Datong.

Scarface, Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, Monk Zhang, and Xiao Qi have gathered in Wang Pu's general army.

Just now, the sentry on the tower came to report that Jiannu's south and north camps of the city sent 2,000 cavalry at the same time, rushing to the west, calculating the time, Zhao Liujin's grain and grass team should almost arrive in Datong, so the purpose of Jiannu's troops is obvious, that is, to intercept the grain and grass escorted by Zhao Liujin.

"General, send reinforcements quickly."

"Yes, General, it's too late if you don't send reinforcements."

"General, although Zhao Liujin has more than 10,000 troops under his command, they are all rabble, and they are also more than 10,000 troops, and the three thousand Mongolian cavalry will collapse in one rush, and this time it is 4,000 Jiannu banner soldiers, they will be even more unbearable! General, even if these rabble are not worth saving, that batch of grain and grass can't fall into the hands of Jiannu. ”

Scarface and the others were agitated and asked to send troops to respond.

The matter of poisoning the forage and destroying the Jiannu War Horse is top secret, only three people know the whole plan, except for Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai, only Wang Hua, who went to Datong Zuowei to buy this batch of forage, knows the details, and the rest of the people, including Scarface, have no idea about it, so they are so anxious to pick up Zhao Liujin.

"Okay." Wang Pu said loudly, "Scarface obeys orders." ”

Seeing that Scarface and the others were eager to fight, Wang Pu agreed, and it just so happened that he also intended to take this opportunity to let these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals taste the hardships, so as to stop the arrogance of the enemy that spread in the army; Wang Pu wanted to let the brothers know that Jiannu was not powerless to fight back, and that the firearms battalion had fought a few battles before it was actually very lucky.

Scar's face showed excitement, and he hurriedly stepped forward and responded, "It's a humble duty." ”

Wang Pu said: "Take a team of 1,000 people out of the West Gate to pick up Zhao Liujin." ”

"Yes!"

Scarface suddenly agreed, and happily took the order.

When Scarface walked away, Wang Pu said again: "Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng." ”

Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng stepped forward and responded: "Humble duty." ”

Wang Pu said: "Your two thousand-strong teams will also be assembled immediately and stand by in the West Gate. ”

"Yes."

Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng also took the order.

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Datong West Gate.

The closed gates slowly opened, and Scarface lined up in a neat march with a thousand muskets, like a torrent through the urn city and out of the city.

As early as after Dolgon led the brigade to Jiannu and left, Wang Pu asked people to re-open the four gates of Datong.

Scarface led a thousand muskets out of the west gate not far away, there was a movement in the Jiannu camp outside the west gate, and the Jiannu stationed in the camp immediately dispatched two thousand Tuxietu cavalry and five hundred yellow flag iron cavalry, after the two thousand five hundred cavalry left the gate, they quickly spread out to the two wings, and then swept towards Scarface's musket team like a raging flood.

On the West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Puzheng was looking through the arrow hole to observe the movement outside the city.

Seeing more than 2,000 cavalry cavalry swept over, and then like crabs with open pincers rushing towards the 1,000 musket team with Scarface, Wang Pu's face immediately became gloomy.

This is not a battle that Wang Pu wants to fight, there is neither a fortification to rely on, nor a terrain that can be used, the Jiannu on the opposite side occupies an absolute superiority of troops, and they will no longer underestimate the enemy, after several successive defeats, Jiannu has psychologically regarded Wang Pu's firearms battalion as their most dangerous enemy.

This is not a battle that Wang Pu wants to fight, but he must fight!

Even if he knows that he will be defeated, he must fight, because if he doesn't fight today and doesn't eat this defeat, he will suffer an even bigger defeat another day, and he may even lose all his capital!

In front of the musket team, Scarface raised his waist knife coldly and indifferently, and shouted: "Three-sided firing formation...... Array! ”

Ten generals followed with their swords raised, and a thousand musketeers were worthy of well-trained veterans, and in less than a moment they were lined up in a rigorous three-sided firing formation, with three hundred men on the front and three hundred on the left and right wings, all lined up in three rows in front and rear, with one hundred men in each row, just enough to form a three-stage strike to ensure the continuation of the firepower.

The remaining hundred-man squad remained in the middle, ready to fill the vacancy in the three-sided firing formation.

Scarface really didn't pay attention to the two or three thousand Jiannu cavalry rushing over from the opposite side.

I think that when he was in Liaodong, Wang Pu only used 600 musketeers to destroy Jiannu's 2,000 cavalry, and he used the most primitive arquebus, which was far less powerful than the flintlock pistol used now, which would have 1,000 musketeers under him, and he used a more powerful flintlock pistol, so there was no reason to lose to Jiannu.

"Brothers, cheer up Lao Tzu and overturn these dog-called Jiannu."

"Yes!"

The musketeers roared into agreement.

Scarface had even seen the tragic scene of the Jiannu cavalry flipping on their backs, and he had even heard the screams and wails of the Jiannu cavalry.

In front of the Jiannu cavalry formation, Tan Tai threw the saber in his hand into the sky.

Behind them, the five hundred Jiannu iron cavalry and the two thousand Tuxitu cavalry who were galloping behind them all performed a kick to hide, and all the Jiannu cavalry collapsed and clinged to the side of the war horse, and the scene, as if the thousands of Jiannu cavalry on horseback suddenly disappeared.

"Huh?"

In front of the musket team, Scarface's eyes bulged out in an instant.

Fuck, what kind of thing is this? The dog said that Jiannu actually came to such a hand?

Jiannu just hid on the side of the horse's belly, the original target was quite a big person, but there was only a small amount left, how did the brothers fight?

On the West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Pu's right hand on the arrow hole clenched in an instant, worthy of Jiannu and Mongolians, all of them are so superb in riding! As soon as Jiannu hid so lightly on horseback, the target of the body exposed to the muzzle of the gun was greatly reduced, and the hit rate of the musket would drop sharply.

The firearms battalion of the Ming army fought with the Jiannu cavalry, and generally only beat people, and basically did not fight horses.

This is not because of cherishing war horses, but because the vitality of war horses is far more tenacious than that of humans.

If it is a human, it can be killed directly by being hit by lead bullets, and it can also be killed if it is not a critical part, but war horses are different, if a war horse is not directly hit by the vital point, they will keep running and sprinting until the last drop of blood on their bodies is drained!

In other words, even if the war horse was hit, it was basically useless, and it could not stop the charge of the Jiannu cavalry at all.

In the battle of Liaodong, if Curb Bilong and Tazhan let Jiannu use this trick at the beginning, the outcome of the war would be completely different, but unfortunately, the Jiannu at that time were too arrogant, they didn't take the Ming army in their eyes at all, and they didn't disdain to use this kind of "three indiscriminate" tricks with blood loss and courage.

Now it's different, after having had enough of the suffering of the Ming army's firearms, Jiannu has long ceased to be arrogant, for the current Jiannu, defeating the Ming army's firearms battalion is the most important.

Outside the West Gate of Datong.

The Jiannu cavalry, which was rushing rapidly, finally rushed into the range of the Ming army's musket team.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Scarface gave an order, the three generals cut off the waist knives in their hands at the same time, and the three hundred muskets fired in three different directions at the same time, and the musket team suddenly rose up in front of the formation with clouds of black smoke, and in the deafening gunshots, the scorching lead bullets had been shot at the Jiannu cavalry who had been covering from three directions with a screaming whistle.

The tragic scene of Scarface's anticipation of the man turning on his back did not appear this time, because the target of Jiannu was too small, and the musketeers all fired their guns at Jiannu's mount, although more than half of the lead bullets hit the target, but the fallen Jiannu cavalry had less than fifty horsemen, and the first round of shooting could be said to be very little damage to Jiannu.

Scarface's head was already bulging with green tendons, and he raised his waist knife and shouted again: "Fire!" ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Accompanied by clouds of rising black smoke, there was another deafening burst of gunfire, this time because of the proximity, there were more fallen Jiannu than the first round of shooting, but there were still only more than 100 horsemen, which was not a pain in the bones for Jiannu, who had more than 2,000 cavalry.

After two volleys, Jiannu was less than a hundred steps away from the musketeers.

A few beads of sweat the size of beans have come out of the corners of Scarface's forehead, according to his experience, before Jiannu rushes to the front, he can still carry out a maximum of three rounds of salvos, but according to this killing efficiency, the remaining three rounds of salvo are not enough to destroy Jiannu's offensive, it seems that it is inevitable to engage in short-handed combat today.

"The whole army is close together, and they are all close to the middle."

"Form a circular defensive formation."

"The brothers outside are on bayonets, and the brothers inside are ready for dragon king cannons!"

Scarface reacted quickly.

Anyway, the remaining three rounds of salvo can't kill a few Jiannu, so it's better to hurry up and form a circular defensive formation, let the brothers on the periphery get on their bayonets and prepare to fight to the death with Jiannu, and the brothers inside will use the Dragon King Cannon to kill and injure Jiannu!

West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Puhuo Ran turned around and shouted, "Lu Liu! ”

Lu Liu entered in response and replied sharply: "Yes." ”

Wang Pu said: "Order Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng to go out of the city immediately to pick up Scarface." ”

"Yes!"

Lu Liu agreed to take the order.

Outside Datong City, the surging Jiannu cavalry was less than fifty steps away from the circular defensive array of the musket team, and the Jiannu cavalry, which was originally fan-shaped and scattered, continued to shrink to the middle, and had begun to crowd together, Tan Tai had to order to slow down, otherwise, the Jiannu cavalry would be in chaos because of the collision with each other.

Scarface's unintentional improvisation saved the fate of the musket team, which was tightly huddled into a group, and more than 1,000 people were crowded into a narrow circle with a diameter of only about twenty paces (about 30 meters), which directly caused the Jiannu to be unable to play their superiority.

If the Jiannu cavalry rushed forward to Roubo, only the Jiannu cavalry with less than 30 cavalry could directly fight with the musketeers, and the other Jiannu cavalry could only stare in circles around them, so that the Jiannu cavalry would form a disadvantage in strength on the local battlefield.

Tan Tai has experienced a hundred battles, and of course he will not make such a low-level mistake.

Tan Tai asked the Jiannu cavalry to circle thirty paces away from the Ming army's circular formation, and while circling in a circle, they shot arrows to kill the Ming army's musketeers, and the Ming army's dragon king cannon could not bomb Jiannu, and they could not be loaded because they were crowded into a ball with a volley of guns, and it seemed that they could only be shot by Jiannu with bows and arrows one by one.

But there is a prerequisite for this, and that is that there must be enough time.

Because Jiannu is circling around the Ming army, only the inner two circles of Jiannu can shoot the Ming army, because the circular formation of the Ming army is very small, and the inner two circles of Jiannu cavalry add up to only more than 100 horses, that is to say, there are only more than 100 arrows shot at the head of the Ming army at one time.

Most of the arrows will be blocked by the outermost Ming musketeers with their bodies, and although the outermost musketeers are certain to die, the musketeers inside will not suffer too many casualties.

Of course, if time is enough, Scarface's musketeers can only be beaten but have no power to resist, and finally they can only be wiped out.

But Wang Pu obviously wouldn't give Jiannu enough time, the closed west gate of Datong opened again, Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin with more musketeers, lined up neatly out of the city gate, Leng Seng Ji hurriedly divided part of the cavalry, wanted to block the city gate, but was shot over by the musketeers who had long been guarding the city.

Soon, Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin's 2,000 musket teams set up a firing queue outside the city under the cover of the city's head musket team.

Tan Tai left five hundred cavalry to besiege the Scarface's musket team, and the rest of the cavalry regrouped first, and then pounced on the two thousand-man teams led by Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin.

But this time Tan Tai miscalculated.

(To be continued)