The shield cart of the officers and soldiers really worked, and they were not knocked down in the first round of artillery bombardment of the security forces, which gave the soldiers of the officers and soldiers the courage to continue to advance, and at the urging of the commander, the officers and soldiers continued to advance.

Some of the officers' auxiliaries were in charge of pushing the heavy shield carts, and behind them were some elite officers and soldiers in fine armor and armed with steel swords, ready to rush out and fight as they approached the security forces. Further back is a team of archers, which acts as a ranged attack force. Behind them were groups of young and strong people who had been recruited, and they were escorted by officers and soldiers, either carrying dirt on their burdens, or pushing carts, and more with hoes and shovels, ready to go up to fill the trenches dug by the security forces.

As the distance between the two sides approached, the artillery of the security army became more powerful, and finally the shield vehicles of the officers and soldiers could not withstand the bombardment of the artillery again and again.

The officers and soldiers behind the shield cart were immediately exposed, and before they could hide, the gunners of the security army aimed their artillery at these gaps, and the whistling shells rushed through the flesh and blood passages in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers and the people were immediately dispersed, desperately squeezing behind the other shield carts, the attack camp of the officers and soldiers was in turmoil, and the general who led the team ordered his own soldiers to rush over and cut down a few people who had escaped back to the ground before stabilizing their position.

The gunners of the Security Army used their usual training skills to the extreme, quickly reloading and igniting, and striving to fire the shells in less time. More and more shield carts were overturned, and the casualties of officers and soldiers increased rapidly.

Hong Chengchou paid close attention to the attack of the officers and troops from a high platform not far from the battlefield. Cao Wenzhao's troops were not arranged to attack the city because they were all cavalry, and Hong Chengchou decided to use them as the final decisive force.

On the battlefield ahead, some of the shield wagons were scattered, causing casualties to the officers and soldiers, and the remaining shield wagons played a role, and the officers and soldiers were able to continue to advance under their cover. Hong Chengchou's face relaxed, it doesn't matter if some soldiers and people die, as long as they can achieve the final victory.

After several rounds of bombardment by the artillery of the security forces, about 100 of the shield cars of the officers and soldiers survived, and behind each shield car were a long line of nearly 1,000 officers and civilians. The officers and soldiers understood the importance of the shield cart to them, and if the shield cart collapsed, this group of men and horses would also collapse, and most of their own lives would not be saved. The shield cart was bombarded by one more round of artillery bombardment, and the possibility of falling apart increased by one point, so the auxiliaries desperately pushed and moved the shield cart forward, trying to speed up the advance.

The advance of the officers approached the stakes and horses that the security forces had planted in front of the position, and at the same time entered the range of the security army's muskets, and the musketeers stood up from the trenches at the command of the commander, pointed their guns at the officers and soldiers, and aimed as far as possible at the gap between the shield vehicles, and with the wave of the commander's hand, bursts of gunfire rang out.

The flying buckshot could not penetrate the shield cart, and those that flew in through the gap in the shield cart also caused great damage to the officers and soldiers. The wounded officers and soldiers fell to the ground and wailed, hoping to be rescued by their companions, but the other officers and soldiers understood that the place where someone had fallen was the gap that the shield cart could not protect, and they desperately stayed away from the wounded, squeezing behind the shield cart for their lives.

The advancing shield carts stopped, and they were stopped by the wooden stakes laid by the security forces, which were buried very deep, most of them deep into the earth, and there were spiked wires connected between the stakes, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to use the shield carts to hit those wooden stakes, if the shield carts were scattered, the team of men and horses would be completely finished. The stopped shield carts became the best targets for the artillery, and several shield carts were knocked down by the concentrated fire of the security forces, and the officers and soldiers behind those shield cars were completely exposed to the guns of the security forces.

The other officers and soldiers were also terrified, and they didn't know when the same fate would befall them. Some brave soldiers estimated the distance, rushed out from behind the shield cart and slashed the wire on the stake, ready to rush over, rather than waiting here for death to fight, their efforts were doomed to be in vain, when the security army found them, only a volley of guns, these brave soldiers turned into corpses.

The archers in the ranks of the officers could not stand the pressure and felt that they had to do something, so they opened their bows and arrows and shot at the positions of the security forces, which were still somewhat doorways, the position of the stakes was just outside the range of the bows and arrows, and the range of the muskets of the security forces was just enough to hit the enemy. The bows and arrows fired by the officers flew forward with great effort, and then landed weakly in front of the security trenches. A few of the officers and soldiers with special powers used hard bows to shoot arrows into the trenches of the security forces, and only made some noise on the iron helmets worn by the security soldiers, but did not cause any harm to the soldiers.

Hong Chengchou, who was watching the battle from behind, still had a flexible mind, and when the officers and troops were in difficulty, he found a fighter plane, and the soldiers defending the security army could only shoot directly with muskets, and the damage caused to the officers and soldiers in the front row was huge, but the officers and soldiers in the back were not very casualties except for being killed by shells. Hong Chengchou made a bold decision: to increase the number of troops. Use the soldiers in the front row as meat shields, and push them flat to the front of the security army.

As the order was delivered, nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers rushed to the position of the security army under the drive of the generals.

Blocked by the front team, they rushed to the front with few casualties, and crowded behind the shield cart with the previous troops. They also brought ropes and iron hooks, and a large number of iron hooks with ropes were thrown out from behind the shield carts, and the officers and soldiers pulled the ropes and hooked the wires between the stakes, and the officers and soldiers pulled the ropes with great difficulty, and the wires were broken, the stakes were pulled up, and the road ahead was opened.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers had changed their way of attacking, the security forces also hurriedly responded, and the musketeers accelerated their firing.

The rockets placed in the trenches were also ignited, this rocket was not a rocket used by the security army to set fire, but a standard weapon of the Ming army, in a wooden barrel was filled with dozens of arrows with gunpowder tubes tied to the barrel, and they were ignited together when fired, and the sharp arrows were driven by the burning gunpowder and flew out at the same time, the range was far greater than that of the bow and arrow, but the accuracy was not guaranteed. But it works very well against the tens of thousands of people gathered together.

When the security army defeated the official army, they seized some official rockets, and they didn't attach great importance to this kind of thing that was shot out and didn't know where it flew to, but they were reluctant to throw it away.

These salvo rockets really worked, and the sharp arrows fired flew over the heads of the officers and soldiers with a whistling sound, and the officers and soldiers who had been hiding behind and thought they were safe were also attacked, and the formation began to become unstable for a while.

Hong Chengchou saw it in the back and scolded in his heart that this thief was really cunning, he hadn't seen them use bows and arrows before, but he launched a rocket at this critical moment, which suddenly disrupted the formation of the official army. Hong Chengchou hurriedly ordered the officer to carry out the bullet pressure. Fortunately, the number of rockets in the security forces was limited, and the casualties caused by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were still bearable. The ranks of the officers and soldiers were stabilized under the pressure of the officers' bullets, and the first barbed wire fences and wooden stakes laid out by the security forces were almost cleared by the officers and soldiers, and the trenches were filled in by the people.

Seeing the hope of victory, the officers and soldiers carried the shield cart and jumped over the trench to the second obstacle set up by the security forces. It was already close to the trenches guarded by the security forces. (To be continued.) )