Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 138 Hanging ([-])

Seeing this kind of momentum, any troops of the Qianhu Guard in Nanyang Guard should throw down their weapons and run for their lives. Unfortunately, Wuyang Qianhu Guard is an exception.The more than 1000 people under Yang Menglong's command have all fought bloody battles with Jiannu in Dingxing, and they have also seen the terrifying momentum of Jiannu cavalry when they charged into battle. Not enough to watch.Yang Menglong made a gesture, the trumpeter understood, and blew the bugle. The pikemen squatted down in unison, their gun barrels stuck on the ground, and the point of their guns pointed obliquely at the galloping horses. .The horizontal swordsmen raised their strong bows and passed the pikemen, standing in a row before the spear forest, bending their bows and setting arrows, and their step bows stretched like a full moon.Due to the lack of manpower, these horizontal swordsmen had to work as archers part-time. Their bows were mulberry bows with relatively simple workmanship, but their bow strength was not weak. Arrows from a bow are deadly.

The horse bandits roared loudly, brandished their knives and axes, their faces were distorted and fierce.Behind them, thousands of bandits ran wildly, trying to catch up with the horse bandits. However, it was too difficult for this rabble to coordinate on foot and cavalry. The distance between the two was really not that small.

Xue Siming had already dismounted, drew the special red bow, and shouted: "Press your finger and shoot their horses!"

The horse bandits were only seventy steps away from them, and their sparse arrows pierced through the air, sticking in front of the army formation.Their ability to ride bows is too poor, and seventy steps is too far for them to shoot people.

Xue Siming shouted: "Let it go!"

Hundreds of horizontal swordsmen let go of their fingers at the same time, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!The bowstring trembled, and the triangular arrow shot out. The horse bandit who rushed to the front only saw countless cold stars flying towards him, and then people turned their backs on their backs. Many people and their horses were shot into hedgehogs. The horse bandits in the row were almost wiped out!Before the first wave of arrow rain fell, the second wave came roaring again. The sharp arrows fell like slanting rain. The bandits screamed and screamed loudly. I don't know how many people fell to the ground after being shot , How many wounded horses galloped sexually, trampling their own people into flesh!The gang of horizontal swordsmen turned a blind eye to all this, and only focused on drawing arrows, hanging strings, drawing bows, and releasing arrows. Their accuracy still needs to be improved, but with the team tacit understanding honed in these months of training, as well as With such strength that cannot be underestimated, firing hundreds of mountain mulberry bows at the same time is still very scary.Archers are like this, unless they are sharpshooters like Yang Youji and Li Guang, it is difficult for a single archer to exert their power, but once the number increases, it will be terrible. After shooting these seven rounds of arrows, he immediately retreated into the army formation without any desire to fight. At this time, the invincible horse bandit was already killed and injured, and even the white-fronted tiger was shot by an arrow. .Fortunately, it didn't go deep into the flesh, it just hung on the arm, and the blood was flowing.He couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly, but he saw people falling down from front to back, left, and right. Many men who were good at galloping and shooting had no chance to shoot an arrow, and they were shot over.He has been in Nanyang for more than ten years, and he has always only been watched by officers and soldiers. When did he suffer such a big loss?Those big and big eyes were already bloodshot, and there was a beast-like roar from his throat, he wanted to kill all these hateful officers and soldiers!

The archers of the officers and soldiers had already retreated into the formation, and the spear formation was so densely packed that it was impossible to attack.However, the white-fronted tiger had no chance to worry about how to chew down this hedgehog-like spear array, because he suddenly saw, just twenty steps away, dark red tongues of flame burst out from behind the spearmen, and the spears The sound was as dense as popping beans, and a terrible thought flashed through his mind:

No, there are still musketeers ambushing in the army formation!
There were indeed musketeers, but they were not in ambush, but they were already in the army formation.These musketeers set up the brackets early, loaded the lead and gunpowder, and the horizontal swordsman finished shooting seven rounds of arrows, retreated into the army formation and squatted down, giving them the shooting range. At this time, the horse bandits left them. It's only twenty paces away, so why should they be polite?Forty electric guns fired at the same time, and the barrels of the six guns rotated rhythmically, bursting out tongues of flame more than a foot long, and the lead was densely splashed on the horse bandits, and exploded on the horses and horse bandits. Clouds of blood mist, screams can be heard endlessly, lead bullets swept by, and the horse bandit fell from the horse's back like a fallen leaf.The white-fronted tiger rushed to the front, and of course he received special attention. Three electric blunderbusses were aimed at him, and a row of [-] lead blasted towards him... The gunpowder smoke cleared, and this tiger was covered with holes, with Unwilling and desperate, he collapsed and was trampled into a pulp by the panicked war horses.

The horse bandits are about to cry. They have not been dealing with officers and soldiers for a day or two. From time to time, everyone comes to have the most direct and in-depth discussion. What scene have you not seen?But this time it's different, the other party has a strong bow and a musket, and they take turns serving, who can stand it!Panicked, the unorganized formation inevitably became a mess. The dense gunshots and howling lead bullets made them shattered. Everyone wanted to run back, but they crashed into a ball, and no one could escape. , bumped into Lin Li's long spears in the chaos... The spear tip made of fine steel mercilessly pierced through the bodies of the war horses and horse bandits, smashing them into sieves, and the shrill screams resounded through the night sky, It made the thousands of bandits who followed behind stand in awe!

The three hundred horse bandits were finished just like that, except that the arrows they shot wounded more than a dozen soldiers of the Wuyang Guard, and the horses that were in pain broke some spears, they failed to achieve any results.Facing this kind of hedgehog formation, those guys who don't even have cotton armor go straight into it, what else can they do except to die on the tip of the spear?Yang Menglong was heartbroken: "What a good horse, you all stabbed to death!"

Han Peng: "..."

Wang Tiehammer: "..."

Xue Siming: "..."

The three hundred horse bandits were finished like this, and the horse bandits who followed couldn't help but stand on end. In their eyes, the army formation composed of countless long spears was simply a monster that eats people and does not spit out bones. Whoever gets close will die!But now that the arrow is on the string, they have to shoot, even if they don't want to rush over, the people behind will wrap them and rush forward!Some leaders hissed and screamed: "What are you afraid of? Isn't it just more than 1000 officers and soldiers? We have fought tens of thousands of people. Will we be afraid of them? Rush forward, two or one will kill them all!" The bandit army couldn't help it. Shout out and push forward.

A horn sounded in the army formation, and more than 600 pikemen yelled in unison: "Kill!" They all stood up straight, leveled their spears, and stabbed hard at the surging wall!The spears were stabbed like reeds, the muffled sound of the spear point piercing the flesh was loud, and the screams were earth-shattering. In just a moment, hundreds of bandits had a big hole in their chests and abdomens, and blood mixed with internal organs spewed out. Come out, screaming and falling down!Before they realized what happened, the second row of spears pierced over again with a roar.The pikemen in the second row put their spears on the shoulders of the pikemen in the front row according to the training, and they didn't have to think about what they could stab. They just stabbed after the pikemen in the front row stabbed the first shot.As a result, this stab sprinkled a lot of salt on the bloody wounds of the bandits. More bandits were stabbed in the chest, throat, and face, and they fell to the ground and wailed!The bandits found desperately that they had no chance to display their extraordinary martial arts and show their extraordinary bravery. Their weapons were too short. The spear pierced their bodies!The long spears made of fine steel are no joke, not to mention that they don't wear armor, even if they wear iron armor, they can still pass through. Died on the tip of the gun, more than 600 long spears cast a cold dead line, on this dead line, corpses are stacked on top of each other, stacked five or six layers!
Guoshanliang shuddered, where did these officers and soldiers come from, why are they so terrifying!He hissed wildly: "Go around, attack from behind, attack from behind!" He saw that the officers and soldiers of Wuyang Guard only put a row of pikemen in the back. Good results.

The bandits also felt that it was too stupid to attack from the front. They simply hit the tip of the gun by themselves, and it had no effect except killing a lot of people.Amidst bursts of yelling and cursing, hundreds of bandits broke away from the battle group with swords and shields in hand, and circled towards the left wing, apparently planning to attack from behind.

Han Peng noticed the movement of the bandits and asked Yang Menglong, "They are planning to attack from behind. Do you want to change the square formation into a circular formation?"

One of the great advantages of becoming a circular formation is that the entire army formation can be evenly stressed, no place is the strongest, and no place is the weakest, no matter where the bandits fight, it is the same.That's a real dog biting a turtle with no place for its teeth.The most common tactic of the famous Spanish infantry phalanx when it encounters cavalry attacks is to turn into a circular formation. The four or five meter long spears stand up like porcupine thorns, densely packed, and it is daunting.The strength of the bandits is four times that of the Wuyang Guard. It is the best way to use a round formation for dense defense and to polish them off bit by bit.

Yang Menglong was very confident, and flatly refused: "There is no need to form a round formation, to deal with them, a row of pikemen is enough!"

In the time of two sentences, the bandits ran into them from behind screaming wildly.The pikemen in the back row expressed that my pikes were already hungry and thirsty, and shouted in unison: "Kill!" and leveled the pikes.However, the row of pikemen was about two meters apart from each other, which was relatively sparse and not as close as the front. This gave the bandits a wonderful illusion that there were many openings, and their morale rose a little.

However, they immediately knew why the row of pikemen was so sparse.

The forty musketeers turned back collectively and stood among the pikemen in the back row. They didn't even use the brackets, butts on their shoulders, and pulled the trigger directly at the bandits twenty steps away.Bang bang bang!The gunshots that frightened the bandits sounded again on the north bank of the Shahe River, and the bullets were like rain!
It turns out...they lined up so sparsely to make it easier for the musketeers to fire support!
(End of this chapter)