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"Tell Lin Ping from the artillery team to use the artillery fire where there are more people."
Amidst the deafening sound of artillery around him, Gao Zhongyun had to shout loudly in order for the ordering soldiers to hear his orders clearly.
"The officers and soldiers have assembled a large army. I'm afraid they will attack soon. Why don't I go to the front for inspection." The one who spoke was Liu Qingzhou, the commander of another war camp.
The tiger-character flag soldiers who attacked the official camp came to two military camps.
One of the combat barracks was arranged in front of the formation to fight head-on with the officers and soldiers, while the remaining combat barracks was used as a mobile unit and was led by Gao Zhongyun to guard the rear.
Gao Zhongyun took down the monocular telescope in front of him and said, "Don't worry, Lao Liu, we can't overwhelm the troops we have deployed in front with such a small number of troops."
"It's your camp that will face the army later. Aren't you worried?" Liu Qingzhou turned his head and looked at Gao Zhongyun.
After hearing this, Gao Zhongyun chuckled and said: "Okay, don't be sour. The army will come around from other directions in a while, and you need to lead troops to intercept it. As for the frontal battlefield, just leave it to my camp." ”
"Come on, if Shizheng orders you to be the commander-in-chief, I, the battalion commander, can only obey your orders." Liu Qingzhou's tone was full of jealousy.
However, he knew in his heart that Gao Zhongyun was not only the commander of the war camp, but also the deputy commander of their war division, which was one level higher than his battalion commander.
The sound of artillery continued.
As the first round of shelling ended, and the shelling that followed, the cannonballs accurately fell into the ranks of the officers and soldiers, continuously causing damage to the officers and soldiers.
"General, we can't wait any longer. The front camp and the left camp are about to lose their hold." Xue Mu said anxiously.
Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers belonged to different camps, and the front camp and left camp of the officers and soldiers were constantly bombarded.
Yang Guozhu, who was on horseback, had an expressionless face and said nothing, his right hand tightly holding the handle of the knife.
In the direction of the main camp where the officers and soldiers were stationed, officers and soldiers kept running out from inside.
"General!" Xue Mu looked at Yang Guozhu eagerly.
He understood that Yang Guozhu was waiting for more soldiers and horses in the camp to gather.
"Report!"
A flying cavalry galloped from a distance. When he came closer, he faced Yang Guozhu and said, "To report to the general, the rebels are shelling too hard. My general requests to send troops."
"Report!"
As soon as the words here finished, another flying knight came galloping from a distance.
The other party came to Yang Guozhu, saluted with both hands and said: "This is to inform the commander-in-chief that the rebels are shelling too hard. Zuoying asks the commander-in-chief for permission to send troops against the rebels."
"General, send troops!" Xue Mu persuaded from the side.
Yang Guozhu raised the monocular telescope in his hand and took a look in the direction of the front camp and the left camp respectively, and immediately ordered: "Order the three battalions of the front camp, the left camp, and the right camp to launch an attack on the bandits. Order Zhang Kui to lead a group of A cavalry unit to destroy the bandits’ artillery array.”
"I have the order." A military general on horseback stepped in towards Yang Guozhu and immediately rode away.
Several flag officers around Yang Guozhu went to deliver orders to the three camps.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The war drums sounded, and several large battalions of the government army began to move forward.
A cavalry team broke away from the army's formation and headed straight for the artillery team of the Tiger Flag.
With the cavalry in front and the infantry behind, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed towards the direction of the Tiger Flag army.
"Captain, the official cavalry is coming towards us!" an observer from the artillery team said to Lin Ping.
Lin Pingping said expressionlessly: "Don't worry, they can't get through."
Just as he said, before the officers and soldiers could get closer, a thousand-man team appeared in front of the artillery team, lying between the officers and soldiers.
"Reject the horse!" an officer in the thousand-man team shouted.
Immediately, the team separated into two rows of firecrackers holding firecrackers, and the front ends of the firecrackers in their hands were equipped with bayonets.
The body of the fire gun is relatively long, and there is a bayonet on the head, which is only slightly shorter than a spear.
These firecrackers holding bayonets squatted down directly, with the tail of the firecracker pressed against the ground, and the end with the bayonet tilted upward. The firecrackers in the second row squatted directly, holding up the bayonet in their hands. Fire gun, making a move to resist the horse.
In the back row were the musketeers, all of whom raised their muskets with their muzzles pointed forward.
There are gunners on both sides, but these gunners are not using heavy cannons like four-pounders, but squatting tiger cannons that can be easily carried by one person.
An array consisting of a thousand people appeared on the battlefield.
The artillery team at the rear of the array fired four-pound cannons one after another. The target of the bombardment was the infantry following the army's cavalry.
The infantry of the official army was large in number and not as fast as the cavalry, so it became the best target for the artillery team to attack.
Woo woo woo
The officer cavalry charging forward made strange shouts from their mouths.
In the array of tiger-shaped flag soldiers opposite these cavalry, every soldier looked serious, but there was no look of panic or fear in his eyes.
These soldiers fought against the Mongolian cavalry more than once on the grasslands.
The cavalry charge they faced was far more shocking than the two hundred cavalry in front of them.
"Get ready..." The captain of the Thousand-Man Team calculated the distance to the official cavalry in his mind. When the two sides were almost a hundred paces away, he blew the copper whistle in his mouth.
The sharp whistle can still be heard clearly even amid the sound of the galloping hooves of more than two hundred horses.
boom! boom! boom!
The firecrackers at the front were the first to fire, and countless black bullets flew towards the oncoming officer cavalry.
At this time, the official cavalry charging at the front had already entered the range of the fire cannon.
Several officers and cavalry who were charging forward groaned, and their bodies fell uncontrollably from their horses.
Even if the person is not dead, he will soon be trampled into a pulp by the hooves of the horse that catches up from behind.
A war horse was hit in the vital part by a fire cannon, and it also let out a cry. Due to the inertia of the body, it rushed forward a few steps and plunged into the ground. The rider on the horse was directly thrown out and hit the ground heavily, and his neck was twisted into a Strange look.
After one row of firecrackers was fired, the second row of firecrackers immediately sounded.
The official cavalry only rushed forward less than ten steps amidst the two gunshots.
After two rounds of firecrackers, the momentum of the cavalry charge was obviously slowed down by the obstruction.
Beep! Beep!
Two sharp copper whistles sounded in the middle of the array of thousands of people.
The gunner who controlled the Crouching Tiger Cannon fired the Crouching Tiger Cannon in his hand for the first time.
The range of a Crouching Tiger Cannon may not be as good as that of four-pounder cannons that are stronger in size and weight, but at close range, countless iron sand and iron beads emerge from the muzzle of the Crouching Tiger Cannon like a dense net, facing the The officer cavalry that rushed over passed by.
Almost no one of the official cavalry who rushed forward could escape the iron sand and iron beads fired by the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
The army of more than two hundred cavalry suddenly became sparse.
