Xiao Ruxun asked him a few words on the city wall, then asked him to open the city gate, let him in, and brought him back to the general army's mansion. In the meeting hall of the General Soldier's Mansion, Xiao Ruxun, Su Hao and the partial general didn't know what to say, and the partial general rode out of the city and galloped away. Xiao Ruxun and Su Hao were full of excitement, and they sent people to deliver the message separately, and invited the middle and high-level officers of the Pingyu Institute and the Survey Battalion to the General Military Mansion to discuss major matters.

At the second watch of the night, the gates of Pingyu City were opened, and a group of cavalrymen dressed in black cloaks quietly went out of the city, galloping into the boundless darkness, their horses and horses were wrapped in sackcloth, and they made only a slight sound when they stepped on the ground.

After the cavalry left, more than thirty wagons followed. The body of each carriage was a boxy box, and if the rabbit saw it, he would not be able to help but incontinent, because it was the artillery in such a carriage that inflicted mass destruction on his cavalry during the day.

The artillery carriage did not follow the direction of the cavalry, but followed the path straight south, where the two tribes of Biyun and Zhili Rabbit were encamped.

Further back, a long line of musketeers from the Scouting Battalion came out, carrying flintlock pistols on their shoulders, and under the command of Deng Kui and Xiong Minyang, they quickly melted into the darkness as well.

Xiao Ruxun and Su Hao rode horses and stood outside the city gate to watch the team set off. A small colonel trotted up to them and reported: "Report to General Xiao and Deputy General Su, a total of five thieves have been found outside the city gate, and they have all been shot and killed by our army. ”

"Nothing slipped through the net, did you?" Xiao Ruxun asked.

Xiao Xiao said: "No, we searched several times like combing our hair, but we didn't find anything that slipped through the net." Our scouts are equipped with binoculars, and we can spot the thieves' scouts from afar. They thought it was dark and we couldn't see clearly. So we didn't hide much, in fact, we could see them with binoculars. ”

"Well done!" Xiao Ruxun nodded, sent the school away, and then said to Su Hao: "Change it, let's go separately." ”

"Good. Brother Xiao must be careful. Su Hao said.

Xiao Ruxun smiled and said, "The person who can hurt me hasn't been born yet." Instead, you have to be careful, and you'd rather give up those cannons than let the thieves catch up with you. ”

"Don't worry, Brother Xiao. It's not easy for thieves to get close to me. Su Hao said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go separately, and after the victory, we will set up a drink to celebrate." Xiao Ruxun said, and urged the war horse. Chased after the cavalry that had left the city earlier.

Su Hao followed the artillery convoy, and his task was to direct the artillery carriage to attack with artillery fire a thousand steps away from the enemy village, so as to plunge the enemy army into chaos and create an opportunity for Xiao Ruxun to send a team to charge the camp. Xiao Ruxun organized 500 sergeants as the death squad to rush to the camp, and he himself served as the captain of the death team, and he wanted to lead the team to rush into the camp of Litu to fight.

"Change. It's in place. ”

Xu Guangqi, who was sitting in the carriage of the artillery team, jumped out of the carriage and said to Su Hao. Tonight's action is very important, Xu Guangqi is responsible for calculating the shooting of Zhu Yuan for the artillery, as an engineer of the Su factory, he knows the performance of these cannons best, and his calculation power far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers.

All the gun carriages stopped, and on the ground, there were some crosses painted in lime, which were the marks that Su Hao sent out scouts to secretly make before dark. In the darkness of the night, one cannot see even a hundred paces away. But with these marks, Su Hao was able to know that a thousand steps to the south, the camp of the Rabbit.

"Get ready to shoot!" Su Hao gave the order softly.

The gunners began their work in a nervous and orderly manner, they fixed the wagon. Flip down the compartment of the carriage, expose the muzzle, adjust the elevation angle of the gun, and then quietly wait for the next order.

"Test the gun, prepare, release!"

This order was given by Xu Guangqi, and the gunner of one of the guns loaded the cartridge and shell, lit the fuse, and only heard a "boom", the fire pierced the night, and a flowering shell whistled out and flew towards the target in the distance.

"Boom!"

The shell exploded a thousand paces away, and Xu Guangqi and several other observers held binoculars and stared intently ahead, and by the light of the explosion, they quickly judged the distance between the bomb impact point and the enemy's camp.

"The muzzle of the gun is raised by one point, and the amount ......of medicine is reduced by one percent," Xu Guangqi gave the order to the gunners, "Prepare, load, fire!" ”

At the sound of an order, dozens of artillery pieces roared at the same time, and the position was suddenly reflected red by the flames of the muzzles, and then fell into darkness again. With a whistling sound from near and far, dozens of flowering shells fell at the same time into the Tatar camp a thousand paces away.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom Boom! ”

The size of the camp of 20,000 people was very large, and although the artillery of the Ming army had only undergone the simplest correction, it was not a problem to hit such a large camp. Dozens of shells fell on various parts of the camp like scattered flowers, sending out a deafening explosion and sending shrapnel flying everywhere.

"Withdraw!" Su Hao shouted, and the gunners hurriedly put away the artillery, erected the carriage board, removed the support of the carriage, and then put the carriage on the horse, quickly evacuated the position, and galloped towards Pingyu City. The task of their trip was only to create chaos in the Tatar camp, and after this round of artillery they had to withdraw quickly, otherwise it would not be fun for the Tatar cavalry to catch up.

"Stop, don't run!"

The Tatar scouts cruising around the perimeter of the camp chased after them, and the Ming soldiers in charge of covering turned around and opened fire, and the sporadic scouts were quickly eliminated, and Su Hao retreated to Pingyu City with the artillery team without any danger, closing the city gate tightly to guard against a possible enemy counterattack.

Speaking of the Tatar camp, at this time, as Su Hao expected, it was a mess. During the day, the 10,000 cavalry brought by Li Tu to participate in the war had seen the power of the Ming artillery, and after returning to the camp, they infected this "artilleryphobia" to those comrades who did not go to the battle.

In the middle of the night, while everyone was asleep, the earth-shattering explosion in the camp woke everyone up. Thinking of the terrible artillery fire of the day, almost every Tatar cavalry had the same thought on their minds: flee!

What made the noise even more fierce was the war horses in the stable. They are a little less rational than humans. Memories of terrible things are clearer. Hearing the familiar sound of cannons, the horses neighed in unison, and some of them, despite the scolding of the horses, rushed out of the stables and galloped aimlessly through the camp. Create even greater chaos.

"Is it the Ming army stealing the camp!" Zhuli Rabbit was also awakened by the sound of artillery, he ran out of the camp tent and asked loudly: "Where is the Ming army, and in which direction are they?" ”

"Report to the big chief, the Ming army is in the direction of due north, about a thousand steps away from us." A pro-soldier came running to report. They saw the fire from the muzzle of the cannon and were able to roughly estimate the relative distance.

"Pass my order, let Un and Gegen rush over with two thousand people, it's so dark outside, the Ming army's firearms can't hit accurately, it's a good time for us to kill the enemy. And also. The order is that all the people are not allowed to make noise, and those who run around and scream, and shake the hearts of the army, will be killed! The rabbit ordered.

"Kill!"

Without waiting for the herald to issue the order of the rabbit, he heard a sudden sound of killing on the east side of the camp, and a cavalry stepped through the fence outside the camp like a lightning speed. Raided into the camp.

This is exactly the rhythm that Xiao Ruxun and Su Hao discussed, Su Hao commanded the artillery to bombard the Tatar camp, creating chaos, and at the same time attracting the opponent's attention to the north, while the cavalry led by Xiao Ruxun detoured to the east and rushed into the camp with lightning speed.

"Oh no, the Ming army rushed in!"

"Stop the Ming army!"

"Go lead the horse!"

The Tatar cavalrymen slept in a daze and were awakened by a burst of artillery. When he was in shock, he was suddenly attacked by the opponent's cavalry, and he was in chaos for a while. Xiao Ruxun rode a fast horse and brandished a spear, as if he had entered a no-man's land. The Tatar cavalry left their horses like a herd of lambs to the slaughter. In the face of the charge of the Ming army, they could only scatter and flee, without the courage to resist.

"The Ming army is gone!"

A commander on duty rode up with dozens of subordinates on horseback, trying to block the edge of Xiao Ruxun and the others, and buy time for the other companions to dress and get on the horse.

Without waiting for the other party to get closer, the two pro-soldiers who followed Xiao Ruxuan reached out and touched it in their arms, each took out an object, and threw it out at the other party.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The two objects exploded in the ranks of the commander and his men, and a dozen Tatar cavalrymen flew out of their horses, and the rest of the cavalry could not hold their reins anymore, and were thrown off their horses by the frightened horses.

This is the secret weapon that Xiao Ruxun asked Su Hao for, and it is the grenade equipped by the survey camp. In close combat, the power of this grenade is unparalleled, not only can it effectively kill the opponent, so that the enemy general with high martial arts can die without even having a chance to raise a gun, and in this era of cold weapons, a sudden close explosion will make the opponent panic and completely lose the fighting spirit.

"Kill!"

Seeing the grenade power, the Ming army death squads that followed Xiao Ruxuan were all in good spirits, shouting loudly and began to pounce on the enemy. They struck from the east side of the camp and rushed to the west, preparing to cross the entire Tatar army camp and inflict maximum damage on the Tatar army.

The Tatar army was not a rookie on the battlefield, and after a short period of confusion, some middle and lower-ranking officers gradually gathered their ranks, found their horses, and began to block the Ming army in the hedge battalion. The Ming army did not talk about any rules at this time, and for sporadic opponents, they stepped forward together, bullied the widows, and slaughtered the opponents in a few rounds; For the small group of thirty or fifty people, they didn't say a word, they just waited with grenades, blew the other party to pieces, and then exterminated them one by one.

The border troops under Xiao Ruxun were originally well-trained and had strong combat effectiveness. The death squad he selected this time is the best in the team. Xiao Ruxun was wearing a pair of chain mail made of high manganese steel wire specially given to him by Su Hao, which could almost be said to be invulnerable, and he held a spear in front of him, like an awl, piercing through the heavy obstacles of the Tatar army, and killed until the west gate of the camp.