Liu Dou raised the large horizontal knife in his hand, not to cut people, but to signal the musketeers. Knives and guns rang out!

The company of musketeers he commanded was the most well-trained and best-performing company of the battalion. Thus, when the whole battalion (with three companies of about 480 men) practiced the three-stage tactic, his company would be responsible for the firing of muskets.

As the commander of a company, Liu Dou was naturally responsible for directing the firing. Moreover, in the formation of the hollow phalanx, his company was again placed in front, facing the Mongol cavalry that was pouring in like a tide.

"It's still diffuse and chiseled...... It's a pity that I met our steel-armored musketeers, but they were just sent to death! ”

Although he was only a small company commander, he never went to a military school seriously. But Liu Dou participated in the whole journey to the west, and he fought with the Mongols for many battles. The Mongols' style of play has long been familiar and can no longer be familiar.

The Mongols actually had nothing to do with the steel-armored musketeers. It is nothing more than dismounting and fighting hand-to-hand with a hammer and mace, or just using their old method, using cavalry and horses to fight the tactics of diffuse shooting and chiseling and penetration.

The former was basically sent to death in vain, and Liu Dou had not yet encountered a Mongolian infantry army that could break through the sword and shield defense line!

The latter is more effective, because the method of diffuse and chisel penetration is completed by the cooperation of two cavalry forces. It was the Mongol light cavalry that carried out the diffusion, generally without armor and armed with stubborn horn bows. They would roar and rush towards the right or left flank of the Ming army, turn when they were fifty or sixty paces away, and cross directly in front of the Ming line, and at the same time fire arrows as fast as they could on their horses, which is called diffuse.

However, when riding a horse at high speed, you must use the fastest speed to release the arrow. Regardless of the degree of accuracy. The myth that shooting the left eye will not hit the right eye, Liu Dou only heard it when he was farming in his hometown. After joining the army. That's the joke. What's more, the Ming army also had muskets, bows and arrows, artillery and rockets to counterattack. It's a real fight. On the battlefield, there is gunsmoke, and people can't see their faces clearly.

Therefore, the Mongolian light cavalry in charge of diffuse fire basically will not achieve any results, in fact, their role in dealing with steel-armored musketeers is to attract the opponent to fire, a living target!

And once the musketeers fired, these Mongol light cavalry responsible for diffusing fire were considered to have completed their mission, and the next thing was for the heavy cavalry.

The formation was composed of Mongolian heavy cavalry, usually wearing three layers of armor (leather armor, chain mail and silk armor), bows and arrows were difficult to hurt, and swords were difficult to cut. In the case of a good fit. The Piercing Array will often sprint like a javelin sword when the Diffuse Array has just passed through the front of the enemy. Taking advantage of the fact that the opponent's formation was disrupted by the diffuse rain of arrows, he burst in......

And for the steel-armored musketeers, the key to dealing with this tactic is to master the timing of the fire.

At this time, the Mongol cavalry on the battlefield had clearly divided into two groups, one was the heavy cavalry, which maintained the speed of the trot, and was still a mile and a half away; One is the light cavalry. He had already rushed to the left flank of the musketeer division with all his might, which was where Liu Dou was.

"100 steps, 90 steps, 80 steps, 70 steps......"

Liu Dou estimated the distance of the other party in his heart. At the same time, he also considered in his heart whether to swing the horizontal knife in his hand - although most of the opponents would not directly charge into battle, this possibility could not be ruled out.

Therefore, when the enemy reaches thirty steps, the horizontal knife in Liu Dou's hand must be swung down!

That's when it happened. The Mongolian generals who rushed to the front didn't know whether it was a hundred or a thousand households. Suddenly, as soon as he pulled the reins, the war horse under his crotch turned sharply to the left in the middle of the gallop. Under his leadership, the two or three thousand Mongolian light cavalry in the frantic rush rushed one by one, and all turned to the left, and they were about to rush through more than 60 paces away from the front of the Ming army. After completing the turn, these Mongol cavalrymen, who had excellent horse control ability, all took off the reins of their hands, controlled their horses with only two legs, and then took out their bows and arrows, and shot feathered arrows.

"60 steps away, the Mongolian people are really bold!" Liu Dou looked at the sharp arrows that flew like raindrops, but a mocking smile appeared on his honest face. 60 steps away, even with a bow of eight buckets and nine buckets, it may not be able to hurt an unarmored foot soldier, let alone shoot a steel armored soldier with a horse bow?

As he spoke, the Mongols' feather arrows fell weakly, and most of them landed in front of the Ming army, inserted in the golden grass, as if a layer of white hair had grown. There were also some hits on the steel armor, and there was a light clanging sound, and not even a few sparks came out.

At this moment, there was a sudden and more violent tremor on the ground, and it was the heavy cavalry of the Mongols who were accelerating their charge!

Liu Dou's eyes widened like copper bells, looking straight ahead, in the chaos of smoke and dust, a black wave had already come suddenly! If you take a closer look, there are countless black-armored knights, with flat pistols in their hands and war horses galloping under their crotch, and they are about to crash into the phalanx of the Ming army!

"Aim...... Fire! ”

Liu Dou did not hesitate and waved the horizontal knife in his hand. The 150 muskets that had long been set up on the shield spewed out fire smoke at the same time, and the power of the explosion of H powder pushed the projectile steadily and forcefully out of the chamber, like 150 Death Blades, from less than a hundred paces to the front.

In an instant, the head of the chiseled formation of seven or eight thousand Mongolian heavy cavalry seemed to have received a heavy punch, and the warriors who rushed to the front fell from their horses one after another, and many war horses also became victims, screaming and falling to the ground, and even the cavalry on horseback also rolled and fell to the ground.

Immediately after that, a second burst of gunfire rang out, followed by a third, a fourth, and a fifth......

The platoon guns continued to fire, and although the number of muskets fired in a salvo at the same time was not much, only 150, the front of the Ming army's hollow phalanx was also not wide, but it was up and down a hundred paces. 450 arquebuses were fired in turn, forming a deadly network of fire. The Mongols who rushed forward one after another were knocked down one after another!

And these fallen people and horses have become obstacles to block the charge of the follow-up troops, and some frightened war horses are scurrying around on the battlefield, colliding with the cavalry rushing up behind, and the front of the hollow phalanx where Liu Dou is located is suddenly chaotic.

There were also some lucky Mongol cavalrymen who dodged the lead bullet net and rushed to the front of the hollow phalanx, which was full of swords and guns. But in the face of the shiny spear-sharp blade, who will rush up without fear of death? The horse team split into two in front of this hollow phalanx. From the left and right flanks of the phalanx, he made a detour, and then crashed headlong into a hail of bullets.

The arquebuses on both sides of the phalanx were the same as on the front. With the tactics of three strikes, he unleashed continuous firepower, knocking out the Mongol cavalry that swept by at a rapid pace. Rushed through the fire network on the left and right flanks of the phalanx. Before the Mongol cavalry, who had been dazed by the muskets, could catch their breath when countless sharp arrows shot at their heads and faces. It turned out that the steel cavalry of the Ming army was shooting arrows!

There were also some Mongol heavy cavalry who took advantage of the chaos to get down from their horses to the ground, wielding hammers and shields to pounce on the hollow phalanx of the Ming army. As if trying to disrupt the phalanx of the Ming army with hand-to-hand combat, this style of play was effective in the era of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan, and the Mongol warriors at that time were fierce and good at fighting, and their hand-to-hand combat ability was much higher than that of all opponents, and it was easy to confuse the opponent's strict formation. But today's Mongolian warriors have long lost their former bravery. And their opponent is precisely the steel armor of the Ming army with super hand-to-hand combat ability......

"How's it going? What is the situation? ”

Ah Baha, who was in the rear, clenched his fists tightly and asked Boyan urgently.

The dust from the Mongolian cavalry and the gunpowder smoke from the rockets and muskets of the Ming army were mixed together, and the battle situation was not clear at all, but what worried Boyan was that he did not hear much of the sound of fighting during the melee of the army, only the Han people's platoon guns kept firing, and the rhythm has not changed!

Boyan opened his mouth a few times, and the brilliance in his eyes changed several times. In the end, he seemed to have made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "The situation seems to be not good, it is better to let the warriors retreat before making a claim." It's really not good, you can still deceive and lure the enemy......"

This suggestion coincides with Abaha's thoughts. He came from afar to relieve his busy brother Timur. If this circumference can be solved, then you might as well join forces with the busy brother Timur and give the Ming army a little color. If it's an idea. Then you might as well leave your busy brother Timur and go south. If the Ming army pursues, find a favorable terrain and set up an ambush. Maybe you can make a comeback. Even if the other party is not fooled, just run all the way back to Persia.

That's right. There are also several big cities such as Buhuara, Samarkan, and Yulong Jiechi, which cannot be let go. We had to move all the people of the city and the surrounding oases to Persia, leaving a wasteland for the Ming army......

"In that case, let the warriors stand back first." Abaha ordered loudly, "Dispatch the firearms to the left flank again, and if those Ming musketeers get closer, let them taste the power of the Great Mongolian firearms!" ”

Although Abaha has already had the idea of retreating, retreat is also a science, and he can't retreat in a hurry with hundreds of thousands of troops. In this battle, the Mongols' opponent was the Ming army's western expeditionary army, which also had a large number of horses and powerful light cavalry.

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"Forty-nine, it's the clarion call of the Mongols to retreat!"

Although Guo Kan is old, his ears are still good. As soon as the trumpet of Abaha's charging cavalry to retreat sounded, he was already shouting.

"Is the artillery in place?" Zhu Sijiu was expressionless, just asked loudly.

"Returning to the commander, the five artillery regiments have all arrived at the designated position on the right flank, and they can be deployed at any time!"

A staff officer replied in a loud voice. It turned out that Zhu Sijiu's offensive on his right flank was not only attended by musketeers and light cavalry, but also five of the six artillery regiments of the Western Expeditionary Army, which were also quickly mobilized in place under the cover of fierce infantry and cavalry battles on both sides!

"Let the artillery hurry up, be two hundred paces away from the enemy formation, and then open fire, and break their left flank with shotguns!"

"Order the musketeer division to cover the artillery to a distance of 200 paces from the enemy formation, and then spread out a horizontal formation and stand by."

"Order the light cavalry to line up on the right flank of the artillery, dismount and recharge, and be ready to outflank the enemy's left flank at any time."

"Order the three infantry brigades of the Silver Armor Division (Guo Kanbu) to prepare for a gun assault! As soon as the left flank of the Mongols wavered, launch it immediately! ”

A series of orders flowed like a stream, and the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, to the point of dazzling.

Liu Dou, who was still directing the musketeers to fire desperately to stop the Mongol cavalry, had already stepped on the corpses of the enemy and the bodies of the wounded again. The Mongol cavalry paid a heavy price and had retreated like a whirlwind. All that was left were countless lying corpses and screaming wounded soldiers, as well as neighing wounded horses.

"Knife and shield hands, pay attention to the sword! Whether it's dead or alive, stab it! ”

From the front came the loud order of the commander of the sword and shield battalion, followed by a pop of knives piercing into the human body and one after another dying screams.

The battlefield is the most brutal place, where the lives of the losers are the least valuable. The Ming musketeers, who re-launched the four horizontal columns, advanced all the way and killed all the way. And behind them, it was no longer the steel-armored cavalry of the tens of thousands of Ming Army, but one hundred and twenty 3-inch cannons dragged by eight horses!

According to the plan formulated by Zhu Sijiu before the battle, these 120 cannons will be advanced all the way to within 200 steps of the enemy! That is, it unfolded at a distance of less than 300 meters, and then there was a heavy bombardment. There is no enemy in this day and age who can carry a hundred and twenty cannons and bombard them with shotguns at such close range.

Once the artillery was successful, the cavalry would attack, outflanking the left flank of the Mongols and driving them under the guns with bows and arrows. By the time these Mongols were crushed by shotguns, it was time for the pikemen to attack.

When the right flank of the Ming army's Western Expeditionary Army launched a fierce attack, their center and left flanks also began to approach the Mongols on the opposite side, exchanging fire with bows and arrows and muskets.

Thundered......

When the roar of artillery came from the right flank, Zhu Sijiu's main formation was already full of joy. One hundred and twenty 3-inch cannons firing shotguns at 200 paces is no joke!

As soon as Abaha's left wing collapses, the whole line will collapse!

Zhu Sijiu also laughed loudly, and said to the left and right: "After this battle, we will surround Kuyu and make a forced landing on Timur...... The lord of the Mongol Khanate was captured by us and sent to Beijing and Jiangdu, but it is a great achievement! After a while, he captured Abha and sent it to the saint. In this way, the four great khanates of Mongolia will let us destroy two! This great achievement, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, should be the first, right? ”

Guo Kan also laughed when he heard this, as if he agreed, but then rode to Zhu Sijiu's side, and said in a low voice: "Sijiu, your merits can already be compared with Han Xin and Peng Yue of the Han Dynasty in the past!" ”

"Han Xin, Peng Yue ......"

"Tarzan, what do you mean by that?" Zhu Sijiu frowned.

Guo Kan smiled, but changed the topic: "The two thieves of busy brother Timur and Abha are either given heads or prisoners, but there are hundreds of thousands of warriors under the command of the two thieves, I don't know what to do?" ”

Zhu Sijiu laughed and said: "This matter is easy, how did the sage subdue the barbarians in Liaodong in the past, and how will I deal with the people of Timur and Abha today!" ”

"Forty-nine, what do you mean ......?"

"When you enter the way of heaven, build eight banners...... The formation of the Eight Banners of the Lonely King. Zhu Sijiu said seriously, "When you arrive in Persia, the lone king will use these eight banners to govern a big country with outnumbered people!" (To be continued.) )