At the same time, the two wings of the Ming army continued to shoot rockets with the intention of burning the state paste "wooden shield". ”

The Ming army on both flanks had only four flat passages, and in front of the remaining earthen walls, there were also low-walled trenches. Looking out from the earthen wall, dozens of steps away are the layers of wooden shields of the Qing army, which cover the archers or auxiliaries behind them. Looking out of the gap between the wooden shields, about every hour, the color of the Qing army's armor behind the wooden shields changed a batch. Constantly changing new forces.

The Qing soldiers had filled in the three or four trenches, and in front of the low walls near the passages, there were tall and rough wooden shields erected in the shape of foxes, each of which was supported by thick wood. Behind the wooden shield, a large number of Qing army heavy armor was also gathered to cover.

Apparently the Qing soldiers considered the possibility of firing prosper artillery from the side of the passage, or the possibility that the Ming army might rush out of the passage and surprise the archer auxiliaries between the low walls.

However, with the power of the shotgun, concentrating a few cannons to bombard, even if many rough wooden shields were erected in the shape of foxes over there, they could still cause a lot of casualties to the Qing army behind the wooden shields. Of course, after the artillery in the passage fired a volley from the side, it was necessary to consider that the heavy armor of the Qing army on the other side took the opportunity to rush up.

"It's better to kill as many than artillery to be scrap metal here, right?"

Guo Yingxian shouted: "If the light son rushes in through the passage, the last general will lead the brothers to drive them out." ”

Indeed, the Qing army was getting closer and closer, and the heavy armor hiding behind the wooden shields on the side continued to shoot hidden arrows into the passage, and although those gunners had shieldmen to cover, they finally had to take refuge behind the earthen wall next to them, leaving a few artillery pieces there to be useless.

After listening to Guo Yingxian's words, Yang Guozhu finally made up his mind.

At this time, in the frontal defense line of the Shunxiang Army, Wang Dou and Zhao Hao, the officer of the battalion artillery team, also thought of this. Issue. The layers of wooden shields of the Qing army had been pushed closer to the earthen wall forty paces, and because the Qing soldiers did not attack from all the passages, dozens of Zhao Hao's artillery pieces were idle. Everyone was ready, and as soon as the artillery was fired, they rushed straight into the front of the passage.

A few steps behind several artillery pieces in the passage, Zhong Tiaoyang led nearly 100 fire soldiers from the battalion headquarters lifting team, with more than 30 people per platoon, lined up three rows of fire soldiers to stand in line. Behind the fire soldiers, Han Zhong commanded Yang Tong, who personally led the spearmen in the headquarters into three rows to guard and kill the enemy, and dozens of sword and shield soldiers in the headquarters were distributed behind both sides.

"Bang!"

The earth-shattering sound of artillery sounded again after a long pause in front of the Shunxiang army, and the Hongyi six-pounder cannon opened fire first, and in the thick and fierce gunsmoke, dense iron ball projectiles shot away. Dozens of steps away, the group of wooden shields of the Qing army on the low wall on the left side immediately collapsed.

Even though these wooden shields were supported by thick wood behind them, a large number of wooden shields were knocked to the ground in the face of the fierce fire of artillery shotguns in these dozens of paces. Behind the wooden shield, many Qing soldiers were affected by the projectiles, and they rolled to the ground screaming.

Like a strong wind blowing, facing the roar of the rain of bullets, the Qing soldiers on the low wall on the left screamed far away from this place. Not only that, but many projectiles shot onto the low wall and bounced back and forth between several low walls, forming a barrage of bullets flying randomly, causing greater casualties to the Qing soldiers there.

A satisfied smile appeared on Zhao Shan's face, and Wang Dou also nodded, and the side shot effect was good. Moreover, after the artillery bombardment, although the projectile hit the low wall and rebounded, it was far from affecting the Shunxiang troops on the side of the gap. It's just that the scattered area of the shotgun bombardment is large, and the artillery of one door has to be fired sideways, otherwise the bullet rain will definitely affect their own people inside the earthen wall.

The earth began to tremble again, and after the bombardment of the Hongyi six-pounder cannon, the remaining two small and large guns of the Buddha Wolf Machine on the passage, as well as two tiger squat cannons, were pushed up and fired one after another. The deafening cannon roared one after another, and one after another dense lead pellets roared towards the left side of the low wall, causing the wooden shields of the Qing army there to fall to the ground one by one, and there was a mess everywhere.

The Qing soldiers over there screamed and fled, and many people ran back and forth, not knowing what to do. There were also some people who lay on the ground and did not dare to move, but they also dodged the rain of bullets. Seeing that they had an effect in doing so, there was immediately a dense crowd of Qing army heavy armor lying on the ground.

The shouts and shouts sounded, and the dense Qing army's heavy armor flashed out from behind the wooden shield on the right side of the low wall, brandishing weapons, and rushing with shouts.

Looking at the color of the armor of these people, it is the heavy armor soldiers in the white flag of Dol's decay. The passage was twenty-five paces wide and thirty-seven meters wide, and each row was crowded with 30 heavy soldiers with white flags, and the number of people rushing up to them reached seven or eight rows, more than 200 people.

The rows of white flag heavy armor rushing to the front were all holding thick shields, and the large shields in the hands of many of them were actually made of fine iron. It is one meter high, half a meter wide and up to five millimeters thick.

The shield weighed thirty or forty pounds.

In the face of this kind of big iron shield, I am afraid that it will be difficult to break through with the fire of the Shunxiang army. In addition to the big iron shields of these people, the rest of the soldiers are white flag heavy armor, all of them are holding thick shields, all of which are hardwood wrapped in thick fur, and their protective ability is not trivial. They held shields in their left hands and large swords and axes in their right hands, and they were all fierce and vicious, and they just rushed with wild screams.

In addition to these people, the heavy armor of the white flag several layers behind them, wearing two layers of heavy armor, or holding iron-handled long knives, or holding eight-banner spears and tiger spears, also roared wildly.

"Put!" The gunners at the entrance of the passage had already hidden far away, and the fire commanders on both sides of the gap also withdrew some and replaced them with swords and shields to defend. Seeing the Qing soldiers roaring wildly, Zhong Tiaoyang decisively ordered to shoot, and immediately the more than 30 small fire soldiers in the front row who were waiting for the battle pulled their own board machine.

A deafening sound of fire hammers rang out, and dozens of fire bullets hit the shields held by the Qing army. The protection of those iron shields was really strong, and thirty or forty paces away, although several shields were hit, and the parts of the bullets were also deeply convex, they were not broken and pierced.

However, some Qing soldiers next to them were holding heavy shields wrapped in leather on hardwood, which were broken by the projectiles that came one after another.

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Old White Bull: There is another chapter in the evening.