Fortunately, Cao Bianjiao also knew that although Shao Derong's troops had horses, they were still far from the cavalry, so he didn't urge them to go into battle, but just asked Liu Ximing to lead this part of the men and horses to suppress the formation, and then enter the battle when the opportunity is right.

Liu Ximing and the No. 900 people of the Longxiang Brigade watched Cao Bianjiao lead more than 3,000 people like chopping melons and vegetables, and they were stunned to cut the Liukou rear team in half.

Not only that, after the cavalry passed through the formation, they did not continue to march towards Li Zicheng's Chinese army, but turned their horses' heads and divided into two groups like a tide to insert the thieves' rear from the left and right flanks again.

It only took a few minutes of effort, and the rear team of thieves who were in a hurry to meet the enemy collapsed directly, and thousands of terrified thieves fled in all directions, making the battlefield even more chaotic.

With their help blocking the battlefield, Li Zicheng's troops had just reorganized the front army and the Chinese army and wanted to return to fight, but they were blocked by the crowd.

Liu Ximing saw it clearly, and there was no ambiguity among the thieves, and all those who rushed towards his army were all shot and killed.

However, with such a scuffle, Cao Bianjiao has already completed the second assembly with his cavalry, and he will attack again when he finds the flaws of the thieves.

"Quick, the artillery is in position, and General Cao will be warned by firing a gun."

Liu Ximing was keenly aware of the changes on the battlefield, and at this moment, Li Zicheng had already completed the formation, and if Cao Bianjiao directly led the troops to attack, he would inevitably suffer huge losses.

Therefore, at this time, he either waits for an opportunity, or rushes left and right to find a flaw.

Lao Liu is also a person who has been trained in amateur military knowledge for so long, and he has already understood the essence of cavalry use during the kung fu he watched the battle just now.

Only by moving can you find the enemy's flaws and take advantage of the opportunity to break in.

So what he has to do now is to use his firearms advantage to make a hole for Cao Bianjiao, as long as the thief army array is loose, there will be a chance for the cavalry to show their might.

"Bang"

A gunshot from the rear attracted Cao Bianjiao to look back, and seeing that the rear artillery array had been loaded, the order he was originally going to shout stopped with it.

"Hahahaha, my brother is really a talent for generals."

Cao Bianjiao shouted at his lieutenant general with excitement on his face, if Liu Ximing could really open the gap, he would save a lot of effort on his side.

As soon as he finished speaking, ten howitzers roared at the same time, and Liu Ximing didn't even calibrate the trajectory, and fired directly based on a rough estimate.

Li Zicheng was crowded together with tens of thousands of horses, which just gave Liu Xi's firearms troops the opportunity to kill.

Ten flowering shells exploded in the crowd in an instant, and all kinds of shrapnel steel balls provoked bursts of bloody rain.

"Zong Min, take the left flank and go and finish off that artillery position."

Li Zicheng shouted heartbreakingly, and his sallow face was already distorted.

However, as soon as Liu Zongmin acted, Cao Bianjiao also moved.

It's just that he didn't care about the men and horses brought by Liu Zongmin, but stuck to the back of Liu Zongmin and directly inserted diagonally from the left flank of Li Zicheng's army.

This kind of ability to grasp the fighter plane, even if Xiang Yu is alive, I am afraid that it is not much better, Liu Ximing sighed when he saw this.

For his behavior of abandoning to rescue himself but breaking into most of the thief army, he only sighed but did not complain, in other words, he himself was afraid that he would do the same.

"The whole army is arrayed, reloaded."

"Setting the Yardstick"

The Longxiang Brigade used howitzers with curved ballistics, which did not affect the infantry formation in front at all.

It is precisely because of the consideration that the official army is always in the position of pursuit and does not need to engage in siege operations with the thieves, so Liu Ximing chose the fairy cannon.

Now it seems that his military consciousness is also improving step by step.

Liu Zongmin is also a ruthless character, Cao Bianjiao realized the problem as soon as he moved, but now it is useless for him to bring people back, how to chase the four-legged two-legged ones, it is better to kill the artillery that poses the greatest threat to his own side first.

"Chong Chong Chong, all hurry up for Lao Tzu."

The 5,000 men and horses on the left flank, under the instigation of Liu Zongmin and others, used their strength to rush towards the Longxiang brigade.

The last time he was in Jiataogou, because Liu Ximing ended the battle with rolling logs in advance, and there were mountains and rocks blocking it, these thieves had not really learned the taste of queuing up to be shot, and there was a bit of revenge in running at this time.

"First row, aim ~~"

Liu Ximing acted as the commander-in-chief of the Longxiang Brigade in the war, watching the crowds rushing towards him, but his hands were as steady as an old dog.

It wasn't until the thief ran to the eighty-step ruler that he slashed down with the command knife in his hand.

"Shooting"

The Longxiang Brigade has been tested in many wars, from firing at a distance of 80 paces to receiving a station at close range, the Longxiang Brigade can shoot a total of two rounds.

Although the hit rate at 80 paces is only about 20%, the hit rate will steadily increase to about 70% as the distance decreases.

After the first row is finished, it turns around and runs to the rear, completing the reloading at the same time.

The second and third rows shot back in turn.

Two rounds of non-stop firing came down, causing more than 800 casualties directly to the thieves.

However, before the thieves who rushed to the front were happy, one by one the white-eyed grenades flew along the parabolic trajectory.

The sound of explosions of "boom" and "boom" was endless.

After the smoke of gunpowder, the Long Xiang Brigade, which had already completed the action of loading the bayonet, instantly approached, and the strict gun array flashed with a deadly light.

The soldiers in the first row stuck their shields on the ground with their left hands, and with their right hands, they placed their muskets directly on the hooks on the right side of the shields.

Liu Zongmin felt that something was wrong when the second round of guns was fired by the Longxiang Brigade, how could this firepower feel more ferocious than the bird soldiers he had come into contact with before.

He didn't even need to count carefully, just by looking at the figures in front of him who were constantly falling, he roughly knew that the casualties this time were far better than before.

However, at this time, he was thirty or forty steps away from the group of officers and soldiers in blue robes in front of him, and Liu Zongmin could not let the troops stop and observe for a while, so he could only rush up together.

The thieves who rushed to the front row could almost see the young and immature faces in the array opposite, and before they could happily meet a group of baby soldiers, the sound of grenades exploding sounded.

It's another scene of blood and brains flying together.

With the increase in the number of wars, Liu Ximing realized more and more clearly that in the era of smoothbore guns, the main thing that could really determine the outcome of the war was heavy firepower equipment such as artillery and grenades.

As for the musket, I am afraid that only the development of the post-loading gun era can really affect the situation of the war.

And if you want to completely sweep the cavalry into the dust of history, you have to wait until the era of machine guns.

Getting back to the point, the sudden grenade suddenly blinded Liu Zongmin's troops, but at this time, more than 4,000 people rushed forward like a desperate person, even if the people in front wanted to cry and escape, they were still driven by the inertia of the crowd behind them to crash into the array of the Longxiang Brigade.

The sound of "stabbing" continued to sound, and the array of the Longxiang Brigade was like a raft beaten by the waves, swinging crookedly with the surging crowd of thieves.

"Resist"

Liu Ximing jumped in a hurry in the rear.

At this time, Liu Zongmin was keenly aware of the changes on the battlefield, although the array on the opposite side was stable, the battle line was not too long.

And behind this gang of people, there is an artillery unit that is still shooting at Li Zicheng's Chinese army!

Liu Zongmin was overjoyed, and beckoned his lieutenant to come over and shouted at the artillery behind him.

The rear team of thieves immediately divided into two groups of five or six hundred people and began to detour on both sides of the road, wanting to rush directly to the rear.

Liu Ximing rode on a horse to take a look at the overall situation, and was frightened when he saw this scene.

"Abandon the artillery and prepare the grenades"

He didn't have time to think about it, so he directly called the hundreds of people on the artillery position to follow him forward to intercept.

He himself quickly spurred forward, and ran straight to the left flank of the Longxiang Brigade, where the figure of the rogues could already be seen rushing towards him.

“duang”

Piles of logs abruptly appeared on the position, perfectly covering the left flank of the Longxiang Brigade.

Liu Ximing didn't have time to pay attention to the thief's collapsed expression, and with a sloppy sound, he turned his mount and galloped towards the right flank.

The men and horses that were originally on the artillery position had also run to the edge of the left flank at this time, and through the giant trees, dozens of grenades flew in, turning the rogue's collapsed expression into a relict and solidifying on his face.

Liu Ximing also concocted the same method on the right flank, but before the artillery could follow, the enemy troops in front of the Longxiang Brigade directly collapsed.

Anyone who sees a large pile of wood appearing in front of their own people on the battlefield like a divine soldier descending from the sky will probably be terrified.

Moreover, the Longxiang Brigade that resisted head-on was not a soft persimmon, and the No. 800 people firmly blocked the frontal rogue in front of the array.

Seeing that the attack was hopeless, and that the opponent seemed to have divine help, the thieves, who had already lowered their will to fight to the lowest line, turned around and ran as if they had been trained.