Both sides slowed down at about five hundred paces, and there was a thunderous drum noise from the side of the guest soldiers.

There was also unbearable insults.

This is also the practice of the Ming army in battle, drumming, shouting, and insulting.

Shaking the morale of the enemy army and encouraging the morale of one's own side are all common methods.

It's just that the array of guest soldiers is very chaotic and quite noisy, in the eyes of the well-trained Yuntiguan banner army, the array of the guest army is ridiculous, the large and small arrays are mixed, the number of people under the banner is more or less, the array is thick and thin, and there is no array at all.

To put it simply, more than 10,000 people were barely pulled apart, separated by infantry and cavalry, with generals in the center, and some junior officers leading the team in the front to encourage morale and raise the number of troops and horses.

There is also an obvious team of warlords, just behind the military formation in front of the general banner, all of them are military men with waist swords, and the bright sword light is flickering, but it is not used to fight, but is ready to cut off the heads of the fleeing soldiers in front of the battle.

The whole side of the guest soldiers was in a state of utter confusion and disorganization, but they themselves did not realize that the army was moving in disarray, and was still shouting and insulting, showing strong confidence.

This is not surprising, the guest generals and soldiers all know that the attacking officers and soldiers are the officers and soldiers of the guard, and many of them were originally born in the guardhouse in Denglai Mountain, and they are well aware of the combat strength of the guards.

If they come to attack the Liukou or the Dongyu, the morale of these officers and soldiers in front of them will drop by at least seventy, not to mention fighting more than 3,000 Dongyu, even if the Dongyu only has a strength of less than 300 people, when the Donglu is whistling on horseback in armor, when they see the figure of the pigtailed soldiers, the current morale will drop to zero, including the generals, the first choice is to turn around and flee directly.

This is the sorrow of the Ming soldiers, the sorrow of the Ming Dynasty, and the sorrow of Chinese civilization.

In the Han Dynasty, a Han army fought five Huns, and a small number of Han troops could drive away a large number of steppe cavalry.

At that time, it was the barbarians who saw that the Han army would take the initiative to avoid, and when the Han was at its peak, the bold Han envoys with a small number of Han soldiers could recruit dozens of small countries in the Western Regions to confront the Xiongnu, and even destroy the country in the Western Regions.

The same was true during the Tang Dynasty.

The famous battle of conquest of India is that the envoys of the Tang Dynasty requisitioned the troops of small countries and tribes in the Western Regions and Tubo and other places, and thousands of soldiers went deep into India to conquer and refuse, as for the Tang army to mobilize the cavalry of various ethnic groups to participate in the war in all directions, and even used Hu generals and Hu soldiers to defend the territory, it can be said that the power of the Hu people was used to the extreme.

When the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, the Tang army was dressed in bright light armor, and the Mo sword swept the world, and it was precisely with this confidence that the Hu generals and Hu cavalry could be used.

Even if An Lushan's rebellion is not related to Hu Jiang's different ambitions, the Hu generals used before are not rebellious, Gao Xianzhi and Ge Shuhan are both Hu generals, but they are loyal to the Tang Dynasty to the end.

The main reason is that Xuanzong neglected the government, the center used Li Linfu to mess with the government for many years, Li Linfu for his own interests, cut off the road of the festival to enter the center, and let the festival degree make the local dictatorship unrestricted. In front of Xuanzong, the festival envoy rarely worked part-time in many places, but An Lushan was in charge of four sections by himself, which was stupid and stupid.

The transformation of the Tang Dynasty from extreme prosperity to decline is not a matter of grandeur, but the inevitable result of extreme expansion and unrestricted central corruption.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty is declining to the extreme, and these guest soldiers in front of him are also dignified and well-controlled divisions, with very little armor, mixed and inferior weapons, and the soldiers have no array and lack of training, they are completely a group of rabble.

If these soldiers were placed in the Tang Dynasty...... The Tang army, which has about 1,000 people, can sweep away this rabble in an instant, and it has no power to fight back at all.

As the two sides approached, the deployment of the Yunti Pass Banner Army was also close to completion.

Each game is arranged according to the big three talent formation, on both sides of the front are the sword players who guard the formation, each has a team of people, this is the guerrilla team, used to guard the formation, kill the enemy guerrillas, and disrupt the enemy formation.

One by one, the guerrillas formed an extremely strong attacking force.

After the guerrillas, it stands to reason that there should be more than thirty strikers, that is, an attack team of more than thirty people composed of musketeers, with the rangers on the two wings and the strikers in the center, arranged in two or three rows.

When in battle, take turns to fire the firebolt, reload, forward, release, reload, and release, and so on.

The standard infantry formation composed of the big three talent formations, and the front-end attack is mainly a front team composed of firecrackers.

But now there is a serious shortage of firecrackers here in Yunti Pass, and the strikers are only grouped in three arrays, and the rest of the three-material array's strikers are only composed of very few firecrackers and archers.

If the striker team is weak, it strengthens the jumping team.

As the name suggests, this is the Cold Weapon Assault Team.

At the beginning of the battle, use the guerrillas to confuse the enemy's position, or block the enemy guerrillas, and cover the main formation into the battlefield.

Attack the enemy with a front team, weaken the enemy's defenses, demoralize the enemy, and maximize the damage to the enemy with firearms.

If it is a wide terrain, try to unfold the soldiers, if it is a narrow terrain, take a team as a column, and the soldiers will meet each other shortly, and the soldiers will assault after the roar of firearms.

The guerrillas, the strikers, and the jumping team are stationed after the team, in fact, the troop configuration is similar to the jumping team, if the first attack fails to break through the enemy formation and expand the results, either shrink and retreat, and stabilize the position with the station, or the garrison is also thrown, expand the results, and seek a victory.

The main reason for the use of what formation, including the formation with rangers as the two wings, is that in the southern region where the water network is dense, it is difficult for the military formation to rotate to respond to the enemy, and the military formation is too sparse and easy for the enemy to take advantage of.

It is not dense or sparse, it is convenient to mobilize and react, support each other, and when the cavalry appears to be a two-wing ranger, this large array will basically be finalized.

Since Jiajing, the undense formation is the mainstream of the Ming army's battle formation, and the main defense uses the quadripartite gate formation, that is, the phalanx. The main attack is the three-stack array, that is, similar to the swing of the big three-material array, one team after another, wave after wave of attacks, which is the core secret of the so-called three-stack array.

As for the sharp formation of the Sichuan white pole soldiers, it is divided into a small triangular array one after another, the officers are in front of the heavy armor, and one team after another is bravely moving forward, not breaking the enemy's formation and vowing not to withdraw the troops, this kind of sharp attack array, Min Yuanqi is also very interested, and has used it in the engagement with pirates and bandits.

It's just that for the more than 10,000 guest soldiers in front of him, Min Yuanqi has no intention of using the sharp array.

It is better to wait for the armor ration to be completed before using this array to minimize the loss of soldiers.

When the two sides were only less than 300 paces away from each other, the columns of the banner army had completely evolved into a horizontal formation, and they were arranged into thirty-five complete three-dimensional formations.

Each array is connected to each other and is placed into three stacks, and this kind of array with the large three-material array as the core can also be called the three-fold array.

If the chariot is the core of the front team in the middle, and the attack is supplemented by small artillery, if the weapons are well-armed and the soldiers are well-trained, it can be said that it is one of the best military formations of this era, and compared with the Spanish phalanx, it is more flexible and the firepower output ration is more reasonable.

Perhaps in the hearts of the guest generals, although there are more than 3,000 people in front of the banner army, the array is complete in size, clearly layered, and reasonably configured.

The only drawback is this.

In fact, the formation of the army is constantly changing according to the progress of the times.

The various formations of the Han army, including Li Jing's infantry and cavalry rations, were deployed according to the troops, equipment, and terrain at that time, as well as the enemy's situation, such as Li Jing's formation, 14,000 people, 4,000 cavalry, 80 cavalry per team, and 50 small formations. The infantry team is fifty per team, and the small array is two hundred.

The infantry is mixed, the array is extremely sparse, and it is suitable for grassland and external terrain.

In front of him, a horizontal formation of more than 3,000 people was enough, and there was not much room for the opponent to move.

When the two sides were getting closer and closer, Min Yuanqi also looked at the head of the city of Qianhusuo, as well as several arrow towers on the right.

When the distance was getting closer and closer, there was finally movement on the head of the city and several arrow towers.

Min Qiande, Li Kecheng and others looked respectfully at a few sweaty gunners.

These gunners have been trained to sharpen their guns in the past few days, and Shen Liang has done his best, that is, to ask them to fire those Franc machine guns when they are fighting.

In fact, the principle of firing artillery and firing guns is similar, and after a few days of training, it should have been able to be fired smoothly.

The sweaty appearance of these gunners in front of them is actually the reason why they are too nervous.

After the gunpowder is placed, the gun is put in, the tail gun door is closed, and all the preparations are completed.

The distance between the guest soldiers was less than 300 paces, and the range of the large Franc aircraft in front of them was enough to be placed in the enemy's formation.

Originally, Min Yuanqi thought that a few empty cannons would be enough to deter the enemy, but Shen Liang insisted on firing real cannons.

The gunner he chose was originally an officer or even a flag captain in the Gunner Flag Team, who was smart and alert, had strong hands-on ability, and understood quickly.

Since you want to use the sub-medicine for the cannon, why waste the sub-medicine with the empty cannon, of course, it is to shoot live ammunition, and naturally it is a few that can be shot.

Even if a single shot kills only one guest, it will be worth it.

Min Yuanqi has nothing to do, even if he allows it.

The six-man artillery crew fiddled with a cannon of more than 600 pounds, in fact, it could be successfully fired three times in one minute after practice, but a few people in front of them fiddled for three minutes, and finally ignited the lead at the bottom of the artillery.

Li Kecheng subconsciously covered his ears.

"Boom!"

The artillery burst out with violent energy, and a large ball of flames rose from the tail, which was a manifestation of insufficient air closure, but it scared Li Kecheng and the others half to death.

The cannon body shook, and the gun carriage was shaking, and a cannonball weighing a pound shot out of the gun and flew towards the guest formation with a roar.