The two groups of cavalry slowly gathered on the north and south sides, at this time they were Haizhou City to the east, the Rose River to the west, and the warehouse area in the middle.

If it is said to be surrounded, they have already surrounded Yang Chao.

It's just that Yang Chao never thought of running.

The confrontation of the Central Plains to the nomadic army has not changed for thousands of years, and the strong infantry formation arranged by the agricultural people has always been surrounded by the cavalry of the nomads, so they cannot annihilate the other party if they win, and they will be dead end if they lose, which is the biggest disadvantage, and before the arrival of mechanization, the agricultural settlers have never been able to solve this disadvantage.

Yang Chao has no way, even if a military genius like Qi Jiguang has no way to solve it, when the cavalry fights, he forms a chariot battalion, but when the enemy escapes, his chariot battalion can't catch up, and he still relies on cavalry when pursuing.

The Ming Dynasty should be considered good, because the Ming Dynasty drove the Meng Yuan out of the Central Plains to win the world, so the military department has always been too short of cavalry, and firmly occupied the Great Wall, and divided the Mongols, and even the army has a large number of Mongolian cavalry, so the Ming Dynasty is the strongest cavalry in the Central Plains Dynasty in the past dynasties, and can hedge with the nomadic cavalry for a considerable period of time.

It's a pity that Yang Chao doesn't have this capital, since the Donglu incident, the war horse resources of the Ming Dynasty have also been greatly weakened, especially now that most of the Mongols have taken refuge in the Dongyu, and they have almost cut off this supply, the north is better, and it can still maintain a large-scale cavalry system, but the south rarely sees good war horses, let alone the formation of cavalry.

Although Yang Chao has money, he has never been able to buy himself a war horse of sufficient quality, and he can't look down on inferior horses, so he has never formed a cavalry, and now there is no condition to take the initiative to attack in the face of cavalry, but even if Yang Chao has cavalry, he does not plan to take the initiative to attack. Most of his soldiers were new recruits, and they hedged against these captives who had been hunting, killing and looting since they were young without going through the battle formation, which was looking for death.

Therefore, defense is good. If you can prevent this time, your army will grow.

Therefore, the captives did not come to attack. Yang Chao will never attack.

The captives seemed to have noticed this, and a troop of cavalry suddenly appeared from the south and began to fight at the barricades to the south.

It was only a small group of horses, numbering about thirty people, and it did not directly attack, but turned the horses from a distance, crossed an arc, and threw arrows at the same time. After the projectile, the cavalry turned a corner and retreated.

With the help of horsepower, the opponent's bow and arrow throwing could reach more than a hundred steps, which really shocked Yang Chao.

Yang Chao has been training archers for more than a year, and he knows a lot about bows and arrows, and among his soldiers, there are no more than ten people who can shoot a hundred steps on the ground, and they are these ten people. A shot at a distance of 100 paces was not lethal, but the captive soldier still had a certain power in the shooting of arrows more than 120 paces away.

Yang Chao had heard about the training methods of these nomadic peoples, and their children practiced from an early age. When I was a child, I shot a wooden bow, pulled it 200 times a day, slowly increasing the strength of the bow, and when I grew up, I was strong enough to pull a hard bow of 100 catties, and I could shoot at a target 150 steps away.

However, even if he has been trained since childhood, he has no power at a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, and is mostly used to harass and can really shoot enemies from a distance of one hundred and fifty steps. There are not many such elites in a single banner, and they are simply Baturu warriors like Aobai.

Yang Chao was lying on the roof at this time. Facing the direction of the captives, he was lying on his stomach like himself. There were thirty bird-bearers in total, and when they saw the captives shooting arrows, they slowly lay on the roof, and sure enough, only a few arrows hit the tiles on the roof, making a clanging sound, but they couldn't even shoot through the tiles.

But suddenly a bird gunner fired a shot, and a whole row of bird guns suddenly opened fire, making a thumping sound, but without exception, none of them hit the enemy.

One hundred and fifty paces, even the range of the bird's gun, it is difficult to kill and injure the enemy, the key is that there is no accuracy at all.

The range of the bird gun is 100 steps, and the most powerful damage can only burst out at 80 steps, so Yang Chao has always stipulated that you can only shoot when you reach 80 steps.

When the gun is fired, it is the first team to shoot, and the other soldiers can only shoot when they hear the gunshot.

However, one soldier was nervous and fired first, and the others didn't know if it was a team when they heard the gunshot, so they followed suit.

Yang Chao frowned slightly, but the soldier's face was flushed, and then he took another loaded bird gun from the soldier behind him.

He was really nervous just now, but for a reason, the arrow hit his iron helmet directly just now, so he pulled the trigger.

After Yang Chao glanced at the soldier, he looked directly at the captive, and as a result, the captive soldier who had thrown a round heard the sound of birds, and immediately rushed over again, and at the same time drew his bow on the horse.

Yang Chao secretly said in his heart that there was a good opportunity!

Just now a round of gunfire on their side made the captives think that the Ming army's bird guns were empty by their harassment, their experience of the Ming army in the north, knew that the Ming army should be loaded next, and the reloading time was very long, enough for them to beat their horses and charge to the front of the formation, as long as they arrived in front of the battle, under the direct shooting of their Eight Banner warriors at close range, the Ming army's bird guns could only be their targets, and the other Ming troops would be defeated in an instant.

Therefore, as long as they can rush to the Ming army and shoot arrows, the battle will be won, and the next thing to do is to follow and kill and collect the fruits of victory.

It can be said that this trick of the Eight Banners has been played very slippery.

Even their predecessors, the Mongol cavalry, used to be used. Qi Jiguang's war book recorded that Qi Dashuai's method of dealing with this kind of projectile to attract the Ming army's bird guns to fight back was that the soldiers were strictly forbidden to shoot by themselves, and they could only shoot after hearing the team shooting.

But it's not necessarily a bad thing, because his soldiers are not the border army in the north, Yang Chao's soldiers are all strictly trained, and they insist on training according to a fixed pattern, insisting on the operation of the array, just like machines.

Yang Chao's bird hand is not the kind in the north, he only uses one shot, and then prepares an army that fights in close combat.

Yang Chao has been insisting on training the bird gun to continue to strike.

Therefore, he insisted on practicing the three-fold array shooting method in the Ming army, the first row was dedicated to aiming and shooting, the second row was transmitted, and the third row was specially loaded. This allows them to spin three shots quickly, and after the third shot, the loader will most likely have already reloaded another shot. So it's actually possible to fire four shots in a row.

With the experience of the first person, this time the soldiers were much more stable.

Even if the captives have begun to speed up their horses. No one shot either, lying quietly on the roof, waiting for the enemy to approach.

The captives rode on their horses, their bodies undulating with their horses, and they also lowered their bodies and clinged to their horses, which was a long-standing experience, so that the area of the attack could be reduced. But can this be avoided?

One hundred steps, eighty steps, put!

I saw the captives enter eighty paces, and at the same time loosen the tightened bowstring.

At the same time, Yang Chao's side, after the team was taking the lead in shooting, the other soldiers immediately opened fire, and the gunfire was practiced into a line, pop!

In response, a crowd of people turned on their backs.

Yang Chao snorted coldly, thinking that he wouldn't be able to fight if he was lying on the horse?

Lao Tzu is beating horses!

There were three teams shooting, and Yang Chao was on this roof. On the other side of the roof, and behind the low wall of the street in the middle of the two houses, there were three teams of bird-bearers. Thirty rounds of shooting.

And the captives let go of their bowstrings eighty paces away because of the charge, and the speed still did not stop, and they began to gather together and rush straight to the street entrance.

Obviously, the plan of the captives was to immediately rush forward to fight after suppressing them with bows and arrows.

The experience of opening the Ming army's military formation with a single charge, they go deep into the bone marrow, and they will not doubt it at all.

But what they encountered was not the Ming army they had encountered before. The military formation arranged is not the infantry formation of the Ming army in the north.

The most important thing is that a wave of eighty-step bird-gun shots obviously stunned them. As if hitting a wall, three horses were killed at once. There were also seven or eight injuries, the most serious of which affected their formation.

The captives, on the other hand, maintained the speed of the charge, and after a bit of confusion, spread out a frontal and lost speed, giving the Birdman a chance to keep firing.

The sound of a neat platoon of guns continued to ring, and by the time the captives had split up and bypassed a few dead horses, the distance had shrunk to forty paces.

At this time, they were still greeted by a volley of guns.

And their team seems to be the cannon fodder that has been singled out, insisting on attacking Yang Chao's military formation.

Yang Chao heard the leading shooter constantly urging the loader behind.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Then the team was shouting, "Shoot the horse, shoot the horse!" ”

Then came a volley of gunfire.

Thirty steps, twenty steps, for this twenty paces distance, the captives paid the price of ten people.

At last they could not bear it any longer, and had stopped completely, and walked back one by one, beating their horses and shouting.

This left the captives exposed.

The Ming army was given another chance to shoot.

Qi Dashuai trained the bird gunner, one hundred steps and three out of two are qualified, Yang Chao's bird gunner in Huai'an is a luxury live-fire training for a month, the level is only higher than Qi Dashuai's bird gunner, and now the captives are only thirty steps away from them, this is simply a hundred shots, even if one shot misses the target, it is sorry to set aside so many gunpowder lead bullets in Huai'an City.

As a result, the three teams of bird-slingers only fired one round each, and then the captives who had just exposed their flanks all fell.

Without exception, the first wave of captives who came to tempt them were all wiped out!

And most of the dead were horses, but a few people were lying on the ground wailing, rolling from side to side.

These people were shot because their horses were shot, fell off their horses, or even thrown out.

Yang Chao could see the nearest soldier who had been thrown out, only ten steps away from his own military formation, screaming loudly on the ground, but he couldn't even turn over, and he couldn't get thrown out of the war horse at high speed, and his spine was broken.

Seeing someone shoot arrows at that injury, it was the archers in the street, the archers because of the range, but behind the formation, this lightning battle, they didn't even have a chance, but after the bird gunners shot about five shots each, the battle was resolved, which made the archers feel very depressed.

So take the injury to relieve the boredom.

Yang Chao immediately ordered to stop, leaving the captive soldier wailing on the ground, while his companions could only watch secretly from a distance.

Yang Chao felt that it was impossible not to affect the will to fight of the captives. (To be continued)