Wu Baihu knew that there were some people under his hands who were holding all kinds of short hand-held firearms, but as far as he knew, this thing was generally launched within twenty or thirty steps, or even closer to a distance of more than ten steps.

And most of the time it's not good at all, far inferior to a bow and arrow.

But the fire gun in the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side was able to shoot more than sixty steps away, and more importantly, the other party actually hit one of his subordinates.

Could it be that the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, blinded?

It's no wonder that Wu Baihu's first reaction was to think that the other party was a blind cat and a dead mouse, because what was happening now was really beyond his cognition.

He would rather believe that the other party was lucky, so he was able to hit one of his men at such a distance!

Yes, they just got lucky!

Wu Baihu secretly said this to himself in his heart, just like hypnotizing himself.

Soon, there was another burst of gunfire in front of the opponent's formation, and at the same time as the white smoke rose, Wu Baihu turned his head to look at the queue under his command, he was eager to know if the other party's shot just now was blind.

At this glance, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, because except for the unlucky guy who was hit before, the other subordinates were still standing, and no one was hit.

They're so blind!

At this time, Wu Baihu was at peace in his heart!

At first, he was afraid that the other party was not blind, and if that was the case, it would be a little troublesome.

If that's the case, it's going to be troublesome, because the opponent shoots from a distance, even if he only hits one person at a time, but as long as the opponent continues to fight, round by round, it doesn't take a moment for more than a dozen people to fall on his side.

And more importantly, if you don't step forward on your side, you can only be beaten passively, which will be too big a blow to morale.

Now that he was sure, the other party was blind, and their firearms couldn't hit that far.

But the smile on his face didn't last long, the platoon gun on the opposite side rang out again, and this time Wu Baihu heard the damn screams again.

At this moment, he knew that something was wrong, because he knew very well that the scream just now was not the one who had been hit before, but another person.

After a closer look, sure enough, another archer on his side fell, and the person who fell this time seemed to be seriously injured, just let out a scream, and then went straight to the end, struggling for less than two times and then not moving.

Oh no, the other party is not fierce, but their firecrackers can really hit so far!

Once he can think that the other party is lucky, but with two times, then he can be sure that the other party is definitely not fierce, but that the fire gun can hit so far and can also hit people.

No, you can't continue to wait like this, otherwise you won't be able to fight back if you are beaten on your side, even if there are no casualties in fact, but the blow to morale is too great, and if this one is not good, it will collapse directly.

He knows very well what kind of goods his soldiers and civilians are, and the soldiers under his guard are fine, although it may affect morale, but it will not kill one or two people and the whole army will collapse.

But those people are different, when the guns on the opposite side of the row of guns fired, there was already a commotion in the queue of the people, if it continued like this, even if no one on the people's side actually died, but it would still collapse under fear.

So at this time he did not hesitate any longer, and soon ordered the whole army to step forward, and the archers stepped forward to shoot arrows within fifty paces.

He's going to fight back!

Seeing that the Ming army on the opposite side moved, Wang Danxu showed disappointment, there were still too few musketeers under his hands, only more than 20 people, and the firepower density was seriously insufficient.

Otherwise, the three shots just now would have been enough to inflict heavy damage on the opponent!

However, although the Ming army pressed up, it was not a fast charge, and the speed was not fast, so Wang Danxu still let the musketeers continue to load and fire.

But after a while, the archers on the standing side will start shooting arrows as well.

The opponent's archers are about forty people, and your own archers are seventy, if you add more than twenty musketeers, then your own long-range firepower is more than the opponent's.

In addition, more importantly, when the opponent's archers pressed forward, it also gave Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu a chance!

They will rush from the flanks and kill the archers while they are firing at each other's archers, as long as they let these sword and shield soldiers, especially the more than twenty sword and shield soldiers in armor, rush in front of the archers, then the Ming archers will face a slaughter!

When that time comes, your own spearmen will also take the opportunity to press forward and finally defeat the opponent with overwhelming momentum!

As the archers of the Ming army continued to step forward, Butcher Chen and they really moved, they separated from the left flank, and Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu rushed to the front in heavy armor!

Seeing that the bandits in Huangzhushan moved, the spearmen and sword and shield men on the side of the Ming army also moved, and about 50 guards rushed out with about 100 people holding flat poles to prepare to intercept Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu.

At this time, a large number of spearmen in Huangzhushan have stepped forward slowly with spears, they directly pressed the enemy's Chinese army, if these more than 100 spearmen rushed over, then the next battle basically did not have to be fought, and Huangzhushan's side would definitely win.

In this short period of time, the Ming army and the Tang Dynasty have made many tactical changes, which have brought many changes on the battlefield.

And Li Xuan and the others in the rear watched it even more attentively, and even worried, because they all knew that although the two sides had not strictly entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, both sides were still in the stage of looking for each other's loopholes by changing formations.

Even the archers on both sides had not yet fired, only the musketeers on Huangzhushan's side continued to shoot in turns.

But this situation can't last long, after all, their troops are only a few hundred people, and the battlefield is so big, it is impossible to continue to be like this forever.

Soon, the archers of the Ming army were already within the predetermined range of the archers on both sides with the musket fire of the Tang Dynasty's division, and along the way, six of them fell, and these six people were already ten percent casualty for an archery army of only more than forty people.

Strictly speaking, this casualty rate has reached the limit of what the army of the Cold Weapon Age can bear, and if this number is any larger, they will completely collapse.

Seeing that his archers finally rushed forward, Wu Baihu was also relieved, his archers were all regular archers, and when several waves of arrows were shot in a row, I am afraid that the outcasts of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side would not be able to hold it!

But before he could open his mouth to give the order to shoot arrows, he saw that the archers of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side were actually the first to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

Although the archers in the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side seem to be of uneven quality and bow strength, even this can't change the fact that more than seventy arrows flew over.

When he saw more than seventy arrows flying from the sky, even Wu Baihu had already seen that his archers had also shot the first wave of arrow rain, but he still had an extremely bad premonition.

Because at this time, he remembered one thing, that is, his archers had killed and injured six people before, and their morale had plummeted, and it was not easy to rush up and shoot arrows back, but as soon as they fought back, the archers on the other side also fired bows and arrows at the same distance.

This wave of arrows came over, and I am afraid that my archers would have to kill and wound several others.

As a result, the casualty rate of archers has exceeded two percent, and this data is already extremely dangerous, and a major collapse is very likely.

The next scene really confirmed Wu Baihu's own conjecture, in the first round of the archers on both sides, seven or eight people fell on the spot on the side of the pseudo-Tang thief army, while only four people fell on his own side.

The battle loss ratio between the two sides is almost two to one, which shows that their archers are far stronger than those bandits.

But does it work?

It's useless!

Because even if only four people fell this time, ten people had already fallen before and after, which was a great psychological pressure for the archers who only had more than forty people, because it meant that one of the four people had already fallen.

After the two sides exchanged a wave, they were a little shaken by each other.

However, at this very moment, the musketeers of the Guards fired again, and this time not in a rotation, but in a salvo!

The salvo fired from a distance of fifty meters, and the bullets fired by more than 20 guns, almost instantly overturned five or six archers of the Ming army!

As soon as the gunfire fell, Wu Baihu heard a bandit leader on a horse on the opposite side shouting: "The whole army charges!" ”

Immediately afterwards, a group of spearmen with spears in their hands rushed out of the white smoke with a determined step, and then the musketeers also stuffed their bayonets into the barrels of their guns, and the muskets and spearmen with bayonets on them rushed forward.

Seeing this scene, Wu Baihu hurriedly shouted: "The archers are all back!" ”

"Spearmen, sword and shield soldiers rush up and block them!"

At this time, the remaining twenty or so archers of the Ming army had not completely collapsed, and only after hearing Wu Baihu's order did they turn around and run to the rear of the array, preparing to hide behind the friendly troops and continue to shoot arrows.

On the contrary, the archers on the side of the Huangzhushan bandits performed quite badly, they had a scale of seventy people, but in the wave of arrow rain just now, they only shot four people on the other side, which made Li Xuan, who was behind, want to cover his face.

What's more, their own archers clearly had a numerical advantage, almost twice as many as their opponents, but the result was reversed, and they were shot eight people.

This result made the bandits in Huangzhushan almost collapse directly.

Fortunately, Wang Danxu made a quick decision, directly ordered the musketeers to fire a volley, and then let the spearmen launch a charge of the whole army, so that the situation on the battlefield changed again.

In this way, the archers of the standing army did not continue to escape, but turned around and continued to bend their bows and arrows, preparing to give the Ming army a few more waves of arrow rain!

In the previous long-range firepower shooting, archers against archers, the defeat of the Tang Dynasty King was a mess, so that Li Xuan, who was behind, couldn't stand it. In contrast, the musketeers of the Tang Dynasty Division performed quite well, and it is polite to say that in the long-range firepower competition just now, it was more than 20 musketeers who relied on more than 20 musketeers to turn the situation on the battlefield!

The more than forty archers of the Ming army were defeated by the more than twenty musketeers of the Guards, and as for the seventy archers of the standing army, don't mention it!

When the Tang Dynasty Division launched a full-army charge, it also meant that the next step would be to enter the hand-to-hand combat stage, in which the spearmen would become the backbone of the battlefield.

However, the first to enter the hand-to-hand combat stage was not the fierce Guards spearmen, but the more than twenty heavily armored sword and shield soldiers carried by Butcher Chen!

Butcher Chen rushed to the front, holding up the pig-killing knife and saying, "Brothers, follow Lao Tzu to kill it!" ”

These bandits armed with waist knives, shields and cotton iron armor, and even a few bandits wearing chain mail were not afraid of the sporadic bows and arrows or fire guns from the Ming army, and broke into the Ming army array like more than 20 wild wolves!