The development of snowballing in a few months gave the Huai Army two main towns, two reserve towns and other troops with nearly 50,000 troops. In terms of the number of people alone, the Huai Army definitely surpassed the Ming army of Liu Zeqing and the Shun army of Dong Xueli.

However, the Huai Army had few weapons and equipment, especially long-range combat weapons such as muskets and crossbows. As one of the three main brigades of the first town, the Second Brigade had no muskets and archers. The standard equipment of the entire brigade was the big sword spear and the shield cotton armor.

On this basis, the brigade commander Xu made the first priority in training troops in the Second Brigade.

This means that training is about training courage and energy first, practicing veterinary methods second, practicing hands and feet third, practicing ears and eyes fourth, and practicing camp formation fifth.

In order to train his subordinates' courage, Xu, who was ignorant of his big words, organized officers and soldiers to camp at the mass graves many times, and even boldly carried out three "camp roar" exercises.

The first time, the second standard for the exercise was in chaos. Two soldiers died, seven soldiers were injured, and the first standard officers and soldiers ran away overnight. It took two days to gather the whole thing.

When Lu Si learned about this, he was so angry that he scolded Monk Xu for doing things randomly, but Monk Xu did not give up and said that he would never dare to do anything again, but a few days later, he did it again without hiding it from Lu Si.

This time, four people were injured and no one died, but the first-tier officers and soldiers who participated in the exercise still ran around hundreds of people.

After Lu Si found out, he did not scold Monk Xu because he was also curious whether this kind of active "poisoning" training was effective, and he gave his own suggestions, that is, he must tell the soldiers what the purpose of the exercise was, and to achieve everything from the brigade commander to the chefs and auxiliary soldiers, everyone understands the meaning of training.

The support from the monk Xu quickly organized the third "Campaign and Shouting" exercise.

This time, the soldiers who woke up from their sleep were not panic. They quickly stood up and gathered their weapons. They determined through the commands between the battalions that they were friends but not enemies. They effectively suppressed their panic. Not only did they not bomb the battalion, but they conducted a rare "emergency gathering".

Lu Si praised it and ordered Monk Xu to sort out the operation of the exercise and the experience gained from it, and prepare for promotion throughout the army.

During the three prisoners of Sun Wujin's killings, the officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade participated in the execution twice, and basically no officers and soldiers involved had killed the river engineer.

Monk Xu believed that killing people would be more courageous. In his words, people would kill a lot, and Bodhisattva Dad had to beat him up when he saw it.

Through these two large-scale prisoner killings, the officers and soldiers of the Second Brigade have become much more courageous.

Since the courage to train the entire brigade is the first in training, the courage of the second brigade will definitely not disappoint Monk Xu, the brigade coach.

Therefore, although there is no experience in fighting cavalry, the war horses running at high speed in the distance made the Second Brigade very nervous, but no one of them had the idea of ​​escaping. Instead, they were well-trained to raise shields and form one round array after another in units of the camp.

Some narrow and long areas really couldn't make formations, so they formed a team together, letting arrows on their heads fall like rain, but they all remained silent and squatted on the ground halfway.

A personal soldier of the Fujianese Biaotong Yang Xiang was shot in the door with an arrow, and a team officer was also penetrated through the left face with an arrow. From time to time, soldiers who were caught in the arrow fell to the ground, and some had at least six or seven arrows on their shields. However, round shield formations always stood.

When the Ming cavalry that was rushing to the battlefield found that the "Huai Bidders" were not in chaos, they had no time to stop their horses, so they could only hold their spears and "smash" them up.

The war horses crashed into the human formation, and the spears stabbed into the war horses. The figures that kept falling under the action of inertia and the crowds that were swept past were truly a crowd of people.

This scene was staged almost at the same time in four or five different places.

The Second Brigade, which did not have long-range attack weapons, relied on its courage to withstand the impact of the Ming cavalry. In the early stages, there were as many as three or four hundred casualties, which was equivalent to one and a half battalions being "reimbursed" on the spot.

"One shot!"

Monk Xu, under the iron surface, looked at the Ming army that was constantly rushing toward his own troops in the distance, and asked the flag-plaque personal soldiers to launch a drilling dragon.

"Those who retreat will be killed without mercy!"

No matter how serious the casualties were, Monk Xu didn't care. He only knew that he had to hold back and bite these Ming cavalry from the dog-ride. Even if the Second Brigade was completely dead, he would still nail it to this place.

The governor said that Monk Xu listened to it, that is, no matter how much courage you train in the second brigade, it is not as realistic as a real fight. And only the more people die, the more elite the second brigade will be.

The smoke filled the sky, and the smoke covered the sky.

The Ming army cavalry divided into many teams and ran back and forth on the three-mile-long Second Brigade front, as if several long snakes were swimming around, causing the casualties of the Second Brigade to grow.

On the surface, the Ming army seemed to have torn a lot of holes in the Second Brigade and took the initiative. However, as time passed, it was not difficult to find that the speed of the Ming cavalry rushing into the Second Brigade's front was decreasing. In some places, due to the overly dense Huai Army round formation, the Ming army could not perform any cavalry battles.

The tenacity shown by the Second Brigade, as the main force, withstood the impact of the Ming army.

After the initial chaos, the Second Brigade began to fight back.

Under the command of the officers, the soldiers kept stabbing the Ming army with their spears. Some brave soldiers even flew towards the Ming army on the horse. Some tried their best to hold on to the horse's tail, and even if they were dragged dozens of feet by the war horse, they would still drag them tightly.

"Press up!"

Yang Xiang decisively seized the fighter opportunity and compressed a Ming cavalry that rushed in between him and Ma San's second target. This Ming army had about 300 people.

After discovering that the third bid had pushed a Ming cavalry over, Ma San immediately realized what Yang Xiang wanted to do and personally led a battalion of soldiers to force him over with a spear in his hand.

The Ming cavalry realized that they were in a heavy siege, and they could not retreat without advancing, and they could not rush up the hillside by horses. They could only grit their teeth and fight to the death with the Huai army who were advancing on both sides.

But the war horses that could not run at all made them live targets for the Huai Army spearmen. The Ming army was stabbed and fell off the horse. Some were even stabbed by several spears at the same time and were "selected" from the horse and left behind.

A group of Huai Army holding a big sword could not help but slash the Ming Army's horse legs. Once the Ming Army fell, it was dismembered from the wailing sound before it could even be released.

The bodies of horses and humans were all over the place, which made the range of activities of the Ming cavalry, which had been compressed by the two Huai Army standards, narrowed down. Finally, they were surrounded by the forest of Huai Army spearmen and struggled to support them.

Cavalry that lost their mobility was also vulnerable to infantry whose number was far more than theirs.

In the distance, he was leading his troops to attack the first target Ming general Zhan Shixun found that his subordinates were surrounded by the Huai Army. He knew that it was not good and wanted to lead his troops to rescue, but the road was also blocked by round formations. The Huai thieves who formed round formations were dragged down by Zhan Shixun, so that he could not save him.

At the critical moment, Yang Wenqi, who was attacking Ma Sanbao's troops in front, led his troops to arrive and found that Zhan Shixun's troops were trapped among the Huai bandits, Yang Wenqi led his troops to rush forward without saying a word.

Sun Si's first target in front of him was really unable to withstand the collapse of Yang Wenqi's troops. Two team officials from the old Hegong brothers were killed on the spot, one of them was one of the 68 warriors who captured Huai'an City.

The first target was destroyed, allowing Zhan Shixun to join Yang Wenqi's troops, but he was unable to rescue his subordinates who were compressed and surrounded by the two targets. He could only watch them gradually disappear in the dense spear formation.

Both Yang and Zhan could see surprise in each other's eyes, especially Zhan Shixun. He did not expect that this Huai thief team composed entirely of bandits and farmers could be so capable of fighting. No wonder Yao Wenchang was beaten to annihilation.

Yang and Zhan knew what impact would such a powerful team have on the situation when they arrived at the city of Xuzhou?

They had already rushed down and had difficulty in cavalrying at this time, so they could only supervise their troops to continue to rush, hoping that this Huai bandit could retreat without supporting them.

The night has begun to appear

"His grandma's!"

The first flag was destroyed and Monk Xu was furious, and he rushed over with his own flag soldiers.

Each brigade of the Huai Army has a 100-person flag team. Not only the commander of the brigade commander, but also the personal guards. Everyone wears double cotton armor and red clothes. They can be said to be the most elite of each brigade.

The flag soldiers of each brigade are also called "Red Armored Soldiers". The flag soldiers under the Zhenshen were wearing black clothes and double armor, so they were called "Black Armored Soldiers".

Red-armored soldiers, black-armored soldiers, and iron-armored soldiers are collectively known as the three major armored soldiers of the Huai Army, among which iron-armored soldiers are the most capable of fighting.

The first bidder, Sun Si, was hit by a war horse when resisting the impact of Yang Wenqi's troops. He was injured. I don't know if it was a broken sternum or a broken rib, but he couldn't stand anyway.

According to the Huai Army system, when the chief officer is injured or killed and cannot command, the officers below will be replaced by the officers below. Zhang Er, who is both a battalion officer and a nephew of Sun Si's cousin's family, temporarily replaced Sun Si's command, gathered more than 300 remaining troops in the first bid to move closer to the second bid, otherwise they would be surrounded and killed by the Ming army that met.

"The coach is here!"

After discovering that the brigade commander came with the red armored soldiers, Zhang Er immediately took the rest of his troops to carry the injured Sun Si and leaned forward.

"Where did Sun's four bitches raise?"

Monk Xu swallowed the swear words behind him because he saw Sun Sizheng being carried at him with pain.

Sun Si's pain was not because of the defeat, but because he couldn't stand the pain. He could grit his teeth and not shout because he didn't want to embarrass him in front of so many subordinates.

"Carry Sun Si down to me, and the rest follow me!"

Monk Xu waved his big sword and took the lead in rushing towards the Ming army not far away.

The brigade commander led the way, and the flag team and the remaining soldiers in the first target did not follow him. He held up the big sword and spear in his hand and followed the brigade commander to kill him.

When Yang Wenqi found that a group of Huai thieves dared to fight back, he immediately ordered an arrow.

Countless arrow branches shot towards Monk Xu. Monk Xu, wearing iron armor, didn't even raise his arms to cover it, but rushed up with his sword. The Red Armored Flags under his command were also brave, and the two sides quickly fought together.

After dealing with the Ming cavalry of more than 300 people, Ma San and Yang Xiang also led people to reinforce the brigade commander. At this time, the sun was almost set in the west, and the plains were not dark in the distance. A black shadow appeared at the foot of Yunlong Mountain. However, when they saw the shouts of killing the sky, both sides could not see clearly what the situation was. Is it the Ming army that had the upper hand or the Huai army that had the upper hand.

Until this time, there was still a unit of war in the Ming army that did not move. This was the more than a thousand cavalry commanded by the Ming army commander Bai Yongfu.

The reason why Bai Yongfu did not move was that Yang Wenqi and Zhan Shixun failed to complete the task. The second general in the plan led his troops to defeat the Huai bandits and drove a large number of defeated soldiers to rush directly to the Huai bandits' rear team. Bai Yongfu led his troops out again and decided to fight one battle.

But now, although the Huai thieves were torn apart by the Ming army, the Huai thieves were tenacious in resisting, and the back team was not affected, so Bai Yongfu naturally could not move.

Compared to his opponent's 20,000, his cavalry is still too small.

Lu Si did not move on the Huai Army either. He received a report that the second brigade in front was attacked by many Ming troops, and he suffered heavy casualties and did not send troops to reinforce him. He just looked at Yunlong Mountain.

Half an hour later, the night finally completely enveloped Yunlong Mountain, and the fighting Minghuai sides were in a dilemma of not being able to identify the enemy.

However, neither side fired out the torch, because both sides knew that if the torch was fired at this time, it would be completely exposed to the opponent.

Gradually, the shouts of killing began to become smaller, and it seemed that both Ming and Huai wanted to end the fight.

In this world, there are very few soldiers and horses who can fight night battles.

Bai Yongfu was also hesitating whether to withdraw his troops, because it was not only because it was dark, but also because the battle had become a "fried rice" and it was difficult to continue.

This is not that Bai Yongfu underestimates the enemy. If he underestimates the enemy, he would not place the battlefield so close to Xuzhou City, but that the combat power shown by the Huai thieves far exceeds his estimate.

However, there is one disadvantage to ordering the withdrawal of troops now, that is, because the troops at the foot of the mountain cannot see the terrain, they may collapse when retreating, which will make the Huai thieves get a bargain.

Just as hesitating, the night in front of me suddenly became brighter, like daylight!

The Ming army on the hillside opened their eyes wide at the same time. They saw countless fireworks suddenly exploded at the foot of the mountain. The colorful fireworks not only bloomed with gorgeous fireworks, but also exposed the Ming army that was hidden in the dark night.

"this?"

Bai Yongfu didn't have time to think about where the thieves had made so many fireworks, but his heart suddenly broke out. He knew what the function of those fireworks was.

illumination!

"Swoosh" sound, countless fireworks shot straight towards the Ming army in the Ming side, exploded in the Ming army formation and clearly showed the figures of these people in the eyes of the Huai Army soldiers.

The Ming army, caught off guard, could not resist the fireworks attacks from the Huai Army, and they did not have to resist the fireworks and not kill people.

The one who kills people is that they can't see, but they can see their opponents.

Many Ming army mounts were injured by fireworks and ran around in horror, and no matter how their horse owners were holding back their reins, they refused to stop.

The "traditional" tactics of the Huai Army, the fireworks attack that achieved amazing results in the battle between Shijiazhang was staged again in Yunlong Mountain.

Just like the Ming army, Yang Wenqi and Zhan Shixun's cavalry, who could not open their eyes during the Battle of Shi Jiadang, they did not dare to open their eyes. They either closed their eyes tightly, or hugged their heads and hugged their horse's necks.

There seemed to be too many fireworks to be used up, and they kept firing towards the Ming army.

Among the gorgeous fireworks, teams of Huai Army soldiers holding long bamboo poles approached the Ming army in front.

"Red, black, red, black, red!"
Chapter completed!