The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 11
"finally come……"

Cao Wenzhao let out a foul breath, and the horse in his hand took in another bandit soldier again, and he also saw the bloody flag raised under the banner.

The enemy's cavalry had come from both sides at the same time, and he had seen it clearly before charging into the battle.

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

The rout of the enemy's army is harmless at all, the army is just cannon fodder and bottom line among the thieves.

The real trump card and hole card of the thieves is the elite cavalry composed of veterans of the frontier army from all over the country.

The natural disasters in Shaanxi for many years, the arrears of payment have become the norm, which not only caused a large number of deserters, but also mutiny in many places to ask for payment. In Shaanxi, the mutiny is not much less than the civil uprising.

Especially in the second year of Chongzhen, slaves were established and troops entered the customs, Jizhou was besieged, the capital was under martial law, and the imperial court conscripted troops from all directions to Qin Wang.

Due to improper handling, harsh treatment by the local government, deduction of salaries and food, many armies mutinied, and then turned into thieves, which made the already serious civil uprising even worse.

A large number of deserters and rebels joined the ranks of the civil uprising, which also made the combat power of the rogue bandits stronger and more difficult to destroy.

Cao Wenzhao's eyes were cold, and the cavalry on the right had bright armor. Nearly half of the bandit soldiers seemed to be wearing black armor. Their orders were neat and their banners solemn. They were definitely the elite frontier soldiers among the bandits.

Cao Wenzhao turned his head and looked behind him, a group of servants followed behind him, everyone was covered with blood, and most of the sabers in their hands were already stained red by blood.

The horse swayed lightly, Cao Wenzhao pulled the reins, and the mount under his crotch galloped rapidly to the left.

There are only more than a hundred famous soldiers under his command. He has never thought of competing with the most elite cavalry under the bandits. His purpose is to defeat the cavalry of more than a thousand people on the left and buy time and time for his front to evacuate. space.

Chen Wang also pulled the horse and followed Cao Wenzhao to the left, and he also understood Cao Wenzhao's intention.

But Cao Wenzhao was just taking risks. If he couldn't quickly penetrate the enemy's formation, they would be trapped between two sides and be surrounded to death in the center.

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

"Ugh——"

The sound of riding horns preparing to charge had already been heard, and Chen Wang inserted the blood-stained saber into the scabbard at his waist.

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

Chen Wang bent down, picked up the three-eyed gun hanging on the side of the saddle, and at the same time controlled the horse to increase the speed again. This time the formation of the attack needs to be changed, and he will become the second-most soldier.

The original queue of six people has now become a row of 12 people, and Cao Wenzhao has also been pushed to the second row at this time, just in front of him on the right.

Under the influence of Qi Jiguang, the firearms that the southern army is now equipped with are basically bird guns. Later, Qi Jiguang went north to Jizhen to train troops.

In the northern frontier army, bird guns have also begun to be implemented, but due to geographical issues, bird guns are only equipped with infantry in the northern frontier army, and most of the frontier cavalry still use three-eyed guns.

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

It is different from the bird gun which is easy to extinguish the match, inconvenient to control, and troublesome to load.

Three-eyed guns were installed in large numbers in the northern frontier army, and excellent frontier cavalry soldiers could use this difficult-to-ignite firearm to gallop and shoot.

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

The three-eyed blunderbuss is used as a one-time long-range weapon. Each of the three blunderbuss barrels is filled with projectiles, and they are fired nearby, firing in an instant, killing and injuring the enemy.

Then the heavy three-eyed gun will directly become a long-handled hammer and a melee weapon.

In order to increase its lethality, the cavalry in Liaodong will basically modify the three-eyed guns issued, and add gun heads or blades to the tail of the handle.

After the three-eyed gun is fired, it can be directly used as a long soldier, and it can even complete difficult actions such as stabbing and slashing.

With the sound of horseshoes in his ears, Chen Wang calmly looked at the enemy cavalry that was getting closer and closer.

The three-eyed blunderbuss was already under his armpit. He knew nothing about the three-eyed blunderbuss. After all, in his memory, he had been using this weapon for seven full years.

In Liaodong, Yuanchen killed two Jiannu with his own three-eyed blunderbuss.

"hiss!"

The sound of gunpowder being ignited suddenly sounded.

In front of the bandits' cavalry, quite a few cavalrymen are aiming and preparing to draw their bows and arrows.

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

The continuous firing sound was already heard in the front row, and the gunpowder smoke suddenly rose, covering Chen Wang's vision.

The chilling sound of gunfire resounded in the cavalry formation.

The war horse led Chen Wang out of the gunpowder smoke, and the front row of the rogue cavalry that was rushing straight was almost wiped out, and all the cavalry behind were ashen-faced and terrified.

Chen Wang clenched the stick of the three-eyed blunderbuss in his hand, his expression was slightly ferocious, he had already spotted an enemy who was about to meet him.

But after all, Chen Wang had no chance to knock him off his horse with the three-eyed gun.

Because Cao Wenzhao, who was right in front of him, had already entered the enemy's formation one step ahead, Ma Qiang burst into a clear and sharp sound in Cao Wenzhao's hand, like a funeral stick of impermanence, and everyone who touched it fell off the horse .

The same scene reappeared, a few brave men in the bandit's cavalry were beheaded, and the rest of them ran away one after another, fell into a collapse, and fled in all directions.

Li Zicheng frowned slightly and shook his head as he watched his followers fleeing in disintegration.

"Sure enough, these cavalry soldiers recruited from the refugees are still unbearable."

In the two consecutive confrontations, the winner was already decided in the blink of an eye.

Troop training is a difficult task. He thought that the cavalry he trained should be much better than the cavalry under Guo Tianxing, but the result was still the same.

Looking up at the official road, the Ming army troops that were entangled in the front have also joined up with the middle at this time, and they retreated to the rear together. After a while, once the officers and soldiers retreated to an open place, they would not be there. little chance of winning.

Li Guo, on the left wing of the officialdom, still hadn't gathered the defeated troops, and was still in chaos.

Li Zicheng sighed softly. He didn't understand why after so many years of fighting, neither the generals nor the soldiers under his command had made much progress.

Down the slope, the fiery red banner became more and more eye-catching.

Without time for him to hesitate, Li Zicheng raised the whip in his hand.

There were five gun carriages behind them one after another, and they were slowly pushed out from behind the slope one after another.

(End of this chapter)