The artillery position of the Dragon Guard Army was in full swing.

One artilleryman brushed the debris from the chamber with a wet cannon brush, and the other immediately used a dry brush to absorb the remaining moisture. Then reload the ammunition and adjust the gun body in one go.

In less than half a minute, some artillerymen raised their hands and shouted: "Ready!" ”

Seeing the herald holding up the small flag, the igniter immediately lit the fuse tube with a long torch.

There was another loud sound of artillery, and the iron ball accurately drilled into the phalanx of the Qing infantry. The huge phalanx of 6,000 people was hundreds of times larger than the target of the artillery shooting practice of the Dragon Guard, and it was difficult to miss the target.

Before Ning Wei's phalanx moved, it began to show signs of collapse.

Most of the 10,000 soldiers that Jin Shenghuan allocated to Gao Jinku were bandits and mobs he had gathered in Guangxi.

Gao Jinku was also extremely surprised when he heard the sound of cannons - the artillery of the Ming army is usually used to defend the city, how can there be cannons in this wilderness?! And there seem to be quite a few of them!

Could it be that the Ming army had already laid a trap here?

He picked up the binoculars and looked at it again, confirming that there was only one battalion of the Ming army, and he was really reluctant to bring the descendants from the north, so he immediately urged Liu Bolu to lead the cavalry to outflank the Ming army. As long as the Ming army positions can be penetrated, the artillery will naturally be no threat.

Su Chengyu saw through the telescope that the Qing cavalry had completed the formation, and immediately ordered: "The artillery moves the position to the rear of the infantry and attacks the enemy cavalry troops." The cavalry assembled on the left flank, ready to respond. ”

The herald immediately galloped his horse to relay his command.

The 1st and 2nd Artillery Companies quickly put away their guns, mounted their horses, and in a few minutes they had moved to the designated position, and then set up their cannons again.

Liu Bolu led the cavalry in a big circle, circled to the flank of the Dragon Guard, and was about to charge, when the cannon sound that had just been silent for a moment rang out again.

This time, it was for him.

The artillery training of the Dragon Guard Army is very large, the coordination between the artillerymen of various functions is extremely skillful, and the use of pre-loaded gunpowder packs makes the rate of fire faster than that of the flintlock!

Each six-pounder cannon could fire two shells in less than a minute, and in the entire Ming Dynasty, no cannon had ever reached such a terrifying rate of fire.

At this time, Liu Bolu relied on the 100 personal soldiers allocated to him by Gao Jinku to barely control the situation.

In the feudal army, it was usually possible to simply divide the soldiers into two kinds - confidants and others. The former is highly paid, well-equipped, and privileged, and belongs to the community of interests of officers, and is even the domestic servants of officers, and is relatively loyal and morale. The latter is a role like cannon fodder, most of whom went to serve as soldiers because they couldn't eat enough, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.

Liu Bolu shouted loudly and dispersed the formation, and then led his own soldiers to rush forward with cannonballs. When the other Qing soldiers saw that someone was taking the lead, they hesitantly followed.

Two more rounds of shells passed through the Qing cavalry group, but because they were spread out, the effect was far less obvious than before, and the two salvos killed a total of forty or fifty people.

As the Qing cavalry came into range of three three-pounder guns, the artillery fire intensified. These light guns had a higher rate of fire and could fire almost three shots per minute.

However, Liu Bolu could already see the faces of the Ming soldiers on the opposite side at this time, and he kicked the horse's belly hard and raised the saber high.

Gao Jinku saw that the artillery fire turned to the cavalry, and hurriedly ordered Ning Wei to march. And let his subordinates shout loudly in the phalanx, after defeating this Ming army, the whole army plundered Jinxi County for three days, and after capturing Linchuan, it can be robbed again.

When these Qing soldiers heard the word "plunder", their faces immediately showed greed. Not long ago, they just robbed it once in Jianchang Mansion, and they all grabbed a lot of money, and they could still spoil a people's girl or something from time to time, which is really fresh in their memory.

With the expectation of looting, the morale that had just been bombarded by the cannon instantly returned to this group of robbers.

Ning Wei took the opportunity to order the whole army to charge quickly, and he didn't care about the chaos of the formation, he only hoped to run within the minimum range of the cannon as soon as possible.

The two wings of the Ming army gradually converged to the middle, forming a U shape.

When this group of Qing soldiers howled and rushed seventy paces in front of the Ming army's line, the flintlock guns rang out.

Not only the front, but also the lead bullets from both sides were more dense, and the momentum of the Qing army was suddenly setback. Under the crossfire of the Ming army, six or seven hundred Qing prisoners were shot in an instant.

The corpse that fell to the ground tripped a large number of people who rushed up from behind, and Ning Weideng, who was hiding in the crowd, found that almost all of his henchmen who were still protecting him just now had been shot over......

He swallowed and spitted at the mouth, and shouted with all his strength: "Give it to me!" Defeat the Ming army, and each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! ”

The officer on the side of the Long Wei Army gave the command to "quickly reload". I saw that all the soldiers quickly stuffed the fixed ammunition into the muzzle of the gun, but did not use the staff, but just knocked the butt of the gun on the ground twice, and then raised the gunpowder. The whole filling process took just over 10 seconds!

"Put!"

Another salvo, although the gunpowder was not compacted due to the rapid reloading, and the power of the flintlock was reduced by more than thirty percent, but the two armies were less than forty paces apart at this time, and the firepower was sufficient.

This fierce cross-fire completely stunned the Qing army, and the entire Qing army phalanx was stunned for a moment.

Su Chengyu saw in the telescope that although the Qing army still had more than 4,000 people, it was obvious that its morale had been exhausted, and it began to cower, and some people even retreated. So he decisively gave the order for the infantry to advance.

Ning Wei hadn't come to his senses yet, but he was surprised to see that the Ming army's "thin" long snake formation began to approach him.

The Qing army, which was still menacing just now, was shocked by the momentum emanating from the neat human wall in front of them, and began to retreat continuously. Where are these weak Ming troops in front of them, they are completely a group of tigers and wolves!

The robbers who were originally going to go to Jinxi to rob and prostitute themselves instantly realized that there was no silver in front of them, no people's girls, only death!

"Bayonet ready!"

The Ming army immediately erupted into a neat shout, "Bayonet ready!" ”

In an instant, more than 2,000 shiny bayonets pointed forward at the same time, and their movements were uniform.

"Charge!"

There was another neat roar, "Charge!" ”

As if they had received an order, the Qing army collapsed in an instant!

Everyone scrambled to turn around, running back with their hands and feet together, and the slower reaction was pierced by the bayonet in an instant.

There was a scream on the battlefield, but it was quickly suppressed by the shouts of the Dragon Guard.

Only moments later, Ning Wei, who had lost the cover of his entourage, was pierced in the back by a bayonet and fell to the ground.

On the other side, Liu Bolu only heard the sound of killing in his ears, and when he turned his head to look, he saw the Dragon Guard army sinking into the smoke of gunpowder in the sky.