Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 205 Repel
Hearing the sound of the guns in twos and threes, Yang Chao felt at ease. As long as he could shoot at the captive soldiers at such a distance, he would not be able to lose.

With a boat protecting my side, it is equivalent to a small city. For soldiers in iron armor, unless the arrows of the captive soldiers can hit the front door, it is basically impossible to die.

The only thing to worry about is the boatmen and gunners, but at this moment they are lying on the deck one by one without showing their heads, so there is no need to worry at all.

Sure enough, after Yang Chao saw three dead horses and two corpses left behind, the group of Yu Ding who rushed over first retreated and retreated to meet another group of armored soldiers who had just been killed.

There were seven or eight armored soldiers in this group, but they drove hundreds of civilians.

After the armored soldiers and Yu Ding rounded up, there were about 20 people, and they drove the people together. They galloped back and forth behind the people, and at the same time shouted strange voices to scare them, or did they shoot arrows and kill one or two people who ran slowly? , so that the people in front were even more frightened, and they ran forward like desperately.

Yang Chao saw that the people had already run in front of his boat. At this time, all the soldiers on the boat did not attack these people, and let the people rush towards their boat.

Finally, when the people reached the river, some plunged into the river, and some wanted to stop and were pushed into the river by the people behind. At this time, the crowd was completely out of control and collapsed. Driven by fear, they They only know how to run, and it seems that they can only run non-stop. Only when they feel that they are running, can they know that they are still alive.

"preparation!"

Yang Chao yelled and stood up, pulled out his waist knife with a clang, held it up high, and stared coldly at the captive soldiers who were driving out the people behind.

The ten gunners also stood up and pointed their guns at the captive soldiers behind the common people.

Closer, closer, closer, one hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps.

"put!"

Yang Chao yelled, and swung his waist knife down vigorously, as if he could cut down the captive soldiers.

Then came a row of gunshots, much more orderly this time. In fact, the real volley is the musketeer commanding the musketeers. Only when everyone hears the gunshot of the leading officer, can the others follow suit. Unfortunately, Yang Chao has never practiced with birds. There is no suitable officer in the hands of the bird gun for the time being.

Ten shots were fired at once, at a distance of eighty steps, after aiming for a long time, five captive soldiers were hit and rolled off their horses, and three captive soldiers were hit by their horses and fell off.

Seven out of ten!
Judging by Marshal Qi's standards, these musketeers of his are considered top-notch, and the massive live ammunition training in Huai'an was not in vain.

Seeing the salvo from Yang Chao's side, several other ships suddenly started to fire. They thought of the situation during the training, and they were not allowed to shoot at will without the order of the officer.

At this time, they had just entered the [-]th pace, and the captive soldiers were about to start a counterattack. At this distance, their bows and arrows were powerful enough, but they still couldn't shoot through the iron armor. Bow shooting.

But the captive soldiers did not expect that they had just entered the eighty steps, and they were about to draw their bows, when suddenly the opponent fired a gun, and knocked out seven of them at once, which shocked the captive soldiers, and one of the armored soldiers immediately ordered Back off, but it was too late.

At this time, they heard gunfire from the left and right of the ten ships in front, and it was a very neat salvo, bang bang bang bang bang.

Accompanied by the sound of the blunderbuss, the horses continued to fall, and either people were killed, or horses were wounded, or both people and horses were killed.

The armored soldiers turned their horses' heads without Bashku's order, and fled desperately. However, under the random volley of muskets, only three escaped in the end, and seventeen or eight of them were lying on the pier.

Those armored soldiers fled from Matou, but they didn't leave Haizhou, but hid among the people who were driven by them in the warehouse area, as if they didn't give up, thinking that as long as they stayed away from the boat, there would be no danger.

"Get to the shore!"

Yang Chao ordered, and at the same time used the order flag to send orders to other ships.

Yang Chao's boat moved first, and the other boats moved slowly. The boatman stabbed the bottom of the river with a pole, and slowly pushed the tank boat to the bank.

It was only ten steps away, but it took a quarter of an hour for the boat to dock.

When the ship's side slightly bumped against the bluestone at the pier and gave off a slight vibration, Yang Chao jumped off the side of the ship and landed on the pier. He was wearing a 30-jin iron armor, and he felt a slight strain on his knees when he jumped.

"Cloth mandarin duck array!"

Soldiers jumped down one by one, Yang Chao shouted loudly to set up the formation, to his own soldiers, and also to the soldiers of other ships. At this time, it seemed a bit slow to use the order flag to deliver the order.

The mandarin duck formations were arranged one by one, and the captive soldiers over there never moved, but were slightly agitated.

"Heading, with me as the center, all gather!"

The usual strict pace training showed its effect at this time. All the soldiers just turned around, and the dense formation remained undisturbed, and then walked towards Yang Chao's side in unison. During the process, the captive soldiers were not given a chance to sneak attack.

The situation on Yang Chao's side made the soldiers on the opposite side terrified, because they lost more than a dozen warriors in the fight just now, and now there are only three people left, and they are three panic-stricken defeated soldiers. It would be good to have the courage to stay here. At this time, seeing the neat formation of the opponent and the scene of changing formations, they couldn't help being stunned. It's also impossible not to mess up the formation while marching.

Yang Chao didn't know what the captive soldiers were thinking. When he saw that all the soldiers on his side had lined up, he immediately ordered: "Let's march forward!"

Immediately, all the soldiers stepped on their ideas, and slowly marched forward under the chanting of each team. Each row of soldiers was like a wall, and the entire array was like a small city, a small moving city.

Under the movement of the small city, nearly the same steps step on the same rhythm, and they gather together like drums. The drumsticks are the feet of soldiers, and the drum surface is the entire earth.

Everyone heard it.

Yang Chao and his soldiers heard the sound of orderly marching steps, and everyone was in the formation again. They felt very at ease in their hearts, and the tension was swept away, leaving only the high-spirited momentum and the just defeated The pride of the captive soldiers for a while.

When the captive soldiers over there saw this formation and heard this step, they suddenly felt tense and the atmosphere became oppressive. That step was not like stepping on the ground, but on their hearts. It's like beating their hearts.

People's nervousness even infected the horses. As Yang Chao's army got closer, the horses of the captive soldiers neighed uncomfortably.

Finally, when there was still a distance of a hundred paces between the two sides, neither the captive soldiers nor the horses could hold on. One of the three captive soldiers turned around and beat the horse and ran away, while the other two did not dare to stay at all and ran away immediately.

There was only a large group of people left behind, completely stunned at this moment, not knowing what happened, not knowing whether it was good or bad, they looked nervously at the army formation, which stood a hundred steps away from them like a small city.

Yang Chao saw with his own eyes that the captive soldiers ran away just now, but he couldn't guarantee whether any captive soldiers were hiding.

"Wang Pu, mandarin duck formation, search to the right and move forward!"

"Many men, search to the left!"

"Zhao Kang, lead people forward, be careful of sneak attacks!"

Yang Chao ordered one after another, Wang Pu and many men have strong commanding abilities, the key is that the soldiers under these two men are not bad, and Zhao Kang is his personal soldier, and the soldiers under him are all veterans who have seen blood. No problem.

The three groups of soldiers set off immediately, moving forward in a formation of mandarin ducks, with shield heads in front, and soldiers in the back lined up, with weapons facing both sides, like a long snake covered in thorns, swimming forward continuously.

The remaining soldiers continued to form a stable formation, and once again came together in a tight formation and formed a stable formation.

The people were extremely nervous. Seeing soldiers coming, and soldiers who had defeated the captive soldiers walking towards them, they couldn't help but panic, but none of them dared to escape. They were all frightened by the cruel captive soldiers, and they all stayed where they were. Trembling, and some people weeping in a low voice.

There was a row of wharf buildings between the people and Yang Chao’s team. Soon Wang Pu went around the building and went to the right, many men went to the left, Zhao Kang went straight forward, and they all passed the building area, but none of them saw the captive soldiers. , I only saw the people, ignored the people and searched around for a while, stopped, lined up and stood by, and shouted for safety.

Only then did Yang Chao feel relieved, convinced that he had repelled all the captive soldiers.

(End of this chapter)