At the forefront of the 3rd Guards Army at this time was the 1st Infantry Battalion (Class A Battalion).

The battalion's commander, Liu Xiyao, is a veteran of the army like Liu Fangliang, and he also has a lot of combat experience.

But it is precisely because of his experience that when he saw the skilled armored soldiers led by the Tartar Hunan, he could still indifferently order the shield soldiers to raise their shields, order the spearmen to erect their spears, and at the same time order the infantry behind them to complete the shooting action.

Although from time to time fierce Tartars fired heavy arrows, many of them even hit the officers and men of the Guards infantry, causing the officers and men to fall to the ground before they could start shooting.

However, because of Liu Xiyao's calmness, the first battalion of infantry at the front did not have a chaotic formation.

Seeing a few Ming infantry fall from time to time, Enan and the Tartar cavalry behind him were all proud, and couldn't help but show a cold smile, and proudly continued to draw their bows and shoot the Ming infantry one by one in front of them.

As one of the six gentlemen of Ningbo, Dong Zhining gritted his teeth tightly and watched a comrade-in-arms beside him fall.

He was both resentful and scared now, but because the commander was still at the forefront, coupled with military discipline, he had to grit his teeth and hold on

, I can't wait for the order of the peak now, but pull the trigger and fire the bullet first, it seems that only in this way can I alleviate the fear in my heart.

Zhang Mengyi, like him, also held the spear against his waist tightly, he could feel the roar from the ground, he even wanted to get up and flee more than once, but he always habitually settled down, and endured the shock and fear brought to him by the Tartar charging in front.

Because he had to grit his teeth again at the thought of the terrible consequences of standing up first in his old training, he would have to be punished with thirty sticks and imprisoned for three days!

The infantry battalion in the back is fine, after all, people's instinctive psychology is that they feel that there is a first battalion in front of them, so they feel that they need to be safer here.

Of course, despite this, the infantry battalion behind was also nervous, and some of the infantry even took a few steps back unconsciously, but because of the retreat, they ran into the people behind them, and when they realized what they were doing, they walked back with some uneasiness.

Not only the infantry participating in the battle were a little uneasy, but even Zhu Youzhen, who was standing on the tower at the moment, was a little uneasy.

Zhu Youzhen also knew that when the cavalry galloped, it would create a very powerful psychological shock to the infantry battalion, and could even break through a person's psychological defense line and make the infantry battalion completely collapse.

But if you want to build a strong psychological defense, you can only really train it in this kind of actual combat.

Although in the past, the Guards also practiced the training of infantry to obey orders and prefer to die in the face of cavalry charges.

But after all, it was just a drill, at this moment, everyone knew that the opposite side was the world's most elite Manchu iron cavalry, and it was bigger than himself, more ruthless and cruel than himself, so it was normal for the infantry to retreat.

Zhu Youzhen was not sure if the infantry of his Guards would be able to withstand such pressure.

Even his heart was in his throat, and he wanted to shout for the commander of the battalion now, after all, he also knew that shooting in such a situation would reduce the fear of the infantry.

"Who is the commander of the battalion, is he frightened and confused, why hasn't he given the order to shoot yet!"

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help shouting and asking, with anger on his face.

However, Liu Xiyao, as a spearman who had followed Liu Fangliang in the southern and northern wars for many years, his psychological quality was indeed better than that of Zhu Youzhen, the Ming Emperor who watched the "scenery" from the tower.

It wasn't until he was about to see the face of Southern Hubei that even Dong Zhining couldn't help but take a few steps back, that Liu Xiyao shouted: "Fight!" ”

In a moment, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 1st Corps of the 3rd Army of the Guards Army seemed to have been holding back for a long time, and they impatiently pulled the trigger and shot out the guns that had stayed in the barrel for a hundred years.

As soon as the first shot was fired, the psychological fear of the soldiers of the 1st Guards Infantry Battalion really dropped a lot.

Facing the Qing army's iron cavalry about to arrive in front of them, and the heavy arrows hit their camp more frequently, the infantry soldiers of the Guards continued to fire the second shot with a lot of calmness.

After Liu Xiyao, the infantry commander of the first battalion, heard the first shot, he even heard the sound of the infantry peeing behind him, like flowing water.

But Liu Xiyao didn't blame, and there was no joke, after all, it's normal for people to be scared to pee their pants in this situation, so he just nodded: "Okay, keep shooting!" ”

Dong Zhining couldn't help but spill a bubble of urine after the first shot was fired at this time, it seemed that the fear in his heart disappeared all of a sudden, and instead of shooting desperately to prove that he was not a coward!

Indeed, although many infantry fighters have been frightened into physiological reactions, the rhythm of the fire has become more and more neat and effective.

The Eight Banners of the Manchurian Army in Southern Hubei showed their yellow teeth and came on horseback gloomily.

Although the formation of the infantry battalion was not frightened by their formation, they did not realize the danger in the slightest, but did not avoid it at all, and rode up to break through the infantry camp of the Guards without avoiding it.

At this time, the Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the first battalion of the Ming infantry.

The ancients took a step between 1.3 meters and 1.5 meters, and a hundred steps was between 130 meters and 150 meters.

It stands to reason that the Chongzhen 14-style flintlock pistol is a flintlock pistol personally supervised by Zhu Youzhen, which is based on the flintlock pistol of the Portuguese mercenaries and the flintlock pistol drawings of Bi Maokang and the legendary artifact Lu Mi Gong, plus the improvement of gunpowder and barrel materials, it is already the most advanced flintlock pistol in the world.

The firing range has reached more than 150 paces, and it has lethality, otherwise it would not be possible to break the Tartar heavy armor on Kaifeng City.

Of course, this range has affected the accuracy and accuracy of infantry shooting, and 100 steps is just enough to meet the requirements of high accuracy and high destructive power of flintlock pistols.

But at the same time, it was twice as long as the distance that the bird could achieve precision killing at about fifty paces, so that the Tartar did not realize that he had entered the range of the Guards infantry battalion at this moment.

The crackling bullets pierced the void with the heavy arrows fired by the Tartars, heading in the opposite direction.

Hunan's and other Manchu Eight Banners Iron Cavalry were already more excited at this time, because even if the Qing army was skilled in arching and horseback, and its arm strength was amazing, it was still a human being, and it was not possible for everyone to shoot accurately at a distance of 100 paces, and only a person with super arm strength like Southern Hubei could kill people 200 steps away.

At this time, it was almost within a hundred paces, which meant that the Manchu iron cavalry had the conditions to accurately open their bows and break the enemy.

The deputy capital commander of Hunan, even directly threw three arrows, ready to shoot a senior officer of the Guards (Liu Xiyao) in the front section first, as well as the shield bearers and spearmen in front of him, so as to lay the foundation for himself to break through the camp in the next moment.

Darba, who was the Red Banner Niu Lu Zhangjing, also picked up three heavy arrows, ready to shoot at a fair-skinned scholar officer (Chen Zilong, the commander of the third infantry battalion) on the flank.