Chapter 323: The Border Army Under the City

Within thirty paces, almost when the bow and arrow could exert its maximum power, these bows were not the kind of junkies that the coast had weakened and softened due to moisture.

The horses have no armor, the riders have no armor, and they are already running at high speeds, and the two high-speed collisions are even more tragic. After the soldiers in the first row finished firing, regardless of their results, they turned their heads and ran towards the back, and the archers in the second row fired their bows and arrows again.

Even if the horse team that smells the knife is shot by the dense rain of arrows, but after all, there is still inertia, as long as the horse team in the first row can run thirty steps and break away from the queue of archers, the rest of the horse team rushes in, it is still very effective, no one thought that those soldiers who ran in front of the official army array scattered in front of the army were archers, and they were obviously extremely skilled archers, when the second wave of arrow rain came over, the horse team that smelled the knife was already in chaos, and the horses that were shot rushed forward by inertia for more than a dozen steps, Then he fell to the ground.

The horse team behind received a second wave of arrows, and the horses that had been urgently slowing down were tripped over the corpses of the horses that had fallen to the ground in front of them.

Now the horse team that smelled the sword could no longer form a situation of impact, and the archers of the Ming army parted to both sides without looking back.

The brigade of the official army still has no formation to speak of, the drums in the formation sounded, the soldiers standing there all looked indifferent, heard the drums, shouted loudly, raised the weapons in their hands and rushed up, the fifteen hundred horses who smelled the knives, the sharp arrows only fell three or four hundred horses, and the rest of the knights still had the ability to fight, but they couldn't rush up at such a close distance.

However, the cavalry had a condescending advantage after all, but these Ming troops were not afraid at all, and just rushed up with the long and short weapons in their hands.

The soldiers of the horse team saw the officers and soldiers rushing over, although their mouths were shouting, but there was not much excitement on their faces, and they maintained such indifference in the battle, the soldiers of the horse team had only seen the most elite two hundred people around Liu Shisan, this kind of attitude of fighting and fighting as work, and fighting without fear was the real strong soldier.

The cavalry that could not be attacked was the target of the foot soldiers, three or four men surrounded a group of horses, and the axe hand used the shield to strike the first blow of the cavalry, and the cavalry had not yet recovered its weapons and had been stabbed on the body by two or three weapons. simply cleaned up and dismounted, and the two sides fought.

The horse team that did not die in the rain of arrows had already lost more than half of them, and the rest were broken, and rushed towards Liu Shisan's large array behind them.

Liu 13 rode in the center of the big array, following the foot soldiers to move slowly towards the front, he saw that his 1,000-5 white horse team seemed to be put down by the wheat cutter, and his heart suddenly trembled fiercely, and the next one saw the remnants of four or five hundred routs running back.

He knew that if he allowed these cavalry to rush over, his large array would probably collapse except for two thousand iron armor, and thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered loudly:

"If the rout approaches, shoot and kill!!"

The rout riders who ran out were full of desire to return to their own formations to rest, and no one thought that after approaching the formation, there were immediately throwing guns, and the soldiers in the formation shouted 'Disturb the formation, shoot and kill', while attacking mercilessly, there were still daring to stay, only a few people were smart, and rode around the big formation.

Liu 13 issued an order loudly, and his own soldiers quickly passed on his orders, now what he has to do is to keep the formation out of order, and slowly press over, if it is broken, I am afraid that he will have to explain here, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side did not continue to charge after solving the horse team, the drums on the opposite side have become rhythmic, and they are also slowly pressing towards the rebels.

A personal soldier who had given the order in front ran to Liu Shisan's side and said with a crying voice:

"The third master didn't come back......"

Hearing this, Liu Shisan's eyes were dark, and he almost fell off the horse, but fortunately, the guards around him quickly supported him, after Liu Shisan calmed down, he pushed away the guards around him to support, at this time he could not disturb the morale of the army, he took a deep breath, pulled out his waist knife, and shouted:

"Break Jining today, open the city for three days!"

Originally, Liu Shisan disdained to use this kind of bandit attitude to motivate his subordinates, but it seems that the official army in front of him is not the official army of Shandong's guard at all, and this level of strength may not be able to catch up even with the three guards in Xuzhou.

In the Ming army formation on the opposite side, there are more than 100 knights in the position of the boss, and a few people in the middle are wearing similar to Liu Shisan's personal soldiers, that is to say, they are still wearing iron armor, and the surrounding guards are all leather armor, but there are two bosses.

One of them, with a full beard and a very rough appearance, looked at the other side and laughed, and said loudly:

"Lao Lou, I can't see that these thieves still have some dry goods, damn, there are more than a thousand horses, I heard that there are iron armor, this battle is also good, stronger than Tartar."

The other person's face was wrinkled with ravines and wrinkles, dark and swarthy, and he was also relatively short and fat, looking like an old peasant, even if the clothes and armor on his body were the same as those of the general who spoke loudly, he still couldn't see any mighty appearance, but he spoke in a Jiaodong tone:

"Brother Han, I haven't been back to my hometown for more than 20 years, I didn't expect that there would be such scourges behind the Liu family, these thieves don't want to leave today!"

The bearded man known as Brother Han put away his smile, nodded and said:

"Some doorways, it's not messy, it's pressed over, pass it on, and our horse team should go out and shine brightly."

The two of them were talking and laughing here, but the surrounding soldiers and heralds were awe-inspiring to obey the order, and after hearing this, one of the soldiers immediately hugged his fists and agreed, leaned over and said:

"The commander of the Han army will order."

The Ming army is now here is the two border armies of Jizhen and Xuanhua, the bearded man is Han Cai, the chief military officer of Jizhen, and Lou Yaohua, the deputy general of Xuanhua, who looks like an old peasant, Jizhen sent 6,000 troops, and Xuanhua sent 4,000 troops to Jining in Tongzhou directly using the grain ships transported by Cao, and arrived in Jining three days earlier than Liu Shisan.

The border army is the strongest, and the generals of the border army did not take the rebels in their eyes at all, but Jining's Caoyun Yamen was bold, and they did not dare to let this army leave Jining no matter what. In the past few days of marching, the movements of Liu Shisan's troops have been clearly investigated by the border army's probes, and those people have been fighting in the border and Tartar all year round.

They are all elite soldiers who have fought old battles, naturally they are not comparable to newcomers like Liu Shisan, and the rebels' horse exploration is extremely ineffective, but the border army's horse exploration has almost found everything that should be detected.

So today's border army directly outside the city to set up a position and Liu 13 to fight, there is a saying in the art of war that is said indiscriminately, "know yourself and know the enemy, a hundred battles will not be defeated", the situation is already very clear, and now the rebels do not know that the Ming army that is fighting with them is the army there, and the consequences can be imagined.

The brigades of the two sides slowly approached, and there was a desolate horn sound in the formation of the official army, and the scattered foot soldiers in front of the official army parted like a tide, giving way to a few passages, and a large number of horses galloped out, and the horse team of the official army was about to attack, and Liu Shisan's team was already a little flustered.

But to deal with the cavalry charge, Liu Shisan's team is also quite experienced, when a few sounds, the team has stopped moving, waiting for the impact of the cavalry, seeing the movement of Liu Shisan's large array, it is already quite orderly, and the two border generals watching there also secretly praised good.

The spearmen in the two or three rows behind the rebels were already ready, and waited for the horse team to approach the main formation, but they did not expect the horse team of the official army to gallop and stop at a distance of about fifty paces from the large formation, and the knights on the horses turned over and dismounted, and one of the ten horses was left to hold the reins

The rest of the people quickly stood in a row in front of the horses, these people were archers, the formation of the rebels was already a little confused at this time, and the distance of throwing wooden spears was only thirty paces at most, and it was already too late.

The archers who came down immediately from the official army were obviously not the first to do this, and they were extremely quick to complete the action of opening the bow and setting up the arrows, which was slightly too high, and with a shout, the arrows had already been shot out, and the rebel soldiers at the front were all young and strong, although they were already some soldiers after simple training.

But when the rain of arrows poured down in front of them, no one could keep their composure, and they fled one after another to the back or on both sides, and after the dismounted officers and archers had fired the first arrow, if the opponent's foot soldiers came out in pursuit, they would immediately get on their horses and leave.

If there is such a chaos now, they also have a way to deal with it, shoot the second arrow, slowly move forward a few steps, and the second arrow is shot again, and the cavalry pulling the horse behind also follows forward.

This is the method learned by the border army and the Mongolian Tartars, the so-called horseback archery can not maintain stability at all, it can only be dismounted and archery, the Mongols have been like this, the border army is also completely copied, one of the ten people holds the horse for the horse stake, and after shooting, he gets on the horse and leaves, and keeps moving.

Liu 13 has already sent a team of supervisors, these people mercilessly slashed and fled and routed the soldiers, the reaction was still a step slower, after the officers and soldiers fired six volleys, after the rebels came out of the formation, the archers of the officers and soldiers scattered on both sides of the horses, after this round of archery, the rebel front line has fallen nearly 2,000 people, and the morale is extremely low.

Lou Yaohua, the deputy general of Xuanhua, and Han Cai, the chief soldier of Jizhen on the side, nodded and said with a smile:

"Brother Han, we won this battle!"

When facing the pro-soldiers, Lou Yaohua's expression was already awe-inspiring, and he said loudly:

"Pass the general's order, the whole army will attack!"

"Sons, kill thieves today to serve the country!!"