Niu Wancai, who was leading the army, stopped his pace and sweated heavily.

A bullet just now rubbed his ears.

Just a little bit, his head would be broken!

Because the mountain road was narrow, there were hundreds of rebels who passed by death in the shelling just now.

As for the actual people who were killed and injured by the fifty or sixty iron bombs, there were actually only about a hundred people.

Mainly because the tiger squat cannon is a curved mortar. If it was a direct cannon, such as a red cannon or a franc, in the terrain of the mountain road, fifty or sixty cannons will at least kill and injure the rebels at one time.

Two or three hundred people.

However, although the killing of this round of artillery just now was not much, it was scary.

Generals like Niu Wancai who had fought for many years were scared, let alone ordinary soldiers of the rebel army.

For a time, more than a thousand people as strikers were not allowed to go.

Niu Wancai came to his senses and realized that the Ming army had arranged dozens of cannons in front of him. He immediately raised his head and shouted: "Don't rush forward! Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

The 30,000 rebels led by Yuan Zongdi and others have rich combat experience. They charge on the mountain road. Naturally, it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to squeeze forward together. Instead, they are divided into teams of thousands of people to rush forward.

On this mountain road, thousands of people charge seem crowded, and no matter how many people there are, it will only make it difficult for one's troops to mobilize.

Therefore, Niu Wancai's retreat was not blocked by the team behind him.

But as soon as he retreated to the Ming army's position, Li Laiheng came over with his team and frowned and asked, "This group of Ming army also has a lot of artillery?"

Niu Wancai said, "That's not true, at least fifty doors! Damn, I, old Niu, almost saw the King of Hell!"

Li Laiheng quickly ran to the protruding cliff on one side of the mountain road and looked forward. He saw that the Ming army had roughly arranged two lines of defense, with flags flying and silhouettes, which made people unable to see through the reality of the false.

After he came down, he said, "General Niu, let your personal soldiers go to the left mountain wall, find the land to shoot arrows, fire guns, and fire artillery from the Ming army's positions. I will take the personal soldiers to the right mountain wall.

We will cooperate with us to attack again in front of us, and we will set off more flags and stand a little longer."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

Niu Wancai nodded and immediately began to distribute personnel.

In fact, their attack on the Ming army was a bit hasty, and many combat equipment were not brought.

For example, shield chariots - if there are several shield chariots that can block shells, they can rely on the shield chariots to approach the Ming army's positions and rush in to fight in a short battle.

Unfortunately, no.

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Time is urgent, Li Laiheng and Niu Wancai are moving very quickly.

Just half a quarter of an hour later, Li Laiheng led hundreds of personal soldiers to find some suitable positions on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain road, shooting arrows and even firing artillery at the Ming army's positions.

Unfortunately, there are too few places on the mountain walls on both sides. Even if dozens of powerful soldiers break out to the front on both sides, they only barely interfere with the defense of the Ming army.

In addition, Wang Fuchen soon sent two teams of personal soldiers to climb up the left and right mountain walls and shoot at Li Laiheng and others.

In this way, the rebel army launched another charge, but was defeated by dozens of tiger squatting cannons in the Ming army again, and dozens of corpses were lost in vain.

Another half a quarter of an hour passed, Yuan Zongdi rushed over, understood the situation, and realized that it was impossible to break through the obstacles of Wang Fuchen's Ming army.

On this terrain, the Ming army had dozens of tiger squatting cannons to help, which was not something they could shake in a short time.

Besides, after fighting for a long time, he hit a wall one after another, with nearly 10,000 casualties, and the morale of the Chuang Army was already very low.

If they force the soldiers to carry out a death-like charge, the consequences will be unpredictable.

After a few more discussions, the few people retreated to the mountain where Liu Tichun had crossed with his personal soldiers...

Half an hour later, nearly 30,000 rebels led by Yuan Zongdi, Liu Rukui, Li Laiheng and Niu Wancai were surrounded by 60,000 to 70,000 Ming troops led by Li Dingguo, Zhang Hualong, Wang Fuchen and Yang Zhan.

This scene is somewhat similar to the previous situation of the rebel army besieging the Ming army under Li Dingguo's troops, but its actual meaning is completely different.

Li Dingguo deliberately lured the siege of the siege, defending with ease, waiting for friendly forces to counter the siege of the siege.

But now the rebel army was forced to retreat to this unknown mountain with no way out, intending to defend to the death and wait for the reinforcements that were unknown.

Li Dingguo held a telescope and looked at the position of the crusade army on the hill opposite the hill where the crusade army retreated.

I found that many places were blocked by trees, and even if there was a telescope, I couldn't see the arrangements clearly, so I asked my personal soldiers to call the Flying Eagle Team.

Seeing that Yuan Guo, Chang Wei and four others had arrived, Li Dingguo put away his telescope and said, "Team Leader Yuan, the morale of the rebel army is now low, and he should be trying to defend the enemy and wait for reinforcements from Taiping County.

Although the mountain is not big, the forests are quite dense, so it is not easy for us to attack.

According to the latest instructions of the supervisor, the rebel army will still be mainly about submission.

Now that the battle is so serious, no matter how strong the attack is, both sides will suffer a lot of casualties, so I would like to ask the Flying Eagles to use drones to persuade the submission to try."

Speaking of which, the reason why Li Dingguo remembered this idea was mainly because he thought of the incident when the Red Lady led the Flying Eagle Team to defeat their Western Army that night.

Since Zhu Nishi sent two Eagle teams to dispatch him, he naturally had to make full use of the magic of the drone.

Yuan Guo nodded after hearing this and said, "We can send a drone up, but if we persuade them to surrender, they will probably have to be recorded by General Li."

"Recording?" Li Dingguo became interested, "What should I do?"

Yuan Guo, Chang Wei and others looked at each other and smiled, saying, "General Li will know when he comes with us."

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On the unknown mountain.

Liu Rukui, Niu Wancai, and Li Laiheng were all commanding the soldiers of the rebel army to cut down trees, dig up soil, transport mountains and rocks, and establish defensive positions.

In the previous two battles, they knew that each Ming army had dozens of artillery guns.

Now that the army is surrounding us, there are probably not as many as two or three hundred artillery pieces.

Even if they are just less powerful tiger squat cannons, they are enough to bear it.

In this case, if they want to block the Ming army's attack on this hill, the more stable they are built, the better.

As the main general, Yuan Zongdi was standing on a big stone, as if he was looking at the Ming army at the foot of the mountain.

But as long as someone approaches and observes, he will find that his brows are furrowed, his eyes are filled with anxiety, and even confused.

He was thinking about a very important question: What should they do if they could not withstand the Ming army's attack?

surrender?

This idea was expelled by Yuan Zongdi as soon as it appeared in his mind.

Since he followed Li Zicheng to rebel, he had only surrendered to the government once. At that time, it was just a temporary solution. Afterwards, halfway through his way to his post, Li Zicheng took them to kill the officials and rebel again.

Now that their Dashundu has destroyed the capital of the Ming Dynasty and forced Emperor Chongzhen to death, why should they surrender to the government?

Besides, even if they are willing to surrender, I am afraid the Ming army may not necessarily surrender, right?

After all, they were the great rebels who destroyed the capital of the Ming Dynasty and forced the emperor to death.

In this case, even if the official army said they were willing to surrender them, he would not believe it.

Instead, I felt that the government army was more likely to deceive them into captives first and then slaughter them.

This kind of thing is not impossible - when Hong Shabatou surrounded them, he first pretended to surrender the rebel army and then massacred them.

Thinking of this, Yuan Zongdi let out a breath and his expression became firm.

He thought it through clearly that they had no choice but to stand firm and wait for help this time.

However, just as he was about to jump off the big stone and go to patrol the positions of various camps to boost morale, he suddenly heard a strange buzzing sound from the sky.

He looked in the sound, his pupils suddenly shrank, his face full of surprise.
Chapter completed!