Chapter 290: A hundred-foot spear, an invincible place

Gaoke stood at the height of the low mountain bag and looked at the cavalry that were approaching quickly on three sides. He shot his eyes and looked at the other direction. The leader sent by the salt merchant had long known where he had run.

These bastards actually set up a trap to attack Jiaozhou Camp. Gaoke cursed in his heart, but at this moment, the situation was not the time to curse people. He just split the soldier, and Gaoke's body was also covered with blood. Wherever he stood with an axe gun in his hand, he really had a fierce aura.

Most of the officers at all levels who were veterans were holding axes and guns, and were shouting with evil voices. When the cavalry of the brigade came, they had to have a strict formation to deal with it, otherwise they would be a dead end.

The musket soldiers performed better. Although most of them were from new recruits, they also knew that if they escaped in such a battlefield, they would definitely be caught up and killed by horse thieves. It would be better to rely on the protection of the spear formation and have a glimmer of hope.

Of course, the non-commissioned officers of the musket soldiers were shouting loudly, asking the soldiers to distance themselves from each other. Although the muskets had to be intensively fired to show their power, the soldiers were too close to each other because of fear. They were hung with gunpowder bags and fuse ropes. If they were a little careless, it would be troublesome.

Because Gaoke stood on the mountain road, according to Caodian, the spear square array was behind the direction of Gaoke, and the direction it faced was the fields on the edge of the official road, and the musketeers were also arranged on this line.

This is the first time he has participated in a battle of this scale, and he is still in charge of the command himself. Although the horse thief has not approached yet, Gaoke is already very nervous. He desperately told himself to calm down.

"Military gun soldiers, all of them are to the right of the square formation!"

Gaoke shouted there, and the personal soldiers around him immediately rode over to inform him, and the musket soldiers stabilized the formation, and the main general asked to change the direction again. The non-commissioned officers of the musket soldiers were all a little angry, but they immediately shouted the soldiers to head to the right side of the square formation.

There is a field in front of the spear phalanx. When the horses run, they are obviously not as free as they are on the flat ground. The speed will definitely not be too fast. On the left, the way they come. When Gaoke led his troops over, he also carefully observed that he did not see any traces of the horse thieves, which means that they were hiding far away.

On the right side of the spear formation was the direction where the horse thieves escaped. In that direction, the soldiers of the Huaibei Army in Jiaozhou camp did not follow, so the horse thieves turned around and came on the official road again. The speed was definitely the fastest and arrived first.

Although smoke and dust were rolling on all sides and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky, the horse thieves still arrived one after another. However, when the musket soldiers turned to the right, they had no time to line up, and the horse thieves had already rushed within eighty steps.

The soldiers in the front three rows of the outer circle of the spear formation held the spears standing on the ground in both hands, and officers at all levels who were holding the axe and gun to supervise the formation also retreated into the formation.

"Fire!! Stand up and shoot!"

As they rushed so close, the non-commissioned officers of the musket soldiers no longer cared about any fronts, but just gave loud orders that all the soldiers in their positions would hit the muskets in the direction of the horse thieves.

If you cannot shoot at the same time, you cannot achieve the maximum killing of dense firepower. It is indeed insufficient, but it is just a shortcoming, and there will still be killing in the end.

The horse thieves may know that this unit has firearms, but they did not expect that these firearms were so powerful at a distance of about fifty steps. The salt merchants were just businessmen after all. They told the horse thieves that there were almost more than a thousand infantrymen coming here. The horse thieves prepared their superior forces to eat these officers and soldiers, which was all the information.

Horse thieves are not afraid of officers and soldiers. Nowadays, no one is afraid of anyone who is afraid of people. As for whether they are thieves or soldiers, no one will pay attention to them. In theory, when the horse thieves are expected to control the horse speed and approach the enemy, the officers and soldiers should disperse, and the horse thieves should be the time to chase and kill the defeated soldiers.

But these official troops have always been unrest and stand very steadily, but the horse thieves are not in a hurry. When encountering such a situation, they can just circle around the infantry. When they find loopholes in the infantry front, they can just rush in and let him collapse on the whole line.

The concept of official weapons by outsiders is nothing more than three-eyed guns, fast guns, etc., and they are not close to the range, so they can't fire the barrel. Isn't the army stationed in Huaibei in Shandong also officers and soldiers? There is no big difference.

The troops under Li Meng fought in Shandong. As for the Xinyang Water Camp, which is now the officers and soldiers, these pirates did not use any firearms to fight at the beginning.

The horse thieves rushed over on the right only accelerated the horse speed and did not sprint, but even so, they went too deep into the effective distance of the Jiaozhou Camp fire gun.

When the fire guns on the opposite side were firing and the smoke filled the gunpowders, the horse thieves were still laughing, thinking that these officers and soldiers were really useless. At this distance, they didn't even have time to load ammunition, waiting to be killed in front of them and be slaughtered, but then they found something was wrong.

The front-line companions were loaded from the horse one by one. This time the firearm was not only smoke, but the muskets used in Jiaozhou Camp were heavy muskets in Europe in the same era. They were powerful and the initial velocity of the bullet was very low. However, this initial velocity had an additional effect, that is, a shrill scream.

These horse thieves were far inferior to the cavalry of the Qing Tartars. At least, the mounts of the Tartars had certain adaptability to firearms in their previous battles with the Ming army. Moreover, the Tartar cavalry was a regular army at least, and the cavalry attacks were all in formation.

The horse thieves were scattered all over the mountains and fields, and the horses were not adaptable. There were more than 50 muskets there before they started, and the thief vanguards rushed to the right were already in chaos. It was not necessary to say that they died of ammunition. What really caused the chaos was the horses that were frightened because of the roar of bullets flying.

Many horses suddenly fell to the ground while running, or twisted and moved around. The horse's knight was thrown off the horse, or rolled to the ground with the horse.

The first reaction of the horse thieves behind was to tie their mounts or turn desperately. When they were just for money, they were not for the death to fight. Moreover, the horse thieves were no more than the tribes on the grassland and some wealthy officers and soldiers. Most of them had one horse for each person. This horse was the capital for them to settle down. Without a horse, if they were abandoned by the brigade, it would be almost the same as death.

When encountering such a scene in front of you, the only reaction is to run and leave quickly. However, in the brigade, no matter how evacuated the formation, a sudden turn will cause chaos. The musketeers of the Huaibei Army in Jiaozhou camp were like gunpowder, and suddenly ruined the brigade of horse thieves rushing over to the right.

But the officers of the musket soldiers were jumping and cursing. If it weren't for the responsibility, they would have to take the weapons in their hands and slapped them. Almost thirty musket soldiers forgot to pull out the whole piece from the barrel because of the tension of the enemy, and directly shot them out.

The strips are made of good iron material, otherwise such a thin diameter will be used to compact the ammunition in the gun chamber every day and clean the gun chamber, and they will always be broken.

However, the power of this gun is really great. The bars roared out like crossbow arrows. The horse thieves who were hit were directly penetrated by the iron bars. Some of them were penetrated with the horses and people. More iron bars flew out of the barrel and started to sway, hitting people or immediately. Although it was not fatal, it was enough to cause serious injury.

At such a close distance, its power is no less than lead bullets, and it is even more than some. But the key to the problem is that without the open bar, the musket is basically impossible to use. What is the difference between it and a fire stick? It is equivalent to the fact that more than 30 musketmen lost their combat power in the previous round of shooting.

"Call those who beat the whole stick to me, go quickly!"

Gaoke was so angry that he stood on a high place. Those musket soldiers were vain and stood in front of the formation was a burden, and they also affected the formation of other musket soldiers. They could only be transferred to their side.

Musketeers usually also have a waist knife for hand-to-hand combat. Some soldiers like to stuff spears into the chamber of musketeers and use them as short spears.

After the more than thirty soldiers came over, Gaoke did not scold him, but just ordered a personal soldier and said loudly:

"Take them to the dilapidated temple and block them, don't let someone come up!"

This short mountain is surrounded by the official road in front of the mountain, because of the broken mountain temple and some roads, but behind the mountain there are bushes, short trees and big rocks. No one has cleaned it up for many years, so it is very difficult to climb.

But looking at the current situation, General Qiang Hi-Tech actually felt a little confident. The horse thief was so powerful, but it was so powerful that it was not as good as the elite soldiers of the Tartars that day.

Now that the battalion under his command has stabilized, the other party will definitely not be able to rush in. If you have the confidence, you will become calm. Considering the surrounding situation, the only place that may be attacked is the back of this short mountain. Although it is difficult to move on the back, it is not impossible to get up.

After the first round of muskets, the horse thieves attacking on the right were already in chaos, but the horse thieves coming from the front and left were also approaching.

"Reject horses!!" "Reject horses!!"

When officers at all levels saw horse thieves flocking in everywhere, they shouted orders at the top of their throats. Refusing horses was a wooden fortification in the Ming army, but in the Jiaozhou camp, refusing horses was a tactical action of spear soldiers on the battlefield.

After shouting this order, the soldiers on the first row of the two sides stepped on the tail end of the spear under their feet, leaned forward, held the rear end of the spear handle with one hand, and held the middle section of the spear with the other hand.

The soldiers in the second row raised the spears flat, while the third row raised the spears slightly high. If we look at this from the perspective of a bird flying in the air, it would be like a flower that suddenly spreads. Of course, the flower was only half blooming.

The horse thieves and horses that arrived first on the west side were noisy and chaotic, but the official army was still standing still. Although the horse thieves looked down on the officers and soldiers before coming, they were very confident, they were not fools who ignored their lives and safety. The horse thieves on the left and right slowed down their horses.

The loud noise of the musket and the screams of the horse thieves made the horse thieves know that the other party's firearms should not be underestimated, but there were no firearms on the right and front to resist. When they approached, the leader of the horse thieves shouted loudly, and the horse thieves in the front rows accelerated and rushed towards the front.

But the spear formation on the opposite side suddenly unfolded, with hundreds of spears spreading out on each side.

The horse thieves are not the kind of war horses that have been raised and trained on the battlefield. At best, these horse thieves are robbing everywhere, killing civilians, and fighting against those marquis and officers and soldiers who are not even as good as those marquis. When they see the horse thieves roaring and pressing over with smoke and dust in the sky, those people can't withstand such pressure at all.

Therefore, the horse thieves' mounts, that is, they can't handle all kinds of situations, such as many spears appearing in front of them!

Horses are not machinery, they are animals with their own will. When they see sharp spears in front of them, they also need to dodge.

Therefore, when horses hit the dense spear front on the battlefield, they had to use other methods to keep the horse moving forward. For example, the Qing army encountered in Qihe County used spurs to penetrate the horse's belly, and caused the horse to clash in front of the sudden severe pain.

However, this method causes great damage to the horses, and even after rushing through this time, the horses will be destroyed. For these horse thieves, the mount is their lifeblood. Many people cannot catch a horse, but they are riding mules and acting in a brigade. Not to mention that the mounts are unwilling to hit the spear, even the thieves are unwilling to.

Originally, the infantrymen of Jiaozhou camp put their spears flat according to Caodian and their daily practice. Seeing the horse thieves roaring, they could even see the ferocious faces of the horse thieves. Everyone was uneasy, but what happened next made them feel relieved. As the horse thieves approached the spear formation, their speed became slower and slower. Because the speeds in the front and back were inconsistent, there was also chaos, but no one rushed to the spear formation.

I would rather turn the horse around than fall than get close.

Seeing this situation, the soldiers of Huaibei slowly calmed down from the initial panic. They found that the things they trained on weekdays were effective on the battlefield.

As long as you do it according to the command and the training in normal circumstances, the greater the chance of safety on the battlefield, the more standard the movements these soldiers make, and the formation becomes more neat.

On the right side of the formation, the muskets had already been fired for two rounds, and there was no standing horse thieves within nearly two hundred steps. After the initial chaos, the horse thieves who adjusted the horse thieves ran desperately towards the way. They originally thought that eighty steps would be safe, but the second round of shooting of the musket soldiers in Jiaozhou camp still covered the horse thieves at this distance.

This is not the officers and soldiers in my concept of the firearms. I don’t know how far I can hit, so I can only run as far as possible to be safe. On the right side of the spear phalanx is the official road, so the horse thieves who adjusted the direction will still run very quickly.

When they saw the people and horses lying on the side of the spear formation, they felt a chill when they looked from afar. Many people were not knocked off the horse by muskets, but were thrown off by horses and then trampled on them. These horse thieves were wearing cloth clothes and cotton jackets, and had no defense worth relying on. As long as they were thrown off by Ranma, they would definitely be seriously injured.

If no one is treated, I can only wait to die.

But he still couldn't die for a while, so he could only wail and struggle on the ground, which made his companions feel cold. However, the remaining more than 100 musket soldiers were very leisurely.

There were calmly loading ammunition there, and the corpses in front of them were their achievements. Several of the musketeers were hunters. Looking at this scene, they felt like they were returning home with a lot of hunting. Some of the brave ones had already whistled.

The horse thieves rushing towards the front and left, and those who approach the right side could see the corpses of the people and horses all over the ground. Even with the sound of killing, they could hear the wounded horse thieves screaming there, and each turned in another direction.

The horse thieves on the front all headed to the left, while the horse thieves on the left were heading back to the road. On the right side, it seemed like there was a curse, and no one wanted to get close.

"Fight the horse thief in the front!! Twenty people shot in a row of rounds, and the horses on the right side resisted!"

Gaoke stood at a slightly higher place and watched the battle situation loudly, and his personal soldiers hurriedly sent orders. At this time, the soldiers on the front put out their spears in the form of resisting horses, while the horse thieves who were impacting the front had not left far enough, and the musketeers did not have enough space.

However, there is not enough space on the front, and the side shooting means that the range of the musket will be almost 100 steps, which is enough. The musket can actually be regarded as a super spear with a length of 100 steps, and the power of the thorn is greater.

Twenty people are in a row, and the front corner on the right side of the spear phalanx is arranged in an inclined manner. You can shoot six to seven consecutive rounds, and start covering within about seventy steps on the front of the spear phalanx.

The continuous shooting of seven-wheeled muskets, with twenty muskets per round, is enough to cause great damage in a short time.

The horse thieves in front heard the screams and saw the tragic phenomenon, but they didn't know how the tragic phenomenon was caused. Now they knew it.

The muskets and beads sounded like cannons. Anyone who did not run far away and was still adjusting the direction of the mount was hit hard, and the horses were immediately overturned.

The spear formation is mainly infantry. Compared with horse thieves, there is naturally no way to move speed. If you want to kill horse thieves with fast moving speed, you can only rely on muskets to achieve damage output. On this small battlefield, except for the dozens of muskets that were wasted due to inexperience, the rest is considered to achieve this goal very well.

Seeing that the musketeers should not have to turn to the left, the horse thieves around them all retreated 200 steps away, and looked at the officers and soldiers who had been as motionless as a mountain in fear.

Standing on the low slope, Gaoke finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the horse thieves retreating so far. According to the knowledge learned in the old camp, Qianmao Hike could probably judge clearly that there were about 2,000 horse thieves. According to the information from Lingshan Trading Company and Huang Ping, there should be no such large number of horse thieves in the part that Gaoke can know. The largest tyrants near Xuzhou and Shuyang could only gather more than 500 strong men riding horses.

Where did such a large number of horse thieves come from? If more than one thousand cavalrymen have such great damage to more than one thousand infantrymen, the cavalry will definitely not continue to persevere and will retreat.

But the number of horse thieves far exceeds that of the Huaibei Army's infantry. Although there are heavy casualties, they are very unwilling to accept the number of people. There is no reason why riding horses cannot defeat infantry. Although they retreated far away, they are still hesitating and not knowing the next move.

When Gaoke was about to reorganize the team, he heard a shout of killing sound from the dilapidated temple behind him. As soon as the shout of killing sounded, he could see several riders galloping out from behind the low mountain bag in a big circle. As soon as these riders rushed out, the horse thieves who were still hesitating there started to clamor again. The horse thieves who were already retreating began to control the horses and slowly approach the Jiaozhou camp's team.

"You guys go over together and fight the thieves who want to come after the chaos!"

He inserted the axe and gun in his hand to the ground, Gaoke said with a sneer. He had seen the low mountain bag behind it, and there was no room for hundreds of people to spread. The musket soldiers who were holding short weapons were enough to resist. In addition, the dozens of personal soldiers around Gaoke could ensure that there was no problem on the mountain.

The horse thieves slowly approached, and they did not dare to move forward a hundred steps away. Instead, they looked at the side of the Aoshan. But what they saw was the officers and soldiers standing there with an axe and a gun in one hand.

Suddenly, the hesitant horse thieves were in chaos, and the sound of killing was shocking.
Chapter completed!