Seeing the tired Shandong soldiers chasing halfway, and the nearest to the other party was more than 20 steps away, if it was really a Mongolian horse bandit on the grassland, it would be terrible to have such a gathering and dispersing action.

After the whistle, the group of men and horses scattered in all directions, followed by whistles of varying lengths, and the bandits could be seen to split into three groups, the remaining two towards the sides of the scattered infantry formation, and more forces gathered together and crashed towards the front of the small formation.

It was too late for the more than 20 firecrackers to rush over, and the follow-up soldiers and horses in the chariot formation had not yet come out, seeing that these foot soldiers who had lost their formation were about to be scattered and eaten by the cavalry.

Originally, looking at it from this side, the hundred spearmen led by Zhang Kun were already unable to run, and the degree was much slower, but when the horse bandits were whistled and approached, these foot soldiers in armor suddenly accelerated their pace, and they ran even faster than when they charged.

Since he was already moving, he couldn't stop, and he counted the horses and foot soldiers, and always felt that he might rush over before the other party gathered.

These so-called horse bandits couldn't stop a little, and kicked the horse's belly fiercely, and then the leader of the horse bandits in the back team had a problem.

The other party's foot soldiers were indeed scattered at the beginning, but the degree of scattering was not as good as everyone saw, these Shandong foot soldiers wearing armor were indeed full of physical strength, and they were not tired yet.

That is, the soldiers in the back two rows have not yet gathered in the formation, but the cavalry of the horse bandits has not had time to cover the whole small square formation.

By now, the cavalry could only continue to rush up, if not. If you are so close to the other party and adjust your direction, the degree of the horse will definitely slow down, and when the time comes, as long as these Shandong foot soldiers show the degree just now, they will start to easily assassinate many people in the back.

Taking advantage of the other party's unstable foothold, the other party was overwhelmed, and now the situation has to be rushed. Then many of these cavalrymen who rushed forward heard the angry shout of the officer leading the other party:

"Flat spear, reject the horse!!"

The last two rows of soldiers also accounted for the small square. If the original camp phalanx or regimental phalanx. Under the rejection formation. In the inner circle, there will be people with spears still on standby. Because the formation is too wide. That is, the front four or five rows of spears can be extended at various angles.

But this small square is that all the spears of all people can hit the enemy outside. But this phalanx. Otherwise, it's not too thick. If it's a strong cavalry. In such a situation, it is still possible to hit the ground of this team. But these bandits are not the so-called strong cavalry.

The opposing small square quickly turned into a hedgehog with a spear outstretched. See this hedgehog. Rushing to the front, everyone wondered if they rushed forward. It's definitely going to hit it and turn it into a sieve. Then it is possible that the local people in the back will also take the opportunity to open this small square. The crux of the matter is. Why should I be this sieve?

Everyone who rushed to the front strangled their horses. Let the horses slow down. Or maybe you want to steer. Acting like this on the battlefield is subconscious. But it is the most taboo.

If it is said to be the cavalry of the Jurchen Eight Banners. At this time, it is connected into a riding formation. It just collided side by side. But these horse bandits are scattered in formation. There was no formation at all.

The crux of the matter is that no one wants to run to the front to die. These people were counting on the small square of Shandong to disperse under the power of the cavalry assault.

But the infantry of Shandong, the cavalry that they have faced, the powerful cavalry of the current East Asia Big 6 has almost been beaten, and the reason why it is said to be almost the same, because the Shandong soldiers and horses all think that their iron cavalry is the strongest.

With this kind of casual charge, it is not enough to shake the formation of the Jiaozhou battalion, even this small square, this charge has become ridiculous for a while, and when approaching this small square, it seems to be some invisible barrier, and the degree has slowed down.

This is not difficult for Zhang Kun who is standing in the phalanx, he has some ways to deal with such a scene, seeing that these bandits are fighting so obscenely, Zhang Kun shouted again:

"Two steps forward, assassination!!"

The small square faced outward, and the soldiers strode towards the enemy in front of them, and then skillfully swung their arms and stabbed their spears fiercely.

The front and back were crowded, and they couldn't turn around, and what they didn't expect was that the other party would actually take the initiative to leave the formation to assassinate, although it was condescending, but the spears and knives in their hands could not cause damage to the advance team soldiers wearing armor, and they were restricting the horses, and they were in a hurry.

After Zhang Kun's order was given, there was already a scream around him, and after the assassination, these deficiencies quickly returned to the formation.

After his own order, Zhang Kun also strode forward, and the cavalry rushing towards him was very fast, but these Mongolian horse bandits in leather robes, leather robes and ** could not resist the assassination of the spear, and there would not even be any obstacles, and the momentum of the impact of the horses and people was even superimposed on this spear.

Sure enough, Zhang Kun's diagonal upward spear stabbed through the horse thief who raised the long knife without hindrance, as soon as the person died, the raised long knife immediately lost its strength and fell weakly, Zhang Kun's stabbing power was used very much, only fatal, and then it would not get the spear stuck in the opponent's body and could not be withdrawn.

As for the horse bandits around him, he didn't need to worry, and he stepped forward to assassinate them, and he also acted as neatly as possible, so that they could take care of each other and protect each other, which was more powerful.

Until now, these Mongolian horse bandits have only appeared, and their pretense of running slowly did not lead these Shandong advance teams into their traps, but on the contrary, they were deceived by the pretense of this small team, and they got in.

The horse bandits who realized this were even more panicked, and the entire formation exploded almost instantly, and they all ran out. The small square team that shrank back spread out again, and while the horses could not be added, they stabbed behind them.

When the phalanx of foot soldiers faced the cavalry, if the cavalry fled or roamed around, the infantry had no choice but to shoot with long-range weapons, and if the enemy was also out of range, it would only be time for both sides to grind. Zhang Kun used tricks to show weakness and attracted the other party in, and sure enough, he killed a lot, and he had a bad anger in his heart.

But the assassination of Fang Cai. caught these so-called horse bandits off guard, Zhang Kun heard what he expected, the screams of these horse bandits when they were dying were not Mongolian at all, but in Ming Chinese. Although the shouting was very short, it could still be heard that this was the accent of Bei Zhili's side.

Now the horse bandits are already in the same direction, although they are in a mess, the surroundings here are gentle and mountainless, and it is clear and cloudless, if these horse bandits have any reinforcements or rear hands, I am afraid that they will have to come by this time. It has been a mess here for a long time, but there has been no movement around.

Zhang Kun already has the upper hand outside. At this time, it should be out of the ranks to fight and expand this upper hand. The situation was so obvious that the officers in the car formation must have been able to see it.

It's when it's grappling here. The 200 musketeers inside the formation had already stepped out of the formation and were lined up waiting to be shot.

But the firecrackers didn't have time to fire. Because these Mongol horse thieves had already begun to flee to the east, such a situation was really impossible to catch up.

It doesn't make any sense for these horse bandits to stay here, not to mention that the hedgehog ground foot pawn team can't eat, and they can't resist watching a large number of soldiers with firearms rush out.

A sudden, but not very strenuous skirmish, ended the whole camp in some confusion, and most of the officers and soldiers at all levels, except for the necessary vigilance forces, were busy cleaning up the camp, at least the flaps on the outside of the carts had to pull down the arrows.

The dead and wounded in front of the cart also needed to be removed, and after a battle, it was not even past noon, and they had to tidy up and continue on their way.

This is a small victory, there is no doubt about this, but several generals are full of anger towards Zhang Kun, too many behaviors today are completely disregarding the overall situation, leading a small personal army to win the risk, it is still easy to say if you win, but if you don't win, it will be troublesome.

Now everyone is cleaning up the battlefield and treating the wounded, but Zhang Kun, the deputy garrison of the regiment, is wandering around the battlefield, which is even more infuriating.

Zhang Kun took a saber and constantly picked up the clothes of these horse bandit corpses on the battlefield, if Jizhen could let such a large group of Mongolian horse bandits run rampant, I am afraid that Wang Yongji, the governor of Jiliao, would have been spread all over the world, and the shouting and scolding in the official dialect of Beizhili just now also made Zhang Kun confirm the fact of counterfeiting, and now it is necessary to see which direction these people are counterfeiting.

It is true that there are Mongols, and the closer they get to the front of the chariot formation, the corpses lying on the ground are dressed as Mongols on the steppe inside and out, and on the periphery, especially those who were assassinated by the small party, they can see the coats they are wearing when they jump open their outer leather robes with knives.

This uniform is the clothing of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but with the current situation of military quarters, it is difficult to say whether ordinary soldiers can have a non-tattered uniform, so brand-new, ten ** is a general's personal soldiers or directly subordinate troops, which cannot be said that these people who pretend to be "horse bandits" are not careful.

They may feel that even if they can't beat it, they can escape very calmly, after all, they ride horses and cruise lightly, and the other party is a cart and foot soldiers, and they will not be caught up at all, they are wrong.

They thought that they could completely crush each other with exhaustion and tension by relying on the rainy weather, muddy roads, and non-stop harassment day and night, but they were also wrong.

There were no minor wounded on the battlefield, the result of being killed by the musket and spear, either death or a serious injury near death, the performance of this group of horse bandits before and after the battle was completely different, it would make people think that these were two completely different armies, previously holding a horned bow to shoot at the firecrackers on the cart, and some people risked spear assassination to climb the outer side of the cart, but the rear brigade of men and horses began to attack the posture very sufficiently, really want to fight, but there is no morale, but the front and back are different, the front is more chaotic but dare to fight hard. There are rules in the back, but there is little courage.

Zhang Kun just wanted to understand why there was such a difference before and after, he walked around the battlefield and never found a suitable person to ask. The dead and the seriously wounded, unconscious, how can they speak.

Walking to the left of the door where the small team came out, Zhang Kun finally found a person who could be questioned, the horse bandit lying here. The Mongolian leather robe on the outside had been stained red with blood, and the leather robe had been torn open by him, revealing the inner garment, which looked like there was more than just a wound on the body.

The enemy soldier lying on the ground was in pain, and the ground hole was already twisted. Zhang Kun walked up to him, lowered his head and asked:

"Who sent you here?"

This sentence was repeated, but the injured horse bandit below did not react, but just hissed: "Help, help." I say everything, I say everything!! ”

Zhang Kun picked up the saber in his hand, reversed the blade and pulled it down with the back of the knife, and slammed it into the wound of the horse bandit, which made it even more painful, and the injured horse bandit, who was already lying on the ground and couldn't move, was stimulated by the sudden sharp pain and bent down and sat up from the ground.

Then he lay back weakly. But this stimulation made the horse bandit sober up, and there was no blood on his face. Fang Cai's rapid breathing has also become a lot more stable, and it looks a little better. But in reality this is a near-death state.

"Who sent you?"

Zhang Kun squatted down and asked. The horse bandit opened his eyes and said weakly, "Help me." Zhang Kun grinned and sneered, and continued:

"If you want to die happily, then say it honestly, otherwise Lao Tzu guarantees that you will suffer more than Fang Cai!!"

After speaking, Zhang Kun put the saber in his hand on the shoulder of the horse bandit, and with a slight force, the expression that slowed down became distorted again, these officers and soldiers pretended to be horse bandits without a strong will, and after a little hesitation, they spoke:

"We are the deputy general of Yongping Zhongtun Guard, Xiang Fu Yidi's own soldiers, and we were ordered to intercept your team......"

Hearing this, Zhang Kun spat on the ground, it was really an expected force, but he was not interested in who sent them over, but the completely different performance before and after, Zhang Kun left the knife in his hand a little, and asked with a smile:

"At the beginning, those hundreds of people came to attack on horseback, but they looked like they were fighting, why did you cultivate this virtue?"

"That's spending money to hire Tartar caravans outside the mouth......"

After saying this, there was no need for Zhang Kun to give them any pleasure, this horse bandit was directly dead with a crooked head, hearing this explanation, Zhang Kun breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, Fang Cai's will to fight without fear of death was really amazing.

If the soldiers in Jizhen are of such quality, or can have a fraction of this quality, it is also a big trouble, since it is understandable that the Mongolian horse bandits hired outside the mouth are understandable, these horse bandits may not be how brave and unparalleled, but there are people behind them who are coerced, and they are taking money to sell their lives, so they have to do it.

Zhang Kun stood up and looked around again, calculated the distance, and said loudly:

"Don't worry about the life or death of these horse bandits, make up for him if he is angry, let's get out of the team as soon as possible, this bastard's Yongping Mansion is in too much trouble."

As soon as this order was given, the soldiers who were moving slowly and leisurely on the side immediately became busy, generally speaking, the time to clean up the battlefield in this way is actually to relieve the tension of the battle and replenish their physical strength.

There were a total of thirteen wounded soldiers in the advance team in the battle, and after these soldiers were simply bandaged in the team, they were carefully placed directly on the cart, and during the battle, the livestock pulling the cart were encircled by the cart array, and they were not disturbed, and they could get a good rest.

When it was time to move forward, he could go out immediately, because of the attack of the horse bandits, he didn't even finish breakfast, and many people just took a piece of dry food and ate while walking on the road, and the official road was much better than a few days ago, but this time Zhang Kun changed the layout.

The large convoy was not lined up with long snakes, but divided into two columns, and in the gap between the two columns, there was a large cart in front and behind, which was also to quickly form a vehicle formation to counterattack in the event of an attack.

Because this advance team went deep alone, although the Hebei army had not yet become an army, it still gave them enough equipment and elite soldiers.

Zhang Kun is also very confident in himself. He still remembered what his local brother Zhang Jiang said to him when he left Hejian Mansion: "The surname Zhang is a lot of generals, although we are all promoted with military merits, it is difficult to protect the discussion of idlers, so if my surname Zhang is saved, I need to make great contributions to calm the discussion of others." ”

This lone army went deeper, and if it can achieve the intended goal, it will be a great achievement. But so far, it is only a thrill to achieve this predetermined goal, and it is difficult to call it a great achievement.

In the current Jiaozhou camp system, there are several so-called good years. One is the fifth year of Chongzhen to the sixth year of Chongzhen, which was the stage of the beginning of the handsome, and more than 100 people at that time were either the generals of the Kaifu or the local officials. The second is the battle of Qihe County in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, and the third is the battle of Dihejian Mansion in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

Although there have been large and small battles in these battles, whether or not he has fought to the death with the Tartars has always been the most important thing on Li Meng's side.

As for other battles, the military merits of the battle with the camp were higher than the battles with the Ming officers and soldiers, and the battles with the Ming officers and soldiers were higher than the battles of the local bandits, and these people in the Jiaozhou battalion also analyzed the law. If you want to be promoted, you have to fight a tough battle.

Zhang Kun understood in his heart. Although it is difficult to walk along the way, there may not be any danger. I am afraid that in the end, I can't even say a word about Zhang Jiang. With a decent narrative, it would be good to be able to get to a regiment garrison within two years. Want to make a big contribution. To be promoted, you have to take risks.

But how to risk such a situation, it is really unknown, the will to fight of the soldiers and horses of Yongping Mansion, or the will to fight of those pro-soldiers Ding elite, has been seen in the chaotic battle in the morning, such a straw bale seed, I really can't imagine what kind of tough battle it will be.

The ground is indeed not a tough battle, don't look at the corpses lying in front of the car formation, but none of them are from Shandong, and the dozen or so who were slightly injured are now tied up in bandages to help.

It was noon, and although the sun was in the sky, there was no feeling of exposure, because it was getting north and north, and the weather was pleasant at this time.

Stirred up by the sudden events in the morning, the habit of setting up a pot on the side to cook at noon has also changed, the weather is sunny, and some people are interested, take their hunting bows to go around to hunt rabbits and the like and come back to open meat, and now they feel quite tired.

The big guys are all feeling out some dry food pickles to fill a little indiscriminately, and the water with the water bladder will be sent down to deal with the past, who would have thought that some people have a mouthful of cold dry food before they go down, and they will see the smoke and dust in the east again, and the sky will be cloudy and rainy in the previous days, and the ground will be damp, although it has dried a lot in the past few days, there is still some moisture.

At least the team of people and horses walking on the road, the smoke and dust are much smaller than in the past, looking at the scale of the smoke and dust in the distance, if it is a normal day, it is estimated that it is more than 2,000 people, and now this estimate is at least doubled, Zhang Kun scolded secretly on the horse, but heard someone behind him coughing loudly.

Looking back, someone was eating cakes, but they were startled by the original smoke, they didn't swallow it, they choked, and they were pounding their chests and coughing there, Zhang Kun turned around and shouted loudly:

"Get the cart out of the way, circle up and get ready to fight!!"

The people below all shouted in unison, and one of the generals dismounted and ran two steps faster, ran to the front to the official road, lay on the ground and listened, stood up and turned back and said:

"Of the size of more than 5,000 people, almost half are cavalry."

Zhang Kun's face was gloomy again, the gang of horse bandits just now was only more than a thousand people, and it was a lot of trouble, this time there was such a group of people, who knew if he could support it, he turned around and held his breath and shouted loudly:

"Make the car formation as round as possible, these bastards from Yongping Mansion will have more people coming this time!!"

The cart is arranged in the shape of a formation, which determines the strategy against different enemies, in this case, it can only be used in a circular formation, so that the enemy cannot find out the strength and weakness of this formation, and the confrontation is balanced.

After Zhang Kun finished shouting, the general who was listening in front of him lay on the ground again, but the smoke and dust in the distance slowly became smaller, and the general stood up, turned around and said suspiciously:

"My lord, the brigade in front seems to have stopped."

What's going on, watching the smoke and dust in the distance gradually calm down, everyone in the advance team looked at each other.

After a short time, a horse galloped from the east side of the official road, and when it approached the chariot formation, the knight on the horse shouted at the top of his voice:

"Yongping Zhongtun Wei Deputy General Xiang led his troops and horses to meet all of you in Shandong!!

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