"Fire!" The artillery officer, seeing that the loading and aiming had been completed, immediately stood next to the two bronze cannons and yelled hysterically.

Immediately, only two cannon shots were heard, and two flames protruded from the muzzles, and the two shells flew away in the direction of the official and military camps.

Xiao Tianjian and the generals immediately looked towards the official army camp with bated breath to observe the effect of the two cannons, but the result made them also very discouraged, and the two shells seemed to hit the ground at a distance of thirty or forty steps away from the official army camp, stirring up two clouds of dust on the ground, and after the shells jumped a few times, they rolled down outside the barracks of the official army camp.

"Stupid!" Xiao Tianjian frowned and scolded unhappily.

With his understanding of this kind of three-pounder gun, such a distance of their three-pounder gun can definitely be easily hit, and it can maintain considerable power, if it is fired at a suitable high angle of fire, it is possible to hit two miles away, but in that case, the shell has no power, but today the two guns lost at the same time, which can only show that the gunners adjusted the muzzle of the gun too low when aiming, so that the shell did not hit the enemy's position.

Originally, they saw that the Xingtian Army also launched two cannons, aimed at themselves, there was also a commotion in the officers and soldiers, just now they also saw that ordinary cannons can not hit such a long distance, when they saw the Xingtian Army launched the cannon, they were not very nervous, and when the Xingtian Army opened the cannon, the officers and soldiers were nervous, and quickly watched the landing point of the shells, and when they saw the shells falling outside the camp fence, they let go of their hanging hearts and let out a boo together.

Even that Xu Yishi followed the arrow tower and sneered: "In the end, it is still a group of thieves, what can I do at such a distance?" A sucker! ”

Even the generals on the side of the Xingtian Army couldn't help but boo the artillerymen who operated the two "cannons", causing the gunners who operated the guns and the deputy sentry of the artillery team to be blushing, eager to dig a hole on the spot and bury themselves and pull them down.

Xiao Tianjian suppressed the anger in his heart, considering that this new three-pounder gun had just been delivered to the artillery team, and the generals of the artillery team had not yet figured out its performance, and they had not actually fought at all, so they caused the loss of the first fire, so he lowered his head and said to Tietou: "Go and tell them, don't worry, start again!" This time, if you raise the muzzle of the gun, you can hit the official barracks! ”

After Tietou nodded, he rushed to the vicinity of the gun position, and loudly conveyed Xiao Tianjian's words to these gunners, and the deputy sentry of the artillery team immediately thanked Tietou, and then kicked a gun commander who was responsible for aiming to the side, and scolded: "Don't fucking embarrass me!" Get the hell out of here! Quickly clear Lao Tzu's reload! This time, Lao Tzu personally aimed! Grandma's, now Lao Tzu's face has been thrown into the crotch of your pants! ”

After a busy work, the two guns were reloaded again, and the deputy sentry of the artillery team personally operated the cannon, adjusted the muzzle of the cannon a little higher, and after lying on the cannon body and carefully aiming through the crosshairs of the door, he retreated to the side of the gun carriage, raised his voice, and shouted even more hysterically: "Fire!" ”

The gunner, who was holding the torch, immediately pressed the torch in his hand to the fire door, only to hear two more cannon bangs, and both cannons jumped again.

This time, look at the two cannonballs, like meteors across the sky, smashed heavily into the camp of the officers and soldiers, a cannonball directly hit a standing wood of a camp fence, when even if the standing wood was smashed to pieces, broken and fell, and the remaining momentum of the cannonball continued to fly forward, and it crashed into the crowd of officers and soldiers lined up behind the camp fence, even if an officer and soldier were beaten to the flesh and blood, the waist was cut into two pieces, the upper body fell to the ground and let out a terrible scream, and the intestines and internal organs flowed all over the ground.

The other shell, a little unfortunately, flew a little higher, crossed the barracks, flew directly into the camp, and smashed into a camp tent, which was torn and broken.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who were still laughing at each other were dumbfounded, and they couldn't help but let out exclaims, they couldn't figure out how the thieves' artillery was so powerful here, and they could still hurt people if they hit so far, so they couldn't laugh anymore.

And Xu Yanshi, who was standing on the arrow tower and watching the battle, was also suddenly frightened, because this cannon was very close to the arrow tower where he was, if it was a little more off, it would hit the arrow tower, so he hurriedly climbed down from the arrow tower and scolded his subordinates: "What else do you want to see?" Fight back at this officer! Knock out the enemy cannons! ”

Seeing that the guns of the thieves could hit the official barracks, the gunners in the fence of the official barracks also hurriedly turned the muzzles of the guns, and began to aim at the position of the two guns of the thieves outside the camp, and began to ignite one after another, and the rumbling and chaotic fights began, regardless of whether they could hit the other party or not, anyway, it was better to fire the guns and be brave!

When they saw that these two cannons had hit the official army camp, the soldiers on the side of the Xingtian Army could be regarded as breathing, and cheered loudly for the gunners one by one.

At this time, the gunners were happy, they felt that they had more face on their faces, and they smiled happily one by one, and they didn't care about the officers and soldiers who were firing at them in a mess, and one by one they jumped high and began to reload the shells, and once again aimed at the officers and soldiers camp, and began to fire.

Xiao Tianjian only officially ordered at this point: "Do it!" The soldiers are in front, the recruits and the township soldiers are behind, and I will step on the official army camp in one fell swoop, and completely wipe out these officers and soldiers here! ”

A team of township soldiers immediately launched a slippery shield cart from behind the formation, all of which were built by the official army yesterday to attack the shield cart of Xihe Village, but after being bombed by a thunderbolt cannon of the Xingtian Army, the officers and soldiers panicked, and threw these shield carts that were finally put together outside the chest wall of Xihe Village, and the girl fled back to the main formation, and now the result is that the Xingtian Army has taken it over and has become the best ready-made defense for the Xingtian Army to attack the official army camp.

After hearing Xiao Tianjian's order, a loud horn immediately sounded in the Xingtian army's array, and after hearing the horn, he saw the Chinese army's order flag waving continuously, and finally the armies immediately let out a tsunami-like shouting and killing sound, and then led by the soldiers, lined up in columns, retreated these shield carts to the front of the formation, and under the cover of the shield carts, they went towards the official army camp to kill the generals.

Looking at the shield cart slowly pushing towards him like a wall, the generals in the official army scolded in their hearts! This is what they are giving people a handle, and they have sent so many good things to others, so that people can use them to deal with them, so the generals on the side of the official army roared in horror, and shouted at their gunners, quickly turned the muzzles, aimed at these thieves who were killing on the head, and immediately set off their cannons to destroy those shield cars.

But at this moment, where will the gunners have time to reload! Just now they were just listening to the order to fire at the enemy's gun position, and now all the guns were almost empty, so the gunners panicked, quickly adjusted the muzzles of the guns, and began to reload.

At this time, the officers and soldiers did not know what the concept of complete ammunition was, and the loading of artillery was based on experience, and the gunpowder was loaded into it, and the training of the officers and soldiers in peacetime was also seriously insufficient, the loading speed was extremely slow, and accidents would occur from time to time, not to mention the quasi-head, which could only be described as miserable.

Different from the rush of the officers and soldiers, the training of the soldiers of the Xingtian Army is quite sufficient, and they have to repeat various drills almost every day on weekdays, and they also have to conduct drills once a month, so the soldiers and generals in the battle are not nervous at all, and they all act in strict accordance with the orders of the upper peak, line up in a neat queue, and follow the shield cart in front of them to advance towards the official army camp with the marching drums.

Although on the way forward, they were intercepted by the official artillery fire, but because the official artillery fire was not blazing, except for a few limited Furlong machine guns, and two cannons, the rest of the cannons almost only fired one shot, and it was too late to reload, it can be seen that the difference in the training degree of the official gunners has reached a certain point, not only the loading is slow, but also the accuracy is not good, either high or missed, most of them did not hit the target, so the blocking effect of the Xingtian Army is very limited, only two shield cars were hit, However, only one shield cart was broken up on the spot, and the other shield cart held on.

In contrast, the gunners of the Xingtian Army are much stronger than the official army, and the full training has made them proficient in the various steps of manipulating the cannon, even if it is a new three-pounder gun, it has not caused them too much trouble, after each shot, several gunners will cooperate extremely closely, and quickly complete the work of clearing and reloading, plus the Xingtian Army uses full-loading ammunition, and the loading speed is definitely more than one or two times faster than the guns on the official army's side. It is really more popular than people, and it also fully illustrates the effectiveness of Xingtianjun's insistence on long-term and high-intensity training.

In addition to these two brand-new three-pounder bronze cannons, the Xingtian Army also brought three medium-caliber Furlong cannons, which were also pushed one hundred and fifty steps away from the gate of the official army camp under the cover of the shield car, and began to fire at the gate of the official army when they approached, and fired fiercely at the officer army.

For a time, the artillery inside and outside the camp of the official army rumbled, although the number of artillery of the two armies was similar, but the gunners of the Xingtian Army were well-trained, and the rate of firing was much higher than that of the official army, so that the artillery fire of the Xingtian Army occupied a one-sided advantage, and the officers and soldiers within the barracks were almost powerless to fight back.

The shield cart advanced almost all the way to about 50 paces to the gate of the official barracks before it stopped, and the nearly 300 musketeers of the two sentry soldiers were divided into five rows, each row of 60 people, concentrated in one place, and began to rely on the shield carts, constantly taking turns to fire at the enemy troops in the gate of the official barracks.