It's already quite thick.

As early as when Zhang Qiu's order was issued and Wu Yijun was arrayed, Tang Gugu was already staring at the flag who came to report the news with burning eyes, and scolded in his heart: "Abai, this waste, let him hide it and listen to my notice, but he leaked his whereabouts, he really deserves to be killed!" Okay, let him go this time, after this battle, he will say it well, but now he can't wait, wait, these Han dog arrays are going to end! ”

Thinking in his heart, he was already holding a bow and arrow, shooting towards the flag, this arrow was ruthless, and the angle was also tricky, seeing that the flag was going to shoot this arrow directly, but it was also a big life to stop this person. When Tang Gu opened his bow and set up arrows, his war horse endured the injury and was stupid for a long time, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

But because of this, he dodged Tang Gu's killer arrow, and an arrow shot into the air, Tang Gu smashed his fist on the horse in annoyance, but he also knew that he couldn't delay, he raised his hand high and said loudly: "Come on, generals, kill me out!" ”

The flag had already turned over, and he didn't care about the war horse, and staggered towards the large army, shouting in a hissing voice as he ran: "There is also an ambush in the woods!" ”

When the arrow flew in, Zhang Qiu already understood this, and he waved his hand: "Go and pick up Qiu San back." ”

Two knights came out in response, approaching the side of the horse, one of them holding up one of his arms. Qiu San only felt that the clouds were like flying through the fog, and he was in front of Zhang Qiu.

At this time, the strikers of Tang Gu and other armies had already emerged from the woods, but in order to seek concealment, for fear of being discovered by Wu Yijun, he hid his soldiers very deeply. For a while, they still couldn't all come out, and Wu Yijun had already used this time to start arranging the formation.

Although Tang Gu was angry, there was nothing he could do. He didn't dare to rely on the hundred or so people around him to rush into the big formation of the Wu Yi Army, it was really no different from death, although he was unwilling in his heart. But they had to wait for the cavalry to come out of the woods.

At this time, Wu Yijun's formation had gradually begun to improve.

And from the beginning of a array, Wu Yijun seemed to be intentional or unintentional, just taking care of himself, and did not mean to protect those untouchables behind.

In fact, it is indeed impossible to control it, Wu Yijun is such a small person, it is already good to take care of himself, how can he protect these tens of thousands of untouchables? Wrap them in the center? I'm afraid that when the Wu Yi Army's weak defense line can't protect the untouchables. On the contrary, it will be easily broken by the implicated, and he will be completely annihilated.

Lian Zining's purpose instilled in Wu Yijun is not how great it is, but that it is necessary to protect the soldiers first and ensure that they kill and injure the enemy more. Fewer casualties yourself!

Wu Yijun's training never taught the soldiers how to protect the people.

Qiu San was already out of breath and reported to Zhang Qiu what he had discovered before.

Zhang Qiu sat on the horse and listened carefully, a fat face that had always been smiling was already full of solemnity and heaviness.

Looking at the cavalry about a hundred paces away, gathering more and more, Zhang Qiu found that his situation was already very bad, and the cavalry in front of him was at least in the thousands. According to Qiu San's report, about five or six miles away, there were definitely a lot of cavalry.

He is only 6,800 foot soldiers, can he resist these thousands of cavalry?

Zhang Qiuqiu was very depressed, the first time he led the troops to go out on the expedition, he encountered such a dirty thing, it was really disgusting, but now he doesn't have time to care about so much. At this distance, it is already possible to see the weapons of the cavalry on the opposite side - armor and mace, what is this not the Jurchen cavalry? …,

Zhang Qiu instantly made a decision in his heart, he had to strike first, but he couldn't be so passive.

At this time, the large phalanx in the middle of the three phalanxes was not completely good, but the four artillery hundred-household phalanxes on both sides - they were phalanxes, in fact, the artillery was lined up in a row - had already taken shape, and the soldiers put the Franc machine gun and the tiger squat cannon on the ground, and began to put the guns and medicine bags in place, and the buckets of water on the car had been unloaded, and the soldiers had already prepared everything.

Seeing this, Zhang Qiu immediately rushed to the front of the battle, and shouted: "Now open the cannon, open the cannon!" ”

The heralds waved their flags and shouted and ran in front of the formation, although the soldiers were stunned, but they still obeyed, and at this time, the artillerymen were more than a hundred paces away from the cavalry, and they were close to hundreds of meters away, such a distance, except for the Franc machine gun, everything else was in vain.

The soldiers have plugged the guns into the fire at the end of the barrel, and now the main combat unit of the Wu Yi Army, which is also the first and thirteenth guards, all the artillery uses medium Franc machine guns, and the sample Franc machine guns they used before have been eliminated to the new guards.

The 18th Guard of the Wu Yi Army has a total of 4,000 households, eight artillery units and 100 households, including four Franc machine guns and 100 households, each of which has more than 120 people, ten flags, 12 people in each banner, and three artillery groups and four artillery groups. It is also a Franc cannon, and there are 30 Franc cannons in 100 households, and the entire 18th guard is one hundred and twenty Franc cannons.

About 50 people have a cannon, and this kind of artillery configuration is the strongest army in the world in this era.

And these advantages will naturally have to be brought into play.

With Zhang Qiu's order, the gunner lit the fuse, which snorted and finally burned to the end.

At this moment, countless loud noises rang out, and even Abai and the others, who were miles away and were still leading the cavalry to gallop towards the battlefield, were all really listening. In Abai's senses, the entire ground seemed to tremble, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he secretly said in his heart: "Aren't these Wu Yi soldiers all some foot soldiers?" How can there be cannons, how many cannons do you have to create such a movement? I'm afraid it's hard to fight today! ”

His face had only changed drastically, and the cavalry led by Tang Gu, who had been attacked head-on by one hundred and twenty Buddha cannons, was unlucky.

Heavy white smoke rose from the muzzle of the Franc machine. One hundred and twenty leads, more than two inches in diameter and weighing five taels and nine coins, smashed heavily into the array of Jurchen cavalry.

Most of the three thousand Jurchen cavalry hiding in the woods have already come out, in fact, at this time, Tang Gu has already sorted out the formation and is ready to attack!

And the Jurchen cavalry was completely defenseless against these sudden shells, and Tang Gu's troops were in the offensive and defensive battle of Zhenyuan Mansion a few months ago. He didn't actually go into battle, so he didn't personally appreciate the huge casualties caused by the countless steel and gunpowder. Although I heard it from the mouths of the robes, I didn't believe it after all. And they also thought that artillery could only be used when defending the city, but they didn't think that this Wuyi army would also carry artillery when marching. I didn't expect them to set up the formation so quickly, and what I didn't expect the most was that they launched so hastily and hit so accurately.

Lian Zining's training plan for the artillerymen almost averaged ten shells per day for an artillery group, and it was also nine hundred shells for an artillery crew during the three-month training period for recruits, and these shells were all white silver! Xiong Tingbi, Chen Dakang, Wang Dachun of the Logistics Department, and even Gonzalez of the Ordnance Bureau all persuaded Lian Zining. This kind of training is too wasteful. Such an intensity, even more than thirty times that of the elite French artillery! Lian Zining was unmoved by anyone's persuasion, but just insisted. …,

He doesn't care how much money he has, what he wants is the effect!

Now, the effects of long-term hard training are being felt. Although it was the first actual combat shooting, nearly ninety percent of these shells fell into the cavalry array, and very few missed.

The lead was endowed with tremendous kinetic energy, burning red from the momentary friction, and hundreds of them were scorching. With extremely high temperature shells, they fell on the newly formed cavalry array of the Jurchens.

Some cannonballs smashed on the ground, hitting a pillar of mud the thickness of a bowl, and countless ashes were sprinkled down, like the earth monkeys who poured the people around, and the whole body was gray and black.

Some war horses were hit, their defense is roughly stronger than the human body, and the part that was hit was immediately charred black, making a burst of fluttering sounds, and the air was filled with a smell of roasted and burnt fur, which made people smell sick. This is not the end, the part hit by the cannonball, the skin is scorched and broken, and the internal organs are also shattered, and the war horse neighsed, and fell to the ground, spitting blood in its mouth, which was also mixed with fragments of internal organs.

These are all extremely lucky, more are directly hit by fiery red shells, some arms and thighs are rubbed, the whole arm and leg is immediately smashed in two, and those who are more unlucky are directly hit by the chest and abdomen and other vital parts, immediately broken into two, the broken place is extremely black, blood vessels and muscles are like burned dry wooden strips, twisted into a ball.

In front of the iron ball, which has been endowed with tremendous kinetic energy and has become red due to rapid friction, the body's defense power is almost negligible.

A soldier was grazed in the arm, and the whole arm was immediately broken into two parts, and the white stubble and bright red flesh exposed by the wound were immediately scorched black, and the red blood vessels and white tendons of the wound were twisted by the high temperature, like dying earthworms. And the person behind him was even more unlucky, he was hit in the chest by the inexhaustible cannonball, and immediately smashed out a big hole in the chest, the sternum was shattered, and the internal organs in the chest and abdomen instantly turned into charcoal, and he died directly without snorting.

Killed two people, this cannonball seemed to be unwilling, and smashed on the huge head of a Jurchen cavalry's war horse behind him, and at the moment the horse's head was smashed, and it was ejected, and the Jurchen knight on his body was smashed in the chin, at this moment, the strength of the cannonball was exhausted, but it was still very large, and the Jurchen soldier seemed to have received a fierce uppercut, and the whole head was raised, a mouthful of blood gushed out, and the jaw was already broken.

Of course, not every shell can hit someone, and this kind of cavalry formation has a relatively large interval.

However, in the autumn in the Northeast, it has not rained for a long time, and the ground is quite hard and thick.

This is advantageous for shelling, and the harder ground means that the shells will be ejected after they hit the ground. Continue to stone people to death.

On wet ground, the shells fall directly into it, and can only form point kills, while on this kind of ground, they will continue to eject forward, and some shells will even eject all the way over, and where they pass, flesh and blood will fly. Countless Jurchen soldiers were stoned to death, opening a flesh passage in the crowd.

A line kill is formed.

One of the shells killed several Jurchen soldiers.

These Jurchen cavalrymen were killed with their heads broken and bleeding, and suffered heavy casualties. This round of shelling caused at least 300 casualties among the Jurchens.

Those soldiers who had watched the offensive and defensive battles of Zhenyuan Mansion from a distance all showed great fear in their eyes. Painful groans, angry shouts, and frightened cries blended together, and they finally understood the pain and fear of their robes. …,

And those Jurchen soldiers who joined later, who had been fighting in the jungle wilderness all their lives, how could they have seen such a powerful weapon? But in an instant, these new Jurchens were completely frightened by something they had never seen before, capable of emitting fire and loud noises that brought them death. They are already completely stupid.

Some of the Jurchens who were lucky enough not to be hit stood in place, staring blankly at the robes whose bodies were torn apart by the shells, listening to their miserable and short cries, looking at their limbs splashing everywhere, and the blood splattered in the air. There was extreme fear and despair in his eyes.

Then they erupted into screams of fear, some soldiers kept running in the limited space of the raft, some knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, praying for God's protection, and some soldiers. Gritted his teeth and jumped straight into the water. The vanguard of the entire Jurchen army was suddenly in chaos.

A Jurchen soldier screamed, "This is the devil! It's something that only exists in hell. ”

This phenomenon is not surprising.

Thinking about the Opium War, the ironclad ships of the great powers knocked on the door of the country, and the Qing troops who had rotted their roots saw how the muskets and artillery panicked, and it is understandable that the current Jurchens are in a panic. At that time, the Qing army even tried to break the so-called demon law by splashing black dog blood and throwing dirty cloths from women's menstrual affairs on muskets......

Tang Gu's face was gloomy, he didn't think that his good people's sneak attack plan was not only ruined by Abai's stupidity, but also didn't meet now, so many brothers were killed and injured.

But he immediately made a decision, and shouted: "Pass the order, this is just the weapon of those Han dogs, not some demon law, so that the brothers are calm!" If there are any more people who shout and scream, kill! ”

Tang Gugu's order effectively curbed the fear of the Jurchen soldiers, and when the Overseer cut off the heads of dozens of soldiers who were shouting like crazy, the crying and shouting among the Jurchens finally gradually became low.

Although they were still shivering on their horses, at least they were not panicking.

At this time, Wu Yijun began to fire a second round of shells.

Tang Gugu's eyes showed a cold glow, and he also shouted, and pointed in front of his mace: "Brothers, rush with me and kill all these Han dogs!" ”

Thousands of soldiers galloped like a torrent, killing the 18th guard fiercely!

In this way, the role of the Franc cannon is very limited, and the accuracy of shooting against these high-speed moving cavalry is naturally greatly reduced.

So, after the second round of shooting was fruitless, under Zhang Qiu's order, the four Francophone guns on both flanks withdrew behind the large phalanx one after another!

At the same time, dozens of horsemen galloped wildly, and before coming to the array of untouchables, they shouted: "Now that we are fighting, there are no eyes for swords and guns, run quickly, and don't stay here any longer, lest you lose your life in vain!" Go and wait by the lake in the south of five miles, and we will destroy these dogs and tartars, and then we will go to you!" Come on! ”

Before this situation, Zhang Qiu was also very clear, and he did not allocate any troops to protect these untouchables, so as not to weaken his own strength and be broken by the enemy.

Cold-blooded or ruthless, in such cases, this is the wisest choice.

The knights ran back and forth shouting, making sure the words were heard by every untouchable.

And seeing that this is about to be a war, these untouchables, who have not experienced anything, are frightened, and they are close to each other one by one, as if this can ensure their own safety. Although they were asked to retreat, how could they move in such a situation?

Those knights were also in a hurry, but there was nothing they could do.

Peng Shanhu really couldn't stand it anymore, and said in his heart that your Wu Yijun was fighting with the Jurchens. Don't take us to it, immediately mobilize his believers among the untouchables, start to persuade, agitate, and organize everyone to leave. …,

In this way, the ranks of the untouchables finally began to move south, driven by the tremendous pressure to survive. The untouchables are running with their legs drawn, but each of them discards the farming tools in their hands, and these are classified as untouchables. It seems to the untouchables who have not been allowed to cultivate for generations that they can farm and live comfortably. More important than life.

The knight who led the shouting was Zhang Qiuqiu's personal guard captain, and he looked at Peng Shanhu, who was directing everyone to retreat, and a look flashed in his eyes.

At this time, Tang Gu's cavalry was already impacting, behind him, it was just more than a hundred steps, and Abai's cavalry had also already rushed, but two waves of impact frenzy were inadvertently formed.

And these cavalrymen saw that the gunners who had just shot the robe had packed up their things and pushed the cart away, and these Jurchen knights suddenly settled down in their hearts. The previous fear and despair have now turned into killing intent after being annoyed and angry.

Don't let these puppies run away!

And at this time, they saw that at the front of the phalanx of the Han dogs, there were some soldiers with long sticks in their hands.

What is this?

How? Did the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty use sticks?

The new Jurchen soldiers let out a burst of laughter.

Tang Gugu's face was already gloomy. Naturally, he knew what it was.

He vaguely felt that his decision today was probably very wrong, and he was afraid that not only would he not be able to take the enemy as a vote, but he might also bury himself here.

These Wu Yijun are not easy bones to gnaw!

Tang Gu was not one of the traditional Jurchen soldiers—rude, brave, tenacious, and unyielding—from the time he reacted to Amin's conspiracy. It can be inferred that this person is very sleek and cunning, and he clearly understands that only if there is a disease in his hands, this is fundamental, and nothing is as important as preserving his strength!

At this moment, he has already had the intention of retreating in his heart, but the matter has come to this point, and it is difficult to retreat, no matter what, he has to rush again!

However, he quietly slowed down his horse slightly, allowing the guards to hug him.

But in his mouth he said loudly: "Beware, it is a musket, more powerful than a bow and arrow, fast, accelerate, accelerate, rush over!" ”

The musketeers all raised their flintlock pistols, their ammunition already filled, their hands on the triggers, their eyes on the spot.

One hundred and fifty meters.

This is already a fairly sure range for flintlock pistols!

Zhang Qiu said in a deep voice: "First row, launch!" ”

The 18th Guard of the Wu Yi Army had a total of three firearms and 100 households, 369 soldiers, and stood in two rows.

Zhang Qiu's order was conveyed, and the 180 musketeers in the first row calmly pulled the trigger.

The crisp sound of gunfire resounded through the heavens and the earth, and those Jurchen knights only looked at a cluster of fire light coming out of the burning sticks in the hands of the Ming army on the opposite side, and then looked at the chest of the robe next to them, and a cluster of blood flowers appeared on the thighs, some died directly, and some were lying on the back of the horse and moaning loudly in pain.

Some of them were hit by the war horse, and the whole person was thrown out by the war horse that was crazy about the pain, and fell heavily to the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Some were particularly unlucky, they were hit in the head, their heads were shattered, and the red and white splashed the soldiers next to them.

However, these Jurchen cavalry had been reminded in advance, but they were not extremely flustered, but they beat their horses and galloped forward!

After one round of shooting, it was already just over eighty meters.

After the musketeers in the first row finished shooting, Shi Dazhu gave another order, and the musketeers in the second platoon had already loaded the ammunition very skillfully, compacted it with a strip, raised the gun, and pulled the trigger.

It's far better to shoot in two shots like this than to shoot all at once. Although firing together can form an unusually dense firepower, it will also cause a waste of ammunition and a vacuum of firepower after shooting, and the enemy will not be able to take advantage of this time to run over.

After this round of shooting, Tang Gu's 3,000 cavalry had already suffered more than 600 casualties, and they were no more than 50 meters away from the Wu Yi Army's large array!

Sergeant Wu Yi could even look at the hideous faces of the Jurchens opposite, their red eyes, and their murderous spirit!