As Li Zicheng led the main force of absolute henchmen to launch a decisive charge, the pressure on the officers and troops on the opposite side also increased sharply.

The threat of the crossbow shooting has gradually approached the Sinking Tree Man himself,

Some crossbow bolts landed at his feet, though he was protected by several layers of guards with large iron shields, and three layers of carts with guards.

Therefore, these crossbow arrows were either bounced off by the shield or pierced into the plank, and it was certainly impossible to hurt the Sinking Tree Man himself.

But some of the officers around him were still scared into a little cold sweat, and they persuaded one after another: "Lord Futai! You'd better get on board! ”

Shen Shuren resolutely refused: "I'm not going anywhere, I have confidence in your guards, don't you have confidence in yourself!" The key to today's battle is that no one can get on board!

The warships are responsible for supporting and bombarding him with Hongyi cannons and crossbows! It's not for the soldiers on the shore to escape for their lives! I'm no exception! Never get on board! ”

He knew very well that when Han Xin was in the back of the water, Han Xin himself was also in the army, and at this time, momentum came first.

Whether to put it to death, or really fall into death, is a thought.

Zuo Zixiong was rarely able to be flexible, and tried to change his way to persuade: "After you get on the boat, you can continue to leave the flag and flag formation in place, and the friendly soldiers in the distance will not know!" They think that if you stick to the same place and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, it will not break morale! ”

Shen Shuren's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "But you know! And thousands of henchmen around here know about it! ”

There are some things that can be hidden for a while, but not for long.

Once someone is shaken, sooner or later it will be contagious. Maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe half an hour, but who knows.

Zuo Zixiong had never seen Shen Shuren so resolute, and he was speechless for a while, shocked by it, and did not persuade again.

He just swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Then the general requests that all the Franc machines in the Chinese army's vehicle formation be changed to bombard forward!" Don't shoot left and right crosses and sideways anymore!

The Chinese army's flag formation is not trivial, we can't pursue sticking to the enemy here, killing and injuring more enemies, as long as we scare the enemy away and force them back by any means! And Li Zicheng's flag array seems to be moving forward, after we turn the muzzle, we can shoot in Li Zicheng's direction with all our might! ”

Of course, the different parts of the military formation, the value and the tactical objectives to be achieved are also different.

Some military formations are used for consumption, and it is necessary to set up a point that seems to be flawed, seduce the enemy to invest more, and then cross fire to harvest human lives.

Some of them are heart-wrenching, and they only need to be stable, even if they scare the enemy away and can't kill more, they can be regarded as achieving their goals.

Shen Shuren nodded at this request, but said a little more: "It is allowed to adjust the fire target, but it is still only allowed to use shotguns, at most shotguns with stocks, and not solid bullets!" ”

Zuo Zixiong looked puzzled: "Why?" Although there are few killings with solid bullets, what if you are caught and kill Li Zicheng? ”

Shen Shuren didn't explain much: "Don't gamble on luck! Stay on the safe side! You also said that the purpose of turning the muzzle of our guns is to deter the intruders from rushing to our Chinese army in a desperate gamble, not to bet on whether they can kill or injure Li Zicheng. Don't rely on those illusory fortuitous factors to win or lose! ”

Zuo Zixiong thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he resolutely implemented it.

And Shen Shuren actually has other ideas about this - what he needs is the most certain pain, to be afraid of Li Zicheng, rather than the risk and return of either making money or preserving the capital.

Moreover, what if he used a solid bullet and gambled on a super good fortune and saved up to Li Ziben? This kind of thing is a solid iron bullet, which is definitely more powerful than the stone that Yang Guo used to kill Meng Ge Khan after wearing four shield-raising guards in martial arts dramas, even if Li Zicheng was protected by guards in front of him, it was impossible to block it, then it was really dead.

If Li Zicheng dies, the bureau of the Shen Shuren will be on this, who else will kill Chongzhen? Help the Shen Shuren control the Ming?

In contrast, with a shrapnel with a cartridge, it is easy to be blocked by several layers of strong shields, and at most a few shrapnel are penetrating and penetrating through the gaps in the shield array, but these small iron sand and small broken lead are estimated to be not fatal.

Under such considerations, between the Chinese armies of the two sides, the swords and knives like Mars hitting the earth into the flesh, the guns and guns splashed with blood, and the collision soon burst apart.

There are still a lot of heavily armored cavalry in the middle of the army, and they are all rolling and sworn to charge, not afraid of life and death at all, they are all the elite of the old Shaanxi battalion who have watched life and death for more than ten years.

Even if they are stabbed to death in a hornet's nest and shot indiscriminately, they still have to rely on the heavy physical inertia to kill several officers and soldiers on the opposite side, unless they are blocked by the officers and soldiers' car formation, smash a few wooden planks, and overturn a car.

And because the artillery firepower on the side of the official army was temporarily adjusted, the final decisive charge of the cavalry of the invading army was really not decisively blocked by much heavy firepower at the beginning, and it really seized an opportunity to get closer to fight-

When the artillery is directed to the left and right, and the shotguns are engaged in crossfire, it is not completely cost-free. The most obvious cost is that the range of the artillery will be shortened, because if it is fired diagonally, it will certainly not be fired far from the front perpendicular to the line.

This leads to the fact that if you shoot forward, the cavalry may be three or four hundred paces away, and you will already be threatened by fire, but the density of this fire is relatively low, so far you can only use a single-headed solid bullet, even if it forms a ricochet, it will not kill a few people. After the side fire, the cavalry approached within a hundred paces before they began to encounter artillery fire.

This also gave Li Zicheng's Chinese army an illusion, and they rushed smoothly all the way, only to be blocked by Meng Lie at the last moment, and at this time, even if they wanted to retreat, it was impossible to retreat, and they did not dare to retreat.

If you retreat, you will only suffer twice and suffer two sins, so it is better to die and move forward, and only after you break through will you have a way to live.

There is death and no life!

When Zuo Zixiong's order was gradually conveyed to the front row, and all the officers and artillery were adjusted to the direction of preferring to kill less people and shoot forward to better deter the enemy, the two sides had already glued into a melee.

It can't be pulled at all, at most it just blocks the investment speed of the rear army.

But no matter how much role the artillery unit can play, the melee unit of the officer and army itself is always sworn to the death, even if the front row is hit by the cavalry and dies and the body is incomplete, the rear row is still on top, stabbing the cavalry on the ground with spears and bayonets.

Even if the other party has broken his tendons and fractures, or even directly broke his neck and died, he has to make up for five or six times with a knife. The two sides are the most afraid of death and the most loyal to the commander's descendants, so they slash each other and exchange lives.

After the bloody stalemate lasted for a while, as Zuo Zixiong dispatched all the Franc machines of the Chinese army in place and re-launched the continuous firepower for about two teas, the situation of weak follow-up and disjointed support finally began to appear on the side of the breaking army.

Although the front team is still entangled with the officers and soldiers, and there is no need to worry about being injured by indiscriminate firepower, it is just a source of water, relying only on a bloody bravery, regardless of the overall situation.

Shen Shuren's face turned blue the whole time, and from the gap in the big iron shield array of the guards, he secretly looked at the battle situation with a telescope, and it was not until this moment that he relaxed slightly.

After holding on for about a cup of tea, the situation on the battlefield finally ushered in a complete reversal.

"Our reinforcements are coming! Mr. Zhang's sailor has arrived! Several military formations on the left flank of the officers and troops downstream took the lead in erupting with a roaring shouting and killing sound like a tsunami, and their morale suddenly skyrocketed.

More than 10,000 people came from the Huai River and Yingchuan all the way here, led by Zhang Mingzhen, and arrived from the downstream in nearly 100 large sand boats.

Naturally, this naval division will not bring many melee troops, but there is absolutely no shortage of crossbowmen and small cannons in the fleet, and there are also some musketeers, which are the backbone and elite of Daming coastal defense.

The Yingchuan River is only a few tens of zhang wide, and once these warships can shoot at close range, especially from the rear of the flank of the attacking army on the southern flank of the besieging official army, they will suppress and accumulate fire.

The southernmost flank of the intruding army will soon waver in formation, and even show a tendency to collapse.

As hundreds of soldiers in each group screamed and fell to death in the rain of bullets and stones, Liu Fangliang, who was in charge of the battlefield on the southern flank, had no choice but to temporarily let the troops on one side retreat, more than 100 steps away from the river bank, and no longer try to bypass the officers and troops in a roundabout way, and only attack from the front.

The officers and troops on the southern front suddenly became more stable after losing the pressure on one side.

In addition, in order to intercept the grain route of the Chen County official army, the Chuang army also organized some sailors, but the warships were relatively cold, either small boats or temporary rafts, which could only be used with artificial reefs and hidden pile fortifications.

In today's battle, these small boats were also forced to be taken out and used to harass the officers and soldiers lining up along the river. Although the boat lacked cover, the soldiers had to pile a few sandbags and planks on the edge of the boat to avoid arrows and lead bullets, but it could also distract the officers and soldiers and make them have to watch out for their backs.

At this moment, with the arrival of the official and military sailors, it is still in the lower reaches of the battlefield, there are no reefs and hidden pile fortifications to rely on to dodge, and the small boat and sailor army that broke into the army were naturally completely liquidated, either directly bombed and killed, or abandoned the boat and landed in embarrassment, scattering birds and beasts.

Under the double blessing and blows of one positive and one negative, the morale of the officers and soldiers is even stronger, while the army on the opposite side is obviously on the verge of declining again and exhausting three times.

"Why! Why don't these dog officers' soldiers and horses retreat! Why not jump into the river and escape to the boat! Bring the whole formation to the ground! Dog Officer! ”

The descendants of the Chinese army around Li Zicheng have also been killed in batches in such attrition, but the enemy on the opposite side is as immobile as a mountain.

Li Zicheng's nerves finally tightened to the brink of collapse.

"Withdraw, the king! This official army can't rush at all! The Franc planes of the official army are all bombarded here, it is too dangerous for you to stay here, and dozens of our brothers who raised shields to protect them have died! The big ships of the officers and soldiers have come to support the artillery fire! ”

Li Zicheng's confidant and nephew Li Guo begged for persuasion, desperately trying to pull Li Zicheng back.

"I won't retreat! I won't retreat! Shield! Just put a few more layers of shields! Give me the Chinese army that swears to break through the dog officer! ”

Between the words, seven or eight solid shells of Hongyi cannons flew in, rebounded on the ground, jumped wildly, and plowed out a few bloody paths in the army, which were obviously fired by Zhang Mingzhen's sailor warship.

Zhang Mingzhen did not receive the order of Shen Shuren "not to use solid bullets", of course, he was using his own tactics to direct the operation of the naval division, and the big ships on the Yingchuan River were far away from the battlefield, so they could not use shotguns, otherwise it would be easy to spray their own people.

Only a solid iron bullet can attack beyond the top and strike at the invading army a mile or two away.

It's just that the number of shells is too small, and it is impossible to bet on the probability of directly hitting Li Zicheng, and the most recent one also flew more than 20 steps away from Li Zicheng's side, plowing a bloody path.

But this was enough to create chaos in Li Zicheng's army, and the shield-wielding guards were clumsy, like headless flies, and they didn't know which side to block.

Li Zicheng was still stiff there, and he was in a stalemate for about half a cup of tea, and finally in the direction of the large array of the Chinese army of the Shenshuren, another piece of Franc machine's butt-type shrapnel flew in,

The projectile in the cartridge, under the push of the butt, kept flying for one or two hundred steps, and did not spread out, which greatly reduced the deceleration effect of air resistance and realized the impossible flight distance of the non-pallet shotgun.

In addition, there were hundreds of heavy turtledoves, carrying two taels of gunpowder per round and two one-headed lead bullets weighing one or two each, which continued to shoot in this direction, and had already harvested many of the guards around Li Zicheng.

This kind of lead bullet weighing one or two pieces, even if it is two or three hundred paces apart and holding a solid thick wooden shield, is impossible to stop. It's just that the original method of replacing one with one guard can be used to keep consuming to ensure the safety of Li Ziben. It's just that after dying a lot, there will inevitably be a gap in succession.

With another roar, Li Zicheng, who was like a mad tiger, suddenly let out a loud howl and fell off the warhorse.

"Protecting the King......

The countless guards didn't know what was going on, they just pressed it.

"I'm fine! I'm not hurt! I didn't ...... Uhh

”

Li Zicheng really wanted to follow Liu Bang's example of an arrow in his chest and said that he was an arrow in his toe, but the blood splashing on his face made him quickly unable to control himself, and he bit off two teeth, unable to stop trembling.

Maybe he should have had this catastrophe - in history, he was also at the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's attack on Kaifeng, and the soldiers under the command of Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Kaifeng, were shot once with random arrows and became a one-eyed dragon.

This time, he was still injured in the face, and it was the same as Zhang Xianzhong when he was in Hengzhou a few months ago, he was turned into a pockmarked face by a lake of broken lead, and Li Zicheng's injury was obviously more dangerous, looking at the bleeding parts, it was very likely that he was blind.

Moreover, Shen Shuren's butt-type shotgun is obviously much more advanced and effective than Chen Yongfu's bow and crossbow shooting, so while injuring Li Ziben himself, he also took away a lot of people close to him.

For example, his own nephew Li Guo, because he also stayed by his side, he also helped him block most of the shrapnel just now and was killed directly. There are also several henchmen and guards generals, all of whom are also killed and wounded.

"Protect the King's retreat! Evacuate! With Li Zicheng's injury, no one could stop the retreat of the invading army, and Li Zicheng's Chinese army flag formation took the lead in retreating.

Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang on the left and right wings still don't understand the situation, Liu Zongmin of the Chinese army was quickly taken down, and he had to prepare to go along, and at the same time, he was also a bit of a general, desperately blocking the news, hoping that the bad news of King Chuang's injury would not be known too quickly by the low-level soldiers, so as not to collapse morale directly.

It's a pity that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and just when the various units of the intruding army were at a loss and lost their ground, on the battlefield in the south, another new force of officers and soldiers also rushed to the battlefield just right.

The person who came was Huang Degong, with more than 10,000 cavalry, who entered the battlefield like a tiger, and obviously had already made an appointment with Shen Shuren for the decisive moment, so there was only less than a quarter of an hour before and after Zhang Mingzhen's appearance.

Cavalry should be in a stalemate in the front and the enemy's reserves have been invested and stuck before entering the battlefield to play the greatest role!

Especially when the locals show their defeat, it is definitely a beautiful thing to serve as the last straw that destroys the enemy's psychology, and to chase the dead and chase the north to expand the results of the battle.

If you rely only on infantry, even if you crush the enemy, the enemy turns around and scatters and flees, the victorious side may not be able to catch up, and it will not be able to form a large number of annihilations in the pursuit battle.

"The thief is dead! Those who descend will not be killed! ”

"The thieves have been smashed by cannons! The dog thieves are waiting to die! ”

"Kill! Daming will win! ”

From south to north, the army completely fell into passivity, and countless soldiers looked at it like flies, and they really found that the main forces of the king and Liu Zongmin were retreating, so that the collapse of the two wings became more and more out of control.

The officers and troops descended the mountain like a tiger and turned into a counterattack in an all-round way. Huang Degong took the lead, slashing and slashing frantically, revolvers and short-barreled trolls fired in turn in the pursuit, and then backstabbed and trampled, killing corpses like mountains for a while, and blood flowed and pestle.

Tian Jianxiu, the governor of the right capital of the army, blocked Huang Degong, his headquarters was beaten the worst, almost half of them were destroyed, and Tian Jianxiu himself was also killed by Huang Degong's troops in the chaos.

Huang Degong just regretted that he didn't get the opportunity to directly kill him personally, and when he saw Tian Jianxiu, he was already a corpse that had been smashed to the lake of flesh and blood by the repeating shotgun of the revolver. Huang Degong was also so angry that he made up for a few pieces, and drew Tian Jianxiu's corpse more and more messy.

The officers and troops continued to chase the dead and chase the north, expanding the results of the battle, and the fighting continued until it was dark that day, when it was completely over, and the battlefield also pursued from the bank of the Yingchuan River, more than 20 miles south of Chen County, to the north of Chen County, almost 30 miles away, killing and wounding tens of thousands.

Most of the troops on the southern flank of the army were annihilated in this battle, and the rest of the Chinese army and the northern flank also suffered losses, but the proportion was not so exaggerated.

Comprehensively converted, the invading army that was directly annihilated reached almost one-third of the total number of invading troops participating in the battle, which is equivalent to the total annihilation of the southern flank troops.

After this battle, Li Zicheng must have completely lost the strength and courage to continue to gain a foothold in Henan.

Not only did nearly 200,000 men and horses participate in the battle, but they also lost 50,000 or 60,000 directly, but also killed Tian Jianxiu, one of the five governors in his army, and Li Guo, his nephew, two highest-ranking generals. Li Zicheng himself, and also paid the price of a pockmarked face and an eyeball.

If he wants to survive, the only choice can only be to retreat to Shaanxi and knock Sun Chuanting first.

Relying on the people's feelings that the people of Shaanxi could not survive and everyone was willing to be soldiers, in the end, they did their best to catch a wave of fish, and pulled all the adult men in Shaanxi to the battlefield to expand the army with blood.