Zhang Ying's idea is very simple, that is, to use the pistol in his hand to shoot or injure the opponent's war horse. In Europe, light cavalry had a very common way of fighting, that is, taking advantage of the light cavalry's mobility ability, first luring the opponent to shoot, then quickly closing in on the opponent, and then turning in front of the enemy, while launching a round of attacks with a pistol. Turn again to open the distance, reload, and do it all over again. Because in the whole process of the battle, the way of action of the cavalry is to turn in circles and circles, so some people in later generations called it pushing.

This is not a very effective way of fighting, and the success of this method of warfare depends not on one's own training, but on the opponent's lack of training. Because under normal conditions, phalanx infantry is always superior to cavalry in long-range firepower. As long as the opponent is a little calmer, not lured by the actions of the cavalry, and opens fire blindly, he can ensure that he is invincible. If the cavalry could not lure the infantry to make a mistake at a longer distance, they had to rush into the effective range of the phalanx infantry and engage the infantry with fire. Cavalrymen armed with pistols go to fight with infantry armed with rifles, isn't that looking for death? The pistols used by the cavalrymen, even if they were fired in a salvo, had an effective range of no more than a dozen paces. rushed to such a distance, it is better to simply change to heavy cavalry, directly stab with a spear, and draw a knife to cut.

The Model Army equips its light cavalry with pistols, not to play such tactics, but to have an effective means of attack when engaging enemy scout cavalry. However, because this tactic can effectively exercise the cavalry's ability to control the war horse and change the formation. Therefore, this combat method specially used to bully weak chickens, the light cavalry of the model army has really practiced it seriously.

Zhang Ying felt that now that the enemy troops had dismounted, he could naturally regard them as infantry for the time being. It's just that their war horses are still there, and even in a sense, these war horses are regarded by them as something that is almost a rejection of horses. Zhang Ying also saw the bows and arrows in the hands of those enemy soldiers. However, Zhang Ying has always despised the lethality of bows and arrows, especially the bows and arrows in the hands of the rogues. Therefore, in such a situation, that pistol grinding tactic is particularly applicable.

The bows and arrows in the hands of the Shun army mainly originated from the Ming army. Unlike Jianxuan, in the battle sequence of the Ming army, because of the existence of weapons such as birds, the main role of the bow and arrow is to use curved firepower to harass the enemy from a long distance and destroy the enemy's formation, and it is not necessary for it to provide more or less decisive damage. Therefore, the bow of the Ming army was more suitable for firing light arrows with a long range and less power. Unlike the Warriors or the Woko, they all prefer to use bows that are suitable for firing heavier arrows with more lethality. (In the Ming army.) This kind of direct shooting work is done by the firebolt. It's just that the general lack of training of the Ming army's firecrackers, coupled with the quality problems of the firearms caused by cutting corners, made my Ming firearms perform poorly in battle. ）

A large part of the weapons of the Shun army were captured by the self-Ming. Because they did not have the ability to make their own firearms, and the firecrackers captured from the Ming Dynasty were also easily damaged because of their poor quality. So, one link in their long-range firepower is missing. Bows and arrows often have to provide direct fire that should be provided by firecrackers in the Ming Dynasty. However, bows and arrows designed for long-range curved shooting suffer from a serious lack of lethality. Even at a close distance, the light arrows fired from the bows in the hands of the Shun army were still not enough to penetrate even the half-length armor of the light cavalry, and could only inflict damage on the non-vital parts of their bodies that lacked armor protection.

Zhang Ying asked the cavalry to line up in a column, and he was at the front, slowly approaching Li Zicheng and them, and gradually accelerated. Because he despised the power of the bow and arrow in Shunjun's hand, he even deliberately slowed down his speed in exchange for better shooting conditions. The horse team gradually approached Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng slowly pulled his bow out and aimed at Zhang Ying, who was rushing to the front. shouted from his mouth: "Don't panic, wait for me to shoot, you will shoot again!" At the moment when Zhang Ying pulled the reins and began to turn to the left, Li Zicheng let go of the bowstring, and an arrow shot towards Zhang Ying with a whistling.

Li Zicheng is not a marksman. But he knew a secret to how to get his arrows right. That is, the closer you are to the enemy when shooting, the better. Li Zicheng's arrow was shot at Zhang Ying's right arm, because Zhang Ying's face and chest were blocked by the head and neck of the war horse. But because of Zhang Ying's turn, the arrow was shot into the air.

However, this arrow did not completely miss, Zhang Ying's turn gave way to the cavalry that was originally blocked by him. The arrow landed straight at his right arm.

The hussar's arm was not protected by armor, and the arrow suddenly made the cavalryman's arm unable to lift. But this is not a fatal wound, as long as you go back and bandage it a little, it won't be long before you are a good man again. It's just this arrow, but for the time being, Zhang Ying lost a flintlock pistol.

Immediately after Li Zicheng's arrow, the guards also shot feather arrows one after another, but these arrows, as Zhang Ying estimated, did not cause much damage. However, Zhang Ying didn't care about these at this time, he raised the flintlock pistol in his right hand, and tried his best to aim at the Shunjun war horse that was only seven or eight steps away from him on the bumpy horse.

"Bang!" Shots rang out, and a puff of white smoke came out of the barrel. When Zhang Ying saw the war horse neighing wildly, he spread his legs, rushed forward a few steps, and then fell to the ground. Zhang Ying knew that his shot did not hit the vital point of the horse, and the horse just lost its strength when it fell. But he didn't care about that, his flintlock musket could still shoot once. Zhang Ying continued to slow down, quickly found the next target, and fired another shot at it.

After firing this shot, Zhang Ying began to urge the war horse to accelerate. At this time, Li Zicheng and his guards shot another round of feather arrows.

Zhang Ying led his cavalry to distance himself again, counted the number of people, and all of them were there, but several of them were injured. Two of them were hit by arrows in their arms and four were hit by arrows in their legs. But this is not the point, and no one will die. And with the exception of the two who were shot in the arm, the injuries of the others did not even affect the battle. After all, they are cavalry and don't use their legs very well. The cavalrymen took out a small pair of scissors from a small pocket hanging from the side of their saddles and cut off the shafts of the arrows. As for the arrows, these arrows are all barbed, but they can't be made all at once, so we can only wait until the battle is over and go back to the doctor to deal with it. However, the shaft of the arrow had to be cut immediately. Otherwise, with the movement of the horses and the blowing of the wind, the shaft of the arrow will shake, and the arrows will stir in the muscles, greatly increasing the suffering of those who are struck by the arrows.

After a brief treatment of the arrow wounds, the riders began to reload their pistols. In the last round of shooting, they hit three of the warhorses of the Shun army. At such a distance, the lethality of the pistol far exceeded that of the bow and arrow, and one of the horses they struck went berserk because of the pain, broke free of control, and ran away. Two of them fell to the ground, and although they did not die, it was impossible for them to run on their backs again.

As long as there are two more rounds like this, Li Zicheng and they will lose all their war horses. And once they lost all their horses, it was completely impossible for them to escape.

"Your Majesty, there are only ...... now," a guard suddenly said to Li Zicheng.

……

Zhang Ying had already reloaded, he put the muzzle of the gun up, blew inside, and then looked around, and when everyone else had finished reloading the pistol, he waved his hand to them: "Let's go and kill those rogues and end this troubled world!" Then he grabbed the horse's belly between his legs and rushed out first.

The Shun army's means of resistance were no different from the last time, so everyone's results were not too similar. On Zhang Ying's side, four more people were shot, but none of the injuries were serious, and they did not affect the continuation of the battle.

On Li Zicheng's side, their losses were slightly larger than in the previous round, and three of their horses were hit and wounded, completely losing their combat effectiveness. There was also a warhorse, frightened without being hit, broke free from the rider's grasp and ran straight to the west.

The remaining Shun army still behaved very tenacious, and they continued to withstand Zhang Ying's two rounds of attacks, constantly returning fire with bows and arrows, until they lost all their horses, they still stubbornly refused Zhang Ying's persuasion to surrender, brandished their swords, fought with cavalry on foot, and held out until they all died. And the light cavalry were all wounded, even Zhang Ying, who was slashed in the leg.

"Damn, these guys are tough. There must be big fish in there! Concentrate them ...... Get up and bring it back to find someone...... Get...... Recognize it! "A cavalryman was helping Zhang Ying bandage his wound to stop the bleeding, and his technique may have been a little rougher, making it difficult for Zhang Ying to speak.

The soldiers gathered the bodies and prepared to take them back. At this time, Zhang Ying had already bandaged the wounds on his legs, he looked at the corpses and asked, "How many are there?" ”

One of the soldiers counted and replied, "Twelve, twelve!" ”

"That's not right!" Zhang Yingdao, "What we counted just now, there are a total of thirteen horsemen on the opposite side. Why is one missing? Count again, don't count wrong! ”

But no matter how they counted, even if Zhang Ying counted it again, the number of corpses was still twelve, which was still one less than the number of enemies they had counted before.

A spark suddenly popped out of Zhang Ying's head, and he shouted loudly: "Just now, a horse ran away just now, and that big fish must be hiding on that horse!" ”