Chapter 333: Sandwich Biscuits
Niu Ben was waiting for Kuha to come. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
When he learned that the barbarians were about to enter Yunzhou, he ordered the evacuation of all the people outside the city, and the people either fled into the mountains, or into the city, or into Wubao, and did not leave any food at home.
After the order was issued, he fully appreciated the role of the militia and the production team in the civilian sector, and these two institutions gave full play to their responsibilities and cooperated with them quickly and effectively.
And after the people took refuge in Ubour, the militia also gathered and became another force against the barbarians.
Therefore, he chose to meet the enemy here, and he was ninety percent sure that Kuha would choose to take risks.
First, Chagatai is only a striker who must not have much food to bring, and the long-distance journey will inevitably consume seventy-seven-eighty-eight, second, Kuha wants to kill him and then hurry, third, if Kuha wants to avoid the official road, he must find a person who is familiar with the roads of Yunzhou to lead the way, but now he is afraid that it will not be easy to find.
And the rest of the Yicheng is not afraid of even if Ku He takes the trail sideways, after all, since it is a trail, the road is naturally not as smooth as the official road, and there will be many mountains and forests and swamps around, and he can ambush him in the vital place.
"Governor, Kuha's cavalry has moved and is coming here."
The voice of a hussar broke Niu Ben's musings.
A hint of a smile welled up at the corner of his mouth, and Niu Ben shouted: "The whole army is ready." ”
As his voice fell, a rhythmic military horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army immediately moved.
The first to act was the chariot soldiers, and at this time, the chariots driving the Hussite chariots immediately began to change formation from the column, and the three hundred Hussite chariots were divided and besieged in three square defensive formations.
The Hussite chariots designed by Xiao Ming were each five meters long, and a hundred Hussite chariots added up to five hundred meters long, and with the gap between the chains, one side of a square defensive array was close to two hundred meters.
The three Hussite chariot formations are staggered to each other, like a zigzag, and each box-shaped chariot is staggered from one another, like the edges and corners of a European bastion, allowing for maximum firepower.
The chariot driver in the Hussite chariot stopped and immediately jumped down and pulled up the chains at the tail of the Hussites, each of which was connected to each other by chains.
At the same time, the driver unloads the bars and harness of the Hussite, but the driver still tethers the horse to the inside of the chariot barrier, which can be used again at any time when needed.
These horses will be protected by a harness and a sword and shield hand.
The square chariot formation was completed, and the musketeers immediately relied on the Hussite chariots and lined up along the edge of the square chariot formation, forming a strange hollow formation with Hussite chariots on the inside and three rows of musketeers on the outside.
And inside the Hussite chariot, the artillery protrudes the muzzles of the cannons through the gaps, and a thousand cuirassiers are also lined up in the chariot formation, ready to attack at any time.
This method of warfare was decided to be adopted by Xiao Ming and Niu Ben under the same research, and it was precisely because of the trust in this kind of battle formation that Xiao Ming dared to decide to rush to the aid of Jizhou with a small number of troops.
In the Qingzhou Army, this kind of battle formation with musketeers standing on the outside, soldiers hidden inside the chariot, and cavalry on standby inside is called the sandwich biscuit battle array, of course, this kind of title can only be made by Xiao Ming.
The battle formation was completed, and Niu Ben and other generals were protected by a Hussite chariot formation behind.
After completing the arrangement of the sandwich biscuit battle array, everyone waited for Kuha's arrival.
If it was before, the bull would not have fought with 10,000 cavalry in such an open field at all, because even 30,000 infantry was no match for 10,000 barbarian cavalry.
But now, relying on this unprecedented battle formation, he believed that with 10,000 musketeers, 3,000 cavalry, and 4,000 chariots, it was enough to defeat the barbarian cavalry in the field.
And he couldn't think of this before, without five times the number of troops, the army of the Great Yu Kingdom did not dare to fight the barbarian cavalry in the field.
While waiting, the dust raised by the cavalry gradually appeared not far away, and soon, the barbarian cavalry appeared in front of the Qingzhou army.
Three hundred meters away, Kuha's cavalry stopped and began to adjust their formations, confronting each other in the open land that stretched for six miles.
"Is the Qingzhou Army crazy?"
Kuha looked at Qingzhou, who was wearing a dark green military uniform and holding a strange spear weapon in his hand, and said lightly.
The other commanders were also confused.
The Qingzhou army in front of them not only did not gather together and line up in a tight formation, but instead divided into three phalanxes, which was simply looking for death for them.
Passing the three rows of soldiers in front, Kuha looked at the cavalry guarded in the middle, which consisted of only three thousand men, and for him these cavalry were not enough.
He looked at the chariot behind the soldier and was slightly stunned, he really couldn't understand the layout of the Qingzhou Army now.
"Captain Wan, what kind of strange formation is this, how come we have never seen it before." A commander asked.
"I've never seen such a strange battle formation." Kuha stared at the last battle formation as he spoke.
In particular, the eye-catching word "cow" made Kuha's eyes gradually red.
In the past, the Qingzhou army was fighting behind the city wall, but now in such a vast area, this is a natural advantage for the barbarians.
The two sides stood still, staring at each other, and after a dead silence, the silence was shattered by information from a barbarian scout.
"No ambush!" The scout said.
"Kill!" At this moment, Kuha raised the scimitar in his hand, and Kuha's cavalry rushed towards the Qingzhou army in a three-hundred-meter-long queue on the six-mile-wide plain.
As with the previous experience of barbarians fighting in the steppe, the barbarian cavalry was also prepared to flank from both flanks to finally complete the encirclement, and was ready to use the ring array to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands.
In the car formation, Niu Ben smiled when he saw that the barbarian cavalry still used such a tactic.
The barbarian cavalry shoots at a distance of fifty paces to start firing arrows, while the effective range of the musketeers is eighty to ninety paces, and it is completely possible for the barbarian cavalry to shoot before the arrows.
Because archers are very difficult to train, in the past, the infantry of the Great Yu Kingdom had no way to face the circular cavalry formation of the barbarians, and would only be disrupted by the barbarians' bows and arrows, and then the barbarian heavy cavalry would appear, and a massacre would follow.
Looking at the approaching barbarian cavalry, the soldiers in the first row raised their flintlock pistols in their hands.
At this time, the overwhelming barbarian cavalry rushed towards the three chariot formations on the plain like a black torrent.
Just after the barbarian cavalry came into range, the captain on the side of the musket team gave the order to open fire.
"Bang bang ......" a line of white smoke came out of the muzzles of the musketeers in the first row.
In a dense formation, buckshot rained down on the barbarian cavalry.
Within eighty paces, the huge targets of the barbarian cavalry became the target of bullet attacks.
Suddenly, the man turned on his back, and the barbarian cavalry in the front row fell neatly like cutting straw, and the cavalry behind could not dodge and was tripped by the front horse and fell to the ground.
(To be continued.) )