He Rubin watched as the thousands of soldiers did not even approach the enemy's camp, and retreated under the blows of artillery fire and bird guns, and the Hongyi artillery, which had high hopes, was beaten by the enemy's artillery before even setting up a gun position. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info His face was completely gloomy, and he didn't even have a chance to fight hand-to-hand combat, how could he fight such a battle?

He Rubin had already seen that the thief's cannon could hit farther and more accurately than the Hongyi cannon, and the speed of firing was much faster. Compared with the Hongyi cannon, which can only be fired for a long time, the cannon set up by the thieves is firing almost all the time.

He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Beat the drum!"

With the sound of drums, a new wave of new forces emerged from the camp. This is the men and horses who train the guerrillas, as well as the standard-making and standard-raising, which can be called the most elite men and horses in this expedition. Of course, he still has the town standard camp and five hundred families, but this is his capital, and he will not use it until the most critical moment. He Rubin called the battalion generals of the three battalions to give face-to-face lectures.

"Everybody saw it." He had a gloomy face, "The thief's cannon is very powerful. Hit fast, hit accurately. The firearms battalion was crippled before it opened fire, and there was no hope for it. When you get out of position, remember that the teams should be looser, and the teams should be separated. Don't rush up like you just now. ”

Several battalion generals replied: "The humble general understands." ”

He Rubin promised: "Whichever general's men and horses are the first to land in the village, the town will give him the first credit!" ”

The first round of the charge ended in the defeat of the Ming army, but the Ming army was only defeated for a while. Xia Nan saw that the other party's flag was not in chaos, and there was no sign of shaking the men and horses, and judging from the sound of drums and the movement of the military flag, the officers and men were stepping up the deployment of troops. In this second wave of attacks, the officers and soldiers will definitely mobilize all the elite main forces to attack with all their might.

He Rubin dispatched troops and actively prepared for the second attack. In order to resist the thieves' superiority in firearms, the officers and men gathered a large number of chicken buses from the firearms battalion and the baggage battalion, on which many bags and straw bales filled with sand and soil were piled up, all of which were soaked with water, and some of them were equipped with heavy door panels. No matter how thick the door panel is, even if it is wrapped with iron sheets, it can't resist the cannonballs, and He Rubin still understands this basic truth, what he wants to block is the thief's bird.

From the first charge, it can be seen that the thieves' artillery and bird guns are very sharp, but no matter how many cannons there are, they are only about twenty guns, compared with one bird gun per person, as long as the troops are scattered, the threat is not too great. Sandbags and door panels were used to cover the soldiers and keep the lead out of the charge, and when they reached the bottom of the trench, they could be used to cross the trench.

The second attack was launched before noon, and it was the elite of the Ming army in this crusade that launched the attack, and in the center was the 1,500 standard battalion soldiers of Fubiao, commanded by the guerrilla Wang Daoji, who was known as a fierce general. On his left flank were 1,000 standard-setting soldiers of the standard-making guerrilla Li Guang, and on the right flank were 1,200 standard-setting soldiers of the guerrilla Wang Xi.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the wheels rolled, and hundreds of chicken carts piled on sandbags and door panels opened the way in front, followed by a long column of officers and infantry.

The officers and generals had already seen the superiority of the escort's artillery fire, and this time they no longer used a dense formation to rush upwards together, but let the horses disperse into a relatively sparse team, and the distance between the columns was widened, so that the thieves would not be able to make a flesh alley with a single shot.

Wave after wave of men and horses surged forward to the sound of the snare drums, smoke and dust billowed out, and the generals rode their horses and shouted loudly in the ranks, driving the troops forward, and the big flags fluttered behind them, surrounded by different numbers of soldiers and family members, one by one swords out of the sheath and arrows wound, ready to protect their main generals to fight with the enemy or with deserters.

"Boom, boom", the artillery on the earthen fort opened fire again. The cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound, and one after another fell in the queue, and nothing could stop the beating iron balls, and the door panels and sandbags of the chicken bus were hit by the shells and rolled and scattered, and the severed limbs and heads flew everywhere. No one could keep their composure under such artillery fire, and some turned around and tried to flee, but they cut down the standard battalion soldiers behind them.

"Rush forward, rush forward!" The generals are giving orders, they themselves are not safe, the cannonballs do not care about the size of your official position, from time to time someone will be shot and fall from the horse, some generals hovering on horseback, pretending to wave their swords and shout, but they will never go forward.

As the Ming army got closer and closer to the earthen fort, the artillery firing became more and more intensive. At a distance of five or six hundred meters, both field artillery and mountain artillery began to choose to fire grenades, and the shells plowed over a few people and then exploded in the crowd, and the shock wave overturned the rows of soldiers, and the fragments sputtered everywhere and harvested lives.

With the sound of cannonballs whistling and the terrible screams of officers and soldiers, the charging team rushed forward like dying beasts. The sound of artillery came and went, and the entire earthen wall was completely covered with white smoke, except for the watchtower protruding above it floating above like an attic on the clouds, and below the clouds were the crowd of people who were rolling like a stormy wave.

The officers and men who were advancing under artillery fire finally approached within 200 meters of the earthen fort.

"Change the shotgun!" Summer Nan shouted, no longer calm before the war. The second assault officer put in more troops, and the dense crowd of human heads under the earthen fort made him feel uneasy and depressed.

The battle finally entered close combat, and the cannon was quickly loaded with shotguns.

"Fire!" Huang Hansheng gave the order. More than a dozen field guns and mountain guns in front of the front opened fire almost simultaneously, and shotguns, which had been battle-tested at sea, began to show their terrifying lethality on land.

The shotgun barrel was filled with iron projectiles the size of broad beans, rolled into a cylinder with a thin sheet of iron, and because of the huge pressure difference, it exploded after flying out of the muzzle, forming a metal storm and flying towards the enemy. The dense barrage was like a rain of death, and no one could survive such a blow, and they were torn into pieces of flesh, and blood and flesh scraps flew everywhere in the air.

Hundreds of people in front were swept away in this round of shotgun attacks, and the crowd behind was forced to trample on the severed limbs and mutilated corpses due to inertia and continue to rush forward.

The huge numerical superiority of the officers and men was finally manifested, and although they suffered heavy casualties, they were about to approach the trench, not to mention the sandbags on the surviving chicken buses, and the officers and soldiers could fill the trench and directly hit the earthen wall with the corpses alone. If they are allowed to rush forward, then the convoy will be extremely passive. (To be continued.) )