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Chapter 996: Who is the Brave

The trembling of the branches, the spilling of snow, the snow outside the pass, and the tremors of the march of the men and horses of the brigade that are too far away are often not so obvious, and now such signs indicate that the enemy is not far away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As soon as he made this judgment, he saw that the cavalry that had just been sent out to explore the road was rushing back like crazy, and before he could dismount when he arrived at the main formation, he immediately shouted:

"There is a brigade of enemy cavalry five miles away, rushing towards this side!"

As soon as they finished speaking, they saw a large number of cavalry emerging from the other end of the valley, rushing in this direction.

"Dashuai, turn up the car to cover it!"

The situation suddenly became so urgent, the people around Wang Tong also forgot what respect and humility, and shouted out anxiously, Wang Tong shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"Confused! After the cart was transferred from the rear team, there was too late, but the team made him mess up! ”

After saying this, Wang Tong said loudly:

"Pass my commander's order, the whole army stops, set up a formation on the spot, the first regiment and the second regiment are in the front, the defensive formation is formed, and the third regiment and the fourth regiment of the musketeers step forward and shoot in formation with the first regiment and the second regiment of the musketeers!"

The commander gave the order, the drums beat rapidly, the generals shouted the order, and the musketeers who had just gone to pursue the ambush on the hill hurriedly formed a team, trotted in front of the two regiments, and 1,200 musketeers began to stand in layers, where they loaded ammunition.

"Don't set up a large horizontal formation, leave room for the firecrackers to maneuver!"

Wang Tong had already found a mount at this time, and shouted loudly on the horse, the road formed by the river valley was not wide, and after the spearmen of the two regiments lined up in a large horizontal formation, the cross-section of the river valley was completely blocked, which seemed to be a complete defense, but in fact it was inelastic.

was scolded by Wang Tong like this, but saw Li Hutou slap his helmet with his hand, and the formation of the spearmen was readjusted again, turning into a two-column formation, which actually left three passages for the firecrackers, and then ensured that it was thick enough.

The front made such an arrangement, and the rear infantry regiments were also adjusted, leaving three passages more than 100 steps back, directly opposite the infantry regiment behind.

"The number of firecrackers in front is sufficient, strengthen the defense on the flanks, and don't be harassed by the enemy's small forces!"

Wang Tong shouted the order, he was on the right side of the first regiment, and the guards and heralds were all on their horses and running back and forth, because they were all on foot, so the horses were also behind the queue, and they were all exchanging horses with the cavalry.

"The cavalry is all behind the second regiment as a maneuver, ready at any time."

The sound of horses' hooves on the opposite side had already drowned out his words, and Wang Tong's voice was raised higher and higher to ensure that it could be heard, and now the opposite side of the river valley was full of enemy soldiers and horses.

When it was about 400 paces away, the leaders raised the knives in their hands, and the speed of the entire brigade slowly decreased, and it did not stop until it was about 300 paces.

You can see that the cavalry of the Dongyu Jurchen is constantly adjusting their positions and aligning their positions, some people are shouting loudly there, and you can even see that some cavalrymen are putting a second layer of armor on their bodies.

Wang Tong's position, on his side is Li Hutou, at the right end of the first row of the military formation is the position of the commander, and the position of the first regiment and the commander is exactly next to each other.

"Big brother, the Tartars are really in a hurry, until we don't have artillery, if the artillery is there, this distance of three catties of artillery will smash them to death, this group of Tartars is thoughtful!"

Wang Tong nodded, groaned, and said:

"Not only is there no artillery, in such a narrow battlefield, we have limited forces to invest, and the strength they have invested is also limited, but they have enough cavalry to have an advantage, and when the two armies meet in this narrow place, they have to fight with us for courage, and the brave wins when the two armies meet."

The original origin of the saying that the brave wins when the two armies meet is that a battle between Qin and Zhao during the Warring States Period was also met in such a corridor terrain, fighting to the death with each other, and the Zhao army won, which is also appropriate here.

Li Hutou spat at the ground and said disdainfully:

"These bastard tartars, I really thought they could rush over in front of our firecrackers, but they thought it was beautiful!"

Wang Tong shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"Don't be superstitious about firearms, it's the spear and the broadsword that decide the final outcome of the battlefield, at least for now."

The Tartars on the opposite side also began to shout, and at this distance, the shouting over there could also be heard clearly, because the shouting was too loud.

"The person in front turns his head and turns around, and the person behind can behead him immediately, from front to back, if I turn my head and run away, swing my teeth and cut off my head, the beheaded person, his land, livestock, property, wife and children, all belong to the people behind, capture the Ming army in front, I don't want any of the property seized, all of it will be divided equally by everyone!"

Some people who knew the Jurchen language translated it to Wang Tong, and some people passed it on to the commanders of the first and second regiments, and their expressions became serious.

"Pass my commander's order, and the musketeers will immediately retreat into the spear formation after a round of shooting, and shoot freely under the cover!"

After the order, Wang Tong turned his head to Li Hutou beside him and said:

"Do you think that the rotation of the firecrackers can completely solve the impact of the enemy?"

Although Li Hutou did not speak, his expression showed that he did think so, Wang Tong explained:

"The enemy's forces are sufficient, the speed is sufficient, and the determination is sufficient, and the first round of fire in the musket queue can be fully fired, but at the beginning of the second round, in the interval, the enemy has the possibility of rushing into the array, and the casualties at that time will inevitably be tragic, and everything on such a battlefield must be perfect."

Wang Tong looked around on the horse, and then said:

"Just now, the enemy has already carried out surprise attacks and harassment in the mountains and forests on both sides, and it may not be possible to wait for a while, use firearms to withstand the first wave of the enemy's impact, and withdraw enough troops to guard against a surprise attack!"

Li Hutou has been learning and growing, but as the battalion officer of the Huwei Army, he has never independently commanded the operations of the army, and he has spent his days in the training of soldiers stationed in the place, and Wang Tong has always been in command, he does what he is ordered, Wang Tong will not explain so much to him in the past, but now it is different.

After the lecture was over, the formation was adjusted again, and a dozen heavily armored cavalrymen came to the front of the line, and the enemy's ranks fell silent.

On the side of the Huwei Army, the spearmen, firearms, and cavalry teams are also preparing to complete one by one, and the carts are still being adjusted, in this narrow terrain, how to arrange the final cart of the team is a very troublesome matter, but the Jurchen team does not give them much time.

I could see that more than a dozen heavily armored cavalry led by him roared in unison, and when they rushed forward with their horses, the cavalry behind them moved slowly, and at this distance, everyone in the front could feel the tremor of the ground.

After a few trotting steps, the horses began to accelerate slowly, and the tremors on the ground intensified, and the Jurchen cavalry all roared and shouted on their horses.

The Huwei Army's firecrackers did not panic, they had experienced this scene many times, there had been a larger cavalry group charging opposite them, the same was the same as hitting the head under the volley of the firebolt and breaking the blood, they just held the firearm and the wooden fork below to keep the balance of the fire, and then blew down the fire head from time to time to keep the fire head burning.

The starter of the firearm queue watched nervously as the enemy approached, this battle was different from the Shenyang city, which had to put the enemy close enough to shoot and inflict enough damage, but this time it was necessary to stop the enemy at a certain distance and not let the enemy break through.

When there were still five paces left before the effective range, the first column of firebolt starters had already chopped off the axe gun in their hands, and the firecrackers began to explode.

The axe and gun were waved, and by the time the soldiers opened fire, the cavalry of the Dongyu Jurchen had already rushed into the range, and the dozen or so heavy armored cavalry who rushed to the front desperately lowered their bodies, they were all wearing two layers of cotton armor, hoping to resist the opponent's firearms, according to the previous concept, the two layers of cotton armor could not be shot through even bird guns.

But this time there was no use, the high-speed flying lead bullet penetrated the cotton armor, directly broke the flesh and blood, some people were planted directly on the ground from the horse, some were dragged by the stirrups, the horses ran in panic, the first strict order was issued, no one dared to slack off or run away, everyone felt that they could rush over, rush through this short distance, and then slash.

After the first column finished firing, it turned and retreated, and the second column opened fire again, and the Jurchen cavalry was constantly knocked off their horses, and then continued to charge.

The queue that can be spread horizontally is really limited, although there are sufficient casualties each time, the total number of casualties is not much, and the Jurchen cavalry can form this situation of one after the other.

The firecracker is terrible, although the cavalry team is constantly moving forward, but this advance is only because the opponent keeps retreating in the process of shooting, no matter how good the horsemanship is, how thick the armor is, and how flexible the movement is, they can't avoid the shooting of the firecracker, one by one the famous warriors screamed and fell off the horse, and some people didn't even have time to scream!

The back was still urging and persecuting, saying that they couldn't turn back, but everyone couldn't help but slow down their horses and didn't dare to rush to the front.

No matter what the process is, the horse team is always moving forward, the terrible fire soldiers of the Ming army also retreated into the queue, there are foot soldiers in front, and everyone can't help but speed up the horses, in front of the cavalry, the foot soldier array is nothing, the horses come to the front, the foot soldiers can't help but be shocked and scattered.

The foot soldiers in front of them seemed to be a little different from the fire soldiers in front of them, and the faces of these foot soldiers were also very calm, but they just laid the spears in their hands and aimed them in front of them.

"Reject the horse!!"

A general gave a loud order, and the soldiers of the first column pierced the end of the spear to the ground, leaned and held the spear with one hand, and the spear, which was originally straight to the sky, immediately unfolded.

"Handsome! Tartars are coming from the mountains on both sides!! ”

Someone shouted,