The cavalry that had fled from the battlefield had just crossed the bridge, and the cavalry of the Tang Army, which was chasing after them, was already approaching the bridgehead.

"Quick! Quickly block the bridgehead! Don't let the Tang army cross the bridge! ”

Zhang Kewang was so anxious that his face was purple, and the green tendons on his forehead jumped violently, and he rushed to the bridge, almost screaming hoarsely.

Zhang Kewang gave the order, and a large number of infantry withdrew from the main formation, panting again, and ran quickly to fill the entrance to the bridge.

Zhang Kewang was lucky, when his infantry almost blew up their lungs, when they ran to the entrance of the pontoon bridge, the Tang cavalry had just rushed to the opposite side of the bridge.

Seeing that the enemy infantry on the opposite side had urgently set up a posture to block the entrance to the other end of the bridge, the Tang cavalry saw that they had lost a good opportunity to make a surprise attack, and they immediately had to restrain their horses' hooves at the mouth of the bridge.

After most of the Great Western Army returned to its own position, the cavalry of Zeng Ying's army, which swept out of Xuzhou City, finally returned triumphantly and returned to the city victoriously after wantonly killing and wounding more than 2,000 defeated soldiers.

In the surging cheers of Xuzhou City, Ai Nengqi, the deputy general of the Great Western Army who led the army to attack the city as the vanguard, returned to his position with a bloody face and unkempt hair.

At this time, when he heard the continuous cheers behind him, the shame in his heart was indescribable.

Fuck, at this time, the retreat of the army, not only fell short, but was killed by the cavalry in the city, which added up to nearly 3,000 brothers, this battle is really fucking bad!

He galloped to Zhang Kewang, originally wanting to ask him why he gave this order, but when he saw the endless Tang army reinforcements on the other side of the Hengjiang River, he couldn't help but gasp, and those questioning words swallowed it alive.

Damn, if it weren't for Zhang Kewang's timely order, his 50,000 siege infantry would have been really flanked by the Tang army, and it would have been very likely that they would have been defeated in a battle.

At this time, the battle between the Tang Army and the Great Western Army came to an end temporarily, and the soldiers and horses of Zeng Ying's troops in Xuzhou City were held by the city, and the Great Western Army, which was finally in a hurry, confronted the Tang Army across the river with the Tang Army surging across the river.

The follow-up Tang army reinforcements marched all the way, quickly pressed, and almost in half a pillar of incense, they quickly arrived on the opposite side of the Hengjiang River, and then lined up on the spot.

Zhang Kewang and Ai Nengqi saw that the Tang Army's battle formation came all the way in a hurry, and it was able to roughly maintain a strict formation, and after the battle formation was arranged, it was very strict and orderly, leaving no room and flaws for sneak attacks, and they couldn't help but surprise the two of them.

From the clairvoyant mirror, they were surprised to see that although the total strength of the Tang army on the other side of the Hengjiang River was about one-third less than their own, the formation they formed was a long snake formation with a width almost equal to that of the square, and nearly 10,000 shield soldiers were lined up, and there were two rows of sharp and sharp shields, like a temporary steel wall, shining with a cold light under the bright sun of nearly noon.

Behind the shield soldiers, there are dense spearmen, and on the steel wall built by the shield soldiers, above each shield, there is a 4-meter stainless steel spear with a cold light, like a poisonous dragon ready to attack, waiting for the prey that is getting closer and closer on the opposite side.

The Tang Army's spearmen had three layers, which could ensure that there were enough troops to fill the losses, and the entire formation was very strict and full of awe-inspiring murderous aura.

And behind the gunmen, there were a large number of Tang Army auxiliaries armed with earth-shattering thunder. What Zhang Kewang and Ainengqi would never have thought of was that these unarmored auxiliaries were actually the killer existence of the Tang Army. Each of them had more than a dozen one-handed sky-shaking thunderbolts hanging from their waists, and they seemed to have no offensive power, but they were actually the Tang Army's biggest secret weapon.

Behind the entire Tang Army's gun and shield battle array, there were two cavalry divisions and two heavy armored marching troops, which were used to protect the security of the flanks.

It's just that the most conspicuous of their formations is at the front, and the nearly 6,000 musketeers selected from the two battalions A and B, are standing in two rows in front and back.

On the whole, the battle formation of the Tang Army on the other side of the river is like a precisely combined war machine, extremely orderly and not chaotic at all, but there is an extremely awe-inspiring and strong coercive momentum, which makes the entire army of Onishi on the opposite side feel invisible and tremendous pressure.

Soon, something happened that made Zhang Kewang and the two generals feel even more depressed.

That is, in the hastily arranged battle formation of his own family, the front army position, with the continuous exhaustion of the Tang army on the other side, began to subconsciously shrink back and retreat across the river, causing the entire formation to appear in a chaos.

Seeing such a scene, Zhang Kewang and Ai Nengqi subconsciously glanced at each other, and their faces were very complicated.

Damn, I didn't expect the momentum of the Tang Army to reach such a point!

"Tell the whole army, don't panic." Zhang Kewang's face was complicated, and he shouted loudly: "Compared with us, the strength of the Tang Army is nearly half less, and there is this Hengjiang River far away, as long as we can hold the pontoon bridge, what is there to fear!" Even though our army is tired and its morale is not high, it is completely possible to defeat the Tang army reinforcements from afar here with the separation of the river and water, as long as they can be dragged here, it will be a victory, and you should have confidence! ”

Zhang Kewang issued the military order, and the entire battle array gradually recovered from the chaos and began to stabilize.

It's just that just when the Great Western Army was re-stabilized, in the Tang Army's battle formation on the other side of the riverbank, the two rows in front of a total of nearly 6,000 musketeers immediately squatted in the front row and knelt in the back row, and discharged a double firing formation.

Seeing the Tang army posing across the river to shoot the posture, Zhang Kewang felt a bad feeling, but he thought that the Tang army and his own battle array were separated from the Hengjiang River in front, and the distance was nearly more than 150 steps, according to the common fire guns in the Ming Dynasty now, generally only a maximum of 78 steps could be shot, when it was impossible to shoot his own military formation, so it was not suspicious that the Tang army was bluffing.

However, seeing that the Tang army was preparing to shoot, for the sake of safety, Zhang Kewang did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the whole army to open up the gap, leaving a few gaps between each soldier, which was much looser than before.

He hoped that in this way, even if the Tang Army was lucky enough to shoot stray bullets in Jiangnan, it could also reduce the bomb area of the entire battle formation as much as possible, and the soldiers in the front row of the Daxi Army were almost all the main elite of the Daxi Army, everyone had dense armor and held a big shield, but they were well prepared.

At this time, from the front of the Tang army's battle formation, surrounded by dozens of well-equipped escort cavalry, a general wearing stainless steel armor and a bright red cloak, slowly paced to the front of the formation. 、

This general is the monk of Chang'an, the second town of the Tang Army.

He paced majestically to the front of the formation, and shouted at the other side of the riverbank: "I am the general under the Tang King, the second town town Chang'an monk is also, which is the general opposite, come out and talk to me!" ”

Seeing Monk An calling for battle across the bank, Zhang Kewang and Ai Nengqi looked at each other again.

"Big brother, Tang Jun's shouting, but is there a deception?" Eneng looked hesitant.

Zhang Kewang groaned slightly, shook his head and replied, "Don't be afraid." Across the river, even if he is cheating, what can he do? And when I come forward to talk, we must not lower the name of our army and leave behind the reputation of being afraid of the battle. ”

After Zhang Kewang finished speaking, he also came to the front of the whole army under the protection of dozens of escort cavalry, and replied loudly to Monk An on the other side: "I am Zhang Kewang, the king of Pingdong of the Great Western Kingdom, and I am the commander of the whole army. ”

Monk An laughed, stroked his long beard, and said loudly: "Zhang Kewang? Could it be that you are the Sun Kewang who was previously named Sun Kewang and was later accepted as a righteous son by Zhang Xianzhong? ”

Seeing his disrespectful words, Zhang Kewang was angry in his heart, but he still tried to keep calm on his face, and he said hatefully: "It's a certain family!" Whatever you say, just say it, and it will go round and round. ”

When Monk An heard this, he laughed again, and sighed: "! It's really you. Do you know that your other two righteous brothers, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, are now the generals of the Duzhen side of our army? If they knew that we were going to fight you, their former righteous brother, I don't know how they would feel. ”

Seeing him mention Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, Zhang Kewang thought of the past, and his heart was even more embarrassed, so he said sharply: "Hmph! For the sake of their own rich future, they betrayed their father-in-law and threw themselves into the thief Li Xiao, Zhang was deeply ashamed! Today, you and I are fighting for our Lord, and we will not mention the brotherhood of the past! Don't say it's you, even if Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu led the army, this king will also be ruthless with them, fighting to the death! ”

"Yo, yes, it seems that Zhang Xianzhong can win you over so much, and he can make you work so hard." Monk An sneered and said in a deep voice: "It's just that even if you don't mention the past, the current situation is that your army has been sandwiched between the two loaves of our Tang army, and it is difficult to escape again. What's more, your unit is already exhausted and hastily responding to the battle, how can you be our army's opponent? To tell you the truth, this town has a good heart, and it can't bear to kill people in vain, so I shouted to you before I came to the battle, and you must seize the opportunity to recognize the situation. ”

Zhang Kewang laughed miserably, but shouted: "Phew! If I want King Pingdong to surrender to that thief Li Xiao, it's really funny! Let me tell you, this king is quite used by his father-in-law in the Great Western Kingdom, and he is even like a parent. With such a generous kindness, Zhang will definitely live and die to repay it! You don't talk nonsense, if you have the ability, you will come to break the formation, Zhang is waiting for Gao Ming! ”

"Good! There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no door to hell for you to come! If you are killing yourself, then this town will fulfill you! You've gone to eighteen levels of hell, but you don't regret it! ”

Monk An smiled coldly, his face was full of hideousness, he didn't say anything more, and immediately pulled out his horse and returned to the battle. At the same time, Zhang Kewang also snorted coldly and hurriedly led the army back to the battle.

Almost at the same time that Monk An and the others had just withdrawn from their formation, a clear order came from the front of the Tang army's formation, and then the sound of a dense burst of fire was sounded in all directions.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

Of the 6,000 firearms, more than 5,500 were fired, and the muzzles of the upper and lower rows of black holes spewed out bright red afterburners. The flames that flew together were like two long bright red ribbons, and even more like hellfire, with a kind of palpitating and deadly beauty.

A large mass of choking white gunpowder smoke poured up, and more than 5,500 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like a swarm of death bees flying away together, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the opposite side of the Great Western Army.

The maximum accurate firing range of the flint Lumi gun used by the Tang army is 150 paces, but the available firing range is more than 200 steps, so compared with the current distance of more than 150 paces, although it has slightly exceeded the accurate firing range of the flint Lumi gun, it is still within the effective range.

The swarm of death bees that came from the roar, chirping and smiling, quickly burrowed into the bodies of the soldiers of the Great Western Army opposite.

The soldiers in the front row, Rao was placed in a scattered formation, and Rao was separated by a big shield, but the Tang army's inaccurate intensive shooting still caused a rather terrible killing effect.

Immediately, many people, like a trick, bloomed with blood flowers. The man who was struck fell on his back as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer.

After all, of the nearly 6,000 firearms, more than 5,000 have been successfully fired, and the killing effect of these 5,000 flintlocks has been very impressive.

At least more than 500 soldiers of the Daxi Army were killed and wounded on the spot by the Tang Army in the distance across the Hengjiang River, and those wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and did not die rolled in a loud and miserable manner.

Moreover, the impact of these lead bullets was so great that those soldiers of the Great West who happened to block the lead bullets with shields could not withstand this huge impact, and they staggered backwards one after another, and the scene was chaotic.

Coincidentally, there was even a lead bullet, whistling and flying, drilling through the infantry battle formation in front, and with a soft snap, it hit Zhang Kewang's helmet in the rear formation, knocking out the bright red hat in an instant.

This sudden attack frightened him into a strange scream, and he shrunk his neck sharply, looking very embarrassed.

In the face of this sudden attack, all the soldiers and horses of the Onishi Army immediately began to be confused, and the soldiers in the front row were crowded and uneasy, not knowing what to do next.

At this moment, Zhang Kewang deserved to be a battle-hardened veteran, he immediately made a decision and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order!" Immediately defend on the spot, retreat thirty steps back in formation, and never mess with your own formation! ”

"Order!"

If the Great Western Army encountered an amnesty, they retreated one after another, and even those soldiers blocking the bridgehead began to retreat, but the whole formation was even more chaotic.

Seeing that the enemy army on the opposite side was in chaos, Monk An, the commander of the Tang army, knew that the opportunity had come.

He gave an order, the red flag waved, and at this time, in the Tang army array, a large number of Tang army auxiliaries who had been holding on to the pontoon bridge quickly ran to the pontoon bridge, and then used their strength to eat milk, and threw the burning individual soldier thunder in their hands towards the retreating Daxi Army formation.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

On the other side of the Hengjiang River, the deafening sound of continuous explosions was so loud that it could almost burst people's eardrums, and the dazzling golden fire appeared and disappeared in the large cloud of suffocating whistle smoke, and the broken limbs and blood burst out in all directions in the air, and the screams came one after another, and the scene was like a bloody hell.

The Tang Army's unexpected earth-shaking thunder bombardment, these dense throws, fragments with a killing radius of more than ten steps, caused a terrible killing effect to the retreating Daxi soldiers.

Nearly 1,000 single-handed earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown intensively, and a total of more than 700 of them exploded smoothly, causing more than 2,000 soldiers of Onishi to be caught off guard, killing them instantly, and countless people were injured.

For a time, the formation of the Great Western Army was in chaos, and the morale fell to the bottom.