With the sound of the military order, nearly 100 horse-drawn two-wheeled carts came from behind, along the gap between the phalanx, and quickly ran to the front of the Kuizhou military formation.

The movement of the Ming army, the Qing army's side was in full view, and Li Benshen, who had been staring at this side, moved his eyebrows.

"Partial van? I haven't seen it in a while. He narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth grinned, disapprovingly: "When Sun Chengzong was still in Liaodong, he saw this thing, the old man believed in this kind of thing, and when he stepped down, Gao Di succeeded him, and collected troops at Shanhaiguan, and no one wanted to use the car camp in Liaodong anymore, I didn't expect to see the side van here again today." ”

"The military gate, the side car is easy to guard, standing there is a wall, I'm afraid there will be some trouble." Some generals came up and said that the partial van car had been equipped in the Ming army since the Jiajing period, and after decades, there were very few people who could not recognize it.

Li Benshen smiled, waved his hand confidently, and hummed: "It's okay, although the partial van is good, but it is bulky, you see, the Ming army is in front of the formation in a row, there is no left and right rear, they can only defend the front, wait for our army to attack, when the Ming army is in a panic, Wang Ping Fan iron cavalry from the left and right to break through, no matter how good the side van is also a decoration." ”

He paused, and said: "What's more, I doubt that these Ming troops can use the side van well, they hide behind, they can only prove that they are timid and afraid of war, and dare not fight with us face to face, the weakness of the Ming army can be seen, once the dead battalion is killed, the Ming army may collapse and flee, which shows that there is no good or bad weapon, but it depends on whether the people who use it can use it well." ”

The cronies nodded their heads in agreement.

Li Benshen waved his hand and shouted: "Beat the drum tee, order the shield car to move forward slowly!" ”

The herald replied loudly, and rushed backwards, and the sound of the war drums standing behind suddenly became dense after a while, and the drums sounded three times in a row, and the front army shield car heard the drums and began to move forward slowly under the impetus of the Qing soldiers behind the car.

"Partial van, hehe, I want to see if I can block the attack of my Liaodong Army." Li Benshen had a dark face, and his smile was quite cold and cruel, this person has an introverted personality and does not like to talk, but he has a unique hobby--- killing.

The enemy stubbornly resists and wants to kill, and if he does not resist, he must kill, in short, it is not a pleasant thing to meet Li Benshen on the battlefield.

The shield cart was moving forward, the creaking axle grinding sound was like the footsteps of the devil in hell, and the archers who followed the shield cart buckled the wolf's tooth arrows to the bowstring, ready to fire, and the battalion of dead men with long and short blades in their hands red eyes and bowed their bodies to minimize the exposed body area, followed the archers forward.

The Ming troops on the opposite side showed no signs of moving, and the officers and soldiers of the Che battalion standing at the forefront were busy waving shovels and digging shallow pits one after another in the loess.

The banner erected on the hill was waved in the wind without a wave.

The more Li Benshen looked at it, the more interesting it became, he smashed his mouth, a little strange: "What is the Ming army doing?" Those iron bumps are a bit like tiger squat cannons, but they are a little big, even if they are tiger squat cannons? This cannon has a small caliber and a short range, it hits iron pieces and stones, it can't shoot through the shield of the shield car at all, the killing effect is limited, it is impossible to stop my strong pawn, is the Ming army counting on this thing? That would be stupid! ”

After digging the shallow pit, the soldiers on each side car worked together to slowly put the tail of the thunder into the shallow pit, fixed it with iron nails, and the interval between the cannon and the cannon was about two zhang wide, and then unloaded the gunpowder bag from the car and placed it a little far behind the gun emplacement.

Only the artillery and gunners were left in place, and these passages were passages for the next infantry to advance, and they could not be blocked by side vans.

Li Benshen's mouth opened wide, and he was so surprised that he could barely close it.

"The Ming army withdrew the side van?" He thought incredulously, "Is it really just a car as a means of transportation?" Isn't it a line of defense against the offensive of our army? ”

After a short period of surprise, he laughed out loud, and pointed to the front and almost couldn't close his mouth: "The Ming army's move, it is bold to say that it sounds good, and it is as stupid as a pig to say that it is ugly!" As everyone knows, firearms are fierce, but they are used wonderfully, the high city is huge, condescending, and there is no need to move frequently, so you can naturally give full play to the strengths of firearms, but where you are in a field battle, firearms are bulky, how can you use them like the Ming army opposite? Not to mention the power of the tiger squatting cannon, it takes a long time to shoot the second shot after one hit, and it is placed in front of the formation, which can not repel the impact of our army, but also hinders the way for their own troops and horses to attack behind, how stupid! ”

He finally stopped his laughter, wiped the tears squeezed out of the corners of his eyes, and shouted loudly: "Don't wait, such an inferior army and stupid general, it is a waste of time to wait, give orders!" Beat the second drum and blow the marching trumpet! Speed up! ”

"Knock knock!"

"Woo~~~~!"

The raindrop-like drums and the low sound of the horn sounded at the same time, the drumbeat was as fast as a spark, the sound of the trumpet was terrifying, the morale of the Qing army rose in the sound of drums and trumpets, the speed of the shield cart was accelerated, the sergeants of the cart pushed the cart with muffled sounds, and the dead soldiers of the dead soldiers' battalion roared with blood-red eyes, and the shouts of killing were overwhelming.

"The elite battalion of the Chinese army began to advance, wait for the dead battalion to break through the opening, and then cover up the killing! The rear army was ready, and as soon as the Chinese army moved, it would also have to follow, and the task of pursuing and defeating the Ming army would be handed over to them. Li Benshen gave the orders one by one in a deep voice, and the heralds rushed to all directions, carrying his words everywhere.

His elite barracks of 2,000 people, all of them are elites, all of them are veterans of a hundred battles, wearing heavy armor, although it is not like the triple armor of the dead battalion, but it is also excellent iron armor, which is the main force to break the formation and kill the enemy.

The rear army was slightly weaker, and the armor worn by the soldiers was inlaid with iron blades, which was mainly used for the pursuit and cleaning of the battlefield after the enemy army was defeated in front.

The Guanning cavalry led by Wang Pingfan, who was guarding the left flank of the army, also began to move slowly after seeing the movement of the Chinese army, and they rode their horses slowly, preparing to go around a bend towards the left flank of the Ming army, where the three thousand cavalry of the Ming army gathered, and second, there was enough distance to increase the speed of the war horse to a value that could be impacted.

Thousands of people moved, and the loess was all over the sky.

Wang Huan blinked, reached out to rub away the dust that accidentally entered his eyes, and calmly looked ahead and to the left.

The speed of the Qing army in front of them increased significantly, from slow to trotting, and the heavy shield cart was pushed by manpower, bouncing forward on the potholed and uneven ground, like a running rhinoceros.

Behind these rhinoceros, the Qing soldiers of the brigade moved forward as a whole, and this black magnet finally began to activate its own power, and it will be like a bullet that is fired, hitting any object that dares to block it.

The Qing cavalry on the left is also moving slowly, looking at its direction, it should be aimed at its left flank cavalry.

"Can't hold your breath?" He said to himself lightly, "Are you going to do it?" ”

"My lord, the three battalion commanders sent someone to spread the word, and the thunder is ready to be launched at any time." Ma Wannian stepped forward and bowed behind Wang Huan to report.

"Tell Ding Guodong not to have a hard encounter with the Qing cavalry, first circle around the big formation, wait for the Qing army foot soldiers to be deflated, and then act according to my plan." Wang Huan looked at the front of the formation, where the black iron bumps had been firmly erected on the ground, and if he looked closely, he could also find that the fuse wire on the body of the thunderbolt had also been signed, and the red-hot charcoal basin was one behind each cannon, and the iron brazing was inserted in it, which was used to ignite the fire.

Ma Wannian immediately ordered a personal soldier to give Ding Guodong an order.

Wang Huan measured the distance between the shield car and the thunder with his eyes, and his perennial outdoor life made his eyesight very poisonous.

"Almost, just the distance." Wang Huan's eyes flashed, and he shouted categorically: "Wave the flag and set off the cannon!" ”

At this time, the thunder that was half-buried in the soil was only sixty feet between the approaching shield cart.

The Qing archers who followed behind the shield car were some of them self-sustaining, and they had already begun to shoot at forty-five degrees to the sky, and there was naturally no accuracy at this distance, and the arrows were just to scare the other party.

The gunners of the thunder wore light rattan armor covered with white robes, and stood firmly on the gun position, watching their hundred households motionless, while the hundred households looked at the thousand households, and the thousands of households stared at the red flag on the hill that represented the opening of the cannon.

A wolf's tooth will fall from the sky with a whistling sound of breaking the air, inserted into the ground, into the soil for three points, occasionally a few, shot the Ming gunner, although the rattan armor can remove part of the power, but the heavy arrow will still penetrate the armor, the person will be injured.

The wounded man was immediately carried down by the soldiers who rushed up from behind, and the gunner, who was not hit by the arrow, did not look at the wounded robe, stared at the shield cart that was getting closer and closer, and clenched his fists, waiting for the order to open fire.

At last, the red flag on the hill moved, and a sturdy guard supported it, shaking it like crazy.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Thirty artillery battalions and hundreds of households roared almost at the same time, and at the same time slashed at the arms that were almost a little sore.

In order to prevent misunderstanding, they did not dare to drop the raised hand without authorization, so they kept holding it up.

One by one, the red-hot iron chisels were pulled out of the charcoal basin with sparks, approached the fire gate of the thunder, and the fuses soaked in sulfur water "creaked" and squeaked, and rushed to the system.

A huge roar sounded, comparable to the sound of cannons fired by red-coated cannons, and one after another thunder exploded in the firelight, accompanied by a burst of green smoke, and nearly 100 ten-pound explosive bags flew into the sky.

The sky was covered with a gray rolling baggage, which could be seen with the naked eye, flying towards the Qing army that rushed over.

"What's that?" The Qing soldiers, who put their whole bodies against the back of the shield cart and tensed their muscles to meet the iron slag and gravel attack of the tiger squatting cannon, had no strength to have an opponent, and inexplicably, they looked into the air, and those tumbling rolls had never been seen.

Li Benshen and Wang Pingfan, who was riding on a horse, were also very strange, they thought that after the tiger squat cannon roared, there would be a large piece of iron slag and stones swept across the front of the shield car, and the two of them had a rough estimate of how many casualties it would cause, but they did not expect that the Ming army actually used the tiger squat cannon to shoot something strange into the sky.

The things shot by the Ming army drew a parabola in the sky, crossed the sturdy shield cart, and "crackled" into the camp of archers and dead soldiers behind.

Those things were not iron bullets, the Qing army that was hit rolled on the ground, and some of them had bad luck and broke a few bones, but most of them stood up intact, looking strangely at the boxy gunpowder bags that fell on the ground.

At this moment, the sparkling fuse on the medicine bag burned to the end.

(End of chapter)