Chapter 201: Rush Up
Nearly 2,000 rogues rushed from the stockade, which is easy to say, if you are on the battlefield, you will see the sea of rogues in front of you coming towards you, and there are only one-tenth of them on your side, and some recruits who have not been in battle for a few times are inevitably a little nervous at this time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At such a time, the role of the captain and the whistle commander in the team is reflected.
As the sentry commander of a sentry army, when Xiao Yi was not there, Shi Gang was the backbone of everyone in the outpost, and after Shi Gang was not afraid of being seen by other Yongan Army soldiers in danger, everyone felt that Shangguan's full confidence would no longer be afraid, and with the leadership of the first commander, the soldiers were like divine help.
Shi Gang's calm roar reached everyone's ears: "Tight contraction, turtle shield!" ”
This is a kind of formation that the Yong'an Army practices on weekdays, and this formation will shrink the originally short array again and shrink it into a three-sided shield array, which is a formation commonly used in the ancient Roman Empire.
Xiao also believes that his main enemy is not the rogue, but the Tartar soldiers.
The Tartar soldiers often had an ugly braid 'money rat tail' tied behind them, but the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers at this time called them 'pigtail soldiers'.
All the formations and armor that Xiao Yi arranged were for the same purpose, in order to prepare for the future battle with the Tartars, the Tartar soldiers were all brave and experienced in battle formations, and these Xiao Yi had seen them in the Beijing Division.
Therefore, you can't be sloppy against the Tartars, and Xiao Yi naturally has to use the battle-hardened soldiers against the Tartars, not those recruits.
But this kind of momentum and bravery are not drilled, but actually trained, so Xiao Yi can only use the peasant army and horse thieves to train the troops, this battle is the first battle with the peasant army, and it is not to be sloppy.
This kind of turtle shield formation was evolved and modified by Xiao Yi from the ancient Roman formation, but on the whole it was still about the same, and it was unrealistic to use cavalry to fight the Tartar cavalry.
Not to mention the high cost of horses, armor, etc. for each cavalryman.
Just talking about training, the normal cavalry training of the Ming Dynasty is as little as a few months, as much as half a year or even more than a year, Xiao will not have so much time, even if the training is out, it is difficult to fight against the Tartars in a short time.
So there is only one way to face the Tartar cavalry, that is, to use the shield array to block its impact edge, use the formation advantage to fight with the Tartars, of course, firearms and cavalry are also essential, but it depends on how to use it to maximize its effect.
This half-body shield is made of hard, but not heavy at all, and the painting of tigers and leopards on its surface can have the effect of frightening horses.
And the most important classes of the shield array, sword players and pikemen, are all 'produced' on the assembly line, which is easy to organize and shape, which is also what Xiao Yi is most concerned about.
The biggest disadvantage of the Turtle Shield Formation is that there is no defense in the rear, but this terrain completely limits the advantage of having a large number of rogues, and the rogues have not played the advantage of rushing up in the past at all, as for this shortcoming, Xiao Yi will improve it in actual combat in the future.
Attacking the thief's shortcomings with his own strengths, the Yong'an Army brought this sentence into full play in this battle.
As soon as Shi Gang's roar came out, the sword players of the Yong'an Army immediately gently lifted the half-body shield in their hands, and shrank close to each other.
This is to protect the Tartars from riding and shooting, and the peasant army is mostly homeless, most of them have just put down their farm tools and rushed over with sticks and shouting, where can anyone shoot bows and arrows.
Even if some practitioners in the old camp were good at shooting very early, at least the Liukou would not form their own battalion of archers now, and the sparse arrows were naturally difficult to damage the soldiers of the Yong'an Army who were in fine armor.
Dong Kuili was in the camp and watched the changes in the officers and soldiers, and he was amazed that no one had escaped from the battle against people ten times his own person.
Looking at the officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time, he frowned, what kind of formation is this?
In the face of so many rogue thieves rushing towards him, Liu Tong would not look at any more accurate distances, and the front of the rogue entered the range of the three-eyed gun.
Liu Tong shouted without hesitation: "Shoot!" ”
The first column of three-eyed guns that had already been waiting for the battle had already lit the lead, and everyone carefully aimed the three-eyed guns in their hands at the front, this time there was no need to aim, the thieves were in pieces, and they could always hit people when they put their guns there.
Hearing Liu Tong's shouting, they violently launched the medicine in their hands.
When the rogues had just rushed within 100 steps, the firecrackers of the Yongan Army opened fire in unison, and Dong Kui, who had been watching the battle from behind, couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he saw this.
It seems that the officers and men still do not give up on the Yellow River, and it is very good that these dozens of worn-out three-eyed guns can have as much power as they do not hurt the officers and soldiers themselves.
As a result, before he could laugh out loud, he saw at least thirty or so people fall in the first few rows of rogues, and these people are often struck and leaned back.
However, the peasant army rushed so intensively that one person who fell backwards could often fall on his back with several people behind him.
As soon as these people fell, they didn't have time to get up, and the rogues behind them rushed closer, and they couldn't stop, because the rest of the rogues were rushing over in a steady stream.
A rogue, dressed in tattered clothes and holding a broken wooden stick in his hand, roared to kill the officers and soldiers and rushed towards the Yong'an army formation, as for why he shouted, he didn't know, but everyone else shouted like this, so he did the same.
Suddenly, the man's right chest slammed back, and there was a blood hole out of thin air, and the blood couldn't stop gushing out, and the blood hole appeared suddenly, and at first he was in extreme excitement and didn't feel pain.
It wasn't until just now that he suddenly felt a piercing pain, and then looked at his right shoulder, and he was horrified to find that there was a blur of flesh and blood at some point.
He threw down the wooden stick in his hand and covered his right shoulder and howled, but his howl seemed so small among the two thousand rogues.
He couldn't move anymore, his legs were like being filled with lead, and every step he took became more and more difficult, and the rogues behind him were excited, where did anyone care about his abnormality, even those little commanders were still excited to rush away with a swarm of bees.
One rushed past him, and their shoulders collided.
This rogue was in pain, his body was beaten, only this one he was pushed down by the people behind, he didn't have time to get up and was trampled to death by the rogue behind, he breathed hard, and died miserably, but no one knew.
The most of the rogues died in this way, and there were still few of them who were hit by the Yongan gunners, after all, the number of firecrackers was not as large as the rogues, but the chaos and disorder of the rogues made them inadvertently lose a lot.
The first column of musketeers didn't have time to look at the situation in front of them after firing, and immediately ran to the sides, they had to hurry up and change the medicine, because the situation was urgent, they even saved the steps of cleaning the guns.
The firecrackers in the second row immediately followed, and without Liu Tong continuing to order, they directly shot another row of guns.
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At this time, it was already at a critical juncture, Shi Gang raised the bamboo tube in his hand and shouted loudly to launch.
Since the Battle of Tujiagou, Xiao also discovered that the firearms made by this method of making the invincible bamboo general also have miraculous effects, especially when dealing with this kind of rogues, it is even more time-saving and labor-saving.
So since then, the sergeants of the Yong'an Army have always tied three bamboo tubes to their bodies, and others don't care at all when they see them, but these three bamboo tubes can play a big role at critical moments.
At this time, everyone carefully leveled the bamboo tube, aimed at the rogue rushing in front of them, and ignited the lead.
There was a loud noise in the Yong'an army, and more than 100 invincible bamboo generals fired at the same time, and the rogues who had rushed not far away had no way to dodge at all, and suddenly fell a large number.
Although the Invincible Bamboo General is simple to make, the projectiles in it are all made by Xiao Yi and the craftsmen quietly, rough on the outside and solid on the inside.
It is no longer the number of stones in Tujiagou, and at such a close range, the projectile can always penetrate the body of several rogues before losing its strength, or stay in the body of a rogue, or fall to the ground.
The rogues flipped on their backs, their wails muffling the roars of the officers and soldiers who had killed them before. (To be continued.) )