I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

Xizhou is a city under the territory of Turkic rule, but it belongs to Gaochang State.

Gao Changguo was regarded as a vassal of the Tang Dynasty.

However, although this country learned from the Han people, it has always been shameless and unrighteous. Although King Gaochang surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, he turned around and formed an alliance with the Western Turks.

Today, it is the key to linking the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks.

Tang Jun's marching speed is not very fast.

Xizhou is 110 miles west of Yumenguan, and there are artillery. It took two days to go to the city of Xizhou.

When the Western Turks rejected Datang, they also sent a letter to Gao Changguo to prepare them for being attacked by Datang.King Gaochang was nervous for a while, but when he saw that there were only 3000 people, he immediately laughed.

In terms of national strength, Gaochang State is even better than Kucha.

Datang's march was aboveboard, and Gao Changguo's scouts easily obtained information about Datang's army.

The letters from the Western Turks did not lie, and only three thousand came from the Tang Dynasty.

Datang seemed to have become arrogant, and there were even only a hundred cavalry, but... there were some strange weapons that the scouts couldn't recognize.

Is it because of those thunders?

King Gaochang had heard about the weapon that defeated Tuyuhun, and he had already prepared for it.Isn't the sky thunder a weapon to break the city?

Then I won't fight offensive and defensive battles with you.

Aren't you few people?

I just bully you.

King Gaochang gritted his teeth and dispatched [-] cavalry—this is the most elite army in Gaochang Kingdom. If he made this choice, he would fight to the death with Datang's army.

He is not afraid of turning against Datang.

For one thing, Guanzhong is far away from Gaochang, and such a small-scale army can still afford food and grass.But if the army moves out, food and grass will be a big problem.

Secondly, he has Western Turks behind him to back him up.

If Datang wanted to attack Gaochang, he had to ask Western Turks whether to agree or not. How could Western Turks release such a dangerous place that could contain Datang to Datang.

The cavalry ran, and the dust was flying.

When the news came from the scouts, Guo Xiaoke waved his hand and asked the team to form a formation and fight the cavalry. They must have no chance of winning.

Wait for the Gaochang cavalry to approach.

Guo Xiaoke squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. The lightly armored cavalry, with their shields in their hands, seemed to be worried about whether the people of Tang Dynasty would shoot arrows.Wait for them to approach.

Guo Xiaoke waved his hand.

The 150 members of the first battalion of the Shenji Battalion, who had already loaded the ammunition, pulled the trigger, the matchlock ignited the gunpowder, and the bullets came out, but the target was not the person, but the horse under them.

The sound went to the horse to be shocked.

More than 20 feet away, this range is still too much for an arquebus, but stray bullets are relentless, and many horses and even people on horseback are still shot.

Guo Xiaoke waved again.

The 150 people in the second round fired their bullets and headed towards the Gaochang cavalry who had lost their camp.

Perhaps these elite soldiers can still remain calm.

But horses can't.

The injured horse fell down like a domino, and the uninjured horse was also frightened by the noise, panicked, and fell again.

Four rounds of musket fire brought down a large area, and many Gaochang cavalry abandoned their horses, but there was no order to retreat, so they had no choice but to continue to charge towards the Tang army.

At this time, they were less than three feet away from the Datang camp.

Not enough time to fire another round.

But Guo Xiaoke was not panicked at all, the cavalry without horses was infantry, the handover of short soldiers, the men of Tang Dynasty have never been afraid, besides, the camp of Gaochang Kingdom is already in chaos...

The remaining [-] swordsmen rushed out, and when the momentum was high, they drew their swords and slashed.

Less than half an hour.

Except for the corpses all over the floor, the remaining Gaochang soldiers fled to nowhere.

"Clean up the battlefield and heal the wounded." Guo Xiaoke pursed his lips and gave orders. Under the guard of his own soldiers, he set foot a little farther——to the battlefield where the cavalry camp was disordered.

Not many were killed by lead bullets.

Most of them fell from horseback and were trampled to death by descendants.

Seeing the blood flowing into rivers here, he couldn't help laughing. It turns out that cavalry, a big killer on the battlefield, are so easy to deal with?

The method His Majesty bestowed on me called... segmented shooting is really easy to use.

The so-called segmented shooting actually has a simpler and cruder name called "queue shooting". The common image is that a row of people half-kneel, and the remaining row or two rows of people stand behind them, shooting alternately.

It takes too long for an arquebus to fire a shot.

This alternate shooting method can better suppress firepower.

Only by going to the battlefield in person can we have more experience.

The matchlock gun is indeed a powerful weapon, but it is too bulky and can only be used for positional warfare and frontal battles. If the cavalry harass from the flanks or sneak attack, the matchlock gun may not be of much use.

Reloading ammunition takes a lot of time.

After I go back, I have to discuss this issue with His Majesty.

The battlefield was cleared, and there were less than [-] casualties. These were the injuries that occurred during the cold war. The handover of the two armies is inevitable.

This is already a terrible number.

Three thousand infantry confronted three thousand cavalry, confronted head-on, beheaded more than 800 enemies, and killed less than one hundred of them.Although nearly 800 of the [-] miles were trampled to death by their own people.

But this is a remarkable feat.

It is not considered a musket, but it can be said that the weak can defeat the strong.

"Leave one team to take care of the wounded, and the rest will continue marching, aiming at Western State."

King Gaochang was still waiting for his cavalry to crush the Tang army. The cavalry was the king on the battlefield, and even the light cavalry was not something ordinary infantry could compete with.

That thunder is certainly terrifying.

But he knew that that thing was very bulky and could only be used to attack the city.Would cavalry be afraid of trebuchets?This is the same reason.

But he never imagined...

Just when he was waiting for the victory with joy.

His proud cavalry fled back dejectedly, mostly on foot, and a few were able to ride horses.

"What's going on?" King Gaochang grabbed the general of the cavalry, widened his eyes, and asked in a panic.

There was confusion and panic in the general's eyes: "The group of Tang people are all gods, they can shoot palm thunder from fifty steps away!"

"Our horses were frightened and lost control when they heard the thunder, or were struck by lightning and fell down dead..."

"We haven't rushed to the front of the Tang army, our formation has been messed up, and countless people died under the horse."

"I waited... I could only flee in defeat, and I didn't even have a formal confrontation with the Tang army."

He didn't know it was a firearm.

Tang Jun fought with Tuyuhun, spreading false rumors, saying that Tang Jun had mastered Tianlei, and his association made him think of Palm Thunder.The sudden sound of gunshots was mistaken for thunder.

After all...with their naked eyes, they couldn't see the bullets.