stubborn thief

Chapter 221 Rush

Guan Ning's army is charging.

Dozens of soldiers wearing Liao army helmets with three-eyed blunderbuss galloped ahead, screaming loudly, and rushed straight into the army formation. When they reached thirty or forty steps, the three-eyed blunderbuss filled with loose seeds shot out piece by piece in front of the formation. gunpowder.

It is also like a silver bottle draining water, rushing towards the two wings with a posture of hundreds of horses enveloping thousands of people, crossing more than ten steps, turning the horse's head back to the main formation.

The helmet of Huang Shengxiao, the commander of the former artillery post army, was knocked crooked by the blunderbuss. In a rage, he threw his helmet on the ground, and the infantrymen with spears five feet apart raised their arms and shouted.

Immediately, the infantry stood up through the cracks, and opened the gaps of the three horizontal rows of bird guns to move forward, and fired rounds of guns to meet the projectiles.

Those Guan Ning cavalry who wanted to return to the formation fell off their horses one after another.

Immediately, the two corners of the Lion Battalion formation waved their flags, the sound of horseshoes trampling from far to near, they shot arrows piercing through the gunpowder smoke in front of the formation, and the Liao soldiers holding spears were like ghosts in the smoke, and the rough Rods and spears are thrown.

The spear-throwing force flew into the formation in an instant, piercing through the earth-yellow uniforms inlaid with iron plates, and nailing the infantry to the ground.

Then dozens of cavalry armed with swords and spears galloped out of the gunpowder smoke, pierced through more than twenty steps and reached the front of the formation, but failed to lead the formation impulsively, and almost brushed the edge of the spears of the Lion Battalion. After pounding the lead, in the end, only a dozen or so riders turned around and walked away.

With endless screams, the horse struggled and fell to the ground.

The smoke was so thick that it covered the front of the formation.

Cao Wenzhao ended his tentative attack on Liu Chengzong's main formation.

Among the cavalry he rode, he looked at the cavalry on the flanks who were still fighting each other with five guards. He heard the news brought back by the forward subordinates and confirmed one thing.

These enemies in front of them not only look like the official army, but are actually the official army.

He has never been afraid that the enemy will outnumber him, and all the Liao soldiers under him were born on the fallen battlefield. Even if they don't join the army, after the age of 15, they still earn money for a year after they live a year.

Dare to die and fight.

Since entering Shanxi, it is not that there is no bandit leader who has formed a majestic formation with thousands of people to confront him.

But those formations, without exception, would be breached by the three-eyed blunderbuss at a point in front of the formation, and then the gap would be deepened by throwing spears through the gunpowder smoke, and finally the cavalry would break through the formation.

No infantry can stand firmly with a spear in front of the horsemen, and move as soon as they charge, dozens of horses and hundreds of horses drive straight in, rushing into the formation, hacking and killing, thousands of people have to avoid it, trample on each other and die Collapse.

This is the first time after entering the customs, there is an army that can block their frontal attack without chaos, and wait for their second attack in a leisurely manner.

In contrast, those cavalrymen who were divided into five posts had no intention of fighting to the death with his cavalry, but slowly and repeatedly pulled with the Guanning cavalry, with the purpose of pulling them to the east of the valley and away from the battlefield, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing the troops .

Run when you enter, stick when you retreat, slippery without holding back.

Cao Wenzhao can be regarded as a veteran who started at the end of the century. He joined the Liaodong Army as early as Xiong Tingbi's era. Relying on his military exploits in Liaodong and the Eastern Captives, he has rich experience in front-line combat and was promoted to a guerrilla general.

So he quickly completed his judgment on the situation.

The enemy army has strength superiority in both the overall central army and the outer lines, so they are not in a hurry to attack, preferring to see what they can do before their outer cavalry are eaten up and wiped out.

And when that cavalry was wiped out, it was the time when he was hit by the enemy's disaster.

Therefore, time has been fixed, and the key to winning this battle is to delay the cavalry before being wiped out.

However, because he had no experience in commanding and fighting against strong troops, he became the deputy commander in a few months during the Jisi Incident and was able to enter the customs to suppress the rebellion.

Therefore, in terms of tactical selection, Cao Wenzhao still chose the simplest tactic he is most familiar with, best at and also the simplest - Chong.

"If you can't charge on one side, surround him on three sides, get off your horse and shoot at foot, and the cavalry will charge at once; if you can't charge on three sides, gather the whole army to attack him on one side."

Soon, the second offensive of the Guanning Army began.

It is still the old routine of a team of three-eyed gun cavalry leading the vanguard and then throwing spears.

Standing on the back of the red flag watching the battlefield, Liu Chengzong shook his head.

If Guan Ningjun knew how to do this, he didn't believe that he would be defeated.

His strategy for this fight is to drag.

He didn't know what happened to Guan Ning's army along the way, he only knew that the appearance of Guan Ning's army here meant that he had won all the battles since he entered the pass.

At this time, Yingzheng's morale was like a rainbow, and he didn't know the reality earlier, so he lined up and waited for them to test.

From this point of view, they are indeed very brave. I am afraid that our own losses will not be small if we fight directly with them, so we must hold back the offensive and let them be frustrated and shaken.

As the saying goes, if you are full of energy, you will decline again, and you will be exhausted after three times.

Wait for it to fail before launching a counterattack.

Liu Chengzong hated the thick gunpowder smoke in front of the battle, stepping on the back of the red flag, looking at the enemy's battle line from a distance like a forest of spears and spears.

The supply team is pushing the trolleys, pushing the truckloads of soil from digging trenches into the formation, building up the earth hills, and transporting the wounded and dead soldiers in front of the formation to the second line of defense in trolleys.

At the same time, soldiers from the Zhonghu Department were incorporated into the front line to supplement the casualties.

Without the earth mountain, Liu Chengzong could only stand on the back of the red flag and barely watch the battlefield.

In another fighting position not far away, Yang Yao's five-sentry cavalry team was fighting with hundreds of Guanning cavalry in a wide river valley.

Sure enough, more Guan Ning troops were in front of him. In addition to the hundreds of cavalry on the front, there were also hundreds of cavalry on both wings moving out of range, outflanking the flanks.

After the gunpowder smoke, the distance was only a few tens of steps, and there were horses running back. It seemed that there was a figure in front of the battle, under the cover of the gunpowder smoke, setting up light artillery.

"Want to bombard me?"

Liu Chengzong bowed his head and said to his soldiers: "Fire the cannon flag."

Cao Yaode, who was commanding the troops in front of the formation, reported to his subordinates. When he turned around, he saw Chinese army Liu Chengzong standing on his horse, raising his arms and pointing at the gunpowder in front of the formation.

Their cooperation for a long time has given them a tacit understanding, Cao Yao thought about it for a while, and immediately understood.

Make the flag flutter.

The four lion cannons mixed in the formation adjusted the muzzles to burst into flames and roared a few times. Gunpowder smoke gushed out from the gap between the shell Trojan horse and the gun bore, white smoke spewed from the front of the army formation, and scattered iron pellets shot out the smoke. Bai Kong shot out a blood mist among the crowd of people and horses.

Liu Chengzong looked at the outflanking cavalry on the left and right flanks, and the corners of his mouth curled into a silent laugh.

Li Bei, who was confronted in many ways, was brought under house arrest by his father, if he saw this situation, he would be very relieved, and laughed at him that he still has today.

Liu Chengzong's gaze traveled among the cavalry in the formation, and finally fixed on a person's face.

"Gao Yingdeng, lead a team of [-] cavalry to attack the right wing."

Gao Yingdeng may be the most valuable talent of Liu Chengzong's left post. He was born in Yansui Town Ningsai Camp King Qin's military management team and was the deputy post chief of the left post.

Originally, he wanted to buy horse bones with a thousand dollars to win the hearts of Qin Wangjun, but he never expected to give Yang Yanchang [-] horses in exchange for this team of people.

He is a great talent. In the battle with He Huchen, the general soldier of Ningxia, Liu Chengzong didn't stop him from charging on horseback.

Xiti was the title of the first captured officer of the Lion Camp, and he was captured by his own people.

Because of this incident, Gao Yingdeng was often ridiculed openly and secretly. When he heard Liu Chengzong order him to fight, the hairs on his face exploded with excitement, and he cupped his fists and accepted the order.

Immediately, [-] cavalrymen filed out from the army formation with their right wings wide open, and ran towards the oncoming enemy.

As for the left wing, Liu Chengzong was not worried. The original tactic of colliding on all sides now only had two adjacent sides, and they could withstand it.

Even so, he still said to the Han family brothers: "Let the brothers get ready, if one side can't hold it, they will support it, and the formation cannot be moved."

"My subordinate understands!"

The brothers of the Han family don't use beryllium arrows anymore, the quiver is filled with armor-piercing arrows, ready to fight with the soldiers.

The three-eyed blunderbuss fired outside the range of the artillery on the right wing. The two sides have almost the same weapons and similar fighting methods.

The difference is that the Guanning army has more and heavier weapons. Although Gao Yingdeng's appearance in the battle was a bit unexpected for them, he quickly completed the change of covering the light artillery, and entered the close range after firing the three-eyed gun. Engagement phase.

However, Gao Yingdeng's cavalry was equipped with more bows and arrows, and the projected arrows did not do enough damage, so they were more willing to fight.

Although they are all from the army of Ming Dynasty, facing different imaginary enemies makes them have different characteristics. At this time, it is difficult for the Guan Ning army to take advantage of their strengths-their horses are not good.

However, the direction Gao Yingdeng is good at has become extremely advantageous because of the artillery on the side of the army formation. Although shooting arrows does not do enough damage to heavy armor, it can be fired all the time. If it does not hurt people, it can hurt horses.

If they were caught, they ran towards the army formation, and the Guan Ning cavalry soldiers who were alone did not dare to chase them. If they chased them, they would be set on fire by the three-eyed and bird guns.

When the two sides confronted each other in the first day of junior high school, Gao Yingdeng was knocked down by the three-eyed blunderbuss one after another. However, after the first volley was over, many bludgeoners were more willing to join in the close combat than reload after going around the formation, which caused their firepower to increase. Lack of stamina.

In this way, Gao Yingdeng is not at a disadvantage.

At the same time, the Guan Ning Army on the left had opened up its battle formation, and when a horn sounded from the front, both sides launched an attack on the Lion Camp army at the same time.

At this moment, Liu Chengzong saw a few figures in the north and couldn't help smiling.

There were only twenty or thirty people on the other side of the river, Dai Daozi's Tang Bing, who quietly crossed the Jing River with five cavalrymen, all carrying three-eyed blunderbusses used as cannons.

The five men touched the rear of the left wing that was preparing to attack, rushed over, got close to Bang Bang and released five guns, and fled with their tails between their legs.

A few wounded horses ran wildly in the formation, causing moderate trouble to the left wing.

After a while, they regrouped and collided with each other.

Around the edge of the army formation, officers shouted one after another. Rows of three-eyed blunderbusses and bird blunderbusses were fired one after another, mixed with the roar of lion cannons.

The corpses of war horses and soldiers fell in a small circle outside the formation. From time to time, injured war horses struggled to get up, but before they could take two steps, they could only let out a mournful cry and fell to death.

The sound of humming horns resounded across the battlefield, and the Guan Ning army on both wings was shrinking. After chasing for a while, the cavalry led by Gao Yingdeng also slowly withdrew from the battle.

Although when Gao Yingdeng rode his horse back to the front line, a captured Guan Ning soldier was thrown on the horse's back, looking as if he had won a battle.

But in fact, the two sides had only fought for a moment, and Gao Yingdeng's heart was trembling. These people were playing three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss on horseback.

In fact, counting the enemy's horse being killed and injured, the cavalry on both sides was considered a tie.

Gao Yingdeng came over on horseback, threw the captured prisoner on the ground, tilted his head and looked at himself bound by the iron arm that had lost a piece, and felt terrified: "These barbarians, holding guns in the face at three or five steps, are really not afraid of death. .”

Liu Chengzong boarded the unrepaired earth hill and looked towards the enemy formation. Even the cavalry who had been entangled with Yang Yao returned to their formation.

He couldn't help but wonder, what is the enemy trying to do, planning to run away as an organization?

Immediately, he denied this guess in his mind, the horses of Guan Ning's army were not strong enough to support them in a long-distance escape, and they couldn't escape.

If it's not for running, it's for attacking.

Liu Chengzong ordered his soldiers to send a message, saying: "Tell the front line to defend well, the enemy is about to launch a general attack."

After a while, the enemy soldiers neighed, and one cavalry unit after another rushed to the front of the army formation. They became more aggressive, firing three-eyed blunderbusses and bird blunderbuss within ten steps of the army formation, launching a strong attack on the front regardless of the cost.

Then, at the edge of the gunpowder, some cavalrymen dismounted from their horses, and at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, they fired at the army formation with bows and arrows, only attacking the outermost auxiliary soldiers with spears.

Casualties on both sides increased sharply for a while, and Guan Ning's soldiers drew their bows and shot down an auxiliary soldier, who was then brought down with a strong bow by the soldiers behind the auxiliary soldier, and might even be shot dead directly by the bird musketeer.

Even though the auxiliary soldiers saw that the robes beside them fell one by one, they still did not dare to escape, and lowered their bodies to defend with their spears.

Some auxiliary soldiers are from Ningxia and Guyuan frontier soldiers, and some auxiliary soldiers were once subordinates of Shangtian Monkey. Those people have not been able to wear armor for a long time, but their discipline is even stronger than that of the frontier soldiers.

In fact, their sources of strength are more similar to those of the Guan Ning Army. They have both experienced how unorganized and incompetent mobs were mowed down by the enemy like weeds.

I have also experienced how to use discipline and organization to fight against powerful enemies and win.

They know what it means to be in an army, in which people will die, and those who are very unlucky will die; but when the army is lost, only the lucky people will survive.

They stood firmly on the edge of the army formation with five long spears, waiting for a large number of cavalry with swords and spears to rush out of the gunpowder smoke. As long as they defended again, this wave of enemy attack would be over.

The Lion Camp is used to the three tricks of the Guan Ning Army.

But this time, Guan Ningbing, who broke through the smoke of gunpowder, really dared to charge up.

The gunpowder smoke gradually dissipated, the horses neighed uncontrollably, and the cavalry with knives and guns formed a crescent shape, driving hundreds of horses with knives and guns, ignoring the lead cannons as nothing, rushing and shouting towards the main camp of the lion camp .

The war horses rushed in like a huge tide, and in the field of vision of the frontline and auxiliary soldiers, it seemed that the sky and the earth were trembling.

Both Cao Yao and Gao Xian yelled with wide-eyed frightened eyes, and the eight lion cannons fired in unison. Yang Yao, who was on the other side of the battlefield, also seemed crazy, leading the cavalry to attack the enemy's abdomen and back.

But no one paid any attention to him.

The horses smashed their poles and were killed immediately. More horses jumped over the corpses and rushed into the battle lines.

After the trampling horses came, one cavalry unit after another charged towards the gap in the army formation. Cao Wenzhao, deputy commander of Yansui Town West Road, was at the front, followed by his nephew and other generals, and then came Ordinary horsemen.

Liu Chengzong turned his head on the dirt hill, raised his arms from behind to forward, ordered the soldiers in the rear to press forward, jumped off the dirt hill and drew their knives to press down on the formation, everyone had madness on their faces.

"Guan Ningjun, I'm here to collect the debt!"

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)