Shen Shizhong (about four o'clock in the afternoon), on the opposite side of the river, in a place called Zhujiagou, Cao Bianjiao led the army of Yutian Town, as well as the soldiers of the new military camp in Zunhua Town, and Liu Zongmin and other 40,000 horse thieves started a big battle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The terrain on the opposite bank of Caomiaozhuang is dry and flat, which is conducive to the large-scale attack of the cavalry, but because there is the Xianghe River on the left and the Qiulong River, a tributary that has just been crossed on the right, the cavalry cannot make a large-scale detour in this area, and the two sides can basically only fight hard against hard.

Soon after Cao Bianjiao's march in formation, the desolate horn sounded in the camp position, and the first wave of about 10,000 horsemen under the leadership of the general Yuan Zongdi went out of the battle.

The Ming army still moved forward until the distance between the two sides was only one mile, and only after a horn, they collectively shouted "mighty" and stopped.

Cao Bianjiao ordered to prepare for battle, each small array of drums one after another neatly arranged, solemn plain, and finally beat the cymbals and a drum stopped, they were separated by more than 100 steps in each formation, each formation was lined up on four sides, with pikemen and firearms guarded, officers and drummers in the middle, and the position of the Chinese army was occupied by cavalry, protecting the Chinese army and the baggage.

Cao Bianjiao rode his horse and stood on a slightly protruding slope, holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, looking quietly, the thief riders had come all over the field, it seemed to be a break soldier, their horsemen wore felt hats, and the leather and left five battalions were wrapped in red scarves.

He looked ahead, although it was not as good as the eastern captives, but the thief cavalry charge was not small, there were more than 10,000 people, boundless, and the infantry of more than 10,000 people were all majestic, not to mention the horsemen. They spread out more, causing greater power.

Cao Bianjiao heard that the breathing of everyone around him was a little heavy, and he was actually a little nervous in his heart.

After all, this kind of concave and convex formation has not been tested by large-scale actual combat, and when the battle is approaching, many of the initiative is in the hands of the commanders and thousands of generals of each small formation.

But when the battle began, it no longer made sense to think about it, the speed of the horsemen was very fast. Even if the thief's horse is not as good as the slave. But rushing to the front of the battle, it doesn't take long.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, the black pressure of the horse's head rushed to the front of the formation. Then poured into the various small formations. One after another, the sound of guns was loud. The battle began instantly......

The tide of cavalry submerged the position of the Ming army, and as a general who had followed Li Zicheng for many years, Yuan Zongdi was full of courage and courage. He also fought very calmly, won the trust of Li Zicheng, and served as the general of the right battalion system of the Dashun Army in history, and was named "Mianhou", and when Chongzhen attacked Luoyang in 14 years, he also served as the commander.

Before the battle, he also carefully pondered Cao Bianjiao's sparse formation, and he guessed that Cao Bianjiao's intention was to give full play to the power of his own firearms, and at the same time change the large phalanx was too bulky and inconvenient when moving in a dense formation.

Indeed, this kind of sparse formation is much more flexible, forcing his own side to have a big battle to delay their march, but Yuan Zongdi does not think that this kind of sparse formation has no defects, not to mention the sharing of firepower, and it is easy to be broken by each one.

Tanma informed the situation very early on, the strength of each small formation of the Ming army was only a total, and half of the pikemen and firearms were firecrackers, so that a small formation was only a hundred firearms soldiers, and it was divided into four sides, and there were only twenty-five people on one side.

Each side is divided into layers, even if it is only divided into three layers, one side can fire no more than eight shots at a time, not to mention anything else, concentrate hundreds of people, or even thousands of people, and impact a small formation, there is no reason why it cannot be rushed.

Of course, the Ming army also seems to be aware of this problem, some of the small formations on their periphery are not only one, but basically composed of two together, even so, they only have fifty guns on each side, and then divide into layers, and the bird guns that can be fired on each side are only fifteen or six shots at a time.

Yuan Zongdi felt that as long as he nibbled a few small formations of Cao Bianjiao with superior forces, he could swallow it after cannibalization, and Cao Bianjiao's sparse formation was not unbreakable.

It was only then that came and gave Yuan Zong his first unforgettable memory.

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The 10,000 horse army led by Yuan Zongdi was also divided into several echelons, which was the basic tactic of the cavalry, wave after wave, surging like a tide, giving strong pressure to the infantry formation, and he led some elite horses at the end.

His attack was also on the side of the rebel position, and both sides could be called frontal.

After all, like the big phalanx, Cao Bianjiao's sparse formation has no front and rear, left flank and right flank, as long as the enemy cavalry attacks, any side is frontal, it is a big square position, even if it is synthesized by many small formations, the essence is the same.

Yuan Zongdi's plan was to let his subordinates use the power of firearms to rush straight towards each small formation, breaking through each formation one by one, and his intuition told him that if he fell into Cao Bianjiao's sparse formation, the situation would not be very good.

It's just that the idea is very good, but the fact is that he can't help it, Yuan Zongdi was surprised to find that the horsemen in front of him, as soon as they rushed, they rushed directly into the middle of the formation.

Only then did he wake up and find that when did the Ming army's small array layout change a little?

There are still three or four layers of spearmen on each side, and the front layer of gunmen remains the same, but among the spearmen who were originally in the rear, there are two layers that run in front of the gunners, and then squat on the ground, and put up the spears in their hands like hedgehogs, so frightened that the horses that rushed into the camp did not dare to approach.

After all, most of their horses were not fierce horses, and the horses were instinctively afraid of bright and sharp things, except for a small number of fierce war horses, the rest of the horses did not wait for the knights to control, so they bypassed themselves and rushed into the interval between the small formations.

Such a change caused the tidal wave of cavalry to pour into the various formations, and then they were divided into fragments by the small formations, and the power was gone, and then, it was the beginning of their nightmare.

To greet these intruders, it was the fierce volley of the Ming army, they mostly shot at the side of the people and horses who entered, caught off guard, and some people kept screaming and falling, this kind of overwhelm accompanied them from entering to leaving.

The ignorance of the concave and convex formation, the cavalry still instinctively, unconsciously, and in a steady stream of influx.

As they entered the formation, small formations opened fire one after another, and the sound of the platoon guns followed one after another, and the fierce gunpowder smoke gushing out from each fire gun soon covered the phalanx. Then it quickly enveloped the entire position, and the battlefield was full of acrid smoke.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the people around them were shot and fell off their horses one by one, and the intruders finally woke up, many of them screamed in horror, and the experience they had never had before made them panic, and for the first time, they felt that there was no place on the battlefield that was safe.

They felt that in the position of this Ming army. There is no difference between the front and the rear at all. There seemed to be guns coming from the front and back, left and right, which made them wonder what to do.

Faced with bullets fired from all directions, many people spun around like headless flies, trying to find a safe place for themselves. Or desperately trying to control the equally frightened horses under the crotch. Try not to fall to the ground.

Many battalion leaders were also alarmed. They couldn't find any soldiers, and as soon as they rushed into the formation, they instinctively galloped along the gap. In this way, the soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers, it was really chaotic, and many sentinels lost their organization.

Liu Zongmin ordered the attacking troops to take the lead, the former to return, the latter to kill, and now many sentinels have lost even their organization, so there is no need to talk about this.

Also, the guns of the Ming army did not stop, and rows of guns were fired, which also aggravated the chaos of the army.

In the middle of the formation, many intruders shouted unconsciously, all kinds of noisy noises, and there were constantly intruders and horses were ruthlessly knocked to the ground, each lead bullet with strong kinetic energy, shot into their bodies, rolled in their bodies, brought them great pain, and even more frightened horses were covered in blood, jumping and rushing wildly.

Unconsciously, the more the horses fell, and many people did not bat at a glance, with incomparable horror and panic in their expressions.

The blood flowing from their corpses also quickly soaked the dry and hard ground softly, and the blood flowed everywhere, and finally seemed to merge into rivers, and the strange smell of gunpowder smoke and blood wafted everywhere......

"No!"

After Yuan Zongdi entered the formation, what he saw was this chaotic and miserable scene, watching the horsemen who had worked hard to collect the righteous army fall one after another, and the brave knights scurrying and shouting like headless flies, he couldn't help but roar unwillingly.

In an instant, that kind of resentment, frustration, and depression surged into his heart, and all kinds of thoughts made Yuan Zongdi's face turn red, his body on the horse trembled slightly, and his chest was uncomfortable, and finally, his expression was hideous, and he let out an extremely resentful roar in his mouth: "Why is this? ”

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"Good!"

Cao Bianjiao's heart was tightly hanging, and he finally let go, and the concave and convex array fought against the cavalry, and it was really sharp.

He looked at the formation, although countless cavalry circled around each small formation, and there were many in front of his own Chinese army's position, but their camp was chaotic, and they had no experience in dealing with this kind of array, they were just meaningless scurrying, and they were not a threat to their own square.

Looking at his own military formation, although the smoke of gunpowder obscured his vision, he could know that all the formations were calmly firing their guns, and then every time they opened their guns, they beat a lot of thieves and horses to overturn, and their shouts turned into wails.

Of course, Cao Bianjiao didn't fail to see that some brave horsemen tried to control their horses to charge into battle, but the two columns of spearmen squatting in front of each formation mostly deterred the approach of those horses, and then the gunners took the opportunity to shoot.

In each of their formations, two rows of spearmen crouched on each of the four sides, and they tried to hold up their spears against the rushing horses in front of them, and to deter the thieves' horses.

The first platoon was responsible for shooting, and the last few platoons were responsible for loading and loading cartridge ammunition, and using the firearms of the Shenji Battalion to transmit tactics, so that they could fight and defend, and indeed achieved great success.

In fact, the use of this tactic was also decided after Cao Bianjiao discussed with the generals when he arrived at the Qiulong River.

When the concave and convex formation was first used, the cavalry frequently harassed, and some of their harassing horsemen rushed into the formation, and then some of the war horses rushed to the small formations in a daze, and the horses were afraid of sharp things, but they did not know the power of firearms, so they posed a threat to the formations.

In this way, Cao Bianjiao was worried about this point, what should the thieves do if they concentrate their forces to storm each formation, after all, the number of people in each small formation is too small, the firepower is too weak, and there are only a few guns fired each time, I am afraid that it will not be able to stop the thieves' onslaught.

Or the personal general Yang Shaofan suggested, in addition to some arrays to increase the number of people, that is, to arrange spearmen in front of the gunners, just like the sword and shield soldiers to cover the pikemen, in order not to affect the gunners' shooting, the spearmen crouched down when facing the enemy, but the spears in their hands can still cause a threat to the thieves and horses.

Sure enough, this proposal is feasible. (To be continued.) )