Chapter 209: Fighting in Array (2)
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Looking at the rapidly growing cavalry figure, Chu Fan's pupils involuntarily shrank - in just a few breaths, ten cavalrymen had already approached within a hundred steps.
"B, C, G, Xin, listen to my password...... Ready~~" Liu Zhongwen shouted unhurriedly, the four squads he ordered were on both sides of the horizontal team, facing the cavalry who were rushing wildly.
Chu Fan thought that he would continue to shout the word "release", but he didn't think that he would freeze at once, and his right hand was raised high without waving downwards - within a hundred steps, Lu Mi Gong could already exert quite good firepower, if Chu Fan came to command, he would definitely have ordered it to be released.
After glancing at Liu Zhongwen, who was staring at the cavalry out of the corner of his eye, Chu Fan's gaze crossed the four squads that were named, and saw that except for the Gengzi team, the other three squads were obviously a little flustered.
The sound of hooves rumbled, and the ten cavalrymen were fifty paces away in an instant, and Shen Teng could see the iron shovel in the hand of the meaty guy who was desperately lying down, and it was rising and falling with the gallop of the horse.
"Put !!"
Liu Zhongwen's high-pitched command that tore his vocal cords finally came from his ears, and Shen Teng, who had already aimed at the leading horseman, calmly pulled the trigger, and the dragon head holding the red fire rope fell suddenly, lighting a bright spark in the medicine pot, and then Shen Teng felt a violent thrust from his shoulder, and thick green smoke immediately rose from Lu Mi's mouth.
didn't have time to see the effect of the shooting, Shen Teng had already practiced thousands of times, quickly took two steps back, and shouted while removing the strip stuck on the gun. "Second row, put!"
He didn't have time to look at the results of this row of guns, but Chu Fan, who was standing behind the side, could see it clearly: the power of the close-range concentrated fire of fifteen Lu Mi guns on the left and one on the right was very amazing, and in an instant, seven of the ten cavalrymen either planted their horses or their horses were knocked to the ground, and the remaining three were all shot in the second round of shooting that followed--for a while, the valley was filled with the screams of people and the screams of horses, which lasted for a long time.
glanced at Liu Zhongwen, who was extremely calm. Chu Fan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, some people are born for battle formations, and Liu Zhongwen seems to be one of them-if he hadn't calmed down and put the cavalry so close before giving the order to fire, there would definitely not be two rounds of salvos to completely annihilate the opponent; What's more, the entire squad will not gain actual combat experience on how to face a cavalry charge at close range!
It's just that the risk is too big!
Just a moment before the firing began, Chu Fan could clearly feel the commotion in the first platoon of the horizontal team, and he was guessing, if Liu Zhongwen's order to fire was another second or two later, would someone throw down Lu Mi Gong and turn around and flee? -- The convoy has undergone more than a month of devilish intensive training, and it is still so. It is only natural that the Ming army, who could not practice for a few days a year, collapsed in the face of cavalry.
And the total annihilation of the bandit cavalry also boosted the morale of the entire escort team, Chu Fan saw that whether they were aiming with guns or trotting the whole team of escorts, their waists were straighter, and the expressions on their faces were no longer so stiff, and they began to have an excited and happy smile.
On the other hand, the bandits, in just a few breaths, all ten brazen cavalry were defeated, leaving the infantry formation that had already entered within a hundred paces stagnant. Especially the bandits in the first platoon, who saw the fall of the cavalry, never knocked on their shields again. His steps were noticeably hesitant, but he was pushed by the crossbowmen behind him and staggered forward.
And the crossbowmen, who had already put their arrows on the strings, and those who held the bows with a stone step were no longer breathless, and drew their bows and pointed diagonally to the sky and put their arrows.
The distance of a hundred steps is indeed too far, and most of the sparsely scattered feather arrows have landed before they fly to the horizontal formation, and occasionally one or two fall into the formation. It also lost its strength, and was easily blocked by the iron scarf or the iron piece on the armband.
"Ding!"
Shen Teng's iron pocket was hit like this, but he didn't even blink his eyes, and steadily held Lu Mi Gong to look at the bandits who were a little hesitant but still approaching quickly, and silently estimated the distance between the two sides: ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps......
As the distance closes. All kinds of riding bows and hunting bows on the opposite side also opened fire one after another, and the feathered arrows that came over began to increase, and the strength was no longer as weak as just now, even if they couldn't shoot through the iron shackles, they could still make people's heads buzz.
"Uh~~"
Someone in the escort team was finally unfortunately hit by an arrow, and let out a dull and suppressed muffled snort, and Shen Teng glanced out of the corner of his eye, it was a recruit of the T-shaped team - a feathered arrow was inserted into the gap between the iron vest and the arm guard impartially, although it was not deep in the flesh, but the recruit could no longer lift his arm.
Immediately after that, a succession of people were hit by arrows, and they let out a cry of pain or muffled grunts, and for a moment the whole squad began to stir again--the high morale of the cavalry that had been raised just now because of the total annihilation of the opponent's cavalry quickly fell under the attack of the feather arrows.
Morale is a thing: the feather arrow attack worked, the morale of the escort began to drop, but the morale of the bandits gradually increased, the once silent shouts became louder again, and the pace of the feet no longer hesitated, and the bandits in the first row rushed like chickens, kicking the pebbles on the river beach everywhere.
Looking at the bandits on the opposite side wielding long knives and flails, and only showing excited and hideous faces on the wooden shields, even if they were as calm as Shen Teng, they couldn't help but be secretly anxious in their hearts: they have already entered a distance of fifty steps, why hasn't Liu Ergongzi given an order!
Not only him, but the corners of everyone's eyes in the horizontal array were focused on Liu Zhongwen's raised arm, anxiously waiting for it to swing down, but there was no movement.
Twenty steps behind the side of the horizontal formation, Chu Fan's eyes were also anxiously staring at Liu Zhongwen's raised arm, and water was already coming out of his palm!
He was now a little skeptical that the conversation with Liu Zhongwen in Qijia Town last night was too much: when talking about the purpose of this battle, Chu Fan said that the best way to test the training results of the escort team was to face the enemy's sharp blade, under great pressure, and between life and death.
But Chu Fan never expected that Liu Zhongwen would put the bandits so close! Or in the case of feathered arrows flying and your own casualties!
Just when Chu Fan felt that his whole person was about to collapse and was about to give the order of the substitute chef to release the gun, the situation he was most afraid of seeing appeared.
"Ah~~"
With a scream, someone in the horizontal formation threw down the Lu Mi gun, turned around and fled! (To be continued.) )