Seeing a large group of armed bandits appearing behind their troops, Fang Dongquan and the others did not know that this group must be the same group as the bandits on the opposite side.
Otherwise, how could they have appeared here so coincidentally and rushed out at such a critical moment?
Was ambushed!
This was Fang Dongquan's first thought. At this time, his face was a little dark. He and his group wanted to ambush the bandits on the opposite side, but they did not expect that the other side would instead ambush themselves.
From this we can also draw a conclusion, that is, they must have discovered the hiding place of their own people a long time ago, so they sent people to ambush nearby in advance.
These bandits are not simple. At least they are much smarter than the Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village and other bandits they fought in the past. They even know how to ambush.
The Huangzhushan bandits have always used sneak attacks to ambush other enemies. The only time they made a mistake was when they were almost deceived by the Ming army and ran into the main force of the Ming army. However, that time the Huangzhushan bandits also used an extraordinary strategy.
With the ability to retreat, they immediately ran away as soon as they noticed something was wrong. Although they lost more than a hundred civilian prisoners and a large amount of food during that escape, the Huangzhushan bandits themselves suffered no losses.
Therefore, strictly speaking, these bandits in Huangzhushan can proudly claim that they have never been ambushed.
However, this time, these bandits succeeded in setting a trap for them, and it was also an ambush.
At this moment, Fang Dongquan's face turned dark. At this moment, his first thought was to shout Feng Jia Hu Hu.
But a closer look revealed that the number of people in the ambush on the other side was no more than forty, and the enemy troops in front were no more than a hundred. More importantly, these bandits were not the Ming army. They did not have neat formations and a large number of standard weapons.
If he was ambushed by the Ming army, Fang Dongquan would definitely run away with as many people as possible without saying a word.
But these are just ordinary bandits!
At this time, Fang Dong gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Stop the whole army and form a phalanx!"
Since the opponent's strength is not very strong, and our own troops far exceed the opponent's, there is absolutely no reason to just run away without fighting.
Following Fang Dongquan's order, Huang Xueren, Wang Shanxu and others began to organize manpower to switch to defensive square formations. At this time, the complete and orderly formation showed its effect.
The soldiers, led by their corps commanders and captains, quickly trotted and then began to form a tight formation!
At the same time, senior generals such as Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren continued to boost morale, preventing the soldiers from becoming confused or even fleeing.
You must know that among the more than 300 people, except for the original 90 or so soldiers of the Guards who performed better, the remaining 200 people are ordinary people, especially hundreds of them who just joined a month ago.
Selected from ordinary villagers in Huangzhushan, the morale of these people is still relatively low.
Fortunately, most of the recruits are selected from the villagers who have recently joined Huangzhushan, rather than the old bandits in the past. So although they are all scared now, many of them have begun to tremble in their hands and feet and are timid.
They even started to pee their pants, but these originally cowardly villagers did not dare to escape directly under the orders of those fierce officers.
Instead, we started to form a formation honestly!
At this time, Fang Dongquan was still shouting: "There are only more than a hundred of them, and we are three times as many as them. When we fight, we will only have three people beating one of them, and we will definitely beat the shit out of them!"
If you want to maintain your position during this critical period of buying an ambush, you must increase the confidence of these soldiers and let them know that they have an absolute advantage in strength.
Having more people on your side always makes it easier for people to feel more secure.
When the bandits in Huangzhushan began to form a panic, Leader Li also rushed forward with his men, because at this time, the partial division under his command had already rushed forward. He planned to press forward from two directions at the same time and give him a blow.
The greatest psychological pressure on the enemy.
According to his prediction, in this case, even if the opponent's number is twice as many as his own, as long as the chaos fails, it will definitely end in complete collapse.
As long as the enemy's army is in chaos, you can win this battle completely.
Yes, he never expected to defeat Huang Zhushan's troops in a head-on battle. All he wanted was to cause chaos to Huang Zhushan's troops through an ambush.
As long as the opponent is in a mess, the next thing will be much simpler. If you catch up and slash twice, you can win a big victory. By then, Huang Zhushan's foundation will not be in your pocket.
But can his idea be realized?
If he encounters an ordinary bandit gang, even if he encounters the Huangzhushan troops from before, his strategy will have a great chance of success, because based on the quality of the previous standing army of the Tang Dynasty, in such a situation,
Even if Fang Dongquan and the others were suppressing them, they could not stop those veteran bandits from trying to escape.
Once the veteran bandits start running away, it means that the entire army has collapsed.
However, now the army under Fang Dongquan is no longer the standing army before, but a brand new army formed with the Guards as the core and a large number of pure recruits. This new army of the Tang Dynasty may not be as good as those in terms of personal physical fitness and martial arts.
Old bandits, but as an army, they are much stronger than those old bandits.
At least they could form an array while trembling instead of running away directly.
The formation change of the new army of the Tang Dynasty takes time, especially the newly formed teams, which are relatively slow to change. However, there are exceptions here, and that is the First Musket Team of which Wang Shanxu is the captain.
They were originally on the edge of the right wing, and most of the musketeers in this musketeers were musketeers from the Guards era. Although they were young, they had been training for more than half a year, and they were
I have participated in several actual battles.
The soldiers of the First Musketeers can be called veterans!
Under the command of Wang Shanxu, these thirty-odd musketeers turned quickly. When the bandits rushed about fifty meters in front of them, they had completed the formation change. Thirty-six musketeers formed
Three columns.
As Wang Shanxu commanded the sword without hesitation, the musketeers in the first column pulled the trigger without hesitation, followed by the second column and the third column.
As three rows of guns fired past, thick white smoke was already rising in front of the first musketeer team. The musketeers could not see the specific situation of the enemy behind the white smoke. They could only follow the team's instructions.
Continue loading according to the commander's instructions.
In the first musketry team, only Wang Shanxu could see the specific casualties of the opponent. He took advantage of his height while riding a horse and clearly saw that seven or eight people of the opponent had fallen after his three rounds of volleys.