When he entered the hinterland of Hongtuchuan with more than 10,000 troops under his command, his younger brother Haochonghui led the rear army of 5,000 people, escorting the grain and grass from afar, as well as the families and relatives of the leaders of the Yongning Xuanfu Division, followed by the large group of people, and also came to Hongtuchuan one after another.

Among the 15,000 people, there are young and strong Yi soldiers, old and weak women, mules, horses, cattle and sheep, and grain and grass baggage.

Extravagant Chongming rode on a group of black high-headed horses, looked back at the team behind him, and then looked up at the sunlight that suddenly illuminated the Hongtu River through the clouds, and found that at the exit of the Hongtu River a few miles away, the valley mouth area between the two mountains, I don't know when a rainbow was hanging.

In the distance, the mountains were crisscrossed, and the clouds were still shrouded in white clouds.

On the edge of the verdant forest, on both sides of the river along the Hongtu River, are green sorghum and rice paddies.

After carefully tasting the grand scene in front of him, Hao Chongming muttered to himself:

"This red soil river is really a treasure land! This place may really be my Yongning luxury home, and I will settle down in Shuixi in the future! ”

As soon as Yu Chongming's words fell, he heard an earth-shattering loud sound of "bang" suddenly from the mountains and forests on the right, and suddenly turned around and saw a white smoke rising from the place where there was a loud noise in the mountains and forests not far away.

Before Yu Chongming came back to his senses, he heard several earth-shattering loud noises in front of and behind him in the mountains and forests on the right.

"It's a cannon! This is the cannon of the official army! Why did the officers and soldiers come!? ”

Suddenly, thinking of this, he hurried to see Luo Jiuxi who was following him, but Luo Jiuxi was also flustered, looking dazed and at a loss.

It's just that at this time, no matter how much I wonder, the army he led was ambushed by an unknown enemy, but it was genuine!

"There is an ambush! There is an ambush! The enemy is in the mountains and forests on the right side of the road! Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! ”

Although the incident happened suddenly and was very unexpected, the temporary reaction was still very fast.

However, at this time, the team of Yi soldiers of the luxury family in Hongtuchuan stretched for several miles, and some of the people around Yu Chongming could hear his order, and immediately took off the rattan machete on his back and prepared to face the battle, while the Yi soldiers who were walking in front and following behind were already in chaos in an instant!

After the roar of the general cannon and the tiger squat cannon sounded, the scattered projectiles sprayed from the high condescending came in an instant, striking the marching Yi soldiers, and knocking the Yi soldiers who marched in a dense formation to the ground.

The sudden artillery strike made the front army and rear team of Yu Chongming enter the Red Tu River into a mess quickly!

Many people jumped from the land into the river below, waded across the river, and ran across the rice paddies across the river.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Another deafening sound of artillery fire rang out.

By this time, Yu Chongming had also realized the betrayal of the Shaxi Luo clan, and with a loud sigh, he pulled out the Yi knife on his waist, pointed at Luo Jiuxi, who was at a loss for what to do, and said: "The surname Luo, you dare to take refuge in the official army and deceive the king!?" ”

As he said this, he waved his knife angrily and looked at Luo Jiuxi.

"The king of Liang is slow! The king of the beams is slow! Luo was wronged! This matter has nothing to do with Luo, Luo has no idea! ”

Before Luo Jiuxi finished speaking, he was dragged off his horse by the other Yi soldiers around him and pressed to the ground.

Extravagant Chongming hit his horse and slashed it over, and a head rolled down into the mud on the ground, and Luo Jiuxi's voice begging for mercy and shouting for injustice also stopped abruptly.

At this time, the official artillery at the edge of the bamboo forest roared again, and twenty large and small artillery pieces rang out in unison, the sound was earth-shattering, extremely terrifying, and the Yi soldiers who had not seen the power of the artillery fled in horror in private.

One by one, groups fled to the other side of the river on the left side of the mountain road as if they had lost their lives.

The river in the Hongtu River becomes narrower the more it goes upstream, and although it has been rainy in recent days, most of the upper reaches of the river are shallow and silt overgrown with reeds and weeds.

On the edge of the bamboo forest on the right side of the mountain road, there were three rounds of shelling, and Yu Chongming finally woke up from the panic and rage, quickly judged the location of the shelling, and gave a loud order:

"The enemy's artillery is in the mountains and forests on the right! Go and grab the artillery with me! Go and grab the artillery with me! ”

After saying this, Hao Chongming looked up at the mountains and forests on the right, and then pointed at his long knife and shouted loudly to the Yi soldiers under his command who followed the front and rear, asking them to attack the artillery position hidden in the bamboo forest on the right.

At the same time that Yu Chongming was riding on his horse and shouting the order, after the three rounds of cannons rang out, there was also a shout in the mountains and forests in the north a few hundred steps away on the other side of the river!

The three rounds of artillery on Wu Zhiwang's side are the order for the ambush to be exhausted and an all-out attack!

At the same time that Hao Chongming loudly ordered his subordinates to attack the artillery positions of the official army, Chen Zizhuang, Peng Chaozhu, and Luo Jiuzhong in the opposite mountain range also gave an order, and the edge of the mountain forest that stretched for several miles suddenly poured out.

Peng Chaozhu, Luo Jiuzhong, and Ao Kun split into three paths, rushed down from the opposite hillside, crossed the half-man-high sorghum field on the hillside, and soon fought with the Hao Yi soldiers who had fled to the rice fields on the other side of the river.

Luo Jiuzhong's command is troubled by ordinary Yi people, and their combat power is average, but they are better than the crowd, and the sound of shouting and shouting and killing resounded through the mountains and forests, coupled with the ferocity of more than 2,800 Baojing soldiers under the command of Peng Chaozhu, for a time it was like a tiger descending from the mountain, drowning the luxurious Yi soldiers who escaped across the river in the surging crowd.

"Take their artillery and we'll have a chance to turn the tables around! Go and grab their guns, and we'll have a chance to turn the tables around! ”

At this time, Yu Chongming couldn't care about the crowd fighting in the distance opposite, and slashed the Yi soldiers around him with a knife, forcing these people to swarm up and attack the bamboo forest on the right side of the mountain road.

Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu, Qin Gongming and others had also moved forward behind the artillery position in the bamboo forest at this time.

Standing more than a dozen steps behind a large general's cannon, Wu Zhiwang could even hear the sound of extravagant shouting on the mountain road down the hillside.

Qin Liangyu, a female general who was already in her fifties, was hanging a sword from her waist at this time, carrying a longbow on her back, and holding an ordinary white-pole gun in her hand, and said to Wu Zhiwang: "My lord, this person pretends to be the king, and he must be the thief of extravagant Chongming!" ”

Wu Zhiwang nodded his head, his eyes were shining, and the generals around him were also gearing up one by one, asking for battle: "The last general is willing to kill this thief, please fulfill it!" ”

At this moment, the shouting of Luxury Chongming finally took effect, and nearly a thousand luxury Yi soldiers holding rattan machetes finally crossed the sorghum field and appeared in the field of vision of everyone in the bamboo forest.

Seeing this, Wang Jianguo immediately shouted: "Pad the tail of the cannon!" Raise the cannon tail! Muzzle fire! ”

After Wang Jianguo issued the order, the gunners of the Nanjing Beijing camp next to a large general cannon and the four tiger squat guns were in a panic, and finally adjusted the muzzle of the cannon before the enemy swarmed in, and the commanders of the four guns raised the small red flag in their hands at the same time.

"Ignition! Kill them! ”

Wang Jianguo gave another order, and the commanders of the five artillery pieces waved the small flag in their hands at the same time, a large general cannon and four tiger squat cannons, on a front 34 steps wide, and fired at the same time.

The smell of gunsmoke choked the nose, but it made Wu Zhiwang and the others feel extremely relieved.

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the corpses on the edge of the bamboo forest were scattered, and the hundreds of Yi soldiers who rushed in front were swept away by thousands of scattered bullets fired by the five artillery.

In addition to the Yi soldiers who died directly on the edge of the bamboo forest, hundreds of people lay on the hillside outside the bamboo forest and screamed and cried.

The scattered projectiles, which are smaller than the projectiles of the muskets, are loaded into large-caliber and large-capacity artillery such as the Great General Cannon and the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the damage caused by a single jet is far greater than the iron bullet that originally weighed seven catties of the Great General Cannon.

In the foggy and humid Hongtu River, especially the Hongtu River, where there are many small rice fields and sorghum fields, the seven-pound projectile of the general's cannon will fall into the soil unless it can directly hit the enemy's important target, and it will not be able to exert its original power at all.

And loading scattered bullets like the Tiger Squat Cannon can cause more massive damage.

Wu Zhiwang completely entrusted the use of artillery to Wang Jianguo, and did not interfere at all, and Wang Jianguo, who had progressed to the position of a general, of course, came as he killed and injured many enemies, and did not abide by the rules of using scattered bullets for tiger squat artillery and seven catties of live ammunition for general artillery.

Therefore, in this battle, the eight general guns deployed on the edge of the bamboo forest in the south of the Hongtu River all used the scattered shells of the tiger squat cannon.

The general's cannon used shotshots, and although the range was reduced, the power was extraordinary.

The killing and wounding of the Yi soldiers on the mountain road outside the bamboo forest mainly came from the scattered projectiles sprayed by these eight great generals' cannons.

The Yi soldiers who attacked the hillside were swept away by the projectiles ejected by these artillery, and the morale of the officers and soldiers in the bamboo forest rose again.

Qin Liangyu asked all the generals to fight together, and Wu Zhiwang did not hesitate at this time, and immediately said: "The generals listen to the order!" After you and others attacked, in the battle array, everything obeyed Qin Xuan's consolation orders! ”

The generals clasped their fists and bowed down, and they agreed!

Wu Zhiwang looked at Qin Liangyu and said to her: "In this case, everything above the battle array will be handed over to Qin Xuanwei!" ”