More than 100,000 people are so dense that they are endless. In comparison, the government army is less than 15,000, which seems to be in proportion.

The soldiers and civilians at Chongzhou City saw it and were all surprised.

"Where did this official army come from? Why does it look different?" Someone looked at the uniform of the 01st Infantry Division in surprise, which was not the mandarin duck war robe worn by ordinary Ming troops.

"It seems that it was from the Beijing Army. I heard that when serving in the Beijing Army, the military pay is the highest, and there is 3 silver dollars a month!" Someone said that Shandong is close to Northern Zhili, especially near the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, so the news is more convenient to pass on. There are many rumors about the changes in the Beijing Army.

Under the city, the 01th infantry division calmly set up its formation. However, the Yinxiang Sect was trying hard to concentrate its troops, but the command of the Yinxiang Sect was very slow. The Beijing camp had already set up its formation, and the Yinxiang Sect had only concentrated less than 100,000 troops.

Bang bang bang ~!

The deafening war drum suddenly sounded, and the 01st Infantry Division ordered flags to fly. Amid the hot drum beats, the infantry division's formations began to slowly advance and bravely pressed towards the turbulent army of the Wind Sorcery Sect.

The soldiers and civilians in Chongzhou City were shocked when they saw it. This was simply too crazy. Not only did they fight against the crowd, but they also had to take the initiative to attack. Isn’t this because they didn’t die fast enough?

The two wings of the 01 Infantry Division were covered by the Tengxiang Cavalry Division, and they also slowly advanced forward with the pace of the 01 Infantry Division.

The Yinxiang Sect did not sit and wait for death, but distributed a large number of troops from both sides and surrounded the two wings of the Beijing camp. It seemed like a bloody mouth, and it was necessary to swallow the 01st Infantry Division and the Tengxiang Cavalry Division in one go. As long as they were completely surrounded, they would probably be submerged in the vast ocean of the Yinxiang Sect's chaos army.

"Accelerate forward." Zhou Chao roared loudly from his battle knife at an altitude.

The situation they faced at this time was only to defeat the thief army head-on with lightning speed before being completely surrounded, otherwise the two wings, the rear of the thief army, will be completely surrounded by the Wind Xiang Cult thief army, and will be directly dragged into the 'endless' quagmire of melee combat, which will be unbearable.

Only advance, no retreat!

All the soldiers accelerated, getting closer and closer. Finally, the drums stopped three hundred meters away from the bandit army.

All are determined.

"Archive fire."

I saw an infantry cannon being pushed out, which were two hundred three-pound cannons and three hundred one-pound cannons. Because these infantry cannons are extremely light, they are directly equipped for infantry use.

A famous artillery soldier quickly coordinated operations, loaded ammunition and medicine.

"Prepare...release!"

As the order was issued, all of them were pressed down and ignited.

Ruth... The fuse burned quickly, sparks flashing wildly, and then it let out a thunderous roar. In an instant, hundreds of cannons fired together. One by one, the shells turned into balls of light and sprayed out of the gun mouth, directly breaking through the air.

Whoosh~~!

Hundreds of shells hit the dense formation of the thieves in the Winter Sorrow Sect with an unstoppable momentum. One of them was killed on the spot. The bandits along the way all broke their bones, broken tendons, blood, brains, intestines, and broken limbs and arms splattered everywhere.

The bandit army was in chaos on the spot. They were arranged so densely, just like an ant colony, and they couldn't even move their feet away. The Ming army's artillery didn't need to be aimed at it at all. As long as the direction was roughly right, they could definitely shoot a Grand Slam.

After the shells destroyed the first thief army, the remaining momentum remained unabated. The hot shells bounced wildly on the ground, killing the second, the third, and even killing seven or eight with one shot. However, the power of a pound cannon is much smaller. Usually, the potential energy is exhausted if it kills three or five. The potential energy of the three pound cannon is much stronger, but it cannot easily kill more than a dozen people like a large-caliber cannon.

If there were large-caliber artillery at this time, the scene would have been more spectacular, or more tragic.

If five hundred shells were smashed, the bandit army had at least two thousand casualties on the spot. Although the performance of the artillery in this era is not as good as that of the artillery in later generations, it is not much worse in terms of killing efficiency. Although the artillery in later generations is powerful, the enemy will not be foolishly arranged into dense formations for you to fight, but will adopt straggler tactics and also have various ground covers for protection. For example, in World War II, tens of thousands of bullets could kill a person, and more than a dozen shells could kill one or two, and sometimes even one enemy could not kill.

The huge damage is still secondary. The most terrifying consequence is that after a round of artillery bombardment, the bandit army exploded with a loud bang in the front. A large number of bandit army cried and shouted at their parents, rushing to avoid shells. The consequences are self-evident. The formation that originally looked a little more beautiful was in chaos on the spot. Looking down from a bird's eye, the entire bandit army was like a wave, rolling towards this side and then toward that side.

In the dense formation, there was no room for movement, so people could only push and crowd. The shelling scene was too tragic. The farmers who were frightened to pee their pants cried and shouted at their parents, squeezed in one direction regardless of everything, and in the direction of being squeezed, they had to squeeze to the other side. As a result, they were like dominoes, which produced a terrifying chain reaction. It looked like rolling waves.

However, the direction of evasion chosen by each person was different, so that the entire military formation was in chaos on the spot, like boiling hot porridge, rolling and boiling. The thieves on the outer edge could only scatter in a crazily in order to avoid the crowding. So soon, the originally dense formation of the thieves became much looser in a short while, and there were many spaces of different sizes and sizes inside, creating sufficient conditions for the cavalry to charge.

Just thirty seconds later, the second round of shells roared.

The thief army that had been dispersed a little, the killing of this shelling was smaller, but the avoidance of more shells became even more intense. After the first round of shelling, the soldiers of the thief army realized the power of these shells, and they became more mindless in hiding. The space became larger and the military formation was almost completely chaotic.

Suddenly the ground trembled and looked up. The bandits found that the left-wing cavalry in the Ming army had begun to slowly accelerate and rushed towards them.

The cavalry attacked.

Accelerate, accelerate again.

The flying cavalry wall launched a full charge less than 300 meters away from the bandit army. At the amazing charge speed, the Tengxiang Cavalry Division still maintained a perfect formation.

The discipline and training level of the Tengxiang Cavalry Division has reached an amazing level.

The bandit army wanted to gather the formation, but unfortunately their soldiers were all farmers who were not all literate. They were already panicked under the bombardment of artillery fire. How could they be restrained? So they could only watch the Tengxiang Cavalry Division crashed directly into their military formation. In the formation of the bandit army of the Wink Xiang Sect, the infantry who saw the cavalry rushing towards dodge one after another.

It rushed in without any effort, which was unbelievable. The loose space in the formation of the bandit army also provided enough maneuverable space for the Tengxiang Cavalry Division. In other words, it gave the bandit soldiers room to dodge a road. So much so that the Tengxiang Cavalry Division only dispatched half of its troops, and only 1,500 cavalrymen were invincible among the 70,000 to 80,000 robbery troops.

Strictly speaking, there is no decent resistance.

When most of the soldiers of the thief army saw the cavalry coming, they dodged left and right. Those who had no time to dodge or tried to resist were directly crushed by 1,500 cavalry on the spot. The resistance that the Yinxiang Cult tried to stop was soon dispersed by their own riots. In powerlessness, they could only join the ranks of dodging.

The Tengxiang Cavalry Division did not care about those bandits who dodged to the side. The entire cavalry brigade was like a sharp awl, and directly drilled the front formation of the bandits into a transparent way. From the front to the back, he cut out a bloody road along the way. In less than three minutes, the bandits had already been killed through.

After killing through the bandit army, the cavalry brigade quickly formed a team, then resuscited again, and once again drilled into the bandit army formation. There was another wave of chaos like rolling waves. As the bandit soldiers dodged one after another, they were soon killed by the cavalry brigade and killed again.

The whole team turned around and entered again. The formation of the bandit army in the Wind Xiang Sect was completely in chaos after repeated storms, making the charge of the cavalry brigade almost unsolvable. The infantry of the bandit army was left with only the massacres in front of these cavalry.

After all, the real war is not a single-player game in later generations. As long as a person is gone, each unit can be consumed completely without any brains. Although the thief army of the Scent of the Fragrance Sect has a lot of troops, it is useless. Everyone has thoughts and survives. When they are not fighting or are entangled by the situation, the number of people becomes a fatal factor.

However, the bandit army on the front was still struggling to support it, because on the other side, the bandit army had already encircled the left and right wings of the Ming army. There were more than 40,000 bandit army on both sides.

Zhou Chaohai immediately took response measures and reached an agreement with Li Wei. Zhou Chaohai immediately arranged all 200 three-pound cannons on the right wing, and after launching a round of artillery attacks at the rushing bandit army, he successfully disrupted the formation of the bandit army. Then Li Wei personally led the cavalry brigade that had not yet been put into combat to launch a charge to the right wing bandit army.

At the same time, the infantry division quickly set up a defensive formation and aimed at the bandit army on the left wing. All three hundred cannons were replaced with shotguns, and a burst of bombing at the rushing bandit army.

Within three hundred meters, the lethality of these shotguns was even more terrifying. After a round of bombing, the thief army on the left fell down almost in large numbers. Each cannon turned into a deadly weapon.

The bandits were all infantry and were slow to move. It was impossible to launch a charge directly from three hundred meters away. When they rushed over, they were exhausted. So when the left-wing bandits were approaching one hundred meters away, they had already suffered three rounds of artillery attacks. At this distance, the musketeers of the 01st Infantry Division also began to shoot wildly.

The equipment of the thief army of the smell of the fragrance sect was too bad and they could shoot and kill them at will a hundred meters away.

"Prepare, let it go!"

"Prepare, let it go!"

Under the waves of gunfire, they fell to the ground one by one. The scene was so scary. If the people around them fell one after another, the deterrence might not be that strong. But suddenly seeing people falling down from the side, the deterrence would be extremely huge. Even regular troops would often be defeated under the attack of gunfire, let alone these farmers who were carrying the front to the battlefield. They were barely driven by the backbone of the Wenxiang Sect to 50 meters away from the left wing of the Ming army, and finally they could not hold on and quickly collapsed. The bandits in front fled in all directions, dispersing the back.

The situation on the right wing was even worse. After being bombarded by a round of artillery, Li Wei rushed casually with the cavalry and rushed again, and could not continue to advance. The more he advanced, the looser the formation. The cavalry led by Li Wei could divide more small units to charge, without fear of being eaten by the thief army after being divided into small units.

The situation on the front of the battlefield is still relatively stalemate, because the frontal bandit army did not advance forward, and the cavalry brigades that attacked the bandit army did not dare to divide small units to disperse the impact, so they killed seven in and seven out. Only then did the frontal main force of the bandit army become difficult to maintain, showing signs of defeat. (To be continued...)
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