"Are you still going to take the initiative to go out of the city to find the enemy?"

Xiao Ruxun looked at Su Hao and asked in surprise. On the first day, everyone had already said that they had decided to stick to the fortified city, why did they get up after sleeping, and Su Hao changed his mind again?

"That's right, the younger brother thinks that before the arrival of the army in Bibai, we will go out of the city first to annihilate the enemy, one will consume the number of the enemy, and the other will dampen the morale of the enemy army, which will be beneficial to our defense of the city." Su Hao said.

"But have you ever thought about the risks of doing so?" Xiao Ruxuan said.

"There is no way to fight a war without taking risks." Su Hao said, "Didn't Brother Xiao once say that offense is the best defense, and Little Brother is just practicing Brother Xiao's ideas." ”

Xiao Ruxun corrected with a smile: "This sentence seems to have been changed from what you said, right?" Besides, the foolish brother is talking about a strategy against the Tatars, and it is in the case of dependence. Now Pingyu City is an isolated city, and if it is unfavorable, it will be even more difficult to defend it if it is returned. ”

Su Hao said: "I have discussed with several generals in the battalion, and everyone thinks that our army takes the initiative to attack Biyun, and the worst situation is just a return in vain, and the possibility of losing the battle is not very large." The younger brother thought that if we could find a way to go out of the city to fight the enemy, the troops sent by the imperial court to quell the rebellion could be reduced, and the country's financial resources could be saved, which would be beneficial to the country. ”

"This can't be what Chen Langzhong meant, right?" Xiao Ruxun asked.

Su Hao said: "Chen Langzhong also has this meaning, he said, if the Pingyu Institute can not only hold back Bibai, but also take the initiative to attack and weaken the power of Bibai, in the future, Xiao Shen will be the head of this battle." ”

"Haha, this Chen Dao is too underestimated by me." Xiao Ruxun laughed. Chen Dao's words were obviously taking advantage of Xiao Ruxun, but this trick was really useful to Xiao Ruxun. After Su Hao and the others left yesterday, Xiao Ruxun also seriously thought about going out of the city to annihilate the enemy, he knew that the credit for defending the city was completely different from the credit for taking the initiative to destroy the enemy, so he already had some thoughts in his heart. Now Su Hao took the initiative to go out of the city to annihilate the enemy, which was actually in line with Xiao Ruxun's thoughts.

"To tell the truth, Xiao Mou is also uncomfortable these days, my Pingyu City plus a battalion of people and horses, the number of people is similar to that of Biyun, but I can only close the city gate to avoid the battle, this is not Xiao's habit. If you dare to go out of the city to find the enemy to fight, then our brothers will join forces to do it, you will send 400 musketeers, I will send 400 cavalry, and do a good job of him. Xiao Ruxun said in high spirits.

"It turns out that Brother Xiao is testing me." Su Hao laughed, "Then let's do it together." ”

The gate of Pingyu, which had been closed since Biyun led his troops to attack, suddenly opened, and out of the gate came a group of cavalry, riders on horseback with shiny armor, each holding a spear in his hand, and a curved bow on his back. Behind them was a neat group of musketeers, with long flintlock pistols in their hands, a loaded sac at their waists, and a ghost-headed knife on their backs, which were intended to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat if the muskets could not stop them.

Leading the cavalry team was a thousand generals of the Pingyu Institute, named Zhang Lanfang, and the leader of the musket team was Xiong Minyang, the chief of firearms of the Kanyu battalion. The two men rode on horseback, and slowly pressed towards the rebel camp with their own team.

"Mr. Xiong, today is the leading role of your singing, and we are waiting for you to play tricks." Zhang Lanfang said to Xiong Minyang with a smile that after the first day of fighting, the officers and soldiers of the Pingyu Institute were already quite friendly to the survey camp.

Xiong Min smiled and said: "How dare you, without Mr. Zhang Qian's protection, we wouldn't even dare to come out of the city gate, so if we can break the enemy, Mr. Zhang Qian will be the first merit." ”

Zhang Lanfang said: "The first merit is not the first merit, Zhang doesn't care, but he wants to ask Xiong to say a few good words for Zhang in front of General Su, and Zhang is grateful." ”

Xiong Min looked up and said: "Zhang Qian, doesn't Mr. Mo want to join our public opinion camp? I'm afraid that General Xiao will not allow it, right? ”

Zhang Lanfang laughed and said: "Mr. Xiong misunderstood, Zhang said a few good words, which means that when the battle is over, please ask General Su to allocate more glazed tiles to our thousand households, so that my military households can grow a few acres of vegetables this winter." Last year, we started late and didn't make a lot of money, and everyone said that I was incompetent. ”

"Oh, hahahaha." Xiong Minyang couldn't help but laugh, "It turned out that it was such a trivial matter, and it was all on the younger brother." However, Mr. Zhang Qian, with our General Su here, don't just stare at the small amount of money such as building a greenhouse and growing vegetables, our General Su has many ways to make money, I'm afraid you don't have so much money to hold silver. ”

"Really? That's great, Mr. Xiong, and the matter of the foolish brother's wealth in the future will all depend on you, brother. Zhang Lanfang said with a smile. The two of them talked and laughed loudly, not taking the rebels on the other side into account, as if they had already won this battle.

"Report to the general, the Ming army in Pingyu City has come out!"

The sentries of the rebels had been keeping an eye on the movements of Pingyu City, and when they saw the other party opening the city gate to fight, they hurriedly ran to report to Biyun.

"The Ming army is out?" Biyun was stunned for a moment, "This Xiao Ruxun, don't you really take my Ningxia Army in your eyes?" Let's go out and have a look. ”

Ma Zhengguo, Saihan and other generals went out of the camp with Biyun, standing in front of the fence to watch the enemy, behind them, thousands of Ningxia soldiers were lined up with swords, ready to meet the Ming army who took the initiative to provoke.

"Counselor, please see, those sergeants are the firecrackers of the Kanyu Battalion, and the firearms in their hands are very different from those we use." Saihan pointed to the soldiers of the Kanyu Battalion and said to Biyun.

Biyun raised his binoculars and carefully examined the Ming army and their equipment that had stopped two or three hundred paces away from the headquarters. He noticed that the firecracker in the other party's hand was indeed different from the Ming army's standard firearm in his battalion, it looked slender, and there were some tricks behind it, so he didn't know what it was for.

"Who's going to meet the enemy?" Biyun asked, looking back.

"This ......" Sai was a little apprehensive with the flintlock pistol of the Kanyu camp, and after the defeat from the city wall yesterday, he thought about it all night, and he couldn't figure out how to deal with this three-stage musket shot. Recalling the scene of the fire and projectiles flying in front of him, he only felt a chill behind him.

"The Ming army dared to challenge our army with 800 men, relying only on their new firearms. Yesterday, Sai Qian lost because the place on the city wall was narrow and there was no place to move. In the opinion of the general, if we charge with cavalry, will their guns be faster than our horses, no matter how fast they are? By the time the cavalry rushed in front of them, the firecrackers were no longer even as good as the burning sticks. Ma Zhengguo said.

Saihan nodded again and again, and didn't care about the other party calling himself Sai Qianzong. In fact, Saihan is a transliteration of the Mongolian language, and there is no distinction between surname and first name, and the Han people are not clear about the name of the Tatars, and often take the first word of the transliteration as the surname of the other party to facilitate the call. Some Mongolians have accepted this title according to the habits of the Han people, which can be regarded as the erosion of the weak culture by the strong culture.

"What Mr. Ma Qian said is extremely true, for the opponent's firearm tactics, we can only win by fighting fast with speed." Saihan said. The part of the Cangtou army he led was an infantry formation, and if he wanted to charge with cavalry, it would not be his turn to go into battle, so he agreed with Ma Zhengguo's suggestion very much.

Biyun thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then according to what President Ma Qian said, pass on my order and order the cavalry to prepare to attack." ”

The Ming lacked grassland, so the cavalry of the army was always relatively small. The Ningxia guard of Bibai is located at the border pass, and can buy some war horses from the grassland through the mutual market, so the cavalry is more than in the Ming army. This time, among the 5,000 men and horses brought by Biyun, there were 1,000 cavalry troops. On the first day of the siege, these cavalry were not useful, and now that it was time for a field battle, Biyun brought in the cavalry.

"Always be careful, the thief is going to go out of the cavalry." On the position of the Ming army, Zhang Lanfang reminded Xiong Minyang.

"Got it." Xiong Min replied, and then ordered his subordinates: "The thieves will send out cavalry, and the second squad will be replaced with shotguns, and wait for my order to fight horses." ”

"Order!" The soldiers of the squad immediately removed the solid bullets from the flintlock pistols and replaced them with shotguns. The warhead of this kind of shotgun is composed of several small iron sands, which can be scattered into a piece after being fired, and the impact area is extremely wide. Because the iron sand is so fine, it will not cause fatal injuries to people or horses, but it can be extremely painful. If a person is hit, he may grit his teeth and hold back, but if he hits the horse, it can make the horse frightened by the sudden pain.

If dozens of horses in a team are frightened, the entire stormtroop formation will be disrupted. The cavalry's attack power comes from speed, and once the speed is damaged due to the confusion of the formation, the cavalry's power will be greatly reduced.

The tactics of combining solid bullets and shotguns to deal with cavalry originated from the design of Xu Guangqi and others, Xiong Minyang studied overnight and taught his soldiers, and now it is time to test the cavalry of Biyun.

"Pass my orders, prepare, rush!"

Biyun himself stood next to the cavalry and gave the order.

"Rush!"

"Kill the Ming army!"

A cavalry commander took the lead in prancing his horse and rushed forward, and the rebel cavalry followed him, urging their horses to charge together, ready to trample all the bold Ming troops in front of them into pulp with their iron hooves.

"Fire!"

At the moment when the rebel cavalry launched, the red flag in Xiong Min's hand also waved.

"Slam! Impeach! Impeach! The musketeers standing in the first row opened fire, and more than a hundred flintlock muskets fired at the same time, and the gunfire became one after another, and the Ming position was immediately enveloped in the rising smoke, and more than a hundred solid iron projectiles flew out of the smoke and flew towards the cavalry of the rebels.

"The Ming army panicked, there are still three hundred steps away, so let's release the guns first, what is the difference between this and tickling us." Bi Yun, who was standing behind and watching the battle, laughed and said, in his experience, the fire gun is only lethal within a hundred steps, and after three hundred steps, the projectile can't fly so far at all, and it is a bit exaggerated to say that it is tickling.

However, before his words could be heard, an astonishing situation appeared. The dozens of riders who rushed to the front suddenly fell backwards as if they had been hit by something, and then they were trampled under the feet of the cavalry who followed behind. The horses that had lost their riders were in a daze, some ran to the side, others subconsciously stopped, and the horses behind them hit the buttocks of the horses in front of them.

"Three...... Three hundred steps! Biyun's mouth opened wide, and he couldn't believe his eyes. At a distance of three hundred paces, the Ming army's firearms could still beat the rider into the air, what a terrifying power it was.

Biyun dared to send cavalry to attack, that is, he gambled that the opponent's firearm only had a range of 100 paces. A hundred steps is for a galloping horse, that is, in a blink of an eye, the opponent's firecracker can only hit a part of the cavalry, and the rest of the cavalry can break through the opponent's line, making the firecracker completely ineffective.

But who knows, the opponent actually has a firearm that can shoot 300 steps, which means that the opponent's shooting time has tripled. In fact, since the cavalry will not sprint until the last hundred paces, and the first two hundred paces are only a run-up, and the speed is slower, the time for the opponent to shoot is not just tripled, but quadruple or five.

In this way, how many cavalry can you fill this pit? Even if there are surviving cavalry rushing into the opponent's camp, the opponent still has 400 cavalry to protect them, how can their own survivors fill the gap between the opponent's teeth.

However, it is no longer possible to withdraw the cavalry, the cavalry charge is irreversible like a feather arrow, and now we can only see whether the shooting speed of the Ming army can match the speed of the cavalry charge.

"Slam! Impeach! The second round of guns on the opposite side rang out again, and Xiong Minyang pointed out the direction of the shooting with the red flag in his hand, and asked the gunners to fire at the most dense place of enemy cavalry. Although the distance is more than two hundred paces, shooting at the target of this kind of hedgehog group does not need to care about accuracy at all, as long as the muzzle is in the right direction, the bullet will always hit a target.

"Bang! Boom! Bang bang! "The rebel cavalry fell from their horses one after another, some of them hit by bullets, and by the time they fell, they were already in the sky. Some of them were simply hit in the hands and feet, and for a moment they fell off their horses, and before they could congratulate themselves on their good fortune, they saw the horseshoe of their colleagues flying overhead, and the cold horseshoe stepped directly on their faces and bodies.

After a few rounds of gunfire, the rebel cavalry lost more than 100 horses, but the follow-up cavalry had already rushed half the way, and it was only about a hundred steps away from the Ming army. The rebel cavalry, who was lucky not to be hit by the bullet, shouted loudly and ordered his subordinates to speed up and start sprinting.

"Shotgun launch!" Xiong Minyang issued a new order.

The musketeers, who had already loaded their shotguns, picked up their guns and pulled the triggers. The running rebel cavalry saw a sudden rain of bullets like a mist flying in front of them, and countless iron sand rushed towards them like flying flies, and then all their exposed parts felt a piercing pain.

"Slippery!"

The horses, which had never experienced such abuse, were the first to lose control, and their front hooves lifted off the ground, almost standing up, and throwing the rider of the horse to the ground.

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