There were only 1,000 officers and soldiers surrounded by more than 20,000 people.

Twenty thousand and one thousand, the huge gap between these two numbers, even if you don't need to use your hands, you can defeat the fragile soul of the guards, even the elite soldiers of Yansui, they can't withstand such a big pressure. It's a pity that the Liaodong Frontier Army is not among them, and the 1,000 Liaodong Frontier Army who were surrounded in the crowd did not show panic, although their expressions looked a little nervous, but none of them showed obvious timidity, even if they were afraid, they were only trembling in the depths of their hearts, and did not transmit this tremor to their own surface.

"It is worthy of the Liaodong Border Army! The most elite army of the Ming Dynasty! Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but give a thumbs up to this army, to be honest, after this reincarnation and rebirth, none of the Ming troops he saw were decent, and none of the Ming officers he saw were decent. This made him, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, indignant, indignant, and now, his mood finally improved a little.

Although it is not known what Cao Wenzhao's strength is, this army is indeed an army worthy of praise...... Xu Renjie, who was standing beside Zhu Yuanzhang, was a little unacceptable, and he couldn't help muttering: "These officers and soldiers are inevitably too bold, right...... Surrounded by twenty times the number of thieves, they didn't show their timidity. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang did not answer.

But Cao Wenzhao, who heard the officers and soldiers in the formation, suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha! Light the lamp Zhao Sheng, do you think that if you surround me with 20,000 people like this, you can scare my soldiers into collapse without a fight? How naïve! He casually pointed to all directions on his horse and sneered: "What is there to scary about these 20,000 chaotic and untidy rogues?" Your momentum is not as terrible as two thousand Tartar cavalry rushing over, and my soldiers are not even afraid of Tartar soldiers, are they still afraid of you guys with hoes? ”

"Drink! Ha! Drink! Ha! As soon as Cao Wenzhao's words fell, a thousand border troops shouted at the same time: "Drink!" Ha! Drink! Ha! ”

The neat shouts, with a strong momentum, showed a strong self-confidence in the cheers, Cao Wenzhao was right, these border troops who have been fighting with the Tartar soldiers outside the pass for many years are not characters who will be soft if they are scared casually. Although the 20,000 peasant army was numerous, it did not have enough momentum and might, and compared to the Tartar cavalry charging on the plain, it was completely pediatric, and it was impossible to frighten the border army with this level of encirclement.

Their vigorous shouts frightened the thieves who surrounded them, and Zhao Sheng and his 20,000 subordinates were actually frightened by the shouts of a thousand people and retreated half a step back.

The two armies are fighting, and before they fight, the winning side is almost invincible!

Cao Wenzhao laughed, pointed the horsewhip in his hand forward, and ordered loudly: "Give me a frontal penetration......

The second half of the sentence is "Break through the camp of the light", but before this sentence was finished, Zhu Yuanzhangjun, who had been behind his military formation and cut off his retreat, suddenly shouted: "Hey! Ha! Hey! Ha! Hey! Ha ......"

The voice is neat and loud, full of confidence, without a trace of hesitation or hesitation! Although the momentum brought up by these roars is still inferior to that of the wild border army, the taste of the original calf not afraid of tigers has been undoubtedly revealed.

"Huh?" Cao Wenzhao was surprised and turned to look back.

"Huh?" Cao Bianjiao was also taken aback, turned around and turned back.

"This thousand people...... Dare to provoke the border army in momentum? Cao Wenzhao and Cao Wenjiao spoke out in surprise almost at the same time.

Cao Wenzhao didn't think about it, he retracted the hand that was stretched forward, he originally planned to make a central assault and directly break through the encirclement, but at this time, he didn't dare to use that kind of bold tactic anymore, because he didn't dare to sell his ass to these thousand enemy soldiers no matter what...... "Fangyuan Array!" Cao Wenzhao's flag order was retracted, and he said loudly: "Defend yourself in formation, waiting for reinforcements!" The North and South camps will be here soon! ”

Fangyuan array is actually one of the most good defensive formations of the border army of the Ming Dynasty, because often fighting with the Tartar cavalry, the infantry will inevitably take a defensive position when encountering the cavalry, so the most familiar formation of the Liaodong border army is the defensive formation...... This is really a hedgehog full of thorns, and even the cavalry of the Tartars will have a hard time finding a place to bite down.

Whew, it's good, it's a square circle! Seeing that the officers and soldiers were rapidly changing formations, Zhu Yuanzhang also breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want Cao Wenzhao to stare at the direction of the lantern and rush forward, because if he did that, the officers and troops would cause huge pressure on the lantern troops, and the lantern department was very fragile, maybe it would completely collapse if it was rushed like that, and then it would become a situation where his 1,000 people fought the main force and the officers and soldiers were stumbling...... Doing so will inevitably cause a lot of damage.

It is better to let the officers and soldiers put on a defensive posture and launch a watertight defensive formation in four directions, so that Zhao Sheng's troops will not be attacked fiercely and will not be frightened, and they can cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang's troops to besiege the officers and soldiers from two directions. If it is defeated in this way, the losses of Zhu Yuanzhang's department will be reduced a lot.

So Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately let the army shout to show his momentum, and told Cao Wenzhao, "I'm very powerful, you'd better not play with your life, otherwise there will be more evil and less luck!" His meaning obviously reached Cao Wenzhao's side, and the officers and soldiers immediately set up a formation to defend themselves...... In any kind of battle, it will be easier for the enemy to flee as long as they are on the defensive.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand: "Drumming!" ”

The sound of the "dong dong dong" military drum sounded, and Zhu Yuanzhang's 1,000 elites began to slowly press forward. Although the lantern department on the other side didn't understand the meaning of the snare drum, when they saw Zhu Yuanzhang pressing forward, they also took a step forward and pressed forward. More than 10,000 old and weak women outside the perimeter hurriedly shouted and cheered to cheer up their own thief army.

"Brother Zhu, do you really want to press over and fight?" Xu Renjie said a little worriedly: "It's not good for us to fight like this, right?" This thousand-sided army does not seem to be a bone to gnaw on, and it will take at least several hours to eat them, and by that time the officers and men of the northern and southern battalions should have arrived to support, and we will be attacked from inside and outside, and we will be defeated. ”

"Press him, I didn't say I wanted to fight!" Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.

The army was still slowly pressing forward, and the two armies gradually approached, entering a distance of one hundred and fifty paces...... At this distance, the archers who were in a hurry had already begun to stir their bowstrings restlessly, because when they entered a hundred paces, they had reached the distance where the bow and arrow could be thrown, so the archers had to start preparing in advance.

And the soldiers in the officer and soldier army who were equipped with the three-eyed eye-popped guncorporates also raised the three-eyed eye-popped gun, ...... "Brother Zhu, if we let our archers shoot at the opponent's firearms, we will suffer, right?" Xu Renjie was quite impatient: "The power of the fire gun is greater than that of the bow and arrow, our arrow hits them, at most they will explode a blood hole in their body, but if the fire gun hits our people, as long as they hit the body, they will almost die." ”

"The Three-Eyed Divine Gun has a drawback!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Although there are three bullets at a time, the firepower is very fierce, but the range is not as good as the bird, nor is it as good as the bow and arrow, and the accuracy of the shooting is worse than the bird's gun and the bow and arrow, if you can perfectly control the distance......"

It was too late, it was fast, the two armies were already a hundred paces apart, and some archers with relatively large arms had already thrown their arrows into the sky, while some with slightly smaller arms continued to take a few steps forward, and then also shot arrows...... At this time, the border army had not yet released its guns, because the three-eyed eyes were indeed as Zhu Yuanzhang said, and the range was very close, closer than bows and arrows and bird guns...... They had to wait a few steps closer before they opened fire.

"I have to admire the calmness of the border army!" Miao Mei sighed: "Our army has released arrows, but the other party still stubbornly suppressed and did not release a gun, if the training is not good enough, the psychological strength of the army is not strong enough, at the same time as our army shoots arrows, it has been lured to fire." ”

He sighed there for something useful and useless, but heard Zhu Yuanzhang shout violently: "Stop the drums, the whole army is stagnant!" ”

The drums stopped...... At the moment when the drum body stopped, Zhu Yuanzhang's 1,000 elite soldiers stopped at the same time. The soldiers who walked in the front row were exactly a few steps away from the range of the border army's three-eyed eye guns...... The people did not move forward, but the arrows thrown out were still moving forward, and a rain of arrows fell into the ranks of officers and soldiers, bringing a noise, and I don't know how many wooden shields were raised, facing this rain of arrows, most of the arrows were missed, or were blocked, but there were still a small number of arrows that injured the officers and soldiers, and brought up a few blood flowers.

These border soldiers were really powerful, they were shot by arrows, and they didn't even let out half a scream, they gritted their teeth and survived.

Cao Wenzhao frowned, looking at the distance between the two armies, he only felt dizzy...... Such a powerful thief leader, he actually calculated the range of the three-eyed god gun so accurately, didn't this distance make my people shoot in vain, but they couldn't fight back?

In fact, the officers and soldiers were not shot in vain, after all, not every border soldier held a three-eyed oratorium, and there were still many border soldiers who used bows, and they also fought back against Zhu Yuanzhang's army in the form of projectiles.

But...... This is the flaw of the Fangyuan array, because the officers and soldiers are surrounded, they have to defend all the directions around them, so a thousand people are forced to defend in the four directions of the south, east, west, and northwest at the same time, and each direction can only be divided into more than 200 soldiers, deducting the soldiers who have three-eyed eyes and are not equipped with bows and arrows, there are only more than 100 archers in one direction.

With such a number of people and Zhu Yuanzhang's army to shoot in waves, the result can be imagined, their counterattack is simply weak, Zhu Yuanzhang's army casually erected a shield, and all their arrows were blocked.

(To be continued)