"Your Majesty, no, we have a cavalry behind our backs!" Someone reported to Xu Hongru.

Xu Hongrudao: "Let our cavalry drive away the officers and soldiers!"

More than two thousand thieves whistled, rushed out of the formation, and rushed towards Mangui and his Ming cavalry.

"Let's go!" Man Gui ordered.

More than 500 Ming cavalry immediately turned their horses and retreated. They put away their sabers and took off their cavalry bows.

More than two thousand thieves chased after them and followed the Ming cavalry behind them. However, they saw the Ming cavalry in front of them turning back to shoot arrows during the retreat. From time to time, the thieves cavalry were caught in arrows and screaming and falling off their horses. These thieves were all horse thieves compiled by Xu Hongru. They had no armor protection on their bodies. They were shot by light arrows. The arrowheads easily tore open their thin clothes and pierced them into their bodies.

However, this Mangudan tactic does not cause great lethality to the thief cavalry, not to mention that each of the Ming cavalry had fired more than a dozen arrows just now. Except for a few people such as Man Gui and Huang Degong, most of the cavalry could no longer draw their bows.

Man Gui, Huang Degong, Zhou Yuji and others fired arrows without any slightest shot. Each arrow shot out could take away the life of a thief cavalry. However, for more than two thousand thief cavalry, they lost dozens of people, and they could still bear such losses, which was far from their limit, so these thief cavalry followed the Ming cavalry and reluctantly left behind.

The Ming cavalry attracted the thief cavalry to the ambush circle. Just as the thief cavalry entered the range of the factory guards' dragon cavalry, Zhang Yong, who was ambushing the roadside, gave an order: "Let go!"

More than 500 elite factory guards were divided into three rows. In addition to the officers, there were 160 self-generated musketeers in each row. With the order of the governor Zhang Yong, the first row of self-generated musketeers pulled the trigger. The roaring sound of guns sounded, flames spurted, white smoke rose, and a row of projectiles pierced into the crowd of thieves. The thieves who were chasing the Ming cavalry sprayed blood mist, screaming in succession, and the thieves were falling off like dumplings.

After the first row of self-generated musketeers fired, they immediately retreated. On the top of the second row, another row of guns fired; then the third row went forward, and after the third row was shot, the first row of musketeers loaded up and continued to fire.

The sound of guns continued, and it didn't stop for a moment. The projectiles continued to penetrate the bodies of the thief cavalry, killing the thief cavalry that were pursuing the Ming cavalry fell from the horse's back one after another.

The thief cavalry was so shocked that they turned dizzy that the pursuit slowed down. They found ambushing soldiers on the roadside, and the thief cavalry turned around and were about to kill the factory guards who were ambushing the roadside. However, after the horses slowed down, they wanted to raise their speed within sixty steps. However, when the Ming cavalry saw that the thief cavalry had been ambushed, they turned their heads and rushed towards the thief cavalry.

On a line facing the third row of self-generated musketeers, the thief cavalry, whose speed had not yet been raised, was continuously fired by self-generated musketeers. No one could get close to him and was knocked over in front of the Ming army.

The thief cavalry retreated one after another, and then accelerated to attack the formation of the Ming army's self-generated musketeers, because Man Gui's cavalry killed a rebirth and rushed to the side of the thief cavalry.

The Ming cavalry crashed into the right side of the bandit cavalry. On one side were the Ming cavalry galloping at high speed, and on the other side were the bandit cavalry whose speed had not been raised and was attacked on the side. There was no need to say more about the result. The Ming cavalry rushed into the bandit cavalry formation, and the cavalry in their hands knocked the bandit cavalry down one after another. The cavalry abandoned the cavalry, drew out the sabers, and cut the bandits into two pieces in half.

With the ambush and the retaliation of the horse, more than 1,500 remaining thieves were immediately defeated, and they turned their horses and ran away.

Just as Man Gui's cavalry cooperated with Zhang Yong's dragon cavalry to attack the thieves' cavalry, Gao Shixin had already begun to order the five thousand infantry to line up in neat formations and step by step towards the back of the thieves' army.

"Five thousand infantry officers and soldiers are here!" Hou Wu, who was in charge of the palace, reported to Xu Hongru.

Xu Hongru thought to himself: We have no choice but to do anything to the officers and cavalry. When the infantry comes, why are we afraid of them? So he shouted: "Kill them all and surround the officers and soldiers! Isn't it just five thousand people? Why are we afraid of them doing?"

The war drums rumbled, and the bandits placed the cannon fodder soldiers holding wooden spears, bamboo spears, thin wood shields and hatchets in front, followed by real spearmen and sword players, and then the archers pressed the formation and pressed the Ming army.

"Kill the officers and soldiers!" More than 100,000 thieves rushed towards the Ming army formation like a tide.

The two wings of the Ming army were Mangui's 500 cavalry and Zhang Yong's 500 guards and dragon cavalry, responsible for protecting the two wings from being attacked by thieves. At the front of the front was the Qi family's chariot formation.

In the Battle of Hunhe in real history, as long as the Qi family army had gunpowder, the Later Jin army could not break through their formation at all.

Qi Jin's thousand Qi family army was equipped with two enemy-killing cannons, four general cannons, eighty-eight light Franchise, eighty-eight turtledove guns, three hundred three-eyed guns, one hundred elite archers, two hundred crossbowmen, three hundred spearmen, and eighty-eight chariots. In such a thousand Qi family army could withstand the attack of two or three thousand Later Jin troops in field battles. As long as the gunpowder was not finished, the Later Jin army could not get close. Now Gao Shixin had enough gunpowder, and the little carpenter gave Gao Shixin gunpowder and food and salary.

The Baigang soldiers were behind the chariot formation, and the Liaoyang New Army was close to the cavalry on both wings of the Qi family army and the Baigang soldiers. Once the cavalry needed to move, the flanks of the Qi family army and the Baigang soldiers were protected by the Liaoyang New Army.

In the hands of Gao Shixin, the five thousand troops, except for the Qi family army, which is an army equipped with half of the firearms, the Baigang soldiers are an army with pure cold weapons. The proportion of the Liaoyang New Army's firearms is not very high, and Zhang Yong's 500 elite factory guards are the pure firearms army.

The demon thieves drove the civilians and rushed towards the Ming army formation. The black crowd was overwhelming, and they could not see at first sight, and they continued to the sky. The thieves were wearing red scarves on their heads. Gao Shixin, who was standing on the tower, looked forward and looked at them. They saw a red ocean, rushing up like a storm wave. The Ming army infantry, with only five thousand people, looked like small stones that were about to be flooded by the sea.

The bandit army rushed into two hundred steps, and Gao Shixin shouted: "Fire the cannon!"

Two enemy-killing cannons and four general cannons made deafening roars, and six black shells pierced into the crowd, plowing out six flesh-and-blood alleys from the dense crowd of demon thieves. This round of artillery fire took at least one hundred lives.

But this loss is not worth mentioning to the demon thief. The thief behind the cannon fodder team shouted: "It will take a long time for officers and soldiers to load shells! Brothers, kill!"

In a blink of an eye, the bandits rushed into within seventy steps.

"Let me!" Gao Shixin shouted.

"Boom boom boom" One by one, the Franco machine and the turtle dove guns spewed out flames, and the bullets pierced into the demon thief crowd. The area in front was knocked into a horse's nest and fell down screaming.

At the same time, the Destroyed Cannon and General Cannon, which had just loaded the shotgun, made a roaring sound of cannons again. The shotgun flew out in a fan shape, and it was raining heavily into the crowd of the demon thief cannon fodder team.

The smoke filled the field with smoke and the pungent smell of blood. On the plain in front of the position, there were wailing demon thieves and wounded soldiers, as well as those dead bodies. The tragic situation was enough to make people frightened. However, the tactics of the demon thieves sea were not for fun. As soon as the people who were driven back retreated, a wave of craziness came again and again.

The bandit army had already rushed into within fifty steps. In the Ming army formation, bird gunners, archers and crossbowmen were all exerting their powers. The overwhelming rain of arrows was covered with countless bullets, which made the bandit army stumble and roll on the ground one after another, and wailed in great pain. In a blink of an eye, a hill of corpses was piled up in front of the Ming army formation.
Chapter completed!