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Seeing this, Zhang Daojun quickly asked his soldiers to check the enemy's situation, and found that not far away was a fire, reflecting a neat team, none other than Zhang Shun's team who came to support.

Zhang Daojun couldn't help being surprised when he saw that some rogues used artillery to deal with him.After thinking about it, he guessed that it was the thieves under the command of "Zijin Liang" who bombarded their Dou Village with artillery.

This is really jealous when the enemy meets, Zhang Daojun immediately ordered to fight back with artillery against Zhang Shun.The distance between the two sides was relatively long, and the large number of Fran planes carried by Zhang Daojun could not reach the distance, so he had to fight back with a few Western cannons.

This so-called Western Cannon is actually the Hongyi Cannon.It's just that people in the Ming Dynasty called them differently according to the objects of contact with European firearms.The artillery learned from the Netherlands is called the Hongyi Cannon, while the one imitated and learned from Spain is called the Western Cannon.

Later, the Ming people discovered that the shapes of these cannons were almost the same, so they were collectively called Hongyi cannons.Later, it spread to the Qing Dynasty, and because the word "Yi" was taboo in the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed "Red Clothes Cannon".

What Zhang Daojun built for the governor of Jiliao was a small Western cannon, weighing between [-] and [-] catties, with a diameter of more than two inches and a multiple of about twenty times the diameter.It is compatible with small artillery such as the two-inch caliber tiger squat gun often used by the Ming army.

The batch of artillery in Zhang Daojun's hands was well-made, and they fired quickly and accurately, killing seven or eight soldiers under Zhang Shun's command with just one volley.

This Zhang Shun was also taken aback. Although Zhang Shun knew that the officers and soldiers also had a lot of cannons in their hands, because he had never encountered officers and soldiers using cannons in many battles, Zhang Shun almost thought that this was his unique skill.

At this time, the night was dark, and the two sides could not see each other clearly, nor could they bombard each other's artillery positions, so they had to set up their cannons and shoot back and forth.Zhang Shunsheng's artillery has a larger caliber and is more powerful; Zhang Daojunsheng's Western artillery is well-made and accurate.

Seeing this, Zhang Shun quickly asked the soldiers to extinguish some of the torches to hide the location of the main force and the artillery.Zhang Daojun couldn't see clearly where Zhang Shun's team was at this time, and the Western Cannon suddenly hit like a blind man, but he couldn't hit Zhang Shun's soldiers.

On the contrary, Zhang Shun has many artillery pieces and good mobility.Under Li Shi'an's command, he often hid in one place and finished loading. After a volley, he immediately put it on the mules and horses, and moved quickly.

As the commander of the ambushes, Zhang Daojun did not dare to extinguish the torches, for fear that the officers and soldiers would lose their position as commander in the chaotic battle, their morale would drop, and they would be killed to death.But this became a living target for Zhang Shun's artillery, and he was so desperate to be bombarded by Li Shi'an's gunners.

What's more, the shells of Zhang Daojun's western cannon weigh only about one catty, while Zhang Shun's three-inch caliber cannon is technically inferior, but it is a standard six-pound gun with a shell weighing four and a half catties.

Zhang Daojun's small cannon only penetrated three or four people with one shot, while Zhang Shun's cannon could almost penetrate dozens of people with one shot.So after being passively beaten for two rounds of shooting, Zhang Daojun couldn't sit still.He had no choice but to take the initiative to attack, destroy or force Zhang Shun's team back.

Zhang Daojun is not a brainless person. He knows that field combat and melee combat are not good for him, but he still has a large number of Fran cannons.This Fran cannon is a breech-loading smoothbore gun learned from Spain. Because of the underground air-holding technology at that time, the range and power of this artillery were not very good, but the advantage was that it was loaded quickly and had good firepower continuity.

After learning this kind of artillery at that time, the Ming army found that it was especially suitable for dealing with the Tartars in the north, and developed a large number of models of Fran cannons on this basis.The big one weighs tens of thousands of catties, and the small one is basically just a gun
The Franc machines in Zhang Daojun's hands are basically small and medium-sized models. For the convenience of carrying, the heaviest one is only about [-] catties.The range of this type of artillery is only between fifty or sixty paces to two, three, or four paces. Zhang Daojun felt that as long as his team rushed to such a short distance, the fierce firepower would definitely be able to defeat Zhang Shun's team.

Zhang Daojun's team set off, holding torches to illuminate the road, and rushed down the hillside.Due to the influence of the night, Zhang Daojun's team was not fast.Li Shi'an was very happy to point the cannon at the place where the flames were concentrated to "roll the roll", and Zhang Daojun was so angry that he wished to tear Li Shi'an and others to pieces.

When Zhang Daojun's team was about fifty steps away from Zhang Shun's team, Zhang Shun had already secretly ordered his soldiers to squat down.After a series of bombardments by Zhang Daojun's Fran machine guns, because Zhang Shun's troops could not be seen clearly in the night, he knew that Zhang Shun's troops had suffered heavy losses, so he took the opportunity to order a charge.

As a result, Zhang Shun let them go about ten steps in front of his formation, and twenty or thirty cannons fired together, shooting dense rain-like shotgun shells, and wiped out Zhang Daojun's hand-to-hand killer team.

After the sound of the huge artillery subsided, Zhang Daojun resisted the uncomfortable tinnitus, and stared blankly at the pitch-black position ahead.In the flashing light of the artillery just now, he clearly saw that his melee killer team was smashed to pieces by the opponent's artillery, falling down in pieces like cut wheat.

Angry, Zhang Daojun couldn't bring himself to be angry anymore.Although he is not a very good general, but decades of military career told him that his hand-to-hand killer team is over, the ambush campaign he carefully planned is over, he is going to make up for his mistakes, and his plan to rise to the top is also over.

He still wanted to gamble, but his rationality told him that he could not continue to gamble.He had no choice but to grit his teeth and swallow his blood, and decisively ordered to retreat.

Hearing this, Liu Wei, his deputy general, couldn't believe his ears, and shouted loudly: "General, the extraordinary achievements through the ages are right in front of you, are you willing!"

"Not reconciled!" Zhang Daojun gritted his teeth.

"If you are not reconciled, let me lead someone forward and charge again!" Liu Wei said angrily.

"No!" Zhang Daojun shouted with all his strength, "The soldiers under my command only rely on firearms, and now firearms are not as good as people, so what can I do! I have a hand-to-hand killer team under my command with the servants left behind by my father as the backbone. Give it a go. Now that the Killer Team is completely lost, what can they do!"

Liu Wei was speechless when he heard this, so he had to retreat disgruntled.As a result, the sound of officers and soldiers screaming gold sounded in the audience, and the officers and soldiers couldn't help being in chaos.

As a result, the rebel army did not take the opportunity to chase and kill them. Instead, they lay staggered on the ground one by one, thankfully they finally survived the catastrophe.It turned out that the officers, soldiers and rebels had been fighting since last night until it was almost dawn, but they didn't eat a grain of rice or drink a sip of water, and they were already exhausted.

Coupled with the chaotic battle between the two sides, each of them had already lost their command and organization, so the rebel army was also powerless and unable to rise up to pursue.

And that Zhang Shun saw that Zhang Daojun's army was advancing and retreating with restraint, so he didn't dare to persecute him too much, and he didn't do too much for himself by expelling him in a symbolic way.

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