Chapter 445: Battle Xiaoyi, trouble every step

Seeing the tired Shandong armored soldiers chasing halfway, they were more than twenty steps away from the opponent. If they were really Mongolian horse bandits on the grassland, they could have such a gathering and separation and separation, it would be terrible.

After a whistle, the large group of people spread out everywhere, and then there were whistle sounds of varying lengths. You can see these horse bandits divided into three groups, and the other two groups were towards the sides of the scattered infantry platoons, while more forces gathered together and crashed towards the front of the small platoon.

It was too late for the more than 20 musket soldiers to come over, and before the follow-up soldiers and horses in the chariot formation came out, they saw that the infantry that had lost their formation were about to be dispersed and eaten by the cavalry.

Originally, looking at this side, the hundreds of spear soldiers led by Zhang Kun could no longer run and their speed was much slower. However, as the bandits were whistling and approaching, the infantry in armor suddenly accelerated their pace, and even ran faster than when they charged just now.

Since he was already moving, he couldn't stop. He was calculating the speed of the horses and infantrymen, and always felt that he might rush over before the other party got together.

These so-called horse bandits could no longer stop and kicked the horse hard. At this time, the horse bandit leader in the back team discovered a problem.

The opponent's infantry was indeed scattered at the beginning, but the degree of distraction was not as good as everyone saw. These Shandong infantry wearing armor were indeed extremely physically active, and they were not tired yet.

In other words, the two rows of soldiers in the back had not gathered in the formation, but the cavalry of the bandits had no time to cover the entire small team.

Now the cavalry can only continue to rush up. If they don’t rush, they are so close to the opponent and adjust their direction, the horse’s speed will definitely slow down. At that time, as long as these Shandong infantrymen show their speed just now, they will start to easily assassinate many people behind their backs.

Taking advantage of the fact that the opponent was not yet firm and he defeated the opponent, the current situation had to rush forward. Then, many of the cavalrymen who rushed forward heard the yell of the officers leading the team:

"Flat spear, resist horses!!"

In the end, the two rows of soldiers also occupied the small platoon. If the original battalion or regiment platoon formation and the horse-rejecting formation, there would be someone in the inner circle to stay on standby, because the formation was too wide, that is, the four or five rows of spears in the front could extend out at various angles.

But this small team is a spear that can hit the enemy outside, but this square formation is not too thick. If it is a strong cavalry, it is still possible to hit the team in such a situation. But these horse bandits are not the so-called strong cavalry.

The opponent's small team quickly turned into a hedgehog with a spear outstretched. When he saw this hedgehog, the people in the front thought that if they rushed forward, they would definitely hit it and turn into a sieve. Then the people behind might take the opportunity to open the small team. The key to the problem is, why do you have to be this sieve?

Everyone who rushed to the front would hold their horses, slow down their horses, or want to turn. This behavior on the battlefield is subconscious, but it is the most taboo.

If it was the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, they were connected to form a cavalry formation and directly collided side by side. However, the formations of these horse bandits were not scattered, and they did not form a formation at all.

The key to the problem is that no one is willing to run to the front to die. These people are counting on this small platoon in Shandong to disperse under the power of the cavalry's attack.

But the cavalry that Shandong infantry has faced. Currently, the powerful cavalry in East Asia have almost all been fought. The reason why it is said to be similar is that in Shandong, all the soldiers and horses think that their iron cavalry is the strongest place.

With this casual charge, it is not enough to shake the formation of Jiaozhou Camp. Even this small team became ridiculous for a moment. When approaching this small team, it seemed like an invisible barrier, and its speed slowed down.

This was not a problem for Zhang Kun, who was standing in the square formation. He had some ideas about such a scene. Seeing these bandits actually beat them so vulgar. Zhang Kun shouted again:

"Twice forward, assassinate!!"

The small team faced outwards, and the soldiers took big stances towards the enemy in front of them, then waved their arms meticulously and stabbed the spear hard.

It was crowded and could not turn around. What he didn't expect was that the other party would take the initiative to leave the formation and assassinate. Although he was condescending, the spears and guns in their hands could not cause damage to the advance soldiers in armor. Moreover, they were limiting their horse speed and were in a hurry.

After Zhang Kun's order was given, there were already screams around him. After the assassination, the shortcomings quickly returned to the formation.

After his orders, Zhang Kun also took big steps forward, and the cavalry rushed towards him were very fast, but these Mongolian horse bandits wearing leather robes could not withstand the assassination of the spear, and would not even cause any obstacles. Moreover, the momentum of the impact of the horses and people was even superimposed on the spear.

Sure enough, Zhang Kun's spear slanted upward pierced through the horse thief who raised the long sword without any obstacles. As soon as the person died, the long sword raised was immediately lost and fell down weakly. Zhang Kun used the power of stabbing to be very moderate, only fatal, and then he would not get stuck in the opponent's body and unable to pull it out.

As for the horse bandits around him, he didn't need to worry. He stepped forward to assassinate and acted as neatly as possible, so that they could take care of each other and have greater power.

Until now, these Mongolian horse bandits discovered that their pretended to be scattered and slow did not bring these Shandong advance teams into their trap. Instead, the matter turned around. They were deceived by the small team's pretended to be scattered and got in.

The horse bandits who realized this were even more panicked. The entire formation exploded almost instantly, and they ran outwards. The small team that had retracted dispersed again, and assassinated behind them while the horses could not accelerate.

When the infantry's phalanx faces the cavalry, if the cavalry fled or cruised around. Infantry has no other way except to shoot with long-range weapons. If the enemy is also outside the range, it will only be the two sides who are slow to go through time. Zhang Kun used a trick to show weakness and attracted the other party in. Sure enough, he killed a lot, and felt a sense of anger in his heart.

However, the assassination just now caught these so-called horse bandits off guard. Zhang Kun heard what he expected. The screams of these horse bandits when they were dying were not Mongolian at all, but real Ming Chinese. Although they shouted very briefly, they could still hear that this was the accent of the Northern Zhili side.

Now the horse bandits are already in one direction, although they are in a mess. The surrounding area is smooth and without mountains, and clear and cloudless. If these horse bandits have reinforcements or backup plans, they would probably have come here at this time. They fought in a mess for a long time. But there was no movement around them.

Zhang Kun already had the upper hand outside, so he should be leaving the line to fight and expand the upper hand. The situation is so obvious. The officers in the chariot formation can definitely see it.

While fighting here, the two hundred musketeers inside the chariot had already walked out of the chariot and lined up to wait for shooting.

However, these musketeers did not have time to open fire because these Mongolian horse thieves had already begun to escape to the east, and such a situation was really impossible to catch up.

Staying here is meaningless to these horse bandits. Not to mention that the hedgehog-like infantry team could not eat it. Seeing a large number of soldiers holding muskets rushed out, they had no way to resist it.

A sudden but not very difficult encounter ended like this. But it made the entire camp a little confused. Except for the necessary alert forces distributed, most of the rest were busy cleaning up the camp. At least the baffles on the outside of the cart had to pull out the arrows.

The dead and injured in front of the cart also need to be removed. After a battle, it was not even after noon, so I had to sort out and continue to rush.

This is a small victory. There is no doubt about this. However, several players were full of anger at Zhang Kun. Too many behaviors today were completely ignoring the overall situation. They led their own small troops to risk their victory. It would be easy to say if they won, but if they couldn't win, it would be troublesome.

Now everyone is cleaning up the battlefield and treating the wounded, but the regiment deputy garrison Zhang Kun is wandering on the battlefield, which makes people even more angry.

Zhang Kun kept provoking the battlefield with his sword and kept provoking the bodies and linings of these horse bandits. If Ji Town could make such a large number of Mongolian horse bandits rampant, I am afraid that Wang Yongji, the governor of Ji Liao, would have been rumored to be the world long ago. The yelling and scolding in the official language of Northern Zhili just made Zhang Kun confirm the fact that it was fake. At present, we just wanted to see which direction these people were fake.

There were indeed Mongolians. The closer they got to the Chege Array, the more they were the clothes of Mongolians on the grassland inside and outside the corpses. On the outside, especially those who were assassinated by the small team, they could see the number clothes they wore inside with their swords.

This number of clothes is the clothing of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. However, with the current military supplies, it is hard to say whether ordinary soldiers can have a number of clothes that are not ragged. Such brand new is probably the personal soldiers of a general or a direct local army. This cannot be said that these people who pretend to be "horse bandits" are not cautious.

To achieve this, they may feel that even if they can't beat them, they can escape very calmly. After all, they ride horses and cruising lightly, while the other party is a cart and a infantryman, and they will not be caught up at all. They are wrong.

I thought I could completely crush the other party with fatigue and tension by relying on the rainy weather and muddy roads, and the constant harassment day and night. They were also wrong.

There were no minor wounded people on the battlefield. The result of being killed by muskets and spears was either death or serious injuries. The performance of this group of horse bandits before and after the battle was completely different, which made people think that these were two completely different armies. They used to shoot at the musket soldiers on the chariot with the horn bows, and some people risked the assassination of spears to climb the baffle outside the chariot. However, the team of people behind did a lot of attacks. They really wanted to fight, but they had no morale, but they were different from each other. The front was more chaotic but dared to fight, and the back had a structure, but they didn't have much courage.

Zhang Kun just wanted to figure out why there were such differences in front and back. He walked around the battlefield and never found a suitable inquiry. How could the dead and seriously injured people speak?

When he walked to the left of the door where the small team had just left, Zhang Kun finally found a man who could ask questions. The bandit lying here, the Mongolian leather robe outside had been stained with blood, and the leather robe had been torn apart by him, revealing the number robe inside, and it seemed that it was more than a wound on his body.

The face of the enemy soldier lying on the ground was twisted in pain. Zhang Kun walked up to him, lowered his head and asked:

"Who sent you here?"

This sentence was said again, but the injured horse bandit below did not respond, just shouting: "Help, help, I say everything, I say everything!!"

Zhang Kun picked up the sword in his hand, turned the blade and thrust it hard with the back of the knife. He hit the wounded bandit's bandit hard, and it hurt even more. The injured bandit who was originally lying on the ground was unable to move, bent down and sat up from the ground by the sudden and severe pain.

Then he lay back weakly, but the stimulation made the bandit wake up. There was no blood on his face, and his rapid breathing became much smoother. It seemed to be a little better, but in fact, this was a dying state.

"Who sent you here?"

Zhang Kun squatted down and asked, and the bandit opened his eyes and said weakly, "Save me", Zhang Kun grinned and sneered, continuing:

"If you want to die more quickly, then just tell me honestly, otherwise I will guarantee that you will suffer more than just now!"

After saying that, Zhang Kun placed the sword in his hand on the shoulder of the horse bandit, and exerted a little force. The expression that slowed down became distorted again. The horse bandits pretending to be had no strong will, and hesitated and said:

"We are the personal soldiers of Xiang Fuyi, deputy general of Yongping Zhongtun Guard, and are ordered to stop your team..."

Hearing this, Zhang Kun spitted on the ground, which was really an expected force, but he was not interested in who sent them over, but the completely different behaviors in the past and afterwards. Zhang Kun left the knife in his hand a little and asked with a smile:

"The first few hundred people rode horses to attack. They looked a little warlike, why did you have such a coward?"

"That was spending money to hire the Tartar Horse Gang outside the mouth..."

After saying this, Zhang Kun didn't need to give them any pleasure. The bandit tilted its head and died. Hearing this explanation, Zhang Kun breathed a sigh of relief and stood up. The fighting will of fearlessness just now was really surprising.

If the soldiers in Jizhen are of this quality, or one-point of them are of this quality, it would be a great trouble. Since it is understandable that the Mongolian horse bandits hired outside the tunnel, these horse bandits may not be so brave, but there are some people who are coercing behind them and they are working hard for money and have to do it.

Zhang Kun stood up and looked around again, calculated the distance, and spoke loudly:

"There are no need to worry about the lives of these horse bandits. If you are angry, you will get a knife for him. Let's set off as soon as possible. This bastard Yongping Mansion has too many troubles."

After this command, the soldiers who were moving slowly slowly became busy immediately. Generally speaking, cleaning the battlefield in this way actually relieves the tension of fighting and replenishes physical strength.

In the battle just now, there were thirteen injured soldiers in the advance team. After briefly bandaged by the doctor in the team, these soldiers were placed on the big cart carefully. During the battle, the livestock pulling the cart was surrounded by the cart array, and they were not disturbed and could still get a good rest.

When we need to move forward, we can set off immediately because the horse bandits' attack did not even finish breakfast. Many people just walked on the road with a piece of dry food. The official road was much easier than the previous few days, but this time Zhang Kun changed the layout.

The large convoy did not line up with long snakes, but was divided into two rows. In the gap between the two rows, there was another large cart in front and behind. This was also to quickly form a cart array to counterattack when it encountered an attack.

Because this advance team went deep into the ground alone, although the Hebei army had not yet formed an army, they still provided them with enough equipment and elite troops.

Zhang Kun was very confident in himself. He still remembered what his clan brother Zhang Jiang said to him when he left Hejian Mansion: "The Zhang family is more and more generals. Although we are all promoted with military merits, it is difficult to keep idle people from talking. Therefore, if my surname Zhang is successful, I need to make great contributions to calm others' discussions."

This time, if we can achieve the predetermined goal, it will be a great achievement. But now, achieving this predetermined goal is just a surprise. It is difficult to call it a great achievement.

In the current Jiaozhou Camp system, there are several so-called good years. One is from the fifth year of Chongzhen to the sixth year of Chongzhen, which was the stage when the generals started their own business. More than a hundred people at that time are now either generals of the founding of the government or local officials. The second is the battle of Qihe County in the 13th year of Chongzhen, and the third is the battle of Hejian Prefecture in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

Although there were many big and small battles in these battles, whether he had fought with the Tartars to death was always what Li Meng valued the most.

As for other battles, the military merits in fighting against the camp were higher than those in fighting with the Ming officers and soldiers, and the battle with the Ming officers and soldiers was higher than those in fighting with the local bandits. The people in the Jiaozhou camp also analyzed the rules, so-called "If you want to be promoted, you must fight a strong battle."

Zhang Kun knew in his heart that although it was difficult to walk along the way, there might not be any danger. Such a thing is probably not enough to say Zhang Jiang in the end. It would be nice to be able to be in a group guard within two years. If you want to make great contributions and achieve high promotion, you have to take risks.

But it is still unknown how to take risks in such a situation. The fighting will of the soldiers and horses of Yongping Mansion or the fighting will of the elite soldiers and soldiers. I have seen it in the messy battle in the morning. Such a coward would really not imagine what kind of tough battle it would be.

It is indeed not a tough battle. Although there are many corpses lying down in front of the car formation, none of them are from Shandong. The dozen or so who were slightly injured are now tied with bandages to help.

It was noon, and although the sun was in the sky, there was no feeling of exposure. Because it was getting northerly, the climate was pleasant at this time.

I was disturbed by the sudden incident in the morning. The habit of cooking at noon had changed. The weather was clear and some people were interested. They took their hunting bows and went to the surroundings to get a rabbit and so on to eat meat. Now they feel quite tired.

Everyone took out some dry food and pickles and filled it randomly. They took the water from the water bag and then took it to deal with it. Who would have thought that some people had just eaten the cold and dry food and saw the smoke and dust on the east side again. It was cloudy and rainy in the previous days and the ground was wet. Although they had dried a lot in the past few days, there was still some water vapor.

At least the brigade was walking on the road, and the smoke and dust were much smaller than in the past. Looking at the scale of the smoke and dust in the distance, if it were a normal day, it would probably be like more than 2,000 people. Now this one would probably have to be doubled. Zhang Kun cursed immediately, but heard someone coughing loudly behind him.

Looking back, someone was eating cakes, but was shocked by the original smoke and dust. He didn't swallow it, and choked. He was pounding his chest and coughing. Zhang Kun turned around and shouted loudly:

"Come out of the cart quickly and get in circles and prepare to fight!!"

The people below all shouted in unison. One of them ran off his horse and ran two steps forward to the front to the official road, lay on the ground and listened, stood up and turned around and said:

"Around half of the size of more than five thousand people are cavalry."

Zhang Kun's face turned dark again. The group of horse bandits had only more than a thousand people just now, and they were in trouble. This time, such a group of people came. Who knows if he could support it? He turned around and held his breath and shouted loudly:

"Make the car array as round as possible, and there are more people from these Yongping Mansion who are here this time!!!"

The cart is arranged in the shape of a formation, which determines the strategy of fighting against different enemies. In this case, the circular formation can only be used, so that the enemy cannot find the strengths and weaknesses of this formation and fight balancedly.

Zhang Kun finished shouting here, and the boss who was listening in front was lying on the ground again, but the smoke and dust in the distance gradually became smaller. The boss stood up and turned around in confusion and said:

"Sir, the team in front seems to have stopped."

What's going on? As the smoke and dust in the distance gradually calmed down, the people in the advance team looked at each other.

Soon, a horse rode from the east of the official road and rushed towards the formation. When he approached the chariot, the knight on the horse shouted at the top of his voice:
Chapter completed!