Be careful?

Tian Xiucai is a master of art and bold, I don't know what caution is?

He was familiar with the Chinese military books of the past dynasties when he was from Rong, and later learned the "Morris Art of War" with General Shi Yang, and also created the "bow and gun formation", even His Royal Highness the Prince praised him as a military genius, and also promoted him to a level, making him the commander of the 11th regiment!

He still needs to be careful when fighting a war with such a big art of war? If you really have to be careful, what are you doing out here? Wouldn't it be okay to hold your position well?

Therefore, after receiving Wang Mazi's military order, Tian Xiucai immediately transferred two battalions from the reserve (a total of three battalions) and two battalions that originally belonged to the 11th Regiment to form two battalion-level marching columns, with pikemen and archers as the lead, and drove out with a swagger.

Of course, Tian Xiucai's "rashness" also has capital!

Because his 11th Regiment was the elite of the regiments, it was formed early, and the source of soldiers selected was relatively good. In particular, a considerable number of the archers of the 11th Regiment were recruited from Shandong and Huaixi, and they were able to shoot arrows. After Tian Xiucai took up the post of the 11th Regiment, in order to realize his "bow and gun formation", he also did everything possible to get a batch of Kaiyuan bows and slatted armor, and equipped each battalion with 80 ironclad archers.

Cao Riling, from Weihaiwei, Shandong, was an ironclad archer of the 11th Regiment. He was originally the commander of the Weihaiwei family, and joined the new army with the young master of the main family. The young master of the main family joined the army, and he was an official. He is also good, because he followed earlier, mixed up with a hero who overcame difficulties, divided 50 acres of paddy fields in Yingtianfu, and also received a small piece of residential land in Nanjing, and also got a settlement fee - it was used to build a house for him, beg for a wife, and bring the old lady and father from Weihaiwei to Nanjing to settle down, a lot of money!

At the beginning of the year, I got a month's leave, and went to Shandong to ask for a young lady from a broken thousand families as a lady, a sixteen-year-old yellow flower girl, and married him, a vulgar uncle in his thirties, I really couldn't think of it in the past!

After begging his wife, he also brought his elderly parents to Nanjing and placed them in a new house, where he was taken care of by his pregnant little lady.

And he himself returned to the camp on leave and worked for Prince Zhu - this life can't be sold! His parents, wife and children are all in the hands of others, and everything he has now is given by Zhu Cihong!

He wants to be ungrateful, and the prince will be able to take everything away if he turns his face......

Therefore, after returning to the camp after the leave, he did not dare to slack off for a moment, not only to practice the formation, but also to practice archery.

Although Zhu Cihong had long decided to take the route of firearms, this did not mean that the troops that had no firearms available for the time being did not have to think about the problem of fighting.

The officers and soldiers of these units are also paid military salaries, divided land, and divided houses (homestead land), so why don't they suffer from 997? So they also have to prepare for war. If you don't have a firecracker, you won't have a firecracker.

These units, which are not equipped with firearms, are also battalion-based units. A battalion has two pike companies, a sword company, and a bow and arrow company. The pikemen in the pikemen of the pikemen of the model battalion equipped with firearms are the same, there is nothing to say.

The difference is the sword company and the bow and arrow company, the former is the main force of hand-to-hand combat, but there is also "projected fire", they project javelins. A knife soldier is armed with two javelins, and in training he is required to accurately hit a target the size of a watermelon from a distance of twenty paces!

There are two types of archers in the bow and arrow company, one is the bamboo archers, they are all halfway monks, equipped with weaker bamboo bows, responsible for firing volleys within twenty paces. The requirements for their "combat skills" are relatively low - this is also no problem, the archers have to start from the doll, and it takes several years to practice the monks halfway, and the kung fu fire guns have been changed.

There is also a class of archers is the Kaiyuan archers, they are all good hands who have been trained in small battles, equipped with the Kaiyuan bow commonly used by the border army of the Ming army, although it is also a soft bow, the power is not as good as the Qing army's eight-force bow, but it is also very powerful when used well.

And Tian Xiucai's "bow and gun array" is to use the Kaiyuan archers well. The specific usage is to scatter the Kaiyuan archers in the "sparse formation" of the pikemen, and use the pikemen to cover the Kaiyuan archers in battle.

Now Cao Riling is walking in the middle of a pikemen company marching on the official road with a six-element column, and a 40-pound Kaiyuan bow and a long arrow are already in his hand.

More than ten paces in front of him, there were four sword players wearing the same slatted armor as him, all holding heavy rattan cards in one hand and javelins in the other.

These four knife players were specially selected by Tian Qingyi, not only good at throwing javelins, but also night eyes.

Cao Riling's eyesight is also very good, and he can see far away at night, so he is now squinting and looking forward while walking.

The moonlight in the sky had dimmed, and the morning sun was still below the horizon, and only the stars were still shining. With Cao Riling's eyesight, fifteen steps away, he couldn't see it, only a black expanse.

Still, he could see the back of a sword and shield hand directly in front of him.

At the same time, the sound of cannons, guns, cheers, and shouts of killing came again like waves - the fierce battle on both sides of Qingliu Creek continued!

The noise of the noise completely drowned out the sound of the two heavily armed troops, who were cautiously marching against each other.

Under the darkness of the night, the vanguard elites of both sides held their breath and walked towards each other step by step.

Suddenly, Cao Riling saw the sword player more than ten steps away in front of him stop, as if he had been hit by the fixation technique, and he didn't move. After a while, he seemed to break free again, and suddenly raised the javelin he held in his right hand, threw it vigorously, and let out a roar: "Kill! ”

What a tartar!

Cao Riling immediately understood what was happening!

Immediately after that, the sound of suona, the sound of screaming, the sound of the officers shouting, and the gurgling shouts that Cao Riling couldn't understand were all in a ball.

Tian Qingyi, who finally "caught up" with Tartar, was so excited that he was about to tremble, and finally regained a little calm, and then ordered loudly: "Phalanx!" Meet the enemy! ”

The "phalanx" he shouted out of his mouth was the so-called spear and bow array. The phalanx of spears is the "city" in the center; Take the knife card as the "trench", and the bad is around the front and left and right sides; The archers are listed in the spear sparse array, which is the "pawn".

The herald who followed Tian Qingyi immediately sounded the suona and conveyed the order. The marching soldiers suddenly shouted in unison: "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated...... Invincible! ”

After shouting, they quickly changed their formation, from a six-line column to two rectangular phalanxes, one in front and one behind.

On the other side, a Tartar was marching on foot in the form of an ox. The bull who walked in the front was half holding a shield and half a bow.

They originally planned to test the left flank of the Ming army, but they didn't expect to encounter the attacking Ming army before they arrived at the place!

This scared Niu Luzhang Jinglu Kedu, who led the team! At night, it's so dark, why did you Nikans not honestly guard the camp, why did you go out?

Before he could recover from the shock, a javelin fell from the sky and plunged into the dirt less than a foot in front of his right foot.

If he had taken half a step more just now, he would have been cold by now!

"It's Nikan!" Niu Lu Zhang Jinglu Kedu opened his throat and shouted, "Shield array, swing shield array!" ”

Javelins are no joke! No matter how many layers of heavy armor you have, you can only use a heavy rattan to resist.

The Eight Banners under Lu Kedu reacted quickly enough, and in the blink of an eye, the Tartar holding the shield launched a shield array. Lu Kedu also retreated to the back, standing with the bow-wielding Eight Bannermen. Just as he took out the Bali Bow and wanted to shoot an arrow with the big guy, someone suddenly shouted in his ear: "Javelin...... Raise your shield! ”

This time, instead of three or four javelins, a whole forty javelins were thrown, and they flew over with a strong wind!