Li Buqi also cast a cannon for the first time, and he still put safety first, so he built all short-barreled cannons, which were no more than one meter long, but the caliber was the size of a lamp. The power of the shotgun fired from such a short barrel is naturally limited, and it is certainly no problem to hit an infantry at close range, but it is difficult to hit an elephant. But elephants are very timid animals, and when they see the bright light of fire in front of them, and the smoke rising, and the deafening roar, these animals whose bodies and guts are completely disproportionate are startled. They immediately stopped and screamed, and they all turned and ran back at a much faster speed than before, and a few of them were so frightened that they stood upright on their hind legs and threw all the people on their backs.

At this time, a second round of artillery was fired, and the loud roar caused the elephants to run wildly again. Behind the elephant were all cochinese, and the frightened elephant stepped directly through the crowd, regardless of whether there was anyone or not.

The Cochin people in the back had just heard a roar, and before they could figure out what was going on, they were swept away by the crazy elephants. The men were in a state of panic, but they saw that the people who rushed to the front turned and ran back and collided with them.

People have a herd mentality, just now the charge was to follow the crowd, and now when the people in front of them retreat, there are many people who don't know what happened, but they also want to run back. At this time, the ranks of the Jiaozhi people were chaotic and crowded together, providing the Song army's long-range firepower with a better target.

Li Buqi didn't expect to bombard it with artillery, and the Jiaozhi people were defeated. He was afraid that the Jiaozhi people would retreat, so he hurriedly ordered not to pursue.

Shen Chenggui was sitting on the back of the elephant from a distance, so he could see the smoke rising from the direction of the Song army, and then he heard a thunderous sound, and couldn't help but ask, "What is that?" ”

But no one could answer him, and he saw only that the soldiers sent to attack were in disarray, and even the elephants ran back. He hurriedly called out to a confidant general, ordered him to go and stop the rout, and then ordered another 3,000 men to prepare for the attack.

After killing more than a dozen routed soldiers, the Jiaozhi generals stopped the army, and learned that they had been attacked by thunderous weapons, which was very terrifying. This situation was reported to Shen Chenggui, but Shen Chenggui didn't care too much. Because in previous battles, some people have also seen a weapon that can make an explosion from the Song people, but this weapon seems to be very troublesome to use, and it can not be used again for a long time after firing once, so he thinks that as long as the Song people continue to rush forward after using this weapon, they can still pull the Song people into hand-to-hand combat, and then defeat this Song army with the advantage of numbers.

After half an hour of tidying up, the second attack of the Cochins began again. This time, the formation of the Jiaozhi people was much more neat, and they cautiously forced the Song army, and the archers of Jiaozhi also continued to throw arrows in the queue. However, the monolithic bow used in this humid area has little power, and even if the arrow is coated with poison, it will only have a slightly disruptive effect. On the contrary, it was the long-range firepower of the Song army that caused casualties to the Jiaozhi people.

When the Cochins entered the distance of fifty meters again, the artillery fired again, and five or six hundred lead beans were knocked out, and the forward of the Cochins was as if they had been scraped by a huge scraper, and immediately lost a layer.

In the era of cold weapons, it is actually not easy to kill a person wearing armor on the battlefield. But this time was different, although most of the Cochin people who rushed to the front row were wearing various armors and holding shields, but in the blink of an eye, hundreds of Cochin soldiers fell in a pool of blood, even if they were protected by armor, it was useless. At this moment, many of the shocked Cochin people suddenly stopped, staring blankly at the smoke rising in front of them, and they didn't know what to do.

Just as the Cochins hesitated, the second round of artillery fired, and another rain of lead beans swept away the ranks of the Cochins, knocking them down again. The Cochins were in a commotion again, but this time the prepared Cochin officers shouted loudly, urging the soldiers to rush over and pull the Song into hand-to-hand combat before the Song's weapons were ready again. The Jiaozhi people who reacted suddenly shouted and spread their legs and ran wildly, for fear that before they rushed in front of the Song people, the Song people would once again prepare the terrifying weapon.

But the situation was different from what the Jiaozhi people expected, when the smoke of gunpowder cleared a little, a much quieter "bang" sound sounded from the ranks of the Song people, and the people who were running wildly were knocked to the ground one by one, and the armor and shields could not protect them. But in the wild running, the Jiaozhi soldiers didn't have time to pay attention to who fell around them, they didn't have time to be afraid, as long as they saw that there were still people running together, they had only one idea, that is, to rush into the Song people and slash and slash the Song people into pieces.

But in the continuous "bang" sound, there were fewer and fewer people rushing in front, and they ran to the ground leaving dead bodies and dying people on the ground, but they finally managed to rush to a place that was still a dozen steps away from the Song army. Just as the swords and spears in their hands were full of blood, a cold light suddenly lit up from the smoke that had not yet dissipated, blocking their way.

Now the firecrackers who were carrying out the three-stage blows stabbed back along the reserved in the queue, revealing the hand-to-hand infantry of the Song army, and they moved laterally, closing the passage after the retreat of the firecrackers, one by one, squatting tightly together, and forming a shield wall with shields close together, and the spears were tightly upright like hedgehogs, straight to the cross-toed people. If the Cochins continued to rush forward, they would crash into the dense spear tips.

The Cochin man who was running at the front did not have time to see the situation in front of him before he crashed into the gun, and in an instant, each Cochin man had to face several spears. Although the Cochin people had shields, but the Cochin people who rushed to the Song army first had no companions on both sides and could not protect the wings, the shield wall of the Song army slowly moved forward, wrapping these lone Cochin people into it, and the Cochin people were killed by the spears stabbed from the left and right.

When more Cochins crowded in front of the shield wall, the Song army's steel crossbows began to be thrown, and the javelinmen behind the shield wall also kept throwing javelins in front of the shield wall. It was not possible for the Cochins to equip everyone who went into battle with well-protected armor, so the soldiers in the front row of the queue were all covered in armor and holding shields in their hands, and the soldiers in the back row had only some armor or no armor at all. Now those Jiaozhi soldiers wearing armor have been defeated because they rushed in front, and now the Jiaozhi soldiers who are in front of the Song army are not well protected, and they are constantly killed and injured by crossbow arrows and javelins falling from the sky, and the front of the Song army's shield wall has become a death zone.

Li Buqi looked at the battle in front of him and was secretly anxious - if he was a general of Jiaozhi, he would definitely retreat immediately when he saw this situation of heavy casualties but could not shake the formation of the Song army—he was really worried that the Jiaozhi people would stop attacking. If the Jiaozhi people withdrew their troops from the seaside, it might bring great difficulties to the later operations of the Song army. There are two or three hundred miles from here to Shenglong Mansion, the capital of Jiaozhi, and these Cochin troops will only be unilaterally slaughtered if they attack the Song army head-on, but if they are scattered on these two or three hundred miles road and constantly harass the Song army that is entering the army, it will cause great trouble.

Therefore, Li Buqi is now very anxious to know if the people and horses of the detour have already circled behind the Jiaozhi army. But the shitty communications of this day and age make this request a complete luxury.

Shen Chenggui saw from the back of the elephant that the first wave of attacks could not work, and thought that the soldiers in armor on the way to the charge suffered too many casualties, so he sent another 2,000 full armor to join the battle group, hoping to tear apart the Song people's defense line by increasing the strength of the attack. But now there was a lot of confusion on the narrow front of the Cochins, and the soldiers of the first wave of attacks were crowded in front, and it was also very laborious for the later wave of Cochins to separate their own people in front of them and come to the Song army.

While Shen Chenggui was in a hurry, several soldiers came running on ponies with cochines, reporting that a small group of Song troops had appeared in the south.

Shen Chenggui didn't care much about this, because in the past, the Song army would often go ashore with small troops to plunder, and he was used to it. Therefore, he asked if these people had seen many Song troops, so he relieved himself and sent a thousand men to the south to guard against sporadic Song troops, and then turned back and concentrated on directing the battle in front of him.

Li Buqi saw that in the south, three thick wolf smoke rose into the air, which was the agreed signal, indicating that the troops who had detoured from the south had arrived.