After the Xingtian Army was ordered to send troops, the armies lined up outside the village very quickly, and in less than two quarters of an hour, the armies completed the assembly in the open space outside the village.

With the soldiers as the Chinese army, the recruits and village soldiers were each displayed on both sides of the Chinese army, covering the two wings of the Chinese army, and with Xiao Tianjian's order, more than 2,000 soldiers and generals stepped on the sound of drums and forced towards the official army camp.

When they saw the Xingtian army out of the village array, the officers and soldiers in the camp suddenly jumped up, and a sentry officer and soldier were immediately driven to the side of the camp fence and began to busily arrange defenses.

And the generals in the army surrounded that Xu Yanshi, and they also came to the gate in a panic, climbed on the top of the arrow tower that had just been built on the side of the gate, and looked at Hexi Village one after another.

Because of the terrain here, the battlefield is very narrow, and the official army camp can only be arranged on a slope on the east side of Hexi Village, the distance between the two armies is very limited, and there is no possibility of large-scale deployment at all, so the Xingtian army can only choose to attack from the main gate when attacking the official army camp.

So Xu Yishi immediately called his generals, and most of the generals' troops were arranged in front of the camp, relying on the camp fence that had just been built to defend it.

In this way, although the Xingtian Army needs to attack the official army camp and needs to attack on the back, and the terrain is not very dominant, but for the official army, there is basically no danger to defend.

In addition, after the officers and soldiers came here, they did not expect that they would soon turn to the defensive, and when they built the camp in the first two days, they did not spend too much effort, just temporarily erected a camp fence, and even the defensive trenches did not have time to dig, and last night after seeing the arrival of a large number of reinforcements from the Xingtian Army, although they decided to entrench themselves and confront the Xingtian Army, but there was no time to build more defensive facilities, just strengthened the camp fence and built a few rudimentary arrow towers, And in the area of the camp gate, some heavy vehicles were arranged, as a temporary line of defense, and even the thistle terrestris did not have time to be laid outside the camp fence, but only outside the gate, some iron thistle terrestris were scattered.

When he saw the Xingtian Army discharging the array, pushing towards the official army camp like a mountain, this Xu Baishi and the generals under him suddenly felt a chilling murderous aura rushing towards their faces, and then looked at the array and military appearance of the Xingtian Army, which was even more neat and majestic, and every step exuded a kind of terrifying majesty, which made all the generals have a sense of powerlessness.

Only then did they understand why Niu Tai had been defeated so badly in the Battle of Beiliu last time, and today they looked at the appearance of the Xingtian Army, and they realized that they were in big trouble this time.

couldn't help but Xu Yanshi's eyes were a little straight, and he said in his heart, is this still an ordinary thief army? How can I look at this gang of thieves, they are much more powerful than the official army!

So he immediately called to his generals and shouted to them: "You have all seen it! These thieves are planning to fight us hard! You all go back to your respective armies, and give your own officers to personally supervise the division, and you must block this gang of thieves for me, and you must not let them enter the camp, and those who dare to retreat from the battle will be killed immediately! ”

The generals in the official army looked at the large array of the Xingtian Army pushed like a mountain, and they were also panicked for a while, and after listening to it, they hurriedly hugged their fists to receive the order, quickly ran down the arrow tower, and ran back to their respective departments, roaring and screaming to let their generals come forward to prepare for the battle and block the attack of the Xingtian Army.

In this way, under the shouts of the generals, the officers and soldiers in the battalion completed the arrangement in a chaotic manner, and all the firearms and bows and crossbows in the generals were arranged in the camp near the camp fence, and made a stubborn resistance.

Speaking of which, the strength of the two armies is about the same, but the funny thing is that after the officers and soldiers saw the appearance of the Xingtian Army, these officers and generals couldn't even get up the idea of going out of the camp to meet the battle, and they all wanted to rely on the camp fence to block the attack of the Xingtian Army, so they were blocked in the camp by the Xingtian Army.

Xiao Tianjian slowly urged the horse overseers to march to a distance of four hundred paces outside the official army camp, and then raised his hand into a fist in the air.

The command flag of the army was immediately waved, and a trumpet sounded, and the generals immediately stopped moving forward and stopped with a bang.

Luo Li rushed to Xiao Tianjian's horse and shouted to Xiao Tianjian: "General! I am willing to ask the commander to lead the troops to test the ability of the officers and soldiers! ”

Xiao Tianjian immediately shook his head and said, "No need! This time, we must fight to settle the situation, and if we don't move, we must flatten this official and military camp! Retire! ”

After Luo Li heard this, he immediately bowed down and went to the side to listen to Xiao Tianjian's order.

At this time, I suddenly saw a flame flashing at the right barracks in the official army camp, and then a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up, and then a cannonball flew out of the official army camp almost visible to the naked eye, and before it flew into the Xingtian army array, the projectile fell on the open space in front of the two armies, smashing up a cloud of dust, and after the cannonball bounced on the ground, it flew forward for a distance, and it stopped after rolling on the ground, but the landing point was still a hundred steps away from the Xingtian army, and it was impossible to hit the Xingtian army formation.

This sudden change made both armies feel stunned, and then the cannons sounded one after another among the officers and soldiers, and the barracks spewed out gunsmoke and flames again and again, and the officials and soldiers actually fired artillery at the Xingtian Army in advance, and the shells fell on the open space in front of the Xingtian Army, raising streams of dust, but none of them entered the formation of the Xingtian Army.

The Xu Yan standing on the arrow tower was angry, and shouted at the bottom: "Which bastard lit the cannon first?" Pull it out and chop it for me! ”

After a while, a panicked officer and soldier were arrested and pulled to the gate, and some soldiers immediately shouted to Xu Yanshi on the arrow tower: "Lord Qiqi! It was the first cannon this guy lit just now! ”

The captured gunner had a panicked expression on his face, knelt on the ground and shouted to Xu Yanshi on the arrow tower again and again: "The general spares his life!" The little one just accidentally lit the cannon by mistake! Beg the general to spare his life! The little ones will never dare again! Spare your life, General! ”

Xu is so angry! The most taboo thing in front of the two armies is to disrespect the order and open fire without authorization, which is definitely a capital crime in the army, and the fear is that some people are cowardly, and they will ignite or release arrows first, which will cause the rest of the people to follow the ignition and release arrows, and today the situation is very tense, and this guy has no order before he ignited the cannon, which caused the rest of the gunners in the army to also fire and fire the cannons together, and the result is not only that the enemy army can not cause any casualties, but it will fall the morale of the officers and soldiers at once.

Xu Yishi shouted: "Those who do not respect the order and start the fire without permission will be killed immediately!" Someone, cut this fang for me! The head hangs above the gate to show the public! ”

Several swordsmen did not listen to the bitter begging for mercy of the guy who lit the cannon, and immediately went up and pressed him to the ground, and the sword flashed down, and the unfortunate ghost's mournful begging for mercy came to an abrupt end, and soon a bloody human head was hung on the high pole of the gate.

After the soldiers and generals in the army saw this, they all had a chill at the root of their necks, and no one dared to mess around, and those officers and soldiers who followed the unauthorized firing of artillery, although they were not dragged out and cut down, but they were immediately dragged down by their officers to cut off their ears, cut their noses, and pierce their faces with arrows, and they were all severely punished, and then they were driven back to their respective positions, and then they were not allowed to be covered with blood.

Speaking of the Ming Dynasty army for officers and soldiers to make mistakes in the punishment is very strict, military stick whipping is commonplace, nothing at all, the light is to pierce the face with arrows, cut the ears, cut the nose, the heavy is to immediately cut off the head, and even more is to use the chopping at every turn, for the officers and soldiers are not treated as people at all, like today's punishment of the officers and soldiers who make mistakes, for these Ming troops have long been accustomed to it, the big guy is not strange, after the punishment, with the injury what to do.

In contrast, although the military law of the Xingtian Army is also quite strict, it is basically based on military sticks and canes, and unless there are special circumstances, it will not use beheading, let alone the use of the strong insulting punishment of cutting off the nose and ears and piercing the face, compared with these punishments abused in the official army, Xiao Tianjian is actually quite lenient.

When it became clear why the officials and soldiers opened fire, the Xingtian army immediately let out a burst of laughter, and even Xiao Tianjian felt a little forbearing, pointing to the official army camp and scolding his subordinates with a smile: "We haven't done it yet, you are so scared!" What's so hard about taking down all this waste? ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's laughter and scolding, the morale of the troops was even higher, and even the township soldiers who followed the front for the first time laughed together after figuring out the reason why the officers and soldiers opened fire, and the tension in their hearts was suddenly relieved a lot and became relaxed.

"That's it! Now that they're scared, they're about to pee their pants! Let's stop scaring them here! Push the cannon out, let them also see the cannon of our Heavenly Army! Let's see who's better! Xiao Tianjian waved his whip and ordered a deputy outpost of the artillery team accompanying the army.

After hearing the order, the deputy sentry of the artillery team immediately answered the order loudly, then turned around and rushed into the army, and after a short time, he personally led twenty gunners to push the two bronze cannons that had been wiped and maintained to the front of the formation, directly to the distance of three hundred paces from the official army camp, and then stopped advancing.

These two cannons were the three-pounder guns made by the Xingtianjun who had just been handed over to the artillery team by Xiao Tianjian from the warehouse, and they were installed on a sturdy and lightweight two-wheeled gun mount, and they were brought here by Xiao Tianjian this time.

The deputy sentry of the artillery team temporarily acted as Huang Shengqiang, who had not returned to the team due to injury, personally led the troops to follow Xiao Tianjian, and personally led his men to push the two three-pounder guns to the front of the formation, and began to load them quickly.

(Ask for a red ticket!) Brethren, don't waste it! ）