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Chapter 1127 Cavalry
"General Wei, Hongchengzidun is ahead!" the scout pointed at the distant city.

"Oh?" Wei Congyi led more than a thousand bird gun cavalry, starting from Lanzhou, first upstream along the Yellow River to Hekou Town, and then upstream to Zhuanglang River.

It took Wei Congyi two days to cover a total of [-] miles before reaching the vicinity of Hongchengzi.

Wei Congyi looked up and saw that Hongchengzi was east of Zhuanglang River.

Although the city of Hongchengzi is only three miles away, the bell tower is so tall that it is very conspicuous.

There was a poem in Zhang Shun's previous life, which was called "I stand on the bridge to see the scenery, and the people who watch the scenery look at you upstairs".

Although Wei Congyi was not standing on the bridge now, he couldn't stand Lu Yunchang and others looking at him upstairs.

The bell tower of Hongchengzi is the highest place in the city, Lu Yunchang and others were warned, they had already climbed up the bell tower, watching the rebels approaching from a distance.

"Patriarch, it's suspected to be a bandit cavalry!" Lu Sheng concluded early.

"Barong, you will lead more than a thousand cavalry in a while, and teach that thief what cavalry is!" Lu Yunchang stood on the bell tower and watched for a long time, and couldn't help sneering.

He, the Lu family, was born in Mongolia and has been good at bowing horses for generations.

And Barong is one of the four surnames of Zhang, Yuan, Ba, and Man under the rule of Lien Denglu's chieftain, and his ancestor is Timur.

At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Timur fought with Gong Bu Shijie, the ancestor of the Lu family. While the former was given the surname of Lu, Timur was also given the surname of Ba. He assisted the chieftain in managing the Turkish army. Qian Zong.

"What kind of bird cavalry is this!" Barong Wenyan couldn't help laughing, "These guys are only good at riding horses, and they are put among the chieftains like us, and they are not available for herdsmen!"

Are the cavalry under Wei Congyi really so unbearable?
In fact, these people were also selected by Wei Congyi from the tribes, Tuda and some elite frontier troops brought by the empress dowager Namuzhong.

These people are also proficient in riding and shooting, they are no less than Lu's soldiers, Lu Yunchang and Ba Rong's singing is just to boost morale.

Following Lu Yunchang's order, not long after, the south gate of Hongchengzi opened, and a large group of cavalry came out.

"Who is coming, please report your name, a certain family will never die without a name!" Seeing this, Wei Congyi didn't panic at all, instead he galloped forward.

"Hmph, Lian Deng Barong!" Barong snorted coldly, and said with a sneer, "Rebellious officials and thieves, let me save your life today!"

Following Ba Rong's order, the chieftain cavalry was divided into more than ten teams with sentries.

Originally, the officers, soldiers and cavalry were formed into a formation of long snakes, but in the end they scattered into a sky full of stars, galloping back and forth.

"Okay, let's try their methods too!" Wei Congyi also gave an order, and the riders were also divided into a dozen teams and galloped.

"Kill!" Although they are all cavalry, they can't fight without rules.

These squads on both sides seem to be messy, but they are actually orderly in chaos.

These squadrons of cavalry were roughly divided into three formations, left, middle and right, and began to walk towards each other.

Hedging is impossible. Except for the special cavalry, most of the cavalry are not fools. Why do you want to play this life-and-death gambling game?

Therefore, when the two sides first contact each other, they first shoot each other with bows and projectiles, and then make plans after weakening the opponent.

Barong is very confident about this. The cavalry under his command not only has superb riding skills, but also has excellent shooting skills, and is equipped with good armor. It is not comparable to the thief who only wears a blue cloth iron armor on the opposite side. .

"Boom, boom, boom!" Wei Congyi gave an order, and the drums in the formation of the rebels rang.

"Ansai waist drum?" Ba Rong couldn't help being taken aback, he couldn't help wondering: "The thief is not a pawn, so why beat the waist drum?"
I saw the rebels face to face, and began to control the speed of the horse according to the sound of the drums, loaded the projectiles, lit the matchlock, and then took up the firecrackers and rushed towards the cavalry of the Lu family army.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps
"How can the thieves not disperse? Don't they want to charge like this?" Bao Rong was taken aback, wondering.

It turns out that cavalry fighters need to disperse into large formations and disperse into small groups to shoot at each other.

As a result, although the rebel army had been divided into small groups, they did not disperse, but continued to approach Lu's cavalry.

The speed of these cavalry is not fast, and the consumption of horsepower is not very large.

"Shoot!" As Wei Congyi pushed down the horse in his hand, the drummer beside him stopped beating the drumsticks, and the continuous drumbeat stopped suddenly.

"Bang bang bang" just stopped, the rebel cavalry who had been aiming for half a day quickly moved the trigger in their hands.

The distance between the two sides was only [-] to [-] steps, and before they were within the range of the cavalry bow, the firecracker cavalry of the rebel army fired.

"Ah!" The officers, soldiers and cavalry were caught off guard, and immediately thirty or fifty people were shot off their horses.

The iron armor on those cavalrymen was almost like paper, and they couldn't withstand the shooting of the rebels' new guns at all.

"Rush, rush forward!" Startled Rong, and then reacted.

Bird gun cavalry? ,

Although the bird guns of the rebel army are more powerful, it's not like he hasn't seen this thing before.

Where is the reloading speed of firecrackers faster than that of bow cavalry?

As long as the Lu family's elite cavalry rushed forward, they would still be hanging and fighting!
"Abandon the blunderbuss and change the gun!" Wei Congyi snorted coldly, leveled Ma Qiang and said.

The tactics originally conceived by the rebels were to shoot with firecrackers first, then switch to bows and arrows, and finally charge with lances.

After training, Wei Congyi found that it would be better to fire a volley of firecrackers first, and then charge with a spear, so he changed the tactical regulations.

"Come on!" The dense drums sounded like a torrential rain, and the thump thud sounded again. This was the charge order of the rebel cavalry.

"What's going on? Hurry up, disperse!" Startled Rong, he couldn't help but ordered, and quickly changed the spear in his hand, leading the guards around him and rushed up.

Are you kidding me, how can any cavalry charge and fight hand-to-hand as soon as they come up?

In fact, this time, Rong's command was wrong.

According to the usual combat habits, whether it is a cavalry battle or a hedging, it is a corresponding way to deal with it.

For example, originally preparing to fight, but the opponent rushed over, the cavalry scattered left and right to avoid the enemy, and then followed behind, which turned into a two-way fight.

It's just that the range and power of the firecrackers of the rebel army far surpassed that of the officers, soldiers and cavalry. This sudden situation made him subconsciously order the cavalry to approach the rebel army to fight.

As a result, it was never expected that the enemy suddenly abandoned their guns and replaced them with guns. The order that seemed to have no problems at all suddenly became a military order for soldiers to "suicide".

The distance between the two sides is already very close. How difficult is it to order the cavalry to avoid it at this time?
"No!" Especially the cavalry who faced the rebel cavalry and the middle army were the first to bear the brunt.

The left and right wings are full of cavalry, where is there a place to hide?
Under all desperation, it aroused the ferocity of these people.

"Fight with them!" Some soldiers couldn't bear it, and they couldn't help abandoning their bows and grabbing their spears, trying to exchange their lives with the rebels.

However, when the rebels approached each other, they began to approach each other, forming a dense formation ready to charge.

The officers, soldiers and cavalry began to distance themselves from each other when the two sides were walking towards each other, and were ready to fight. How could they resist the rebels?

Not only is the formation like this, but the speed of the two sides is also not the same.

The physical strength of war horses is limited, so when you are riding and shooting, you need to adjust the speed of the horse so that you can shoot smoothly.

The charge is different. The horse needs to go from slow to fast, and try to use a gradual acceleration method so that the horse can reach extreme speed at the moment when the two sides are fighting.

After going back and forth like this, how can the officers, soldiers and cavalry be spared?
(End of this chapter)