Under the reminder of his own soldiers, Chen Xian looked back and saw the group of cavalry rushing out of the woods, not only was he not surprised, but felt that a stone in his heart had fallen to the ground.

Seeing this group of cavalry, the question in Chen Xian's heart before the war naturally had an answer.

Without thinking too much, he gave the order: "Order the first battalion to prepare for battle with the second plan of the cavalry." Order the artillery company to turn its guns, face the enemy cavalry, and carry out a saturation attack according to the second plan of artillery! ”

As soon as the order was delivered, the 1st Battalion, which was already on the south side of the road as a preparatory rest, immediately moved, and they first made a 180-degree turn in place, and then the four company phalanx became two front and two rear Tianzig arrays.

The musketeers broke away from their respective companies and formed a horizontal formation in front of the zigzag array.

The four rows of musketeers crouched in the first row, the second half crouched, and the third stood and, after the cavalry had come into range, fired a salvo, then retreated into the gap in the phalanx to dodge and look for an opportunity to fire freely.

In the face of the charging cavalry, it is difficult for the arquebusiers to have the opportunity to reload for a second shot, unless Chen Xian lines up the musketeers in ten rows and adopts a nine-in-ten consecutive round of fire, but this kind of round-fire method is not meaningful to his arquebuses with a total number of only two hundred, and the density of a shot is too small, and there is no good blocking effect for the charging cavalry, once the cavalry is close, the arquebusiers without bayonets have no power to resist.

The sword and shield soldiers were not with the musketeers this time, and the cavalry of the sword and shield soldiers did not have an advantage, so they separated from the musketeers and came to the periphery of the spear phalanx of the captains of their respective companies, and crouched down to protect the lower plate of the spear phalanx.

After the 1st battalion completed the formation as ordered, the artillery company also completed the turn.

At this time, the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, which suddenly came out of the forest in the south, had already completed the whole formation in front of the woods, and began to trot before the charge, and the distance of more than three hundred steps was rapidly shortened under the feet of the cavalry.

When the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom entered within 200 steps of Chen Xianjun's array, the artillery of the artillery company finally let out the first roar!

The damage of artillery shells to the cavalry is really not as good as the infantry, and the morale of the cavalry under Wanyan Pingtao is much higher than that of the infantry on the opposite side.

The cannonballs caused a certain amount of confusion to the Jin cavalry, but they did not stop their charge, plus these cavalry plugged the ears of the horses with brocade cloth in advance, and the distance was still far away, and the sound of the cannons did not affect the horses.

The fighting style of the Jin cavalry inherited the habits of their ancestors, and they preferred to use cavalry to charge hand-to-hand combat compared to steppe-style cavalry shooting.

Wanyan Pingtao's Meng'an cavalry armor rate is as high as forty percent, of which there are even more than 100 people and horses wearing armor hard army, in this charge, the hard army of people and horses with two cavalry guns rushed to the front, more than 300 people wearing armor and horses without armor followed closely behind, and the remaining more than 600 light cavalry composed of Khitan and Xi people followed.

After just three shots, the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom had already reached a distance of 100 paces, and they began to let go of their horsepower and attack at full speed!

At the same time, the 1st Infantry Battalion and the Artillery Company also made different moves.

The commanders of the musketeers of the 1st battalion gave the order to prepare for the shot, and the musketeers began to check the blowing of the fire rope and then raised their guns and stood by.

And the commander of the artillery company also gave the order to install the shotguns, and one by one the large and small barrels with different numbers of projectiles were loaded into the cannons!

Almost two seconds after the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom rushed into the design range of 100 meters, the cannon and musket rang out almost simultaneously.

According to Chen Xian's exercises and experiments, when dealing with the charging cavalry, it is better not to pursue continuous fire from muskets, but to make the most violent salvo.

Therefore, this gunfire was a salvo of two hundred muskets of the first battalion, plus the shotguns of twelve cannons, four or five hundred large and small projectiles were scattered into the crowd of cavalry of this thousand gold country at one time, and two hundred of them were small walnut-sized lead pellets fired by cannons, and their kinetic energy was incomparable to the bullets fired by muskets.

Therefore, after this round of volleys, a large number of Jin cavalry suddenly fell, and almost 150 people were wounded or killed, and fell on the battlefield.

In the full-speed charge, so many war horses fell, which immediately caused great confusion in the charging team, and the momentum of the charge suddenly slowed down.

Moreover, more than 100 people who were killed and wounded this time, most of them were shock cavalry composed of hard troops and Jin people who rushed to the front, that is to say, the core of this fierce Jin cavalry lost nearly half of it at once, and such a high casualty rate stopped this cavalry at once, not to mention the foreign cavalry that followed behind.

Stopping in front of the cannons and musketeers was definitely the worst option, and after just a dozen seconds of confusion, the twelve cannons roared again, once again spraying a large piece of lead pellets carrying the death energy of the person, and once again swept down nearly a hundred cavalrymen.

This time the Jin cavalry finally made the right choice, and they turned their horses around and ran towards the forest from which they came.

The cavalry on one side withdrew from the battle, and the infantry on the other side were in a dilemma, and after the artillery had turned the muzzle, they finally mustered up the courage to continue advancing, and before they had gone far, they saw the flight of the cavalry with high hopes, and they stopped in the middle of the road in embarrassment.

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The smiles on the faces of the people who stood on the humble gatehouse of the east gate of Xizhuangzi and watched the battle froze when they saw this scene, and the victory and defeat were reversed in just a few seconds, making them all confused, as if they had fallen into a nightmare.

The first to come to his senses was Bai Shijie, who grabbed Wanyan Pingtao beside him and said, "General, let's go, stay in the green mountains before you can make a comeback!" ”

Wanyan Pingtao waved Bai Shijie's hand away, and was silent for a moment under the nervous gaze of everyone.

Bai Shijie looked at the silent Wanyan Pingtao, and his anxious tears were about to come out, even if he was defeated today, as long as the Bai family could escape, as long as he Bai Shijie was still alive, the Bai family would still have a chance to make a comeback, but if Wanyan Pingtao folded here today, then his Bai family would really be doomed.

Wanyan Pingtao was silent for a while against the phalanx and artillery team in the distance, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face, and he turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him: "Pass my general order, let the disciples and the rest of the cavalry follow the north bank of the Yi River, bypass the West Zhuangzi, and assemble at the West Gate to wait for me." ”

After the pro-soldier ordered him to leave, he said to another pro-soldier: "Go and tell Su Shike and them, let them retreat to the forest with the foot soldiers, then Chen Xian will never dare to scatter the formation and chase into the woods, the foot soldiers will enter the forest, and then bypass the West Zhuangzi from the forest and retreat westward, I will wait for them in Tangjiazhuang for the night." ”

After ordering the soldiers to leave, Wanyan Pingtao glanced at the Bai family who were in a hurry, and said: "What are you panicking about, this time I only lost one or two hundred cavalry, I can afford this loss, but this West Zhuangzi can't be guarded, you hurry up and clean up, we retreat from the West Gate, although Chen Xian's cannon is sharp, but the gun truck can't run fast, can't catch up with us, I just wait for you for half an hour, and I can't wait." ”