"Firearms ready!"

Wang Shouren waved the flag in his hand again.

While the second round of volley is still being prepared, the volley gun on hand needs to be used now.

Whether it was the flint gun provided by Zhang Zhou or the matchlock gun brought by the soldiers, they were all in hand at this time.

Their crossbows were also prepared.

As the distance between the two sides further narrowed to less than 200 meters, the tribal cavalry began to bend their bows and set arrows. However, the effective range of the bows and arrows was only about a hundred steps. They were still making preparations at this time and did not intend to release them immediately.

However, although the effective range of the matchlock guns, flint muskets, etc. of the Ming Dynasty was only about a hundred steps, their penetrating power was much stronger than that of bows and arrows fired by human power.

"boom!"

Sporadic, there is still the sound of artillery firing.

But it was not the second round of cannon, but the misfiring of the first round of cannon that had been modified with a fuse.

This can no longer cause effective damage to the enemy formation.

"put!"

"Bang bang bang..."

The volley of guns started firing almost a hundred meters before the tribal cavalry leader approached the Ming Dynasty position.

The fire blunderbuss in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty emitted a coquettish red and blue light. With the sound of the gun, the first row of tribal cavalry was not surprised, and was almost beaten into a sieve.

At the same time, the loading of ammunition for the Ming Dynasty's artillery platoon was basically completed. The gunners were trained repeatedly in the Beijing camp. After completing the loading, all they had to do was to fire the second cannon and try to disrupt the situation.

The enemy's formation.

"kill!"

By this time, Wang Shouren's three opening axes had been used up.

The artillery is mainly suppressing the middle and rear formations of the tribal cavalry. What he has to do now is to gather the long snake formation to form a pocket, and surround the three to four thousand tribal cavalry from all directions.

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The hand-to-hand combat began.

Wang Shouren did not back down at this time, and Ma Yi led a group of men and horses to start a horse battle with the Tatars from both sides.

This was a scene that rarely happened after Jingtai. In the border battles in the past few decades, the combat logic of both sides was not this kind of fighting on horseback, but more like a tacit understanding of harassment in which you advance and I retreat.

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But this time it was a head-to-head bloody battle.

The number of troops dispatched by both sides seemed small, but the brutality was no less than any other battle.

The Ming side had the geographical advantage, that is, it was in a commanding position. Coupled with the support of volleys of guns and artillery, it had an absolute advantage from the very beginning of the war.

It is also related to the fact that the men and horses left behind on the other side are mainly old, weak, sick and disabled. They could initially show the brave and fighting side of the prairie tribe cavalry, but faced with such powerful firearm suppression from the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the high morale of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and their fearless spirit of death.

, then the Ming Dynasty's long snake formation gathered into a pocket formation, and they felt that there were soldiers from the Ming Dynasty in all directions.

What's even more terrible is...the Chinese army's dragon flag formation where Wang Shouren is located also has the flint musket given to him by Zhang Zhou.

During the battle, the fire gun soldiers raised their hands and could knock down a tribal cavalry wearing armor from thirty or forty paces away with one shot. Even this kind of single-person kill created a great deterrent effect.

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This will make the tribal cavalry suspicious.

Are we fighting against people?

Why can soldiers of the Ming Dynasty use such magical methods to kill people? But we can only use bows and arrows and sabers?

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The war progressed very quickly.

After the two sides fought, the tribal cavalry showed signs of decline. It was also because Wang Shouren did not send troops to make a surprise attack and was waiting for work. After the battle began, although the men were sleepy, the horses were not tired, and the battle in the battle formation was more flexible.

The use of flint muskets also laid a great foundation for Wang Shouren's Chinese army, allowing him to use a few hundred soldiers to stabilize the Chinese army's formation and prevent the tribal cavalry from being scattered and defeated at once.

When the Ming Dynasty's long snake formation attacked like scissors, the pressure on Wang Shouren's central army was basically gone.

The task of the Chinese army was just to strangle forward, like a meat grinder. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty charged all the way, and the sabers in their hands were sharper than the opponent's... After all, this was the essence of Zhang Zhou's craftsmanship.

Steel alloy knives are mass-produced. It is an exaggeration to say that they are indestructible, but when it comes to chopping melons and vegetables when the battlefield situation is advantageous, there is no problem at all.

With the confrontation.

The tribal cavalry already felt that they were unable to support themselves, and the cavalry behind them began to break away from the battle formation.

The Fire Sieve headquarters does not only have one tribe, but is also composed of various small and medium-sized tribes. Even if they are the same tribe, there will be regional differences. In the absence of clan blood relations, they cannot be united in attack and defense.

It is precisely because we can share wealth and honor but not share adversity. When the war goes well, all the people in the army charge into battle together and make achievements. When they encounter defeat, each tribe and small group also has its own small calculations.

Although they were also protecting their tribesmen behind them at this time, facing such a powerful expeditionary force from the Ming Dynasty, all they could do was to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible, escort their tribesmen to escape as much as possible, and let others come out to resist them

, let others die...

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The sun rises further.

The battle on the hillside was almost coming to an end when the volley of artillery fired again.

At this time, all the people in the Ming Dynasty were divided into four groups.

Two groups completed the cleaning of the battlefield, and the other two groups rushed directly into the tent that could not be seen to the end.

Inside the camp, it was no longer the peaceful pastoral, nor the joyful family carnival, but a strangulation like hell. After the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty entered, the first thing they faced were the tribes who were holding weapons and resisting.

Men, they will be swept off their horses and beheaded without even having to deliberately chop off their heads, because there are countless heads waiting for them.

There were about six to seven hundred tribal cavalry left, and they fled directly to the north.

Wang Shouren did not give the order to pursue him. His mission was to cover the entire Weining Sea in front of him.

"brush!"

At this point, Wang Shouren pulled out a sword that looked a bit old and did not look like it could be used on the battlefield.

That sword was gifted to him by the Wang family. It was the sword that Wang Yue used to command his troops during the surprise attack on Weininghai.

"Sacrifice to Marquis Weining! Kill!"

After Wang Shouren commanded the remaining tribal cavalry to be strangled on the battlefield, he raised his sword.

When he called out the name "Marquis Weining", the surrounding Ming soldiers' blood boiled with excitement.

They will naturally think that...the path they are taking and what they are doing are exactly what Weining Hou Wang Yue accomplished back then. This year is the day when Weining Hou just passed away. The Ming Dynasty frontier army was plunged into sorrow.

Wang Weining is still highly regarded by everyone in the army, and the current war has an extra layer of meaning.

That is to inherit Wang Weining's legacy, fight on the battlefield, and promote the power of the Ming Dynasty soldiers.

What fear of death, what timidity, what interests...

Under the influence of this kind of pride, it seems that it no longer exists.

Wang Shouren was like a battlefield orator, instantly capturing the hearts of these soldiers. They just wanted to follow Wang Shouren and rush into the enemy's formation to repeat the achievements of Wang Weining.

"kill!"

There were not many soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

But at this time, it seemed like a tide, pouring into the camps on the north bank of Weining Sea unstoppably. The camps that stretched for twenty or thirty miles seemed to be undefended.
Chapter completed!