Zhu Wenzhen didn't talk nonsense with Liu Sunchen, he just took out the basic monocular issued by Shen Shuren and observed the enemy situation on the Chengling Rock Watchtower.

After confirming the number and distribution of Jiao Guangqi's troops on the opposite side, Zhu Wenzhen asked his subordinates to rest for half an hour, eat something to recover their strength, and then attack on time at noon.

First, his troops would definitely be tired after all, after all, they had come from a long distance. Second, it was almost noon, and if the soldiers and horses did not eat, they would suffer further physical exhaustion.

At the same time, experienced generals know that if a tired soldier only rests for a quarter of an hour, it will outweigh the gains, and the muscles will become sore, and it will be difficult to exert strength again.

The ancients may not have known that the scientific principle in this is that "after a long period of exercise, once the muscles stop, lactic acid will accumulate and begin to excrete acid", but they still have simple battlefield experience.

If you want to rest, rest for at least half an hour, just digest and digest what you have just eaten, so as not to have carbuncles (appendicitis) and rest your horses.

In the past half an hour, the rogue army on the opposite side will not rest, and they are still building blockade fortifications.

Maybe the time difference of half an hour can allow them to dig the trench in front of the camp deeper and wider by one foot, but this negative impact is not much different for the cavalry, and the physical strength they consume when digging the trench may have a greater negative impact in the subsequent battle.

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More than half an hour passed quickly, and the time came to the first hour of noon.

At the beginning of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, it was a hot time, and the scorching sun was in the sky, and more than 10,000 people and horses under the command of Jiao Guangqi were as tired as dogs because of camping, digging ditches, and cutting trees.

And because everyone is working, it's more tired. The food in the army was also replenished by killing and looting along the way, and the rice, flour and vegetables were different. Even a simple pot of stewed porridge will be a little more complicated and time-consuming than a single type of food, so the thief army will eat later.

Jiao Guangqi didn't expect that the officers and soldiers might go out of the city to fight back, so he didn't do anything to optimize the soldiers' meal time at all.

He just looked at the sun and felt that it would get hotter and hotter after noon, so he ordered everyone to hurry up and wait until after noon and three o'clock in the afternoon before eating.

This is also very much in line with common sense, because the hottest time in summer is between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and even hotter than 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

Even later generations of migrant workers who built houses in the summer knew that they would have to take a lunch break from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock. Jiao Guangqi asked the soldiers to hurry up in the afternoon to do more work, and even eat and rest in the afternoon, which is already very sympathetic.

Who knows, Zhu Wenzhen, this guy, just doesn't talk about martial arts like this.

Just after noon, he took advantage of the time difference between the official cavalry and the cavalry who had eaten lunch first and had finished their lunch break, and the thief army had not eaten lunch and had no lunch break, opened the gate of Chenglingji and killed it with 2,000 cavalry.

"How dare the officers and soldiers attack?" Jiao Guangqi, who was in the big tent, heard the roar and noise of the horses' hooves in the direction of the enemy village in the north, and immediately couldn't care about eating.

Li Dingguo gave him more than 10,000 horses, even if a considerable part of them were cannon fodder for the new annexed army, but at least three or four thousand were veterans, and the number of cavalry was not less than that of Zhu Wenzhen.

It is equivalent to two or three thousand cavalry, plus more than eight thousand infantry, and Zhu Wenzhen only has two thousand pure cavalry on the opposite side, and there is a gap of five or six times the strength of both sides!

Even if the morale of the officers and soldiers is high, well-equipped, and well-rested, will they be able to bridge the five- or six-fold difference in strength?

Jiao Guangqi viciously bit the dog's leg, threw the rest away, drew his saber with a cruel smile on his face, and supervised the battle and let the soldiers line up to defend, while the cavalry was on both wings, planning to wait for the infantry to rely on the newly dug ditch to stick to Zhu Wenzhen, and then let the cavalry outflank the countercharge.

The two sides soon approached, and a fight was imminent.

……

Zhu Wenzhen has been fighting in Liaodong for many years, not only fought with Cao Bianjiao, but also followed Cao Bianjiao's uncle Cao Wenzhao to fight in the north and south, and has been in the army for more than ten years.

He, like the two Cao generals, is a native of Shanxi.

If it weren't for the butterfly effect of Shen Shuren to save him, he would have been wiped out with the main force of the 130,000 Ming Army border army when Hong Chengchou was destroyed.

Now, he picks up every extra day he lives.

Among the generals who withdrew from Liaodong, Zhu Wenzhen was the highest-ranking military general who was willing to give up his original identity and follow Shen Shuren.

The reason why he thinks so much is related to the fact that in the fierce battles of Xingshan and Beacon Mountain, he fell into some disabilities and had a few fingers cut off. Therefore, he can no longer hold a weapon with one hand, and he also has the ability to lead the iron cavalry to charge and kill.

Even if he returns to the north and continues to serve in the army in his former official capacity, he may not have a better future. And Shen Shuren is particularly generous to veterans and veterans who bear honor.

All the Liaodong defeated soldiers who pretended to be dead and whitewashed incognito, Shen Shuren retained their original treatment, and if the military salary was not good, he would pay out of his own pocket to make up the difference.

Zhu Wenzhen has seen those crippled and useless veterans and predecessors, and the evening scene is bleak. This made him even more grateful to Shen Shuren, and he was eager to prove that "even if a military general lacks a hand, he can continue to exert his residual heat and command if he is determined".

At this moment, he hung a saber on the left side of his waist, and held a revolver that had just been produced at the end of last month in his right hand.

The left hand, which lacks two fingers, cannot hold a saber or a revolver, but can be used to pluck the revolver's revolver's revolver's revolver and hammer -

The revolver of the Shen Shuren's latest military unit is, of course, at most similar to Colt's oldest revolver in the 1800s, so it is impossible to "pull the trigger and directly complete the three major actions of the revolver, tighten the hammer, and fire the hammer".

In the old-fashioned runner, the hammer is to manually open the charge and pull the trigger, which is only responsible for firing. Therefore, many cowboys who play "American-style home" in Westerns have to use a pistol with their left and right hands, with one hand responsible for tightening the hammer and charging the other hand, and pulling the trigger with the other hand to shoot.

Zhu Wenzhen's missing finger hand, used to charge the hammer just right, in the past two months, when he is free, he focuses on practicing this hand, he knows that this is the most efficient opportunity for him to continue to play his residual heat in the future and kill the enemy in person.

You must use this battle to prove that you are worthy of the treatment of a general given by Shen Futai!

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The two sides soon approached within 100 paces, and the thieves, relying on the advantage of the infantry, soon began to scatter and launch long-range attacks.

Because the thieves came over the mountains and crossed the mountains and fought long distances, the number of firearms was naturally very small. The only few Franc machines that were captured by surrendering to the county halfway were also left in the siege battlefield of Baling by Li Dingguo and not brought to Chenglingji.

Therefore, Jiao Guangqi's entire army only has two or three hundred old-fashioned firearms, and there are not even accurate bird guns and Lumi guns. The crossbow was also not equipped with much equipment, and mainly relied on a large number of bows and arrows to cover the shooting.

Jiao Guangqi didn't know any advanced musket tactics, and the musket opened fire when the two sides were just a hundred paces away, using captured single-headed bullets.

Firing a single projectile with a smoothbore gun, more than a hundred paces away, the hit rate is also very pitiful. Later generations once had a rigorous test, even if it was aimed at shooting, a single projectile was one hundred and fifty yards, and the hit rate would never reach one percent.

What's more, the equipment that was casually targeted and seized by the thieves was still in disrepair and even rusty.

After more than 200 shots were fired, only a dozen or so people were shot down, and not necessarily all of them were killed, but more than half of them were shot by horses and thrown people off.

Fortunately, the single-headed bullet also has the advantage of a single-headed bullet, that is, the projectile is extremely powerful, and it is not something that can be blocked by the iron armor, so as long as it is hit, it is basically dead, at least seriously injured.

Of course, this casualty could not shake the morale of these officers and cavalry who could be regarded as "quasi-Guanning iron cavalry".

The ensuing bow and arrow coverage, relying on the sheer number and fast design speed, ensured that the cavalry fired three rounds before rushing in front of them, taking more officers and cavalry with them.

It's just that the armor penetration rate of the bow and arrow against the iron cotton armor is basically zero, so as long as you don't get shot in the face or wrist, you won't be harmed. Most of the ones that were taken away were thrown down after the horse was shot and injured, which was almost not fatal, and left some fractures or internal injuries, as long as the battle was won, it was possible to clean the battlefield and rescue the wounded.

"This officer cavalry is very elite, huh? Where did the centaurs come from? Seeing that the officers and soldiers were not moved by long-range strikes at all, Jiao Guangqi's expression became solemn for the first time and he became very serious. He had seen many officers and cavalry before, but he had never been so calm and solemn.

It's a pity that he didn't have time to think about it, and the official cavalry quickly rushed to thirty or forty paces in front of the thief array.

Then, according to Zhu Wenzhen's orders in advance, as well as the new tactics that had been practiced hard for the past two months, the cavalry team temporarily adjusted its direction and swept across the front of the thief infantry instead.

The thief musketeer only fired two shots in total, and then retreated to the rear of the formation, and now the pikemen had already come up, waiting for the horses to be pierced. The sudden change of formation of the officers and cavalry also caught Jiao Guangqi off guard.

"What is this for? Want to imitate the harassment of Tartar's riding and shooting? Ride and shoot at least fifty paces away, or a little further, right? How could it be approached to the front of the lateral crossing formation within thirty paces? ”

Jiao Guangqi was stunned, and immediately ordered all the archers to start throwing blind arrows again, and the musketeers were also ready to reload-

He didn't expect this tactic at all just now, because the Han cavalry never played the kind of bells and whistles similar to Tartars, and they all rushed directly. The Han cavalry has not had such excellent archery skills since ancient times, how can it be possible to play these?

Therefore, in order not to let the long-range soldiers lose too much, Jiao Guangqi had already asked the ranged soldiers to retreat in advance before Zhu Wenzhen rushed in front of him, and the front row was full of pikemen. Now if you want to make ranged soldiers output again, of course, you have to waste a little time to change the formation scheduling.

It's a pity that just as Jiao Guangqi was preparing to change the formation for the second time, there was a violent roar in front of the formation. Thousands of Ming firearms suddenly fired in turn, and although the sound was not neat, it was endless, seemingly endless.

Zhu Wenzhen's troops were equipped with two months' production capacity of Shen Shuren's iron yard in Daye, a total of 1,200 short-barreled double-barreled trolls, and wax-shelled ammunition for reloading.

Plus three hundred revolver troll pistols.

Of the 2,000-strong cavalry troops, 1,500 were equipped with mounted firearms, and only 500 were pure melee cavalry. This is also due to the fact that the production capacity of the Sinking Tree Man cannot keep up, and if he can, he wishes that everyone would be equipped with muskets.

Anyway, there is no conflict between carrying a musket and carrying a melee weapon, and you can still have strong melee force with a musket.

More than 1,000 guns, all of which are double-barreled, are equivalent to more than 2,000 direct fires, all of which are shotguns.

Each ammunition contained at least six small lead beads weighing half a penny, as well as some caulking fine iron sand. It adds up to more than 10,000 small lead beads, like a roaring steel storm, sweeping away towards the rogue front.

The only disadvantage of this kind of shotgun is that it cannot break the armor, and other single-headed bullets are all three-dollar warheads, but wax-shelled shotguns are only half a dollar, only one-sixth of the single-headed bullets, and the kinetic energy is also reduced in equal proportions.

However, now Zhu Wenzhen is not fighting the Tartars with excellent iron and cotton armor, he is fighting Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

"Ahh "Poof-" "My face-"

All of a sudden, Jiao Guangqi howled miserably in front of the battle, hundreds of soldiers, almost in a few breaths, covered their bodies in pain and fell down, the blood had not had time to penetrate, and the wounds were not obvious, but they were all ghosts crying wolf, making the comrades who had not yet been injured feel like falling into hell.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's army was much more elite than the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, it came from an expedition through mountains and rivers, and the armor rate was still very low, and a lot of heavy equipment was left in Zigui Sun Kewang.

In addition, in Li Dingguo's previous fierce battles and continuous attrition, the iron on the cotton armor of the main force also suffered losses, depreciation, and drops-

In order to move flexibly, the iron armor in the cotton armor is not intertwined and punched fixed, but it is sewn together by the outer skin of the cotton cloth and the inner lining, and some high-end ones will be drilled with nails to drill holes for the nail pieces and nail them together with the inner lining of the cotton cloth.

This makes it relatively easy for the iron in the cotton armor to fall, and if the cotton layer is cut by the enemy's knife, the iron cloth that has lost the binding of the cotton cloth may fall out, and the cotton cloth must be cross-sewn and fastened again.

In the previous two months, when Li Dingguo's troops fought bloody battles with the enemies of Miao and Tubu, every time they encountered a fortification, they let the Tiezha cotton armor soldiers in the army go first.

In the face of tribal soldiers who lack elite weapons, their Miao knives and firewood knives may not be able to cut through the iron, but they can definitely easily cut through the inner and outer lining of cotton cloth.

Li Dingguo didn't have time to stop and repair it, and many of the warriors' iron and cotton armor in the army had lost their armor, and there was a piece in the east and a piece in the west, so he waited for a patch to be repaired and sewn it again.

It's a pity that now, they obviously don't have that opportunity.

Even if there is, the little nail rate will not change anything.

Jiao Guangqi's front was sprayed by face-to-face trolls within thirty paces in several rows in a row, and he couldn't take care of himself, and the dense pikemen were all crooked.

Only a small number of soldiers carrying makeshift wooden shields escaped the doom of the trolls washing their faces for the time being. But with the staggering of comrades on the left and right, once the dense front of the pikemen is loosened, the isolated soldiers will only be cut and harvested from the flank.

But that's not all.

This time, the Ming army was not only a carbine squirt for cavalry, but also a reloader! Wax-shell ammunition, which can be reloaded on bumpy horseback, is guaranteed to be reloaded in just a dozen seconds.

After the cavalry of the Ming army swept across for a while, they quickly completed the reloading, and there was another round of close-range bombardment, and when Zhu Wenzhen's troops passed through the entire front of the formation, they actually fired a total of four rounds of firepower. And Jiao Guangqi's counterattack bow and arrow are not on a scale at all.

Because there were many thieves, there were tens of thousands of soldiers, and the frontal width of the front was much wider than that of the Ming army. When the Ming army used the tactics of rampage, when passing through each section of the thief army's front, it was locally "two thousand against two thousand",

After running in front of the first two thousand, it will come to the second two, and then it is almost another round of ammunition. The mobility of the thief army was low, and the remaining 6,000 men did not have Ming cavalry in front of them, so the archers could only watch dryly, or shoot diagonally and indiscriminately, regardless of whether they entered the effective range or not.

After Zhu Wenzhen swept through Jiao Guangqi's entire front, from east to west, the thieves had been prepared by the firepower to shoot the whole army to the ground, and they did not form a formation.

The soldiers will not sit still, so many troops have chosen to fight on their own, completely no longer obeying the command of the commander-in-chief, and some of the pikemen who were shot more badly collapsed and began to flee.

The other parts with smaller losses were because they watched the cavalry of the official army pass in front of them thirty paces away and kill them with trolls, and they were angry that their own side was unilaterally slaughtered, so under the on-the-spot command of the department commander and the post commander, they chose to charge and chase out of the defense line, wanting to stick to the cavalry for hand-to-hand combat.

One part of the front line broke and fled, the other part charged, pulling forward and backward, and the whole army was of course in a mess.

Even if less than 2,000 people were directly shot and seriously injured, it would still be possible to make all the rest chaotic.

The only thing Jiao Guangqi could count on was the cavalry he deployed on both flanks, which was also the most elite unit that Li Dingguo handed over to him. Because of the deployment, the rogue cavalry did not suffer from the shots, and their strength was also very well preserved.

Jiao Guangqi looked at the tragic situation in front of him, and his blood rushed to his brain for a while, he knew that if the new force allocated by the second general was like this, if he fled and went back, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape the military law, and it was better to take a surprise gamble with the whole army.

"Sons, kill with me! The officers and soldiers were just caught off guard by relying on the sharp firearms and killing us for a moment! Spearmen all charge! Active hand-to-hand combat! The cavalry will follow me! ”

He didn't care about the use of pikemen, he should have stood on the stake and waited for the enemy to collide, leaving each unit to fight separately, so he charged at the nearest officer.

For a while, the thieves trampled on each other and suffered heavy casualties, but they really found some opportunities for him to stick Zhu Wenzhen. After all, there were many thieves, and they ran in several directions, and Zhu Wenzhen really couldn't find a way to rush out directly for a while, so he had to fight his way out.

"Wheel-gun cavalry rush with me! Melee cavalry followed! Double-barreled cavalry for swords! Deus Ex! ”

The bloody hand-to-hand combat soon began, and at this point, the double-barreled trolls had no time to reload, so they had to empty the ammunition one by one and insert it in their backs, pick up the cold weapon and stab and slash wildly.

But the three hundred most elite soldiers under Zhu Wenzhen's command can still use flexible revolvers to continue firing, and there is no need to sweep across the formation, and there is no need to retreat and reload like the "dragoon semi-maneuver tactics" of later generations.

As long as you charge straight ahead, you can fire intensively while rushing, and change your saber after six shots.

Many rogue cavalry and pikemen were already within ten paces, or even within five paces, of the melee distance before they were faced by the Ming army's pistols.

Many thieves and pikemen looked incredulous when they were shot: as long as they rushed forward two or three more steps, and then with the help of the length of the spear, they could stab the head of the spear into the body of the official cavalry and pierce a hole......

But why could the officers and soldiers still fire a shot at a distance of two or three paces? Or this kind of ammunition like an iron sand storm!

And being sprayed by a troll within five to ten steps, even if you wear an iron cotton armor, it is absolutely equal for all beings and you will definitely die - not to mention the iron cotton armor, even if you wear the third-level armor in the chicken, it is not easy to use.

Three hundred sharp knife elites who were responsible for breaking through the siege, six shots per person, were enough, so they were forced to fight a bloody way in Jiao Guangqi's encirclement, and directly killed the military formation.

Jiao Guangqi himself failed to see the end of the battle.

Because his armor banner was too conspicuous, when he was broken into battle by Zhu Wenzhen, he was attacked by dozens of pistol cavalry, including Zhu Wenzhen himself, who burst to a very close range and fired pistols and emptied the wheel.

Jiao Guangqi and his henchmen and guards were all wiped out under the rain of trolls sticking to their faces, and their deaths were miserable and not tiring for human form.

Zhu Wenzhen couldn't tell which troll Jiao Guangqi died under, but anyway, after Jiao Guangqi's flag array was cleared, one of Zhu Wenzhen's henchmen, Zhu Laoliu, personally brandished a saber and stepped forward and chopped off Jiao Guangqi's head and dedicated it to his own generals.

Zhu Wenzhen didn't have time to take care of it, just nodded, and ordered everyone to continue to rush and kill to ensure that Jiao Guangqi's troops were completely scattered and fled.

Zhu Wenzhen has not forgotten that the purpose of his battle today is not to kill many people in Jiao Guangqi's troops, but to tell the defenders in Baling City and the official reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty have arrived, so as to encourage them to have the courage to hold on, so as not to be deceived by thieves and surrender directly.

On the side of the thieves, with the collapse of Jiao Guangqi, in fact, in less than half an hour, Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan also received an urgent report from the defeated cavalry who fled back, and knew the seriousness of the situation.

But if they want to organize the plugging of the leak, it is too late.

There was only a little more than 20 miles from Chenglingji to Baling City, and there were several miles away from Chenglingji from the battlefield, so when Jiao Guangqi collapsed, Zhu Wenzhen was less than 20 miles away from the north gate of Baling City.

At this distance, for a cavalryman, a quarter of an hour can definitely be reached.

So when Li Dingguo re-sent Bai Wenxuan to intercept it, Zhu Wenzhen had already entered the field of vision of the defenders of the north tower of Baling City.

"There's a cavalry from the north! There are quite a few people! It looks imposing! "The defenders of the city were anxious at the beginning, and the soldiers also looked north.

They weren't sure of the identity of this force at first, but when they saw more scattered soldiers running around in front of them, and Bai Wenxuan's troops seemed to be divided to intercept them, they more or less guessed that it was reinforcements from the official army.

"Reinforcements from the imperial court are coming! Baling City will definitely be able to hold it! Ignore Li Dingguo's threat of slaughter! In everyone's hearts, such a thought arose.

Subsequently, the Ming army in the north of the city saw their most impressive scene: the Bai Wenxuan Division, which was attacking and intercepting, was soon repelled by the incoming cavalry on horseback with a series of firearms that were full of fire and roared.

The reloaded 1,000-barrel double-barreled carbine spray and 300-shot revolver spray were simply devastating for the kind of mobile interception of the enemy. Bai Wenxuan didn't even line up the array, of course, it was a touch of collapse.

Zhu Wenzhen rushed to the city hundreds of steps in a good time, which made the whole army shout:

"Listen to the defenders of the city! 100,000 reinforcements from Shenfutai have arrived at Chenglingji! Today, I will not fight a decisive battle with Li Dingguo for the time being, but let me wait for the cavalry to break through the siege and report the news. You should work hard, and after repelling Li Dingguo, Shen Futai will give everyone a lot of rewards! ”

"Is it the reinforcements of Wuchang Shenfutai? Not reinforcements from Gangneung Fangfutai? "Some old-fashioned soldiers are still confused there.

But the more flexible-minded people cheered: "You stupid! What's wrong with Shen Futai's reinforcements! Who doesn't know that Shen Futai is a staple of plans, rich and rival countries, and the soldiers and horses are also well-armed! It is to sink Futai to save it, and our army will win! ”

A group of well-informed soldiers have been blown into spit,

It seems that just the three words "Shen Futai" came out, and the morale of the army was instantly full, and the effect was comparable to hearing that Zhuge Liang appeared in the next life to save him.

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PS: The war drama may be a bit nonsense to explain, so I will give you a big chapter of 7,000 words. Today it's eleven thousand words.