Chapter 584: The Battle of the Dead

The officers at the forefront of the Ming army passed down the order, the archers began to slowly open their bows, and the soldiers who operated the firearms were desperately blowing the paper media in their hands to keep the heat hot, and when the time came, it was good to ignite and launch, in this kind of battle formation, bows and arrows were fired within seventy steps.

Because the quality of the firearms was not high, the firearms of the Ming army were closer, so they only began to make the last steps before launching at this time, which was the pace judgment of the Huazhou army on the opposite side, and it was not long before they came to the front. Suddenly, the drums stopped, and the officers over there shouted:

"Stop!"

But the advance of the Huazhou Northern Army suddenly stopped, and there were still one hundred and fifty paces to go. A man who looked like an officer stepped out of the ranks, with a knife resting on his shoulder, strode ten steps, standing still, one out of every fifty people, and stood in front of him.

The Liao Zhen soldiers had already formed a formation, and when they saw this situation, because they couldn't go out of the formation, they were still there watching, not knowing what the other party was doing.

"Fire, out of the ranks!"

The officers of the Huazhou Army shouted loudly, and the firecrackers in the array ran out in small steps, and lined up in a line one step behind the officers, with fifty people in each row, forming six rows.

In the large array of Liaozhen soldiers, I saw that the other party was holding a firecracker, but there was nothing to worry about, Liaozhen also had similar equipment, but the range was very poor, and the pipe diameter was very thin, it was easy to explode, and the lead shot iron bullets used were very small, and the power was not worth mentioning.

Seeing the other party's firecrackers, many archers of the Ming army were secretly gritting their teeth, thinking that they would shoot you rebels and thieves later.

It didn't take too long, and the officers who had been out of the column before began to run towards the formation of the Liao Zhen soldiers, and the people here were stunned, thinking, how many of you are going to rush into battle with short knives, when they were about one hundred and ten steps away from the Ming army, there were already people in the Ming army's formation who couldn't help but shoot arrows.

However, at such a distance, even if the arrows can be shot, they have no power, and they are crookedly inserted in front of those officers, and there are some firearms that can't help but be fired, which are not worth mentioning, and the distance of a hundred steps cannot be crossed at all, and the voice of the officers reprimanded in the Ming army's array.

This also shows that the Liaozhen Military Committee in front of the Huazhou Army is really a strong soldier in the world, according to Yang Shi's battle experience near Zhangzhou, especially at the beginning of the battle with the soldiers of the Ming army in those places, it is said that the two sides are hedged, and when there are still 200 steps away, the firearms of the Ming army are not divided into batches and messy brains, at best, they are smoky, and there is no other lethality at all, one is to show that the quality of the Ming army's firearms is not worth mentioning, and the other is to show that the will to fight is too poor, You cannot wait for the enemy to come within effective kill range before firing.

However, the Liaozhen soldiers were very well restrained, and the bows and arrows and firearms were all withheld, waiting for the Huazhou army to approach, but the range of the Huazhou firearms was not dozens of steps.

In the same place where the officers stood, the musketeers behind them lined up in a neat line to the line where the officers had determined the endpoints, and the officers looked left and right to see that the soldiers were already lined up, and the sabers in their hands swung down to the front, and the firecrackers rang out like beans.

The white smoke was filled, the roar was bursting, and there were still people in the back row of the Ming army who smiled disdainfully: What can you hit if you fight so far away! However, Huazhou's firecracker was already an effective distance of 100 steps when Chen Chong of the Holy Dao Gate did not invent particle gunpowder, and now it is even farther, and it is full of power.

The flat fire of fifty firearms, the spearmen and sword and shield men in front of them, as if they were all smashed down by a sledgehammer, suddenly fell to the ground, and the Liaozhen soldiers and archers standing behind them saw that someone in front of them had fallen, and they didn't care what effective distance there was, so they panicked and shot the arrows directly.

It was so far away, and it was a mess, and there was no more accuracy, but some people didn't even fire their bows and arrows, and the fifty men in the first row turned their heads and ran away in both directions, regardless of the accuracy, but they never crossed the line where the officers stood, and turned back to the line of the gunners to reload their ammunition and prepare for the next round of shooting.

The second and third rows took turns to keep up with the firing, and in a short time, three hundred guns were quickly fired, and the men in the first row had already finished loading their ammunition during this rotation and began to shoot again. This kind of high-density and high-frequency shooting has very high requirements for both the gunner and the gunner.

Therefore, the Huazhou Northern Army only carried out three rounds and began to return to the team, but these three rounds, the effect of 900 lead shots is extremely amazing, if someone watches in mid-air, you can see that the formation of the Liao Zhen soldiers seems to have been cut into it by something.

The huge gap was concave in an instant, and the soldiers on both sides of this notch watched the people around them splash blood on their chests one by one, and fell down on their backs, as if harvesting wheat, this power and sound shocked everyone, and the Ming army from Li Liang to the officers below could not say a word.

Those at the front can endure this kind of depression and fear, a distance of about one hundred and ten steps, their own side is helpless, they can't hit each other, but they are harvested by the other party.

The officers of the Liaozhen soldiers also forgot to restrain them, and there was no way to restrain them, and the formation of the soldiers was already chaotic at this moment, some charged to the front, and some ran to the back.

At this time, the Huazhou Northern Army and the Ming Army turned over, the Huazhou Northern Army was arranged, where they were coldly waiting for the Ming Army who rushed over, the Liao Zhen soldiers no longer had the composure just now, and the people who fled were shouting in panic, and the people who rushed over were roaring, as if they were crazy.

The large and small officers in the Huazhou Northern Army array began to give orders, and the ranks of the Huazhou Army began to move forward, moving one step at a time, and the spearmen calibrated each other not to advance or retreat.

The scattered Liaozhen soldiers were already within fifty paces, and there was a loud "buzz" sound, and in the queue of the three rows in front of the Huazhou army, countless bows and arrows were shot, and within fifty steps, as long as it was a well-maintained bow and arrow, the power could be exerted.

The Liao Zhen soldiers who rushed forward were like encountering an invisible wall, they all fell to the ground, their bodies were full of arrows, and some of them were lucky enough to rush to the front, but they were pierced through by the flat spears.

The Huazhou Northern Army took nine steps forward, stopped nine times, and the archers shot a total of nine arrows, and the Ming army that had just rushed between the two armies had already been swept away, and from the beginning of the fire to now, the Ming army had died more than a thousand.

Li Liang didn't care about guarding the center, and took his own soldiers and horses to desperately maintain the order of the military formation, he also knew that if his formation was chaotic and the other party rushed in, it would be the fate of rout and waiting for slaughter, and the cold sweat behind Li Liang at this time completely seeped out.

There is only one trick, this is clearly a strong army in a hundred battles, but the real question is, why did it suddenly come to the front, what did this army do in the past, why no one knew.

The officers of the Ming army had already begun to use knives to slash and kill those soldiers who fled, but they had maintained the formation, and the northern Huazhou army over there had already stopped advancing, and the archers shot nine arrows in a row.

The two sides returned to the situation of confrontation again, at this time the distance of ninety paces, the northern army of Huazhou did not even have blood on their bodies, the Ming army on the opposite side no longer had a calm color, their eyes revealed fear, and the archers in the front were either squeezed to other places in the confusion of the square, or were killed by the rapid muskets and bows.

Li Liang's breathing didn't feel heavy, and he turned his head and shouted with the people around him:

"The brother on the horse will go to the front with me, today's battle, if you don't rush, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back to see my father and mother, come with me!"

Seeing the leading generals say such words, the morale of the soldiers below was also improved, the generals at all levels and the pro-soldiers were desperately cheering up the people around them to fight, the horse team of the two guards and horses began to gather slowly, this horse team was originally placed in the middle of the formation by Li Liang, and it was simple to concentrate, and the garrison of the foot soldiers and the soldiers in front of the horse team began to disperse.

However, this process is not over, I heard the drums of the Huazhou Northern Army began to beat, this time the drum has no rhythm, just rushed, as if there is no gap, until now, Liaozhen knows what this drum must represent, although life and death are imminent, but I still pondered it in my heart.

Immediately, they knew that the weapons of the Huazhou Northern Army, which had always maintained a formation, were flattened, and they let out a shout in unison, and rushed towards this side.

The pikemen of the Liao Zhen soldiers all died under the shooting arrows just now, and the knife and axe men behind saw the opponent's eight-foot-nine-foot spear, as if it was a steel jungle, and there was still the spirit to fight, even if they wanted to fight, how to fight, to cut the spear pole, the iron sleeve on it was nearly a foot, and they were stabbed to death first if they couldn't cut it.

The Ming army in front of him was defeated, and at this time, Li Liang's outlaw temperament was stimulated, he just asked the cavalry in front to drive the foot soldiers away, making room for himself to impact, and wait a moment to confront the foot soldiers in Huazhou, and see who can crush whom!

At this moment, I heard the soldier on his left shouting loudly, and his voice was full of despair:

"Huazhou's horse team has rushed into battle!!" ……

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