Azig laughed and said to a staff leader behind him: "Domingo, you take three Niu Lu to kill this group of Nanming barbarians." ”

"Wow!"

The counselor who called Dominica suddenly agreed and took the order.

When Nurhachi first created the slave eight banner system, he took 300 people as a cow record, set up the cow record Ezhen, also called Zuo Ling, every five Niu Lu was a Jiala, set up Jiala Ezhen, also called the staff leader, every five Jiala was a solid mountain, that is, the flag, set up a solid mountain Ezhen, also called the flag owner, also called the capital.

After Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, for the sake of consolidating the imperial power, the forces within Jiannu were redivided several times, and the number of cattle records belonging to the eight banners was also changed several times, the number of cattle records of the upper three banners increased significantly, and the number of cattle records of the lower three banners was greatly reduced, in short, the number of cattle records of each banner was not fixed, but the bannermen of each cattle record were fixed, and it has always been three hundred people.

Domina ordered three Niu Lu nine hundred Jiannu heavy cavalry separated from Jiannu's cavalry brigade, and went straight to the two thousand musketeers led by the bearded man and Scarface, as the distance approached, Domina raised his saber and howled, and the nine hundred Jiannu cavalry behind him immediately lined up in Niu Lu as a unit, and the three Niu Lu formed a charge formation in the front and back three rows.

Domina pushed the saber forward again, and the nine hundred Jiannu cavalry suddenly howled like ghosts, and they urged the horses to speed up and start the charge, only to see the horse's head fluttering, the iron hooves churning, rolling up the billowing smoke and dust, and soaring into the sky, although there were only nine hundred cavalry, but this momentum was enough to make the vast majority of recruits tremble.

Half of the recruits in the two musket teams out of the city were eggs, witnessing the Jiannu Iron Cavalry in such a formation, these recruits who had never been on the battlefield and had never even seen blood had already turned white with fright, and they all began to tremble all over, if it weren't for the calmness of the veterans around them, I was afraid that they would scatter in a hurry before the Jiannu heavy cavalry rushed to the front.

"Stop!"

Huo Ran, the bearded man who walked in the front, raised his waist knife.

"Array." Scarface, who was following the bearded man, also roared hoarsely, "Stand in line!" ”

These musketeers had undergone strict queue training in the Lei Gong Mountain battalion, ranging from one hundred-man squad to fifty hundred-man squadrons, with different marching queues and different shooting queues, and the firing queue of two thousand musketeers was five hundred men per platoon, four rows in front and behind.

The advent of paper shell shells allowed the musketeers to fire at a revolutionary rate, and four rows of rounds were enough to ensure the continuation of firepower.

Scarface gave an order, and the twenty generals quickly took their own hundred-man team into position, and in less than a moment, the two thousand musketeers had already set up a rigorous shooting queue, and although those recruits were afraid, the long military training still played a role, and the simple march was not chaotic.

"First Team ......" The bearded man slowly turned around with his waist knife, looked indifferently at the Jiannu Iron Horse that swept in front of him, and shouted fiercely, "Ready!" ”

Scarface, as well as the five men in the first row, raised their waist knives.

The five hundred musketeers raised their muskets in their hands in unison, and the muzzles of the black holes were already aimed at the surging Jiannu cavalry in front, and there was silence in front of the Ming army, only the heavy gasps of the recruits rang out, and the air was filled with suffocating depression.

"Fire!"

The waist knife in the bearded man's hand suddenly fell, and he roared loudly.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Scarface and the five high-powered swords also fell, and the five hundred musketeers, who had been waiting for a long time, pulled the trigger in an instant, and a dazzling white light suddenly flashed in front of the formation, which was the bright light from the flint hitting the iron, and then there were puffs of black smoke, which was the smoke from the burning of the primer.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The next moment, a dazzling red light erupted from the muzzle of the five hundred muskets, and the deafening sound of the gunfire immediately rang out, threatening to shatter the eardrums of the Ming officers and soldiers.

The first row of Jiannu heavy cavalry that was rushing forward suddenly turned over on his back, and the Jiannu who was more than fifty horsemen fell down in an instant, falling in a pool of blood, and the originally neat charging formation also caused a little chaos, but fortunately, the follow-up two rows of Jiannu cavalry were superb in horsemanship, and they jumped over one after another, so that they were not tripped by the fallen Jiannu cavalry.

"Second Team ......" the bearded man raised his sword again and yelled with an indifferent expression, "Ready! ”

Scarface raised his waist knife again, and the five men of the second team swung their waist knives forward, and the five hundred musketeers of the second team had already rushed forward with neat steps, and the first team of musketeers who had finished shooting quickly spread out to both sides, and then retreated to the back of the formation and began to nervously reload their ammunition.

In less than three seconds, the second team of five hundred musketeers was ready.

"Fire!"

The bearded waist knife fell down again, and Scarface and the five generals also swung their waist knives, and roared hoarsely, and the five hundred musketeers of the second team quickly pulled the trigger, and then quickly spread out to both sides, giving the third team of musketeers to get out of the way.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The dazzling white light, the flying gunsmoke accompanied by bursts of deafening gunfire continued to bloom from the front of the Ming army, after a full four rows of volleys, the Jiannu heavy cavalry finally rushed through half of the death distance, and the Ming army musket team was less than eighty steps, but at this time, the three Niu Lu nine hundred Jiannu heavy cavalry had been killed and wounded nearly half, and there were less than five hundred horsemen left!

Jiannu Counselor Domingo watched the Jiannu heavy cavalry around him continue to fall, and the Jiannu cavalry that could still follow behind him was becoming less and less, anger was like a fire burning in his chest, his eyes were about to be burned, when did these damn Nanming barbarians become so powerful?

In Domina's impression, the firearms battalion of the Nanming barbarians usually only had time to release a burst of guns before the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry rushed to the front, and then they had to throw away their firearms and fight with cold weapons, but the group of Nanming barbarians in front of him was completely different from the Nanming barbarians in his memory, they shot one team after another, and it seemed that there would never stop.

"Kill!"

Dominica waved the saber in his hand vigorously, looked up to the sky and let out a hoarse roar, and he couldn't wait to rush through the remaining eighty paces in an instant, and suddenly appear in front of the Ming army.

"Kill!"

"Woo-ha!"

"Wow!"

In the end, the remaining less than five hundred Jiannu heavy horsemen were already red-eyed, and one by one they roared wildly, waving the saber in their hands vigorously while roaring, they were also looking forward to rushing over the eighty steps of death as soon as possible, and killing those damned Nanming barbarians earlier.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Another row of dense bullets fired, more than 100 Jiannu heavy horsemen screamed and fell off the horseback, Jiannu's counselor Domingo was also shot through the chest by two hot lead bullets, the sturdy body trembled violently on the horse's back twice, and then slowly tilted the horse, and after landing only twice, there was no movement.

After another three-wheeled row of guns, the Jiannu heavy cavalry finally rushed through the final death distance and rushed to the front of the Ming army, but at this time, there were only two horsemen left in the nine hundred iron cavalry, and before the Ming army musketeers came up, the bearded and scarred face of the leader raised and fell, and the two Jiannu horses had already been cut off the horse.

"It's all for Lao Tzu!" Before the musketeers, who had just won a major victory with zero casualties, had no time to catch their breath, the bearded man was already raising his waist knife and shouting hoarsely, "Attack in formation, advance!" ”

"Forward!"

"Keep going!"

Scarface and the twenty generals howled one after another, and the indifferent veterans and the bewildered pro-soldiers quickly took their places, and then rolled forward in a neat step under the reprimand of the general of each team, and every time they took a step forward, they shouted as usual: "Kill the slave!" ”

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill slaves!"

In less than a moment, the sound of a neat and loud trumpet resounded throughout the battlefield again.

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The thieves in the army, Azig has been entangled with the red lady.

Azig has extraordinary strength, the Red Lady is strong in martial arts, the two fought viciously for dozens of rounds and still did not win or lose, Azig killed the surname, forced the Red Lady to retreat with a knife, and then looked up to the sky and laughed: "Good girl, this girl is delicious enough, it must be very cool to ride, Lao Tzu likes it, oh haha......"

"Dog thieves are looking for death!" The red lady was so angry that her willow eyebrows were upside down, her apricot eyes were wide open, and she shouted in a delicate voice, "Look at the dart!" ”

"Whoosh!"

Azig listened to the sound of the wind and shrank his head sharply, and immediately felt a chill in his head.

When he reached out to touch it, the money rat tail at the back of his head had been cut off by the red lady's dart, and when he dared to love Azig shrank his head just now, the rat tail at the back of his head was upturned up, just in the middle of the dart, Azig saw that there was no rat tail, and he was furious and said: "Damn cheap woman, dare to cut off Lao Tzu's rat tail, Lao Tzu can't spare you!" ”

"The old lady is still afraid that you won't make it!?"

Azig danced the knife and took the red lady directly, and the red lady also urged the horse to greet him, and the two fought together again, just when Azig wanted to capture the red lady alive, the voice of Fei Yangu, the leader of the white flag, suddenly came from behind him: "His Royal Highness the King of the County, it's not good, it's not good!" ”

"Feyangu, what's wrong?"

Azig opened the red lady's long sword with a sword, and hurriedly turned around and asked.

The red lady saw the opportunity to stab Azig in the throat with a sword, Azig heard the sound of the wind behind his head, and quickly turned his body to dodge, but he did not completely dodge, or was cut off half of his right ear by the red lady's sword, and the blood flowed like an injection in an instant, Azig hurriedly reached out to cover his right face, and turned around and left.

The red lady was afraid that Li Yan would lose, and she didn't dare to chase and kill, so she could only let Azig Zema escape.

Azig turned around and ran more than a hundred paces, until he retreated back to the cavalry of Jiannu's brigade, before he turned his horse back and asked, "Feyangu, what happened?" ”

Feiyangu, who could keep up, gasped: "Your Royal Highness, Domina's three Niu Lu have all been wiped out!" ”

"What did you say!?" Azig was taken aback when he heard this, and lost his voice, "This is impossible, it is absolutely impossible!" The Ming army out of the city was only 2,000 people at most, and Dominica brought three Niu Lu and 900 heavy horsemen, and it was an outlier if he couldn't win, how could he be killed by the Nanming barbarians in turn? ”

Feiyangu stretched out his hand and pointed to the left wing, and said miserably: "Your Highness, look. ”

When Azig looked back in a hurry, he saw that the Ming army was shouting the trumpet of "killing slaves" and marching forward neatly, clearly intact, this Ming army was already very close to the cavalry of Jiannu's brigade at this time, and the Jiannu heavy cavalry of Domina's three Niu Lu had become wreckage all over the ground at this time.

"Shhh......hhhh ”

"Your Highness!" Feiyangu reminded in a low voice, "The Ming Army's Firearms Battalion will soon cut off our retreat!" ”

"Ah, what did you say?" Azig was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and asked, "A way out?" What retreat? ”

Feiyangu stretched out his hand and pointed to the noisy battlefield around him, and said in a condensed voice: "Your Highness, look, our army has completely penetrated into the Ming army, and now the front and the left and right flanks are Ming troops, if the Ming army's firearms battalion plugs the gap behind our army, our army will be completely surrounded by the Ming army!" ”

"Afraid of what?" Azig said sharply, "It's just tens of thousands of Nanming barbarians, the eight thousand warriors who want to surround our two white flags, I'm afraid they don't have such a big appetite!" ”

"Your Highness, there are only more than 5,000 warriors left in the two white flags!" Fei Yangu said hurriedly, "In normal times, of course we are not afraid of these tens of thousands of Nanming barbarians, but today I have just gone through a long-distance march of more than 100 miles, and I have fought bloodily for a long time just now. ”

Azig said disapprehantly, "So what? ”

Fei Yanggu said: "There is also the firearms battalion of the Ming army, which can completely annihilate the three Niu Lu of Domina in such a short period of time, Your Highness, the situation is not good, let's withdraw quickly!" ”

"Nonsense!" Azig said angrily, "There is never a word retreat in the eyes of this king, only attack, attack, and attack again!" ”

"Your Highness." Feiyangu said miserably, "Do you want to attack?" ”

"Attack, of course attack!" Azig tore off a piece of cloth from his body, bandaged his injured right ear indiscriminately, and then shouted with a knife, "Pass on the military order of the king, let the warriors of the two white flags continue to move forward, attack and attack, and attack again, and you will definitely defeat these damn Nanming barbarians from the front!" ”

"Wow!"

All the staff, including Feiyangu, and the assistant leader, made a promise.

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Rogue Army.

Li Yan, Li Hu, Jing Maocheng, Li Xuan and others all witnessed the confrontation between the official firearms battalion and the Jiannu heavy cavalry, even Li Yan originally thought that even if the official firearms battalion could win in the end, it would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, but the final result surprised them all.

The firearms battalion of the officer army not only won, but it was a complete victory, they almost did not pay any casualties, and the nearly 1,000 Jiannu heavy cavalry who launched the assault were all wiped out!

"Incredible, incredible!" Li Xuan, who surrendered from the official army, shook his head again and again, "This Wang Pu is simply a genius, he can actually come up with such a method to make the muskets of the firearms battalion shoot continuously, with this tactic, who else can rush to the front of the official firearms battalion?" ”

"yes." Jing Maocheng also said in a condensed voice, "It's so powerful, nearly a thousand Jiannu cavalry launched an assault, but not a single cavalry could rush to the official firearms battalion alive...... This is cavalry, if the infantry assaults from the front, how many people will have to die before they can rush to the front of the officer's firearms battalion? ”

Li Xuan suddenly remembered the siege battle last night, and said with fear: "Fortunately, last night, the marshal had the foresight to let General Jing's crow battalion suppress the firearms battalion of the official army with bows and arrows, forcing them to be unable to get out of the urn city, otherwise, our army really doesn't know how many more people will die?" ”

Only Li Yan was silent, but the tactics of the Ming army's firearms battalion and the terrifying lethality had been deeply imprinted in his mind, and from this time on, Li Yan already had an idea in his mind, one day he would also form a firearms battalion of the righteous army, and also use the tactics of Wang Pu's firearms battalion.

However, what bothers Li Yan at the moment is another question, since Wang Pu's subordinates have such a powerful firearms battalion, why didn't they send out the city to take the initiative to attack the righteous army in yesterday's fierce battle?

At that time, the rebels fought fiercely with the defenders at the south gate, and Wang Pu could have sent a firearms battalion from the east gate or the small east gate to attack the rear of the rebels, so that the rebels would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and it was entirely possible to be defeated in a battle, but it was strange that Wang Pu did not do so.

Also, why did Wang Pu send a firearms battalion to help the rebels? It is said that the righteous army and the official army are natural enemies, either you die or I die, the righteous army is attacked by Jiannu and is about to collapse the whole army, the official army should be happy, but why did Wang Pu lend a hand instead?

The red lady rode a horse close to Li Yan and asked softly, "Xianggong, what are you thinking?" ”

Li Yan replied in a low voice: "I'm thinking, why did Wang Pu help us?" ”

"This ......" the red lady frowned and thought for a while, and said in a low voice, "Does he want to defect to the rebels?" ”

"No, it won't." Li Yan shook his head and said, "Wang Pu will definitely not defect to the rebel army. ”

The red lady asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

"No why." Li Yan said, "It's just an intuition, and my intuition tells me that Wang Pu will never defect to the rebels." ”

"Since Wang Pu doesn't want to defect to the rebels, why did he help?" The red lady thought for a moment and finally got nothing, so she said angrily, "But anyway, this time Wang Pu has helped our rebels a lot, so the account in Jining last time has been written off." ”

"Dashuai!" When Li Yanzheng and the red lady were whispering, Jing Maocheng suddenly turned around and shouted, "The situation is not good, Jiannu's offensive has suddenly strengthened, and the brothers will not be able to withstand it again!" ”

"Huh?"

When Li Yan and the Red Lady looked up anxiously, they saw that the soldiers of the righteous army were retreating again and again under the impact of the Jiannu cavalry, and the defense line that had been stabilized became precarious again, especially the Jiannu in the middle road, under the personal leadership of Azig, the offensive was particularly fierce, and the remnants of the Lao Crow Battalion and the Gushan Battalion could be said to be about to collapse.

Li Yan's Chinese army was soon exposed to the saber of Jiannu's iron cavalry again!

The remaining more than 5,000 cavalry of the two white flags are worthy of being the elite of Jiannu who have experienced a hundred battles, even if they are already sleepy and lacking horses, even if they are already under siege, even if they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, they are always the party that takes the initiative to attack.

"Pass the order." Li Yan shouted in a deep voice, "Let the brothers hold on no matter what, they must hold on until the firearms battalion of the official army goes around behind Jiannu to cut off their retreat, and this is only the last dying struggle of the Jiannu cavalry, it is their last wave of attack, as long as they go to Jiannu, it will be over!" ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

More than a dozen cavalry soldiers behind Li Yan led the order one after another, and quickly passed on Li Yan's military orders.

"Dashuai." Li Xuan said loudly, "This place will be handed over to the last general and General Jing, you and your wife should quickly retreat to the left flank." ”

"Nope." Li Yan said categorically, "This commander vows to live and die with the officers and soldiers of the whole army, and will never retreat half a step." ”

"Xianggong." The red lady stepped forward to block in front of Li Yan, and when she looked back at Li Yan, her beautiful eyes were full of affection, and she said softly, "The slave family will never let Jiannu hurt you." ”

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(To be continued)