"Kill!"

Thousands of elite horsemen roared towards the Ming army array, and the knights on the horse waved their sabers one by one, as if they could harvest the heads of the Ming army in the next moment.

Liang Zhen's eyes are straight!

Liang Zhen, who has been in the army all his life, can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, and he knows very well what kind of enemy to use and what kind of formation.

Now the Ming army is facing the cavalry with a foot formation, at least it has to set up a giant shield and a spear to resist the horse, but no!

This can't be blamed on Liang Zhen, now all parts of the Ming Dynasty are undergoing military reforms, but the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty have changed to six sides, and there are three important towns that have not changed, including Gansu Town.

There are also many soldiers and horses in the pass of the guard station that have not been replaced, such as Jiayu Pass, such as Wusizang and so on.

Therefore, Liang Zhen does not know too much about the combat effectiveness and even combat methods of the current Ming army, as for the recent achievements of the Ming army, that is, Emperor Zhengde's expedition to the desert, so that there is no royal court above the desert!

But how he fought, it is not clear how far he was away......

Now outside Jiayu Pass, 10,000 Ming troops are waiting in formation, and there are no iron thistles, horse rejection formations, and spear formations, and the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are arranged neatly like wooden stakes, watching the enemy cavalry begin to charge!

There is no means that can effectively resist the impact of war horses, in Liang Zhen's simple cognition, once the phalanx is broken into, the foot soldiers will inevitably collapse, and then it will be slaughtered!

Wang Shouren, who was standing on the wall, had a calm face.

"General Liang is worried?" Wang Shouren looked sideways at Liang Zhen, who was extremely worried, and said with a smile: "General Liang has not returned to the Central Plains for a long time, and he doesn't know that the military in the interior has been turned upside down. This device refers to the military industry, today's Ming army has gradually abandoned knives and guns, which is equivalent to the gradual elimination of hand-to-hand combat, under the premise that the emperor spares no effort to develop the military industry, any enemy facing the Ming army, without exception, will be slaughtered! ”

Liang Zhen's eyes were full of disbelief.

"Two years ago, Emperor Zhengde, that is, the Emperor of War, led an expedition of 100,000 troops overseas, and the Battle of Andorra fought with 80,000 troops against 1.5 million European coalition troops, and finally annihilated 500,000 enemy troops at the cost of more than 10,000 losses and captured 400,000 alive, which is a typical example of hot and cold weapon confrontation!"

80,000 against 1.5 million, and nearly a million more slaughtered and taken prisoner!

Liang Zhen felt that Wang Shouren was telling him a book from heaven!

"More than a thousand cavalry dare to attack the current Ming army's infantry formation, it's a joke!"

As soon as these words fell, he had already led his troops to rush into the formation of a thousand steps!

"Crossbow!"

The first battalion commander He Tai drank violently.

In an instant, the warrior who was always watching the Ling Qi on the side of the crossbow in the back quickly released the ballista bowstring!

A hundred ballistas and five hundred huge crossbow arrows soared into the air, cutting through the graceful parabola, stabbing at the cavalry formation with an incomparably huge inertia!

"Shield!"

He only seems to know very well the combat method of the Ming army, step against horse, as long as he rushes through the long-range attack in front, then it is the cavalry that dominates the battlefield behind!

But he didn't expect that the Ming army in front of him would have so many bed crossbows, and they could fire so many crossbow arrows at one time.

But it was so easy for the cavalry to turn back when they charged at high speed, so even if he knew that this wave of crossbow arrows would give him a lot of damage, he could only shake it hard!

It's a pity that the riding shield is so fragile, and it may be useful to defend against ordinary feather arrows, if you want to defend against crossbow guns?

It's a dream!

Five hundred crossbow guns rained down from the sky and smashed into the cavalry cluster, followed by a series of screams!

The stout crossbow carried a huge inertia to instantly tear apart the mounted shield, and then penetrated the cavalry and war horses behind the shield, and in one round of attacks, nearly 100 cavalry were crucified to the ground.

However, the nightmare has only just begun!

The crossbow array is the most standard tactical way for the Ming army to fight against cavalry today.

Because of the angle of horizontal and upward fire of the bed crossbow, its maximum attack distance can reach 1,200 paces, if it is a flat shot, 600 to 800 steps will be the best killing distance, a crossbow arrow into the dense enemy army, through four or five without the slightest problem.

It's a pity that a thousand enemy horsemen are too few, so the lethal effect of the three-round crossbow bolts is not much better.

However, more than 200 cavalrymen were shot down before they could kill a single enemy, which still made his heart bleed!

"Six hundred steps!"

Just 600 steps is just a matter of a dozen breaths for a cavalry!

However, just as he was about to rush fiercely towards the enemy formation and take revenge, a white patch suddenly appeared in the sky, and the white cloth-like thing was still blazing!

Catapults!

It wasn't the rocks that were thrown, but the explosives packets!

He has never seen such a thing, but out of instinctive reaction, he doesn't dare to be careless, and he can't be careless, at this time, he has to send it when he is ready to fly!

No matter what kind of means the Ming army used, there was only one thing in his eyes, rush over and cut off people's heads!

There was a loud explosion, followed by a series of loud noises, some of the explosives that fell from the sky exploded, and some of them exploded before they landed, and the iron nails and other sharp objects wrapped in the explosives were fired in four directions under the strong impetus of the explosion, and the surrounding area was swept away in an instant.

More than half of the cavalry were killed and wounded, and the screams and neighing of horses were intertwined, which made Liang Zhen on the city head feel a chill from head to heel.

Catapults drop explosives, not boulders, but compared to boulders, their lethality is more than ten times more terrifying!

After all, more than 1,000 cavalry scattered the impact, if the stone rain is not dense enough, then the lethality must be extremely limited, but the explosives package is different, this explosives package is a piece of explosion, more dare not say, in the explosives package landing within a radius of one zhang, regardless of the people and horses, no one will be spared.

In a round of explosives pack attack, more than 200 cavalry were blown up, and those cavalry who were not blown up were not killed, but simply because they had not been able to enter the firing range.

People will be afraid, and the war horses will be even more so, because it is instinctive, the huge explosion directly startled all the war horses, and the frightened war horses rushed left and right, where did they dare to rush forward towards the gunsmoke, and under the random collision, the whole battlefield was completely chaotic.

However, at this moment, the Ming army, which was originally like a fortress, moved in a large formation, and tens of thousands of Ming troops outflanked the two wings at the fastest speed.

The distance of five hundred paces was fleeting for a galloping horse, and equally short for a two-legged Ming army, and after a while, a fan-shaped encirclement had already formed.

The gunfire rang out suddenly, and the Ming army, who received the order to fire freely, picked up the musket in his hand and fired!

The enemy troops who failed to escape were like moving targets, falling one by one!

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