Nearly 100 explosive packets exploded at the same time, and the effect was earth-shattering.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

In the violent loud noise, the black gunpowder smoke rolled up mushroom clouds that soared into the sky, like a wall of death erected on the ground, sweeping the Qing army soldiers into it, with the explosion point as the center, and the people and animals within a radius of several zhang were wiped out.

Accompanied by the smoke of gunpowder, a large number of iron nails and rubble fluttered in all directions, and the yellow gunpowder gave them a powerful muzzle velocity, like a sharp blade that chopped through the waves, raging in the crowd, no matter how thick the iron armor was, no matter how strong the helmet, in such an explosion, it was a joke.

What's even more terrifying is the invisible shock wave, if the iron nail and gravel are like a sharp blade that breaks a person's arm and takes a person's head, then the shock wave is a heavy hammer that shatters people's bones and bones and erodes internal organs.

The place where the medicine bag landed, most of them were in the dead soldiers' camp behind the shield car, and the front of the nearly 500 steps wide was wrapped in the billowing black smoke, and the screams were endless, and from time to time the human body could be seen flying out of the thick black smoke.

Li Benshen's Chinese army followed the camp of the dead soldiers nearly 20 zhang away, and with heavy armor, they did not suffer major losses except for being deaf by the shock.

And Li Benshen himself, in a safer position further back, although the medicine bag was violent, it did not hurt him at all, but the sudden explosion frightened his people and horses, and the war horse was frightened, and suddenly neighed and lifted him off the horse.

The soldiers around him hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, Li Ben looked ahead with a white face, and he looked ahead in fear, which was blocked by a wall of smoke, and he couldn't see anything.

"It's a red-clad cannon! The Ming army has red-coated cannons! A Chinese general shouted loudly, stumbling from the position of the elite barracks in front of him, the leader was hit by a flying stone on the head, knocked his helmet crooked, and the long cherry spear pointed very comically diagonally upward.

"The Red Cannon?!" Li Benshen was shocked, looked at the man with round eyes, and then roared angrily: "Where did the red-clothed cannon come from?" Such fierce artillery fire is clearly a flowering shell! ”

The cronies were stunned for a moment, and then said in fear: "Could it be that the red-clothed cannon of the Ming army can shoot flower bullets?" ”

A redcoat cannon shoots a flower projectile?

Li Benshen was also stunned, this is an unheard of thing, in his memory, he has never heard that a red-coated cannon can shoot flower shells, flower shells are difficult to process, and they cannot be made into large-caliber shells, only the size of a fist, and they have always been only small cannons such as flying cannons.

"That's not right! The Ming army did not have a red-coated cannon, the cannon was as big as a beam and a pillar, weighing a thousand catties, how could it be transported across the Qinling Plank Road? Li Benshen calmed down, after thinking for a while, he said categorically: "This must be the new firearm of the Ming Army, it will be so different, just now I felt that the firearm that looks like a tiger squat cannon is strange, a little strange, now it seems that there are really some Taoism, it can shoot the flowering catapult so far, it is a strange thing!" ”

The more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, Li Benshen suddenly felt extremely indignant, although at this time, the black smoke in front of him was like ink, billowing and rising, and it had not yet dispersed, cutting off his line of sight, and he could not see the situation on the battlefield clearly, but this would not hinder his decision.

His eyes flashed with murderous intent, his face was pale, he didn't expect that the battle that should have been like chopping melons and vegetables was actually hindered by a burst of unknown artillery bombardment by the Ming army, he did not despise the opponent, as soon as he came up, he sent a strong battalion of dead soldiers and the elite battalion of the Chinese army, and also used a shield car, which is a trick used only in the face of a strong enemy, from north to south, tried and tested, whether it is in the face of the Ming army or the army, it is quite effective, and it is not effective today.

"The flowering bomb contains poisonous smoke and iron slag, it can explode and injure people after landing, it is very powerful, but the projectile is too small, the power is limited, don't look at the smoke rolling now, in fact, our army has not suffered many casualties, quickly send an order to the battalion of dead soldiers, don't stop, continue to rush forward!" Li Benshen gritted his teeth, turned over his horse again, and shouted: "Where the cannon shoots, it will always take a lot of effort to wash and refill after shooting, and now the north wind blowing in the sky, the wind will blow the smoke away in a while, hurry up and rush up now, otherwise when the Ming army is loaded and hit the second time, it will be in vain!" ”

When the Chinese generals heard the order, they turned around and left, and Li Benshen shouted backwards: "Continue to beat the drum, don't lose morale!" ”

The surrounding soldiers were stunned by the violent explosion just now, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time, but at this moment, they were yelled at by the main general, and they woke up, and quickly picked up the drumsticks again, beating the drums and cheering.

The elite barracks of the Chinese army rearranged the formation, shouted forward, and the following teams were ordered to move forward under the command of the leading generals, although the firearms of the Ming army were fierce, but the Liaodong army had also seen the powerful firearms, although they were shocked, but everyone knew that the firearms would have to stop for a long time if they were shot, and now was the safest time.

Therefore, although the smoke and dust in front have not yet dissipated, the Qing soldiers are still not afraid to stride forward, now is not the time to run and rush, the dead battalion in front of it has probably not broken through the front of the Ming army, and it has to get closer.

As Li Benshen said, at this time, the north wind rose in the sky, and the strong wind swept the loess through, sweeping away the thick gunpowder smoke, and slowly revealing the scene in front of it.

Corpses all over the ground.

The smoke dissipated, the flesh burst out, only to see that on the ground of the dead soldiers' camp, there was not a single person standing, dozens of craters of different sizes were still emitting wisps of white smoke, with each crater as the center, the corpses were lying in a radial shape, the closer to the explosion point, the more scattered the corpses, the 500 archers, the 1,000 dead soldiers' battalion, there was no one left.

Many of the soldiers who were farther away fell to the ground groaning in pain, and in front of the dead and wounded, the unpushed shield carts stayed crookedly on the ground, and some even fell apart, as if they had been affected by the explosion just now.

Only a few of the less injured were struggling to crawl on the ground, bleeding from their noses and mouths, apparently injuring their internal organs.

"What?" Li Benshen was riding on a horse, his vision was good, he could clearly see the situation in front of him, and the scene in front of him made him almost unbelievable, the Ming army had wiped out his own front army with a salvo, how could this be possible?

"What are they fighting?" He muttered, his lips trembling involuntarily: "How can the blossom bullet be so powerful, what did they add?" ”

Just when Li Benshen was out of his body, on the other side of the battlefield, Wang Pingfan was leading the Guanning cavalry to gallop.

He saw the charge of the infantry of the front army, he also saw the artillery of the Ming army, and the Guanning cavalry ran on the left side of the battlefield, with an unobstructed view of the whole situation.

The cannonballs fired by the Ming army almost made the entire ground tremble, as if the effect of an earthquake made Wang Pingfan very smacked, although the distance was far, but the mount under the crotch was still startled by the explosion, restless and restless, began to run in all directions, and the cavalry queue was briefly chaotic.

Fortunately, the cavalry were all old riders, and they had worked hard for at least ten years, and the horses they rode knew each other like their relatives, and after a little effort to pacify, the cavalry queue was reunited.

"Stop and calm the horses!" Wang Pingfan stopped his horse and shouted loudly, "It is not a trivial matter for the horses to be frightened, and if these beasts are not quieted down as soon as possible, there will be a big mess."

"Did the Ming army beat out all the gunpowder? Such a big commotion. Wang Pingfan frowned and looked at the black smoke in the middle of the formation on both sides, which was more than ten zhang wide and went straight into the sky, and was secretly frightened: "How much gunpowder does it take to make such a look?" The firearms of the Ming army are indeed powerful! ”

He rolled his eyebrows and turned his gaze to the front, where was the left wing of the Ming army, and the three thousand cavalry of the Ming army in Gansu Town, who was guarding the big place, were looking at him uneasily.

The front has been connected to the fire, according to the convention, the Ming army will collapse in a short time, although the dead battalion of the Liaodong Army is not as fierce as the Jurchen soldiers of the Eight Banners, but it is still not comparable to the weak Ming army, and then, it should be the time for the final word.

(End of chapter)