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Chapter 175 Battle, assault!
Out of contempt for the Yibu rebels, Liang Fei neither conducted enemy reconnaissance nor used a small group of cavalry to test the situation first, and headed directly towards the mound with [-] cavalry!

"Kill it!"

Relying on his own bravery, wearing two layers of armor and an eight-petal round iron helmet, Liang Fei led dozens of cavalry servants to the front to act as the arrow for the entire cavalry formation.

As a result, when I approached the mound for more than 100 steps, I discovered that there were a lot of caltrops sprinkled on the ground in front of me!

Tribulus, a special defense against cavalry, appeared as early as the Warring States Period. The Ming Dynasty also had it, but it was mostly used in battles with Mongolian and Jiannu cavalry at the northern border.

Liang Fei has been suppressing bandits in the mainland for many years, and no bandit or bandit has ever used this kind of thing, so that he almost forgot the existence of iron caltrops.

The same is true for his Ming army cavalry.

At this time, their horse speed was already quite high and they couldn't stop the horse at all!
In an instant, I don’t know how many riders fell on their backs!

Even Liang Fei, a guerrilla, fell to the ground. Thanks to his good skills and wearing armor, he only suffered minor injuries.

When he looked back, his eyes were filled with tears.

I saw dozens of cavalry servants, more than half of them fell down due to a mere barbell!

Those who were closer to the front were only slightly injured, while those who were closer to the back were trampled by the cavalry that came after them, and many of them were killed on the spot!

Including the ordinary cavalry who fell down, out of the [-] cavalry, nearly a hundred were killed or injured when they came up!
Without enough time to vent his anger, Liang Fei quickly walked around to one side of the battlefield.

It was at this time that he heard a series of crisp cannon shots coming from the mound, hundreds of them!
Tiger Crouching Cannon?
The thieves actually have tiger squatting cannons!
While feeling frightened in his heart, Liang Fei quickly threw himself behind a wounded horse.

All that was heard was what sounded like a violent hailstorm.

For a while, screams could be heard endlessly, war horses neighed, and I don’t know how many officers and cavalry were knocked down by the Crouching Tiger Cannon!
Not only that, a large row of soldiers carrying blunderbuss rushed down from the mound.

Shoot at the edge of the thorns, sixty or seventy steps away from where the cavalry was thrown down and blocked!
boom···

A round of gunfire rang out, and some more officers and cavalry fell down.

The remaining cavalrymen slowed down and ran to both sides.

Liu Guangzuo and the main force of the army were still more than a mile away from the mound.

Seeing Liang Fei leading the cavalry to rush over, first inexplicably knocking down a large number of them, and then a burst of cannons and gunshots, and another batch fell down, I couldn't help but froze.

Then he became furious!
"Liang Fei's second ball! Is this what his fucking cavalry uses?!"

The cavalrymen who escaped were no more than [-], and Liu Guangzuo was so heartbroken that he bled!

That's cavalry!

He began to suppress bandits in the early years of Chongzhen. He traveled around in various places for more than ten years and only accumulated [-] horses.

Now he was defeated by Liang Fei by less than half!

Not only that, the cavalry's defeat also caused the originally high morale of the officers and soldiers to plummet!

But Liu Guangzuo had no intention of giving up.

Although the cavalry suffered heavy losses, they finally found out that the rebels had squatting cannons and cannons.

The bandit army has it, but doesn’t Liu Guangzuo have it?
At present, the number of infantry in the official army is still nearly three times that of the rebel army, and they are on the plains. If he does not dare to fight, his past ten years will have been in vain.

"Every thousand commanders and general commanders will obey orders and besieged in five groups - the thieves and soldiers are few, so it will be difficult to deal with them!"

As Liu Guangzuo issued a new order, the official army and rural soldiers quickly divided into five groups and surrounded the mound where the Yibu rebels were stationed...

Behind the mound.

Ma Mingfeng, commander of the third battalion of the second regiment, came over and said: "Vice-deputy, the Ming army wants to surround us, what should we do?"

"We can only rely on the mounds to defend!" Huang Gan said loudly, "The river has many bends here. Commander Helian and Deputy Liu are only a few miles away from us. As long as we persist for a while, we can wait for reinforcements!"

"I see!"

Ma Mingfeng immediately went to step up the arrangement of defensive positions.

Huang Gan was prepared to deal with the siege of the army from the beginning - for him, it was an unexpected surprise that the caltrops sprinkled head-on with a try mentality could kill one or two hundred enemy riders.

In addition to personally dealing with the frontal enemy, he also asked Ma Mingfeng, the commander of the second battalion, to defend the north, and Lin Zhanfei, the deputy of the third battalion, to defend the south.

The troop strength is 300 people on one side, and another 300 people are left as reserves.

Soon, five lines of officers and soldiers arrived two or three hundred paces away from the mound.

"The Ming army is setting up artillery! Hit them first!"

Under Huang Gan's command, more than 100 tiger squatting guns were divided into three sides and opened fire again.

In order to pursue the range, iron bullets were used this time.

There are thirty or forty gates on each side that can be fired together to form a crude bullet net.

The Crouching Tiger Cannon can barely shoot low and flat like a cannon using its gun mount.

I saw dozens of iron bullets hitting, and seven or eight Ming army gunners were hit and killed on the spot!

"It's a pity that it's not our squatting steel cannon."

Huang Gan looked at the result and felt a little pity.

The 120 squatting tiger guns carried by his two battalions were all captured from Xiangyang City.Not only is it bulkier than the Crouching Tiger Steel Cannon made by Kueibu, it has a shorter range and less power.

If you use the squatting steel cannon like the one in the Guards, it can hit almost a mile!

With just two hundred steps in front of us, as long as there were people in front of us, one shell would have to kill two or three people before it would stop.

After all, Liu Guangzuo's battalion soldiers were trained to suppress bandits, and they had a lot of money, food, and rewards in front of them. They did not collapse just because they took a round of artillery fire and killed more than a dozen people.

After a round of artillery fire from the rebel army, the Ming army's Crouching Tiger Artillery also fired.

Although Liu Guangzuo's troops carried only seventy or eighty Tiger Crouching Cannons, and the density of shelling was obviously not as good as that of the rebels, the rebels relied on mounds for defense, so their formation was not too spread out.

He was actually beaten by a round of Tiger Crouching Cannon fire from the army, killing and injuring more than [-] people!

In this way, both sides fought for a round each. Seeing that his own side still suffered nearly 20 casualties, Huang Gan felt that such a fight would not work.

He immediately summoned the battalion deputy Lin Zhanfei and said, "You will take command later, and I will blow up their Tiger Crouching Artillery position with a grenade!"

It is not the habit of the Yibu rebels to be responsible for carrying out dangerous missions, but Huang Gan's personal habit.

He is a person who is not afraid of death and dares to fight and charge forward.Upon hearing this, Lin Zhanfei said: "How can the regiment deputy take such a risk? If something happens to you, our morale will definitely drop, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend. Isn't it just to blow up the Ming army's tiger squatting artillery position? I'll go!"

After saying that, Lin Zhanfei went to summon the sword players.

Huang Gan sighed when he saw this and said nothing. He urgently arranged musketeers and crossbowmen to cover Lin Zhanfei.

After the rebels fired their third round of running and before the Ming army fired their third round of artillery, Lin Zhenfei led fifty sword players wearing two layers of armor and ran straight to the Ming army's position in the south.

The officers and soldiers were not too nervous. They saw the rebel knife players rushing to more than fifty steps before firing their guns and arrows under the command.

The bow and arrow belts of the officers and soldiers were okay. Except for a few heavy arrows, most of the arrows were difficult to break through the two layers of armor even if they were not blocked by shields and hit the rebels.

However, the official army also had muskets, that is, matchlock guns.

Another gun was raised.

The total number of cannons and guns on the south side is only about thirty, and they are not all fired uniformly.

However, amidst the banging gunshots, several rebel swordsmen fell to the ground with their guns in their hands.

At this distance, even if you are wearing two layers of armor, your armor will be broken by cannons and guns, and you will be seriously injured even if you don't die!

"Musketeers and crossbowmen, take cover!"

Huang Gan yelled and waved his arms to command, his face flushed as if he was dripping blood.

The rebel musketeers in armor immediately arrived on both sides of the swordsmen, fired back, and finally managed to suppress the official gunmen.

In the official army position, a commander in charge of the frontline command could not help but sneer: "Dozens of heavy-armored sword players dare to attack our position? You are really looking for death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lin Zhanfei and other rebels who had already advanced forty steps, throwing things that lit the fuse one by one!
"what?"

The general was surprised at first, then his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted in fear: "No! It's an enemy of ten thousand people!"

While shouting, he flew to one side.

Immediately, a series of "boom" sounds were heard, densely packed!
When he fell down, he felt countless things shooting into his body. Most of them were blocked by the armor, but a few of them penetrated his skin. He screamed in pain.

Lin Zhanfei couldn't help laughing when he saw a round of grenades blowing up the government and army positions, killing and injuring dozens of people.

"The dog officer army is nothing more than that!"

Then he took the sword players and musketeers with him and retreated to his own position.

After a little reorganization, they took dozens of other sword players to attack the official positions on the north side.

Originally, he went there with a cannon in his hand.

However, whether the officers and soldiers knew that the rebels would come to attack the position, or whether it was purely a coincidence, a few squatting tiger artillery were delayed until the rebels attacked!

Fortunately, the opponents were loading live ammunition instead of shotguns.

Unfortunately, only two of the rebels were shot.

However, one of them was Lin Zhanfei, the deputy of the Third Battalion!
Seeing the iron bullets coming, he subconsciously blocked it with the shield in his left hand. The wooden shield wrapped with iron was instantly exploded by the iron bullets, and the forearm of his left hand holding the shield was instantly broken!
Flesh and blood!
"Batalion Deputy!"

The surrounding knife players all exclaimed, subconsciously protecting Lin Zhanfei.

"Ah~"

Lin Zhanfei couldn't help but howled miserably, but when he saw his comrades coming around, he shouted angrily, "Why are you all here? Come to me!"

After saying that, he pushed a soldier away with his right hand and rushed forward first!

Upon seeing this, the other sword players followed suit and rushed forward for more than ten steps. They lit the grenades and threw them against the arrows and lead bullets of the officers and soldiers!

Suddenly, the front edge of the official and military positions on the north side was also blown up.

Not only were many official gunners killed or injured, but many powder barrels were detonated.

Liu Guangzuo was more than a mile away from the mound and saw that the five soldiers and horses were unable to break through for a while.

It even caused the rebels to launch a counterattack, knocking people off their feet and causing a sharp drop in morale on both sides.

He was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

Just as he was about to send someone to scold the generals commanding at the front, he saw sentries and cavalry running towards him from the south.

"Report——" The sentry horse approached, and he couldn't wait to rein in his horse, so he said urgently: "Headquarters, there are many thieves riding across the pontoon bridge from the south!"

"Let Liang Fei lead the cavalry..."

As a veteran in suppressing bandits, Liu Guangzuo subconsciously wanted his own cavalry to intercept him when he heard this.

Halfway through his words, when he saw the more than [-] wilting cavalry beside him and Liang Fei, who was not sure whether he was dead or alive, he realized that his cavalry had suffered heavy losses and was simply not up to the task of intercepting the enemy's cavalry.

At this time, Dian Shi, who led the Xinye soldiers, advised: "General Liu, the bandit army is powerful and has sharp guns. We are in a hurry and it is difficult to capture it. We should retreat quickly!"

Liu Guangzuo was very unwilling.

But seeing that his soldiers and horses could not break through the enemy's defense on the mound, they knew that this battle could not be fought.

If you fight further, you will be entangled by the thieves and cavalry first, and then blocked by the thieves' reinforcements, and that will be the end!

"Commander Zhang will lead the cavalry to harass the thieves or lead the thieves elsewhere. The other departments should retreat in turn!"

As Liu Guangzuo's order was issued, the sound of gold soon resounded throughout the countryside.

The officers and soldiers who had previously been jealous of the money and food on the boat were relieved when they heard the sound of gold and retreated one after another.

Behind the mound.

Huang Gan just looked at Lin Zhanfei's injuries when he heard the sound of gold.

Second Battalion Commander Ma Mingfeng came over and said, "The Ming army is about to retreat, do we want to pursue it?"

Huang Gan really wanted to pursue him.

But when he climbed up the mound and took a look, he shook his head and said, "The Ming army retreated without chaos, so let's forget it. Moreover, with the Cavalry Guard coming, they may not be able to escape safely."

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