In terms of the number of troops, the Western Army was three times that of the Ming Army; in terms of combat experience and combat effectiveness, the Western Army, which had been fighting for many years and moved to several provinces, was even more than the Ming Army that had just been pieced together; in terms of the combat experience of the generals, Feng Shuangli was a famous general in the Western Army. He started with a military service and fought with Zhang Xianzhong for more than ten years. Yan Yingyuan was just a minor official two months ago, and had just been on the battlefield for more than a month. Although Liu Neng had been in the army for more than two years, he was a detective for not stopping his ward at night. Later, he became the leader of the enemy situation department and was not the candidate to lead the troops.

In any aspect, the Western Army was much stronger than the Ming Army, but the Ming Army was the one who took the initiative to attack on the battlefield, which had few people, poor combat power, and had little experience in the generals.

For some reason, Feng Shuangli actually put on a defensive posture and let the Ming army attack.

The Western Army was formed into a defensive formation and remained unmoved. Yan Yingyuan commanded the Ming army to attack the formation and slowly approached the Western Army. The archers and musketeers stopped from time to time to shoot continuous rain of arrows into the bandits' array. The archers in the Western Army also fired arrows at the approaching Ming army.

Both sides were arrows and arrows, and the muskets were fired. The soldiers on both sides continued to fall to the ground. Yan Yingyuan had not been in a hurry to join the army, and only bows, arrows, muskets, and no cannons. However, the cannons in Feng Shuangli's army were transferred to Jiujiang to participate in the siege. Therefore, although the two sides were busy shooting before the war, there were no major casualties on both sides.

Just like this, the Ming army slowly rushed towards the Western Army array, and the distance between the two sides reached the point where the gun tip hit the gun tip when they faced each other. According to convention, the next fierce battle would be inevitable, and the two sides fought each other in a cruel battle until one side could not hold back.

Feng Shuangli, in the center of the formation, looked at his thick defense line and believed that the Ming army would never be able to break through. When the Ming army was exhausted, it was the time when the entire Shun army attacked and defeated the Ming army in one fell swoop.

However, when will the Ming army's "Five Thunder Dao" be used? Of course, Feng Shuangli didn't believe what the Five Thunder Dao of the Ming army could do. He always thought it was just some powerful firearms. His defeated soldiers were just frightened and exaggerated. After fighting with the Ming army for so many years, what strange firearms Feng Shuangli had never seen?

Perhaps the Ming army's firearms are more powerful this time, but they are absolutely unable to control the situation of the battle. Feng Shuangli believes in this!

However, out of caution, he listed the defensive array, fearing that the Ming army would suddenly use such firearms and prevent them from causing a defeat.

Just as Feng Shuangli was eagerly looking forward to it, the Ming army's firearms were finally used. Before they were about to fight, a row of round black dots suddenly threw out from the back of the Ming army's array, crossed the Ming army's front line, and just threw it to the front of the Western Army's shield players, and then there were a series of earth-shaking explosions.

The entire explosion sounded like thunder in the sky, and smoke filled the entire position, and Feng Shuangli could not see clearly what was going on.

Is this the "Five Thunder Method" of the Ming army? Feng Shuangli was shocked. Judging from the continuous explosions, at least hundreds or even thousands of series of explosions could cause such a big noise! ​​It seemed as if hundreds or thousands of cannons fired at the same time, and its power was terrifying.

Although his vision was blocked by gunpowder smoke, Feng Shuangli could guess that his soldiers would inevitably suffer heavy casualties in the gunpowder smoke!

Feng Shuangli couldn't help but be shocked, and all the soldiers in the entire Western camp array were also shocked. Because Feng Shuangli's troops had been stationed in Linjiang Prefecture and had not experienced artillery battles under Jiujiang City, the firearms of the Ming army were still at the same level as their own. He had no idea that the current Ming army was no longer the same as before.

Take Yan Yingyuan's tribe as an example. If it weren't for the thousands of grenades brought by Liu Neng, its combat power would be no different from the previous Ming army. However, with these thousands of grenades, everything would be completely different from the past.

When the two sides were fighting in an orderly formation, dozens or hundreds of grenades were suddenly thrown into the opponent's array, killing and injuring dozens or hundreds of soldiers, which would definitely change the result of a battle. For soldiers of this era, they were ignorant without any knowledge. They often classified things they didn't understand as ghosts and gods. For example, the first time the Ming army used grenades when they attacked Linjiang Prefecture. Many bandit soldiers had never seen such things and thought it was the thunder summoned by the Ming army.

This consciousness spread rapidly in Feng Shuangli's army with the defeated soldiers. When the Ming army threw out thousands of grenades again, they looked at the violent explosion like thunder. Seeing the Ming army raised their hands, the thunder explosion was blew. Many Western soldiers were so scared that they didn't believe that this was the powerful firearm that Feng Shuangli had promoted at the beginning. They had seen many firearms and cannons. Where could there be such powerful firearms?

So, when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, looking at the blown-up front, looking at the corpses all over the ground and the wounded people who were still screaming, watching the Ming army rushing over, and thunder exploded in the array with their hands. Many bandits immediately collapsed, threw down their weapons and cried and shouted, and fled wildly. Some simply knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender.

The series of explosions of thousands of grenades killed only one or two thousand people in the front row of the Western Army, but caused panic and chaos in the entire Western Army array. This effect was definitely beyond Yan Yingyuan and Liu Neng's expectations.

At this time, we naturally had to beat the dog in the water. Without waiting for Yan Yingyuan's order, officers at all levels on the front line shouted and rushed to the bandit army array with their subordinates. Then they saw that the entire bandit army's defense line collapsed like a city wall made of sand and soil. All the Western thieves were fleeing wildly, and countless soldiers threw down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.

The huge array of 30,000 people suddenly collapsed, and the defeat came so quickly that Feng Shuangli was stunned and as if he was stunned.

"Governor, let's run away!" The personal soldiers protected Feng Shuangli and fled, slashing and storming all the way out of the defeated soldiers, and fleeing southwest regardless of the direction.

Feng Shuangli ran wildly with his horse's neck in his arms. Wherever he passed, he was full of panicked and frustrated soldiers. At this moment, his head was thinking, could the Ming army really do the "Five Thunder Technique"? What exactly were they throwing it out?

Victory came so easily, as if it was just throwing out thousands of grenades, and then tens of thousands of thieves were defeated, fled, and surrendered. This victory exceeded the imagination of all Ming soldiers.

"I didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the thief army was so poor!" Liu Neng said speechlessly. If all the thief army were like this, even if they fought against the thief army head-on, they might win with the tens of thousands of troops in Jiujiang. Is the Duke's tactics too conservative? Liu Neng thought secretly.
Chapter completed!