The tiger squat cannon has a fast firing rate, limited range, and its power is also very average, and it cannot be called a field weapon. Now the Han Eight Banners have not observed that the Ming army has cavalry and bullying the Ming army has no long-range weapons worth mentioning, so they pulled the tiger squat cannon to close range. The Han Eight Banners are surrounded by Wang Mingde's armored cover, and they have strong troops. There is no need to worry about the Ming army's counterattack, which has increased the power of the tiger squat cannon a little. But despite this, the power of these small cannons is just a large shotgun. If the Han Eight Banners use some weapons to be field cannons in the era of platoons, then this close-range cannon cannon can ravage the Ming army's battle formation and scatter the positions of hundreds of Ming army in the blink of an eye.

But the Ming army was still hit hard. Most of the Ming soldiers were recruited by Yuan Zongdi in Kuidong. Before, they had never seen a few guns in the army. Seeing the Qing army attacking with one shot, the hit companion immediately fell to the ground. The armor on their bodies was completely ineffective. The soldiers who were left behind were shocked. What had a greater impact on the Ming army was the sound of cannons. The rumbling of tiger squat cannons fired at close range was the explosion sound of the explosions. The most terrifying sounds of these Ming army had ever heard in their lives.

Only a few other officers were mentally prepared for the huge sounds of gunpowder because they had participated in the Huguang mobilization war. However, their mood was different from that now. Now they were standing opposite the gunpowder weapon instead of behind them; while the other officers were panicked and did not know how to deal with this unprecedented weapon.

The officers were like this, and the soldiers were even more unbearable. After seeing that their companions were constantly being knocked down, the soldiers instinctively lowered their bodies, and the entire Ming army's position was shorter. The auxiliary soldiers behind the warriors were originally strong and strong. If necessary, they helped carry wounded soldiers on their backs and grabbed the prisoners. The roar of tiger squatting cannons made them feel as if they had encountered monsters. No one knew how to deal with this kind of attack, and fear quickly spread among the Ming army.

"Let the artillery stop?"

Seeing that the Ming army had a few artillery after several artillery, they were scattered in panic, and they squatted down or even lay down. They were shocked by the sound of cannons and lost their will to resist. The Green Camp was eager to try and planned to rush forward to defeat the Ming army. The Qing army did not conduct joint training of infantry and artillery. The basic tactic was to bomb the artillery first, cavalry, infantry, and infantry first; then charge in armor, and artillery looked at the artillery. Seeing that the Han Eight Banners were still shouting to load the tiger's squat cannons, the Green Camp officer suggested that the Han Eight Banners stop shooting.

"Wait a minute, we haven't killed enough!" said the Eight Banners soldiers who were commanding the artillery group with a grin. The central troops of the Qing Dynasty had not been on the front line for many years, and they just set off occasionally, just to accompany them as surveillance troops. Today, the Ming army opposite had no power to fight back. These artillery soldiers could bombard their opponents unscrupulously, which made each Eight Banners soldiers look excited.

The Man Eight Banners, who were so fierce that they completely ignored the requirements of the Green Camp and continued to shell the Ming army's positions. The Green Camp officers could not command the Eight Banners troops and could only watch from the side. After all, when they didn't want to lead the team to charge, they were hit by the shells of friendly troops on their backs. Looking at the few rounds of artillery attacks, the Ming army could not raise their heads. The Green Camp officers on the front line were very envious, and many people thought to themselves: "It would be great if we could have all kinds of cannons."

The Eight Banners stopped until the gun barrel began to get hot, and the Eight Banners soldiers stopped in a while. The Eight Banners soldiers pointed at the already chaotic Ming army opposite and shouted proudly: "I'll leave the cleaning work to you."

After confirming that the Eight Banners soldiers were almost satisfied, they would not fire again, the Green Camp also ignited the cannons. With the sound of running, a large number of Green Camps rushed up in armor and shouting. The Ming army on the opposite side was on the verge of collapse. Anyone could see that this was the time to take advantage of the situation and take credit.

In fact, the losses caused by the tiger squat cannon to the Ming army were very limited. After such a long period of chaos, there were only a dozen Ming army killed, but the blow to morale was irreversible. When the green camp rushed up, the Ming army soldiers in the back row stood up and ran away without saying a word - the shelling that could not defend and counterattack was finally terminated, and they did not want to be hit by another round.

The Ming army in front performed similarly. The artillery bombardment just now made most of the Ming soldiers beating their hearts, and they felt like they had walked back and forth a few times in front of the gate of hell. Where did these frightened Ming soldiers still have the fighting spirit? When the Green Camp rushed to the Ming army's position, only a few particularly brave Ming soldiers tried to resist, but these sporadic heroic behaviors were meaningless. In the blink of an eye, they were all submerged in the tide of the Green Camp soldiers.

After hearing the cannons just now, Yuan Zongdi immediately sent 200 soldiers to reinforce the Western Front, hoping to make the other front last longer. But these armored soldiers could not reach the front line at all. There were a large number of auxiliary soldiers who escaped, most of them did not know what happened to fall to the ground. When they saw their companions in the west shouting and roaring, they ran with them. These auxiliary soldiers blocked the reinforcements' way, and they shouted to everyone that the Qing army killed in the west was overwhelming, and the artillery was as rainy as they touched, and they died when they were knocked out. Among these rumors that were spreading more and more widespread, the entire Ming army on the Western Front was blown to the sky by the Qing army's artillery, and even the hills they used to defend were flattened.

These shouts not only caused all the auxiliary soldiers to start fleeing, but the morale of the soldiers sent by Yuan Zongdi to reinforce was also severely hit. The officers and soldiers did not have the confidence to use their flesh and blood to block the invincible artillery. In particular, some people have heard that Deng Ming used gunpowder to flatten the Huguang city wall. Even if his body was strong, could he still be compared with the city wall? Unlike those who were on the front line, the more people who knew the power of gunpowder among the reinforcements, the more they overestimated the power of the Han Eight Banner artillery they could not see with their own eyes.

The reinforcements were not moving fast, and as their morale fell, they were quickly dispersed by the defeated soldiers. In the blink of an eye, half of the two hundred soldiers were swept away by the scattered soldiers, and the rest stopped moving forward and soon began to slowly retreat.

"Isn't it just a tiger squat cannon? As for being scared like this?" Yuan Zongdi saw that the auxiliary soldiers who were originally protected between the two lines of defense had been defeated, and he was anxious and angry. He had an intuitive understanding of the power of this weapon. When the panicked messenger reported the rumors to Yuan Zongdi seriously, he shouted angrily: "It sounds like at most ten cannons, and thousands of people were allowed to be bombarded for a month!"

However, it is useless to lose his temper. Yuan Zongdi's knowledge was of no help to the chaos in front of him. He had to divide his troops again, block the defeated soldiers from attacking his front, and ordered the soldiers to shout to the defeated soldiers, asking them to escape north on their own, waiting to gather or return to Wanxian. Yuan Zongdi, who was busy adjusting the front, naturally could no longer attack Zhang Yong. Now he could only pray that Zhang Yong would not take the opportunity to attack him.

To the east of Yuan Zongdi, Zhang Yong had been observing the movements of the Ming army seriously. Wang Mingde's offensive was faster than he thought. Zhang Yong originally thought he needed to contact for a while before he could see the main reinforcements being dispatched.

"Did he have arrived long ago?" Zhang Yong murmured, almost with the wolf smoke, the sound of cannons came, and the wolf smoke was almost ignited when Yuan Zongdi launched an attack. This action was too tight. However, as long as this battle was won, Zhang Yong would have nothing to blame. Wang Mingde completely claimed that he was transferring the main force from the most important location in order to make Yuan Zongdi misjudgment.

"Big Baby." Zhang Yong snorted. Although he felt that Wang Mingde was a little bit of using himself as bait, he was not very angry. Yuan Zongdi's offensive was quite weak and did not pose a big threat to himself: "I will hold my troops first, and wait until Wang Mingde and Yuan Zongdi's main force fight, I will attack again. This way, the losses are small, and I can capture more prisoners."

In addition to his wishful thinking, Zhang Yong also understood that the active attack in this weather would cause the soldiers to lose their physical strength. Although he was basically still in the woods, Zhang Yong was already sweating profusely. In July, Sichuan was wet and hot, and after putting on a full set of armor, he seemed to be wearing a set of quilts. Yuan Zongdi's soldiers had fought a battle, and now they were moving back and forth. Zhang Yong estimated that if the Ming army ran like this for a while, the price he had to pay for victory would be smaller.

At this time, the noise from the north interrupted Zhang Yong's contemplation. He listened for a moment and cursed in his heart: "Not good!"

After scolding, Zhang Yong hurriedly turned around and climbed the hills behind him. What reflected in his eyes was the overwhelming defeated soldiers from his side. Zhang Yong, like Yuan Zongdi, protected the armorless soldiers between the two lines of defense. Now Zhang Yong's armorless soldiers have collapsed completely, and rushed towards Zhang Yong's general flag in a hurry to seek the protection of the commander.

The other half of the personal barracks defending along the river were fighting and retreating, and seemed to be under great pressure. What was worse than them was that Zhang Yong was deploying his troops in the north to cover his troops. A Qing general who was commanding the troops was naked and rolling and crawling to Zhang Yong, wailing: "Admiral! General! It's broken, it's broken!"

"Bastard!" Zhang Yong knew that the general had hundreds of personal soldiers, but he didn't expect that he could not resist three times. Before Yuan Zongdi collapsed, he fled to himself alone: ​​"Can you even defeat a group of new recruits?"

"The last general is mostly new recruits," the general's scabbard was also empty. He threw away his weapons just now to escape. He tried his best to defend himself: "There are so many thieves! So awesome! It's really amazing!"

"Nonsense!" Zhang Yong didn't want to listen to the other party's nonsense. It was obvious that he was careless and he resisted Yuan Zongdi's guards, but these incompetent people were defeated by a group of mobs.

Before Zhang Yong could expose the other party's exaggerated words, the red flag on the flank flashed, and a large number of Ming troops emerged from the hills. The armor on their bodies shone like stars. Zhang Yong looked at it in a daze for a moment. More Ming soldiers chased the defeated enemy in the middle and appeared in front of Zhang Yong's general flag, making the open space and the forest shine with metallic luster everywhere.

"Hundreds of armored soldiers." Zhang Yong murmured. What he saw was the main camp of Wanxian that broke through the central government and then rotated southward.
Chapter completed!