The sound of the cannon was so loud in the dark night that it shook people's hearts as if they were about to jump out of their mouths.

Li Zicheng already understood at this time that Yu Guozhen said that he wanted to celebrate the victory, but in fact, he was trying to deceive the spies he sent out. In fact, under the pretext of transporting supplies, Yu Guozhen's main cavalry had already crossed the canal, and took the opportunity to run sixty or seventy miles to chase him to the place where he was camped.

There are definitely not many people sent by Yu Guozhen, no more than 20,000, and maybe even more than 10,000. But so what, as long as it is the Xinxiang Army, let alone 10,000, it is 1,000, and its lethality is also extremely terrifying.

What's more, Yu Guozhen also brought artillery!

According to the news obtained from Li Yan, Yu Guozhen's infantry had a short cannon that was easy to carry, and the weight of the cannon was no more than 150 catties, which was equivalent to the weight of a person. Although the range of this short cannon was not as good as the heavy artillery in Li Zicheng's battalion, the tiger guard quietly entered the range with it, and then concentrated to bombard the night attack, and the destructive power of Li Zicheng's battalion was far better than that of the more than 20 guns themselves.

In such a chaotic military camp, Li Zicheng judged the position of the Huwei artillery position, and he could not find his own artillery to counterattack.

Li Zicheng's teeth were almost crushed, his beard stood up in anger from anger, and in the chaos, I don't know which clumsy morale overturned a camp tent, and the iron hook on the camp tent still hooked his face, leaving a deep blood mark.

"Calm down, calm down!" Li Zicheng shouted loudly.

Hearing his voice, his own soldiers rushed up to protect him. The sound of the sword unsheathed, the shouts of the soldiers, all mixed together. Li Zicheng's prestige in the army is still very high, and the camps around him are all cronies, and he can hear the shouts of King Chuang's soldiers, and the original panic is better, so under the guidance of torches, he began to form a team.

Li Yan's training finally showed some effect at this time. But Li Zicheng was still extremely dissatisfied in his heart.

If Li Yan listened to his orders and threatened Yangkou from the north, Yu Guozhen was only afraid that he would be busy saving Yangkou at this time, instead of sending elites to attack him at night!

"Yu Guozhen's troops must not be many, you ......"

He summoned several of his generals and ordered them to prepare for a counterattack, but there was chaos everywhere overnight. His new generals will only gather more than 2,000 people, and if they want to really organize a counterattack. It is also necessary to calm down the whole army first.

"Send someone to shout. Let's just say that King Chuang is here, calm all the armies, and each will return to the headquarters! He ordered.

He was still very careful when he set up camp, so all the camps were well prepared, from the trenches to the deer barrages to the iron thistles. Therefore, Li Zicheng determined that Yu Guozhen's purpose in organizing this night attack. It's to let him mess with himself. As long as he can stabilize the position, then the camera will send people to attack Yu Guozhen's artillery. Then Yu Guozhen can only retreat - after all, he has a great disadvantage in troops, and this is not Liaocheng, which has the advantage of terrain and the fortification of the city. The offensive and defensive trends are different.

With his personal prestige, the armies finally stabilized, and the original cannibalistic people stopped attacking each other, and generals such as Tian Jianxiu, Gao Yigong, and Liu Fangliang also came to see Li Zicheng. Huwei's artillery fire was still continuing, and Li Zicheng knew that if he couldn't pull out the opponent's artillery, his army would still fall into chaos, so he summoned Gao Yigong and said: "Yigong, you take my own soldiers to take Yu Guozhen's artillery battalion to the end." Be careful, don't light a torch, just go through the dark! ”

Gao Yigong originally had a difficult face, but when he heard that he had to take Li Zicheng's personal soldiers, he knew that this was Li Zicheng's blood, so he paused heavily: "Yes!" ”

At this time, Li Zicheng was able to collect only more than 700 personal soldiers, and he handed them all over to Gao Yigong, who returned to the headquarters and mobilized 2,000 people who could be collected, and did not ride horses, and nearly 3,000 people all walked silently, taking advantage of the cover of night, and quietly left the camp.

They were guided by the faint light of stars in the sky and the light caused by the firing of artillery.

The artillery camp was on a gentle slope about a mile away from them, and the distance was not far, and everyone hurried to a point where they were soon less than two hundred paces away.

However, at this moment, Gao Yigong sensed that something was wrong, because there seemed to be someone acting faintly on the other side!

At this moment, the artillery battalion fired another salvo, and Gao Yigong realized that there were also one or two thousand new soldiers in front of him, who were holding their guns and moving forward silently.

The two sides looked at each other, and the tiger guard reacted faster, or rather, the weapon in the tiger guard's hand reacted faster, and in the sound of the titicaca, the musket was raised like a forest, and it began to shoot at the intruder.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 100 paces, and although the invading army also had muskets, many of which were even newly made flintlock muskets from officers and soldiers, they were also raised to shoot, but the difference in range and rate of fire between the two sides determined that the lethality was completely different.

Unless it hits the vital point, at this distance, the power of the bullet is exhausted, hitting the steel armor on the tiger guard's body, only knocking the tiger guard backwards, and the heaviest damage is only the steel armor deformation, causing the tiger guard to fracture.

On the contrary, the Yishen musket used by Huwei now is the first generation of breech-loading rifled flintlock pistol, with a long range and high bullet lethality, even if he is wearing armor, he can't bear the shooting of this musket within eighty steps, not to mention that half of the people in the army are not fully armored!

As a result of the two sides' firing, a large number of the invading troops fell.

Among them, there is a high achievement. In the Battle of Chuzhou that year, he escaped by luck and traveled thousands of miles to join Li Zicheng, but in today's battle, he was no longer spared and was shot through the chest.

Although he did not die on the spot, in this era, and in today's hot weather, he is basically incurable if he is injured by this kind of injury, and even if he uses the medical methods of Xinxiang to surpass this era, there is nothing he can do.

Gao Yigong could feel that his life was flowing with the blood, and he suddenly regretted it in his heart. Because of his relationship with Gao Yingxiang, he was actually suspicious of Li Zicheng in the army, and he would be sent whenever he attacked a difficult battle. If it weren't for Madame Gao's maintenance, he and his subordinates would have been killed and wounded long ago.

"To ...... That's it...... Chuang Wang ......" Gao Yigong sounded in his heart.

Then he heard hurried footsteps, and he wanted to see what the new soldiers were doing and what his subordinates were doing, but his eyes couldn't be opened. One foot stomped heavily on his hand, causing him to jerk, and then the other foot stepped on his big foot, but at this time, he didn't even have the strength to jerk.

Two rounds of firing caused Gao Yigong's subordinates to collapse, the difference in firepower between the two sides was too large, and the number was equal, and it was too embarrassing for them to hold on in this situation.

"Li Zicheng has the courage to fight, but he doesn't know that now we can crush him." Yu Guozhen heard the movement on the artillery camp position and said to Qi Niu beside him.

"Yes." Qi Niu responded honestly.

"The next thing is to break into Li Zicheng's camp and chase the north. In the era of firearms, it was a dream to rely on such an old-fashioned barracks to block the attacks of opponents. Meng Wei, the artillery battalion will plow the deer in front of the camp for me, so that it is convenient for Boguang and them to attack. ”

"Yes!"

With Yu Guozhen's order, Huwei's artillery fired in unison again, but this time the angle was slightly adjusted. The artillery fire deviated from the camp, but bombarded the various fortifications in front of the camp, and Li Zicheng realized that it was not good. He looked around, Tian Jianxiu and other generals were sent by him to sit in the army, and all his own soldiers were sent out, so he could only temporarily pull some soldiers: "Go, follow me to patrol the camp!" ”

He turned over his horse and ran to the rear camp with these soldiers, there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart, that is, Gao Yigong could break through the opponent's artillery battalion, but now it seems that this hope is not big, and the dense musket sound just now should be Gao Yigong's fight with the new soldiers of the defensive artillery battalion.

He withdrew quietly, followed by only a few cronies, the soldiers who had been temporarily pulled up. Everywhere he went, he only said that he was patrolling the camp, so the originally restless invasion army did not change much. But when he arrived at the back camp, Li Zicheng heard a roar from behind him: "The new soldiers are coming, the new soldiers are coming!" ”

"Oops, Gao Yigong really failed to attack!"

Originally, Li Zicheng knew that Yu Guozhen would not be heavily defended at the artillery camp! But there is always a glimmer of luck, but now this luck has also been shattered. He didn't delay any longer, urged the horse to leave, and the soldiers around him saw him like this, and then suddenly realized that Emperor Dashun was patrolling the camp, and he obviously saw that the opportunity was not good, and he wanted to slip away first!

At this time, Li Zicheng secretly hated himself for not being able to make up his mind completely, and he was reluctant to give up the pots and jars that he had accumulated over the years, especially those artillery.

If it weren't for this, he would have retreated lightly, and in the past few days, he would have run to Kaifeng long ago. Even if Yu Guozhen wants to chase it, it is impossible to go deep into the territory of Henan.

"However, I still have an army of 80,000 in the number of battalions, and Yu Guozhen is at most 10,000, or even less...... So many people just stood there and let him kill, and he had to kill him in the middle of the night......"

Li Zicheng was even a little glad at the moment, he had enough troops in his hands, even if he was defeated, it would take a long time for Yu Guozhen to contain the prisoners. The sound of fighting behind him faded away, and occasionally when he looked back, he saw a continuous fire, and he didn't know whether it was the artillery fire or Yu Guozhen's subordinates who lit the fire, but it was more likely that his soldiers made it themselves. He knew that most of the belongings he had accumulated over the years had come to naught in this fire, including military assets such as artillery, even if he still had silver in Xi'an, he was afraid that it would be difficult to buy them in the future.

"If Zong Min sees me go back like this, I don't know what will happen...... He has long been unconvinced, I can ascend the throne and become emperor! ”

At dawn, Li Zicheng looked around again, and there were hundreds of people who had fled with him, but now there were only dozens of horses left. The foot soldiers either couldn't keep up with the horses or ran away, and his heart was full of worry, and he could no longer maintain his composure.

"Don't stay here for long!" He looked at the surrounding scenery, and his heart suddenly moved, the land here was barren and wreckless, which was the scene of the Yellow River overflowing. Last year, he ordered the north embankment of the Yellow River to be dug up, flooding the officers and soldiers, causing this neighborhood to become Zeguo.

"Gotta get out as soon as possible! Find a place where people live! He thought to himself. (To be continued)