not the rogue he saw in the past at all, their artillery is sharper than the Ming army, after the shell lands, it will explode, and his artillery is dead under this unknown running bomb.

When Wang Weizhang asked for help, why didn't he mention the artillery of the rogue? No wonder Hou Liangzhu died in battle...... How is Chengdu doing now? Where is Wang Weizhang at this time?

Zhang Ling regretted a little, he shouldn't have risked losing the rescue of Chengdu, in case the Chongqing government was lost...... That is his station, if you don't go to rescue Chengdu, relying on the three passes of Longdong, Erlang, and Fotu, Chongqing can completely protect itself, but now, ......

He decided to fight a battle first, and if he could not win, he would immediately return to Chongqing, take advantage of the terrain, and wait for reinforcements.

The Mandate of Heaven Army approached the Ming Army, and was dumbfounded, the Ming Army was wrapped in a shield wall, and the bullets of the rifle could not penetrate at all, and the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven realized that the shield was almost the nemesis of the Xining rifle!

Song Wen is also eye-locked, if he can't break the shield of the Ming army, no matter how good the gunner is, he is helpless.

Li Zicheng supervised the battle in the rear, and from the telescope, he had already seen the shield of the Ming army, and had been thinking about countermeasures, according to the previous method, that is, to use artillery, first knock over the shield of the Ming army, and then let the infantry shoot it.

However, at this time, the battlefield was in the narrow area between Bishan and the Yangtze River, and the infantry poured up, and the mountain artillery had nowhere to set up, otherwise it would have crossed over the heads of the infantry, and it was likely that they would have accidentally injured their own people, and when the infantry attacked, the artillery would have ceased fire long ago.

What to do?

The infantry of the Mandate of Heaven, since they were equipped with rifles, in order to save pig iron, have long taken off their armor, and basically have no protective facilities, if they get too close to the Ming army, they will be easy to become targets.

If it weren't for the fact that the battlefield was too narrow, this damn Bishan...... Well?

Li Zicheng had an idea, since Bishan is near the left, why not so......

Bishan limited the width of the battlefield, and of course he increased the height on the left side, if a soldier of a thousand households grabbed Bishan on the left side, and then shot down from the mountain......

The shield of the Ming army can defend the front, but it cannot protect the overhead, in order to leave space for archers to shoot arrows, the shield wall is only guarded around, but the direction of the head is empty.

Li Zicheng can see from the telescope that the shield wall in front of the Ming army is only one and a half people high, if the soldiers of the Song Wenbu occupy Bishan and even climb to the top of the tree, they can shoot from top to bottom, and the maximum range of the Xining rifle can reach 600 steps!

Although it is not possible to shoot all the Ming army, as long as the Ming army suffers casualties and there are loopholes in the shield wall, the other four thousand soldiers can completely annihilate the Ming army.

Li Zicheng immediately sent an order to Song Wen to seize Bishan, Song Wen received the order and looked sideways at Bishan, "The Metropolitan Governor is really a god!" He immediately divided a thousand soldiers and seized Bishan first.

Zhang Ling didn't care, his square formation was at least four hundred steps away from Bishan, even if the Liukou occupied the high ground on the mountain, he couldn't threaten himself, and if he cut off the back road, the threat would be even greater.

Song Wen personally led four thousand gunners to slowly move forward, stopping at two hundred paces in front of the Ming army, the soldiers had no armor and could not enter the range of bows and arrows.

Zhang Ling was a little strange, what did the Liukou stop at 200 paces? Attack, they can only find death, on their own side, after repeated blows by archers and pikemen, the sword and shield soldiers may only be able to pick up some scraps.

If the rogues didn't plan to attack, why did they approach their own array? Is it because the rogue doesn't know the art of war, or is he deliberately paralyzing himself? Do they have any backs?

"Bang, bang, bang......"

Just when Zhang Ling was pondering, the rifle of the Heavenly Mandate Army rang out, followed by the screams of the Ming army, less than ten steps in front of Zhang Ling, a guard was shot in the left shoulder, but he was not dead, he rolled in front of Zhang Ling, screaming again and again!

The number of wounded and screaming soldiers like the guards soon reached dozens, and some soldiers were already dead, lying on the ground silently.

Zhang Ling was taken aback, when did the Liukou approach the big formation? What kind of fire is this #grab?

The shooting continued, and the casualties of the Ming army continued to expand.

Zhang Ling followed the gunfire and saw that he actually came from Bishan, and was immediately surprised, such a long distance, not to mention 400 steps, Liu Kou suddenly had such a sharp firearm......

"General, hide behind the shield wall...... "The guards also saw the direction of the shot, and hurriedly pushed Zhang Ling behind the shield on the right side.

"Did you see clearly, the rogues were shot from Bishan?" Zhang Ling still didn't believe his eyes, four hundred steps, in addition to artillery, in this world, is there a firearm with such a range?

"General, the rogues were indeed shot from Bishan, and many of them even climbed the treetops......"

Zhang Ling remembered that he had just seen with his own eyes that some rogues climbed the trees like monkeys, and they were originally going to shoot from a height......

Bishan is on the left side of the Heavenly Mandate Army, that is, on the right side of the Ming Army, when the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army are shooting, the bullets enter the Ming Army's large array from above, and the Ming Army on the right is hiding behind the shield wall, and still can't shoot, but the archers in the middle, as well as the Ming Army on the left, have become targets one by one.

Who asked Zhang Ling to deploy a square array? The soldiers on the right side of the large array were facing Bishan, just under the guns of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

Needless to say, the wounded soldiers screamed and screamed in the big formation.

Li Zicheng laughed: "These soldiers, who are even more clever than Song Wen, actually climbed to the top of the tree!" ”

"Governor, brothers are up to the tree, will the reload speed be slower?" He Xiaomi was a little worried, "Once the Ming army moves to Bishan......"

"It's okay," Li Zicheng shook his head, "As long as the Ming army's formation does not disperse, the movement speed will not be too fast, and the brothers will have enough time to escape." ”

Compared with Li Zicheng, Zhang Ling's mood was extremely irritable, but Liukou was at least two hundred steps away, even if he let the archers release arrows, it was also a waste of effort, a waste of arrows.

What made him even more angry was that the Ming army was completely passively beaten, and there was no chance to fight back.

Angry to angry, he couldn't watch his brother die, so he had no choice but to let the archers in the middle and the soldiers on the left go behind the squatting wall on the right to hide first, just like himself.

But in this way, the square formation of the Ming army was dismembered, a huge gap appeared on the left, and even the shield wall was gone.

Song Wen is like a cunning hunter, he has been observing the large array of the Ming army, when he encounters such an opportunity, how can he let it go in vain?

"Shoot!"

Song Wen has been waiting for a long time, as long as there is a gap in the formation of the Ming army, he will not hesitate to let the soldiers out, separated by a distance of two hundred steps, anyway, the bows and arrows of the Ming army cannot shoot their own soldiers.

This time, the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven were firing a salvo, they had already prepared everything, and with a military order, more than a thousand soldiers immediately pulled the trigger and let the bullet come out of the chamber, and then crouched down and gave up space to their companions behind.

The Ming army was caught off guard, with heavy casualties, and the large array was full of soldiers shouting and crawling, and there were many corpses, motionless, but looking at Zhang Ling in front of the province.

Zhang Ling was shocked, and changed the formation on the spot, which was a taboo for the soldiers, and he had no choice but to let the soldiers enter under the shield on the right side, but he didn't expect the casualties to be even heavier.

He bears unshirkable responsibility for the death of these soldiers.

The Providential Army would not give him time to think, the shooting continued, the casualties were increasing step by step, and every moment of his hesitation, the casualties of the soldiers would increase a lot.

What to do?

Zhang Yan's brain was spinning rapidly, at this time, he had no intention of attacking at all, and being able to save the lives of these soldiers was the greatest success.

The Mandate of Heaven army had already attacked from two directions, except for the Yangtze River in the east, if the Ming army retreated in the big array, they could all come to the third direction and cut off their own way back.

The wild goose array, the square array, the circular array still don't work, as long as there is a gap, the rogue bullets will come in, unless a huge shield wall is placed on the top of the head......

Zhang Ling suddenly realized, as long as the formation is smaller......

He immediately ordered the soldiers to form miniature circles in groups of ten, with shields on all sides forming a shield wall.

Although the direction of the overhead is still empty, the space is small, and it is difficult for bullets to hit.

After tossing for half an hour, after paying a large number of casualties, the Ming army finally changed to a miniature circular formation, wrapping pikemen and archers in the core.

But in this way, the archers are useless, the space above them is too small, if you want to shoot arrows, you can only shoot at the top of your head, not only do you have no range, but when the arrows fall, you may also shoot yourself or your companions, but there is no threat to the rogues.

Zhang Ling asked the soldiers to maintain their formation, and then slowly retreated to the big camp, as long as they entered the big camp, there would be more protective equipment.

"Da Da Da ......"

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside, and a soldier in the armor of the Ming army drove in from the northwest, "General...... There are cavalry ......"

Before the ranger finished speaking, he fell sideways, fell from the horse, and there was no more news, and the horse swayed two steps, and fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth......

Zhang Ling was shocked, the centaur was obviously overtired and died!

Could it be that the cavalry of the Liukou bypassed Bishan?

He listened attentively, and a dull voice came from the ground, "Da Da Da ......"

Countless cavalry were roaring along the western foot of Bishan, and Zhang Ling's heart was trembling even more violently than the earth......