Yang Wenyue, who was in danger, originally planned to lead the 3,000 elite cavalry of the Linqing and Cangzhou generations that had been temporarily recruited to defeat the enemy with night attack tactics, but he did not expect that this team was completely incomparable with some northwest bandits in the past. When he was still three or four miles away from his destination, he was discovered by a lurking secret sentinel. Those lurking night sentry uses a very long silk lead, a wooden board coated with fireproof mud and a prepared dark fire pit, and some simple devices are made to make signal flares that can be pulled and ignited at any time, which can be pulled and ignited from a hundred steps or even half a mile away, and the reliability of the hidden sentry is much higher than the normal situation under the condition of their own safety.

When the cavalry arrived at the original location, they did not find the trace of the opponent's main force, so in order to avoid encountering a counter-ambush at night, they had to regroup their troops and withdraw.

When the sky of the New Year was just dawning, the elite led by Yang Wenyue returned to the temporary camp nearly 100 miles away without great losses, but he did not expect that the main force of nearly 10,000 peasant troops in this night was also rampantly approaching, and the elite cavalry who followed the return touched the old camp of about 30,000 troops that Yang Wenyue had temporarily assembled along the Linqing Canal.

For a long time, officers and men suppressed thieves, and ordinary bandits and bandits never dared to take the initiative to attack a guarded officer's camp when the number of people was equal, at least during specific operations. But this time, this thief, who had a total of only about 10,000 people, dared to take the initiative to attack an army of 30,000 people, which was really beyond the expectations of many people.

Of course, Yang Wenyue knew that the 30,000 troops who had crossed the military department this time and were temporarily mobilized from the various guards and mansions under the private instruction of King Gui and even many people in the court were very worrying, and they were far from being comparable to the real elite of the border army, especially the elite of the family who lacked the skill of archers and horses and had regular iron armor, and there were not many large and small general cannons. However, among these 30,000 people, there are still some "dry goods" used to temporarily strengthen the force. For example, the pine cannon and the cannon that rub the edge ball, and there are at least thousands of folk bird guns whose production quality is obviously much better than that of the imperial court. There are still some people who know martial arts and can hunt bows from five to seven buckets. It is precisely these that make these tens of thousands of troops at least have some foundation in Yang Wenyue's heart in terms of combat effectiveness. At least in the centralized defense, it is necessary to deal with this blatant thief head-on.

Without the order of the Ministry of War, not many of the tens of thousands of people who were temporarily gathered dared to blatantly wear armor, but there were still a lot of car shields that could be used as shields temporarily, which also made many people who were new to the battle formation not make any trouble when they saw more than 10,000 enemy horsemen from far and near at dawn.

In order to strengthen the courage of the entire army, when the target was two miles away, obviously exceeding the limit range of some earthen cannons with sealed live ammunition, the rumbling cannons continued to sound, like war drums, so that the entire army gathered felt a trace of power from their own ranks.

Many pine cannons, tiger cannons, and even bird guns fired stray bullets that were fired one after another still flew to a distance of about one mile, so that Li Zicheng, in order to avoid unnecessary losses of men and horses, decided to reorganize his team from a distance of about one mile and prepare for an attack according to the regular combat procedure.

More than 1,000 elites wearing armor and carrying shields behind their backs flew off their horses as fast as they could, and used continuous shields and human walls to form a human wall to cover most of the centaurs, and the whole team also spread back as much as possible, especially those who did not have armor and only had very simple shields.

Under Xiao Xuan's ignition and the accumulation of a lot of combat experience, the number of intruders is not large today, and it has also damaged a lot of vitality in the Battle of Fuping, but the combat awareness is not possessed by many armies in this era.

When the whole army approached under the cover of the armor and shield formations in the front row, the stray bullets fired by the light guns and shotguns did not cause a single casualty before the whole group approached a distance of half a mile. Because the formation was relatively scattered, the offensive team of more than 10,000 people actually spread out a line much longer than the defending enemy of about 30,000. Especially when Yang Wenyue did not dare to be careless in the face of the team dominated by horse teams, he could only draw out a large proportion of his troops for flank defense.

As soon as the two sides entered the time when the bow and arrow projectile and the pine cannon could barely reach it, many officers and soldiers who could only fire three or four buckets began to use lighter two or three bucket floating arrows to continuously launch projectiles at the extreme range, shooting the chicken feather light arrows weighing less than seven cents half a mile away.

This kind of light arrow has no decent armor at a long distance, but the clothes are slightly thicker in winter, and even people who use wooden chairs as shields do not have decent lethality. And because of the relatively low terminal speed, it is easy to dodge, so it doesn't seem to cause many casualties. However, the continuous rain of arrows fired by thousands of archers caused a lot of interference to the enemy soldiers who used the car shield to reload the artillery, and in the following only a minute or so, the elite in armor and shields still approached about sixty or seventy paces away from the target. At this distance, the sporadic shotgun fire has already made many shield players feel the pressure. The lead bullets of about two or three dollars were also able to penetrate the wooden shield from time to time, leaving marks on the armor, and even some people began to be injured by the projectiles under the shield and retreated.

However, at this time, more than 100 archers who used horses to maneuver launched a side projectile suppression at a distance of about 100 meters in sixty or seventy paces. Under the cover of numerous five-bucket to seven-bucket hunting archers. Gao Yingxiang and Gao Jie also approached the flank, and launched more precise arrows under cover. At a distance of less than 100 paces, most of the arrows quickly and accurately swept over the distance of only about two or three feet above the car shield, and accurately swept into the crowd, bringing continuous casualties and losses.

Sixty or seventy arrows fired by just two elite archers in a short period of time caused dozens of casualties, and the line that stretched for dozens of paces was shaken at this time. At this time, the cavalry team personally led by Li Zicheng suddenly stood up, and suddenly appeared in the place where the bow and arrow were attacked, and the sudden cavalry raid was only a dozen seconds or so to kill the enemy battle line that had signs of complete collapse.

Under the reasonable tactical arrangement, in the face of unseemly opponents and even undecent firearms, the role of the bow and arrow of the head of a hundred soldiers has also been exerted to the extreme.

(End of chapter)