"Beat the drums, march!" Monk Lingqin ordered unhurriedly, and the four infantry phalanxes and three arquebus phalanxes in the middle shouted loud trumpets and advanced step by step.

Each phalanx of the Qing army had about 1,500 people, which was three times the number of the True God Sect phalanx, so although only seven phalanxes rushed over, it was nearly twice the total strength of the True God Sect in terms of numbers.

The arquebusiers stood at a distance of about 100 zhang from the divine soldiers, divided into two rows, high and low, three rows in front and back, set up a formation, aimed their guns at the enemy, and the infantry on both sides also kept the same distance, forming a figure of eight and facing the divine soldiers.

Monk Lingqin concluded that the main reason for the defeat in the battle against the foreigners was the misjudgment of the range of the enemy's firearms, if the army was deployed too close to the enemy, it was easy to be injured by firearms, and it would be defeated without waiting for the charge; If the distance is too far and the soldier's body cannot keep up, it will often happen that when the two armies clash, their own body has been exhausted and cannot fight for a long time.

After repeated calculations, the rate of firearms hitting targets within 30 zhang was 67 out of 10, and the hit rate of targets outside 70 zhang was only 12 out of 10 zhang, so it was better for the two armies to be about 100 zhang apart.

Although this distance is also within the killing range of foreign guns, the accuracy is greatly reduced, as long as the infantry adopts the method of lining up to fight, the casualties can be minimized.

Since foreign guns need to be reloaded repeatedly to complete the shooting, and the reloading efficiency of soldiers on the battlefield is two bullets a minute, a wise firearms battalion commander will never order a soldier to rashly shoot at the enemy a hundred feet away, not to mention that such an attack has little effect, and the intermittent reloading also gives the enemy an opportunity to charge.

Zhang Yuntian smiled knowingly at the layout of Seng Lingqin, if he only used those outdated flintlock guns, he would definitely not be able to stand up to such a position of the Qing army, and he was afraid that a few charges would start a white-knives battle, with a huge disparity in strength such as one enemy and seven, and it was still a field battle, and the victory rate was almost zero.

However, what they have is a demon exterminator that can carry out twelve consecutive shots, but in terms of shooting, 5,000 people can instantly burst out with the shooting effect of 60,000 musketeers, which is definitely unexpected by the Qing army.

But now is not the time to show off your killer weapon, lure the enemy closer, so that you can fight hard.

Zhang Yuntian waved his hand, and the cavalry phalanx on both wings began to move forward slowly, approaching the infantry at the forefront of the Qing army.

Seeing that the cavalry of the True God Sect was about to move, and fearing that the infantry would be attacked by the enemy when they charged, he waved his flag, and the two Mongolian cavalry phalanxes in the rear, totaling 3,000 people, rushed into the battlefield from the east and west sides, forming an encirclement of Zhang Yuntian's cavalry.

Seeing that the enemy army was menacing, Zhang Yuntian did not fight, and commanded the cavalry to withdraw on both sides.

Monk Greenqin laughed, it seems that the commander on the opposite side has a good level of training soldiers, and it will be so-so when he fights, so quickly he transferred out the cavalry to protect the foreign spear team, and then saw that the situation was not good and wanted to retreat, how could he command the troops like this? really treated the war as child's play, since the Mongolian cavalry had already been dispatched, there was naturally no reason to transfer it back, so he ordered the cavalry to chase after him.

In this way, although the two armies did not formally clash, in Seng Lingqin's view, the balance of war had obviously begun to tilt in favor of his side, and now he still held 6,000 elite cavalry in his hands, which could disturb the enemy army when he advanced, and cover the defeated army and regroup when he retreated; However, the enemy was left with only a lone 5,000 infantry, and when the battle began, as long as the cavalry pursuing on both flanks was called back and launched a surprise attack from behind, the battle would be considered a victory.

If the enemy's horse team wants to be pinned down, then eat the enemy's horse team first and then return to the battlefield, in short, this battle is won no matter how you look at it.

Zhang Yuntian watched the Mongolian horse team retreat to both sides with his corpse cavalry without any scruples, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile, and in less than half a moment, the drums of the Qing army sounded loudly, and the two infantry teams held spears and shouted and rushed up.

"A bunch of poor cannon fodder, everyone lined up!" Zhang Yuntian shouted.

Immediately after that, the soldiers on the periphery suddenly took out a half-human-high riot shield from behind and stood in front of them, and the soldiers in the second row were half-squatting, only exposing one head and neck, and aimed the demon slaying fire at the Qing army that rushed up, four hundred steps... Three hundred steps... Two hundred and fifty steps... Two hundred steps...

"Shoot!" With Zhang Yuntian's order, the demon exterminator fire gun emitted green smoke, and shot a lethal bullet into the body of the Qing army, splashing blood-colored lotus flowers, two hundred paces away, according to the shooting accuracy of the demon exterminator, the hit rate was more than ninety percent, and the infantry who rushed to the front of the two phalanxes killed hundreds of people in an instant at the moment of the gun.

The two phalanxes behind didn't know the power of the demon slaying firearms, and rushed over shouting from the front, and the one responsible for the frontal defense was the Shenji Battalion, all of which were standard modern equipment, and they only heard the continuous sound of gunfire, and the two phalanxes also quickly retreated.

The arquebusiers behind him had already secretly rushed to a distance of about seventy zhang from the Shenji Battalion by taking advantage of the infantry's cover, lined up, and sent out a row of bullets with a bang.

Then these bullets were too far apart, most of them flew somewhere, only a few dozen bullets successfully fell into the Shenji camp, but they were perfectly blocked by the explosion-proof shield, followed by a continuous burst of gunfire, the arquebusiers didn't even have time to reload, and a large number of them died, so the arquebusiers retreated.

The order flag flew on the city wall, Zhang Yuntian only had smoke and dust billowing behind him, and the three thousand Mongolian cavalry took advantage of the infantry to attract attention, and quickly killed back.

Zhang Yuntian did not hurry to order the soldiers to carry out twenty explosive bamboos, lined up on the ground, when the cavalry rushed into the firing range, twenty powerful artillery pieces were fired at the same time, countless pieces of rubble shrapnel formed a wall of death, and those who touched it were killed instantly.

Although the Mongolian cavalry was not afraid of death, the war horses under the crotch were frightened, picked up the pegs and fled in all directions, but they did not escape far before they were intercepted by the corpse guards who came from behind, and most of them were easily killed.

Monk Lingqin couldn't believe his eyes, he could see the whole battlefield clearly from the city wall, the vanguard of his own twice the strength of the army was defeated in one blow, and he didn't even set up the edge of the other people's position, and then the strange soldiers he planted were disrupted by the artillery, but were killed by the enemy's strange soldiers.

At this time, he woke up like a dream, and it turned out that from beginning to end, this qiē layout seemed to be his own wise decision, but in fact it completely fell into the calculation of the enemy commander.