There were thousands of households in Longchuan, thousands of households in Heyuan, and thousands of households in Changle wanted to fight, and Wang Shengrong wanted to fight even more. The Ming army opposite was only a few hundred more troops than the People's Army. In order to quickly march to support the Ming army in Longchuan County, the Ming army did not bring heavy artillery at all. The People's Army also had a battalion of firearms troops. Wang Shengrong was confident of defeating the Ming army in front.

However, after seeing the gathering of three Ming troops in front, Wang Shengrong did not lead the People's Army to attack, because some distance behind the Ming army was Longchuan County. Once the People's Army defeated the Ming army, a considerable number of Ming troops would flee to Longchuan County.

Only more than one thousand Ming troops need to defend Longchuan County. It is not possible for the People's Army to take down Longchuan County for a short period of time, and the number of casualties and injuries will not be small.

So Wang Shengrong did not take the People's Army to attack, but instead took the People's Army to retreat some distance.

Seeing that the People's Army was about to retreat, three thousand households hurriedly commanded the Ming army to pursue, and the distance from Longchuan County was getting farther and farther away. Soon, the People's Army stopped in a small plain with a wide view as farmland. This was the place where Wang Shengrong chose to fight the Ming army to the death with the rear.

"Array!"

The messenger rode his horse and quickly conveyed Wang Shengrong's orders.

In just a few minutes, a battalion of the main firearms troops in the First Mixed Brigade quickly formed a formation, and soldiers holding tiger-headed guns stood in three horizontal rows, with about one hundred and twenty people in each horizontal row, with at least one empty space between the two people.

Not long after, the nine tiger-headed cannons of the firearms troops were also set up on the left side of the muzzle array, in front of the muzzle object.

The soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade, the soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade were divided into two halves, standing on both sides of the firearms array, while the soldiers of the Cold Weapons stood behind the soldiers of the First Weapons and behind the firearms.

Basically, the firearms troops of the First Mixed Brigade are half surrounded by cold weapons. If an accident occurs, such as the enemy cavalry rushing over and the firearms troops cannot be completely eliminated, the cold weapons troops can quickly rush up to help the firearms troops resist.

When the firearms troops defeat the enemy, the cold weapon troops can quickly rush up on both sides, and at the same time, the firearms troops can continue to fire and shoot the fleeing enemies in front of them.

This is the commonly used array of the People's Army. The People's Army soldiers moved very quickly. They prepared when the Ming army was more than 400 meters away from their own side.

The Ming army brigade was more than 400 meters away from the People's Army array, a little far away, but on the plain with wide views, Longchuan Qianhu, Heyuan Qianhu, and Changle Qianhu, who were riding on war horses, could clearly see the People's Army that was lined up in formation and prepared to fight the Ming army.

"This kind of chaos is extraordinary." Longchuan Qianhu said with a cautious expression. Hearing Longchuan Qianhu's words, Heyuan Qianhu and Changle Qianhu both agreed.

Although most of the people in the People's Army opposite (mainly the cold weapon troops) were wearing shabby clothes, this neat formation was not something ordinary chaotic people could do, and it seemed that even the guards and troops were difficult to do it.

As for the People's Army's firearms troops, all three thousand households knew that the Jieshi Guard had been destroyed by the rioters. The Jieshi Guard had a large number of firearms and believed that the firearms used by the People's Army came from the Jieshi Guard.

The rioters in front of them were extraordinary, but the three thousand households did not give up the idea of ​​attacking. In the minds of the three, whether the county was captured or the Jieshiwei was destroyed, they all believed that the rioters had successfully attacked, and that the three people still looked down on the rioters in their hearts, and that they had suffered a lot of casualties.

There are disposals against ordinary rioters. When they see the rioters retreat, they rush forward directly. There is another disposal to deal with the extraordinary rioters in front of them. If the rioters are arranged in an array, then they will also arrange their own formations and press forward together. The rioters have firearms, and there are more firearms on the Ming army!

"Array!Array!Array!"

In the Ming army, drums and trumpets were beaten, and the guards of thousands of households rode their horses to convey orders to the various departments.

The Ming army, which was chasing the People's Army in a mess, also began to line up. The Ming soldiers holding various muskets came to the front. The cavalry gathered 100 cavalry and were led by Changle Qianhu to be located on the left side, looking for opportunities to rush up from the side to tear the formation of the People's Army. The card knife hand, spearman, and crossbowman stood behind the musketman.

It took several times more time than the People's Army, and the Ming army also formed a good formation, but this formation was far worse than the People's Army's formation. If it weren't for the clothing issue, the people would probably be more like regular troops.

At this time, the Ming army's People's Army exceeded 350 meters, and the command of the Ming army was handed over to the oldest Qianhu, Longchuan.

After the Ming army had lined up its formation, Longchuan Qianhu ordered the army to continue to advance because it was a line-up. This time the Ming army's march was relatively slow, which was similar to the speed that was not normal for people.

In front of the Ming army, the People's Army was on high alert. The 350-meter distance between the two armies was already within the range of the shooting, but the People's Army was not in a hurry to open fire. If the Ming army was fired at such a long distance, it would be bad if it scared away.

The Ming army also had firearms, with a range of 100 to 150 meters. Because the fire accuracy of the muskets was very poor, the Ming army basically had to open fire at about 100 meters. Wang Shengrong was preparing to put the Ming army at 200 meters before firing. Moreover, the most threatening cavalry in the Ming army was one of the two main targets in the first round of fire.

One hundred feet

Ninety feet

Eighty feet

Seventy feet

When the two armies were 70 zhang apart (1 zhang 3.16 meters in the Ming Dynasty), the firearms troops in the First Mixed Brigade of the People's Army were ready to fire.

"Let's fire!", "Let's fire!"

The moment the order was issued, more than 120 tiger-headed spears shot out the lead bullets that devoured people, and in the blink of an eye it crashed into the Ming army array two hundred meters away.

"Why did the rioters open fire so far?"

The fires two hundred meters away from the front were all strange. They did not think that the muskets of the rioters could be shot into their own array. Just when they wanted to mock the rioters on the opposite side for not knowing how to use firearms, in an instant, more than 120 lead bombs were hit in front of the Ming army's array, killing and injuring a large area.

"How...how is it possible?"

Three thousand households were shocked, especially Changle Qianhu, who commanded more than 100 cavalry, he was not in front of the cavalry. Half of the People's Army's lead bullets came towards the Ming cavalry. More than 100 Ming cavalry were killed and injured one-third of the cavalry in front of Changle Qianhu. The cavalry in front of Changle Qianhu was shot and dropped from the horse, which scared Changle Qianhu so much that he almost fell from the horse's back.

Before the Ming army could react, in just a few seconds, another wave of more than 120 lead bullets came. At the same time, nine tiger-headed cannons opened fire, and nine solid shells were loaded into the Ming army's array with more than 120 lead bullets.

puff!

Two lead bullets were gathered at the same time in Changle Qianhu in the Ming cavalry formation. One lead bullet hit Changle Qianhu's shoulder, and the other lead bullet hit Changle Qianhu's chest. Even the armor worn by Changle Qianhu could not block the lead bullet. Changle Qianhu's body shook twice on the war horse and fell weakly from the war horse.
Chapter completed!