Chapter 11: Dependence

"It's finally here......"

Cao Wenzhao let out a breath of turbidity, and the horse lance in his hand once again accepted a thief, and he also saw the blood flag raised under the big sword.

The enemy's horse team was now coming from both the left and right at the same time, and he could see it clearly before charging into battle.

But knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, now they can only prefer to go to the tiger mountains.

The rout of the enemy's infantry is harmless, and the infantry is nothing more than cannon fodder and the bottom among the thieves.

The real killer and hole card of the thief is the elite cavalry composed of veterans of the border army from all over the country.

Natural disasters in Shaanxi for many years, arrears of wages have become the norm, not only caused a large number of deserters, but also mutinies and begging for wages in many places, and the mutiny in Shaanxi was not much less than the people's rebellion.

Especially in the second year of Chongzhen, Jiannu Xing troops entered the customs, besieged Jizhou, the Beijing division was under martial law, and the imperial court levied the Quartet army Qin Wang.

Because of improper handling, local mistreatment, and withholding of salaries and rations, many armies mutinied, and then became thieves, which made the already serious civil unrest even worse.

A large number of deserters and rebels joined the ranks of the people's rebellion, which also made the combat power of the rogues stronger and stronger, and more and more difficult to destroy.

Cao Wenzhao's eyes were cold, the horse team on the right was clearly armored, and nearly half of the thieves seemed to be wearing Xuan armor, their orders were neat, and their banners were solemn, and they were definitely the elite of the border army among the thieves.

Cao Wenzhao looked back behind him, and a group of family members followed him, everyone's body was covered with blood, and most of the sabers in their hands were already stained red with blood.

With a flick of the horse, Cao Wenzhao pulled the reins, and the mount under his crotch galloped towards the left.

There are more than 100 family members under his command, and he has never thought of competing with the most elite cavalry under the command of the thieves, his purpose is to defeat the horse team of more than 1,000 people on the left side, and buy time and space for his front to evacuate.

Chen Wang also dragged the war horse and followed Cao Wenzhao to the left, and he also understood Cao Wenzhao's intentions.

But Cao Wenzhao is completely in danger, if there is no way to quickly chisel through the enemy's military formation, then they will be caught between two breads and will be surrounded in the center.

Chen Wang gritted his teeth, he had no ability to influence the direction of the battle, so he could only follow Cao Wenzhao to the dark.

"Woo————"

The sound of the horse's horn ready to storm had already been heard, and Chen Wang inserted the blood-stained saber in his hand into the scabbard at his waist.

Whether the saber with blood will rust after inserting it into the scabbard is not in Chen Wang's consideration at all, and now he himself does not know if there will be a future.

Chen Wang lowered his waist and picked up the three-eyed gun hanging on the side of the saddle, and at the same time controlled the war horse to increase its speed again, this time the formation of the impact needed to be changed, and he was about to become the second row of soldiers.

The original queue of six people in a row has now become a row of twelve, and Cao Wenzhao has also pushed to the second row at this time, just in front of his right.

Under the influence of Qi Jiguang, the firearms now equipped by the southern army are basically bird guns, and later Qi Jiguang went north to Jizhen to train troops.

Among the northern border army, the bird gun also began to be implemented, but due to regional problems, the bird gun was only equipped with the foot soldiers of the northern border army, and most of the border army cavalry still used the three-eyed gun.

In fact, until the end of Wanli, the use of three-eyed guns in the Ming army was not popular, but it was only an auxiliary firearm for single-barreled guns such as fast guns and magic machine guns, but now it has become the favorite firearm of the cavalry of the border army.

It is different from the bird gun that can easily extinguish the fire rope, is difficult to control, and is troublesome to load.

The Three-Eyed Gun was installed in large numbers in the Northern Frontier Army, and excellent frontier horsemen could gallop at this hard-to-ignite firearm.

Nowadays, almost all towns in eastern Liaodong use three-eyed guns as standard equipment, and both cavalry and infantry are generally equipped with three-eyed guns.

The Three-Eyed Gun is used as a disposable long-range weapon, and each of the three guns is stuffed with projectiles, which can be fired in the nearest place, killing and injuring enemy soldiers in an instant.

Then the heavy three-eyed gun will directly turn into a long-handled hammer, which will directly become a melee weapon.

In order to increase its lethality, the cavalry of Liaodong would basically modify the three-eyed gun issued by the gun, and add a spear head or blade to the tail of the handle.

After firing the Three-Eyed Gun, it can be used as a long soldier directly, and even difficult moves such as stabbing and slashing can be performed.

With the sound of horses' hooves like thunder in his ears, Chen Wang calmly looked at the enemy horse team that was getting closer and closer in front of him.

The Three-Eyed Gun had been caught under his armpit, and he couldn't know anything about the Three-Eyed Gun, after all, he remembered that he had been using this weapon for seven years.

In Liaodong, the original body smashed two Jiannu to death with a three-eyed gun.

"Shhh

The sound of gunpowder being ignited suddenly rang out.

The horse team of the thieves in front, many cavalrymen with bows and arrows, were aiming and brewing.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

The continuous sound of hitting was already sounding in the front, and the gunpowder smoke rose suddenly, obscuring Chen Wang's vision in front of him.

The chilling sound of firearms bursting resounded in the cavalry formation.

The war horse rushed out of the smoke with Chen Wang, and the front row of the rogue horse team that rushed straight was almost swept away, and all the horsemen behind him were pale and frightened.

Chen Wang clenched the three-eyed gun in his hand, his expression was slightly hideous, he had already seen an enemy who was about to encounter him.

But Chen Wang didn't have a chance to smash him off the horse with a three-eyed gun after all.

Because Cao Wenzhao, who was on his right front, had already taken the first step into the enemy's formation, the horse lance bloomed in Cao Wenzhao's hand with a clear and sharp sound, like an impermanent mourning stick, and those who touched it all fell off the horse.

The same scene was repeated, when the thieves' horse team was beheaded and the remnants fled in all directions.

Looking at his scattered and fleeing troops, Li Zicheng's brows frowned slightly and shook his head.

"Sure enough, these horsemen recruited from the outcasts were still unbearable."

The two successive encounters were already decided in an instant.

Training was a difficult task, and he thought that the horsemen he trained should be much stronger than the horsemen under Guo Tianxing, but the result was still the same.

Raising his eyes to look at the official road, the Ming army infantry team that was originally entangled in the front has also converged with the middle at this time, retreating towards the rear together, and after a moment and a half, once the officers and soldiers retreat to an open place, they will have no chance of winning.

Li Guo, the left wing of the official road, still did not gather the rout, and was still in chaos.

Li Zicheng sighed lightly, he didn't understand why after so many years of fighting, neither the generals nor the soldiers under him had made much progress.

Down the slope, the fiery red flag became more and more dazzling.

There was no time for him to hesitate any longer, Li Zicheng raised the horsewhip in his hand.

Behind him, one after another, there were five gun trucks, which were slowly pushed out from behind the slope one after another.