"Lie down!" With a roar, the officer of the second array shouted loudly.
The musketeers who had already run twenty meters in front of the second team immediately fell to the ground.
Behind them were the cavalry who had organized themselves into formation and charged forward again, and behind the cavalry were 7,000 densely packed troops of two red-flag infantry troops approaching.
As soon as they lay down, the second musket array opened fire.
Bang bang bang! A burst of smoke filled the air, and two thousand rounds of lead bullets were fired forward in three waves.
The cavalry that rushed over were immediately knocked down in large numbers. The horses rushed forward to grab the ground and fell. Under the blow of the intensive barrage, the impact of the cavalry was suddenly stalled.
"Retreat, get out of here immediately." The officers roared one after another. All the musketeers immediately turned around and ran back.
Today is the first time that the Musketeers have actual combat with Jiannu. Qin Liangyu does not intend to cause them a large number of casualties. The main purpose is to test the combat capabilities of this new type of troops and how effective it is.
The musketeers ran like silver through the middle of the twelve white pole barracks who came up from behind.
A large dense forest of spears appeared in front of Yue Tuo and others. Twelve battalion white soldiers appeared.
This time, Qin Liangyu brought 20,000 troops. Among them, there were 5,000 musketeers, 3,000 cavalry, and the rest were the white pole soldiers that Shizhu Tusi originally had.
Twelve thousand white pole soldiers were divided into twenty-four battalions, with each battalion having 500 men. At this time, the first wave of twelve battalions, that is, twelve square formations, faced the cavalry. Covering the musketry
The soldiers retreated to the rear to form a new formation.
Daishan's eyes were solemn. He knew that in the fight with Qin Liangyu, soldiers with white poles would appear sooner or later.
Ten years ago, the Eight Banners was at its most elite.
At that time, they were all forest dwellers.
In the past ten years, many Qilin people have been consumed by the war. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners has been declining. In the original history, after the losses of the Qilin people were exhausted, they relied on the recruitment of Sauron to replenish the combat effectiveness.
Ten years ago, they were so proud and arrogant that they did not pay attention to these short Sichuan soldiers. As a result, more than 3,000 people were killed by crossbows in the first wave of attack, and more than a dozen generals were captured.
Looking from a distance, Daishan saw that these people were still the same as ten years ago, wearing armor all over their bodies and surrounded by quilts to block bows and muskets.
At this time, the horns of the white soldiers were blown. With a bang, the spears were lowered.
The first row holds it flat, the second row tilts upward at an angle of thirty degrees, and the third row puts the spear on the shoulder of the second row. The back continues to hold it flat. The three rows of gun tips are arranged front and back on the side of the right arm.
Each of the three rows of spears is shorter than the previous row. This also takes into account the situation when the enemy rushes in. If the enemy comes in between the two spears, he can use the spears in the second and third rows to assassinate him in turn.
Under normal circumstances, what the spearman fears most is that the swordsman squeezes in between the two spears without his life. As long as the swordsman is close to the spearman, it will be a one-sided killing.
The Europeans' solution was similar to that of the Japanese, which was to use a cross spear with a chisel blade. The stone pillars used formations to arrange the spears at different lengths in the front and back to assassinate the swordsmen who squeezed in.
The cavalry collided with the white soldiers in an instant. The densely packed spears came like an overwhelming force to assassinate them.
The infantry behind the Jiannu cavalry immediately fired their bows and arrows.
At this time, the infantrymen of the two red flags also rushed up.
Five rows of soldiers with white poles formed a five-column formation and came directly towards the cavalry and infantry.
The heads of the spears were arranged vertically from front to back, one position apart. While shouting slogans, they advanced to assassinate.
The white soldiers behind them carried long spears on their backs, took out their crossbows and started shooting at the Eight Banners cavalry.
These white-armed soldiers have fought bloody battles for more than thirty years and are all veterans of hundreds of battles.
Although many old and new ones are constantly replaced, the iron-blooded spirit of an army has always been passed down. They have been fighting for thirty years and have almost never stopped.
Their combat experience is even richer than that of the Jiannu.
They fought from the northeast to the southwest, from Sichuan to the southeast coast, from Mongolia, Jurchen, southwestern barbarians to Japanese pirates.
The White Pole Soldiers were the "Kings of Mountain Warfare" in the Ming Empire, fighting from the mountains of Guizhou to the Liaoxi Corridor. Only the Mao Gourd Soldiers composed of shed dwellers and hunters in the southern mountainous areas of Henan could barely compare.
The cavalrymen under the red flag were assassinated first.
The spear was pierced through the chest of the war horse. When it came out, there was a bloody hole. The vest had no effect. The dense formation of the white pole soldiers meant that there were four or five spearheads in front of each cavalry. It was impossible to stop them.
Jia La E Zhen Hatuchen rushed forward with a dozen of his own soldiers. Now it was time to fight. The infantry array must be defeated, otherwise the cavalry would be in trouble once it stopped.
He tried to use his horse speed to hit and knock away the array of white soldiers. However, after knocking two people away, he discovered that the spears of the last three columns of the five columns of spearmen were waiting for his collision.
His soldiers were stabbed off their horses one after another. In the blink of an eye, three spears rushed towards him.
His horse fell to the ground neighing, and the spears from the three rows behind him thrust forward. Hatuchen used his long knife to block one spear and cut off the shaft of another, but the last spear came forward. He was really blocking it.
Can't stand it any longer.
The triple armor did not block the spear with its strengthened tip. The spear tip passed through the armor and penetrated directly from front to back. Tulichen struggled and tried to cut off the barrel of the spear, but the soldier with the white pole immediately yanked him backwards.
The tip of the gun was barbed, and Tulichen was disemboweled. He screamed and fell to the ground.
The remaining cavalry of the two Jia La collided with the white-armed soldiers at the head of the twelve battalions. The cavalry quickly lost speed because they found that they could not break through the thick array of white-armed soldiers.
The cavalry's charge into battle relied on their courage to move forward, using the five hundred kilograms of weight of men, horses, and armor combined, plus the kinetic energy created by charging at high speed, to knock the infantry away and cause them to collapse out of fear.
However, in front of these elite soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles, no one ran away out of fear. Instead, with the mentality of revenge for ten years ago, they thrust forward violently without risking their lives.
Once the cavalry stopped, they were immediately at a disadvantage in front of the spears. Countless hooks caught the men's cloth armor and tore them off. Then they were pricked by countless spear heads and formed a hornet's nest.
The cavalrymen tried their best to block with their long swords to prevent themselves from being hooked off their horses.
These Sichuan soldiers couldn't hook anyone, so they hooked the horse's legs. They hooked the horse's knee joint and pulled it back. The sharp blade immediately cut open the back of the joint. The horse rolled over in pain and fell to the ground.
He pulled the horse's thighs back horizontally, splitting the muscles, causing the horse to neigh and jump in pain, and both the man and the horse fell to the ground.
A flurry of gunfire stabbed him, killing both men and horses.
The soldiers with white poles crouched, shouting dialect chants in Chongqing, and kept moving forward with their spears.
The cavalry of the two red flags did not last long before they collapsed. They were completely out of control, and even a large number of deserters appeared.
The infantry at the back were throwing light arrows like crazy, trying to inflict damage on the white soldiers. This was used to relieve the pressure on the cavalry in front.
Arrows fell like raindrops, but these people's armor has now been replaced by plate armor. Even ten years ago, their armor was surrounded by quilts, and the Eight Banners' heavy arrows and muskets could not do anything.
of them.
Although the current plate armor is made of steel, it is one-third lighter than the armor. The protective performance is improved several times. There are basically no gaps in the plate armor. It is almost impossible for a spear to penetrate through the gaps.
The dense arrows fell, but these white-poled soldiers ignored them and just moved forward to assassinate them.
In front of the cavalry of the Eight Banners were all the flying guns and the densely packed gun barrels. Their eyes were dazzled. They couldn't tell which one was the phantom and which one was the real gun head.
These Sichuan soldiers seemed to have grass growing on their bodies and were covered with dense arrow shafts. But they did nothing and just charged forward.
Yue Tuo saw that there were fewer and fewer people around him, and he finally believed that what the old man said was true. These people were really difficult to deal with.
At this time, the infantry finally rushed forward. They took over from the cavalry and rushed towards the phalanx of the white soldiers.
There were more than a dozen crossbow arrows stuck in Yue Tuo's armor, and his left arm was also injured. At this time, he finally let out a long breath.