The Liukou also have firearms, but there are all kinds of them, such as bird guns, three-eyed guns, Peruvian guns, tiger guns, etc., because they affect mobile warfare, so there are no cannons.

The rogues with these firearms were at the front, and the Tiger Zun cannon was also pushed on a small cart. After the first round, they will retire into the formation, followed by pikemen, then archers.

The archers of the Rogue were also very noble, with only two thousand men. The production of a bow is not easy, and the production of a bow takes a year at the earliest, so there are not many robberies from the official army.

The largest number were pikemen, and this weapon was the cheapest. Axemen followed by the Axemen, who were on both sides and behind the array, waiting for an opportunity to engage the enemy.

As the two sides continued to approach, Luo Ru easily judged that the opponent's two wings were weak points, because almost all the opponent's carriages and war horses were lined up in the formation to follow the advance, and the two wings were almost all infantry, and there were no spearmen.

Why almost? Because there were twenty or thirty carriages on the two wings of the Tiance Army, this was not a matter that Luo Rucai had to care about, and this carriage could not form an effective chariot formation at all.

"Descending Tiger!" Seeing that it was about to be close to a mile away, Luo Rucai shouted.

"The big boss, please command!" Song Qing, the descending tiger, arched his hand on the horse.

"Get the cavalry ready to charge at any time!"

"Order!"

Luo Ru had just finished giving the order for the cavalry to prepare to charge, and the Tiance army had already launched an attack, because five hundred meters was about to enter the range of the rifle.

The first to attack was mortars, and the number of mortars of one regiment after another was sixty, and sixty shells fell from the sky, almost simultaneously smashing into the array of more than 10,000 people in Luo Rucai's old battalion.

Attacking in advance with artillery made it possible to reduce the intensity of fire from rifles and machine guns, and the security forces also had artillery, but did not participate in the shelling.

The artillery of the security forces is designed according to the field artillery, firing solid and scattered shells, and the effective range of solid bullets is 1.2 kilometers. Because the cannon, together with the base, weighed one hundred and fifty kilograms, which was not conducive to a combat march.

The dense explosion instantly blinded the rogues, and the corpses and stumps and severed arms were constantly thrown into the air, and each explosion point cleared out a no-man's land with a diameter of more than ten meters.

The rogue moved forward by inertia, and the crowd quickly replenished the no-man's land just now, and before Luo Ru could close his mouth that was open in surprise, the second batch of shells arrived one after another.

Sixty shells slammed into the ranks of the rogues again, like the scythes of death, and the screams of the rogue ranks were incessant, and the shrapnel of the mortars flew everywhere.

A piece of shrapnel burst out of the warhead by a high-explosive charge, reaching its maximum speed in an instant, cutting off half of the head of a rogue captain, and blood spurted out of the arteries like flowers, along with the brains of several foot soldiers next to him. The corpse didn't even make a sound, and fell to the ground like a stake.

This Wu Chang was originally a horse thief near Liu0'an, but he fell out with his companions because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, so he joined Luo Rucai's thief army. Because of his bravery, he was selected to serve as the commander of Luo Rucai's old battalion, but he didn't expect to be killed by the artillery of the official army before he had a few days of wine and meat.

The surrounding foot soldiers were no better, the flying shrapnel swept down a piece, the dead were in disarray, and the wounded soldiers who were not dead fell to the ground wailing.

The ranks of the rogues were in a commotion, and the leaders of the leading infantry immediately stood up and shouted and scolded the restless footmen, only then did they stabilize their position, and more than 10,000 rogues continued to speed up their pace amid the shouting and scolding.

This is not a loss of the old camp, if it is a "flock", I am afraid it will collapse.

The Tiance Army has also done a certain amount of research on the Liukou and knows who to fight first.

The rooks had barely taken a few steps when the next batch of cannonballs came again, their whistling sound through the air like the call of death.

The rogues were in turmoil, trying to avoid the cannonballs falling on their heads, but there were people in front and behind, and there were not a few rogues who had the same idea as them, and the formation was chaotic for a while.

Mortar shells still fell in the panicked crowd, and there was another bloody storm. One of the bandits was about to stop the soldiers from panicking, when a shrapnel slashed through his abdomen at high speed, and immediately his intestines rotted. He looked hard at the gut that kept flowing, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground and died.

In less than half a minute after the three rounds of shelling, more than 1,000 people had been killed or wounded, and Luo Rucai, who was looking straight at it, was completely stunned.

He is not a long-term bandit, but facing such a disadvantage has aroused his ferocity.

Luo Rucai pulled out his waist knife, pointed forward, and shouted: "Down the mountain tiger, the cavalry immediately charged, and took the artillery of the officers and soldiers." ”

"Order!"

"Xiashan Tiger" Song Qing also understood what Luo Rucai meant, the artillery threat of the officers and soldiers was too great, and they had to be killed first. Artillery is most afraid of the enemy's approach, and they all know such common sense.

With the sound of drums, the Liukou cavalry was completed, Luo Rucai waved the command flag, and the five thousand cavalry struck the Tiance army fiercely from the right side.

One by one, these rogue cavalrymen held machetes, waist knives, sabers and other weapons, shouting loudly, shouting and scolding, and rushed towards the Tiance army.

Wang Hongwu fought with the Qing army, and the gap between the cavalry of the Liukou and the Qing soldiers was seen.

It's not just the gap in equipment, the Qing army can only hear the roaring hooves of horses and the sonorous sound of armor leaves during the attack, and no one shouts as loudly as the rogue, perhaps this is the gap between amateur cavalry and professional cavalry.

This point of cavalry did not look at Wang Hongwu's eyes at all, but according to the combat procedures, the artillery had immediately turned to shelling the cavalry.

It was not the first time that they had dealt with the cavalry, and the advance of the artillery had become more and more proficient.

Boom, boom, shells constantly exploded in the middle of the cavalry, and the cavalrymen began to struggle under artillery fire as soon as they rushed out.

A horse soldier was shouting and charging when a cannonball landed near him. The shrapnel pierced the horse's belly, and the horse fell to its knees, throwing the horse soldier out, and countless horses' hooves tragically trampled on his body behind him.

Another cannonball fell in the middle of the cavalry, and several shrapnel struck the body of a commander, piercing his leather armor and disrupting his internal organs, leaving the dead body on his horse.

The artillery of the Tiance Army went to take care of the rogue cavalry, and the pressure on the rogue foot soldiers was light. While feeling sorry for the casualties of his cavalry, Luo Rucai hurriedly ordered the old battalion in front to speed up the charge, and this short opportunity must be seized. No matter how big the cavalry losses are, as long as they defeat the officers and troops and grab the opponent's war horses, they will soon be replenished.

The leaders of the leading teams also knew that the opportunity was rare, and desperately urged the soldiers to speed up the charge. The shepherds, who were in the rear, shouted loudly and "flock" quickly followed.

The distance between the two sides had reached four hundred meters, and the rogues had no idea what they were about to face.

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