Cheng Hai, who was in charge of the mobile artillery team, also knew that the situation was a crisis at this time, and ordered to fill three times the silk medicine bag and five times the past charge during the second round of charge. Fortunately, although the soldiers in charge of the nine guns also felt the great pressure, they were still much better than the recruits who faced the enemy in front. Especially under the direct supervision of Cheng Hai, Li Yi and others.

Before the mobile artillery team could be reloaded with a very dangerous charge, the cavalry of the Chung Shun battalion who rushed over had already approached a distance of only a dozen meters or so from the recruits who were facing the battle.

In the face of the javelins and three-eyed guns that continued to attack, the thin spear platoon, which was already scattered and completely out of formation, came up in an instant, and some people even broke away without being very neat.

Although more people still have the most basic sense of battle in front of them, they can know how to pull the corresponding fire rope with their fingers and breathe fire outward when the enemy horse approaches, but the distance is obviously too early. Others were so frightened that they almost burned themselves and those around them because they had lost their spears.

Of course: even the reluctance to defend themselves in this panic startled the approaching cavalry of the Zhongshun battalion. I didn't expect these recruits to be very good, and they had the means to breathe fire. Therefore, under the direct order of General Ma, the horse team of the Zhongshun battalion attacked one after another with three-eyed guns and throwing guns at a place that was barely one or twenty meters away and where the opponent barely threatened.

At this moment, most of the spear hand-to-hand combat team of more than forty people, who barely lasted a few breaths, completely collapsed. If it weren't for the small number of troops at this time, maybe it would have brought a lot of trouble to the "old soldiers" of the freshman battalion led by Zhang Lixin in the back.

At this critical juncture, there was a recruit soldier who did not move as if he had forgotten that he was on the battlefield, even if he was alone, he stood still in the face of hundreds of enemy horsemen rushing over. The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy picked up the shield discarded by the fleeing man in one hand and dodged nimbly. When an enemy horse rushed closer, he pulled his finger almost just right and spat out the flames on the spear, and almost in a short time, he burned the two people who approached him in succession. It didn't seem like a fight, but a drill.

As Qi Jiguang said: The battlefield that he has learned in peacetime has made two achievements with one enemy and five enemies, and half of them can be "invincible", and those who are truly brave to the extreme, even if it is just one person, the more than ten cavalrymen of the loyal shun battalion who are greedy for merit dare not move forward. More and more riders are concentrating on the move of completely sweeping away this fundamental mantis arm ... However, just when a lot of javelins and guns came over, and the dense attack had just knocked the brave young man who stood out from the crowd to the ground, and the whole army seemed to be on the verge of collapse, the fierce cannon fire continued to sound.

The huge recoil force almost overturned the vehicle hooked under the light cannon, and the four traveling artillery crews of fifty or sixty pounds led by Cheng Hai and others shot out more than 300 lead shots from each gun. Despite the limited dispersion angles of these shotguns at a relatively close distance, and the scattered attack of the enemy horses, eleven enemy horsemen who approached the relatively close range were completely knocked off their horses, and many wounded horses began to run wildly. Of course, this was not the most important thing, many horses did not know very well that there was an interval between the firing of enemy artillery, and they began to retreat when they saw such a terrible sight.

"Hurry up on the left and right wings! Use these things to fight our cavalry during the day? The mantis arm is a car move! The general felt a little scared, but he didn't think that such a small number of men would have any chance of surviving in front of the team. It is necessary to know the battle array: no matter how small the number is, it will take a few hundred infantry to barely form a phalanx to deal with the cavalry. There are only dozens of people, and they will be in a desperate situation when they encounter a ranger attack of the same strength, not to mention that they still have an absolute advantage in terms of strength...

However, just when it seemed that the whole team was about to fall into crisis again. The five third-generals' guns and the second-general's guns, which had been ambushed and prepared for a long time, opened fire. A total of a thousand or hundreds of projectiles flew out at a greater jet dispersion angle, prepared for a long time. In addition to more than 20 horses that were knocked down on the spot, 12 enemy horsemen were shot and bloodied, and suffered not a lot of injuries.

If the other horse teams continue to attack at this time, Zhang Lixin and the others will immediately fall into a desperate situation. However, perhaps these cavalry had not fought against an opponent with a lot of artillery fire, and the two fires in a row, which were not very long, made many horses hesitate. Even many officers and men of the Zhongshun Battalion, including General Ma Shen, could not be sure whether there was any unexposed firepower after being attacked by the suddenly exposed artillery fire...

Ma Shen, who was more or less knowledgeable in the Zhongshun battalion, escaped the artillery bombardment from a distance, and his leg was only swollen, but he saw some eyebrows: "Those thieves don't have many artillery, and they are fighting in isolation, so they should be of little use." Don't look at the bombardment formation, it looks like a Hongyi cannon, it is simply exchanged for the lack of power of the projectile, which can only threaten the horses and some exposed parts of the limbs! Retreat! Get ready to dismount and fight! Shield ahead! ”

Although some horses were lost, the cavalry of the Zhongshun battalion, which had less than 20 casualties, carefully circled and checked the surroundings after seeing that the opponent was weak, and after determining that there could be no hidden ambush in the vicinity, they once again assembled two dismounted infantry teams of more than 100 men. With the shield bearer in front, the ten columns of officers and men were spaced at a distance of about one person horizontally and significantly more than a zhang longitudinally, and approached again very slowly in a very sparse formation.

At this moment, Zhang Lixin's tense heart finally let go again. Zhang Lixin, with his battlefield understanding of the battle formation, realized that the entire team had the biggest loopholes, and the most dangerous time should have passed. The most difficult thing for this part of the people to deal with is actually the siege of the cavalry, as long as the opponent's loss tolerance and horse adaptability are a little bit like that, this battle is the result of a high probability that these people will be completely wiped out, and only a few people can escape if they are lucky. This may be due to the fact that the team is not consolidated and there is a huge disparity between the forces of the enemy and us, however, in the previous preparations, the obvious problem with the direction of the preparation is also an important reason.

Perhaps because of the influence of some wars in Liaodong, I took it for granted that the effective confrontation distance on the battlefield was about 100 meters. A projection of about 100 meters from the opponent may pose a significantly increased threat. However, it is no more than a skirmish between thousands of people and tens of thousands of people, and the other side does not have any elite in the real sense, but this is not the case at all. The distance of about forty or fifty meters, about thirty steps is the limit, and most of them are more threatening within thirty meters: most of the firearms of the Ming army are effectively threatened by this distance. At least in cases where artillery is not convenient for mobile clearance. Moreover, because of their small numbers, reliable soldiers do not even have a team of 100 men, and it is very easy to fall into close combat and quasi-close combat. And his own preparation in this regard is obviously insufficient, relying only on the spray canisters on those abduction guns, which is too limited. Unreliable recruits are not only ineffective in hand-to-hand combat, but also in the face of cavalry, even at distances slightly greater than hand-to-hand combat.

"What's your name?" At this time, Zhang Lixin remembered the brave sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who stood out from the crowd and did not follow the rout, although the brave battle of this sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy only lasted two or three breaths, but it was the time of these two or three breaths that allowed the artillery fire to kill the denser enemy groups more effectively.

"Zhang Wen!" After getting up tenaciously from the ground, Zhang Wen still replied tenaciously in a low voice, although his leg seemed to be injured, but he was obviously a taciturn person, and his heart seemed to be heavy.

Zhang Lixin didn't think it was strange. Because of his experience in leading troops and selecting soldiers and being on the battlefield, Zhang Lixin understood that top-level excellent soldiers are often this kind of taciturn and more introverted character.

"From today onwards, you will be the acting squad leader of the recruit squad. You don't have to fight in the front, it's your job to press in the back, and it's best to carry three crutch guns. Who wants to escape from the battle and wait directly for the spray canister, can it be done? Zhang Lixin thought for a moment, and finally made up his mind to say. I don't know if the naked supervision of the war will have an impact on the middle and high-level political education work in the future. But think about it: you can allow the fighters to have the choice that "the revolution must be voluntary" in situations other than fighting. But you can't do that for the sake of the whole team in battle...

After a few moments, the opposing side was overwhelmed by cavalry, and the dismounted infantry began to attack in two directions. After all, the Zhongshun Battalion Horse Team is not a rabble, and less than half of the casualties cannot shake the determination of the entire team to "rely on the strong and bully the weak".

After seeing the performance of the vast majority of the recruits, Zhang Lixin did not pin his hopes on the previously envisaged cooperation between the infantry team and the trebuchet. Instead, when the opponent's infantry had just approached about sixty paces, about ninety meters, he ordered the trebuchet that had been prepared long ago to be ready to be released.

Unlike at night, when the scale is not very large, even five trebuchets can throw 300 buckshot at a time. The front row was protected by shields, and most people could still hide, but the more than 300 buckshot eventually wounded only three enemy soldiers. He was still injured by the buckshot that bounced off the ground and regressed, and his efficiency was directly reduced to about 10% at night.

However, this attack once again bought a lot of time, giving the crew of the nine guns time to clean the chambers and once again complete the reloading beyond the required standard. The difference is that this time it is a "compacted bomb" in front of a group of small leads, so that it is not a matter of life after use. Instead, he directly began to have the risk of exploding, especially when using gunpowder whose quality was not completely guaranteed, but Zhang Lixin at this time could only do this.

When the other party approached a distance of about forty or fifty meters, almost to the temporary threat distance of the javelin and the three-eyed gun, Zhang Lixin gave the order to open fire. Because the distance was not too far, even if there was not much special training in artillery, at least six or seven shells flew into the enemy group, directly bringing more than 20 casualties. Just when the other party was panicking, the trebuchet, which had once again completed the preparation at the fastest speed, once again fired more than 300 six-tael lead bullets.

And so it was: because the preparations for the infantry battle were sufficient, the whole team did not encounter the same danger as before dusk. The whole team also got through a dangerous hurdle at this time.

As night approached, the unwilling enemy cavalry attempted to attack again and settle the battle in close hand-to-hand combat. However, after suffering another round of ambushes, he finally lost the courage to continue fighting. The whole team took advantage of the night march that had been prepared for a long time and finally left this dangerous place.