Ninety steps is not the best distance for a short charge, and these peasant soldiers who have fought old battles all understand this truth. But in such a situation, you can't help but rush, and no one can stand being beaten in vain! So the soldiers of the peasant army let out a heart-rending howl, raised their weapons, and rushed towards the officers and soldiers dozens of paces away.

Then came the second salvo, the third salvo, and the soldiers of the peasant army stood loosely. But the queue is still quite tight. Rushed up a few steps, the first three rows. Even the soldiers in the fourth row were knocked to the ground by the firearms.

But the pace of these veterans did not stop in the slightest, and they continued to rush forward. Don't hesitate at this time! The officers and soldiers have sharp firearms, so if they are one step slower, the officers and soldiers will have one more chance to reload, and one more brother will die here!

Unexpectedly, when the three rounds of salvo were completed, those gunners of the Runing Army stopped shooting. Due to the smoke produced by the firing of the musket, the horses guarding the back could not see the movements of the Runing musketeers clearly. However, they did not have the slightest happiness in their hearts, but felt apprehensive, feeling that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side still had some tricks to use.

However, the charging peasant army did not care about it, and no longer faced the metal storm, so as not to take the opportunity to run a few more steps and face the hand-to-hand combat of those officers and soldiers as soon as possible. The feeling of being beaten passively was simply too embarrassing.

In fact, those people in the peasant army didn't pay attention, although the guns of the Runing Army were firing in turns, the guns that were shooting were not replaced at all. Behind each gunner was two assistants, who carried several guns on their backs and constantly handed the loaded guns to the shooter.

The infantry regiments of the Legion were equipped with a relatively high rate of muskets, with 200 musketeers per regiment. So now there were nearly seventy shooters in the Runing Army, and after three volleys, all the bullets in the two hundred heavy muskets were fired.

And the pause after three volleys. It's not that there are no firecrackers, and the more than 600 medium-sized firearms of the cavalry regiment have also been handed over to those firearms assistants, just because the range is too close, so they are waiting for the peasant army to get closer.

When the charging peasant soldiers rushed fifty paces, the sound of fire began again. This time, however, the firing was quite intensive, firing nine rounds in a row, and at once knocking down all the peasant troops who rushed into the firing range.

As soon as the shot was finished, the gunners did not reload their ammunition and just ran backwards. But the surviving peasant army stayed on the battlefield and did not dare to move forward into the death zone ahead.

"Run! The official dog ran out of bullets. Yang Chengzu, who was still commanding from the front, could see it clearly. The soldiers around him immediately drove the peasant army in the back row to press forward. And some experienced veterans of the peasant army in front of them finally rushed forward with the courage to rush forward.

Although he joined the Death Charge, he could see if he had any experience at this time. Experienced veterans will hold down their speed when charging and duck as nimbly as possible to avoid coming to the front rows with the highest fatalities. However, when they found that the gunners of the Runing Army were running backwards, they rushed to the phalanx of the Runing Army as soon as possible.

But he didn't run a few steps. The veterans sensed something was wrong. The firecrackers on the opposite side had peasant soldiers rushing up roaring behind them. But they didn't panic at all. calmly ran back to the back of the phalanx through the gap in the infantry phalanx.

This calm and unhurried appearance made some veterans a little pessimistic: "It looks like I'm going to confess here today." "But there was no way to stop this state, they could only rush to the phalanx of the Runing Army as quickly as possible.

At this time, the cavalry of the Runing Army was waiting at a distance of four or five hundred paces behind the two sides of the phalanx, and except for a few officers such as Li Sanhe, all the cavalry dismounted. Some of them were still feeding their horses, and it didn't look like they were going to fight.

In fact, because of the night attack, the physical exertion of the war horse was too great. The cavalry of the Runing Army could not boldly throw their cavalry into battle. Otherwise, sprint a few more times. These horses are going to be wasted.

When the soldiers of the peasant army rushed forward another forty paces, the commander of the infantry regiment, standing on the right front side of the phalanx, raised his axe and spear high, and several of his own soldiers immediately blew the brass whistle in unison.

As the bronze whistle sounded, the soldiers of Runing who had originally raised their spears in the first few rows immediately flattened their spears. They are all left feet in front, leaning forward slightly, and the right foot behind the force, the stride is not large, but the left foot is always in front, just like this slowly forward, but this posture is convenient to exert force and resist each other at any time.

Seeing that the arrays of the two armies were about to collide, Ma Shouying and the others behind clenched their fists in unison. To be honest, they were indeed a little afraid of the powerful firearms of the Runing Army. Before they could make contact with the enemy, they were killed from a distance, and in any case, it made people feel unwilling and angry.

But the peasant army was not afraid of hand-to-hand combat. I don't know how many battles have been fought in this way and the officers and soldiers in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, and the peasant army dares to fight hard, but the officers and soldiers do not have this awareness, and they have always won more and lost less.

However, the veterans of the peasant army who rushed to the front were a little chilled. They found that the expressions and eyes of the soldiers on the other side were not as fanatical as the peasant army, but they had the same firmness, and some even emitted a bloodthirsty light. But it's already face-to-face, and it's a matter of life or death.

The two sides collided violently, and at this moment, the shouts and screams were raised at the same time, and in the face of the spears raised forward, the peasant soldiers who ran in front could not dodge at all, they could only use their own flesh and blood to crash into it, even if they were afraid of the guns on the opposite side, and wanted to retreat, they would be squeezed up by the people behind them.

And the equipment of the peasant army did not work in the slightest. Most of these veterans had cotton and leather armor captured from the Ming army. But neither the cotton nor the leather armor could resist the spear piercing.

The soldiers of the peasant army also had spears in their hands, but the length was far from enough, and a few of them rushed into the gap between the spears and spears with nimble movements, but when these people were ecstatic and about to raise their knives to slash the spears beside them, they were stabbed by the spears of the second and third rows.

So the charge of the peasant army was like layers of huge waves, but the phalanx of the Runing army was like a reef in a huge wave, no matter how the waves beat the sky, they would eventually hit the reef to pieces. (To be continued......)