The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 738 Rolling
The Chuang army totaled [-], and the Ming army had [-].

The Chuang army is all cavalry, divided into three groups: left, right, and middle. The rear army still has two thousand as a reserve.

The Ming army had [-] cavalry on the left and right, and [-] infantry in the middle.

Both sides watch the other side's formation.

Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo were also waiting for the Ming army to leave the city.

After looking at it for a while, Li Guo suddenly said, "Let's retreat another two miles and draw the Ming army out."

Brother Yuan Zong believed it deeply. Now that the Ming army is leaning against the city wall, once they are defeated, they can escape a little bit.

At the moment, the Chuangjun retreated slowly.

Yan Xiong and Zhou Guangbao laughed when they saw it, and wanted to lure us out?

Let's go, the Ming army also presses forward.

As soon as the two sides advance and retreat, the gap between the two armies can be seen even more at this time.

Especially for the officials and civilians in the high places and far away, the infantry camp of the Ming army is absolutely perfect, vertical and horizontal, and the whole process remains unchanged. The 6000 people are exactly the same as a whole.

The thieves on the opposite side retreated in a complete mess.

The officials and the people could not wait to yell for the Ming army to attack suddenly, maybe the bandit soldiers would take advantage of the chaos and be defeated.

But the Ming army stopped after advancing for a mile.

Because the infantry of the Ming army were all wearing iron armor, and two miles was too far away, they must rest.

Yuan Zongdi waited to see it, and smiled: "The Ming army is afraid of death, and dare not go too far from the city."

He and Li Guo believed that the Ming army was too timid to leave the city too far.

"I still want to keep a retreat in the field. This Ming army is vulnerable." Li Guo was very ambitious.

From the point of view of the art of war, when the boat is overwhelmed, fighting with one's back, and staying far away from the city gate, it can arouse the soldiers' heart to fight to the death. The commander of the army wants to fight in the field, but dare not go far. Li Guo thought that the army was afraid and did not have the determination to fight to the death. .

But Yan Xiong and Zhou Guangbao have followed Ding Yi for more than ten years, and their thoughts are the same as Ding Yi's. Don't you think you are not tired when Lao Tzu's soldiers and horses walk 500 meters? Of course, they have to rest.

When the Ming army was resting, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi were convinced that they dared not come out.

"How?" Li Guo asked loudly.

"The opponent doesn't even use cannons on the city wall. We have more soldiers and horses than the opponent, and we are cavalry. With absolute strength, any tactics are useless." Yuan Zongdi laughed loudly: "The whole army presses together, look at this elite force Ming army, how long can you hold back."

"It's exactly what I want." Li Guo also laughed.

This is their first time fighting Ding Yi.

Yan Xiong didn't even bring out the artillery commonly used by the Ming army.

In the eyes of Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi, they still think highly of them.

In the past two years, as they have repeatedly defeated officers and soldiers, their strength has become stronger and stronger, and their style of play has gradually changed.

In the past, the Chuang army always had civilian husbands in front, infantry in the middle, and horse troops in the rear.

Now their 5000 people are all horse troops, and most of them are from the army who surrendered, and they can all be regarded as elites.

"Get ready to charge." Yuan Zongdi drew his saber fiercely and raised it high.

There were continuous movements around him, and a large number of cavalry raised their swords one after another.

On the entire battlefield, horses neighed everywhere, sabers waved, and [-] cavalry rushed into the army, roaring wildly, with crazy eyes.

"Huh, huh, huh!" At the same time, the Ming army in front moved again.

The cavalry of the Ming army began to disperse to the two wings and jogged. Looking from the direction of the Chuang army, the Ming army ran to the left and right instead of rushing forward, which made them very strange.

The infantry battalion of the Ming army has already begun to press forward. The front two rows are densely packed with pikemen, and there are more musketball soldiers behind.

Ding Yi's soldiers in Lushun are now weeding out a large number of pikemen and gradually replacing them with gunpowder. In the past two years, they have accepted Ming troops from various towns in the interior of Ming Dynasty, so there are still a small number of pikemen left.

Of the [-] infantry involved in this battle, only [-] were pikemen, and [-] were musketeers.

The two sides formed a large formation, and the distance at this time was less than 500 meters.

Li Guo looked back at Yuan Zongdi: "Take your troops to watch the Ming cavalry, I will go first."

"Okay." Yuan Zongdi nodded.

"Brothers, let the officers and soldiers see that we are good at breaking into the army." Li Guoyue moved left and right in front of the formation, agitating loudly, and at the end, he waved his long knife: "Let me charge."

Booming, the [-]-horse army galloped up and rushed forward frantically.

Yuan Zongdi's five thousand cavalrymen did not move, staring at the Ming army cavalry from afar.

The cavalry of the Ming army were still scattered to the two sides, and the infantry had already left the cavalry far away.

He had never seen this style of play.

Will the six thousand infantry fight against our ten thousand cavalry? Yuan Zongdi simply feels that the commander of the Ming army is a big fool.

"Prepare to meet the enemy." The commanders of the Ming army also shouted.

The Ming army has 500 people in a row, and the first two rows are pikemen.

At this time, the formation of the Ming army became wider and wider, and the distance between the two became wider and wider.

Because there are many intruders and horses on the opposite side, the horizontal plane is extremely long.

There are only 500 people in the Ming army, and if there are [-] cavalry in the opposite column, it will be more than twice as wide as them.

Therefore, the distance between the Ming army became wider and wider.

After a while, the distance between people was kept to two meters.

This formation looks very loose.

Not to mention Li Guo and the others, even Guan Fumin and others watching the battle on the city wall were stunned and couldn't believe it.

Infantry fighting against cavalry requires a tight lineup, the more compact the better.

Now Yan Xiong's soldiers and horses are stretching the formation wider and wider.

The distance between each person in the horizontal row is more than two or three meters.

What kind of play is this?Isn't this sending you to death?
But the Ming army opened up its formation in this way, which happened to be the same width as the cross-section of the Chuang army.

The horse army on the opposite side was dense, and the charge was like thunder.

The infantry formation of the Ming army looked very thin and crumbling.

"Stand up the shield." All the ministries of the Ming army shouted.

Bang, the pikemen put their shields on the ground one after another, put their spears on the shields, and then remained motionless.

The Chuangjun archers were far fewer than the Qing soldiers, and not as good as the Mongolian army. Yan Xiong and the others hardly considered the Chuangjun archers and arrows.

Seeing the Ming army stop, Li Guo charged even harder and faster.

"Change-array." The Ming army shouted again.

Wow, boom, there were originally ten rows of gunmen, each row of five hundred, suddenly changed to one thousand and one rows, five rows of gunmen.

Only then did Guan Fumin and the others know that the reason for the distance between the Ming army was to change the formation, and the ten rows of musketeers became five rows.

"What are they trying to do? There are so many blunderbusses? Use blunderbusses to fight against the cavalry?" Brother Jiang Rang and Zuo Guangxian couldn't believe it.

After all, each of their ministries used to have a large number of gun soldiers, and they knew exactly what effect they would use.

At this time, on the battlefield of several thousand meters, tens of thousands of cavalry rushed towards the formation of the Ming army like a torrent.

The Ming army had five platoons of musketeers and two platoons of pikemen, standing still like a mountain.

The charge of the cavalry caused the ground to tremble, and the generals of the Ming army who watched the battle on the city wall almost stopped breathing and did not dare to blink.

300 m.

200 m.

150 m.

Chuangjun is getting closer.

Just broke into 150 meters.

"Fight." The Ming army called for a fight.

Watching the battle, the Ming army stared wide-eyed and almost scolded their mothers.

How far is it to make a fuss?
They are now watching from the sidelines, and in the actual battle, when they encounter the Manchus charging, they may fight earlier than Yan Xiong's soldiers and horses.

"Bang bang bang" the Ming army took turns in five rows, and the first row squatted to fight.

The second row moved to the left and squatted down to beat, and returned to the original position after the beating.

The third row stood still and fought.

Take a step to the left in the fourth row, and go back after finishing the fight.

Take a step to the right in the fifth row, and go back after finishing the fight.

At this time, the Ming soldiers who were watching the battle suddenly realized that so many positions were reserved among the Ming troops, just for them to move and shoot guns, so as to ensure that each row had the best output positions.

This scene is too shocking.

Because the formation of the Ming army was criss-crossed and straight like a sword.

No matter whether they are squatting, hitting to the left or hitting the right, they advance and retreat well. After the fight, they are still in the original criss-cross pattern, straight as a sword.

Especially when row after row fights, and when personnel changes, they are neat and uniform, and the scene is extremely spectacular and beautiful.

Everyone seems to be used to it, step by step in an orderly manner.

They watched the people in the second row step left at the same time, then squat, bang, volley, and return to their original positions.

The fourth row takes a step to the left, bang, volley, and then returns to its original position.

The fifth row takes a step to the right, bang, volley, and then returns to its original position.

The first and third rows remained motionless throughout, and they reloaded fastest.

It makes up for the gap between the five-duan hits very well.

This allowed the Ming army's five-stage attack to continue continuously.

The Ming army started fighting 150 meters away, all pressing down on the height and hitting the middle and the bottom.

Don't rely on aim, rely on luck.

Bang, bang, a large number of cavalry in the Chuang army fell off their horses one after another.

Tens of thousands of cavalry charged intensively, and no matter how they fought, they could hit a group.

Just hold down the height and keep the lead bullets from flying into the sky.

In this regard, Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are the most experienced.

So under the inconceivable eyes of everyone, Chuangjun fell down in large numbers at a distance of 150 meters.

But this is just the beginning, as the invasion gets closer.

The gunmen of the Ming army were more accurate.

Li Guo, who was charging, originally thought that the Ming army would be the same as the previous Ming army, and that there would be no chance if they fired a gun.

Unexpectedly, there was a continuous stream of gunshots on the opposite side, and lead bullets blew over like rain.

Php, puff, Ma Jun fell down row by row.

"Ah!" The screams and cries of Chuangjun were everywhere on the battlefield.

When rushing 100 meters, thousands of riders had been knocked down, and thousands of horses were left on the battlefield, and began to hinder the charge of the rear team.

When reaching 80 meters, the Ming army's gunfire was more accurate, causing more casualties.

At this moment, Li Guo already felt that something was wrong, so he quickly slowed down and slowly ensured that he fell behind.

And behind him, a large number of cavalry rushed forward, and then, whenever there was a loud bang on the opposite side, the air was filled with white mist.

Fluttering, his cavalry fell to the ground as if they had hit a shadowless city wall.

"How is it possible? What kind of gun is this?" Li Guo was stunned.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" at this moment, the Ming army's rear formation blew the horn, and the Ming army's cavalry started from the two wings and slowly accelerated.

Yuan Zongdi of the rear team looked at it, waved his big hand, and signaled that his five thousand soldiers and horses would be divided into two, and greet the Ming army from the left and right wings.

"Bang" 70 meters, the Ming army's guns rang again.

"Bang" the 60-meter Ming army guns rang again.

At the beginning, the Ming army rang almost every time their cavalry rushed ten meters.

Later, as a large number of their horse troops fell to the ground, countless fallen and injured horses affected the charge of the rear team.

They were only five meters ahead, and the Ming army's gunshots could be heard again.

When rushing to within 40 meters, Li Guo was horrified to find that there were no more troops in the front row.

(End of this chapter)