In the wilderness, there were Turkic cavalry with an advantageous number everywhere, rushing towards the Zhou army formation in overwhelmingly. Among them, countless small groups of cavalry approached the Zhou army from all directions, and used their superb personal skills to test and harass them, just like hunting wild animals.

Another example is that a large number of wolves surrounded the flock in the wilderness and kept taking a bite, so as to slowly disintegrate the flock's determination to resist.

This tactic is as easy as hunting for the nations on the grassland.

In the Turkic country, there were countless tribes of all sizes, and each tribe had no fixed place to live, and hunted with water and plants. The tribes were accustomed to martial arts, and everyone was good at riding and shooting.

The tribes often gathered around Khan and carried out large-scale hunting activities. Such hunting occurs several times a year, so for the soldiers and horses of the Turkic tribes, fighting is similar to hunting.

Therefore, the Turkish military system was derived from the hunting system. The military organization was similar to the hunting organization. When fighting, it was considered to be hunting. The soldiers and horses of various departments were skillfully cooperated and looked messy, but in fact they were in order.

Faced with the Zhou army, which was waiting for battle, countless small groups of Turkic cavalry were constantly harassing the outside world, trying to force the Zhou cavalry to attack, and unknowingly stayed away from the original formation.

If the number of Zhou cavalry to attack was small, the Turkic cavalry would wait for an opportunity to encircle and annihilate them. If there were many Zhou cavalry to attack, they would run away from each other, so as to transfer the Zhou cavalry to the outside world or consume the opponent's horsepower.

If the Zhou cavalry did not follow, they would turn around and harass them, and fire light arrows at the military formation, constantly eroding the fighting spirit of the Zhou soldiers.

Small groups of Turkic cavalry sometimes gathered together and took the stance of rushing to the formation, forcing the Zhou army to strengthen their defense in person. Then they suddenly retreated and moved to another place to gather again, continuing to show their stance of rushing to the formation.

They repeatedly tug the Zhou army's formation with constant attacks/fake attacks.

If the Zhou army does not respond properly and the military formation reveals flaws, the Turkic cavalry will really attack the military formation. Once the gap is broken, countless cavalry will swarm and attack the formation along the break, and instantly bit the group of "sheep" and flow into a river.

While constantly approaching the harassment, many Turkic cavalry tied branches behind the horsetails, dragged the ground, and raised a lot of dust, causing dust to be made around the Zhou army formation.

The dust was filled with shadows, and it seemed that there were soldiers everywhere, which made the Zhou army soldiers feel that they were "the enemy was large and we were few".

The smoke formed by artificially also allowed the Turkic cavalry to cover up the periphery. After calmly gathering in a certain direction, suddenly concentrating troops to charge, which could catch the target off guard.

These tactics of the Turkic army were not unfamiliar to the Zhou army, but the opponent relied on the large number of cavalry and the tactics were simple and effective, and they were tried and tested. Even if the Zhou army knew it was difficult, they had to find a way to crack it.

The best way is to attack the main force of the cavalry, but the opponent comes and goes freely. The cavalry who attacks may be in vain. If they leave the formation and pursue it alone, they will easily be led into the encirclement and then wiped out the entire army.

If the confrontation continues like this, the soldiers will sooner or later be exhausted by the other party. If they are not careful, they will be taken advantage of.

It was afternoon now, the sun was covering the clouds, the breeze was gentle, bringing some coolness, which was a good time to attack.

One by one, the hot air balloons rose into the sky. Because the bottom of the hanging basket was held by a rope, they floated in the air. The sentries sitting in the hanging basket used the Qianli Mile Mile Mile to observe the surroundings, and within a short while, they could clearly see the movements and stills within a radius of several miles.

The distribution of the opponent's troops, the location of the camp, the location of the tent, and the troops lying ambushed behind several woods were all seen by the scouts.

They wrote the observed situation on small paper strips, then put the paper strips into bamboo tubes with white cloth strips and threw them on the ground. After a while, the big formation on their side became boiling.

Amid the thunder, several types of artillery sprayed firelight out at the same time. The Turkic cavalry, which was constantly ramming around the army, were instantly dazzled. People were overturned in the bloody storm, but more people were just shocked.

The sound of trumpets came, and countless Zhou army cavalry surged out of the army, divided into many squads, rushed towards the enemy cavalry with scattered formations. The Turkic cavalry who came to their senses shouted loudly.

One wave after another, like a hungry wolf smelling blood.

The melee then broke out. The Turkic soldiers who had grown up on horseback since childhood were not afraid of the Zhou cavalry who came out of the battle. They had enough confidence to win the one-on-one team battle.

Then he cut off Zhou Bing's head and hung it on the saddle, allowing the blood from the head to dye the horse's body red, thereby demonstrating his bravery.

Countless Turkic cavalry thought so, and then quickly shot out two rounds of arrows, drew their swords and approached the Zhou army.

Thirty steps, twenty steps...

The two sides were getting closer, and at this moment, the Turkic cavalry saw Zhou army holding a strange stick in front of them.

Then put these sticks at them.

“Bo, Bo, Bo!!”

The sound of bean-like explosion continued, and the revolver in the hands of the Zhou cavalry kept spraying flames and smoke. This melee weapon with an effective killing distance of less than twenty steps was beaten to the Turkic cavalry who were about to fight.

The Mingde three-year revolver has six "sub-nests" in its ammunition nest, which uses black gunpowder and is a flintlock ignition type. The successful launch rate of each ammunition nest is only 33%, which means that on the average, each gun pulls the trigger six times and can only "sound" twice.

Sometimes the bullet nest will explode, but as a weapon, such power is enough.

The "unity of man and horse" that the Turkic soldiers trained for more than ten or even twenty years was vulnerable to the revolver with less than one month's manufacturing cycle, and the tide of charge instantly collapsed.

The Zhou cavalry, holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, trampled on and killed the enemy soldiers who fell down. Facing another wave of Turkic cavalry influx, they calmly inserted the revolver into the saddle-side gun holster.

Then draw the second one and pull the trigger at the enemy soldiers.

With a click, it’s blind; with a click, it’s still blind.

The enemy soldiers were getting closer and closer, and the cavalry calmly continued to pull the trigger.

"Bang! Bang! Crack, Bang!"

A Zhou army cavalry was lucky. He actually fired three revolver guns in his hand. He inserted the pistol back into the holster and pulled out the third one.

Within twenty steps, it was the death area of ​​the Turkic cavalry. Since they could not get close, they had no room for even being brave.

The emergence of hot weapons makes personal courage insignificant. Each revolver that costs about ten thousand yuan is really expensive, it is troublesome to load, and it is easy to "go fire" and hurt people, but it is very cost-effective to use it to kill enemies on the battlefield.

The large-scale cavalry melee was about personal riding and bravery. The Turks who grew up on horseback should have the advantage, but when the cavalry of Zhou State fought with revolvers, this was not a even-match battle, but one-sided massacre.

Since the war started, the first large-scale head-on confrontation between the cavalry of both sides ended at the beginning. The Turkic cavalry, with heavy casualties, collapsed everywhere, like a skinny dog ​​with one leg broken, and no longer had the desire to fight.

The main force of the Zhou cavalry who then attacked left the formation and lined up a vast formation, surging towards the possible hiding place of the enemy's commander.

Judging from the observations of scouts on the hot air balloon, the enemy's commander, Datou Khan, seemed to be nowhere to be the tent of the central army's large tent. That place should be a trap.

The real position of Datou Khan is probably on a mound west of the battlefield, where many cavalry gathered, probably the elite soldiers in front of Datou Khan's tent.

When he learned that the "Wolf King" was located, Shi Wansui, the marching general manager, personally led three thousand iron-armored cavalry to attack and roared towards the mound to the west.

His troops were originally responsible for finding the main force of the enemy and fighting decisively, but they did not expect that the other party would come to his door by themselves.

Looking at the revolver hanging beside the saddle, Shi Wansui felt helpless: he was disdainful of using this thing, but it was the emperor's gift, so it would be impossible not to carry it.

However, I don't need to use this thing!
Chapter completed!