Marin's eyes were fixed on the archer on the opposite side, wanting to know whether the round of firecrackers just hit the archer 70 steps away.

Almost at the same time, arrows from the army archers hit the gunmen from the Daliang Mountains.

"Hit." The team leader next to Marin shouted in surprise.

The one who just fired the arsonist was the arsonist of his team.

Among the archers of the army, one archer was hit on the shoulder by a fire blunderbuss. He screamed and fell to the ground, and all the bows and arrows in his hand were thrown to the ground.

The cotton armor on the shoulders was torn open by lead, revealing the flesh and blood inside, giving off bursts of burning smell.

The other archers did not expect that the opponent's fire cannon hit someone seventy steps away, and they were frightened immediately. They were afraid that they would also be hit by the fire cannon, so they ran behind them in fright.

Seeing this scene, Marin breathed a sigh of relief. The fire cannon was able to hit the archers, which proved that at this distance, their fire cannons could threaten the archers and would not be passively beaten.

He withdrew his gaze and finally had the chance to look at himself.

Among the arrows fired by the army's archers, he noticed that one arrow hit the crowd of gunmen around him.

Sure enough, as he looked over, he saw an arrow stuck in the sleeve of a fire gunner's forearm. The fire gunman who was shot had a pale and bloodless face, and he was frightened at the first sight.

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However, there was no blood on the opponent's sleeve.

"Are you injured?" Marin asked concernedly to the musketeer who had arrow feathers on his forearm sleeves.

The other party shook his head and stuttered: "No, not hurt."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and glanced at the feather arrow stuck on his sleeve.

"Since you are not injured, why not quickly pull out the arrows on your sleeves." Marin said, and then added, "The second row of gunmen come forward."

The firecrackers of the three teams stood in three rows. The one in the first row had just fired off the firecrackers, and there were two rows of firecrackers behind them who were ready to take over from the first row of firecrackers at any time.

"My subordinate, pull it out right now." The gunman seemed to be frightened. When Marin reminded him, he remembered that there was an arrow stuck in his sleeve.

By the time he took off the arrows from his cuffs, a row of gunmen behind him had already stepped forward.

"Don't rush to attack now, wait until the archers on the other side get closer," Marin reminded.

I'm worried that these gunmen can't help but fire their guns in advance because they are nervous.

The archers stepped back more than ten steps, and the distance between the two sides was ninety steps away. At more than seventy steps before, the fire gunmen were already struggling, but at a distance of more than ninety steps, no matter how powerful the fire gunmen were,

, it is also difficult to hit an archer at such a long distance.

Marin knew that his mission was not to destroy these archers, but to contain these archers and prevent them from sneaking up on the firecrackers of several squadrons of them from the flank.

At this time, he wished that the other side's archers would delay as long as possible. It was best to wait until the other side decided the winner.

However, this is just his own wishful thinking.

Just as the archers of the official army were retreating, the soldier leading the archers had ordered these archers to return to their original positions.

In order to prevent these archers from being disobedient, the soldier recruited several more soldiers to suppress the formation, and even killed an archer on the spot who was unwilling to retreat.

Forced by several soldiers, the remaining eighteen archers reluctantly returned to their original positions.

At a distance of more than seventy steps, there is almost no accuracy for fire cannons, so the fire cannon players can only fire in rows in order to hit the enemy.

Although this distance is better for an archer than a gunman's accuracy, it still requires a bit of luck to hit the enemy.

In addition, seeing that these archers could be hit by the firecrackers in the hands of bandits from such a long distance, they panicked and their accuracy became even worse.

As a result, the eighteen archers and a small team of gunmen brought by Marin actually fought effectively.

Every time these archers shoot one or two rounds of arrows, one or two fire gunmen will be hit. Likewise, some of these archers will be hit by fire guns.

But neither of the two sides retreated, and they only fired at each other from a distance of more than 70 steps.

Marin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally holding back these archers.

Not only that, as more and more archers in the army were hit by fire guns, the threat became smaller and smaller. Even because he had more fire guns here, he gradually gained an advantage.

Of course, he knew that this was also related to the fact that the military archers drew their bows too many times.

No matter how strong a person's arm strength is, if he keeps drawing the bow and shooting arrows, he will get tired at some point and his accuracy will drop drastically.

The archers of the official army were successfully restrained, but because the three squadrons were missing a small group of gunmen, they were forced to advance more than ten steps by the official army on the opposite side.

However, due to the approach of the army, the power of the firecrackers began to increase.

At the time of the original seventy steps, each time six or seventy fire cannons were fired together, they could only kill or wound less than ten officers and soldiers, or even less.

As the officers and soldiers approached, the accuracy of the gunmen also increased. In addition to the large number of officers and soldiers, the gunmen of each squadron were able to injure more than a dozen infantry of the officers and soldiers after firing in rows.

When the officers and soldiers rushed within forty steps in front of the gunman, no less than a hundred officers and soldiers were killed or wounded along the way.

If it weren't for the generals holding the formation at the rear of the army, who successively killed some soldiers who wanted to retreat and flee, the army would have been defeated by this time because they could not bear the casualties.

"Captain, the officers and soldiers are not retreating with so many casualties. There are generals in the rear forcing the soldiers in front to continue to advance. It seems that they are determined to wipe out us." Zhang Hongtu said to Cao Guang beside him.

Cao Guang, who was always staring at the battlefield, said at this time: "Give me the order to have the four-door tiger crouching cannon to hit me hard."

The flag officer was ordered to raise the flag in his hand and wave it several times.

The captain of the artillery team noticed the waving command flag, spat heavily on the ground, and said to his gunners: "It's our artillery team's turn to take action. Everyone, listen up. Let me aim the muzzles at the officers and soldiers in front."

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"Ready, request to shoot."

"put!"

The four squatting tiger cannons had already been filled with iron sand and iron balls, and the muzzles were pointed at the official face in front. With an order, the four squatting tiger cannons were fired almost at the same time.

Countless iron beads and iron sand flew out from the muzzle, forming a fan and hitting the officers and soldiers at the front fiercely.

The officers and soldiers who rushed at the front were hit almost the moment the cannon sounded.

Many soldiers were hit by countless amounts of iron sand or iron beads, half of their bodies were smashed, and their lives were lost on the spot.

There are many soldiers like this, and almost all of them are soldiers at the front.

The corpses of some soldiers who were killed by the Crouching Tiger Cannon still had some strength left in them, and they hit the people who were following behind them, causing many soldiers to fall to the ground.

Almost instantly, a large vacancy suddenly appeared in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.
Chapter completed!