The leader of the local rioters, the sixth team of Ma Chao (in order to avoid the government from searching and arresting his family, all the local rioters are called nicknames outside) immediately on the hillside in the distance, because there is no monocular, he can't see very clearly, and he can see a few abandoned wheelbarrows and ploughing cattle that have not had time to pull away on the mountain road, the sparse infantry queue at the foot of the mountain, and the panicked crowd on the mountain.

Although Yang Lin often boasted of shooting and killing the earth thug and capturing the Tianxing Liang Leopard, the first time he faced off on the battlefield, his inner tension can be imagined.

This time it was not an ordinary soldier or horse, but a cavalry, in ancient times the cavalry was the king of land warfare, not to mention that in the face of this point soldiers, even in the face of the same number of officers and soldiers were not afraid at all.

In my impression, although the officers and soldiers are well-equipped, the soldiers are timid and afraid of death, except for the deterrence of guns and arrows from afar, as long as the cavalry rushes up, they will be invincible.

Looking at the opposite mountain, the mountain is panicked people, at the foot of the mountain there are more than 100 people who want to obstruct their cavalry team, Ma Chao shook his head, raised the whip behind the crowd slowly dispersed, with an order, everyone roared and rushed over.

The road was bumpy, but the horses were running very fast, and in the blink of an eye, they were in front of them.

Seeing the other party rushing over, especially the more than 100 cavalry in front of him, Yang Lin was very worried, turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him, all of them were flushed and quite nervous, and some even trembled their legs, feeling that the situation was very bad.

In ancient times, the cavalry was the king of land warfare, and in the face of the cavalry, many rabbles were cowardly before fighting, and some even collapsed on their own and the whole army collapsed.

I looked at the soldiers around me, the front was the musket bureau, standing in three rows, 33 people in each row (each person was one person wide), due to the short training time of the troops, the stacked formation method was adopted, that is, the soldiers in the first row in front were responsible for shooting, and the soldiers in the back two rows were responsible for loading ammunition and loading gunpowder.

Behind the musketeers was a strong bow board, and in order to confuse the Tyrants, they hid in the bushes or behind the edge of the ditch, rather than posing in a big way like the other soldiers and horses, in order to provide constant fire support to the musketeers in front.

On either side of the Musket rounds are the Ballistas, who also lie in ambush in the bushes or behind the ditch rocks to confuse the Dirt Tyrants. Half of these crossbowmen were armed with foot crossbows, and the other half were ready to fight in close quarters as soldiers.

In the face of the surprise attack of nearly 100 local tyrant cavalry, although many people were resolute and fearless, some people were pale.

Yang Lin secretly screamed badly, hurriedly rushed to a big stone in front of him, turned around and pointed straight ahead, his voice was slightly hoarse and shouted: "Brothers, since ancient times, the strong bow and crossbow are the sharpest weapons against the northern Tartar cavalry, we have a sharpshooter game, a strong bow game, a strong crossbow game, we have the advantage, we will win." ”

Everyone was stunned by the Lord's move, and everyone held their breath, and one by one they habitually raised their right hands and shouted loudly.

Seeing everyone like this, Yang Lin's inner tension calmed down slightly, he crossed his waist with one hand, and pointed to the local tyrant cavalry who was rushing up with the other hand and said: "Brothers, don't be afraid, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east, on the battlefield, either you die or I live, and the most important thing is to overwhelm the other party in momentum."

Brothers, how to overwhelm each other in momentum? ”

The crowd was quite encouraged and shouted loudly: "Volley, salvo, continuous salvo." ”

Tapping his chest lightly with his right hand, Yang Lin looked quite calm and said: "Don't panic, everyone, let alone shoot waves, which are not only difficult to kill and injure the enemy, but also consume arrows and gunpowder in vain.

When the Tyrant cavalry approached, everyone listened to my orders, and crushed the opponent by stacking the formation, brothers, there were three rows of musketeers in the middle, the musketeers were archers on the back, and crossbowmen on the sides, and we fired continuously.

Although the tyrants are savage, and the troopers come and go like the wind, the other party is also mortal, and I don't believe that they will not die. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and swept away the nervous appearance at the beginning.

The war horse jumped over the obstacles and rushed over, about 100 steps (from the musket bureau, the actual distance from the archer is about 120 steps away, and a good archer can easily reach a hundred steps away from the long shot), Yang Lin raised his right hand to send a shooting signal, and the sixty archers on the mountainside had already bent their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at a 45-degree angle, and the arrows were shot into the sky and then rained down, killing and injuring the other party.

Different from close-range heavy arrows, long-range shooting is a bit of luck, mainly through a dense rain of arrows to disrupt the opponent's formation and hit the opponent's morale, although the number of shots and injuries is limited in one round.

A good archer can shoot five or six arrows a minute, and can continue to form a dense rain of arrows, disrupting the opponent's formation and hindering the continuous charge of the following cavalry.

Since ancient times, the bow and crossbow have been a sharp weapon for infantry to deal with cavalry, and seeing so many archers on the mountain, the local riot cavalry was obviously stunned, some tightened their horses to avoid the rain of arrows, and some fierce knights rushed over with horses.

Yang Lin stood at the front to block the way, and saw that someone was not afraid of death, but actually stood in front of the formation as a target, the local tyrant was not good at stubble, some hit the horse and rushed over, and some of the horsemen who were very good at archery were even bent their bows from afar.

Yang Lin wears a chain mail jacket and simple cotton armor (only the kind on the chest), and he also knows that there are very few local tyrants who are really good at riding and shooting, but he is still frightened to see the other party like this.

However, in the era of cold weapons, the two sides relied on this qi, and the courage of the three armies was a little timid on the battlefield, and the morale of the whole army would inevitably collapse, if so, even if Sun Wu was alive, it would be difficult to recover the decline.

Yang Lin felt a chill in his vest, and watched the Tatar cavalry in the distance rush over after a period of chaos, rushing through ninety paces and eighty steps, but the right arm raised above his head did not move at all.

However, some of the soldiers below looked frightened, seeing the enemy cavalry approaching, some people did not listen to the order to release their guns and arrows from afar, but the distance between the two sides, coupled with the fact that the cavalry came and went like the wind, could not produce any effect at all.

It wasn't until the Soil Riot cavalry rushed sixty paces away that Yang Lin gave the signal to attack. (Qi Jiguang believes in "Records of Military Training" that the firing distance of the bird gun is within 100 steps, and through experimental analysis, the rider wearing a single layer of armor can easily break the armor and shoot the target within 50 steps.)

Although the effective firing distance of many arquebuses in Western Europe in the seventeenth century was only 50 meters, the horses ran very fast and had a greater relative speed, so that they could break through the armor within 50 paces, let alone the horses without much armor)

The musketeers in the front row had already lit the arquebuses and aimed at the enemy horsemen, and with a command, they pulled the triggers one after another, and the arquebuses fell and ignited the gunpowder in the chamber, and the flames ignited with a deafening explosion.

The training time of musketeers in the army is very short, and there are not many soldiers who are really good at shooting, Yang Lin uses the stacking formation method to shoot, that is, the first row is a selection of good shooters, and the second row and the third row are assistants who help to load ammunition, and the musketeers in the front row are only responsible for radiating on the battlefield, and the rear row is responsible for loading ammunition.

The stacking formation does not have high requirements for musketeers, but there is no doubt that the front row are gunners who are good at shooting, but because of the cumbersome gunpowder loading action, it is easy to make mistakes in the middle, some of the lead does not fall, and some of the arquebuses are not lit, so there are only seven or eight people who really succeed in releasing guns.

But the two sides were very close to each other, and the target of the war horse was very large, and after a round of shooting, two or three war horses were still shot, and the knight could not restrain the war horse that had been greatly damaged, and one of them even fell down on the spot, and the whole battlefield seemed quite chaotic.

The arrows above his head kept falling, and the frontal muskets were even more threatening, and the local rioters obviously did not expect that this army of soldiers actually had so many shooting weapons, and they did not dare to charge head-on at all, but tightened their horses and prepared to outflank them on both wings.

Before the other party could turn the horse's head and ambush in the weeds on both wings, the crossbowmen in the woods slaughtered one after another, shooting at the rushing war horse with a pedal crossbow.

There are more than 60 pedal crossbows in the crossbow bureau, using the method of three-stage strikes, the first row kneeling on one leg, the second row half squatting, and the third row of normal combat power, with a continuous shot under the order, its density is far from comparable to the musket bureau.

All of a sudden, the arrows rained down, and he was caught off guard, and he was shot dead and wounded a lot.