"Bang, bang~"

At a distance of nearly 100 paces, the rebels in the front row felt the tremendous pressure transmitted from the opposite side, and immediately became nervous, and the displaced people who rushed into battle without much training could not bear such a violent stimulation at all, and the fire guns they held in their hands opened fire without orders, and they began to shoot one after another in the entire military formation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As we all know, most of the effective range of firearms in the late Ming Dynasty was only sixty or seventy paces away, and even at a closer distance could effectively kill and injure the enemy, while at a distance of 100 paces, it could only be lucky, but unfortunately, the luck of the rebels was really not very good.

If the firearms in the hands of the Shanxi officials and soldiers can still ensure the safety of the first shot, then the quality of the firearms in the hands of the Shaanxi officials and soldiers is even worse, plus the firearms captured by the rebels, there is no maintenance at all.

And this round of shooting made the rebel army panic for a while, thanks to the elite of the old battalion, otherwise it would be possible to bomb the camp on the spot.

And when he saw the officers and soldiers who put guns on the opposite side, they were shocked, but after waiting for a while, they saw that no one on their side had fallen, and they suddenly became bold, and they all showed smiling faces, and looked at the opposite side mockingly. Advance! ”

After walking a few dozen steps, the soldiers of the Ming army in the first formation began to slow down one after another, and a sturdy soldier on the flank took the strong bow behind him, stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, and put an arrow in the direction of the righteous army, and after estimating the distance for a while, he shouted loudly, "Seventy steps!" ”

"Seventy steps to meet the enemy, be on alert!"

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers around him shouted loudly one by one, transmitting the sound to a farther place, and in the middle of the second formation of the Ming army, a passage soon dispersed, and a group of four or five Ming soldiers was seen, nervously and quickly pushing the wheeled cart, and there were tiger squat cannons weighing tens of catties and hundreds of catties on them.

After the artillery carriage stepped forward, the soldiers of the second formation of the Ming army put down the guns on their shoulders, held them flat and began to aim at the direction of the righteous army, the entire infantry array had begun to stop advancing, and the corresponding drums began to stop, and both sides of the battle formation fell silent for a while, leaving only the fluttering flags of the two armies.

"Beat the drums!"

Waiting for the artillery carriage to be in place, a thousand generals of the Ming army, waved the flag in his hand, and the drums in the distance suddenly sounded, after a simple drum sound, the Ming army spear and shield soldiers in the first formation immediately gathered together with three or five people, and exposed the long-range firearms and crossbowmen behind them, and then the drums, the firearms soldiers of the second and third formations suddenly stepped forward and crossed the shield soldiers squatting on the ground.

Beginning to form a formation 60 to 70 paces away from the rebel army, the shield soldiers have lost their effect, since the rebels do not dare to attack first, then the Ming army's firearms and crossbowmen should go into battle.

Since the firearms of the righteous army fired first, this would be in a tense loading, and there was no time to take care of the Ming army within the firing range, and those spare crossbowmen, sparse arrows, were not enough to interrupt the formation of the Ming army, seeing that the situation was unfavorable, the violent drums also sounded among the righteous army.

The old battalion team of the homeless army that took the lead immediately waved the war knife in his hand to drive the women and children to the Ming army array, these women and children who were coerced by the homeless people, the only role at this moment is to use their lives to open the way for the 3,000 old battalion infantry behind them, as long as they can rush into the Ming army battle array, all the losses are worth it.

But the righteous army still forgot after all, this is a decisive battle of 100,000 people, the battle line is very open, just on the front, there are the troops of the three general soldiers of the Ming army, the infantry army has reached more than 4,000 people, with one person one step away, the front of the three Ming troops divided into five rows, also pulled out a distance of more than 1,000 steps.

Not to mention that the three Ming armies were scattered in formation, and the gaps were densely packed with cavalry formations, and the rebels instinctively bypassed these formidable horse teams and launched an attack on their infantry army.

In front of the three general troops, there are more than 30,000 people in the Righteous Army's Red Army Friendly Department and Liu Daojiang's other units, including the infantry army of the 3,000 old battalion and the 2,000 cavalry of the Shenyikui team, and a few miles to the north, there is another part of the Righteous Army of about 20,000 people, confronting the thousands of people who are practicing state affairs in Shaanxi, and these two troops are also tense.

Further south, there are more than 60,000 displaced people under the command of more than a dozen or twenty leaders of the rebel army, who are far away from the official army of only more than 2,000 people, and it is said that they are in an absolute advantage in terms of troops, but they have no desire to impact at all.

"Put!"

As the main force of the righteous army on the middle line began to drive the homeless women and children to rush into the formation, it only took a moment to enter the range of the official army, and the officers and soldiers lined up in four formations were not moved at all, with a roar, the firearm array and the bow and crossbow array opened fire and arrows in an instant, and thousands of people in the three large army formations opened fire at the same time, and thick smoke suddenly rose above the official army.

The crossbowmen repeatedly set up their bows and shoot arrows, without the slightest stop, the opposite side was densely packed with people, there was no need to aim at all, the arm strength was better, four or five arrows were shot in a while, and there were two or three of them, and when they were weak, they dropped their bows and arrows, pulled out their sabers at their waists, and crossed the firearms soldiers who were loading ammunition, ready to take over the melee combat.

And more than a dozen tiger squatting cannons, also loaded with flowering shells, wrapped in countless iron nails, fragments of shells into the group of displaced people, the splash of iron is a blow is swept across, those women and children where can afford such casualties, each began to fall into a desperate situation, in order to survive the head of the rat, but unfortunately the old battalion soldiers who killed people without blinking an eye were hacked to death in an instant, the tragic situation of the whole human hell.

The spear and shield soldiers, who were originally at the rear of the official army, also lined up at this moment, in groups of three or five, with waist knife hands, began to attack in the direction of the rebels, but they crossed the smoke emitted by the gunpowder, but they were surprised to find that the rebels on the opposite side, who were originally like a tide, were actually blocked by force at this moment.

A miserable situation in the world, at the front of the team, like cutting wheat fell in pieces, blood flowed everywhere, the crying and shouting of the homeless people were endless, only this burst of effort, at least hundreds of people fell on the spot, and on the other hand, the officers and soldiers only suffered the sparse crossbow blows on the opposite side when they fired, even if a few unlucky ones were shot, it could not affect the overall situation.

"Kill!" The officers and soldiers were stimulated by the huge casualties of the rebels, raised the weapons in their hands, roared and began to run and impact, and the rebels seemed to have lost their souls, and the women and children in the front began to scatter in all directions, but fortunately, at this time, the 3,000 infantry troops of the old battalion began to come up to reinforce, and when they saw that the distance had been shortened enough to impact, they immediately howled and began to rush to kill.

Most of them were rogues on the cholera side, or prisoners released from their cells by the rebels, and most of them had seen blood in previous battlefield battles, although they were also afraid of the Shura Hell in front of their phalanx, but under the threat of huge rewards and the threat of being killed on the spot if they took a step back, they could only attack hard.

But when passing through the sea of Shura blood, it is inevitable that there is a little fear in my heart, and I am a little weaker than the official army in terms of momentum, and after the two troops finally fight together, because the officers and soldiers form their own formations and support each other, except for the first wave of desperate fighting with brave arms, the officers and soldiers have some casualties, but soon, the offensive of the righteous army was blocked head-on.

Because of the cover of fighting alone and organized fighting, it is not at the same level at all, a righteous army who is relying on courage and moving forward alone is holding a big knife, cutting an officer and soldier back again and again, and when he is about to kill him, suddenly several spears stretch out obliquely, instantly stabbing him into a hedgehog.

This is only a small side of the huge battlefield, the 3,000 men and horses of the old battalion of the righteous army soon fell into the point of fighting alone, in fact, their number is more than the official army, but in the local small battlefield, they all fall into the inferior position without exception, and they are not at all the opponents of the main force of the well-trained official army.

After all, the main elite of the main force at hand was basically put into the battlefield, and the remaining 20,000 people were frightened by the tragic situation at this moment, and they did not dare to move forward easily, Liu Daojiang gritted his teeth and looked at the battlefield, and his heart couldn't stop trembling.

If it weren't for the more than 20 guards sent by Shen Yikui to monitor him, he would have fled with his own homeless army, what kind of battle was this fighting, he just drove the women and children who had no power to resist into battle, and at this time, the women and children who were killed by the official army and his own superintendent were at least more than a thousand.

Even if he fought with the official army before, it was also this way of fighting, but this time after all, there were too many dead people, and his almost numb mood also fluctuated, and then looked at the soldiers and horses of the old battalion under the command of Shen Yikui, and they also fell into a bitter battle, he was even more shocked, the infantry of the official army couldn't beat it, so what did he do to resist the elite cavalry of the other two or three thousand official troops? !

"Big Boss, our brothers can't stop it, what should we do?" A leader of the rebel army, running here, said breathlessly, Liu Daojiang just squinted at it, shook his head and said, "Let them find their own way to survive." ”

He was completely frightened by the tragic battle situation, and he couldn't afford to join the battlefield, and after a while, under the pretext of issuing military orders, he quietly opened the distance between him and the soldiers and horses sent by Shen Yikui to monitor the soldiers and horses, gathered a few cronies to his side, and whispered without mentioning it for a while.

"Someone! The order went down, and the old battalion horse team was ready to attack and completely defeat this officer army! Shen Yikui couldn't sit still in the back, he wanted to rely on the superior forces to entangle the infantry of the official army, but he didn't want to fight, but his own soldiers and horses fell into a disadvantage, seeing that all the departments did not dare to attack, he could only grit his teeth and began to invest the absolute main force in his hands, trying to turn the tide of the battle. (To be continued.) )