"Vice Commander! The officers and troops have entered three hundred steps! Is it time for the artillerymen to get ready to get started? An officer asked Diao Zheng, who was sitting under a low wall.

Diao Zheng shook his head, shaking off the dust that fell on his iron helmet and shoulders, just now the official army bombarded, a low wall near him was blown down, almost buried him in the soil, and killed and injured three of his guards, but Diao Zheng was not injured.

Diao Zheng stretched out his head and looked outside and said, "Don't worry! Our artillery is small, and there are not as many officers and soldiers, so don't show your strength at this time! Otherwise, even if we fire together, we won't be able to kill many officers and soldiers, so we should get closer and fight again, so as to give us time to kill more officers and soldiers and give us time to rush out and line up! Tell them to prepare! They are all loaded with grape bombs, and they will be fired in a while, and they will be ruthless to the officers and soldiers! The rest of the brothers also began to prepare, to get the thunderbolts ready! Choose a hundred people to the death and bring more thunderbolts! Work with me in a while to completely defeat this group of officers and soldiers!

The generals of all companies and teams have remembered to me that we only have this one chance to defeat the officers and troops, and once we get out, we are not allowed to care about casualties, and we will form a formation with me and storm forward, so as to attack the enemy's army in one moment, and entangle the officers and troops as much as possible, so as not to give them a chance to fire artillery! Otherwise, we won't have a chance to do it again! Do you remember it all? If anyone pees my pants on the spot, don't blame me for not knowing him!

In addition, it was ordered that as soon as I surrendered, no matter who I was, as long as I found someone trying to escape, or I was out of order, I could kill him on the spot! When you go out in this battle, you will bring wounds to all of me! Anyone who is found to have a wound in the back after the war will be killed immediately! Let's herald! Diao Zheng rubbed his hands that were a little numb, and tied his sharp waist knife with a strip of cloth to his hand, unless his arm was broken, the knife would not leave his hand.

Even if the herald conveyed Diao Zheng's order, many officers and knife players also followed suit, and tied the single knife to the right hand with the cloth strip they carried, and the knot was strong, ready to fight to the end.

At the same time, there were more than a hundred soldiers who volunteered to be dead soldiers in heavy armor gathered together under the low wall, each of them wore two pieces of iron armor, almost wrapped them into a moving living tank, ordinary bows and arrows were difficult to injure them, and these dead soldiers were mostly the strongest men in the army, and someone collected the thunderbolts in the army and handed them to them, each of them carried at least four or five thunderbolts, and each of them prepared a fire fold, and at the same time equipped with a single knife for melee combat at his waist, There was a determined look on their faces.

When the Xingtian army encounters a huge battle, it often uses the brave to carry out a counter-charge, which has become a common practice, where the dare dies on the battlefield, the pension given to their families in the army afterwards is often doubled, and at the same time, the brave soldiers who come back alive will be promoted much faster than ordinary soldiers in the future, so many soldiers in the army are willing to act as deciding soldiers, and this life is also worth it.

The officers and soldiers are still arrogantly pressing towards the Xingtian military camp, in front of them in these broken camps bombarded by the official army's cannons, in addition to seeing some spears and flags shaking, basically there are not a few figures, the entire Xingtian army's camp is very silent, experienced soldiers feel that this situation is a bit abnormal, so they are a little nervous, but the vast majority of officers and soldiers think that the thief army has been frightened by the cannon and rockets of the official army just now, I didn't dare to come out to fight, and I might even have been killed and shot by most of them, so it seemed very relaxed.

"Two hundred steps! You can kill them with a cannon! An officer of the battalion artillery team asked Diao Zheng for instructions, and he was so anxious that he was sweating a little at this time.

After Diao Zheng stretched out his head to look at it, he nodded, gritted his teeth, and ordered loudly: "Do it!" Three rounds of rapid shooting! Hit me hard! The rest of us are going out with me! ”

The artillery officer jumped up and roared: "Push the cannon!" Beat! ”

When they dug trenches to build the walls, the officers of the artillery team commanded those people to deliberately leave gaps in some low walls, and from a distance, it seemed that the low walls were not completed in time, and they looked a little dilapidated.

A three-pounder cannon immediately appeared in these openings, and the black holes of nearly twenty three-pounder cannons quickly pointed at the officers and soldiers of the brigade rushing on the opposite side.

The officers and men suddenly saw movement in the enemy camp, and when they saw the muzzles of the cannons suddenly appear, many of the musketeers and archers who were walking in front were half frightened to death, and they involuntarily stopped, which immediately caused the officers and troops to stop the attacking formation, and it seemed a little chaotic.

Most of the officers and soldiers did not expect that the thief army actually had so many artillery, and when they were hit by the artillery just now, the thief army actually calmed down and did not let these cannons fire back, and they only came up until now, and the distance of less than 200 steps was the time when the artillery was powerful, which they knew as the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so many people were a little panicked.

And the generals who accompanied the army also realized that something bad was wrong, but the matter had come to this point, it was impossible to run, and there was Gao Qiqian, the chief army staring at him, if any of them escaped from the battle, they would definitely not be able to please it when they went back, so these generals had to bite the bullet and shout loudly for their subordinates to speed up and rush forward to reduce casualties as much as possible.

But at this time, the gunners behind the officers and soldiers could not see the appearance of this scene, and one by one while waiting for their cannons to cool down, they watched the lively and lively officers and soldiers pressing up, and kept jumping behind and shouting to cheer for these officers and soldiers, but they didn't know that at this time, their so-called robes had reached the line of life and death.

After the three-pounder cannon is pushed into place, the muzzle of the cannon is flattened at such a distance, and there is basically no need to aim, because on the entire front, there are officers and soldiers everywhere, and they are also loaded with grapeshot shells, and they can kill a lot of officers and soldiers wherever they hit, plus before they push the cannon out, they have already completed the loading, and the artillery officer immediately shouted: "Fire!" ”

Twenty three-pounder cannons erupted in flames almost at the same time, and the ground even shook violently, followed by a roaring sound, and a cloud of thick green smoke quickly rose from the low wall of the Heavenly Army.

Grape shells are actually large particles of loose bullets, which are wrapped in advance, a bit like bunches of grapes, before loading grapes, in order to ensure the airtightness of the gun chamber, a three-pound solid bullet wrapped in sackcloth must be pressed into the gun chamber in advance, once fired, the power is extremely high at medium and short range.

Each pack of grapeshot bullets has forty or fifty lead pellets that are more than the size of a thumb, and nearly a thousand lead bullets fly out together when twenty cannons fire at once, and these cannons are set in advance to fire their own angles, so once they are fired, there are almost no dead ends on the front of the entire defensive line, and these cannons are almost like a super broom, sweeping across the entire front of the battlefield.

The officers and soldiers who walked in the front were miserable, and even though they were covered with blood spurting all over their bodies, they were beaten upside down and flew up with a scream, and fell heavily to the ground, and the people who were shot were covered with blood holes, and many of them were interrupted before they fell to the ground, and they couldn't even scream, and even the commanders of several escorts were immediately shot and sacrificed, and more than 100 people were knocked over at once, and those solid cannonballs were still jumping forward in the crowd without abating. In the ranks of the officers and soldiers, a bloody alley was opened, and the officers and soldiers who passed along the way stuck to death, and when they touched it, they were injured and fell down a lot.

After the era entered the age of firearms, the old-style dense battle formation offensive formation was no longer suitable, if the officers and troops of the attacking side adopted a loose offensive formation, then this scattered salvo would be much smaller for them, but these Guanning troops had not dealt with the Xingtian Army properly, so even the commander Gao Qiqian did not understand the real combat effectiveness and equipment level of the Xingtian Army, so they underestimated the enemy and adopted a dense queue to advance, and the result happened to be an excellent target for the Xingtian Army's artillery bombardment.

"Reload! Hurry up and reload, shoot quickly! Fast! The artillery officer did not look at the effect of the round of shelling on the opposite side, and after the platoon of guns was fired, he jumped to his feet and roared.

The gunners of the artillery team did not look at the results of the battle on the other side, in short, this cannon would definitely not fall into the open field, and there would definitely be many officers and soldiers who were unlucky, so they only needed to complete the reloading as soon as possible and fire the cannon again.

Rapid firing is to fire continuously at the fastest speed, so according to the regulations, there are gunners who have already grabbed the gun brush to clear the gun and are ready, as soon as the cannon sound falls and does not wait for the gunpowder smoke to dissipate, they rush up to stab the gun brush into the gun chamber, and wipe the cannon chamber back and forth twice, in addition, the gunner has already held the wrapped medicine bag and waited at the gun muzzle, and then the ammunition packer will fill the solid bullet into the gun chamber, and some gunners immediately fill the position, and use the gun rod to smash the shell and the medicine bag into the deepest part of the gun chamber......

In short, all the gunners played almost the best results of their usual training, and the movements were dizzying, and they cooperated with each other seamlessly, and they quickly completed the reloading almost as if they were playing tricks.

"Reloaded...... After loading, ...... immediately resounded on the defensive line with a series of roars from the commanders.

"Fire!" The artillery officer immediately waved the little red flag down again, and the earth shook again......

After the first round of salvo fire, some generals also roared at the commander army to continue to charge, in their impression, the thief army also used light Hongyi cannons, the loading was very slow, taking advantage of the opportunity for the thieves to reload, they could rush into the distance fired by the archers, and even the thieves might not have time to fire again, so they rushed to the low wall of the thieves, not giving the thieves a chance to fire again.

But they were wrong this time, the gunners of the Xingtian Army reloaded at least three times faster than they had expected, and before they could recover from their shock and charge, the second salvo began again.

This time, hundreds of officers and soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the officers and soldiers had just pulled out their legs to charge, but before they ran a few steps, they were like hitting a wall, and they crashed back in rows, and when the officers and soldiers who were beaten to a thousand holes flew upside down, their bodies were sprayed with blood mist, and many of them died when they landed, and even if they were not dead, they were lying on the ground and rolling on the ground in pain, making an inhuman miserable howl.

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