In the era of cold weapons, marching at night was not as simple as it was said. Only a handful of troops with fairly high organizational, disciplined and tactical abilities are up to the task! Not to mention that in the era of cold weapons, it is like a modern army marching at night, with all kinds of scientific and technological equipment, sometimes people can be separated, let alone in ancient times.

After the two sides set up camp, the degree of strangulation between the nights and the harvest was significantly lower. But there are still a lot of deaths and injuries every day. However, the people of the Guan Ning army have all withdrawn. The big war is imminent, and the loss of a good cavalry hand like this is of little significance in a scout strangulation battle. It's better to stay at the end of the word!

After five days of rest, the Ming army camp sounded the drums of war. It's time to fight! Not to be outdone, the rebels also went out to meet the battle. Both sides know that the victory or defeat is here for a day!

The first Ming army to leave the camp was the Chinese army, that is, Liu Pei's troops. This time, Liu Pei's troops are fully armed! From helmets to cuirasses, the armours are complete! In the sunlight, the swarthy armor looked particularly cold.

Liu Pei is in the Chinese army today, so he didn't set up a hollow phalanx. It's a dense array of fish scales! The so-called fish scale array is that the front row and the back row of bodies are half of the body in a staggered position, which looks like layers of fish scales.

Such an advantage is conducive to the play of the firecracker. People in the back row can shoot directly from the gap between two people in the front row. It can maximize the density of firepower.

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As soon as the procession reached its predetermined position, more than a dozen wagons rushed out of the queue, removed the barbed wire from the wagons and began to set them up. In the blink of an eye, two barbed wire fences were pulled up. The farthest barbed wire fence was less than thirty steps away from Liu Pei's position. The second course is within 10 steps!

Then a large number of people began to pile up the breastwork. After the breastwork was completed, Liu Pei ordered sandbags to be piled up behind the breastwork. Seeing that the sandbags were stacked, Liu Pei went to look at the rear.

When Liu Peidao was in charge, the artillery emplacements were also ready. This time, Liu Pei not only supported the 30 cannons he brought, but he also managed to get more than 20 cannons from Laizhou City and transported them together. Whether their Chinese army can withstand the onslaught of the rebels this time depends on the strength of the artillery.

Fortunately, Liu Pei's base camp is in Shandong, Hou

Diligence is still available. Just the day before yesterday, Liu Pei had just received a batch of supplies. The most of this supply was all kinds of artillery shells, followed by 2,000 spare guns and matching ammunition. There are also the armor weapons of the two thousand sword and shield hands led by Qi Qitao.

After inspecting the gun position, Liu Pei walked to the front of the position. He said to the four thousand hand-to-hand soldiers in front of him: "Sit down!" ”

Except for the 2,000 people who used to be Liu Pei, the rest of the 4,000 people were all soldiers sent by various battalion leaders who were specifically responsible for face-to-face fighting. At this time, Qi Qitao ran and said: "I have more than a dozen Franco cannons here, and they are placed on the breastwork, do you want to go and see them?" ”

This kind of Franc cannon is a small cannon with a gun, which is pre-loaded with sub-medicine and can be fired directly into the barrel. So the rate of fire is extremely fast! Generally speaking, each cannon carries a five-brother gun. It is best to fight infantry when it is full of lead.

Liu Pei said: "I won't watch it, you can arrange it yourself!" I'm here to tell you, you have to master the team! ”

Qi Qitao nodded and said, "Don't worry!" ”

Liu Pei checked it and returned to the command position. With Liu Pei's formation complete. The soldiers and horses on the left and right flanks were also in place. As the saying goes, there are 100,000 people without bounds. More than 40,000 people in the Ming army are here, and it is also a big piece!

As for the rebels, it's even more exaggerated! The formation was all completed here, and the rebels were still pouring out of several large battalions one after another.

Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng were all in the formation, and they had been watching the position of the Ming army. Li Jiucheng tapped his thigh with a horsewhip and said, "It seems that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are planning to let us attack!" You see, they didn't move as soon as they came out of the camp. ”

Kong Youde said: "No way! It's only us to attack. Even if they don't go out of the camp, I'm going to do it! If it drags on any longer, the food behind it will not be able to be helped. When the time comes, I'm afraid these people will scatter in a hurry! ”

Li Jiucheng said: "It looks like Zhu Dadian's Chinese army is very thin!" There are 10,000 people up and down! It's better for us to directly attack the Chinese army in a while! ”

Kong Youde thought for a while and said, "Will there be fraud?" ”

Kong Youde has been fighting for so many years, but he has never seen such a battle

Thin Chinese army. It's no wonder that Kong Youde guessed, because what he said was right, the position of the Chinese army is too critical! Generally, it is the most capable battalion leader in the first army to guard the position of the middle army. But in such a situation, everyone is still desperately piling up troops in the Chinese army, for fear that the Chinese army will be unstable.

However, at this time, Zhu Dadian's Chinese army was only about 10,000 people, forming a dumbbell shape with two thick ends and a thin middle. This makes everyone a little confused. So Li Jiucheng said very simply: "No matter what plan he has, it will always be impossible to match our large number of people!" This war depends on strength! ”

Kong Youde thought about it and said in agreement: "Since this is the case, then prepare for war!" ”

By this time, the cavalry of both sides had already withdrawn between the two positions, and waited for the teams of both sides to approach and begin to engage. There were not many of the first people on both sides to go into battle, all of them were sword and shield bearers and archers. Both sides were counting on their own archers to disrupt each other's formations. However, only the Chinese army did not have archers to come forward, which surprised the rebels.

However, this was not their time to ponder, and the rebels felt that they might be safer without archers on the other side. Only the veterans felt that something was wrong. You know, no commander on the battlefield would make such a low-level mistake.

As the brigade approached the opponent, the Ming artillery began to fire, but the effect was not great. As for Liu Pei, he was not ready to fire at all! After all, you don't need artillery to deal with archers.

Liu Pei saw the rebel archers in front of him approaching step by step, so he ordered: "Start designing when they get close to 80 steps." ”

Liu Pei stood in the back row, constantly estimating the distance from the enemy. Estimating that the rebel archers had reached a distance of 80 paces, they immediately shouted: "Shoot!" ”

Liu Pei gave an order, and a piece of gunpowder immediately rose from the forward position! Dense buckshot shot flew through the air and pounced on the rebel team on the opposite side! More than 200 people were knocked to the ground in an instant!

But Liu Pei's firing also had a disadvantage, that is, he was a Chinese army, and after shooting here, the birds on both wings also began to shoot cracklingly. However, the casualties inflicted on the rebels by their firing teams were very few. The main reason is that their birds can't do it.