Chapter 444: The cart and the bandits

When you wake up in the morning, you are still confused. Although it is during the day, it is the most relaxing moment of the day. The possibility of a surprise attack in the chaos is the greatest.

"Catch all the livestock in, erect the baffles outside, seal the front and back doors, set up artillery, etc., all of them are alert, and teach these bastards outside a lesson. These flies have not been sleeping well these days. Let them die this time!!"

Zhang Kun, who was standing in the center of the camp, shouting loudly there, and everyone in the advance team ran quickly. At present, the arrangement of the big trucks is still arranged according to the camping time. Forty big trucks are connected to the end and surround the open space, while the livestock pulling the carts are all enclosed in the camp.

The soldiers of the advance team whispered and climbed up the cart. At the baffle facing the outside, they raised a thick wooden board half a person high. Ten small-caliber cannons were arranged at several key gaps, which was indeed the most relaxing moment of the day.

But the camp surrounded by large chariots is still complete, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou Camp advance team can set up complete defenses as quickly as possible.

After Sun Chuanting learned about the European Hus War, Oman Garris's discussion on the Husse War, he had another explanation. Qi Jiguang also had a similar system back then. The so-called side vans were similar in format, loaded with food and equipment. When they encountered cavalry sieges, they were connected into formations and used as fortifications. Relatively speaking, the large vans pulled by livestock were larger in scale and the effect was better.

If the cavalry attacks, the best chance is that when the cart is moving, if it rushes in when the convoy cannot form a ring defense, the cart will become a target for movement.

But after the Mongolian horse bandits arrived this time, they were facing a turtle shell and ground car formation. The wooden boards erected outside blocked the cavalry's sight. They couldn't see clearly what was inside.

"These Mongolian horse bandits are actually wearing Tartar leather robes, it's really like that!"

In the gap between the wooden board, Zhang Kun, who saw these scenes outside, said disdainfully. Since he saw that no one was defending the outside, the leaders of these cavalry dismounted and looked at the situation inside through the gap between the cart and the ground. He could probably see the soldiers holding spears waiting for him.

However, in his position, you can only see the spear and human legs. The formation seems to have no flaws. As long as one of the cars can be broken, the formation will probably collapse immediately.

"Choose two hundred and break the big cart facing us!!"

A leader from the rear of the horse bandits gave a cold order, and there was another chaos in the already scattered queue of the horse bandits. Soon, more than 200 cavalrymen in a dress were obviously more ragged than others, hesitating to get out in front, and made up their formation a little, and someone shouted from behind.

The more than two hundred cavalrymen rushed towards the front of the chariot formation with a loud bang. Although they were worn in rags, these people were very skillful in riding.

The knights rushed over all desperately lowered their upper bodies and hid under the cover of horses. It seemed that they knew that the opponent's terrain did not just shrink back to defend.

But such defense is good for bird guns and fast guns. Under the smoothbore guns of Jiaozhou Camp, the effect is not great. As they expected, they rushed to the range. The advance soldiers hiding behind the cover stood up and raised their guns to fire.

After the dense gunfire, the first half of the more than 200 cavalry suddenly became much sparse. Many people screamed and fell from the horse, followed by the second row of shooting, and screamed again. Fortunately, the formation of these cavalry in rags was very sparse.

After two rounds of shooting, all the cavalry could not be defeated. The back quickly approached, and there were almost ten large chariots on the front of their attack. In addition to the musketeers on the chariot, there were several small cannons in the interval between the chariots. In such a defensive battle, the small cannons were loaded with shotguns.

After the shotgun was shot out, more than 30 cavalrymen were shot off the horse by the shotgun. However, the power of such a small cannon was a bit insufficient.

Many horse bandits were disturbed by the high-speed subway sand sputtering everywhere. The frightened horses were overturned to the ground. These horse bandits did not seem to be officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. When they were thrown off from their horses, as long as they could get up, they would rush forward with swords and swords.

This kind of large truck loading cargo is loaded with a lot of goods and cannot be unloaded in a hurry. It is not easy to discharge two rows of musket soldiers' wheels. After the two rounds of muskets are shot, what are the resistances when the enemies rushed over?

Moreover, there are really a lot of horse bandits, and several teams have already gone to the rest of the way to restrain the advance team, so that the power of this advance team cannot be concentrated in the direction of the main attack.

The firefighters in the first row threw away the firearms in their hands, picked up the firearms behind them, used this thick wooden board as a cover, and put the spears on them and poked them diagonally downwards. The "Mongolian horse bandits" who were about to climb onto the carriage were either holding spears or short axes.

But the spears in Shandong are very long and are condescending. The following horse bandits who want to attack are naturally at a disadvantage. Because of the wooden wheels, the carriage is naturally still a distance from the ground. There is no one to stop this gap, and there are also those who are awake and want to pay attention.

But the skill of walking to the door was just used, so I was about to drill. Naturally, there would be no space inside the car array. Some people squatted out and assassinated and opened fire, and the upper and lower parts were in chaos.

If all the goods on the carriage can be unloaded, at least three rows of musket soldiers can be lined up on the carriage. With these advance teams, they are all selected soldiers and horses, almost shooting from three to five rounds of uninterrupted rounds. However, when the enemy comes suddenly, even if a complete formation can be guaranteed, most of the details may not be complete.

However, what is different from the other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is that they are not at all afraid of close-range hand-to-hand combat. However, in the current scene, the people outside are not bad, but the soldiers of the Jiaozhou camp standing on the car dancing weapons are a little embarrassed in their actions.

When they reached this point, the advance soldiers fighting on the front line were a little surprised. It turned out that the horse bandits in front of them were really Tartars. Whether they were shouting or contacting each other, they were really the words of Mongolian tribes on the grassland. There were more sheets in the advance team, so naturally some people understood it.

After the first two rows of fire, half of the soldiers stabbed with spears, while the other row of soldiers loaded ammunition in this cramped space and raised their guns to shoot. Of course, this speed was much slower, and the scattered fire of muskets was at best a way to make up for the gap.

However, the Mongolian horse bandits who rushed up began to set aside and shoot arrows with the horn bow in their hands. Because the musket could not guarantee the density of firepower, the short bow could also cause damage. The two soldiers could not dodge and were shot on the shoulder. They could only turn from the other side of the carriage to heal.

A brief stalemate was formed in front, and the bandit brigade that had been behind immediately began to move. The speed of advance was not fast, but it quickly turned into a large fan. It could be seen that hundreds of people were divided into several teams. It happened to be aimed at the current gaps. If any of them were broken, then these cavalry would rush in.

The enemies outside are too scattered, and the advance team has too few troops in one direction due to space, so the situation gradually becomes troublesome.

Two more cannons were added in this direction, and two gunners were shot with bows and arrows, but they still shot a wave of volleys, knocking more and more enemies back a distance.

But no matter how you look at the current situation, it will definitely be unfavorable to the chariot formation. In this way, there is a door in both front and rear directions. This door is actually a movable chest wall, which looks less difficult than a big cart, because it is only half a person tall, but the defense power here is also fully arranged, and even if the Mongolian horse bandits want to charge, they will avoid it.

Anyone who pays attention to the previous battles of Shandong soldiers and horses will find a problem, that is, although Shandong soldiers and horses are strong, their reactions in many battles are a bit rigid and rigid. The changes in the battle can be said to be entirely dependent on the commander's flexible dispatch. If the response is not promptly, failures will often occur. Although Shandong soldiers and horses rarely fail, they cause unnecessary losses due to this.

Many experienced commanders and generals often have such conclusions after observation. If they can grasp this point of stiff reaction and invest enough strength in time, they can turn the losses of Shandong soldiers into failure and win.

It doesn’t take any peerless generals to observe this principle, just have some experience in leading troops. Looking at the current situation, it seems that it has reached this point. As long as you further invest your strength and seize the busy places of Jiaozhou Camp, you may be able to win.

The number of horse bandits was not too large. Seeing this situation, the leader of the horse bandits began to draw soldiers everywhere in the other direction of the chariot formation, preparing to increase greater power in front and prepare to break it in one fell swoop.

At present, the musket and the horn bow formed a stalemate between each other. From time to time, soldiers fell down screaming. However, very few of the "horse bandits" who followed behind dared to move forward desperately. Some people even took bird guns, fast guns and other things to shoot at the back of the baffle of the cart.

At this moment, I heard a clamor in front of me. At the front door set up in front of the cart array, two pounds of cannons of the two Folang machines rushed outwards, and the iron sand flew around, but it was only about twenty steps to a little quieter. Then I heard the shouts inside, and the wooden chest wall was moved open.

A small square formation shouted and walked out of the front door. Twenty musket soldiers followed the small square formation. Seeing this small square formation, everyone in the horse bandit team was cursing in their hearts, thinking that the small team was the monsters and monsters from where they came from, and they were so good equipment.

It would be fine to say that artillery is just there. Jiaozhou camp firearms are well-known, but at least half of the more than a hundred soldiers are wearing armor.

The armor was not the Ming Dynasty's ring-armed iron armor or scale armor, cotton armor, etc. It looked like a few iron buckets made of iron sheets, and it looked very sturdy. The soldiers were wearing helmets on their heads, and the helmets looked iron. With such a defense, what else can I do?

The faces of these Shandong soldiers were covered with shadows on the edge of their helmets. They held spears in their hands and walked out in a very steady pace.

The twenty musketeers walked out of the front door and immediately made a volley towards the left wing, which was the most powerful attack. This close-range shooting immediately knocked down more than a dozen. Then the small team made people stunned and turned steadily, pressing towards the left side of the front.

The musket soldiers stayed between the spear platoon and the cart, protecting themselves as much as possible without leaving the guard. Although it was a small platoon of more than a hundred people, there were at least thirty or forty spears in front of him, and the Mongolian horse bandits who were rushing in front of him were wearing a torn leather robe, which could not be resisted at all.

The launch of this bow and arrow is much easier than that of the muskets. Before the muskets of this small team have started to be recharged, some horse bandits have already reacted and started to draw bows and shoot arrows. At this time of haste, who has time to aim at the face and shoot arrows? If they can aim at shooting, it will be a magic arrow.

If you want to shoot arrows, you will naturally choose a more confident and larger target. Even if you don’t shoot someone to death, it will definitely lose your combat effectiveness.

The four or five arrows were already shot in a flash, but the reaction was only a few tings. Such a bow and arrow could not cause any damage to the plate armor forged by the hammer. When you want to draw the bow and shoot the arrow again, the opponent has already reached the front of the ten big trucks. How big can there be in the front of the ten big trucks?

After a few steps, it was considered lucky to be able to run. If you are not lucky, you will be poked many blood holes. But many people who rushed to the front were riding on horses. If both sides were on the flat ground and ran away, no one could do anything, but now there is a barrier to a big car, which is noisy, so many people's actions are not as fast as infantrymen.

When the space became larger, many people were killed, and those on the outside were scattered. The "Mongolian horse bandits" on the right wing wanted to attack the back team of this team, but their flanks were also large chariots and ground lines. The soldiers of the Shandong advance team above were still attacking and could not turn around.

I could only watch the team turn around and then fight again after a little bit of a fight...

"Everyone has it, aligned front, back, left and right, trot forward, target, front enemy!!"

Zhang Kun, who was the first person on the right side of the first row of the team, issued a loud order with a spear in his hand. His spear was bleeding. He rushed out just now and he also picked two people.

Zhang Kun issued the order loudly, but the spear in his hand was still standing up. Everyone in the team was still fine-tuning the distance and slightly recovering from the fatigue that had just rushed down. The commander's spear was not flat, so he would not charge.

The musket soldiers protected by this team quickly loaded them up completely, and hurriedly shouted to Zhang Kun:

"Sir, you can shoot."

As the deputy garrison of the regiment, there is a difference between different soldiers, that is, there is a cover of the subway surface on his helmet. As a military general, Zhang Kun was very reluctant to wear this iron mask. He disliked this thing too much. He looked at the "Mongolian Horse Bandits" in front of him, put the spear in his hands flattened, and shouted with great enthusiasm:

"Brothers, rush!!"

The formation of this small platoon is easier to maintain, so it is not accompanied by stepping and drums. The soldiers shouted in unison. In fact, this sound similar to the wartime horn added awesome momentum to the small platoon. The soldiers of the Shandong Advance Team took neat steps, and the armor and weapons shone with light.

Although there were only more than a hundred people, there seemed to be thousands of people scattered and clamored. The horse bandits who were charging in desperate times were already a little timid when they saw such a queue and line.

The outcome of those companions just now was clearly seen. When they saw the bows, arrows, quick guns and bird guns all rushed towards this side.

What this small team of soldiers had to do was just to put their heads under their heads. In Europe, in order to deal with this kind of plate armor, the power of the muskets was constantly increasing. On the East Asian continent, the heavy smoothbore rifle of Jiaozhou Camp could penetrate the plate armor of these infantrymen.

As for these messy long-range weapons, they were just jingling. Seeing that the shooting was ineffective, the bandits were already panicked. There were more than twenty smoothbore guns with enough power. After avoiding these messy long-range weapons behind these people, the musket soldiers trotted out.

A simple lineup is to open fire. When the fire guns are set up here, the "horse bandits" there are all running away from the chariot array.

After struggling for nearly ten days, why did the fight work so unproductive? Zhang Kun, who led the small team, couldn't help but get angry. I've been struggling for so many days and ran away when I say it, that's so easy.

Since passing Lutai Town in Shuntian Prefecture, these flies-like bandits have been harassed endlessly during the day and night. It is still cloudy and rainy. It is really depressing. It is better to defeat it now. The more than 200 people in front finally have a bit of a desperate momentum. But the teams behind are really useless.

Originally, the cavalry had divided into several groups and was about to wait for an opportunity to enter the opened gap, but after being disturbed, these cavalry actually shrank back like this.

Because of the motivation of the team outside, the counterattack from the large team to the outside also increased the frequency, and the bandits around could no longer withstand it, looking at the companions in front of them had been forced back. These people were not vague, and they were also rushing to the wind.

This retreat was much faster. The horse bandits who had been aggressively retreated to the way they came, but when they retreated, they ran to the distance they thought they were safe. They slowly rode the horse, as if they were not in a hurry.

This is the old wisdom of Mongolian soldiers and horses. After the Mongolian soldiers and horses were shortened for a while, they retreated one after another. However, they always gave the enemy the illusion that they could catch up with them.

This accelerated pursuit often makes the formation that maintains a strict and scattered. At that time, the cavalry with more advantage in speed and maneuverability can take advantage of the situation and turn defeat into victory. Seeing that these horse bandits have the same trick.

Zhang Kun, the leader of the advance team and the deputy garrison of the regiment, was furious by this scene. He thought to himself that you bastards would beat him and run away whenever he said he would. He really didn't take Shandong's troops seriously. Zhang Kun directly led the soldiers of the platoons to turn another direction, facing the evacuated horse bandits.

Zhang Kun looked at the bandits in front of him who were more than a hundred steps away. He adjusted his breathing slightly, raised his hand and pulled down his face armor.

"Catch up and kill a few!!"

There were four generals who came out this time, and these hundred people were almost his direct troops. Zhang Xiucai was a desperate person. The people below were also not a rule-abiding role. The so-called generals and officers brought out what kind of soldiers were not false at all.

The advance soldiers inside the chariot had just breathed a sigh of relief. But they saw Zhang Kun, the deputy garrison, heading forward, laying his spears flat, and a group of Shandong soldiers rushed forward like wolves and tigers. Several of them were in charge of defense, and they were always complaining in their hearts. Zhang Xiucai was crazy again.

In fact, the weight of this plate armor is not too heavy compared to that of the Qing Dynasty cotton armor. However, it would be a bit troublesome to pursue these cavalrymen at such a distance. If you get tired and be driven back by the opponent's mobile ground horse bandits and cavalrymen, things will be troublesome.

The leader who led the bandits to see the armored infantry holding a spear chasing him so swayingly. He was so happy. This attack was no longer hopeful. Who would have thought that the other party would chase him so stupidly again. His luck was really good!

People in the world say that the Jiaozhou camp's troops are strong and trained well, but no matter how physically they have, they will not be able to hold on with such exhaustion of running in armor.

Only more than fifty steps were taken, and the musket soldiers behind him could no longer keep up. They ran more than ten steps. The formation of the square just now was also scattered a lot. A fool general and the leaders of the bandit thought so. Even if you wear good armor and have training, what kind of deterrent power can the scattered scattered soldiers who have lost the protection of the formation?

Seeing such a loose formation, for these horse bandits, it was like a piece of bloody meat placed beside the mouth of a wolf and tiger. If they didn't bite it, it would be against their instinct. Eat this team and continue to besiege the chariot formation. Perhaps there was a chance of victory. The horse bandits who were running slowly turned their horses' heads and prepared to take action.

It was estimated that there were more than 40 steps away, and more and more bandits turned around, and the Shandong officers and soldiers in the chariot formation were furious. The general manager responsible for the defense in this direction was about to lead his troops to rush outside.

The team led by Zhang Kun was running more and more dispersed. When he heard a whistle, the bandits who had been preparing for a long time drove the horses and surrounded them.
Chapter completed!