This round of shelling caused the Huwei battalion to lose nearly twenty soldiers, and the broken camp next to it was a little more lucky, only losing less than ten people. But the shelling caused a bit of confusion in the ranks of the officers and soldiers of the two battalions. So much so that the battalion officers had to take time to regroup their teams.

During this time, the artillery of the revolutionary army once again fired a salvo. And miraculously, the five shells fired again accurately hit four shots, causing dozens of casualties. And the queue, which had been gradually reorganized, became a mess again.

"This ...... This...... How could a thief's cannon be so accurate? On the watchtower car, Zuo Liangyu's mouth was wide open, and it could almost be stuffed with a goose egg.

This kind of accuracy is indeed very terrible, and it is even impossible to hit it under normal circumstances. Although the revolutionary army, under the influence of Xuan Yi, attached great importance to the training of artillery, the level of the artillery of the revolutionary army was not enough to continuously fire such accurate salvos. In fact, in today's world, there is simply not a single army capable of shelling with such accuracy. The real reason why the revolutionary army's artillery bombardment was so accurate was that they were fighting against the officers and soldiers on the battlefield they had chosen.

On this battlefield, as long as in any area within the range of the artillery, every gun has been test-fired, and the firing table is clearly listed. That's why these rounds of shelling are so sharp.

After two rounds of shelling in a row, the Huwei battalion and the broken camp did not dare to stop anymore and slowly regrouped their teams, although the queue is now a little chaotic, and it is very likely that they will suffer losses if they are forced up directly, but they are afraid that they will suffer greater losses than stopping here and being shelled. So even the officers in the battalion didn't care much about the queue, and everyone accelerated their advance.

The increase in the speed of advance had an immediate effect, and only two shells were hit in the third round of artillery bombardment, and because the speed of the march was accelerated, the formation was more loose, so even if the two shells were hit, the casualties caused were only five or six people. On the other hand, the added effect of maintaining a dense formation was to increase the courage of the participants, who were now loosely formed and surrounded by fewer people, so that although the casualties caused by the third round of shelling were much smaller, their fear was further amplified.

Driven by this fear, they walked faster and faster, and the ranks became more and more chaotic.

"This, if you hit your head like this, I'm afraid you're going to suffer!" Zuo Liangyu looked at the Huwei camp and the broken camp from a distance, and was a little worried. Of course, if the thief army is still the previous thief army, then the Huwei battalion and the broken camp collided like this, and the problem is not particularly big, but after seeing the performance of the thief army's artillery, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but improve his evaluation of the thief army a lot in his heart. So I couldn't help but worry.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 100 steps. It stands to reason that at this time, the battalion officers of the Huwei battalion and the broken camp should start to rectify the queue. However, after the formation was out of order, it was not easy to regroup under shelling. If the Jokhang army could have reorganized its formation under the shelling, then they would not have been defeated against the Jin army.

So at this time, they naturally continued to approach in a scattered formation. At this time, a rain of arrows flew from the side of the revolutionary army. The Huwei battalion and the broken camp are all soldiers, and there are still some armor. It stands to reason that the lethality of such a light arrow against an armored target is actually very limited. But my Dazhao armor has always cut corners. In particular, the Jokhang is now commonly used in cotton armor, and in terms of practicality, a well-made cotton armor is actually better than the old-fashioned iron armor, but the main reason why the officials of the Jokhang court prefer this armor is not this, but because this armor is easier to cut corners.

The armor of ordinary armor is exposed, and what kind of iron the armor is made of, and whether the coverage rate is high or not, can be seen at a glance. However, the cotton armor is different, and the nail pieces used in the cotton armor are fixed with rivets in two layers of hammered and strong cotton. According to the rules, this piece of iron should be made of wrought iron repeatedly forged, but when making cotton nails, it is not visible from the outside anyway, so it is made of wild iron (the so-called fried steel method was mainly used in the smelting of wrought iron in the Jokhang Dynasty, that is, the pig iron solution was constantly stirred in the crucible to burn the carbon in it. In this way, if the control is good, the steel can be obtained directly, but considering the difficulty of control, and because of the lack of slag technology when refining pig iron, there is a lot of slag in the pig iron solution, which needs to rely on the later forging to eliminate. Therefore, the pig iron is generally fried directly to the end, the wrought iron is fried, and then the dregs are expelled by forging. In this process, the steel is then obtained by carburizing. And if it is fried directly and the dregs are not eliminated by forging, wrought iron is called waste iron. There is a lot of dross in the barren iron, so its strength and corrosion resistance are much worse than that of normal wrought iron. Just build it. Anyway, it's sandwiched inside, and I can't see it. In addition to being convenient for shoddy, ordinary armor is very thin and can be seen at a glance from the outside if you use less armor. But in the case of cotton nails, use less nail pieces and make the nail pieces thinner, and no one can see it. In this way, the cotton armor of my Jokhang official army is always far from its theoretical defensive power in terms of defensive power. Just like now, the cotton armor that should theoretically be able to resist such light arrows was easily pierced by these light arrows, and more than 20 people were put down in a round of arrow rain, and even more were injured.

The officers and soldiers also began to return fire with muskets and bows and arrows, and the gunfire suddenly rang out.

Huang Zide was also standing on a watchtower at this time, looking at the battlefield. However, because the battlefield was chosen by him, his watchtower was much more high-end than Zuo Liangyu's watchtower car. His watchtower was built with wood on a small mound with a higher terrain, which was much taller and more spacious than Zuo Liangyu's watchtower car, and more than ten people could stand on it. Now Huang Zide, Xuan Yi, Niu Juming and some other people are standing on this watchtower, looking at the entire battlefield.

In Huang Zide's opinion, Xuan Yi and Niu Juming are both the first time to see such a big scene. He took them up to this watchtower, in addition to letting them consult when he was in command of the enemy, and had some other purpose. That is, firstly, to let them get used to such a big battle scene as soon as possible, and secondly, to see their performance through this.

Judging from his face, Xuanyi Daoist has always looked light, but Niu Juming, although he really wanted to make a posture of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him and his color remained unchanged, but when he saw the officers and soldiers of the brigade slowly approaching in a neat queue, his face changed slightly, and his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly. And when the artillery began to fire at the officers and soldiers who were approaching from the right flank, watching the shells accurately hit the array of the officers and soldiers, he couldn't control his excitement and slapped his hand on the railing vigorously, and said in his mouth: "Hit!" God willing, it's hit again! ”

Judging from this performance, the mentality of Xuanyi Daoist obviously does not know where he is higher than Niu Juming. But Huang Zide saw it in his eyes, but he was inexplicably a little disliked. Maybe it was because Xuan Yi's performance was too calm, which made him recall the first time he went to the battlefield, trembling all over his body and having a dry mouth. On the contrary, Niu Juming is obviously nervous to death now, but the way he barely holds on makes him feel a little intimate.

"Mr. Niu," Huang Zide said, "our artillery has been rehearsed here beforehand. It's not surprising that the game is accurate. The enemy army is already a little chaotic, and we will definitely take advantage of the fight. Dao Chief, don't you say? ”

Xuan Yi said with a smile: "The marshal has experienced a hundred battles, and what he said is naturally right. ”

The general in charge of the command of the right flank was Tian Xiucheng. He rode a red horse, stood at the head of the queue, and saw that the formation of the enemy army sixty or seventy paces away was already a little chaotic, so he ordered: "Tiger squat cannon fire!" ”

The six tiger squatting cannons fired at the same time, and a piece of shotgun swept over, and I don't know how many people were knocked down. The muskets of the officers and soldiers over there also cracked over. However, fortunately, the big shield in front of the Mandarin Duck Formation blocked a lot of bullets, and the number of casualties caused was limited.

At the front of the mandarin duck array was a large shield, and under normal circumstances, the shield, at least a shield that people could hold, could not stop the musket bullets. But now the distance is long, and my Shocho's musket has always cut corners, and in many cases it is not even as powerful as the heavy arrows fired by a strong bow. Therefore, the shield is quite effective against the attacks of these muskets. So the casualties caused by these muskets were very limited. However, the light arrows thrown by the officers and soldiers brought more casualties to the soldiers in the array. Because most of the armor of the revolutionary army was captured from the officers and soldiers, most of it was something that cut corners, and it was very useless in the face of the attack of light arrows that could theoretically be blocked.

In addition, Tian Xiucheng, who had been riding a horse and standing at the front of the team, also paid the price for his act of showing off his courage, a bullet hit him in the chest, fortunately he wore a double layer of armor, and this armor was selected by himself. So the bullet didn't penetrate the armor, but it also scared him a lot.

Tian Xiucheng looked at the distance of the enemy army, and the two sides were getting closer and closer. Tian Xiucheng knew that if he got closer, his armor might not be able to block it. However, according to the plan, after the Tiger Squat cannon fired, he could let the soldiers move forward and launch a surprise attack.

Tian Xiucheng remembered a principle mentioned in the drill code: "Officers and soldiers actually lack courage in hand-to-hand combat. They relied too much on their muskets. It was by defeating them in hand-to-hand combat that the Tatars established in their hearts the image of 'the Jurchens are not ten thousand, and they are invincible'. Our mandarin duck array is not equipped with many firearms, and the main power is hand-to-hand combat, so after the tiger squats and shoots at the cannon, causing a certain shake to the enemy, we should take the initiative to seek hand-to-hand combat. ”

Thinking like this, Tian Xiucheng put a whistle in his mouth with his left hand, raised his war knife with his right hand, and slashed forward, blowing the whistle at the same time, giving the order to attack.