However, those cavalrymen who counterattacked never thought that there was still a musket in the hands of those musketeers that had not been fired. They were just waiting for the counterattack of those cavalrymen.
At this time, the smoke dissipated slightly, and Luo Rucai's counterattacking cavalry could be seen in sight. The gunmen of the Runing Army immediately fired another row of firecrackers, and then the loaded firecrackers were handed to those firecrackers again.
In the hands of the shooter, there was another row of firecrackers.
The endless firing of firecrackers completely defeated the counterattacking cavalry. They had no idea how many loaded firecrackers these firecrackers had in their hands. So in the retreating whistle, the archers fired
, the horse stakers and the counterattacking Luo Rucai cavalry all immediately turned around and fled backwards.
Seeing that the attack in the first round was not going well, Zhang Xianzhong asked Luo Rucai: "Cao Cao, do you want Li Dingguo to go up and help?"
At this time, although the peasant rebel armies were on different sides and had some thoughts of preserving their own strength, when they encountered a powerful enemy, they were still able to put aside their sectarian differences and fight together. Besides, Zhang Xianzhong saw that Luo Rucai was an elite and capable person.
If he doesn't take a stand, the alliance between them may soon crack.
Luo Rucai shook his riding crop and replied directly: "My children can't do it, and yours can't do it even more. No matter how hard we fight, our main force can't be damaged. Besides, there's nothing we can do now. I'll let the children prepare."
For a moment, use projectiles. But the official dogs on the opposite side move very quickly, so you have to think of a way to prevent their gunmen from rushing out."
"That's no problem." Zhang Xianzhong immediately replied, and then he ordered loudly, "Let the Henan first team prepare and let them rush over. Tell them that anyone who rushes into the official-dog formation on the opposite side will have meat and wine when they come back.
The women in the camp can have fun for three days. And they can all enter the big camp in the future and have enough food every day. But if anyone retreats, the knife of my Eight Great Kings will not recognize anyone."
After Zhang Xianzhong arrived in Henan, he also recruited 30,000 to 40,000 Henan refugees. However, the number was too large and chaotic, so it was difficult to lead them, so Zhang Xianzhong simply divided them into teams. The number of people in each team was between seven and eight thousand to just over ten thousand.
wait.
Although these cannon fodders also have food to eat, they can only cope with starving to death. Zhang Xianzhong's main force is a large camp composed of young men and women who have survived and selected during the long years of war. They can eat enough every day, and
They will not be casually used as cannon fodder by Zhang Xianzhong.
In fact, this is also a common phenomenon among peasant rebels. In their words: "As long as the people in the camp are still there, we can pull up the team at any time. There are too many people who don't have enough to eat today." Therefore.
, the true strength of the peasant rebel army should only be counted based on the number of people in their elite camp, and the total number of rebel refugees who are coerced and accompanying them has always been fluctuating, and no one can accurately count it.
The method proposed by Zhang Xianzhong is to let Luo Rucai's army use longbows to shoot from behind. And he will send nearly 10,000 newly collected cannon fodder to attack the four thousand-man squares to prevent the Runing army's gunmen from breaking out again.
Shooting in front.
Luo Rucai smiled knowingly, but she still had to make it clear what she should say: "Eight Great Kings, this long bow is not accurate when shooting. Don't blame me, Lao Luo, for whoever shoots you!"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong snorted contemptuously and said: "It's not worth a penny. Go to hell!"
Luo Rucai was stunned when he heard this, and immediately shut up and stopped talking. Zhang Xianzhong's words were too straightforward. Although all the leaders of the peasant rebel army understood this, no one would say it.
Export. Otherwise, if this word spreads, it will greatly damage the reputation. This will not be conducive to recruiting refugees again in the future!
Luo Rucai was a little confused in his heart: "Isn't Zhang Xianzhong a big-mouthed person? Isn't he really afraid that this word will spread?"
So Luo Rucai secretly looked around, and was surprised to find that Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and other adopted sons of Zhang Xianzhong, who were guarding Zhang Xianzhong, looked calm.
In fact, in the past, they and Li Dingguo were just like the cannon fodder, they were all worthless people. However, they survived the long battle and were reused by Zhang Xianzhong, so they have become Zhang Xianzhong's treasures.
Now, they are superior people who can drive those worthless people to become cannon fodder. So they were completely indifferent to Zhang Xianzhong's words.
Longbow throwing requires very high archery skills of archers. There are more than 1,200 such archers in Luo Rucai's entire army. Under the cover of cavalry, they hurriedly ran 200 steps away from Runing's army.
People on the left and right planted their arrows on the ground and got ready to shoot.
The officers of Zhang Xianzhong's army ran to the soldiers of the Henan team and loudly announced Zhang Xianzhong's order, and the order was accompanied by the enthusiastic cheers of the soldiers of the Henan team. For these cannon fodder who had just turned from refugees to soldiers.
, if you can have enough to eat, it will be a paradise-like life.
It's not like these people don't know that their charge is a narrow escape, but what's there to miss in this hellish life? If you die, you'll die. If you survive, you can have enough to eat.
If you can join Zhang Xianzhong's camp, then why should you hesitate?
After Luo Rucai's army's first attack was repelled, the gunmen who advanced in Runing's army immediately ran back to the thousand-man phalanx. Under Xue Yongli's order, the entire phalanx turned back and marched towards his cavalry.
The direction retreated.
There is a distance of nearly one mile between these four thousand-man square formations and the cavalry formation. The cavalry of the Runing Army did not dare to step forward because they had to protect Li Lu and others behind to guard the property, food, grass and baggage.
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As if he knew what the Runing Army was thinking, Li Dingguo, without any orders, had already led his two thousand cavalry around to the right side of the Runing Army's cavalry formation, a distance of nearly 700 or 800 paces, facing the rear of the cavalry formation.
The prisoners and baggage were all watching with eager eyes, and Li Lu had long since given up guarding the prisoners. He surrounded the carts into a car formation and prepared with all his strength to defend against Li Dingguo's attack.
It's really amazing that Li Dingguo was only thirteen years old at this time, but his sense of battlefield was so sensitive. He was worthy of being the number one general under Zhang Xianzhong who grew up in the flames of war!
But surprisingly, none of the prisoners captured by the Runing Army escaped. They just watched the two armies fighting blankly. In fact, although the Runing Army captured these people as prisoners these days, the Runing Army
Ning Jun never intended to starve these people. Therefore, these prisoners could still eat half full every day.
In these troubled times, as long as they can survive, those refugees will not care who takes them in. When the peasant rebel army comes, they will join the peasant rebel army. When the official army comes, they will join the official army. All they need is to give them food.
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However, Li Dingguo was so restrained that he had no choice but to let the four thousand-man phalanx retreat one mile and form a complete formation of the Runing Army together with the cavalry. The gunners of the artillery regiment hurriedly pulled up the artillery with their horses and advanced first.
Take one step back first.
Just as the four thousand-man phalanx retreated about fifty steps, archers from Luo Rucai's army ran up. Xue Yongli immediately ordered the entire army to stand still and turn around, and then lined up their formation, preparing to grab medicine according to the prescription and fight the peasant rebel army again.
The archers competed.
Xue Yongli is not in a hurry. There is still about an hour and a half before noon. He can definitely play a few more rounds with the archers of the peasant rebel army. The Runing army is not afraid of delaying time.
Otherwise, what should we do if we wait until the thousand-man phalanx and cavalry form a complete formation and defeat the peasant rebel army on the opposite side? What should we do if we scare them away? This is not fun! The Runing Army needs it.
It is a war of annihilation, not a war of defeat.
But the first thing that puzzled the Runing Army was that the archers of the peasant rebel army stopped running when they were two hundred paces away. Then to their surprise, the peasant rebel army behind the archers suddenly let out a deafening cheer.
, then a large number of soldiers poured out from both sides of the archers and charged towards the thousand-man phalanx of the Runing Army.
Seeing that a battle was about to break out, the artillery regiment of the Runing Army immediately turned around to re-erect the artillery. However, this back and forth also caused a chaos in the artillery regiment.
Those who rushed out were Zhang Xianzhong's Henan team's nearly 10,000 cannon fodder soldiers who were divided into two teams. In fact, it is quite reluctant to call them soldiers. None of them had armor on their bodies, and the weapons in their hands were mainly hoes and other agricultural tools.
He even rushed up with only a sharpened stick.
The scene of ten thousand people charging was really shocking. Moreover, these peasant rebel soldiers did not pay attention to any formation at all. They flew over like a swarm of bees in a black mass.
The officer commanding the thousand-man phalanx immediately issued a new order: "The gunmen are arranged in five rows and shoot according to the order!"
The firecracker assistant who was about to rush out immediately returned the firecrackers on his back to the hands of the original firecrackers. This rush also caused some confusion in the formation of the firecrackers in the first few rows of the thousand-man phalanx.
confusion.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the peasant rebel army were too inexperienced in military affairs. The distance of two hundred steps was neither long nor short. The sprinting of those soldiers, coupled with the long-term malnutrition of those soldiers,
Therefore, after running for nearly a hundred steps, the sprint speed of the peasant rebel army also slowed down. Taking advantage of this time difference, the gunmen of the Runing Army barely managed to stand in five rows.
The soldiers of the peasant rebel army were running closer and closer. The Runing army could already see the faces of the peasant rebel soldiers who were rushing forward. Just after the peasant rebel army ran forty steps, the commanding officer Ru
The Ning army officer waved his saber forward and ordered loudly: "Shoot!"
The first volley of gunfire from the Runing Army was fired.
While the first row of Runing's army was firing, the archers of Luo Rucai's army also shot out the first row of arrows, a mass of black arrows flying towards the sky. And after reaching the highest point, those
The arrow immediately fell and flew towards the thousand-man phalanx of Runing Army. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: I am very grateful to the book friends Jianghu for correcting me. The "Sheng Yan Gong" in the previous article should be "Yan Sheng Gong"
This is the result of me relying on my own memory without carefully checking the historical data. So I am correcting it here.
What's even more sad is that I don't know how to correct it in the VIP article, and there is no editorial contact for potential signings, so I can only explain the correction here and correct the error in the subsequent article.
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