Listening to Liu Bagou's words, and then looking at the donkey he was riding, Li Xuan felt quite awkward!

It seems that there will be more horses in the future, and when they go out on the expedition, they will have to give Liu Bagou and several of their important ministers a horse, otherwise it will be really awkward.

As for now, let's be wronged first!

There is no way, there is a huge shortage of horses in the Tang Dynasty, and now there are a few horses, and they are all either thin or old horses.

What's more important is that the only few horses were taken away by a few officers on the side of the Guards, and they were ridden by Wang Danxu and the team officers, the reason why they were able to take away most of the horses in the entire Tang Dynasty was not because they had to charge on horseback, but because when they commanded the troops to fight, they had to be condescending, otherwise the muskets would be fighting and white smoke would block their vision, and those officers would not be able to see the enemy at all.

So when you see the officers of the modern army in the film and television drama riding horses, exposing themselves to the enemy's firepower, don't think they are stupid and want to be targets, but because of the needs of the battle, they line up to be shot.

Also, don't think how gentlemanly they will be when they play queuing up to shoot, don't aim at the officer, that's because the accuracy of the smoothbore gun at medium and long distances is extremely different, you aim at the officer to shoot, but the ghost knows where the bullet will fly, no matter how good the eyes are, the gun can't stand up to the rotten!

So the officers were on horseback and walking on the ground, and the probability of being hit made no difference at all.

The Guards were running for the modern army, so most of the few horses in the Tang Dynasty were taken away by them.

As for the standing army, only Butcher Chen was alone with a bantam horse, but since the last time he fought with Cai Erhu, the bantam foamed at the mouth during the charge, and then Butcher Chen walked honestly on foot during the battle, and did not dare to fight on horseback again, otherwise he would have to fall to death if he was not hacked to death by the enemy.

As for the others, including Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, they were all naked, and they didn't fight any mosaics, and they belonged to the most serious infantry.

Li Xuan and Liu Bagou were watching the battle and discussing at the same time.

And Wang Danxu, Fang Dongquan, and Huang Xueren in front of them slowly stepped forward with their own troops!

This time, although they said that they also did some early concealment, after all, it was not an ambush operation, and it was discovered by the Ming army thousands of kilometers away, so the ambush and encirclement were naturally not used, and they could only be pressed head-on.

This morning, the spies reported that a large number of Ming troops had been found in front, and those Ming troops were still carrying grain, which was very likely to be the Ming army's grain transportation team.

So they rushed over, but after rushing over, they found that there were more than 100 regular guards in the Ming army here.

After everyone discussed it, they felt that they should be careful, and the certainty of winning the battle was still relatively large, so in the end, Li Xuan made a decision: fight.

Their confidence is so great, it is because they have great confidence in the Guards, according to their plan, with the main force of the Guards to force the enemy's formation step by step, and then Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu will kill from the flank with sword and shield soldiers.

As long as the enemy's formation is out of order, then it will be a big victory!

At this time, Wang Danxu took the guards Xu Bu forward, and the guards soldiers under his command were killed in the last battle, three deserters were killed, and several people were killed and wounded, in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the guards, Li Xuan authorized Wang Danxu to select more than ten people from the standing army to supplement.

In the end, Wang Danxu selected fifteen people from the standing army to supplement the guards, but the people selected by Wang Danxu were not bandits with strong bodies and explosive force values, but some stuffy gourds who looked honest and couldn't let out a fart when they kicked him.

This made many old fritter bandits in the standing army quite dissatisfied, they didn't say that they wanted to go to the Guards to suffer and suffer, but they felt that it was Lao Tzu's business to go or not, but if you don't choose me, you won't give me face.

What's the matter, can't someone like Lao Tzu join the Guards in the eyes of your Wang Danxu?

But that's true!

What is the core of the Guards, that is, to make the soldiers obey orders, although those old fritter bandits have good physical fitness and high force value, but these are all old fritters, the kind that immediately turns around and runs away when they see that the limelight is wrong.

This kind of person, when it comes to the Guards, it will only bring other people, and it is estimated that they will be the first to run when fighting!

So Wang Danxu would rather have honest people who don't look very good, or even shrewd!

After the replenishment, the number of guards is a little more than the original, and it has already broken through the 90 mark.

The ninety men of the Guards did not walk fast, and the spears in their hands were not lowered, and even the arquebuses of the musketeers were still on their shoulders.

It's all about saving stamina and maintaining better formation.

However, although the Guards did not move quickly, they kept advancing steadily, and the formation was not chaotic in the course of the advance, so that its overall speed was even faster than that of the standing army.

Because the standing army is walking for a while, and then you have to stop and form a team, otherwise you will be out of order while walking.

As time passed, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and when the distance between the two forwards was only three hundred meters, the soldiers of the Guards stopped advancing in unison under the orders of the officers!

The spearmen formed their formations, while the twenty-odd musketeers began to reload, but they still did not light the arquebus, because the arquebus burned relatively quickly, and if the arquebus was lit too early, it would be easy to burn out the arquebus before the battle began.

It is worth noting that these musketeers have already used fixed gunpowder when loading, using small bamboo tubes to load the gunpowder needed for a round in advance, and when it is time to load, they can directly take out a small bamboo tube and pour gunpowder, so as to avoid being too nervous and putting too much or too little gunpowder in battle.

After all, no matter what, Li Xuan is a traverser, even if he doesn't understand any military theory, but he still knows some of it, so when he first built the musket, he determined the simple small improvements of the stuffed bayonet, the front sight, the illuminator and the fixed gunpowder.

Even based on the sensitivity of later generations to data, he also determined some specific data of the musket, such as length, weight, caliber, etc.

Among them, the caliber of the musket is four and a half minutes, which is about 14 millimeters equivalent to the later generations, and this caliber is chosen because if the caliber is too large, not only the recoil will be too large, but more importantly, the weight of the gun will affect the soldier's mobility.

But if the caliber is too small, then the power is seriously insufficient, and the killing and wounding of the main enemy of the Tang Ming army, that is, the soldiers of the Ming army, will be seriously insufficient.

You must know that the Ming army was widely equipped with cotton armor, and this cotton armor had quite good protection against muskets with insufficient muzzle kinetic energy in the early days.

So in the end, a compromise scheme was chosen, that is, four and a half points, which was equivalent to the caliber of fourteen millimeters in later generations.

The maximum effective lethal range of a musket of this caliber can reach 120 meters after its projectile is fired, but if it is to inflict effective damage on personnel wearing light armor, it needs to be within 80 meters. If the enemy is wearing heavy armor, then this distance needs to be further narrowed to within fifty or even forty meters.

Seeing that the musketeers under his command were ready, Wang Danxu nodded to the standard-bearers beside him, and soon, about seventy archers came out of the array of the standing army!

These archers walked at the forefront of the standing army's array, and then began to march forward with the Guard!

The Guards had only about twenty musketeers, and in large-scale battles, their long-range firepower was naturally insufficient, and they needed to be supported by archers from the standing army.

When the archers of the Guards and the Standing Army stepped forward, a large number of spearmen from the Standing Army also followed, but the sword and shield men of about 80 people brought by Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu slowly approached from the other side.

Since Cai Erhu launched a charge with light-armored sword and shield soldiers in the battle a few days ago, Li Xuan adjusted the strength under his command in time, and did not let him bring archers anymore, but asked him to switch to light-armored sword and shield soldiers.

In this way, Cai Erhu, a ruthless man, will be able to cooperate with Butcher Chen to launch a charge together!

After the Tang Dynasty Wang Division moved, the Ming army was obviously a little flustered, especially those people.

Looking at the pseudo-Tang thief army that was constantly approaching on the opposite side, Wu Baihu waved his hand, and immediately dozens of archers from the Ming army array walked out and stood in the front row of the array!

As long as those pseudo-Tang thieves entered the range of the archers, Wu Baihu would not hesitate to order the archers to shoot and shoot these thieves into a hornet's nest.

Time passed bit by bit, and the pseudo-Tang thief army was closer, closer!

From a hundred paces to eighty paces, they were already close to being within the effective range of the Ming archers.

Then it didn't take long for Wu Baihu to frown, because he saw that those pseudo-Tang thief army actually stopped about sixty-five steps away, and then there were about twenty people in the array of the pseudo-Tang thief army who raised the strange-looking long stick in their hands.

A few seconds later, I saw a leader of the puppet Tang thief army on a horse swinging a long knife, and the next moment, Wu Baihu heard a dense crackling sound, and a burst of white smoke also floated in front of the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side.

It's a firecracker!

This sound, this white smoke he is very familiar with, this is the scene when the fire gun is launched, seeing this scene, Wu Baihu couldn't help but show contempt, he shot so far away, don't they know that the fire gun in his hand must be within a distance of twenty or thirty steps to have enough power?

Sure enough, it is a group of extremely ignorant bandits and outcasts, who don't know the art of war at all!

But as soon as the idea came to him, he heard a scream from his own army, and when he looked around, he saw that his archer had fallen and was rolling on the ground while screaming.

Can you hit so far?

At this moment, Wu Baihu felt that the world had become a little incomprehensible!