At this time, the captives and the front row of the Ming army formation had become a forty-five degree angle, and they were on the center line of the Ming army's right angle.

Therefore, each bird gun is fired diagonally.

It turned out that the effect of diagonal fire was better, and the strafing of later machine guns showed that the effect of firing cavalry from the side was multiplied by that of frontal fire, since the flanks would expose a larger area of attack, in fact, mainly from horses.

Although the bird gun is not a machine gun, it is almost the same, because this is a thousand bird guns fired at the same time, and almost four rounds were fired in a row, the fire was so dense that the fire was outrageous, and a row of guns immediately turned the captives on their backs, and more than a hundred captives were wiped out before they could release their bows and arrows.

Zhun Ta suddenly frowned, and couldn't help but look at this strange phalanx, which they called the Turtle Formation.

The cavalry with a phalanx is a last resort means of agricultural civilization, but the East and the West have invented suitable tactics, the East takes the Song Dynasty as the benchmark, and the most famous is Yue Fei's hook spear to break the kidnapping horse, but in fact, Wu Jue invented the three-fold array, the effect is not bad at all.

The phalanx in the west is to form a spear forest, so that the cavalry can not rush up, but the western cavalry are all sabre cavalry and lancers, while the nomadic cavalry in the east is good at riding and shooting, and the spear forest can block the war horse, but cannot block the bow and arrow, so Yang Chao can only use a shield to solve it, in fact, all tactics are formulated according to the opponent.

"Bai Yongfu, this is really giving you a chance to make meritorious contributions!"

Zhun Ta pondered for a moment, and shouted out Bai Yongfu, the general soldier of Liu Zeqing's surrender, and the Shandong soldiers and horses led by Liu Zeqing surrendered with Bai Yongfu, and the Qing army selected these 7,000 elites from them, and asked Bai Yongfu to take them to fight Haizhou.

Bai Yongfu was the chief soldier, but after surrendering, he became a slave and stood up only resignedly.

"Lord Ezhen, don't attack it!"

Zhun Ta was suddenly furious: "Bold! ”

Bai Yongfu immediately knelt down, to be honest, he was very afraid of these barbaric Tartars in his heart, he had 100,000 soldiers and horses, and he was stunned to less than 30,000, and some of the soldiers who were cut were not satisfied. According to the tradition of the Ming army, he began to make trouble, but he was killed by a person who did not stay.

Bai Yongfu knew very well that these Tartar soldiers were strictly disciplined, and they were going to kill people at every turn.

"Lord Ezhen, spare your life. It's not a small one who is afraid of death. The small one looks at the stability of the Ming army's military formation, and it cannot be attacked, but can only be outwitted. ”

Zhun Ta suddenly changed his tone and comforted Bai Yongfu: "You don't have to be afraid of him. You lead people to rush up and attract the attention of the Southern Barbarians. I will lead the Eight Banners army to attack from the flank, and the Ming army will definitely be defeated! ”

"This?"

Bai Yongfu was still hesitating.

Zhun Ta said angrily: "Could it be that you can't believe the truth!" ”

Where did Bai Yongfu dare to say half a word, and said again and again: "How dare you dare, the small one will go down and arrange it!" ”

Zhun Ta watched Bai Yongfu's people slowly come out of the formation, and he didn't urge with a cold face, just staring at the Ming army's military formation.

Zhun Ta thought in his heart that as long as Bai Yongfu's people went up and let go of the Ming army's birds, and his own men and horses went up from the flanks, this big array would be broken.

Bai Yongfu rubbed again. Finally, he still organized his own people, and he was afraid of being stabbed if he delayed, so he let a deputy general, lead 3,000 people, with swords and shields in the front row, and people crowded people, under the scolding of the Eight Banners, he took a big breath and mustered up the courage to rush forward.

There were only more than 300 steps in one mile, and they walked 200 steps carefully. The last hundred steps must be rushed forward with all one go, otherwise you will become the target of the other party.

But they had barely entered the eight-step distance when a rushing bird gun rang out, and a close line of guns fired. The three thousand men had lost at least six or seven hundred, and the shield soldiers in front seemed to have been stripped of a layer, and the people behind were extremely panicked, and some of them were frightened, and they immediately fled backwards, only to be greeted by feathered arrows. One thousand and eight banner soldiers are supervising the battle in the back.

Luckily not to die in front of the feather arrow, he was also slashed and killed by the cavalry who rushed up, wailing in despair, and turned around like crazy and ran towards the Ming army.

The sound of the Ming army's bird guns was unhurried, row after row, four rounds in a row, only to pause slightly, at this time Bai Yongfu's infantry rushed to a distance of forty paces, when they thought that the Ming army's bird guns should be finished, and were about to rush up, suddenly heard that kind of sound again, and suddenly desperately overwhelmed, many people actually stood on the spot like stakes, and then were killed by lead bullets.

It's another four-wheeled bird, and when Bai Yongfu sees his own people, there is only one-third left, and it is almost foreseeable that they will be completely killed by the Ming army in the next round.

Bai Yongfu was suddenly frightened, and glanced at Zhun Ta in fear, for fear that Zhun Ta would urge him to continue to send troops, and even force him to go into battle in person.

Seeing that Zhun Ta didn't pay attention to him at all, but pulled out his bow and released an arrow, and suddenly the Eight Banners struck out from both wings, each with a thousand people, and ran towards both sides.

Bai Yongfu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that Uncle Baiqi is planning to go on his own, so there is nothing to worry about, the Eight Banners are invincible, and the Ming army will definitely be defeated in a battle.

Bai Yongfu was full of confidence in his new masters, because he was a native of Ning Yuanwei, his father was Ning Yuanwei Qianhu, and the time when he grew up happened to be the time of Nurhachi's rebellion, so he was used to hearing about the ferocity of the Tartars, the defeat of the Ming army, and he had also witnessed the fierceness of the Manchus many times in Ningyuan, and the seeds of fear had long been planted in his heart.

This fear gave him a superstition of the invincibility of the Manchus.

Bai Yongfu heard the Ming army's bird guns sound again, and then he couldn't help frowning, a trace of grief appeared on his face, his men were really dead, but at this time he saw the Eight Banners cavalry rushing up, one left and one right, stabbing close to the Ming army.

"Kill, kill them all!"

Bai Yongfu thought silently in his heart, hoping that his master would avenge him.

However, these Qing troops had just entered the distance of 100 paces, and they were still attacked like the infantry just now.

At this time, Junta couldn't help but feel a little remorseful in his heart, he found that he had made a big mistake, he still let people attack from the flanks like he did just now.

But what he didn't expect was that the Ming army not only had bird guns in front of them, but also ambushed them behind the shields on both sides.

Zhun Ta had to think so, because their cavalry had already been attacked by the bird gunners on both sides, and he was ready to roar, but at this time, he saw that the Ming army had only fought one round on the flank, and then stopped.

The arrows that had been drawn were sent down suddenly, and I am afraid that there was only a row of bird guns on the flanks, and the front had just been shot, and it was still too early to reload. But just as he was thinking this, the front suddenly shot diagonally, and after only one round, it stopped.

Junta's heart relaxed slightly. At this time, he heard the three trumpets of "Di Di Di", and he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't care, because his cavalry had already entered forty paces, and at this time, even if the Ming army in front of him was loaded. They have also lost their shooting range and can't hit them.

It is true that the Ming army can't hit the Qing army in the front, but the flanks can still fight, and it is true that there is only a row of bird gunners on the flanks, but the Qing army is still shocked, and they see a dense network of crossbow arrows and bows and arrows covering them!

Suddenly hit the head of this arrow rain tide, people shouted and neighed, as if they had been hammered by a heavy hammer, and in an instant there were heavy casualties and the formation was chaotic. The speed at which victory has been lost, and the second wave of arrows has fallen!

Forty paces, forty paces away, it was like hell, arrows were constantly falling from the sky, and occasionally there was a row of bird guns and lead bullets, and the Qing army could not advance under this firepower, like an invisible wall, blocking in front of them.

They didn't hit a wall. It's an iron wall, Yang Chaojun's iron wall array!

"Retreat, retreat!"

Seeing his Eight Banners helplessly slaughtered at forty paces, Zhun Ta finally opened his bow and shot a Ming Di that represented the retreat, and the arrow was sent into the sky. The Qing army, who was confined to a dilemma, couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, and immediately slapped their horses and walked back.

It's just that when he left, he was killed by the Ming army hundreds of people, and in the end, the two thousand Eight Banners soldiers who came from the left and right flanks were killed separately, and there were less than 300 people each.

"It's horrible!"

Bai Yongfu couldn't help but grow his mouth. Forgot to close.

He can see clearly, in this Ming army formation, there are not only bird guns, but also archers and crossbow archers.

Zhun Ta's heart was cold, he saw it more thoroughly than Bai Yongfu, there were at least three or four rows of bird gunners deployed in front of the Ming army, one row on each side, but the archers and crossbowmen on both sides went to hundreds or thousands, judging from the density of arrow rain just now, there were at least ten rows shooting arrows at the same time.

He had a total of 3,000 banner soldiers, attacked twice, lost more than 100 in one time, and directly lost more than 1,000 in the second time, half of the troops had gone, and they couldn't fight again!

Zhun Ta appeased the officers and soldiers of the banner soldiers who had returned from the defeat, and then ordered a retreat, and the whole army returned to the camp!

Li Wuliu's mind couldn't help but fluctuate, although the training proved again and again that this military formation composed of long-range firepower was amazingly powerful, and basically would not give the cavalry a chance to rush into forty steps, but when he really saw it on the battlefield, he still couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement.

10,000 people, each row is a thousand people, a total of ten rows!

The first four rows, in fact, are all bird guns, including the soldier who pushes the shield forward, in fact, that soldier is the most important bird gunner, because this person is a shooter, in order not to waste a fire unit, so everyone must attack, so the design of the past special shield soldier pushing the shield was canceled.

So this is actually the vanguard of the bird's gun, when he chooses to stand the shield, there is a stick on each side of the shield, and the shield will stand up by itself, although it will be slightly tilted back about ten degrees, but it does not affect the defense, let alone the design.

Behind this shooter are three bird-swordsmen, who are in charge of loading him at this time, and there are three pre-loaded, and once the shooter has let go of three, the fourth is loaded, so that he can shoot four bullets at once.

A thousand people fired four times in a row, a total of 4,000 lead bullets died, and at a distance of 100 paces, it was not a problem to reach 60% of the hits.

Even if the other party rushes up without fear of death, there are three rows of crossbowmen behind the birdmen, who are already ready to go, just waiting for the captives to enter the forty-step range, and then shoot at the same time, behind the crossbowmen, there are three rows of archers, which can be fired at the same time with the crossbowmen, and at this time the military formation is considered to be fully fired, and the maximum density is 7,000 strike firepower at the same time.

If the enemy kills from the flank, don't be afraid, the shield hand on the flank is also a bird gunner, but he only has one bird gun, so he can only fire it once, in fact, it is only used to block the enemy, when the flank encounters an attack, the archers and infantry behind the bird gunner only need to turn left and right, in fact, it has solved the problem, and you can shoot at the enemy calmly.

And the command to turn left and right is three trumpets, when the left wing to the left, the right wing to the right.

Of course, because there are 1,000 soldiers in each row, it is impossible for 500 people to shoot at the same time after turning left and right, otherwise I am afraid that the rain of arrows may hit the head of the front row, so there are only 30 rows of arrows in each row, so as to ensure that the rain of arrows in the last row does not hit the head of the first row.

In this way, most of the soldiers in the center will still be facing the front, which does cause some waste, but it does not give the enemy the opportunity to attack from the front.

If the enemy comes from behind, it is even simpler, the archers and crossbowmen just turn back, and the difference in fire from the front is nothing more than a few rows of birds.

However, without a perfect formation, there will always be a waste of firepower, and being able to use firepower to this extent is already the result of more than a year of hard work and repeated drills and improvements.

Li Wuliu knows best how much effort has been put into this, but today it seems that it is worth it.

In fact, the soldiers in the field were still waiting for the battle, and they didn't think much about it at all, because the battle was not over yet, and Li Wuliu's trumpet had not yet been remembered, so they had to be ready to fight at any time, even if they saw that the enemy army was already slowly retreating.

What brought Li Wuliu back from his immersion was a cheer, and the soldiers and civilians watching the battle on the Haizhou city wall were boiling.

At this time, Li Wuliu noticed that the captives had retreated, and one by one they cautiously retreated from the city wall and the center of Yang Chao's army formation, with a posture of fear that Li Wuliu would take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Li Wuliu really had the urge to order the whole army to charge, but he resisted it, he was not Wang Pu's idiot, he didn't want the long-range troops he had worked hard to train to be consumed in the spear assault, although he didn't say it explicitly, but in Li Wuliu's heart, those of them who played with birds, bows and arrows and crossbows were better than those who could only wield guns and sticks.

Of course, these soldiers under Li Wuliu also think so.

The Qing army had completely left the eastern part of the city, and under the cover of the city wall, they could no longer be seen, and it was confirmed that they had really retreated, and then Li Wuliu sounded the horn for a while.

At this time, the gate of Haizhou City was opened, and groups of people flocked out of the city.

Li Wuliu first put his mind at ease, what he was most worried about was that he would be turned away again and had to camp outside the city, it seemed that after the last cooperation, the military and people of Haizhou were already very relieved of Yang Chao's army.

But soon Li Wuliu became a little worried, and couldn't help but face the realm on both sides, for fear that the Qing army would take the opportunity to kill at this time.

However, the Qing army seemed to be really stunned all of a sudden, and the retreat was honest and thorough, without dragging mud and water.

On the one hand, he asked people to go to the fishing village to inform the gunners, let them follow them into the city, and inform the sailors on the ship, so that they could also come to Haizhou to celebrate.

Then, he began to greet the people who had already run to the front of the military formation, and only then did they begin to cower.

Li Wuliu sent people to tell the people that they were reinforcements under Yang Chao, and the people who provoked them were cheering, and they made a way for Li Wuliu's soldiers to pass through with peace of mind.

When the army walked into the city, Li Wuliu breathed the long-lost Haizhou air, and felt a little emotional, it had been two years since Haizhou was farewell!

It's really a trick, the first time I came to Haizhou, it was because of the Tartars, but I didn't expect the second time I came to Haizhou, or because of the Tartars. (To be continued.) )