Chapter 238: Battle? Exercise?

Although the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress were all violent, the chaotic and noisy formation was not much stronger than that of the young men who were coerced by the horse team. After seeing a lot, whether it is Chen Deaf's horse team or even those cannon fodder who were captured, there is no fear of it.

But this time it was different, the four squares and the slowly marching horse team gradually approached, and there was no loud shouting of courage and pretending to be ferocious, just moving forward step by step under the beat of the drums. Speaking of which, I haven't seen officers and soldiers for a long time.

The young men who were preparing to attack the city were shouted to face the Dengzhou battalion approaching in the direction of the back, and these cannon fodder saw the officers and soldiers approaching, and began to show signs of panic, and the old brothers under Chen Deaf were all standing in the front of the team, leading the riders to shout loudly.

used whips, even knives and guns to force cannon fodder forward, Chen Deaf claimed to focus on the overall situation, and this overall situation is naturally Chen Deaf himself, who is now quite valuable. At Wen Dao's suggestion, the most elite 200 cavalry were protected by his side, and the rest of the cavalry of more than 1,000 people stood at the forefront according to the previous formation.

Some of the current Qingzhuang already have a little concept of war, Chen Deaf selected some people with Orion experience, and sent bows and arrows and strong bows to these people, because there were not many bows and arrows left, so even the Orions in Qingzhuang were about a hundred.

However, each temporary archer can only have seven or eight feathered arrows, which is also Wen Dao's suggestion, saying that the horse team is a full-time charge, and setting up archers is more helpful to cover the battle.

The treatment of these more than 100 archers is still good compared to other young men who are cannon fodder, so the battle is also quite hard, according to the method arranged by Wendao and Chen Deaf's men, the archers first stood in the front row, and according to the distance approaching by Jiang Feng's troops, it should be possible to fire five arrows.

This is also the maximum limit that these people who have no professional training and have not opened any strong bows can do.

When the horse team and cannon fodder young men under Chen Deaf looked at the number of troops on the opposite side, which was equivalent to one-fifth of their own, their courage gradually grew.

And when he clearly saw his archers standing in a row, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side had already stopped, which was obviously frightened - at least they thought so.

Four small cannons were pushed up from behind, these cannons were not heavy, they were themselves Francs on a brig, and if they were calculated according to the specifications of Western guns, they were so-called one-pound guns.

Jason Hogan once said that the archers who were once majestic on the European battlefield were gradually expelled from the battlefield, and there is still a lot of gap between the range of the arquebus in Europe and the longbow of some specifications, but it is still gradually eliminated, for no other reason, the appearance of artillery is the decisive reason.

Jiang Feng's workshops in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain can cast cannons under three pounds, but Jiang Feng, a traverser who wants to do it in one step, always feels that the role of this kind of small cannon is too small, so he has been asking the craftsmen to buy two three-pound cannons according to the heavy money to see if there can be a lighter cannon that is more suitable for land to be cast.

The reason why I came out with these four small cannons this time was just to see how effective the Western cannons were, speaking of which, Jiang Feng and they also had more than a dozen tiger squat cannons, anyway, it was more convenient for the big cart, so they brought them out together this time.

Each cannon is controlled by four people, because the weight is not too large, so the speed of loading and firing is quite fast, "Teng" "Teng" a few muffled sounds, and the lead bullet whistled towards the opposite crowd.

To be honest, the mobs under Chen Deaf on the opposite side didn't know that there was such a thing as artillery, the muzzle velocity of a one-pound cannon was not fast, and the trajectory of the lead bullet could be seen with the naked eye, but there was no place for movement in the queue, whether it was the horse team and the young men.

The result was very simple: flesh and blood, stumps and broken arms.

The archers standing at the front did not adjust the angle of the artillery accurately, and they did not compare it at all, but the tragic scene behind them was clearly seen by them, of course, it was not so much a miserable image, but rather a shock, you can't expect a pound of metal projectiles to cause too amazing damage.

But it was enough for these rebel mobs who had not seen such power, the chaos behind was not over, the second round of shells that had adjusted the angle had already been smashed, and one shot did not go out because of the twist, but the archers standing in the front row were directly swept away by the shells.

Seeing the miserable situation of his companions, the archers standing at the front instantly had a nervous breakdown, and they all ran to the sides or behind without their lives, even if the knights on the horse team slashed with large swords, it was useless at all.

Chen Deaf looked at the back, although he was frightened by the shooting of a few small cannons, but in the end, he also led the cottage to fight a tough battle, seeing such a situation, he knew that if he let the other party shoot, I was afraid that the collapse of the entire team would be in front of him, and he couldn't help shouting:

"Rush over and crush them!"

The cannon fodder people standing behind the horse team were already a little restless, but there were knights on horseback staring at them in front and behind, and they didn't dare to make any changes.

Dozens of old brothers from Chen Deaf at the front, where they urged their horses one after another, rushed towards the formation of the Dengzhou camp, and more than a thousand horses rumbled on the hard ground in winter, and the sound and momentum caused by them were also extraordinary.

The bandits all held their swords in their hands and shouted loudly, and the officers and soldiers they saw faced such a scene, even when they were outnumbered, their positions quickly collapsed, and then they pursued and slashed behind.

Among Jiang Feng's four squares, an iron ding standing on the left side, now he is the leader of this team, squinted at the cavalry in front of him, and said loudly:

"One inch, ignition!"

The four teams slowly retreated ten steps under the guidance of the drums that changed the rhythm behind them, which was even more proof of timidity in the eyes of the horse team under Chen Deaf who was chasing over, and urged the horses one after another to speed up the speed.

More than a dozen black iron pipes with the thickness of a fist were supported ten steps in front of the Dengzhou battalion team, and more than a dozen sword and shield hands ran out, and they lit the medicine twist of about an inch, turned around and ran into the array.

The cavalry brigade approached quickly, and when the one-inch gunpowder twist burned out, the team was less than ten steps away from the black iron pipes, and the sound of ammunition being discharged rang out in a row, and the knight at the front was suddenly beaten and covered in blood, and was directly lifted off the horse.

The Tiger Squat Cannon was one of the least powerful artillery fire of the Ming army, with an effective distance of only twenty paces, and it was all firing gravel, iron sand, broken porcelain and the like.

The Dengzhou battalion is not short of money, so the ammunition of this tiger squat cannon is also relatively luxurious, such as all the crushed iron sand, such as soaking iron sand with arsenic, of course, under the high temperature of gunpowder, it is not certain what the effect of these poisons is.

However, the iron sand within ten steps is still quite powerful, and more than a dozen tiger squat cannons were fired together, forming a high-speed flying iron sand death curtain wall in the area of about five steps in front of them, and at this moment, the knights, people and horses who rushed to the front were almost beaten into a sieve.

Although the people who followed closely behind were frightened, but the horses had completely run, and they could not contain the momentum at all, so they could only continue to rush towards the front.

As long as they can rush into the phalanx in front of them, the infantry is a pig and sheep to be slaughtered.

However, it was not pigs and sheep that appeared in front of these horse teams, but iron walls, and the first row of spearmen were already half-crouching, holding the spears in their hands on the ground, holding the handles of their guns with both hands, and their feet firmly stepping on the tail of the spears below.

The soldiers in the back two rows were in the same position as the first row, except that they were holding their spears on the shoulders of the man in front of them, layer upon layer, in a steel hedgehog-like formation.

There were also standing men in the square, arquebusiers. Although the horses were running at a rapid pace, looking at the steel-spiked jungle in front of them, they instinctively wanted to turn. However, the huge inertia was already too late for them to do so, and the knights and horses who were lucky enough to escape the fire of the tiger squat cannon were spears through the jungle.

What followed was a series of dense popping sounds, with two squares facing the horse team. Nearly three hundred and fifty muskets took turns firing at the rushing horse team in front of them, and the targets of men and horses were within thirty paces, and the arquebuses did not need to be aimed at all.

Taking turns pouring ammunition on the most leather-clad mounted bandits, the arquebusiers had no worries about the cavalry rushing over, the spearmen had already provided them with a steel barrier!

The horse team seemed to be rushing towards the reef, constantly impacting, constantly being shattered, and the reef was unharmed.

People neighed and horses roared, smoke filled the air, and the entire battlefield was filled with the place where Chen Deaf's horse team and the Dengzhou battalion phalanx were engaged, and the rest were silent, this tactic similar to fighting with hot weapons deeply shocked the mob, they were surprised at the beginning, then scared, then fearful, and finally desperate.

Finally charging the horse team, the knights behind were able to control their speed and horses, away from the line full of death. The smoke from the gunpowder was blown away by the cold wind, creating a clearing thirty paces away in front of the line, littered with corpses and flesh.

The Dengzhou battalion team is still as immobile as a mountain!!