Cao Wenzhao took two thousand Guanning iron cavalry to run wildly for several days, and finally caught up with the craftsman battalion that was abducted by Zhang Chu. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two thousand Guan Ning iron cavalry, under the leadership of Cao Wenzhao, rushed towards the car formation of the security army.

Although Cao Wenzhao is brave, he is not a reckless and brutal person. Knowing that there would be no good fruit to eat in the frontal impact, the officer cavalry just bluffed forward for a distance, and when they were about to enter the range of the Franco, the whole team turned to the right and attacked the right flank of the car formation. Guan Ning's iron cavalry was well-trained, and he switched the direction of attack in front of the car formation, and did not cause a little confusion. The security army also discovered the intentions of the officers and soldiers, and the cavalry as escorts began to jog in small steps, gradually accelerating, and approaching the officers and soldiers. The battlefield turned from a storm attack by the officers and soldiers to a duel between the cavalry of the two sides. The chariot battalion turned the chariot as much as possible, and used the Francophon on the chariot to attack the officers and soldiers who rushed on, and the officers and cavalry still rushed forward firmly.

The personal guards who were with Cao Wenzhao quietly increased the speed of their horses in the process of running, surpassing Cao Wenzhao and guarding him behind with their bodies. After several battles with the security army, the guards knew that the appearance of muskets changed the form of the whole battle, no matter how strong your martial arts are, a bullet can also knock you off the horse, and the previous hero who single-handedly entered the enemy line and then retreated is not easy to reappear.

The distance was close, the officers and soldiers shot the arrows in their hands, the security guards lowered their figures, raised the small round shield on their arms to block their faces, and resisted this round of attacks by the officers and soldiers, some of the wounded soldiers fell off their horses, and some of the horses were injured and overturned, and the horses next to them caused chaos in the ranks in order to dodge.

Cao Wenzhao observed the effect of this round of blows in the ranks of the official army, this was the first time they fought face-to-face with the security army, the opponent's tactics were ignorant of anything, and they had entered the range of the cavalry bow attack, but the other party did not send arrows, and from a distance, the cavalry of the security army did not seem to have a bow, could it be that their cavalry had not even practiced cavalry shooting. However, in Cao Wenzhao's view, the attack effect of the official army is not very good, only a few people in the security army were injured and fell off their horses, which is much less than when fighting with other teams, the distance between the two sides is close to Cao Wenzhao understands the reason, the war horses of the security army are all wearing cotton armor, and the cavalry on the horse is shining in the noon sun, and it should be covered with iron armor.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but feel a little chill in his heart, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was relatively well equipped in the official army, which was why they were able to use thousands of cavalry to rush and kill among the tens of thousands of thieves, and the simple weapons of the thieves could not break the iron armor of the official army at all. In battle, only by ensuring that you do not die can you have a chance to kill the enemy, and even so, the Guanning Iron Cavalry has not reached the level where everyone wears iron armor. There's only one reason here, there's no money. A heavily armed ironclad cavalry is not something that ordinary people can raise.

However, in terms of the brilliance of armor, Daming's officers and soldiers also had an invention, that is, paper armor painting, which is the ultimate use of papermaking technology by the Chinese in warfare.

The defense of paper armor is not bad, especially for defending against attacks from ranged weapons. The chopping of ordinary swords at close range can also be prevented, and the weight is lighter, which is very popular with the southern troops, and then painted on the paper, the whole armor is bright and dazzling, and it can also deter the enemy psychologically, but the durability of this armor is very low, and it may all be damaged in a fierce battle.

Cao Wenzhao hoped that the other party was wearing the kind of paper armor that scared people, otherwise the thieves would have so much money to equip the iron armor.

The first round of sharp arrows of the official army was fired, and the speed of the horse was also mentioned to the extreme, and when the official cavalry was about to open the bow and shoot again, the short musket in the hands of the cavalry of the security army was fired, this tactic was not new in the Ming army, but the three-eyed gun used by the Ming army was replaced with a short musket with higher accuracy and stronger lethality. In order to ensure the accuracy of the shooting, the security soldiers did not fire until the officers and soldiers fired the first round of arrows, and the distance between the two sides was very close.

The ultra-close distance ensured accuracy, most of the bullets fired by the security army flew into the camp of the officers and soldiers, and the bullets fired by the muskets with rifles were so powerful that no armor could stop them at such a close distance. Even if it hits the horse, it will drill a huge blood hole in the horse.

The cavalry horses in the front row of the officers and soldiers overturned, and many soldiers fell from their horses due to casualties.

The queue of the officers and soldiers was in chaos, the riders behind desperately controlled the horses to prevent them from being knocked down by the people or horses who fell to the ground in front, and the second round of fire of the security army immediately came to a closer distance to cause more damage, and the officers and soldiers could no longer maintain a neat formation, and the cavalry of the security army drew their sabers and rushed into the camp of the officers and soldiers like a wedge.

Although the two armies were hedged against each other, on the surface, they seemed to rush into each other's formations, but the actual effect was very different. The security army still maintains the original battle formation, often a warrior in front of the road, a small group of men and horses in the rear follow, encountering the front row of the official cavalry with a saber to slash hard, whether cut to the point or not to continue to gallop forward, when the officers and soldiers are fortunate to dodge this knife, the sabre of the security army behind arrives again, and few officers and soldiers can resist under the continuous attack of the entire squad.

There are strong officers and soldiers who are the first to strike, but the knife in his hand does not know where to cut, he is faced with a mixed iron barrel wrapped in iron sheets, the saber is cut up and sparks are splashed, it is difficult to cause damage to the other party, but also to guard against the continuous knife light behind.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao had already determined that the opponent was a heavy cavalry with full iron armor, and his team could not take advantage of each other's slashing with the opponent.

Both sides of the cavalry duel should try to maintain the speed of the horse, and the head-on impact should also look for gaps that can be used to intersperse, in the process as much as possible to kill and injure the enemy, whose horse slows down will immediately become the most vulnerable target, the security army and the official army rushed down to penetrate the opponent's formation, leaving a corpse in the battlefield, and then turn the horse's head in the open area to gather the team and prepare for the next charge.

Cao Wenzhao was neither dead nor injured under the protection of the guards, and the surviving officers and soldiers regrouped around him, waiting for him to give the order to charge again, these veterans who had fought outside the gate for many years had serious expressions, and a simple shock lost more than a thousand horses and horses in the case of comparable strength with the opponent's troops, and more than half of the casualties were inflicted, and the casualties of the other party were much less, and the rough estimate was four or five hundred, which had never been encountered before, and the skills and martial arts of the other party were not stronger than them, But the knife in the hands of the officials and soldiers can't cut through the opponent's armor, this is the rich bullying the poor, there is no way at all.

Everyone turned their eyes to Cao Wenzhao, knowing that they had encountered hard stubble today, but there were no soldiers in the Guanning Iron Cavalry who flinched, and everyone was waiting for Cao Wenzhao to give the order to attack. (To be continued.) )