There were more than 10,000 Goryeo traitor troops under the command of Hong Fuyuan, which spread out and formed a very wide front on the battlefield. It was only the middle part of the front that pressed towards Xiaojiazhai, and there was no exchange of fire between its left and right wings and Xiaojiazhai.

And Chen Dexing sent reinforcements to Xiaojiazhai was the Third Division of the Northern Expeditionary Army commanded by Xie Youcai. This Xie Youcai is also one of the twenty-two brothers, and his eldest brother is Xie Youtian, who died with the enemy in the Battle of Nantuochang.

The 3rd Division was in a three-column horizontal formation, with two columns of crossbowmen in front and one column of spears behind. Behind the formation, there were 8 3-inch bronze cannons drawn by horses, all loaded with shotguns!

Acting together with the 3rd Division, there was also an artillery company of the Upper Army Artillery Brigade of the Northern Expeditionary Army. On the right flank of the 3rd Division, there were also nearly 900 light cavalry of the six Eight Banners that served as cover. The left flank of the third division is Xiaojiazhai, so there is no need to send cavalry to cover it.

The 3,000-strong infantry division thus formed a red human wall, and to the accompaniment of the rhythmic war drums, advanced in an unimaginably strict formation, without having to take a few steps to stop the whole formation.

Since the firearms were used to bombard Xiaojiazhai, Hong Fuyuan had to mobilize the archers to advance and prepare to shoot on foot. At the same time, he also ordered his rear team of stone generators and three-bow bed crossbows to turn the target of the attack to the approaching infantry of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

However, when the gap between the two sides was shortened to 200 paces, the horizontal formation of the 3rd Division suddenly stopped. The officers of the brigades and battalions shouted orders, and the horizontal formation immediately changed, and the three horizontal formations consisting of two columns of crossbowmen and one column of spears became six columns of four columns of crossbows and two columns of spears. And it was not a large formation of 3,000 people, but a small formation of nine battalions. A gap of ten paces wide appeared between each small array, and eight bronze cannons protruded from these gaps. The muzzle of the black hole is aimed at the Goryeo traitor army less than two hundred paces away!

"Big guns! Big Gun! ”

Just after seeing someone's invulnerability, the soldiers of the Hong family were already demoralized. When they saw the eight cannons being pushed up, they immediately shouted in panic, and some people turned their heads and wanted to escape. Hong Junqi, the second son of Hong Fuyuan, who was supervising the battle on the front line, hurriedly ordered the overseer team to step forward to stop it. At this moment, eight cannons fired at the same time!

Eight 3-inch guns opened fire at a distance of less than 200 paces from the enemy, and naturally there was no possibility of emptying. And they use shotguns that are terrifyingly powerful at close range! There are a total of 1024 1 taels of lead bullets in the eight shotguns (the latest shotguns obtained by the artillery of the Northern Expeditionary Army are filled with relatively easy to produce lead bullets), and the muzzle kinetic energy of each lead bullet is as high as thousands of joules, far exceeding that of any kind of bow and crossbow, no matter what kind of armor, it is as fragile as a layer of tissue paper in front of such a weapon!

From the spews of fire from the muzzle of the cannon to the projectile sweeping through the enemy formation, the time is only a moment, and the soldiers of the Hong family who are in a panic have no time to react, their bodies are covered in a web of death!

Hong Junqi, who is supervising the formation on this line, is also in this web of death. I don't know if it was because of luck or standing relatively backward, he himself miraculously escaped. But he witnessed the scene of hell - and when he reacted to the deafening roar, he found that he was probably in hell!

First the heavy smell of blood penetrated his nostrils, and then there was a slimy and slippery sensation on his face, as if he had been swallowed directly on his face by a pot of bloody meat sauce. He subconsciously reached out and touched it, and when he looked at it, it was a gray-white object mixed with blood, a bit like mud......

He had nightmarish scenes that he would never forget. Standing in front of him was a standing, cramping corpse! Somehow, the corpse's skull burst open, the skull and helmet disappeared, and gray-white brains and blood flowed out. Sprinkle everywhere! But the man didn't fall, his arms were still dancing desperately, as if he wanted to grab something!

Hong Junqi took a few steps back. Now his vision has broadened a lot, and at the same time, he has seen more terrifying scenes. Some soldiers had their necks broken. Most of the flesh on the neck was gone, and only a thin layer of flesh remained. The head hung weakly to the side at a strange angle, and the round eyes revealed nothing but fear and unwillingness. There are also people who are shot in the torso, and the high-speed flying projectiles come in from the front of the body, effortlessly tearing through the armor and flesh, grinding the internal organs and bones, and then opening a big hole in the back of the person, throwing dark red, pink, white, green, all kinds of internal organs and bone and flesh fragments together!

Others were even more unfortunate in that they did not get shot in the head and torso, but suffered blows in the arms or legs. The result is that without exception, it is broken, not that there is a neat incision in the knife cutting and axe chopping style, but all the flesh and bones are broken! Broken flesh and bones were falling everywhere, and blood was gushing out like a fountain. After a while, the seriously wounded people did not even have the strength to wail for death.

There are also many people who seem to be as lucky as Hong Junqi, and they are unscathed in such a bombardment! However, they were completely stunned by the amazing scene in front of them, their eyes straightened, and they looked at this unheard of and unseen scene in a daze......

It wasn't until the gunners of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the opposite side finished clearing and reloading and aimed the muzzle at the target again that someone vented all the fear in his heart with a heart-rending roar!

This time, everyone woke up from the shock and understood what had happened, most of them were so frightened that their whole bodies were out of control, and many people couldn't even hold back their feces and urine, so they pulled their crotches. Naturally, these people didn't have the courage to fight anymore, and they didn't even dare to escape, and they didn't know who took the lead, so they threw their weapons and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy. Only a handful of them were still standing, either motionless as if they were stupid, or they were shouting and laughing, dancing, and doing movements that they didn't know what they meant, apparently frightened!

Hong Junqi is not a courageless person, he is still a famous general in history, he has made meritorious contributions in the pacification of the Naiyan Rebellion and the Sanbeishou Rebellion, and has also participated in two conquests of Japan. But now he couldn't even escape, and his legs trembled like chaff. Suddenly, I heard someone shouting in Chinese: "Those who descend will not die!" Those who descend on their knees and abandon their weapons to avoid death! ”

You can also surrender and avoid death! Hong Junqi's seemingly solidified brain suddenly made the most correct response, and without the slightest hesitation, he abandoned the scimitar in his hand, fell to his knees with a puff, and shouted in his mouth: "Willing to surrender, willing to surrender, spare your life, spare your life......"

His identity is the Shenyang Road Guanjun Qianhu, or the heir and second son of Wanhu Hong Fuyuan, he knelt down and prayed to surrender, what else do others have to hesitate? They all followed suit and knelt down together and begged for mercy.

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When the infantry of the two sides were fighting fiercely on the front line of Xiaojiazhai, the Mongolian cavalry, which was fighting with the Eight Banners, gathered and retreated under the order of Tachar. These Mongol cavalry fought fiercely for a long time with bows and arrows and scimitars, but they could not tell the winner from the loser. On one side is the steppe people, who have been riding horses and archery since childhood; On one side is the people of fishing and hunting, and riding and archery kung fu is also the ability to eat. The competition between the two is just consuming human lives!

Consume Mongolian steppe tartars with wild Jurchen tartars!

This is not what Ta Cha'er wants to see, even if these wild Jurchens of Chen Dexing are exhausted, what can they do? When will there be a shortage of tartars in the mountains and fields of Liaodong? Take 10,000 steps back, even if the raw female real Tartars in the mountains and wilderness of Liaodong are all dead, it may still be a good thing for the Han people!

Moreover, Hong Fuyuan's Shenyang Road infantry was already on the verge of collapse - its left flank had collapsed! The right and center wings are barely holding on. If reinforcements are not exhausted, the consequences will be catastrophic.

Tachar knew it was time to throw in his other trump card, the palace cavalry!

"Hotu! It's time to fight hard! Tachar summoned her son to her side again.

"Father Khan, please give orders!" Huo Tu said loudly, "Let the child take the palace tent warriors to support Hong Fuyuan and rush over from the right side of the Han foot soldiers...... Relying on less than 1,000 children really can't stop us! ”

The power of the charge of the four thousand palace tent cavalry was not at all something that the Eight Banners acting as light cavalry could stop. But whether the Han infantry of the Northern Expeditionary Army can stop it, it's hard to say! Last time on the edge of Zhuangshui, didn't his 500 palace tent soldiers not be able to rush the Han spearmen with a maximum of 300?

"No, don't worry about Hong Fuyuan!" With a wave of his hand, Tachar denied Huo Tu's construction, and he pointed his horsewhip at Chen Dexing's Sun and Moon Daxu, "Huo Tu, do you dare to rush there?" ”

"What?" Huo Tu was stunned, "Rushing to Chen Dexing's own formation?" ”

Huo Tu thought to himself: "Then Chen Dexing is not a person!" The ...... that can't be beaten

Ta Cha'er didn't pay attention to his son's face, and continued: "You go to the north of Xiaojiazhai first, and line up 800 steps away from the enemy's infantry. ”

800 steps is almost 1200 meters, and the effective range of a three-inch bronze cannon has been achieved. With the advent of the era when bronze cannons dominated the battlefield, the cavalry could no longer charge from a distance of 500 meters or more in front of the enemy's line. And the role of mounted flying fire is also decreasing, and mounted shooting is no match for a 3-inch bronze cannon that can fire shotguns in any case!

For the Mongols, who relied on cavalry to dominate the world, the enemy, with artillery and light cavalry, was indeed very difficult to store.

"Array up there......" Huo Tu glanced at the direction pointed by Tachar's horsewhip, and shook his head again and again: "If you start to rush from there, it will take at least two thousand hundred steps to rush to the Great Seal of the Chen Thief!" No, it's so far, the horsepower is exhausted, and it can't be rushed. ”

Tachar gritted his teeth: "Rush over, and then dismount and fight!" Fight with them! (To be continued......)