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The five trebuchets, which were almost completed, were crushed in the roar of artillery, and the busy people next to several other trebuchets also showed what the Ming artillery was aiming at. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The power of the artillery was so great that even the cavalry of the shoe captives did not dare to contend with it, let alone the craftsmen and men who were busy on the side of the trebuchet, and at this time, even the shoe cavalry that guarded and drove them away had already fled with dead and wounded, and they did not dare to hold out here.

The range of the six-pound cannon was far more than that, and although it was fired diagonally between the two armies, it still knocked down the main formation of the shoe army.

The heavy cannonballs bounced to the ground, and the cavalry who had no time to dodge were torn apart by him, and the same was true of the horses, the people were torn apart and died directly, and the horses were broken, crushing the cavalry he had abandoned.

The cannonballs hit the trebuchet's wooden frame, and the wood that made up the wooden frame did not hinder the flight of the shells very much, and a dozen shells still flew into the shoe captives for a distance, and more than a dozen bloody paths were opened.

This position was empty all of a sudden, the two armies were fighting, the main general had to be able to see each other in order to make a command, bows and arrows, fire and light artillery that could be carried to the battlefield, five hundred steps was a safe enough distance, but these shelling of the Huwei army completely subverted the cognition of the shoe army.

Since it is not safe in this position, and the artillery of the Huwei Army can be loaded and fired so quickly, then who will wait in the original position and wait for death, the main formation of the prisoners has already begun to have a commotion.

In the second round of artillery bombardment, the two regiments of the Huwei Army and the artillery position were directly opposite, but the shoe captives were not killed or wounded, but on the battlefield, several heroic and decisive attacks had already been devastated, and for a while, no one had the courage to rush again.

"The 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment marched forward in unison after a round of artillery salvos!!"

Wang Tong ordered loudly, and the following suddenly agreed, Wang Tong turned his head and looked at the direction of Ji Town, the counterweights of several trebuchets were rising, and the counterweights of several were falling in a hurry, and the thick power pole of the trebuchet bracket was pressed down by the counterweight, throwing out the stone bullet at the other end and smashing it into the side car array in front of him.

Dozens of catties, hundreds of catties of stone bullets, parabolic general smashing, in a sense, the power is not inferior to the artillery of the Huwei army, this distance is also the range of the trebuchet, control the counterweight and rope, you can determine the location of the stone bullet.

The indestructible side van array just now seemed to be paper paste in front of the boulder, and the side van in front of it was smashed and smashed, and the Ming army inside was also shattered.

The artillery of the officers and soldiers of Jizhen still did not have time to shoot the second shell, and the opponent's trebuchet had already moved first, and the stone projectile whistled and smashed over.

Some trebuchets were not adjusted properly, and the stone bullets landed more than a dozen steps in front of the side car formation, but the Ming cavalry who were fighting with the shoe captives over there were unlucky.

After the stone bullet landed, the bounce distance was very short, but the power contained in it could still smash the people in front of it, and after hitting the side car formation, it could still break the defense of the side box.

That is, in a short period of time, the partial van array was opened more than a dozen openings, and the Ming soldiers on the partial van were killed or wounded, but there was no one behind the gap to block it, and the second stone bullet could not cause much damage in addition to smashing the one that had just been smashed even more.

After the trebuchet shot a few times, it opened the opening of the Mu array here, and the trebuchet was of little use in the future, and the shoe captives immediately stopped the trebuchet's shooting, and began to let the retreating cavalry gather forward, ready to rush into the opening, in order not to be crushed by the stone bullets, the cavalry of the Ming army has also dispersed.

On the battlefield on the side of the Huwei army, the army of the shoe captives was constantly compressed backwards, and the Huwei army was constantly pressed forward, and on the entire battlefield, half of the two sides had the upper hand, but the other half was completely suppressed and had begun to be twisted together.

The flank attack is no longer effective, both sides put their forces into a frontal confrontation, and whoever can penetrate the other half of the opponent faster is more likely to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

The shoe cavalry divided into three teams and began to rush into the gaps in the Jizhen military formation, and when the shoe cavalry approached the gap, the foot soldiers of Jizhen also lined up to meet them.

It is true that cavalry has such and such advantages over foot soldiers, but strong foot soldiers can also fight against cavalry, let alone in such a narrow place as a gap, and the advantage of this is that trebuchets do not dare to throw stone bullets unscrupulously, because their own cavalry also fights there.

The cavalry of the shoe captives has an advantage in the Mu array of Ji Town, but the advantage is not so big, and the army of the shoe captives will continue to invest troops to join the battlefield, so that this advantage will be expanded.

Yang Jin, the deputy general of Jizhen, was a qualified commander, and a group of Ming soldiers were mobilized by him, armed with bows and arrows, swords, shields and spears to meet the Tartar cavalry, the shield blocked the arrows of the enemy cavalry, and the spear went to assassinate the cavalry, and the remnants of the front side carriage were still blocking more shoe cavalry from coming.

The soldiers on the side of Jizhen took action, and some people retreated forward with the carts carrying grain, grass and crows, so that the terrain in front of them was more complicated, so that the enemy's cavalry power could be reduced, which was more conducive to the resistance of Jizhen's foot soldiers.

The cavalry led by Ma Yong could no longer care about any fighting, and rushed towards the soft captives' main formation regardless of it, and the problem now was that the momentum of the shoe cavalry that continued to rush in could be stopped, and the position of Jizhen could be saved, otherwise everything would be over.

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"Master Pullik, let's step back away, Ming's artillery is too powerful!!"

A captain shouted anxiously at Rick, but he was answered by a whip from Rick, who lost his calmness, his eyes were red as he looked at the battlefield, and shouted angrily

"We can't retreat, the main force of the Ming army has been broken by us, and then we hold on to ......",

Before the words fell, there was another deafening roar, and the artillery of the Ming army, which was not regarded as the main force by him, was fired again, and the scene after the shelling could be clearly seen, and the cavalry queue that rushed over was already very loose, but it was still hit by this salvo and opened an open space, and the momentum of the shells did not decrease, and it flew into the formation again.

Most of the trebuchets that were erected had collapsed, and even if they didn't collapse, there was no one below to operate them, and the cavalry led by Ma Sanbiao had already begun to sweep the soldiers and horses around the trebuchet.

Several attacks have been defeated by the Huwei army, and now the firearms of the Huwei army are no longer for defense, but for killing, the side that the Huwei army is facing, the Tartars have no way to form an offensive, and the spearmen are constantly moving forward under the cover of the fire soldiers, and they will stop after advancing dozens of steps, waiting for the artillery team behind to keep up.

It's like this step by step, but the shoe captives don't have any way to block it, in fact, the Chinese army where Pullik is located has been retreating, but the Huwei army is also constantly pressing, the shoe captives' Chinese army retreated, and the entire formation has been somewhat unmaintainable, every time the artillery fires, there will be a wave on this side of the formation, and everyone is as loose as possible, but with the gradual deterioration of the occupation here, the more and more loose formation makes people have the intention of escaping.

After the third round of shelling, the cavalry in the rear had already begun to disperse, and now, except for the soldiers around the main formation and the generals at all levels, the entire military formation has gradually become scattered from the beginning of the order, and the resistance of the Huwei army is getting smaller and smaller.

"Send an order to Gidal and ask him to lead his troops to stop the advance of this Ming army"

Pulling the order in a hoarse voice, the herald rode away at a gallop, but soon returned, and said with some hesitation and impatience on his horse:

"Lord Talik, Lord Gidar said that he can't let his warriors die on the battlefield in vain, and now all he has to do is to return to the city to protect the Khan!!"

"The mongrel who should be torn apart by the vultures, let him attack the main force of the Ming army, he won't shirk it over there!"

Pullik roared and cursed, and then gave another order, and as soon as the herald turned to leave, Pullik suddenly struck the guard beside him with a whip, and cursed:

"Go and let Hai Rigu use the burning stone bullets over there, when is it, are you still thinking about Ming Gou's food, grass and property!!"

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The trebuchet's leather pocket was replaced with iron cables, and the stone bullets were wrapped with wool ropes, which were soaked in grease and ignited on the stone bullets before shooting. Stone projectiles are thrown, and they have turned into fireballs.

The gaps where there was no influx of cavalry were smashed into the fireballs, and the burning and tumbling stone bullets entered the positions of the soldiers and horses of Jizhen, and the pace of Jizhen had already brought up many carts loaded with heavy grain and straw, but in order to block the activities of the cavalry, these things were flammable.

Contaminated by the flames on the fireball, and the weather was dry, it immediately burned, the fire was raging in the formation, the resistance of the Jizhen soldiers gradually became chaotic, in the past, they relied on the shelter of the partial box, and the enemy's fleeing cavalry would go to pursue, and now they were rushed in by the captives, and the fire was still burning, how to fight, and many people thought that this was on the grassland, and no reinforcements would come to support, they were alone, such despair would not provoke any ruins in such a situation, On the contrary, it made people even more desperate, and the shoe captives always maintained their efforts to invest, and the position of Jizhen began to be a little unable to resist.

Everyone can see this situation clearly, and after a little hesitation, the shoe captives who presided over this side of the army decided to attack with burning stone bullets to completely defeat the 20,000 Ming army, and then it was too late to put out the fire, and the other side was almost unable to support it, and if this side was defeated, more forces could be drawn out and the Ming army could be eaten with absolute superiority.

There was a loud "boom", although there was only one, but the sound seemed to be louder than the cannon that had already been fired, and a cannonball flew quickly, not hitting the trebuchet, but hitting the stone projectile piled up next to the trebuchet, and the stone chips flew everywhere, and the people around were beaten into a sieve (to be continued)