After the rebel horse team was defeated again, there was no longer any rebel resistance in front of them, and the 400 firecrackers soon advanced forward more than a mile under the leadership of the three battalion officers of Chiang, Li, and Shao. The rebel foot soldiers in front of them were scattered by the wolf cavalry and divided into seven or eight shares, the largest one had more than 1,000 people, the rest were more than two or three hundred people, and there were only a few dozen people in two groups.

What is surprising is that although these rabble suffered heavy casualties under the crushing of the wolf rider's heavy armor, they did not break back as before, but began to stabilize the array and carry out small-scale counterattacks while trying their best to avoid the wolf rider.

In the sight, there were people everywhere, and I didn't know how many men and horses the Ludao rebels had sent to increase them, and without getting the general's order to retreat, the Jinzhou army had to fight to the end.

"Charge!"

"Ready!"

"Put!"

While approaching a group of rebels, the Jinzhou army fired the fire in its hands. The dense fire bolts and lead bullets caused great damage to the rebels who had no armor to protect them, and also raised a black smoke screen over the battlefield, making it even more difficult for the two sides to see the opposite side even more clearly because of the strong wind.

However, this situation was obviously more favorable to the Jinzhou army, because they were the attacking side, and they had heavy cavalry charging formation, and the opponent was now in disarray, unable to form a large-scale counterattack. As long as this chaos continues until dark, the rebels will have to withdraw their troops.

Most of the horsepower of the wolf rider had been consumed, but the momentum of the charge had not weakened at all. The wolf cavalry didn't need to see the situation of the rebels on the opposite side at all, and they didn't need to swing their sabers to slash and kill, they just had to rush forward on their horses, anyway, the opposite side was a dense rebel foot soldier, and a rush was a large area.

Every time they rushed through the ranks of the rebels, the wolf cavalry immediately charged the three-eyed guns in their hands. Before the opponent has the ability to fight back, any kill is enough to completely break their resistance.

Shi Dayong, who was on the horse, could see at a glance that a mile behind these chaotic rebel infantry, thousands of rebels with firearms were waiting closely. Judging from the opponent's formation, this is where the main force of the rebels lies!

In their eyes, many rebels were frightened by the sea of corpses and blood in front of them, lost the will to resist, and ran towards the rear, but before they could approach, they were killed by the main force of the rebels who were arrayed.

In the case of a complete overwhelming superiority in troops, they did not move and let their opponents slaughter their own men and horses, which can only be explained by one reason, that is, the rebel commanders want to use these horses to drag the Jinzhou army to death, and then slowly play the Jinzhou army to death like a cat and mouse.

knew that if he continued to fight like this, the Jinzhou Army would become a rat that could not escape, but Shi Dayong still had to follow this path, and he had too much helplessness. He knew that as long as he retreated now, the rebels would swarm up, not giving himself a chance to breathe, let alone allowing himself to withdraw from the battlefield safely.

For now, there is only a bloody battle to the end, waiting for the arrival of the night! The idea of desperately rushing straight to the main force of the rebels and breaking the enemy in one fell swoop Shi Dayong has not moved, but the distance is too far, and he is pinned down by these routs who turned around, and the wolf cavalry can no longer make this long-distance attack.

Looking up, the sun was still hanging diagonally in mid-air, still so far away from darkness

Shi Dayong was anxious, and the rebels were also anxious, seeing that there were too many casualties, they couldn't stop the rampaging Ming heavy cavalry, and the two cronies under Li Zhongfu found Li Zhongfu with a panicked look, and one cried and said: "General, this battle can't be fought, the cavalry of the Ming army is too powerful, and the brothers can't stop it at all." If we continue to fight like this, without his Geng Zhongyi's action, we will have to die in the hands of the Ming army of the dog day! ”

"Where did this Ming army come from, it is impossible for the Ming army in Jingying and Beizhili to have such a cavalry that can fight!" The other officer was also frightened, he had just walked around the ghost gate, and if he hadn't been quick, he would have been afraid that it would have been a puddle of mud on the ground.

"The Ming army of the dog day is also fighting hard, the brothers can prevent their cavalry, but they can't prevent their guns, general, you have to find a way quickly, if you continue like this, I'm afraid that you will mutiny!"

Li Zhongfu is also anxious, his subordinates don't complain, he also knows that he can't go on like this, every time the other party's heavy cavalry rushes, he will lose dozens or even hundreds of men and horses, if they let them keep rushing like this, these 3,000 men and horses are afraid that they will really all be left here.

Turning around and looking behind him, Geng Zhongyi's three thousand Liao soldiers did not move at all, and there was no movement of reinforcements at all.

Damn it!

Li Zhongfu scolded, and ordered to an officer with a pigtail on the back of his head next to him: "Sanjin Bao, the master didn't treat you badly on weekdays, but now the master is in trouble, what do you say!" “

The officer who was called Sanjin Bao was not a Han Chinese, but a Jurchen. They used to be the personal soldiers of Liu Xingzhi and Liu Xingzuo brothers, and after the defeat of the Liu brothers, these Jurchen soldiers were divided by the Dongjiang generals because they could fight. Kong Youde was also divided into more than 300 people at that time, because these Jurchen soldiers were good at archery, so Kong Youde organized an arrow battalion and used it for suppression during combat.

When Kong Youde led his troops to Liaodong, these three hundred Jurchen archers stayed in Dengzhou, and after the city of Dengzhou was broken, they were asked by Li Zhongfu to come over and take them with him, and they were incorporated into his own personal army.

Listening to Li Zhongfu's words, Sanjin Baowei nodded, didn't say anything, didn't bother to gather the clansmen who had just been scattered by the rout, and squeezed forward from the crowd with more than a hundred clansmen around him, and then quickly stretched out his bow and set up arrows.

Their target was not the cavalry of the Ming army, but the foot soldiers who were unleashing.

These Jurchen archers had a wide variety of bows and arrows, ranging from short bows used by hunters in Liaodong to standard cowhide longbows captured from the Ming army, and bows that looked like crossbows. "Shoot those Ming brutes!"

After hearing the leader's order to shoot arrows, these Jurchen archers immediately drew arrows from the quiver behind them and shot them at the Ming army on the opposite side.

At a distance, he could not directly aim at the opponent, so he could only shoot towards the top of the opponent's head in a nest of peaks, and the arrows would fall from above the opponent with the force of the projectile.

Because projectiles require sufficient density and quantity to cause effective killing, the Jurchen archers lined up in several rows, with dozens of people in each row, and bent their bows after shooting, but it was obvious that the speed and efficiency of this archery mode were not high. After two rounds of arms were fired in front of the Ming army, they launched a second round.

Because of the distance, 90 percent of the arrows fell into the open space in front of the Ming army, and only some of the arrows shot with the Ming army's standard longbow fell above the Ming army, but there were very few of them, and the only few that were shot were also lightly inserted into the arms or shoulders of the Ming soldiers, and they could be pulled out at will.

However, one soldier seemed unlucky, and the falling arrow hit his ass right there, where was a soft lump. The meat was inserted a few centimeters at once, and he screamed in pain. The companion behind him hurriedly swung his knife to cut off the arrow, leaving the arrow in the buttocks, and waited until the battle to dig it out. "Put!"

Jiang Wanli, who was commanding the soldiers to fight, saw some archers with braids suddenly appear on the opposite side, and was taken aback at first, thinking that the rebels and Jiannu had colluded together, but seeing that these braided soldiers were wearing rebel clothes, and many people were still shouting in Chinese, he couldn't help but look at them with disdain, and knew that these Jurchens must be mature women from Liaodong who cast the Dongjiang River, and there was nothing to be afraid of. Ignoring it, he knew that it was impossible for these Jurchen archers to cause too many casualties to his side, at most they were just causing some minor trouble.

Now it is imperative to effectively kill and injure the rebels who are tearing themselves apart with the wolf cavalry, and only by beating them up can we ensure victory in this battle. As for these archers, they can shoot them, and they can't kill a few anyway.

The Jinzhou Army's method of fighting is the segmented shooting handed down from the ancestors, not one team by one to take turns to fire, but after the first row is finished, the fire in the hand is handed to the second team, and the second team then hands them the gunpowder and lead bullets filled with fire, and in turn.

This firing mode is essentially the same as the three-stage shooting method that was popular in later generations, but the method used is different. Only after the soldiers of the first platoon were heavily wounded by the enemy's arrows, the second and third platoons and the reserves behind them were replenished.

With the second and third rounds of shooting by the Ming army, dense projectiles roared out, and the casualties of the rebels increased rapidly.

At this time, the Jurchen archers only shot the second round, but the effect was even worse than the front, Li Zhongfu, who was so angry that he was watching the battle from afar, picked up the horse whip and whipped it to the nearest pro-soldier, and the soldier who was whipped did not dare to be angry, so he had to cover his face aggrievedly, and subconsciously moved a few steps to the side, so as not to be beaten again by the angry Li Zhongfu.

In the fourth and fifth rounds, the Ming army's ground shooting did not change because of the harassment of the Jurchen archers, as long as they hit the projectile in the front, they could almost harvest human lives, and even if they could not be killed, they could also make the rebels frightened and scatter.

Although there are also firecrackers in the rebels, the familiar use of firearms is far less than that of the Jinzhou army, coupled with chaos, the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and they cannot form an organized shooting, so they can only be beaten passively.

Seeing the enemy constantly falling to the ground, the officers and men of the infantry battalion felt a sense of accomplishment, and they did not have to worry about the rebel brigade breaking through. Because whenever the rebels assembled, the general would lead the wolf cavalry to scatter them again.

It can be said that with sufficient gunpowder and lead bullet, now the Ming army is in an invincible position.

The Jurchen archers were still trying to shoot from a distance, and their projectiles still looked terrifying, sending out one or two hundred arrows at a time. The effect is also very shocking, but what really shot into the Ming army is still one or two out of ten.

The four-hundred-step campfire gunners were arranged in a linear pattern in five or six rows, and the spread area was very large, but the Jurchen archers could not even touch their fur, so they could not but be said to be failures. This situation is the same as that of their horse team, no matter how fierce the army is without formal training, it is just a paper tiger, and after the initial arrogance is suppressed, it can only be torn and killed with a human instinct, but there is no tactic to speak of.

Li Zhongfu was disappointed to see the performance of Sanjinbao, but he did not let people tell them to give up this meaningless move, perhaps because he was in a rage now, or maybe he thought that this kind of harassing fighting would help the overall situation.

What he is most concerned about now is the heavy armored cavalry of the hundreds of Ming troops, as long as they are completely defeated, the fire team of hundreds of people will not be a problem.

Most of the ground feather arrows fired by the Jurchen archers were slowed down and blocked by helmets and cuirasses, and there were less than ten casualties in a round, and most of them were not fatal. For the Jinzhou army, it is too acceptable.

After fighting one by one, the emotions of the Ming soldiers who were still a little nervous were alleviated, and the captive soldiers who were forced to pull up by the Changping soldiers saw that their side had the upper hand, and although the rebels were numerous, they could not rush up, so they slowly settled down, and the fire in their hands was launched more smoothly.