Xiong Tingbi already knew everything about the defensive deployment of Lu Yan's camp, and those brocade guards visited Lu Yan's camp I don't know how many times, and they had already drawn sketches of those places to Xiong Tingbi. (.23w[x].

Lu Yan knew this, but he had no intention of stopping it, because he believed that victory would definitely belong to him.

Lu Yan's defensive measures were actually very simple, and his main defensive measures were the three trenches outside the camp.

Each of the three trenches is 5.5 meters wide and two meters high, and is filled with sharp bamboo sticks.

In front of the last trench was a one-meter-high, one-meter-thick earthen wall that allowed soldiers to shoot and provide them with some protection.

In addition, there were nearly a hundred meters of rejecting horses at the entrance of the camp, but now all of them had been removed, and in their place were a row of soldiers with heavy shields and heavy armor.

Xiong Tingbi has a strong confidence in breaking through Lu Yan's camp, if he can't even do such a simple defensive measure, he Xiong Tingbi should go home and pick up the child.

The only thing that worried him a little was the artillery in the camp.

In order to break through Fengyang City, Lu Yan carried hundreds of Hongyi artillery.

This is definitely a devastating force, and if this force can be used properly, then it will cause heavy casualties to the Ming army.

However, he also knows a lot about the shortcomings of the Hongyi artillery, that is, the slow rate of fire.

At that time, as long as the cavalry chooses a key place to make a breakthrough, it will definitely be able to break the enemy army.

Therefore, after a brief preparation, Xiong Tingbi ordered the people to attack.

The first to attack was the infantry, because Xiong Tingbi found those heavy shield soldiers who had already been waiting for the battle, he felt that there must be something behind these heavy shield soldiers, and if the cavalry was dispatched in the first wave, it would definitely suffer heavy losses, so it was better to send some infantry to explore the road first.

Some of the infantry marched towards Lü Yan's camp with mud bags and vehicle-mounted artillery in orderly steps.

Standing on a high platform, Lu Yan had no sadness or joy in his eyes, and with a mockery at the corner of his mouth, he was holding a clairvoyant mirror and watching the Ming army in the distance.

After seeing the Ming army enter the range of artillery, Lu Yan said lightly: "Since Xiong Tingbi is so confident, then let's teach him a hard lesson." Let him know that Lu Yan is not so easy to mess with. Pass my order and order the Hongyi cannon to fire. ”

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

“……”

On the towering fort behind the infantry phalanx, the sound of hundreds of Hongyi cannons kicked off the decisive battle.

Their primary target is enemy artillery, which can inflict significant damage on their soldiers, making them the first wave to be eliminated.

Hundreds of solid shells flew towards the Ming army's formation, and the enemy had a lot of artillery, more than 200 vehicle-mounted artillery pieces alone, and these vehicle-mounted artillery pieces fell far behind the Ming army.

This surprised Lu Yan, where did the enemy get so many artillery.

Some of the shells hit the Ming artillery and were easily destroyed by the vehicle-mounted artillery.

Even if they didn't hit the enemy's artillery, the shells would keep rolling backwards, and anyone who touched them would be smashed to pieces.

After this shelling, there was some commotion among the ranks of the Ming army.

But soon their ranks calmed down, and they moved on, albeit much faster.

They were all told that the enemy's artillery fired at very long intervals, at least two minutes, so there was no need to worry at all.

In addition, these shells mainly fell on the vehicle-mounted artillery in the rear and did not cause them many casualties, so the Ming army as a whole could maintain a neat formation.

But Lu Yan's face was ugly, because he found that after those vehicle-mounted artillery pieces were hit, some of the artillery inside were actually shattered, and a large number of stones fell out of the car.

You must know that artillery is made of iron, how can it be broken so easily.

And what are those cars doing with so many rocks, don't they think these guns are heavy enough?

Soon he realized that the artillery pieces were fake.

Xiong Tingbi found some Xibei goods to attract his firepower.

Thinking of this, Lu Yan almost scolded.

"Xiong Tingbi, count you as a cow."

Some fake cars and artillery attracted so much firepower to him, and it was worth it.

As for whether to continue to order those Hongyi cannons to continue to attack the artillery of the Ming army, Lu Yan hesitated for a while.

Because he knew that there must be real ones in those cannons, and once these real cannons exerted their power, then they would inevitably cause heavy damage.

At this time, Xiong Tingbi laughed proudly: "Lu Yan'er, how is fighting an immutable truth. I was just trying to make a little trick and presumably make their artillery not know how to deal with it. ”

"Your Excellency is really wise."

Those general soldiers, deputy general soldiers, and staff generals all slapped their ass.

In fact, they also thought that Xiong Tingbi's move was very good, and at least it was certain that he could make those soldiers less killed.

Those Ming soldiers continued to advance towards Lu Yan's camp with red eyes, all of them were high-spirited, and they couldn't wait to rush into Lu Yan's camp immediately to kill them.

Because Xiong Tingbi gave a high reward for this battle.

Those who behead the first level will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver.

Those who behead the fifth level will be promoted to one level and will be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver.

Whoever beheads an enemy general will be promoted to the second rank and rewarded with five hundred taels of silver.

Those who capture or behead Lu Yan alive will be promoted to the third level, rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver, and can be knighted.

In the face of such a rich reward, those soldiers were all like excited bulls, and their eyes were red with stimulation.

The reward was so generous that they couldn't believe it.

You must know that in normal times, it is only possible to issue such a generous reward when fighting against the Jurchens.

How could there be such a high reward for an ordinary counterinsurgency.

Because the strength of the rebels is ordinarily weak, it is not comparable to the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens.

But when Xiong Tingbi ordered people to carry boxes of white flowers and silver around those camps, the soldiers believed Xiong Tingbi's words.

Some of the soldiers even took a piece of silver from under the chest and took a bite, and it was indeed real silver.

This made those soldiers very excited, even if these rebels were strong in combat, how strong could they be, could they be stronger than their border troops.

As long as this rebel army is defeated, then it will be able to make a fortune.

If you can even cut off five heads of the enemy, you may be able to be promoted to the next level and enter the ranks of military generals.

All of a sudden, everyone was gearing up and longing for the war to start as soon as possible.

In fact, Xiong Tingbi has done a lot of work for this battle, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward, which is an eternal truth.

Some of the 400,000 silver was issued by the imperial court to suppress bandits, some was collected from the autumn tax, and some was apportioned by the wealthy families of Nanzhili.

Xiong Tingbi has a high consciousness of this battle.

If Liaodong was defeated, he still felt a glimmer of vitality.

Then if this battle is lost, he will definitely die.

The fall of either Fengyang and Nanjing will make the Son of Heaven want to skin him and cramp.

Coupled with the responsibility for the defeat of Liaodong, if the Son of Heaven would let him go, he would feel impossible.

For he did everything in order to distribute the bounty to the great families.

Some people who were unwilling to give money directly sent troops to the door to rob them, or even locked them up and put them in prison.

For this reason, he did not know how many big families he had offended, and those big families cursed and wanted to find the imperial historian to impeach him for his crimes.

Xiong Tingbi was disdainful of this, he couldn't even save his own life, was he still afraid of impeachment by those officials?

Could it be that there are fewer twists and turns to impeach him Xiong Tingbi now?

Now Xiong Tingbi is completely a dead pig and is not afraid of boiling water, he is completely open.

Especially those small towns that may be abandoned, he looted more ruthlessly.

Rather than letting the silver fall into Lu Yan's hands, it is better to hand it over to him to use against Lu Yan.

After almost the entire Nanzhili family was guilty, he finally scraped together enough money.

He believes that as long as he can win this war, he will be the hero of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, no impeachment will be able to shake his current position, on the contrary, he will be valued by the Son of Heaven and the ministers of the court.

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