The three-eyed gun, a bulky three-barreled firearm, actually existed very early, and as far back as the Yuan Dynasty, it had already won and equipped the official army of the Yuan Dynasty, and was often used for the defense of cities and the melee charge of cavalry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, due to the simple casting process, the equipment was more common, and most of the guards in the nine-sided army and various places were equipped with this kind of three-eyed gun.

Of course, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, many things could not be viewed according to common sense.

For example, this three-eyed gun, although the casting technique is not a problem, and the quality requirements for iron are not too high, but even so, the three-eyed gun produced by the Ming court is still inevitably less powerful, and even the arquebus is inferior.

Not only is the range pitifully short, but the accuracy is so low that it is impossible to say.

Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, the firearms of the infantry have basically eliminated the three-eyed guns, and only the cavalry will use it when the two armies are facing each other and are about to rush into the battle.

However, although the range of this three-eyed gun is very short and the power is not great, the effect of injuring the enemy is very good at close range, especially when shooting face-to-face, and the effect of loading iron sand or scattered sharp weapons to strike in a large area is very good.

Because although the barrel of the three-eyed gun is short, it is a single ignition, and the three barrels are fired at the same time, using scattered bullets such as iron sand, although the range is short, but the impact area is very wide.

Although it is impossible to kill the enemy in one blow, it is very guaranteed to inflict damage on a wide area.

This is also the reason why the Three-Eyed Gun, although very backward, has always existed in the cavalry of the Ming army.

Liu Honglie's 300 men were the elite of the cavalry in Yansui Town led by Sun Chuanting, and the tactics they were used to were the traditional tactics of the Ming cavalry.

This method is a failure for the Mongol cavalry who are proficient in mounted archery or the Jianyu cavalry who are proficient in mounted archery and pay attention to the integrity of the military formation, because you rush forward against the rain of arrows, and it is likely that you will be shot to death by the enemy who is proficient in cavalry and archery before the three-eyed gun can play its role.

But for these thieves who are not yet in the climate, it is simple and crude, and it is effective.

In Li Zicheng's children's soldier camp, apart from the rudimentary bow and arrow, there are currently no weapons that can allow them to carry out long-range strikes.

They also did not have enough horses to train their own cavalry.

They also did not have the same hierarchical and brutal military discipline as the Jianyu.

Therefore, when Liu Honglie led hundreds of galloping cavalry to rush over, these thieves who were reluctant to form a formation panicked in their hearts.

After the Ming army that rushed in front used the three-eyed gun filled with scattered iron sand, the thief army in formation passed in an instant, almost everyone was injured, and the ghost cried wolf.

And when the war horse of the Ming cavalry was about to step on the flesh and blood of the thief army in the front row, the thief array in front of Liu Honglie collapsed in an instant.

If Liu Fangliang had a little more experience in commanding battles, he could gather dozens of thieves armed with spears under his command and place them in the second or third rows, so that he might be able to inflict some casualties on the Ming cavalry that was rampaging, but this was the first time he had faced such a situation, and he had no such experience.

When the bow and arrow lost its effectiveness, the only threat that Liu Fangliang's subordinates had to Liu Honglie's subordinates did not exist.

The rest is a naked one-sided chase!

Although Liu Fangliang is very brave, this is not a good time to show his personal martial arts.

He hadn't read a book, but he wasn't stupid, not to mention that at this time, he was still beaten by the Ming army's three-eyed guns, and he just wanted to continue to command the battle, who would listen to him, a man whose face was covered with blood and couldn't tell his true face, was blindly commanded?

When the Ming army showed the three-eyed gun, Liu Fangliang, who had seen the three-eyed gun, urgently bowed his head, which was regarded as saving a pair of eyes, but his head, face, and neck were hit all over his face by the rushing iron sand.

Even if the iron sand shot out by the Three-Eyed Gun is difficult to kill even within a distance of more than a dozen steps, the damage caused should not be underestimated.

At least after today's battle, Liu Fangliang, who was originally big-eared, magnificent, and dignified, was completely disfigured.

The thief army who was disfigured by the iron sand sprayed out by the three-eyed gun and even shot blind with him is still very many.

Of course, it was too late to say that it was too fast, and Liu Fangliang didn't have time to think about whether he was disfigured or not, what he had to think about now was to run for his life quickly.

After the three-eyed squirt hit his head and face, Liu Fangliang did not hesitate and immediately turned around and fled.

And Liu Honglie and his subordinates don't have time to distinguish who is the leader and who should be killed first, or even the question of killing all the thieves in front of them, what they have to think about now is to rush out of the valley quickly.

In this way, one ran for his life, and the other desperately beat his horse to keep his speed and chase forward, and the distance of less than two miles felt so long for both sides.

Most of the thieves who fled for their lives did not escape the killing of the Ming army on the horses.

And the few who were a little smarter, that is, who quickly escaped to the mountains on both sides of the valley, narrowly escaped their lives.

Liu Fangliang belongs to one of the few who are more clever, so he also escaped this catastrophe.

As for his leading eldest brother, Li Zicheng was waiting at the exit of the valley with a nervous expression at this time.

Although he did not know what was happening in the valley, he had already heard the rumbling hooves of horses, the explosion of the three-eyed guns, and the screams that followed.

When he blocked Du Wenhuan before, Li Zicheng set up a simple but effective roadblock at the exit of this trumpet-shaped valley, that is, he cut down trees nearby and stacked them at the exit of the valley in order to force the armistice horse to charge.

At this time, a long ditch was dug not far behind the log pile, and a second obstacle was piled up on his side with the excavated earth and stones.

Hundreds of archers were then deployed behind these obstacles, as well as other child soldiers armed with rudimentary spears.

After arranging all this, Li Zicheng and Li Guo's uncle and nephew stood behind the earthen wall of the long ditch, holding a hard bow, waiting for the war to come again.

Although Li Zicheng and Li Guo were nervous, they were very confident, because they had used this seemingly simple fortification to force Du Wenhuan to stop, and then defeated Du Wenhuan's cavalry with round after round of arrow rain.

Li Zicheng is still thinking that if he had a cavalry under his command at that time, even if it was only a hundred people, he would be sure to leave that Ming army behind.

Here, Li Zicheng was thinking about the victory he had won by relying on the terrain before, and at this time, in the valley a hundred and ten steps away from him, a group of rushing figures appeared.

Li Zicheng was so excited that he was about to wave his hand and order his men who were waiting for him to open their bows and shoot arrows.

Suddenly, I heard my nephew Li Guo shouting: "Uncle, that's our child soldier!" ”

Yes, the one who ran at the forefront was the child soldier of the general battalion that Liu Fangliang brought into the valley before!

However, these child soldiers who ran here were not the ones who followed Liu Fangliang to block the way.

They were the child soldiers that Liu Fangliang had sent back to transport the loot one after another.

Not long after they left, they felt the tremor of the earth just like Liu Fangliang and heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

But the choice they made was not to speed up and flee back, but to send someone to ask for orders, whether to continue to return to the camp with the booty, or to turn back and join forces with Liu Fangliang and fight against the incoming enemy.

I have to say that Li Zicheng still has a talent for governing the army and leading the troops, and in just one month, he has put the children and soldiers under his command into order.

Of course, there is also the confidence of the mystery formed by these teenagers after they have just won a big victory.

However, this incomprehensible self-confidence was soon crushed by the galloping hooves of the Ming army.