Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 221 New Wall Array
Things are calm up north now.

Because the captive soldiers in the north did not try to storm the warehouse from the beginning to the end, they used shield vehicles to test at first, but the shield vehicles were quickly disabled.

The cavalry charge never approached thirty steps, and riding and shooting did not take advantage of the bird guns. When charging and throwing, they would face the double blow of the bird guns and the Ming army's infantry bows, so they still couldn't bite the solid barriers of the enlightened army.

And the captive soldiers didn't seem to plan to break through the camp today, so the captive soldiers in the north have been patiently fighting with the Ming army.

Yang Chao couldn't help thinking that maybe the captive soldiers didn't plan to take him down in a day, but planned to take a few days.

As for the chaotic battle in the south, it was largely due to the sudden attack of Qianjin Franji, followed by Wang Pu's risky attack, which was completely an accident.

That is to say, the captive soldiers didn't plan to break through Yang Chao's strong formation at once, and they were unwilling to take the risk of attacking the strong formation. They obviously didn't want or want to risk huge casualties to wipe out Yang Chao. I don't think that the captive soldiers have the power to destroy themselves.

Considering the possible plans of the captive soldiers, Yang Chao felt relieved, and was not in a hurry to defeat the captive soldiers in the north immediately.

Because Yang Chao guessed that the captive soldiers in the north probably didn't know the situation in the south, at least they didn't know that the captive soldiers in the south were almost wiped out, and even the main general was captured by him. Of course, they might have seen the Ming army attacking from the south Li Wuliu, who kept his hands back, even told Yang Chao that after Yang Chao attacked south, the captive soldiers in the north even stopped attacking for a while.

Yang Chao guessed that the captive soldiers in the north were probably too confident in their cavalry's ability to fight in the field. They probably believed that Yang Chao would definitely be wiped out if he went to the field to fight. At the intersection on the south side, this saves them from risking the dangerous bird guns and cannons to attack from the north.

It’s just that the captive soldiers didn’t expect that their companions in the south not only failed to win the field battle, but were wiped out by the Ming army. They would never have thought of such a situation, and even if someone told them, they would not believe it unless they saw it with their own eyes. As for the sight line, it is not very good at this time, there is white smoke everywhere, and with the obstruction of the warehouse, it is impossible for them to see the situation in the south at a glance, they can only see the corpses of people and horses all over the place, But even after seeing these, the captive soldiers in the north did not believe that these were left by his people, and believed that these belonged to the Ming army.

Yang Chao doubted that once the captive soldiers in the north knew the situation in the south, they would still be determined to keep fighting with him.

After all, the captive soldiers came to rob. The gathering to attack Yang Chao this time was probably out of the purpose of damaging the morale of the Ming army and preventing the Ming army from daring to confront them. To put it bluntly, it was to establish that they were invincible in the hearts of the Ming army. Such an image made the Ming army dare to hide in the city after seeing them and let them plunder in the wild. For someone like Yang Chao who dared to see them without running away and resisted, and even dared to camp outside the city to fight against them, obviously Belonging to the role of the Ming army who is not open-eyed, it must be resolutely attacked.

But if the captive soldiers knew that Yang Chao had wiped out almost all the more than 100 captive soldiers in the south, it would prove that they had the ability to wipe out all the captive soldiers in the north.

The total number of captive soldiers was only about [-], and being disabled in the south meant that they had lost half of their combat power. I had never heard of an example where the bandit group could endure half the casualties and continue to rob.

Therefore, Yang Chao does not necessarily need to continue fighting with the captive soldiers in the north. He only needs to let the captive soldiers in the north know the situation in the south, and then they will probably retreat on their own. Then Yang Chao can return to Huai'an with the fruits of victory to report to Shi Kefa. up.

As for how to let the north know about the situation in the south, that's not Yang Chao's concern, but the captive soldiers' own business. The remaining [-] or [-] remaining soldiers in the south can always pass on the news, even if they go around the city for a week, it doesn't take much time.

It's just that most of these remnant soldiers are still wandering in the south at this time, and they don't know what their intentions are.

Yang Chao looked at the situation in the north, saw the captive soldiers in the north, and sometimes sent a small group of cavalry to harass them. Most of the time, he threw a few arrows randomly at about a hundred paces, while Yang Chao made a few rare noises. There were almost no casualties between each other, and it felt like this was the end of the battle, and they were about to return to the barracks, but suddenly they heard gunshots from the south.

Yang Chao just wanted to ask Li Liang to check the situation, but he immediately called Li Liang to stop, and went there himself with a few soldiers.

The captive soldiers in the south have been disabled by Yang Chao, so it is impossible to attack again, but the captive soldiers did not attack, how could their own soldiers be able to shoot birds?

I only found out when I went to the south.

It turned out that the captive soldiers were undeterred and finally started to enter within a hundred steps. They did not try to treat or retrieve their comrades, wounded and dead bodies, but only greeted the wandering horses inside.

After one hundred steps, we were within the shooting range of the blunderbuss. As a result, the bludgeoner who had been aiming here for a long time finally shot. After killing a few soldiers, the others fled.

After listening to Yang Chao, he also felt that there was nothing serious about it, but he felt that it was not an option to put those trophies on the battlefield without harvesting them, especially the war horses, which had already lost more than a dozen horses, which made Yang Chao's heart ache.

How to go out to collect spoils without being threatened by captive soldiers, Yang Chao suddenly thought of a way, and thought he could try it!
After the scattered captive soldiers were dispersed, Yang Chao quickly summoned a few officers and asked them to observe Yang Chao's arrangement of formations.

The formation was extremely troublesome this time. According to Yang Chao's request, more than a dozen large shields were brought out, but these shields were too heavy. After thinking about it for a while, Yang Chao decided to hit the scattered captive soldier shields on both sides of the street. car.

These shield vehicles are still in good condition. After all, Yang Chao did not directly bombard these shield vehicles with cannons. At that time, the cannons mainly hit the cavalry behind them. He even deliberately placed the shield vehicles in front of the low wall in order to let the cavalry get close to the intensive charge. , so Yang Chao had more than 30 shield vehicles in his hand.

The workmanship of these shield carts was extremely rough. The carts were obviously wheelbarrows looted from nearby. Some of the thick wooden shields in front were dismantled door panels, and it was not known which family they dismantled from.

But these shield vehicles are very convenient to move, and they can be regarded as a good innovation of the soldiers.

Let ten shield chariots line up in front, and then arrange ten bird musketeers in the back, add ten archers, and a row of pikemen in the back.

On both sides, five sword and shield soldiers are placed on each side, and these sword and shield soldiers with shields are responsible for protecting the two wings.

In this way, a square matrix is ​​formed.

At the front are the people pushing the shield chariot, the second row of musketeers, the third row of archers, and the fourth row of pikemen, a total of four rows of soldiers, five sword and shield hands on each side, a total of 50 people in a phalanx.

Then under Yang Chao's order, the phalanx moved forward slowly, the shield chariot moved forward slowly, the gunmen, archers and spearmen followed in unison, and the sword and shield soldiers put their shields on their sides and followed suit.

The most difficult thing is that the shield chariots are not easy to advance in an orderly manner. The captive soldiers use the shield chariots to move forward the fastest and approach the enemy's formation the fastest. There are not many requirements for the formation, but Yang Chao wants to deploy an army formation. There must be uniformity and consistency.

Under Yang Chao's strict order, each team was marching forward with shouts, at a very slow speed, even slower than usual walking in unison, but they could always be neat.

Looking at Yang Chao's new formation, the other officers didn't quite understand, especially Wang Pu, who was even a little less interested. What he was more interested in was the wall formation charging and hand-to-hand combat. The wind fell, and the short combat even directly penetrated the cavalry of the captive soldiers. The arrogance that was attacked by Li Wuliu these days began to become arrogant again.

Yang Chao didn't know Wang Pu's careful thinking, but he was only concentrating on practicing his new formation, and Yang Chao was still very confident about it.

The wall formation was also created by Yang Chao. At first, it was because he saw his soldiers lined up on the boat to attack the Jiang bandits. After this test, it can be proved that the wall array is still very lethal when charging.

But it is no problem to charge the Jiang bandits, and there is no problem with the chaotic cavalry formation, but a fatal weakness of the wall formation is that the defense force is too weak. No, the countless confrontations between the wall formation and the mandarin duck formation in the army have long exposed this weakness. Otherwise, Wang Pu, the most fanatical officer who believes in the wall formation, would not have used the mandarin duck formation to stab the captives in the first place.

But this time Yang Chao built the low wall and confronted the captive soldiers in front of the low wall, which made Yang Chao suddenly realize, why not put a wall in the wall array?Of course, the real wall cannot be moved, but the shield is possible, and the shield wall can be used.

In this way, the wall array can be both offensive and defensive, and can be moved, but the speed is also sacrificed.

But to make up for it, Yang Chao strengthened the firepower of the wall array, no longer a single charge formation, no longer a single use of spears, but added a row of birdcracks and a row of archers, strengthening the long-range attack power, and Simultaneous deployment of two types of long-range arms to achieve the effect of compound strikes. This is what Yang Chao saw behind the low wall, and he was very impressed at the time.

After the new composite wall array was set up, he moved forward slowly. Yang Chao really hoped that the captive soldiers would come to provoke him, but unfortunately, none of the captive soldiers came up to make trouble. Seeing Yang Chao attack again, even though it was one of them It's an incomprehensible formation, but the captive soldiers still escaped far away wisely.

The new-style wall array moved slowly, and quickly took ten steps, twenty steps, and thirty steps.

On the battlefield at that time, the cavalry had already rushed within [-] paces, and the [-]th to [-]th paces happened to be the area where Yang Chao and the captive soldiers fought the most intensely. There were hundreds of corpses of captive soldiers left here. Moving forward, they quickly passed these corpses. According to Yang Chao's request, the knife and shield hand chopped off a few heads, and gathered a few horses, making the wall array a little bloated.

After walking forty steps, the wall array was no longer moving forward. This time, it was just to practice the formation. They didn't need to fight. They cut off their heads and stowed their horses. Impressed, they kept wandering a hundred paces away. When the wall array advanced, they retreated. They had made up their minds and refused to confront Yang Chao.

(End of this chapter)