The outcast army soon came into range of field artillery. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info When the vanguard troops arrived at the place where Sun Kewang had returned just now, the artillery battalion on the mountainside opened fire.

"Boom, boom", a huge roar resounded through the battlefield, and one solid bullet after another roared. Although Gao Yingxiang learned the lesson of Zhang Xianzhong and arranged the formation as sparsely as possible, casualties were still unavoidable.

The cannonballs ruthlessly shuttled through the crowd, whether it was a strong man as strong as an ox or a childish teenager, they could not stop the castration of the cannonballs, and the flesh and blood were like paper paste, and blood and scraps of flesh were splashed everywhere. After a round of shells swept by, the originally deliberately sparsely arranged array became even thinner, and the frontal assault team suffered at least six or seven hundred casualties.

After Gao Yingxiang witnessed the huge power of the cannon, he gasped, this is still the casualty after pulling the array apart, if it is like Zhang Xianzhong before, the dense formation is discharged and rushes up, and thousands of people will die if the cannon is smashed down. The power of the cannon is really invincible to manpower, and the only thing you can do is to avoid its edge as much as possible.

The displaced people in front were frightened by the power of the cannon, and ran back one after another, and the overseers who had been waiting in the rear raised their steel knives high and slashed down at them without hesitation. ”

Under the pressure of the strong bullets of the Warlords, the momentum of the charge was maintained, and the displaced people continued to rush forward under the artillery fire.

When they stepped over the corpses left behind by Sun Kewang's unit, the second round of shelling began again. Hearing the roar of death, the displaced people panicked a little, and when the shells flew over, there was nowhere to dodge, no way to dodge, and whether they could survive or not depended on God's blessing, many people simply stopped, folded their hands and prayed.

Perhaps this kind of "temporary Buddha's feet" behavior on the battlefield is not treated by the Bodhisattva, whether it is Nyolai, Guanyin or the Jade Emperor, it is all useless, cannonballs swept by, and many homeless people who stood in place and prayed were directly cut off with their hands and heads, and their upper bodies, including their hands and heads, were directly cut off, which was like "cutting off their waists". The homeless people who were lucky enough not to be hit by the shells saw this bloody scene, and they couldn't stand it, and they vomited with a wow.

In the face of a steel storm of 30 field guns, the wandering army had to pay a high price for every step forward, and the trajectory of the shells was full of mutilated corpses, like a large slaughterhouse. Under such pressure, there were people fleeing all the time, wanting to evacuate the battlefield, and the overseers in the rear were slashed and their blades were curled, and their arms were sore, so that they could stabilize the situation, and there was no scene of the collapse of the whole army.

Gao Yingxiang's face was pale, although he was mentally prepared, but the casualties were so large that they still exceeded his expectations, he gritted his teeth tightly, and forcibly refused to let himself shout the word "withdraw troops", and his fists were already clenched out of the water.

Originally, Zhang Xianzhong still had some thoughts of "you can do it, you go" to watch the excitement, and when the first round of shelling began, he was even a little gloating. But after the second and third rounds of shelling, he could no longer get up. The alliance between the two is cold, and if Gao Yingxiang returns with a fiasco, he will not end well. He had to admit that Gao Yingxiang was more courageous than him: compared to his indecisive move of using thousands of people to attack tentatively and hastily withdrawing his troops after a round of shells, Gao Yingxiang invested almost all his troops as soon as he came up, leaving no back, and withstood such a high-intensity artillery bombardment to maintain an offensive posture, and his strong willpower is really admirable.

However, in the face of such artillery fire, willpower alone does not seem to be very effective, just when Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but "meddle" and wanted to persuade Gao Yingxiang to withdraw people, the cannon sound on the opposite mountainside stopped.

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of the displaced people were stunned, what kind of trouble is this?

The homeless people on the battlefield were also stunned, could it be that the gods and Buddhas worshipped all over the sky just now, which of them had the Bodhisattva manifested? After staying for a while, seeing that the opposite side really didn't fire the cannon, the homeless people cheered together, rushed forward and ran forward, without the threat of artillery, everyone was real swords and guns for lives, who was afraid of whom?

After Gao Yingxiang made sure that the cannon stopped firing, he waved his fist excitedly, the previous casualties were not in vain, he finally survived, and now he was about to meet in a short battle, he didn't believe that these thousands of musketeers could block the siege of tens of thousands of people without the cover of the city wall.

On the mountainside, Zuo Wuwei shook his head with some regret, if it weren't for the fact that he would accidentally injure his own people at the foot of the mountain, the artillery battalion could at least come with two rounds of shotguns. With the caliber of a field gun, this shotgun is enough for the enemy to drink a pot.

At the foot of the mountain, two battalions loaded their guns and waited for battle.

The company commander of the artillery company shuttled back and forth nervously, and advised: "Be careful not to take the wrong shell, wait and use the shotgun directly, whoever puts the wrong solid bullet, Lao Tzu will send him to the Department of Military Justice to lead the army stick." ”

Originally, after the enemy entered within 500 meters, although the field artillery stopped firing because of the firing angle and safety problems, the firing range of the mountain artillery was also enough to continue the momentum of the artillery bombardment, but considering that under the solid bullet strike of the field artillery, the formation of the displaced people became more and more loose, and the effect of the solid bullet with a slightly smaller caliber of the mountain artillery would be greatly reduced.

The homeless people were getting closer and closer, and the company commanders of the artillery companies of the two battalions stared nervously at each other, silently estimating the distance in their hearts, and when they reached within three hundred meters, they all shouted: "Open the artillery!" ”

The two artillery batteries lined up in front of the array opened fire almost simultaneously, and the 24 mountain guns roared in unison, and after the shotgun barrels drilled out of the muzzles under the thrust of gunpowder, they exploded under the action of the difference between internal and external pressure, and countless tiny projectiles turned into a torrential rain of metal, and flew towards the target more than 200 meters away.

The homeless people, who had just undergone the baptism of large-caliber solid bullets, once again tasted the power of the rain of shotguns, and the projectiles that flew like drops swept away all movable objects in the barrage, and people fell like saplings in a storm. The homeless people, who had an expression of excitement on their faces for the rest of their lives, opened their mouths wide, and were pierced into a sieve by the dense projectiles, and they could not find a piece of good meat on their bodies.

Compared to the shelling just now, this kind of scene caused a sense of fear that is not much inferior, and the displaced people who originally thought that victory was right now are stupid, such a rain of bullets, even a fly can't fly over!