Too quiet?

Esteban was stunned for a moment, feeling the atmosphere around him.

It seems to be true!

The sound of insects, birds, and frogs is gone.

Thinking of the style of these rebels again, Esteban also reflected and ambushed!

There must be an ambush.

"My lord? What to do? Esteban whispered with bated breath.

Franco glared at him,, why are you so quiet?

"Pull out the artillery and face it forward! Put two shots! ”

"But I don't see how anyone fires?"

"I'll see it when I put it away!"

"Pull it all out?"

"No, we don't know where each other is right now. South, east, west, northwest, fifty gates in each direction. Take your turn and see if they come out or not! ”

"Good!"

Esteban nodded his head and ordered the artillery at the back of the team to be pulled out, and fifty guns were placed in each of the four directions of southeast, north, west, and east.

In the distance, Lu Jiang was lying on the edge of the ditch and observed the other party's situation by the moonlight.

When he saw that the other party had suddenly stopped, and the mine did not go off, he knew that the other party had detected his ambush.

After all, if you use traps again and again to trap the other party and be fooled again, it will be really stupid.

Apparently Franco is not stupid.

At his command, fifty guns aimed at the north were ignited. The shells roared and flew forward. He knew that it would be difficult to hit people, but his purpose was not to kill people with artillery, but to surprise the other party!

The cannonball whizzed past Zheng Zhibao's head, but he was unmoved, lying motionless on the grass. He didn't move, and naturally his men didn't make the slightest move.

Franco waited quietly for a moment after the artillery fire rang out.

There was no movement ahead, not even screaming.

The men of Conley's troops, who were lying in the ditch two miles to the west, were frightened and immediately became agitated.

"Don't even speak! Cannonballs can't hit us! Conley lowered his voice, trying to stop the noise of his men. But it was too late, and even a little noise could be heard far away in the silence of the night. Not to mention the movement of more than 2,000 people.

Franco burst out laughing.

"To the east! Pull the cannon over! them! ”

"Okay!" Esteban shouted with joy and gave the order to pull the artillery over.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Conley scolded angrily and planned to let the soldiers move.

Lu Jiang grabbed Conley.

"Now run to death!? Let them lie on their stomachs and don't move! ”

Now at least you can hide through the ditch, if you run out in a swarm, it's almost like looking for death.

Two hundred guns were fired at them in turns, and because the standard of the shells was not uniform, the loading volume of the soldiers was not exactly the same, resulting in different landing points of the shells.

And on Franco's side, there were already experienced gunners who judged their approximate location by sound.

"Haha! Boom me! Boom to death! ”

Franco laughed and shouted, after so many days of grievance, he can be regarded as finding the right master!

Lu Jiang was so crushed by the shells that he couldn't lift his head, and he was so angry that he wanted to kick these undisciplined rebels to death one by one.

"Forward!" Franco divided the Spanish regular army he brought with him into two brigades of 1,000 men each, including 600 spearmen and 400 arquebus soldiers.

The brigades were arranged in a Spanish phalanx of which they were proud, with spearmen in the center and arquebusiers in the four corners.

Such an arrangement is highly maneuverable and can output fire from four directions.

The two battalions were divided into two sides, and in the middle were natives with cannons, and a group of four thousand marched towards the place where Conley was hiding on the west side.

The sound of the clanging of neat footsteps echoed in the night sky, and an invisible pressure enveloped the rebels.

"General Lu! Run!? Finding that the artillery fire had stopped, Conley asked anxiously.

Seeing that the other party is about to press up, when will you run if you don't run?

"Don't rush yet!" Lu Jiang said calmly.

For him, who has directly participated in the major battles in Liaodong, this scene is really nothing.

"Not in a hurry? Didn't their artillery fire stop..."

Rumble!

Before Conley's words could land, another roar came.

"Still running? If you want to run, someone will definitely run out and survive, but the team will disperse. You think it through! Lu Jiang yelled at Conley.

Behind them was the river, which was not wide, but it was not something that was just to be crossed. Needless to say, the Spanish soldiers were pressing.

If you want to run, you can run in both directions, north and south, and some people may die, but most of them will survive.

But the problem is that as long as they are scattered, it will be difficult to gather people again, and all the emperor's hegemony has nothing to do with him Conley.

"But what now? We can't beat them, and there are more people who die if they don't run. Why don't you take out your chicken cannon and bang it at them!? You can't sit still! ”

"Wait!"

"What are you waiting for! We'll be dead when we wait! Listening to the sound of the opposing army's march, Conley sweated anxiously.

"Shut up! Can't die! Wait! ”

Lu Jiang didn't pay any attention to the anxious Conley, or waited. Conley smacked his mouth twice, and wanted to say something more, but seeing that Lu Jiang was so determined, he finally held back.

Lu Jiang doesn't seem to be in a hurry, it doesn't mean that he is really not in a hurry, but it's not the best time yet.

And the best time is the distance between the two sides.

The original distance between the two sides was about two miles, this distance, plus only a faint moonlight could illuminate things. The gunners he brought with him were not sure to accurately hit the enemy, so they could only wait for the enemy to enter within a mile.

Franco led the team on a stop-and-go basis, firing rounds of artillery at intervals.

He didn't know that there was a ditch ahead, and this move was also to continue to increase the pressure on the other party and make them collapse without a fight.

The screams of the rebels kept coming, and Franco was getting closer and closer to them.

After another round of shelling, Lu Jiang stood up reluctantly.

"Gunners prepare! One mile ahead! Rapid-fire five shots! ”

From the sound of the voice, the other party was almost a mile or so away.

Although the accuracy of the shelling could not be guaranteed, the life was at stake, and it would be within range of their arquebuses after a little longer.

A hundred soldiers operating the artillery quickly climbed up from the ditch, and the still skilled team of five quickly assembled the mortar. And the gun commander adjusted the angle of fire.

This time there was no unified command, and this group of Jingying sharp soldiers who had experienced the blood and fire of Liaodong played the most important quality on the battlefield. Calm and fearless.

Twenty shells were fired in almost no particular order.

Bang bang bang shot out.

Twenty shells were deflected by twelve, and only eight fell in Franco's camp,

Eight bombs disarmed dozens of soldiers on Franco's side, but their positions were also completely exposed.

"They're there! Shoot! Infantry phalanx, full speed ahead! ”

Franco yelled, and the soldiers in control of the guns began to turn their guns and reload their ammunition without his order. The phalanxes on both flanks began to rush forward rapidly.

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