Steel Dynasty - Chapter 333

[Chapter 333 Sandwich Cookies]

Niuben is waiting for Kuha to arrive.

When he learned that the barbarians were about to enter Yunzhou, he ordered all the people outside the city to be evacuated. The people either fled into the mountains, entered the city, or entered Wubao, leaving no food at home.

After the order was issued, he fully realized the role of the militia and the production team in the civil society. These two institutions fully exerted their responsibilities and cooperated with their work quickly and effectively.

After the people hid in Wubao, the militia also gathered and became another force to fight against the barbarians.

Therefore, he chose to face the enemy here, and he was 90% sure that Kuha would choose to take the risk.

Firstly, Chagatai is just a vanguard and must not bring much food. The long journey will inevitably consume 7788. Secondly, Kuha wants to kill him and then hurry up. Thirdly, if Kuha wants to avoid the official road, he must find a person. Someone who is familiar with the roads in Yunzhou will lead the way, but it may not be easy to find him now.

As for the remaining 10%, he wouldn’t be afraid even if he took the trail. After all, since it was a trail, the road was naturally not as smooth as the official road. There would be mountains, forests and swamps around, so he could ambush at key points.

“Commander, Kuha’s cavalry has moved and is coming here.”

The voice of a hussar broke Niu Ben’s meditation.

With a smile on his lips, Niu Ben shouted: “The whole army is ready.”

As his voice fell, a rhythmic bugle sound sounded, and the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army immediately started to move.

The first to move were the chariots and soldiers. At this time, the chariots and soldiers driving Hussite chariots immediately began to change their formations from the column. Three hundred Hussite chariots separated and surrounded three square defensive formations.

The Hussite chariots designed by Xiao Ming are each five meters long. A hundred Hussite chariots add up to a length of 500 meters. Adding the gaps between the chains, one side of a square defensive formation is close to 200 meters long.

The three Hussite chariot arrays are staggered from each other, like a Z-shaped formation. At the same time, each box-shaped chariot is staggered from each other, like the edges and corners of European bastions, which can exert maximum firepower.

The soldiers driving the Hussite chariots immediately jumped off after stopping and pulled up the chains at the rear of the Hussite chariots. Each Hussite chariot was connected to each other with chains.

At the same time, the driver removed the bars and harness of the Hussite chariot, but the driver still tied the horses to the inside of the chariot barrier so that they could be used again when needed.

The horses will be protected by handlers and sword and shield handlers.

The square chariot formation was completed. At this time, the musketeers immediately relied on the Hussite chariots and lined up along the edge of the square chariot formation, forming a strange hollow formation with Hussite chariots on the inner layer and three rows of musketeers on the outer layer. Law.

The internal artillery of the Hussite chariot stretched the muzzle of the cannon from the gap, and a thousand cuirassiers also lined up neatly in the vehicle formation, ready to attack at any time.

This method of warfare was decided upon by Xiao Ming and Niu Ben after the same research. It was precisely because of his trust in this battle formation that Xiao Ming dared to decide to rush to Jizhou with a small number of troops.

In the Qingzhou Army, this kind of battle formation with musketeers standing outside, soldiers hidden inside the chariot, and cavalry on standby inside is called the sandwich biscuit battle formation. Of course, only Xiao Ming can come up with this title.

The battle formation was completed, and Niu Ben and other generals were protected by a Hussite chariot formation behind them.

After completing the layout of the sandwich biscuit battle formation, everyone was waiting for Kuha’s arrival.

If it were in the past, Niubi would never fight 10,000 cavalry in such an open area, because even 30,000 infantry is no match for 10,000 barbarian cavalry.

But now relying on this unprecedented battle formation, he believed that 10,000 musketeers, 3,000 cavalry, and 4,000 chariots were enough to defeat the barbarian cavalry in the wild.

This was something he had never dared to think about before. In terms of military strength, the army of the Chongqing Kingdom simply did not dare to fight the barbarian cavalry in the wild.

While waiting, dust raised by the cavalry gradually appeared not far away. Soon, the barbarian cavalry appeared in front of the Qingzhou Army.

Three hundred meters away, Kuha’s cavalry stopped and began to adjust their formation. They faced each other on the open land that stretched for six miles.

“Is the Qingzhou Army crazy?”

Kuha said calmly, looking at Qingzhou who was wearing a dark green military uniform and holding a strange spear weapon in his hand.

The other captains also looked confused.

The Qingzhou Army in front of them not only did not gather together in a tight formation, but instead divided into three square formations. For them, this was simply courting death.

Looking past the three rows of soldiers in front, Kuha looked at the cavalry protected in the middle. There were only 3,000 cavalry, and for him, these cavalry were not enough to fill his teeth.

He looked at the chariot behind the soldiers and was slightly surprised. He really couldn’t understand the layout of the Qingzhou Army now.

“Captain, what kind of strange formation is this? Why have we never seen it before?” asked a captain.

“I have never seen such a strange battle formation.” Kuha stared at the last battle formation as he spoke.

Especially the eye-catching word “cow” made Kuha’s eyes gradually turn red.

In the past, the Qingzhou Army huddled behind the city wall to fight, but now in such a vast area, this was a natural advantage for the barbarians.

The two sides stood still, staring at each other. After a dead silence, the silence was broken by the information brought by a barbarian scout.

“There is no ambush!” the scout said.

“Kill!” At this moment, Kuha raised the scimitar in his hand, and Kuha’s cavalry formed a 300-meter-long queue on the six-mile-wide plain and rushed towards the Qingzhou Army.

Similar to the experience of the barbarians fighting on the grasslands in the past, the barbarian cavalry were also prepared to outflank from both wings and finally complete the encirclement, preparing to use a circular formation to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands.

In the car formation, Niu Ben smiled when he saw that the barbarian cavalry still used such tactics.

The barbarian cavalry’s shooting distance is fifty steps before firing arrows, while the effective shooting range of the musketeers is eighty to ninety steps, and they can fire before the barbarian cavalry fires their arrows.

Because it is very difficult to train archers, in the past the infantry of the Chongqing Kingdom had nothing to do against the barbarian’s circular cavalry formation. They would only be disrupted by the barbarian bows and arrows. At this time, the barbarian heavy cavalry would appear, and what followed was a A massacre.

Looking at the barbarian cavalry getting closer and closer, the first row of soldiers raised their flintlock guns.

At this time, the overwhelming barbarian cavalry rushed towards the three car formations on the plain like a black torrent.

Just after the barbarian cavalry entered the shooting range, the captain on the side of the musketeers gave the order to fire.

“Bang bang…” A row of white smoke emerged from the muzzles of the first row of musketeers.

In the dense formation, lead bullets rained down on the barbarian cavalry.

Within eighty paces, the huge target of the barbarian cavalry became the target of bullets.

Suddenly, the men and their horses fell over. The barbarian cavalry in the front row fell down neatly like cutting straw. The cavalry behind them couldn’t dodge and were tripped by the horses in front and fell to the ground.

(End of chapter)