"Look, there is movement among the officers and soldiers on the shore." Pu Kewei, who had been paying attention to the white-poled soldiers on the shore, arched his arm to Qin Youliang beside him.
Qin Youliang picked up the monocular telescope in his hand and looked over.
Soon, he took away the monocular telescope in front of him and said: "It seems that the officers and soldiers have almost crossed the river, and they are ready to take action."
"I don't know if Ma Xianglin ever crossed the river." Pu Kewei said.
Qin Youliang said: "Whether Ma Xianglin crosses the river or not, we can't wait any longer and gather the team."
Beep! Beep!
Two elongated copper whistles sounded.
The Tiger Flag soldiers who were ambushing around them came out one after another, quickly gathered into teams, and formed a battle formation in the middle of the road leading to the shore.
The military formation composed of more than a thousand soldiers was no longer thin. The soldiers standing in the first two rows were all wearing half-length plate armor with a layer of cotton armor underneath, and all held firecrackers in their hands.
The copper whistle was sharp and spread widely, so it was naturally heard by the white-pole soldiers led by Qin Yiming on the river bank.
"General, we found a large number of bandits on the way ashore."
The officers and soldiers on the shore noticed the Tiger Flag soldiers appearing around them, and immediately came to Qin Yiming to report.
Qin Yiming walked a few steps ashore and came to a higher place. He looked towards the end of the road ahead and found a large number of bandits.
"General, it seems that the leader of the bandit soldiers deliberately let us ashore and wants to fight with us on the shore." Qianhu next to him said while looking at the soldiers and horses with the tiger flag in the distance.
After hearing this, Qin Yiming snorted coldly and said: "Since a group of people who don't know whether to live or die want to take action on the shore, I will let them know what soldiers are and what thieves are."
The officers and soldiers on the shore quickly formed a military formation.
Both sides maintained their respective formations and moved forward little by little along the road under their feet.
"One two one, one two one."
As slogans were shouted one after another, Qin Youliang led the team to advance neatly step by step, always maintaining the integrity of the team.
The ranks of officers and soldiers are even worse.
Although the lower-level officers such as the general sentry and flag officer in the middle of the ranks of officers and soldiers tried their best to keep the ranks orderly, they would become messy every dozens of steps and had to be sorted out again.
Even so, it is stronger than most of the battalions in the official army. Even the border troops are unable to maintain an orderly formation during the advancement of the military formation.
When the distance between the two sides was still about a hundred steps, they stopped in tacit agreement.
"General, this bandit army in front of me is probably the elite of the bandit army." A Qianhu in the official army looked at the tiger-shaped flag military formation opposite and always maintained a condensed posture. He knew very well that he could do this The army is by no means comparable to ordinary soldiers and horses.
Qin Yiming looked at the array of tiger flags opposite with half-squinted eyes, and for the first time, the look on his face became solemn.
He is not one of those generals who don't know how to fight.
Being able to achieve such a position as a general, he fought in and out of the battlefield several times, dyeing the black gauze on his head red with the blood of the enemy, so when he saw the neat military formation on the opposite side, he knew that the white-armed soldiers were Met an opponent.
Regardless of the bravery of the opponent's individual soldiers, just being able to keep the military formation from breaking up when advancing is enough to prove the ability of the military commander in front of him.
As far as he knew, the vast majority of the Ming army could not achieve the level of the other party.
However, although he valued it in his heart, he was not afraid.
The strength of a troop does not entirely depend on whether the formation of soldiers is well-organized or not.
After all, it still depends on the bravery and strength of the soldiers.
In terms of strength, he has confidence in the white pole soldiers he brought. The strength of the white pole soldiers is definitely not comparable to that of any bandit soldier.
He believed that the final victory must be his white-pole soldiers.
"A thief's head costs twenty taels, a thief's human head costs 5 taels, and the general's human flesh costs 20 taels." Qin Yiming encouraged the morale of his soldiers, drew out his sword and pointed forward, shouting, "For the sake of the imperial court , kill the thief!"
"Kill the thief!"
The low-ranking military attache in the army shouted and rushed out first.
Thousands of Sichuan noble soldiers and horses, armed with weapons, rushed towards the formation of tiger-shaped flag soldiers on the opposite side.
Although the officers and soldiers took the initiative to charge out, the officers and soldiers who charged were not undisciplined and followed their whims, but were trotting quickly and maintaining a certain formation.
Among them, the officers and soldiers holding short blades and shields rushed to the front as the pioneers. At the same time, the shields on their forearms protected themselves and the team behind them.
The white pole soldiers follow the shield soldiers.
The spears in his hands are all long poles made of white wood. The front is the spear head, the lower position is the blade hook, and the tail is a hard iron ring.
The blade hook can be used to slash or pull the enemy, or hook the enemy's weapon, and the iron ring at the end can be used as a hammer weapon.
The white-pole soldiers have been fighting for many years and have always been invincible. When facing the slave thieves, they killed the slave thieves and defeated them. In the end, they were outnumbered and defeated miserably.
But this does not mean that the white pole soldiers are not strong.
Therefore, the white-pole soldiers have a natural psychological advantage when facing peasant armies like the Tiger Flag.
"Raise the gun!" Qin Youliang shouted.
In fact, there was no need for him to shout. As the brass whistle sounded, the soldiers standing in the front row raised their firecrackers and pointed them at the officers and soldiers rushing forward.
boom! boom! boom!
The officers and soldiers were less than fifty steps away, and the gunman standing in the front row fired the gun in his hand.
The gunman who fired the gun didn't even look at the result. After firing the gun, he immediately retreated, leaving room for the gunman behind him to hit him.
The firecrackers were fired again.
The shield soldiers who rushed to the front raised the shields on their forearms to resist the cannons.
Guns can penetrate even iron armor at a distance of dozens of steps, and the officers and soldiers in front of them are using wooden shields. The muskets penetrate with almost no hindrance and hit the soldiers hiding behind the shields.
The two rows of gunfire ended, and the momentum of the officers and soldiers' attack was blocked. The shield soldiers at the front fell to the ground, and at least forty or fifty people fell to the ground.
Rows of gunmen carrying tiger flags kept firing at the officers and soldiers in front.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer shield soldiers among the officers and soldiers, and the white pole soldiers behind the shield soldiers also showed their figures.
As the firecrackers continued to be fired, the white soldiers holding white guns began to suffer casualties.
More and more bodies of officers, soldiers and wounded people fell on the ground.
Although the white-pole soldiers are strong, the white-pole guns in their hands cannot hurt the Tiger Flag soldiers dozens of steps away.
The number of corpses of officers and soldiers increased from dozens to one to two hundred corpses.
Ordinary officers and soldiers faced with such a large number of casualties would have long been unable to bear the casualties and fled in rout.
It must be said that the white-pole soldiers were trained well. Faced with nearly one-tenth of their own casualties, they still showed no signs of defeat and persisted in launching an attack on the military formation with the tiger flag in front.
However, the distance of about twenty steps in front of the Tiger Flag soldiers has become a restricted area that officers and soldiers cannot enter.
No matter how hard the officers and soldiers rushed forward, they could never cross this distance.
