Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin are both old wars, how many people there are in an army, whether they can fight or not, they only need to glance at it, they can see that they are not far from ten. Now looking at the armies that appeared in front of them one after another, both of them couldn't help but gasp.

There were not many enemy troops on the opposite side, probably only six or seven thousand. They formed a six-way column and slowly approached this side, but as these people slowly approached along the official road, and at the same time slowly unfolded into a horizontal formation in the sound of drums, they quickly turned into twenty-four three-row horizontal formations in front of the Shun army, and spread out in a staggered manner. The twelve columns in front stopped, and the twelve teams in front took another hundred or so steps forward before they stopped at a long whistle. Li Zicheng first noticed a phenomenon that he had never seen in other teams, when those enemy troops advanced to the sound of drums, their footsteps were so neat that the footsteps made were almost as if they were made by a person.

"Grandma's, these soldiers...... It's really grandma's local tyrant, King Chuang, look at the armor on them......" Liu Zongmin couldn't help but say, maybe because he was nervous, he even accidentally called out the title "King Chuang", which had not been used for a while.

At this time, the model army had stopped about seven hundred paces away from the Shun army. The sound of drums also stopped, and thousands of people stood there straight, except for the crackling of the wind blowing the flags, not even the neighing of horses. It's as if these horses were stone carvings in aristocratic cemeteries. The midday sun shone on their bust plates, shining coldly.

"These guys are not easy to fight!" Li Zicheng sighed in a low voice, "Don't look at the fact that there are fewer people than us, but it's really hard to fight!" At the same time he looked in all directions and saw that all the soldiers, even his guards, were full of fear.

"I can't go back." Liu Zongmin said, "Break ...... Your Majesty, look over there, and over there, their cavalry. ”

At this time, the cavalry that had been chasing Li Zicheng's scout cavalry had been regrouped, and the cavalry all dismounted and divided into two teams to lead the horses to the two wings of the team. Li Zicheng looked at it and estimated that there were almost more than a thousand cavalry here. He knew that if he retreated and was tripped by these cavalry, the team would definitely be in chaos, and there would definitely not be many people who would be able to run back.

"Send someone out and ask them ......" Li Zicheng said, suddenly seeing dozens of carriages slowly driving out of the gap between the enemy formations in front.

"Oh my God, this is a horse? How can there be such a big horse in the world? Even the buffalo is not so big! A voice rang in Li Zicheng's ears, Li Zicheng turned his head to look, and saw that it was his nephew Li Guo, who was staring at the giant horses over there with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open.

These Charles pulled the carriage forward about fifty paces, then turned around and turned the carriage behind towards the Shun army, and Li Zicheng saw clearly that there was a cannon dragging behind these dozens of carriages.

The carriage stopped again, and the artillerymen jumped down from the carriage, quickly unloaded the cannon and the carriage, and put on a posture, and the muzzle of the black hole pointed straight at the Shun army. The two grooms led the four giant horses pulling the cart through the gap in the horizontal line and arrived at the back of the formation.

Almost at the same time, the one-pole eight-foot general military flag was also unfurled, and there was a big "Zheng" character on the flag.

"Zheng? Who's this? Li Zicheng asked.

"Is there a general soldier surnamed Zheng around here?" Liu Zongmin also frowned.

"It seems that the chief soldier of the Dengzhou Water Battalion is surnamed Zheng." Li Guo also came to his senses at this time and hurriedly said.

"Water camp? Can this be a water camp? Li Zicheng said, "No matter who it is, there must always be a battle." ”

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"The stragglers are out, the artillery is ready!" Gan Hui, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, looked back and saw that the general flag had been erected behind him, and issued such an order.

A group of stragglers began to move forward, they passed the artillery and approached the Shun army unhurriedly.

"What is this for?" Li Zicheng frowned. When the two armies were fighting, let some musketeers approach in an array, what was this for? He had never seen such a method of warfare.

This is also normal, in the Chinese battlefield in this era, there are not many armies organized enough to support skirmishers. For example, if Li Zicheng's Shun army also sent a group of stragglers like this, it is estimated that these stragglers would not know where to run halfway through.

"Your Majesty, do you want to send cavalry to drive them away?" Liu Zongmin asked.

Li Zicheng shook his head: "Our cavalry is less than those cavalry who can't kill them, you see their cavalry is also closer, our cavalry will be stopped by their cavalry now." It's not worth it to go too much, for such a small number of people, it costs horsepower. ”

At this time, the artillery of the Model Army was also ready, and one by one, on the gun positions, there were gunners who raised the small red flag in their hands.

Gan Hui looked at the position of the stragglers, who had already crossed the artillery for about fifty steps. He nodded to the herald beside him, who immediately raised his trumpet and blew a long note, and the stragglers stopped. Then he turned his gaze to the rear and looked behind him at the command vehicle with a raised platform.

"Major General, are you ready, are you going to start?" Liu De asked on the side.

"Let's get started." Zheng Sen nodded.

Liu De turned around and shouted to the standard-bearer on the command car: "Start attacking!" ”

The standard-bearer responded: "The attack begins? ”

Liu De shouted again: "Start attacking!" ”

The flag bearer nodded, and began to wave the two flags, one red and one white, in his hand, and gave the flag command.

"Fire!" Gan Hui said.

The trumpeter immediately blew two short notes in succession. Then the cannon rang out.

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At a distance of more than 600 paces, it would take about two seconds for the sound to come over, so the first thing Li Zicheng saw was that dozens of enemy cannons on the opposite side were emitting thick gunpowder smoke at the same time. Then dozens of small black dots were thrown into the air, (the muzzle velocity of the 12-pounder shell was not high, so it was even visible to the naked eye.) These small black dots rose upwards and for a moment, Li Zicheng felt that these small black dots seemed to be hanging in the air and did not move, but at this moment, the rumbling cannon sound came into his ears, and those small black dots also seemed to be awakened by the sound of cannons, and suddenly, with a terrible whistling sound, they plunged down and fell in front of the position of the Shun army.

These shells smashed on the front of the positions of the Shun army, and then as soon as the bullets jumped, they crashed into the array of the Shun army. At a distance of more than 600 paces, the 12-pounder gun had amazing accuracy and power. Fifty 12-pounder shells, except for more than a dozen shells that were not at the right angle due to the condition of the place where the shells fell, almost all of the others crashed headlong into the ranks of the Shun army. These shells hit the crowd straight through, directly piercing the entire queue, and this round of fire alone brought almost 500 casualties to the Shun army lined up in a dense formation. And the damage caused by the shelling is not comparable to any other form of killing. These shells can be said to die if they are touched, and even if they don't die, most of them are seriously injured, and they won't last long to see Hades. After all, like a wild boar skin, it is said that after being hit by a cannon, it can still be alive to attack Mongolia first, then bully North Korea, and then suddenly die of a cannon wound after three months, which is really too quantum mechanical. I think that what Inspector Yuan used at the beginning must have been a Schrödinger cannon.

Such a ferocious killing was completely beyond Li Zicheng's imagination. Li Zicheng also used artillery, but when the artillery was in his hands, it never showed such power. He knew that he had to act immediately, otherwise, as long as there were a few more rounds of shelling like this, the whole army would definitely collapse!

"Fight back now! Li Guo! Li Zicheng shouted loudly: "You take your cavalry and go and rush out those cannons, otherwise, this battle will not be fought!" ”

"The last will be ordered!" Li Guo shouted as he flew on his horse and ran in the direction of the cavalry unit under his command.

Li Guo had one of the most elite cavalry units of the Shun army in his hands. This team is nicknamed the "Three Walls" when it was the strongest, it is said that there were 30,000 people, but this number is actually just a false rumor, most of Li Zicheng's cavalry came from the surrendered Ming army, and Li Zicheng's financial situation has not been very good, to feed 30,000 cavalry, it is completely impossible. The reason why there are such a number of rumors is actually related to the fact that Li Zicheng likes to inject water into his own troops when he is publicizing to the outside world, and the Ming army also likes to exaggerate Li Zicheng's troops in order to shirk responsibility after losing the battle. The real cavalry of the three walls is actually only a few thousand.

Moreover, the so-called "three walls" actually refers to a charging tactic commonly used by Li Zicheng's cavalry. Li Zicheng divided the cavalry into three groups, the first group rushed up, and then suddenly turned in front of the enemy to disrupt the enemy army, and the second and third groups took the opportunity to rush up. However, although this "three walls" tactic is a tactic of directly charging into battle, this cavalry cannot complete a real airtight wall-mounted attack like the modern heavy cavalry, and they do not have that kind of tactical discipline and training.

Just when Li Guo organized the cavalry of the three walls to prepare for the attack, the artillery of the Model Army fired two more volleys at the speed of rapid fire. After these two rounds of volleys, the casualties of the Shun army had exceeded 1,000, and the entire army was in turmoil.

Li Guo brought all the more than 3,000 cavalry, and he divided the cavalry into three groups according to custom. His righteous son Li Laiheng habitually wanted to lead the first group, but Li Guo grabbed him and said, "This time you follow my palace!" ”

"Oh." Li Laiheng answered, and then took the horse to stand beside Li Guo.

The herald blew his horn, and the cavalry of the three walls began to divide into three groups and charge towards the artillery position of the Model Army hundreds of paces away.