Chapter XXXIII - Firing a salvo

A hundred miles is not very far away.

Especially when the armies of both sides were moving in the opposite direction, in the afternoon of the next day, the armies of more than 100,000 people on both sides of the vast plain met each other!

The reactions of the armies on both sides varied, and almost all of Gao Yigong's men remained silent, and their morale was a little low, after all, they had lost the battle for a year.

On the other hand, the descendants of the wild boar skin on the opposite side are all clamoring......

Seeing this, Zhang Yun shook his head silently, completely flattening Gao Yigong!

But now is not the time to dwell on these things, when he came to Li Guo, who was busy all the time, Zhang Yun finally smiled.

Although the 20,000 musketeers were also nervous, they didn't know if it was the power, stability and speed of the muskets in their hands in the previous few days of training, which gave them confidence or how it dripped.

At least at this moment, in the face of the clamor of tens of thousands of cavalry on the opposite side, the 20,000 musketeers did not seem particularly panicked, and were still loading in an orderly manner......

Then all the 50,000 cavalry of Gao Yigong dispersed, leaving only 20,000 musketeers on the entire battlefield, and the descendants of wild boar skins facing each other.

When Azig saw this scene, he understood, Gao Yigong on the opposite side didn't want to have a hard time with him, and he couldn't help but smile when he looked at the 20,000 shotguns on the opposite side, and arranged them into three columns!

The cavalry is several times more than the infantry on the opposite side, especially their own sons, so if they can't kill all these Han barbarians, is there any reason for heaven?

As for the high level of merit scattered on both sides of the battlefield, Azig didn't pay attention to it at all......

Seeing that Azig had been silent, Ao Bai couldn't help it, and rode his horse and rushed forward and shouted: "Prince Ying, what are you still thinking about?" ”

Azig was also not a good-natured person, and when he heard this, he said: "Since you can't wait to worship, then you will fight this first battle!" It just so happens that this king can stay behind and guard against Gao Yigong......"

After getting permission, Ao Bai immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, shouted, and rushed directly over......

I have to say that the charge of tens of thousands of cavalry, the momentum of shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, even Zhang Yun was a little sideways, but that's all!

Especially when Li Guo said that it was Ao Bai who took the lead in the first place, Zhang Yun's eyes rolled, and Li Guo mobilized hundreds of front-loading smoothbore guns, aimed with all his might, and rushed to the first Ao Bai who was showing off his heroism.

After Li Guo casually agreed, he immediately rode his horse in the three-stage shooting formation of 20,000 musketeers, and kept running around, loudly cheering up the musketeers......

Because at the beginning of the training, Zhang Yun was afraid that these musketeers would not be able to withstand the momentum of the cavalry's charge, so he had already asked Li Zicheng's consent to send a large-scale cavalry to charge at these musketeers many times.

So although the 20,000 musketeers, especially the more than 6,000 people in the first column, were a little unsteady at the moment, there were no deserters, which also made Zhang Yunda breathe a sigh of relief!

You must know that running away is contagious, and if one person escapes, a group of people will run......

The cavalry's charge was very fast, even if the charging distance of Aobai was a little far, and it did not choose the most scientific charging distance, 400 meters to start the charge, but to start charging a thousand meters away.

But two or three minutes later, with the sound of horses' hooves shaking the ground and the mountains shaking, and the shouts of the descendants of wild boar skins, Ao Bai finally rushed to the front of the battle!

Aobai, who was wearing two or three layers of iron armor, didn't pay attention to the shotgunners on the opposite side at all.

It's just that what makes Ao Bai a little strange is that when he usually charges with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, no matter who is in command of the Ming troops on the opposite side, they will shoot far away from the range.

In this way, when he rushed to their side with the Eight Banners Iron Horse, he would naturally be able to chop melons and chop vegetables to wantonly kill them......

However, once the cavalry charge starts, it is difficult to stop, so although there are doubts in his heart, Ao Bai can't help it, coupled with the contempt for Li Zicheng's army, so Ao Bai is ruthless and rushes over directly, without thinking about turning back at all!

The distance between the two sides finally entered a hundred meters, if Li Guo hadn't listened to Zhang Yun's words, made a bold choice, and kept standing in front of the musketeers, these more than 6,000 scrambling musketeers would have opened fire outside the firing range......

And when the time came here, Li Guo saw that the Manchu cavalry on the opposite side was already stretching his bow and arrows, so he hurriedly jumped off the horse and lay on the ground without image according to what Zhang Yun taught.

Just as Li Guo was lying on the ground and wanted to shout and shoot, he had been waiting impatiently, but Li Guo had been standing in front of the musketeers before, causing the more than 6,000 musketeers who had not dared to fire before, and at this moment, they didn't want anyone's orders, and under the domination of fear, they all chose to fire!

"Bang ......"

The sound of several muskets can be described as the sound of firecrackers, but the sound of more than 6,000 muskets firing at the same time, Zhang Yun doesn't know how to describe it, Zhang Yun just feels that his ears no longer belong to him at this moment!

At this moment, the more than 6,000 musketeers who were in a hurry had already forgotten Li Guo's orders, and no one deliberately gathered fire to Aobai......

However, because he was the most coquettish and very pretended to run in front of more than 10,000 cavalrymen, more than 6,000 musketeers, intentionally or unintentionally, pointed almost all their guns at him when they fired, under the fire of more than 6,000 large-caliber front-loading smoothbore guns.

The two or three layers of iron armor that Ao Bai was wearing could not bring him any protection, and at the moment when the gun rang out, Ao Bai didn't even have time to say anything or make any moves, and he was directly beaten into a sieve!

Although the smoothbore gun was a hundred meters away, there was no more accurate head to speak of.

Of course, against a single target, now more than 6,000 smoothbore guns are dealing not with a single target, but against a cavalry cluster.

Therefore, in this first round of concentrated fire, although because many people were nervous, the bullets either hit the sky or hit the ground, but the charging formation of more than 10,000 cavalry on the opposite side was still stagnant!

Because Li Guo was instigated by himself to run to the front of the formation, he was still lying on the ground and gnawing on the mud at the moment, not daring to raise his head.

So at this moment, Zhang Yun used his non-human voice to start loudly giving orders to the 20,000 musketeers, and asked the more than 6,000 musketeers in the middle row to come forward and continue shooting.

Zhang Yun's loud voice, although it made Gao Yigong, who was standing outside the battlefield, frown, but the 20,000 musketeers who faced the charge of more than 10,000 cavalry, under extreme tension, obviously did not notice anything wrong! Or rather, blind obedience!

But no matter what, they were still very obedient after all, and carried out Zhang Yun's order, after three shots, about two hundred meters in front of the formation of 20,000 musketeers, more than 10,000 menacing cavalry, at this moment, only half of them were left!

And at this moment, they are not moving forward, nor are they retreating, and they are completely caught in a dilemma.