"Firecrackers, step forward!"

At the sound of an order, the nine hundred firecrackers in the ranks of the Nanzhong Army shouted in unison, "Kill!" ”

Five hundred musketeers were moved to the south of the white flag, and two formations protected the front of the convoy. The remaining 400 musketeers were divided into two divisions and were transferred to the west and east to serve as guards.

Six hundred pikemen and sword and shield men served as guards and reserves in the three directions above, ready to come forward to meet the brothers of the musketeers!

The six hundred cavalry, all of whom had been turned into infantry at this time, handed over their horses to their comrades in the baggage brigade, each with a spear in his hand, and served as the general reserve and his central escort by the side of the defender, and the doctors began to prepare in the makeshift tents for the treatment of impending wounds.

Under the leadership of the battalion officer of the artillery team, the gunners began to measure the distance with sextants, telescopes, rangefinders and other equipment, and a few were sent to the place where the musketeers lined up to provide them with technical support for the firing distance.

In the blink of an eye, the entire camp of the South Central Army became a murderous and combative position.

From far and near, that Niu Lu Zhangjing led more than 100 soldiers, more than 200 more than 200 soldiers, and the house slaves, Baoyi, Aha and the like who were privately brought into the pass by each soldier, and quickly impulsively reined in the reins of the horse less than 200 steps away from the Nanzhong Army.

Standing on the improvised command platform erected with three baggage carts and covered with wooden planks, Shouhan saw clearly with his binoculars the so-called Eight Banners warriors who had appeared countless times in the pigtail play.

They are generally not tall, but they are all stout and stocky. Their flatbread-like faces are covered with oily meat, and their arrogant expressions can be clearly seen from this distance. Most of the soldiers in front of the line were fully armoured, one soldier and two horses, each holding a long knife or spear in his hand, carrying a huge bow and arrow on his back, and throwing weapons such as bones hanging from his horse. Behind the soldiers, there were those auxiliaries composed of domestic slaves and Ahha, compared to the soldiers, their equipment and momentum were much worse, and they only had iron leaf cotton armor on their bodies. Although he is also armed with knives and guns. However, there is a clear gap between the combat effectiveness and the soldiers.

In the distance, there was a stream of dust coming this way, the formation was scattered, and the steps were mixed. There was a faint sound of whipping and scolding. I think it's the people and property that have been plundered.

"More than 300 soldiers and horses. Come and rob me of more than 3,000 people, go! ”

Shouhan scolded.

He was observing Jiannu on the opposite side, and Niu Lu, who was dressed in Nanzhongjia, was also observing the team on the opposite side under the banner of the Ming army.

Although there is no aid from a telescope. However, this Niu Lu has sharp eyesight, and he can see the situation in the ranks of the South China Army clearly. The mountains of supplies, vehicles, and the smell of food wafting in the wind confirmed more and more that his decision to come and loot was so correct. The armor on the armor on the soldiers, the swords and guns in their hands, aroused the greedy desire in his blood.

"Baturu of the Great Qing Kingdom! Do you see the armor on the dog on the other side? ”

He shouted loudly in Jurchen to boost morale.

"They have such fine armor, which the Immortal Heaven has given to the most valiant warriors! In our Qing Dynasty, only the banner owners and the princes of Baylor deserve to have them at the moment! Warriors, follow me to kill all these Nikans, and I ask my master for a favor, one Nanban armor for each of you! Those who participate in this battle will have a share in it! ”

His words aroused a strong resonance among his cavalry and clothed slaves, who brandished their swords and guns in their hands, and whined in agreement with Niu Lu Zhangjing's words.

The wealth that can be obtained by defeating this group of Ming dogs is far stronger than that of plundering states and counties. If all the weapons and armor are peeled off, I am afraid that all the soldiers of this banner can put on the armor of the Southern Barbarians! Not to mention the assets of those hundreds of cars!

He urged the horse to take a few steps forward, and saw the formation and strength of the Nanzhong Army more clearly, and at this glance, he couldn't help but be even more ecstatic, his eyes were full of smiles and contempt! The leader of the army is really a wine bag and rice bag, and he actually ranks the fire gun soldiers at the front! Everyone knows that the Ming army's firecrackers have little lethal power, and they are also slow to reload and easy to explode. To deal with such firearms, the Eight Banners have long had a set of perfect tactics, that is, to lure the Ming army to open the guns outside the range of the firearms, and after the Ming army wasted ammunition in vain, they used a strong bow to shoot at the Ming army formation, rushing in and slaughtering it. And the bright dog in front of him was supposed to be frightened by my Qing Dynasty powerhouse, and the distance between the firecrackers was so close that it was almost shoulder to shoulder!

That Niu Lu has also seen the drill of the Tianyou soldiers under the command of King Sanshun (the earliest number of Kong Youde and others' traitor troops), the firecrackers must be at least three feet apart, and the firerope is ready to be completed, and this group of Nikans hurriedly lined up to meet the enemy without even lighting the firerope, this, isn't it a great merit from God?!

In the midst of a series of Jurchen shouting orders, more than 300 horsemen galloped back and forth along the line of about 150 steps outside the formation of the Southern Central Army, raising smoke and dust soaring into the field.

"This group of people is not simple! I also know that I will be threatened, and use the huge momentum brought by the horse team gallop to create psychological pressure on me. ”

Shouhan closed the telescope and muttered to himself.

"Lord, do you want to order the artillery team to fire? This distance is the most effective killing range of our Big Buddha Machine! With a shotgun, one round of artillery fire can take out this bunch of dogs! ”

Wang Bao, who was standing next to Shouhan, asked Shouhan in a low voice.

"No, you don't! Just more than 300 people as for the use of artillery? Just give me military training! These are all the tactics that have not changed for thousands of years, rushing back and forth around our camp, shouting and shouting, and disturbing the mental will of our troops. The order was given that no artillery should be used in all divisions, and that the musketeers should fire within forty paces of fire! ”

That Niu Lu led the crowd to gallop back and forth twice, and when he saw that the Nanzhong army was not moving, he didn't know the essentials in his heart. Grabbed the horse's head and shouted a few words, and assigned his subordinates to dismount and fight.

According to the tactical principle that in every battle, two heavily armored soldiers must be in the front, and the lightly armored soldiers are in the back, and the two divided Paishku each led dozens of armored soldiers forward, and Niu Lu Zhangjing himself led the rest of the men and horses to press the formation behind. Finally, there are those slaves of the Yu Ding family, Lord Niu Lu is ready to fight, so he will break away from the formation of the Ming Dog in front of him and rush in to kill and plunder!

"The Tartars have moved!"

The Tartar soldiers who pressed over from the south, all of them were stout men, with huge shields in their left hands, long knives or short-handled axes in their right hands, and even two of them with four-foot-long knives in their hands. On the fleshy face, he grinned and showed a mouth full of yellow teeth. The smile is hideous.

There were only two or three steps behind them. The tartars there had no shields, but carried long-handled knives and spears in their hands. All of these soldiers were dressed in two layers of armor, and inside were finely crafted chain mail. On the outside is cotton armor inlaid with iron leaves.

In both teams. Two people caught the attention of the officers of the South Central Army. They wore flags with flames on their backs, three layers of armor on their bodies, shiny heart guards on their chests, and several of them wearing double armor behind them. The soldiers who were guarding them tightly with mourning guns and broadswords in their hands revealed their identities.

The commanders of several firecrackers unanimously whispered orders to take care of these two assigned to the Dashku.

Behind the heavily armored soldiers are those who are lightly armored and good at shooting. Nearly 100 Tartars, dressed in iron-inlaid cotton armor and holding strong bows, slowly pressed towards the Nanzhong army in the north under the leadership of Niu Lu Zhangjing.

Surrounded by soldiers and Yu Ding's slaves wearing iron-inlaid or non-iron-inlaid cotton armor, wearing three layers of armor, the outermost layer is still a very conspicuous Nanzhong cuirass, how can you not let everyone find this sassy guy at a glance?

"This must be a big guy!"

The firecrackers had already sentenced Niu Lu Zhangjing to death in their hearts.

The soldiers of the white flag slowly approached the north, although they did not shout or shout, but they formed an invisible and heavy pressure, and the ordinary Ming army would have been unable to hold their breath for a long time. Or shoot a bow and arrows, or cast a fire gun to hide the panic in your heart.

However, what made the first two people feel that something was wrong was that this bright dog did not move at all. From one hundred and fifty steps to one hundred paces, there was not the slightest sign of collapse.

According to the experience of fighting with the Ming army in the past, often the firearms of the Ming army could not help but fire indiscriminately before they entered the firing range, and then they did not have time to reload in a panic, and then there was a shout, the whole army collapsed, and they rushed forward to massacre.

One hundred, ninety, eighty, seventy, already within the range of a Tartar bow and arrow!

"Put!"

You don't move, I move! Niu Lu Zhangjing saw it very clearly in the back, he didn't believe that under the baptism of his arrow rain, there would be someone who could withstand it.

The bow and arrow of the Jurchens, since the time of Aguta, is only seven buckets. In order to maximize their lethality, they only fire their bows and arrows at close range, and even within twenty paces at the shortest. At a distance of seventy paces, the arrows were two inches long, and the power was enough to break through the armor.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! ”

Dozens of arrows were thrown into the air by the archers with the sound of the wind breaking through the air, and flew into the ranks of the firecrackers. A muffled sound of hitting a muscle resounded in an instant, in the formation of the firecrackers. Then there was a low groan as the firecrackers had been shot by arrows in their unarmored arms and legs.

The auxiliaries rushed up from behind, carrying the brothers who had been wounded by the arrows down to heal and ambulance, and the musketeers behind automatically moved forward to fill the vacant positions.

"It's over! After the Tartar shot three rounds of arrows, almost the heavy armor also arrived in front of him, and the fire guns of the Southern Chinese Army who didn't even light the fire rope were over! ”

Wang Desheng, who was tiptoeing to the south, couldn't help but sigh like this.

In the blink of an eye, the second wave of arrows fell, and more than a dozen firecrackers were injured and fell to the ground.

"The enemy is fifty paces away from me!"

The gunners who were assigned to the Musketers as rangefinders excitedly and slightly nervously whispered in the ears of Gao Wu, the commander of the Musketers.

"Order, all ready guns!"

There was a loud noise, and the firecrackers took off the firecrackers from their shoulders one after another, checking whether the cap of the gun head was removed, whether the fire door was opened, and whether the dragon's head was raised.

After doing this, the Tartar soldiers had reached a distance of forty paces, and their pace had changed from sprinting to trotting, and after running a few more steps, they would run quickly, directly impact the military formation, and slash the Ming soldiers with the swords and axes in their hands.

"Fire!"

Nearly 500 firecrackers were arranged in two rows, and the front row was in a squatting position. Standing in the back row, more than 200 firecrackers pulled the trigger in unison towards the dozens of Tartar heavy armor soldiers who were trotting over!

Wang Desheng's ears sounded like thousands of thunderbolts behind the military formation, and the continuous thunder shook his ear chakra and made his face pale.

As the first fire bolt sounded, Niu Lu Zhangjing was shocked to find that this group of Ming soldiers were so calm and ruthless, and they did not disperse in formation after receiving three rounds of arrow rain from themselves, and this perseverance was something that the Ming army that he had never been in contact with before had never seen.

Several heavily armored sergeants who rushed forward were hit by several projectiles, penetrating two layers of armor, not to mention, their bodies flew backwards with the huge impact force that had not disappeared from the aftermath. knocked down the heavy armor of the next few people with knives and guns. The giant shield, long knife, and big axe in his hand didn't know where it flew.

The coherent and deafening sound of fire not only shocked Wang Desheng and the others in the camp, but also surprised the officials in Hexi Town, who were more than 100 steps away.

"Where do the officers and soldiers come from here? was able to fight against Jiannu. Don't panic. No rout, no chaos? ”

Year after year. The defeat of the official army against Shang Jiannu has made the officials and people of the Ming Dynasty accustomed to failure, which is similar to the mentality of the current fans towards the national football team. It's normal to lose and lose, and a draw is an accident, win? It's basically a comet hitting the Earth!

The firing of the first row of firearms almost swept away the heavy armor soldiers who rushed to the front, and the huge shields in the hands of several heavy armor soldiers with huge shields were smashed into a sieve.

The two people with the recognition flag high on their backs were divided into the shitku, known in Chinese as the leader, were hit by several projectiles, Rao is body is wearing three layers of armor, but at a distance of forty paces, the three layers of armor are also the same as paper paste!

The rest of the soldiers did not stop, in their opinion, these musketeers should turn around and reload their ammunition, at least for a moment, there are only thirty or forty paces in front of them, enough to rush in!

"Front row, stand up!"

"Turn back in the back row, reload!"

The high-spirited command sounded in the ranks of the musketeers, and the soldiers made methodical movements at the sound of the officer's command.

Ten paces away, running is just a few ups and downs, in the blink of an eye, those lightly armored and good shooters have rushed to the front, received their bows and arrows behind their backs, took out their long knives and axes, and rushed towards the musketeers of the Southern Chinese Army.

"Thirty steps, fire!"

The range has been shortened by ten paces, and the power of the firebolt has been increased. Not only can they break through their armor, but those Jiannu infantry armor with only one layer of iron-inlaid cotton armor on their bodies enjoyed the treatment that the heavy armor soldiers in front of them did not enjoy, and the projectiles broke through their armor and rolled rapidly in their bodies, breaking their muscles and bones, and stirring their internal organs to shreds. After completing these actions, they rushed out of their bodies and flew around, looking for their next target.

A volley in the second row almost swept away the infantry armor behind the heavy armor, and Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was wearing triple armor and was guarded by several house slaves wearing double armor, was also shot in the body, if it weren't for the outermost part of his body wearing Nanzhong armor, and the surrounding house slaves used his body to shield him from the rain of bullets, he was taken care of by more than a dozen fire guns, and he would have turned into honeycomb coal.

Even so, the projectile made him kneel on the ground in pain, supporting his body with the long knife in his hand, trying not to fall, and he felt that something in his body was slowly squirming outward, as if it was about to flow out. Touch it with your hands, and it's hot and humid. It turned out that the projectile had pierced his abdomen and his intestines were flowing out.

One of his house slaves, seeing that the warriors in front of him fell to the ground one after another, but those Yu Ding behind him were a little cow daunting, and couldn't help but be angry, raised the Niu Lu Zhangjing Guan Xuan in his hand and waved it forward vigorously, signaling those Yu Ding to rush forward and kill. But just after two swings, he found that his usually thick and powerful arm had no strength at all, and when he looked down, he saw that a huge wound was bleeding outward from his right arm.

"The enemy is twenty paces away from me!"

"Fire!"

In front of them, there were only those characters such as Yu Ding's clothed house slaves who were only wearing uninlaid iron cotton armor, and the reloaded firecrackers were in a particularly relaxed mood, and with a little aim, they pulled the trigger in the direction where the group of people screamed and rushed, and the dragon's head fell, and the guns emitted fire and white smoke, and the projectiles shot out.

Three rounds of firing swept away a Niulu's soldiers and house slaves, which surprised the officials peeping at the city, when did the officers and soldiers have such strong combat effectiveness?

"Even the Divine Machine Battalion back then may not be so strong!"

Li Shouhan, who was standing on the high platform and observing, saw that the battleable soldiers of this Niu Lu had basically been knocked over in front of the battle, and handed the telescope in his hand to the soldiers who were waiting on the side.

"Give the order, order the horse team to rush out and clean up the remaining residues!"

Hearing the horn order of the horse team to attack, Huang Yishan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and pointed out a team of twenty-five scouts, a team of outposts and horse guards, a total of 100 people, and killed them from the two passages that the fire soldiers dodged like a swimming dragon.

The few Tartars who served as guards and guarded the horse tents and the looted people and property at the end, and some Yu Ding and Bao Yi Aha people, originally thought that this was an extremely easy and fruitful battle, and were looking forward to it, ready to drive the looted people forward to carry the property and seize it, but after the sound of the three rows of firecrackers, I only saw Lord Niu Lu Zhangjing supporting his body, and the warriors around him were lying together, thinking that they could not live.

A Niu Lu, who could easily break through the county seat of the state, was basically wiped out on the side of this canal.

Seeing that more than 100 cavalry were killed in the Ming army on the opposite side, all of them were armored soldiers, where did those Yu Ding Baoyi have the courage to confront this newly victorious army? With a scream, he jumped on the horses that were originally officers of all ranks and armored soldiers, added two whips fiercely, and fled as if flying. (To be continued......)