In order to prevent being bombarded by the city's head, Zhao Lie erected all 20 guns of the first regiment at a place of 2,000 steps outside the city, which could not only attack the city's head, but also be outside the range of the tiger squat cannon.

Zhao Lie personally led the soldiers of the first regiment of five thousand households, maintained a battle formation, and advanced to the city step by step, the metropolitan governor handed over such a good meritorious opportunity to himself, and he must not let Ding Qirui go!

The gunners were divided into three rows, fanning towards Ding Qirui's camp, the closer the distance, the stronger the encirclement, as long as they could advance two hundred steps in front of the Daoming army camp, the gunners could rely on the moat to form a complete semicircle, completely wrapping Ding Qirui.

The Ming army sentry found that the Tianming army was approaching and hurriedly reported to Ding Qirui.

Ding Qirui came to the camp gate to take a look, and immediately frowned, the Heavenly Mandate Army approached so quickly, and let people live? Could it be that the tacit understanding between the two sides has long ceased to exist?

He seems to have forgotten that when he was in Shaanxi, the mutual non-aggression with the Mandate of Heaven was not the result of negotiations between the two sides, and there was neither a verbal agreement nor a paper agreement.

The Mandate of Heaven army was reluctant to enter Shaanxi, which was full of starvation, and the Ming army did not dare to attack Guguan!

Now that the Mandate of Heaven Army had made an offensive posture, Ding Qirui could not sit still, he immediately organized all the soldiers to camp from the north to meet the enemy.

Ding Qirui knew that the battle was taking place under the city, and there must be many people in the city staring at this battle, no matter what the victory or defeat, he had to lead his troops to fight.

There was a trace of regret in his heart, he knew that this was the case, he should not have set up camp under the city at that time, if he stayed away from the city and fought with the Heavenly Mandate Army, no one knew what would happen!

At that time, it was to rely on the guards of the tiger squat cannon on the head of the city...... Thinking of this, he immediately asked the soldiers to shout to the city: "The Mandate of Heaven is here, and the Governor asks for artillery reinforcements!" ”

There were many soldiers watching the battle at the head of the city, and there may have been generals in the middle, but they chose to petrify collectively, and there was no room for negotiation.

The artillery of the Manifest Destiny is right under the city, and if you provoke them, who will be able to resist the flowering bullets?

The defenders were watching not only the battle outside the city, but also the Providence's mountain artillery, and if the gunners began to reload their shells, they would have to leave the city for shelter.

The gunners of the Providence Army were already in place, but there was no intention of firing.

Ding Qirui slowly walked out of the camp, knowing that there was no hope for the tiger squatting cannon, and scolded the guards at the head of the city in his heart.

Scolding and scolding, the Mandate of Heaven Army has come, and he must fight!

Four hundred paces, the Mandate of Heaven Army is already four hundred steps away, and the archers of the Ming army have already put their arrows on the bowstring, as long as the Mandate of Heaven Army enters the range of the bow and arrow, they will immediately release the arrows.

Zhao Lie saw it in his eyes, and smiled coldly, the natural enemy of the rifle is not a bow and arrow, but a shield, and the Ming army did not put the sword and shield soldiers in the front, but let the archers take the lead, which was simply looking for death.

Ding Qirui has set up camp with his back from the river, he has already cut himself off, and now he is letting the archers take the lead, has he never been on the battlefield?

Zhao Lie secretly sent an order to the soldiers: In the first wave of shooting, as long as half of the soldiers fire in a salvo, there is no need to completely annihilate the Ming army at the front! The soldiers didn't understand Zhao Lie's intentions, but no one asked, obedience was their duty!

The Ming army formed a formation outside the camp, and was waiting for work, the Mandate of Heaven army slowly advanced, and Li Zicheng led his own soldiers to fight outside a thousand steps.

"General, it's only two hundred steps!"

If you don't want to completely annihilate the Ming army in the front, the distance of 200 steps may be the best range, but Zhao Lie has already issued an order to the soldiers, in order to reduce the consumption of bullets, each row of soldiers, only half of the salvo, the other half of the time, if the Ming army can not break through the fire network of the Heavenly Mandate Army, maybe in today's battle, half of the soldiers will just accompany the guests.

Zhao Lie didn't speak, just looked at the Ming army archers opposite with a gloomy gaze.

The soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army continued to move forward, the pace was the same, the military uniforms were neat, like a military parade in front of the Grand Governor, Ding Qirui looked at it, and did not feel a chill in his eyes, the Heavenly Mandate Army was so powerful and majestic, fortunately, when he was in Shaanxi that day, he did not choose to take the initiative to attack Guguan!

"General, a hundred steps!"

Zhao Lie has already seen that the archers of the Ming army have begun to stretch their bows, and between the back of the bow and the bowstring, it has gradually been drawn from the half moon to the whole day, and there are dozens of steps, and the Ming army should release the arrows, right?

"Shoot!" Zhao Lie finally spat out the two words that the gunmen had been waiting for for a long time.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

……

The gunners in the first row, although half of the soldiers fired a salvo, would shoot more than five hundred bullets, and the Ming soldiers on the opposite side were all standing still, and the gunners were almost practicing against the humanoid wooden targets, and the hit rate was almost extreme.

When aiming, there will be several gunners aiming at the same Ming soldier, these soldiers are shot several times, usually killed on the spot, and there are also particularly lucky soldiers who are blocked by the body of others, or happen to appear in the blind spot of the Heavenly Destiny Army.

In this wave of shooting, at least two hundred soldiers of the Ming Army fell to the ground, and the front row was in a mess, crying, screaming, and the sound hit Ding Qirui's heart!

The gunners in the second row were ready to shoot, but were stopped by Zhao Lie, "Delay for thirty seconds!" ”

These thirty seconds are the reaction time left for the Ming army, Zhao Lie is not worried that they will run away, there is a moat behind them, do the soldiers who jumped into the river still want to run for their lives?

The soldiers of the Ming army really reacted, and the firearms of the Heavenly Mandate Army on the opposite side were too sharp, and the range was far more than that of bows and arrows.

How can this battle be fought? There is no chance to fight back at all!

Zhao Lie stood at the back of the line, but a hundred paces away, within his line of sight, he saw fear from the faces of the Ming soldiers, the Ming army.

It is enough to have fear, Zhao Lie was waiting for this moment, and said in a deep voice: "Shoot!" ”

There was another "bang" sound, and this time the Ming soldiers in the back finally understood that the Mandate of Heaven Army had a large number of firearms, and they could only wait for death if they stayed!

Without waiting for Ding Qirui's order, the archers who were originally at the front of the team hurriedly threw down the bows and arrows in their hands and ran back.

Behind the archers, there were originally sword and shield soldiers, who were preparing for hand-to-hand combat, but they were rushed by the archers, and the formation was suddenly chaotic, and they also ran back!

"Shoot all!"

Looking at the defeated Ming army, Zhao Lie did not have the slightest sympathy on his face, before the battle ended, sympathize with your opponent, that is an insult to the opponent, and it is also a crime against the soldiers of his own side.

As long as there is one opposing soldier on the battlefield, the battle will not stop!

Ding Qirui stood outside the barracks, originally supervising the army at the rear, but he only heard two "bang" sounds, and the Ming army was defeated and returned, and he was not shocked in his heart, what happened in front of him?

The defeat is like a mountain, not to mention that the gunners of the Mandate of Heaven are still chasing behind!

Although Ding Qirui tried his best to shout, where could the frightened soldiers still manage the military order? In the face of death, any military order loses its restraining effect.

However, at a distance of hundreds of steps, the defeated soldiers soon approached Ding Qirui, and he sighed, he had long known the combat effectiveness of the Heavenly Mandate Army, but he really didn't expect it, but when he yawned, as soon as the soldiers on both sides made contact, the Ming army was defeated......

Ding Qirui turned his head, looked at the wide moat in front of him, and hurriedly asked the soldiers around him to shout to the city, only by opening the city gate and letting the soldiers into the city could they escape with their lives.

Everything that happened under the city, the soldiers at the head of the city had seen it, and knew that Ding Qirui was defeated, and the soldiers did not want to let these defeated soldiers enter the city, but the guard general Wang Xie knew that Ding Qirui was the commander of the thief, and if Ding Qirui was allowed to be captured and killed, he would be impeached by the officials in the future, so he had to put down the drawbridge and open the city gate.

When Ding Qirui stepped on the suspension bridge, the rout soldiers behind him had already run over, and they were all fighting to escape for their lives on the bridge.

The drawbridge was no more than a foot wide, and the soldiers squeezed on the bridge, and many of them squeezed off the drawbridge and fell into the moat, smashing the thin layer of ice......

The Mandate of Heaven army then covered up, they had to constantly reload ammunition, originally they could not catch up with the Ming army, but the front of the Ming army was a moat, it was winter at this time, and it was impossible to swim across the river at all, so they could only enter the city gate hole through the suspension bridge.

There is only one suspension bridge, but the Ming army has two or three thousand!

The Ming army gathered by the moat, all rushing to get on the suspension bridge, some soldiers in order to occupy a position, squeezed others off the moat, from time to time there was a sound of "poof", "poof" and "poof".

In the face of death, no one can take care of anyone, and it is the right way to survive.

The frail soldiers, knowing that there was no hope of escape, had to lose their weapons and kneel on both sides of the road, waiting to surrender to the Providence Army.

The Providential Destiny soldiers quickly arrived at the moat, firing their rifles as they tried to make a way through and seize the drawbridge.

Wang Xie saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to close the city gate and put away the drawbridge, so that the Heavenly Mandate Army would not take the opportunity to seize the city gate.

At this time, Ding Qirui had already entered the city, and when he heard that Wang Xie was going to close the city gate, he hurriedly ran up to the city and shouted from afar: "Wang Zhixian, don't close the city gate, many of my soldiers are still outside the moat!" ”

Wang Xie despised it in his heart, and he also supervised the thief, what kind of rotten soldiers were his subordinates, they were defeated in a battle, and what face did they have to speak for their soldiers? Such soldiers, when they enter the city, are also wasting food in vain!

Ding Qirui thought that Wang Xie didn't hear his words, so he took a breath and said, "Wang Zhixian, the city gate and the suspension bridge can't be closed!" ”

Wang Xie's gaze continued to stare at the drawbridge that had been lifted to the air, and said coldly: "The soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army have already killed the moat, can they be allowed to seize the city gate?" ”

"However, my soldiers are still outside the city......"

"Let them ask for their own blessings," Wang Xie said, "I heard that the Heavenly Mandate Army treats prisoners of war preferentially, and they may be able to save their lives!" ”

"You...... You are a little magistrate," Ding Qirui pointed at Wang Xie's head with his index finger, "I want to remove your command!" ”

"Please," Wang Xie said coldly: "Now that I am the guard of the North Gate, the Inspector thinks that there is something wrong with the general, and he can impeach the general to the King of Zhou!" ”

"You ......" Speaking of the king of Zhou, Ding Qirui was immediately deflated, although he is a thief supervisor, he can control the civil and military affairs of several provinces, but he can't control the king of Zhou, Zhu Gongqiao, in Kaifeng City, there is Zhu Gongqiao, the prince, or he has the final say.

When Ding Qirui walked up to the city, he happened to hear a "click", the suspension bridge was bolted by iron chains, and the inside and outside of the moat were completely isolated.

Outside the moat, the Ming army, which had not yet crossed the river, knelt on the ground one by one, waiting to surrender to the Mandate of Heaven Army, but the Mandate of Heaven Army ignored them for the time being, but continued to shoot.

The soldiers who fell on the moat, finally someone climbed ashore, but they became the target of the Mandate of Heaven's army, and in the city gate cave, because the city gate has been closed, the Ming army stranded in the city gate cave, there is no way to enter the heavens and the earth, and can only be shot by the Mandate of Heaven army!

Ding Qirui closed his eyes in pain and turned away, he really couldn't bear to watch......