Chapter Seventy-Six: Collapse

Li Shi and Zhang Bai couldn't see through the gunpowder smoke in front of them, but Chen Xian, who was standing on the high defense tower, could see it clearly.

In front of the phalanx, which stretched to a hundred meters away, the wounded and corpses of men and horses were spread all over the ground, and only a few cavalrymen in the back row escaped the disaster and escaped from the battlefield.

The soldiers of the infantry formation were also stunned, they were still standing in place, it was only because of the human instinct to huddle, even if someone shouted around them at this time, it might be able to scare them away.

The musket that appeared in this world for the first time shocked everyone with its powerful lethality and a loud sound that was more terrible than lethality.

Seeing this scene, Chen Xian bent down to pick up a red flag from the ground, raised it high and waved it.

With the waving of the red flag, from a sorghum field behind Peng Yibin's infantry formation, a team rushed out, whistling, and outflanking the two flanks of Peng Yibin's infantry formation, who were in place and at a loss.

These men were dressed in messy leather, their hair was knotted, and their faces were black, like savages, but their weapons did not resemble those of savages at all.

Some of the savages held long shields, and the inside of the shield was a thin wooden plank, and the thin wooden plank was nailed with some reinforced ribs, and the outer side was covered with a very thin iron sheet, so that the weight of the shield was not heavy, but the defense was not weak.

Some were holding long-handled broadswords, with glistening blades and straight, smooth and rounded hilts, apparently of the highest quality, while others held homemade hunting bows and well-made dog-legged machetes at their waists.

That's right, these people are the hunters in the mountains.

Before the war, Chen Xian hired seven leaders at the price of 300 knives and 100 pairs of armor.

Of course, Chen Xian also understands that if these leaders can come, I am afraid that there are more plans to fish in troubled waters, but this does not matter, as long as he wins the reinforcements invited by the Yang and Bai families in a dignified manner, these cunning hunters will be obediently used by him.

Therefore, he waited until the victory was decided, and then raised the agreed red flag.

Yes, although he only eliminated the opponent's cavalry, Chen Xian had already dared to assert that his victory was decided, and those hunters obviously thought so.

In this era, the elite cavalry in heavy armor is too important, in the eyes of everyone on this battlefield, the sum of a thousand cannon fodder minions is not as important as the hair on these heavy cavalry, and now, these heavy cavalry have been wiped out!

In the long life of raiding, these hunters have also formed their own simple tactics, that is, the big shield is in front, the archers follow, and finally the long soldiers composed of the swords and hunting forks.

During the battle, the archers approach the enemy with a large shield cover, and the archers use the hunter's accurate shooting skills to snipe the enemy through the gaps in the large shields, and if the enemy counterattacks, the long soldiers behind the formation protect the archers and shields......

This simple method of warfare is very afraid of the impact of the cavalry in armor, the big shield can not stop the cavalry, the hunter's soft bow not only can not shoot through the cavalry's iron armor, even the war horse is difficult to kill with a single blow, more than two meters long Pu knife, hunting fork can not block the cavalry impact.

Therefore, these hunters were most afraid of cavalry, and as soon as they saw that the cavalry was wiped out by Chen Xian, they immediately rushed out in response to the call.

While raising the red flag, Chen Xian blew the whistle that had already been in his mouth.

Hearing the piercing whistle, the phalanx that was slowly advancing at the gate of the fence immediately reacted, and the three rows of axe-gunners behind the phalanx broke away from the phalanx, split in two, and moved to the rear of the musketeers on both sides of the phalanx.

The musketeers on both sides quickly merged after hearing the whistle, and the two teams of six musketeers lined up in front, and the musketeers lined up in three horizontal rows behind the musketeers, skillfully loading gunpowder as they went.

After the formation change is completed, the entire phalanx changes into a run, accelerating and pressing forward.

Peng Yibin's infantry formation, which was already at a loss, was suddenly attacked from front to back, and immediately became chaotic.

Li Shi's company, which had already rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder, saw that Peng Yibin's army was in disarray, and without waiting for Chen Xian's order, they gave the order to charge.

According to the combat manual formulated by Chen Xian, once the command to charge is issued, the attacking squads composed of sword and shield men, musketeers, and axe gunmen on both sides can attack freely, but the pikemen phalanx cannot be dispersed at any time, so the pike phalanx only sped up its pace after hearing the charge order, while the attacking squads on both sides broke away from the pike phalanx and attacked Peng Yibin's army in a pincer attack.

The hunter ambush soldiers behind also accelerated their charge under the urging of Chen Xian's rapidly waving red flag.

Peng Yibin's deputy who stayed in the infantry formation was of good quality, and he was still trying to maintain his morale, "Don't be afraid, they are few, as long as we don't disperse, they can't eat us, there are still 600 soldiers of the Yang family over there, and we add up to more than 1,000 people, they can't beat us, don't mess up, we'll be finished if it's messed up, Peng Kui, Peng Wu, you two take the palace of the capital, and the others will move closer to the Yang family's infantry formation with me......"

Under the maintenance of Peng Yibin and the officers and elite soldiers in the team, the whole team began to turn around and advance towards the Yang family's main formation.

The movement of Peng Yibin's military formation was like a reminder to the Yang family, to be exact, Yang Yuanwai.

Seeing Peng Yibin's army formation moving to this side, Yang Yuanwai, who had been in a state of confusion since the musket rang out, suddenly shouted, "Hurry up!" Turning the horse's head and running in the direction of Dongzhuangzi, Lei Jiaotou and a few other Yang Mansion generals took a look, and without saying a word, they also turned the horse's head and ran.

As soon as these people ran, it caused a chain reaction at once, and Yang Miaozhen's five hundred minions who were barely integrated suddenly dispersed, and the horses that followed Yang Yuan ran away, and Yang Miaozhen and the elite of the Yang family scattered in the team didn't even have time to stop them.

The rest of the people saw that the matter had come to this point, what else could be done? Run!

In just a dozen breaths, there was not a single person left in this group of people.

Deputy Peng Yibin, who regarded the Yang family's main formation as a life-saving straw, almost collapsed when he saw this scene.

At this moment, Peng Yibin's formation could no longer be maintained, and it was completely chaotic.

After this delay, the two attack teams on Orion's and Chen Xian's side had already surrounded them from all sides.

Peng Yibin was completely in chaos, and some people jumped over the wall in a hurry, trying to rush out, but they were either killed by the hunter's arrows or killed by muskets.

The second roar of the muskets completely shattered the spirits of some people, and some even broke down and fell to their knees and cried.

At this time, the soldiers on Orion's side and Chen Xian's side shouted at the same time, "Abandon the blade and kneel to the ground and don't kill!" ”

At this time, a word of not killing is simply a lifesaver, the quick response, immediately lost the weapon and knelt down, the slow reaction was still scurrying like a headless fly, but also quickly reacted.

The rest of the people who did not kneel were the leaders and elites under Peng Yibin's command, but these people were quickly reduced under the hunter's point killing.

For fear of accidental injury, the muskets had stopped firing.

At this time, the musketeers are useless, and the duty of the sword and shield bearers is to protect the musketeers, and they will not join the melee, and then they can only rely on the axe-gunners.