After hearing the order, the more than two hundred soldiers escorting the army began to move. The entire army formation seemed a bit turbulent and chaotic for a while.

However, in the eyes of Pang Lun and the rebel leaders, this has turned into fear on the other side, which makes them even more proud and carefree.

Pang Lun then waved his hand, and the war drums in the army were immediately beaten, and hundreds of rebel soldiers attacked the Ming army on the opposite side in a sparse formation.

It's not because they don't know how to arrange troops that they formed such a bad formation. It's just that every soldier wants to be the first to rush into the city to rob, and they don't cooperate with each other. The random soldiers on the left and right wings

Constantly squeezing the already unorganized Chinese army, Pang Lun did not dare to restrain these soldiers at all.

Stimulated by money, women and food, these soldiers had no supplies at all and relied on plundering all the way. Although they were undisciplined, they were full of momentum and kept making strange noises.

In the formation of the escort army, Zhou Shixian looked at the momentum on the opposite side with the same disdain. With such a formation, he also wanted to defeat his elite escort?

He had to fight this battle. Pang Lun wanted to rely on this battle to gain the prestige to suppress his subordinates. Similarly, Zhou Shixian also wanted to use this battle to establish his absolute authority in the escort team.

The rebel soldiers quickly entered a hundred steps, and the chaotic formation made it impossible to give full play to their three times strength advantage. The soldiers in front were almost the same as Zhou Shixian's army, which only had more than 200 troops.

The soldiers at the front were holding more than a dozen shields, which could not even completely cover the charging soldiers in the first row. The armor on those soldiers was not complete, and some even had no armor on them.

However, as the distance between the two armies got closer, a burst of crazy shouts suddenly broke out from the rebel army, and their morale was immediately boosted. More than 700 people rushed forward like a tide, rushing towards the escorting army.

"Archers, prepare!" Zhang Hong stared closely at the rioters who had entered the 70th step. The archers in the formation had already taken out the big arrows from their arrow holders, and pointed at the rioters in the front row and drew their rifle bows.

There was a sudden sound of bowstrings, and more than forty large arrows whizzed out, drawing beautiful parabolas in the air, and then shot directly into the rebel formation.

The rebel soldiers, who lacked shields and armor, could not withstand the sharp prismatic arrows. A scream was heard from the rebel army. Most of the soldiers hit by the arrows did not die directly, but they basically lost the ability to attack.

, their screams and struggles made the entire military formation even more chaotic, and their so-called momentum suddenly disappeared.

Just one round of shooting had already killed more than 20 people in the rebel army. Their chaotic and dense formation made the escorting army almost "missed all arrows".

The attacked soldiers quickly dispersed to the two wings, and the originally crowded and dense formation suddenly exploded into countless small groups, which greatly weakened the lethality of the second round of arrow attacks.

However, the casualties of only 30 to 40 people did not cause this army to collapse. After the equestrian officers from the rear were driven and the Ming army on the opposite side stopped attacking, they quickly resumed their offensive formation and entered the sixty-step position.

within.

Seeing such a scene, Zhou Shixian's heart felt as stable as Mount Tai. Xue Laoer, Zhang Hong, Wu Xingye, and Li Banghua who were watching from the top of the city all seemed to have taken reassurance.

After all, with just two rounds of arrow attacks, the opponent's position was already in disarray. It is simply unimaginable what the scene would be like if more than 80 sophisticated muskets fired in volley.

Not only these officers and ministers, but also the soldiers in the formation, the morale at this time is completely different. Although they are both soldiers in the Beijing camp, they are now aware of the weakness of the other side, so there is no reason to be afraid.

On the battlefield, only victory can bring victory, there is no other reason!

However, the rebel army on the opposite side did not think so. Pang Lun had already rushed up with more than twenty cronies. Although thirty or forty people had been killed and injured just now, for an army of more than seven hundred people, this

The casualties are not worth mentioning at all.

Moreover, now that the army has entered sixty steps, the Ming army on the opposite side has not yet fired, which shows that the firearms in the opponent's hands are still those "Made in the Ming Dynasty" that exploded at every turn and were inaccurate. This also means hand-to-hand combat.

The close combat is about to begin.

Those firearms of worrying quality, whether used by the Beijing camp or the frontier army, were not used. Not only could they not hit the enemy, but if more medicine was used, they would explode, making them worthless.

As Ming soldiers, how could Pang Lun and his officers not know this? So when they entered sixty steps, they all thought they had a chance of victory.

At this time, Sun Hu and Weng Dajie had already returned to the camp, gathering troops and horses, preparing to participate in this round of chaos.

But no one expected that the reason why Zhou Shixian asked the musketeers to delay shooting was to close the distance and maximize the power of the musketry volley.

These rebels seemed to be numerous and powerful, but after one round of arrow shooting, they had already fallen into chaos. If they were shot twice by muskets, they would inevitably collapse.

After all, not to mention the turtle-dove foot blunderbuss, Rumi blunderbuss, or bird blunderbuss, they are far more powerful than bows and crossbows, and the damage and battlefield panic they cause cannot be compared to arrows.

Not to mention, at such a close distance, after the volley of muskets, the cavalry charged quickly, and the pikemen hunted in military formations, it would be difficult for these insurgents who were not in uniform steps to fight again.

Xue Laoer stared closely at the rebel army in front of him. When he saw that the opponent had entered fifty steps, he made a prompt decision and shouted:

"War drums!"

"Boom!" The war drums in the military formation suddenly sounded.

The forty-odd shields in front of the escorting army formation were quickly lowered, and the more than eighty musketeers in the first and second rows immediately raised their turtle-dove-foot muskets, Lumi muskets, and bird-foot muskets that had already been loaded with gunpowder and lead bullets.

The gun was aimed at the rebel soldiers rushing in front of him.

"preparation!"

"shooting!"

Following Xue Lao'er's order, the military bugle sounded in the formation, more than eighty muskets spit out orange-red flames at the same time, and white smoke dragons leaped out.

"Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang..."

Accompanied by a series of deafening explosions and rapidly spreading white smoke, there were screams and expressions of horror, even the entire formation of the rebel army was stunned.

Driven by the gunpowder explosion, more than eighty lead bullets quickly flew over a distance of fifty steps, and then viciously tore apart the shields and armor held by the soldiers on the opposite side, and streams of blood arrows spurted out.

No matter how expensive the armor is, it is vulnerable to lead bullets from a turtle dove's musket within a distance of fifty steps, let alone these insurgent soldiers who lack armor.

Thirty or forty people fell down in the entire charging formation of the rebel army in an instant. Blood mist flew everywhere, people screamed and horses neighed, and screams and wails could be heard endlessly.

Watching the soldiers lying on the ground struggling in pain, wailing and screaming, some had their hands and feet broken, some had their stomachs smashed, and colorful intestines and stools leaked out, and some even had their heads smashed. Other rebel soldiers

They were all completely frightened, and many of them had even turned around and wanted to become deserters.

On the other hand, the Ming army on the opposite side, while the soldiers were in a daze and pushing and shoving, had already completed a round of reloading, and the match ropes on the muskets were slowly burning, and they were ready to start a new round of volley at any time.

"Bang, bang, bang bang bang!"

In the Ming army formation that had been shrouded in thick white smoke, the fire bloomed again, dozens of deafening explosions suddenly sounded, and more than 80 lead bullets flew out from the black muzzles, still remaining in the front line of the military formation.

, more than a hundred rebel soldiers who had no time to escape received this blow, and a large number of them fell to the ground.

Within this distance, the accuracy and lethality of the muskets have been greatly improved, causing huge casualties to the rebels. Two rounds of arrow shooting and two rounds of musket fire have killed and wounded more than a hundred people.

The Ming army formation, which was only fifty steps away from them, was now shrouded in thick white smoke, which was daunting.

At this time, not only the soldiers at the forefront of the rebel army, but also many of the mounted officers who were supposed to supervise the battle were restrained, turned their horses' heads and ran back quickly. Even those who still wanted to rush over, had already

The defeated soldiers were carried away by the terrified soldiers and fled back.
Chapter completed!