Looking at the river, although there are only a dozen feet apart in the middle, it is equivalent to the difference between hell and heaven. There is a lot of killing and despair on the other side, while the south bank of the river is the leisurely and leisurely car of the old bull.

"Sir, I've arrived at the south bank of Yuxi River. Look... are we setting off firecrackers?"

As the commander of the border army leading the team, Na Yingjun guard came to solicit Chen Xi's opinions first.

Chen Xi looked at the other side of the river. I don’t know the arrangement of the Ming army on the north bank, so it’s not easy to fire directly at the other side of the river.

The first thing that faces the Ming army on the other side of the river is the first one to face. I don’t know how deep the array is, but I may even blow up whom I can’t kill after one shot.

Chen Xi really wanted Liu Daxia to run to the riverside now, shaking flags and shouting at him...fire fire at me!

Chenxi looked around and saw that the terrain was relatively flat, but it extended to the east and west sides. When it reached sixty or seventy feet away, it was full of rocks and bushes. Especially in the east, there was a clear slope, which was much higher than the terrain on the opposite side, or it could be explored the situation on the north bank.

Chen Xi greeted Zhang Laowu: "You go to the top of the hillside over there to see what the situation is on the other side!"

Without saying a word, Zhang Laowu took a few people to the high slope to find out the situation.

The shouts of killing on the other side were earth-shaking.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "The war yesterday is really a pediatrician compared to today."

Liu Daxia on the north bank was still commanding and dispatching in the square formation to block the Tatars' round after round of attacks, but the impact of the Tatar cavalry, especially a small number of iron-armored cavalry, was too strong. In addition, the Ming officers and soldiers were now out of no way to go to heaven and no way to the ground, and their hearts were filled with fear and despair, and gradually they could not resist it.

"Sir, the reinforcements on the South Bank are indeed coming... but the number of people is too small. Now that the floating bridge is being built, it is probably too late to go in time..."

Liu Daxia shouted: "How many people are there?"

"Sir, I can't see clearly, but there are less than a thousand people who see the situation."

Liu Daxia was secretly annoyed... Hello Zhu Hui, I was trapped with more than 10,000 troops and ordered you to send troops to rescue him, but you sent less than a thousand people out of the city?

"Sir, the reinforcements seem to have... transported artillery here!" The detective continued to report, "but for some reason, the artillery was not fired."

Liu Daxia's war horse was squeezed back by the crowd in front of him. In this densely defensive formation, it is easy for soldiers to trample on each other and cause casualties.

In the chaos, Liu Daxia suddenly realized something, artillery, reinforcements, floating bridge...

"Transfer the order, continue to retreat, take the order flag to the river bank, and swing up and down to the opposite bank!"

When Liu Daxia conveyed the military order, he felt a little more "illusion" of survival. At this moment, many pictures appeared in his heart... The Folang machine cannon could break up the straw man into straw on the ground with one mile away, and beat a group of beasts to the flesh and blood. If he fired a few shots at the Tatar team, he might really be able to survive.

"Was that guy Chen Xi really sent the cannons to the border?" Liu Daxia didn't dare to think too much. At this time, the formation was repeatedly compressed by the Tatars, and the personnel seemed more dense. His next order was that all the officers and soldiers continued to compress the defense line, try to lean against the river, separate the two sides, forming a long and flat formation.

This is no longer a "square and circular formation", but a long snake formation with a character. However, because it has formed a defensive staircase, this formation is closer to the "Hongying Formation".

The officers and soldiers did not understand why they were placed in such a four-dimensional formation, because once the middle was broken, it would become a bad situation where the beginning and end were not connected.

Moreover, after the officers and soldiers were forced to retreat to the river bank, they had no choice but to retreat behind them. Some people were even squeezed out of the river. Fortunately, the water near the river bank was not too deep, but in this winter, it was really cold to step on the cold river water.

Liu Daxia made a timely change of formation, and Zhang Laowu on the hillside immediately asked someone to inform Chen Xi of the real-time situation on the other side.

At this time, soldiers began to sway small flags up and down on the north bank of Yuxi River, which did not look like a flag verb, but Chenxi understood what was going on.

Liu Daxia once went to the school with Emperor Hongzhi to watch cannon performances. That time, Zhu Youzhe issued an order to fire cannons with the flag. Liu Daxia wanted to notify him in this way. He already knew that Chen Xi brought the cannons and made timely adjustments to allow Chen Xi to fire the cannons on his own.

"Prepare!"

Chen Xi immediately raised the flag high.

When Song Shu saw this situation, he quickly reminded: "Sir, the other side is full of my troops. You fired fire without authorization... You want to behead..."

“Adjust the elevation angle!”

Chen Xi ignored Song Shu's noisy and ordered the gunner to set the muzzle to an angle of 45 degrees. He didn't care about the others for the time being, just fired the gun at the farthest distance.

According to Zhang Laowu's visual inspection, the river banks on both sides were about fifteen or sixty or sixty feet apart, and Liu Daxia's central army was at a depth of sixty or seventy feet. As long as the artillery could shoot one hundred feet away, that is, about three hundred meters, it would definitely hit the open space or the heads of the Tatars.

Chen Xi's group of gunners received regular training when they were in the capital. In addition, they fought a hearty battle yesterday and endured the actual combat test and were calm and unhurried when they adjusted.

When everything is ready, Chen Xi dropped the flag: "Let it go!"

"Boom boom"

Cannons fired together!

Ten Folang machine cannons fired shells almost at the same time. The shells emitted a stream of light black blue smoke in the air, flying over the heads of the Ming army on the other side of the Yuxi River and landed in the distance.

"Boom"

A dull explosion sounded, but the effect was unknown.

After the first round of running, Chen Xi did not immediately order the fire to wait for the flag whispers on the opposite side.

If this gun landed well, Liu Daxia would definitely order the gun to fire.

...

...

The war on the north bank of Yuxi River has entered a fierce heat.

As the Ming army changed from a square formation to a yoke formation, the soldiers were not very adapted to this flat formation with relatively scattered forces. They were charged several times in succession by the Tatars, and the formation squeezed towards the river bank again, leaving behind corpses along the way.

At this time, even Liu Daxia's coaching flag was only more than 150 steps away from the front line of the confrontation.

"Boom boom"

A few roars suddenly came from the south bank, but in the middle of this battlefield where the sound of killing sounds was not obvious.

"Boom"

As the shells landed, violent explosions came from the front, and a burst of gunpowder filled the Tatars' cavalry team. A chaotic squad occurred... Of course, this chaos was not on the front line of the confrontation, but on the rear, so the Tatars in front were still attacking, but they were inevitably confused.

"What's going on?"

A shield soldier from the Ming border army asked questions while raising the shield in his hand to block the dense arrows shot from the front. In the middle of the shield, the spearmen in the second row held a spear of 100,000 feet (about four meters) and stabbed the Tatar cavalry rushing over, and took off the Tatar cavalry who was looking back. Then, a spear tip was extended out in each of the other directions and stabbed the Tatar cavalry to death.

The spearman who had just made a contribution breathed a sigh of relief, stood still and looked at him, and said in a Sichuan voice: "It seems that it is the back camp of these turtle sons. Could it be that the reinforcements from our court arrived?"

Since chaos can occur behind the Tatars, there must be reinforcements.

At present, the troops have no way out, and guarding by the river is like waiting for death. If the Ming reinforcements attack from the enemy's back, they will not only not have to die, but will turn defeat into victory.

At this time, several more heavy Tartar cavalry rushed over with their sabers.

"withstand!"

Various voices mixed together, and the soldiers were inspired to survive.

Liu Daxia's formation has an advantage, which is that it eliminates the soldiers' retreat to the greatest extent. This is the essence of a battle against the water. Behind him is a cold river, and in front of him is the enemy. If he fails, he will be successful.

"Kill!"

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty continued to fight with the Tatars.

At this time, Liu Daxia immediately felt the power of the cannons just now, and the pressure in front of him dropped sharply.

"Sir, I only fired one round of cannons, and it seems that I can't continue." The provocateur just was excited by the Ming reinforcements on the south bank firing artillery, but was frightened and uneasy because there was no follow-up artillery fire.

"Order, continue to wave the flag, don't stop!"

Because the officers and soldiers in front were too forced by the Tatar cavalry, the long snake formation facing the north moved south for more than ten steps again, and Liu Daxia was squeezed down from the horse... After all, he was not a middle-aged man, his legs were not so strong. It was not easy for a person in his sixties to ride a horse, so how easy was it to clamp the horse's belly?

"Sir?" Several guards rushed forward and helped Liu Daxia up. Liu Daxia wanted to continue riding a horse, but because of the excessive congestion of the crowd, he could no longer climb up.

"Boom boom"

The expected second round of artillery bombardment arrived as scheduled.

Starting from the second round of shooting, there was basically no stagnation in the middle. One round of guns followed one round, and six consecutive rounds before it stopped temporarily.

At this time, most of the Ming officers and soldiers on the north bank of the Yuxi River did not know what had happened, but only knew that the offensive of the Tatars on the opposite side had been weakened again and again.

The Folang machine cannon is a "secret weapon".

Because they had never been to the battlefield, many border soldiers only heard of it, and the less they heard it to the western border, and they were used to unreliable local cannons. ****, the officers and soldiers trusted the crossbows, spears and shields in their hands, and they didn't believe in such magical cannons at all, and just listened to them as jokes.

Although the enemy's rear explosions were heard, the soldiers all thought it was caused by the arrival of the Ming reinforcements and some mysterious weapons were used.

With the six rounds of artillery coming down, the Tatars' offensives had continued from the original ones and there were faults.

Even the fearless Tatars chose to retreat due to heavy casualties due to the blow of continuous mysterious artillery fire.

"Reinforcements are here, rush, fight against these turtle sons!"

When the Ming officers and soldiers saw the Tatars retreating, their morale was overwhelming, and they rushed up shouting.

Those officials in the general secretary quickly reminded the officers and soldiers in their queue: "Don't chase the poor enemy, and prevent fraud!"

Sure enough, the first group of officers and soldiers who chased after him were ambushed and were killed by the Tatar cavalry halfway. At this time, the Tatar cavalry stopped in the distance and prepared to organize a new offensive.

At this moment, the roar of artillery sounded again.

This time I only had three rounds and stopped.

Although only thirty shells fell into the Tatars' ranks, it was enough to leave hundreds of corpses behind the Tatars who gathered to prepare for the charge.

The Tatar cavalry had to disperse from the intensive attacks, because they found that as long as they gathered together, they would be bombed. The densely falling shells in the sky could penetrate even thick iron armor, let alone flesh and blood.

"Sir, the momentum of the Tartars has been suppressed. Will you fight back?"

Liu Daxia was squeezed into the crowd, and he was stunned. He never wanted to encounter such a scene again once, and it was simply unorganized and undisciplined.

"Order the three armies not to pursue them!" Liu Daxia thought for a moment. The Tatars should have felt the power of artillery and were ready to pull the front apart.
To be continued...