Two miles outside Lucheng Town, Ma Cheng and Qi Biaojia's tens of thousands of troops faced each other two miles apart, and the armies of both sides had already completed their entire teams, but none of them made the first move, and the battlefield was very quiet for a while, and the neighing of war horses could be heard.

When Ma Cheng fought with the Manchu Qing Dynasty before, he opened the film directly, and he never encountered such a quiet scene at all. Ma Cheng didn't know if this was the rule of war in the Ming Dynasty, and whether the main generals of the two sides would have to ride horses and try it out, just like in later TV dramas.

There are few detailed descriptions of the war in the official history of ancient China, mainly the detailed description of the pre-war preparations and the aftermath of the war. This is also no way, because in ancient times, it was intellectuals who held the right to speak, and because of their preciousness, these scholars did not go to the battlefield, so under their understanding, the face of war was recorded in a thousand strange ways.

For example, what formations, what tricks, etc., ancient wars had formations, but they were only a few basic formations, such as circular formations, phalanxes, etc., in order to organize scattered soldiers for easy command. As for the clever plan, the course of the war is changing rapidly, and it is impossible for any god man to predict the outcome a few months ago.

However, there is still some shadow on the matter of fighting generals, the Spring and Autumn Period of China and the Warring States Period is the era of aristocrats, and the people who fight are nobles and doctors, they think that fighting is their own business, and it has nothing to do with the commoners, as long as the nobles settle the war between themselves, the war can be ended, so there are many records of fighting generals in the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, in the Qin and Han dynasties, officials became a profession, and military generals were similar, all of them worked for the emperor, and there was no need to fight alone with the opposing generals, so from this period onwards, the wars were developing towards obscenity, and it was best if you didn't know anything, and Lao Tzu's soldiers came to the city to catch you off guard.

From the Song Dynasty* onwards, military generals were not allowed to study, coupled with the reduction of social status, and no one really recorded what the war was all about. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, those unambitious literati sat at home and imagined the war scenes, and with the records of the stars and generals in history, these literati thought that the war should be like this. Before the two sides fought, the supreme commander first scolded the other side for being immoral and noble, and then the commanders swung their swords and beat each other, and the morale of the winning side was greatly boosted, and the morale of the defeated side was greatly reduced.

Ma Cheng didn't know what steps the war was in this period, but the experienced Zhang Guozhu hadn't come yet, so Ma Cheng had no choice but to ask Tian Boguang beside him: "Lao Tian, what should I do next?" Do you want to go heads-up? ”

Tian Boguang was stunned when he heard Ma Cheng ask this, and quickly replied: "Dashuai, what is heads-up?" ”

Ma Cheng said the meaning of the general, Tian Boguang thought for a while and said: "Dashuai, the last general has never heard of this way of fighting in Guizhou, we all directly copy the guys and beat them together, where is there kung fu heads-up?" However, the last general was just a small flag before, and probably the customs here in Nanzhili are different from those in Guizhou! ”

Ma Cheng listened to Tian Boguang's words, and was hesitating whether to ride out on a horse to fight Qi Biaojia, I heard that Qi Biaojia is an old man in his fifties, or a civil official, and he shouldn't be able to beat himself. At this time, there was a change in the Luwang army on the opposite side, and the Chinese army divided a cavalry of thousands of people and rushed towards the Shenji battalion.

Chen Zhen, who was newly promoted to the commander of the Luwang Army, originally wanted to wait for work and use his heavy infantry to consume Ma Cheng's cavalry, after all, Ma Cheng's cavalry

There are more people than themselves. But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement on Ma Cheng's side, and those cavalry stood on the side, and they had no intention of charging at all.

Seeing the stalemate here, Chen Zhen knew that this was his first battle, if he didn't win, there would be no admiral, so Chen Zhen had no choice but to send cavalry to attack the enemy infantry first, and at the same time arrange a deputy general of his own side to lead 5,000 heavy infantry to strictly guard against the opponent's cavalry.

Ma Cheng saw that the cavalry on the opposite side rushed out first, and his expression perked up, just taking this opportunity to see how the Shenji battalion fought against the cavalry. The Shenji Battalion has been training for two years, and although it has won both the Mongols and the Manchurians in the Battle of Nanjing, it was under a specific environment, so the tactics of the Shenji Battalion against cavalry have not been effectively experimented.

The tactics of the Shenji battalion against the cavalry were very simple, that is, the hollow phalanx of Napoleon against the Russian cavalry in later generations.

The scientific name of the hollow large square is the linear musket square, and every thousand people form a hollow large square, each side of the square is five rows, each row is fifty people, a total of two hundred and fifty people. The first two of the five rows had their bayonets pointed outwards to protect them from the onslaught of the horses, and the last three rows used muskets to fire continuously to inflict damage on the cavalry. At the same time, if possible, artillery can be arranged at the four corners to fire shotguns, so that the defense is stronger.

This phalanx was pioneered by the Spaniards, improved by King Gustav II of Sweden, and finally developed in the hands of Napoleon, who used this large phalanx to fight the brave Cossack cavalry who could not find the north.

The core of this tactic is the musket, and Ma Cheng's newly improved musket has reached the most powerful flintlock pistol with the blessing of new gunpowder, so this tactic is possible. At this time, Spain was still using eighty percent of musketeers and two percent pikemen because of the power of gunpowder, so as to resist the onslaught of cavalry.

The five thousand households of the Shenji Battalion were all experienced veterans, and when they saw the enemy cavalry rushing over, they immediately organized the musketeers to change the formation, forming five large hollow phalanxes.

As soon as the formation was changed, the enemy cavalry had already rushed five hundred meters, when the artillery in the four corners of the phalanx began to fire, and the first wave of shotguns hit the cavalry.

The sound of the artillery made Qi Biaojia shocked, he saw the artillery in Ma Cheng's army just now, but he thought it was a Franc machine with a short range. Due to the airtightness of the Ming Dynasty, the firing range of the Franc machine was only less than 200 meters, and Qi Biaojia did not pay attention to the artillery on the opposite side at first.

But now seeing a burst of white smoke flashing, and the cavalry on his side were knocked down one after another, Qi Biaojia knew that the big thing was not good.

But now that the battle has started, it is impossible for Qi Biaojia to take any regret medicine. Seeing that their cavalry was knocked down by artillery, only a small part rushed to a hundred meters of the enemy infantry. If Qi Biaojia's cavalry is replaced by Mongolian cavalry, it is the shooting range of the bow and arrow at this time, but Qi Biaojia's cavalry riding skills are not good, to put it bluntly, it is a group of infantry on horseback, and it is okay to run on a horse, but it is a little difficult for a strong man to shoot a bow and arrow on a horse.

These cavalry entered the range of 100 meters, and Ma Cheng's Shenji battalion began to shoot, and with the blessing of the three-stage blow, the cavalry in front of them were soon killed one after another, and some of the horses without owners scattered and ran away.

An Zhennan, the commander of the Shenji Battalion in the middle of a phalanx, saw that the cavalry on the opposite side was wiped out, and asked his own soldiers to change the formation

。 Seeing the banner, the other four phalanx of Qianhu commanded their subordinates to begin to turn into ten horizontal formations again.

The cavalry was wiped out, and the next step was Ma Cheng's Shenji Battalion. Under the command of each horizontal team and hundreds of households, these veterans of a hundred battles walked towards the Luwang army with neat steps. Yes, it was walking, which was completely different from the chaotic formation of other Ming troops when they charged. This seemingly slow speed shocked Qi Biaojia's heart, and this kind of methodical march put a lot of pressure on his side.

The Shenji battalion marched forward slowly, and the artillery of the rear team also began to fire live ammunition, this time Ma Cheng brought 200 artillery pieces, one time was 200 solid shells, and in the dense formation of the Luwang army, 200 bloody alleys were torn apart.

Now Ma Cheng's artillery is two miles away from the Luwang army's main team, and this range is already comparable to that of a red-coated cannon. Qi Biaojia saw Ma Cheng's firepower so fierce, and knew that he had lost today. He also knew that Ma Cheng dared to bring 10,000 people alone to fight him, it turned out that those rumors were true, Ma Cheng really defeated the 400,000 Manchu army with 10,000 people.

The main force in the Luwang army was 20,000 reserve Japanese troops in Zhejiang, and the combat effectiveness of these reserve troops to defend against coastal Japanese pirates was stronger than that of the Weisuo army, but it was limited. In addition to these prepared Japanese army Qi Biaojia also has more than 10,000 guards under his command, these guys are even more complete, up to sixty to sixteen, many people have never held knives and guns before, and now they see the fierce firepower of the opposing army, and the comrades around them are either hit off their heads by shells or break half of their bodies, under the fear of death, these guards can no longer hold on, and let out a shout to drop their knives and guns and run back.

In the tense atmosphere of the battlefield, it can be contagious when fleeing, and those reserve Japanese troops are not elite in the first place, and there is no qualified grassroots officer to restrain them, these reserve Japanese soldiers watched the fierce Ma Cheng army step by step, and saw their comrades behind them drop their swords and guns and run away, where they could still control their fears, and they also began to flee.

At first, they fled one by one, and soon evolved into a group of fleeing, Qi Biaojia sighed when he saw this, originally he thought that even if he was not as good as Ma Cheng, but he could also fight, but he didn't expect the defeat to fall like a mountain, and now it is not half an hour before the start of the war, and the soldiers on his side have escaped.

Qi Biaojia said listlessly to the people around him: "Withdraw from the army, retreat to the camp and fight again!" ”

Qi Biaojia's calculation was good, but he forgot that Ma Cheng on the opposite side also had a cavalry of 5,000 people. In this case, how could Ma Cheng give Qi Biaojia a chance to reorganize the army?

Ma Cheng rode on the horse and saw the defeat of the Luwang army on the opposite side, many soldiers began to turn their heads and run away, Ma Cheng laughed and said: "This Qi Biaojia, Lao Tzu thought he had any ability, but I didn't expect it to be a straw bag!" ”

Tian Boguang's eyes turned red when he saw such an easy meritorious service of the Shenji Battalion, and he clenched his fists and asked: "Dashuai, now is a good time, please let the last general fight!" ”

The timing in front of him is indeed good, Lu Wangjun is still two miles away from his camp, how can a human leg run past a horse's leg? Therefore, sending cavalry can take advantage of the defeat to rush into the enemy's camp.

"Okay, Tian Boguang, you lead the cavalry battalion to start charging, remember that Bendu does not kill the number of enemies, as long as Qi Biaojia's battalion. You have followed Bentu to fight the battle of Longtan Camp, do you know what to do? ”