If you look down from a high place, you can see that the performance of the bird gunners is worthy of their usual training, they are lined up in a neat horizontal formation, the front and back three columns have always maintained a reasonable distance, in the process of advancing they were shot by the archers on the mountainside and in front, on the way many archers were injured and fell, their queue remained still at all times, except for the fluctuations at the beginning there was no serious confusion, the queue was only slightly deformed, and the whole remained unchanged.

The two commanders gave orders respectively, and the captains of each flag began to calibrate their ranks, and then ordered to stop the horizontal formation.

In front of the thieves, nearly three hundred archers with bird's guns stopped.

The thieves were obviously a little stunned, they had never seen such a thing, even the big leader of the team leader was the same, he himself was also a firearm of the border army, but the firearms of the nine sides had never had such a tactic.

"Check the arquebus!"

"Open the fire door!"

"Squat in the front row!"

"Aim!"

"Hit!"

One by one, the captains of the flags took the lead in firing, and after the first sound, the two hundred and fifty-seven bird guns were fired almost simultaneously.

The distance was eighty paces, which was exactly the effective range, and everyone aimed as much as they could, except for the squatting in the front row, there was originally a three-foot gap between the second and third rows, and they only needed to avoid their companions' bird guns a little.

All the projectiles were sprayed out as soon as possible, and almost at the same time as the sound of the gun, patches of blood mist floated in the rogue team on the opposite side!

All the bird guns are almost fired, only a few accidents did not fire, and Yusheng's self-made bird guns with at least 20 catties of iron, fine iron after forging and then forging, more than 20 catties of iron into more than five catties of bird guns, impurities were beaten out, the purity of fine iron is very high, the hardness and brittleness of the gun tube are far more than the ordinary bird guns of the Ming army, the amount of charge has also increased greatly after testing, the weight of the projectile is slightly heavier than the standard bird guns of the Ming army, after the projectile accurately hits the human body, pieces of blood burst out from the human body, Then large swaths of people were knocked down, like weeds cut down by a sickle.

Some projectiles also hit the ground, stirring up large clouds of smoke and dust.

The rogues crossed after such a first shot.

The big and small leaders themselves ran first, completely ignoring the cavalry who wanted to get closer to them, and turned around and left.

Then there were ordinary thieves running after him, and the messy weapons in their hands were thrown all over the ground, and no one thought of fighting anymore.

Then everyone saw that the thieves' main formation was also in chaos, and the troupe that beat the gongs and drums dispersed first, and the gongs and drums were thrown all over the ground, and the thieves ran to the official road where they started, and the narrow official road was soon crowded with people, and everyone was crowded together, and the shoes that were stepped on were soon thrown together, and there were weapons such as wooden poles, spears, and fork targets thrown away everywhere, and some people couldn't wait to go to the official road, so they simply climbed up the mountain, and the mountain was soon crowded with ant-like bandits.

Zhang Han saw that the cavalry set off from both flanks again, chasing the thieves who had fled, he nodded, Zhu Dayong seemed to be a very experienced commander, at least very qualified at the tactical level.

He ordered the use of a mixed formation of two bureaus to disperse the rogue cavalry so that they could not regroup.

Zhang Han then ordered the bird's gunmen to dodge, and the squad of soldiers and pikemen hurried forward to chase after the rout.

Liang Xing rode a yellow horse, and after patrolling around the battlefield, he ordered: "Each bureau will pick some recruits who have not been on the battlefield to come out and clean up the battlefield along the way." ”

More than 100 people were singled out and marched along the battlefield, and there were many thieves killed and wounded along the way, most of the corpses were horrifying, and most of the undead were seriously wounded, dying on the ground.

Zhang Chunniu was singled out, in fact, he had already carried out several combat missions and had quite a lot of war experience, but his flag captain Sun Yao thought that his personality was "too soft", in fact, he felt that he was too slippery, and it was his turn to perform this glorious task.

The brigade continued to move forward mightily, Zhang Chunniu and his companions continued to move forward, the pikemen held their weapons, and the bird gunners put down the bird guns in their hands and moved forward with the short knives they were allotted.

A thief in his thirties appeared in front of Zhang Chunniu, this person was hit in the abdomen by lead bullets, his intestines flowed all over the ground, and the smell of blood rushed to his nose. ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Chunniu was startled, the scene in front of him had made him feel disgusting, a burst of discomfort, he had fought a few times on the grassland, killed some horse thieves from afar, and the other party retreated and walked away, they did not go to collect the corpse, the corpse in front of him was hideous, he felt very uncomfortable when he looked closer, and then went up to cut the head, he hesitated and did not do it immediately.

"Hurry up!" The flag captain came over and kicked Zhang Chunniu and scolded: "Who is your flag captain, how can you bring out such a useless guy." ”

A short pikeman next to him held his spear and stabbed a dying thief, hitting the other party in the throat, and the blood sprayed one of them high, splashing the little man's face, and the little man wiped his face, and continued to move forward.

"Look at people's ......"

The flag captain was still scolding, Zhang Chunniu turned his heart sideways, and used a kneeling position to go to the seriously injured thief.

"I'm not a bad person, I've been killed a lot of people in the village, and I'm going to be killed if I don't join the gang......" The injured man knew what was going to happen, and he babbled and begged for mercy.

"Brother," Zhang Chunniu felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and also felt that he had lost something in his heart forever, he pressed the blade of the short knife against the man's throat, and said in a low voice: "I eat food as a soldier, usually eat rice and noodles, and meat to eat, and I also get a lot of salary, at this time, I can't help but listen to the words of the official, and besides, I can't say that the captain of the flag is very good to me, and I can't let people cut his face......"

He whispered in his mouth, and then slowly pressed down the blade of the short knife, the blade cut through the skin, and cut the man's throat, and then cut to the bone, Zhang Chunniu spun the knife down, and cut off the head very neatly.

"Isn't this very expert, your flag captain is not bad." The flag captain who had just kicked Zhang Chunniu urged everyone to continue to move forward, constantly stabbing to death those injured thieves, and praised Zhang Chunniu at the same time.

He saw Zhang Chunniu's face pale, and said unconsciously: "Don't feel cruel, whether these guys take the initiative to be thieves or not, they are fighting against us on the battlefield, if we lose, do you think they can let us go?" Can you spare those innocent people...... Big guy, isn't that the reason? ”

"Yes, that's right!"

Everyone agreed, and the movements in their hands were a little neater.

"We are soldiers, we eat food to do this, when we do this, we think about killing people or something, we are acting according to orders, treating ourselves as a bird...... That's it! ”

At this time, even Zhang Chunniu was much better, and the captain of the flag finally patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Actually, you think you also helped him, in the blink of an eye, he didn't hurt or feel uncomfortable, his stomach and intestines were beaten out, can he still live?" It's actually a good thing to die a happy death! ”

Zhang Chunniu stopped talking, his eyes looking ahead.

The archers of the brigade kept the basic queue, and pursued the fleeing enemy at a faster pace, and the bird-gunners kept sending them away, knocking the backward thieves to the ground, and the cavalry rushed to the front from both flanks, chasing the fleeing enemy with their spears and long knives, some of the thieves had already knelt down and begged for mercy, and more people climbed the mountain, running all over the mountains.

"My lord," Wang Changfu returned to Zhang Han's side and asked, "Why didn't you use cavalry to chase the thieves' cavalry just now, I think they ran away a lot." The cavalry are all old men, and those are the essence of the thief army. ”

Zhang Han was noncommittal, and only said: "I have my own consideration for this matter, don't chase it anymore when you pursue it to the mountains, our army is in the integrity of the array, and if there is chaos, it will increase casualties." ”

Wang Changfu said: "It turns out that adults are worried about casualties, just now I watched the cavalry battle, and our cavalry really needs to be tempered." In that case, I still go to the command of the former enemy. ”

Zhang Han watched Wang Changfu continue to command, watching his subordinates pursue and flee the enemy, starting from his assassination of the leader of Lahu in the downtown area, so far he has seen a lot of life and death and war, and all the way from the grassland to Liaodong, he knows what the cruelty of the world is...... Compared with the blood and fire in Liaodong, as well as the cruelty of the natural environment brought by the snow, all this in front of me is just a small scene, and it can even be said that it is not worth mentioning. But Zhang Han was still very happy in his heart, this was the first time he had fought with a fully organized army...... said that it was an archer, in fact, Zhang Han and his subordinates knew in their hearts that this was an out-and-out army, this was Zhang Han's private army, but the performance of this private army far exceeded the regular army of the Ming army, and there may still be a gap with the Jurchens in Liaodong, but at least in terms of the performance of the archers in front of them, the chances of winning against the regular army of the Ming Dynasty are also relatively large...... With such an army in his hands, Zhang Han felt that he had a lot of confidence.

The main thing is that Zhang Han has mastered the mode of training into a strong army, and can continue to produce such an army in a streamlined manner, from one thousand to three thousand, and then to five thousand.

If he had an army of 10,000 people, not to mention Datong Town, even the Ming army Zhang Han with Xuanfu Town would not be afraid.

Similarly, through the battle in front of him, Zhang Han felt a lot of problems and areas that could be improved, and the experience on these battlefields was also very rare.

If Chang Wei's "raising a coward" is just a strategy, Zhang Han also sees more possibilities.

……

"Our army lost eleven wounded, seventeen seriously wounded, and fifty-nine lightly wounded."

Wang Changfu closed the notebook, put the hard pen into the pocket on his left chest, and scratched his head at the same time, looking relieved.

Zhang Han said: "Fortunately, you are all worthy of the book, otherwise Wang Changfu, you wouldn't be embarrassed to die." ”

Wang Changfu said: "We are not afraid of blood in battle, we are indeed afraid of doing such written things." ”

Liang Xing said on the side: "There are three hundred and ninety-one captives, the number is not much, the main reason is that they climb the mountain and run, the adults are not allowed to climb the mountain to pursue, and those who went up the mountain later did not chase." The captives were captured on flat ground. There are also some that the warrior squad and miners chased all over the land on the Duyu Ridge, and the dozens of archers are all old men among the thieves, and the strength of the thieves who catch them will be weakened a lot. ”