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After the Ming army left the city, the refugees made noise and went straight to the place where the drinking water tank and urn were placed in the center of the city.

Outside the west gate of Tumubao, Shen Xi's mule convoy was moving forward.

The mule cart formation was followed by the backbone infantry of the Ming town to defend the territory, and without the defense of artillery and shields, these infantry would be vulnerable to the impact of the Tatar cavalry.

"Remember, my lord said, after a while, the Tatar cavalry will kill, and the spearmen will immediately stab out, whether it is stabbing people or horses, the movements must be neat. If the cavalry of the Tartars rushes into the formation, the surrounding people immediately lie down, draw their waist knives and cut the legs of the opponent's horses, and do not stand and fight with the people on the horses! ”

As they moved forward, the team leaders and the team were still explaining the essentials of the battle to the soldiers around them.

Although the cavalry group charge is powerful, the killing and casualty of the infantry is mainly concentrated in the upper three lanes, and if the infantry is lying down, as long as they are not stepped on by the horses, they can avoid being killed by one blow.

If the infantry can cooperate with each other at this time, spears and machetes cooperate with each other, in fact, the power of the cavalry is not as great as imagined, and the key is to see the courage and quality of the soldiers.

But at this moment, these Ming infantry walked neatly and confidently...... There is an artillery array in front, cavalry guarding the flanks, and a shield array around the periphery, and the whole formation appears regular and neat.

Surrounded in the middle of the line, there was no fear at all, and the person in the center could only see the black and oppressive heads around him, and he couldn't even know how far away he was from the Tatars.

After the confrontation between the two armies entered Erli, the situation became complicated, because if you walked half a mile further, you would enter the range of the Franco's cannon, and this was the best time for the Tatars to attack, but at this time, Huoya was still observing the formation of the Ming army and did not make a decisive decision.

"Aya Huo, you can't wait any longer, give the order! If we don't give the order, we'll have to do it ourselves! ”

The Tatar cavalry began to be restless, although the Tatars pay attention to teamwork, but sometimes they are brave and fierce, as if at this time, the Tatar people do not contain the heart of war, and the belligerent blood of the whole body is about to boil.

"Hooha, hooha, hooha......"

The clarity of the Ming army's shouting became clearer and clearer.

Huo Aya's expression was grim, and when she saw clearly that almost all the Ming troops in the city had been killed, and there were only a few soldiers left in the city in the distance, her first thought was: "If there are soldiers and horses to kill in the city now, and then the inside and outside should be combined, how good it would be to break the Ming army in front of you." ”

However, due to the inefficiency of the herald orders in this era, even if Huo Aya found the weakness of the Ming army, he could not take advantage of it. Huo Aya raised her sword again and shouted: "The soldiers are divided into left and right wings, kill!" ”

"Ulala!"

When the Tatar cavalry heard the order to send troops, it was as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, each brandishing a scimitar, and under the leadership of the hundred and thousand households in front, they were divided into two roads, left and right, and rushed to the left and right flanks of the Ming army.

After the Tatars attacked, the Ming army's mule cart team stopped advancing, and the cavalry on both wings also stopped the horses, only to see that Shen Xi's order flag changed at this time, the original flag became two, and as the order flag fell, the mule carts that were originally connected together began to turn around.

"Ready!"

Shen Xi's voice was drowned in the noisy waves, although it was only a battle of more than 6,000 people, but the momentum caused was extremely terrifying.

Both sides shouted loudly to cheer themselves on. The artillery wagons began to adjust their direction one after another, but they were still too late to shell the Tatar cavalry.

Huo Aya was experienced in the battle, and she decided to bypass the front of the Ming army's battle formation, go around in a circle, and outflank her from both flanks. In this way, when the Ming artillery adjusts the angle, the cavalry has already entered the opponent's infantry phalanx, and then it can be slaughtered unscrupulously.

"Ulala!"

"Kill!"

As the Tatar cavalry charged, the artillery arrayed in front of Shen Xi seemed to be useless due to the practicality of adjusting the firing angle.

Unless Shen Xi ordered the artillery to be fired at the place where it was about to be strangled, it would be not only the Tatar cavalry but also the Ming soldiers who would be killed and wounded.

But firing at his own people, although it can bring huge casualties to the Tatar cavalry, but the blow to the morale of the Ming army is immeasurable, Shen Xi will not choose such a dangerous chess, otherwise who will die for him in the future?

Huo Aya personally led the Tatar cavalry, and in a blink of an eye, he was in front of the Ming army's formation, and Huo Aya was in the direction at this time, which was the left side of the Ming army's battle array.

Huo Aya gave the order: "Iron Cavalry Cover!" ”

The heavy cavalry in the front row used heavy armor as a barrier, and the follow-up light cavalry immediately followed, because the heavy cavalry did not impact fast, so that the charge of the light cavalry was hindered, but with the cover of the heavy cavalry, even if the Ming army had bows and crossbows in the array, the damage to the cavalry could be negligible.

"My lord, the killing is coming, the Tartars are coming!"

The prison commander Zhang Yong followed the army at this time, because he did not want to stay in the city and wait for death.

Zhang Yong feared that the Tatars would occupy the Tumu Fort after the Ming army poured out, so he preferred to follow Shen Xi rather than act alone.

Zhang Yong was under the wooden platform of Shen Xi, surrounded by a row of shields to protect him, but he stood tall and could clearly see the Tatar cavalry coming from both wings.

The situation on the battlefield changed in an instant.

Although at the beginning of the war, it seemed that the Ming army had the upper hand, but the change that followed was that the Tatars came first, and the cavalry on both flanks of the Ming army still did not make any move when the distance between the two sides was less than a mile, because Shen Xi had given a special order before he set off...... Since you are timid, then don't go into battle, anyway, there are very few cavalry in the Ming army, and the combat effectiveness is not the same level as the Tatar cavalry.

"Ulala!"

The Tatars shouted, and the men and horses led by the right flank of the fire silk were faster, and at this time they were less than five hundred paces away from the Ming Dynasty Chinese army.

Shen Xi was calm, a sneer appeared on his face, and then he raised the order flag and made new changes.

The Ming army's way of issuing orders is obviously more convenient and effective than that of the Tatars, with the change of the Shenxi flag, the fireworks are lifted into the air, although the colors cannot be distinguished during the day, but because the meaning of the fireworks has been agreed before, the Ming soldiers only need to follow the established orders.

Huo Aya did not rush to the front at this time, but her position was only thirty paces away from the Tatar forward, and those fierce Tatar cavalry still had two hundred steps to kill the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty only temporarily erected shields to block it.

Huo Aya's heart was extremely excited, she had experienced thirty battles of all sizes, she had seen a lot of this situation, even if the Ming crossbowmen pierced through the Yang in a hundred steps, but the Tatar front row cavalry had iron armor protection, and the Ming army could not stop this round of impact at all.

Heavily armored horses can directly break through the shield array under high-speed impact, and as long as a gap is opened, the brave Mongol cavalry can kill in, and the Ming battle formation will collapse, and then it will be a good opportunity for the Tatars to kill wantonly, and the Ming will no longer have the possibility of victory.

Huo Aya thought to herself: "There are only less than two hundred steps, and you stupid Ming people are finally going to be martyred for the tens of thousands of grassland soldiers buried north of the Yuxi River." Shen Xi, you also have to pay the price for your arrogance! ”

With this in mind, Huo Aya even began to dream of the scene of tying Shen Xi back to the grassland after winning. For some reason, at this time, she was not as resentful of Shen Xi as before, she just wanted to humiliate Shen Xi and denounce him as a slave, so that he could experience the feeling of being trampled under his feet.

"Ulala!"

The Tatars shouted the last round of trumpets, which was also the last way to boost morale before the hand-to-hand engagement.

Just when many Ming soldiers felt that they were going to die on the battlefield outside the civil fort, a sudden change occurred.

When the Tatars were about to assault in front of the Ming infantry formation in the blink of an eye, the tall shield array suddenly withdrew from several large gaps, and no cavalry or infantry came out of the gaps, and what came out were soldiers who seemed to be larger than a bird's gun in their hands.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Tatars, the first thought is, this is the fire gunner!

The Ming Dynasty had a firearms battalion, and in the previous battles with the Tatars, firearms were used on the battlefield many times, but the effect of the musket was extremely poor, the attack distance was only a dozen or even a few steps, and the risk of exploding was very high, so that it was inferior to the bow and crossbow in terms of mobility and lethality, and was only used as an auxiliary weapon.

"Kill!"

Huo Aya shouted, in fact, she didn't need to command anything, because the distance between the two battle formations was very close at this time, and they could not be allowed to retreat at this time.

There were 240 firecrackers on each flank of the Ming army, divided into three rows, each with 80 men.

Although there is still a gap between the lethality and the large Franc cannon, Shen Xi has made some improvements to its production process, making it extremely airtight, greatly increasing the firing range, and being able to form effective damage within 100 steps.

"Put!"

Finally, after the order of the leading officer, the musketeers fired the first round of bullets.

"Bang bang bang!"

Because the firing mechanism of the arquebus has not been changed, the smaller version of the arquebus is still relatively slow to fire and takes some time to reload. For this reason, Shen Xi specially introduced a three-stage shooting method, and when the soldiers in the first row finished shooting, they immediately squatted down to change the bullets, and the second row followed the shooting, and after shooting, they squatted down and changed to the third row to shoot. When the third platoon finished grabbing, the first platoon had already finished loading, stood up again and fired, and the cycle continued.

After puffs of green smoke rose into the sky, the scattered projectiles fired by the Franc machine fire bolt quickly pierced the sky. The Tatar cavalry thought that their armor would be able to resist arrows and projectiles, but they clearly underestimated the power of the new firearms.

"Whew!"

After a gust of wind, there was a sound of "poof" and "poof" in front, and not only the Tatar cavalry fell off their horses, but also the horses were directly hit and fell.

A round of fire guns was fired, and more than 400 cavalry charging on Huo Aya's side lost more than 40 people, and even Huo Aya, who was originally from the middle and front positions, was also exposed to the threat of the Ming army's firearms.

"Accelerate! Hasten! ”

Huo Aya thought that the Ming army's musketeers would withdraw from the formation to reload the bullets, so she ordered to speed up the charge, but who knew that the opponent's guns were endless, and people around her kept falling to the ground.

Not only that, in the Ming army formation on the opposite side, the shields were all withdrawn, and five artillery pieces appeared on the north and south flanks of the firecrackers. The cannons were still mounted on carts, but instead of being pulled by mule carts, they were pulled by four men, and because they were mixed with the infantry, they had not been noticed before.

In the Ming army array, there are ten Franc cannons on the left and right, that is to say, now in addition to the twenty Franc cannons at the head of the West Gate, there are only six or seven Franc cannons at the head of the rest of the city.

Since the Franc cannon is loaded facing the left and right sides, it can be fired only by adjusting the angle slightly. The civil fort was tens of meters higher than the surrounding terrain, so the Tatar cavalry was actually in a state of attacking from the back, while the Franc cannon was condescending and could exert maximum power.

"Disperse!"

When Huo Aya realized that she was being calculated by Shen Xi, she could no longer care about her own safety, but by the time she prompted the Tatar cavalry to disperse, it was too late.

The distance was too close, and the Tatar cavalry consciously approached when they were about to break the formation, originally trying to concentrate superior forces, but gave the firecrackers and Franc machine guns a chance to make full play.

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PS: The first update has arrived!

Wait for a change, there is an urgent matter at home today, the son of heaven goes out in the morning, and only goes home after seven o'clock in the afternoon, the update is late, please forgive me!

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! The Son of Heaven hid his face and left, hurry up to atone for his sins! (To be continued.) )