Ma Yuanli is not blindly trusting, and this battle has exposed his cunning.

In order to prevent the soldiers from being tired and unable to fight, three days ago Ma Yuanli ordered some troops to transport grain and grass out of the city first, and fought the army halfway.

Let Chen Yingrui, Feng Youqing and others in the back speed up the pace of marching, and if the battle is unfavorable, there will be a response or something.

Although many arrangements were made, after entering the territory of Xiangru County on the second day, Ma Yuanli deliberately asked the departments to slow down, and everyone stopped and stopped, far from being as fast as on the first day.

In the early days, the scouts in front came to report that Yang Lin led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, and now they are rushing towards the Great Western Army.

Ma Yuanli smiled, looked left and right, and said: "This general has been ruling the world for more than ten years, and there have been more than 100 large and small wars, and he has never been so arrogant.

In the face of my 4,000 army, Yang Lin actually led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to kill, isn't this a mantis arm blocking the car? ”

When the generals heard this, everyone laughed, and everyone was most worried that Yang Lin would not be able to defend it, and that kind of words would be protracted and unpleasant.

Ma Yuanli smiled and ordered the whole army to speed up the march, lest Yang Lin lead his troops back to the city, and then it would be troublesome.

All units of the Great Western Army marched forward bravely, and the governor Wang Jiye led more than 2,000 people to rush to the front, and saw from a distance that the volunteers had occupied the Dawang Temple, and about 600 people lined up in front of the temple.

The volunteers lined up in a line, forming six phalanxes, and saw that the Great Western Army was coming in a steady stream, and one by one they were planting hidden piles, wooden thorns, and bamboo nails in front of the formation.

This can be touched by himself, Wang Jiye raised the spear in his hand and commanded everyone to kill it mightily.

Seeing the Great Western Army coming, the other party did not panic at all, everyone retreated into the formation in an orderly manner, and there was a sound of frying iron sand from the front position.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the kings of the Ming Dynasty have attached great importance to the firearms troops, and the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has established the Shenji Battalion, and the whole battalion has used firearms to fight.

Since the introduction of bird guns into Middle-earth in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been more widely used, and the proportion of firearms in the Qi army has reached 60%, much higher than that of the European armies of the same era.

After the massive use of bird guns, the Ming Dynasty army also suffered from firearm dependence, and the barbarian Qing Sarhu Dajie Nurhachi defeated the Ming general Juniper's department, mainly because of the heavy rain in the sky, the Ming Dynasty firearms could not be used.

The principle of the Ming army was to use firearms to defeat the opponent, and then the infantry swarmed up to reap the lives of the panicked opponents.

The Ming general Yuan Chonghuan advocated relying on the fortified city and defeating the opponent with cannons, that is, through firearms.

Due to the excessive reliance on firearms, the Ming army lacked the courage to fight in the past, although the Ming army relied on the benefits of firearms to compete with the Liaodong Tartars and Liukou, but if they lost the benefits of firearms, they often collapsed at the touch of a button.

In this way, the Volunteers also relied heavily on firearms, but the firearms of this era were very slow, and one shot could shoot six arrows.

Therefore, seeing that the soldiers of the volunteers in the front row were operating firearms, some experienced soldiers shouted loudly to charge, but they still stopped, let those cannon fodder rush out first, and then rushed over while the opponent was reloading the gunpowder, hand-to-hand combat.

The range of the bird gun is about 100 meters, but the volunteers have no intention of releasing the gun at all, and the officers and men of each firearms squadron will set up the bird gun on the shelf and aim it, instead of releasing the gun from a distance like those officers and men of the Great Western Army.

Unlike flintlock pistols, there is an open flame during firing, and in order to avoid the gunpowder on the body from catching fire, everyone stands sparsely in front of the formation, rather than being densely armed like a flintlock pistol.

In normal times, a good shooter can accurately hit a target at a distance of 100 paces, but on the battlefield it is completely different, not only the personnel move frequently, but also cannot aim as accurately as a target.

In this way, about 70 meters, the soldiers of the Great Western Army who rushed in front were also preparing to open their bows and shoot arrows, and at this moment, they suddenly saw a general wearing thick armor in front of him pressing his hands, smoke rising, and the sound of birds in front of him was the first to sound.

Because they were very close and shot quite accurately, several people were shot in one round, and those unlucky ghosts, some were shot and rolled on the ground, and some clung to the wound and wailed.

The gun sounded, and the soldiers of the Great Western Army behind rushed up, just as those veteran soldiers compared, although this bird gun was powerful, but it took half a day to let it go, everyone rushed over, as long as they fought in close quarters, the other party was just a lamb to the slaughter.

But the situation was obviously wrong, and at the same time as the soldiers behind rushed up, the smoke in front kept rising, and not only the sound of birds crackling and crackling continued.

There were people around who kept falling, and others were driven by the flow of people behind, like a flock of ducks being driven forward, and they were about to rush to the front of the battle, and some people were so excited that they pulled out their swords and prepared to fight in close quarters.

At this moment, countless crossbows suddenly shot out from the opponent's formation, and the crossbows were shot into the air and then fell freely, through the heavy armor, and into the bodies of the unfortunate soldiers.

As mentioned earlier, the crossbow fires very fast, and each time the gun is released, it can shoot a full six crossbows. (After the invention of the revolver, since it could fire six bullets in a row, white Americans had an overwhelming advantage over the Indians)

Although a few big men rushed over, they were surrounded by wolf players and rattan players who were lying in ambush in front of them, and they couldn't move.

The wolf is invented by Qi Jiguang, the body of the gun is a hard bamboo, particularly light, the tip of the gun is pressed on the spearhead, and the spear head is surrounded by iron thorns, which can be stabbed, picked, and swept, and the power is quite amazing.

The wolf hand is different from other ordinary weapons, and it requires an amazing man with strong height and amazing arm strength. In the past, these big men were often hungry when there was a famine, but the army was different, not only did they have enough food every day, but they also added meals every Monday and Friday.

According to the tradition of the volunteers, during the training, they would often send people and horses out to hunt and fish, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the population of northern Sichuan was very small, there were hills and rivers everywhere, and there were many birds and animals, and the volunteers often adopted the method of round-up, and the prey was very large.

After months of training, these high-headed men were more energetic than in the past, and now they saw the Onishi army coming, and rushed out under the cover of the rattan players, and everyone raised the wolf whisk about five meters long at the same time.

One inch long and one inch strong, these dozens of wolf whisks who suddenly rushed out held five-meter-long wolf whisks and stabbed them at the same time, and their momentum was even more amazing.

Some of the officers and men of the Great Western Army who rushed to the front were stabbed and swept, and the entire charging formation was intercepted alive, forming a cofferdam in front of the volunteer formation.

A few unlucky ghosts who rushed to the front were injured by the wolf, although they waved their weapons to resist repeatedly, but the wolf's head was full of hard iron thorns, sweeping on the body, even if they were wearing thick armor, it was useless.

The soldiers of the Great Western Army in the back saw that the firearms of the volunteers were sharp, and the crossbow arrows were like rain, and they actually erected two wet quilts in front of the formation, although the bird guns could penetrate the two layers of wet quilts, but they finally blocked the sight of the bird guns, and finally weakened the momentum of the bird guns and crossbow arrows, and then rushed over under the cover of the wet quilts.

Due to the poisoning of Yuan Chonghuan, the officials and soldiers in the last years of the Ming Dynasty relied heavily on firearms, and finally developed the tactics of artillery to defend the city, rather than focusing on hand-to-hand combat training.

Yang Lin, who comes from modern times, of course, knows the importance of fighting bayonets, just like the extensive application of semi-automatic weapons during the Anti-Japanese War, and the armies of various countries still fight bayonets from time to time, just like after the end of the Cold War, many armies are still training in combat.

Although the battalions of the Volunteer Army were equipped with a large number of firearms, they did not neglect the hand-to-hand combat training, and saw the wet quilt erected thirty steps in front of them, and the deputy of the 4th Battalion waved his big hand and rushed out of the four or five killers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers of the Onishi Army under the wet quilt tried their best to protect it, but the spearmen and the boring palladium hand followed closely behind, attacking the lower end of the quilt with spears and boring palladium, so that three or four wet quilts were overturned to the ground, and the people below panicked and ran away.

However, the Great Western Army was numerous, except for a few elite soldiers, most of them were rabble, and although the combat power of these elite soldiers on the battlefield was close to the level of the official army, those rabble often collapsed at the touch of a button, and they were simply unable to fight to the death.

Among the 4,000 soldiers and horses commanded by Ma Yuanli this time, 1,500 of them were their own soldiers, and 500 were the personal soldiers of generals such as Governor Wang Jiye, who could be called elite soldiers, and the others were all men and horses from all walks of life who had just been reorganized.

Due to the large number of people, even the personal soldiers and horses of generals such as Ma Yuanli and Wang Jiye lived very poorly, not to mention ordinary soldiers and horses, many of them were even weaker, and they were simply unable to fight with high intensity for a long time.

In addition to poor health, the most intuitive response is equipment, not only the weapons are uneven, there is no unified standard configuration, that is, there is a shortage of armor, many pro-soldiers wear helmets, wear chain mail, but the vast majority of them are wrapped in towels on their heads, wearing quilts to defend against bird guns, crossbows and swords.

The main general's own soldiers are still like this, and the other cannon fodder troops can be imagined.

This is still the most basic, if the other in terms of training, battle formation, coordination of various departments, etc., it is even more far from the same, in the early days of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, the official army was often able to drive ten times the rogue back and forth on the Central Plains with one enemy ten. (Even at the end of the Southern Ming Dynasty, many people in Li Dingguo's department were so equipped, and their combat power was far inferior to the Qing Dynasty puppet army, so they could only rely on Li Dingguo's excellent command ability and rely on crowd tactics to win).

Although the combat strength of the Great Western Army has improved a lot after so many years of continuous warfare, the combat power of the Liukou is still far lower than that of ordinary officers and soldiers, not to mention the army trained by Yang Lin in combination with some modern military common sense in the face of the volunteers. Although the Onishi Army had the advantage in numbers, it felt that there were lead bullets and arrows flying everywhere, and everywhere there were wolf swords, boring palladium, spears and broadswords, which were killed by the volunteers if they were not careful.

Although such a large western army was outnumbered, it did not take any advantage, but it was counterattacked by the volunteers of more than 600 people, and the formation was rushed to pieces, so it was not embarrassed.