Chapter 278: How to Fight This Battle?

"Brothers, I won't say much nonsense, I don't want to watch my brothers in the city being slaughtered, just follow Lao Tzu, I'm afraid of death, it's too late to quit now, don't wait to be a coward with no eggs, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless."

Tan Biao is a poor child from Guangxi, with a flexible brain and brave fighting, because of his excellent performance, he was promoted to the captain of the wolf battalion, and after the formation of the independent battalion of the royal guards, he was transferred to serve as the commander of the second battalion.

After several rounds of elimination and screening, from the first day of entering the independent battalion of the Royal Guards, in addition to the regular basic military subject training, the most important thing is the intensive training of teamwork, cultivating their spirit of unity and cooperation, not abandoning, not giving up is the slogan of all the new army, but also blood, military spirit and glory.

Zhu Jian, who has a golden finger, is naturally aware of the various shortcomings of the old army of the Ming Dynasty, and it is natural that he will copy the training methods of later generations, and toss his new army with a large amount of silver into the most powerful army of the Ming Dynasty, just to save his own life, keep the throne of the country, and protect his confidants.

"Good, send it."

With a wave of his hand, Tan Biao led his subordinates to get out of the woods where he was hiding, quickly lined up a defensive battle formation on the flat ground, surrounded the military doctors and medical guards who accompanied the army, as well as a large amount of ammunition and thunderbolts brought by him, and slowly pressed towards the 5,000 cavalry cruising between the two city gates in the southwest.

In order to prevent the surprise attack of Tan Biao's partial division, Zhang Xianzhong sent a large number of scouts to search within a radius of 100 miles, among which there were four teams of scouts ready to enter the forest to search.

Wang Dingguo is Zhang Xianzhong's confidant general, responsible for commanding the new formation of 5,000 cavalry to cruise between the two cities in the southwest, responsible for protecting the southwest two armies to attack the city, Wang Dingguo saw the arrows whistling in the sky, immediately led the team to rush, found Tan Biao's second battalion, Wang Dingguo laughed, ordered a thousand cavalry to attack and charge, and led four thousand cavalry to escort the formation.

The cavalry is highly mobile, the power of the charge is terrifying, and it is the nemesis of the infantry by nature, if there are no fortifications, you can only lay a dense spear large array to resist, and the archers protect the formation, otherwise there is only the abuse of the share.

I don't blame Wang Dingguo for being careless, what he holds in his hand is the five thousand elite cavalry of the Zhang family's army, which is completely crushed in terms of number and combat power, and goodbye Tan Biao's musket with a water, there are no spearmen, and the phalanx discharged is not dense, so it is natural to think that as long as one charge can be settled.

As soon as Wang Dingguo's 5,000 cavalry appeared, Tan Biao ordered the whole army to stop advancing and wait in formation, ready to meet the battle.

A thousand cavalry rumbled and galloped, like a mountain and a sea, and the earth shook with a very terrifying sound, which caused great psychological pressure on people.

"Steady, steady, don't panic, the war horse will still fall after eating the gun, don't be afraid, just like usual training, steady, get closer and then fight, listen to Lao Tzu's order and shoot again."

Before the battle, the lieutenant in charge of the command shouted loudly to appease the soldiers who were pale because of extreme nervousness, these grassroots officers have fought with the Jin army several times, each time they faced the elite iron cavalry of the Jin army, which is known as invincible in the field, they were also frightened by the rumbling momentum of thousands of iron cavalry at the beginning, and the timid were even more frightened, if they were not driven away by the officers, they would have turned into mud long ago, and they were afraid that the bones would have turned into mud, instead of standing here and commanding their soldiers to fight with the Zhang family.

In fact, as long as you survive the first round, the strong sense of fear in your heart will naturally weaken, and all the boldness will disappear, and all that remains is to shoot, reload ammunition and shoot again, and in the end people become numb, basically the instinct to kill and poke in order to save your life.

These people have gone through the test of blood and fire, they will turn into veterans, and after continuous tearing and killing, those who survive are the real elites of a hundred battles, but now, these recruits have to undergo their first wave of tests.

All the soldiers were so nervous that their faces were pale, and they held their guns very tightly, and some were so nervous that cold sweat broke out, but the commander's words made many soldiers feel a similar sense of inexplicable security in their hearts, and they suddenly found that they were usually so strict with them that they were almost BT, and the fierce and vicious commander was the Dinghai Divine Needle in their hearts.

The war horses were still roaring and galloping, the rumbling hooves were like scorching thunder exploding in the ears, and the ground under their feet was shaking, almost crushing people's hearts.

"Steady, steady, listen to my orders, first row, ready, one, two, three, put!" The officer commanding in front of the battle shouted loudly, counted the words in his mouth, and slashed down with his commanding knife raised.

The soldiers in the first row instinctively lit the fuse with the arquebus, and then pointed the muskets at the roaring iron horsemen.

Bang bang bang......

The muzzle of the black hole spewed out clouds of fire and smoke, and the soldiers in the first row quickly put away their guns after putting their guns down, and retreated under the command of the commander, but some were too nervous, and when they turned and retreated, they almost collided with the brothers in the second row.

The soldiers in the second platoon took two steps forward according to the officer's command, lit the fuse, took aim with the gun, and then retracted the gun and reloaded the ammunition at the rear, these movements were the basic subjects of their usual training, and they had practiced countless times, even if they were nervous, but still out of instinct and habit, they repeated these familiar movements mechanically.

The war horse was galloping rapidly, the dense gunshots rang out, and the twenty or so war horses running in front suddenly neighed, or people stood up, or suddenly fell down in the gallop, and the knight on his back was either thrown away, or pressed under the fallen war horse, and let out a terrible howl, and the lucky one was to break his hands and feet, and the unlucky one broke his neck bone, and he died on the spot.

When the second round of guns rang out, dozens of horses neighed and fell down in the gallop, the horses behind were still galloping, and the soldiers of the second battalion were also constantly shooting.

The cavalry of the charging People's Army has such an illusion, this gun is put so densely and so quickly, there is no need to reload bullets at all, they rush up like this, it is simply a meat target, giving people heads.

The cavalry of the Zhang family army followed one after another, but in front of the Shura hell constructed by the dense rain of bullets, no one could rush to the phalanx of the second battalion, when the flat ground was covered with seven or eight hundred corpses of people and horses, and the soldiers who were wounded and not dead let out a terrible howl, the remnants of the cavalry were timid, and one by one they panicked and grabbed the reins, turned the horse's head and ran back, the process from holding the reins to the war horse turning around was a little slow, enough for the soldiers of the second battalion to shoot two waves of bullet rain, and dozens of war horses fell down in grief.

Wang Dingguo, who was sitting in front of the battle, and thousands of soldiers behind him were dumbfounded, all of them were pale, and the cold air was rising from their backs, such a dense firepower, no matter how many times more people and horses could not rush to the front of the people's formation, the most fatal thing was that the muskets in the hands of the Ming army shot quickly and intensively, as if they didn't need to be loaded with gunpowder, how could this battle be fought?

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