"Your Majesty, Jinan Guard's two thousand soldiers and horses have arrived in Qufu!"
Zhu Ji suddenly became nervous, took out the map and asked: "Where to camp?"
"My lord, we have not set up camp. We are resting temporarily outside the county town."
Zhu Ji asked again: "How far is it from us?"
"About fifty miles."
Zhu Ji quickly came to Li Zhen and said, "Mr. Rui Guo, the Jinan Guards have arrived in Qufu, but they have not set up camp. This is strange!"
Li Zhen was wandering outside the yard, looked around, and said: "Since we haven't set up camp, it means we want to fight quickly, so we should come tonight."
Of course Zhu Ji knew that these people were brought by the Kong family to target him, but he didn't expect that they didn't even bother to cover up and just came to kill him.
"Then...how do we respond?"
Li Zhen looked at him and said: "There's no need to ask, of course it's his mother's fault! How dare the little Jinan Guards rebel? If I don't beat them tonight, they will be clean!"
Zhu Ji said with lingering fear: "But the other party has two thousand people, and we only have less than six hundred."
Li Zhen waved his hand and said, "This is not something you should worry about!"
Zhu Ji added: "The terrain here is wide and the opponent has a numerical advantage. If the formation spreads out, it will be very disadvantageous for our side. Should we find a favorable terrain to fight with them?"
Li Zhen smiled and said: "The more open the better, this is it!"
In the middle of the night, there was a loud noise in the distance, and at the same time, a sharp whistle pierced the night sky.
Five hundred soldiers of the Three Thousand Battalion, as well as hundreds of imperial guards, have been waiting in full formation for a long time.
Zhu Ji stood in front of the formation and diligently observed the situation on the opposite side.
At the front is a group of cavalry, and then all infantry, layer upon layer, but there is not much movement, and they seem to be observing them.
After a brief confrontation, a general on horseback came to the front of the formation and shouted: "You, the thieves, won't be captured without mercy!"
Zhu Ji replied: "I am the Jinyiwei commander who serves Zhu Ji. I am here to perform official duties. Who are you and why did you lead the troops here?"
Seeing Zhu Ji reveal his identity, the other party laughed loudly and disapprovingly: "How dare you pretend to be a Jin Yiwei, your crime will be increased!"
Zhu Ji said in a deep voice: "I'll say it again, the Jinyi Guards are here to perform official duties. No matter which guard you are in, leave immediately, otherwise, you will be punished as treason and not killed!"
At this moment, the opponent had obviously lost patience and directly blew the horn of attack.
"Your Majesty, Commander, the bandits did not listen to the advice. It seems they are ready to fight to the end."
Cai Jinkui is riding on a tall horse. He is wearing armor and has no expression on his face.
Jin Yiwei actually wants to take advantage of the Kong family, he is so impatient!
If you were elsewhere, hearing the words "Jinyiwei" would still have a certain amount of intimidation, but this is Qufu, the territory of Yan Shenggong.
In Qufu, people can scold the emperor, but no one would dare to scold the Confucius family.
"Qin You, you will take the lead this time. If we win, I will take the lead on you."
This man named Qin You is just a guerrilla general now. When he heard that Cai Jinkui ordered him to be the vanguard, his eyes suddenly flashed with light.
In his opinion, there are just a hundred or so Jin Yiwei. He has the advantage in numbers and there is almost no risk.
But after killing him, the real question we have to face is how to deal with the emperor?
After all, he is a royal guard, the emperor's own army, so when beating a dog, it depends on the owner!
However, these are all things that Yan Shenggong and the commander need to consider, so just deal with them yourself.
Thinking about the bright future ahead, Qin You's eyes flashed with cruelty, and then he said: "Please command and reassure me, no one will survive here tonight."
After that, he got on his horse, holding a long knife, looking menacing.
Then he reined in his horse and shouted: "The one in front is no better.
They are a group of thieves. They all came with me. After breaking the formation, everyone will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. They brought a large amount of jewelry. After they are killed, they will all be distributed to you."
So, under the command, Qin You was the first to gallop his horse and start charging.
When the soldiers saw this, they all cheered up. If they were asked to fight the Mongols or the Japanese pirates, they might still be a little timid. But facing the bandits, they are just a group of refugees who don't have enough to eat.
It’s as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.
Hundreds of war horses started to move, first jogging, and each cavalryman was rising and falling on the horse. Most of them were holding swords and guns, and they suddenly formed an arrow formation.
Then, the war horses became faster and faster.
Then, it was like lightning!
The power exerted by these hundreds of cavalry at this moment is already unstoppable.
In the opposing formation, Li Zhen shouted: "Get ready!"
Everyone tensed up, holding muskets, shoulder to shoulder.
If an ordinary person were to see the mighty cavalry charging towards them in the distance, they would have panicked.
The power that this cavalry brings in the wilderness, at least in this era, is enough to destroy the world.
However, this time, they faced a well-equipped 3,000 battalion.
In the Northern Expedition to Mongolia, the Japanese were at peace along the coast. Everywhere the three thousand battalions went, they were destroyed.
This is a mere two thousand people, but they really can’t catch their eye.
"Load the gun!"
As the order sounded, everyone acted in an orderly manner.
The biggest advantage of the flintlock gun is not just the rate of fire and the convenience of loading.
More importantly, soldiers can be placed side by side to form a relatively close queue. If it is a traditional firecracker, a certain gap must be left to prevent being injured by the gunpowder next door.
The flintlock gun uses flint to kill, which is safer and ensures that everyone forms a formation side by side.
This small improvement is actually a huge advantage for the battle formation.
Because traditional fire cannons want to have the greatest effect, they must ensure the lethality of intensive shooting. If everyone stands too loosely and the distance between each other is too large, it will actually be difficult to increase the lethality in an area. The flintlock gun can solve these problems very well, improving the combat effectiveness of the troops by more than one level.
The opponent's cavalry was already charging towards them, and Qin You was even more energetic at this moment. He looked at the men and horses on the other side who were holding firecrackers and waiting in full formation.
"Fight with me! These people are vulnerable to a single blow. Whoever enters the battle first will be heavily rewarded!"
The word "heavy reward" is the most powerful word to boost morale. All the soldiers cheered up and launched the final sprint.
But the fire rifle soldiers in front did not move at all.
They lined up in two rows. At this time, the first row had already raised the blunderbuss, with the muzzle facing forward.
Everyone remained motionless.
The leading cavalry unit of Jinan Guard has arrived within thirty steps. This distance is already very close.
You can almost see the face of the enemy on the opposite side.
The two hostile parties looked at each other with contempt.
Then, the sharp whistle finally sounded.
"Let it go!"
As the command sounded, the members of the first platoon, as if subconsciously, pulled the trigger without hesitation.
The next moment, the flint slammed into the barrel of the gun, quickly sputtering out sparks, igniting the gunpowder in the barrel.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Gun smoke fills the air, and fire cannons are fired.
Countless projectiles roared out from the barrel of the gun.
After intensive shooting, the cavalry in the front row suffered the most.
Someone was shot in the body and fell from his horse.
Some war horses were shot, and they were immediately dripping with blood. Then, the war horses went crazy, overturned the people on the horses, and started running wildly.
This cavalry originally carried unparalleled power, but at this moment, the formation began to show signs of chaos
Chaos.
In particular, the horses in the front team kept falling, and the cavalry in the rear team had no time to dodge. They collided with the front team. The impact of the high-speed moving horses was enough to break the bones of the cavalry on the horses.
As a result, there were many screams of agony on the battlefield.
The members of the first row finished shooting and quickly retreated in unison.
Immediately afterwards, the players in the second row stepped forward and came to the first row.
"Let it go!"
The order to shoot came again from the team.
Then, another row of firecrackers made a loud noise.
Back in Tumubao, Zhu Qizhen used three-stage attacks.
That is to say, the team is divided into three rows, with the first row shooting, the second row and the third row loading gunpowder, and then everyone takes turns shooting to ensure that the bullets in the queue can continuously kill the enemy in front.
However, with the improvement of equipment, the shooting speed has become faster and has been changed to a two-stage attack.
Of course, this is also inseparable from the daily training of the Three Thousand Battalion.
The most important thing when using a musket is to be well trained.
For an army that is poorly trained, even if it is given powerful firearms, it is actually useless.
If the same flintlock gun is placed in the hands of an ordinary army and half a round of incense is required to load it, a three thousand battalion can reduce this time to 30%.
Not only that, in order to shorten the time as much as possible, all the gunpowder is a fixed amount of granular gunpowder, which is wrapped in oil paper in advance to ensure that each pack of gunpowder has the same dosage.
What the team members have to do is to directly take out the projectiles one by one, quickly tear them apart, and then stuff them into the muskets. Then, they can be tamped with special iron bars to shoot.
Therefore, after the second row finished shooting.
The original first row had already finished loading, and they quickly stepped forward and fired again.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The sound of firecrackers sounded like fried beans, and the firepower was continuous and so dense that it was suffocating.
In these short thirty steps, there was never a break.
Especially the cooperation between the two platoons of players is almost seamless. Everyone knows what they are going to do at the next moment. They move forward almost reflexively, raise their guns, shoot, and then quickly retreat to give up the shooting position.
, charge, insert projectiles, move forward, raise the musket, and continue shooting.
This series of actions is almost uniform.
And these, they have already gone through countless drills in the school grounds.
Even when dreaming, some people dream that they are loading gunpowder.
In these days, an important part of the training at the Jiangnan guards was the use of new muskets.
Those roaring cavalry thought they already had a chance to win.
Especially when they reached thirty steps, a proud smile appeared on their faces.
But they obviously never expected that these short thirty steps would be as long as climbing to the sky.
Round after round of shooting, those at the front fell one by one.
The cavalry's advance began to slow down, and then the rear team rushed up again, still unable to withstand the dense fire cannons.
People kept falling down, and there were wailing people everywhere...
The fallen people and horses have formed a roadblock, making it more difficult for those behind to sprint.
Their speed slowed down, but the members of the Three Thousand Battalion did not slow down their shooting speed.
They were still charging and shooting mechanically. In just half a tea time, the whirlwind-like iron cavalry only charged forward twenty steps, but already left two hundred corpses behind.
At this time, the entire Jinan Guard was on the verge of collapse.
Even those who were at the forefront were already frightened.
They clearly knew that as long as they took another ten steps forward, rushed into the formation, and then massacred these fire rifle soldiers.
But...
The distance of only ten steps seemed as difficult as reaching the sky.
At this time, some people began to waver.
However, the troops behind him have already pressed forward. Even if they want to retreat, there is no way to retreat.
As for Qin You, who was in the lead, he was beaten with holes in his body from the beginning, and was trampled by the horses behind him. He was already dead and could not die anymore.
Cai Jinkui obviously saw the situation, and he immediately realized that things were worse than he imagined.
So, after scolding Qin You for being such a loser, he had no choice but to hold up the knife and shout: "Kill!"
With an order, all the elite cavalry beside him followed and charged away.
The rest of the infantry naturally rushed forward together.
Of course Cai Jinkui knew that if he did not put all his troops into it, the forward troops would definitely collapse.
Perhaps because of the new force, those at the front, although they were timid, still gritted their teeth and persisted with all their might.
The biggest problem now is our own people.
Countless human and horse corpses lay scattered on the ground. In some places, the corpses were piled up like mountains, blocking the cavalry's charge.
Not only that, some people who landed were crawling on the ground crying and wailing, it was too miserable to see.
There are also some injured horses running around on the battlefield.
Due to the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke ahead, many ownerless horses turned around and ran wildly in all directions.
Suddenly, people were on their backs again.
Cai Jinkui was stunned this time.
He suddenly realized that he had underestimated the enemy.
If we had plenty of time, planned our tactics in advance, and cooperated with the favorable terrain, this might not be the result.
But now, even if I regret it, it's too late.
The mighty cavalry and infantry are still charging continuously.
No one looked with contempt anymore, and everyone looked frightened, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
When Cai Jinkui saw that his side's morale was low, he roared: "If we don't kill all these people today, no one will be able to survive tomorrow. Moreover, everyone in your family, young and old, will be implicated. If you kill me, you will also die together!"<