Zhang Zongling's heart has always been unhappy, after he led his troops to the west, he always failed to meet a large-scale enemy, nor did he occupy a strategically important place, so his name has not been named the name of the city, which makes him very anxious with the best results in the first phase of the martial arts. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor said that he would only fight to the east of the Ural Mountains, but now that he has crossed this limit, it is impossible to penetrate the whole of Europe, and the opportunities for his own meritorious service are becoming less and less, and the opportunities for naming cities after his own are becoming more and more slim.

Now that the Rakshasa attack had overjoyed him, his troops had all been reloaded with rear-loading firearms. The reloading speed of the rear-loading guns has been greatly increased, but the power has not decreased, and according to the estimates of the General Staff, the combat power has increased by 40% or even more than the original. So he was full of confidence and insisted that he be the second striker, closely following the Cossack cavalry to attack the Rakshasas.

The commander of the 1st Cossack Division, Vasily Ivanovich Chabaev, who took the Han name Xia Boyang after naturalization, said to Zhang Zongling when he retreated: "The firepower of the Rakshasas is more troublesome, although our cavalry killed more than 5,000 of them, but the two divisions also lost 3,000 people, and Division Commander Zhang should pay special attention to their artillery, which is very powerful." ”

Zhang Zongling held his hand and said, "Cossack brothers, rest first, and then let the Rakshasa people know what the real artillery is." ”

According to the Cossacks, the Ming army easily found the artillery positions of the Rakshasas, and the Rakshasas learned the concentrated tactics of the Swedish artillery in the confrontation with the Swedes, and placed the artillery densely, causing covering fire in front and causing greater damage to the Cossack cavalry. Fortunately, the Cossack cavalry was light cavalry and acted more flexibly, and even then, the battle losses amounted to more than 10%.

The artillery of the Ming army stopped a mile in front of the Rakshasa artillery position, according to the description of the Cossacks, the range of the Rakshasa artillery reached almost one mile, in order to be perfect, Zhang Zongling did not want to continue to advance and become the target of the Rakshasa artillery. After the Ming artillery set up the cannon, they began to fire solid shells to measure the range.

Yes, now the solid bullet is only left with the role of ranging, and the commander of the Ming artillery team looked at the landing point with a telescope and shouted: "Raise it one more foot and continue to measure the range." ”

The second shell landed in front of the Rakshasa artillery position, and as it rolled, it touched the Rakshasa artillery. The artillery commander nodded with satisfaction and said, "All the guns are raised two feet high, the target is directly ahead, and the first round of shelling is carried out." ”

The Ming army replaced the flowering shells, which were lighter than the solid bullets, which could only hit in front of the Rakshasa artillery position, while the flowering bullets hit exactly in the artillery position. The rumbling cannon was accompanied by a fierce explosion, mixed with the screams of the Rakshasas, whose powder kegs were placed next to the cannons, and the flowering shells ignited the powder kegs, causing even more violent explosions.

After the Ming army finished firing three rounds of shells, the artillery positions of the Rakshasa people had been completely destroyed. After carefully confirming it in the binoculars, the artillery commander said with a smile: "It's actually quite interesting to bully a slightly stronger barbarian, better than those guys who can only hold spears and big knives." ”

Zhang Zongling said: "The infantry line up, advance slowly, kill all the enemies who dare to resist, and the complete corpses must be stabbed." "The reason for this request is because of the precedent of encountering an injured Rakshasa who fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, and then killed and injured the Ming army, so the Ming army stipulated that as long as it was not blown up beyond recognition, the corpse with a broken leg and missing a hand must be stabbed again for safety.

The Ming army formed a three-row formation and slowly moved forward. The Rakshasas on the opposite side also lined up and came this way. When the two sides were separated by more than a hundred paces, the first row of the Ming army fired, and then the second and third platoons continued to move forward, and the first platoon loaded with bullets as they walked.

The Rakshasa firearms have a shorter range and can only be fired at fifty paces. So the commander of the Ming army ordered three platoons to shoot together fifty paces ago. The first platoon fell to the ground, the second platoon was half-kneeling, the third platoon stood, and at the order of the commander, all the soldiers opened fire at the same time, and a large cloud of smoke hung between the two armies under the smoke of gunpowder.

When the Ming army fired, they stood up and began to reload, and then continued a second round of fire before the smoke had cleared. The opposite side could not be seen, and the Ming army fired the bullet according to the estimate and continued to prepare for the load.

After a while, the smoke slowly dissipated, and nearly half of the Rakshasas on the opposite side had fallen, but the other Rakshasas did not run away, and continued to walk with guns in their hands. The commander of the Ming army sighed in his heart, and gave the order to open fire again, and after the fire went off, the smoke filled the front again.

After the smoke cleared this time, the Rakshasa people on the opposite side were gone, and more corpses were added to the ground. The Ming army held the fire hammer, passed the corpse one by one, and continued to walk forward.

The firepower of the Ming army is obviously stronger than that of the Rakshasas, although the Ming army did not wear armor, but they all wore steel helmets and thick woolen military uniforms, and they still had a strong resistance to the weak and slow bullets of the Rakshasa manpower, and in addition to the head injury, the injuries in other parts would not immediately endanger life. Therefore, the Ming army has strong equipment and high morale, so it will naturally be at an advantage.

Zhang Zongling ordered the artillery with artillery to follow behind the infantry, and as long as there was a place where the enemy was relatively dense, or where there were fortifications to resist, the artillery would set up artillery and bombard the front. The total weight of these nine-pound guns is only more than 200 catties, and there are rubber wheels underneath, so it is not effortless to move, so the artillery can closely follow the infantry and become a powerful auxiliary for the infantry.

And when the cavalry of the Rakshasa people dispatched, the infantry of Houjin blocked the front, and the Mongolian cavalry followed behind the infantry to look for the flaws of the enemy army at any time.

The forward commander of the Rakshasa Army is General Zhukov, he is the most tactically powerful general among the Rakshasas, but in front of the Ming army, whose absolute strength is far stronger than the Rakshasa Army, and in front of Zhang Zongling, whose command art is not inferior to him, he can only let the Rakshasa people keep charging forward in vain, and use the lives of the Rakshasa people to give His Majesty the Tsar in the rear a chance to retreat.

After repelling the Cossack cavalry at the cost of 5,000 men, Mikhail I was very proud in his heart, because he also had Cossack cavalry in his army, and naturally knew the strength of the Cossack light cavalry. In his opinion, the most powerful in the Ming army were only these Cossacks, and against those yellow-skinned slender Tatars, the Rakshasas with big shoulders and round waists should have an advantage. I didn't want the news from the front that the Rakshasas had suffered a series of defeats, and General Zhukov had asked His Majesty the Tsar to retreat to the rear first to make room for a decisive battle between the Rakshasas and the Ming army.