These cavalry are said to be cavalry, but in fact, there is no real cavalry, they are all selected from the soldiers and young men who can ride horses, and the war horses they ride do not have even a real war horse, they are all ordinary horses, and those who pull the carriage are counted.

However, in addition to these twenty improvised 'cavalry', there were also more than a dozen horseback Baihu and their cavalry to join, these Baihu and their own soldiers were higher in riding than those who were temporarily pulled out, and sometimes they could already fight on horseback, which could be regarded as high-level mounted infantry.

From personnel to horses, this cavalry has great similarities with the cavalry team in the Tang Dynasty's division, they are all a group of cavalry that cannot be called cavalry, at most they can be regarded as mounted infantry.

However, in this inland southwest region, there was no cavalry on a large scale, and there was not a single professional cavalry in the nearby guards, and most of the people who could ride horses were officers of all levels and their own soldiers.

Behind the city gate, Xu Xiancheng personally gave the 'cavalry' who were about to attack to boost their morale, and promised to give a rich reward on the spot, as long as they attacked, there would be five taels of silver, and it was issued on the spot, the thief army was first-class, the reward was ten taels of silver, the small leader of the thief army was first-class, the reward was twenty taels of silver, the big boss was killed, and the official was promoted to one level.

Stimulated by the promotion and fortune, these Ming cavalry finally dispelled the fear in their hearts, and then prepared their horses and weapons, and rushed out when the city gate was opened!

It didn't take long for Wang Danxu, who was riding on horseback outside the city, to suddenly look at the city gate in front of him with wide eyes, and in his sight, the city gate was opened one after another!

What's going on? Is the enemy going to attack out of the city, or is he going to open the gates and surrender?

When these thoughts flashed through his mind, he did not hesitate in the slightest, and immediately shouted in his mouth: "Musketeers, bayonet!" ”

It was only Wang Danxu, Butcher Chen, Fang Dongquan, and Huang Xueren of the musket team who found out that the city gate was opened, and Butcher Chen brandished a pig-killing knife and said to the armor-clad sword and shield soldiers under his command: "Get up for Lao Tzu!" ”

Fang Dongquan also shouted at the spearmen and archers: "Ready! ”

As the city gate was opened, the Tang New Army outside the city reacted quickly, they didn't know why the city gate was opened, but they were eighty percent sure that the Ming army was going to attack out of the city.

You can't be so stupid as to really believe that as soon as you start fighting, the Ming army will open the city gate and surrender!

In the face of the enemy's attack, the Datang New Army had a complete set of procedures, especially after Zeng Ziwen's return, targeted tactical training was made for some common tactics of the Ming army.

Soon, the Datang New Army outside the city ran quickly, making the formation even closer.

At this time, the musketeers in front of them quickly formed a huge phalanx from three columns, while the more numerous spearmen stepped forward to the two flanks of the musket phalanx to form a denser phalanx of spears.

Archers and sword and shield bearers are behind the musketeers and spearmen!

As for the cavalry squads, they were located separately in the flanks and rear of the array.

In such an array, the musketeers are responsible for interdiction with medium and long-range fire, and at the same time engage in hand-to-hand combat with the spearmen after the enemy rushes up.

Archers are responsible for intercepting fire at close range, firing the most arrows in the shortest time before the enemy rushes up, and inflicting a blow on the enemy with a dense rain of arrows.

And the spearman is the backbone of hand-to-hand combat!

Heavily armoured sword and shield bearers defend or counterattack as appropriate, spearmen and musketeers defend when things are bad, and counterattack on enemy flanks when things are good.

As for the cavalry squads, they were used to storm the enemy's flanks and hunt down the heads of the reapers.

Under the leadership of officers at all levels, musketeers, spearmen, archers, etc., began to line up when the Ming army just opened, and when the city gate of the Ming army was completely opened, and then the suspension bridge was lowered, the formation of the Datang New Army was completed.

The reason why it is so fast is also related to the fact that the previous Datang New Army was originally arranged in this way, and the running just now was just to tighten up and sort out the formation, not to change the formation in a hurry, otherwise it would really not be completed for a while.

As the city gate was completely opened and the drawbridge was lowered, Wang Danxu and the others finally saw that it was a cavalry unit that rushed out, and there were about thirty horsemen.

Cavalry?

This discovery made Wang Danxu a little worried, although the new army of the Tang Dynasty fought with the Ming army many times, it had never dealt with a large-scale cavalry force, and in the past, at most, it was to fight scattered reconnaissance cavalry.

Wang Danxu, who was worried, rode on his horse and couldn't help but look at Li Xuan, who was surrounded by more than 20 guards and more than a dozen civil and military officials.

Li Xuan in sight was riding on a horse, wearing a nondescript military uniform, which even seemed a little funny to Wang Danxu.

He was waiting for Li Xuan's order!

Soon, the flag-bearer beside Li Xuan waved the flag, and the role of the Chinese army's flag was never to show its might, but to convey orders.

The slogan conveyed by this waving flag is very simple: the whole army will face the battle, and the fight will not retreat!

At the same time, the big drum where the Chinese army was located was beaten by a shirtless, muscular drummer, and the rumbling drum sounded on the battlefield.

After seeing the banner of the Chinese army, Wang Danxu turned his head, and then raised his command knife again, and the command knife was raised high, shining in the sun.

At this time, as the commander of the 'musket team', the core unit of the whole army, Wang Danxu took the lead in issuing an order: "Musket team, aim!" ”

Although he said that he was aiming, Wang Danxu did not give the order to let the musketeers shoot, if the other party was only infantry, then Wang Danxu would let the soldiers fire in multiple rows and in turn, and break the enemy's morale through layers of interception.

But now they were facing cavalry, and they were cavalry that was speeding up their charge!

He just didn't hesitate to give up the plan to shoot in turns, so under the charge of the cavalry, his musketeers only had one chance to shoot, and there was absolutely no chance to reload and fire a second shot!

And this shot must be the greatest success!

After the more than 30 cavalry of the Ming army left the city, they urged the horses to run, they were only eighty meters away from the new army of the Tang Dynasty, this distance for the cavalry, it didn't take long at all, so they just ran out of the city, and the few general banners and hundreds of households led by them were already waving the long knives in their hands.

The enemy rushed out twenty meters, less than sixty meters away from the front of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but Wang Danxu still did not give the order to shoot, but shouted loudly: "Steady, steady!" ”

The musketeers in the front row looked at the cavalry charging in front of them, and several of them were already trembling, already thinking about how to escape.

At this time, Bai Yunqi, who was in charge of commanding the archers in the rear, had already ordered the archers to fire rapidly.

The bow and arrow rate of fire is much faster than the arquebus, and it can shoot arrows at enemy cavalry at medium distances!

However, the archers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty told the truth, the quality was not good, after two waves of arrows were shot, they only shot two horses of the Ming army, and after the two arrows, those Ming cavalry had already rushed to thirty meters away, at this time, the archers had already given up the idea of shooting the third arrow, but quickly threw down the bow and arrow on the spot, and then drew out the waist knife one by one, ready for hand-to-hand combat!

At this time, Wang Danxu finally waved the command knife and ordered to shoot: "Shoot!" ”

With Wang Danxu's order, a total of eighty musketeers from the two musket teams pulled the trigger at the same time, and the dense gunfire rang out at the same time, so that the sound was not a crackling, but like a thunderclap, long and deafening!

After the thunder, the fierce Ming cavalry in front of them turned out to be seven or eight people in unison, which was almost all their front row cavalry!

This volley almost stunned the charging Ming cavalry, but although people were stunned, it was better to say, and more importantly, the horses were frightened by the loud sound of musket fire, firelight, and white smoke.

Suddenly, these horses were no longer under the control of the knights, and they ran directly, and many of them raised their hooves on the spot, so that the knights on horseback fell to the ground.

Wang Danxu didn't even look at the damage caused by this volley, and as soon as he gave the order to shoot, he ordered again: "Bayonet ready!" ”

In fact, the musketeers have already installed their bayonets, thanks to the new muskets of the Datang New Army, which use sleeve bayonets, although the loading speed is affected after the bayonet is loaded, but it does not affect the shooting, so when preparing to fire the last shot, the bayonet will always be loaded in advance, and after a shot, it is ready to fight with a bayonet.

It is said that the bayonet is prepared, but in fact it is to let the musketeers adjust their posture before the bayonet hand-to-hand combat.

The stance of shooting is not the same as the stance of charging with a bayonet.

But at this time, Wang Danxu's expected bayonet hand-to-hand combat did not come, the Ming cavalry in front of the Ming army lost seven or eight people, the remaining twenty or so cavalry was already completely chaotic, some people pulled out their horses' heads and swept through the array, and a few skilled people with bows and horses tried to return fire with bows and arrows on horseback, but just shot a few arrows, that is, they saw that the spearmen on both sides were already trying to surround them, and they couldn't control so much immediately, and once again rode their horses and turned around and fled.

Xu Xiancheng, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, watched his cavalry just rush to the front of the puppet Tang thief army, and before he rushed over to fight, he lost seven or eight people, and knew that the situation would be very bad, and when the remaining twenty or so horsemen also fell into chaos and began to flee backwards one by one, he knew that this counterattack had completely failed.

When he saw that the cavalry squad of the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city was already running and was about to intercept his own cavalry, even if Xu Xiancheng was not familiar with military affairs, he also knew that he couldn't do anything, and he had to let them retreat, so he immediately said: "Mingjin collects the troops!" ”

But he soon found that the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army that was chasing did not stop halfway, but kept following his own cavalry and rushed over, and he actually wanted to follow into the city.

Soon, he exclaimed loudly: "It's not good, quick, close the city gate quickly!" ”

At the same time, Li Xuan also said angrily: "Bastard, whoever let him attack the city without authorization, I will punish him of the Nine Clans!" ”