"Keep launching, don't stop," Shi Jincai reminded loudly. He knew that if he could inflict a large number of casualties on Li Yan, Li Yan might retreat.

When he was still under Li Yan's command, Li Yan rarely let them attack each other on an equal footing with the enemy, and generally used artillery to control the enemy at a greater distance. So he was sure that Li Yan cherished the lives of his subordinates very much.

And what he wants is time, as long as he can drag Liu Zongmin's people across the river, he will be basically safe here. So he had to seize this weakness of Li Yan and let Li Yan retreat by himself, otherwise they wouldn't have any chance.

The men who fired the tiger squat cannon were all trembling and went to prepare ammunition, but before they were ready, they heard the sound of "Tong" and "Tong" coming from Li Yan's military formation. As soon as they looked up, they saw countless black dots falling from the sky.

The thieves knew that the black dot would explode like the bombs they fired, so they got up from the ground and ran to the back.

"Boom", "boom", those bombs began to explode one after another after falling on the ground. The sound and power of the explosion were loud and powerful. Not only did the smoke and dust from the explosion billow, but the flying projectiles also made bloody holes in the nearby thieves. Even a thief wearing armor who is hit in the head and face by a projectile is seriously injured even if he does not die.

As soon as the first round of explosions ended, the ears of the uninjured thieves were still buzzing, and the second round of shells came again, and there were "boom" and "boom" explosions in succession.

Shi Jincai's ears were also buzzing, and a bomb exploded at a distance of four or five paces from him, and if he hadn't been crawling, those projectiles would have smashed on his body. Although he had chain mail and piercing armor, he didn't dare to be careless.

He didn't dare to lie on the ground anymore, he had a feeling of wanting to vomit, it was very uncomfortable. He immediately got up from the ground, held his head and ran behind him.

He swept out the thick smoke and dust in one breath, and ran to the river before stopping, in the process of which he seemed to have been hit hard in the back. Then he turned around and saw thirty paces away, completely shrouded in smoke and dust, and explosions were heard one after another. His men screamed from time to time, and many more rushed out of the smoke, and some fell while running, never to get up again.

At this time, he did not get Li Guo's instructions, and he did not dare to go to the bridge, so he could only watch his subordinates continue to rush towards the bridge. But he found that his men had not been shot by Li Guo, so he also ran to the bridge despite the pain in his back.

And Li Yan saw that most of the thieves had already stood up and fled backwards. So let the cannon that had already followed fire shotguns, while the Tiger Squat Cannon continued to fire bombs, but lowered the muzzle of the cannon, and the target was set at about one hundred and thirty paces.

The explosion advanced to the shore, and the thieves who had gathered on the river bank were scattered in all directions. And the dense shotguns also broke through the smoke and knocked down the crowd of people running around.

Li Guo watched as more and more people ran over the bridge, and the people on the shore were knocked down by cannonballs in droves. He hesitated and did not give the crossbowmen the order to release their arrows.

"Is there any news from Mr. Liu?" asked Li Guo with a frown.

Yuan Zongdi shook his head: "I haven't made the pontoon bridge yet." Moreover, Li Yan's troops had already driven over, and it was even more difficult to cross the river. ”

Li Guoyi gritted his teeth and said, "Then I can't waste my troops." ”

"Let's go, let's step back a bit, otherwise Li Yan's cannonballs will hit here." Yuan Zongdi glanced at the subordinates on the other side who were still falling, and said helplessly.

Li Yan kept the army in place, and swept the thieves on the river bank with bombs and projectiles before letting the troops move forward. This time it went much smoother, and the thieves on the banks of the river were wounded except for the corpses, and no one was making trouble for them anymore.

When they advanced to the area where the thieves had been arrayed, the corpses began to increase there, which was not conducive to the advance of the artillery, so they stopped first. Through the smoke and dust, which had become sparse, they saw that the troops on the other side had retreated a lot, and they had all retreated to the bottom of the city.

Li Yan estimated the distance, if his cannon fired, it would also cause some casualties to the thieves under the city, but in the cannon just now, each cannon fired more than a dozen shotguns, and the cannon needed to be cooled. And now that he has beaten the thieves across the vortex river and completed the campaign goal, he naturally doesn't have to waste ammunition. Then there is the fact that the thief has a height advantage in the city and can also hit him with cannonballs, so he doesn't want to keep close.

Li Yan instructed: "Send someone to search and bring back the lightly wounded." And those artillery guns are also brought back, and the other armor weapons will be talked about later. ”

He knew that the thieves had two more places to cross the river to the south, and now that the bridge had been blocked by him, it was time to send another team to reinforce them.

He instructed: "Huang Desheng, you take a battalion to the south, where you will be under your unified command, and try not to let the thieves cross the river." ”

"Yes." Huang Desheng clenched his fists and agreed.

Li Yan reminded again: "You can let them build the pontoon bridge, and you can also let some thieves come over, so that they don't have to find other places to cross the river." ”

Huang Desheng nodded and said, "I understand the humble position." ”

Li Zicheng at the head of the city watched as Li Yan's troops stopped in the distance, and only a few people searched in the pile of corpses. More than 20 of his large and small guns, as well as seven or eight newly-made Tiger squat guns, were all lost.

And Luo Rucai also went to the city at this time. He looked at the terrible situation on the other side of the river, where there were five or six thousand corpses, to say the least. He knew that those were Li Zicheng's elite soldiers, so he was secretly happy in his heart. Now the difference in strength between them is not so big, and he and Li Zicheng can cooperate again.

"Self-contained, Li Yan's cavalry is wandering around my place, and I can't build a pontoon bridge with peace of mind." Luo Rucai explained.

Liu Zongmin said dissatisfiedly: "What is there to be afraid of the cavalry, they don't have artillery for you, I think you did it on purpose."

Luo Rucai also roared angrily: "What you said is light, that pontoon bridge can pass a few soldiers at a time, isn't this sending my people to a dead end, you have the ability, why don't you repair the pontoon bridge, Li Yan's troops didn't fire a shot at you"

"Don't make any noise," Li Zicheng said with a cold face. When Liu Zongmin and Luo Rucai stopped talking, he continued: "Let's do this today, let's find a way." ”

At this time, Li Guo led people to escort Shi Jincai to the city, and hugged his fists at Li Zicheng and said: "General, Shi Jincai retreated without an order, and his subordinates escorted him up, please send the general down." ”

Li Zicheng glanced at Shi Jincai, who was being held, waved his hand and said, "Let it go, and make meritorious service for the crime." Go back and regroup your troops and fight again next time. ”

Li Guo breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Li Zicheng would cut Shi Jincai. Shi Jin is the person who knows Li Yan the most, and he should have a greater role in the future, it's a pity to kill him. He was ready to intercede, and now that his uncle was no longer pursuing it, that would naturally be the best outcome.

After Shi Jincai was let go, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and then thanked him loudly: "Humble thanks to the general's grace of not killing." The subordinates must do their best to find a way to deal with Li Yan."

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Go ahead, don't let me down." ”

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