At this time, the scene in the thief camp had already been chaotic, and the organization and discipline of the head of the thief camp were very loose, but at this time, they suddenly lost the organization and command of their own leader "a lamp", and immediately became a plate of scattered sand, and became a complete rabble, although the total number of people was still more than the official army, but they no longer had the courage to rush out of the camp and fight fiercely with the officers and soldiers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this moment, the fence was collapsed, the camp was broken, a large number of officers and troops were surging in through the gap, and the thieves' camp was chaotic like headless flies, and there was no organized resistance at all, and they almost fled along the hillside to the Huanglu Ridge in a hurry.

As the thieves fled along the hillside, they shouted, "The leader is dead, the officers are coming!" The leader is dead, and the officers and soldiers are coming! ”

At this time, Wang Shixuan, who rushed into the camp and was organizing the pursuit of the remnants of the thief army, heard the shouts of the thief army and knew that the leader of the thief camp was dead, so he was more relieved at the moment, and ordered to continue the pursuit, while asking people to go to Liu Guozhen and let Liu Guozhen enter the camp with artillery.

Wang Shixuan hoped that this time, he would be able to carry a few artillery pieces, follow behind the butt of the fleeing thief army, and attack Huangluling.

However, this idea soon came to naught.

Wang Shixuan anxiously waited for Liu Guozhen to come with artillery, and on the other hand, he kept ordering his soldiers to follow the thief army and pursue it towards the Huangluling ramp not far away.

The battle situation under the Huanglu Ridge has been seen by the bandit "King of the Whole World" Wu Yangui, like him, a thief who kills people without blinking, and has always been a thief whose life is like a mustard, how can he put the lives of the subordinates under the command of "One Light" in his eyes, not to mention that at this time, listening to the shouts under the mountain that "One Light" is dead, then there is nothing to care about.

As soon as he heard the sound of artillery under the Huanglu Ridge before, Wu Yangui knew that the camp under the ridge could not be saved, and at that time he had already ordered the leader of another self-reliant battalion, the "Flying Tiger", to enter the warehouse and lead a large army of thieves down to reinforce him, but the mountain road was steep and difficult to walk, and he was not very willing to sacrifice his strength to save what "a lamp".

In this way, after the second round of artillery bombardment by the officers and troops, when the camp of "One Lamp" was blown down, the team of the "Flying Tigers" who had entered the warehouse had just come to the halfway point of the mountain.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the troops of a lamp in the camp under the mountain to collapse and flee, and the thief army under the command of the "Flying Tiger" Gao Jinku was in a dilemma, and he didn't know what to do.

As a result, when Wang Shixuan followed his Shanxi town soldiers through the camp at the foot of the mountain and chased them to the bottom of the Huangluling slope, he was surprised to find that the thieves who had already climbed the hillside in front of him with their hands and feet suddenly retreated, and many people were caught off guard and rolled down from the hillside.

At this moment, Wang Shixuan's previous abacus fell through.

At the moment, he stopped at the bottom of the mountain, just commanding the soldiers on the left and right, constantly slashing and killing the thieves who had just fled, and now they had fled back inexplicably.

On the one hand, the Flying Tiger was blocking the mountain road, and the other was the official army chasing under the hillside, constantly opening their bows and shooting arrows, and the thieves in the middle were helpless, they all turned around and fled down the hillside and surrendered to the officials and troops of Wang Shixuan's department.

Seeing this, the thieves who were still begging from all over the camp simply abandoned their weapons and knelt on the ground, and surrendered in batches.

Fearing that there would be too many soldiers and the army could not control it, Wang Shixuan had to temporarily give up his plan to attack Huangluling in one go.

First of all, he commanded his subordinates to disarm the thieves who had more than 2,000 soldiers, collected their weapons, tied dead knots one by one with ropes around the necks of the soldiers, and connected them into several long queues, and arranged for his henchmen Yi Bangcai to lead 300 soldiers to escort these prisoners out of the battlefield first.

And Wang Shixuan himself continued to command his subordinates, dragging the deer barrage on the other side of the thief camp at the foot of the mountain, and set up camp at the mountain pass under the Huanglu Ridge to prevent the thief army from going down the mountain to camp more.

The fortifications had just been erected, and Liu Guozhen also arrived with two general cannons.

This so-called great general cannon is, of course, not the Shenwei invincible general cannon named by Emperor Chongzhen himself.

Emperor Chongzhen's order of the Shenwei invincible general cannon is an imitation of the Hongyi cannon, each weighing 4,000 catties, not to mention that it is simply impassable on such a rugged and narrow mountain road in the Luliang Mountains, that is, it can be passed, and it will be transported from Taiyuan to Fenzhou, and then from Fenzhou to Jinsuo Pass, and then from Jinsuo Pass to Huangluling, and it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey to be transported.

This so-called general cannon is actually a strengthened version of the Tiger Squat Cannon, which is a more typical iron cannon cast in sections, but the caliber is slightly smaller than the Tiger Squat Cannon, the gun wall is thicker, the barrel is longer, and the firing range is of course farther than the Tiger Squat Cannon, but the weight is naturally much larger than the Tiger Squat Cannon.

Therefore, it was also very troublesome to transport, and the front of the previous thief camp was a ravine, an earthen wall, and a fence, so even if a large number of horses were used to drag it, it still took a lot of effort.

Wang Shixuan saw that the artillery was coming, his heart was a little calm, and he saw that the time was almost noon, so he arranged for his subordinates to rest and recuperate, and asked the Chinese army to distribute dry food, wine and meat from the armament to the soldiers of each battalion.

However, the following facts proved that the good news was sent in a bit hastily.

From noon to midday, the weather was too hot and the sun was too poisonous, the thief army on Huangluling did not come down to attack the official army, and Wang Shixuan was also happy to arrange for his subordinates to eat dry food and then rest.

However, just after that time, the sentry sent by Wang Shixuan reported back and forth, saying that the thief army on the slope of the mountain was building fortifications on the spot.

Wang Shixuan listened to the report of the sentry agent, couldn't sit still, and followed the sentry to the front of the formation, only to see a mound on the ramp, a straight line distance of more than a mile, has been bulldozed by the thief army, a leader of the thief general, is directing the thief army along the side to dig trenches, build earthen walls, set up fences to prevent horses.

After Wang Shixuan saw it, he felt that he couldn't just let the thief army build a fortress on the mountainside, otherwise he would have to pay a greater price if he wanted to capture Huangluling in the next step.

After thinking of this, Wang Shixuan immediately decided to use artillery bombardment first, and then lead the army to attack on the back, taking advantage of the fact that it was dark to take this halfway up the mountain.

After making a decision, Wang Shixuan immediately ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle, dragged a large general cannon to the temporary camp of the army, adjusted the shooting angle, and then bombarded the thief army halfway up the mountain, but after repeatedly adjusting the firing angle and bombarding several cannons, not only had no effect on the thief army, but also almost injured the self-commissioned soldier with a projectile that rolled down the mountain.

Although the firing range of the general's cannon is much farther than that of the Tiger Squat cannon, it cannot be compared with the Hongyi cannon, and it is easy to say that when firing directly or at an angle of 45 degrees, it is no problem to shoot a projectile of ten catties at a distance of five or six hundred steps, but as it is now, when approaching the foot of the mountain and firing upwards at the mountain, especially when the elevation angle exceeds 50 or even 60 degrees, the effective range is very limited.

Wang Shixuan had no choice but to change his playing style, ordered a big general cannon to be launched left and right, put on horses, and under the escort of an elite soldier under his command, he marched along the mountain road under the Huanglu Ridge to the mountain, wanting to get closer and bombard.

The "Flying Tiger", who was ordered to command the people to build a barracks, entered the warehouse, and saw that there was movement of the officers and troops under the mountain road, and they were using horses to drag the artillery uphill.

Although the officers and troops of Wang Shixuan's department are all selected from the elite of the Shanxi Zhenbian army, they attack from the bottom up, and they also have to protect the heavy artillery from the bottom up.

Therefore, the two sides fired at each other for half an hour, and the elite officers and soldiers sent by Wang Shixuan to attack only advanced a hundred and ten paces away while protecting the cannons and holding shields, and people kept being hit by arrows and rolling down.

Not long after, the horses that dragged the artillery up the hill fell to their deaths on the mountain road with several arrows in succession.

Seeing that the sun was already setting in the west at this time, and the general's artillery, the biggest support of the officers and troops, could not reach the bandit army that was camping in the middle of the mountainside, and the soldiers on the mountain road were suppressed by the thief army, and there was no progress, Wang Shixuan was anxious and angry, and repeatedly stomped his feet and scolded angrily.