This time, Luo Rucai's artillery was much more than Zhang Xianzhong's artillery last time, and it was not as stingy as Zhang Xianzhong. Luo Rucai directly ordered all the twenty artillery pieces that followed him to advance towards Li Yan's team, and all of them were concentrated in the west.

Li Yan didn't have a good way, he could only let the enemy's cannon start firing at five hundred paces, break the giant shield in front first, and then deal with the cannon behind.

"Put!" "Put!" "The artillery commanders are issuing orders.

"Boom", "boom" cannon sound one after another.

"Click", "click". Several huge shields were shattered as they advanced, and the thieves behind let out screams, but there was only one cannon behind them. The gunners ignored the thieves' tricks, and they continued to reorient themselves to bombard the other giant shields.

Li Yan held the binoculars and watched the effect of this round of artillery fire. He frowned and ordered, "Bring over a Franc cannon from the south." ”

At this time, there were three guns in the south and three guns in the west, but the thieves had a lot of false targets in the west, and the three guns were indeed a little small. He transferred the Franc cannon to the high rate of fire of the Franc gun.

The artillery continued to bombard, but so did the thieves' giant shields and artillery. By the time the Franc cannon was brought in, they had advanced to a distance of four hundred paces. Fortunately, the gun carriages of the thieves' three-inch Franc cannons were damaged, and Luo Rucai and others were forced to abandon them, otherwise they could have fired at this distance.

But he didn't dare to turn in the cannons on the other three sides, after all, there were more than 5,000 cavalry staring at it in the distance. If he was negligent, he could be defeated by the enemy's cavalry.

Luo Rucai, who was in the distance, watched the giant shield in front of him being shattered one by one, and watched some soldiers behind him being knocked down, and the artillery being hit and falling to the ground. He said with emotion: "This Li Yan's artillery is really powerful." ”

"We will soon reach three hundred paces," comforted his men, "we still have more than ten cannons, enough to break up their formation!" They only have four cannons now, how can they beat us! ”

Luo Rucai also nodded, and said with a smile: "When these officers and soldiers are defeated, with these cannons, we will be able to defeat those villages." This is also strange, the forts are built so strongly, even if they are fought with artillery, they can't collapse the earthen walls. ”

"It's not that the walls are strong, it's that the pursuers are chasing too closely." Some of his subordinates said unconvinced: "If those officers and soldiers didn't chase after them, they would have been beaten with cannons for a long time, and they would have been beaten into powder!" ”

Luo Rucai looked behind at this time and found nothing unusual. However, he was still a little worried, so he said: "Let the black bull row more sentinels, and you must know the movements of the official army earlier." ”

The pro-soldiers immediately went to give the order to the black bull.

The thieves' artillery finally came within a distance of three hundred paces, and although the small ones could not hit that far, there were still five cannons among them that could threaten the officers and soldiers. As for those small cannons, even if they are cheering.

They began to remove the unbroken shields from the front, and they had already loaded the guns with ammunition that they could fire as soon as they ignited. At this time, regardless of whether they could fight or not, as long as the artillery was not damaged, all of them were ignited.

"Boom", "boom", "boom" cannon sounded, and white smoke also enveloped those artillery.

"Ah~" Li Yan's troops also suddenly screamed. The entire front was pierced, and the flesh and blood of the soldiers who were hit were blurred, even with shields and chain mail.

The crossbowmen standing next to the back row immediately went up consciously, moved the wounded and dead comrades to the rear, picked up their spears, took out their long knives, and filled the gap in the front.

Li Yan immediately searched with a telescope, found the largest guns, and then walked forward.

"General, danger." Liang Zhenfang hurriedly dissuaded.

Li Yan thought for a while, handed the telescope to Liang Zhenfang, and ordered: "Show it to the artillery commanders, let them hit the largest guns first, be fast!" ”

"Subordinates obey!" Liang Zhenfang took the telescope and immediately ran to the nearest artillery group.

Fortunately, the Rogue reload is much slower. They still scooped gunpowder out of the barrel with a mechanistic spoon and loaded it into the chamber of the gun. In order to increase the firing range, a thick wooden mat was added before loading the shells to have the effect of holding the breath. However, in such a tense battle, it has long been ignored by them. They can only fit one before they go.

Their choice was correct, because they knew the speed at which the officers and soldiers could fire artillery, and they could fire it once in ten breaths. Just as they were loading their ammunition, they heard screams not far away.

The distance of 300 paces is beyond the direct distance of the shotgun, but if the muzzle of the gun is slightly raised, it can still allow the lead pellet to inflict damage on the enemy. It just so happened that those artillerymen were not wearing armor, which helped Li Yan a lot.

After the gun commander has pointed the cannon in the direction, he asks the sighter to use a tool to increase the angle of fire by two degrees, and the shotgun projectile can be hit.

"Boom", "boom", "boom" firing intensified again. There is no salvo left for the thieves, and the loaded shells are fired. It's just the first time to reload, and the time difference between them is not too big.

"Get out of the way!" Li Yan saw a cannonball flying over, like a small ball flying slowly and reaching out to catch it. However, he knew that this was a very dangerous thing, so after a warning, he immediately dodged to the side.

One of the soldiers in the back didn't have time to dodge, and his right leg was broken in one fell swoop, and the projectile changed direction and continued to move forward, breaking the front leg of the war horse behind. The horse neighed and fell to the ground, almost crushing the soldiers next to him.

Li Yan glanced at the casualties and immediately ordered: "Everyone disperse, be ready to dodge at any time!" Heal the wounded! ”

"Yes!" The soldiers agreed, and they all dispersed, and several people carried the wounded away.

Li Yan looked at the front line again, and at this time, three more shells carved out three bloody roads on his front, and more than 20 soldiers were killed or wounded. At this time, he could only silently stick to the banner and let his soldiers know that he lived and died with them.

Liang Zhenfang was still running towards the last artillery group with binoculars, and at this time it was considered to have some effect, and their shotgun had already destroyed one of the enemy's artillery groups. Although it was a shotgun, it was not an easy task to hit most of the gunners of one of the enemy's guns at a distance of three hundred paces.

In fact, in normal times, as long as there are one or two casualties, the gunners of the thieves will all run away. But today, with the threat of Luo Rucai, they could only hold on to the blood and screams of their companions.

Both sides continued to fire artillery with a bang, causing projectiles to fly towards each other, inflicting casualties on their opponents. At the same time, it is also bearing the projectiles of the other side, and it is also suffering huge casualties and pressure.

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