At the same time, a little farther away, Huang Zide and Liu Jiexuan were also looking at this side, saying similar things.

"Lao Liu, look at those officers and soldiers, if Gao Jie of the dog day is still on our side now, and he has trained the soldiers like this, what are you going to do with him?" Huang Zide said with a grin, as if he had completely forgotten what happened back then.

"If Gao Jie's dog thing is still on our side, it is impossible to train soldiers like this." Liu Jiexuan said, "Before he could spoil our soldiers like this, Lao Tzu would have dragged him down in accordance with the regulations!" If you want to say that when we and the military advisor just set those rules, everyone thought that my old Liu Ding had too many rules, and everyone was not free. If you want me to say, it's all for everyone's good. Marshal, you think, our regulations are so clear, everyone can't make a big mistake, and before they make a big mistake, they have already been punished and corrected by us. As a result, at most, he was scolded twice, and he even had less time to beat the military stick, and as for this, it was even more impossible to train soldiers to be such bullshit and deserve to be beheaded. We set the rules so finely, in fact, we are protecting our brothers. ”

Huang Zide nodded and said, "Your sister-in-law said the same thing." Well, they're almost within range of their bows and arrows, right? It's a pity that the field artillery that the Taoist chief said has no shadow yet, otherwise it would ......"

……

At this time, the infantry of the official army had already approached no more than a hundred paces from the breastwork, and behind the mandarin duck formation of the revolutionary army, there were about 300 archers, and they were ready to attack at this time. The archers stuck their arrows in the ground in front of them, and their bows were in their hands. With the officer's order, they mounted their bows and arrows together, and threw the arrows upwards in front of them. If it was shot in this way, it would have been a light arrow, and if it had been many years ago, such a projectile would have posed a limited threat to the imperial army. But because today's officers and soldiers are not the same as they were back then, and today's officers and soldiers are extremely lacking in armor, these light arrows of the "thief army" can also cause them huge damage. Just like the same light arrows used by the officials and soldiers to hit those "thieves" who had no food to eat and couldn't survive, but refused to be honest and "starved to death". The light arrows thrown by the two hundred archers fell in the ranks of the officers and soldiers, like hail hitting the wheat field, and in the crackling sound of the rain of arrows falling, the officers and soldiers fell one by one. The momentum of the whole team also slowed down all of a sudden.

"Quick, rush up, can't stop! Can't stop! Li Chengdong saw that the soldiers were a little cowering and shouted loudly, "Those who retreat will be killed!" His own soldiers drew their swords and drove the infantry forward.

Naturally, there were archers among the officers and soldiers, and at this time, these archers also threw light arrows at the "thief army" to return fire. However, there were less than 100 archers on the side of the official army, which was much smaller, and their opponents' armor was significantly better than that of the official army, so although their counterattack also caused some damage to the "thief army", the effect was quite limited.

"We still haven't had time to plant the fields properly." Looking at the battle over there from afar, Huang Zide didn't feel any pressure, but continued to chat with Liu Jiexuan easily, "The Dao Elder has long looked down on those armors seized from the imperial court, well, those things, they are all fucking rags!" It's a pity that we haven't had time to build these things ourselves. Otherwise, these light arrows really wouldn't hurt many people. ”

"Big brother, there are many fewer archers for officers and soldiers than before." Liu Jiexuan said so.

"The court is getting worse and worse." Huang Zide said, "It's like a house that has been emptied by termites, from the outside, it still looks like that, but if you kick it from the door, the whole house will collapse." ”

Huang Zide said this, which naturally makes sense. Later generations were often influenced by various games and were accustomed to seeing the archer as a cheap, melee weaker thing. But in fact, in ancient armies, archers were always a luxury. For an archer to be able to continuously draw a strong bow and throw a rain of arrows at the enemy, his physical fitness must not be bad. Bow and arrow is a kind of technical work, and to play well, you must practice it often, which in turn means a long training time and a high training cost. Go to the countryside and grab a strong man, give him a spear, or even a sharpened bamboo pole, and you can throw him into battle. But you can't replenish an archer, a farmer, and if you throw him a warbow, he won't use it at all.

When Huang Zide and they had just rebelled, relying on the homeless people everywhere, the team under his command could often expand to more than 100,000 at once, but among the "army" of more than 100,000, there was no such unit as archers. As for the official army, in an army of thousands of people, there can be hundreds of archers. Later, Huang Zide slowly trained the archers by himself and recruited the archers in the official army, so that he had his own team of archers. But in terms of quantity, compared with the imperial court, it is still at a disadvantage. However, this time, the number of archers on the opposite side was much smaller than that of their own side, and in a sense, it was the most obvious manifestation that the imperial court had run out of oil.

Because of the limited range of bows and arrows, if the officers and soldiers could maintain a normal marching speed, the archers could only perform a limited number of salvos. In addition, the number of archers is limited, and the accuracy of the projectile is also limited, and the actual damage is actually very limited. Many times, the archers are more important in disrupting the enemy's line and throwing the enemy into chaos.

This kind of projectile is of limited use to an army with a strong sense of discipline and a strong desire to fight. But for an army that was already poorly organized and demoralized, such a projectile could pose considerable danger. The officers and soldiers, who had been hit by the rain of arrows, began to cower, and the officers could only rely on the knives in the hands of their own soldiers to force the army to move on. But the queue or something was a complete mess.

"This, this is the same virtue as we were back then." Looking at the chaotic officers and soldiers, Tian Xiucheng suddenly felt that it was a bit redundant to spend effort to build a breast wall in front. "With this virtue, if there is no breastwork in front of us, we will rush straight up, and they will definitely collapse. Now this breastwork is kind of blocking ourselves. ”

Because of the confusion of the official army, the archers of the revolutionary army were able to shoot several more rounds of arrows. At a distance of more than 100 paces, the officers and soldiers made limited counterattacks with muskets and bows and arrows, but did not achieve much success.

Under the pressure of the knives of the warlords, the officers and soldiers finally approached the breastwork of the revolutionary army, and the distance between the two sides was only about twenty paces. At this time, the musketeers in the revolutionary army's mandarin duck formation, as well as the equipped tiger squat cannons, began to fire.

After some testing of the captured muskets and tiger guns, a consensus has been formed from top to bottom of the revolutionary army that these two firearms were actually used for close combat. A little farther away, you can only hear a sound. Therefore, according to the practice of today's revolutionary army, they are always allowed to open fire only when the enemy army has entered within 40 paces. Seeing the chaotic appearance of the officers and troops, Tian Xiucheng estimated that they had limited threat to him, so he simply ordered to put the enemy army twenty paces and conduct another round of volleys.

The effect of this round of salvos, especially the effect of the tiger squat cannon, was so good that it was beyond Tian Xiucheng's imagination. Prior to this, because it was expected that the official army would attack here, the tiger squat artillery in General Huang Zide was concentrated here, so that there were as many as fifty tiger squat cannons here, and this round of salvo immediately knocked down hundreds of officers and soldiers, almost cutting off the front layer of the official army.

Such a thunderous blow completely crushed the morale of the officers and soldiers. The soldiers ignored the Warlord's threat and turned and ran. Li Chengdong cut several people in a row, but he couldn't control the situation.

"Quick, let's pursue!" Liu Jiexuan slapped his palm with a whip pole.

It's just that the pursuit of the revolutionary army was half a beat slower, because their own breastwork blocked them. The officers and soldiers were not slow, and when they came out from behind the breastwork, the officers and soldiers were about to run back. Considering that the officers and soldiers also had a lot of tiger squatting artillery on the wall of the barracks, there would be a lot of unnecessary losses if they rushed forward. So Tian Xiucheng simply canceled the pursuit. Just made a new suggestion to Liu Jiexuan:

"Lao Liu, the setting of this chest wall needs to be improved. It's better to knock it down from the inside, otherwise, it will be really difficult to deal with such a situation. ”

……

The losses of the officers and soldiers in this battle were actually very limited, only a few hundred, which was nothing compared to the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. But the blow to morale was huge, and now no one in the army has ever mentioned the matter of retaking the water source. Now, the only topic in the officers and troops is how to break through.

Gao Jie was naturally bent on breaking through, but Bai Guangen had other ideas about this, so when Gao Jie proposed to break through, although Bai Guangen agreed with it, but when he turned around and returned to his military tent, Bai Guangen called his subordinate Zheng Jiadong.

"Now the combat strength of our army, it is impossible to break through the encirclement, and it is impossible to break through in this life. Grab the water and can't grab it, it is only by hiding in the fence of the barracks that the army can be maintained like this. You know, I've worked on the Rogue's side before. Actually, Huang Zide is a very good person. If we're willing to go back to the rogue, I don't think he'll embarrass us. I'll tell you, being a rogue's feels like coming home, and it feels so much better at the rogue than at home! All of them are talented, and they speak well, I like them so much! ”

"Dashuai, there is no other way out now. I see, this Jokhang Dynasty is eating jujube pills. Let's go over now, maybe we can still be a founding hero, right? If that's what you want, we'll send someone over and get in touch with them. Well, Huang Zide hates Gao Jie the most, if only we could ...... Gao Jie's head"