After hearing the order, the more than 200 soldiers who escorted the army moved one after another, and the entire army formation seemed to be a little commotion and confusion for a while.

However, in the eyes of Pang Lun and the leaders of the rebel army, this has turned into fear on the other side, which makes them even more proud and unscrupulous.

Pang Lun immediately waved his hand, and the war drums in the army were immediately beaten, and hundreds of rebels attacked the Ming army on the opposite side in a sparse formation.

It's not because they don't know how to line up that they're in such a bad formation. It's just that each soldier wants to be the first to rush into the city to rob, and they don't cooperate with each other, and the chaotic soldiers on the left and right flanks continue to squeeze the originally undisciplined Chinese army, and Pang Lun doesn't dare to restrain these soldiers at all.

Stimulated by silver, women, and food, these had no supplies at all, and although the rebels who were plundering all the way were undisciplined at this time, they were like a rainbow, and the howling monsters were incessant.

In the front line of the escort army, Zhou Shixian looked at the momentum on the opposite side, and he was also disdainful in his heart. With such a formation, you also want to defeat his elite escort?

This is a battle he must fight. Pang Lun wanted to rely on this battle to gain the prestige of suppressing the heads of the troops under his command, and similarly, Zhou Shixian also wanted to use this battle to establish his absolute authority in the escort team.

The soldiers of the rebel army quickly entered a hundred paces, and the chaotic formation made it impossible to give full play to their threefold superiority in strength, and the soldiers in front were even about the same as Zhou Shixian's army, which only had more than 200 horses.

The soldiers at the front held a dozen shields, which could not even completely cover the soldiers in the first row of charges, and the armor on those soldiers was not complete, and some even had no armor.

However, as the distance between the two armies became closer and closer, a frenzied shout suddenly erupted in the chaotic army, and the morale was immediately greatly boosted, and more than 700 people rushed forward one after another like a tide, rushing towards the escort army.

"Archer prepare!" Zhang Hong stared closely at the rebels who had entered seventy paces, and the archers in the array had already taken out the big arrows from the arrow inserts, and aimed at the rebels in the front row and pulled out the bows in their hands.

A bowstring sound suddenly sounded, and more than 40 large arrows "swished" out of the roar, and after crossing a beautiful parabola in the air, they shot directly into the chaotic army.

The rebels lacking shields and armor were unable to resist the sharp prismatic arrows, and a terrible scream was immediately heard in the chaotic formation, and most of the soldiers who were shot by the arrows did not die directly, but basically lost the ability to attack, and their screams and struggles made the entire army formation more chaotic, and the so-called momentum suddenly disappeared.

Just one round of shooting has caused more than 20 people to fall in the chaotic army, and their chaotic and dense formation has made the escort army almost "miss the arrow".

The attacked rebels quickly dispersed to the two flanks, and the originally crowded and dense formation suddenly exploded into countless small units, which greatly weakened the lethality of the second round of arrow attacks.

However, the casualties of thirty or forty men did not cause the army to collapse, and after the rear cavalry officers drove and forced them and the Ming troops on the opposite side stopped the attack, they quickly resumed their offensive formation and entered within sixty paces.

When Zhou Shixian saw such a scene, his heart was already as stable as Mount Tai, that is, Xue Laoer, Zhang Hong, Wu Xingye, and Li Banghua, who was watching from the city, all seemed to have taken a reassuring pill.

After all, with just two rounds of arrow attacks, the opposite side was already in chaos, and it was impossible to imagine what kind of scene it would be if more than eighty sophisticated muskets were fired in a volley.

Not only these officers and ministers, but also the soldiers in the formation, the morale at this time is also completely different, although they are both soldiers of the Beijing camp, but they have now realized the weakness of the other party, so naturally there is no reason to be afraid.

On the battlefield, only victory can lead to victory, and there is no other reason to speak of!

However, the rebel army on the opposite side did not think so, Pang Lun had already rushed up with more than twenty cronies, although thirty or forty people had just been killed and wounded, but for the army of more than seven hundred, this casualty was not worth mentioning at all.

Moreover, now that the army has entered sixty steps, the Ming army on the opposite side has not yet shot, which shows that the firearms in the opponent's hands are still the original "Ming Dynasty" that explodes at every turn and is inaccurate, which means that hand-to-hand combat is about to begin.

Those firearms of worrisome quality, whether they are in the Beijing camp or in the border army, are disdainful, and they cannot fight the enemy, not to mention, once they use more medicine, they will explode, but they are not worth it.

is also a Ming army, where can Pang Lun and the officers under his command not know this? So when they got sixty steps, they thought they were winning.

At this time, it was Sun Hu and Weng Dajie who had already returned to the camp, gathered soldiers and horses, and prepared to participate in this round of chaotic battles.

But when no one expected it, the reason why Zhou Shixian let the musketeers delay shooting was to shorten the distance and maximize the power of the musket salvo.

These rebels seemed to be outnumbered and imposing, but after a round of arrows, they were already in disarray, and if they were fired twice by muskets, they would have collapsed directly.

After all, not to mention the turtledove's foot gun, the Lumi gun, or the bird gun, is far more powerful than the bow and crossbow, and the damage caused by it and the battlefield panic cannot be compared with arrows.

Not to mention, at such a close distance, after the musket volley, the cavalry charged rapidly, and the pikemen hunted in military formations, and these chaotic soldiers who were not in unison must be difficult to fight again.

Xue Lao Er stared closely at the chaotic army in front of him, and after seeing that the other party had entered fifty steps, he immediately made a decision and shouted:

"War drums!"

"Boom!" The drums of war in the military formation suddenly sounded.

The more than 40 shields in front of the army were quickly lowered, and the more than 80 musketeers in the first and second rows immediately raised the turtledove's foot guns, Lu Mi guns, and bird guns, which had already been loaded with gunpowder and lead bullets, and aimed at the chaotic soldiers rushing in front of them.

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

With Xue Laoer's order, the sound of the military horn in the formation immediately sounded, and more than eighty muskets spit out orange-red flames at the same time, and white smoke dragons leaped out.

"Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang ......"

Accompanied by a series of deafening explosions and a rapid white smoke, there were screams and frightened expressions, and even the entire formation of the chaotic army was stunned.

Driven by the explosion of gunpowder, more than eighty lead bullets quickly flew over a distance of fifty paces, and then fiercely tore open the shield and armor held by the soldiers on the opposite side, and blood arrows sprayed out from them.

No matter how expensive the armor is, at a distance of fifty paces, it is vulnerable to the lead bullets of the turtledove's foot, let alone these unarmored rebels.

The entire chaotic army charge down thirty or forty people in an instant, and for a time blood mist splashed, people neighed, and screamed and wailed.

Seeing the soldiers who fell to the ground struggling in pain, wailing and screaming, some of their hands and feet were broken, some of their stomachs were broken, their intestines were stooling, and some were even directly beaten out of their heads, and the other soldiers of the rebel army were completely frightened, and many of them had even turned around and wanted to become deserters.

The Ming army on the opposite side, in the time when the chaotic soldiers were stunned and pushing, had already completed a round of charge and reloading, and the fire rope on the musket was slowly burning, ready to start a new round of salvo fire at any time.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

In the Ming army's formation, which had been shrouded in white smoke, the fire bloomed again, dozens of deafening explosions suddenly sounded, and more than 80 lead bullets flew out of the black muzzle, still remaining in the front of the military formation.

At this distance, the accuracy and lethality of the muskets have been greatly improved, causing huge casualties to the rebels, two rounds of arrow fire, two rounds of musket salvos, the rebels have killed and injured more than 100 people, and the Ming army formation that is only fifty steps away from them is now shrouded in white smoke, which is daunting.

At this time, not only the soldiers in the forefront of the rebellious army, but also the horseback officers who were originally going to supervise the battle, many of them were also suppressed, turned their horses' heads and hurriedly ran back. Even those who still wanted to rush to the past had been coerced away by the frightened routs and fled backwards.

At this moment, Sun Hu and Weng Dajie's soldiers and horses appeared on the two wings of the battlefield, and hundreds of soldiers were speeding up their charge amid the howls of the two.