The sporadic sound of gunfire and the clashing of swords continued from the early hours of the morning until midnight, and when the last team of Renaissance Company scouts withdrew from the jungle, it meant that the war was about to begin!

The seven thousand five hundred people commanded by Ye Kai discharged four huge standard three-column horizontal formations outside Ganmaxi Town.

In front of the horizontal formation, a breastwork wall made of sandbags was built according to European standards, and they stood a kilometer or two out of the jungle, waiting for the Bugis army.

The neighing of horses and elephants came from the jungle, and a large group of Bugis troops in brown leather armor finally came out of the jungle.

Behind the elite of Johor wearing brown leather armor and other armor, they were followed by shirtless coats and various muskets and scimitars in their hands, from Selangor, Malacca, and even from the island of Java.

Although they were outnumbered, they looked rather sleepy and did not have much excitement about the imminent battle.

The roads are destroyed, the water source is polluted, such a jungle is not easy to pass through, and the fighting enthusiasm of the Bugis people is almost consumed when they pass through the jungle!

However, Ye Kai did not attack immediately, because although his current attack could catch the Bugis by surprise, or it was likely to drive them back into the jungle, it didn't mean much to Ye Kai!

What he wants is to completely defeat or even encircle and annihilate it, because for the Ye family, which only has more than a hundred thousand people, they have no capital to go back and forth with the Bugis, who have a population of nearly two million.

"Your Majesty the Sultan, the Tang people on the opposite side have already lined up their formation, but they did not attack immediately!"

General Saeed walked over, holding a kettle in his hand, and handed it to Sultan Ibrahim, who was also sweating.

Sultan Ibrahim took the kettle and took a sip, and the cool water ran down his throat, which immediately restored the Sultan's strength.

He had a not-so-good feeling that the army of the Tang people on the other side looked very well-organized!

Thousands of men were arranged in three large horizontal formations in a fan shape, and since they came out of the jungle, Sultan Ibrahim had been observing with a telescope, so that for half an hour, the opposing army was still in good formation.

The strength of an army can be directly seen from the queue, and this Tang army reminds him of the Dutch army in Batavia.

Ibrahim Sultan even wanted to retreat a little in his heart, if it was 5,000 Dutch troops lined up in front of his army, Ibrahim Sultan would not dare to take 25,000 men to the army.

For his uncle, Haji Rajah, had suffered a crushing defeat against 2,500 Dutch soldiers with 9,000 men, and he himself was killed.

Although Haji Rajah was accidentally hit by a stray bullet in that war, the strong combat effectiveness of the Dutch soldiers still made Ibrahim Sultan remember it vividly!

But he can't retreat now, the situation can't allow him to retreat, even if he can't beat the Dutch, if he can't even beat the Tang, the Bugis will lose the need to continue to exist in the Malay Peninsula!

Because they are the same as the Manchu Eight Banners that now rule China, they are a big country with a small number of people, but there are only 300,000 Bugis, ruling five sultanates, and more than 1.6 million local Malay natives, if there is no military support, what can they do to subdue others?

Therefore, strictly speaking, this war is not a decisive battle between more than 170,000 Chinese and 18.9 million Malays, but between more than 170,000 Chinese and 3440,000 Bugis.

The winner will make a name for himself, not to mention become the master, because now the Dutch and Britons are watching from behind, but they will also become the most important force in the Malay Peninsula, and the loser will destroy the life and death clans, and there will be nothing left!

Thinking of this, Sultan Ibrahim pressed the slightest hesitation in his heart, and he drank all the cold water in the pot with pride.

"Said, you go and give the order, so that the soldiers can drink the cold water in the kettle and eat a full meal, today will be the moment for us to revive the glory of our ancestors!"

Said hesitated, because if he had drunk all the water in the pot now, in case of failure, there would not be enough water to retreat through the jungle behind him, but he did not dare to say such a thing in front of Sultan Ibrahim.

The brave-looking Bugis general also drank all the water in his jug, but laughed and said to Sultan Ibrahim: "Allah willing, we have drunk all our water, but we can go and rob the water of the Tang people on the other side, as well as their treasures and women, this is what the Bugis should do!" ”

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Ye Kai rode on his horse, and he watched the Bugis people slowly form three phalanxes, the left is from Pahang and Selangoran, the right is from Malacca, and the middle is the Johor army directly under Ibrahim.

And their real elite, that is, trained by the Dutch, all Western-style equipment, the 10,000-man Johor army with six nine-pounder guns, the army on the left and right flanks, obviously playing the old Bugis style, arquebuses and scimitars.

"How long have they been eating?" Ye Kai asked Ah Shan next to him.

"Young master, it's just five minutes!" Ah Shan took out a precious Western-style pocket watch from his arms and replied, this is a gift that Ye Kai brought back to him from Europe, Ah Shan cherishes it more than he cherishes his own eyeballs.

"Go and inform Colonel Gaston to start attacking, it's not good for your stomach to eat full!"

Ye Kai and the two of them bloomed with a somewhat sinister smile, he just wanted the Bugis people to attack in the middle of eating.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The artillery battery of the Fuxing Company, with thirty Austrian artillery as the core, began to bombard the Bugis.

The power of thirty-five of Europe's most advanced cannons was completely beyond Sultan Ibrahim's imagination, and the solid huge cannonballs, like iron plows falling from the sky, ploughed out blood marks accompanied by terrible screams from his ranks!

"Artillery! Let's send our artillery too! Ibrahim looked at the artillery on the opposite side and pushed the cannons in front of the formation, and he also howled.

That's more than thirty powerful cannons, and if they were allowed to fight all the time, it would take them only twenty minutes, nay, maybe ten minutes, to crush his troops.

However, putting a bayonet on a cannon is easier said than done, and then .....!

At least the Bugis people don't have such skills, tactics and courage, and besides, Ye Kai also has a killer weapon to deal with the forward movement of the cannon!

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