Although "Yidou Valley" was shocked by the thunderous sound of the turtledove of the Shen family, he had already looked down on life and death since he had been a thief for ten years.

Instinct told him that at this time, the horse could not turn back when he entered the middle road, only rushed to the end.

"The guns of the officers and soldiers are very slow to reload, rush quickly! The faster you rush, the safer! ”

The cavalry around him were also old thieves in Shaanxi, who followed Liu Xiyao from his hometown to kill. After a short panic, he found that few of his comrades had fallen from their horses, which aroused them to become more and more fierce and charge more resolutely.

"It seems that this cavalry is the elite of the thief army, and the ironclad rate should not be low, and it took a shotgun to kill such a few people." Zuo Zixiong on the opposite side put down the binoculars, and his palms were slightly sweaty, but it was not caused by fear, but just a normal physiological reaction of nervousness and excitement.

After a rough glance just now, after a burst of guns, only about a dozen cavalrymen fell from their horses, and a little more horses were wounded and killed.

Two hundred and forty turtledoves fired a salvo with shotguns, and the total number of effective hits was only thirty or so targets, which was one-eighth. This number was obviously much lower than in the previous test, and Zuo Zixiong quickly judged that these cavalry had a relatively high armor rate.

This judgment is indeed correct.

In a third-rate thief army like Liu Xiyao, only officers above the post chief level in ordinary troops have iron and cotton armor. When it comes to the old battalion lineage, it may be popularized to grassroots officers.

And when it came to the cavalry unit with the most henchmen, even the commander was equipped. The cavalry in the more than 1,000 people on the opposite side was able to make up three or four hundred pairs of iron cotton armor, which was Liu Xiyao's old home.

The armoured cavalry marched one hundred and twenty paces (160 meters) in less than thirty seconds. The infantry was twice as slow, about fifty seconds.

So only six or seven seconds later, the cavalry rushed to within a hundred paces of the battle, and was attacked by another round of bullets, this time with a charge of four coins.

When they heard the gunshots, the cavalry of Itogu panicked again, apparently frightened by the density of the officers' firepower.

The lethal effect of this round is actually lower than that of the previous round, mainly because the firepower of the Lu Mi Gun is much weaker than that of the Turtledove Gun.

Less than ten of the rogue cavalry died, and almost a dozen fell from their horses, causing a mixture of panic and formation that was far worse than the first wave. It took a few more seconds for Itogu to regroup, and he even had to swing a knife and hack to death two old brothers who turned around and became deserters to stabilize their morale.

This delay at least provided time for Zuo Zixiong to fire one more row of guns in the future.

At eighty paces, the third round of guns rang out again, and this time the thieves were not so afraid. They have already reacted: the officers and soldiers use the stacking method, and the guns used are different each time, and only the gun that fired the first salvo just now is the most powerful.

Unfortunately, with the fourth salvo of the officers and soldiers fifty paces away, the courage of the rogues cavalry, which had just been rebuilt, was quickly knocked to the bottom again—the batch of turtledoves that had just fired from a hundred and twenty paces away had been reloaded with ammunition.

"Bang bang bang-" The earth-shattering loud roar again, completely making Itoya begin to doubt his life.

"It can't be! How could the officers and soldiers reload so quickly! In the time it takes for the cavalry to charge seventy paces, he will be able to shoot again? ”

This thought only flashed through Itoya's mind, and he didn't have time to think about it at all.

The moment he saw the firelight, he had already relied on an instinctive sense of danger to hide, hiding in stirrups, lowering his body and trying to hide within the range of the war horse.

At the same moment, he only felt that the thigh exposed on the outside of the war horse seemed to be bitten by something, and it passed directly through the cold. Before the pain came, I heard the sound of gunfire in my ears first—

When the bullet is first discharged, it travels much faster than the speed of sound. It's a pity that the distance of fifty paces is less than 0.2 seconds, and the human nerves can barely react, so the sense of touch and hearing attack almost at the same time.

A small hole had been pierced through the outside of his thigh by a lead bullet, and if the projectile hadn't penetrated it directly, he would have been crippled if he didn't die. Then his war horse also neighed and rolled down, apparently when he was hiding in the stirrups just now, the war horse helped him block more projectiles.

This round of turtledoves is really terrifying, killing and wounding at least 80 people, and almost one can be killed with three shots.

The shotguns at medium and close ranges are full of firepower, which is so ferocious.

If you change to a single-headed bullet, even if the accuracy of the gun itself is high, you can't do it - don't believe in this evil, anyone who has fought chickens knows that against a moving target enemy 60 meters away, even if you are given a 98K, you may not be able to snipe after five shots.

The number of warheads and the density of firepower are the real royal options.

The wails finally resounded among the thieves' cavalry, and their morale was already devastated. If it weren't for the chaos that no one knew that Itogu had fallen, I was afraid that it would have collapsed directly.

Fortunately, these people have been in the army for many years, and they know that retreating at this time will only "suffer twice and suffer two sins", and they will suffer more rounds of guns in vain, otherwise it is not surprising that they will directly collapse the morale of the army.

"It's worthy of being a bandit for many years, and he has a lot of experience, and he still has a clear mind at this time, and he knows that only by going forward can he live."

Zuo Zixiong didn't dare to hold it up, and ordered Lu Miquan in the second row to hurry up and put a final round of robbery, and then all of them retreated from between the corridors, so that the pikemen lined up to meet them.

After Lu Mi finished releasing the gun, the thief cavalry was still thirty paces away, and theoretically one more shot could be fired, but that would cause the musketeers to have no time to retreat, and the pikemen to have no time to strengthen the formation.

Perhaps only when the bayonet was invented, and the musketeers could fight back against the cavalry with bayonets on the ground without retreating, could this regret be completely remedied.

Zuo Zixiong decisively gave up the last shot, in exchange for more room in the spear queue.

The cavalry of the thief army, which was more than 1,000 people, was directly killed and wounded by five rounds of blows, and more than 200 people were directly wounded, and only more than 800 were barely left, and they crashed headlong into the spear array.

"Kill!" After a month and a half of training, the Huangzhou Regiment also burst out with the courage to conform to the crowd, and numbly stabbed the spear in his hand, and many people's minds were blank.

"Our musketeers have killed so many thieves! Our army will win! ”

Many people are not afraid in their minds, but they are aroused by the enthusiasm and noise of the herd, and they feel that they are on the side of the strong and the winner. This kind of confidence is extremely important for new recruits.

In just a few tens of seconds, the blood dripping from the enemy, the corpses and war horses that fell all the way strengthened this mentality.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Again and again, he stabbed his arms and turned a blind eye to the blood gushing, which aroused a wave of excitement to beat the water dog.

The first platoon of the cavalry of the thief army almost all crashed into the gun array, either dead or wounded, although it also knocked over the No. 100 pikemen on the opposite side, but it did not shake the regimental training line in the slightest.

The pikemen in the first row fell, and immediately the back row was replaced, they may be recruits, but they only need to know that they are on the side of the victors, and that is enough.

Chinese people, since ancient times, have been the most like to conform to the herd, Mu Qiang, and follow the crowd.

This is especially true for undetermined recruits, so they must perform a debilitating, one-sided slaughter of the enemy before hand-to-hand combat.

Once the recruits really think in their hearts that they are fighting a good fight and bullying the weak, the potential they can burst out is no less than that of elite veterans.

The real gap between new and veteran soldiers can only be reflected when fighting against the wind.

Dozens of thieves and cavalry fell, or fell into foot combat.

The "mounted infantry" led by Liu Xiong in the back row was about to rush to the battlefield to reinforce the cavalry of Yidougu.

But the turtledove musket team that had just retreated on Zuo Zixiong's side had also re-prepared. Although muskets are no better than bows and arrows, they cannot be parabolic.

But after all, the Shen Jiajun was defending the town, and the advantage of the terrain made up for this shortcoming.

On the earthen fence and sentry tower on the north side of the battlefield, soon a turtledove began to condescendingly shoot at the back row of the thieves over the heads of the two armies.

The natural dispersion of shotguns can cause some of the falling projectiles to injure the enemy's rear troops at a distance of 100 paces. This style of play is the safest, although it will waste at least half of the projectiles, but it will not accidentally injure your own people.

The thief army can only output hand-to-hand combat on the contact surface of the two armies, but the Shen family army can carry it head-on, three-dimensional output, and make a judgment with high durability.

It's not that Liu Xiyao doesn't have firearms, it's just that the cavalry troops brought by Liu Xiong today don't have firearms. In a hurry, he couldn't squeeze in the back row, so he had to shoot at Shen Jiajun with a bow and arrow, barely maintaining his morale, and it seemed that he was not being beaten unilaterally.

In the midst of the panic, some cavalry officers of the thief army improvised to adapt to the situation, but they also wanted to flank and outflank and destroy the Shen family's army formation.

The troops that had made a detour to the left had not taken a few steps before they were trapped in the muddy mudflats on the banks of the Qishui River, and their mobility was greatly reduced, and they became live targets for passive beating.

Some horses even stepped directly into the muddy quicksand pits, stumbled and threw the rider away, breaking tendons and fractures.

"Young master, you can't fight like this anymore! These Shen family members can't rush at all! The pikemen were so densely arranged, and there were rivers and earth enclosures on the left and right, and the cavalry could not make a detour, that is, they were sent to death in vain! We've definitely hit the trick! ”

When Liu Xiong was looking at the six gods without a master behind the battle, Yidougu was carried down by his henchmen and soldiers, crying and begging Liu Xiong to retreat immediately.

Itoya had a small hole in the side of his thigh, but fortunately, the bullet had pierced through it, and there was no risk of death.

Liu Xiong gritted his teeth, the casualties of the troops were indeed terrible, and if he continued to fight, he was afraid that he would collapse directly. His only hope is that the morale of the opposite side will collapse first, but the opposite side is obviously far from collapsing.

"The officer and general who led the troops, how did he boost their morale, and why they were not afraid to break up after being repeatedly rushed by our cavalry!"

He hesitated like this, and the rogue cavalry finally collapsed on its own, and there was no need to wait for him to order a retreat - no matter how stubborn the elite of the old battalion was, when two or three percent of the casualties were taken, the enemy could not see any signs of loosening at all, and the collapse could not be more normal.

What's more, these troops rushed all night and marched to intercept them. I just gambled with that tone just now. Finding that the morale of the officers and soldiers was high, they were not afraid of them at all, and the thief army was discouraged, and it completely collapsed.

"Withdraw! Come on! Liu Xiong was in a hurry, rode his horse and fled first, retreated three or four arrows first, gathered the remnants of the army, collected pack animals, horses, donkeys, and fled straight to the upper reaches of Qishui.

Zuo Zixiong was afraid of deception, but he did not dare to chase out of the town immediately - once he left the town and reached the open ground, the left and right flanks could be rounded by enemy cavalry, and it was difficult to say whether his 1,000 pikemen and 1,000 musketeers could stop the thieves in all directions.

For the sake of stability, after the thief army had withdrawn fifty or sixty paces away, he asked the pikemen to quickly change their formation to make way of the road, and let the firearms soldiers step forward in batches and release a round of firepower, and the two armies disengaged.

The 800 shots he received in the process of escaping took the lives of at least more than 100 thieves.

"Don't chase! The enemy is attacking at dawn, and I don't know if there is a large ambush in the distance, so when the sky is completely bright, I will send scouts to search for other directions, and then make a decision! Let the soldiers rest and drink water first, and prepare for the morning food to recover their strength! ”

Zuo Zixiong gave the order in an orderly manner, calming the impulse of his subordinates to try and grab the credit.