Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 210
In the first formation, there were thirty captive soldiers.

Such a result made everyone very happy. Seeing other captive soldiers dare not come over, some soldiers couldn't help cheering.

Li Wuliu was even more proud, he was a big showman, these are all the gunners he trained.

Yang Chao thought to himself that with protection, a qualified musketeer could indeed suppress the archers.

It is no wonder that Western bird guns have eliminated bows and arrows.

But in all fairness, the archers of the nomads are very strong, strong enough to shoot against gunpowder weapons.

In order to suppress gunpowder weapons, first, there must be a good protection, so that soldiers can shoot leisurely without hesitation; second, they must maintain a certain attack density, and they must be uniformly fired at a suitable distance, and they need to be continuous shooting.

Yang Chao's soldiers can do both.

However, in the battle just now, Yang Chao felt that there was something dissatisfied, because the team was indeed ordering to shoot at the [-]th pace, but after one shot, the opponent rushed to the [-]th pace, and after three shots, the captive soldiers could shoot. Dash to thirty steps.

That is, shooting within eighty steps is basically three shots, and there is not enough time to reload later.

If the first wave hadn't stunned the captive soldiers just now and affected the speed of the captive soldiers, I'm afraid they would have been able to rush into the barricade, and then stab Yang Chao's spearmen across the low wall.

Yang Chao thought to himself, it seems that Qi Jiguang still has a certain basis for shooting at the maximum distance of one hundred steps, so that he can at least maintain the advantage of one more shot.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately ordered that the next wave of captive cavalry charge, and they can fight back with a hundred steps.

"My lord, the soldiers are charging!"

At this time, the soldiers came to report that the captive soldiers in the north had charged.

"All gunners start shooting within a hundred steps!"

"The South Street Crossing Bird Gun Team supports the North!"

Yang Chao replied coldly, and soon soldiers on the street below the roof began to move in a hurry, running in a horizontal line. This is a group of bird gunners arranged at the street entrance on the ground in the south. As for the soldiers on the roof , because it is inconvenient to exercise, so I am on standby.

The captive soldiers are still playing simple tricks.

They sent [-] people to attack him from the south, and suddenly most of them from the north, so that Yang Chao could be caught off guard, and Yang Chao wouldn't be foolish enough to set up an army here.

Yang Chao has a hundred blunderbuss soldiers and a hundred archers, but the front he needs to expand is very narrow.

That is to say, the intersection of the street is less than one foot long, and the roofs on both sides are basically one foot long.

A total of three feet, Yang Chao arranged thirty bird gun shooters, because the roof is too narrow to open, there is only one loader behind the shooter, and there is no delivery hand in the middle, so Yang Chao only arranged sixty at one end. There are only one bird gunner, and the remaining forty are on standby at the end that has not been attacked, and all of them are lying on the roof that is not convenient to move.

Then the attacking captive soldiers had to face at least twenty bird guns shooting four times in a row starting from a hundred paces away.

At the same time, after these four shots, they will also encounter the bird gun shooting at the street corner that just arrived.

If they could reach the intersection at this time, they could stab Yang Chao's spearmen across the low wall, and shoot Yang Chao's archers across the low wall.

Gunshots had already rang out, Yang Chao was lying on the roof, seeing that the captive soldiers in the south seemed to have no intention of attacking immediately, so he walked off the roof and walked towards the north street where the gunshots were ringing out intensively.

clap clap clap...

clap clap clap...

clap clap clap...

clap clap clap...

Yang Chao heard four rows of gunshots that could be connected together vaguely, and a puff of white smoke came out.

Then there was only a pause of about ten seconds, another four rows of gunshots, and another puff of white smoke.

Everything went according to what I thought. The first four rows of gunshots were fired by twenty gunners on the roof, and the next four rows of gunfire were fired by the gunners who came to support from the street.

When Yang Chao walked to the middle of the street, he heard another crackling sound and another volley of gunshots. It could be distinguished that these were two volleys of gunshots, which should be the fifth round of gunfire fired from the roof.

Then there was a row with a weaker sound, the fifth gun platoon at the street crossing also fired, because there were only ten bird guns at the street crossing, so the sound of the guns was a little weaker than that of the twenty bird gun platoons on the roof.

Halfway forward, the sixth round of gunfire rang out.

Just walking under the low wall, the seventh shot just rang out.

"My lord, don't go there!"

Zhao Kang was standing in front of Yang Chao wearing iron armor. He was firing guns in front of him, obviously he had already exchanged fire with the captive soldiers.

Yang Chao nodded, within a distance of ten feet, there were no more places for him.

But Yang Chao immediately climbed up the ladder next to him, climbed to the middle, and saw the captive cavalry coming one by one from the north.

These cavalry were indeed fierce. They formed a wedge-shaped formation and pierced towards the street like nails.

The exposed front is very narrow, which is similar to the mandarin duck formation. Before it is deployed, the attack area is narrow, and after deployment, its own attack area becomes larger, and it can cut the opponent's formation. It can be said that it is the most reasonable cavalry formation. .

But even with such a formation, there is no way to impact Yang Chao's formation.

Because after the street entrance is three feet deep, the front is only a narrow one foot, and it is impossible for the opponent to open it.

If you enter the intersection, not only will you not be able to unfold, but you will also suffer continuous shooting from the roofs on both sides. Obviously, rushing into the intersection is very disadvantageous.

The captive soldiers were not fools, they had no intention of rushing in at all.

They only rushed for sixty steps, and then shot with bows and arrows. After one round of throwing, they continued to shoot directly. When they reached forty steps, they simply pulled their horses and dismounted to shoot.

Their main target was not the infantry behind the parapet, but the musketeers behind the parapet and on the roofs.

The archers of the captive soldiers are indeed powerful, at a distance of forty steps, no matter in terms of power or accuracy, they are not inferior to the bird guns at all.

As a result, there was no winner or loser in the duel.

It's a pity that Yang Chao's side is protected by a low wall, and the soldiers on the roof are completely lying on their stomachs with iron helmets on their heads.

Gradually, the advantage emerged. Most of the arrows of the captive soldiers pierced the salt bags, and a small part of the bows and arrows thrown in did not have any lethality when they hit the helmets of the Ming army. Even if they hit the shoulders or the neck , and it didn't have any effect, because Yang Chao abnormally equipped every soldier with iron armor, and what was even more abnormal was that each of these iron armors also had a hat curtain to protect their necks.

Protected by a low wall and wearing iron armor, I don't know if the captive soldiers would choose to shoot at each other if they knew the result.

Yang Chao stepped on the roof and watched leisurely.

"My lord, get down!"

Zhao Kang also climbed up. He is a personal soldier and must stay with him. There are dozens of people with him. Now the attack cannot be launched at all. The defense only depends on the blunderbuss and bows and arrows. It is not necessary to use them for a while. .

Yang Chao smiled and said: "Don't worry, here is at least eighty or ninety steps away from the captive soldiers, and it's still on the house. If they can shoot from the back from eighty steps away, and can shoot through my armor, then this battle is useless." If you fight, just admit defeat."

Zhao Kang said: "It's better to be careful."

Yang Chao said: "I know"

As he spoke, he looked down at the battle behind the low wall, and suddenly Yang Chao was taken aback for a moment, and then his eyes immediately became eager.

He saw that the gunner behind the low wall was naturally shooting non-stop.

The captive soldiers on the opposite side got off their horses and shot at foot, using their horses as protection. Most of the horses were killed, and they didn't feel bad.

And behind the low wall, there were not only blunderbusses shooting, but the archers were also shooting.

Yang Chao's original order was to shoot from the blunderbuss eighty paces away, and the time for the archers to shoot at forty paces.

But Yang Chao found that the captive soldiers stopped shooting at about forty steps, and the musketeers here were still reloading and firing methodically, while the archers also returned fire at the same time.

It's just that the gunner shoots directly in front, and the archers can only follow behind the gunner, drawing the bow and throwing it at a certain elevation angle.

In this way, the lead bullet and the feathered arrow fell on the captive soldiers at the same time, and one was the lead bullet that went straight in front of him, and the other was the feathered arrow that fell from the top of the head, and the striking parts were different.

Yang Chao couldn't help jumping up in his heart. Doesn't this mean that the blunderbuss and the bow and arrow are compatible and can be fired at the same time without facing the front, and the enemy will suffer double the firepower?

As a result, the captive soldiers continued to be killed.

Finally, after ten rounds were shot by the musketeers on Yang Chao's side, and five or six rounds by the archers, the captive soldiers couldn't take it anymore, and after throwing down more than 50 dead horses and more than 30 corpses, they retreated slowly. Rear.

Yang Chao couldn't help snorting coldly. Since this was a slap in the face, it would be better to make such a slap in the face a few more times.

The only pity is that the kill is still less.

With the help of war horses this time, the captive soldiers saved a lot of their manpower. Fifty horses were directly shot and more than 30 were injured, while there were only [-] men and not many injured.

The captive soldiers retreated, but they did not retreat far. They stopped along the river about two hundred paces away.

Moreover, a team of cavalry was also arranged, staying at a position of about 150 steps.

The soldiers in Yang Chao's army were very dissatisfied with the arrangement of the captive soldiers. Within a distance of [-] to [-] steps from the warehouse, there were many corpses scattered. But thirty or forty heads.

A head of 30 taels of silver can't escape, and more importantly, these heads can make many people get promoted.

Yang Chao was also very helpless. The captive soldiers did this because they didn't want the Ming army to go out and behead people easily. If the Ming army dared to behead them, they would rush over and kill them. If there is no power, the cavalry will not be afraid of the infantry if they fight with cold weapons.

Yang Chao secretly sighed in his heart. He heard that in the Manchu battle formation, people who were killed or injured in battle were rescued as much as possible.

There is even a stipulation that after rescuing an injured person, he can get half of the other party's property.

Always try not to leave his own body to humiliate the enemy.

At the same time, most of the captive soldiers began to camp along the river, assuming that they would not leave until they broke through the warehouse fortress.

Using some cloth that I don't know whether it was snatched or brought with me, the wooden stick soldiers set up a simple camp.

At the same time, the rangers who were watching in front have not been withdrawn, so Yang Chao can't go out to chop off military meritorious heads.

In addition to regretting this, Yang Chao also sighed.

(End of this chapter)