When I woke up in the morning, I was still ignorant, and although it was daytime, it was the most relaxing time of the day, and I had the greatest chance of succeeding in a surprise attack while I was in chaos.

"Drive all the livestock in, erect the outside baffle, seal the front and back openings, set up the artillery or something, wake up, and teach these bastards outside a lesson, these flies, so that we haven't slept well these days, let them die this time!!"

Zhang Kun, who was standing in the center of the camp, shouted loudly there, everyone in the advance team was running quickly, and the current placement of the carts was still according to the layout of the camp, forty carts were connected end to end, surrounding this open space, and the livestock pulling the carts were all enclosed in the camp.

The soldiers of the advance party cursed in a low voice and climbed into the cart, and at the place where the cart was facing the outer baffle, a thick plank half a man high was erected. Ten small-caliber guns were arranged in several key gaps, which was indeed the most lax time of the day.

But the camp circled by the cart is still complete, and the soldiers of the advance team of the Jiaozhou battalion can set up a complete defense as quickly as possible.

Auman. Garris's exposition on the Hussite war in Europe, after Sun Chuanting knew it, had another explanation, Qi Jiguang also engaged in a similar system back then, the so-called partial van is a similar format, loaded with grain and equipment, when encountering a cavalry siege, these cars are used to connect into a formation and be used as fortifications.

If the cavalry attacks, in fact, the best chance is when the cart is moving, and if the convoy cannot form a ring defense, the cart will become a moving target.

But when the Mongol bandits arrived this time, they were faced with a chariot formation that had shrunk into turtle shells, and the wooden planks erected outside blocked the cavalrymen's view, and they couldn't see what was inside.

"These Mongolian horse bandits are really wearing tartar leather robes, what a thing!"

In the gap of the wooden plank, Zhang Kun, who saw these scenes outside, said disdainfully, since he saw that there was no one to defend on the perimeter, the leaders of these cavalry dismounted and looked at the situation inside through the gap between the cart and the ground, and could probably see the soldiers with spears waiting for them.

However, in his position, he could only see the spear shaft and human legs, and there seemed to be no flaw in this car formation, as long as one of the cars could be broken, this car formation would probably collapse immediately.

"Pick two hundred and go up and break the big car that is facing us!!"

One of the leaders in the back of the horse bandits ordered in a cold voice, and there was another chaos in the already scattered queue of horse bandits, and after a while, more than two hundred cavalrymen dressed in tatters who were obviously more tattered than the others hesitated to line up in front, and slightly adjusted the formation, and someone shouted in the back.

More than two hundred cavalrymen roared, and rushed towards the front of the chariot formation, although they were dressed in tatters, but these people were very skilled in horsemanship.

The knights who rushed over were desperately trying to lower their upper bodies and hide under the cover of their horses, and it seemed that they also knew that the opponent's rook formation was not just shrinking up to defend.

But this kind of defense, guarding against bird guns and fast guns, under the smoothbore guns of the Jiaozhou battalion, the effect is not great, it is really as they expected, after rushing into the firing range, the soldiers of the advance team hiding behind the shutter stood up, raised their guns and fired.

After the dense gunfire, the first half of the more than two hundred cavalry suddenly became much thinner, many people screamed and fell off their horses, and then the second row of shots, and there was another scream, but fortunately, the formation of these tattered cavalry was very sparse.

After two rounds of fire, it was not possible to defeat all the cavalry, and the rear quickly approached, and in front of their impact, there were almost ten large carts, in addition to the musketeers on the carts, there were several small cannons in the interval between the rooks, and in such a defensive battle, the small cannons were loaded with shotguns.

After the shotgun was fired, more than 30 cavalrymen were knocked off their horses by the shotgun, but the power of such a small cannon was inevitably a little insufficient.

Many horse bandits were disturbed by the high-speed sputtering of iron sand everywhere, and were overturned by the frightened horses, these horse bandits really did not look like the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they were thrown off the horses, as long as they could get up, they were desperately rushing forward with swords.

This kind of cart loaded with goods, the car is loaded with a lot of goods, and it cannot be unloaded in a hurry, and it is not easy to discharge two rows of firecrackers in turns.

Moreover, the number of horse bandits is really quite large, and there are already several teams of men and horses to contain the rest of the direction, so that the strength of this advance team cannot be concentrated in the direction of the main attack.

The first row of musketeers who had finished shooting threw away their firearms, picked up the muskets placed behind them, used this thick wooden plank as a cover, put their spears on them, and stabbed them diagonally downward, and the "Mongol horse bandits" who were about to turn over into the carriage were either holding spears or short axes in their hands.

But Shandong's spear is very long, and it is condescending, and the following horse bandits who want to attack on the back are naturally at a loss, and the carriage is naturally still some distance from the ground because of the wooden wheel, and there is no one to stop this gap, and there are also people who want to hit this attention.

But the kung fu of this place has just been used, and the cat is ready to drill, and naturally there will be no such gap in the car array, and some people are squatting and stabbing outwards and firing, and the top and bottom are in a mess.

If the goods on the carriage can be unloaded, then at least three rows of musketeers can be lined up on the carriage, with these advance teams are selected soldiers and horses, almost three to five rounds of uninterrupted round fire, but the enemy comes suddenly, although a complete formation can be guaranteed to deal with, most of the details may not be complete.

However, the difference between the Jiaozhou battalion and other soldiers and horses in the Ming Dynasty is that they have no stage fright in hand-to-hand combat at close range, but in this scene at the moment, the people outside are okay, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion who are standing on the car and dancing their weapons are inevitably a little cramped between their actions.

At this point, the soldiers of the advance team fighting on the front line were a little surprised, these horse bandits in front of them were really Tartars, whether it was the words of shouting or the contact with each other, it was really the language of the Mongolian tribes on the grassland, and there were more pieces of material in the advance team, so naturally some people knew a little more.

After the first two rows of fire, half of the soldiers were stabbed with spears, and the soldiers of the other row were reloading their ammunition in this cramped space, raising their guns to shoot, of course, this speed was much slower, and the scattered firearms were at best a fill-in.

However, these Mongolian horse bandits who rushed up began to shoot arrows with horned bows in their hands, because the fire gun could not guarantee the density of firepower, and this short bow could also cause damage, and the two soldiers could not dodge, and were shot in the shoulder, so they could only turn over to the other side of the carriage to heal.

A short stalemate was formed in front of the side, and the horse bandit brigade that had been behind immediately began to act, and the speed of advance was not fast, but it quickly turned into a large fan, and it could be seen that hundreds of people were divided into several teams, which happened to be aimed at the several gaps that appeared at present, and if any of them were broken, then these cavalry would rush in.

The enemy outside is too scattered, and because of the space, the advance team can guarantee too few troops in one direction, and the situation is gradually becoming more troublesome.

Two more guns were added in this direction, as a result of which two more gunners were shot with bows and arrows, but nevertheless a salvo was fired, pushing back more and more of the enemy by a distance.

But no matter how you look at the current situation, you can see that the next step is definitely not conducive to the car formation, such a car camp, in the front and rear directions, there is a door, this door is actually a movable chest wall, it looks not as difficult to attack as the big car, because it is a half-person high place, but the strength of the guard here is also full, and the Mongolian horse bandits will avoid here even if they want to charge.

Anyone who pays attention to the previous battles of Shandong soldiers and horses will find such a problem, that is, although Shandong's soldiers and horses are strong, their responses in many battles are somewhat rigid and stiff, and the changes in the battle can be said to be completely dependent on the flexible scheduling of the commander, if the response is not timely, there will often be failure.

After observation, many experienced commanders and generals often came to the conclusion that if they could grasp this point of stiff reaction and invest enough forces in time, they could turn the loss of Shandong's soldiers and horses into defeat and achieve victory.

To be able to observe this truth, you don't need any peerless generals, you only need to have some experience in leading troops, look at the current situation, it seems that it has reached this point, as long as you further invest your strength and seize the places where the Jiaozhou battalion is busy, you may be able to win.

The number of horse bandits was not too many, and seeing such a situation, the leader of the horse bandits began to draw soldiers from all over the rest of the car formation, preparing to add more strength to the front, ready to break through in one fell swoop.

At present, in the face of each other, the fire gun and the horn bow actually formed a standoff with each other, and from time to time some soldiers screamed and fell, but the "horse bandits" who followed behind dared to move forward desperately, and there were actually people with bird guns, fast guns and other things to shoot at the back of the big car baffle.

At this moment, I heard a noise in front of me, and at the front door set up in front of the cart array, two Franc machine one-pound guns bombarded outward, and the iron sand flew wildly, but the position of about twenty steps was a little quieter, and then I heard a shouting inside, and the wooden breastwork was moved.

A small phalanx shouted and walked out of this front door, and there were twenty firecrackers following this small phalanx, seeing this small phalanx, everyone in the horse bandit team was secretly scolding in their hearts, thinking that this small team was from where the demons and monsters came from, and it was actually such good equipment.

If you want to say that the artillery is not enough, the firearms of the Jiaozhou battalion are booming, this is a well-known thing, but at least half of the more than 100 soldiers are wearing armor.

This armor is not the ring arm iron armor of the Ming Dynasty or the scale armor, cotton armor or something, it looks like an iron bucket made up of several pieces of iron sheets, it looks very sturdy, the soldiers are wearing helmets on their heads, and the helmets look like iron, such a defense, what else to fight.

The faces of these Shandong soldiers were obscured by the shadow of the edge of their helmets, and they walked out with spears in their hands and quite steady steps.

The twenty musketeers walked out of the front door, and immediately fired a volley at the fiercest left flank, and this close-range fire immediately knocked down a dozen of them, and then the small squad made a jaw-dropping turn and pressed towards the left side of the front.

The firecrackers stayed between the spear team and the cart, trying their best to protect themselves from leaving this guard, not to mention that it was a small team of more than 100 people, at least thirty or forty spears in front of him, and these Mongolian horse bandits who rushed in front were wearing a raged robe, which could not resist at all.

The firing of this bow and arrow is much simpler than that of the firecracker, and the small team that came out of the firearm has not yet begun to load, and the horse bandits have reacted and began to draw the bow and shoot arrows.

If you want to shoot arrows, you naturally choose a more certain, larger target, this chest and abdomen, even if you don't shoot someone, it will definitely make people lose their combat effectiveness.

Four or five arrows have been fired in a flash, but the reaction is only a few dings, such a bow and arrow can not cause any damage to the plate armor forged by the forging hammer, when you want to pull the bow and shoot the arrow, the other party has already killed the front, how big can the front of the ten carts be.

A few steps to the front, can run is considered lucky, bad luck is directly poked a lot of blood holes, but a lot of rushing to the front are riding on horses, if the two sides are in the flat ground, hit the horse and run, no one can help it, but now there is a big car barrier, and it is a commotion, many people's actions are not as fast as the foot soldiers.

When the space was large, a lot of people were killed, and those on the periphery were scattered in a hurry, and these "Mongolian horse bandits" on the right wing wanted to attack the rear of this squad, but their flanks were also the front of the carts, and the soldiers of the Shandong advance team above were still attacking, and they couldn't pull back.

I could only watch this small team turn around, and after a little team, they killed again......

"All of them, front and back, left and right aligned, trotting forward, target, front enemy!!"

Zhang Kun, who was the first person on the right side of the first row of the square, gave a loud order with a spear in his hand, his spear was dripping blood, and he rushed out, and he also picked two people.

Zhang Kun issued the order loudly, but the spear in his hand was still erected, everyone in the square team was still fine-tuning the distance, and he also slightly recovered the fatigue of rushing below, and the commander's spear was not flattened, so he would not charge.

The firecrackers under the protection of this team moved quickly and completely loaded, and hurriedly shouted to Zhang Kun and said:

"My lord, it's time to shoot."

As the deputy garrison of the regiment and different soldiers, there is a difference between the helmet and the iron mask, Zhang Kun, as a general, he is very reluctant to wear this iron mask, disgusted this thing too breathlessly, looked at the "Mongolian horse bandits" who were already panicked in front of him, flattened the spear in his hand, and shouted in high spirits:

"Brothers, rush!!"

The formation of this small square is relatively easy to maintain, and it is not accompanied by the drums and drums, and the soldiers shout in unison, in fact, this sound similar to the sound of the trumpet in wartime adds an awe-inspiring momentum to this small phalanx, and the soldiers of the Shandong advance team walk in a neat pace, and the armor and weapons shine brightly.

Although there were only more than a hundred people, this momentum seemed to have thousands of people, scattered and shouting, and the horse bandits who were desperately charging there were already a little timid when they saw such a queue and front.

The fate of those companions was also clearly seen, and when they saw it, bows and arrows, fast guns, and bird guns were all coming towards this side.

In Europe, in order to deal with this plate armor, the power of the firearms is also constantly increasing, and on the East Asian continent, that is, the heavy smoothbore guns of the Jiaozhou battalion can penetrate the plate armor of these infantry.

As for these messy long-range weapons, they were just clanging, and seeing that the shooting was ineffective, these horse bandits were already panicking, and there were more than twenty smoothbore guns with enough power over there, and after dodging these messy long-range weapons behind these people, the musketeers trotted out.

A simple formation is a round of fire, and when the firearms are erected here, the "horse bandits" on that side are running away from the big cart formation.

After tossing for nearly ten days, how could it be so useless to fight, Zhang Kun, who led the small team, couldn't help but be a little angry, tossing Lao Tzu for so many days, just run, that's so easy.

Since passing the Lutai Town of Shuntianfu, these fly-like horse bandits have been endlessly harassed day and night, or when the sky is cloudy and raining, it is really unspeakably depressed, and now it is good to defeat it, and the more than 200 people in front of it finally have some desperate momentum, but these brigades of people in the back are really unusable.

Originally, the cavalry was divided into several groups, ready to wait for the opportunity to enter the open gap, but it was so disturbed that these cavalry actually shrank back like this.

Because of the encouragement of the team outside, the frequency of the counterattack from the large convoy to the outside has also accelerated, and the horse bandits around are also a little unbearable, seeing that the companions in front of them have been forced to retreat, these people are not ambiguous, and the wind is also tight.

This retreat was really much faster, and the horse bandits, who were still fierce before, retreated back towards the way they came, but when they retreated, after running to the distance they thought were safe, they were beating their horses slowly, as if they were in no hurry.

This is the wisdom of the Mongolian soldiers and horses, after the Mongolian soldiers and horses were frustrated for a while, they also retreated one after another, but they always gave the illusion that the enemy could catch up.

This speeding up the pursuit often makes it easy to keep a tight formation into a loose one, and when the time comes, the cavalry with more advantages in speed and mobility can take advantage of the situation to turn their heads and kill them, turning defeat into victory, seeing that these horse bandits are actually the same way.

The leader of the advance team, Zhang Kun, the deputy garrison of the regiment, was angered by this scene, thinking that you bastards will fight when you say you will fight, and you will run away, you really don't pay attention to the soldiers and horses in Shandong, Zhang Kun directly led the soldiers of the team and turned in another direction, facing the evacuated horse bandits.

Zhang Kun looked at the horse bandits who were more than a hundred steps away in front of him, he adjusted his breathing slightly, and raised his hand to pull down his face armor.

"Catch up and kill a few!!"

There are four generals who came out this time, and these 100 people are almost his direct troops, Zhang Xiu is the outlaw, and the people below are also not well-behaved characters, what kind of generals bring out what kind of soldiers, this is not false at all.

The soldiers of the advance team inside the car formation just breathed a sigh of relief, but they saw Zhang Kun, the deputy garrison of the regiment, facing the front, and flattening the spear again, and a group of Shandong soldiers rushed towards the front like wolves and tigers.

In fact, the weight of this plate armor is really not too heavy compared to the cotton armor of the Manchu Dynasty, but the distance is so far, and it is inevitable that it will be a little troublesome to chase these cavalry, and if you are tired and are turned around and killed by the opponent's mobile horse bandit cavalry, things will be troublesome.

The leader who led the horse bandits saw that the armored infantry with spears on the other side was chasing after him so swaggeringly, he was really happy in his heart, this attack was already without any hope, who would have thought that the other party would catch up so stupidly, his luck is really good!

The world says that the Jiaozhou battalion is strong and well-trained, but no matter how physical strength it has, it will not be able to support it under the consumption of such armor and running.

It's only more than fifty steps, and the firecrackers behind him are already a little unable to keep up, and they ran for more than a dozen steps, and the complete square formation just now is also scattered a lot, a foolish general, the leader of the horse bandits all think so, even if you wear good armor and have training, what deterrent can the zero marchers who have lost the protection of the formation have.

Seeing such a loose formation, for these horse bandits, it is like a piece of bloody meat on the side of the wolf and tiger's mouth, if you don't bite it, it will be against instinct, eat this team, you can continue to besiege the car formation, maybe there is still a chance to win, those horse bandits who are running slowly have turned their horses' heads, ready to move.

It was estimated that there was still a distance of more than 40 paces, and more and more horse bandits turned around, and the Shandong officers and soldiers in the car formation were all angry, and the general in charge of the defense in this direction was about to lead the troops to rush outside.

The team led by Zhang Kun was running, more and more scattered, and when they heard a whistle, the horse bandits who had been preparing for a long time drove the horses one after another and surrounded them.

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