Accompanied by the clear and audible sound of drums, the ranks of officers and soldiers, with almost the same pace, began to slowly approach the artillery position, and the sound of trampling step by step began, hitting the hearts of the soldiers heavily, splashing one wave after another, there is really nothing more frightening than facing death. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, the artillery array also began to fire, but due to the different models of the captured officers and soldiers tiger squat guns, the weight also ranged from hundreds of catties to dozens of catties, taking the three or four hundred catties of tiger squat generals who needed to use four mules to pull the horse as an example, the charge was 1 catty, supplemented by stones ranging from a few catties to twelve catties of copper and iron plugged in, and the firing range could reach three or four hundred steps, so at present, the three tiger squat cannons with the longest range on the far left began to ignite and fire.

The flying cannon smashed into the ranks of the officers and soldiers along the human wall, and suddenly set off a howl of fear, and the five or six officers and soldiers in the straight line were directly knocked to the ground by the violently moving stone balls, and the feet and feet were crippled when they touched it, and they were killed on the spot when they met the body, and the tumbling stone balls directly penetrated a foot military formation, only to be barely blocked by the sand of the chariot, and hit a deep concave ball shape.

In addition, the remaining tiger squat cannons of less than 100 catties, because most of them had a range of 70 or 80 paces or even only 40 or 50 paces, at this moment, under the strict orders of the officers, they just lit torches and watched closely as the officers and soldiers continued to approach.

Only waited for eighty or ninety paces away, the officers and soldiers naturally did not sit idly by and watch being beaten, and the leading several tiger squat cannons with a range were suddenly raised by the soldiers, and they had already put on the bullets, and directly aimed at the direction with their sight, and fired at the fire, which also hit the front of the beggar army, bringing a bloody rain, and those who were directly hit by the hands and feet were even holding the mutilated body, rolling on the ground and crying.

At this moment, both sides were attacked by artillery, but the official army's side, after all, the training was even better, and it was not strange to see it, although the bottom of his heart was also very frightened, but he still continued to move forward mechanically, while the beggar army did not have strict training, and not long after the battle, many people did not even experience much fighting, seeing this miserable situation, many people were frightened with cold hands and feet, and Mu Na stood in place.

If it weren't for the order of Zhao Mosheng, who temporarily controlled the artillery array, the military order that dared to take half a step back and kill without mercy, and those supervising teams standing behind the military formation with big swords, I am afraid that in this round of artillery, the soldiers would have to be broken up by one-third, after all, the elite of the old battalion is not iron.

"Steady, steady, don't mess up!" The more than 1,000 crossbow firearms men in the front team were in formation under the command of Wang Erzhui, the captain of the first battalion of the beggar army, and he led the three or four hundred firearms soldiers at the front.

At this moment, he wanted to signal to the rear artillery array to attack the chariot first, but unfortunately the order was conveyed slowly, and the order flag only had some simple words, which could not be transmitted at all, so he could only pray that the rear array of artillery could cover the chariot once, and if the gap could be opened, the firearm array would be able to fire a salvo, and it would definitely be able to make a contribution.

Coincidentally, although Zhao Mosheng is not a master of artillery, but he can't stand the artillery array, there is a surrendered officer and army background, at this moment, an artillery team leader, came forward, pointed to the official artillery formation, "General, the official army is in front of the chariot, and there will be more sand and soil on it, and the castration will be reduced, it is better to concentrate a few artillery pieces and only hit one car, and so repeatedly, it will definitely be able to break the official and military chariot." ”

"Quickly fire artillery and destroy the officers' and soldiers' combat vehicles." Zhao Mosheng was already annoyed, if it was his own family, he could also find some chariots to block in front, how could he be so passive, at this moment, under the cover of the chariots, the officers and soldiers began to quickly approach their own team, and the firearms bow and crossbow array could not make any contribution at all, so he immediately shook the order flag, ordered the firearms array to retreat to the front army first, and ordered the bow array to come forward and shoot.

There is really no way to do it, the firearms fired horizontally cannot penetrate the cover of the chariot, and most of the officers and soldiers hide behind the chariots, shooting their own teams with firearms and bows and arrows, if they can't use the bow array to go up and exchange their lives for their lives, the formation is bound to collapse in advance, and then affect and drag down the whole army.

An archer commander shouted at this moment, "Brothers, the time has come to die for the Lord, think about your family, you have to live thanks to the Lord's field and food, let's fight!" ”

As he spoke, he personally went into battle with a bow and crossbow in hand, and began to lead the team to move forward immediately, and most of the soldiers under his command were encouraged at this moment, and they moved forward one after another, even if they were hard-headed, they had to rush into battle.

At this time, the artillery array behind him was all around, as the firing range approached, more and more artillery joined the shooting, dozens of cannons burst out, and hit a chariot of the official army, but unfortunately it was far away, and the artillery at the moment had no aiming equipment, and the gunners were all visually inspected, and if they wanted to hit the target in the distance, it basically depended on the will of God.

Coincidentally, under the inertia, the two stone balls flew at a low altitude and smashed directly on a chariot, although there was sand to counteract, but the huge force still smashed the front plate of the chariot, and the iron nails contained in the ball were scattered and exploded, and dozens of officers and soldiers in the car cried wolf howl, and each blood flowed.

This tragic appearance suddenly frightened the soldiers who followed behind the other chariots and did not dare to move, listening to the endless sound of artillery on the opposite side, obviously more bullets were fired, and several of their own artillery, although they returned fire from time to time, but the caliber of the artillery fire was too small, and the firing range was too short, unable to suppress the artillery battalion of the beggar army, so they could only let it continue to fire.

"The car formation accelerates, approaching the thieves in the thicket, and takes up the melee combat!" Yao Jinren shouted at this moment, beckoning his subordinates to rely on the chariot and pray silently not to hit their own house, while driving the chariot forward quickly, trying to approach the beggar army formation, relying on their own bravery to break the formation.

It is a pity that at this moment, the front team of the beggar army began to approach, and all the crossbowmen opened their bows and arrows, and filled their bows with throwing arrows, ready to shoot, and when the chariots of the front team of the officers and soldiers were under artillery fire, and slowly approached to a distance of fifty paces, although they opened fire with the firearms of the army, they were also shot by the bow and arrow team of the beggar army, and five or six hundred arrows were fired at the same time, almost overwhelming.

The chariot can block the fire of firearms and artillery, but it can never block the bow and crossbow fire upwards, after all, Ai Wannian's department has been in Shaanxi for a long time, the place is poor and the imperial court rarely allocates enough food and salary, not to mention the perfect armament, if the chariot of the Ming army is defended on three sides, and there is a roof on the top, but this chariot is only made up of sand and soil, and there is no obvious cover on the top.

The first group of about 200 people in the four general flag departments that moved with the chariots, more than 20 people fell on the spot, and the most miserable one, with seven or eight arrows in his body, screamed and shot into a hedgehog, and lost his life on the spot, and there were even more wailing and wailing in the ears, which was very tragic...... (To be continued.) )