The drawback of the traditional way of loading, slow speed, was finally revealed at this time.

The musket team of the Mingwu Army did not expect that there was still a way to resist the musket in this world, so for a long time, they were accustomed to using "paper bullets" to attack, and they were a little unfamiliar with the original complicated loading method of cleaning the chamber first, then filling it with gunpowder, and finally stuffing the bullets.

Meng Hong saw that his brothers were ready, so he gave an order and ordered the whole army to fire a salvo, only to hear the musket suddenly sound with a roar that was completely different from the same as the one, and the bullet was discharged and flew straight ahead.

Ji Qingwen listened to the roar of the guns and felt the flow of the air, and seemed to clearly feel that the power of this burst of muskets and the speed of the bullets were far beyond the previous ones—although with the slightly dull feeling of human beings, it was impossible to distinguish such a change.

But the injuries suffered by the White Lotus Sect on the other side obviously responded to Ji Qingwen's feelings.

I saw that these sluggish and cute White Lotus Sect disciples who had just stood still under the blow of the "paper bullets" were swept by this burst of muskets, and immediately received a blow that was much stronger than Fang Cai-only only a small half of them were knocked down on the spot, and a few others seemed to have broken their ribs and rolled on the ground in pain, and a few cotton clothes were already oozing blood, obviously the bullets had penetrated the protection of the wet cotton clothes, and had already broken through the fragile skin of the human body.

Xu Hongru, who was far behind, was shocked when he saw this--this method of resisting the musket with wet cotton clothes was something he had figured out by himself, and he had no theoretical basis, whether it had been tested or not, and could only test the effect in the practice of the battlefield.

At the beginning, the effect was still very good, and the nearly two hundred White Lotus disciples sent out by themselves braved the rain of bullets at an extremely slow speed, breaking through to a distance of only twenty or thirty steps away from Ji Qingwen, which was something that those ordinary martial arts knights who were coaxed by cowhide did not do.

But this effect didn't last long, and I don't know what kind of means Ji Qingwen, the thief, used, to make the musket regain its previous power, which made the White Lotus Sect cry bitterly.

When Xu Hongru was puzzled, Zhou Xiuying hurriedly walked up and said, "Daddy, it must be closer, and the power of the musket is greater, it seems that those brothers in front of me will no longer be able to rush up." Daddy, why don't you give the order quickly, how about I wait for the whole army to be killed? ”

Zhou Xiuying's suggestion is indeed the best strategy that can be deduced from this bit of intelligence at the moment, and Xu Hongru is not allowed to have any objections.

So Xu Hongru nodded and said, "It's okay, but killing is killing, but you can't attack indiscriminately." ”

Xu Hongru suffered several losses in front of Ji Qingwen, and finally paid attention to strategy and tactics: "That's it." Daoqing, you lead my disciples to immediately attack Ji Qingwen's Ming Wu army. Xiuying, you lead the women's army of the headquarters to fight a dozen of those bad seeds in the Beijing division camp. As for the white pole soldiers...... As long as they break through the two wings, they will naturally be defeated. The deity continued to wait here, waiting for the large group of men and horses to come, and then covering up and killing together, and they would definitely be able to break the official army. ”

Xu Daoqing listened to this order, and immediately bowed his hand and said: "Thank you Sect Master for giving me a chance to take revenge, this time the disciple will definitely live up to the trust of the Sect Master, and he will definitely capture Ji Qingwen alive!" ”

After saying that, Xu Daoqing arched his hand again, and then beckoned the old believers of the White Lotus Sect, which was originally commanded by Xu Hongru, and followed behind the group of vanguard troops who had lost a quarter, and rushed straight towards Ji Qingwen's Mingwu army.

Seeing this, Xu Hongru hurriedly encouraged again: "Okay, although there are small setbacks, the morale is not reduced, and he is a good disciple of my White Lotus Sect!" ”

Xu Hongru is strict in his teachings, and it is not easy for him to praise these two sentences. However, this kind of encouragement does not have much weight in Xu Daoqing's ears, he just wants to perform well in front of Zhou Xiuying to win his heart - but he doesn't know that he himself is being used as cannon fodder......

Zhou Xiuying was ordered by the sect leader "Daddy", in order to avoid the range of the musket team of the Mingwu Army, he led the "Women's Army" of his cronies to spare the boss in the periphery, and then went to the right flank of the official army formation.

Stationed on the right flank of the formation was the forbidden army of the Jingshi battalion.

Their combat effectiveness was slightly poor, so the formation shrank slightly, and it was originally not their turn to engage the enemy army, but the White Lotus Sect was looking for them to fight, and the forbidden army naturally could not retreat from the battle, so they could only fight with these women of the "Women's Army".

Don't look at the "Women's Army" are all women. Their backbone was originally the urban commoners who worked hard and begged for a living in the city of Nanjing—when it came to work, they were not inferior to men; In terms of personality, its pungent and refreshing is even higher than that of men - it is a strong force whose combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, after several enlightenment movements of thinkers such as Wang Yangming, Li Dongyang, and Li Yuan, the originally closed and solidified feudal ethical relationship has been greatly impacted. However, women who can stand on their own feet, get rid of their personal dependence on men, and survive independently are always in the minority.

Therefore, this "women's army" itself is a team that Zhou Xiuying has worked hard to assemble with great difficulty. Like Ji Qingwen about the Ming Wu Army, Zhou Xiuying was also reluctant to let the Women's Army make inaction.

So she took the lead herself, leading Su Liu and Qi Yun, two personal girls who also had a bit of martial arts, and rubbed her body into the array of the forbidden army of the Beijing Division, intending to make a gap for the follow-up troops first.

This battle was a decisive battle between the White Lotus Sect and the Ming official army, and Zhou Xiuying naturally used all her strength without reservation. I saw that she led Su Liu and Qi Yun, three people, six arms, brandishing six quick knives, and slashed and killed indiscriminately in the crowd of forbidden troops, and in an instant, the formation that was originally arranged very tightly was slaughtered.

Seeing this, the other female soldiers of the Women's Army also hurriedly rushed forward, using the kitchen knives, firewood knives, paper knives and other items that they had collected one after another as blades, and fought hand-to-hand with the elite forbidden army.

Women are more hysterical, more fearless, and more unstoppable than men.

The Jingshi Battalion Forbidden Army had long been frightened by the offensive of this group of women, and for a while they could only rely on the instinct of survival to make a minimum resistance, without revealing that they were an organized and disciplined regular army.

On Ji Qingwen's side, because he changed the traditional loading method, he gradually wiped out the few rice dumplings-like White Lotus Sect cannon fodder, but the backbone of the White Lotus Sect led by Xu Daoqing had already quickly killed him.

It's finally time for hand-to-hand combat.

Ji Qingwen shouted: "Okay, he's a White Lotus Sect, do you think that my Ming Wujun is only powerful in firearms, so he doesn't have the ability to fight hand-to-hand?" Brothers, show them the spirit and show them the skills of the old general Qi Jiguang when he killed the Japanese invaders! ”

The backbone of the Ming Wu army are all recruited from Yiwu, Zhejiang, is the foundation of the old Qi army, as soon as they heard the key words of "Qi Jiguang" and "Wakou", they were immediately stimulated to fight spirit, put down the musket in their hands, raised their shields, drew their long knives, and waited for an order to confront the enemy in front of them.

Ji Qingwen didn't let them wait long, but he didn't order the whole army to attack, but ordered Huang Degong and Yang Zhan, two generals with strong martial arts, each to lead 300 elite soldiers, and go to meet the elite of the White Lotus Sect for a while.

Huang Degong's martial arts are the fencing skills of Ye Luzi and Yu Dayou; Yang Zhan's martial arts are the moves of a serious martial artist. Although the two of them have different martial arts routines, there is not much difference in combat effectiveness, one is expensive in spirit, and the other is in solidity.

And the Ming Wu army behind them, according to the Qi family army formation taught by Chen Wenzhao before, each used different weapons such as shields, wolf swords, and swords, and formed a formation that could cooperate with each other in groups of three or five - this is the Qi family's army's mandarin duck formation.

This mandarin duck formation can be called the highest tactic in the era of cold weapons, with this set of formations, Qi Jiguang defeated the brave and cruel Japanese Japanese pirates when the soldiers' weapons, martial arts, and morale were not superior, and often killed and wounded hundreds of enemy troops, while he often only had single-digit casualties.

The White Lotus Sect in front of them, can they deal with such a powerful tactic?