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When Deng Qi saw that Tang Jiuzhou couldn't stand it anymore, he couldn't help but secretly cursed Tang Jiuzhou for being incompetent. He could barely stop the thieves from charging.

But Deng Qi had no choice but to send the guerrilla general Yue Zhongzhong forward, leading 500 cavalry to cover the left side of the formation.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers had sent cavalry, Liu Cheng did not dare to neglect, so he abandoned the Tang Jiuzhou Changping Army and began to entangle with the guerrilla general Yue Zhongzhong.

This guerrilla general became more loyal and missed the chance to fight and was punished. Now he dare not neglect it. He had no choice but to muster up his energy to deal with Liu Cheng. For a while, there was no winner or lose between the two sides.

Zhang Shun had already seen the situation of the officers and soldiers in the left formation from a distance, and knew that Liu Cheng's attack was blocked. However, he is not depressed. After all, these more than 10,000 officers and soldiers are worthy of use. How can they be able to fight in one go?

Although Zhang Shun did not know that both "King Zuo Jin" and Liu Cheng were slacking off to a certain extent, it did not prevent him from thinking that the two men would be able to defeat an equal number of officers and soldiers.

Since it was as expected, Zhang ordered the artillery to dispatch. Wukong raised the big flag in his hand high and waved the flag several times in accordance with the military order.

When Li Shi'an saw the order, he quickly ordered his soldiers to push the horse to mobilize the artillery in their hands and move it to a high ground on the left side of the officers and soldiers' formation.

It turns out that Zhang Shun came up with an idea before he stood: on the battlefield, due to the characteristics of each arm, it can be roughly simplified as "cavalry defeats artillery, and artillery defeats infantry."

Because the cannon is heavy and difficult to move quickly, once the ammunition is fired, there is a fear of a surprise attack by enemy cavalry. The enemy's infantry, because of its slow movement and in order to defend against the cavalry, was arranged in dense formations, which was where artillery could exert its power.

Zhang Shun and Deng Qi had fought many times, and they had basically figured out that the officers and soldiers only had more than a thousand cavalry. Now that Deng Qi had released a thousand cavalry, there was nothing to fear.

So Zhang Shun took the opportunity to order Li Shian to lead the artillery and seek a breakthrough from the other side of the formation.

Because Zhang Shun gathered all the large-caliber artillery among the rebels, Li Shian had almost twenty artillery pieces in his hands.

In addition to Zhang Shun's own six artillery pieces, the others were large general cannons, second general cannons, assault cannons, flanges and a thousand-jin Hongyi cannon.

Li Shi'an didn't care much. He just ordered the artillery in his hand to be divided into three parts. After the firing was completed, he took turns to bombard the right formation of the officers and soldiers with live ammunition.

It was the stone pillar chieftain soldiers led by Ma Fengyi who were attacked by the artillery. These chieftain soldiers were armed with white poles and could be called elites.

They were armed with white-poled hook guns and formed a conical formation. One of the flags has twenty-five people, arranged in a small cone formation with the number of people one, three, five, seven, and nine. A division has twenty-four flags, excluding the division chief, and the flags of one, three, five, seven and nine are arranged in a large cone formation.

This time Ma Fengyi brought 2,000 chieftain soldiers, and there were exactly three soldiers and horses arranged in a cone formation. This formation alone shows the bravery of the chieftain soldiers.

The cone formation is a very ancient formation, also known as the Mu formation. The cone formation is recorded in "Sun Bin's Art of War" during the Warring States Period. It is a formation with powerful impact.

The chieftain soldiers used this formation as a common formation, so they knew that their soldiers used charge as a common method.

The "White Pole Soldiers" became famous in the bloody battle of Hunhe River. With only 3,000 infantry, they withstood the Eight Banners' charge three times, killed 2,300 and 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers, and captured one general and two guerrilla generals alive. Famous all over the world.

Although the chieftain soldiers led by Ma Fengyi were not as elite as the original three thousand white pole soldiers, they came from the same army and came from the same door, so the difference was not too far away.

Originally, Deng Qi wanted to take the opportunity to catch the rebels by surprise, but by some mistake, these two thousand white soldiers did not engage with the "Eight Kings" on the opposite side. Instead, they had a taste of the artillery in Li Shi'an's hands.

The roar of cannons sounded like thunderbolts in the clear sky. After hearing the sound of cannons, Ma Fengyi's cone-shaped formation was blasted out by Li Shi'an, leaving two or three bloody grooves.

Although the actual casualties were not large, the broken limbs and corpses blasted by the artillery and the wails and cries of the disabled really hurt people's morale.

Ma Fengyi was decisive, and quickly ordered the troops to disperse in order to prevent the rebel artillery from causing greater casualties.

Before the chieftain soldiers here could carry out Ma Fengyi's order, the second round of shelling came again. Six or seven round iron eggs flew over again, seemingly not very fast and not very threatening. But once it hits the ground, it will be dead if it touches it, and it will be injured if it is rubbed.

Broken arms and missing legs, pierced stomachs and rotten intestines are also easy things.

Although some shells missed the target, four or five still fell into the formation. He beat the person who was shot to pieces on the spot, then shot through the second and third people, and did not stop until he had killed five or six people.

Seeing this, the expressions of all the chieftain soldiers suddenly changed: the bloody battle of Hunhe River is famous all over the world, and the "white pole soldiers" who are one of the parties involved are naturally familiar with it.

Although I don’t know whether it is true or not, it is said that the white-pole soldiers won three out of three battles, and the elite Eight Banners could not resist them. They had no choice but to bribe Liaodong artillerymen with large sums of money and use Hongyi cannons to blast the formation, and then they were able to eliminate the white-pole soldiers. Could it be that the natural tragedy will happen again?

Ma Fengyi also looked unhappy. She quickly sent an envoy to see Deng Qi and asked the entire army to attack. She could not sit still and wait for death.

Deng Qi's face became even more ugly when he heard this. As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, he had already stated that this battle was mainly about defense. As long as it was delayed until it was dark and the camp behind him was basically built, it would be victory.

As a result, before the two sides formed a formation, Tang Jiuzhou and Ma Fengyi each turned against the guest and began to command him. What's even more despicable is that their proposals all had their own reasons, but they all deviated from the original strategy of focusing on defense.

If their wishes were fulfilled one by one, then the original plan to focus on defense this time and take advantage of the opportunity to set up camp would be in vain. Instead, it would cater to the rebels' desire to prepare for a decisive battle.

If their proposal is rejected, the situation on both sides is not good now. Once the rebels break through, they will be defeated like a mountain. All plans and strategies will be in vain.

Deng Qi was in a dilemma and had no choice. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and ordered to gather some of the personal guards of other generals and more than 200 cavalry serving as scouts. Together, they gathered 400 cavalry to raid Li Shi'an's artillery position.

Zuo Liangyu was in the middle of the formation and did not feel the pressure from his colleagues Tang Jiuzhou and Ma Fengyi. After hearing Deng Qi's order, he was quite dissatisfied.

Among the generals of the border army, the most elite ones are the personal guards around them, also known as servants. These people all receive double rates, even three rates, or four rates.

As the saying goes, "It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but it takes a moment to use it." The reason why generals who often eat empty pay are so generous is to rely on them to protect their own lives and build meritorious deeds. Now being transferred away by Deng Qi has actually weakened their strength.

However, fortunately, they also knew that there was a reason for the incident, so they reluctantly agreed to Deng Qi's request and gathered four hundred elite cavalry to prepare for the complete elimination of Li Shi'an's artillery troops.