Xinye County, outside the north gate.

The heavy drawbridge fell to the ground with a thud, stirring up a large cloud of dust.

Ma Xianglin came out.

He came out with his three hundred crossbowmen and seven hundred white-pole soldiers.

It is said that the real white pole soldiers are still from Shizhu County, Chongqing Prefecture, that is, the Tusi County south of the Yangtze River with the Tujia, Miao, and Buyi ethnic groups as the core, and it is not surprising that they are good at using spears.

In addition to this, there is a long knife in each person's hand.

The most elite 100 people are still the configuration of ash pole spears, long knives, and Teng Dun.

Sichuan area, the Song Dynasty is Wu Jie, Wu Lin brothers to fight against the Jin army, and Sichuan has always had the tradition of using strong crossbows, after the rise of firearms, in the Ming army to use strong crossbows are very few, but Sichuan still has, Sichuan uses the most strong crossbows in the east of Sichuan and west of Hubei.

Shizhu County is one of them.

As a long-range weapon of the Tusi soldiers, the power of each strong crossbow in their hands can reach the power of a stone force strong bow, which is very powerful.

As a result, the range of Ma Xianglin's crossbowmen surpassed that of Dragon Thirteen's firecrackers!

However, if the strong crossbow wants to cover a large area of the enemy, the method used is still projectile, and for projectile, Dragon Thirteen has already had a solution.

Shield!

For the firecrackers who are always ready to break forward, they are the only troops in the small strong brigade that are not equipped with iron armor, and they do not even have a wide-brimmed iron helmet.

It's not that Long Thirteen doesn't pay attention to the firecrackers, but he can only ensure the needs of hand-to-hand combat first, and among his pikemen, only the spearmen in front of him have a full set of cotton armor + wide-eaves iron helmets, and the rest only have iron helmets. qδ.o

As for the firecrackers, because they need to carry too many things, they are hung on their bodies, and they need to operate delicate actions such as loading gunpowder, so they can only be worn lightly.

So, each person had a felt hat (with a layer of flannel in winter), and a fat jacket was standard, but each person carried a square shield behind them.

The shield is made of hardwood with a special treatment, and is about the same length and width as the back of an adult man.

So, when he saw that the other party actually had a strong crossbow in his hand, Long Thirteen's eyes couldn't help but be solemn, his firecrackers could only shoot flat, and the effective range was only about 100 meters, obviously not as large as the range of the strong crossbow.

"Raise your shield!"

Dragon Thirteen gave the order.

I saw that his firecrackers immediately removed the shield from their backs, then leaned forward, and then held the shield above their heads with one hand.

When raised, the shield is perpendicular to the body, which has the advantage that because the opponent uses throwing arrows, the crossbow arrows will also fall at a downward angle when they fly to the highest point, while the firebolts lean forward, so the crossbow arrows flying downwards can only be shot at the shield, and the people below are unscathed.

Of course, as soon as the dragon thirteen's firecrackers arrived near the county seat of Xinye, they completed the loading early without the officer's orders, and then used the rod to resist the projectile, and the firerope was also ignited - the firerope of the firecrackers was made of a special material, and if it was not blown hard or in windy weather, it burned very slowly.

In this section, you don't need Long Thirteen to use his brains, Da Ming would have done it a long time ago.

As a result, the musketeers had to wait for the enemy to come into their range.

Once inside, they will perform three strikes, and of course, the crossbowmen on the opposite side will also fire at the same time, so it is time to test the quality of both sides.

Dragon Thirteen's firecrackers have been well protected since they became an army due to their strict and frequent training, and now is the real time to test them.

However, one of their advantages is that only the first row of musketeers re-carries their shields behind them, while the musketeers behind them still hold their shields high, and when it is their turn to shoot, they quickly carry their shields behind their backs and raise their muskets.

Don't underestimate this action, if you haven't been trained for a long time, once you are on the real battlefield, you will definitely be in a state of panic.

All well-trained, so to speak.

One hundred meters!

At this time, the projectile on the opposite side had already reached the fourth round, and the fire bolt brigade on the side of Dragon Thirteen sounded from time to time the fierce "flutter" sound of crossbow arrows falling on the oak shield, if it was some people who had never been on the battlefield after long-term training, they would definitely be pale after four rounds of crossbow arrows.

Dragon Thirteen's firecrackers have withstood the test, but he can't guarantee that all the firecrackers' movements can be in place, if at this time, the body is suddenly extremely itchy, or there are other discomforts, and the body is suddenly deformed, naturally there is a great possibility of being shot by crossbow arrows!

"Ahh

"Ahh

「......」

The screams came and went, and in an instant, at least more than ten people were recruited, and naturally there were also medical soldiers among the firecrackers, who dragged these recruited people to the rear and shook their heads after examining their wounds.

"Poison Arrow!"

This is the Tusi soldiers, they will try their best to achieve the maximum effectiveness of their weapons, the ash rod is one aspect, the strong crossbow is one aspect, and the poison arrow is one aspect.

Those who have been hit by poisoned arrows can only resign themselves to fate, and the natives use eight poisons, and most of them have no antidote.

However, in the current situation, it is also time for the firearms of the small strong brigade to play.

I saw a hundred people in the first row suddenly see the shield thrown on the ground, and then raised the firecracker!

At this time, the crossbowmen on the opposite side are still shooting, compared to the small strong brigade, the native soldiers only need to keep the strong crossbow in their hands to shoot constantly, and they don't need to fire at the same time!

"Bang ......"

After the thud, I saw that three of the 100 musketeers still fell to the ground because they had been hit by poisoned arrows, but the vast majority of them successfully completed the first round of shooting, and after this round of shooting, it was obvious that it had an impact on the enemy on the opposite side - stunned.

Just as they were stunned, the men in the first row hurriedly leaned down to pick up their shields, and then quickly ran back under the leadership of the first sentry commander on both sides!

You don't have to lean forward when you run, but the shield is still diagonally facing back.

At this time, the second platoon did not need to move forward, because the enemy was also running forward - after receiving the fire from the firearms, the crossbowmen on the opposite side obviously suffered a lot of losses, but the fierceness and tenacity in their bones still supported them to run forward!

However, just as firebolts need to be loaded, crossbows also need to be wound, and strong crossbows with a stone force need to be wound on the body of the crossbow, so they are not much faster.

"Bang ......"

At this time, the crossbow arrows that could be shot were scarce, but the hundred people in the second row of the Xiaoqiang Brigade neatly sent out a second round of buckshot!

And then there's the third round!

Only three or four of the two platoons were injured by the opponent's poisoned arrows combined, and at this time, the two armies faced each other, and hand-to-hand combat was just around the corner, and it was impossible for the medical soldiers of the small strong brigade to rush to the front with crossbow arrows and drag the wounded and fallen firearms to the rear.

After the third round of buckshot was fired, the distance between the two sides was only a few tens of meters!

At this time, the fourth row of firecrackers did not step forward, but there were ten tiger squat cannons in ambush between the third and fourth rows!

"Boom ......."

The three-door tiger squat cannon has been fired!

And then the second round!

Round 3!

After the three-wheeled tiger squat cannon roared, the field was full of smoke, and at this time, the fourth platoon of firecrackers hurriedly stepped forward and fired the fourth round of lead bullets over the artillery!

And then there is!

After all the shots were completed, the first three rows of musketeers were also loaded, and at this point, if the enemy on the opposite side could continue to advance, it would be a disaster for the musketeers.

Long Thirteen, who was riding on a horse in the back, also jumped up with a bang, at this time, due to the smoke of gunfire in front of him, he couldn't see the details at all, so he had to wait, but according to his calculations, there should be no army that could continue to move forward under the bombardment of his firearm salvo and the scattered bombardment of the three-wheeled tiger squat cannon.......

"Hoo ......"

In the middle of the night, a cold wind blew on the field, and Long Thirteen finally saw the battle situation!

After the eight rounds of cannon fire, the enemy on the opposite side stayed

A large number of corpses came, and the people behind did not continue to come up, but began to run backwards!

"Drive!"

Long Thirteen was overjoyed, and he immediately urged the war horse to chase after him!

When approaching the enemy, he could clearly see:

The crossbowmen running at the back were very small, it seemed that most of them should have been damaged in the eight rounds of fire just now, and when he passed by the corpses of the enemy, he could also see that in addition to the crossbowmen, there were at least dozens of white-pole soldiers who fell to the ground!

"Rumble ......"

In fact, after experiencing the eight rounds of blows just now, according to Ma Xianglin's intentions, no matter what the casualties were, he still had to continue to attack, but he wanted to do so, but his soldiers were unwilling.

Although the Tusi soldiers in eastern Sichuan, western Hubei, Xiangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi were also known as "Tu Prefect", "Tuxian Order", "Tu Garrison", and "Tu Qianhu", the imperial court basically only collected "tribute" (local specialties) from Tusi, and did not pay taxes.

As a result, one by one Tusi is like a local emperor, and the Tujia (Tujia, Miao, Buyi) who can be soldiers are also carefully selected by him, once they become Tusi soldiers, they do not have to pay tribute and taxes (pay to Tusi), and some are still small Tusi.

Such people are naturally fierce, but they will only be revealed when they are fighting a tailwind, and once they encounter a hard stubble, they will also be wise to protect themselves, so where to ignore Ma Xianglin's dissatisfaction, one by one dragged the spear and ran back.

And the crossbowmen are Ma Xianglin's private soldiers, the soldiers who are supported by his Ma family by collecting taxes, and if they are sacrificed, they will be sacrificed, and the white pole soldiers will not pay attention to it at all.

Ma Xianglin was also helpless, so he had to follow them and run back.

The place where they fought just now was about a mile away from the north gate, and if there were also infantry troops on the other side, Ma Xianglin was still very sure to run back to the city.

But he met the personal guards led by the Dragon Thirteen!

One-color wide-brimmed iron helmets, cotton armor, one-zhang long standard riding spears, three javelins, after urging the war horses, their hasty backs were undoubtedly revealed!

After approaching about twenty meters, they threw out their javelins!

The javelins caused further confusion among the enemy, and then Dragon Thirteen took the lead and rushed straight in!