Dealing with a small group of enemy troops with no protection, no heavy weapons, no cavalry, and only good at swordsmanship, Qi Jiguang's flower-equipped mandarin duck array is much better than the pure armored phalanx that Xu Shiyang now uses.

However, Xu Shiyang's main enemy was not the Japanese pirates, and the main opponents he would face in the future would still be the northern Tartars who were famous for their cavalry.

Moreover, the new army can only be regarded as a newborn baby at present, and equipment, supplies, training, and personnel replenishment are all big problems, and there is really no condition to play the mandarin duck formation with more complex training and equipment.

Fortunately, the enemy Xu Shiyang is facing now has too little understanding of firearms (all the Japanese are facing gunpowder weapons for the first time), and they rush straight under the muzzle of the cannon in a dense formation like sending them to death, and they bury the main elite very lightly.

By the time the pikemen of the new army began to advance, the pirates were on the verge of collapse.

In this case, whether it is a mandarin duck formation or a pure phalanx, there is actually not much difference.

The so-called pirates do not flee easily, after all, there is a bottom line, more than 800 people to meet the team, in the wooden artillery musket bow and arrow in a few rounds, has lost nearly one percent, and most of them are the most elite ronins or small group leaders.

The main formation of the Japanese had lost its command, and many people had a nervous breakdown in the face of the approaching guns, some tried to turn and flee, and a few screamed hysterically, brandishing their weapons and pounced in an orderly manner.

These scattered pirates were completely unable to pose a threat to the dense array of guns, and were soon all poked to death in front of the formation.

Five steps away, Xu Shiyang let out a shout, the pikemen began to sprint quickly, the popping sound of sharp weapons entering the flesh was endless, and the crying father and mother who were stabbed together and couldn't dodge were squeezed together, and in the blood drifting, there were even many people strung together like sugar gourds!

The pikemen pierced in a round, and the pirates completely collapsed, and the back row did not know who shouted in Fusang dialect, and everyone began to turn around and flee for their lives, and the monks who supervised the battle in the rear of the pirates shouted and slashed and killed the rout, but they only had more than 20 people, which did not make much sense in front of hundreds of routs, and they were quickly drowned in the surging crowd.

"Chase!"

Xu Shiyang gave the last order, and the pikemen let go of their hands and let the spears still with the corpses of the pirates fall to the ground.

Followed by the other Wubao coalition forces who were still ignorant, these militiamen followed behind the new army, and they didn't react until now, why did the people of the Xu family in front of them just stop, and the battle turned into a pursuit?

Don't need a knife-to-meat fight? When the ping-pong sounds, the widows collapse? Is this really a war? Is it so easy to fight a war?

But the facts are in front of you, the widows have indeed begun to flee, and the militia is not strong in attack, but they will still chase and kill the fleeing enemy. The owners of the Wang family, the Ding family, and the Baojia fort saw the opportunity and shouted, and the militiamen all rushed over with the pikemen.

Xu Shiyang stood in place, laboriously pulling the flag gun out of the two corpses of the Japanese who were strung together - there was his military flag on it, and it could not be thrown on the ground like other spears.

What's more, you don't have to do this kind of thing yourself.

In fact, even the musketeers of the new army, which were formed on the basis of their own soldiers, did not participate in the pursuit, they held the muskets of bayonets tightly in both hands, and guarded Xu Shiyang's left and right.

A moment later, the personal soldiers led by Xu Shiliu, Luan Tingyu, and Sun Li roared past Xu Shiyang.

"Third brother! I'm going to hunt down the fleeing enemies, don't worry, I won't let them go! ”

"Go ahead." Xu Shiyang whispered back, and after every battle, his throat hurt a lot.

It's time to prepare more signals. Xu Shiyang thought to himself: "There is only one whistle, and the information that can be transmitted is too little, and the rest can only rely on shouting at the top of their voices, and now there are only 100 people in the new army, and if there are more people, the people on the periphery will not be able to hear what I say." ’

……

Nojiri Masakawa struggled with his last strength, constantly driving his short pair of lap legs to run at the forefront of the rout.

He was also in the front row as a newly promoted mid-level leader when he was in the confrontation with the new troops, and miraculously survived the first two rounds of long-range strikes - a guy next to him was hit directly in the face by the lead of a 15mm arquebus, and his whole head was smashed into scattered rotten watermelons.

Then Nojiri knew that things were not going well today.

Unlike others, Nojiri, who was actually born into a samurai family (although only the second son of a worthless low-ranking samurai), had some experience of escaping on land battlefields.

While the others were still hesitantly moving forward, Nojiri suddenly shuddered, pretended to have been hit, and fell straight to the ground.

Sure enough, after that, the main force of his side suffered a bigger blow, and it collapsed unsurprisingly.

At this time, it was Nojiri who was the first to get up from the ground, turn around and run backwards.

He was also the first to say in Fusang language: "Defeated, run for your life!" The cry reminded the overwhelmed fools to turn around and flee for their lives—not because he had any mercy for the stupid "comrades-in-arms", but purely because the main formation did not collapse, and he himself could not break through the resistance of the monk and soldier supervision team.

In the end, having done so much, Nojiri was, of course, the first to draw his sword against the Monk Warlord, and the first to break through the blocking line.

Now, as long as he gets back to the ship, he can escape.

Well, others may not have gained much this time, but Nojiri is already very satisfied, because he has snatched a board house ship from the Goryeo Haikou, which is already very rich, and there is nothing to regret about ending the raid.

As for the sailors, just a few dozen people can be found, and the Itaya ship does not need too many people to operate.

Nojiri is a little fat, and he has been running for a long time, and he is a little out of breath, but the main battlefield is not far from the sea, and he should be able to reach it with more effort.

On the one hand, they need to prevent the defenders of Rizhao Port from rushing out to attack when the main force is out of battle, and on the other hand, some people want to find an opportunity to get some oil and water from the battlefield when the main force crushes the enemy.

When Nojiri passed by them, someone asked him loudly what he was doing in such a hurry, but he didn't answer, and now that the main force had collapsed, there was almost no chance that the guys who were still going to the battlefield would survive, but maybe they could stop the enemy's pursuit a little.

Unfortunately, as soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Nojiri heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves.

"Cavalry!?"

Nojiri even forgot to run away, and he stopped to look back and watched in amazement as dozens of armed cavalrymen on tall horses (the pack horses on the mainland were also very tall in Fuso) rushed straight to the sea, cutting down and knocking down all the small groups of Japanese robbers along the way like a big ship splitting the waves.