"General, retreat a little." Shi Jincai looked at Li Yan two hundred steps away and reminded him in horror.

Li Guo roared angrily: "If anyone dares to retreat, kill him!"

Shi Jincai advised: "General, this cannon from Li Yan cannon can be shot. It's not just a projectile, but twenty or thirty small projectiles, one to one hit and one to one large area!"

Li Guo ordered: "Please shields for the front! Wang Dashan, take your people to the front to supervise the battle. If anyone dares to retreat without authorization, kill them!"

When their personal soldiers and Wang Dashan began to execute the order, he ordered: "Shi Jincai. Take your people here to line up to defend! Tiger squat cannons, place them behind Shi Jincai's team, and wait for my order!"

Shi Jincai said in surprise: "General, our tiger squat cannon has only a firing distance of seventy or eighty steps. Putting it here means that the range is less than twenty steps, and it is of little use."

"You're here to keep it!" Li Guo ordered coldly: "I'll watch you from behind. If I dare to retreat without authorization, I'll be killed without mercy!"

Shi Jincai clasped his fists helplessly and said, "Subsidiary receive the order." But he knew that Li Guo was also forced by Li Zicheng. Now Li Zicheng was furious and wanted to boost morale. After suffering from Li Yan's losses, they would also let them retreat. These people are all backbones of Li Zicheng's command, not comparable to those refugees and Ding Zhuang. But what he had to consider was how he and his subordinates survived before they could retreat.

After Shi Jincai's troops lined up on the spot and watched their forty tiger squatting cannons be placed, Li Guocai took his direct troops to retreat to the bridge behind. He did not dare to retreat over the bridge, but was just closer to the bridge.

Those tiger squat cannons were the same as the official army's tiger squat cannons, but they were just different shells. Li Zicheng disliked the quality of the captured tiger squat cannons, so he spent 200 copper pieces and recast 100 bronze tiger squat cannons. The ammunition was inspired by Li Yan, and he also used the fireworks in their team to make man-made craftsmen, and replaced the fireworks in the paper shell with small iron blocks. It was too troublesome to create small bullets, so it was done just to cut the iron bars into small blocks.

Shi Jincai waited for Li Guo to leave before ordering his men: "Go, find tools, find sacks, and dig soil to build walls!"

"General, where are you looking for so many sacks?" his subordinate asked in embarrassment.

Shi Jincai shouted: "If you don't want to die, go find it! If it really doesn't work, just use clothes and pants to fill it with dirt. How much time do you think Li Yan will give us?! Go quickly!"

The subordinates had no choice but to take five hundred soldiers to prepare.

At the same time, Li Yan's artillery had already begun to fire shotguns. "Boom". After the "Boom" gun sounded, the soldiers in their front row immediately screamed, and the sound of a broken shield came.

Although Li Guo asked someone to give the troops in front of him some shields, their shields were not too many, and each unit still had to keep shields for the troops to use on their own, so naturally they would not give too many others. Moreover, Li Yan did not leave them too much time. They only barely took shields in the first row, and Li Yan's artillery came.

The shields in their hands were broken under the attack of lead bullets. Moreover, Li Yan's artillery was occasionally mixed with some solid shells, causing considerable casualties among their soldiers in depth.

"Boom", the sound of "Boom" cannons continued. This time, there were thirty cannons in Li Yan's army, so the firepower was very dense. Even if it was a wheel shooting, hundreds of lead bullets would fly towards the bandits' military formation at a time, causing hundreds of casualties to the bandits.

The troops in the front row of the thieves quickly could not withstand such large casualties. They watched their companions crying and falling down in the sound of artillery fire, and were extremely frightened. They were afraid that they would be hit by the next time the artillery fire. So someone began to slowly retreat and squeeze the people in the back row back.

Although the penetration power of lead bullets is not strong, after the shield in the front row is broken and the shield player is hit and falls down, they become the target of lead bullets. So not only the people in the front row are retreating, but the people in the back row are also slowly retreating. If there weren't a supervision team behind them, they would have turned around and ran away long ago.

"The general has an order! Those who retreat will die! All of them hold on! General Liu's team will cross the river in a while, and the official army will retreat soon!" Wang Dashan commanded his subordinates, threatening the troops in front, while coaxing them with lies.

Liu Zongmin's troops were still building pontoon bridges, but they did not find enough ships to carry loads, so they could only find giant trees to drive piles in the river to build pontoon bridges. This would be much more troublesome to build. Therefore, Liu Zongmin and Luo Rucai's troops could not cross the river for a while.

There are also smart thieves who simply lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. They have found a good solution. As long as they lie down, they can avoid the high-speed flying projectiles and temporarily save their lives. As for the government army rushing up, they will wait for that time before they can agree that they can live for a while.

With the continuous bombardment of Li Yan's artillery, the bandits were slowly retreating while suffering huge casualties. The entire team was retreating, including Wang Dashan's supervising team, which also slowly retreated under the pressure of the front team.

Similarly, Shi Jincai's team was also retreating. Although he asked his men to find sacks and dig soil, where did the time take? Before his men came back, the team in front retreated step by step.

Li Zicheng looked at the battlefield on the other side of the city. He saw the artillery that was constantly spraying out of Li Yan's troops, and also saw his troops being killed and injured in the artillery fire. He looked at all this with red eyes, but there was no solution.

"Zicheng," Liu Zongmin came to Li Zicheng's side with a crutch and reminded: "Let the troops retreat, don't waste our blood."

Li Zicheng shook his head and said a little lost: "You can't retreat, you can't retreat. If you can't retreat, how can you fight for the world? You can't retreat, you can't retreat."

Liu Zongmin said loudly: "Wake up! Being poisoned by those scholars! What are you fighting for in the world? If these 30,000 elite soldiers are gone, we have to go back to Shangluo Mountain to cat!"

Li Zicheng finally woke up and began to realize the seriousness of the problem. The troops he sent to cross the river first were all elite troops as the vanguard. If these backbone troops were annihilated, how much combat effectiveness would he have even if he had one million refugees? At that time, the bandits who came to join him might find another way out.

He immediately ordered: "Let Li Guo bring his troops back and guard the bridge here, so that Li Yan can't chase him."

Liu Zongmin stopped the soldiers who went to pass the order and added: "Leave some troops on the other side to attract Li Yan's attention. After the pontoon bridge is built, I will go over and take a look at his retreat!"
Chapter completed!