The Zuo family army retreated in a mess. At this time, the new army's twelve-pound field guns had been loaded with shotguns, and they were about to fire shotguns when the Zuo family army rushed up to attack the Zuo family army at close range, but the enemy retreated and the shotguns could not hit them.

If a round of yam cannons is set up and then solid shells are loaded, the ammunition will be wasted. So Gao Wencai ordered: "The whole army is moving forward! The twelve-pound gunners push the cannon forward! The six-pound gun without the cannon is equipped with solid shells, follow the infantry phalanx, raise the guns, and shoot at the enemy's formation."

Whether it is a six-pound cannon or a twelve-pound cannon, the shotgun range is only fifty steps, while the solid shells of the twelve-pound cannon can reach six miles, and the solid shells of the six-pound cannon is also two miles away.

Twelve Spanish phalanxes and two Qi family military formations slowly advanced. The twelve Spanish phalanxes are located in the middle. Two Qi family formations are located on both wings, followed by gunners pushing the twelve-pound cannons, slowly advancing step by step.

The twelve-pound field gun weighs more than 3,000 kilograms, but it uses a large wheel gun mount with smaller rolling resistance (the larger the wheels, the higher the passing ability of the road surface, the smaller the travel resistance on the rough road surface, and the small wheels are easily stuck). It is also equipped with sliding bearings. Although it is just a sliding bearing, the bearings are coated with grease and the friction resistance is small, the cannon truck is easy to push. Therefore, the four gunners can push the twelve-pound field gun on the flat ground more easily, and the walking speed is similar to the speed of the infantry square formation.

The twelve-pound field cannon weighs only more than one thousand kilograms.

Seeing that the new army infantry not only did not line up and wait, but pushed up to their side step by step with cannons, Zuo Menggeng felt scared. Seeing that the infantry opposite had walked five hundred steps forward, the formation was not broken, Zuo Menggeng was shocked: "It is said that Qi Shaobao's elite was able to maintain the formation and walk fifty steps. After walking fifty steps, the formation was messy. The army of Eagle Claw Sun could actually take 50 steps, and the formation remained unchanged. It seemed that its elite was far superior to the Qi family's army!"

When the war was in war, ordinary troops were moving forward, they had to stop and re-arrange the formation after walking ten steps; the elites could walk twenty to thirty steps before they could stop and re-arrange the formation; the Qi family army could walk fifty to seventy steps, and they were already the elite among the elites. Zhao Peng's 20,000-man formation could actually keep the formation unchanged, and he had already walked 500 steps. How could this not surprise Zuo Menggeng?

But at this time, Zuo Menggeng dared not to order the entire army to retreat. Once he retreated, it would lead to the defeat of the entire army. At that time, the opponent would just follow behind his butt and chase him.

"It's a blessing, not a disaster, it's a disaster," Zuo Menggeng gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, glared at his eyes, and shouted: "Brothers, things have come to this point, we can only fight with the Eagle Claw Sun! If we fight, we still have a way out. If we run again, there is no place to run!"

The Zuo family army naturally did not dare to charge, but asked Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yong and Lu Guangzu to lead 40,000 main infantry to line up front, waiting to meet the attack of the Nanjing New Army; and generals such as Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Chang Deng led 10,000 cavalry under their command to surround the new army's rear line from both wings, trying to attack the new army's rear line.

Hao Xiaozhong took 90,000 auxiliary soldiers and all took a step back, digging trenches nervously, laying down wooden fences, and temporarily building a camp in an emergency, preparing to retreat to the camp when the situation was not good.

After all, the Zuo family has many soldiers and a wide range of generals. If they cannot defeat, they can retreat and defend, and there are also a large number of cannon fodder that can consume the opponent. Zuo Menggeng believes that it is impossible for the Nanjing New Army to eat his 140,000 troops in one bite, not to mention that he still has 10,000 cavalry, and his tactical use is much more flexible than the new army.

The new army's tactics are only two tactics: array advancement or array waiting. New army lacking cavalry will be difficult to launch flexible and maneuverable tactics such as encirclement and side strike.

When Gao Wencai was about to shell the infantry formation of the Zuo Family Army, the flank whistle cavalry came back to report: "The left thieves were 10,000 cavalrymen who were detouring on the flanks and were launching attacks behind our army."

"All direct artillery cannons are stabilized, and when the left thieves appear, fire and bombard them together! Then draw four thousand-person infantry phalanxes to the back to protect the brothers in the artillery battalion." Gao Wencai sent a command to continue.

The gunners turned the gun mouth and aimed at the direction where the Zuo family cavalry rushed over. When the cavalry was still five hundred steps away from him, the officers of the artillery camp shook their breath: "Fire the gun!"

"Boom boom boom" Two hundred six-pound field guns that had been loaded with solid shells were spit out their flames one by one, and the whistling shells smashed towards the rushing Zuo family cavalry.

The shells fell into the Zuo Family Army's war horses. At this time, the two sides were still five hundred steps away. The Zuo Family Army's cavalry still rode slowly. Don't be fooled by the scenes in the film and television dramas. The cavalry would not sprint at a distance of more than one thousand steps, but would sprint slowly. When they approached their opponents within two or three hundred steps, they would sprint. Because the war horses rushed early and there would be no strength when they rushed to the front, they would charge only after the distance was closer.

The Zuo Family cavalry, who had not yet launched the charge, was suddenly bombarded. Only a sound of war horses and screams of people were heard. The Zuo Family cavalry was shot and the horses were overturned.

However, the war horses are large in size and thick in flesh, so after the shells hit the Zuo family cavalry, the bounce effect is not that good. After the shells land, they bounce up, and after knocking over two horses, they lose their kinetic energy.

Seeing that someone under his command wanted to raise the horse speed to charge, Xu Yong shouted anxiously: "Stay calm, don't be anxious! Guan Gouzi's cannon is not loading so quickly, don't charge too early, otherwise you will be rushing to the infantry formation that is not afraid of Eagle Claw Sun!"

The cavalry of the Zuo family tried hard to maintain the formation and slowly pressed towards the formation of the Ming New Army step by step. When the two sides were only three hundred steps away, Xu Yong drew his sword and pointed forward: "Run!"

The cavalry of nearly 10,000 family troops began to speed up, and the speed of the war horses became faster and faster, rushing towards the new army formation.

Seven hundred light Franchise aircraft were already ready. When the cavalry of the Zuojia Army rushed in within 200 steps, with the command of the light Franchise artillery, the light Franchise aircraft spit out flames, and the shells shot towards the rushing cavalry like rain.

Rows of artillery shells drilled into the enemy group, and a pound of artillery shells hit the Zuo family cavalry, hitting the war horses, and making the war horses neighed with sadness, and flipped to the ground. Some artillery shells directly hit the knights on the horse's back. The cavalry on the horse's back became blood mist dissipated in the air. The unmanned war horse continued to rush for a few steps before stopping.

Another war horse was hit by two light Franchise's one-pound shells at the same time, and the huge war horse was smashed to pieces.

The gunmen who ignited the cannon immediately pulled off the cross bolt at the tail of the cannon, pulled out the hot sub-bureau with a hook, then stuffed a new sub-bureau into the cannon bore, inserted the cross bolt behind it, and then lit the fire door on the sub-bureau with a torch.

"Bang bang bang" After a few breaths, the light Franc machine sprayed out the flames again.

After the second round of fire, the gunners of the light Franco machine immediately pulled the cross-bolt, pulled out the sub-bucket, loaded the new sub-bucket, and then started the third round of shooting.

In a blink of an eye, the Franchise machine completed four rounds of cannonage. Each light Franchise machine was equipped with five sub-guns. The four sub-guns in the front were filled with solid cannonballs, and the last sub-gun was filled with shotguns. The gunners stuffed the sub-guns with shotguns into the cannon chamber. At this time, the cavalry of the Zuo Family Army was only seventy steps away from him.

"Fire the cannon!" Mr. Qian, the 12-pound field cannon, let out a loud roar.

The spearmen in front of the cannons squatted down one after another, and 120 twelve-pound cannons spit out flames almost at the same time. The dense shotguns spewed out from the muzzle, swept over the heads of the spearmen, and shot towards the Zuo Family cavalry formation.

The shotgun fired by the twelve-pound field cannon was extremely powerful. One hundred and twenty twelve-pound field cannons fired volleys, and the shotgun was like rain. I saw a blood mist rising from the formation of the Zuo Family cavalry in front of me, and a large area of ​​cavalry rushing towards me immediately disappeared in front of me.
Chapter completed!