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"Boom boom!"

The six-pound solid iron bullets roared towards the rebel cavalry galloping. One by one, the iron bullets hit the middle of the rebel cavalry two miles away with huge impact, bringing up blood mist mixed with broken limbs and broken arms. Then the heart-wrenching howls resounded on this battlefield with the trampling of horse hooves.

Nearly a hundred rebel cavalry were hit by sudden artillery fire and fell off their horses screaming. The rushing rebel cavalry was torn apart in front of them, and the subsequent cavalry were frightened by the frightened war horses. Many of them were knocked to the ground by the frightened horses without time to hide.

A round of artillery attacks at the top of Pingdu city brought a riot to the rebel cavalry that was rushing, but more rebel cavalrymen drove around and continued to move forward towards the soldiers in Zhenshan Camp.

In fact, the rebels' fifty Western artillery were deployed near each other because they were too close to the two sides of the battle and could not play a role. Forced shooting not only did not produce good results, but would scare the cavalry's horses because of the roar of cannons, so they could only watch the artillery fire on the top of the city.

Due to the rapid defeat of the rebel soldiers in the siege, the defenders were chasing. Now the task of the rebel artillery is not to fire at the other side, but to find ways to escape from the battlefield and return to the rebel camp.

The rebel cavalry were all veterans who had experienced the battlefield refining. Of course, they could not be repelled by the opponent's artillery fire. The "hoho" shouts continued to intimidate the two Pingdu City defenders on the opposite side with the gallop of the war horses.

Fan Li looked at the rebel cavalry who began to gradually accelerate. One hundred and thirty steps, one hundred steps, all rebel cavalry's horse speed reached its peak. The sound of horse hooves "stepped" raised waves of dust, shaking the surrounding earth. The oppressive momentum almost made people breathless.

Within eighty steps, each of the rebels held bows and arrows in his hand. Nearly a thousand bows and arrows were shooting at the opponent's 500 at the same time. They were looking forward to the opponent's soldiers collapsing in this rain of arrows.

Without waiting for the rebel cavalry to shoot, the birds and gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp were the first to show their power.

"Bird gun fired!"

Fan Li hissed, and suddenly bursts of "bang-bang" bird guns fired across the battlefield, and more than 160 bird guns were fired in the Zhenshan Camp team.

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated and saw that more than eighty steps away, some rebel cavalry with bows and arrows were dropped one after another, and the galloping war horses were not greatly affected. Obviously, this strike force could not disrupt the attack of the rebel cavalry.

Within eighty steps, most of the rebels' arrows were shot at Fan Li's troops. The flying arrows were shot in arcs and they were thrown into the Zhenshan Camp's formation. All the soldiers of the Zhenshan Camp were wearing chain mail, and the rebels' arrows were shot again, so the casualties caused were not large, and the Zhenshan Camp's formation was still steady.

After seeing a round of arrows, the rebel cavalry rushed forward did not turn around and flee, but instead ushered in a more powerful counterattack from the opponent's soldiers, which was very different from what I imagined.

The rebel cavalry put away their bows and arrows, waved their weapons and continued to attack Fan Li's troops like a tide. Since the bows and arrows could not disperse the small guard troops on the opposite side, they would slaughter them with their weapons. This is the thought in the minds of most charge rebel cavalry.

"Bird gun soldiers fired!" Fan Li shouted expressionlessly.

"Bangbang" "Bangbang"

Four rounds of bird guns were fired one after another, and a thousand rebel cavalry that continued to attack suffered continuous casualties under the attack of bird gun soldiers. Ordinary cavalry might be dispersed if they suffered such continuous attacks, but the cavalry on the opposite side were all from Dongjiang Town. They used to fight against Jiannu from Liaodong for many years, and were considered to be soldiers who had experienced many battles. They suffered such a severe blow but did not disperse.

At this time, the rebels were only more than fifty steps away from Fan Li's troops. On the war horses, the rebel cavalry kept making a sound of "hoho" and continued to put pressure on the soldiers of the Zhenshan Camp opposite.

At this time, the continuous shooting of the bird gun suddenly stopped!

Cao Shaozhong led his personal guards to stand in the same place, his heart tightened. When he saw that the opponent's bird gun soldiers were no longer firing, he felt relieved. As long as he rushed through these fifty steps, the opponent's five hundred people could only let him slaughter them. The opponent's bird guns were powerful. Humph, after killing these guards later, the opponent's bird guns would belong to him!

On the other hand, I thought about it, is it worth it to lose more than 300 elite cavalry for these 500 people? Even if all the soldiers were killed, I would not be able to replace these 300 elite cavalry. Thinking of this, Cao Shao felt a little resentful and regretful.

Fan Li looked at the rebel cavalry's lips slightly opened, showing a sneer. He wanted to take advantage of Zhenshan Camp, and then take off his skin first.

Fan Li shouted again: "Lancers, gunpowder packs are ignited and thrown! Bird gunsmen gunpowder packs are prepared!"

After a few breaths, more than a hundred gunpowder packs burst into flames of blue smoke in the middle of the cavalry more than twenty steps away. The explosion caused a huge impact. Even the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp hiding behind the shield were affected. Many broken limbs and arms, including some weapons and weapons, fell into the array of Zhenshan Camp, causing some soldiers to be innocently injured.

The huge explosion of gunpowder pack not only caused huge casualties to the charging rebel cavalry, but also scared the rebel cavalry.

Twenty steps after the explosion, a scene of hell on earth was staged again. The surviving cavalry in the explosion began to panic. Due to inertia, some cavalry controlled the frightened war horses and continued to attack the Zhenshan camp. Some cavalry were uncontrolled because of panic war horses, and turned to the formation of a thousand cavalry behind them. Some cavalry fell directly from the horse's back because they could not control the frightened horses and were trampled to death by the subsequent war horses.

For a time, the cavalry that had attacked was disrupted by a series of blows. The remaining rebel cavalry that continued to attack the Zhenshan camp were already scared and forced to rush to the Zhenshan camp array, but were rented by the dense spears in front of the formation.

At this time, the cavalry rushing towards the Zhenshan Camp array was just moving forward due to the inertia of the war horses. Facing the long spear forest with cold light, there was no courage to continue to attack. Most of the cavalry turned their horses desperately and galloped past both sides of the Zhenshan Camp array.

But nearly one hundred rebel cavalry rushed into the Zhenshan camp. The spear in front of the formation penetrated the belly of more than a dozen war horses. The war horses neighed and fell to the ground, and the cavalry on the war horses suddenly fell aside.

The subsequent cavalry tried hard to escape these injured war horses and cavalry, and finally faced the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp directly, but the speed of the war horses slowed down significantly.

Obstructed by the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp, at this time, the rebel cavalry had no momentum to show off their might, except for panic. The "hoho" sound in their mouths turned into screams everywhere, and they desperately turned their horses to escape to both sides.

At this time, Zhao Shougang's troops, who were waiting on the side, suddenly burst into dense bird guns. The rebel cavalry flew from both sides, were the first to be hit, and another group of cavalry screamed and fell off the horse.

It was not until this time that Fan Li discovered that Zhao Shougang led a thousand guards. Needless to think about it, Zhao Shougang led his soldiers to reinforce at the risk of being annihilated by the rebel cavalry.

Fan Li felt a warm current flowing in his heart. At the critical moment, the commander and the brothers of Zhenshan Camp did not give up on themselves and the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp around him. It was the commander and the brothers of Zhenshan Camp that helped him to avoid major casualties from his subordinates!

From this wave of rebel cavalry being attacked by Western artillery on the city wall to fleeing before rushing to the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp, a total of only a few dozen breaths were spent. More than a thousand rebel cavalry left nearly half of the casualties and returned home. On the contrary, the five hundred soldiers of Zhenshan Camp who were regarded as their prey were almost intact.

This kind of battle result is simply incredible. Not to mention that the middle-aged cavalry generals of Cao Shao could not believe the reality in front of him, even the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp who had already prepared to die were incredible.

The subsequent thousand rebel cavalry witnessed the whole process. If the other party had no other means to fight against their own cavalry with firm willpower, then there would be only a crushing part!

Who would have thought that the small infantry of the other side actually had endless firearms. It was these terrifying firearms that shattered the confidence of the rebel cavalry, and the thousand rebel cavalry began to stalemate.

At this time, the "boom" cannon roar sounded again at the top of Pingdu City. The Western gunners accurately fired their six kilograms of solid iron bombs accurately shot down the thousand rebel cavalry following. The scene of flesh and blood flying appeared again.

Cao Shao, who was still watching the battle, was full of courage. He knew that his cavalry had lost his spirit and attacked again and could only die meaninglessly.

He shouted to the guards beside him at the top of his lungs: "Send orders quickly, stop attacking, stop attacking!, the entire army retreats."

After receiving the order to retreat, the second wave of cavalry was like being amnesty. The cavalry that had been defeated and fled back rushed back together, and everyone was afraid that the other party's artillery fire would come to their heads again.

After Cao Shaozhong ordered people to gather the fleeing cavalry in all directions, he no longer had the intention to wipe out the opposing defenders. The first wave of 1,000 cavalry were killed and injured, and now only more than 500 people fled back to their headquarters intact.

In other words, in the battle just now, Zhenshan Camp used the power of firearms to control the situation. The soldiers of Zhenshan Camp, as prey, in turn, gave the rebel cavalry a heavy blow, directly knocking out the rebel cavalry's arrogance.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the rebel cavalry, Zhao Shougang led 1,200 Zhenshan Camp soldiers to join with Fan Li's troops. After the two Zhenshan Camp troops gathered, they reorganized the formation.

After the previous round of firearm battle, the nervous mood of the soldiers in Zhenshan Camp was released. It turned out that the fierce rebel cavalry was not invincible!

Fan Li threw a grateful look at Zhao Shougang, took the initiative to walk to Zhao Shougang and salute, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhao Qian, for leading the troops to help in critical moments. Fan Li is very grateful!"

Zhao Shougang hurriedly said, "You and I are brothers in Zhenshan Camp. How can I turn a blind eye to my brothers when they are in trouble? Don't let me see you and my brothers meet. The crisis has not yet been resolved, and the rebel cavalry are still staring at them five hundred steps away. It is obviously not easy for Zhenshan Camp to retreat successfully."
Chapter completed!