The leader of the mountain bandits was also shocked when he saw this, he didn't expect the firearms of this officer and soldier to be so sharp.

However, the leader of the mountain bandits could also see that the number of officers and soldiers in this army was small, so he simply rushed over from both wings with hundreds of bandits.

About twenty bandits were the first to ride their horses and rush to the flanks of the mighty army.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan immediately ordered to stop the pursuit, and then changed his formation.

The two sword and shield men and the two spearmen of each unit immediately switched directions, and the firearms men immediately reversed direction and began to reload their ammunition.

This is the flexibility of the Mandarin Duck Formation, which has a combination of swords, shields, firearms, and spearmen who can use the advantages of various weapons to fight on land at any time.

This can also be regarded as a great invention of the military god Qi Jiguang.

It was with this combination of troops that the Ming Dynasty defeated the Japanese Invaders.

But because the mountain bandits rushed too fast, they were already very close to Lu Yuan's mighty army.

When a bandit with an arm as thick as a three-inch log rushed over with a Yanling knife and rode over, he slashed at the firearm Zhou Laojiu.

The sword and shield bearers, Yue Changgui and Li Youlai, blocked at the same time with iron-clad wooden shields.

Zheng!

Yan Ling's knife slashed heavily at Yue Changgui's wooden shield.

Because of the momentum of horses, coupled with the natural divine power of this bandit, Rao is Yue Changgui is also as strong as a mountain, and the left arm holding the shield was also broken on the spot due to the impact of the Yanling knife and the wooden shield.

The pain in his heart made Yue Changgui bite his lip, but he still reluctantly stabbed the knife out and stabbed it directly into the abdomen of the rushing war horse.

And Li Youlai simply used the wooden shield to block the war horse.

Xiong Zhiyuan was quick with his eyes, and seeing that the war horse was about to crash into Li Youlai and Yue Changgui, he also stabbed the spear into the neck of the horse.

Click!

Xiong Zhiyuan's spear was directly broken, which shocked him to numb.

And Yue Changgui's knife was also taken off, and it remained in the horse's abdomen like the broken spear that Xiong Zhiyuan stabbed into the war horse.

Li Youlai was knocked out of the way.

Fortunately, because of excessive blood loss, the war horse also knelt down on the spot, and fell to the ground on its side panting.

Before the bandit on the horse fell off the horse, Zhou Laojiu shot him directly in the forehead.

The bandit was craniotroped on the spot, his brain was shattered, and he flew towards the mighty army camp because of inertia.

Coincidentally.

These bandits galloping on horseback all caused a little chaos in the forward camp of the mighty army at the beginning, and there were more than a dozen wounded, especially the sword and shield hands, and countless people were broken by the collision.

But fortunately, there are not many bandits riding horses, and their riding skills are not amazing, non-serious cavalry, and in this valley, the war horses are not very easy to accelerate, so for the time being, they have not been directly hit and died of heart-splitting.

And.

Under the new three-stage blow immediately formed by the firearms hand, more than a dozen bandits who rushed behind had already died in advance, causing the mountain bandits who followed behind to flee in the desert.

Lu Yuan exhaled a long breath.

Watch as most of these mountain bandits begin to flee.

He knew that his mighty army had finally withstood one of the biggest attacks of these bandits.

But Lu Yuan looked at the sword and shield hands and a small number of spearmen and firearms men who were sitting on the ground holding their arms or knees in front of him, and he had to sigh that the number of sword and shield hands on his side was very large.

But.

Now Lu Yuan had no time to take care of these wounded, so he directly ordered to pursue these fleeing mountain bandits as a unit.

Another advantage of Qi Jiguang's invention of the Mandarin Duck Array that is different from the classical army is that once the army is disciplined, it can quickly be integrated into a whole, and it can also be quickly broken into parts.

At this time, when the mighty army had the advantage and pursued the enemy, it quickly broke into pieces, and pursued the remnants of the bandits as a unit.

Each unit is an independent combat unit, and there are various types of troops responsible for attacking from afar and defending closely.

Yue Changgui endured the severe pain of the elbow joint of his left arm being broken by the collision, and still chased these mountain bandits with a steel knife and his own army.

Because during the pursuit, the mountain bandits fled all over the mountain, and in some places, Yue Changgui was the only commander of his army, so he locked down which bandits he was chasing, and the soldiers of his army had to follow him to kill these bandits.

Yue Changgui kept paying attention to the big man with sixteen or seven mountain bandits running together in front of him.

Although this big man with one-eyebrow seemed to be wearing a very ordinary back, not wearing satin clothes, and even lacking a knife, the eyebrows that attracted attention still aroused Yue Changgui's idea.

Because Lu Yuan had given pre-war guidance before the battle, basically every field soldier of the mighty army knew what obvious features the leader of this mountain bandit was.

Yizimei has abandoned his horse, taken off his mink coat, replaced it with a patched shirt, and even lost his treasure knife, just to get by.

But he didn't expect that there were still several lines of officers and soldiers chasing after him, especially the small group of people where the officers and soldiers with their left arm seemed to be broken, and they chased the fastest.

The field soldiers of the mighty army often conduct field training, and the endurance and speed of rapid running are naturally stronger than those of these mountain bandits who have not undergone formal training.

Although these mountain bandits have been in the mountains for a long time, and even some of them grew up in the mountains, they often only know pleasure after robbing women and property, and they can't compare with the field soldiers of the mighty army, not to mention that most of the field soldiers of the mighty army are also from a bitter background, running from Liaodong to Shandong, from Shanxi to Henan, and now this mountain road is nothing to them.

In particular, the pampered mountain bandit leader Yizimei was already panting at this time.

For a while, he found that there were only six people in Yue Changgui's army chasing him at this time (Li Youlai was injured and didn't follow), he felt a great insult, and decided to reshape the majesty of himself, the big leader of the Yishan bandits, and let his most loyal dozen bandits kill Yue Changgui.

Xiong Zhiyuan's eyes were quick, and he immediately picked up a spear that he had snatched from a wounded spearman, and stabbed the spear into the mountain bandit's abdomen with a standard assassination action that practiced no less than 10,000 times.

The bandit grabbed his spear and knelt on the ground.

An inch long and an inch strong.

This is especially noticeable in close combat.

Xiong Zhiyuan used the skillful assassination memory he had trained in the Mighty Army, quickly pulled out his spear and continued to stab at a mountain bandit.

Poof!

Xiong Zhiyuan's assassination is swift and flexible, so he stabs one from time to time.

But when a mountain bandit rushed to him, he couldn't resist it and had to retreat, but this mountain bandit was also very clever, grabbed Xiong Zhiyuan's spear shaft, and was about to cut Xiong Zhiyuan.

Click!

A head rolled to the ground like a bloody gourd.

Yue Changgui withdrew his bloody knife and did not rush forward, but moved forward closely to Xiong Zhiyuan, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the spearman Xiong Zhiyuan in close combat.

Xiong Zhiyuan glanced at his captain gratefully.

However, in this, it was Zhou Laojiu who killed the enemy the most easily, and he had now become relaxed from nervousness, and a flintlock pistol was like an arm in his hand, quickly reloading and shooting rapidly.

Nine of the sixteen mountain bandits died, seven of which were killed by Zhou Laojiu.

The remaining seven mountain bandits no longer had the will to fight, three knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy, two lost the will to fight, dropped their weapons and ran to both sides, and only two still fled with that eyebrow.