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Solid red-hot shells erupted from the roaring muzzle and smashed into the camp of thieves with a thunderous blast. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAccording to Liu Quanzhong's deployment, today's attack is just an "appetizer", and it is enough to create chaos for the thieves and interfere with their continued siege, so the eighteen rapid-fire guns did not bombard the same area, but fired in all directions, choosing the maximum range.

The effective range of rapid-fire guns is 200 paces, and the maximum range can reach 250 or even 300 steps. Of course, the longer the range, the worse the accuracy. But today's situation is special, the thieves' camp is really too big, only the north-south direction is several miles wide, and the camp inside is connected with tents next to tent, and there are targets everywhere, and there is no need to aim at all. These eighteen shells went down and hit more than a dozen military tents. Of course, the tent collapsed as soon as it was smashed, and some of the people inside were touched by shells and immediately turned into a puddle of flesh; Many more were crushed into collapsed tents, crying for their fathers and mothers, and terrified.

On the side of the officers and soldiers, after a salvo, except for the artillery, all the infantry and cavalry stood still, as if they were enjoying a good show. Even the artillerymen did it in an orderly manner, unhurriedly removing the fired guns, cleaning the chambers, waiting for them to cool, and then reloading them with new ones, and then filling them with shells. This set of procedures has taken a full three minutes.

In fact, according to the training standards of the Shenji Battalion, the time for a rapid-fire gun to fire a gun should not exceed two minutes, and when the war is urgent, it can be compressed to less than one and a half minutes. In order to cool the chamber as quickly as possible, it is often necessary to pour water on the gun. If such a cold and hot fluctuation is violent, the strength of the gun body will drop significantly, affecting the service life, and even exploding the chamber on the spot. Previously, in the Yellow River artillery bombardment and other battles, rapid-fire guns exploded.

But today Liu Quanzhong is not in a hurry to fire all the power. As soon as his 3,000 men arrived, only 1,000, and there were still a large number of baggage ammunition on the road, they patronized and fought happily, and after a while, they ran out of ammunition and they were in trouble. Second, the purpose of today's battle is to attract the attention of the thieves, so that the thieves will give up the siege and turn around to fight themselves, so they can't fight too hard, so the thieves will be too scared to attack.

Sure enough, after a volley, there were heavy casualties in the camp of thieves. The large battalion in the north of Yangzhou is mainly the subordinates of Ma Shouying, who is "old Huihui", and there is another characteristic of returning to the camp, they do not separate the combatants and non-combatants like the Han thieves, and set up an old battalion, but take the family as a unit, one family and one account, and the men go out to fight during the day and return to the camp at night to live. Therefore, there were a large number of women and children in this camp, but the shells did not have eyes, and it didn't matter if you were men, women, and children, so most of the dead and wounded were women and children.

These "Huihui" thieves were originally rude and brave, and their wives and children died so miserably that their eyes were red. Without the need for the horse to guard the order, thousands of elite horsemen had already rushed towards the official position. These cavalry are all the family that Lao Hui relied on to survive, and he was reluctant to let them go to the siege before, but now these people have been carried away by anger, and they don't care about any military orders, they only want to kill all the officers and soldiers and avenge their wives and children.

Yang Tinglin, who was watching the battle in Li Laiheng's army, couldn't help but feel very nervous when he saw the fierce attack of the enemy army. Although he had been in Lu Xiangsheng's army for several months, it was the first time that he had directly participated in the battle. At this time, the sound of thieves killing shook the sky, and the earth was trampled by tens of thousands of horses' hooves and trembled gently, Yang Tinglin's originally white face turned red, and he drew out his self-defense sword with a swipe on the ground, and silently recited in his heart: Kong said Chengren, Meng said righteousness, and the time to be loyal to the country today has finally arrived!

Li Laiheng, who was on the side, couldn't help but laugh in his heart when he saw Yang Tinglin nervous like this, and gently patted him on the shoulder and said, "Lord Yang, put away the sword." You are a civil official, with us here, do you still need to take action? Not to mention Lord Yang, even the last general and the surrounding cavalry don't need to move, just this shrimp soldier and crab general, Liu Quanzhong will send it himself. Look, my lord! ”

Yang Tinglin felt that he was a little out of shape at this time, but he still said eagerly: "General Pingnan, the thief is quite powerful, and he can't be underestimated!" Liu Quanzhong's troops are all infantry, and the thieves are all cavalry, which..."

He was just about to say, "How can this infantry compete with the cavalry," when he heard the gunfire in the front position, and Liu Quanzhong's infantry began to shoot.

This time, Liu Quanzhong brought a total of 1,000 people, of which 200 were artillerymen, who belonged to two artillery companies. The remaining 800 men were infantry, divided into two infantry battalions, a total of eight companies. Liu Quanzhong's infantry position was defended by three companies to defend the front, one company each to defend the flanks, and two companies were kept as reserves. Now it is only the three companies on the front that are firing.

Rao is like this, the three companies are 300 people, and 300 birds are launched at the same time, and the momentum is not much better than that of artillery. The difference was that the artillery opened fire "aimlessly", while the three companies, of course, aimed at the enemy cavalry that was charging at them. At this time, the vanguard of the enemy's cavalry had already rushed within eighty paces, and was naturally met with a head-on attack, and in an instant a large part was knocked down by a dense rain of bullets, and the momentum of the advance was suddenly frustrated.

At this moment, the second salvo of rapid-fire guns came into full firing. This time was completely different from the last time, which was a random fight everywhere, but this time it was a concentrated fire and a fierce bombardment of the open area more than a hundred paces ahead. This clearing was exactly eighty paces away in front of the infantry position, and just after the salvo of birds, eighteen shells whistled and smashed into the camp of the thieves, opening eighteen bloody alleys. Anyone who was swept to the point by the shells was all flesh and blood. What does it mean to be "all rotten"? This is called "all erosion"!

With just one salvo each of the bird guns and rapid-fire guns, thousands of cavalry suffered hundreds of casualties. However, at this time, the thief was already red-eyed, and he didn't care about how many casualties he had, he still shouted wildly and continued to ride his horse and charge. But only a few seconds later, the second salvo of bird's guns was launched again, and dozens of people fell off their horses screaming. It turned out that at this time, Liu Quanzhong had already asked the reserve team to reload the three companies in the front, which shortened the reloading time of the bird gun by half.

But this group of thieves was really ruthless, and they quickly approached the infantry position despite huge casualties. Yang Tinglin's heart had already risen to his throat, and he couldn't hold back anymore at this time, and said to Li Laiheng urgently: "The enemy army has arrived, the general will not order the cavalry to attack, and the thief will step on the position!" ”

Before the words fell, a continuous huge explosion suddenly sounded in front of the position, and for a while, the smoke was filled, and Yang Tinglin was gone! When the smoke cleared slightly, Yang Tinglin fixed his eyes and then clapped his hands and laughed!