Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren's team rushed to more than 150 steps in front of the Ming army, but was blocked by the trench in front of them, so they had to slow down again. At this time, when they looked up, they could already faintly see the silhouette of the Ming soldiers on the opposite side.

In the front row, the one-man tall shields that stood like a wall parted the narrow gaps. Soldiers in the back row, carrying sacks or pushing wheelbarrows, got out of the gaps, poured the dirt from the sacks or carts into the trenches, and hurriedly ducked back behind the shield wall.

As soon as they began to fill the ditch, they suddenly heard the roar of artillery coming from the Ming army's position. In an instant, several iron balls effortlessly tore apart the standing shield in the front row, tearing the Qing soldiers holding the shield to pieces in an instant, and the aftermath was undiminished, and they penetrated several people in a row before falling to the ground.

"Hmph, the cannon was fired at such a distance, and it is expected that there are only some small cannons in the Ming army's formation." Han Gushan snorted coldly and shouted loudly to the soldiers, "A few small cannons are not enough to be afraid!" Give me to continue to move forward, today each Ming army head can be exchanged for five taels of silver! ”

Zhang Cunren also gave a not low reward, and the 7,000 Qing soldiers suddenly had some morale, and the action of filling the trench was also accelerated by a few points.

After the six-foot-deep ditch had been filled in with a few paths, the captives continued to advance again under the cover of the big shield.

But Han Gushan, who was sweeping in the back row, frowned a little. He could see clearly on the horse that it took tea time to fill the ditch, but judging from the gap in his formation, the dozen or so small cannons of the Ming army actually killed at least two or three hundred of his people!

The position of these Ming troops to place their cannons is strange. Judging from the direction from which the cannon was heard, it was not evenly lined up in front of the formation as usual, but concentrated on both sides of his formation, bombarding his men and horses diagonally.

Of course, it was impossible for him to understand the so-called advanced military concepts such as crossfire and the concentrated use of artillery, and when he saw that his men and horses had crossed the trench, he immediately gave the order to storm the Ming army's defense line, and at the same time repeated the previous bounty several times.

Zhang Cunren's side also ordered a strong attack.

Suddenly, the 7,000 Qing soldiers led by them rushed forward. Han Gushan listened to the Ming army's cannons that were still making loud noises one after another, and suddenly understood a little - it is beneficial to arrange the artillery in this way! If they line up in front of the formation and wait for the enemy to rush in, the gunners can only retreat into the infantry formation. But if you line up on both sides, you can never stop firing!

When his men rushed to a distance of about seventy or eighty paces from the Ming army, the front row of standing shields was neatly tied to the ground, and the gunners and archers stepped forward one after another, ready to shoot at the opposite side from the gap in the shield wall.

At this moment, the Ming front also moved.

As the dragon guards shouted in unison, "Ten steps forward!" The entire line of infantry, nearly two miles wide, marched ten paces forward to the beat of the snare drums, and then thousands of soldiers stood in unison, their leather shoes stepping on the ground at the same time, making a dull and neat "snap".

The phalanxes of the broken camps on both flanks also issued their own orders at the same time, and more than twenty Morris phalanxes moved forward one after another.

Even the former invaders of Zhang Cunren's subordinates who "went south and north" had never seen such a shocking military formation movement on the other side, let alone Han Gushan's subordinates who had "never seen the world".

Tens of thousands of Ming troops were mobilized at the same time, and their movements were neatly like a person. The dozens of huge moving phalanxes also remained angular, almost as if there was an invisible wooden frame around them.

The seven thousand Qing troops immediately felt an invisible momentum rushing towards them, which actually gave them the illusion of being overwhelmed, and even the movements of their hands slowed down.

At the same time, the military drums in the Ming army suddenly stopped, and then more than a dozen command flags were raised at the same time, and the Ming soldiers broke out in unison with a shout of "aiming".

There was a clatter of military uniforms, and the dragon guards and the guns of the broken camp raised their guns at the same time.

The Qing soldiers, who had been staring at the "big show" all the time, suddenly reacted - this is to beat them!

The next moment, a thunderous sound erupted in the Ming army's front, and thousands of firearms erupted at the Qing army at the same time, and the huge tremor made the ground shake slightly.

At a distance of sixty paces, bullets as dense as lead nets roared into the Qing army's formation.

Zhang Cunren, who lacked the protection of a large shield and rarely wore armor, had three or four hundred people shattered to pieces in an instant, and his internal organs and brains were thrown all over the sky by the huge impact of lead bullets.

Han Gushan's side was slightly better, the full-body shield wrapped in iron sheets with thick wooden boards still had a certain protective effect on the three-coin lead bullet, and only about 200 people were killed under the first round of shooting of the Ming army.

However, the eleven-coin buckshot and the six-coin buckshot were not able to resist the standing shield, and a large number of wooden shields were still pierced by a blow, and the Qing soldiers hiding behind were also taken away immediately.

In particular, the eleven-dollar heavy firecracker, when firing at about sixty paces, is as powerful as a miniature artillery. A pecan-sized lead projectile hit the standing shield, blasting out a hole the size of a watermelon in an instant, and then penetrating two or three more enemy soldiers.

After a volley, nearly half of the shield wall in front of Han Gushan's formation fell. The Qing soldiers in the back looked at the shield soldiers in the pool of blood, and for a while, no one dared to go up and stand up the shield again.

Zhang Cunren had fought with the Mongols in the north, and he was the first to wake up from his shock, and he didn't care to investigate in detail why the firepower of the Ming army was so terrifying, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates, "What the hell are you doing in a daze?!" Take advantage of the enemy's reload and hurry up to return fire to Lao Tzu! ”

His subordinates are mainly the remnants of the Raiders left by Li Chengdong, but he has also seen a lot of bloody scenes, and he knows that if he continues to be stunned, then he will be the next to be shot into pieces.

When they heard Zhang Cunren's order, they hurriedly picked up the bow and crossbow and firearm in their hands, but before they could shoot a few shots, they heard a chorus of shouts from the opposite side, "Aim!" ”

"Put!"

The Qing army, which had just begun to organize a counterattack, was immediately baptized by the second round of lead bullets, and the soldiers who fought back in front were the first to be killed, and the desperate wails of death came one after another.

In just a dozen breaths, the Ming army has completed the loading and firing of the gun! Every captive soldier's heart was full of fear, where was the Ming army they were familiar with, it was a group of monsters at all!

Previously, due to a lack of food, Han Gushan proposed to Azig to use "two-legged sheep" as military rations, but it caused him and Zhang Cunren's green battalion to eat human flesh for several days to save military rations for the Eight Banners.

Who wants to eat this thing in a normal person? For this reason, the morale of their soldiers has long been low. Originally, with the idea of bullying the "vulnerable" Ming army, coupled with the temptation of rewarding silver, these people could barely rush away, but this time they found that the Ming army on the other side was like a god of death, where were they willing to fight again?

At this moment, the Ming army on the opposite side shouted again, "Ten steps forward!" "Then they went forward in unison, aim, and fired a salvo.

The Qing army fell down again like wheat harvesting.

At this time, no matter how desperately Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren ordered, no one dared to take half a step forward, and many people secretly retreated.

But the Eight Banners Red Armor Bayala, who was unsheathed with a machete behind them, immediately pressed up viciously, slashed hundreds of retreating green battalion soldiers in a row, and continued to rush forward with the tip of his knife against these people.

Not far away, Turai and Tong Yangjia were marching in formation with the Eight Banners of the Command Post Department, and the battle formation formed by Niu Lu was also neat and orderly.

A guard drove to Turai's side and whispered a few words to him.

"This group of southern soldiers can't be counted on at all." Turai turned to Tong Yangjia and said, "Gushan Ezhen, we have to let our people speed up, otherwise those wastes of Zhang and Han will be defeated!" ”