When most of Lu Xiangsheng's entourage were killed under the fierce firepower and even supervision of the opponent, and the battle situation on the entire street was in jeopardy, Lu Xiangsheng finally understood that in the face of this unprecedented team, it was impossible to resist the opponent's offensive just by relying on the courage and courage to fight as before. Only by temporarily withdrawing to the artillery array that the rear battalion should have prepared may have any hope of finally confronting the opponent. In such a situation, it seems that there is nothing to stop the opponent except for decent artillery fire.

Fortunately for Lu Xiangsheng, the eighteen four or five hundred pound barrel weight of the two battalions left in the front of the rear battalion were also divided into three platoons and were ready to fight at this time, not only that, but the shrewd subordinates also concentrated more than 200 turtledoves and Peruvian gunners that were rare in other teams, and the gunners and firearms of nearly 1,000 people formed a sufficient depth and dense defense on the avenue with a width of only a few zhang, and almost at the same time, the thousands of black powder grenades prepared by the rear battalion were also prepared to the front at this time.

When the fierce enemy in the smoke of gunfire began to loom about a hundred paces away from the street with shouts of killing, the heavy artillery fire was fired.

If the light artillery of the second or third general can only hit the seven-pound standard shell of the Ming army to the muzzle velocity of the crossbow level, then the heavy artillery with more than four times the weight of the body barrel can almost accelerate the seven-pound heavy shell to about half the speed of sound that most bows and crossbows cannot reach at all without exceeding the standard charge. Quadruple weight not only gives four times as much power, but also a flatter trajectory for longer effective range. This caused the attacking team to encounter a lot of casualties when they just broke into the effective range of the opponent, but after learning the previous lesson, the casualties suffered by the more than 100 officers and soldiers of the first company of the volunteer battalion who were still capable of fighting were not large, but as long as there was even a moment's hesitation, serious casualties would soon come. This is especially true when the shells fired by the enemy could not be easily resisted by the loss of two heavy infantry, and even more so when the shells that hit the attacking team could even hit four or five officers and men in armor and shields together.

Fortunately, among the many bad situations that Xiao Xuan had thought about before, there was this kind of danger that he might encounter in the face of the enemy's real general's artillery array, so there was no need to think and make a decision in a crisis situation, but he issued a bold order that year. After ordering all the teams to load up a round of firearms, they lowered their bodies, put on their shields, and attacked the enemy in a crawling posture with all their might.

Fortunately, the officers and men of the volunteer battalion and the personal guard battalion had also been trained before this kind of wartime, and although they were not skilled, they were still able to manage to advance in a relatively neat and orderly formation in the direction of the artillery fire when they were about to fight.

Lu Xiangsheng took a closer look with the help of a telescope that only the general army had, and found that the enemy army a hundred steps away was not easily defeated under such a fierce artillery bombardment, as he had imagined before, but continued to crawl forward and spread out, and he couldn't help but feel the pressure.

In the battle with the Jianzhou Army, he had seen a strong enemy with excellent training, but he had never seen a strong enemy with such a level of psychological literacy in battle. However, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng also began to realize a question: What does it mean to be such a powerful elite soldier? Maybe it means that Xiao Xuan's most trusted role is among them. Of course, the fact that an emperor dared to lead a team to attack on the battlefield of this era was something that Lu Xiangsheng could not have imagined at this time.

"Change the weight of the scatterer, the firecracker prepares!" Thinking of the strong enemy that he was likely to face in close combat, Lu Xiangsheng at this time quickly ordered.

Heavy artillery fire opened fire again. The previous few months of fighting made the head of the elite Ming army camp with some combat consciousness also prepare a lot of heavy shotguns weighing six or seven taels, and when the general's cannon launched firepower, it could fire out thirty heavy lead pieces with a total of about ten catties at a speed that was difficult to reach with ordinary strong crossbows. When six guns fired one hundred and eighty heavy buckshot at the same time, the powerful lead bullets swept through the streets like a storm. In almost every round of fire, at least 10 officers and men of the attacking volunteer battalion were shot. When the powerful projectile hits the head, it can splash the helmeted head with flesh and blood on the spot, and when it hits the legs, it can directly break the armor-clad legs, even if it is at a certain angle. Only those ricocheting bullets at a certain angle can barely protect the armor on the officers and men of the volunteer battalion, but it also makes the officers and men of the volunteer battalion crawling forward feel as if they have been struck by lightning.

As the distance approached to a distance of about forty or fifty paces, when the turtledove team under the command of Lu Xiangsheng began to open fire fiercely and relatively accurately, the casualties suffered by the attacking team suddenly became serious. It seems that even the entire team will suffer huge casualties as they crawl forward.

However, even in this case, none of the officers and men of the attacking volunteer battalion fired back under such circumstances, as if the whole team was preparing to launch a hand-to-hand attack in such a sparse and loose formation.

Lu Xiangsheng, who seemed to subconsciously sense a hint of danger, quickly gave the order to let the prepared cavalry and elite infantry attack the enemy from the flank, and when the sound of horses' hooves accompanied by the shouting of his own army in the distance sounded, it seemed to give the Tianxiong army at this time an illusion that the team seemed to be able to win soon.

However, just as the horse team from behind the street rushed in, and the officers and men of the volunteer battalion who were responsible for the rear cover had to turn around and shoot in response, the attack was once again launched at a very close distance.

The grenade offensive was accompanied by a calm firing that looked at the battlefield as if it were a drill, and the gunners and gunners of the Tianxiong Army who were ready to resist were quickly suppressed in the face of the fire that was deployed at a distance of forty or fifty meters, and when the fierce grenade attack began to detonate a lot of reserve ammunition on the resistance positions of the artillery and firearmsmen, the seemingly impregnable Ming army's blocking position finally collapsed.

It was also at this time that the first company of the volunteer battalion in the front row launched a rapid attack, and soon the rear battalion of the Tianxiong Army and even the Ming army, which was constantly reinforcing later, launched a close combat. Different from before, both Lu Xiangsheng and Yuan Keli realized that the entire team could no longer retreat, and if they did not contain the opponent, there was a possibility that the direction of the originally seemingly dense barricade would be lost.

(End of chapter)