"Officers and soldiers!? That's the official army! ”

The screams of astonishment from the periphery of the battle group reached Zhang Cunmeng's ears more and more clearly, making him feel tired and desperate as never before. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

More and more Shennanyu thieves noticed the arrival of the official army.

In addition to the red standard military uniforms, the bronze cymbal-like helmets of the officers and soldiers, as well as the black cuirasses that give people an unusually hard feeling, are the distinctive features of today's Ming official army.

Such equipment and outfit made the backbone of the thieves who had been fed up with the pursuit of the cavalry of the border army in Yansui Town tremble at the sight of it.

What's more, these thieves in this place have been tossing back and forth for most of the night, and suddenly found that not far from them, such a huge army of officers and soldiers appeared, where did they still have the courage to rush forward and kill?

However, such a character still appeared after all.

Wei Daheng, who has been surrounded by Zhang Cunmeng, Wang Guozhong and others, has long had questions in his heart.

Wang Guozhong is a Zhao'an faction, and he Wei Daheng himself is a die-hard rebel who has followed Wang Er for a long time.

Therefore, he knew the inside story of Wang Guozhong's discord with Wang Er, and when he suddenly saw the arrival of the official army, he suddenly seemed to have an understanding, and soon rose up and shouted loudly:

"We've been tricked! Zhang Cunmeng and Wang Guozhong, the two anti-backbones, colluded with the officials and the army to buy the brothers! Brothers, stop fighting, and go with me to kill the officers and soldiers! ”

Wei Daheng thought that after the arrival of the official army, the "righteous army" that had been fought before would abandon their previous suspicions and quickly unite and unite with the outside world.

If this is the case, the opportunity for him to turn over will follow, so he shouted this word, and then took the lead in leading the troops who were closely guarding him to the left and right, and rushed out.

But as it turned out, he thought right about the front, but didn't expect the back.

Wei Daheng shouted, taking advantage of the gap when more and more thieves stopped fighting and stopped to watch, he quickly led the crowd to rush out of the battle group, mustered up the remaining bravery, and rushed to the officers and soldiers who were getting closer and closer.

He thought that by raising his arms and leading the way, he would be able to exchange for a steady stream of followers who shared the same hatred.

He thought that the formation of the officers and soldiers in a regular horizontal row, but extremely weak, would not be able to stop him from a concentrated assault at all.

He believed that as long as he rushed into the official army, there were still nearly 10,000 Shennanyu "rebels" behind him.

But he was wrong.

Without Wang Guozhong, Zhang Liwei, and Zhang Cunmeng's follow-up, most of the minions who had besieged Wei Daheng's department before just watched the remaining part of Wei Daheng's department rush towards the group of officers and soldiers who were lining up in a horizontal line and walking quickly.

The formation of the official army was loose, as if it was about to disperse, and some of them hated the thieves of the official government, and after reacting, although there was no order from the official, they were already eager to try, following behind Wei Daheng's men and horses, and rushed in the direction of the official army.

But all of this dissipated after the sound of muskets.

The officers and soldiers of the mining battalion have not entered the Zhuozhou battalion and have not been incorporated into the guards, but the training they have received is basically not much different from the recruits of the Zhuozhou battalion, and the longest training is neither swords, shields, bows and arrows, nor musket shooting, but a basic queue of two people in a row and three people in a row.

After months of boring training, it finally came in handy at this time, and the previous battles in which the mine camp musket team participated were relatively narrow and narrow mountain valley terrain, and the mine camp musket team walked down a hillside in front of them, and the terrain was unprecedentedly open.

Although Shennanyu is also the general landform of the mountain valley, it is much wider than the general valley, which is why it is called Yu.

Yu, of course, is a valley, but it is not comparable to ordinary mountain valleys.

Especially at this time, the musketeers of Li Pei's unit came down from the hillside and faced the relatively wide side of the thief army in the melee.

When the officers and musketeers walked down the hill in a column formation, Li Bei shouted: "The front and back are divided into two rows, one step apart from the left and right, and the formation of muskets is lined up!" ”

In the previous period of more than a year, the musket team of the officer's army and mine battalion, which had already practiced to vomit, quickly completed the front and rear two rows of a line-up formation during the march, as if it were an instinctive reaction.

Such a loose and thin formation, in the eyes of Wei Daheng's thief army, is simply a death formation that can be broken with one blow.

If it weren't for the spear phalanx of the officers and soldiers not far behind, I'm afraid that more thieves would have rushed at this time.

As the officers and soldiers lined up in a wide but thin formation approached closer and closer, more than 1,000 men and horses under Wei Daheng's command had already rushed within 100 paces of the officers and musketeers.

But to the surprise of Lu Xiangguan, who was not far behind Li Bei, and at the same time Wei Daheng and Zhang Cunmeng, who were still standing and watching, Li Bei never gave the order to open fire except for shouting loudly that the official army musketeers had come to a half-moon formation.

This is different from Lu Xiangguan and Zhang Cunmeng, who have seen the arquebus tactics of the officers and soldiers and fire at about 100 paces, but it is more daring.

What they didn't know was that the musketeers in front of them had full confidence in the power of the muskets in their hands after several previous battles, and they would not be like those Ming officers and soldiers who were armed with arquebuses before, and the enemy was still far away, so they hurriedly, panicked, and recklessly opened fire, because they knew that such a way of fighting was not only a waste of ammunition, but also a waste of precious shooting opportunities.

Because more than 1,000 people of the thief army rushed en masse, Li Bei ordered the wide front of the musketeers of the official army to change into a half-moon shape, and the musketeers walking in the middle part slowed down, while the musketeers on both wings quickened their pace, and soon formed a semicircular encirclement of the thieves under the Wei tycoon who were screaming and scolding rushing at about fifty paces.

Fifty paces, Li Pei still did not give the order to open fire.

Forty paces, Li Bei still did not give the order to fire.

Just when Lu Xiangguan was so anxious that he was about to lose his breath, he suddenly heard Li Bei shouting: "Kneel in the front row!" All ready! Open fire and shoot! ”

Li Pei said a command, and the formation of the officers and soldiers musketeers changed, until after he said "open fire and shoot", there was a dense explosion sound in front of the officers and soldiers, like a dense hailstorm smashing on the roof!

The difference is that after a burst of gunfire, a burst of thick and choking smoke suddenly rose in front of the official army, making Lu Xiangguan, who was behind, completely invisible to the charging of the thief army.

However, Lu Xiangguan knew that the time to reload after the gun was fired was the most vulnerable and dangerous moment for the official musketeers.

Therefore, although he also heard the howl of ghosts and wolves coming from behind the smoke, he ordered his pikemen to move forward quickly as soon as the guns were fired.

Soon, the smoke of gunpowder in front of the official army musketeers dissipated, and the thief army under the command of Wei Daheng who rushed over fell to the ground, and almost all the thieves on the periphery were shot and fell to the ground, there were three or four hundred people, some were shot several times and killed on the spot, and more fell to the ground covering the bleeding bullets in the abdomen, shoulders, and legs, and kept screaming and wailing.

"Armor-piercing cone" Wei Tycoon is in the middle of this group of thousands of thieves, so there are layers of thieves in front of him and left and right to protect the human shields, after a dense rain of gunfire, still unharmed, but the original more than 1,000 thieves, after this burst of dense musket explosions, ten percent has lost three percent.

This made Wei Daheng a little hesitant, not knowing whether to continue to rush forward or retreat, but it was only a moment of doubt, and he made a decision immediately, because according to his previous experience, after the official musketeer fired, it would take quite a while for another charge to fire, and this interval was his chance.

Saying that it was too late, Wei Daheng immediately shouted loudly, on the one hand, issuing orders, and on the other hand, boosting morale: "The dog officers and soldiers are done!" It's our turn! Follow me! ”