Chapter 316: The cone formation breaks the enemy, and the two tigers fight

"Boom—"

This sound was not a salvo of artillery of the Shandong army, but a flash of lightning suddenly lit up in the cloudy sky, and with this lightning, the heavy rain that had been brewing for more than half an hour finally poured down.

It didn't take long for the Shandong army, which had been a continuous sound of artillery, to gradually calm down.

The bird gun hand silently looked at the extinguished fire rope on the bird gun in his hand, and after putting it down, he didn't know what to do for a while, this situation was the first time he had encountered it since he participated in the battle.

The Shandong army suddenly fell silent, the soldiers of the firearms battalion were asking the officers, and the junior officers did not understand, they were all staring at each other.

On the contrary, after a period of silence on the side of the rogue, there was a sudden burst of fierce cheers, and the rogues brandished their swords and guns, and charged towards this side without fear of death.

"Damn, I haven't seen rain in years, why is it so big at this juncture!?"

Looking at the other party's indomitable momentum, Huang Yang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth.

Indeed, it seems that since he left Shandong and came to Henan, it seems that he has never encountered anything good, and the food and salary on the side of the imperial court have been cut off for a while.

Finally, a batch of food was scraped together, but it didn't take a few miles to be robbed by these dog thieves, and Henan has been dry for a long time, and the last rain can be traced back to several years ago, otherwise there would not be so many refugees who are difficult to feed themselves.

At this time, it was pouring rain, which dealt a blow to the morale of the Shandong army on the one hand, and the main thing was the more than 2,000 bird guns that had been made at great cost in the past, and at this time they almost all became a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and they could no longer play any role in the war situation.

"Commander Huang, the commander of the army! Two rows of tiger guns, rear team axe guns, column conical formation! ”

At this moment, a pacesetter with a small flag behind him suddenly ran over and shouted.

In the distance, Li Zicheng rode a white horse, stretched out his hand to caress the big raindrops, and the next moment, he suddenly laughed arrogantly, turned around and shouted:

"Providence, providence!! Li Guo, you quickly lead the old battalion horse team to outflank it, you must not let the Shandong army run away, and also, bring back the head of the Shandong general soldier Wang Zheng to Ben Shuai! ”

Hearing this, a big man in white on a horse came out of the line with his fists.

In Li Zicheng's eyes, the firearms of the Shandong army are really amazing, but God is on his side, if it rains heavily, no matter how powerful those things are, they can only be a team of scrap copper and rotten iron!

Li Guo, known as "a tiger" in the camp, won Li Zicheng's trust and led more than 1,000 people in the old camp horse team for him.

However, in the past, in order to prevent the old battalion from suffering too many casualties, it was usually to go into battle to clean up the mess, and now Li Zicheng's approach has shown the excitement in his heart, and he wants to cut off the retreat of Shandong and in advance.

The horse team that broke into the camp crisscrossed the north and south, although it did not have the ability of Zhang Xianzhong to come and go like the wind and play Yang Sichang's old thief, but when it came to combat effectiveness, it was also a rare elite among the peasant armies of all walks of life, and it was led by a tiger Li Guo himself.

"A tiger, a tiger, the officers and soldiers fled when they saw the wind~~"

"A tiger, a tiger, the officers and soldiers fled when they saw the wind~~"

Li Guo held a big knife in his hand, and the old battalion horse team with more than 1,000 people came up to speed up the charge, but when he was charging, an old battalion horse soldier next to him frowned and pointed forward.

"The number of thieves and soldiers is wrong, you see!"

The Ming army in front of him neither ran nor defended, but under the command of an ironclad general, it was arranged in a cone-shape, raised its tiger spear, and marched towards this side with steel steps, and every step was extremely solid.

Seeing that the other party was holding a spear in his hand, the charging rogues followed closely and mobilized the pikemen in the team to the front, isn't it a spear hedge, we have never been afraid of thieves and soldiers in the camp!

From both sides of the Ming army's conical formation, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves suddenly sounded, Li Guo was taken aback, when did the Ming army also have so many horse teams!?

At this time, the other party shouted neatly:

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Although the number of people was not as large as the camp, it suppressed the frenzied rogues in terms of momentum, and the horse team of the Ming army was combined into one, and it was-for-tat with the old camp horse team led by Li Guo!

A general of the Shandong Army in iron armor rode a horse in the front, wielding a shining steel knife in his hand, and the cavalry of the Shandong Army behind him shook the spurs under his feet and charged towards Li Guo head-on.

"Cavalry battalion, follow me Quanzhuo, break the formation and kill the enemy!!"

"Break the formation and kill the enemy!!"

After Quan Zhuo's shout, more than 1,000 cavalrymen, who had already been recuperated, urged their horses one after another, and collided fiercely with the old battalion horse team that broke into the army.

Li Guo slashed at the body of the Shandong cavalry, but this person did not fall off the horse directly as expected, but he crossed Li Guo with a fierce knife.

This must have been an accident, the cavalry of Fang Cai may be a small number of elite thieves and soldiers, Li Guo comforted himself like this, and shouted and slashed at the other cavalry of the Shandong army.

But this cavalryman may also be a "few elites", and he turned his head violently to block Li Guo's slash, and before Li Guo could react, he violently pulled out the tiger spear behind his back and swept over with a strong wind.

Li Guo was taken aback, and he could bend over to dodge, but his face changed to a solemn expression, could it be that everyone in these Shandong cavalry is like this?

The rest of the Shandong army infantry did not panic, marched forward with neat steps, and when they were about 100 steps away from the breaking army, Huang Yang, who was the leader, suddenly raised his hand and shouted:

"Stop! Get on the axe! ”

The rogues didn't know what the other party was thinking, but they saw that the first two rows of Ming soldiers who were originally armed with tiger guns were trotting back, and out of the back of the formation were several columns of foot soldiers with weapons they had never seen before.

"Cone Formation, Kill the Thief!"

Huang Yang brandished his steel knife and shouted as he stepped forward with a conical axe and spear array.

The formation changed, the time was slightly delayed, and the rogue on the opposite side took the opportunity to rush closer to more than twenty steps, but before entering within fifty steps, at this time the cavalry on both sides had already fought together, and the foot soldiers were approaching.

Breaking into the camp didn't know that the Shandong army had to rush or not to defend the way of playing, and they had never seen such a routine of going step by step and charging until the last fifty steps.

In fact, the immobility of the squad could not keep the ranks neat, and the nerves of the soldiers could not be dispersed, and even veterans who had been in battle for a long time needed a brief transition to adapt to such a large-scale battlefield, and only by moving forward step by step and unswervingly could everything be perfected.

By the time they reached the last fifty paces, the initial nervousness and apprehension of the axe-gunners in the front row had dissipated most of them, and they had found the state of their previous training, and now they only saw the thieves who were getting closer and closer.

This kind of axe gun is more slender than the tiger gun that was withdrawn, even Li Zicheng, who boasted of going south and north, had never seen this kind of weapon, and even if he had seen it, the Shandong army suddenly changed to a large number of axe guns before charging, how could the camp have time to react.

At this time, what is tested is the basic quality of the army, and the Shandong army is able to change formations and carry guns with ease without the slightest panic, and it can be quickly completed almost within a few moments.

On the other hand, even if they found out the difference, they didn't have any time to react, there were refugees everywhere in the rogues, there were also attached Ming troops, and there were many land scoundrels mixed in it, the quality was uneven, and they were good at fighting tailwind, but they couldn't withstand any big casualties.

The infantry of the Chuang army and the Shandong army collided together, and in other directions not far away, the shouts of killing gradually sounded, and the entire battlefield looked a little dark under the shroud of dark clouds.

Although there were many people in the camp, somehow, it was just a wave of charge, and the people who were poked by the other party turned on their backs, and they began to rout.

The two sides collided, and there was no accident, and the camp collapsed at the first touch, because many rogues found that the weapons of the same grass and axe were very terrifying, and they had not touched the foot soldiers of the Shandong army with their spears, but they had already found that the tip of the other party's grass had been stabbed in their stomachs.

Many people died in such an unknown way, and they didn't know until they died, what kind of weapon poked and hacked them to death.

In fact, it was only the refugee camps in the army that fought with the Shandong army, and these people were cannon fodder in Li Zicheng's eyes, but they still needed to be co-opted and used as the main force.

Although there has been a qualitative leap in the current combat effectiveness of the Liukou, and there are also some chaotic bar formations and uniform clothing, it is still too far behind in front of the fully armored Shandong Army soldiers.

The Shandong Army's cone-shaped axe and spear formation has been experienced countless times, and in an unguarded situation, even the Eight Banners armor soldiers of the Tartars will find it difficult to get benefits in the front, let alone these refugees who carry knives and guns.

In the distance, Li Zicheng frowned, the smile on his face dissipated, and pointed ahead:

"Two military advisors, you are well-informed, what kind of weapon is that, have you ever seen it?"

Song Xiance and Niu Jinxing glanced at each other, but in the end, they shook their heads in unison, seeing this, Li Zicheng didn't continue to ask.

No matter what weapons he takes out, even if he uses people to pile them, he must pile this Ming army to death.