July 24, 135 AH, Byronsburg Army Camp. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lan Xian sat in the tent and looked at the long sword in his hand with fascination. The sword was given to her by Maier, who broke Lanxian's short sword with a magic arrow at the reception on June 1, and the next day Maier gave her longsword to Lanxian.

Why did he give me this sword?

Lan Xian's face was slightly red, and she bit her lip lightly.

Yu Gong, Lan Xian is Lingyu's subordinate and Mai'er's subordinate, even if Maier breaks her short sword, he has no reason to compensate himself. When Lan Xian heard the word "blasphemy", her brain was hot and she was about to draw her sword and kill someone, but she felt sullen when she was stopped by Meier, and it was not until the reception was over that she realized that she had done something wrong. In this case, there is no reason for Maier to pay compensation for the broken dagger.

Yu Privately, Lan Xian's saber is a very ordinary weapon, and it is the standard equipment she got after she was transferred to the 1st Regiment of Byronsburg, nothing special. As the deputy commander of the 1st Regiment of Byronsburg, Lan Xian could change his sword at any time, and it was impossible for Mel not to know this, so he would have no reason to compensate himself.

After thinking about it, Lan Xian felt that Maier might have something else to mean by giving her the sword. Now that Myer's wives and concubines are all pregnant, there have long been rumors in the army that Maier may carry out a "second round of wives and concubines". He gave his long sword to Lan Xian at such a time, which would naturally cause her to misunderstand.

In fact, Maier really just wanted to pay Lan Xian a sword, that's all. But the problem is that the long sword he gave Lan Xian was the one he had with him when he was a bounty hunter, the one he had with him when he rescued Xiao Ye and Xiao Bird. Seeing that the sword was a little old, Lan Xian privately asked Meier's acquaintance about the origin of the sword. When she asked Birdie, who was serving in the musket unit, Birdie recognized the sword and told Lan Xian about the sword's experience.

But the bird's words were only half of the story. In fact, Maier had more than one sword, and Lan Xian got only one of them. In the witch maiden's attack on Village Twenty-Nine, Mel uses another sword. Mel has no penchant for collecting weapons, but he has a habit of keeping the good weapons he captures for his own use, or storing them as spare parts. When he was a bounty hunter, his personal weapons were almost always scavenged from outlaws.

If the little bird had said everything, the misunderstanding in Lan Xian's heart would be solved. But Little Bird didn't care about it, so she answered whatever Lan Xian asked, without saying a word.

At this time, the misunderstanding in Lan Xian's heart was even deeper. When she returned from the bird, she became distracted, and stared at the sword that Mel had given her whenever she could.

What should I do if he wants to take me as a concubine?

Lan Xian is the chief witch of the new shrine and the deputy head of the First Regiment of Byronsburg, so he is not low in terms of status. But Lan Xian didn't have much confidence in herself, so she felt that she could only be a concubine.

I...... I'm a personal follower of Lord Lingyu, and this kind of thing must be approved by Lord Lingyu......

Lan Xian directly skipped herself and took into account Ling Yu's thoughts, which showed that she was not resistant to being a concubine for Maier. Is Meyer the great theologian Gray? The son of Byrons, who was not bad at his own theological attainments, was easily recognized by the Ira's shrine maiden.

At this moment, the voice of the herald appeared outside the tent, calling Lan Xian to the Chinese army's tent for a meeting. Lan Xian hurriedly placed the long sword beside his pillow, carefully straightened it, and hurriedly left his tent.

Yesterday Maier had sent a letter of war to the Xiaohu army, to meet the enemy outside the city of Yaolin on July 26. The Xiaohu army was in a hurry and gladly accepted Maier's offer. Today, Maier gathered all the middle and senior officers and held a meeting in the big tent of the Chinese army in order to make arrangements for the battle on the 26th.

After all the officers arrived, Maier gave a brief explanation of the objectives of the battle. He hoped that in this battle, at the very least, the besieging enemy army would be routed. He wanted to beat the Xiaohu army and make them afraid of the Byronsburg army, so this battle must be fought fiercely, so that the defeated army will be completely dispersed, and they will not dare to fight against the Byronsburg army again.

At the same time, the Byronsburg army must be disciplined, do not kill prisoners, do not mistreat prisoners, and even treat prisoners favorably, so as to make a good impression on the Tayyong people in order to deal with the coming all-out racial war. Mel decided not to send troops to pursue the defeated enemy, and under such a premise, if he wanted to beat the enemy army badly, he could only work on a head-on battle.

Before setting out on the expedition, Maier consolidated all of his musket units into four musket regiments. The ranged units of the Kingdom of Egus were integrated with those of the Republic of Bukin, as were the melee units of the two armies. Because of time constraints, Maier was unable to reorganize all his troops into regiments. The Bujin Army had ready-made battalions, and Maier combined the two battalions into a temporary regiment. The Dugu people set up a thousand commanders for every thousand people, and each thousand people team was a single army.

Maier was going to gather the four musket regiments together and use them. He learned from Liu Xiu the well-known "three-stage strike" from Earth Army fans, and wanted to test its effect in actual combat. The current dominant musket tactic in the New World is the "dense firepower" used by the Ilibi, which is the kind of tactic used by the Bujin Army in the battle against the Iraa coalition led by Kami-Ima. The commanders of the New World generally believed that the main value of the musket unit was tactical deterrence, so they did not focus on the continuous output of firepower.

In addition, the reloading speed of muskets is too slow, and if the opponent deploys cavalry in the first line, then the musket troops can basically only fire one round. In this case, the commanders naturally hoped that this round of shooting would bring greater deterrence and lethality to the enemy troops, so they developed the tactics of "dense firepower".

In fact, Liu Xiu has been instigating Maier to develop artillery. The development of artillery technology in the New World is slow, because the artillery is too bulky to be carried, and at present, the New World only has a single type of "solid bullet", and in the case of extremely low accuracy, the artillery can only act as a deterrent weapon. However, what artillery can do, so can the musket, and the musket can also deal more consistent damage to the enemy.

On top of that, artillery can cause great confusion to one's own side after exploding, and the guns originally developed in the New World were so easy to explode that commanders had to treat artillery as a very frustrating weapon. Therefore, in the New World, various forces have been developing musket technology, and artillery technology is almost at a standstill.

Maier had great hopes for the miraculous "three-stage strike" that Liu Xiu boasted, so in this battle, the musket unit would be the protagonist, and the crossbow infantry, cavalry, and melee infantry would be reduced to a supporting role for the musket unit. However, just in case, Maier made two preparations. As soon as the "three-stage strike" did not achieve the desired effect, he would immediately withdraw the musket unit and continue to fight the enemy with conventional troops.

The general direction of the battle objectives and tactics was proposed by Meier, after which Salin and Yanhe worked out several sets of battle plans for him. Maier selected one set of plans to implement and kept the remaining ones for backup.

The next meeting was chaired by Yan He. Mel originally wanted to give this task to Sarin, but Salin felt that he was a Boujin, and coming out to preside over the meeting at such a time might cause the displeasure of the Egus, so Mehr had to let Yanhe preside over the meeting. Yan He will elaborate on the parts of the implementation plan and the backup plan that need to be known to the middle and senior officers, and then let these officers go back to prepare for the battle.

The main cavalry force of the Byronsburg army was the cavalry unit of the Bukin, with only six battalions of three thousand horsemen. Maier deployed his cavalry troops on the outermost part of the flanks to coordinate the movements of the infantry units. The musket unit was at the forefront of the Chinese army, with four thousand-man units of Tugu spearmen as escorts, and crossbowmen were arranged on both flanks, and the crossbowmen were protected by melee infantry.

Ten Byrensburg regiments were deployed on the left flank, with about 10,000 Bugin's and Ergus' armies on the right flank, and the commanders of the left and right flanks were Salin and Yanhe, respectively. Maier led his lord's convoy to the Chinese army and personally commanded the musket troops. Only 40,000 troops directly participated in the battle, 10,000 were used as reserves, and 5,000 remained in the camp.

If the musketeers were unable to achieve their intended objectives, Maier would signal the left and right flanks to continue the attack as the main force, while the musketeers would withdraw under the escort of the spearmen, and the Chinese would go on the defensive.

On July 26, the Byrensburg Army and the Xiaohu Army fought in the hills west of Yaolin City.

The Xiaohu army was divided into three routes, in the southwest, due south, and southeast directions, and set up a pocket formation against the Byrensburg army. The strength of the Southwest Route Army was 40,000, the strength of the South Route Army was 70,000, and the strength of the Southeast Route Army was 40,000, with a total strength of 150,000. In the process of attacking Yaolin City, the losses of the Xiaohu army were also very large, and the army left outside Yaolin City was only 80,000, which means that the Xiaohu army lost about 70,000 people in the process of attacking Yaolin City.

Of course, not all of these 70,000 people were killed, including wounded soldiers and deserters. The defenders of Yaolin City actually lost 20,000 people in the battle, and they were physically and mentally exhausted, and they were no longer able to go out of the city to support Meier in the battle. Teng Yan didn't know how many people Maier would bring to support him, so he could only encourage his subordinates and say that Maier would definitely win, so that everyone was ready to fight back.

After the Xiaohu Army set up the pocket formation, it had no intention of attacking, and seemed to want to let the Byrensburg Army, which was at a complete disadvantage, as the attacking party. Maier thought for a moment, and asked Salin to pretend to retreat, to see if the Xiaohu army was pretending to be calm.

When the Xiaohu army saw that the Byrensburg army was about to withdraw, they immediately moved. The pockets in front of the Byronsburg army suddenly widened and came towards them. Seeing that the gap in strength was too great, and that the Xiaohu army seemed to want to encircle his side on three sides, he immediately decided to let the troops of Salin and Yanhe also participate in the battle as the main force and meet the enemy with all their might.

After receiving the order, Yan He excitedly asked his officers to prepare for battle. Salin smiled wryly when he received the order, thinking that Mel was still young and vigorous after all. If he was the commander-in-chief, he would definitely choose to avoid the front for the time being and withdraw to the camp as quickly as possible.

Although this will affect morale, morale can be improved in various ways, but the loss of troops cannot be immediately compensated. In the case of absolute superiority of the enemy's forces, a single mistake is enough to kill. As a veteran, Salin is always on the safe side. Although Yan He is also a veteran, she is extremely confident, so she dares to fight like a young man.

Although he had no idea what he knew, Salin carried out Mel's orders. He ordered the infantry on the left flank to turn and face the southwestern route army, and ordered the cavalry units to withdraw between the left flank and the center. On the other side, Yan He also gave the same order.

Having surveyed the terrain before the war, he had his troops seize the high ground and the accompanying engineering troops to build fortifications with the materials they carried. This trick was also learned from Liu Xiu, who told him about the examples of the English longbowmen against the French cavalry, as well as the battle of Nagashino, focusing on the role of fortifications in the battle.

Mel prepared a large number of sharpened sticks, as well as some improvised wooden fences. Maier filled the perimeter of the position with sharpened sticks and placed a wooden fence around the musket troops. Due to the rush of time, the amount of wooden fences was not much, and a lot of sharpened wooden sticks were made.

The left and right flanks followed suit and began to set up defensive positions. When the Xiaohu army saw that the Byrensburg army had suddenly turned its position into a hedgehog with nowhere to go, their brows were deeply locked, and they didn't know whether to fight or retreat. When Yan He saw that the Xiaohu army had stopped marching, he personally mounted his horse, brought two throwing guns, asked the troops to withdraw some of the sharp wooden sticks, and ran to the front of the Xiaohu army formation and threw out two throwing guns.

Yan He's throwing spear from 200 meters away would have been impossible for ordinary people to hit the target. But don't forget, Yanhe is an Iraa youkai, and her physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people. However, although she can throw the throwing gun 200 meters away, she doesn't have to think about it, she can basically only look at her face, even white can pierce people, and black faces can't pierce people. It turned out that Yan He's face was still very white, and both throwing guns hit the target, one of which also pierced two people.

After this, Yan He rode away on his horse and returned to his position. The Xiaohu army gritted their teeth at Yan He's arrogant behavior, but they were also shocked by her amazing arm strength, so they still didn't attack.

At this moment, a gunshot rang out from the Chinese army. Yan He thought that someone in the musket unit had gone off and didn't care. About twenty seconds later, another gunshot rang out from the Chinese side, and after that, the Southern Route Army fell into a great commotion.