Although the scene is very bloody, but after all, these generals are Li Zicheng as the backbone of the generals, such a scene, for them, has long been commonplace, although the official artillery fire is fierce, but the artillery fire of the Ming army in this era can not form a blockade of the battlefield, so the momentum is terrifying, but it can not stop them from advancing, these soldiers under the command of Li Zicheng did not look at the robes that the flesh and blood flew to the ground, one by one red eyes, shouted to kill and continued to rush forward.

In this way, looking at these thieves who are not afraid of death, the officers and soldiers also began to get nervous again, the officers silently calculated the distance between the thief army and them, and when they saw that the thieves' forward had rushed to sixty or seventy steps in front of them, finally some officers and soldiers could not stand this pressure, and without waiting for the officer's order, some people were too nervous, and pressed the dragon head on the bird's gun without authorization, and after a muffled sound, the projectile immediately left the chamber and hit the oncoming thief army.

Although seventy steps is the effective killing distance of the bird, but this is only for the enemy who has no armor on the body, and because of the quality of the bird, often the officers and soldiers do not dare to load enough gunpowder, so the power of the bird's gun is further weakened.

This is also the reason why the Xingtian Army's current requirements for the firecrackers must wait until the enemy enters within fifty steps before they can fire, so that the firecrackers are often exposed to the enemy's firepower at the same time, in fact, it is not that Xiao Tianjian is unwilling to let the bird's gun be loaded with enough gunpowder, but the bird's gun they captured, the quality is not enough to reassure, but the fixed gunpowder they use, to a certain extent, also makes up for the problem of the quality of the bird's gun, making the charge stable, so they fire on the spot, The rate of bombing can be controlled within an acceptable range.

As soon as one of the firecrackers fired, the other firecrackers also began to fire, and suddenly in front of the official army, a row of gunpowder smoke erupted, and the projectiles of the bird's guns crackled into the charging rebel formation.

But this round of firing did not cause too much trouble to the rebels, the front row was basically knife players, the rattan cards in their hands provided them with sufficient cover, some projectiles hit the rattan cards, but could not penetrate the rattan cards, just shook the licensed soldiers.

A burst of angry scolding of officers immediately sounded in the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and immediately an officer and soldier who had taken the lead in firing without authorization because he was too nervous was dragged down and cut off his head with a knife.

The officers and soldiers do not know what is called fixed gunpowder at the moment, so when the bird gun is reloaded, it is very troublesome, some officers and soldiers tremble a little, and the gunpowder will pour more, so that when the fire is fired, the chamber pressure will be increased, so that the explosion rate remains high, which is also the reason why the officers and soldiers do not like to use the bird gun although they have bird guns, and He Renlong's officers and soldiers are naturally not exempt from vulgarity, and the number of bird guns equipped in the army is very limited, so even if the fire guns are fired in advance, it will have little impact on the battle situation.

It wasn't until the two sides approached within fifty paces that He Renlong shouted in the middle of the formation: "Release the arrow!" ……”

The crossbowmen, who had already been prepared in the back of the car, stepped forward one after another, opened their bows with all their might, and pointed at the oncoming rebels outside the formation, and with the order of the officers, a rain of arrows drifted out of the official army like a dark cloud, and then fell like a torrential rain in the crowd of rebels.

Sharp arrows broke through the air, made a sharp sound, and landed in the crowd, and suddenly a miserable snort and angry scolding sounded, and many of the rebel soldiers staggered and fell on the way forward.

The dense rain of arrows suffocated the speed of the Righteous Army's advance, and once the rain of arrows in the official army began to fire, it did not stop, and the archers fired the arrows they inserted in front of them one by one at a very fast speed, and the rate of their firing far exceeded the firing rate of the bird gun or the fire gun, which immediately caused great trouble to the Righteous Army.

One by one, the arrows of the rebels fell to the ground, even if the sword and brand hand raised the shield in front, it could not cover such a dense rain of arrows, not to mention that the number of armor and equipment under Li Zicheng's generals was not much, and many people could almost be said to be almost shirtless.

But after all, these rebels are the elite under Li Zicheng, although in the face of such a dense rain of arrows from the official army, but still could not completely contain their attack, under the command of Li Guo, they divided into three ways and continued to rush to the official army's large array, at the same time, the archers and musketeers of the rebels also entered the firing range, and began to draw bows and arrows to launch a counterattack against the official army.

The two sides of the bullets and arrows come and go, constantly staggered in the air, one after another into the enemy's array, the officers and soldiers also began to pay the price of casualties, and Li Guo also brought a few small cannons this time, was carried by the gunner and rushed to the front of the official army, after the rack, then ignited, the projectiles fell into the official army, the jumping projectiles also brought a lot of threat to the officers and soldiers, a projectile crashed into the official army, the shield of a knife player was immediately torn to pieces, half of the body was beaten flesh and blood, The shell continued to fly forward, and after two officers and soldiers were put down in succession, it smashed on the chest of an officer and soldier and stopped, but the shell was still deeply embedded in the chest of this officer and soldier, causing his chest to sink deeply, and several ribs were broken.

However, for the officers and soldiers, this kind of firepower is really nothing, although the soldiers of the righteous army are very brave, but the obvious organization is not as good as the Xingtian army, although the firecrackers and archers also counterattacked, but compared to the rows of salvos like the Xingtian army, the damage caused to the officers and soldiers is very limited, basically they are fighting separately, and no effective barrage has been formed, although it has also caused some damage to the officers and soldiers, but the power is seriously limited, and it cannot cause a shock like a salvo.

In addition, when He Renlong set up the formation, he placed the cart in front of the formation, as if forming a wall in front of the formation, so that the bullets of the righteous army hit the side plate of the cart more often, and it was impossible to shoot the officers and soldiers hiding in the cart.

He Renlong frowned, looking at the chaotic army belonging to Li Zicheng that was pouring in like a flood in front of him, the more he looked at it, the more he became a little puzzled.

He did not deny that the courage of this army of thieves was very courageous, but their organization was far from being comparable to that of the army of thieves he had encountered this morning.

Why did the two bandit armies encountered in one day have such a big difference in their performance with each other, which couldn't help but make a few question marks appear in He Renlong's head.

But no matter what, after seeing the tactics of this thief army under Li Zicheng, He Renlong's heart still put it into his stomach, and the psychological shadow brought to him by the thief army under the banner of the Xingtian Army in the morning was also swept away.

Judging from the performance of this thief army, Li Zicheng has not really accepted the lessons of the past, and his ability to lead troops is still similar to that of a few years ago, and there are no major changes, so in this way, it will be much easier.

After seeing the performance of this thief army under Li Zicheng, He Renlong's confidence once again recovered to the level when he came, looking at the round formation he had placed, it was really a bit ironic, when did he encounter the thief army would be so cautious, and today he was only defeated twice by a strange thief army in the morning, and he became so cautious, which made He Renlong a little embarrassed.

Although these rebel soldiers led by Li Guo were very brave, after all, they were still facing the well-equipped official army led by He Renlong, and He Renlong deliberately placed a circle formation, and the defense was very tight, so that these rebels launched several fierce charges in a row, but under the defense of the official army, they were repelled by the official army because of too many casualties, and in the open space outside the official army, dozens of corpses of the righteous soldiers were dropped.

Li Guo saw that there was no result in rushing like this, just a loss in vain, so he had no choice but to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops and withdraw the soldiers sent by various departments.

In this attack, the righteous army suffered nearly 200 casualties, and lost nearly 10% of the troops at once, which really made Li Guo feel distressed enough, you must know that this is the elite soldiers that his uncle has accumulated in the past few years, and under normal circumstances, he is reluctant to take them into battle, but in today's battle, so many people were killed and wounded, and he was really a little puzzled at this time.

In the battle of He Renlong's troops, it did not show that they were a group of ordinary people, their defense was impressive, and in the face of their sharp offensive, they did not show the slightest panicked appearance, so why was the Xingtian Army able to beat them to the ground in the morning? Li Guo really can't figure it out, could it be that the news reported by the sentinel is wrong?

He immediately summoned the first batch of sentries sent to monitor the Xingtian Army, and asked: "You said that the soldiers under He Renlong's command are almost vulnerable in front of the Xingtian Army, why did we wait to fight with them this time, but the soldiers under He Renlong's command are still so strong?" Could it be that you are waiting to see the dazzling eyes? ”

These sentries under Li Zicheng were also depressed to death, obviously they watched the official army being beaten in front of the Xingtian Army during the day, but after Li Guo led his troops to arrive, they encountered He Renlong's soldiers and horses, and the other party became so difficult to bite?