Longchuan Thousand Households, Heyuan Thousand Households, Changle Thousand Households want to fight, Wang Shengrong wants to fight more, the strength of the Ming army on the opposite side is only a few hundred more than the strength of the People's Army, the Ming Army of Heyuan County and the Ming Army of Changle County in order to march quickly to support the Ming Army of Longchuan County, they did not bring heavy artillery at all, and the People's Army still has a battalion of firearms troops, and Wang Shengrong is confident that he will defeat the Ming Army in front.

However, after seeing the convergence of the three Ming armies in front, Wang Shengrong did not take the People's Army to attack, because some distance behind the Ming Army is Longchuan County, once the People's Army defeats the Ming Army, a considerable part of the Ming Army will flee to Longchuan County.

It only takes more than 1,000 Ming troops to defend Longchuan County, and it is not possible for the People's Army of less than 3,000 to take Longchuan County in a short period of time, and the number of its own casualties will not be small.

Therefore, Wang Shengrong did not take the People's Army to attack, but took the People's Army to retreat some distance.

Seeing that the People's Army was about to retreat, the three thousand households hurriedly commanded the Ming Army to pursue forward, and the distance from Longchuan County became farther and farther, and soon, the People's Army stopped in a small plain with a wide field of vision as farmland, which was the place where Wang Shengrong chose to fight to the death with the Ming army pursuing the rear.

"Array!"

The herald rode on horseback and quickly conveyed Wang Shengrong's order.

In just a few minutes, a battalion of the main firearms unit of the 1st Mixed Brigade quickly formed a formation, and the fighters armed with tiger head guns stood in three horizontal rows, each with about 120 men, and there was at least one empty space between the two.

Not long after, the nine tiger head guns of the firearms unit were also erected on the left side of the musket array, in front of the muzzle object.

The soldiers of the first battalion of the first mixed brigade were divided into two halves and stood on either side of the firearms unit array, while the soldiers of the cold weapons unit stood behind the soldiers of the first battalion and behind the firearms unit.

Basically, the firearms unit of the 1st Mixed Brigade is in a semi-encirclement of the cold-weapon troops, and if there is an accident, such as the enemy cavalry rushing over, and the firearms troops are not completely wiped out, the cold-weapon troops can quickly rush up to help the firearms troops resist.

When the firearms unit crushes the enemy, the cold weapons unit can quickly rush to the flanks, while the firearms unit can continue to fire and shoot the fleeing enemy in front.

This is the usual array of the People's Army, and the soldiers of the People's Army move very quickly, and they are ready when the Ming Army is still more than 400 meters away from their side.

The Ming army brigade was more than 400 meters away from the People's Army array, a little farther away, but on the plain with a wide field of vision, the Longchuan Thousand Households, Heyuan Thousand Households, and Changle Thousand Households on war horses could clearly see the People's Army lined up in formation and preparing to fight the Ming Army.

"This riot is not ordinary." Longchuan Qianhu said cautiously, hearing Longchuan Qianhu's words, Heyuan Qianhu and Changle Qianhu both agreed.

Although most of the people in the People's Army on the opposite side (mainly cold weapons troops) were wearing shabby clothes, this neat formation was not something that ordinary rebels could do, and it seemed that even their guards could not do it.

As for the firearms unit of the People's Army, the three thousand households all knew that Jieshiwei was destroyed by the chaotic people, and Jieshiwei had a large number of firearms, and believed that the firearms used by the People's Army came from Jieshiwei.

The chaotic people in front of them are extraordinary, but the three thousand households did not give up the idea of attacking, in the hearts of the three people, whether it was the capture of the county town or the destruction of Jieshiwei, they all thought that the chaotic people had succeeded in sneak attack, and in the case of paying a lot of casualties, the three of them still despised the chaotic people in their hearts.

There is a way to deal with ordinary rebels, and when you see the rebels retreating, you rush directly to finish the job, and there is another way to deal with the unusual rebels in front of you, the chaotic people are arrayed, then their own side is also arrayed, and the formation is pressed forward together, the chaotic people have firearms, and the Ming army has more firearms here!

"Array! Array! Array! ”

In the Ming army, drums and trumpets were beaten, and the guards of the thousand households rode horses to convey orders to the various departments.

The Ming army, which was in a chaotic formation of the pursuing People's Army, also began to line up, and the Ming soldiers with various types of firearms came to the front, and the cavalry gathered a hundred horsemen led by Changle Qianhu on the left side of the array, looking for an opportunity to rush up from the side to tear through the formation of the People's Army, and the swordsmen, pikemen, and crossbowmen stood behind the firecrackers.

It took several times longer than the People's Army, and the Ming Army also lined up the formation, but this formation was far worse than the People's Army's formation in terms of regularity, if it weren't for the problem of clothes, I am afraid that the people would be more like the regular army.

At this time, the Ming People's Army was more than 350 meters, and the command of the Ming Army was handed over to the eldest Longchuan Qianhu.

After the Ming army lined up in formation, Longchuan Qianhu ordered the army to continue to advance, because it was a formation to advance, this time the Ming army's marching speed was relatively slow, and the speed of people was not normal.

In front of the Ming army, the People's Army was in full position, and the distance of 350 meters between the two armies was already within the firing range for the Tiger Head Gun, but the People's Army was not in a hurry to fire, and firing at such a long distance would not be good if the Ming Army was scared away.

The Ming army also had firearms on its side, and the range of the firecracker was 100 meters to 150 meters, because the shooting accuracy of the firearm was very poor, and the Ming army would basically fire at about 100 meters, and Wang Shengrong was ready to put the Ming army at a distance of 200 meters before firing, and the most threatening cavalry in the Ming army was one of the two main targets in the first round of fire.

One hundred zhang

Ninety zhang

Eighty zhang

Seventy zhang

When there was a difference of 70 zhang between the two armies (3.16 meters per zhang in the Ming Dynasty), the firearms units in the 1st Mixed Brigade of the People's Army were ready to open fire.

"Fire!" "Ignition!" ”

At the moment when the order was given, more than 120 tiger head guns fired a salvo of devouring lead bullets, crashing into the Ming army's array at a distance of 200 meters in the blink of an eye.

"Why did the rebels open fire so far away?"

The light of the fire two hundred meters away in front of them, Longchuan Qianhu, Heyuan Qianhu, and Changle Qianhu were all strange, they didn't think that the fire guns of the chaotic people could shoot into their own array, just when they wanted to laugh at the chaotic people on the opposite side who couldn't use firearms, in an instant, the front of the Ming army array was hit by more than 120 lead bullets, and a large number of people were killed and injured.

"How... How can it be? ”

The three thousand households were shocked, especially Changle Qianhu, who commanded more than 100 cavalry, he was not at the forefront of the cavalry, half of the lead bullets of the People's Army were towards the Ming cavalry, and more than 100 Ming cavalry were killed and injured by a third at once, and the cavalry in front of Changle Qianhu was shot and fell from his horse, so frightened that Changle Qianhu almost fell from his horse.

Before the Ming army could react, only a few seconds passed, and another wave of more than 120 lead bullets attacked, and at the same time, nine tiger head cannons opened fire one after another, and nine solid shells were loaded into the Ming army's array along with more than 120 lead bullets.

Burst!

Two lead bullets concentrated in the cavalry ranks of the Ming army at the same time, one lead bullet hit Changle Qianhu's shoulder, and the other lead bullet hit Changle Qianhu's chest, even the armor worn by Changle Qianhu could not block this lead bullet, Changle Qianhu's body shook twice on the war horse, and then fell weakly from the war horse.