In addition to pinning his hopes on the killing of the bow and arrow, Tan Tai's other card also began to show up.

The two Niu Lu were outflanked from both flanks, and at this time they also arrived at a place only one hundred and twenty zhang away from the artillery battalion position, and began to prepare to accelerate the charge.

When cavalry fights, they do not charge from beginning to end, which consumes too much horsepower, so they generally approach the opponent slowly, and only begin to accelerate when the charge can solve the battle. Moreover, the cavalry was far less powerful in the face of a strong formation, and in many cases, dense infantry formations, weapons at medium and long distances, and firm morale could often inflict great damage on the cavalry. For example, the Jianyu Aixinjue Luo clan defeated the Jurchen Yehebu by relying on heavy infantry. Legend has it that among the Yehebe Nara clan, there was once a captive Khan who cursed Jianju: "I, Yeh Nara, have only one woman left in the end, and I will also destroy your Ai Xinjue Luo clan." ”

And the most famous woman of the Yehenala clan in later generations, her name was Yehenala Xingzhen, and she was later called "Cixi".

Tan Tai glanced at the two sides in a hurry, and saw that they had entered the charging stage, and his heart couldn't help but be relieved.

Even if this strange group of "Ming troops" has a way to deal with the salvo of bows and arrows on their side, they can't deal with the iron cavalry assault on that side, this battle, he is victorious!

But immediately, his pupils contracted violently, because he saw that in the enemy formation, those "Ming troops" who turned their backs and covered the artillery battalion soldiers with their bodies often had several or even more than ten arrows stuck in their bodies, and then turned around!

Stamping and forging steel casting is a technical reserve that Yu Guozhen has completed when he was in Xiang'an, and in any period in the future, he has collected manpower to develop muskets and artillery, to make glass, and to make enamel, but he has not reduced his investment in steelmaking technology.

In the eyes of some craftsmen, Childe's pursuit of steelmaking is almost "perverted", it is really incredible, they have obviously made good steel - it is very likely to be the best steel in the world in this era, but Yu Guozhen is not satisfied, and constantly invests a lot of money, reforms the formula, improves the process, and requires every detail to the point of nitpicking, and sometimes, it is simply a waste.

It can be said that Yu Guozhen's investment in steelmaking technological innovation every year is enough to maintain another new Xianghuwei!

But it is precisely this huge investment for four consecutive years that has made Xinxiang steelmaking technology develop by leaps and bounds, not only ahead of this era, but also far behind all opponents. This year's steel output is expected to reach a terrible 800 tons -- Yu Guozhen set two catties as one catty and 1,000 catties as one ton, and these 800 tons are equivalent to 1.6 million catties of steel, and there is also six times the amount of iron, and this total steel output has exceeded twice the annual iron output of the Guangdong Provincial Government Department during the Jiajing period!

Why after receiving more than 100,000 people, Xinxiang still lacks enough labor, the reason is this, Yu Guozhen is still expanding the scale of production, he knows that for modern industry, steel is the skeleton, without the steel industry, can not support the military industry, can not support shipbuilding, can not support the steam engine and railway!

Those who think that it is possible to slowly accumulate and then complete industrialization from light industries such as textiles often cite the example of the United Kingdom, but they never think that at the same time that the textile industry in Britain began to change technologically, its steel industry was also undergoing drastic changes!

On the wall of the Xinxiang Iron Workshop, the slogan is "No steel, no Xinxiang"!

And the high investment not only improves the production, but also improves the quality, for example, the steel used to press armor is the highest standard steel at this time, and its toughness is better than 100 steels at the same weight.

The teaching regiment is equipped with two layers of such steel armor, one layer of inlaid full-body armor, one layer of half-body steel armor, and the helmet is not a thin layer of enamel steel helmet used by light infantry, but a double-layer steel helmet hidden in a felt hat. They weighed nearly thirty pounds in armor, and in a way, they were more like hoplites.

Therefore, even a layer of steel armor could not penetrate the shot within the range of a bow and arrow of 100 steps!

Except for a very few who were too unlucky, most of the Huwei of the Teaching Regiment were like hedgehogs, sticking arrows in their bodies, then turning around, aiming, and shooting!

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

This is the loudest answer given to Tan Tai by the Xinxiang Tiger Guard Teaching Group, it doesn't mean that they are not injured at all, those arrows may still be inserted into their bodies, making their young bodies bleed and hurt, they must use great courage and perseverance to overcome these injuries, and then, return the pain to Jian Yu tenfold.

"The army under the city is not a body of steel?" Cui Bingde in the city couldn't help but exclaim.

He had seen the kind of characters who were still fighting with more than a dozen arrows in their bodies, but among the thousands of troops, it was extremely remarkable that one or two characters could appear, but right now, in this strange army of less than five hundred, all of them were such characters!

The title of the Iron Army of the New Xianghuwei Teaching Regiment has spread out because of this!

"The gods are above...... Sitku, your new master...... What kind of people is it, this army of his ......"

"I told you, my master, that he is more noble than any Beizi Baelor, that he is the son of luck favored by the gods, and I even thought that he was the walking of the gods in the world!" Sitku grabbed his brother by the neck: "Brother, I don't want you to fight such warriors, you will die at their hands, you will not be able to cause them any harm at all, and their muskets can tear you apart before you can get close......"

As if to confirm the words of Sitku, because of the closer, and because the front infantry armor was killed by nearly half, this second round of shooting caused a heavier blow to Jianyu, this time not only knocked down most of the remaining heavy armor foot soldiers, even the archers, but also fell in pieces!

Tan Tai himself was shot several times, his body staggered backwards, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks.

The fishy pain between his mouth and chest and abdomen made him know that he was likely to be hit by a projectile and broke his ribs. Tan Tai endured the pain and shouted: "Rush, rush up!" ”

But in his heart was despair.

Compared with Cui Bingde and Xiteku, who are on the outside, he knows better what kind of army he is facing! This is an iron army, a steel army, although they only have 500 people, but at this moment, they are as tall and unshakable as Baektu Mountain!

He thought of a sentence that had been circulated among the Manchurians for many years and still made them feel afraid from the bottom of their bones: It is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army!

When he heard this sentence before, he was somewhat unconvinced, he only felt that it was the weakness of the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom, so it gave Yue Fei the opportunity to become famous.

But now, he realizes what kind of people he is facing!

They will give birth to the Yue family army and the Qi family army, as long as they are given a little thought, they can use this to ignite the world!

Even those two cavalry sent out, Tan Tai was completely hopeless, he now realized that he was wrong, very wrong, this was a force he had never encountered before, it was impossible for him to defeat them and recapture the artillery battalion!

Then, he saw a scene that frightened him even more, those cannons had already adjusted their positions and began to aim and reload again!

How is this possible? He couldn't believe that the cannon could complete the cleaning work in such a short time!

He was hoping that after coming into range of his own archers, he would inflict great damage on them through a rain of arrows, if not completely destroy those artillery battalion soldiers, at least slow down their reloading speed. As long as they can get close, then the winner of this battle has already been decided.

But what he didn't expect was that the teaching regiment was not only not scattered by the rain of arrows, but also used his body to cover the artillery battalion soldiers!

How did those artillery battalion soldiers not know this, the rain of arrows that built the capture did not retain their surname at all, in this case, while asking for their lives, while saving their lives, how to act, it is not clear?

Now that they knew what to do, they sped up their speed in order to save their lives, and they completed the cleaning in a very short time, and then they reloaded.

If Jianlu moved forward a little further, under the projectile, even if the teaching regiment used its body to cover, it would not be able to help these artillery battalion soldiers, but now Jianyu was shot down by a round of guns and nearly 100 people, and the entire front has been shaken, whether to advance or retreat, and in the midst of hesitation, the speed of advance will inevitably slow down.

With this slowdown, Tan Tai estimated that it would be impossible for them to break through into the enemy formation before the opponent fired the second round of artillery, and it was very likely that they would encounter a scatter-bombardment head-on, so his only hope was the cavalry that was outflanked from both flanks!

If these people can break into the artillery array and kill a large number of artillery battalion soldiers, the tide of this battle may be reversed!

His gaze involuntarily aimed towards the two wings, and the cavalry on both wings had accelerated to the extreme, but they were still about seventy feet away from the enemy. These seventy zhang is almost a blink of an eye for a galloping horse!

Tan Tai couldn't help but have a glimmer of hope in his heart: Perhaps, he can still be saved?

Zhang Zheng squinted at the galloping Jianlu, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

They rushed from the left and right sides, almost against the wall of the Great Wall of Lengkou Pass, if the Ming army in this city had the heart, even if they threw down two stones, they could cause damage to the Jianyu.

But no stone fell.

Zhang Zheng's sneer was even stronger, he didn't expect the officers and soldiers at the head of the city, when they came, they brought a little something, these things, I think it will give the cavalry of Jianyu a deep memory.

The entire artillery battalion is not only the eight cannons and the gun carriages that transport the guns, but the corresponding baggage vehicles add up to dozens of them. The teaching regiment drove away the artillery battalion soldiers, not only did they carry the cannons down and set up artillery arrays, but those vehicles that carried artillery and carried heavy loads were also forcibly driven out, and three layers were placed on the two wings of the teaching regiment every ten paces.

The regiment then pulled out a ball of wire from behind their horses' butts and connected the vehicles together.

For Xinxiang, who has such a high iron output, wire drawing is just a technology invented for the large-scale production of iron nails. However, Yu Guozhen felt that these wires could be used as a simple repellent horse, and only a few wooden stakes were needed, and they could be quickly laid out on the battlefield to form a simple defense system to deal with cavalry charges.

And the cavalry that Tan Tai had high hopes for collided with such a defensive system!

(To be continued)