About three miles north of Zhailiji, a cavalry army is advancing rapidly, Zu Kefa of the Chinese army looked at the south, his face was very solemn, he didn't know if he could win this battle, but he had to take the lead.

"General!" Zu Kefa saw that a cavalry from the front army was coming quickly, and it was the scout he had sent out at the right time, and the scout arched his hand and said: "General, the enemy army is stationed in Zimudang, there are about four or five thousand people, look at the banner is Zhuang Zigu, the general soldier of Guide!" The enemy army was camped with artillery trucks and was ready for battle. "Someone came to report in detail.

"Got it!" Zu Kefa waved his hand, signaling that he understood what was going on. Although he was very calm on the surface, Zu Kefa was still a little worried in his heart, the artillery carriage was first used in the Liaodong battlefield, and he knew very well how powerful it was, but he didn't know it, because he was in command of cavalry back then, which was an infantry thing.

However, Zu Kefa is still very confident now, because almost all of Zhuang Zigu's subordinates are infantry, and he has a thousand iron cavalry, Tan Tai is behind, and Luckedhun's army is rushing to respond, and wants to use infantry to deal with cavalry on the plain, it is simply looking for abuse, even if there is a sports car, Zu Kefa does not believe that the artillery carriage has no weaknesses, and Zu Kefa is also very clear at the moment that the other party does not have any favorable terrain to take advantage of, so he used the artillery carriage to build a position.

So Zu Kefa decisively ordered and began to attack, and a group of cavalry began a tentative attack to find the weak point of the Ming army, and then they would pierce it like a sharp knife, which was the usual method of cavalry, under the command of Feng Shuangli, all kinds of long-range bows and crossbows and guns began to exert their might, and they fell in the Qing army's formation.

"Zu Kefa's guy is really battle-hardened, his subordinates are all elite, you see their means of dodging arrows, quite exquisite, it is indeed not comparable to our southern army!" Zhuang Zigu stood on a high place and looked at the battlefield in the distance, although their guns began to wield, but the other party's losses were minimal, Zhuang Zigu also secretly admired Zu Kefa. Originally, Zu Kefa had just arrived, Zhuang Zigu thought that he would take a break and observe the arrangement on his side before he started attacking, and he didn't want him to start attacking so soon, which made Zhuang Zigu a little surprised, but now it seems that they have the strength to dare to do this.

"Array, charge me!" With Zu Kefa's order, a thousand iron horsemen divided into ten teams and galloped, the Qing army drove their horses to the Ming army camp not far away, thousands of people like ten sharp arrows to the south, the ground suddenly trembled violently, all kinds of grass clippings, soil flying, practice a small clod of soil began to beat. Few people in the Ming army have seen the scene of a large-scale cavalry assault, and the recruits who have little combat experience have begun to turn a little pale.

"Put!" As the opponent's cavalry has entered the range of artillery, Zhuang Zigu roared, and the artillery began to be powerful from the center of the camp to the surrounding areas, falling in the Qing army's formation, forming a certain lethality, but the Qing army's war horses were all trained, fearless of artillery fire, and continued to run wildly in the sa girl, waiting for them to approach, but also put the bow and arrow and musket in their hands to fight back against the Ming army.

The powerful bows and crossbows, as well as the muskets, flew like a drizzle towards the armies on the opposite side. The screams came and went, I have to say that in the firepower of the artillery truck, Zhuangzi is very good, under his arrangement, the first wave of the Qing army's offensive did not even hit the side of the Ming army, it has already retreated, and let the Qing army leave dozens of people, although such casualties have made Zu Kefa shocked.

Regardless of the casualties of his subordinates, Zu Kefa roared angrily: "Go up with me again!" "The rest of the cavalry did not turn back, they knew the way back after the catastrophe, and the opponent's first round of attacks passed, according to common sense, the second round of attacks must wait until the reload before the test shot, these times, enough time to run in front of them, as long as they get close, these Ming army's crossbowmen and musketeers can only become the soul of their own sabers.

"General, the enemy is rushing up!" The adjutant general next to Zhuang Zigu also changed his face when he saw this situation, although Zhuang Zigu also placed shield soldiers and horse rejecting rifles in the front row, but once it was entangled head-on with this first wave of enemies, the follow-up troops of the Qing army would continue to keep up, and the pressure would be great.

According to common sense, now Zhuang Zigu can only rely on the infantry, relying on the cover of artillery vehicles to resist the opponent, but how can the Ming army resist the cavalry of the Qing army? Moreover, Zhuang Zigu knew the strategy of military affairs, how could he rely on such conventional means to confront the Qing army alone?

I saw Zhuang Zigu give an order: "Repeater launch!" ”

The musketeers on the periphery suddenly gave up their positions to the soldiers who rushed up behind, and then the baffles in front of hundreds of artillery carriages were all lowered, and hundreds of Ming soldiers and soldiers buckled the weapons inside-repeating crossbows, aimed at the enemy cavalry who had rushed to the front, and shot the first wave of arrow rain, and then with a simple push and pull action, the second, third, and fourth waves of arrow rain swarmed up, generally only a few dozen steps away, and half of the thousand cavalry brought by Zu Kefa had fallen, and finally there were five or six hundred people left who did not dare to be tenacious, directly turn the horse's head and run back.

"What's going on?" Zu Kefa was also taken aback when he saw his men and horses rushing to a distance of only a few dozen steps away from the opponent's position, and they were shot back by a continuous and dense rain of arrows. He couldn't figure out how there could be such a powerful arrow.

That's right, the secret weapon that Zhuang Zigu used this time was the long-lost Zhuge Repeater. This thing has been worn as early as the fall of Shu Han, although a lot of arrows and crossbows have been made in later generations, but it is still far from what is recorded in the history books, a crossbow and ten arrows are fired, and there are still people in later generations who are studying, whether it is ten crossbow arrows in a row or ten crossbow arrows in a row, but Wang Yinglong has developed a crossbow machine that can be fired ten times in a row, but the production of crossbows is extremely cumbersome, more than a year, Cao Bianjiao has spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and money alone costs tens of thousands of silver dollars, Only about 3,000 were made. All of them were sent to the army of the Yellow River eyeline, and there were more than 300 in Zhuangzigu's army, which was also to pay the cavalry of the Qing army, and Zhuangzigu hid them all in the artillery carriage and kept them as a secret weapon to deal with Zukefa's cavalry.

"Grandma's, go back with me!" Zukefa, who did not believe in evil, attacked twice more, only to drop nearly a hundred corpses each time, and then retreated in embarrassment. Zu Kefa knew now that it was really wishful thinking to rely on cavalry to break the opponent's position in one fell swoop. There are less than 300 cavalry left in the 1,000 cavalry he brought, which can be described as a heavy loss, and Zu Kefa no longer fights hard, but asks Tan Tai for help, and at the same time sends someone to report the battle situation to Luckdehun, Zhuang Zigu watched Zu Kefa stop the offensive, and knew in his heart that the other party was not not not attacking, but was thinking about other countermeasures, and was also waiting for follow-up reinforcements, and the real test was coming.

"The cavalry of the Qing army is really powerful, our army is still a step behind!" Zhuang Zigu sighed after looking at it for a long time, although since the garrison of Guide, the reorganization and training of the military horses in Yudi have not been relaxed, so that although the combat effectiveness of the military horses under his command has been greatly improved, but compared with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, it is still a step behind, they still lost more than 200 people relying on artillery vehicles, and they were basically shot and killed by the Qing army who rushed to the front, and they still fell behind in terms of combat effectiveness.