Tudor appeared very calm. After arranging everything, he came to the high wall of the landlord's house.
From the high wall, they could clearly see the situation of the carriage formation and the camp in the distance.
Tudor, who was holding a telescope, sighed heavily.
"Damn it, isn't Li Chengdong's army very strong? It was really embarrassing to be trapped by thousands of people!”
Bo Luo brought ten Niu Lu from the White Bordered Flag, each Niu Lu had three hundred people, all of them were elites from the White Bordered Flag.
The soldiers with the white flag wore two layers of cotton armor, which were inlaid with iron plates.
The cotton armor had scales and was called the cotton scale armor.
Later generations had a rigid impression of the Eight Banners Army, believing that they had very few firearms.
In fact, the Eight Banners who entered the pass were better at using firearms than the Eight Banners soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty.
At the beginning, a record had ten people. Later on, a record had three hundred people.
One of them had 30 elites, the second had 120 elites, and the worst had 150 infantry.
60 muskets, 20% of the total, 80% of the total, and 100% of the total. There were two shield chariots, 40% of which were equipped with shields, and 50% of which were equipped with horses. Therefore, not all of the Eight Banners Soldiers were cavalrymen. Half of them were auxiliary soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers only wore a layer of cotton armor.
More importantly, Lord Tudor relied heavily on the Red Cannon.
The reason why he had Bolobel bring ten Niu Lu was to wait for the arrival of the red-clothed cannon.
The red-clothed cannons were mostly made by the craftsmen that Kong Youde had brought over when he had defected.
A large part of the reason why the Ming Empire could not defeat the Eight Banners Army was that the quality of the Red Cannons was not as good as the Eight Banners Army.
Especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen could not afford to build firearms and cannons. Slave Jian gathered all the resources and money he could gather to build more than 100 red cannons and more than 5,000 muskets.
If Chongzhen had enough money, he would only need twenty thousand elite firearms soldiers to stabilize the Ming Empire.
"Nickambel, have our Red Cannons arrived yet?”
"Your Highness, the Red Cannon is very cumbersome. General Tong Yangjia is currently transporting it with his 60,000 Green Army soldiers!”
Tudor was very relaxed. He had a total of 20,000 troops with the white flag, and 60,000 of them were the surrendered peasant army and the Ming army. He had a total of 80,000 troops. Even if the Red Cannons could not arrive on time, Tudor believed that he could completely crush the Ming army in front of him.
Soon, six hours passed.
Bolobel led ten Niu Lu with the white banner, and three thousand men charged forward.
Pu Zhenguo was very calm as he led the infantry back into the carriage formation.
Bo Luo held his strong bow and circled around the carriage formation.
"Mount and shoot at the periphery of the carriage formation. Don't approach the carriage formation!”
Bo Luo was very calm. In front of him, as long as he didn't get close, the infantrymen inside wouldn't be able to hurt him.
Hu ~~~
A rain of arrows flew towards the center of the carriage formation.
"Shield Wall!"
Three hundred sword players raised their round shields and formed a fish-scale formation.
The strong archers were protected by the Fish Scale Formation.
"Throw!"
Swoosh ~~~
Two hundred strong archers shot arrows into the sky.
Puchi ~
Puchi ~
Many enemies on horseback were shot through the head by the arrows and fell to the ground.
The auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield carts and placed the wounded soldiers in the shield carts, escorting them to the military camp for the medical officer to treat.
One shield carriage was five zhang long and three zhang wide. It had thirty shields and thirty warriors.
The arrows landed on the shields. They collected the arrows and distributed them to the cavalry.
Many cavalrymen only brought fifty arrows. After firing, they immediately returned to the auxiliary soldiers to receive the arrows.
After two hours of riding and shooting, the White Banners Cavalry returned to the camp to rest.
Among the soldiers in the carriage formation, other than a few dozen farmers who did not manage to hide beside the carriages in time and were shot to death, the rest were unharmed.
Many of the farmers cleverly hid under the grain sacks of the carriages, and all the arrows were planted in the sacks.
"Collect the arrows and continue the battle!" Pu Zhenguo gave the order, and the messenger kept waving the flag.
As for the strong archers, the soldiers continued to put on their finger covers and change their bowstrings.
The finger cot was worn on the finger that pulled the bowstring and was made of cowhide.
The peasants used wooden barrels to transport the feces from the latrines they dug to the strong archers.
The strong archer soaked the arrow in a bucket of dung.
There were a lot of bacteria in feces. If an arrow soaked in feces injured an enemy, the enemy would be infected even if they did not die.
In this era, there was no special medicine to treat infection. One could only resist it head-on.
Most people would not be able to fight it off once they were infected.
Of course, there was also a more primitive treatment plan. It was to use a red-hot knife to cut off the flesh around the wound, then use a branding iron to burn the wound and wait for it to scab.
Dong dong ~~~
The war drums sounded again, and the soldiers immediately became alert.
The sword players immediately formed a fish-scale formation to protect the strong archers.
Bolobel wasn't willing to give up, and once again led his soldiers to surround them.
The archery skills of the Eight Banners Army were very good, and some of the cavalrymen with muskets were even better.
They used a lighter to ignite the fuse of the matchlock.
Bang ~
Bang ~
The musket had a range of about two hundred steps. Gunshots rang out one after another as the iron balls hit the shield.
The thick wooden shield blocked the iron ball's attack. The surface of the shield cracked, and there were small cracks.
"Damn it, the Eight Banner Soldiers are more powerful than I thought! Not only were they good at riding and shooting, but their firearms were also clearly better than the Ming army!”
"General Pu, don't panic. Don't we have four hundred flintlocks, five hundred musketeers, and five hundred three-eyed musketeers? Wouldn't it be enough to send a letter to His Majesty and request for them to be transferred over?”
"Forget it! At present, there were two hundred warships on Qiongzhou Island that were sealing off the sea. The task of protecting Qiongzhou Island fell on them. If they were transferred over, what would happen if Qiongzhou Island was lost?”
The general nodded.
"General is right. Qiongzhou Island is our base. Nothing can go wrong!”
Blobel frowned when he saw that the musket had not had much of an effect.
"Retreat! Looks like we can only wait for our Red Cannon!”
Bo Luo and Zhou Wei gathered their troops and returned to Tudor's camp.
"Wangye, you're finally here!" Zhou Wei cried.
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