Valley Emperor

Wu Baihu knew that there were some people under his hands holding various short hand-held fire guns, but as far as he knew, this thing usually took twenty or thirty steps, or even more than ten steps. It is only powerful when fired from a distance.

And most of the time, it is not easy to use at all, far inferior to bows and arrows.

However, the fire gun in the hands of the counterfeit Tang bandit army was able to fire more than 60 steps away. More importantly, the opponent actually hit one of his subordinates.

Could it be that the blind cat met the dead mouse, Meng?

No wonder Wu Baihu's first reaction was to think that the other party was a blind cat and a dead mouse, because what happened now was beyond his cognition.

He would rather believe that the other party was lucky, so he could hit one of his subordinates from such a long distance!

Yes, they are just lucky!

Wu Baihu said this to himself secretly in his heart, just like hypnotizing himself.

Soon, there was another gunshot in front of the opponent's formation. At the same time as the white smoke rose, Wu Baihu turned to look at his team. He was eager to know if the opponent's shot just now was covered.

At this sight, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, because except for the unlucky guy who was hit before, the rest of his subordinates were still standing well, and no one was hit.

They are really hoodwinked!

At this time, Wu Baihu felt great peace in his heart!

At the beginning, he was afraid that the other party was not covered, if that is the case, it would be a little troublesome.

If that's the case, it will be troublesome, because the other party shoots from a long distance, even if only one person is hit at a time, but as long as the other party continues to shoot, round by round, one by one, he can fall on his own side without a moment's effort. More than ten people.

And more importantly, if you don't come forward, you can only be beaten passively, which will be a huge blow to morale.

Well now, he can be sure that the opponent is blind, and their fire guns can't hit that far.

But the smile on his face didn't last long, the guns on the opposite side rang again, and this time Wu Baihu heard the **** screams again.

At this moment, he knew that things were not good, because he knew very well that the scream just now was not the subordinate who was hit before, but another person.

Looking at it carefully, sure enough, another archer on my side fell, and the person who fell this time seemed to be seriously injured. He just let out a scream, and then went straight to the end. Moved.

Not good, the opponent is not fierce, but their fire guns can really hit so far!

Once, he can still think that the opponent is lucky, but after twice, he can be sure that the opponent is definitely not fierce, but that the fire gun can hit so far and hit people.

No, I can't continue to wait like this. Otherwise, I won't fight back if I'm beaten, even if I don't actually kill or injure a few people, but the blow to morale is too great. If this one fails, it will collapse directly.

He knows very well what the soldiers and civilians under his command are. The soldiers in the garrison under his command are all good. Although it may affect morale, it will not kill one or two people and the whole army will collapse. .

But those civilians are different. When the guns were fired on the opposite side, there was already a commotion in the queue of the civilians. If it continues like this, even if no one on the civilians actually died, they will still collapse under fear. .

So at this time, he did not hesitate any more, and soon ordered the whole army to step forward, and the archers stepped forward to shoot arrows within fifty paces.

He's going to fight back!

Watching the Ming army on the opposite side move, Wang Danxu looked disappointed. The number of musketeers under him was still too few, with only more than 20 people, and the density of firepower was seriously insufficient.

Otherwise, the three shots just now would be enough to hit the opponent hard!

However, although the Ming army was pressing up, it was not a fast charge, and the speed was not fast, so Wang Danxu still let the musketeers continue to reload and shoot.

But after a while, the archers on the standing army side will also start shooting arrows.

There are about forty archers on the other side, and seventy archers on our own side. If we add more than twenty musketeers, then our long-range firepower exceeds that of the other side.

In addition, more importantly, when the opponent's archer pressed forward, it gave Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu a chance!

They will rush over from the flanks and kill them while the opponent's archers and their own archers are shooting at each other. As long as they are the sword and shield soldiers, especially the more than 20 armored sword and shield soldiers, they will rush to the bow and arrow. Before the hands, then the Ming army archers will face a massacre!

At that time, the spearmen of one's own side will also take the opportunity to press forward and finally defeat the opponent with overwhelming momentum!

As the archers of the Ming army continued to advance, Butcher Chen and the others really moved. They separated from the left flank, and Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu rushed forward in heavy armor!

Seeing that the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain were moving, the spearmen and sword and shield hands of the Ming army were also moving. About 50 guard soldiers and about 100 civilian men with poles rushed out to intercept Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu. .

At this time, a large number of spearmen in Huangzhu Mountain were already walking forward slowly with their spears in their hands. They directly pressed the enemy's central army. If more than a hundred spearmen were allowed to charge over, then the next battle would basically be the same. No need to fight, Huang Zhushan will definitely win.

In this short period of time, the Ming army and the Tang Wang Shi successively made many tactical changes, which caused many changes on the battlefield.

On the other hand, Li Xuan and the others in the rear watched with all their concentration, even trepidation, because they all knew that although the two sides had not yet entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, both sides were still in the stage of changing their formations to find the other's loopholes.

Even the archers on both sides have not fired yet, only the musketeers on the Huangzhu Mountain side are constantly firing rounds.

But this situation can't last for too long. After all, their troops are only a few hundred people, and the battlefield is so big, so it is impossible to deal with it like this all the time.

Soon, the archers of the Ming army were already within the predetermined range of the archers on both sides with the muskets of the Tang Wangshi. On the way, six of them fell down, and these six people For an archer army of only forty people, the casualty rate has reached ten percent.

Strictly speaking, this casualty rate has reached an acceptable limit for the army in the cold weapon era. If this number is higher, they will completely collapse.

Wu Baihu was relieved to see his own archers finally rushing up. His archers were all regular archers. After several consecutive waves of arrows shot past, I am afraid that the refugees from the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the opposite side will Can't stand it!

But before he could open his mouth to order the archery, he saw that the archer of the pseudo-Tang bandit army opposite turned out to be the first to bend the bow and shoot the arrow.

Although the archers in the opposing Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army seem to be of different quality and bow strength, even this cannot change the fact that more than 70 arrows flew over.

Seeing more than seventy arrows flying over from the sky, even if Wu Baihu saw that his archer had also fired the first wave of arrows, he still had a very bad premonition.

Because at this time, he remembered one thing, that is, his archer had killed and injured six people before, and his morale had plummeted. It was not easy to rush up to shoot back and fight back, but this time he fought back, the opponent's archer Also shoot bows and arrows at the same distance.

This wave of arrows shot, I am afraid that his archers will kill and injure several people.

As a result, the casualty rate of archers has exceeded 20%, and this data is already extremely dangerous, and a major collapse is very likely.

The next scene really confirmed Wu Baihu's own conjecture. In the first round of the archers on both sides, the pseudo-Tang bandit army fell seven or eight on the spot, while only four fell on his own side.

The battle loss ratio of the two sides was almost two to one, which showed that their archers were far stronger than those bandits.

But does this work?

Hair is useless!

Because even if only four people fell this time, ten people have already fallen before and after this time. This is a great pressure for the archers who only have more than 40 people, because this means that there are more than 4 people. Inside, someone has fallen.

After the two sides fired a wave of each other, each other was a little shaken.

However, at this time, the musketeers of the guards fired again, and this time it was not a round shot, but a salvo!

In a 50-meter volley, the bullets fired by more than 20 guns overturned five or six Ming army archers almost instantly!

As soon as the gunshots fell, Wu Baihu heard a bandit leader on a horse shouting: "All troops charge!"

Immediately afterwards, a group of spearmen with spears in their hands rushed out of the white smoke with firm steps, and then the musketeers also stuffed the bayonet into the barrel, carrying the bayonet muskets and long guns. The spearmen rushed up.

Seeing this scene, Wu Baihu hurriedly shouted: "All the archers are back!"

"The spearmen and the sword and shield soldiers rushed up and blocked them!"

At this time, the remaining twenty or so archers of the Ming army had not completely collapsed. After hearing Wu Baihu's order, they turned around and ran to the rear of the array, preparing to hide behind the friendly troops and continue to shoot arrows.

On the contrary, the archers on the Huangzhu Mountain bandit's side performed very poorly. They had a scale of 70 people, but only four of the opponents were hit in the wave of arrows just now. I want to cover my face.

More importantly, their archers clearly had a numerical advantage, almost twice as many as the opponent, but the result was the other way around, they were shot eight people.

As a result, the bandits in Huangzhushan almost collapsed.

Fortunately, Wang Danxu made a decisive decision and directly ordered the musketeers to fire a salvo, and then let the spearmen launch a charge of the whole army, so that the situation on the battlefield improved again.

In this way, the archers of the standing army did not continue to escape, but turned around and continued to bend their bows and arrows, preparing to bring another wave of arrows to the Ming army!

In the previous match of long-range firepower, the UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com archer against the archer, the Master of the Tang Dynasty was defeated in a mess, so that Li Xuan behind him couldn't stand it. In contrast, the musketeers of the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty performed quite well. It is rude to say that in the long-range firepower competition just now, more than 20 musketeers were used to reverse the battlefield situation!

The more than 40 archers of the Ming army were defeated by the more than 20 musketeers of the Guards. As for the 70 archers of the standing army, not to mention!

When the king of the Tang Dynasty launched a charge of the whole army, it also represented the next phase of hand-to-hand combat. In this hand-to-hand combat, the spearmen would become the backbone of the battlefield.

However, the first to enter the hand-to-hand combat stage was not the ferocious Guards spearmen, but more than 20 heavy armored sword and shield soldiers brought by Butcher Chen!

Butcher Chen rushed to the front, holding a pig-killing knife aloft, and said, "Brothers, follow Lao Tzu to kill!"

These bandits, armed with waist knives, shields and cotton iron armor, and even a few chainmail armors, are not afraid of sporadic bows and arrows or fire guns from the Ming army, just like more than 20 wild wolves. Into the Ming army array!