In terms of the number of troops, the Western army was three times larger than the Ming army; In terms of combat experience and combat effectiveness, the Western Army, which had fought for many years and fought in several provinces, was even more than the Ming Army, which had just been put together for a short time; In terms of the combat experience of generals, Feng Shuangli is a famous general in the Western Army, starting from a soldier and fighting with Zhang Xianzhong on the battlefield for more than ten years, while Yan Yingyuan was just a small official two months ago, and he had just experienced the battlefield for just over a month, while Liu Neng had been a soldier for more than two years, most of the time he was used as a night sentry detective, and later he became the leader of the enemy intelligence department, not a candidate to lead the troops to fight.

In any respect, the strength of the Western Army was much stronger than that of the Ming Army, but it was the Ming Army that took the initiative to attack on the battlefield with a small number of people, poor combat effectiveness, and little experience in generals.

And for some reason, Feng Shuangli actually put on a defensive posture and let the Ming army attack.

The Western Army formed a defensive formation and did not move, Yan Yingyuan commanded the Ming Army to attack the formation and slowly approached the Western Army, and the archers and musketeers stopped from time to time to shoot a continuous rain of arrows at the thief army array. And the archers in the Western army also opened their bows and arrows at the approaching Ming army.

Arrows and arrows on both sides were exchanged and firearms were fired, and soldiers on each side kept falling to the ground. Yan Yingyuan had not been in the army for a long time, and he only had bows and arrows and firearms, and there were no cannons, but the artillery in Feng Shuangli's army was all transferred to Jiujiang to participate in the siege, so although the two sides were in contact with bows and arrows before the battle, there were no big casualties on both sides.

Firing at each other like this, the Ming army slowly pressed towards the Western Army array, and the last distance between the two sides reached the point where the tip of the gun touched the tip of the gun face to face. As is customary, a fierce battle ensues, with both sides fighting each other in a brutal battle until one side can no longer hold out and retreat.

Feng Shuangli, who was in the center of the formation, looked at his thick defense line, believing that the Ming army would never be able to break through, and when the Ming army was exhausted, it was the moment when the whole army of the Shun army attacked and defeated the Ming army in one fell swoop.

However, when will the Ming Army's "Five Thunder Dafa" be used? Of course, Feng Shuangli didn't believe that the Ming army would have any five thunder Dafa, he always thought that it was just some powerful firearms, and his own army was just exaggerated while being frightened, and the Ming army had been fighting for so many years, what strange firearms Feng Shuangli hadn't seen?

Maybe the Ming army's firearms are more powerful this time, but they will definitely not be able to influence the battle situation, Feng Shuangli is convinced of this!

However, out of caution, he listed the defensive array, fearing that the Ming army would suddenly use that kind of firearm by surprise and cause a rout.

Just in Feng Shuangli's ardent "anticipation", the Ming army's firearms were finally used, and before they were about to fight each other, a round black dot was suddenly thrown out of the rear of the Ming army's array, crossed the front line of the Ming army at the head of the row, and was thrown just behind the shield players in the first few rows of the Western Army, and then there was a series of earth-shattering explosions.

The entire explosion rang out, like thunder in the sky, and the entire position was filled with gunsmoke, and Feng Shuangli couldn't see what was happening at all.

Is this the Ming Army's "Five Thunder Dafa"? Feng Shuangli was immediately shocked, judging from the continuous explosions, at least a few hundred or even thousands of serial explosions could cause such a big movement! It was as if hundreds or thousands of artillery pieces were firing at the same time, and the power was earth-shattering and terrifying.

Although his vision was obscured by the smoke of gunpowder, Feng Shuangli could guess that his own soldiers would inevitably suffer heavy casualties in the smoke of gunpowder!

Feng Shuangli couldn't help but be shocked, and all the soldiers in the entire Xiying array were also shocked. Because Feng Shuangli's department has been stationed in Linjiang Mansion and has not experienced the artillery battle under Jiujiang City, the firearms of the Ming army are still at the same level as their own in the past, and they don't know that the current Ming army is no longer what it used to be.

Take Yan Yingyuan's department as an example, if there were no thousands of grenades brought by Liu Neng, its combat power would be no different from the previous Ming army, but with these thousands of grenades, everything would be completely different from before.

When the two sides are fighting in a neat formation, suddenly dozens of hundreds of grenades are thrown into the opponent's array, killing and wounding dozens or hundreds of soldiers, which can definitely change the outcome of a battle. For the soldiers of this era, they are very ignorant without any knowledge, and often classify things they don't understand as ghosts and gods, such as the first time the Ming army used grenades when attacking Linjiang Mansion, many thieves have never seen this kind of thing, and they even thought it was the thunder summoned by the Ming army.

And this consciousness spread rapidly with the rout in Feng Shuangli's army, when the Ming army threw out thousands of grenades again, looking at the violent explosion sound like thunder, seeing that the Ming army raised his hand is a thunder explosion, many Western soldiers were frightened, and they didn't believe that this was a powerful firearm that Feng Shuangli advertised at the beginning, they had seen a lot of firearms, where was there such a powerful firearm?

So, when the smoke cleared, looking at the scattered front of their own side that had been bombed, looking at the corpses all over the ground and the wounded who were still howling, watching the Ming army shouting and rushing over, raising their hands and thunder exploded in their arrays, many thieves suddenly collapsed, threw down their weapons and cried and shouted to flee, and some simply knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender.

The serial explosion of thousands of grenades only killed one or two thousand people in the front row of the Western Army, but it caused panic and chaos in the entire Western Army array, and this effect was definitely beyond Yan Yingyuan and Liu Neng's expectations.

At this time, it was natural to beat the water dogs, and without waiting for Yan Yingyuan's order, the officers at all levels on the front line shouted and led their men to rush towards the thief array, and then saw that the entire thief defense line was like a city wall made of sand and soil, and it collapsed, all the western thieves were fleeing wildly, and countless soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

The huge array of 30,000 people collapsed suddenly, and the defeat came so quickly that Feng Shuangli was stunned and stunned.

"Governor, let's run away!" The pro-soldiers escorted Feng Shuangli to turn around and flee, slashing and slashing all the way out of the rout array, and fled to the southwest regardless of the direction.

Feng Shuangli was holding the horse's neck and galloping wildly, and everywhere he passed was his panicked and chaotic soldiers, at this moment his head was thinking, could it be that the Ming army would really fail the "Five Thunder Dafa"? What exactly are they throwing?

Victory came so easily, as if it was just throwing out thousands of grenades, and then tens of thousands of thieves were defeated like that, fled, crying and shouting surrender, this victory was beyond the imagination of all Ming officers and soldiers.

"I can't imagine that the combat effectiveness of the thief army is so poor!" Liu Neng opened his mouth and said, if all the thief army is like this, it is to fight the thief army head-on, with the tens of thousands of troops in Jiujiang, maybe they can win, is the battle method of the grandfather too conservative? Liu Neng thought secretly.

"It's not that the thief army has poor combat effectiveness, it's that they are attacked by our two sides, the back road is cut off, the food and grass are scarce, and the army's morale is lost, which is why it is so easy to lose." Yan Yingyuan concluded.