Zhao Hao's idea is very good, but it can't be realized at the moment, but it's not impossible, at least they can pull out their skin, but everything still has to be based on the present. At this time, the battle formation of their own side has been formed, and the front army forms a battle line with the protector army as the main body; Later, the Chinese army with the Guards Regiment and the Mountain Brigade as the core, and the Weisheng Army and the Wynne Army as the two wings, backed by the large battalion; The rear army is composed of the officers and soldiers left behind in various departments as the main force, supplemented by the baggage team, and its strength is decreasing gradually, forming a pattern of being strong in the front and weak in the rear.

Looking at the enemy camp again, judging from the general flag, the main leader who led the battle would be Wang Ying, deputy Wanhu of Yidu Zibo, and Zhang Heng of Wanhu of Pingyang Taiyuan and Changhu of Longxing Wanhu Zhaoerchi. The Yidu Army is the front army, the Longxing Army is the middle army, and the Pingyang Taiyuan Army is the rear army, which is equivalent to fighting according to the city. Both sides invariably adopted the formation of strong in front and weak in the back.

Among the enemy troops who fought in the battle, the Yidu Army can be said to be old opponents, but most of them were split from the Zhang Rou family, which shows that the Zhang family was powerful back then, and they were also the main force in the suppression of Ezhou; Longxing Wanhu is composed of a new annex army, and its combat effectiveness is relatively weak; The 10,000 households in Pingyang Taiyuan were also composed of northerners, but the main force suffered considerable losses in the war against Annam, and the troops were requisitioned from the military households and the new annexed army to supplement it, and the combat effectiveness should be the weakest.

Since there were lakes in the north and south of the battlefield, neither side had deployed troops on either flank, and considering that nearly 100,000 people were crammed into an area less than five miles wide and about 10 miles deep, the two sides also restricted the use of troops, and they could only use a hard-fought approach. At present, the Yuan army has filled in two trenches, bulldozed the earthen wall, and the defense measures in front of the battle are only the horse barriers that have just been erected, which can be described as extremely thin.

"Your Majesty, there is something wrong with such a formation!" Mrs. Xu also saw that the formation of the guards deployed at the front was too weak and could not withstand the impact, so she stepped forward to salute.

"Your Majesty, sister......" Of course, Chen Dun knew what was going on, and hurriedly said.

"It's okay, Mrs. Xu can say it clearly!" Zhao Yu waved his hand to stop Chen Dun from continuing, and motioned for Mrs. Xu to continue.

"Your Majesty, the concubine will be rude." Chen Dun's reminder still made Mrs. Xu a little more vigilant, and she first confessed, "The concubine watched the formation, and there was a cavalry army arranged behind the gate flag, obviously wanting to break through from our formation and take the Chinese army directly." However, the concubines saw that His Majesty's guards had no heavy armor, no big shields, and no long soldiers, and there was only a horse barrier in front of them to block the enemy, so I was afraid that it would be difficult to stop the enemy from charging into battle. ”

"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that what Mrs. Xu said is extremely true, why don't you let the last general lead the army to set up a formation to block the enemy!" Qin Linfeng stepped forward to ask for battle. In fact, he also saw the weakness of the formation, but his many years of experience under the command of the little emperor made him know that he never fought according to common sense, and often won more with less, and the little emperor was very powerful in the hearts of the army, so he naturally did not dare to say more. But when she heard Mrs. Xu come forward to suggest, she couldn't help but remind.

"What do you want to use to retreat from the enemy?" Zhao Yu raised his hand and asked with a salute.

"Your Majesty, the last general will arrange a rejection horse in front of the formation, and send an infantry army wearing heavy armor, holding a large shield, holding a long soldier in front, and then pressing the formation with crossbowmen." Qin Linfeng said.

"You're trying to defend yourself against enemy cavalry in a triad formation?" Zhao Yu frowned when he heard this.

Zhao Yu is no stranger to the three-fold formation, this formation is the famous general Wu Lan of this dynasty and the golden generals Hu Zhan and Xi Buzhu fought and created a tactic. The specific method is: in every battle, the spear is in front, and you can't sit up; the second strongest bow, the second strongest crossbow, kneeling to the knees; The sub-god arm bow. If the thief fights within 100 steps, the divine arm will strike first; Seventy steps, strong bow concurrently; The second battle is like this. Where the formation is limited to rejecting horses, the iron hooks are connected, and the wounds are replaced. In the event of a new generation, the drum is the festival. Riding, the two wings are covered in front, and the formation is formed and the ride retreats, which is called 'stacked array'.

When the Qiongzhou Army was first established, this formation was also practiced, but the military needs were organized into a 'pure team', Zhao Yu felt that this kind of formation was not suitable for the combat environment at that time, so it was changed to a 'flower team', but the formation was passed on, but I didn't expect it to be still used in the local rebel army. Thinking that they have this condition, after the new army is completed, they will support all their own and captured armor to the rebels, and they are mainly cold weapons, and it is also feasible to use a three-fold array to fight against the cavalry.

"Your Majesty's words are good, the last general has used this formation to fight the enemy, and he has been well trained, but ...... But you can still handle it! Qin Linfeng hesitated and said.

"Your department has suffered heavy losses since the northern expedition, although there is a supplement, but there is no training, once the consequences of the collapse are unimaginable, there is no need to be reluctant!" Zhao Hao rejected his request.

"Your Majesty, the last general has also practiced this formation, so let the last general step forward to meet the enemy!" At this time, Li Sanniang stepped forward again and asked for help.

"Don't mess around, your department is responsible for guarding the Chinese army, how can you leave lightly!" Zhao Yu listened and refused directly.

"Your Majesty...... The last general is willing to make a military order, and if he is defeated, he is willing to be court-martialed! Li Sanniang refused, and said firmly.

"Not allowed!" Zhao Yu said coldly. He secretly scolded in his heart, this little lady is really a strong temper, even if she loses, she can't kill her, otherwise she won't be scolded to death by the Queen Mother, and she has to end up with a name of liking the new and hating the old, although he doesn't have a new one, he simply refuses to pull it down.

"Your Majesty......"

"Retreat, if my dignified protector can't even clean up these chicken and dog scraps, how can I restore the country!" Zhao Yu frowned, waved his hand extremely unhappily, and asked Li Sanniang to step back.

"Miss Li, don't say anything more!" was rejected repeatedly, Li Sanniang's face couldn't hold back, and she stood on the spot with her hands full of calls, which couldn't help but be very embarrassed, and everyone was embarrassed to come forward to persuade her. Chen Dun pulled his sister's shirt and squeezed her eyes, Mrs. Xu immediately understood, and stepped forward with a smile to pull Li Sanniang to her side and sit down.

"Madam......" Li Sanniang's aggrieved tears were about to fall, and she was a little choked.

"Your Majesty has repeatedly refused you to fight, and there is absolutely no other intention, it is out of love, you are really blessed!" Mrs. Xu patted Li Sanniang's back and said with a smile.

"Really?" Li Sanniang peeked at the little emperor with a solemn face again, and said softly.

"Of course, if this is not the case, why would Your Majesty lose his temper in front of the generals!" Mrs. Xu stroked his shoulder and nodded. And Li Sanniang's face softened slightly, but she still snorted angrily.

"Li Zhen listens to the order!" Zhao Yu said at this time.

"The last general!" Li Zhen immediately stepped out of the ranks.

"I order you to command all the units of the front army and defeat the incoming enemy!" Zhao Hao ordered.

"The last general will obey the order and will live up to His Majesty's expectations!" Li Zhen received the order to salute immediately, and without hesitation, he turned over and went straight to the front army.

"You go ...... right away" Zhao Yu beckoned Chen Dun and whispered in his ear, Chen Dun nodded and immediately got off the handsome stage and left......

After the two sides finished arranging up, Zhao Yu got up and looked at the battlefield, but saw the door flag of the enemy camp shaking, and a cavalry army rushed out of the formation and went straight to his own array. In fact, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive in his heart, to be honest, since the formation of the army, it was also the first time to face the enemy cavalry. Even in the Battle of the Tomb, they fought against the enemy cavalry with the help of fortifications, but now they have to collide directly. And he knew that the psychological pressure of using fortifications as a shelter and fighting against cavalry face-to-face was completely different, and it could be said that it was a severe test for the troops.

Zhao Hao had long known that the most powerful cavalry in the Yuan army was cavalry, and he would one day face the enemy cavalry, so he strengthened military discipline, organized and trained the new army, and changed firearms for this purpose. At the same time, he also studied many battle examples, and knew that even in an open area, as long as the infantry formed a formation, it would not be easy for the cavalry to win. It is not difficult to find from the configuration of weapons that infantry shooters are cheaper than cavalry shooters in non-mobile combat.

Because cavalry is limited by horse combat, it cannot be equipped with bows and crossbows as powerful as infantry, and can only use cavalry bows with less power and range, and only as a one-time strike weapon, while infantry can be equipped with stronger, larger and farther bows and crossbows because of their reliance on the earth, and at the same time, because of the earth as a support, infantry can shoot more accurately, while mounted archers are greatly less accurate due to the bumps of horses, and at the same time, mounted archers are much larger than foot archers and are more likely to be hit, especially their mounts with relatively weak armor.

And it is not difficult to see that whether it is for heavy cavalry or cavalry archers, the infantry's weapon to defeat them lies in the strong bow and crossbow. Because in battle, and in order to form combat effectiveness, the infantry must maintain a tight formation, and thus lack the ability to maneuver tactically, and the weapons they use must be faster than the cavalry and must strike at a longer range, only in this way can they effectively defeat the cavalry, and this weapon is characterized by a strong bow and a crossbow. The Mongols, who were the main force of light cavalry, were so angry with the strong bow and hard crossbow that they ordered the abolition of the technology of making strong crossbows.

But everyone knows that this is as ridiculous as the modern demand for the abolition of nuclear weapons. And the reason for this is because it is also not easy for Mongolia to train a skilled archer, although they are a people on horseback, they are often gathered to learn the kung fu of riding and archery at an early age, and it takes more than ten years to get a good archer. However, the training of crossbow archers is much simpler, and a farmer can operate a crossbow after a short period of training. This disproportionate consumption is also something they cannot afford.

Of course, it is impossible to defeat the cavalry with a strong bow and crossbow alone, especially for the heavy cavalry with strong assault ability, because these light infantry lack effective means to restrain the cavalry charge, which must rely on heavy infantry or foreign objects, such as camps, chariots, fortifications, etc. The fact that well-trained heavy infantry has an advantage over cavalry in frontal tactical defense can be found in the fact that there are many known examples of cavalry dismounting and acting as heavy infantry to resist cavalry charges.

However, it is difficult for the heavy infantry without a certain amount of training to resist the charge of the heavy cavalry, especially those rabble, their morale is low, the will to fight is not strong, if they are not fully trained, once the heavy infantry is difficult to resist the charge of the heavy cavalry, it is easy to break up the whole army, because the shock effect of the cavalry charge is a weapon that effectively reduces the morale of the opponent, and the morale of these rabble itself is low, so it is easy to be demoralized after the cavalry charge, and the whole army is scattered under the effect of combat psychology.

If training is to increase the requirements for infantry, in fact, in terms of the amount of training received by cavalry and infantry, even well-trained infantry, the training they receive is probably not as good as that of cavalry, those nomadic or fishing and hunting cavalry have been trained since childhood, because the process of training is the process of survival, I am afraid that there is no motivation to support their training more than fighting for survival! It is true that the infantry needs much less training than them, but as long as the infantry is willing to sweat more, there will be less blood on the battlefield.

Zhao Hao's guiding ideology of training the new army against cavalry also came to the aid of this. Muskets are more powerful than strong bows and crossbows, even with heavy armor, and the cycle of training a musketeer is much shorter than training a cavalry or archer. In addition, making a good bow is not easier and cheaper than making a musket, and the manufacture and cost of arrows are much higher than bullets, so don't think that the arrows you shoot can still be used when you pick them up, as long as the arrow feathers are less damaged, they will be wasted. So it's still cost-effective from a cost perspective.

The only disadvantage of musketeers over archers is their low rate of fire, which requires increasing the density of fire with the number of soldiers, otherwise it will still be difficult to resist the group's charge of cavalry. And the method that Zhao Hao came up with was to develop artillery to make up for the lack of firepower. At the same time, when it is impossible to build fortifications or there is no danger to rely on, the power of artillery can be used to shoot at the position and consolidate the position. At present, although the guards have no fortifications to rely on, they have been able to arrange artillery positions, so Zhao Yu is not very worried.

"Boom, boom, ......boom" the two armies are not more than a mile apart, a team of enemy horses comes, they are still a hundred years of unchanged old tactics, first with light cavalry in turn to shoot arrows harassment, once found that the opponent's formation has a scattered state, immediately rush to open the breakthrough, and then the cavalry swarmed in, the enemy formation was crushed. However, this time they miscalculated, and when they approached the hundred paces and bent their bows and arrows to prepare for the arrows, the Baizi guns and thunder cannons arranged in the front opened fire first.

Whether it is a hundred guns or a thunder cannon that can break through the earth and stones at close range, how can a war horse wearing only leather horse armor block the projectile that is fired in an instant, and the rider on the horse is not much better, and the person who is hit is either missing arms and legs or becomes a hornet's nest. At the moment, people are turning on their backs, rolling and falling into the dust.

But the war horse does not want to stop when running, and it is very easy to have a 'rear-end' accident when charging, even if it escapes this catastrophe, the fallen war horse has caused great confusion to the entire charge. And it was the first time for these war horses to hear such a big movement, and they were immediately haired, and inconvenient things were bumping around, but the shelling did not stop, and those who hit the muzzles of the guns were killed immediately. There are clever people who try to turn their horses' heads and escape, but sharp turns are also prone to accidents, and they can only expand the radius of the turn, but some of them hit the muzzles of the guns arranged along the battle line, and they have to ask for more blessings if they want to go back......