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After paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, the bandits and Ming soldiers finally rushed to the front of Qi Jiguang's formation.
Worried about accidental injury, Zhu Youjian immediately ordered to stop the shelling.
"Huang Chao, stop shelling, don't accidentally hurt your own people."
"Of order, stop the shelling."
With a wave of the command flag in Huang Chao's hand, the shelling on the top of the city stopped immediately.
Zhu Youjian raised his binoculars and looked at the army of rogue bandits, only to see that their formation was in a mess and they were all disrupted by artillery fire.
However, corpses were left everywhere, and in the end about 10 people rushed to Qi Jiguang's 300 meters with difficulty.
This was Zhu Youjian's first on-site command. Seeing the army of rogues who fell to the ground under the bombardment of the red cannons, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"These rogues actually want to overthrow my Ming Dynasty. Today I want to let you all taste what it's like to be bombarded by all kinds of artillery, haha..."
Tang Tong originally had 6 horses. When he rushed to the front of the formation, he looked back at his team and saw that there were less than 2 people. Tang Tong was a little suspicious of life.
Seeing the neat shield array not far from the opposite side, the lieutenant hurriedly reminded Tang Tong:
"Look, General Tang, why are there so many troops on the other side? It's impossible for the capital to have so many troops. Daming should have reinforcements coming."
Tang Tong, who was in a hurry, noticed the three phalanxes on the opposite side after being kicked down by the lieutenant general, and was taken aback.
"No way, when did the Ming army become so determined. The shield array is so neat, and there is no panic at all."
Tang Tong really didn't want to fight anymore, more because he didn't dare to fight anymore, and he had the idea of leading these people under his command to escape.
But Liu Zongmin and those in the supervisory team were staring at them fiercely, and if they retreated, it would almost be a dead end.
Gritting his teeth cruelly, Tang Tong had no choice but to draw out his saber, and waved an order in the air:
"Brothers, grit your teeth and persevere. The dawn of victory is coming soon. As long as you can break through the capital, King Chuang will reward you a lot, and give it to my general."
"Come on"
"kill"
"If you don't rush, you will die. Only by defeating the Ming army can you survive."
2 people flocked to Qi Jiguang's battle formation like a tide, and Liu Zongmin's new barracks followed suit.
Although the bombardment just now caused 16 to [-] casualties in the surrendered troops and the new barracks, the impact was not fatal to the [-] vanguard attacking troops.
Seeing that the army of rogues was getting closer, the three commanders urged their horses to return to the main formation, and the shield soldiers immediately filled the vacancy left by them.
The gunner immediately began to measure the distance between the bandit and the tiger squatting gun.
"Three hundred steps"
"Two hundred steps"
Seeing that the Ming army was waiting for them foolishly, the vanguard of the rogues all rushed up screaming.
"Hurry up, Minggou was scared stupid by us."
"Come on, kill, kill, there will be rewards for killing into the city..."
It's not that these rogues are stupid, the main thing is that most of them are recruits. In the past, they either had to siege the city, or bombarded them, or both sides directly rushed to kill them.
But after they joined the army of rogue bandits, the Ming army had almost no decent resistance, and almost all the way was unimpeded.
Seeing the neat rows of shields of the Ming army, facing them motionless, these people thought that the Ming army was frightened.
How could they have imagined that the three armies on the opposite side were the top armies in the history of Ming Dynasty, especially the Qi family army had almost never been defeated.
Looking at the almost crazy recruits, Qi Jiguang sneered slightly, and waved his big hand suddenly:
"Tiger squat gun, rocket car, ready"
"fire……"
Qi Jiguang gave an order, and the shields in front of the phalanx retreated immediately, revealing countless tiger squatting cannons and rocket vehicles, the muzzles of which were facing the army of rogues.
"Fuck, there are still cannons, no wonder they are motionless, they are waiting for us to send them up."
Seeing the black muzzle aimed at them, Tang Tong's surrendered soldiers suddenly realized that many of them stopped and did not dare to step forward. This distance was too deadly.
"Let's rush to Lao Tzu, as long as you rush in front of them, those artillery will lose their power, hurry up."
Tang Tong swung his knife in a panic and beheaded a few people before the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to charge.
But as soon as they moved a few steps under their feet, there was a huge roar of artillery.
"Rumble..."
The tiger crouching cannon was ignited and fired. Although the tiger crouching cannon's killing range and power were not as good as the red cannon's, its artillery fire was more intensive, and it was specially made for this kind of field battle.
And it is filled with crackers and shotguns, the area of damage is larger than that of red cannons, and it is more effective in dealing with dense and changing formations.
The rockets on the rocket car were also ignited at the same time. Each car was equipped with hundreds of arrows. After ignition, thousands of arrows shot at the rogue soldiers.
"Hurry up, brothers, go to the Minggou artillery position and fight with them, this is the only way to show the superiority of our Dashun Army..."
"Rumble..."
"Pfft..."
Before a rogue commander could finish his sentence, he was suddenly pierced by dozens of rockets, and then blasted away by artillery fire.
The surrendered soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to the front also fell down in an instant, but the tiger squatting guns were still bombarding, and the lead bullets exploded on the enemy troops together.
The rogue soldiers suddenly wailed, their bombed limbs flew all over the place, making a mess, turning around and running away without caring about anything else.
"Brothers, there is no way to fight this battle. Daming's weapons are too advanced. If we fight like this, we will die. Let's run,"
"Go back, if anyone disobeys, behead."
"Crack..."
Liu Zongmin led the supervising team not far behind them, shouted violently, and slashed with a knife.
Nearly a hundred more people were killed, and the remaining soldiers could only turn around again and rush to Qi Jiguang's position.
Liu Zongmin then ordered:
"Whoever outflanks the new barracks and breaks through the city gate will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold."