In the narrow valley, two armies were fighting, but one was cavalry, one infantry.

The cavalry was naturally the Tang Army, and the infantry was from the Great Chang and the country.

Originally, the Shenji Battalion was equipped with war horses, but because of road problems, Zhang Lian left most of the war horses in Yunnan.

At present, some of the horses of his army are pack horses for consignment of artillery and cannonballs, and some of them are reserved for cavalry.

There are not many Nanzhao war horses in the whole country, and the quality is not good.

Dachanghe, who only inherited a part of Nanzhao, even if there are not many cavalry, it is still necessary to retain a cavalry in Zhang Lian's opinion, even if his cavalry is only an infantry on horseback, and the war horse is not the kind of superior war horse used by the cavalry, but in his opinion, in the territory of Nanzhao, it is still good.

Just like this small-scale battle in front of us, under the attack of two hundred cavalry, the one or two hundred enemies were at most like wheat and were harvested by the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion.

Zhang Lian even went into battle in person, holding a long lance, which was very majestic.

The enemy on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and seeing the look of horror in the other party's eyes, Zhang Lian was quite excited and shouted, "Kill!" ”

"Bell!"

Zhang Lian quickly caught up with his opponent, he stabbed down, the war knife in the enemy's hand was stabbed in two by a lance, and then the long lance was twitched, and the tip of the lance slashed across the opponent's neck, and blood splattered.

"Phew"

At this time, an enemy next to him slashed at him, Zhang Lian hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse and dodged a knife, and then the war horse under his command stopped, and when he saw the enemy killed behind, the war horse raised its two hind legs, only to hear the sound of broken bones, and the enemy lay on the ground and vomited blood.

Just as they were having their best time, at the bend of the valley in the distance, a dark shadow had appeared.

The two hundred cavalrymen who had been able to kill vigorously tightened their horses and stopped, and everyone looked at Zhang Lian, waiting for his orders.

"Go back!"

Seeing more and more enemy troops appearing in Taniguchi, Zhang Lian's face was also a little unpleasant, what is the situation?

Ambushed?

But with only these two hundred people around him, he will definitely not be able to defeat him, so he can only retreat to the large army.

When Zhang Lian and the others retreated, the enemy army also began to line up, and he immediately ordered the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to line up.

The two sides met in this valley a mile apart, and there were mountains on both sides, and they could not retreat.

And when he saw the elephants behind the enemy, Zhang Lian's face was not very good-looking.

"Horses, the enemy is about twice as large as us, as if... It seems that there are elephant soldiers... Chang Wei couldn't help but remind.

"I saw it!" Zhang Lian muttered.

"What now, colt?"

"What can I do? Array, meet the enemy! Since you have encountered it, then fight, and it just so happens that this horse also wants to see what is so strange about this so-called elephant soldier. Zhang Lian's temper also came up.

Soon, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were deployed in the formation of daily training, and the musketeers were divided into six platoons, but because the valley was not wide, some of the musketeers could not be used, and each platoon could only stand about 30 people, and the six platoons were only about 200 people.

"Do you need to get your artillery ready?" Chang Wei asked.

"Prepare nine cannons, in three rows, three in each row, and if the enemy's elephants don't move, don't send the artillery.

Get the rest of your men ready to support the musketeers ahead! ”

The artillery is used as a thing at the bottom of the box, Zhang Lian does not plan to expose it so quickly, and he also wants to stay for a while.

On the enemy's side, seeing so many people in the Tang army, he guessed that the Tang army and his side had the same idea, and they both wanted to attack in a roundabout way, but they didn't expect to meet each other in this valley.

However, seeing that the number of Tang troops was only half of that of his side, Zhao Shancheng didn't pay attention to it.

"Come on, let's go to a thousand people to test the strength of the Tang Army."

"Yes!"

Six rows of musketeers stood there neatly, the muzzles of the first rows already aimed at the enemy. The index finger of each musketeer was placed in front of the trigger, slightly touching, and in front of them there was a row of sword and shield men and pikemen, which was to ensure the safety of the musketeers.

Chang Wei stood beside Zhang Lian's horse with a horizontal knife in his hand, his breathing was heavy, quietly waiting for the enemy's attack.

Soon, the enemy army who received the order rushed over with a shield and a sword, but when he saw that the Tang army still did not move, even Zhao Shancheng was a little puzzled.

"What's wrong with Tang Jun?"

The general next to him explained with a smile, "Zhao Xiang may be that the Tang army was so frightened that he didn't dare to move when he saw Zhao Xiang's army." ”

"If only that were the case!"

When his soldiers rushed to within a distance of two hundred paces, and the Tang army still did not fire the bow and crossbow, Zhao Shancheng believed that the Tang army might have really been frightened.

Just when the soldiers of Dachang and the country rushed within a hundred steps of the Tang army, the Tang army moved.

"The first row..."

It's not that the Tang Army doesn't shoot, it's the range of the musket, it's too far away, even if it hits, it won't have much power.

In the training of the Divine Machine Battalion, it is now required that the enemy can only shoot at a distance of 100 paces.

"The first row..."

Because the soldier facing him was Chang Wei's capital, he came behind the musketeers after the enemy attacked, looked at the enemy who was getting closer and closer, slashed down with his sword, and shouted, "Volley!" ”

The first row of neat barrels shook a little, and then spewed out gunsmoke.

"Bang bang bang!"

A dense burst of gunfire rang out, and in the smoke of gunpowder, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the first platoon quickly retreated.

"Ahh

The screams of the enemy soon rang out, and the enemy who rushed to the front did not know what was going on, so they felt a pain in their bodies and fell to the ground.

Before the smoke cleared, the soldiers who had switched from the second to the first row raised their guns.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Yikes!"

The person who was shot shrank and fell to the ground with fatigue and kept screaming, Zhang Lian in the rear was still a little shocked when he saw this scene, although he had seen the scene of the Shenji Battalion drill, but after all, he had not seen the performance of actual combat.

While he was swallowing his saliva, Chang Wei had already ordered the soldiers of the third row to come to the first row.

Under normal circumstances, a three-stage attack can be done, but in this narrow valley, the three-stage attack is still a little lacking in firepower, so it becomes a six-stage attack.

The general rule is that when the first row fires, the second row is loaded with gunpowder in the back; After the first row shoots, it switches positions with the second row, and when the second row fires, the first row switches positions with the third row.

This ensures the continuation of firepower, but it also tests the reflexes of the soldiers, and each platoon must be quickly and neatly aligned.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

“。。。”

A soldier of the Great Commander and the country had just rushed to the front with a shield when he saw that most of his comrades-in-arms around him had fallen, and they fell to the ground and wailed.

At this time, there was another burst of gunshots, and he subconsciously raised his shield, but he found that his wooden shield was actually shot through by the small beads, and a lead bullet shot directly into his heart, he felt a pain in his chest, and looked down to see the blood flower in front of him, which was so bewitching.

With a muffled snort, he knelt on the ground unwillingly, and then fell to the ground with a 'bang', his body twitched twice, and his eyes began to wander.

After a full six-stage shooting, the front of the Shenji Battalion was already covered by gunsmoke.

The general, whose view was blocked, was also surprised to see the soldier who rushed to the front inexplicably falling to the ground, and he felt that he had underestimated the enemy.

But he didn't know what weapon Tang Jun used to make his men fall, which undoubtedly added a color of fear.