Fei Bingqing had already preliminarily figured out through the testing of dozens of county brave cannon fodders that the bandit on the opposite side was number 56.

Although our county brave cannon fodder was repelled by the enemy's arrows, it doesn't matter.

The key thing is that Fei Bingqing saw that the other party was also panicked. This showed that these bandits were just like the many bandits he had seen before. They were just a mob, that is, they had dangerous places to rely on. Otherwise, they would have run away early.

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At the same time, Fei Bingqing also used cannon fodder to find out that the opponent had archers, but there were not many archers, only seven or eight people.

Through the exploratory attack of cannon fodder, Fei Bingqing felt that he had already figured out that the thieves on the opposite side were just ordinary thieves, and he could basically take them down with just one wave.

Luo Zhixue on the other side also saw the officers and soldiers sending cannon fodder for testing.

After all, those county warriors were stretched out in formation, and their equipment was not very good. They all carried spears and sabers, and they didn't even have armor. Moreover, they retreated because of their own arrows before they even got close.

The other party sent these weak chickens to test, but our true strength has not been exposed at all.

In other words, the officers and soldiers still don't know that they still have two artillery pieces and dozens of archers hidden in their side.

After a trial battle, both parties feel satisfied, but then one of them may be disappointed or even desperate.

After about a while, the officers and soldiers outside the valley gathered again, and this time Fei Bingqing directly dispatched his elite soldiers.

About thirty soldiers were sent forward, and in front of these soldiers were hundreds of county warriors.

Fei Bingqing planned to attack directly, but he did not say that he would directly let his elite soldiers take the lead.

These thirty-odd soldiers are actually used to supervise the battle team.

He was reluctant to let his elite soldiers take the lead.

He only has more than fifty soldiers in total, which are his biggest trump cards for killing thieves, performing meritorious service, and even saving his life on the battlefield.

How could he just let them charge forward? If a few of them were killed by the arrows of the stray thief, he would be heartbroken for a long time.

Therefore, taking the lead can only be done by those county warriors.

Anyway, these county warriors are under the command of Wang Jida, the magistrate of Lushan County. No matter how many casualties there are, Fei Bingqing will not be heartbroken.

Well, let alone Fei Bingqing, in fact, even Wang Jida himself would not be heartbroken, otherwise he would not have sent more than a hundred county warriors to command under Fei Bingqing.

Wang Jida also knew that after Fei Bingqing encountered the bandits, he would definitely use these county warriors as cannon fodder.

But it doesn’t matter!

Some of these county warriors were recruited from the local guards, while more were directly recruited young men who had been trained for a while. Wang Jida would not be heartbroken if all of them died. At worst, he could just go back and recruit a few hundred more young men.<

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As long as they can kill thieves and perform meritorious service, as long as they can obtain enough food and property, these people will die, and Wang Jida will not even blink an eyebrow.

Fei Bingqing had cannon fodder available and naturally he would not be so foolish as to let his elite soldiers take the lead in taking the arrows.

After Fei Bingqing's order was issued, a group of elite soldiers rushed up in a chaotic manner, expelling about a hundred county warriors.

The soldiers at the back were okay, they still maintained their basic formation, and some of them were wearing armor, and some were holding bows, arrows, and firecrackers.

However, the county warriors at the front were not in any formation. There were hundreds of people in a noisy manner, and they were reluctantly moving forward under the driving of the soldiers at the rear. Moreover, most of these county warriors only had tattered waist knives and spears, and there were hundreds of them.

There wasn't even a single person wearing armor, and there were probably only about a dozen people holding bows and arrows.

Anyone who is not blind will know at a glance that this is a rabble and cannon fodder.

Luo Zhixue also saw it.

So he continued the order: "Fight slowly, try not to let them get closer, and be sure to let the enemy soldiers enter the artillery range."

The hundreds of county brave cannon fodder are not a concern, but the thirty or so Ming soldiers are something Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to.

He wanted to find an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on these soldiers as much as possible.

Only by defeating these warriors can the Ming army be truly severely damaged. Otherwise, just killing these county warriors will not cause any great losses to the Ming army on the opposite side.

After receiving Luo Zhixue's order, An Yongduo, Zhang Malin and others naturally needed to continue hiding. After the cannon fodder of the brigade officers and soldiers had entered a hundred meters away, the two artillery still did not fire.

Because the soldiers are still behind and haven't come up yet.

Luo Zhixue looked at the Ming Army County Yong and the soldiers behind him, and went to the hidden artillery position in person with some uneasiness.

After checking it in detail, I felt relieved.

Their two artillery pieces were actually not deployed directly in the middle of the valley, but halfway up the mountain on the left.

This is to raise the height of the artillery and thereby expand the shooting angle. It also makes it more difficult for the enemy to directly attack the artillery position.

Because the artillery is located at a relatively high position, as long as the angle is correct when firing later, the shot shells can pass over the hundreds of cannon fodder at the front of the Ming army and directly attack the soldiers in the rear of the Ming army.

As for the archers, I'm afraid they won't be able to. After all, the range of bows and arrows is limited, and these Ming army soldiers are not following hundreds of cannon fodder, but are still dozens of meters away. After increasing the distance in this way, even if our own archers

It is not easy to throw bows and arrows at enemy soldiers.

As time continued to pass, the cannon fodder of the Ming army continued to move forward, and the soldiers from the rear also slowly moved forward.

After these cannon fodders approached a distance of about 70 or 80 meters, some of these county warrior cannon fodders began to bend their bows and shoot arrows. However, there were only a dozen or so archers in the county warriors, and they were not elite archers, nor did they use strong bows.

, the arrows shot out are all light and have no accuracy.

At the same time, Li Duo, the captain of the third team of the Baoxiang camp who was the first line of defense, also asked his archers to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

The Baoxiang camp also had few archers deployed on the front line to directly face the enemy, only seven or eight people.

As a result, scattered shots from archers from both sides appeared on the battlefield, and from time to time, an unlucky guy would be hit or injured by an arrow.

After several casualties appeared on the side of the county brave, many county braves walking in front began to look frightened. They couldn't help but stop and look around. Some even wanted to turn around and run away, so that the entire attack momentum slowed down.

However, more than 30 Ming soldiers at the rear were in formation at this time. Many of them took out their bows and arrows and made moves to shoot arrows at any time. With the distance they were at, if they bent their bows and fired arrows, the target would definitely not be there.

It will be the rebel army protecting the countryside, but the county warriors at the front.

The leading Ming army captain shouted: "Anyone who retreats without orders will be killed immediately."

"Quick, rush forward!"

"Don't stop!"

Driven by the 30 soldiers of the Ming Army who supervised the battle, these county warriors' advance momentum, which had slowed down for a time, picked up again.

Seeing the Ming army charging forward again, Luo Zhixue waved his hand and made more than 30 thieves led by Huang Chengyong who had more training time and more than 30 prisoners of war and veteran thieves leave their hiding place.

Reinforcements were immediately sent to the front line to prepare for the enemy's frontal impact.

Not long after, when he saw that the Ming soldiers following the county warriors had also entered a distance of 120 to 30 meters, Luo Zhixue did not hesitate and directly ordered: "Aim at the soldiers behind the enemy and fire!"

After Luo Zhixue gave the order, Zhang Malin personally lit the fuse of one of the 200-pound light cannons. A few seconds later, the artillery made a loud noise.

A few seconds later, another 200-pound light cannon also opened fire.

The rumble of artillery echoed in the valley, and white smoke rose from the artillery positions.

After firing the cannon himself, Zhang Malin shouted: "Quick, reload!"

Luo Zhixue, however, ignored the artillery's reloading and squinted at the Ming army ahead.

In sight, there was nothing wrong with those Ming Army county warriors. Except for a few unlucky ones at the back who were hit by shrapnel from shotguns, most of them were actually fine.

But those soldiers were different. These people were directly hit by two shotguns. Large iron beads and iron fragments hit them, and more than ten of them fell in an instant.

And they only had about thirty soldiers in total, and a dozen of them fell at once, almost half of them.

This immediately stunned them.

Fei Bingqing, who was in the rear, was stunned for several seconds with his mouth half open. A soldier beside him even said in a panic: "No, there is an ambush, there is an ambush with artillery from the traitors!"

Immediately afterwards, another soldier became frightened and said: "There are so many arrows, they also have archers, so many archers..."

In the sight of these people, after two shells were fired from the front, dozens of arrows flew up, and then fell directly into the formation of more than a hundred county warriors. In an instant, those more than a hundred county warriors lay down.

There were so many people, and the screams spread throughout the valley.

After several seconds, Fei Bingqing finally reacted and heard him shout: "Quick, exit, exit immediately."

There is an ambush. The bandits in front are not just a few dozen rabble-rousers!

The bandits in front have at least two cannons and dozens of archers. How can such bandits be a ragtag group? They are definitely large-scale bandits.

The dozens of thieves before were just to show weakness to the enemy, in order to attract their own troops to rush forward and then carry out intensive killings.

You bastards, these thieves don't have martial ethics. They just play ambushes and hide sharp weapons like artillery. However, instead of attacking the county warriors in front, they actually attack our own soldiers.

This wave of shelling killed at least half of the soldiers. Fei Bingqing was bleeding from heartache.

As for the deaths and injuries of those county heroes, he didn't even notice them and took them to heart.

Fei Bingqing ordered the retreat.

But Fei Bingqing's retreat order was actually given too late.

Because before he gave the order to retreat, the Ming army in front had completely collapsed, and the remaining Ming troops ran out one by one crying for their fathers and mothers.

Not only the county warriors turned around and ran away, but the remaining soldiers who oversaw the battle also ran away.

In fact, they ran earlier than Xian Yong.

Because they are all veterans, as soon as they heard the sound of the cannon and saw the rain of arrows, they immediately knew that there must be a large number of thieves ahead, which was simply not something their little arms and legs could resist.

If you continue to stay where you are, you will definitely be doomed!
Chapter completed!