Chapter 297: Pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger

Jiannu's combat method is very simple and rude, dismount and fight, the dead soldiers in the front row with double iron armor, and the light armor in the back take bows and arrows, and start throwing light arrows when they reach a hundred steps, and even one hundred and fifty steps to start throwing if they are downwind.

Advance to thirty paces and start to shoot heavy arrows, the dead soldiers will begin to charge, followed by a Bayara, and when the dead soldiers in front of them and the enemy meet in short arms, the Bayala soldiers will take the opportunity to break in, tear open the gap, and decide the victory in one fell swoop.

Due to the poor performance of the Ming army's bird guns, it is impossible to break through the double-layer iron armor after more than fifty steps, the armor rate is not as high as that of Jiannu, and the archers are far less powerful than the Jiannu archers, and they will be suppressed at long distances, let alone short-handed combat.

The only thing Jiannu feared was artillery.

The Ming army in the east of Mayi City had more than a dozen tiger squat cannons, so they needed a big shield.

A large shield two or three fingers thick may not be able to block the cannon of the Tiger Squat Cannon, but it can offset the power of the cannonball to a certain extent, and it can completely block the scattered bombs at close range.

Laussa sent people to search a pile of wood in a nearby village, dismantled a large pile of door panels and bed boards, and put them together into dozens of simple shields.

Then, two hundred dead soldiers wearing double-layered iron armor, carrying dozens of large shields, advanced towards the Ming army with heavy steps.

Behind the two hundred dead soldiers were eighty-five Bayalas, who also wore two or even three layers of armor.

The horse armor and infantry armor in the back are mostly holding bows and arrows in their hands.

Because the right side of the Ming army was the Sanggan River, all the Laosa did not arrange troops and horses on the right side, but only arranged the Mongolian cavalry of the Ordos Department and the Tumut Department on the left side.

And because this place was an open farmland, the 1,000 Mongol cavalry surrounded the left and rear of the Ming army.

Among them, hundreds of cavalry roamed back and forth, whistling and screaming, while tentatively approaching the Ming army.

Occasionally, the daredevils went up to fifty paces and threw fluttering arrows with their bows.

The Ming army was very strange, neither advancing nor retreating, and when the Mongol cavalry threw light arrows, they did not return fire, but only formed a rectangular formation, and erected shield walls on all sides to block all those light arrows.

Seeing that the other side did not counterattack, those Mongol cavalry became emboldened and began to sweep by in groups twenty or thirty paces away, and the light arrows thrown began to be replaced by flat heavy arrows, trying to break the shield.

But at this time, those dovetail cards suddenly revealed a few gaps, revealing a swarthy tiger squat cannon, a burst of "boom boom" cannon sounded, dense scattered bombs tilted away like a rain of pear blossoms, and none of the 20 or so Mongolian cavalry who rushed to the front were spared, and even men and horses fell to the ground.

After the Mongolian cavalry in the back fled back, they no longer dared to approach rashly, but only swept around the periphery, affecting the morale of the Ming army with a sharp roar.

No one knows how many tiger squatting cannons there are in the Ming army's formation, and if there are many of them, how many cavalry will rush over and be sent to death.

Anyway, this Ming army has already been surrounded, and it is not too late to wait for the Jurchens to charge from the front, and then encircle it.

On the frontal battlefield, Rausa and several generals rode on their horses, condescendingly, carefully observing the lineup of the Ming army, while directing his subordinates to advance slowly.

After entering the three hundred steps, Rausa raised his waist knife and shouted: "Warriors, that Nikan army killed eight warriors of the Great Golden Kingdom and hung their heads on the trees, which is humiliating those dead warriors and insulting our Great Golden Kingdom!" ”

"Warriors, we will kill all those Nikans, leave not one behind, and hang their heads on the trees to avenge the dead warriors!"

"Revenge!"

Several generals next to him also raised their waist knives and shouted loudly.

"Revenge!"

More than 1,000 Jiannu shouted at the same time, and the cry resounded through the sky, shaking the heavens and the earth, and the morale was suddenly raised, and the speed of advancement was also accelerated a lot.

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"Lao Li, let me shoot a few shots, I promise to kill those Jiannu generals."

In the Ming army's formation, Huang Liuxi rubbed the rifled gun in his hand and said to Li Dingliang on the side.

Li Dingliang put down the binoculars in his hand and said with a smile: "The big boss said, don't expose the range of these rifled guns too early, pretend to be a pig for a while, wait to eat the tiger, and let them go one hundred and twenty steps before fighting." ”

"I'm afraid I won't have a chance to fight those generals then."

"Don't worry, when Yan Yechen's army arrives, a lot of generals will fight you, and it is best to kill Yan Yechen."

"When will they arrive?"

"Two days at most."

"Okay, when the time comes, I'll beat the head of that Raush Ziye Chen into a rotten melon."

"Speaking of which, when Jiannu advances a hundred steps, you and your marksman will fight the dead soldiers against the big shield, either in the head or in the foot."

"After knocking out the big shield, and then hitting the Bayala in the back, it is those white-armored soldiers wearing bright armor, it is best to hit the head and kill them with one shot."

"No problem."

Huang Liuxi patted the rifled gun in his hand, then stepped aside and summoned his marksman to explain his tactics.

There were only eighty rifled guns in the entire Guan Di army, and he had fifty here, although the number was small, but it would certainly play a decisive role.

Li Dingliang raised the binoculars again to observe for a moment, and then shouted: "The gunners and gunners are ready, and the marksman will immediately open fire after overturning Jiannu's big shield and fight to the death." ”

"Yes!"

The morale of Emperor Guan's army rose instantly.

The gunners and gunners hiding behind the shield wall also checked their firearms and were ready to fire at any time.

This way, the Guan Emperor's army did not only have a dozen tiger squat cannons and a hundred bird guns, but one hundred and ten tiger squat cannons and six hundred flintlock guns.

Most of the firearms of the entire Guan Emperor Army were concentrated here, and they were always hidden behind the shield wall, and Jiannu couldn't see it.

With such a powerful firepower, not to mention Laussa's 2,500 troops, even the 10,000 elites of Daishan have to lie down.

Rausa and the slaves didn't know that they were on the road to death, and they still carried the big shield and pushed forward.

Now it was a south wind, neither downwind nor against the wind, so Jiannu did not begin to release arrows until one hundred and twenty paces, and hundreds of light arrows made a buzzing sound like a swarm of locusts, drawing a dense arc in the sky, and landed in the Guandi army array.

For Guan Dijun, this is a big psychological test.

These 3,000 Guan Emperor soldiers all wore cotton armor, iron helmets, and leather arm and leg guards, just to defend against the bows and arrows of Houjin.

Moreover, with the exception of gunners and gunners, the rest of the Guandi army carried wooden shields.

When Jiannu's bowstring sounded, the Guan Emperor soldiers with shields raised their wooden shields one after another, and those without shields hid under the shields of their companions.

Hundreds of arrows crackled as they landed on their shields, like hailstones, occasionally mixed with the muffled snort or screams of a handful of Guan Emperor's troops when they were hit by arrows that had entered through the gaps.

Even if there is no cotton armor and arm and leg guards, these light arrows will not penetrate too deep into the flesh when they hit the human body, and the arrows that leaked in through the gap did not cause much damage to the Guan Emperor Army, most of them hit the cotton armor or protective gear, and only a dozen or so were too unlucky to be drilled into the gap between the cotton armor and the protective gear by the arrows and pierced into the body.

These wounded Guan Di soldiers will be treated immediately, pull out the arrows, carefully wash the wounds with soju, and then bandage them.

Jiannu's arrowheads are coated with horse dung, which is very vicious, and if not properly handled, it is easy to cause infection and die.

As soon as a rain of arrows passed, gunpowder smoke rose from the formation of Emperor Guan's army, and at the same time as a row of gunshots "banged", dozens of pointed bullets pierced into the Jiannu formation with a sharp and piercing whistling sound.

This is Huang Liuxi and they have shot, focusing on the legs and feet of those dead soldiers in the front row of Jiannu who are exposed under the big shield.

At a distance of one hundred and twenty paces, the chance of hitting a marksman with a rifled gun can reach seventy or eighty percent.

The dozens of Jiannu dead soldiers at the forefront fell in response, wailing in pain on the ground, and more than a dozen large shields also fell to the ground.

At this time, the shield wall in the front row of Emperor Guan's army suddenly gave way to gaps, revealing hundreds of swarthy tiger squat cannons.

"Fire!"

Li Dingliang gave an order.

A hundred tiger squat cannons ignited at the same time, and they all let out an earth-shattering roar, and the whistling cannonballs pierced into the Jiannu array.

At the same time, six hundred flintlock muskets were fired.