After all, there are not so many strong men under the command of Breaking the Sky, who can throw those grenades that weigh several pounds, so these large slingshots were made, anyway, these things only need to find some branches with good toughness, which is very convenient, and can be made from local materials before the battle begins.

With the help of these large slingshots, grenades were thrown out and fell into the middle of the officers and soldiers who rushed in a neat formation.

Then came a series of violent explosions, and the officers and soldiers in the front row fell in pieces.

Obviously, although the Golden Eagle Empire copied some firearms, most of the ordinary soldiers and officers did not know how to deal with them in battle due to the fact that they were not fully popularized in the army.

So now, these officers and soldiers are actually under the order of Zhang Shulin, and they are still advancing in a dense and neat formation as before when they fought against the cold weapons troops, which makes them suffer extremely heavy casualties.

After the grenade was thrown, the rebel musketeers on the opposite side fired another volley at the officers and soldiers, and immediately knocked down a large group of officers and soldiers.

These large-caliber flintlock pistols may not be very accurate, but the lethality is not weak, after all, the eighteen-millimeter caliber is there! Even these well-trained and well-cultivated elites of the officers and soldiers, once they are hit, even if they don't die, they basically lose their combat effectiveness, and they can only fall to the ground and roll and struggle in pain.

Because there were too many casualties for a while, Zhang Shulin didn't have the kung fu to let people carry those wounded out of the battlefield, because this would delay too much time, and it would only give the rebels on the opposite side more opportunities to kill and injure their own soldiers.

In order to make the soldiers who were obviously seriously injured and have died less tortured, Zhang Shulin's soldiers made up for them when they passed by these guys and sent them back to the west in advance.

And stepping on the sky to watch the officers and soldiers on the opposite side fall in large numbers under the blows of their own firearms, and for the first time clearly feel the strength of these firearms in the battle, thinking that after this battle, he has to find a way to replenish a little ammunition, after all, he didn't capture much ammunition at the beginning, and some of it was still consumed in training, so there is not much left now.

At this time, those rebel artillerymen, under the guidance of Xiao Heizi, hurriedly loaded those guns with scattered bullets and pushed them to the front of the formation.

The rebel soldiers who had seen the power of these big guys in training before retreated, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side couldn't help but tremble their legs in the face of the black hole muzzle, and they had the urge to turn around and run away.

But at this time, it was too late to escape, and as the muzzles of those cannons spewed out dazzling flames, a large piece of tiny iron beads suddenly swept through the official and military arrays like a torrential rain.

Although primitive, these are still cannons after all! For a while, the iron armor on the officers and soldiers was like paper paste, and it could not play any protective role at all.

This wave of blows has killed and injured at least more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, Zhang Shulin estimates that his side has already suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and if it is delayed any longer, he really doesn't know how many people he will have left.

Therefore, at this time, he did not care that a large number of soldiers had not recovered from the loud noise of the artillery fire, and immediately led more than a hundred personal guards cavalry under his command to rush to the rebels on the opposite side.

Seeing this, he immediately led his own cavalry troops to meet him. During this time, with the subduing of all kinds of fierce beasts suitable for riding on the road, the number of cavalry under his command has also increased, and now there are more than 500 horses, perhaps the quality cannot be compared with Zhang Shulin's cavalry guards, but the number has far exceeded the other party, so for a while, relying on the numerical advantage, the other party was completely surrounded and entangled.

Those officers and soldiers were the first to rush forward when they saw the commander, and they could only bite the bullet one by one and follow the charge.

Some of the officers and crossbowmen seized the time and kept firing arrows at the rebels on the opposite side, trying to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible before the two sides engaged in a short engagement.

Not to be outdone, the rebel soldiers continued to fire arrows and fire, and occasionally grenades and javelins were thrown out, scattering the formations of the officers and soldiers who rushed over.

The arrows fired by the crossbowmen of the opposite officer army caused very limited casualties to the rebels, after all, these rebel soldiers also have at least one iron armor to protect themselves, which can greatly weaken the lethality of the arrows.

When the military formations of the two sides approached within twenty meters, some veterans on the rebel side finally shouted and ordered their infantry to attack.

The main force of the infantry on both sides is still the pikemen, after all, the spear is the easiest weapon to get started, and there is no need for any complicated operations on the battlefield, just keep the formation well, and the comrades around you continue to stab the spears in their hands until the enemy in front is defeated.

At this time, the rebel recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time did the same, they didn't think about anything, they just lined up in close formation with their comrades around them, stepped forward in unison, and when they came into contact with the officers and pikemen on the opposite side, they immediately stabbed the spears in their hands.

The pikemen of the officers and soldiers naturally did the same, the sharp tip of the spear stabbed back and forth, once hit, even if they were wearing iron armor, it was useless, and the sharp spear head that was made into a triangular pyramid shape could easily pierce the iron armor, or even completely pierce the entire human body.

So for a while, soldiers on both sides continued to fall because they were stabbed by spears, and the blood that flowed made the ground muddy, and some of the wounded who were not yet dead fell to the ground and wailed weakly.

But the soldiers on both sides didn't care about this, and still struggled to poke their spears out, trying to completely defeat the enemy troops on the opposite side.

Some of the old thieves who had followed the longest time did not poke each other face to face with the officers and soldiers, but fell to the ground on their knees, holding weapons such as short knives and one-handed axes, and walked all the way through the dense gun forest on their knees, came to the front of the officers and pikemen, and slashed at the opponent's legs with short knives and one-handed axes in their hands.

I have to say that although this trick is very scoundrel, the effect is also remarkable, and many officers and soldiers were cut off their legs and fell down by those insidious old thieves.

And if you are distracted to deal with these old thieves, if you are not careful, you will be stabbed by the rebel pikemen on the opposite side, which will cause many officers and soldiers to be in chaos for a while.

Fortunately, at this time, dozens of giant eagles swooped down from the sky, and the fierce wind blew many rebel soldiers back again and again, and they couldn't open their eyes.

The pikemen of the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to stab their spears down in unison, and successfully forced back the old thieves who had been playing tricks and attacking them in the next three ways.

The old thieves were angry that their air forces had spoiled them, and immediately ordered their crossbowmen and musketeers to shoot at the eagles.

With a large dense rain of arrows and bullets fired, several black-winged eagle beasts that had not had time to raise their flight altitude suddenly became like hedgehogs, screaming and falling from the air, and the knights above were also stunned.

Before the knights could recover their composure, a large number of rebel soldiers surrounded them, slashing at them with swords and swords, slashing them to death in the blink of an eye.

After seeing the tragic fate of their comrades, the remaining black-winged eagle cavalry did not dare to continue to descend to the height to take risks, but only dared to shoot arrows from afar to support their comrades on the ground.

But this kind of attack is not painful at all for the huge number of rebels, and it can't kill a few rebels even after shooting for half a day.

The rebels, relying on the superiority in strength, had already begun to send troops to circle the two flanks of the official army, wanting to surround the official army on three sides.

In addition, the musketeers of the opposing side also stretched out the muzzles of their guns from time to time through the gaps in the bodies of their comrades in front of them, and shot at the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

At such a close distance, the officers and soldiers had no room to dodge, and could only be named one by one by those rebel musketeers, and almost all of them were shot in the head, and there was no chance of even a chance of treatment.

Some officers of the Golden Eagle Empire's army also led some soldiers to intercept the enemy's intention to encircle them, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too great. Often, the official army can barely mobilize more than 1,000 people, but the rebel side is able to mobilize 5,000 or 6,000 people at once.

Despite the huge disparity in strength, the officers and soldiers were quickly routed despite their fierce resistance, and then the rebels successfully surrounded the officers and men on three sides and attacked them from three directions.

This made the pressure on the officers and soldiers more and more, and under the onslaught of the rebels, they all squeezed towards the center little by little, and many officers and soldiers were so squeezed that they could not even wield their weapons.

Looking at the officers and soldiers who were huddled together, Xiao Heizi led the rebel artillerymen to push over several cannons that had just been loaded with ammunition, and lit the fuse under the frightened eyes of those officers and soldiers.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! After a series of artillery fires, large swaths of officers and soldiers were knocked down by the scattered bullets that erupted from the muzzles, and their morale plummeted.

On the contrary, the morale of the rebels was greatly boosted, and after the smoke and dust of the shelling had just cleared, groups of rebel soldiers, led by those old thieves, rushed with spears to kill the officers and soldiers who had been scattered by the bombardment just now.

"Kill the officers and soldiers!" One of the rebel soldiers who rushed to the front shouted, and the spear in his hand stabbed out, and with a snort, it pierced the body of one of the officers and soldiers in front of him, and then the rest of the momentum, under his hard push, pierced the chest of another officer and soldier in the rear, and strung the two of them like sugar gourds on the spear.

Other rebel soldiers are also excited to shout and rush to kill, many of them have relatives who have been bullied to death by these officers and soldiers, some time ago they were taken away by the officers and soldiers to take away the last bit of food at home, so they have a great hatred for these officers and soldiers, at this time there is a chance to take revenge, all of them are murderous, rushing to kill like a mad tiger, compared to those old thieves who have higher cultivation are more courageous.

The officers and soldiers who had not yet recovered from the artillery bombardment just now had to deal with the fierce offensive of the rebels, and finally they could not support it, and some officers and soldiers took advantage of the fact that the officers next to them were killed in the shelling just now, and no one supervised their chances, so they dropped their weapons and turned around and fled in the direction that was the only one behind them that was not surrounded by the rebels.