At the bottom of the hill in Erli, the Persimmon Garden in Jia County, Li Chuang personally led a large army and first attacked the cannon formation placed on the hill with refugees.

From noon to noon, more than ten attacks on the Qiutou where the cannon formation was located. However, Zheng Jiadong, the general of Sun Chuanting, guarded the Qiutou and used five thousand soldiers to control the cannons, guns, bows and arrows to block them.

The bandits' followers were very injured, but their motivated power could not rush up, leaving only blood and corpses all over the ground.

Except for mobilizing the two-wing cavalry teams to force the refugees to rush to the battlefield, Li Chuang remained motionless and looked no anxious.

It’s not that Li Chuang is not anxious, but he is really cautious. Li Chuang is very afraid of Sun Chuanting. Although he brings people, he does not dare to fight. The Qiutou Cannon Formation faces the horns of Sun Chuanting camp. If he does not pull out the cannon formation, Li Chuang will not dare to attack Sun Chuanting camp in the Persimmon Garden two miles away.

He drove the followers to attack the artillery array, and the troops in the headquarters remained unmoved, but in fact he wanted to lure Sun Chuanting's main force out of the camp and force Sun Chuanting to fight him in the field.

But from noon to noon, the cannon fleet remained unmoved, and there was no movement in Sun Chuanting's camp. Li Chuang couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

He had only tens of thousands of refugees, but the remaining ones of Tian Jianxiu's troops. This time, Li Chuan came in a hurry, and all the followers brought by the general on the way were left behind. Tian Jianxiu was defeated for a while, and many refugees were dispersed, leaving only these.

After more than an hour of driving away, the deaths and injuries were severe, and these tens of thousands of refugees had no combat power.

Now no matter how you drive it, even if you are hacked to death by the horse team, you are unwilling to rush up to die.

"Let the escort come down."

Li Chuang made a quick decision: "Tell Tian Jianxiu to attack and try it."

On the head of the hill, Zheng Jiadong put on his armor and pressed his knife. Seeing the chaos and tide retreating like a tide under the hill, his face did not relax at all. He called the messenger: "I asked the brothers to cheer up, the thieves are coming."

Zheng Jiadong fought with the thieves many times and was very experienced. He knew very well how the thieves fought. Cannon fodder was nothing. If the cannon fodder went on, the next battle was the real test.

"Check gunpowder and guns, don't be careless." He said again: "Brothers just follow my orders and must not fight in a vain."

Sure enough, as the refugees retreated, the real thief came up.

With a cannon, Tian Jianxiu waved his hand and, like a torrent of tens of thousands of ordinary thieves under his command, he roared at Qiutou with a ferocious roar.

Then Ta Mixiu pulled the artillery in front of the central army and opened fire.

The thief who was operating the cannon adjusted the elevation angle of the muzzle, put coarse iron balls into the gun barrel from the muzzle, and lit the fuse behind it. With a hissing sound, a flash of flames, a loud shock, and the thick smoke rolled in, the cannon flew out.

The Ming army in Qiutou was not outdone at all. When he saw the bandits firing, he also fought back.

The bandits were at the bottom and the Ming army was at the top. After a round of solid shelling, the Ming army did not suffer much damage. Instead, Tian Jianxiu's artillery array was destroyed by the Ming army.

At this time, Tian Jianxiu's thieves had already rushed to the bottom of the slope. The Ming army on the slope showed their power again, like beans slashing in, a row of thick smoke rose, and muskets kept firing, and the bandits in front were knocked to the ground.

Amid the screams, another rain of arrows fell, chewing off another piece of the thief.

After the arrow rain and muskets, there were more than a dozen cannons. The Ming army's tiger squat cannons shot out rows of sparse pieces and harvested a large area of ​​thieves.

The thief began to fight back, with guns shooting guns, arrows without guns shooting arrows, bows and muskets, and only lifted up one heart and rushed straight.

The shouts of killing were earth-shaking, and the blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder filled the entire battlefield.

A thief was hit by a gun in the chest, as if a hammered, and his whole body was beaten away from the ground, and dust rolled down in his screams.

The arrow fell in the air and penetrated from the shoulders of a thief into his neck. He threw down his weapon, covered his neck, screamed and rolled down the gentle slope.

The Ming army lined up a row of vans on the slope, and gun barrels stretched out from the gap between the vans. The musketeers and archers hid in the vans. Behind them, they slaughtered the thieves who rushed up over and over again, almost slaughtering them.

Soon, the thief couldn't stand it and retreated.

...

Ying Yi stood on the hill, although the distance was very far away, with his outstanding inhuman eyes, he could see everything on the battlefield in the distance clearly.

After Li Chuang replaced the cannon fodder, the bandits charged three times in units of ten thousand people, all of which were repelled by the Ming army in Qiutou. They did not take any advantage, and only thousands of corpses were left.

Judging from the situation on the battlefield, the Ming army had an absolute advantage with geographical advantage. However, after the battle for the past two hours, I don’t know how much materials the Ming army in Qiutou still has.

At this time, Ying Yi keenly discovered that there was movement in the Sun Chuanting camp in the direction of the Persimmon Garden.

In about a cup of tea, the gate of Sun Chuanting's camp opened wide, and cavalry continued to emerge from the camp, with about 3,000 people. Under the leadership of a general, they rushed to the flanks of the trespassing army several miles away.

The thieves immediately stopped attacking the Qiutou Cannon Formation, and saw a group of soldiers and horses breaking out from the thieves' central army, and soon collided with Sun Chuanting's cavalry.

At the same time, the treacherous mobilized troops and about 10,000 people gradually surrounded the two horse troops that were rushing to each other.

Li Chuang's thoughts were clear at a glance, but the Ming army was very agile. Seeing this, he quickly left the battle and retreated to the camp.

Li Chuang's horse army was surrounded by horses and chased him until the camp was approaching. Suddenly, artillery fired in the Ming army camp, and he rushed Li Chuang's cavalry back.

This battle lasted until the afternoon, when Li Chuang cried out to withdraw his troops. Sun Chuanting was very prepared for defense, and the camp and artillery formation supported each other, leaving Li Chuang helpless. When Li Chuang was withdrawing his troops, Sun Chuanting also sent a horse army to chase him, killing Li Chuang in a hurry.

Li Chuang used the cannon fodder to break it off before he successfully retreated.

In a day's battle, the Ming army suffered little losses, and it was a small victory. Li Chuang lost at least 20,000 refugees and 50,000 refugees and 5,000 resignations.

On the top of the mountain, Ying Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly said, "How much food and supplies does Supervisor Sun have?"

Sun Ming and Sun Guang's expressions changed slightly.

Then he heard Ying Yi say to himself, "It must be not much. If there is enough food and supplies, if you drag it like this today, you can drag Li Chuang to death. But Supervisor Sun is eager to seek my support, haha... I'm not sure!"

He said again: "It seems that Supervisor Sun has certain expectations for me, Ying Yi. Is he waiting for news from you two?"

Judging from today's battle situation, Sun Chuanting's troops have great advantages. As Ying Yi said, if there is sufficient food and supplies, Li Chuang will definitely not be Sun Chuanting's opponent.

But Ying Yi predicted that Sun Chuanting had weak resources, not to mention... there seemed to be a few strange people under Li Chuang's hands!
Chapter completed!