But at the moment when the smoke was shrouded, Chen Jin really didn't see the rapid retreat of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and he couldn't see it.

Even Chen Jin was holding the expensive monocular in his hand.

From the time the smoke and dust were raised to Chen Jin's order to attack lightly, the interval was actually two or three minutes.

Wu Zheng ordered quickly, and the soldiers reacted quickly.

The first training subject of the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army was running, and in these two or three minutes, they could run hundreds of steps.

In other words, when the enemy cavalry rushed out of the smoke-shrouded area, the distance between the two sides was no longer 500 steps, but more than 1,000 steps.

Don't underestimate the difference between hundreds of steps, it's directly related to winning or losing the battle.

Wu Zheng naturally wouldn't be stupid, so he really launched an attack so blatantly.

Naturally, he had a plan, pressing forward with the main force, forcing the enemy to respond, and using the tiger squat cannon to stir up smoke and dust, blinding the enemy's sight, creating the illusion that the Northern Expeditionary Army was close at hand, and inducing the enemy to move.

It works great, but it's all about what happens next.

There were as many as 300 tiger squat cannons brought by Song An.

Lure the enemy with a hundred gates, and naturally there are two hundred more deployed behind you.

The firing range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is too close, at most 800 steps, which requires strong reloading, the operation of the barrel is extremely large, and the recoil is huge, so Wu Zheng did not think about strong reloading and multi-charge, but used the method of blinding to create some distance of 500 steps.

That is to say, when the enemy cavalry pursues to a distance of 500 paces, in fact, the enemy cavalry is already more than 500 paces away from their position.

And this is exactly what Wu Zheng wants to achieve.

Hit a time difference, right under the nose of the enemy, hit a time difference.

Crazy?

It's really crazy!

This tactic, in this era, I am afraid that only the Northern Expeditionary Army can do, it contains three key points, one is naturally to prohibit the order; The second is to run fast and the overall coordination must be good, otherwise, half of the escape and half of the fall will be lost; In the end, the operation of the tiger squat cannon deployed behind him must be extremely skilled, although the distance and Zhu Yuan have been marked in advance, but the speed of the hand speed and the prediction of the speed of the enemy's cavalry directly affect the success or failure of the tactic.

Shoot a little earlier, the enemy cavalry has not yet entered the firing range, then a salvo is out, the best result is to scare off the enemy cavalry, the bad result is that after this round of salvo, there is no time to reload a second time, five hundred steps away, the light cavalry can be reached instantly, the next thing is to be slaughtered, there is no physical body to block the inertia of the war horse in the charge.

The artillery was fired a little later, it was better to understand, the enemy had already arrived in front of the artillery array, and the shells that went out hit the air, which was even more sad.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that only the Northern Expeditionary Army can carry out such tactics in this era.

In fact, at the moment when the enemy cavalry forwards rushed across the calibration line, the cannonballs fired from the salvo of 200 tiger squat cannons blocked the follow-up enemy cavalry and blew them up on their backs, but there were still 100 horsemen who had already crossed the calibration line.

Wu Zheng also has a certain backdrop to this, in fact, it is very simple, that is, to set aside a reserve of 600 people in case of accidents.

These 600 men were behind the artillerymen, armed with loaded muskets, and their muskets were all stabbed, that is, after firing a shot, they did not need to reload, and rushed forward with their guns, and if they were unsuccessful, they became benevolent!

This is indeed a crazy tactic, but isn't this exactly what Wu Zheng has always done?

In the past five years, he has really done this kind of thing.

To say that he is crazy is actually not accurate, often his tactics are specific and feasible, at least theoretically feasible.

Facts have also proved that it is indeed feasible.

No one can find their teammates behind them engulfed in explosions and flames, and still maintain the fighting spirit and the composure of a blind eye.

You know, this is a light cavalry, the body is just ordinary leather armor, the wealthier ones, add some iron pieces to their leather armor to protect their vital points, which is already very rare.

The flowering shells fired by the Tiger Squat Cannon were not lethal enough for the ironclad heavy cavalry, but for these light cavalry, it was as smooth as the tip of a red-hot knife stabbing into the snow.

Sharp fragments, densely shooting in the explosion area, almost without dead ends, the people in it have nowhere to dodge or hide.

This kind of blood and cruelty can make those who see it quickly lose their fighting spirit.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the only advantage of the hundred horses who rushed through the line at this time is the inertia of the war horse running wildly under the crotch.

But they still have to go through another hurdle before they can contact the Northern Expeditionary Army desperately, that is, 600 iron bullets that are shooting rapidly, which are different from the lead bullets used in training, on the battlefield, the Northern Expeditionary Army uses iron bullets, although the loss of the barrel is great, but the power is much stronger.

This thumb-sized round iron bullet is heavy, rough, and even full of air holes, but it can make a pit in the iron armor, and even injure or break the ribs of the rider in the armor, which shows its power.

This is obviously not something that a person in leather armor can resist.

After the gunshot, the cavalry fell down one after another, and there were only more than 30 horsemen left in the hundred horses.

Apparently not, the panicked enemy cavalry, who had escaped from the explosion, was met with a volley of muskets in front of them before they could come to their senses, and they didn't even react.

Many of the cavalrymen were shot in the chest, fell straight backwards and fell off their horses.

They can't even subconsciously bow their heads.

This shooting accuracy cannot be replicated.

In fact, if the two armies are in the right place, even if the musket fire is intensive, it will not be able to cause such casualties, and the cavalry can avoid at least half of the casualties as long as they consciously lie on the horse's back, not to mention that these riders can even hide under the horse's belly, which is called an upside-down golden hook.

Unfortunately, they did not have this opportunity, and after the sudden shelling, nine out of ten out of ten looked back, which caused them to be unable to quickly turn back, bow their heads, and lie on the back of their horses, and at the moment they just turned around, they were hit by flying projectiles.

But the remaining 30 or so cavalry still caused nearly 100 casualties of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Even if they are like frightened birds, even if they have lost the will to fight, as long as the people are still on horseback, they are still cavalry.

The disadvantages of the Northern Expeditionary Army's lack of armor were magnified.

Often, the soldier stabbed out with a gun, still holding the handle of the gun, but was knocked away by the powerful inertia of the war horse.

It wasn't until it kept crashing into the human body that the horse gradually slowed down, and then ...... There is no then, and the cavalry that loses its speed is a dead end, like a musket without bullets, not as good as a burning stick.

It was not a complete victory, and the battle did not come to an end, on the contrary, the battle had just begun.

It is said that martial arts in the world are only fast and unbreakable, and the battlefield is actually the same.

It tests the reflexes and speed of the generals and soldiers on both sides.