PS: Thanks to book friend Cao Gen Dang Cai Cai for the tip.
Not long after General Li Shen was ordered to leave, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Zuo Fu came to Zhao Shujiao with several soldiers.
"General, this battle is not easy to fight. The rebels have too many cannons. Not to mention the soldiers and horses at the guard station. Even if our people go up, it will be difficult to rush through." Zuo Fu said with a frown.
When pressing the formation outside, he saw with his own eyes how powerful the rebel artillery formation was. Thousands of guardsmen and horses could not get even close, which was enough to show how difficult it was to deal with.
Zhao Shujiao looked in the direction of the Hun River and said, "I have arranged for General Li Shen to lead the troops to charge again, this time using the people we brought back from Guanning."
"Are you sure?" Zuo Fu asked.
Zhao led the teacher back, looked at Zuo Fu and said: "Before, you were the one who defended the soldiers and horses of the guard. You should know the situation better than me. You should not ask me this question."
"The final general feels that just sending General Li Shen to lead a team of troops may not be successful." Zuo Fu said worriedly.
Zhao Shujiao frowned and said, "Then what do you think?"
"First send the soldiers and horses of the guard station to attack the rebel artillery array on the edge of the Hun River. If it fails, then send General Li to take over. It becomes a tactic to add fuel to the fire. It is very likely that you will not get the desired results, but will lose troops and generals. , the general felt that if he had to take action, he could simply send out all his troops, or he could simply retreat and regroup before fighting again." Zuo Fu expressed his thoughts.
Teacher Zhao stroked his beard and thought for a while, then said: "Let's see if General Li Shen can capture the artillery array on the bank of the Hun River first."
With that said, he withdrew his gaze and looked at the battlefield again.
At this time, General Li Shen appeared in front of the formation on horseback, followed by a hundred or so cavalry servants on horseback, and behind him were thousands of infantry.
"kill!"
General Li Shen raised his sword and shouted, then he took the lead in riding out.
Following closely behind were his own personal servants.
A sturdy little soldier carried the big flag and followed behind with two pushes. All the other infantry followed the big flag and rushed forward.
Literary dynasty admonished militiamen to fight to the death.
It is the duty of a general to go into battle to kill the enemy. In Liaodong, General Li, like other ordinary generals, often went into battle to fight with the enemy. Unlike the generals in the Ming Dynasty who were raised in guard posts, they no longer had the blood that a general should have. Brave.
General Li, who was charging forward on horseback, looked at the approaching rebel artillery array with a ferocious smile on his face.
As long as he rushes into the rebel bandit's artillery array, he can use the weapon in his hand to slaughter the rebel bandits wantonly.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of artillery sounded over the battlefield, and solid iron balls fell from mid-air into the middle of the soldiers and horses brought by General Li Shen.
The casualties began to appear.
However, General Li and the soldiers and horses behind him were not affected much and still rushed towards the bank of the Hun River resolutely. They were far unlike the soldiers and horses at the guard station who wanted to retreat as soon as they were shelled.
"Change the shotgun!" Xu Bingyu ordered loudly.
After firing the solid bullets, the gunner began to take out the prepared shotshells from another basket and reload the cannon next to him.
Whether it is shotshells or solid bullets, for these gunners, there is no difference in the time required for loading.
Xu Bingyu stared intently at the cavalry of more than a hundred people rushing at the front.
If the artillery team fights infantry, he can fire at leisure. As long as there is no problem with the cannon, no matter how many people come, he will have the confidence to fight back. But the cavalry is different. The charging cavalry is too fast and will not give him too many cannons. Chance.
"Let go!" Xu Bingyu blew the copper whistle in his mouth.
boom! boom! boom!
Cannons were fired one after another, and countless iron sand and iron beads were fired towards the approaching officers and soldiers in the front.
The first ones to be attacked were the army cavalry that charged forward.
Cavalrymen continued to fall off their horses, and some even fell to the ground with their horses.
However, Xu Bingyu noticed.
The official cavalry in front of them had obviously learned the lessons of the previous guard troops. There was a gap between each rider and they were not too close. This allowed the iron sand and iron balls fired by many cannons to be missed.
"Tiger crouching cannon, bring up all the tiger crouching cannons." Xu Bingyu knew that the four-pound cannon and six-pound cannon in his hands could no longer prevent the enemy from approaching.
Unlike heavy artillery such as the four-pounder, the Tiger Crouching Cannon does not require special artillery carts and mules and horses. It only requires an ordinary gunner to carry the Tiger Crouching Cannon and run very fast.
The remaining gunner only needs to bring the cannon used by the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon does not have as large a caliber as the four-pounder cannon, and the cannon used is smaller. The number of iron sand and iron balls loaded is not as large as that of the four-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon.
But there are too many crouching cannons.
A squatting cannon was mixed in the middle of the artillery team. Under the manipulation of the gunner, it was loaded with powder and iron sand and iron beads, aiming at the official cavalry who were about to enter the shooting range.
In the battery, the gunners of the four- and six-pounders continued to reload their guns.
Although the Tiger Crouching Cannon has a greater advantage at close range, these four-pounder cannons and six-pounder cannons are not unusable.
Just when the Tiger Crouching Cannon was used on the artillery array, a thousand-man team with tiger flags appeared from both sides of the artillery array. As the escort of the artillery array, they were ready to prevent the enemy from rushing into the artillery array at the last moment.
"put!"
Xu Bingyu saw that the enemy at the front had entered the range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and immediately blew the bronze whistle beside his mouth.
The whistle sounded and the cannon roared almost at the same time.
Lieutenant General Li, who was charging ahead, saw that he only had a hundred steps left to rush into the rebel bandit's artillery formation. A cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, as if victory was right in front of him.
However, at this moment, countless iron sand and iron beads came towards me, densely packed like a big net, coming towards me and making it impossible to escape.
Poof! Poof!
Countless iron sand and iron beads were shot into his body, and he felt like his body was about to be torn apart. Then his vision went dark, and he didn't know who was going on.
Many of the cavalry around him were shot dead on the spot by iron beads and iron sand just like him.
The distance of a hundred steps became a stretch that they could never finish.
In just an instant, Li Shen's hundreds of cavalry were reduced to less than twenty, and even the infantry chasing after him suffered numerous casualties.
Where the Tiger Crouching Cannon could not hit, the four-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon just made up for this distance.
The dozen or so knights who were lucky enough to survive looked at the corpses of dead and wounded people and horses in front of them, as well as General Li, who didn't even have a whole body left behind. The blood and courage on his body suddenly disappeared without a trace.
They had seen many corpses in Liaodong, but this was the first time that the death situation was so tragic before their eyes.
Many of the corpses on the ground were turned into flesh, with pale bone fragments penetrating from under the flesh, and several stumps and broken arms scattered randomly on the ground.
There was no need for the artillery team to fire a second shot. The dozen or so horsemen turned their horses and fled behind them.
The big flag at the rear also disappeared. The soldier who was carrying him was too far forward and was hit in the chest by some iron sand, turning into a lifeless corpse.
