Tu Sha and the horse bandits were more than a mile away from the tiger-shaped flag car formation. Although there was no sound from the car formation, they could clearly see what the other party was doing.
The gunman lying next to Zhang Hong said: "Captain, let me just say these horse bandits are sick! Look at these horse bandits, they even kill their own people, just the horse bandit with a bow and arrow, kill two of them One of my own."
Zhang Hong kept staring at the horse bandits in the distance. His eyes suddenly condensed, his face changed, and he said: "No, we have encountered an opponent. Let us know immediately, and the carriages and boards are ready."
Unlike the gunman on the side, he noticed that among the horse bandits, those who used mounted bows were singled out, and it was obvious that they wanted to use mounted bows to deal with them.
A lot of the panels on the four-wheeled cart were removed. At this time, all the gunmen held the panels in front of them and put them where they could easily reach them.
At this moment, the horse bandits holding mounted bows in the distance rushed towards the car formation.
Zhang Hong shouted loudly: "The gunmen are ready. As long as the horse bandits come within shooting range, they will hit me."
Rows of musketeers were lying on the carts, the muskets placed on the roof, the muzzles of the muskets pointed at the horse bandits galloping in the distance.
Many gunmen silently calculated the distance between them and the horse bandits.
As soon as the horse bandits enter the range of the firecrackers, they will trigger the firecrackers and fire the firecrackers.
Seeing that the horse bandit's horse team had reached about a hundred and fifty steps, they all stopped. Instead of moving forward, they turned their horses' heads and started running sideways around the car formation.
The bandits on horseback took off their riding bows, mounted arrows one after another, and started shooting arrows into the car formation.
There were more than fifty horse bandits, more than fifty riding bows, and more than fifty arrows.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...
Arrows pierced the sky one after another, shooting towards the formation of vehicles like a gust of wind and rain.
However, the damage of these mounted bows was only fifty to sixty to one hundred and fifty steps away. Many arrows could not reach the chariot formation at all and fell to the grass one after another.
A rain of arrows fell, and the open space between the horse bandits and the car array was densely covered with arrows, and the feathers at the tail of some arrows were trembling slightly.
After shooting a round of arrows, the horse bandit ran around the car formation, and at the same time, he set up his bow again and shot a second arrow.
Another rain of arrows fell. Apart from an extra arrow on the ground, it was of no use, let alone threatening the car formation.
The gunman lying next to Zhang Hong said in a very positive tone: "Captain, these horse bandits must be out of their minds. They shoot arrows so far away from us. It doesn't matter if they can't hit anyone the first time. The second time He’s here again, isn’t he just because he’s full?”
Zhang Hong frowned. The horse bandit in front of him was different from what he expected.
In his previous imagination, since these horse bandits with mounted bows were singled out, it was probably to use bows and arrows to deal with their muskets and squatting tiger cannons.
But now the horse bandits were more than a hundred to two hundred steps away from them, and it was obvious that their bows and arrows could not reach their car formation. These horse bandits just drew their bows and shot arrows. After failing once, they actually came a second time. They really looked like their own men. As the gunman said, his brain is not normal.
Seeing that Zhang Hong didn't respond, the gunman beside him laughed in a low voice: "Captain, I'm right, these horse bandits are just out of their minds."
"Shut up." Zhang Hong scolded in a low voice. He always felt that things were not that simple.
The gunman curled his lips and said nothing, but in his heart he believed that these horse bandits were all mentally abnormal, otherwise fools would know that the bows and arrows fired from such a long distance would not be able to reach their car formation.
Tu Sha, who was a mile away, saw that the horse bandit he had sent over looked like a bird, and his face was livid.
He raised his hand and pointed at the horse bandits who were riding and shooting around the Ming people's chariot formation, and said to a horse bandit on the side: "Go and tell them, if you advance eighty steps to the Ming people's chariot formation, whoever can't do it doesn't have to come back." Yes, I will just move his head."
The horse bandit agreed and rode over to inform.
Not long after, the bandit on horseback, who was still a hundred steps away using a bow, began to approach the chariot formation. He got close to about sixty steps before re-nocking an arrow and shooting into the chariot formation.
The distance of sixty or seventy steps was already within the shooting range of the horse bandits' riding bows. The horse bandits began to put arrow feathers on the bow strings and pointed the arrows at Mingren's convoy.
boom! boom! boom……
A series of gunshots sounded, and gunpowder smoke floated around the car array. It was difficult to see how many horse bandits were hit.
"Quickly, set up the plank!" Zhang Hong shouted.
Hands stretched out from behind the cart, and a long wooden board was placed on the top of the gunman's head, forming a slope to resist the horse bandit's arrows.
The arrows hit the wooden board with a clanging sound, and some slow-moving gunmen were hit by arrows in their cotton armor before they had time to retreat behind the cart. Fortunately, they did not suffer any damage.
The arrows fired by the horse bandits were all wooden arrows and bone arrows, mixed with a few iron arrowheads.
Many arrows hit the wooden board and slid down, only a small number of arrows fell into the car array.
The gunmen were leaning behind the cart, and the spearmen were farther away from the cart. Many arrows hit the spearmen.
The spearmen were wearing half plate armor, and it was difficult for the soft bows used by the horse bandits to shoot through, let alone the arrows fired from sixty paces away. Many arrows bounced off the plate armor and fell to the ground. on the ground.
Only one spearman was unlucky. He was hit in the calf by an arrow and sat on the ground in pain.
However, someone soon pulled him to the back of the cart and pulled out the arrow to stop the bleeding.
Two squadrons of gunners had already filled the empty space behind the cart, and there was no room for the spearmen to lean behind the cart to avoid arrows.
Fortunately, all the spearmen wore half plate armor, and there were very few mounted bowmen among the horse bandits. Only a few arrows could be shot into the car formation, and most of them were blocked by the plate armor. There were very few injuries to the spearmen. arrive.
"Zhang Hong, what the hell are you doing! Fight back, fight back!" Zhao Yutu shouted in the direction of Zhang Hong.
Without saying a word, Zhang Hong filled the gunpowder with gunpowder and lead in his hand and tamped it down with a rod.
boom! boom! boom! boom!
The four squatting tiger cannons shot out the iron beads almost at the same time.
Seven or eight horse bandits were hit by the iron beads, and they and their horses fell to the ground. However, more horse bandits kept running sideways on their horses and avoided most of the iron balls.
Seven or eight more horse bandits died, which frightened the other horse bandits so much that they turned their horses' heads in an attempt to increase the distance between them and the car formation.
boom! boom! boom……
The mouths of the muskets protruded from the back of the cart, and the guns were fired in the direction in which the horse bandits were escaping.
The horse bandits dropped a dozen more corpses before they were able to escape the range of the cannon.
Tu Sha, who was staying a little further away, saw this scene and his eyes twitched suddenly.
He thought that the guards of the Ming people's convoy were quite capable, but he did not expect that the Ming people's guards were so bold as to dare to play with the mounted archers. As a result, more than fifty horse bandits with mounted bows he sent only escaped. A dozen or so.
What puzzled him even more was that after the blunderbuss in Akito's hand was fired three times, not a single one exploded. This was very different from the blunderbuss he knew.
The Akito car formation ahead seemed like a hedgehog, leaving him unable to eat.
