Zhang Nengqi frowned and looked at the dozen or so gunners who were knocked down in front of him, as well as other gunners trying to hide behind the cannon truck./These are all treasures. If there were no these gunners, they would have lost one weapon in the future.

"Return and let them all return." Zhang Nengqi ordered loudly.

The sound of gongs quickly sounded in the army, causing the artillery to retreat. However, before the artillerymen could react, they had three more guns, "boom", "boom", and "boom". The target of this strike moved a little to the right, and more than twenty artillery soldiers were killed and injured.

The dead fell to the ground, and blood gushed out. The injured were rolling on the ground, wailing, and asking for help, which made everyone else panic. The uninjured artillery first hid behind the cannon carts, and then they reacted. This time was their best chance to escape, so they immediately ran back quickly and left the cannons in place. After that, the artillery groups that had not been hit also began to escape, and no one cared about the cannons.

"Bastard!" Zhang Nengqi roared angrily: "Get the cannon back!"

However, none of the gunners were concerned about the cannons, and they all ran back with all their strength. They were also professionals. Judging from the interval between the two firings of the other party, they did not give them much time to escape.

Sure enough, they had just halfway through the journey, and there were three more guns of "boom", "boom", and "boom". This time, the target of the official army moved a little to the right, knocking down more than a dozen escaped gunners. The uninjured head did not turn back and continued to rush back to the military formation. The military formation was more than 500 steps away from the official army's array, so it was relatively safe there.

At this time, Li Yan's artillery began to follow Li Yan's instructions before and prepare to destroy the artillery placed on the other side.

The cannon leader ordered: "Solid bullet!"

The loader behind immediately lifted the prepared solid bullet cannon, loaded, fixed, aimed, and fired. Each step was very quick.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" were three more cannons. The gun captains moved a little to the upwind to avoid the smoke formed by the fire artillery and tried hard to observe their results. However, the result was disappointing. None of their three cannons hit the target. However, the thieves on the other side were a little confused. The jumping projectiles rushed towards the thieves standing behind, causing them a little damage.

The gunmen continued to order fire again. This time the aiming players were aiming carefully, but through the white smoke, they could only see the blurry black shadows of the enemy's cannon cars. It was difficult to hit accurately.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", three artillery completed the adjustment and fired one after another. Only one artillery achieved the target, destroying a two-wheeled Frangian cart. The artillery overturned from the car and caused secondary damage to an injured gunner nearby, causing his already weakened howl again.

This shooting also caused some casualties to the bandit infantry in the rear. Zhang Nengqi saw that the team became more and more panic, so he had to let the troops move back. Fortunately, the official army did not come at this time, not only was it far away, but also was also separated by a river. Otherwise, it might have turned into a retreat as soon as it retreated.

Li Yan used a telescope to observe the enemy on the other side in the team, frowned and ordered: "Let the artillery stop, don't waste the shells."

As soon as the messenger left, the artillery fired shells again. This time it was the same, with only one of the three shells hitting the enemy's artillery, and the other two failed.

Li Yan frowned and thought. It seems that in order to improve the accuracy rate, multiple artillery must attack the same target at the same time. Otherwise, it will not only waste ammunition, but also precious time.

Zhang Nengqi rode on the horse and looked at the government troops on the other side. At this time, he had retreated for more than two hundred steps, and could not see clearly the situation on the other side.

"They only have three cannons?" he asked with some depression.

Shi Qian smiled bitterly and said, "How is it possible? There are so many. If all fires, it will be really shaking."

Zhang Nengqi gritted his teeth and stopped talking. He thought that Yuan Laoshan and Shi Qian were around him were too weak and had never seen any big battles, so he exaggerated how powerful Li Yan was. But now it seems that if he attacked on his own, he would really not be able to attack. If it was defense, would that be true? They were thieves, and if they could not beat them, they would run away. Unless they were besieged by heavy troops, there would be no reason to stay still.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's messenger came over and said, "The commander has an order. You must cross the river within half an hour!"

Zhang Nengqi originally wanted to wait for the soldiers who went out to attack to come back and see where to get around. However, with Zhang Xianzhong's order, he had to bite the bullet and attack.

He ordered: "Pull out our shield cart and protect the archers to prepare. The other troops will prepare and rush over to me later!"

After a while, their huge shield cart was pushed out. It happened that there were wasteland on both sides of the road here, and a few hundred kilograms of shield cart could be pushed. The archers followed behind the shield carts that were as tall as the two, and advanced towards the river. The shield carts were made of logs and were very strong. Not to mention bows and arrows, even cannons might not be able to penetrate.

"Article preparation," Li Yan ordered: "After entering three hundred steps, fire them, first knock out their giant shields. The tiger squat cannon is ready to fire at any time, waiting for orders."

Without Li Yan's instructions, the gunmen had already asked their subordinates to prepare solid bullets. They estimated the distance. After this period of truce, the smoke in front of them had dispersed and the visibility was much better.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", three Francis cannons were fired one after another, and the projectiles flew towards the giant shields. It was not easy to drive cannon cars parked in the same place, but it was not difficult to hit those shield cars that were more than ten feet high and more than two feet wide. It was as simple as shooting a target during training.

The solid iron bullet flew over and smashed the shield car, carrying huge energy to smash the log. If you are lucky, hit the shield car's support frame and the entire shield car will fall apart.

Three cannons were fired quickly. As the distance approached, some shells could even smash the logs and then hit the crowd behind them, causing the archers to panic.

Although the artillery fired with all their might, they only had three cannons, and the other one was specially used to block the wooden bridge. The enemy still had several shield cars continuing to advance, and it was less than 150 steps away from their military formation.

The archers who were not covered by giant shields were also advancing simultaneously, because the artillery soldiers didn't care about attacking those archers. Their goal was to destroy all the enemy's giant shields as soon as possible. As for those archers who were not covered, the tiger squat cannon could solve it.

Li Yan frowned and looked at the three or four shield cars that were still moving forward, a little regretful. He still had few artillery guns. In the future, he must organize enough cannons to increase firepower output and damage the enemy's equipment.
Chapter completed!