Seeing this, Zhai Shiyun hurriedly ordered the drumming and raising the flag, and the generals at all levels in the army were frustrated when they heard the drums, and they restrained their subordinates to form a formation.

However, most of Zhai Shiyun's troops were newly recruited soldiers who had been in battle for less than two months, and this time they were all in battle for the first time. For a while, some people looked at the enemy troops in the distance in surprise, some people hurriedly lined up according to orders, but they couldn't find their position for a long time, and some were still digging with their heads down, ignoring all orders.

It wasn't until the Tang guest's men and horses stopped a mile and a half away, and they set up an unhurried posture that Zhai Shiyun's side barely formed a defensive formation, but the swordsmen and spearmen were still crowded together, and the gunners were also hurriedly blowing the fire rope.

On the contrary, the cavalry contingent, which consisted mainly of the rebels, was slightly better, and although they were disorganized and had different blades, they were already in good formation and had already been prepared for battle.

The Tang guest drove his horse to stand on a high place, and when he saw the enemy army on the opposite side, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smug smile.

Most of the soldiers he brought with him had gone through the Wubikui Rebellion, and even joined the army during the Lu'an Rebellion, at least after more than ten large and small battle formations, and they must be able to capture the chaotic Ming army in front of them.

He carefully looked at the terrain near the Zhai Shiyun defense line, a small river twenty zhang wide on the south side, but the terrain was high in the north and low in the south, high in the west and low in the east.

Although Tang was born in a poor show, he was appreciated by Sha Dingzhou and promoted to a general in the army, but his military talent is also extraordinary.

He groaned a little at the moment, and summoned several generals beside him to order: "Zhao Caixiong, you lead 1,500 sword and shield hands, increase the gun team and bird gun hand to suppress the front, you don't need to break the enemy, just attract the attention of the enemy." ”

"Subordinates obey!"

"Pan Shigui, you take a thousand machetes and archers, quickly go around to the north side of the enemy, wait for my wolf smoke as a signal, attack the left flank of the enemy army to the death, and drive them into the river!"

"Subordinates obey!"

Tang turned to a short officer and said: "Pu Yongzhou, you lead the cavalry to lie on the side first, just wait for the enemy to be in chaos, and then attack from the middle of it, and then assemble on the west side after passing through the formation, blocking the enemy's escape route." ”

Pu Yongzhou said "obey the order", and he was secretly surprised in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to go west when he heard General Tang's meaning, but he wanted to destroy the enemy army before stopping.

In fact, Tang guests also hurried back to Yunnan, but if they didn't completely get rid of the Ming army that intercepted them, they would inevitably follow behind them. This place is still thousands of miles away from Yunnan, and if the whereabouts of the army cannot be hidden, it is inevitable that it will not be blocked by the imperial court.

After another moment, several wizards dressed in red and black robes, wide-brimmed hats decorated with horns, and hideous masks wore first walked out of the Tang Guest's army.

These people chanted mantras loudly in front of the battle with the beat of the drums, and at the same time danced with their hands, causing the soldiers of Zhai Shiyun's subordinates to stare curiously. At the same time, there were more than 1,000 black-clothed soldiers under the leadership of Pan Shigui quietly walked out of the formation and moved towards the north side of Zhai Shiyun.

Zhai Shiyun's subordinates were looking at the "liveliness" and could see that they were fascinated, and suddenly saw dozens of empty-handed soldiers rushing out from the side of those wizards, standing one hundred and fifty or sixty paces in front of the two armies' formations.

The same number of enemy soldiers came forward with a huge hammer-like thing and put the "hammer handle" on the shoulders of the empty soldiers. At the same time, thousands of soldiers with single swords and oval rattan shields followed, standing on both sides.

Zhai Shiyun saw those "giant hammers" on his shoulders, and seemed to remember something. But before he could give his order, he heard a loud bang in front of the battle, and the long handles of those "giant hammers" actually spewed fire and smoke, and they were dozens of oversized bird guns!

Immediately, several Ming soldiers were shot over by huge lead bullets. The projectile weighed nearly twenty yuan, and it was extremely powerful, and some of them were exhausted by a series of three people.

These are the "big guns" cast by Yunnan craftsmen to overcome the difficulty of cannon transportation in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, which are one and a half tall and weigh more than 30 catties.

It was too bulky for one person to pick it up, so it had to be mounted on the other person's shoulder to fire, but thanks to its huge caliber, the range and power were so amazing that it could be used as a miniature gun.

Later, the Qing Dynasty people were proud of carrying guns, which were actually almost no different from these new ideas, except that the forging process was more advanced, but it was used by the Manchus until the Sino-Japanese War.

The recruits in Zhai Shiyun's army were startled, and some people shouted in shock: "It's a cannon!" It took a long time for the officers on the side to suppress the frightened shouts.

In fact, the accuracy of this kind of big gun shooting was extremely poor, and it could not cause many casualties at all from a distance of 100 paces, and only one person was hit in the next round of shooting.

However, the originally untidy formation on Zhai Shiyun's side was frightened by this, and immediately became more messy, and some people wanted to retreat.

On the other hand, Tang Guest's department was extremely sophisticated, and then there were sword and shield hands and guns to take a few steps forward and stand still. The sword and shield man held Teng Dun in front of him for cover, while the gun man aimed forward in case the enemy suddenly charged.

And those who operated the big guns slowly loaded their ammunition behind them, pushed up to the front row again, set up the big guns, and aimed them for fire.

It was only at this time that Jiao Lian, the general on Zhai Shiyun's side, took the lead in reacting, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing stupidly?!" What about the cannon? Shoot me! ”

The gunners of the Ming army woke up like a dream, and hurriedly fiddled with more than a dozen tiger squatting cannons in front of the formation. Although these cannons are "mini", they are in no way more powerful than the "extra-large bird guns" on the opposite side.

But as soon as they adjusted the muzzle of the gun and prepared to ignite, a row of 20 buckshot bullets hit again, and the five gunners fell in response.

The rest looked at each other in horror, and remembered that the officer had said during the drill that when the enemy was close, the gunners should withdraw into the Chinese army.

They are all novices with zero experience, and they don't know how far it is "near", plus the fear of death, so they turned around and ran into the team, even those tiger squat cannons were thrown in front of the battle and forgot to bring them.

Although Zhao Caixiong was ordered by Tang Guest's military and was only responsible for stabilizing the Ming army in front, he did not expect the enemy to be so unbearable. He also moved the idea of meritorious service, and urged his men and horses to continue to move forward and storm the enemy formation.

Immediately, nearly 2,000 Dian troops jumped over the trench that was only calf deep, and more than 400 gunners first put another round of guns on the face of Zhai Shiyun's army.

This time the distance was already very close, and the four hundred bird guns instantly overturned the sixty or seventy Ming troops, and the Zhai Shiqi battle array suddenly shrank back.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Caixiong's 1,500 sword shield hand pounced and slashed with a swing of his sword. The front row of the Ming army's swordsmen clumsily waved their blades to counterattack, but their skills were too different, and many people were chopped to the ground.

Although Jiao Lian shouted again and again, "Resist!" Counterattack! But these recruits were really not strong, and they couldn't stop retreating under the flashing of the enemy's blades.

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