The first formation, the formation of 30 captives.

     This result made everyone very happy, and when they saw that the other captives did not dare to come, some soldiers couldn't help but cheer.

    Li Wuliu is even more proud, he is in the limelight, this is all the bird handsmith he trained.

    Yang Chao secretly thought to himself, in the case of protection, a qualified bird handler can indeed suppress the archers.

    No wonder the birds of the West have eliminated the bow and arrow.

    But in all fairness, nomadic archers were strong, strong enough to fire gunpowder weapons.

    In order to suppress gunpowder weapons, the first thing is to have a good protection, which can allow soldiers to shoot calmly without scruples; Second, you have to maintain a certain density of attacks, you must shoot at the right distance in a uniform manner, and you need to shoot continuously.

    Yang Chao's soldiers can do both.

    But in the battle just now, Yang Chao felt that there was still something dissatisfied, because the team did start to order shooting at eighty paces, but after one shot, the opponent rushed to sixty steps, and after three shots, the captives could rush to thirty steps.

    That is, shooting within 80 steps, which is basically three shots, and the time to reload is not enough at all.

    If it hadn't been for the first wave of captives just now, which affected the speed of the captives, I'm afraid they would have been able to rush into the barricades, and then stab Yang Chao's spearmen through the low wall.

    Yang Chao said in his heart, it seems that Qi Jiguang still has a certain basis for shooting at the maximum distance of 100 paces, so that he can maintain the advantage of at least one more shot.

    Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately ordered that the next wave of captives and cavalry would attack, and they could return fire in a hundred steps.

    "The adults are charged! ”

    At this time, the soldiers came to report the charge of the captives in the north.

    "All the Bird Gunners start shooting within 100 paces! ”

    "The south side of the street corner bird team supports the north side! ”

    Yang Chao replied coldly, and soon there were soldiers on the street under the roof who began to move hurriedly, running in a horizontal line. This is a group of bird gunners arranged at the street entrance on the south ground, and as for the roof, because it is inconvenient to move. So be on standby.

    The captives are still playing with a simple sound.

      sent thirty men to attack him from the south, and suddenly attacked most of them from the north. In this way, if Yang Chao can be killed by surprise, Yang Chao will not be stupid to set up a formation here.

    Yang Chao's men have a hundred bird soldiers and a hundred archers, but the front that he needs to unfold is very narrow.

     is less than a zhang of the street, plus the roof of basically one zhang on both sides.

     A total of three zhang, Yang Chao arranged thirty bird gun shooters, because the roof is narrow and cannot be opened, there is only one loader behind the shooter. There was no intermediate delivery hand, so Yang Chao only arranged sixty bird hands at one end, and the remaining forty were on standby at the unattacked end, and all of them were lying on the roof that was inconvenient to move.

    Then the attacking captives had to face at least twenty birds, four consecutive shots starting from a hundred paces away.

    At the same time, after these four shots, they will also encounter the bird shot at the street corner that has just arrived.

    If they can attack the street at this time, they can stab Yang Chao's spearmen across the low wall, and shoot at each other with Yang Chao's archers across the low wall.

    The gunshots had already sounded, and Yang Chao was lying on the roof. Seeing that the captives from the south did not seem to have any intention of attacking immediately, they stepped off the roof and walked towards the north corner where the gunfire was ringing out.

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    Yang Chao heard four rows of gunfire that could be vaguely connected. A puff of white smoke came out.

      then paused for about ten seconds, followed by four rows of gunfire and another puff of white smoke.

    Everything went according to his own thoughts, the first four rows of gunfire were fired by twenty bird shooters on the roof, and the next four rows of gunfire were fired by the bird gunners who came from the street crossing.

    When Yang Chao walked to the middle of the street, he heard the sound of crackling again, and another row of gunshots. It can be distinguished that this is two rows of gunfire, which should be the fifth round of guns fired from the roof.

     followed by a row of slightly weaker sounds. The fifth platoon of guns at the corner of the street also rang out, because there were only ten birds at the corner of the street. Therefore, it is weaker than the gunfire of twenty birds on the roof.

      Halfway forward, the sixth round of guns rang out.

      had just walked under the low wall when the seventh shot rang out.

    "My lord, don't go over! ”

    Zhao Kang was wearing iron armor in front of Yang Chao, and he was shooting in front of him, obviously exchanging fire with the captives.

    Yang Chao nodded, and within a distance of one zhang, ten bird guns lined up, and there was no place for him.

    But Yang Chao immediately climbed the ladder next to him, climbed to the half-center, and saw the captive cavalry coming from the north in turn.

    These cavalry were indeed fierce, and they formed a wedge-shaped formation, piercing the street like nails.

     This exposed front is very narrow, and the Mandarin Duck Formation has the same effect, there is no narrow attack surface before the deployment, and after the deployment of their own strike area becomes larger, and the opponent's formation can be cut, it can be said that it is the most reasonable cavalry formation.

    But even with such a formation, there is no way to impact Yang Chao's formation.

    Because after the street entrance is deep into three zhang, the front is only a narrow zhang, and it is impossible for the other party to expand at all.

    If you enter the street, not only will you not be able to open, but you will also be subjected to continuous fire from both roofs, and it is obviously very disadvantageous to rush into the street.

    The captives were not fools, they had no intention of rushing in directly.

    When they only rushed sixty paces, they threw them with bows and arrows, and after one round of projectiles, then they fired straight, and when they reached forty paces, they simply grabbed their horses and dismounted and shot.

    Their main target is not the infantry behind the low wall, but the bird-stingers behind the low wall and on the roof.

    The archers of the captives were indeed strong, and at a distance of forty paces, they were not inferior to the birds, both in terms of power and accuracy.

    As a result, the shooting was a tie for a while.

    It's a pity that Yang Chao is protected by a low wall, and the soldiers on the roof are completely lying on their stomachs, with iron helmets on their heads.

     slowly showed the advantage, most of the arrows of the captives were pierced into the salt bags, and a small number of bows and arrows thrown in were not lethal on the helmets of the Ming army. Even if you shoot it in the shoulder or in the neck, it doesn't do anything. Because Yang Chao is perverted to equip each soldier with iron armor, what is even more perverted. Each of these armors also has a curtain around the neck.

      is protected by a low wall, and is also wearing iron armor, I don't know if the captives will choose to shoot if they know this result.

    Yang Chao stepped on the roof and watched beautifully.

    "My lord, let's lie down!" ”

    Zhao Kang also climbed up, he was a personal soldier and must be with him. There were dozens of people with him, and now the attack could not be carried out at all, and the defense was enough with birds and bows and arrows, but they were not needed for a while.

    Yang Chao smiled: "Don't worry, here is at least ten steps away from the captives, and it is still on the house, if they can shoot from a distance of eighty steps or shoot from the back, and can shoot through my iron armor, then there is no need to fight this battle, just admit defeat." ”

    Zhao Kang said: "It's better to be careful. ”

    Yang Chao said: "I know"

     said and looked down at the battle behind the low wall. Suddenly, Yang Chao was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes immediately became eager.

    He saw that behind the low wall, the bird was naturally shooting non-stop.

    The captives on the opposite side dismounted and shot on foot, protected by their horses. Most of the war horses were killed, and they were not distressed.

    And behind the low wall, there were not only birds shooting, but archers were also shooting.

    Yang Chao's original order was that eighty paces away was a bird shot, and forty steps away was the time for the archers to move.

    But Yang Chao found that the captives stopped shooting at about forty paces, and the bird gunners were still loading and shooting in an orderly manner, and the archers were also shooting at the same time.

     is nothing more than a bird's hand shooting straight in front. The archers can only follow the bird's gunner, draw the bow and shoot it at a certain elevation angle.

     So that the buckshot and the feather arrow fell on the side of the captives at the same time. And one is a buckshot that goes straight in front of you, and the other is a feather arrow that falls from the top of your head. The blow site is not the same.

    Yang Chao's heart couldn't help jumping, doesn't this mean that bird guns and bows and arrows can be compatible and can be fired at the same time without opening the front, and the enemy will be hit by double firepower?

    As a result, the captives continued to be killed.

    In the end, after the bird gunners on Yang Chao's side shot ten rounds, and the archers also threw five or six rounds, the captives couldn't bear it, and threw down more than fifty dead horses and more than thirty corpses, and slowly retreated.

    Yang Chao couldn't help but snort coldly, this is not only the sound of the east hitting the west, but it is good to come a few more times like this.

    The only pity is that there are still fewer casualties.

     The captives used war horses this time, but the manpower was greatly preserved, and there were 50 war horses directly shot, and more than 200 were injured, and there were only 30 people, and there were not many wounded.

    The captives retreated, but they did not retreat far, and stopped along the river about two hundred paces away.

     There were also teams of cavalry, which remained at a position of about one hundred and fifty paces.

    The arrangement of the captives made the soldiers in Yang Chao's army very dissatisfied, within a distance of thirty to one hundred steps from the warehouse, there were many corpses scattered with people, except for those that had been taken away, there were about thirty or forty, this is thirty or forty heads.

    A person can't run away with thirty taels of silver per head, and more importantly, these heads can make many people promoted.

    Yang Chao is also very helpless, the captives do this, just don't want the Ming army to go out and cut off people's heads easily, if the Ming army dares to cut off the head, they will rush over to cut and kill, when the time comes, the two sides will be mixed together, the Ming army's bird guns can not exert their power, cold weapons clashes, cavalry will not be afraid of infantry.

    Yang Chao sighed in his heart, I heard that on the Manchu Qing battle array, the people who were killed or injured in the battle were rescued as much as possible.

    There is even a provision that after rescuing the injured person and going back, he can get half of the other party's property.

     Always try not to leave the corpse of his robe to the enemy to humiliate.

    At the same time, most of the captives began to camp along the river, with a posture of not leaving without breaking through the warehouse fortress.

     used some cloth that I don't know whether they were robbed or brought with them, and the wooden stick captives set up a simple camp.

    At the same time, he has not withdrawn from the rangers who are monitoring in front, so that Yang Chao's side has never been able to go out and cut off the heads of military meritors.

    Yang Chao not only regretted this, but also sighed. (To be continued)