The stone bombs in the sky did not shoot down all the Kongming lanterns, and fish that escaped the net floated over. One by one, the pottery jars with sparks fell from the sky, landed on the Ming army's position and fell into pieces, and the flames spread out immediately. This was not the most serious, and the most terrifying thing was that before these pottery jars fell to the ground, they exploded in the air. The sharp pottery flew around with countless sparks, causing great damage to the Ming army.

The officer who commanded the big slingshots also caught fire at this moment, but he ignored him. Seeing a soldier beside him turning into a fireman, lying on the ground, burning motionlessly, blood sprinkled out of his neck, he knew that this was an unlucky one, and was cut to his neck by those flying pottery pieces.

The officer screamed and pulled the rubber strips, and his legs were stuck on the ground like nails. His body leaned back violently. His upper body was almost at a right angle to his body. His eyes were staring at the Kongming lantern floating in the sky. After a moment of aiming, he suddenly let go of his hands. With a whirlwind of rubber commerce, he bounced the stone into the sky. Under the destruction of the huge kinetic energy, the net bag outside suddenly cracked, and the stone inside flew out like raindrops.

The cover of a Kongming lantern was riddled with holes and suddenly lost its balance. It fell from the air crookedly. Seeing the figure falling from the hanging basket under the Kongming lantern, it only let out a short scream, and then fell heavily to the ground without a sound. The officer laughed loudly, and then fell down straight.

Several soldiers rushed up, waved the engineer's shovel, and poured the fresh soil dug on him, completely covering the burning department on his body.

Zhu Ruofan's eyes were constantly beating. The air strike of the Kongming lantern, which he had high hopes, did not show the effect he expected. He never expected that the one who shot the Kongming lantern was actually some toys for children in the countryside, but it was only magnified countless times.

The Thunderbolt Fire was still roaring, but compared with the enemy's artillery, the power was much smaller. The most important thing was that the Thunderbolt Fire fired solid stone bombs, which relied on kinetic energy to kill, but after the enemy's artillery fell, it exploded a large area.

The only thing worth looking forward to is that your number is much higher than that of the other party, and after close combat, you may be able to suppress the other party.

But there is a problem here. The battlefield is so big. There are only a few people who can rush up to fight the enemy in close combat, while the enemy's artillery is constantly extending and attacking his follow-up troops.

With the flag in his hand, an army bypassed the frontal battlefield and began to circumnavigate from the flanks and headed towards the enemy's artillery position. If you want to completely defeat the enemy in front of you, you must first knock out the opponent's most threatening firepower support.

After a while of busyness in the artillery positions, the reserve team left behind by Suqian all retreated together, wrapped the artillery positions in groups, and a crossbow machine was ready. The artillery soldiers did not even see the enemy troops attacking them, and were still attacking the Qi army wholeheartedly.

There were about 1,000 Qi troops attacking, while the reserve team of the Ming army, including all the artillery soldiers, had about 500 people.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, Qi army was getting closer and closer, and both sides could see the appearance of both sides. Qi army in front raised their shields, and the soldiers behind them hugged and tried their best to hide themselves behind the shields. Both sides had crossbow machines. Everyone knew the performance of such continuous shooting crossbow machines, which was the life harvester when dealing with infantry charges.

Until about a hundred steps, the Ming army's crossbow still had not been launched. This distance had completely entered the range of the crossbow. Just when Qi Jun was a little confused, their feet exploded. The soldiers holding the shield were blown up high, and some even torn into pieces with the shield.

Just as the shield formation broke, the Ming army's crossbow machine roared, and the rain-like crossbow arrows passed through the bombed shield formation, sweeping down the Qi army behind them in rows.

Although the shield formation fell, the Qi army still launched a charge. At this time, even if the person in front wanted to stop, they could not stop. Thousands of people were running forward together. If the person in front stopped, the fate would definitely be pushed down by the people coming from behind, and then trampled by countless big feet. Even if they did not die, they would be afraid that they would have to go 70% to 80% of the life.

The explosion kept ringing, creating large pieces of blank spaces among the dense crowd from time to time. The crossbow roaring wildly swept down the opponent like cutting leeks. The Ming army rushed out of the array, trotting for a while, and then threw the grenade in his hand towards Qi army.

Although this army is not large in number, it is the best equipped in Suqian Army. Not only are they equipped with a large number of grenades, but they were busy before the artillery positions, but they actually buried the hair-pressing mines. If the Qi army stepped on it, they would explode immediately.

The huge casualties finally collapsed the attacking Qi army. They no longer moved forward, but fled backward in a panic. The Ming army did not chase after him, but just shrank their positions and continued to protect their artillery positions.

Zhu Ruofan in the distance frowned even more. The battle on the other end went very short, but the damage caused to him was the greatest.

The sky was getting darker, and both sides who strangled each other were exhausted at this time. As if the two sides had agreed, the two generals of the two sides sounded the golden gong to withdraw their troops. In the twilight, the soldiers of both sides gradually broke off from contact, leaving only a messy battlefield everywhere.

The Ming army once again returned to their starting point, and began to build a circular defensive position with the artillery position as the core. The reserves who had been guarding the artillery position moved out again with engineer shovels, swinging the shovels and quickly digging a trench around their troops. The dug out soil was built on the spot, and buckets of water were brought to pour on it. When the cold wind blew, it quickly solidified.

The Qi army retreated slowly. They did not have the sharp engineer shovels like the Ming army, and could quickly build a defensive position. They could only retreat slowly, find a suitable place, and then rest.

The scope of the trench and chest wall construction is getting bigger and bigger, and in this defense circle, the Ming army who had a short rest began to build tents. It is obviously unrealistic to spend the open air on such a cold night. Whether it is the Ming army or the Qi army, the first thing to do in the cold night is to keep warm. The Qi army is even more unbearable than the Ming army, because they are far inferior to the Ming army in terms of warm equipment.

The soldiers set up a large stove and boiled hot water. They just provided hot water. As for what they ate, each soldier carried fried noodles with them. He rinsed the fried noodles with hot water, and added ingredients and vegetable buns to them. It was a full meal that was not very delicious but nutritious but was full.

Suqian walked on the position and saw that his soldiers had begun to pull up the barbed wire. Landmines were set up outside the barbed wire net, so he walked back with confidence. The four sentry towers built of wood were already towering on the four corners of the camp. There were several searchlights on each sentry tower. The bright lights shone the surroundings transparently, and the camp in the sentry tower fell in the shadows.

There is no need for Suqian to care about these things. Naturally, some generals were placed in place according to pre-war training. However, as a general, it is instinct to inspect these things and understand them.

Suqian walked to a corner of the camp where there were rows of bodies of soldiers who died in battle. At this moment, they were already packed in their own sleeping bags and tied them in bags. After the battle, hundreds of people died in the battlefield. Looking at the rows of bags, Suqian was silent for a long time.

At the end of these bodies were several large tents, with depressing moans coming from time to time, and words from the soldiers' doctors to encourage the soldiers.

Suqian stood in the darkness, watching people walking out from time to time, and some people being carried out and joined the silent cloth bags outside.

At this moment, Zhu Ruofan was also standing in the camp that was temporarily established, listening to the groans coming from the camp. Incomparable to the Ming army's complete logistics and medical system, those who were injured could only receive simple bandages and treatments, while the Ming army began some operations on the spot, minimizing the proportion of deaths caused by injuries as much as possible.

On the battlefield, the people who died on the spot were actually far less than those who died of injuries after the war due to injuries.

A buzzing sound suddenly came from the sky. Zhu Ruofan's face changed drastically and he quickly ordered: "The whole army will destroy the lights, and no fire will be allowed."

Zhu Ruofan was very familiar with the sound. The airship that had bombed Laizhou City for countless days finally rushed over from Crab Bay. If they were allowed to discover the camp on the ground, it would be indispensable.

"General, it's time for us to retreat." Behind him, a veteran general walked to Zhu Ruofan's side, "The scout brought the news that the Ming army in Zhangye had arrived at Miaozui, while another Ming army was transported by their navy fleet to land in Ya'an. They had opened the big net. If we didn't leave, they would be blocked in the net."

Zhu Ruofan nodded silently: "I thought this Ming army was not the most core force of the enemy. If we regain Jiuquan, we can not only increase our morale, but also expand the scope of defense a little more. But unexpectedly, even such a force is so powerful."

"They are not stronger than us, but their equipment is much stronger than us." The veteran said dejectedly.

"There will be no second attack like this." Zhu Ruofan sighed. "Let the soldiers have a nap first. We will leave at the third update."

In the sky, the airship buzzed and did not find the Qi army camp on the ground, and flew straight to the distance. After a while, he turned back and flew all the way to the Ming army's position.
Chapter completed!