Liu Haojia slapped the railing and said: "Yes, there are heavy casualties! Because if they want to charge into the formation, they have to use a dense formation! And they are all cavalry, and their targets are much bigger than infantry! Not to mention the lead bullets hitting people, that is If a horse is hit, it will overturn it immediately! As long as they fall off the horse, they will be trampled to death by their own people!"
At this moment, they heard the continuous sound of artillery fire below. Everyone hurriedly turned their heads and looked down, only to see that the artillery in the center of the square array had begun to fire continuously! In the blink of an eye, a lot of places were covered in dust! When everyone saw this scene, they seemed to see the Mongolian Tatars who were standing there watching their companions go into battle. They were knocked upside down by the sudden falling shells, and they couldn't help but smile!
After fifteen rounds of artillery fire, the infantry around the phalanx also started firing volleys one after another! At this moment, the dense phalanx seemed to suddenly change from buds to flowers! The unfolding petals are thick smoke!
Since the teams on the four sides are the thickest, the fire gun soldiers are extremely dense! Therefore, the speed of the round fire could not be faster, and ten rounds of fire guns were fired in the blink of an eye! But at this time Liu Haojia had ordered them to stop shooting, and then said with a smile: "Master Qi, your ten thousand troops have probably been dispersed now, right? The Tatars were caught off guard and had no determination to fight to the death! How many casualties will there be?" "
Qi Jiguang had been holding a telescope to watch the phalanx's shooting. When he heard the Liu family's words, he put down the telescope and said, "I dare not say that there are too many. There must be losses of thousands of people!"
Liu Haojia raised his eyebrows and said: "What? My firecrackers are so dense, how can I only kill a thousand people? Do you still think their firecrackers are the firearms of the border army?"
At this time, everyone entered the play. When Liu Haojia said this, they all glared at Qi Jiguang, thinking that he was deliberately trying to reduce his losses! And Qi Jiguang said calmly: "The cavalry is very windy when running. It is difficult for the gun soldiers to aim at all! It is not possible to hit people like target shooting, so the loss of a thousand people is already a lot! And a thousand guns When you reach sixty steps in front of the formation, you can release arrows, and you should also have casualties!"
Liu Haojia sneered and said: "Isn't this just for a lower official? I should have shown you the combat equipment of my soldiers just now! All soldiers have helmets and breastplates. Within a distance of sixty steps, Tatar arrows It can’t break the armor at all, at most it’s just a shoulder or arm injury, just wrap it up a little and it’ll be fine!”
Qi Jiguang nodded and said: "That's true! There are relatively few Tatars who use iron arrows, and it is really difficult to break armor! How about this, you have a slight loss, and we have lost 1,200 people, no more!"
Afterwards, the two people bargained for a while, and finally reached a consensus on the number of one thousand people! Later, after the 10,000 people who besieged the phalanx withdrew, Liu Haojia ordered half of the Franco cannons to be deployed in front of the formation, and the other half of the Franco cannons were placed in the open space between the phalanxes!
Then the Mongolian Tatars, who had suffered a loss, divided their troops into 20,000 troops and launched a pincer attack from the left and right sides of the phalanx! Soldiers were required to come within fifty steps to eject! However, their dense formation was hit by three consecutive rounds of fire from the French cannon!
The artillerymen who finished firing the artillery dropped the artillery and ran away, directly back to the formation! Faced with the trophy of artillery, the Tatar cavalry naturally swarmed forward! This is metal. If you take it back, you can exchange it for scimitars and iron arrowheads! However, they were so greedy that they were attacked continuously by the other half Frankie Cannon and Fire Gun, causing heavy casualties and retreating!
Then the battle continued! Qi Jiguang began to cut down wood to build shields and shield chariots to cover the dismounted cavalry in infantry battles! Liu Haojia knew that there were not many trees on the grassland, so he could not build many shield vehicles in a hurry! Moreover, he used artillery fire to smash the shield vehicle into pieces, and then used the Franco machine gun to clean up the infantry behind the shield vehicle!
Then Qi Jiguang made another ingenious plan, igniting the tail of the war horse and using the fire horse formation to attack the phalanx! However, most of the war horses died under the fire of shotguns and muskets, and a few of the war horses that rushed to the front of the phalanx also died in front of the rejecting horses! Some war horses that lined up in the middle of another phalanx were also killed by the oncoming fire blunderbuss, or directly stabbed to death by spearmen! The cavalry that followed were flanked by two phalanxes, killing a group of people in vain!
Seeing that a strong attack was not possible, Qi Jiguang relied on the mobility of the cavalry to attack in rotation! Want to wear down the infantry!
But Liu Haojia commanded the rotation of square formations inside and outside the town. The soldiers who returned after the rotation could drink water and rest, and survived his harassment tactics!
During the entire process, Liu Haojia also organized artillery bombardments from time to time on the cavalry brigade that had assembled for repairs, forcing them to stay away from their positions, lengthening the time and distance they needed to go into battle, and they also had to swim at low speeds without getting adequate rest!
He even used the cavalry that never appeared in the center of the square to occasionally counterattack, cutting off the opponent's attacking team, or hitting the opponent head-on when the opponent's attacking formation was scattered by firearms!
The two sides fought vigorously, while the infantry below were constantly simulating various combat actions under the guidance of Liu Haojia! And what's amazing is that the entire formation was not messed up from beginning to end, and a large square formation was maintained!
Finally, when the two sides struggled together until late in the evening, both sides were already exhausted. Liu Haojia took advantage of the opponent's long rotation to actually expand his formation and press against the opponent in a two-row square formation!
Qi Jiguang was furious when he saw this and said: "Your infantry has been fighting for almost a day and hasn't eaten much. How can they have such good physical strength!"
And Liu Haojia said: "Xiaguan's soldiers are not fighting hand-to-hand. They are just loading gunpowder and pulling the trigger. They are not tired at all. At most, their legs are sore from standing!"
After the two sides argued for a long time, Qi Jiguang had to admit that the fire gun soldiers did have this advantage over the melee combat units! They didn't expend much energy at all, and they should have enough energy to counterattack!
After confirming this, Qi Jiguang immediately mobilized the cavalry to disperse, trying to tempt Liu Haojia to pursue and divide his troops! However, Liu Haojia was determined not to divide his troops. After chasing for a while and making some small gains, he immediately retreated and rotated the phalanx to let the soldiers rest!
At this point in the battle, even the laymen on the high platform could see that neither side could do anything to the other, and they should probably shake hands and make peace! But they all felt that Liu Haojia won because he used one-third of his troops to withstand the Tatar attack and was able to counterattack!
But at this time, Zhang Han actually said loudly to Qi Jiguang: "Master Qi, you still have more than 20,000 cavalry in your hands. Charge forward with all your strength, one on the left and one on the right! As long as you make some sacrifices, you can break through the opponent's square formation if you rush in. !"
