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"Boom!"

The six-pound solid iron bullets roared and flew towards the rebel cavalry galloping on horseback, and one by one the iron bullets smashed into the middle of the rebel cavalry who were attacking two miles away with a huge impact, bringing up bursts of blood mist mixed with severed limbs and broken arms, and then the heart-rending howl resounded on this battlefield with the trampling of the horses' hooves.

Nearly 100 rebel cavalry were hit by the sudden artillery fire, screaming and falling off their horses, the frontal of the rebel cavalry was torn open, and the subsequent cavalry was confronted by those frightened horses, many of whom were knocked to the ground by the frightened horses before they had time to dodge.

The first round of artillery bombardment in Pingdu caused a commotion among the charging rebel cavalry, but more rebel cavalry turned their horses around and continued to advance towards the array of soldiers of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion.

In fact, the rebels' 50 Western cannons were deployed on the left side, because they were too close to the two sides of the battle to play a role at all, and the forcible shooting not only could not produce good results, but would frighten the cavalry horses because of the roar of the cannons, so they could only watch the artillery fire raging at the head of the city.

Due to the rapid rout of the rebel siege soldiers, which attracted the pursuit of the defenders, the task facing the rebel artillery now is not to fire at the other side, but how to find a way to get out of the battlefield and return to the rebel camp.

The rebel cavalry are all veterans who have experienced the battlefield training, of course, they can't be repelled by a round of artillery fire from the other side, and the shouts of "ho ho" continue to deter the two defenders of Pingdu City on the opposite side with the gallop of the war horses.

Fan Li stared at the rebel cavalry that began to gradually accelerate. One hundred and thirty paces, one hundred and ten paces, a hundred paces, and the speed of all the rebel cavalry was at its peak. The sound of horses' hooves "stomping" raised puffs of dust and shook the surrounding ground. The momentum of the oppression is almost breathless.

Within eighty paces, the rebels were armed with bows and arrows, and nearly a thousand bows and arrows were fired at the same time at the gallop of the horses, and they were expecting the opposing soldiers to collapse in this round of arrows.

Without waiting for the rebel cavalry to shoot with bows and arrows, the Earthquake Mountain Battalion Bird Gun was the first to strike.

"Bird's Shot!"

Fan Li hissed and shouted, and suddenly the sound of "tom tom" bird guns resounded on the battlefield, and more than 160 bird guns in the quarry of the earthquake mountain camp were fired.

When the smoke cleared, I saw that more than 80 paces away, some rebel cavalry armed with bows and arrows fell off their horses one after another, and the galloping war horses were not affected much, obviously this kind of blow could not disrupt the attack of the rebel cavalry.

Within eighty paces, most of the rebels fired arrows at Fan Li's department. The flying arrows were fired in an arc to the camp of the earthquake camp, all the soldiers of the camp were wearing chain mail, and the arrows of the rebels were thrown again, so the casualties caused were not large, and the array of the camp was still stable.

The galloping rebel cavalry did not turn around and flee after seeing a round of arrows, but ushered in a more powerful counterattack from the opposing soldiers, which was very different from what they imagined.

The rebel cavalry put away their bows and arrows, waved their blades and continued to attack Fan Li's troops like a tide, since the bows and arrows could not disperse the small guard force on the opposite side. Then slaughter it with your own hands with the blade in your hand, this is the thought in the minds of most of the charging rebel cavalry.

"Bird's Gun Shot!" Fan Li shouted expressionlessly.

"Tom" "Tom"

Four rounds of bird guns were fired in succession, and the 1,000 rebel cavalry that continued to attack suffered casualties under the blows of the bird guns. The ordinary cavalry suffered such continuous blows, and they might have to disperse, but these cavalry on the opposite side were all from Dongjiang Town. In the past, he fought against Liaodong Jiannu all the year round, and he was also a battle-hardened soldier. Hit so hard, but it did not collapse.

At this time, the rebels were only more than fifty steps away from Fan Li's headquarters. The rebel cavalry on the war horse continued to "ho-ho", and continued to put pressure on the soldiers of the Zhenshan battalion on the opposite side.

At this time, the continuous firing of the bird suddenly stopped!

Cao Shaozhong led his guards to stand in place on horseback, his heart was tense, and when he saw that the opponent's bird soldiers were no longer firing, he relaxed, as long as he rushed through the fifty paces, the other party's five hundred people could only be slaughtered by themselves. The power of the opponent's bird guns is huge, hum, after killing these guards later, the opponent's bird guns will be their own!

On the other hand, is it worth losing more than 300 elite cavalry for these 500 people at once? Even if you kill all the soldiers, you can't get back these three hundred elite cavalry, thinking of this, there is some resentment and regret in Cao Shao's center.

Fan Li looked at the rebel cavalry who were getting closer and closer, and the corners of his mouth opened slightly, revealing a sneer, wanting to take advantage of the Zhenshan camp and taking off a layer of skin first.

Fan Li shouted again: "Pikeman, the powder bag is ignited and thrown!" Gunpowder pack ready! ”

After a few breaths, more than 100 gunpowder packets blew up in the middle of the cavalry more than 20 paces away, and the explosion produced a huge impact, even the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion who were hiding behind their shields were affected, and many severed limbs and arms, including some weapons and blades, fell into the array of the Zhenshan Battalion one after another, causing some innocent injuries to some of the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion.

The huge explosion of the gunpowder pack not only caused huge casualties to the charging rebel cavalry, but also frightened the rebel cavalry.

Twenty paces after the explosion, a hell scene on earth was staged again, the surviving cavalry in the explosion began to panic, due to inertia, some cavalry controlled the frightened war horse to continue to impact in the direction of the earthquake mountain camp, some cavalry because the panicked war horse was uncontrollable, turned to the front of a thousand cavalry behind the attack, and some cavalry fell directly from the horse because they could not control the frightened horse, and were trampled to death by the subsequent war horse.

For a while, the cavalry of this thousand shocks was disrupted by a series of blows, and the remaining rebel cavalry who continued to attack the ranks of the Zhenshan camp were already frightened, and they rushed to the front of the Zhenshan camp array, but they were rented by the dense spears in front of the formation.

At this time, these cavalry who rushed to the array of the earthquake mountain camp only moved forward due to the inertia of the war horse, and once again faced the forest of spears and spears shining with cold light, where was there still the courage to continue to attack, and most of the cavalry desperately turned their horses' heads and galloped past both sides of the camp formation.

But there were still nearly a hundred rebel cavalry rushing into the ranks of the camp of the Earthquake Mountain, and the spears in front of the battle pierced the bellies of a dozen war horses, and the war horses neighed and fell to the ground, slamming the cavalry on these horses to the side.

The follow-up cavalry tried to dodge these wounded horses and cavalry, and finally faced the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion directly, but the speed of the war horses slowed down significantly.

Blocked by the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, at this time, the rebel cavalry no longer had the momentum of showing off their might at the beginning except for panic, and the shouts of "ho ho" in their mouths turned into screams all over the place, and they desperately turned their horses' heads and fled to both sides.

At this time, Zhao Shougang's headquarters, who were waiting on the side, suddenly burst out with bursts of dense bird guns, and these rebel cavalry who fled from both sides bore the brunt, and another group of cavalry screamed and fell off their horses.

It was only at this time that Fan Li discovered that Zhao Shougang was leading a thousand guards, and he didn't have to think about it to know that Zhao Shougang was leading the soldiers to reinforce at the risk of being annihilated by the rebel cavalry.

Fan Li only felt a warm current flowing in his heart, at the critical moment, the commander and the brothers of the Zhenshan Battalion did not give up on himself and the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion around him, it was the timely rescue of the commander and the brothers of the Zhenshan Battalion that avoided the heavy casualties of his subordinate soldiers!

From this wave of rebel cavalry being attacked by the Western artillery at the head of the city to rushing to the line of soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, there were only a few dozen breaths in total, and more than 1,000 rebel cavalry left nearly half of the casualties and returned home, but the 500 soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, whom they regarded as prey, were almost intact.

This kind of result is simply incredible, not to mention that Cao Shaozhong's cavalry generals can't believe the reality in front of them, even Fan Li and other soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion, who have already prepared to die, also find it incredible.

The follow-up 1,000 rebel cavalry witnessed the whole process of the matter, if the other party had no other means but relied on firm willpower to fight their own cavalry, it would definitely be only crushing!

Who would have thought that the small infantry of the other side would hide an endless stream of firearms, and it was these terrifying firearms that shattered the confidence of the rebel cavalry, and the thousand rebel cavalry began to hesitate.

At this time, the roar of "boom" artillery sounded again at the head of Pingdu City, and the accurate firing technology of the Western gunners accurately shot down six catties of solid iron bullets into the middle of the 1,000 rebel cavalry that followed, and the previous scene of flesh and blood appeared again.

Cao Shao, who stayed in place to watch the battle, was full of courage, he knew that his cavalry had lost their sharpness, and attacking again could only be uselessly killed.

He shouted hoarsely to the guards around him: "Quickly give the order, stop attacking, stop attacking!" , the whole army retreated"

After receiving the order to retreat, the second wave of cavalry was pardoned, and together with the cavalry who had fled from the previous defeat, they all rode their horses and galloped back, each fearing that the enemy's artillery fire would come to them again.

After Cao Shaozhong ordered people to collect the cavalry that had fled in all directions, he never had the intention of destroying the defenders on the opposite side, and the first wave of 1,000 cavalry was killed and wounded, and now only more than 500 people have escaped back to the headquarters intact.

That is to say, in the first battle, the Zhenshan battalion used the power of firearms to control the situation, and the soldiers of the Zhenshan battalion, who were the prey, gave the rebel cavalry a hard blow in turn, directly knocking out the arrogance of the rebel cavalry.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the rebel cavalry, Zhao Shougang led 1,200 Zhenshan battalion soldiers to join Fan Li's department.

After the round of firearms battle just now, the nervous emotions of the soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion were released, and it turned out that the fierce rebel cavalry was not invincible!

Fan Li threw a grateful glance at Zhao Shougang, took the initiative to walk in front of Zhao Shougang and saluted, and then said: "Thank you Zhao Qian for leading the troops to help me at a critical moment, Fan Li is grateful!" ”

Zhao Shougang hurriedly said: "You and I are both brothers of the Zhenshan Camp, how can I turn a blind eye when my brother is in trouble, you and my brother should not see each other." Now that the crisis has not been resolved, the rebel cavalry is still eyeing the enemy from 500 paces away, and it is obviously not easy for the Zhenshan battalion to successfully withdraw to the city. ”！！ (To be continued......)