"Good!" Luo Rucai said with a smile: "You still dare to attack!" Let the cavalry pass and scatter them! ”

His cavalry was now gathering in the distance, monitoring Li Zhong's troops. As long as Li Zhong's troops have a flaw, they can continue to attack. And his infantry was still outflanking from a distance, trying to surround Li Zhong's troops. Fortunately, all the fields here are level, and only a small village is not too big on the hill in the distance.

The cavalry slowly left and ran in the direction of Qian Er. At this time, Li Zhong was also observing the enemy's movements, and he endured not moving, waiting for the enemy's cavalry to go further. As for the infantry who were outflanked from a distance, he didn't pay attention to it at all.

When the cavalry had gone away, Li Zhongcai ordered: "Beat the drums, the troops advance!" ”

"Knock", the drum sound of "knock" suddenly remembered, which startled Luo Rucai. He watched as the troops of the official army began to move slowly, and the entire large array was moving slowly, leaning towards him.

"Knock", "knock", the drum beat is not fast, there is no change in rhythm, just a monotonous and steady beating, there is no agitation of other official and military war drums at all. But this monotonous drum beat made him feel inexplicably depressed, perhaps surprised him by seeing the neat movement of the whole array.

Luo Rucai suddenly ordered angrily: "Attack!" Don't move on the front, the other three sides, start attacking immediately! ”

The soldiers hurried to give the order.

After a while, the other three men's men began to attack Li Zhong. They still used the old way of letting the outcasts rush to the front, while the elite soldiers followed behind.

They were more than 400 paces away from the officers and soldiers, and there was no way, the artillery of the officers and soldiers was too powerful, and they had to stay farther away to have a sense of security. If there were cavalry, this distance would not be too far, but now that the cavalry has been transferred, they can only rush through this distance with their legs.

Li Zhong looked at the thieves who were shouting and rushing over from the other three sides, and he was not nervous at all. He commanded, "Keep going." Tiger Squat Cannon Get ready. ”

The large formation continued to advance to the beat of drums, and the gunners of the Tiger Squat Cannon were all concentrated. They first attached their legs to the barrel of the cannon, and the loader also held the shell in his hand, and the igniter blew the fire rope on the ignition rod from time to time, and was ready to stop and fire shells at the enemy.

After the front team of the thieves had entered two hundred steps, Li Zhong ordered: "Stop!" Get ready to defend! ”

At this point, the drumming suddenly became faster, and after a few beats, it suddenly stopped. The troops also stopped advancing at this time, and under the orders of the captain and Bai Zong, they turned to face the enemy and adjusted the queue slightly. The sword and shield men and pikemen in the front row squatted down, and the crossbowmen in the back also put their crossbow arrows on the arrow slots.

The gunners of the Tiger Squat Cannon immediately found a good position and leveled the land a little with short shovels. The gunner who took the backing plate worked together and smashed the backing plate to the ground hard, and the barrel was quickly put on the backing plate. After the cannon was fixed, the thief also entered a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

The artillery commanders did not wait for a unified order, and directly ordered each of them to open fire. This distance is the best firing distance for them, and if they wait for the order, they will miss the fighter. At this time, the accuracy and explosion time of the Tiger Squat Cannon were not accurate, and naturally there was no need to demand a strict salvo.

The sound of "passing" and "passing" was sporadically heard, and then it became secret. The gunners will slightly adjust the direction of the barrel in the gap between the shots, allowing the shells to land on a wider area.

"Boom", "boom" explosions exploded in the middle of the rushing thieves. Even if those thieves saw the falling bombs, they had no sense of dodging, so they could only rush forward with their heads covered, blowing up whoever counted.

Exploding projectiles flew through the crowd, killing and injuring the thieves. Especially those homeless people who rushed to the front, there was no protection, and some did not even have cotton clothes, so many people fell to the ground screaming. The thieves in the back were better, not only wearing thick cotton clothes, but also many wearing leather armor or piercing armor. They got a lot of things from the treasury of the government, so they still had no shortage of armor.

The tiger squat cannon is firing at full strength, and the three-inch cannon is also quickly in place and ready to fire, even if it can only fire one round, it will give a lot of damage to the thieves.

After the three three-inch cannons on three sides were fired, the damage of the thieves was even greater. Although the smoke and dust of the explosion obscured the view, the screams were louder than the shouts. Moreover, there are also crossbow arrows, and there are only a few people who can rush to the twenty paces in front of the official army.

Luo Rucai didn't let his troops die in shock, he only had more than 10,000 people here, even if he could rush over, the follow-up troops would not be able to go up, and the subordinates in front of him would just die in vain. So he immediately ordered the withdrawal of his troops. But even if they retreated, they still had to endure Li Zhong's artillery fire. When they came back, the casualties were forty percent.

Luo Rucai couldn't, so he had to retreat some with his troops to regroup his troops. However, as soon as his troops retreated, Li Zhong began to let the large array continue to move forward. Luo Rucai couldn't stop it, so he had to continue to retreat.

But they had only retreated some distance when screams were heard from behind.

"What's going on?!" Luo Rucai asked angrily. He is really angry now, the loss is so huge, he can't help the opponent's army formation at all.

After a while, the soldiers came to report: "The officers and soldiers behind are firing artillery, and the shells have hit the rear team here." ”

Luo Rucai glanced back and found that there were seven or eight hundred steps away from the officers and soldiers behind. He didn't expect that the artillery of the official army could hit so far, and then looked at the official army opposite him, which was only more than five hundred steps away from him, so he ordered: "Withdraw!" Retreat to the west! Let them converge, and they can't be attacked on both sides here! ”

He withdrew westward with his troops, making way for the passage between Qian Er and Li Zhong. However, Li Zhong did not continue to advance and converge, but only sent one cavalry over. After a while, both army formations began to advance to the west, so that Luo Rucai's troops did not dare to resist, and they all retreated westward again and again.

At this time, the two military formations of Li Zhong and Qian Er were considered to have become one military formation, and the thousand-step gap in the middle, the thieves did not dare to enter. With such a long military formation, even if it is surrounded by 50,000 horses, it is a bit difficult. Several generals ran over and asked Luo Rucai for advice.

"General, let's withdraw to Chen Liu." Someone suggested.

Luo Rucai looked at the slowly moving military formation, and suddenly said with a smile: "They are powerful, we can't break their military formation." But look at their speed, like a turtle crawling. We are leaving, but not retreating, but attacking! Let's stop playing with them now, let's go around! Continue to attack Qixian! ”

When the generals heard this, their depressed mood finally rose again, and they shouted: "The general is right! Let's go around and let them eat ashes behind the old men! ”

"That's right! Get around! Let's see how many soldiers they can have in the county! ”

……

Luo Rucai ordered: "Go back and sort out the team, let's withdraw a section one after another, and then bypass from the south!" ”

"Yes!"

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