When the Fran cannon outside the besieged camp shot out the eleventh gun, Earl Charles finally couldn't help it.

It is not difficult to remain indifferent to the death of a soldier, but it is difficult to get a soldier to stop wailing and spreading fear.

The Ming army's artillery sprayed scattered bullets of very limited damage, and in front of each army formation were veterans under the command of the lords who had arrived from all over the country, and they generally had good armor and stood behind the fortifications, while those who lacked defense infantry and outcast mercenaries were arranged behind the formation.

The nobles who led the army at the front even boasted that even if the Ming army bombarded twenty rounds with artillery, they would probably die less than 400 people.

It's true, but everyone ignores the injured.

The first round of artillery of the Ming army was fired, and the morale of the entire army was low; But by the time it came to the third round, everyone was not afraid, and there were no dead people in front of and behind.

But as more and more people heard the wailing, some were not hit by the iron pellet, some were unlucky enough to be wounded by the iron pellet, and the screams became more and more miserable, and old John's reserve came in handy to pull those wounded from the front line to the camp to provide bandages.

Wounded soldiers who remain in the ranks will only continue to wail and lower morale, but once they can be healed, they will be much quieter.

Although they don't have military doctors, many lords and lords bring personal doctors, and fellow villagers and military chaplains from the troops behind them will also participate in the treatment, so that they can be bandaged.

But Old John's reserves could not keep up with the speed at which the soldiers turned into wounded soldiers, and the incessant shelling terrified the soldiers, more frightening than the fear of being killed by a single shot, the fear of being disabled at any moment—there was no social security in those days.

There is no direct connection between the casualty rate on the battlefield and whether the troops collapse or not, the key is to see whether the formation is scattered, whether the command system is out of order, and whether an army, from generals to soldiers, does not know what to do about the current situation.

The Earl of Charles knew very well that the most fatal third situation was put on his plate.

The aristocratic commanders and veterans on the front line didn't know what they should do now, the longbow projectile was not powerful enough, the direct distance was not enough, the advance faced more casualties, and the retreat led to the pursuit of the enemy.

Earl Charles had to give an order, and if he didn't give it a little longer, he might not have the opportunity to give it.

The horn of the besieging camp was finally sounded, and then the low horns of the various nobles in front of the battle according to their own combat habits came and went.

Each nobleman's subordinate had different combat habits, some were used to blowing twice, some were used to blowing three, but regardless of a few last sounds, it must be the same purpose, to prepare the soldiers for battle.

Horses with muskets and spears galloped around the camp and turned to the wings; The infantry line was carried forward by the Protestant monks after being cheered up, and of course there were also two-pole knights who were heavily influenced by the knights, with a brute spirit, who planned to advance with spears in the face of artillery fire.

They did not have a unified command, and each commanded the soldiers under their command, not an army but several noble alliances led by Earl Charles, and under each noble alliance there were several knight wings, and each army acted flexibly and the strength was dispersed.

However, the dispersion was only relative, for example, the Earl Charles, who had the largest number of troops, easily gathered a horse team of 200 horsemen composed of horsemen, heavy cavalry, and light cavalry, collected all the short muskets in the army and issued them to the light cavalry, so that they could form a semi-maneuver horse team to cover the movement of heavy cavalry to the flank of the Ming army.

Since the end of the Italian War, the knights in their right minds don't like to charge, it's not that they are cowardly, they are still happy to fight with the enemy knights, but it is difficult to describe the matter of attacking the organized infantry line.

It's not that you can't rush or can't rush, the tactics are carried out by people, this question has to measure the skills and timing of both sides, but most of the cases are really more than worth the losses, what's wrong with having that kung fu to drive the enemy heavy cavalry out of the battlefield?

The semi-slalom tactics are even more favored by them, in fact, the semi-slalom is just a different name, similar to the ancient cavalry archery of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Japanese Liudi horse, which shoots at about five paces.

Five steps is the Central Plains Dynasty archers to put arrows in the habit, very scientific, this distance is usually the infantry cold weapons can not reach the position, this tactic is used to attack the cold weapons of the infantry line, most of the world's archers are used to put arrows in this position, because in the case of safety to provide the maximum possibility of hit.

Of course, if the cavalry is elite enough to shoot at a farther position but may not be able to break the armor, it is not a matter of the bow, and it is not easy to borrow strength immediately; If the cavalry performing the tactic is weak enough, they will also shoot from a farther position, but they may not be able to hit.

This tactic was originally used to deal with infantry gun formations, and they were also arrayed during the reign of Rome in ancient times, but then it was very strange that they didn't know how to line up, so this tactic appeared relatively late in Western Europe and Northern Europe, and Eastern Europe inherited the unparalleled genes of mounted archery since the Mongol expedition to the west, and it is not in this list.

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not good, it mainly depends on what enemy they encounter, and if they use it well, they can tear the front, and if they don't use it well, the Huns who were shot to death by Li Ling will also welcome them underground.

The current situation is a good opportunity to use semi-rotating tactics in the eyes of Earl Charles, the Ming army's three battalions are lined with spears, mostly lightly armored infantry, muskets are scarce, the main projection weapons are slower crossbows, the artillery turns the muzzle slowly, as long as the attack from the flank, shoot the enemy with semi-gyro tactics, and the heavy cavalry take the opportunity to storm the artillery position, which should be able to tear the line for the main infantry.

Even if they can't, they can get away with the impact.

The 200 cavalry circled around the besieging camp, attacked from the east side, bypassed the artillery range and marched towards the right battalion of the Ming army Muye, a distance of only one or two hundred paces, the right battalion commander really did not have time to turn the muzzle, so he simply ordered the caravan artillery to continue to bombard the enemy position, and the infantry under his command formed a formation with large shields and spears, preparing to defend and counterattack.

Ying Ming, who was in the middle of the army, also observed this, waved his hand and ordered his subordinates to lead 50 cavalry to the right battalion to rush to help, and the remaining 50 cavalry continued to press the formation to guard against the enemy's rear hand.

In the short charge, Earl Charles saw that the Ming army was adjusting its formation, those crossbowmen put their big crossbows on their big shields, and the galloping horse teams also protected their shields in front of them, and quickly approached with muskets.

During this period, the Furlong bombarded it twice, and several riders were knocked down and rolled off their horses, and they could afford such losses.

Approaching thirty paces, dozens of closed crossbows shot out vigorously, knocking over a platoon of cavalry and men and horses, and all the cavalry were relieved...... They will not give the enemy a chance to re-fire their crossbows, the line is in sight, they will raise their muskets, and they will soon approach the firing position!

One by one, the cavalry turned their horses' heads around and stretched out their arms to shoot at the Ming army a few paces away, and Earl Charles, who led the team, could see the faces of the enemy who looked different from them even before the smoke burst out, but those faces were not afraid, which was very strange.

Just as the war horse had turned its body and he was about to turn his head, he heard a muffled grunt through the smoke of gunpowder, and immediately after, something came out of the smoke and flew away beside Earl Charles.

Behind the ears, the sound of breaking the air came one after another.

The count on horseback was like a ghost - it was a javelin.