Before the Guards officially engage the enemy, no one can know their true combat effectiveness, including Li Xuan, who founded the Guards.
Although Li Xuan had great hopes for the Guards, he himself was not sure whether the Guards he created through blind speculation could really fight.
Li Xuan himself was not sure, and Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were even less confident.
Especially the generals in the standing army, such as Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, from the bottom of their hearts did not believe that the Guards were capable of fighting. They were worried when Li Xuan asked the Guards to serve as the forward.
But at that time, I also felt that even if the Guards could not fight, there would still be veterans like them in the standing army. At the beginning of the war, they had already secretly made a decision not to give the Ming army too many opportunities.
After surrounding the Ming army, they directly pressed forward with their men and horses to prevent the little guys from the Guards from causing trouble or causing too many casualties.
But they never thought that the surrounded Ming army would be so decisive and resolute. After discovering that they were surrounded, they immediately chose to break out. More importantly, the direction of their breakout turned out to be the Guards!
What should I do?
These Ming troops acted decisively and resolutely, and when they launched the counterattack, they were so fierce that Fang Dongquan, who had never seen a regular army fighting, was frightened. If they were not outnumbered, they would probably have turned around and ran away.
Facing such a ferocious enemy, can the boys of the Guards resist it?
Although they don't want to think so in their hearts, everyone thinks that the Guards are going to be doomed!
No, we can't just watch the Guards die like this!
There are all their sons and nephews there. Some of the half-grown men are their sons and some are their nephews. If they watch these Ming soldiers kill their sons and nephews under their noses, they will never be able to forgive them in their lives.
Own.
Butcher Chen, who was armed with an armored sword and shield, raised the butcher knife in his hand and shouted with a ferocious expression: "Follow me and catch up with them and stop them!"
Butcher Chen's only nephew is in the Guards. He absolutely cannot tolerate his nephew being killed. How can he face his dead brother and father in this way?
Just as Butcher Chen rushed forward with his armored sword and shield men, the other groups of standing troops moved faster. The archers passed the spearmen and trotted forward directly, wanting to get closer and bend their bows to shoot arrows.
But they were already quite far away, and the Ming troops in front were already running, so there was no chance for them to shoot arrows.
Seeing this scene, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, who were commanding the battle on the front line, looked panicked. Huang Xueren even murmured: "It's over!"
Like others, Huang Xueren also had a son in the Guards, and he also served as a corps commander in the Guards.
At this time, Cai Erhu shouted loudly: "All swordsmen and shieldmen are charging at me, stop them!"
The lightly armored swordsmen and shieldmen did not wear armor, nor did they hold spears that would affect their running, so they could run faster. Cai Erhu took the lead, leading a team of more than thirty swordsmen and shieldmen to rush up from the flank.
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Butcher Chen's armored swordsmen and shieldmen were chasing after him, and the archers also ran forward. Cai Erhu's lightly armored swordsmen and shieldmen rushed up from the flanks.
But when they tried to catch up, the Ming army's charge did not stop, but became faster!
The reaction of the Huangzhushan bandits was also seen by several leaders of the Ming army. The strong man Baihu among them laughed wildly when he ran in stride: "Haha, we continue to charge, they are all in chaos,
We will definitely be able to get out!"
As you speak, continue to take the lead and continue to charge forward!
When the Ming army was charging wildly, when Li Xuan looked worried, when Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Chen Tufu led the standing army to try to intercept them, what were the Guards doing?
They are organizing their formation!
On the Guards side, when the Ming army charged towards them, they had already stopped and then organized their formation to make it even closer!
During the process of organizing the formation, you could vaguely see that many people's faces had begun to turn pale, and some people's hands holding spears or muskets had begun to tremble.
Even the commander of the Guards, Wang Danxu, who was riding a horse, seemed calm at this time, but fear had already arisen in his heart, and he even had the idea of turning around and running away.
After all, Wang Danxu is just an old bandit. He has never seen a regular army charge. The last time he ambush the Ming army in Luohu Valley, because it was an ambush and the Ming army was disrupted from the beginning, it was defeated.
In fact, the Huangzhushan bandits have never experienced formal fighting at all.
However, now, although the Ming army they faced only had more than sixty people, the momentum of the charge was like a torrential flood, which made people feel chills on their backs.
With inner fear, Wang Danxu ordered the entire army to stand still. After stabilizing the formation, he once again ordered the musketeers to prepare for a volley, and it was a volley of fifteen steps. That is to say, after the Ming army rushed to about 22 meters
Before shooting, this requires great pressure for the musketeers.
But if they don't do this, because the Ming army charges too fast, and their musketeers only have a total of more than 20 muskets, firing in turns will not work at all.
The only way is to fire a volley directly after they get close.
As for close range volleys, there is only one regulation that Li Xuan personally formulated, and that is the fifteen-step volley. The reason why the volley is fired at such a short distance is because the matchlock gun fires slowly. Whether it is fired from fifty meters or
Shooting at 20 meters actually only has one chance to fire.
Secondly, there is no need to count on the accuracy of the matchlock gun built by the blacksmiths of Huangzhushan. You basically don’t need to count on the hit rate if it exceeds 100 meters. The hit rate is also poor at a distance of 50 meters, only at a distance of about 20 meters.
, the hit rate can be greatly improved.
If the opponent is charging as a group, then facing a large group of people, the hit rate within 20 meters is quite impressive. If a salvo hits, the opponent will fall down a whole row!
Under such circumstances, the closer the shot is, the better!
After Wang Danxu gave the order, the musketeers on both sides of the Guards all picked up their matchlock guns. The matchlocks had already been lit, and they only had to wait for the officer's order to pull the trigger and shoot out the bullets.
The two officers commanding the musketeers on both wings were silently calculating the distance in their hearts. Those who can become officers are the best in the Guards. This excellence does not mean his tactics or strength, but his strength.
Refers to his psychological quality.
Although the officers of the Guards are all young men, they are all ruthless people. They are ruthless to the enemy and even more ruthless to themselves.
The enemy is getting closer, one hundred meters, fifty meters!
When the Ming army rushed within 50 meters, about seven or eight archers of the Ming army on the opposite side began to bend their bows and set arrows. Not long after, a spearman in the front row of the Guards was hit and knocked down by an arrow.
land.
At this time, a musketeer standing in the front row on the left wing of the Guards finally couldn't bear the huge battlefield pressure. He burst into tears, dropped the matchlock in his hand, turned around and ran away.
However, as soon as he turned around, a cold light flashed past his eyes, and then he lost all his strength and fell down directly. His eyes that had not yet been closed saw the soil on the ground. The soil was bright red, and that was his
Blood!
At the same time, a loud shout rang out from the array: "Anyone who retreats will be killed!"
The person who spoke was the officer of the Musketeers. At this time, the waist knife in his hand was still stained with blood, and it was flowing down drop by drop!
The first deserter was killed as soon as he turned around. Then two people from the spearmen tried to turn around and run away, but they were still killed on the spot!
In just a short moment, three people escaped, but without exception, they were all killed on the spot!
This made the remaining Guards soldiers who also wanted to escape, although their hands were still shaking, did not dare to drop their muskets or spears and turn around to escape.
Because if you don't run, although it is very dangerous, it is still unknown whether you will die.
But if you run, you will definitely die. The officers of the Guards are staring at them with burning eyes. Anyone who dares to run will be immediately hit by a knife even if he turns around!
Under the high pressure, deserters appeared on the Guards' side, but the formation did not loosen much and still maintained a tight formation!
The Ming army continued to charge, and the distance was getting closer, even closer!
Thirty meters, twenty meters away, at this time, the strong men Baihu and other Ming army soldiers could clearly see the specific features of the half-grown men on the opposite side.
The oldest of these half-grown men are estimated to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the youngest are even only fourteen or fifteen years old. Many of them have not even fully grown up.
Moreover, many of these half-grown men had pale faces, their hands and feet were trembling, and several of them, even the warehouse managers, were wet. You didn’t need to guess to know that they must have peed their pants out of fear.
How could these people be my opponents?
Hundreds of strong men and many other Ming soldiers seemed to have seen them, and they were like wolves among sheep, and they slaughtered them.
The ferocious smiles on their faces grew even brighter!
However, at this moment, he heard a loud shout from the opposite side: "Shoot!"
Before he knew what the word meant, he heard a dense banging sound, a bit like the sound of firecrackers, or even the sound of frying beans.
This sound is weird!
But when this thought first came to his mind, he felt as if he had been hit hard on his chest. The huge impact knocked his whole body down. As he fell, he looked down at his chest and saw that he
The goggles on his chest had actually been punched with a big hole!
How can this be?
Could it be that he was hit and was going to die?
But how is this possible? With those weird-shaped firecrackers on the opposite side, and those half-grown men with no hair at all?
He doesn't understand and he is unwilling!
But even if he was unwilling, he could feel the power inside his body draining away rapidly. He couldn't even open his eyes after falling to the ground. Darkness enveloped him from all directions. At this time, he couldn't even feel pain.