(It's Monday again, ask for a red ticket!) I hope that the brethren will make it a habit to get the first red ticket! Hehe! ）

It's not that these northern armies underestimate these bird guns in the hands of the Xingtian Army, as the firearms of this era, the bird guns in the Jiajing period, when the Ming Dynasty exterminated the Japanese invaders, they seized a lot of iron cannons produced in Japan, and then soon produced a large number of their own bird guns, the first batch was distributed to the Liaodong Army, at the beginning it was not bad, very popular, but later the weapons supervisor was greedy for ink, and the craftsmen around the country did not have enough fine iron, so they could only make do with some shoddy bird guns, when the army used bird guns, There are many accidents such as exploding chambers, coupled with insufficient training, officers and men are very afraid of using this thing, and when they really use it to go into battle, they will try to charge as little as possible to avoid accidents such as exploding chambers, so that the power is very small, and in addition to the cumbersome loading, once they get close to the enemy, it is even more useless, and then in the rainy and windy days, they can only be used as iron rods.

As the elite soldiers of the north, of course, these soldiers of the Guan Ning Army are very familiar with this kind of thing, when they see clearly the kind of bird gun that many soldiers in the Xingtian Army are holding in their hands, so they are all relaxed, and they don't take them seriously at all, in their opinion, they are wearing the most exquisite iron armor of the Ming Dynasty, and the ordinary bird gun is thirty steps away, it is difficult to penetrate their iron armor, and if it is far away, even the leather armor cannot be pierced, if it really reaches thirty steps, the three-eyed gun in their hands can also be powerful, Coupled with their fast horses, where would they be afraid of this kind of bird! If you really get knocked over and dismounted, you can only blame yourself for bad luck!

But Zu Kuan pursed his lips and didn't speak, and continued to stare at the Xingtian Army's formation, and only after a long time did he say: "Don't underestimate the enemy, although this arrangement of the thief army is weird, but I'm afraid it's not because the thief chief doesn't know how to soldier, but because he is at the mercy of himself!" That's it, everything you say is in vain, you still have to see the real chapter at hand! There are only a dozen columns in the two phalanxes in front of the enemy's army, and such a thin formation also wants to stop our iron cavalry formation, and they also underestimate our iron cavalry too much! They are also new to this place, and there is only a wooden fence in front of them, so what can they do with this wooden fence alone?

Hum! No matter what they do, we have to defeat them in this battle, don't forget, we are Guanning Iron Cavalry, looking at the world except for Jiannu, who is our opponent? ……”

With the sound of a horn, the drums began to sound in the official and military formations, and those officers and soldiers who dismounted and rested, after hearing the sound of drums and trumpets, even took off the material bags from the horse's head, tightened the leather cord of the horse's belly, opened the armor bags on the horse's buttocks one by one, and with the help of the auxiliaries, the armor leaves were batched on the body one by one, and then stomped their feet, pulled the saddle and turned over and jumped on the horse's back.

Immediately after the cavalry brigade behind the pack horse also began to line up, under the pull of the gunner, quickly towards the front of the army converged, it seems that the plan is to place these tiger squat cannons in front of the formation, first use the tiger squat cannon to bombard the Xingtian army, to disrupt the Xingtian army's infantry formation, such a tactic, in Zu Kuan's view, is a standard way to deal with the thief army, the thief army often lacks firearms, and the accompanying artillery is almost equal to nothing, even if the artillery is obtained, it is only used when attacking the city, when facing the thief army, Often, after a single bombardment, it can tear their formations apart.

With the swing of the order flag, a group of about 200 officers and soldiers also began to come out of the array, and on their saddles, there was basically a coil of ropes, these ropes were obviously used to pull down the wooden fences in front of the Xingtian Army, and these wooden fences must be cleared before the main force of the officers and troops broke through, otherwise it would seriously affect the main force to break through.

Xiao Tianjian had already turned his horse back to the formation at this time, and carefully watched the actions of the officers and soldiers, and when he saw that the officers and soldiers began to put on their armor and mount their horses, he immediately ordered: "Okay! What should come is still coming! Cheer up, brethren, and surprise them first! The artillery team is out! ”

With the sound of an order, a group of generals quickly began to emerge on the gentle slope behind the phalanx of the two battalions, struggling to push a three-pounder gun appeared on the gentle slope, and boxes of ammunition were also placed on both sides of the tail of each gun by the gunners.

When they saw that the artillery of the Xingtian Army was pushed up, the people behind the formation cheered loudly, shouting and firing the cannons, bombarding the officers and soldiers.

It's not that the people like to watch the excitement, but over the years, in this part of Henan, the officers and the rebels have come and gone to fight, which has already made all parts of the country become battlefields, whether it is the official army, or some rebels, in fact, the people don't necessarily like the rebels, but the vast majority of the rebels, in terms of harming the people, are still a little measured, but as long as it is the official army, there are few are good, in order to grab merit, many officers and soldiers dare not fight with the rebels head-on, but it is not good to deal with the poor, so they kill the displaced people indiscriminately, With the heads of good people as military merits, where the officials and soldiers passed, the tragedy of the scene is difficult to describe, and these homeless people present, almost everyone has suffered from the scourge of the officials and soldiers, and now they have met the Xingtian Army, who is quite kind to them, and they all immediately stand on the side of the Xingtian Army, hoping that the Xingtian Army can quickly kill all these damned officers and soldiers, so that they can vent their evil anger.

The people on the side of the officers and soldiers are not blind, when they saw such a slip of "cannon" appeared behind the Xingtian Army on the opposite side, everyone chuckled in their hearts, and they all began to get nervous, they never thought that this thief army would actually have such a sharp weapon, so there was a buzz in the army, and many people pointed to the opposite Xingtian Army and turned their heads and ears.

"Damn, how can the thief army have such a little red cannon? This is in trouble! ”

"Yes! I didn't expect that! This thief army will also have such sharp weapons, I'm afraid we will encounter hard stubble today! ”

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And Zu Kuan and his subordinate generals also saw this situation, and their faces suddenly became ugly, in their minds, even if this thief army is very clean, there are a lot of birds, but at least they don't have to be too nervous, in their opinion, as long as they tear apart their formation, then it is only a matter of time before they are defeated, but once they see the Xingtian Army launch the cannon, they all suddenly feel a little headache.

At their distance, although they couldn't see the shape of these cannons of the Xingtian Army, this thing was much more powerful than the bird guns, and even if it was not a very powerful artillery, it would be difficult to survive, which undoubtedly increased the pressure in their hearts.

"Ignore them, keep doing what they do! Pull out their bars first! There are no immortals in war, but I am afraid that they will do something! Isn't it just a few broken iron guns! Zu Kui, I will give you another 200 horsemen, go out from the right side, contain the right flank of the thief army, let the brothers in front pull out their bars, and wait for our army to press up and sweep them away! After Zu Kuan took a deep breath, he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and ordered loudly as if he hadn't seen the artillery of the Xingtian Army.

A stout soldier immediately answered with a loud voice: "Obey your orders!" Then he rushed into the formation with a whistling of horses, gathered two hundred cavalry, and then rushed out of the formation with a loud roar, and then rushed towards the phalanx of the second battalion on the right flank of the Xingtian army.