Zhang Mingzhen galloped with the wind whistling in his ears.

He only felt the blood boiling in his heart. He was no longer a young man who had just joined the army, but this time he went out and felt an unprecedented feeling.

I can't explain this feeling clearly, but it feels different from the previous battles.

He is fighting with a mission.

The elite servants from several battalions were gathered as the vanguard. Zhang Mingzhen, the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province, was granted the title of Earl of Zhendong and a general with the seal of Japanese General. At this time, he wanted to take off all the cotton armor on his body and use the four words of "Serve the Country with a Heart"

The big characters are revealed.

He didn't look back, but he knew that His Highness Jianguo must be following closely behind and watching them.

Raise the gun.

Zhang Mingzhen relied on his skill as a knight to control the horse with his legs, but he held a three-eyed blunderbuss in each hand, and a match rope was wrapped around each arm.

The wind is howling and the horses are roaring.

The Tatars are roaring arrogantly and killing without restraint.

Zhang Mingzhen took the lead and ran down the mountain like a fierce tiger, charging straight at the Tartars.

Approach quickly.

This sudden attack was like a flying stab, sudden and fierce, hitting the Tatar directly in the back.

This Tatar cavalry quietly crossed the sea by boat directly from the north of Hangzhou Bay, landed in Yuyao, Shaoxing, and was ordered to conduct reconnaissance. After landing, they were very arrogant and did not pay much attention to the Ming army on the south bank.

The surrendered officials were killed or fled one after another, and bright flags were raised again everywhere, but the Tatars still didn't take it seriously.

With these 600 cavalry, who in Ningshaotai can stop them?

Attacking a village that doesn't know how to praise is just killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.

They were about to be captured, but they didn't expect a group of troops to suddenly appear from behind.

"Am I being ambushed and this village is just a bait?" The Tatar white-armored soldier even had this thought, but he quickly shook his head and drove away.

This is unlikely.

They had just landed and there was no prior plan to attack this village.

However, the white-armored man didn't panic. It looked like there were only two or three hundred riders on the other side, so he wasn't afraid at all.

He waved to his own soldiers and asked them to blow the horns and ask half of the troops who attacked the stronghold to withdraw.

At this time, he was still unwilling to give up the stronghold he had entered, and was preparing to attack both sides together.

Faced with the galloping Mingqi, the man in the white vest took the initiative to dismount, led the group of people around him, and directly raised his bow and set an arrow. This was to fight the Mingqi with a walking bow.

The Jurchens are good at shooting. Many people think that the Jurchens mainly shoot from horseback. In fact, although the vast majority of Jurchens ride horses, they mainly use horseback maneuvers. Their most powerful tactics are still horseback maneuvers, outflanking and then fighting.

At that time, they were often famous for their foot combat, especially their bow shooting, which was very good.

The Jurchens have a very high armor coverage rate and their melee rifle fire is very fierce.

There are also real Jurchen cavalry, but most of them are used in a centralized manner. For example, their guard camps and vanguard camps are concentrated under each banner and used as forwards or guards.

On the other hand, the Eight Banners of Mongolia still maintained the traditional light cavalry warfare method.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army had formed a very powerful firearms force earlier. Most of the Tatar artillery were used by the Eight Banners of the Han Army. The Eight Banners of the Han Army also focused on infantry combat, with spears, bows and arrows, and close combat.

Speaking of which, the Tatars have been fighting for nearly thirty years since Nurhachi raised their troops, and they have indeed produced a very capable army, which is very capable in sieges and field battles in all aspects.

Especially now, half of the Ming Dynasty has been captured by them, which makes the Tatars have an arrogant mentality of being invincible.

Even when faced with the sudden appearance of a Ming army, they did not take it seriously. They even frantically recalled only half of their troops, preparing for a two-sided battle, with both sides fighting together.

Zhang Mingzhen looked at the dismounted Tatars, but his eyes were colder.

Two three-eye blunderbuss were fired crosswise on the left and right.

The war horse speeded up again.

Holding two ignited three-eyed guns, Zhang Mingzhen aimed at the group of Tatars and continued to charge.

The chirping fire line was burning, and gunpowder smoke blew into his mouth and nose. The smell made him more and more excited.

"I am so angry that the rain breaks by the railing!"

"Lift our sight, the sky and shouts, grand, vehement·······"

Zhang Mingzhen actually read Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" loudly before engaging the enemy!

There was a sound of strings.

The Tatars' bows and arrows shot first, but Zhang Mingzhen still ignored them and charged forward.

An arrow hit Zhang Mingzhen's arm, but was deflected by his iron arm.

Close.

The line of fire finally burned out.

Two three-eyed cannons roared fiercely at close range.

Two bangs, two shots fired in unison.

Behind him, hundreds of three-eyed cannons were fired one after another.

The three-eyed gun is a very backward thing among fire guns. Compared with the bird gun, Lumi gun, and thunder gun, it is too far away. The range is extremely short and the accuracy is very low. It is completely a fire door gun that should have been eliminated long ago.

The shape is three bamboo-shaped single blunderbuss, with a small hole on the outside of each blunderbuss tube. When used, the blunderbuss tube is filled with gunpowder, and finally filled with lead, or directly filled with crushed iron sand, cast iron blocks, steel balls, etc., small

Add a match rope to the hole and light the match rope to shoot when in use.

There is a handle at the end of the gun, which can be held under the arm or held in the hand with a short handle.

However, this kind of musket is too backward, with extremely low range and poor accuracy. It is usually effective only when you are close to the enemy. Secondly, it reloads very slowly and is almost useless in wind and rain.

However, backward things are not useless. This thing is rough, low in manufacturing cost and fast in production. Of course, it has three eyes and can shoot three times. It can even be used as a mace or iron bone for close combat after shooting.

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For the cavalry, if they fire three muskets first in a battle, no matter whether they are accurate or not, at least they can build up their momentum.

Zhang Mingzhen was even more impressive. He fired two cannons on the left and right at the same time. After one round, he immediately lit the fire again and started another round.

Three rounds of six muskets were fired. Even though the Tatar he was aiming at was wearing a mercury armor, he was still hit by two or three bullets. He was beaten so hard that he fell to the ground and could not cry out in pain.

After three rounds of fighting, the two men and horses had collided.

Zhang Mingzhen immediately threw out a three-eyed gun as a flying gun, then held another three-eyed gun in both hands and swung it towards a Tatar who was nocking an arrow.

There was a huge shock, and the Tatar was thrown into the sky. His jaw was broken, his teeth were flying, and his eyeballs were knocked out.

Arrows and buckshot were flying.

For a time, people from both groups were falling down one after another.

The hundreds of forward cavalry behind Zhang Mingzhen were shot down in an instant. Dozens of them were shot down in an instant. Zhang Mingzhen also rushed into the Tatars with a few feather arrows, grabbed a three-eyed gun and smashed them randomly.

The Tatars also aroused a fierce spirit at this time. They did not expect that these bright cavalry could actually rush in.

But they did not show any weakness, and formed several small square formations, with spears, bows and arrows, and shields, like hedgehogs with spikes.

This made it impossible for the cavalrymen such as Zhang Mingzhen and others who rushed forward to break through them directly. They could only chop along the square formation. The cavalry slowed down, allowing the Tatars to find opportunities to shoot with spears and arrows, shooting down many Mingqiu.

There was a melee between the two armies.

Shadows of swords, guns, and blood splattered.

Zhang Mingzhen charged forward and no one dared to retreat.

At this time, the Shizhong camp on the top of the city also launched a desperate counterattack and held back some of the Tartars.

The two armies were in a stalemate, but Zhang Mingzhen and the others relied on their sharpness. If they could not break away from the Tatars, they would still be defeated when the Tatars who were turning around surrounded them.

At this moment.

The two wings of the Ming army who were walking in the rear finally rushed over and appeared at the rear of the battlefield.

The flag was fluttering, the town sign was running wildly, the 2nd Yongwei Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion arrived.

The bearded and hook-nosed mercenaries of the Shenji Battalion rushed to the front with the new recruits. Among them, the spearmen were all tall and powerful, and they could actually maintain a barely formed formation while running with five-meter spears.

, sprinting over.

Behind them were mercenaries carrying light matchlocks. Their leather armor was lighter than that of the pikemen, and they ran very fast. They were followed by heavy musketeers, while the artillery team was far behind.

After the pikemen rushed to the battlefield, they stabbed five-meter long spears at them. Suddenly, the Tatar infantry formation that was still restraining Zhang Mingzhen's cavalry was no longer able to do anything.

Against light cavalry, this Tatar infantry formation has some advantages, but it has no advantage against the same infantry spear formation.

When the musketeers arrived and started firing volleys at them from twenty to thirty paces away, the Tatars finally began to panic.

Mattim commanded the musketeers to adopt a turn-in formation. After the musketeers in the first row finished shooting, they stood directly on the spot to reload, and then the soldiers in the rear row advanced to the front of the first row to shoot. In this way, they could advance in turn, and they could actually shoot every minute.

Maintain a propulsion speed of thirty to forty meters.

This tactic was originally called a turnaround tactic, that is, after the front row fights, it retreats to the last row. Rows of rows fight while retreating. They can retreat ten to twenty meters in a minute, always maintaining a certain distance from the enemy, and forming a powerful firepower.

However, under the current circumstances, the forward turn tactic is more suitable.
To be continued...