"Rush!"

"Put!"

Zhang Zheng and Tan Tai gave the order almost at the same time.

The artillery fuse was lit, and the Jianyu's foot soldiers began to advance.

Zhang Zheng's eyebrows were raised, his gaze became unprecedentedly sharp, and Tan Tai was also wide-eyed, letting out a heart-rending roar.

The sound of artillery rang out in an instant, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and with the help of the north wind, it drifted towards the Jianyu formation.

Eight shells flew out almost simultaneously, and eight guns also fell backwards at the same time, kicking up a large amount of dust and smoke. After a while, the cannonballs fell from the sky and smashed heavily into the military formation!

Zhang Zheng saw the situation in an instant, and felt that out of the eight shells, at least five hit!

The five shells, not to mention, smashed into the crowd, but also bounced two bullets, and rolled forward for a long distance, in the process, all the Jianlu who was hit by it either became a ball of meat sauce, or the stump was broken, almost causing nearly 100 casualties!

This is also a coincidence, Tan Tai was in a hurry to attack, so he actually gathered troops in front of the artillery, and when the artillery bombarded it, it was also when his army array was advancing, and everyone was crowded together, which was the most dense time!

A burst of artillery bombardment came over, and there was a sudden chaos among the prisoners, and the originally arranged formation was a little scattered.

This scene made Zhang Zheng's heart suddenly happy, not only because of the damage caused to the enemy in front of him, but also because the tiger guard originally lacked artillery talents, Yu Guozhen has some theories, but the actual experience is not as good as Yu Dahai, and Yu Dahai was originally used to firing artillery at sea, and the use of artillery in land warfare, after all, there are some differences with naval warfare, this Meng Fang is a talent, such a person, looking at Fang Cai's appearance in Jianyu, is just an ordinary soldier, Jianyu employs people, and that's it!

But his joy didn't last long, and then his pupils shrank: although the formation was scattered, it didn't stop because of this, on the contrary, they advanced faster!

In the first artillery bombardment, they were not able to stop the advance of this Jianjiao, their combat ability is quite amazing, no wonder the officers and soldiers fought with them, even if they have superior forces, they cannot win!

However, the tenacity of Jianyu did not make Zhang Zhenghe and the teaching group fearful, on the contrary, it aroused the fighting spirit in their hearts even more, and their thoughts instantly returned to Yu Guozhen's words two days ago, when they left the station and came here to prepare for an ambush.

"Since the establishment of our new Xianghuwei, whether it is a small group of water thieves, or a large group of rogues, whether it is a sea bandit, or the officers and soldiers of the Nguyen Mo II clan of Annam, they have all been defeated with one blow. I know that in the hearts of your brothers, we are the strongest army in the world, the new Xianghuwei, invincible...... In my mind, your brothers are indeed the first strong army, I Yu Guozhen worked hard and spent five years to build, if it is not the first strong army in the world, wouldn't it mean that I Yu Guozhen is incompetent? ”

"However, is it the first strong army, not you and me, but fighting, now known as the first strong army is the Jianyu Jurchen, what Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, full of ten thousand invincible, even such nonsense is also made up, and there are countless people in the Ming Dynasty who believe it...... I don't believe it, do you believe it? ”

"Yes, we are the strongest army in the world, next, we are going to tell the people of the world this truth, what you have to do is to beat the Jianyu down, and then plant the banner of Xinxiang Huwei on their corpses, and tell the people of the world that the strongest army in the world is us, not them!"

Now, it's time to plant the Tiger Guard's battle flag on the corpse of Jianlu, the stronger the enemy, the more you can defeat them!

The soldiers of the artillery battalion cheered when they saw the first hit, but when they saw that Jianyu was unmoved, they rushed up like this, and couldn't help but be stunned. Like them, there were also the brothers Morgeng and Sitku, when the shelling hit, it was Sitku who cheered, but now it turned to Mor Geng'er cheering.

Only the teaching group, but the morale is still there, and it can even be said that it is even higher.

"Visual distance, one hundred and fifty meters! One hundred and forty meters! One hundred and thirty meters! ”

The rangefinder constantly reports the distance of the opponent, which is a person set up by the Tiger Guard in order to judge whether the opponent has entered the best range, especially in the face of the opponent in armor, only at the right distance, the gun can penetrate the armor. The units of measurement such as meters, kilograms, and tons, as well as time units such as hours, minutes, and seconds, have been applied in Xinxiang. This was originally set by Yu Guozhen in order to solve the problem of inconsistent weights and measures, for example, the meter, he took his height as 1.80 meters, and the actual length obtained was almost the same as the rice commonly used in later generations, as for the more accurate meters, it was necessary to wait for Yu Guozhen to have more talents in his hands, especially in astronomy and mathematics, and then he could calculate a more accurate meter length, for example, he could take 1/40 million of the length of the meridian through Xinxiang as the standard meter.

The advance of the Jianyu was very fast, and their formation was originally scattered by the artillery bombardment, but in the process of advancing, they adjusted themselves, and when they reached one hundred and twenty meters, they formed a formation again.

Like a mountain, like a forest!

Although the number of people is not large, there are only more than 1,000 people in the three cows. However, the formation of more than 1,000 prisoners gives people the feeling of being like a mountain and a forest, they are rolling in, and everything in front of them seems to be crossed and trampled by them!

On the top of the city, Gao Qiqian who had just climbed up had weak legs, and almost collapsed again, he didn't notice the tiger guards under the city, and what he saw at a glance was the thousands of people who built the footmen, and his soul was suddenly scattered.

"It's over, it's over, it's really attacking...... It's a real siege! He was full of gibberish.

Among the tiger guards under the city, the rangefinder was still monotonously reporting the numbers, Meng Fang was a little strange, why he saw that Jian Yu was approaching step by step, but these tiger guards still did not fire!

"One hundred and ten meters, one hundred meters, ninety meters......"

Meng Fang couldn't think about anything else, and without waiting for Zhang Zheng's order, he said to himself: "Brothers, life and death are said today, play up, play up!" ”

Before he could say anything, the non-commissioned officers of the artillery battalion began to take the initiative to adjust the muzzle, clean the chamber, and reload the ammunition. But at this time, it is not easy to load the cannon, it takes a lot of time to clear the chamber, and it takes time to adjust the muzzle of the bulky artillery, so Meng Fang estimated that even if they were ready, Jian Yu was afraid that they would rush to the front.

Tan Tai naturally knew this, and if he dared to attack the whole team under the muzzle, he was prepared, even if he endured a round of artillery fire from the other party, he had to push it closer. As long as they get within a hundred paces, it's time for their bows and arrows to wield!

There are thirty people in each team of fifty people who specialize in bows and arrows, and their general effective range is about sixty meters at 100 paces, so seeing that it has reached 120 paces, that is, about 70 meters, Tan Tai laughed cruelly.

On the top of the mountain, Yanguli who looked at this side frowned.

Compared with Tan Tai, who was in the battle situation, Yanguli saw more, and for this Ming army that dared to ambush his own army, he found a big feature, that is, the firearms were sharper than the most elite Ming army before!

In particular, the range of the opponent's musket is better than the range of the bow and arrow, and Tan Tai's frontal advancement will be shot by the opponent before entering the range of his own bow and arrow.

But Tan Tai still didn't care, it was nothing more than paying more casualties. Carry up to one round of muskets from your opponent and then be able to get within range of your bow...... And this round of shooting may not really cause many casualties, after all, the Eight Banners at the forefront are all heavy infantry with three layers of cotton armor and one layer of chain mail.

Then he saw a puff of smoke rising from the artillery camp position, and the wind from the north of Lengkou Pass blew this smoke towards the Eight Banners Heavy Infantry.

It was a moment before he heard the sound of gunshots.

After the training regiment finished firing, there was no delay at all, they quickly returned their guns, cleaned the barrels, and reloaded the bullets. The fastest one completed the whole process in 20 seconds, while the slower one did not take more than 25 seconds.

And in the process, the smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, and their results were also revealed, and among the captives, it was as if they had been bitten by a greedy child, and an irregular tooth mark appeared. The Jianyu heavy armored foot soldier at the original gap has become a corpse on the ground, and he is lucky not to die, and he is also groaning in pain there.

"This ...... This ......"

Tan Tai and Yanguli's eyes widened at the same time, especially Tan Tai, he himself lived among the army, but he was not wearing three layers of cotton armor and one heavy chain mail, but two layers of cotton armor, one heavy mountain armor and one heavy chain mail, all added up, enough to weigh nearly forty catties, but just like that, he also felt a faint pain in his chest and abdomen - that was the place where he was hit by a musket projectile!

The opponent's musket did not penetrate the most elven Shanwen armor on his body, but the ordinary Eight Banners soldiers without Shanwen armor only relied on cotton armor and chain mail, but they could not prevent this projectile. Therefore, the casualties caused by this platoon of shooting were extremely terrifying, and nearly half of the 400 hoplites were killed or wounded!

Tan Tai vaguely felt that something was wrong in his heart, this army was definitely not the Ming army, how could the officers and soldiers of the Ming Kingdom have such courage and weapons!

But in this situation, he can't stop it, so he retreats, isn't he selling his ass to the opponent, waiting for the enemy to pick the chrysanthemum!

"Shoot, shoot!" He hissed.

After carrying this round of shooting, they finally entered the range of the bow and arrow, although it was a little reluctant to open the bow and pull the string at this distance, but it was enough to inflict casualties on the opponent.

Buzz!

The sound of the bowstring vibrating was incessant, and the archers who had been replaced by the heavily armored foot soldiers had almost no losses, so five or six hundred arrows flew into the air!

The target of the shooting was gathered in the artillery battalion, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion were reprimanded and hid behind the artillery carriages and planks, but the Ming soldiers were unmoved, and some of them even stood up, turned their bodies halfway, and used their backs to cover the soldiers of the artillery battalion.

"Looking for ...... death," Tan Tai thought to himself.

But Yanguli, who was on the top of the mountain, frowned again.

This group of Ming troops, since they have good firearms, Anzhi doesn't have good armor?

Arrows rained down on the sky.

The longest thing about the archers than the musketeers at this time was that good archers shot in short bursts and could shoot three or four arrows.

Therefore, after the first round of shooting, the Jianyu archers did not wait for the results to come out, and the second arrow was fastened.

Tan Tai also looked at his own results excitedly, as long as he could shoot and wound one-tenth of the opponent's people, then according to the practice of the general Ming army, the opponent would waver, collapse, and victory would come.

(To be continued)