Under the noon sun, the three thousand infantry led by Shen Bao were hurriedly arranging their troops, and they formed a tight phalanx. In front of them, there were more than three hundred "combat vehicles".

Although limited by war horses, the newly formed six battalions of infantry were not equipped with carriages, but they were equipped with 300 "chariots" - in fact, it is the kind of manpower board car, the overall structure is similar to the manpower sanitation car, but it is longer and wider.

Compared with horse-drawn chariots, the Ming army was better at chariot battalions, and immediately after entering the battlefield, he used more than 300 "ironclad chariots" to form a moving city wall.

Battle watched the prey from afar, even narrowing his eyes.

One thousand against three thousand!

Just looking at the number of people, there seems to be a huge difference between the two sides, but 1,000 cavalry vs. 3,000 infantry, the strength of both sides is about the same.

However, in terms of momentum, the Qing army seems to be more prosperous,

"Well, the military appearance is still neat, and the opportunity to change is still passable!"

Sitting on his mount, Battle put his hand on the pergola and walked towards the Ming army five hundred paces away.

From the encounter between the sentinels on both sides to the time he led the cavalry to chase here, it was only two or three hours before and after. In such a short period of time, the Ming army chose a terrain that was relatively favorable to the infantry, and used hundreds of chariots to create a breastwork along the mountainside, which is really commendable.

"Even so, isn't it a gift for us!"

Someone immediately stepped forward and echoed with a smile.

"That's true"

Looking at the situation of the Ming army, Battle laughed.

"It's for us to give us heads."

Everyone laughed, they were organized as the Eight Banners of Mongolia and fought with the Ming army for a few years, and naturally they also knew how strong the Ming army was.

"Let's rush forward with the whole army and ensure that we will kill these Ming soldiers."

Arrogance has arrogance capital, even if the cavalry led by Battle is only as a cavalry sentry, responsible for not attacking these Ming troops, but he is so arrogant that he can tolerate a Ming army that dares to approach him - less than 30 miles!

This is simply audacious, and it is insulting him!

So for the sake of the prestige of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, Battle decisively decided to clean up the Ming cavalry and give them a great taste.

However, these cavalrymen of the Eight Banners did not immediately rush into battle, but took out horse food such as soybeans, wheat, and sorghum mixed with their bags and held them to the mouths of their mounts, allowing the latter to enjoy them slowly. Growing up in the grassland, they are all born warriors, their ancestors once followed Genghis Khan to the south, all the way to occupy the Central Plains, and now they have become the cavalry under the command of Huang Taiji, serving it, and once again killing the ancestors in the mouth of the fairyland-like Jiangnan.

After witnessing the prosperity of the Central Plains, they had only one thought - to occupy this land, kill all the people here, or turn them into slaves, but before that, they had to remove the stumbling blocks, and the Ming army was the stumbling block.

While the Qing army was feeding the war horses and accumulating strength for the war horses, in the Ming army vehicle formation in front of the hill, the gunners pushed more than a dozen light nine-pound howitzers, compared with the heavy red-coated cannon, this kind of nine-pound howitzer with only half a person high was not only light and compact, but also used the relationship between the Congreve monorail gun mount, and it was very flexible to move.

Although Zhu Guoqiang was unable to provide them with enough muskets and armor when forming the six-battalion "New Army," he did provide them with a sufficient number of artillery pieces -- nine-pound howitzers, and each battalion was equipped with as many as 24 guns.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of its small size that no one notices its existence at all. It was like a series of hidden arrows, hiding between the arrays of cars.

Behind the horizontal "chariot", the musketeers with muskets in their hands stared at the front, muttering from time to time.

"Use your mouth to bite through the paper shell bullets, pour gunpowder into the barrel, and stuff the lead bullets inside into the barrel with the paper shells...... Through-strip compacted marble...... Pull the hammer back again and put on the fire cap......"

Two days ago, the musketeers had been using their firing ropes, but now they had switched to firing muskets, and although they had fired a few live rounds in the last two days, taking advantage of the break, they were still a little nervous in their haste now.

"Bayonets, bayonets at the waist ......"

Holding a musket and standing behind the chariot, Sun Mingtao's nervous palms were sweating...... Grandma's, after being a soldier for so many years, is the first time I've been so nervous.

"Steady, the most fearful thing about going into battle is panic, don't panic, panic and lose first!"

The captain didn't know when he followed again, patted him on the shoulder, and then he saw the captain quickly walking towards the other soldiers.

Niu Jinxing, who had just been promoted to captain, stretched out his hand and patted everyone on the shoulders one by one.

"Don't be nervous, follow me, take a deep breath, and then exhale slowly, exhale. Yes, that's all! There are only 1,000 Tartars in this gang, and we have a thousand muskets, one shot per person, that's enough, put three or five shots, and maybe we will blast him into the sky! ”

Although he was also nervous in his heart, Niu Jinxing knew very well that whether he could be the captain or not depends on this battle, the reason why he was able to be the captain was because the prince of the world incorporated the recruits of the sixth battalion, and he became the captain by chance...... In short, as long as you make a contribution today, the future is naturally limitless.

"Haha, that's it, these Tartars are not enough for us to shoot three or five shots for each ......"

The brothers, who were already so nervous that their limbs were a little stiff, burst into laughter.

But the big guys know that this is just a good thing, after all, they are all veterans, and they know that these three or five shots can hit one or two percent, which is God blessed. But as soon as they said this, they calmed down, what's the big deal, the big guys are all people, no matter how powerful the Tartars are, they are also people, and the guns can kill them!

Since you can kill it, there's nothing to be afraid of!

"Toot ......"

Suddenly, there was a deafening trumpet sound in the distance, the sound of the horn shook everyone's hearts, once upon a time, the Mongols launched an attack on the Central Plains in such a trumpet, and now they focused on the banner of Huang Taiji, and once again launched an attack on the Central Plains......

Although they were both on horseback, they weren't very fast at first, and Battle didn't forget to cheer up their morale loudly before accelerating.

"Brothers, Minggou are all weak soldiers without eggs, this group of things without eggs actually dare to chase us, simply because they don't take us in their eyes, the big guy will kill the enemy with me! Kill! ”