With the sound of horses' hooves, the Manchu cavalry approached quickly, and although there were only more than ten horsemen, there was a faint formation of thousands of horses.

And the more than ten enemy cavalry saw that the Ming soldiers of the brigade did not stop the hooves, but rushed over in a daze. So everyone saw that in addition to the first few iron-helmeted and black-armored cavalrymen, there were also several knights in felt hats and leather robes, but they were Mongols.

Although there were only more than a dozen cavalrymen, if they were allowed to rush into the queue, the queue of hundreds of people would be shattered by the impact under the heavy impact of the cavalry, and this result would be understood by anyone with a little military common sense. So although there are only more than ten rides, no one dares to take it lightly. Moreover, if there were only more than ten horsemen, how could they dare to go so far into the territory of the Ming army? There must be a large battalion of cavalry behind!

With Deng Bingzhen's words, more than three hundred martial arts students quickly assembled, and dozens of people at the front of the line had already stood side by side in a tight row, and the sharp spears and spears were pointed straight at them.

The Wu Beisheng in the back quickly filled the gap between them, and handed the spear from their shoulders and pointed diagonally into the air.

In the face of cavalry attacks, it is already common sense to defend with a spear formation, and the military students have also practiced this formation.

Behind the two rows of pikemen, the musketeers were nervously reloading their ammunition, while the archers quickly drew their bows and arrows, pointing their arrows at the incoming enemy.

When recruiting military students, most of the applicants are hereditary military households or civilian heroes. These people have basic combat skills, only the eldest son of the hereditary military family can inherit the military position, and the rest can only find their own way out, these people generally have some ancestral martial arts and military arts, so among the three hundred and fifty people, there are as many as eighty people who are good at shooting.

In terms of power, the firebolt can shoot through thick armor at close range and is more powerful than the bow and arrow, but the bow and arrow have a long range and faster rate of fire, and they react faster than the firebolt in battle.

So while the dozens of musketeers in the arsenal were still reloading their projectiles, the eighty archers had already fired their first arrows at the incoming enemy horsemen.

Dozens of feathered arrows flew towards the enemy cavalry, most of them fell in front of the enemy cavalry, a few of them fell among the cavalry, and two cavalrymen fell off their horses with arrows.

Deng Bingzhen frowned slightly when he saw this, he knew that these subordinate martial arts students were really inexperienced, and they were too panicked in the face of the impact of the enemy cavalry, and many archers had already shot out before the enemy cavalry entered the firing range, and one shot out and the others involuntarily followed and released the bowstring, resulting in dozens of arrows only hitting one or two enemies.

However, the shooting of the Ming archers also caught the attacking cavalry by surprise. They also didn't expect to react so quickly in the face of the attack on the opposite side of the Ming army!

In the eyes of most of the Eight Banners, the Ming Army's combat strength is really lackluster, except for being planted under Chen Yue twice, it is not a lie to say that the Eight Banners are invincible, in addition to relying on the strong city wall to defend, in the past ten years, few Ming troops have dared to fight against the Eight Banners in the field. The battle of Salhu, the battle of Tashan, with the white pole soldiers of the Qi army, with the three sides of Jiliao, Xuanda and northern Shaanxi, the border army of the Ming Dynasty was annihilated by the Qing army, and one by one famous generals died in battle, and the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners Army was almost established in the hands of the Ming army.

The defeat of the two Eight Banners of Duoduo Azig was more due to the Ming army's water attack plan, and they were not convinced by the Ming army's combat strength. And the fact is also the same, Lu Zhenfei led 200,000 Ming troops from Xiangyang to the north, but was defeated by less than 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers, and Li Chengdong and others were forced to surrender.

Therefore, in the face of the Ming army, the Eight Banners had a natural psychological advantage, which was also the reason why they dared to attack hundreds of Ming army arrays with more than ten horses.

In the eyes of the white-armored soldier Belon, these hundreds of Ming troops are all infantry, as long as they have one round of impact, they can crush the Ming army, and all that remains is to pursue and slaughter from behind.

However, the reaction of the Ming army was beyond his expectations, and although they were a little flustered, they quickly formed a defensive array. But so what, just rush forward, shoot a gap with a bow and arrow, and then rush through the gap, you can also easily defeat the Ming army.

For this Ming infantry, which was only a few hundred in number, the white-armored soldier Belon did not even stop and wait for the main force of the follow-up brigade to arrive, so he led the team to attack and move forward.

However, the reaction of the Ming army was really beyond his expectations, and there were nearly a hundred archers hidden in the army of three or four hundred people! And before the Qing army launched, a round of arrow rain forced the Eight Banners warriors to dodge on their horses, but two people were still shot off their horses.

The anger in the eyes of the white-armored soldier Belon, he opened his big bow and shot out an arrow, hitting a Ming army in front of the door, and behind him, five or six Mongolian cavalrymen also bent their bows and arrows, and the arrows shot towards the Ming army array.

I have to admit that the archery skills of the Eight Banners are much better than those of the Ming Army, even these military students from military families cannot be compared. Especially the Mongols in the Qing cavalry, they have been shooting arrows on horseback since they were children, and the accuracy of archery is also very high.

In just one round of shooting, five or six Wubei students were shot, and most of them were shot in the face and could not be saved at all.

Closer, closer, looking at the array of the Ming army more than ten steps away, the white-armored soldier Belon had to admit that this Ming army was different, even if the companions around him were hit by arrows, even if they faced the impact of high-speed cavalry, the team was not messy, and still held high the spear, so that he could not find the gap to enter.

If he forcibly hits, in the face of countless sharp spears raised high, not to mention him, even the war horse under the crotch is unwilling to advance.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to pull the reins of the war horse and slash diagonally in front of the Ming army array, and at the same time another feather arrow was placed on the bow, and he was about to shoot towards the Ming army array.

Relying on the speed of war horses to gallop around the infantry array, killing and injuring a large number of enemy soldiers with bows and arrows, waiting for an opportunity to find the weak link of the infantry array, this is the combat strategy of the Eight Banners cavalry when facing the infantry array of the Ming army. In the face of the huddled infantry, few cavalry would choose to hit it directly.

Zhang Huangyan pulled the bowstring, his body adjusted slightly, and the arrow pointed to the Eight Banners soldier wearing white armor at the front. When the other Wubeisheng archers shot arrows in their hands, he did not move, but looked for the right time to shoot. He won't do a shot without certainty.

Judging from the armor of the white-armored Eight Banners soldier alone, Zhang Huangyan knew that it was not easy to shoot him off the war horse with a bow and arrow. Maybe his arrows couldn't penetrate the armor at all. Of course, you can choose to shoot horses, the tall Liaodong war horse is so conspicuous, far taller than the Mongolian horse.

However, Zhang Huangyan did not choose to shoot horses, he was very confident in his archery skills. When he first took the test and tried archery, he once shot three times and hit three times. This is what distinguishes Zhang Huangyan from other scholars.

Armor with a large shooting area is not good, so you can only choose weak points such as the neck of the shooting surface. Zhang Huangyan's body adjusted slightly, and the arrows were always aimed at the white-armored soldiers who were coming over.

Closer, closer, and then saw the white-armored soldier pull the war horse, did not choose to charge directly, so Zhang Huangyan faced his side, just when Zhang Huangyan thought that there was no chance to shoot him with an arrow, he saw the white-armored soldier Zhang Bow and arrow body suddenly turned around. Golden opportunity! Zhang Huangyan's arrow was fine-tuned, and he quickly let go of his right hand.

This arrow was like an antelope hanging on its horns, like a meteor outside the sky, quickly flying through the space of more than ten paces, and appeared in front of the white-armored soldier Belon. As soon as Veron turned his head sideways, he saw an arrow flying towards the front door, and he didn't have time to react at all, and with a "poof" sound, it was shooting into his right eye, and his body paused slightly on the horse, and "poof" fell off the horse.

Good archery! Deng Bingzhen turned his head and looked at Zhang Huangyan in surprise, he didn't expect this martial arts student with a reputation for being so good!

Then I saw Zhang Huangyan shoot an arrow, and he didn't stop, but quickly took out a feather arrow and put it on the bow, and quickly pulled it away, but this time he didn't aim carefully, but shot it directly, and at the sound of the bowstring, a Mongolian cavalry hanging at the tail of the team fell off his horse!

After a short engagement, the Qing cavalry quickly ran away from the Ming array, leaving behind five or six corpses, because just as the Qing cavalry crossed in front of the Ming array, the musketeers finally loaded their ammunition and fired at their enemy cavalry one after another.

"Go to a few sword soldiers to cut off the heads, continue to organize the array, the full brigade is about to arrive!" Deng Bingzhen ordered sharply.

In just one round of contact, five or six cavalry were shot dead by the Ming army, accounting for one-third of the total number, including the leading white-armored soldier Beilong, and the remaining Qing cavalry did not dare to approach the Ming army again, but watched from a distance. At this time, the ground shook violently, and a large cloud of smoke and dust appeared in the distance, and the main cavalry of the Qing army was about to arrive!

More than 300 warriors quickly assembled and formed a phalanx, with two rows of pikemen on the outside and archers and musketeers on the inside. In the front row of pikemen, there were square shields in their hands. Although it is only a team of 350 people, it is both offensive and defensive, and has a complete range of troops!

However, looking at the cavalry of the Qing Army Brigade rushing in the distance, Deng Bingzhen's eyes became more and more worried. This place is only dozens of miles away from Liaocheng, but it encountered a brigade of Qing cavalry, could it be that the Qing army conquered Liaocheng?

No. Liaocheng has an army of more than 100,000, which is so easy to be defeated by the Qing army! And if the army is defeated, there will inevitably be a large group of routs, and they will get the news long ago. It should be that the Qing army used cavalry to penetrate into the territory of the Ming army, in order to harass, or attack the Ming army's grain team reinforcements.

In this way, there will not be too many cavalry of the Qing army rushing over, because it is impossible for the Qing army in the brigade to cross the Liaocheng defense line, because no one dares to go deep behind the enemy at the risk of being cut off from the rear road. The larger the number of people, the more difficult it will be to resupply.

"There are not many enemy troops, don't panic, it's only thirty or forty miles away from Liaocheng here, as long as we hold out for a while, reinforcements will come!" Deng Bingzhen shouted loudly, boosting morale.

"Zhang Huangyan, all the archers are under your command, and you can decide the timing of your shooting!" Deng Bingzhen ordered in a deep voice, Zhang Huangyan's calmness in the short battle just now made him appreciate it very much.

"Yes, General!" Zhang Huangyan replied in a deep voice.

The cavalry of the Qing army is getting closer and closer, the sound of hooves is loud, countless cavalry are coming all over the mountains, and before they arrive, the wind has already hit their faces, looking at the countless high-speed galloping cavalry, everyone in the Ming army array was shocked and changed color.

In fact, the cavalry of the Qing army looked at the large number of people, but in fact there were only 500 horses, because the distance between the cavalry was very large when they galloped, although there were only 500 cavalry, they faintly had the power of thousands of troops and horses.

However, in the face of the small array of the Ming army in front, the cavalry of the Qing army did not choose to attack directly, but slowly stopped at a distance of more than 200 steps. Using cavalry to attack a guarded infantry array would cause too many casualties, and for the experienced Qing Army's Eight Banners, they would naturally not do so.

The Eight Banners are leading the White Banner Leader Ma Laxi slowly stopped his horse and looked at the Ming army array not far away, the number of Ming troops was only more than three hundred, but under the threat of the five hundred and eight banner cavalry, it could be seen that the Ming army on the opposite side was well-trained and should be the elite of the Ming army.

After three dynasties and more than 10 years of fighting with the Ming army, Ma Lashi was extremely experienced, and after being ordered to take a cavalry deep into the Ming army, the task was to raid and loot, attack the grain road of the Ming army, and cause panic in the territory of the Ming army. He had 500 subordinates, and except for more than 100 Zhengbai bannermen, the rest were Mongolian soldiers. The kung fu of riding and archery is first-class, but the frontal impact combat ability is not good, and it does not have the ability to attack fortifications.

A dozen or so horsemen greeted him, but it was the remnants of the previous vanguard. Hearing that the white-armored soldier Beron was shot and killed by the Ming army, Ma Lashi was furious, Belon was a veteran under his command, and he had always served as a sentinel and fortified fortification, but he didn't expect to die here.

The five hundred cavalry dismounted and trimmed a little, and under the order of Ma Laxi, more than 200 people turned into infantry and forced towards the Ming array, while the remaining cavalry were divided into two teams and galloped around the Ming array, attacking the Ming array with bows and arrows, and responding to the infantry bows and arrows.

Looking at the Qing cavalry galloping to the flank, and the Qing infantry that was slowly approaching, Deng Bingzhen's face was extremely serious, he knew that he was going to face a bloody battle, and he was worried about whether the new recruits under him could hold on.

Zhang Huangyan didn't think much about it, his expression was calm, but his heart was boiling. Eighty archers and fifty or so musketeers were now under his command, tasked with sniping the enemy from a distance.

Zhang Huangyan knew that although these eighty archers were not bad at archery, they did not have much experience in fighting the enemy, and of course he did not have it himself. So in the battle with the outpost of the Qing army just now, many people were so panicked that the arrows didn't know where they were shot. Therefore, Zhang Huangyan strictly ordered that everyone must obey his orders and not release arrows without approval.

The musketeers were placed in the north by Zhang Huangyan, responsible for cooperating with the pikemen to resist the incoming Qing infantry. Zhang Huangyan has seen that many Qing soldiers take off their armor from their horses and wear them, and some even wear two or even three layers of armor.

In order to maintain the speed and the physical strength of the war horse, the cavalry should not wear heavy armor at all, otherwise the war horse cannot be held at all and cannot gallop for a long time, Zhang Huangyan saw that many of those Mongolian soldiers were wearing a leather robe, and there were few who wore leather armor, so they just used bows and arrows to deal with them. (https:)

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