Before the Guards officially engaged the enemy, no one could know their true combat effectiveness, including Li Xuan, who single-handedly created the Guards.

Although Li Xuan had great hopes for the Guards, he himself was not sure if the Guards he had figured out could really fight.

Li Xuan himself was not sure, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were even less confident.

Especially the generals of the Standing Army, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, they didn't believe in the Guards from the bottom of their hearts, and when Li Xuan asked the Guards to be the strikers, they were worried.

But at that time, I also felt that even if the Guards couldn't fight at that time, but there were still their old fritters in the standing army, at the beginning of the war, they had already secretly made up their minds to pay attention, not to give those Ming troops too many opportunities, and when the Ming army was surrounded, they would directly take the men and horses to press up, so as not to let the little guys of the Guards break things or suffer too many casualties.

But they didn't expect that the Ming army, which had been surrounded, would be so decisive and resolute, and after finding out that it was surrounded, they immediately chose to break through, and more importantly, the direction of their breakthrough turned out to be the Guards!

How good is that?

These Ming troops acted decisively and resolutely, and when they launched a counter-charge, it was called a fierce momentum, so that Fang Dongquan, who had never seen the regular army fighting at all, was afraid in their hearts, if it weren't for the large number of them, it was estimated that they would all turn around and run away.

In the face of such a ferocious enemy, will those boys of the Guards be able to withstand it?

Although they didn't want to think about it in their hearts, they all felt that the Guards were going to be finished!

No, you can't just watch the Guards end up like this!

It's all their sons and nephews, some of those half-grown sons are their sons, and some are their nephews, if they watch these Ming soldiers kill their sons and nephews under their noses, they can't forgive themselves in their lives.

Butcher Chen, who was wearing armor and shields, directly raised the pig-killing knife in his hand, and shouted with a hideous face: "Catch up with Lao Tzu and stop them!" ”

Butcher Chen's only nephew is in the Guards, and he absolutely can't tolerate his nephew being killed, so what kind of face does he have to face the dead eldest brother and the dead father.

As Butcher Chen rushed forward with his armor-clad sword and shield men, the other standing armies moved more quickly, and the archers trotted forward past the spearmen, trying to get close and bend their bows to shoot arrows.

But they were already a little far away, and the Ming troops in front of them were already running, and there was no chance of archery at all.

Seeing this scene, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, who were commanding the battle on the front line, all looked panicked, and Huang Xueren even muttered: "It's over!" ”

Like everyone else, he Huang Xueren also has a son in the Guards, and he also served as a captain in the Guards.

At this time, I saw Cai Erhu shouting: "The sword and shield hands are all rushing with me, stop them!" ”

The lightly armored sword and shield bearers were not wearing armor, nor were they holding spears that affected their running, so they were able to run faster, and Cai Erhu took the lead, leading a team of more than thirty sword and shield men to rush up from the flanks.

Butcher Chen's armor-clad sword and shield men chased after him, the archers also ran forward, and Cai Erhu's light-armored sword and shield men rushed up from the flanks.

But when they tried to catch up, the Ming army's charge did not stop, but faster!

The reaction of the bandits in Huangzhushan was also seen by several leaders of the Ming army, and when the strong man Baihu was running in stride, he laughed wildly: "Haha, let's continue to rush, they are all messed up, we will definitely be able to rush out!" ”

As you speak, continue to take the lead and continue to rush forward!

Just when the Ming army was rushing and charging, when Li Xuan was worried, when Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Chen Butcher were leading the standing army to try to intercept them, what were the guards doing?

They're sorting out the formation!

The Guards had already stopped their pace when the Ming army was charging towards them, and then sorted out the formation to make it even closer!

In the process of arranging the formation, I could vaguely see that many people's faces had begun to turn pale, and some people's hands holding spears or muskets had begun to tremble.

Even the commander of the Guards, Wang Danxu, who was riding on a horse, seemed to be calm at this time, but he was already afraid in his heart, and even had the idea of turning around and running away.

Wang Danxu in the final analysis, is just an old bandit, has never seen the charge of the regular army, the last time in the Luohu Valley ambush the Ming army, because it was an ambush, and the Ming army was disrupted at the beginning of the formation and defeated, the bandits in Huangzhushan at that time actually did not experience a formal fight at all.

However, now, although there were only about 60 Ming troops they were facing, the momentum of the rush was like a monstrous flood, which made people's backs chill when they saw it.

With fear in his heart, Wang Danxu ordered the whole army to stand up, stabilized the formation, and once again ordered the musketeers to prepare a salvo, and it was a fifteen-step volley, that is, to wait for the Ming army to rush to about twenty-two meters before shooting, and this for the musketeers, they need to face great pressure.

But if you don't do this, because the speed of the Ming army's charge is too fast, and their musket team has a total of more than 20 muskets, and the rotation will not work at all.

It can only be a salvo directly after they get closer.

As for the salvo at close range, there is only one regulation formulated by Li Xuan himself, that is, fifteen-step salvo, the reason why the salvo is fired at such a short distance is because the arquebus fire rate is slow, whether it is fired at 50 meters or 20 meters, in fact, there is only one chance to fire.

Secondly, the arquebus created by the blacksmiths of Huangzhushan does not need to be counted on in terms of accuracy, more than 100 meters is basically not expected to hit the rate, and the hit rate of a distance of 50 meters is also enough, and only at a distance of about 20 meters, the hit rate can be greatly improved.

If the opponent is a group charge, then in the face of a large group of people, the hit rate within twenty meters is quite impressive, and a volley will be hit, and the opposite side will have to fall a whole row!

In this case, the closer the shot, the better!

After Wang Danxu gave the order, the musketeers on both wings of the guards picked up the arquebuses in their hands in unison, and the arquebuses had already been lit, and they could pull the trigger and shoot the bullets out just after the officer gave the order.

The two officers who commanded the musketeers on the two wings were at this time silently calculating the distance in their hearts, and those who could become officers were the best of the guards, and this leader did not mean his tactics or strength, but his psychological qualities.

Several officers of the Guards, although they are all hairy young men, are all ruthless people, ruthless to the enemy, and even more ruthless to themselves.

The enemy is getting closer, 100 meters, 50 meters!

When the Ming army rushed to within fifty meters, about seven or eight archers of the Ming army on the opposite side began to bend their bows and arrows, and it didn't take long for a spearman in the front row of the guards to be hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.

At this time, a musketeer standing in the front row on the left flank of the Guards finally couldn't bear the huge battlefield pressure, and cried out, then dropped the arquebus in his hand and turned around and ran away.

However, as soon as he turned around, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, and then he lost all his strength and fell directly, and before he closed his eyes, he saw the dirt on the ground, the soil was bright red and red, it was his blood!

At the same time, a loud shout sounded in the array: "Whoever retreats, slash!" ”

It was the officer of the musket team who spoke, and at this time the waist knife in his hand was still stained with blood, and it was flowing down drop by drop!

The first deserter was killed as soon as he turned around, and then two people from the spearmen's side tried to turn around and run, but they were still killed on the spot!

In just a few moments, three people escaped, but without exception, they were all killed on the spot!

This caused the remaining Guards soldiers who also wanted to flee, although their hands were still trembling, but they did not dare to throw down their muskets or spears and turn and flee.

Because if you don't run, it's dangerous, but it's still unknown whether you'll die.

But if you run, you will be 100% dead, those officers of the Guards are now staring at them like torches, whoever dares to run, even if they turn around, they will immediately be stabbed!

Under the high pressure, deserters appeared on the side of the Guards, but the formation did not loosen much, and it still maintained a tight formation!

The Ming army continued to charge, the distance was closer, closer!

Thirty meters, twenty meters, at this time, the strong man Baihu and other Ming soldiers could already clearly see the specific appearance of those half-sized children on the opposite side.

These half-sized children are estimated to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, and the youngest ones are only fourteen or fifteen years old, and many of them have not even fully grown up.

And many of these half-sized people are pale, their hands and feet are shaking, and several people are even wet in the storehouse, so they don't have to guess that they must be scared to pee their pants.

How could these people be their own opponents?

Many Ming soldiers such as strong men and Baihu seemed to have seen that these people were like wolves entering a flock of sheep, and they were killed.

The hideous smile on their face is even bigger!

However, at this moment, he heard a loud shout from the opposite side: "Shoot! ”

Before he could realize what the word meant, he heard a dense thud, a bit like a firecracker, or even a bit like a fried bean.

This sound is weird!

But when this thought just came to his heart, he just felt as if he had been hit hard in the chest, and the huge impact knocked him down, and in the process of falling, he looked down at his chest, and the heart shield on his chest had been pierced with a big hole!

How is this possible?

Could it be that he was hit and was going to die?

But how is this possible? Just with those strange-shaped firecrackers on the other side, just with those half-sized children who don't have any hair?

He doesn't understand, he doesn't reconcile!

But even if he was unwilling, he could feel that the power in his body was passing rapidly, and he couldn't even open his eyes after falling to the ground, and darkness was shrouded in from all directions, and at this time, he couldn't even feel pain.

He opened his eyes to see what it was for.

But he couldn't open it!