Chapter 238: Fighting? Exercise?

Although the officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress the enemy were all aggressive, the chaotic formation was no more powerful than the young and strong men who were coerced by the horse team. As I saw it, no matter Chen Shizi's horse team or even the cannon fodders who were captured, they had no fear.

But this time it was different. The four platoons and the slowly moving horse team gradually approached, and there was no loud shouting to cheer up and pretending to be fierce. They just moved forward step by step under the rhythm of the drum. It seemed that it was a long time since I saw the officers and soldiers.

The young and strong men who were preparing to attack the city were shouted to face the Dengzhou camp approaching from behind. When the cannon fodders saw the officers and soldiers approaching, they began to show signs of panic. The old brothers under Chen Shizi stood in the front team and led the riders to shout loudly.

Using whips or even swords and guns to force cannon fodder forward, Chen Shizi claimed to put the overall situation first, and this overall situation is naturally Chen Shizi himself, who is now quite valuable. At the suggestion of Wen Dao, the most elite 200 cavalrymen were protected by him, while the remaining more than 1,000 horse teams stood in front according to the past formation.

Some people in the young and strong people now have some idea of ​​war. Chen Shizi selected some people with hunter experience and sent bows and arrows to these people. Because there were not many bows and arrows left, even the hunters in the young and strong people were only about one hundred.

However, each temporary archer can only have seven or eight feather arrows. This is also the suggestion of Wen Dao. It is said that the horse team is full-time charge, and setting up archers will help cover the battle.

The treatment of these more than 100 archers is quite good compared to other young and strong as cannon fodders, so they are also very hard-working in the battle. According to the arrangements of Wendao and Chen Shizi, the archers first stood in the front row, and according to the distance approaching Jiang Feng's troops, they should be able to fire five arrows.

This is also the ability of these people who have no professional training and have never made any strong bows to achieve the greatest limit.

When Chen Shizi's cavalry and cannon fodder young and strong men watched the number of people on the opposite side, which was one-fifth of their own, their courage gradually grew stronger. The fact that the less defeated the more happened in legends and storytellings. In reality, it was still a saying: Whoever has more people takes advantage.

And when they could see their archers standing in a row, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side had already stopped, which was obviously scared - at least they thought so.

Four small cannons were pushed up from behind. The weight of these cannons was not heavy. They were themselves Franchise aircraft on the brig. If calculated according to the specifications of Western cannons, they would be called a one-pound cannon.

Jason Hogan once said that the once mighty archers on the European battlefield were gradually expelled from the battlefield. Now the range of the European mezzanine guns is still far from that of some specifications, but they are still gradually eliminated. The reason is that the emergence of artillery is the decisive reason.

The workshops of the craftsmen in the Qianhu Institute of Yantai Mountain in Jiangfeng can cast artillery below three pounds. However, Jiangfeng, a time traveler who wants to get it in one step, always thinks that the function of this small cannon is too small, so he always asks the craftsmen to buy two three-pound cannons that are high money to see if they can be lighter and more suitable for the casting of cannons on land.

The reason why we brought these four small cannons this time was just to see how effective the Western cannons were. Speaking of which, Jiang Feng and the others also had more than a dozen tiger squat cannons. Anyway, it was a big cart, so they brought it out together this time.

Each cannon was operated by four people. Because the weight was not too large, the loading and firing speed was quite fast. There were a few muffled sounds of "Teng" and "Teng", and lead bullets roared towards the crowd opposite.

To be honest, the mobs under Chen Shizi on the opposite side had no idea that there was artillery. The initial speed of a pound cannon was not fast, and the trajectory of the lead bullet could be seen with the naked eye, but in the queue, no matter the horse team or the young and strong, there was no place to move.

The result is very simple: flesh and blood fly across the body, broken limbs and broken arms.

The archer standing in front was not properly tuned because the angle of the cannon was not adjusted accurately, but they saw the tragic phenomenon behind him clearly. Of course, it was more shocking than a tragic phenomenon. You cannot expect a pound of metal projectiles to cause too amazing damage.

However, it was enough for these rioters who had never seen such power. The chaos behind was not over yet. The second round of shells that had adjusted the angle had already hit him. Another round was not shot out due to the twist of medicine. However, the archer standing in the front row was swept away half of the shells.

Seeing the tragic situation of his companion, the archer standing in front suddenly collapsed and ran to both sides or behind with no life. Even the knights on the horse team were slashing with big swords, it was of no use at all.

Chen Shizi looked behind him and was so scared that he was so brave that he was frightened by the shooting of several small cannons, he still led the counterfeit village to fight a tough battle. Seeing this situation, he knew that if he let the other party shoot, the entire team would collapse, and he couldn't help but shout:

"The horse team rushed over and defeated them!"

The cannon fodder tyrants standing behind the horse team were already a little anxious, but there were knights riding horses staring at each other, so they didn't dare to make any changes.

The dozens of old brothers from Chen Shizi in front urged their horses there and rushed towards the formation of Dengzhou Camp. More than a thousand horses rumbled on the hard land in winter, and the sounds made and the momentum they caused were also extraordinary.

The bandits held the sword in their hands and shouted loudly. The officers and soldiers they saw were facing such a scene, even when there were more people than them, their positions quickly collapsed, and then they chased the slashes and slaughter behind.

Among Jiang Feng's four teams, Tiedin was standing on the left. Now he was the team's flag. He squinted his eyes and looked at the cavalry in front of him, and spoke loudly:

"One inch, ignite!"

The four teams slowly took ten steps behind the drum instructions with the changing rhythm of the rhythm. This was even more timid in the eyes of the horse team under Chen Shizi, who were chasing him, and they urged the horses one after another to speed up the speed.

More than a dozen black iron pipes with a diameter of a fist were supported ten steps in front of the Dengzhou camp team. More than a dozen sword and shield hands ran out. They ignited about an inch of the medicine twist and turned back and ran into the array.

The cavalry brigade quickly approached. When the inch of gunpowder twist burned out, the brigade of troops was less than ten steps away from the black iron pipes. The sound of ammunition coming out of the borehole was heard one after another. The knight in front was immediately beaten with blood holes all over his body, and it was directly lifted off the horse's back...

The tiger squat cannon was one of the least powerful artillery fires of the Ming army. Its effective distance was only twenty steps, and it fired gravel, iron sand, and broken porcelain.

Dengzhou Camp has no shortage of money, so the ammunition of this tiger squat cannon is relatively luxurious, such as using broken iron sand, such as soaking iron sand with arsenic. Of course, under the high temperature of gunpowder, I can't be sure what the poisons have.

However, the iron sand within ten steps is still quite powerful. More than a dozen tiger squat cannons fired together, forming a high-speed iron sand death curtain wall in the area of ​​about five steps in front of them. At this moment, the knights who rushed in the front, the people and horses were almost beaten into sieves.

Although the people following closely behind were frightened, the horses had already run away completely and could not stop the momentum. They could only bite the bullet and continue to rush forward. Some people had poor horse control skills and were directly tripped by the people in front, while others were leaping past them with their horses.

As long as they can rush into the square formation in front of them, the infantry will be pigs and sheep to be slaughtered.

However, the horse teams appeared in front of them were not pigs and sheep, but iron walls. The first row of spearmen was already half-squatting and standing on the ground with the spear in their hands, holding the handle of the gun with both hands, and stepping on the tail of the gun below.

The soldiers in the two rows of soldiers at the back put their spears in the same position as the first row, but they put their spears on the shoulders of the man in front, layered in layers, like a steel hedgehog-like formation.

There were also people standing in the platoon, the raiders. Although the horses were running rapidly, they still instinctively wanted to turn when they looked at the steel-spiked jungle in front. However, the huge inertia made them too late to do so. They were lucky enough to avoid the fire of the tiger squat cannon and the horses who were all penetrating the jungle with spears.

Next was the dense sound of a series of bursts of beans. There were two teams facing the horse team. Nearly 350 muskets fired at the horse team that rushed towards them in turn. The targets of the man and the horse were within thirty steps, and the melee did not need to be aimed at the melee.

Take turns pouring ammunition towards the most horse-riding bandits wearing leather armor. The raiders did not have to worry about whether there would be cavalry rushing over. The spearmen already provided them with a steel barrier!

The horse team seemed to be rushing towards the reef, constantly shattering, and the reef was safe and sound.

The people neighed and the horses were roaring, and the smoke was filled with smoke. The entire battlefield was a place where Chen Shizi's horse team and the Dengzhou camp met, and the rest were silent. This tactic of similar combat with hot weapons deeply shocked the mobs. They went from surprise at the beginning to fear later, then fear, and finally despair.

Finally, the cavalry behind them were able to control their speed and horses, away from the death front. The smoke emitted by the gunpowder was blown away by the cold wind, forming a thirty-step open space in front of the front, where corpses and flesh were everywhere.
Chapter completed!