"finally come……"
Cao Wenzhao let out a breath, and the horse in his hand once again accepted a bandit. He also saw the bloody flag rising under the banner.
The enemy's cavalry was now coming from both sides at the same time. He had seen it clearly before charging into the formation.
But knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, we can only go to the tiger mountains now.
The rout of the enemy's troops is innocuous at all. The troops are just cannon fodder and the bottom among the bandits.
The real trump card and trump card of the bandits is the elite cavalry composed of veterans from various frontier armies.
Shaanxi has suffered from natural disasters for many years, and payment arrears have become the norm. Not only have there been many deserters, but mutinies to demand wages have also occurred in many places. Mutinies in Shaanxi are not much less than civil uprisings.
Especially in the second year of Chongzhen, Jian Nu raised troops to enter the pass and besieged Jizhou. The capital was under martial law, and the imperial court recruited troops from all over the world.
Due to improper handling, harsh treatment by local authorities, and withholding of pay and rations, many armies mutinied and then became bandits, making the already serious civil unrest even worse.
A large number of deserters and rebels joined the ranks of the civil uprising, which also made the rogue bandits more powerful and more difficult to destroy.
Cao Wenzhao's eyes were cold, and the cavalry team on the right had bright armor. Nearly half of the bandit soldiers seemed to be wearing black armor. Their orders were neat and their flags were solemn. They were definitely the elite of the frontier army among the rogue bandits.
Cao Wenzhao looked back and saw a group of servants following him. Everyone's body was covered with blood, and most of the sabers in their hands were stained red by blood.
The horse waved slightly, Cao Wenzhao pulled the reins, and the horse galloped away to the left.
He only had more than a hundred servants under his command. He never thought about competing with the most elite cavalry under the bandits. His purpose was to defeat the cavalry of more than a thousand people on the left and buy time and time for his front to evacuate. space.
Chen Wang also led the war horse to follow Cao Wenzhao and turned to the left. He also understood Cao Wenzhao's intention.
But Cao Wenzhao was taking risks. If he couldn't penetrate the enemy's formation quickly, they would be flanked by two sides and be surrounded in the center.
Chen Wang gritted his teeth. He had no ability to influence the direction of the battle and could only follow Cao Wenzhao's path to the dark side.
"Woo————"
The sound of riding horns preparing for an attack had already come, and Chen Wang inserted the saber covered in blood into the scabbard on his waist.
Whether the saber with blood will rust after inserting it into the scabbard is not at all Chen Wang's consideration. Now he doesn't even know if it will happen in the future.
Chen Wang lowered his waist and picked up the three-eyed gun hanging on the side of the saddle. At the same time, he controlled the horse to increase its speed again. This time the formation of the attack needed to be changed. He was going to be the second row of soldiers.
The original queue of six people in a row has now become a row of twelve people. Cao Wenzhao has also been pushed to the second row at this time, just in front of him on the right.
Under the influence of Qi Jiguang, the firearms equipped by the southern army are basically blunderbuss. Later, Qi Jiguang went north to Jizhen to train troops.
Among the northern frontier troops, bird guns also began to be implemented. However, due to geographical issues, bird guns were only equipped among the infantry of the northern border army. Most of the frontier cavalry still used three-eyed guns.
In fact, until the end of Wanli, the three-eyed gun was not widely used in the Ming army. It was only an auxiliary gun for single-barreled guns such as fast guns and divine machine guns. However, it has now become the favorite firearm of the frontier cavalry.
It is different from the blunderbuss which is easy to extinguish, inconvenient to control and troublesome to load.
A large number of three-eyed muskets were installed in the northern frontier army. Excellent frontier army horsemen could gallop and shoot with this difficult-to-ignite firearm.
Nowadays, almost all towns in Liaodong use three-eyed guns as their standard equipment. Both cavalry and infantry are generally equipped with three-eyed guns.
The three-eyed gun is used as a one-time long-range weapon. Each of the three gun barrels is filled with projectiles and fired at a nearby location. It fires in an instant and kills the enemy.
Then the thick three-eyed gun will directly turn into a long-handled hammer, directly into a melee weapon.
In order to increase its lethality, the cavalry in Liaodong will basically modify the three-eyed blunderbuss issued by adding a gun head or blade to the tail of the blunderbuss handle.
After the three-eyed gun is fired, it can be used directly as a long weapon, and it can even complete difficult actions such as stabbing and slashing.
With the sound of horse hooves thundering in his ears, Chen Wang calmly looked at the approaching enemy cavalry in front of him.
He already had the three-eyed gun under his arm. He knew the three-eyed gun very well. After all, in his memory, he had been using this weapon for seven full years.
In Liaodong, the original man personally killed two slaves with a three-eyed gun.
"hiss!"
The sound of gunpowder being ignited suddenly sounded.
The bandit's cavalry is ahead, and many cavalrymen are taking aim with their bows and arrows drawn.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
Continuous firing sounds were heard in the front line, and smoke suddenly rose, obscuring Chen Wang's vision.
The chilling sound of firearm explosions resounded throughout the cavalry formation.
The war horse led Chen Wang out of the smoke. The front row of the bandit cavalry that was charging straight towards them was almost wiped out. The cavalry soldiers behind them all had pale faces and were trembling with fear.
Chen Wang clenched the barrel of the three-eyed gun in his hand, with a slightly ferocious look on his face. He had already spotted an enemy who was about to encounter him.
But Chen Wang had no chance to knock him off his horse with a three-eyed gun.
Because Cao Wenzhao, who was right in front of him, had already advanced into the enemy's formation, the horse's stick made a clear and sharp sound in Cao Wenzhao's hand, like an impermanent mourning stick, and everyone who touched it fell off the horse. .
The same scene appeared again. A few brave and courageous people in the bandit's horse team were beheaded, and the rest of the group fled in all directions, falling into a rout.
Looking at his troops who fled, Li Zicheng frowned slightly and shook his head.
"Sure enough, these horse soldiers recruited from the refugees are still unable to fight."
In two consecutive confrontations, the winner was decided in the blink of an eye.
Training soldiers is a difficult task. He originally thought that the horse soldiers he trained should be much stronger than those under Tianxing, but the result was still the same.
Looking up at the official road, I saw that the Ming army troops that were originally entangled in the front had now merged with the middle and retreated to the rear together. After an hour and a half, once the officers and soldiers retreated to an open area, they would not A little chance of winning.
Li Guo, who was on the left wing of the official road, still had not gathered his defeated troops and was still in chaos.
Li Zicheng sighed lightly. He didn't understand why, after so many years of fighting, neither the generals nor the soldiers under his command had made much progress.
Down the slope, the fiery red flag became more eye-catching.
There was no time for him to hesitate anymore, Li Zicheng raised the riding crop in his hand.
Behind them, one gun carriage after another, five gun carriages in total, were slowly pushed out from behind the slope.
