Because it took a while for the Ming army to assemble and form a formation, in order to prevent the Wang army's army from attacking when they formed a formation, the cavalry had long been prepared and wandered next to the military formation, in order to impact the enemy army at the necessary moment to buy time for the friendly army to form a formation. ￠￡￠￡，

Therefore, as soon as Hong Chengchou gave the order, the cavalry that had already been prepared slapped their horses and set off like a gale.

Cavalry is generally divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry, the difference between the two is the armor, light cavalry is generally used for long-distance travel, only carrying food and necessary weapons, and no armor; The heavy cavalry is wearing armor, and the protection and impact when running are amazing, and they are specially used for breaking the formation.

Generally speaking, light cavalry is only used for running or cavalry shooting, not for attacking the enemy's military formation, but in the Ming army, where the soldiers' food and salary are deducted from arrears, it is obvious that no one will support the heavy cavalry that costs money, and they have always used light cavalry to charge the formation.

A thousand light cavalry, as long as you don't learn the heavy cavalry to the death, pay attention to some skills, it is very simple to break through this kind of infantry army without formation, Hong Chengchou on the city wall seems to see the scene of this thief army being scattered and chased by the cavalry.

But soon, to the surprise of all the Ming troops, when the Ming cavalry rushed to the distance of about 500 meters in front of the Wang army, the machine gunners of the musket team had already placed the machine guns, and with an order to fire, the battlefield continued to sound like a torrential rain.

The generals and civil and military officials of the Ming army on the city wall could only see the fire constantly rising from the firearms of the thief army below, and then the cavalry that had just been unstoppable fell one by one.

"Their firecrackers can fire in bursts." A thousand households exclaimed.

"Their firearms can hurt people from a distance of 300 paces." Another Qianhu also said, and there was more fear in his tone.

Since the Tang. One step is almost 1.5 meters. The killing distance of 500 meters is too frightening for these people. The effective range of an ordinary bow and arrow is generally about 100 meters, and the opponent's weapon is five times the range of the bow and arrow, and it can shoot so quickly in a row, I am afraid that nothing in the world can stop this terrible weapon!

"Quick, quick, fire the guns and knock out the firearms of the thieves." Hong Chengchou was also scared, and the cavalry sent was almost wiped out, so he hurriedly ordered the artillery to attack, and only the artillery could hit these thieves.

But even if it's a modern cannon. If you want to fire, you have to be busy for a while, not to mention the breech gun of the DPRK, and now that the gun carriage is not even fixed, it is naturally impossible to fire the gun. In this short period of time, the machine gunners almost wiped out all the cavalry rushing into formation, and they were not in a hurry to run, and only a few who were extremely lucky enough to escape the fire network composed of more than eighty machine guns, but they were almost stupid.

At this time, the order from Wang Zhi was again issued by the herald to the troops: "Target enemy artillery, continue to fire." ”

The two armies were no more than a kilometer apart. The artillery in front of the Ming army was also in the range of machine guns, although it was already a little difficult to see at such a distance. Accuracy cannot be guaranteed, but on this kind of battlefield, no one will ask for a hit rate, under the powerful firepower, the Ming artillery was completely wiped out in less than a minute, and there were stray bullets hitting the back of the artillery. medicine, causing several bursts of explosions.

Having knocked out the only artillery that could pose a threat to one's side, a new order was issued: "Advance and annihilate the enemy." ”

The Wang army annihilated the cavalry and artillery in a moment, causing a great psychological shock to the Ming army, plus some Ming troops standing in the forefront of the army were killed by stray bullets, as soon as the Ming army saw that the Wang army was advancing again, and still holding the terrible weapon, they were frightened one by one, I don't know who first shouted "They are monsters, they can't beat it", and then they broke and fled without accident, followed by the great rout of the whole army, even some officers who were originally responsible for maintaining order such as the general flag Baizong were not in the mood to stop the rout, They were also running towards the barracks behind.

The rout ran back to the barracks, feeling unsafe, and ran across the barracks towards the Suide City behind, the Ming army camp was originally located under the city wall, and a large wave of rout soldiers soon ran to the city gate, constantly banging on the city gate: "Open the door quickly, open the door quickly, let us in." ”

The defenders on the walls remained unmoved, and the gates remained shut.

Seeing this, some of the defenders at the city gate begged: "For the sake of our colleagues, let us in!" ”

Seeing that the 10,000 army that relied on it was defeated by 2,000 thieves in less than a cup of tea after the battle, all the civil and military ministers on the city wall did not have a taste in their hearts, when did the thief army become so strong.

In particular, Hong Chengchou, who is grasping the military, government and civil affairs here, has mixed feelings in his heart. The person who can do this position is naturally not stupid, the Ming Dynasty originally attached importance to firearms, and he also knew a little about firearms, and he knew very well what it meant that this kind of firearm that could even have such a long range could be rampant.

"They don't have cannons or anything like that, and they don't have siege equipment prepared, so they should be able to hold the city for a while!"

Comforting himself so much in his heart, Hong Chengchou gave an order: "Close the city gate, defend the city, and wait for the imperial court to send reinforcements." ”

"But my lord, there are so many brothers out there!" A thousand households couldn't bear to say that almost all of his cronies and soldiers were under the city, and they were all cultivated with money.

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou immediately glared at the Qianhu: "If you let the thief army take the opportunity to pursue and attack the city, will you bear the responsibility?" ”

Qianhu immediately didn't dare to speak, and he didn't dare to offend Hong Chengchou without soldiers in his hands.

Immediately afterwards, under the city, the soldiers of the Wang family army stopped when they pursued five hundred meters away from the city wall, shouting to surrender and not kill, for Wang Zhi, manpower is precious, and if you can kill one less, you will kill one less.

Seeing that the city gate was not opened, the desperate Ming soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered.

The civil officials on the city wall scolded a few words of disloyalty and injustice at first, but I don't know who said that the thief's arms can shoot 700 steps away, and they fled off the city wall, but they are within the range of the thief army, as the so-called gentleman does not stand under the wall.

The surrender of the Ming soldiers went well, except for some cronies of Qianhu who tried to get close to the machine gunner to snatch the machine gun, there was no trouble. Of course, these people were suddenly burst out before they were a hundred meters close to the machine gun.

When all the captives were tied up and pressed to the rear to be watched by the laborers, the sun had already risen high, looking at the city wall in front of them, the soldiers of the Wang family army were in trouble, whether to break the city gate with the machine gun in their hands or to build siege equipment!

I couldn't make a decision, so I had to ask Wang Zhi.

Wang Zhi did not equip his men with artillery, so the siege was a trouble, because it was obviously impossible for him to send people to attack the city by conventional methods such as climbing the city walls, which would be too great a loss and disproportionate to the gain.

Just thinking about it, Wang Zhi saw the cannons of the Ming army before, and it seemed that he could use this to attack the city! (To be continued.) )u