Taking the blame?
Upon hearing Zhu Youjian's order, the surrounding royal relatives were stunned.
What is this for?
Is it time for dinner?
Have a good meal now and then cross the river to fight to the death?
But there are more than a thousand people on the other side of the river! Don’t you want it anymore? Those are all armored cavalry!
Zhu Youjian didn't care what these royal relatives thought, and drove his horse forward to a flat beach on the north bank of Chishui River.
This is the firing position chosen by Zhu Youjian for the six big black cast iron cauldron...cannons! This place is not far from the beachhead opened by Zhang Xianzhong and others. The straight-line distance is only more than thirty feet, which is about a hundred meters. The firepower of the black pot cannon can provide effective support to them.
The black pot cannon fired 24 kilograms of wooden shells! If this cannonball landed in a crowd and exploded, one person could kill and injure dozens of people! Not to mention that Shuixi Tusi's soldiers couldn't bear it, Huang Taiji's white-armored soldiers would burst into tears.
In addition to six black pots, Zhu Youjian also brought 12 3-pound cannons. The 3-pound cannon is not a straight-shooting cannon, but a direct-aiming artillery piece. It cannot hit blooming bullets (it is difficult to make the blooming bullets too small), and it cannot hit shotgun shells across the Chishui River, but their iron bullets are also quite powerful. . Zhu Youjian divided the 12 cannons into two artillery groups, which were placed on both wings, and used side firepower to support the 1,500 cavalry in front of the tent on the south bank of the Chishui River beach.
At the same time that Zhu Youjian personally directed six 24-pound black pot cannons to deploy on the south bank of the Chishui River, on the north bank of the Chishui River. Zhang Xianzhong, whose "desire is as strong as his own loyalty", has fallen into the third crisis in his life - his first crisis was when he was arrested for inciting military rebellion! More than a hundred people who were involved in the trouble with him lost their heads, but he was the only one who survived because of his majestic appearance.
The second crisis was when Li Zicheng was almost killed... He was already preparing to rebel at that time. If he hadn't been clever and "deceived" Li Zicheng, he would have died long ago.
And today is the third hurdle.
He had less than 500 brothers and about 100 Rumi guns on hand, and the Chishui River was behind him.
There were thousands of enemies who wanted to kill him, pouring out from the trees on the opposite side like a tide.
"Listen carefully, no one is allowed to shoot indiscriminately, let's get closer...Team one, team two, team three, team four, spread out four formations!
The first and second teams hold spears, and the third and fourth teams switch to bows and arrows! "
Seeing his opponents emerge from the forest, Zhang Xianzhong knew that they had no cavalry. So without waiting for the command of General Hei Wentao, who had already crossed the river, he directly changed the square formation into a horizontal formation, unfolding a wider front - this is actually also a form of the "Taizu Square Formation".
His decision was obviously correct. Hei Wentao soon issued the same order. The three square formations placed on the river beach soon turned into three large horizontal formations that were almost connected together.
As soon as the horizontal formation was set up, the Shuixi Chieftain Army, dressed in black, holding a turban, and holding a shield, had already rushed to the front of the horizontal formation twenty or thirty steps away.
What greeted them were more than 300 Rumi guns!
The Lumi gun was used by Zhu Youjian as a "black gun". Not only did each Lumi gun strive for excellence at all costs, but the knights who used them also had to undergo strict training - only those who could hit accurately from 100 steps away Only a human-shaped wooden target is qualified to become a Black Lancer in front of the tent!
Therefore, their shooting accuracy is incomparable to that of ordinary musketeers on the European battlefields of the same era. They are closer to the musketeers of the Chasseurs or the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire (the Rumi gun is actually the musket of the Ottoman Empire) , which relies on precision to kill the enemy. Although the lead bullets fired by Lumi gun are too light and sometimes cannot penetrate the enemy's heavy armor, the soldiers of the Shuixi Tusi Army do not have heavy armor to protect themselves, so the shields on hand can protect them. But now the distance between the two sides is very close, and the shield has no effect.
As the piercing sound of the suona sounded, 300 knights holding fire guns fired volleys in two groups.
300 tiny lead bullets were like a whirlwind, blowing past the chieftain's position, and immediately felled them like wheat.
These chieftain soldiers did not have a strong will to fight. The reason why they dared to rush up against the firecrackers of the army before was because they had never seen such powerful firecrackers.
After one blow, he was a little confused and started to get confused. The people in the front team did not dare to charge, but the people in the back team did not know how powerful it was and continued to move forward with their heads covered. There was a conflict between them, and chaos immediately broke out.
"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy..."
Seeing the enemy's confusion, the dismounted knights holding spears also shouted slogans and charged forward. At the same time, the two rows of knights using bows and arrows began to throw rain arrows.
Kaiyuan bows are soft and naturally shoot very fast, and the knights who use them are also very good at archery. They open the bow and place the arrows without stopping, and soon the arrows are raining down. The arrowheads landed on the rear formation of the chieftain soldiers, knocking down some of them and disrupting their already chaotic formation.
At the same time, long spears with cold light had pierced into the chests of the chieftain soldiers who were disrupted by the fire blunderbuss shots.
And these life-threatening spear points became the "last straw" that crushed the spirit of the chieftain soldiers. The first wave of attack by the chieftain soldiers was defeated head-on!
"How is it possible? How is this possible? How can the army be so good at fighting...how can they be better than the White Army?" An Bangyan, the great elder of Shuixi who was standing on a high ground on the south bank of the Chishui River to supervise the battle, was a little bit confused. I don't believe my eyes anymore.
In his opinion, the Baigan Army was already the strongest combat force in the Ming Dynasty. So in today's half-crossing attack, he used Zhu Youjian's soldiers in front of the tent as white-pole soldiers.
Therefore, An Bangyan did not dare to send too many Ming troops across the river. When he saw more than a thousand people coming, he decisively ordered 6,000 elite soldiers from the three families of An, She, and Song who were in ambush to attack!
6,000 against 1,500, 4 times the strength! Why did you lose so easily?
"Great Elder," She Chongming gritted his teeth and said, "I will lead the people to fight in the second battle!"
At this time, An Bangyan saw dozens of loaded boats coming on the river, and he was already anxious... He couldn't let them keep coming!
"Bring 10,000 people!" An Bangyan said, "Bring my own soldiers too... and fight them!"
"Okay! Let's fight..." She Chongming has no way out!
He is the culprit, and he will be beaten if caught! They could only bite the bullet and go down the mountain to organize the troops to launch a second wave of attacks. Just as She Chongming was organizing the organization, five more spearmen came over from the Ming army - these were the infantry in front of the tent, and they quickly joined the battle. The regiment replaced the same number of knights, and the knights took out their bows and arrows, preparing to use feather arrows to deal with the enemy.
"Kill the pigs and destroy the Ming Dynasty, Daxing Luodian..." This time the chieftain soldiers came up shouting slogans. Although the formation was a bit chaotic, there were many people and they were densely packed. It was really a big area!
Boom boom boom...
Suddenly, several muffled sounds came from the other side of the Chishui River. An Bangyan and Song Siyin, who were standing at a high place, felt their hearts tremble. They looked quickly and found several black spots visible to the naked eye flying rapidly over the Chishui River. Then it flew over the army array on the river beach, and finally fell suddenly from the air, landing among the crowd of chieftain troops who were surging forward in chaos.
What's this?
Several loud "rumbling" sounds solved the doubts in An Bangyan and Song Siyin's minds.
This is a life-threatening explosion!
Where several fireballs soared into the sky, a large area of the chieftain soldier was blown over, and you could vaguely see the human body being thrown high into the air!
This is a thunderstorm from heaven!
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty will know magic!
Boom boom boom...
There was another roar, and then thunder fell from the sky!
How to defeat an emperor who knows magic?
An Bangyan was confused.
He can't even take a step back now, and he will fall apart if he takes a step back!
But he has never learned magic, and he doesn’t know where he can find a Taoist master?
When I was having a headache, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Great Elder, help me!"
An Bangyan turned his head following the voice and saw Song Siyin holding a bright knife and slashing at him...
