In front of the Liu Jiajun array, Yuan Baosong felt a word of regret in his heart, "It's a pity that you can't use artillery." ”

Glancing at the artillery position behind him, which was silent, and seeing that the rogue had already crossed the seventy-step ruler that had been set up, Yuan Baosong waved his command knife violently.

"Shoot!"

"Bang", "Bang"

The musketeer line of 1,000 men was not a secret line, and in order to avoid frightening the enemy, the musketeers began to retreat after only two rounds of fire.

Rao was like this, Liu Zongmin's troops still left nearly 800 corpses and wounded behind, and the overgrown haystack was full of moans and cries of the king Li Zicheng.

There are not many rogue archers, most of them are captured by the official army, and Liu Zongmin is just to test the battle, and he didn't expect to arrange archers to shoot.

In the Ming Dynasty, the archers' attacks were not the main force.

Shao Derong once reported to Liu Ximing on the use of long-range weapons by the official army, usually the thief advanced a hundred steps, the bird gunner hit the gun in front, and the thief was fifty steps away, and each archer released arrows, crossbows and rockets.

The bird gunner's shooting from a hundred steps away is basically useless, and the archer's fifty step shooting is even more fatal for Liu Jiajun's Longxiang three-style musket.

"All of them, guns!"

Yuan Baosong gave an order, and the two thousand pikemen lined up behind the musketeers immediately set up the spears in their hands, and with the big shields in the first column, a hedgehog-like guideline appeared in front of Liu Zongmin and others.

"Rush over!"

Liu Zongmin was born as a blacksmith, and he was full of inexhaustible strength, and when he saw that the Dengzhou militia on the opposite side did not use muskets but changed them to long guns, he was not surprised or overjoyed.

Just be able to touch the enemy's edge.

One by one, the screaming rogues followed closely behind Liu Zongmin, slamming on the phalanx of the Liu Jiajun like a tidal wave.

Fortunately, although Dengzhou and other places are militia groups, except that the training level is not as good as that of the Liu family's regular army, the others are not much different.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the militia were all nervous and sweaty, under the command of hundreds of grassroots officers from battalion commanders to captains, the entire phalanx was slowly stabilized except for some confusion at first.

Under the cover of the large shield, the pikemen in the back kept repeating the stabbing action according to the command.

The musketeers, who had retreated earlier, returned to the flanks, relying on bayonets and muskets to cover the flanks of the phalanx.

In the middle of the camp, the military flag was unfurled, Liu Ximing stood on the watchtower and carefully observed the movements of the front army, and finally praised Mu Jingnan, Wei Jingguo and others:

"The former army is fighting well, although it is only a militia group, but the battle formation is stable, it seems that you have not wasted time in the past few years."

Wei Jingguo picked his head and smirked, "This is all trained according to the second brother's method, so naturally you have to have some ability." ”

Liu Ximing nodded with a smile, and then reminded everyone:

"But you can't underestimate the enemy, we have also dealt with the rogue many times, you take a closer look, what is the difference between the rogue under Li Zicheng and the previous one?"

At this time, changes had begun to appear on the battlefield, and Liu Zongmin, who had never been able to break through the enemy formation, finally retreated, and the army began to retreat step by step behind him under his command.

Mu Jingnan put down the binoculars and said in a condensed voice: "Liukou attaches more importance to the queue than before, and the command is not as chaotic as before, second brother, you see, when they retreated, they were not chaotic, they were obviously trained." ”

Liu Ximing took a deep breath and exhaled, "That's right, we are improving, and the rogues are also improving, especially now that a large number of officers and soldiers have joined them, I am afraid that they will continue to expand their strength in the future, so I ask you to be vigilant." ”

"I'll understand", Mu Jingnan and Wei Jingguo expressed their positions one after another.

Looking at Liu Zongmin's retreat, Liu Ximing didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't have too much frustration about not achieving a large proportion of results.

This was the case in cold weapon warfare in these years, because of the use of armor, shields and other equipment, coupled with the fact that manpower was sometimes poor, it was almost impossible to rely on swords and guns to directly kill and injure a large number of enemy troops on the battlefield.

In ancient times, the large proportion of kills and injuries almost always occurred when the enemy was fleeing.

It is still firearms that really turn the battlefield into a slaughterhouse, because of the strong relationship of kinetic energy, almost all the current defenses can be broken, and it is no longer difficult to kill people.

There was a lot of controversy about Li Zicheng's army on Liu Ximing's side, and when he saw Liu Zongmin retreating with the remnants of 2,000 or so people in despair, Li Zicheng's face suddenly became gloomy.

"Jiexuan, what do you think of the combat power of the Dengzhou militia on the other side?"

"It's very difficult", Liu Zongmin suddenly took off his helmet and threw it on the ground, sweating profusely and replied.

After speaking, he looked at Li Zicheng with an inquiring look, "King Chuang, do you think the tactics of these people are a little familiar?" ”

"Huh?"

Li Zicheng, Yuan Zongdi and the others all frowned, and as soon as Liu Zongmin said this, several vague figures began to overlap in everyone's minds.

"This Dengzhou militia has something to do with that new Amber?"

"Damn, I remember that the chief officer named Shao Rong in the official army also used this kind of trick."

For a while, everyone in the army recalled some of their past encounters.

Li Zicheng shuddered violently, he didn't think of Liu Ximing's accumulation of strength, but thought of the possibility that Song Xiance had mentioned before.

"Quick, send a few more sentry spies to investigate and see if there are any enemy troops chasing after you", a drop of cold sweat dripped from Li Zicheng's yellow and black rough forehead.

"Since this new Amber can recruit tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Dengzhou, it is impossible to recruit some more soldiers and horses to intercept us and others."

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others were all a little flustered, and they hurried down one by two to set them up.

Liu Ximing strangely noticed that the intruding army, which had already begun to camp in the mountain pass, stopped for some reason and began to move towards the mountain.

Mu Jingnan and the others looked at each other at this move, and everyone thought that the army was planning to escape.

But they just sent 3,000 people to fight, and the rogue is so intimidated now?

However, the sentinels who went to investigate continued to pass the information back, and Li Zicheng's army retreated to the mountains and did not continue to retreat, but relied on the terrain to re-encamp.

On the border of the inner countryside, the Liu family's army and the Chuang army began to form a confrontation situation, except for small-scale attacks and disturbances, neither side made any major moves.

Five days later, the scouts, who had been sent by the intruders to reconnoiter the movements behind them, finally returned to the camp.

However, this group of people brought back a bad news to Li Zicheng and others, just behind the breaking army, about ten days away, a group of Ming officers and soldiers with Shao Ziqi and Cao Ziqi were rushing over.

At Shangluo Pass, Li Zicheng gathered all his men in the temporary camp set up in the valley with a grim face.

"After receiving the military report, the official army really chased after him from Shaanxi, and the people who came were Cao Yanluo and Judge Shao, this new Anbo, the governor of the Central Plains, Liu Ximing, is really beating our idea, damn it."

Shao Derong was nicknamed a judge by the rogues because he was from Cao Bianjiao's battalion, coupled with his courage in battle, and the strong combat power of the soldiers under his command.

There are many such nicknames, such as Cao Bianjiao's name of Yama, He Renlong's He Maniac, etc., all of which are the embodiment of their respective strengths.

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, everyone in the tent was in an uproar, and Yuan Zongdi immediately came out to clench his fists:

"King Chuang, there is a siege in front, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, how to fight, please make a decision as soon as possible."

Li Zicheng glanced at the generals in the tent with his eyebrows, and a trace of fierceness flashed on his cold face.

"Shangluo Road is narrow and difficult to walk, if you turn back to attack Cao Bianjiao and others, it is easy to be taken advantage of by Liu Ximing, on the other hand, the inner countryside is a plain, as long as we can break through Liu Ximing's encirclement, we have so many people, we can naturally fight and walk."

"Generals, pass on my generals' orders, make food tomorrow, count all the people and horses, and must break through the encirclement of the inner countryside, Yuan Zongdi and Tian Jianxiu will take the lead in this battle, Liu Zongmin and Li Laiheng will ......"

Li Zicheng's arrangement had already been discussed with Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others, so as soon as it was announced, the army immediately took action, reorganized their weapons, sorted out their bags, and the valley was boiling.

Such a big battle naturally attracted the attention of the spy personnel of the Liu Family's Military Intelligence Bureau, and the information about the movements of the Liukou camp was quickly transmitted back to Liu Ximing's camp.

Mu Jingnan and others once again realized the benefits of Liu Xi's establishment of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and He Tianlei also took this opportunity to once again deeply integrate in the Liu family system.