Gao Ke stood on the high place of the low mountain bag, looking at the cavalry approaching on three sides, he looked in the other direction, the leader sent by the salt merchant did not know where to run.

These dogs and cubs actually set a trap to do something to the Jiaozhou battalion, Gao Ke scolded in his heart, but at this time this situation is not the time to scold, just split the soldier, Gao Ke's body was also drenched with a lot of blood, standing with an axe and gun in hand, there is really a fierce god-like momentum.

Most of the officers at all levels who are veterans are holding axes and guns in their hands, and they are also shouting viciously, and the cavalry of the brigade must have a strict formation to deal with it, otherwise it can only be a dead end.

The performance of the firecrackers is better, although most of them are also recruits, but they also know that in such a battlefield, if they escape, they will definitely be chased and hacked to death by horse thieves, it is better to rely on the protection of the spear phalanx, there is still a chance of life.

Of course, the non-commissioned officers of the musketeers have been shouting loudly, so that the soldiers are separated from each other, although the muskets need to shoot intensively to have the power to be reflected, but at this time the soldiers are too close to each other because of fear, they are hanging powder bags and fire ropes, if there is a little careless, it is trouble.

Because Gao Ke stood on the mountain road, according to the drill code, the spear phalanx was behind the direction of Gao Ke, and the direction it faced was the field on the edge of the official road, and the fire soldiers were also arranged on this line.

This is the first time to participate in a battle of this scale, and he is still in command, although the horse thief has not yet approached, Gao Ke is already very nervous in his heart, and he desperately tells himself to calm down.

"Firebolts, all to the right of the phalanx!"

Gao Ke shouted there, and the soldiers around him immediately rode over to inform him, and the firecrackers stabilized the formation. The commander asked to change direction again, and the non-commissioned officers of the firecrackers were a little angry, but they immediately shouted at the soldiers to go to the right side of the phalanx.

In front of the phalanx of spears was a field, and when the horses were running on the ground, they were obviously not as comfortable as they were on flat ground. The degree is certainly not too fast, and on the left, is exactly the way to come. When Gao Ke led the troops over. I also looked carefully, and there was no trace of the horse thief, indicating that they were hiding far away.

And to the right of the phalanx of spears. It was the direction in which the horse thieves fled, and the soldiers of the Huaibei Army of the Jiaozhou battalion did not follow in that direction, so the horse thieves turned around and killed, and it was on the official road, and the degree must be the fastest and the first to arrive.

Despite the smoke and dust billowing on all sides and the sound of killing shocking the sky, the horse thieves still arrived one after another. But by the time the firecrackers turned to the right, they had no time to form a line, and the horse thieves had already rushed within eighty paces.

The soldiers in the first three rows of the outer circle of the spear phalanx all held their spears standing on the ground with both hands, and the officers at all levels who supervised the formation with axes and guns also retreated into the formation.

"Fire!! Stand and shoot! ”

Rushing so close, the non-commissioned officers of the firecrackers no longer cared about any front, but just gave a loud order, and all the soldiers in place were in the direction of the horse thieves.

It is not possible to shoot at the same time. The maximum lethality of dense fire is not reached. It's really a shortcoming, but it's just a fly in the ointment. After all, there are still kills.

The horse thieves may have known that this army had firearms, but they did not expect that these firearms were so powerful at a distance of about fifty paces, and the salt merchants were only businessmen after all, and they told the horse thieves that there were almost more than a thousand foot soldiers here, and the horse thieves had prepared superior forces to eat these officers and soldiers, and this was all the information.

The horse thieves are not afraid of the officers and soldiers, these years, who is afraid of who has always been less people and more people, as for whether it is a thief or a soldier no one cares, it is said that in the horse thief's prediction, when several sides control the horse to approach the ground, this army of officers and soldiers should be dispersed, and the horse thieves should be the time to chase and kill the rout.

But these officers and soldiers have always been not chaotic, and they are standing very steady, but the horse thieves are not in a hurry, in such a situation, it is okay to go around the foot soldiers, and the loopholes in the current infantry line are directly killed by horses, so that he can collapse on the whole line.

Outsiders' concept of official military firearms is nothing more than three-eyed guns, fast guns and the like, and if they are not close to the firing range, they will hit the barrel of the gun on the ground and cannot be fired.

Li Meng's soldiers and horses fought in Shandong, and as for the Xinyang Water Battalion, which is currently an officer and soldier, these pirates did not hold any firearms to fight at the beginning.

The horse thieves who rushed on the right only sped up their horses and did not sprint, but even so, they went too deep into the effective distance of the Jiaozhou campfire.

When the fire rang out on the opposite side, and the smoke of gunpowder filled, several people in the back row of the horse thieves were still laughing, thinking that these officers and soldiers were really waste, this distance was started, and they didn't even have time to load ammunition, waiting to be killed and slaughtered, but then it was wrong.

The front companions were carried down from their horses one by one, this time the firearms were not only gunsmoke, but the guns used by the Jiaozhou battalion were heavy muskets in Europe of the same era, with great power, but the initial bullets were very low, but such a beginning had an additional effect, that is, a terrible scream.

These horse thieves are too far behind the cavalry of the Manchu Qing Tartars, at least the mounts of the Tartars have a certain adaptability to firearms in the previous battles with the Ming army, and the Tartar cavalry is a regular army, and the cavalry impact is in formation.

The horse thieves are scattered all over the mountains, and the horses are not suitable horses, and when there are still more than 50 people over there, the horse thieves who rushed from the right side are already in a mess, and the ammunition is concentrated and died, needless to say, what really causes chaos is that because of the screaming of bullets, the horses are frightened.

Many horses fell to their knees or writhed in the middle of the run, and the knights on the horses were thrown off their horses or rolled to the ground with the horses.

The horse thieves in the back, the first reaction is to restrain the mount, or desperately turn, when the horse thieves are all for wealth but not for the death battle, and this horse thief is no better than the tribes on the grassland and some rich officers and soldiers, the vast majority of them have a horse per person, this horse is their capital to settle down, no horse. If you are abandoned by the brigade, it will be like death.

When encountering such a scene in front of you, the only reaction is to run, leave quickly, but in the team. No matter how the formation is evacuated, a sudden turn will also cause chaos. The musketeers of the Huaibei Army in the Jiaozhou battalion were like gunpowder. All at once, the team of horse thieves rushing from the right was in tatters.

But the officers of the firecrackers, jumping to their feet and scolding, if it weren't for the current responsibility. Just as he was about to take the weapons in his hands, more than 30 musketeers forgot to pull out the whole strip from the chamber of the gun because they were nervous about the enemy's position, and directly shot them out together.

The whole strip is made of good iron, otherwise the diameter is so fine, it is used every day to tamp the ammunition in the chamber and clean the chamber, and it will always break.

But the power of this shot is really not small. The whole strip roared out like a crossbow arrow, and the horse thieves who were hit were directly pierced by this iron bar, and some of them were pierced by horses and people, and more subway strips began to spin after flying out of the chamber of the gun, hitting people or horses, although not fatal, but enough to seriously injure people. At such a close distance. No less powerful than buckshot. Some have even passed, but the crux of the matter is. Without the whole bar, basically the firecracker just can't be used, and what is the difference between it and the burning stick, it is equivalent to the round of shooting just now, and more than 30 firecrackers lost their combat effectiveness at once.

"Tell those bastards who beat the strip out to me, go!"

Gao Ke was also angry when he stood on a high place, and it was a burden for those firecrackers to stand in front of the formation without firearms, and it also affected the deployment of other firecrackers, so they could only be transferred to their own side.

Musketeers are generally equipped with a waist knife for hand-to-hand combat, and some soldiers like to stuff spears into the chamber of the musket and use it as a short spear.

After the thirty or so soldiers ran over, Gao Ke did not scold, but just ordered a personal soldier and said loudly:

"Take them to the broken temple and block them, don't let people come up!"

This low mountain bag, the front of the mountain is against the official road, because of the broken mountain temple, there are still some roads, but behind the mountain are some bushes, dwarf trees and big stones, no one has cleaned up for many years, and it is very difficult to climb.

But looking at the current situation, Mr. Qiangaoke actually has some confidence in his heart, the horse thief is huge, but it is also huge, and it is not as good as the hundred battles of the Tartars that day.

Now that the battalion under his command has stabilized, the other party will definitely not be able to rush in, and if he has confidence, he will become calm, considering the surrounding situation, the only place that may be attacked by people is the back of this low mountain, although the back is difficult to travel, but it is not impossible to get up.

After the first round of firecrackers, the horse thieves attacking on the right side were already in chaos, but the horse thieves coming from the front and left roads were already close.

"Reject the horse!!" "Reject the horse!!"

Officers at all levels in the forward direction and left direction of the spear team saw the horse thieves swarming everywhere, where they shouted orders at the top of their voices, rejecting horses is a kind of wooden fortification in the Ming army, but in the Jiaozhou battalion, rejecting horses is a kind of tactical action of spearmen on the battlefield.

After this order was shouted, the soldiers in the first row on both sides stepped on the tail end of the spear at their feet, leaned forward, grasped the back end of the spear handle with one hand, and held the middle of the spear with the other.

The soldiers in the second row raised their spears flat, the third row held their spears up, and the fourth row raised their spears slightly higher.

The horse thieves who arrived first on the west side were noisy, a chaotic scene, but the square of the officers and soldiers stood still, although the horse thieves were very contemptuous of the officers and soldiers before coming, and were very confident, but they were not fools who did not care about their own lives, and the horse thieves on the left and right sides slowed down their horses.

The earth-shattering sound of the fire and the screams of the horse thieves made these horse thieves know that each other's firearms could not be underestimated, but there were no firearms on the right and front to resist, and after approaching, the leaders of the horse thieves shouted loudly, and the horse thieves in the front rows rushed towards the front.

But the spear team on the opposite side suddenly unfolded, and hundreds of spears were stretched out on each side.

The mounts of the horse thieves are not the kind of war horses that have been cultivated and trained on the battlefield, these horse thieves are at best robbing in various places, killing and plundering civilians, fighting with those Zhuang Ding, and those officers and soldiers who are not even as good as Zhuang Ding, seeing the horse thieves roaring and pressing over with smoke and dust in the sky, those people can't withstand such pressure at all.

So the mounts of the horse thieves. That is, it is impossible to cope with all kinds of situations, such as the appearance of many spears in front of you!

Horses are not machines, they are also animals with their own will, and they see sharp spears in front of them. They also dodge.

Therefore, on the battlefield, when the horses attack the dense spear line, they must use other methods to keep the horses moving forward. For example, the Qing army encountered in Qihe County. It is to stab the horse's belly with a spur, and rely on the sudden sharp pain to make the horse collide and strike.

But this method. The damage to the horses is very great, and even after rushing through this time, the horses will be abolished, and for these horse thieves, the mount is their lifeline, and many people have not been able to catch a horse, and they are riding mules to move with the group, not to mention that the mount is unwilling to hit the spear. Even horse thieves don't want to.

Originally, the foot soldiers of the Jiaozhou camp flattened their spears according to the drill rules and the usual exercises, looking at the whistling horse thieves, and even could see the hideous faces of the horse thieves, everyone was nervous, but what happened next made them breathe a sigh of relief, and the horse thieves became slower and slower as they approached the spear phalanx. Because the degree of the front and back is inconsistent. There was confusion, too, but no one rushed to the spear side.

Rather turn the horse and fall. Nor willing to come closer.

Seeing this situation, the mentality of the Huaibei soldiers slowly calmed down from the panic at the beginning, and the things they trained during the day were effective on the battlefield.

As long as you follow the instructions and the training in the plain, the better the chance of safety on the battlefield, the movements made by these soldiers are more and more standard, and the formation is more and more neat.

On the right side of the formation, the fire gun has been played two rounds, nearly two hundred steps can no longer see anything standing horse thieves, after the initial chaos, the adjusted horse thieves desperately ran towards the way they came, originally thought that eighty steps would be safe, but the second round of shooting of the Jiaozhou camp fire guns, still covered the horse thieves in this distance.

This is not at all the firearms of the officers and soldiers in their own concept, I don't know how far they can fight, they can only run away as far as possible to be safe, the right side of the spear phalanx is the official road, and the horse thieves who adjust the direction are still very fast.

Seeing the men and horses who fell on the side of the spear phalanx, I felt a chill from a distance, many people were not knocked off their horses by the firearms, but were thrown off by the horses, and then trampled again, these horse thieves were wearing cloth clothes and cotton jackets, and there was nothing worth relying on for defense, as long as they were thrown off the horses, they would definitely be seriously injured.

If there is no one to treat him, he can only wait for death.

But he couldn't die for a while, he could only wail and struggle on the ground, which made his companions feel cold, but the remaining more than 100 firecrackers were in good time.

Calmly loading ammunition there, these corpses in front of them are their fruits, and quite a few of the musketeers are from Orion, looking at this scene, there is really a feeling of returning from hunting, and some of the bold ones have already whistled.

The horse thieves who rushed from the front and to the left, and those who approached the direction on the right could also see the corpses of the people and horses all over the ground, and even in the midst of the killing sound, they could hear the terrible screams of the injured horse thieves there, and everyone turned in the other direction.

The horse thieves on the front side are all facing the left, the horse thief on the left side is running back the way they came, and on the right side it is as if there is some kind of magic spell, and no one wants to approach.

"Hit the horse thief head-on!! Twenty people shoot in a row, and the right side rejects the horse! ”

Gao Ke stood at a slightly high place and watched the battle situation, loudly issuing orders, and the personal soldiers hurriedly went to give orders, at this time, the frontal soldiers were putting their spears out in the form of rejecting horses, and the horse thieves who were heading on had not left far enough, and the firecrackers did not have enough space.

However, there is not enough space on the front, and the side shot is that the range of the fire gun will be almost 100 steps, which is enough, and the fire gun can actually be regarded as a spear with a length of 100 steps, and the power of the stabbing is greater.

A row of twenty people, with an oblique arrangement of the front corners on the right side of the spear phalanx, could fire six to seven rounds in a row, and within a distance of about seventy paces from the front of the spear phalanx, began to cover.

Seven rounds of firebolts, twenty guns each, such a density of firepower in the noisy crowd of horse thieves over there, enough to cause great damage in a short time.

The horse thieves in front of them heard the screams and saw the tragedy, but they did not know how it was caused, and now they know.

The fire bolt rang out like a cannon, and the horse thieves who did not run far and were still adjusting the direction of their mounts were severely attacked, and suddenly the people turned on their backs.

The spear phalanx is dominated by infantry, compared with the horse thieves, there is naturally no way to compare the mobility, if you want to kill the horse thieves with fast movement, you can only rely on the fire gun to achieve the output of damage, in this small battlefield, except for the dozens of fire guns that are wasted because of unskill, the rest is very good to achieve this purpose.

Seeing that the firecrackers should not have to turn to the left, the surrounding circle of horse thieves all withdrew two hundred paces away, and looked at the officers and soldiers who had been immobile all along.

Gao Ke, who was standing on the low slope, saw the horse thieves retreat so far, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, according to the knowledge learned in the old camp, Qian Zong Gao Ke can probably judge clearly, there are almost more than 2,000 horse thieves, according to the information of Lingshan Commercial Bank and Huang Ping, in the part that Gao Ke can know, there should not be such a large number of horse thieves, and the biggest Haoqiang near Xuzhou and Shuyang can only make up more than 500 strong men who ride horses.

Where did such a large group of horse thieves come from, if more than a thousand cavalry against more than a thousand foot soldiers, with such a large number of casualties, the cavalry would definitely not continue to hold on, but would retreat.

But at present, the number of horse thieves is far greater than that of the foot soldiers of the Huaibei Army, although it is a heavy casualty, but because of the dependence on numbers, they are very unwilling, how can there be a reason why the horseback can not beat the foot soldiers, although they retreat far away, but they are still hesitating and not leaving, not knowing the next move.

When Gao Ke was about to reorganize the team, he heard the sound of shouting and killing on the side of the broken temple behind him, and as soon as the sound of shouting and killing sounded, he could see a few horses galloping out from behind the low mountain bag, and as soon as these horses rushed out, the horse thieves who were still hesitating there were clamoring again, and the horse thieves who were already retreating began to control the horses and slowly approached the side of the Jiaozhou battalion.

"You guys go over together and beat down the thieves who want to take advantage of the chaos to come behind!"

Sticking the axe gun in his hand on the ground, Gao Ke sneered and said, he has already seen the back of this low mountain bag, and there is no room for hundreds of people to unfold, and the firecrackers with short weapons are enough to resist, plus the dozens of personal soldiers around Gao Ke, it is already guaranteed that there will be no problems on the mountain.

The horse thieves approached slowly, and when they were a hundred paces away, they did not dare to advance, but they looked at the side of the low mountain, but all they could see were the officers and soldiers standing there with axes and guns in one hand.

Suddenly, the hesitant queue of horse thieves became chaotic, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

It's just that the shouts of killing are behind the horse thieves......