stubborn thief

Chapter 352 Rope
The river valley was watered with blood, and the edge of Yanyue Knife sliced ​​across the front of each army formation, slashing towards Wang Chengen.

No one launched a charge, and the assault of the infantry formation was a spearman under the cover of the sword and shield hand, taking big strides forward slowly, like two shouting giants colliding with each other while moving slowly.

Before the impact, the three-eyed guns of the Lintao Frontier Army sounded first. Although they suffered heavy blows when the enemy marched, and hundreds of people retreated in horizontal formations, they were still able to organize their firearms in an orderly manner before hand-to-hand combat. projection.

But this is not a threat. The biggest feature of Liu Chengzong's formation of the training camp is that it has a complete Ming army cavalry artillery unit and grassroots military leaders. They can skillfully use the Ming army's tactics and can also discover targeted tactics.

As for the ability of a few battalions to form a large formation, it is almost zero, which means that the army's shortcomings of not being able to fight a big battle also exist in the Marshal's Mansion; but the Ming Army's excellent performance in small-scale wars has been strengthened in the Marshal's Mansion.

Their tactics are the same, nothing more than changing the timing and method of using tactics.

The cavalry of the Ming army launched an attack at 150 steps, and the horse soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion waited for him to [-] steps. After hitting [-] steps, they not only have the strength to collide with you, but also have the horsepower to chase you.

It takes a long time for the infantry column of the Ming army to change to a horizontal team, but it only takes two-thirds of the time for the infantry column of the Marshal's Mansion to change to a horizontal team, and the extra time can beat you for two more rounds.

Even the shield, the leather shield of the Marshal's Mansion, is specially added with a thin layer of iron in front, and the acceptance criterion is that it can defend against the three-eyed gun at twenty paces.

Pieces of gunpowder smoke sounded in front of the formation, followed by the sound of piercing through the air, and short spears pierced through the gunpowder smoke and nailed into the phalanx of the Lintao Army.

In the shortest time, the sword and shield hand threw out the two short spears he was carrying, and then quickly engaged the spearman with the waist knife in his hand.

The two armies finally entered into hand-to-hand combat. People used the same horizontal formation, the same standard weapons, and even the same tactics to form a group.

Lin Tao's sword and shield hand wanted to roll under the spear and approached quickly, and then collided with the opposite sword and shield hand who was also planning to roll in. Both sides stabbed at each other with their waist knives at the same time, and also blocked the pierced waist knife with their shields.

Wang Chengen, who was watching the battle from the rear, clenched his fists tightly. He discovered the characteristics of the enemy army. All the things he did were listed in the drills, but the way to complete them was not according to the drills.

Three years ago, under the city of Luanzhou, Gushan Erzhen Turge led the Eastern Tartars to give him this feeling. The Eastern Tartars pushed the northern chariot out from the south gate and used the chariot to fight Fight them.

The only difference is that the wooden boards of the Ming army's chariots are six inches thick to block the Mongols' arrows, while the wooden boards of the Donglu chariots are six inches thick to block their guns.

On the ever-changing battlefield, Wang Chengen, the leader of the Lintao Frontier Army, had a thought for no reason flashed in his mind. If this army of Xikou targeting the Ming army fought against the army of Eastern captives targeting the Ming army, what would happen on the battlefield?
But before he could continue to delve into this idea, the battle situation on the front line had already interrupted his fantasy. The two sides fought for only a moment, and the centurions under his command were retreating one by one in the close combat.

The enemy army was almost chasing the retreating formation and collided with the formation of the second echelon.

This was not a big problem in previous wars. In the past, Lintao soldiers were always faster than bandit soldiers to form and change formations. His army formation was completed first, so he would not be dragged away by his opponent.

And the previous opponent was not as reckless as Wang Wenxiu.

Because Wang Wenxiu did not leave a reserve team, the [-]-hundred corps changed to the width of two horizontal formations, and the strength of both sides was the same. If Wang Chengen wanted to avoid being surrounded, he also needed to become two horizontal formations.

That said, he also has no reserves.

There is a big problem with the retreat of the front line.

Wang Chengen hastily ordered his general Zhang Tianlu to return from the front line and gather the retreating defeated soldiers in the rear; at the same time, he ordered He Yongji and other local soldiers to attack the enemy's left flank in a hurry.

He saw the weakness of the Marshal's Mansion's army. Their central army was actually out of touch with the three army formations on the two wings. Although the main general's offensive was fierce, he did not have the ability to command the three formations at the same time.

As long as the enemy's left wing is captured, the semi-encirclement can still be completed... To be honest, Wang Chengen has a bit of the feeling that the Houjin army defeated the Ming army in Liaodong.

He Yongji's face turned green after receiving the order, he didn't dare to attack!

Opposite him is Liu Chengyun. Liu Guoneng has placed a stone artillery mine in front of the battle line. Who dares to charge forward with this thing?

The Chinese army was battling, but the right wing of the officers and soldiers hadn't engaged in battle yet, and it wasn't even close enough to shoot with a three-eyed blunderbuss, so they could only shoot with longbows and crossbows from a distance.

He Yongji offered rewards to the native soldiers twice, and recruited warriors to form a death squad, and went to the front with a large shield to pull out the fuse, but the stone cannon exploded as soon as several teams rushed to the front.

Some stone cannons were blown up, and some stones were of better quality, like a big stone sprayer, spraying a piece of scattered gravel into the formation of death squads.

The death squads were organized twice, except for laying down dozens of people in front of the formation, they did not achieve any results at all.

It is no longer possible to recruit daredevils.

He Yongji's request back to the Chinese army was to dispatch artillery. As long as the artillery passed by, according to the appearance of the army on the opposite side, he could use the artillery to smash them into the first attack.

But Wang Chengen's cannons... His cannons are all in front of the formation, and the front of the formation is actually behind Wang Wenxiu's army formation.

Wang Wenxiu's flying geese formation was like a mad dog, catching any opening and biting it to death. One after another, the small hundred people lined up with high morale, pressed forward at every step, and did not dodge or dodge in close combat, but the Lintao soldiers did not dare to follow them Injury for injury.

Because the weapons of this group of people are all rushing towards non-critical areas, which makes the Lintao soldiers very desperate... It took me a long time before the battle to protect the vital points with limited armor, so why don't you hit the vital points?
Really, except for the mistakes, the soldiers in the training infantry battalion didn't hit the vitals.

However, those non-critical parts of the Lintao soldiers were almost unprotected by armor plates, and they were very efficient in fighting, and they lost their combat effectiveness when they were hit.

These are the key points of combat taught by Liu Chengzong to his cronies in the early days. They are all frontier soldiers and know where the frontier soldiers will choose to protect when their armor is limited.

This made the armor of the Lintao soldiers, like a cloth jacket in front of the infantry of the Marshal's Mansion, easy to wear through.

On the contrary, the cotton armor worn by the infantrymen of the Marshal's Mansion was full of armor pieces in the active battles in Shanxi and Shanxi, and it had good protection ability in fighting; Has pretty good protection.

This is a situation that only occurs when armaments are depleted. An army wearing light armor can bring a huge morale blow to an army wearing dark armor.

Everyone can see the quality of the bright armor, but only you know whether the dark armor is good or not.

Army formations were defeated one after another, and the Marshal's Mansion army formation that penetrated into the gap was not comfortable. It had to face attacks from three sides at the same time, but the Lintao soldiers who were still maintaining the front line were also uncomfortable, and they also had to face threats from two or even three sides.

The front lines of the two armies were intertwined, and those who fought in front of the battle most tested their will to fight, but at this moment, the sound of rumbling hoofs came from their left flanks.

It was Zhong Hu who was covered in blood.

More than a thousand Nanshan soldiers under his command penetrated the soldiers on the left wing of the official army in the shortest time, and did not pursue after driving the remnants of them from the battlefield. , moving across the battlefield to the rear of the officers and troops.

Compared with Wang Wenxiu, a member of the Central Army of the Marshal's Mansion, and Liu Chengyun, a member of the Left Wing, Zhong Hu's official position is lower, and he is not an officer.

He and his younger brother Zhong Bao were the ones who were better than Liu Chengzong when the lion camp was reorganized in Shanxi in the early days. They have been Liu Shizi's servants since then, and they have never been a grassroots officer. Their first official position was the post chief.

He has never led soldiers in any battles, but people know that he is brave and not afraid of death, because this post chief was bought by Zhong Hu in exchange for Liu Shizi's bullet when Liu Shizi joined forces with Shangtian Monkey in the night battle against Liuguo Town in Libei's other department. .

People believe in their own strengths, the resourceful believe in their wits, and the brave and brave also believe in their martial arts.

Although the [-] Nanshan soldiers rode donkeys and mules and carried infantry spears that were only five meters long, Zhong Hu led them to form a sharp formation of ten cavalry soldiers two rows in front and back, and gathered towards Wang Chengen's rear. The defeated general Zhang Tianlu launched an attack.

The Lintao soldiers who had just been withdrawn from the front line were being formed into a reserve team by Zhang Tianlu. Before they were familiar with the new commander, they were frightened by the donkey and mule team rushing towards them. Seven or eight hundred people were forced to squeeze together, relying on the instinct of the veterans to spontaneously form four Scattered troops.

Veterans are not afraid of donkeys, unless they are a group of Guanzhong donkeys who have experienced battles for a long time.

Sixty Nanshan soldiers led by the head of the team formed a cavalry formation as the first batch to attack. When they found that the enemy had formed an formation during the march, they went back in a circle and broke the infantry spears.

Then they launched another attack, throwing broken spears into the formation every ten steps, drew out bows and arrows wrapped around the formation and started riding and shooting.

The second, third, and fourth, more and more donkey and mule cavalry were galloping left and right behind the Lintao army. Some Nanshan soldiers stabbed at the enemy line when they saw an opportunity, and broke the infantry spears and threw them out when they had no chance. Take out the bow and arrow and shoot.

In fact, in terms of the combat effectiveness of these donkey and mule cavalry, the infantry spears in their hands have a much greater impact than the donkey and mule cavalry under their crotches.

The rifle is one foot and five feet, which is [-] meters; while the riding spear is one foot and eight feet, which is [-] meters. This determines that the horse is charged with the rifle, and the enemy holds the rifle on the ground. Will kill the cavalry first.

At the same time, the mule and mule cavalry don't have straps on the spear body and tail, which determines that Zhonghu's donkey and mule cavalry cannot take out bows and arrows while holding the rifle.

So once they have no chance to attack, they can only either abandon the spear, or break it and throw it as a one-time weapon.

Fortunately, the spear shafts are very ordinary round shafts, and it doesn't hurt to break them. If it is a long weapon such as a knife and axe, it is really not willing to break the pole with an oval cross-section made to distinguish the direction.

Wang Chengen looked at the back and frowned. Does Liu Chengzong have a donkey cavalry?

Seeing that he couldn't find Zhang Tianlu, who was serving as a reserve team for him to gather the defeated soldiers, he immediately pointed to Zhong Hu who was leading the army behind him, and said to Shi Chongde, an officer beside him who had just retreated from the front line: "Mr. kill him!"

Shi Chongde was the commander of Lintao Guard, he was a brave general, he was the commander in chief of the Lintao Battalion.

Along the way, donkey and mule cavalry gave way one after another... Donkey and mule cavalry can maneuver quickly, but they are at a great disadvantage compared to serious cavalry, and no one wants to confront them head-on.

But Zhong Hu is not afraid, he is not even afraid of blocking a gun, let alone fighting someone immediately.

Seeing a general rushing out from the center of the enemy army and leading twenty or thirty cavalry, Zhong Hu immediately called to the left and right two teams of donkey and mule cavalry to fight, and he himself rushed towards the enemy with his rifles straightened.

On Shi Chongde's side, a few of the cavalry shot left and right in the attack, and they ran too fast to hit anyone. When Zhong Hu's hundreds of cavalry approached, they flew over with a row of spears, and several of them immediately fell off their horses.

Then the mule team and the donkey team rushed forward bravely, echoing back and forth, left and right, and Zhong Hu rushed straight towards the enemy general, shouting: "Spur the horse!"

As soon as the words fell, Shi Chongde picked him off the donkey after only one round.

Almost at the same time, the donkey cavalry following Zhong Hu also launched a frontal charge to all the rushing servants, and then most of them were picked off the donkeys, and only a few were still riding on the backs of the donkeys.

But the same thing is that Lintao camp general Shi Chongde and his subordinates were also picked down.

Shi Chongde charged their men, and Zhong Hu charged their horses. Some cavalry reacted wrongly, but more people were stabbed down by shorter spears first because of their obsession with stabbing people. Shi Chongde was one of them.

When he got up from the ground again, the mule cavalry beside him flicked his bones. Even though he was wearing a helmet, he was still knocked to pieces, twisted and knocked to the ground.

But Zhong Hu rolled on the ground as if nothing happened, got up, drew out the Yanling knife from his waist, and led the cavalry to continue to attack the enemy's infantry.

At the same time, the Lintao Army's front-line resisting formation was finally disintegrated due to the attack on the front and back. The front formed by each formation loosened and disintegrated.

When the line of the first marshal's mansion was prominent, Wang Cheng'en's line of the Lintao Army collapsed completely, and each army involuntarily moved closer to the right wing He Yongji.

There are [-] soldiers of He Yongji on the right wing, but those [-] soldiers hardly participated in the battle, they just shot arrows at Chengyun's army formation from a distance. The army's formation disintegrated, and the fighting spirit disappeared in an instant, and the entire division collapsed eastward.

Wang Chengen was so angry that he cursed at the street, so he had to lead his army to fight and retreat eastward.

Watching the speed of the hundreds of generals under his command suddenly accelerate, Wang Wenxiu finally saw the dawn of victory beckoning to him, and immediately ordered the first large horizontal team of fifteen hundred generals to take off their armor and rest, and the second horizontal team behind them went into pursuit. .

Wang Wenxiu asked someone to send an order to the soldiers of Zhong Hu's department who stayed behind: "Tell them to go back to the medical craftsman camp, and pull out the medical craftsman camp, and they must bring a rope!"

He needed a lot of ropes, there were wounded Lintao soldiers lying on the ground, many of them could still be saved, and many of them had lost their will to fight and would surrender in the next pursuit.

"These are all good soldiers of the Generalissimo. Even if you don't want to surrender and want to take the money home, you have to let the Generalissimo see them! Bring a lot of rope, fast!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
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