Outside the city of Yizhou, on a plain called Qiangzigou, Li Xing led 20,000 tiger troops and 80,000 Jiangbei troops into battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

100,000 people confronted each other on two sides, in front of a wall ditch five or six miles wide, covering the whole land. The soldiers of the Tiger Army wore red close-fitting uniforms, while the Jiangbei Army wore gray short brown. From a distance, the entire battlefield looked like a small patch of red against a large patch of gray.

There were a large number of artillery on both sides, and at the beginning, artillery was used on both sides to bombard.

Li Xing brought 400 heavy artillery pieces this time, all of which used flowering shells. The distance between the two sides was still five miles, and Li Xing let the flowering bombs be projectiled at the Jiangbei Army.

The flowering bomb roared across the sky and smashed into the huge queue of the Jiangbei Army, exploding one huge spark after another.

The Jiangbei Army immediately began to return fire.

The artillery purchased by the Jiangbei Army from the Dutch was also long guns, which could also be projected far away. Basically, at a distance of five miles, the artillery of the Jiangbei Army can control the landing point in a small area.

The Jiangbei Army had more artillery than Li Xing, and thought that it could crush Li Zhi's flowering cannons with solid shells. Six hundred heavy guns were pulled to the front of the formation, and the gunners in Jiangbei charged the cannons and began to shoot at the artillery of the Tiger Army.

Black shells rained down on Li Xing's artillery team.

Li Xing's artillery team was shelled and immediately returned fire on the artillery of the Jiangbei Army.

However, the accuracy of throwing shells at a distance of five miles is still limited. Both sides don't know how many rounds they have to fight to suppress the cannon on the other side. The artillery battle did not mean to stop from the beginning, and the cannonballs flew in the sky. The deafening sound of the shelling was like a continuous thunderclap that shook people's ears.

From time to time, the shells that landed on the ground smashed on the bodies of one or two cannons, leaving the unlucky ones out of the battle. The flowering bombs of the Tiger Ben Army exploded indiscriminately in the Jiangbei Army formation, which naturally caused more damage. And the Jiangbei Army had more shells, although they were projectiles, sometimes they would also hit the bodies of individual Tiger Army soldiers, killing the soldiers.

The Tiger Army, which rarely suffered battle damage, suffered considerable casualties.

But this is also a matter of no choice, there are so many excellent cannons on the opposite side, and it will take time to end the cannons on the opposite side. At this stage of artillery fire, casualties are inevitable.

In order to reduce casualties, Li Xing had other arms other than artillery put in a sparse formation.

Li Xing looked at the Jiangbei Army's formation with a telescope, and saw Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu putting the cannons in the front and firing, and secretly said that this was the time for the eldest brother to say.

With a wave of his hand, he shouted, "Sharpshooter strike!" ”

Two thousand five hundred sharpshooters led their horses and walked towards the artillery of the Jiangbei Army five miles away.

The target of these sharpshooters was the artillery of the Jiangbei Army. The artillery of the Jiangbei Army was not concentrated, but scattered throughout the front, so these sharpshooters scattered and rushed forward. However, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army, these sharpshooters did not charge the battle on horseback, but led their horses and ran quickly.

As soon as this sharpshooter was dispatched, Wu Sangui on the opposite side immediately found out.

Wu Sangui raised the binoculars given to him by Li Zhi and looked strangely at the two thousand five hundred soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army. The soldiers led their horses, and as soon as they got out of the queue, they scattered in all directions.

The cannon of the Tiger Ben Army had a flat firing angle, and in order to prevent these soldiers leading the horses from being accidentally injured from behind, the cannon of the Tiger Ben Army stopped firing for a while. When these horse-leading soldiers walked more than a mile away, the cannons of the Tiger Ben Army fired again.

These Tianjin soldiers who came out with their horses not only did not keep in line, but also ran forward in a fan-shape. The more than 2,000 people ran forward, the more they dispersed, and by the end they had completely dispersed.

In this era, soldiers had to maintain a formation when picking up stations, and maintained the line with the strength of the queue. The so-called two fists are difficult to defeat the four legs, and the scattered soldiers will fall into a passive situation of one person against several people when they encounter the enemy in the queue. In this era, if the soldiers are scattered, they are completely ineffective and can easily be overwhelmed by the enemy in a row.

More than 2,000 people of the Tiger Ben Army on the opposite side led the war horses and did not ride, and completely dispersed on the battlefield full of artillery fire, which made Wu Sangui feel incredible.

Is this here to die?

Zuo Liangyu didn't have a telescope, he squinted at the sharpshooter of the Tiger Ben Army, and he also felt a little confused by the second monk. He watched the 2,000 men disperse to the front of the battlefield five or six miles wide, turning into a thin strip, and he didn't know what kind of tactics Li Zhi's Tiger Army was.

Could it be that Li Zhi's younger brother Li Xing is ready to use these 2,000 people to rush and kill the Jiangbei army of 80,000 people? If these two thousand people continue to advance, I am afraid that they will not be able to approach the front line of the Jiangbei Army, and they will be shot and killed on the battlefield by the iron gunners of the Jiangbei Army.

Wu Sangui said suspiciously: "Do you want to send soldiers up to disperse these enemies?" ”

Zhang Shenyan stroked his beard and said, "No! At this time, although the cannon was projectile, in fact the angle was very low. If you let the soldiers rush in front of the artillery to fight, you may be shot by your own shells! At that time, if the soldier is suddenly blown up by his own shells, he will really be Li Zhi's mistake. ”

"Look how close these miscellaneous soldiers are! If they get two hundred paces, let the cannon shoot them with a shotgun. ”

Zhang Shenyan said very reasonably, Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu pondered for a moment, but they couldn't find a reason to object.

In the puzzled eyes of the Jiangbei Army, Li Zhi's sharpshooters walked four hundred meters away from the Jiangbei Army's front and lay on the ground one by one.

Squad leader Wei Boss was also selected as a sharpshooter this time, and he lay on the barren grass and aimed his rifle at the opposite artilleryman. In the four-fold magnified scope, the artillery target of the Jiangbei Army 400 meters away was quite large, and Wei Lao Da pointed his rifle at a gun commander who gave orders.

"Woo~~"

In Li Xing's Central Military Office, the conch horn sounded violently.

Boss Wei held his breath and pressed the trigger. Only the crackling sound of the gun was heard, and then all the rifles around it were fired, and the crackling sound of shooting sounded on the long front.

In Boss Wei's scope, the cannon commander who was being targeted suddenly burst out of his chest with a bloody arrow, covering his wound and falling down. Not only was this gun commander shot down, but also a surveyor near this gun commander and a gunner who adjusted the gun mount. The marksmen fired at a distance of 400 meters, and with the help of the scope, they achieved an amazing hit rate, and naturally did not let go of important targets.

Seeing that the artillery in front of the battle was shot dead in an instant, one or two thousand gunner commanders woke up like a dream.

Li Zhi's rifle can hit 250 steps!

You must know that the iron cannon of the Wa Kingdom is known as excellent, and it can only fight seventy steps. As the saying goes, a hundred steps through the Yang, that is a myth, but that is only a hundred steps.

Taking a man's life on 250 steps, is this a divine soldier descending to earth?

Zhang Shenyan almost couldn't believe this fact, and was stunned for a long time without saying anything.

The artillery commanders and surveyors in the artillery team of the Jiangbei Army were almost completely wiped out at one time, and the cannons were all muted at once.

But the shooting of sharpshooters continued. The Tiger's marksmen did not need to clean their guns with smokeless powder, and they were very skilled in reloading, reloading in only twelve or three seconds. The shooters aimed at the target and fired again at the panicked Jiangbei Army artillery.

Another crackling gunfire rang out. The artillery of the Jiangbei Army was slaughtered again.

The Jiangbei Army's 600 cannons, which originally had more than 7,000 artillery, were half destroyed by Li Xing's sharpshooters in two rounds. The most important gunslingers, surveyors, gunners, and chargers were almost completely wiped out. The rest of the artillery was almost entirely a miscellaneous crew of towing artillery.

Where do the still alive artillerymen dare to stay where they are and be beaten? One by one, they fled in a panic.