The Xiliao infantry had completely stopped advancing, and the Xiliao cavalry also hid far away and did not dare to come over.

The battlefield fell into a state of confrontation, but the Ming army sent some light cavalry out into battle.

These light cavalrymen actually ran out to pick up the iron bullets on the ground, holding nets in their hands, and half dragged them back to the car formation to deliver them to the artillery.

The shells of the small French cannon are actually very light.

Xiao Chala'a didn't see this, and said to Yelu Songshan: "The Ming army may have limited artillery, so the tribal cavalry can be spread wider to consume all the Ming army's artillery. Then the infantry formation can be advanced to attack the enemy in front of them." All the Ming troops were eaten."

Soon, the prairie cavalry came back again.

This time it was a team of twenty cavalry, and the cavalry were seven or eight meters apart.

With such a sparse cavalry formation, the Ming army's commanders were too lazy to take care of it. Only when the enemy cavalry rushed within dozens of steps did the Ming army's fusiliers fire freely.

Riding bows and muskets.

The prairie cavalry left some corpses and fled again. Their mounted shots could not even cause slight damage to the Ming army. The anti-arrow baffle in front of the chariot was even covered with leather, and the power of the riding bow was like scratching an itch.

Yelu Songshan sighed: "Retreat to Yizhou City and wait for reinforcements. At the critical moment, Yizhou City can also be abandoned. These Ming troops in front of us are full of thorns and cannot be chewed down at all. We don't have many elites in our hands now, and many of them are The strong men recruited at short notice will easily collapse in a real fight."

Xiao Chala'abu was worried: "Thousands of vanguard troops can't attack, so how can we face the main force of the Ming army? Even if our elite Liao troops come to reinforce us, even if we repel the main force of the Ming army, we will definitely suffer heavy losses. No The late Emperor frightened all the tribes, and if there were too many elite casualties in Daliao, the nobles who believed in the Desert Cult would be ready to take action."

"That's why we must be cautious and not suffer defeat here," Yelu Songshan said, "Let's withdraw our troops slowly. It will be difficult for the enemy's chariots to catch up. We can retreat to Yizhou City calmly. If the enemy dares to pursue us, Just send out all the cavalry, disrupt their car formation, and take the opportunity to fight back with the entire army!"

Xiao Chala'a didn't think this was a good idea and ordered the entire army to lure the enemy back while observing the Ming army's specific reaction.

If Xiliao dared to lure the enemy to retreat, Wu Jie would really dare to pursue them.

Even though the Xiliao infantry formation was still intact and was just slowly retreating, Wu Jie still commanded the entire army to catch up!

This time the Hollow Formation turned into the Queyue Formation. The charioteers slung the nooses over their shoulders and pushed the chariot forward in pursuit slowly. The cold weapon infantry and cavalry followed in the Queyue Formation at all times.

Xiao Chala Abu was immediately overjoyed and ordered all the cavalry to attack quickly, bypassing the rear of Queyue Formation and charging in. Even if it didn't work, he would use the cavalry to disrupt the car formations when the Ming army changed formations to defend.

This type of light chariot formation is actually very sparsely spaced. With 120 chariots forming the Queyue formation, the width of the battlefield is nearly two miles.

The enemy cavalry came all the way around, and by the time they got to the rear, they had already changed from the Moon Formation to the Hollow Circle Formation. And after forming the circle formation, they adjusted and rested slightly, and then continued to advance in the circle formation posture, fighting from the rear.

All the cars turned their backs to the enemy cavalry who were surrounding them.

As the circular formation advanced, it was naturally impossible to maintain order, and the chariots everywhere looked jagged and chaotic.

Xiao Chala'abu personally stood on the carriage and saw clearly with a telescope. He thought that the Ming army's carriage formation was in chaos, so he immediately ordered the flags to be raised and the trumpets to be blown, so that the cavalry who had retreated could charge with all their strength.

The one-wheeled chariot turned very quickly. To be on the safe side, the cold weapon infantry was already in defensive formation to ensure that the chariot with its back to the enemy turned to the front.

So what if the car formation is uneven?

That's called formation!

Instead, it is the offensive posture of this light vehicle camp.

When the light vehicle battalion launches an attack, it will advance in a staggered manner in waves. Regardless of whether you are cavalry or infantry, you will be forcibly defeated from the front.

It is very simple to break through this kind of vehicle formation, just use a large number of "dead soldiers" to withstand its terrifying firepower.

The Manchus and Qing Dynasties first encountered the Korean musketeers and tried the beauty of the death-defense method. They let the cavalry have two horses and slashed the empty horses with swords, making the horses go crazy with pain. They forced the horses to break away from the Korean musketeers. If the empty horses could not charge,

If you move, you can even charge with the man and the horse. Although the war horse is afraid of death, it only needs to be hacked to make the horse go crazy.

This method of dead soldier warfare resulted in more defeats than victory against the Ming army, so chariot soldiers were invented to serve as dead soldiers.

Not to mention large-caliber artillery, the carriage cannot stop even the close-range attacks of small-caliber artillery. The main function of the carriage is to block the artillery shells and musket bullets of the Ming army, which is the main killing weapon of the Ming army.

A light chariot battalion like Yu Dayou's was unable to stop the advance of the dead soldiers in the chariots.

Even if you kill all the chariot soldiers, the Manchu and Qing follow-up troops will be close.

After the Ming army suffered losses, it improved its chariot formation again.

For example, Sun Chengzong's ultimate formation has ten layers of hollow chariot formations inside and outside. The dead soldiers of the Manchu and Qing chariots are simply not enough to consume. However, this kind of formation is too bulky and slow. It has more than enough defense but not enough offense, so it must be coordinated.

Just a lot of cavalry.

However, the elite cavalry of the Ming Army already had a sense of autonomy, and ordinary civilian supervisors could not command them at all.

At this moment, the Xiliao cavalry was charging hard.

Since it took time for the rear chariots to turn, the Xiliao cavalry had safely rushed within dozens of steps.

The cavalry charged at full speed, at such a close distance, and could rush to the front of the formation in an instant.

"Boom boom boom boom!"

Hundreds of small cannons were fired one after another, and the enemy cavalry that rushed within thirty or forty steps suddenly fell down in pieces.

The fired cannonballs have changed!

Before Wu Jie ordered the attack, the entire army rested for a while.

At that time, all the sub-cannon barrels were replaced with iron bead-like shotguns, scattering flowers like a goddess within a few dozen steps.

This thing was often used in the Age of Discovery. It was not used to bombard enemy ships, but to bombard the deck with shotgun shells at close range. Countless shotgun blasts hit the deck, killing a large number of sailors and sailors on the enemy ship.

But the enemy cavalry still charged too close, and subsequent cavalry kept coming over.

However, the rate of fire of the French cannon is too fast. The average time of the first three shots is less than 10 seconds, and the rate of fire after that is also about 15 seconds.

Sub-barrels were replaced one after another, and shot after shot flew out.

The musketeers were also shooting at the enemy cavalry who had rushed ten or twenty paces away.

All the soldiers crossed over the chariots, and all kinds of cold weapons came out. There were even soldiers who wielded long swords to chop the legs of horses, and chopped down the enemy cavalry who rushed over sporadically and were forced to slow down.

Some enemy riders even bumped into the enemy-repelling lance installed on the chariot.

Within a few dozen steps outside the chariot, corpses could be seen everywhere.

The French cannon was still in rapid fire mode, but the Xiliao cavalry could no longer rush forward. The survivors fled the battlefield in despair.

Wu Jie said: "Send the order, stay where you are, cool the barrel, and collect the shells."

On Xiao Chala's side, he had a dull look on his face. He swallowed involuntarily and gave the order with difficulty: "The whole army moves closer to the fort, relying on the fort to form defenses, and alternately cross the river and withdraw to Yizhou City!"
Chapter completed!