One of the five Gezuo battalions was gone, and the leaders of the remaining battalions looked a little unhappy.

Ma Shouying glanced around and said calmly: "Is there anyone else who wants to play forward?"

There are three remaining leaders. Look at me and I will look at you. No one will show off anymore.

After watching for a long time, no one said anything, Ge Liyan He Yilong said: "Master Ma, the artillery of these dog officers and soldiers is too powerful, how should we fight?"

Ma Shouying pondered: "The cannons in front of the thieves and soldiers are fierce, so we can take their retreat!"

One of the old battalion spies said with an inappropriate slap in the face: "Master Ma, there are no artillery on the two wings of the officers and soldiers, but there are ditches like that!"

King Zuojin He Jin said: "As long as there are no artillery, just let people fill the hole and go straight over!"

But then again, who will go up this time? For a while, several leaders were silent again.

Seeing everyone cower, Ma Shouying said: "If which battalion takes the lead in taking Lu'an this time, half of the city's population will belong to him, and the property of the remaining families will be divided equally!"

Hearing what he said, a few people suddenly got excited and began to rush to attack. Half of the city's population could at least supplement tens of thousands of troops!

In the end, Geliyan He Yilong, who had the loudest voice, won and took the main offensive task. He also led his 20,000 troops and began to attack the Tianwu Army's left wing.

Without the suppression of artillery, He Yilong started to make good progress, and soon reached the first trench. The hungry soldiers began to prepare to fill the trench. He Yilong felt that the hope of defeating the Tianwu Army was just around the corner.

However, this hope was quickly dashed. They had entered the shooting range of the Tianwu Army's musketeers. With the sound of thunderbolt trumpets and firecrackers, dozens of squatting tiger artillery fires were heard, and bullets and shells were like raindrops.

, overwhelmingly attacked the robbers, and with this wave, a large number of robbers fell immediately in the formation.

When the artillery fires, it takes time to reload after each round. There is a long buffer time. Smarter thieves will take the opportunity to dodge or lie on the ground to avoid the artillery shells, wait for the artillery fire, and then rush up, and so on.

However, after the muskets started firing, they fired round after round. The density and rate of fire were much greater than that of the artillery. As soon as the thieves rushed to the first trench, they fell down one after another, and the number of casualties increased sharply.

Dozens of squatting tiger cannons are also loaded with shotgun shells with a wide range of damage. Although they are not as powerful as Hongyi cannons and Fran cannons, they are still lethal when facing the bandits wearing only a layer of shorts at a distance of about a hundred steps.

Still very strong.

After each round of shotgun bombardment, the bandit brigade would be swept across a large area. A large number of corpses were piled up in an area in front of the trench. Blood slowly spread on the dry land and flowed into the cracks.

The hot air was mixed with the smell of blood, which was nauseating. It was difficult for the thieves to move forward every step. After enduring several rounds of bullets, someone finally rushed to the first trench. Smart people were not in a hurry.

Instead of filling the holes, they went directly into the trenches to avoid the muskets and artillery shells of the officers and soldiers.

Under the fierce firepower of the Tianwu Army's musketeers, the rebels' willpower to resist finally collapsed. The soldiers turned around and fled back, ignoring the shouts of the supervising team behind them. The Tianwu Army took the opportunity to shoot again, and again

After killing hundreds of thieves, they stopped firing.

He Yilong was not as stupid as Lin Chengcheng. He stayed in the rear line to watch the battle, far away from the battlefield. Seeing that the hungry soldiers in the front line collapsed, he could only order the horse army and the old camp soldiers to withdraw.

He Yilong knows very well that dogs will jump over the wall when they are anxious. If the supervising team is allowed to continue to supervise and kill people, he is afraid that the hungry soldiers who retreat will be jealous and attack the old camp soldiers, which will not be good.

The whole army was in chaos.

Tens of thousands of troops retreated like a tide, leaving only hundreds of bewildered bandits in the trenches. They spent a lot of effort and spent half their lives finally rushing into the first trench.

One of our own retreated...

"The leader of this bitch promised to share the blessings and hardships together, but now he just sold us out!

The rogues in the trenches were cursing. Now they could not advance or retreat. The position was very awkward. If no reinforcements came, maybe the dog officers and soldiers would come and chop off their heads...

When all the defeated troops returned to their main formation, He Yilong had his men do a general inventory and found that there were more than 3,000 people missing in this wave, and the attack just now took less than two seconds.

bell!

This result made He Yilong very surprised. He never expected that the losses would be so huge in such a short period of time. Compared with the cannon fodder Wang Lin, he was not as durable as him. This made He Yilong feel very sad.

feel bad.

When He Yilong saw Ma Shouying and other leaders of the other battalions, he spat fiercely at the Tianwu Army's position and said: "Damn, the dog officers and soldiers are all f**king cowards. They only dare to hide and fire from a distance."

Fire the gun, come over and fight me with real swords and guns if you feel like it!"

Ma Shouying frowned and said, "What's the use of talking nonsense? Why didn't the officers and soldiers see you saying this when they were chasing us?"

He Yilong was speechless by his words. During the years of rebellion, hadn't he spent most of his time hiding from the main force of officers and soldiers? He would only attack areas with poor defense, and the officers and soldiers would run away as soon as the army came.

The expressions on everyone's faces were very unnatural. They had all witnessed this battle. The ferocious firepower of the Tianwu Army was different from all the Ming armies the rebels had encountered in the past. The attacking troops could not get close at all.

Being passively bombarded, there is no room to fight back.

At this time, Ma Shouying and others remembered the fate of Wang Tuoxianling, who went to attack the emperor's son with 30,000 troops, but was stunned and did not come back.

The defeated army of Zhang Xianzhong's army came back and said that this Ming army was very elite and different from any other Ming army, whether it was Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting or Zuo Liangyu. Although these troops also used artillery and firecrackers, they used

The firearms are poorly operated, not only have a short range, but are also slow to fire, and more importantly, have powerful explosive chambers, they do not pose much of a threat to the rebels using human sea tactics.

At first, Ma Shouying and other battalion leaders thought that Zhang Xianzhong was afraid of embarrassment and deliberately exaggerated the combat effectiveness of his officers and soldiers. Now think about it, Zhang Xianzhong did not come to rob Fengyang Mansion together, but instead went to Anqing with Luo Rucai again. It turned out that he deliberately avoided the Tianwu Army.

, What a villain!

Lin Chengcheng and He Yilong took turns to go into battle but returned without success. The Tianwu Army's powerful firepower frightened each battalion. The troops no longer looked as complacent as when they first sent out troops. Ma Shouying even suspected

, if I propose to withdraw my troops at this time, I'm afraid these people will all agree.
Chapter completed!