The three-stage strike is not a new thing. As early as the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had used the three-stage strike shooting method.
The three-stage shooting method used at that time was that the front gunner fired first, then retreated to the rear of the team to concentrate on loading ammunition, and then the second soldier stepped forward to fire. The three of them took turns loading and firing.
This technique sounds simple, but in fact, it requires soldiers to go through a lot of training before it can be used in a battle formation.
Naturally, these fire gun soldiers in Datong Town have not learned the three-stage attack for a long time, so it is undoubtedly difficult for them to use it now.
Therefore, what Chen Wang wants to use is a one-time "three-stage strike".
The soldiers in the front row finished firing their cannons and immediately retreated back to the center of the front row.
The same was true for the soldiers in the second, third, and fourth rows. They retreated all the way after firing the muskets.
In the center, their final cover was two rows of infantry armed with lances.
And the nine are always waiting to be fired, and they can shoot thousands of feather arrows in an instant.
Liu Zongmin held the reins in his hand and led the horse forward slowly. Although he was not a frontier soldier, just a blacksmith, he had followed Li Zicheng for a long time and learned a lot from what he heard and saw.
For example, how to lure the Ming army's musketeers to fire their muskets. When the general cavalry is frightened, those timid musketry soldiers will fire their guns from afar. The fight is very lively, but in fact there is no harm.
By the time they reached the front, they were out of ammunition and their morale had plummeted. It only took one charge to defeat them all.
After receiving the order, the two centurions separated from the cavalry formation on both wings and galloped towards the front of the Ming army, which was slowly retreating.
But he ordered two groups of hundreds of cavalry to gallop all the way to a distance of a hundred paces, but no one in the Ming army fired.
Liu Zongmin's expression was gloomy, and he felt a little uneasy on his face. He raised the command flag in his hand and pointed forward gently.
After hearing the order, the two hundred horsemen continued to gallop forward.
Eighty steps, seventy steps, sixty steps, two groups of hundreds of cavalry were approaching all the way, but the Ming army's military formation was still moving backwards, still did not fire its guns, and did not even stop, as if it was determined that they did not dare to charge. Same formation.
The two hundred cavalrymen did not hesitate any longer. They spurred their horses to accelerate suddenly and rushed forward. Liu Zongmin also led the main force to a distance of ninety steps.
Two hundred cavalrymen rushed away. The explosion of the three-eyed gun suddenly sounded, and the smoke was flying, but no one was hit. At this time, the killing range of the three-eyed gun was still a bit far away.
The three-eyed cannon that sounded was not intended to kill, but only to induce the firing, but it was obvious that all this had no effect.
Immediately afterwards, there were waves of vibrations of bowstrings, like playing cotton, in the formation, and a large number of arrows flew up from the cavalry formation of the intruders almost at the same time.
The arrows flew high with the speed of the horses. Hundreds of light arrows pierced the dark sky and shot towards the Ming army's formation ahead.
The arrows rained down, and most of them fell in front of the formation because they were too far away. Only a few arrows shot into the formation, and these arrows were basically blocked by the gun and shield soldiers in the front row, causing no effective damage at all.
At the same time, sparse arrows were shot out from the Ming army's formation. They were the servants who were supervising the battle team in the formation.
Although they were few in number, they were all skilled in archery, and they were armed with powerful bows. Several of them were shot off their horses in an instant.
On the first day of the battle, Chuangjun's Jingqi suffered a small loss.
Liu Zongmin's expression darkened. Just as he was about to dispatch the cavalry again, a small bright yellow flag slowly rose from under the banner.
A cruel smile appeared at the corner of Liu Zongmin's mouth. He waved the command flag in his hand, and a group of elite cavalry behind him slowly pressed forward with him.
Chen Wang held the command flag and was a little confused. He didn't understand how the elite cavalry of the invading army had only carried out the first wave of harassment, but they were all suppressed.
Immediately, his question was answered, as a series of explosions sounded from the right side without warning.
Chen Wang's expression suddenly changed, his heart suddenly sank, and he suddenly turned his head to look to the right.
That was Fo Langji's voice, and he could never mishear it.
As far as the eye can see, the ranks of the bandits on the right are filled with gunpowder smoke, and white mist is constantly rising, accompanied by explosions. The shouts of killing like mountain roars and tsunamis have sounded from the right, and countless flags are waving crazily.
The rate of fire of the Folang machine is extremely fast. It is not surprising that it fired three or four rounds in a minute.
There were endless screams in the ears, and the retreating soldiers on the right wing were suddenly bombarded, and suffered heavy losses in an instant.
The rumble of horse hooves sounded almost simultaneously from the direction of the front formation. Chen Wangzheng turned his head and looked into the distance.
The elite cavalry of the invading army were already charging straight towards them.
There was a rumble of horse hooves on the battlefield, and the fine cavalry of the intruder army had already lined up and moved forward, crushing towards the scattered Ming army formation.
In an instant, it was already within sixty steps!
It was this opportunity that Chuang Jun was waiting for!
The right wing's Folang machine is to expose its flaws and create chaos.
Chen Wang waved the command flag in his hand heavily. He couldn't control everything on the right wing now. All he could control was the fine cavalry of the invading army in front.
As Chen Wangling's flag was waved, a commander in the front line lowered his Yanling Saber and roared an order.
"Raise the gun!"
"put!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
For just a moment, his roar was drowned out by the explosion of firearms.
"Raise the gun!"
"put!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Smoke filled the air before the battle, and the deafening sound of cannons overwhelmed everything.
In fact, in the follow-up, the soldiers could no longer hear any orders or see any flags.
The gunfire sounded continuously, and the roar was like thunder.
The flames shot out by the cannon are extremely dazzling, as terrifying as the flames spit out by the fire dragon, and like the signal released by the underworld's spiritual messenger when they appear.
They could only hear the deafening sound of gunfire, and everything in front of them was obscured by gunpowder smoke.
After firing the fire blunderbuss in their hands, they picked up the bird blunderbuss or the three-eyed blunderbuss and walked toward the rear.
The sound of horse hooves and gunfire were completely mixed together, and they couldn't distinguish what the sound was in their ears.
The fear in their hearts made them continue to speed up their pace, wanting to run further back.
But when they looked forward, everyone saw Chen Wang, who was riding on a war horse and holding a command flag, standing still in the formation.
Chen Wang's calmness affected them and virtually eliminated the fear in their hearts. They once again grasped the blunderbuss in their hands, no longer anxious, and followed the banner of the flag general and walked steadily towards the rear.
boom! boom! Bang bang!
The popping sound of the cannons in the front row has completely disappeared, and the three-eyed gunmen in the last row have also finished firing the cannons in their hands. They quickly walked back and passed through the carriages of one after another. The gap in the middle quickly retreated to the rear.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!"
"Pah! Pah!!"
Almost at the moment when the soldiers in the front row passed the Hundred Tigers Rush, all nine Hundred Tigers Rush were ignited at the same time.
The smoke of gunpowder obscured Chen Wang's entire field of vision in an instant, and countless arrows shot forward with a heart-stopping shrill whistle!
