When Li Xiao was about to transfer troops and dispatch generals, he suddenly heard an urgent report from a soldier outside the tent.

"Report! Tang Guogong, there are a large number of thieves and soldiers in the west, at least more than 60,000 people, in order to spread out the ground, is approaching in the direction of our army's camp. After listening to the report, Li Xiao's brows suddenly tightened deeply.

"Hmph, these dog thieves must have thought that our army had just arrived, and the camp was not stable, so they raised troops to attack like this, and they wanted to take our army by surprise, which is really hateful.

Qin Liangyu said hatefully on the side.

"Yes, that Li thief must have wanted to take advantage of our army's coming, and he had just joined forces, so he wanted to come and give our army a surprise blow, but it was a good calculation. I also asked Master Li to make a quick decision, and we all obeyed Tang Guogong's command.

Hou Sui said hurriedly on the side. Li Xiao glanced at the two of them, stood up, summoned the other generals into the tent, and immediately ordered them separately.

"Battalion C Commander Qin Liangyu listened to the order.

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"The subordinates are here!

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"With all 3,060 shield soldiers and all 6,120 spearmen, you will line up outside the camp to meet the enemy.

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"The subordinates obeyed.

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"Hu Ben, the chief of the firecracker, listened to the order.

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"The end will be!

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"You take all the 4,500 Lu Mi guns, arrange the formation according to the three-stage attack formation you have practiced, and go out with the Qin battalion commander.

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"The last will obey.

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Liu Biao, the general manager of the rampant line, listened to the order.

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"The end will be!

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"You will take 2,000 soldiers on a rampage, and line up on both sides of the gun and shield battle array to protect the flanks.

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"The last will be ordered.

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"Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry Commander Samushka listened to the order.

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"The end will be!

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"You lead all 2,000 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, postpone the battle, listen to the orders of the duke, and wait for the plane to charge the battle to defeat the enemy.

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"The last will understand!

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"The Flying Harrier Light Cavalry Chief Batu listened to the order.

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"The end will be!

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"After you lead all 2,000 Flying Harrier light cavalry and the Xuanhu heavy cavalry to join the formation, listen to the orders of this duke, and wait for the plane to rush and sweep the battle as much as possible.

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"The last will understand!

“…… After Li Xiao arranged his own troops one by one, leaving only 2,000 auxiliaries to guard the camp, he ordered Hou Sui again: "Hou Shilang, this public order soldiers, divide your troops and horses into two parts, separate the left and right flanks of our army after the war, and attack the troops with our army, and make a total of character horn formations, and go out to meet the enemy together. Hou Sui stood up and replied loudly: "Don't worry, Tang Guogong, Hou will arrange it." "However, in a quarter of an hour, when the enemy army appeared from the vast horizon like a black line, the combined forces of the Tang Army and Hou Sui had already lined up along the river and laid out the formation.

As the saying goes, when people exceed 10,000, there is no boundary. The Tang army attacked the troops, and Hou Sui's coalition army combined, there were more than 30,000 people, the right flank resisted the Yellow River, and the left flank was extended to the end that was almost invisible to the naked eye.

The rogue troops attacking from the west to the east, because their strength was nearly twice that of the coalition army, looked even more immense, with banners and swords and guns, which looked very oppressive.

The more than 60,000-strong rogue troops were personally led by Li Zicheng to fight, the deputy generals were Liu Zongmin and Gao Yigong, and Li Guo and Luo Rucai continued to lead the remaining troops to besiege Kaifeng City, in case Henan governor Li Xianfeng, Henan general Chen Yongfu and others took the opportunity to break through.

Li Zicheng's army can be divided into three parts, Liu Zongmin led 10,000 elite soldiers as the pioneer, Li Zicheng led 30,000 Chinese troops, and the back was 20,000 soldiers with a high power, thinking that it was a response.

When Li Zicheng saw from afar that Li Xiao's military formation was already leaning against the camp and reaching the Yellow River on the right, forming an array, he roughly estimated the opponent's strength, and then looked up to the sky and laughed.

The guards on the side, seeing Li Zicheng's happy face, couldn't help but ask lightly: "King Chuang, why are you so happy when you see the enemy formation?" Li Zicheng gathered his beard all over his face, hooked his nose and replied with a smile: "Hmph, this commander is here, I was most worried about that Li Xiao, but because I was afraid of our army, I had to stick to it in the camp." In this case, although our army is powerful, it is difficult to swallow it in one bite, and this person is not self-sufficient, and he dares to lead the army into battle, but he is not in the hands of the commander. ”

"King Chuang, I heard that this Li Xiao is resourceful and good at making tricks, in the past, King Gao Chuang was ambushed by this person, so that the army of 100,000 was defeated, but I don't know that this person is now, but in the array, what tricks have been set up?"

"There's a fart trick!" Li Zicheng sneered and said: "Li Xiao, this guy, thousands of miles away, has just set up camp outside this Chenqiao Town, we are looking for an opportunity to attack, not giving him the slightest respite, but he is completely passive to fight, how can he conspire?" In addition, both sides of the Yellow River are vast plains, with no mountains and no obstacles, and it is absolutely impossible for Li Xiao to set up an ambush in the mountains to attack our army as he did last time in western Henan. Therefore, today, Ben Shuai will definitely have a good competition with this guy, so that he, the so-called Tang Guogong of the Ming Dynasty, will have a good taste of the iron fist of my righteous army. If you don't beat this Li Xiao, this commander will never withdraw his troops! ‘

"Well, King Chuang is very calculating, if he can defeat Li Xiao, this Kaifeng City, and even the entire Henan, will be eaten by us.

The guard said with a smirk. Soon the two armies approached each other, and about 200 paces away from Li Xiao's coalition forces, Li Zicheng shouted to stop his troops. Subsequently, he sent someone to shout in front of the Tang army, saying that he wanted to have a good talk with Li Xiao, the Duke of Tang. Hearing Li Zicheng's arrangement, the striker Liu Zongmin and the queen of the palace were all dissatisfied, and they rode over and complained to Li Zicheng. Liu Zongmin, who had a rough face, shouted angrily: "Big brother, what are you doing!" Li Xiao's melon cowardice is in front, you let me rush to kill it, cut off the head of this turtle grandson with an axe, and talk nonsense to him, and talk nonsense in vain! ”

"That is, if the eldest brother wants to talk to this guy, and after the war, our army captures Li Xiao's guy and lets him say anything flattering, why stop like this, it will damage morale and waste time." Gao Yigong, who had a sharp face and two whiskers, also said very dissatisfied.

"Hmph, you know a ball!" Li Zicheng glanced at them dissatisfiedly, and said coldly: "Now that the two armies are fighting, although our army is very sharp, but this time, if I can use the time of chatting with Li Xiao to rest a little, then the next battle will be more profitable." In addition, we have cooperated with Li Xiao anyway, but if we completely tear our faces, it will not be beautiful. Before this battle, he sent someone to shoot an arrow book to ask me to negotiate, although I rejected him at that time, but I thought carefully, I still have to talk to him before this battle, which can be regarded as showing our attitude. Although I don't expect him to be forced to withdraw because of the prestige of our army, it is still a very cost-effective thing to suppress his reputation and frustrate his military morale. Liu Zongmin and Gao Yigong, hearing Li Zicheng speak like this, although they were still dissatisfied, they couldn't stop it more.

In the Tang army array, Li Xiao frowned unconsciously after hearing the shouts of the sentry cavalry sent by Li Zicheng. What to do, do you want to go out to meet him?

Li Xiao hesitated slightly, but decided to go out immediately to have an interview with Li Zicheng. Li Xiao knew very well that if he hesitated and did not dare to go to talk to him, the morale of his own soldiers would be greatly hindered.

Since Li Zicheng has come to the door, it would be a joke if he didn't have the courage to talk to him. Subsequently, Li Xiao ordered the guards around him to promise to make an appointment with Li Zicheng and himself to meet in front of the two armies.

Li Xiao saw from a distance that in the opposite array, Li Zicheng, who was wearing a signature blue tight-fitting military uniform, wearing a Fan Yang felt hat, and riding a tall jujube red horse, slowly rode out.

Seeing his own commander out of the battle, there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the rogue army. At this time, Li Xiao also walked out of the military formation and rode out slowly.

The sergeants on both sides saw that this Tang Guogong Li Xiao, with a handsome face and a strong figure, was dressed in bright silver stainless steel armor, the heart guard on his chest was recognizable, wearing an eight-petal phoenix-winged tasseled helmet, a brute lion green jade belt around his waist, a bronze shin guard combat boot on his feet, a bright red woven flower cloak, and riding a high-headed horse with a black body but four snow-white hooves.

Seeing that his own coach was so charming and charming, Tang Jun's morale was greatly boosted, the battle cheered again and again, the sound of victory rose one after another, and the enemy army was also in an uproar.

Li Zicheng and Li Xiao slowly rode their horses closer to each other, and stood still about 20 steps away from each other.

Li Xiao and Li Zicheng looked at each other, and then gave each other their names.

"The leader of a certain rebel army, Li Zicheng is also."

"A certain young master of the Ming Prince, Li Xiao, the Duke of Tang Guo." Li Zicheng snorted lightly: "Li Xiao, let me ask you, you are in Shandong, I am in Henan, the well water has always been not the river water, and there have been many friendships of cooperation in the past, why did you come here thousands of miles to fight with our army?"

Li Xiao sneered: "A certain family is an important minister of the Ming Dynasty, this Henan provincial government is in trouble, and a certain family can not be saved."

Li Zicheng, a certain family can also tell you that it is precisely because of the previous cooperation between you and me that my father decided to negotiate with you first.

If you are interested, you can quickly lead the troops to withdraw, and then the prince will not be held accountable. If not, I'm afraid that the swords and guns will be blind, and the battle will be ruthless, and you, the king of Chuang, will be afraid that it will be difficult to stay in Henan again.

Li Zicheng laughed when he heard this, and in his slender eyebrows, two cold lights were projected: "Li Xiao, you are really angry!" Could it be that you still want to threaten Ben Shuai? You see, your troops are less than half of our army, and how can you be an opponent of our army with these forces alone? Isn't it a joke that you still want our army to retreat despite the difficulties? Li Xiao sneered again: "Li Zicheng, there are not many soldiers, don't you understand this truth?" Our army is all elite soldiers, and they are all comparable to these local chickens and dogs in your army! Tell you, my father just didn't want to kill more, so he warned you in such detail, if you are obsessed, you will not blame this father for being ruthless.

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"Phew! Li Xiao, you dare to threaten me, do you really think I'm scared?

Li Zicheng's face became angry: "You Mo Since, you used deception to ambush and attack Gao Yingxiang and King Gao Chuang, and now you can still do this trick to me Li Zicheng."

Let me tell you, our army is not a chicken, but a long-term elite soldier, but much stronger than back then!

If you want to fight, then don't blame Li for being ruthless, you are ready to collect the corpses of you dogs!

After Li Zicheng finished speaking, he snorted coldly, and turned his voice to pull out his horse and return to the battle. Li Xiao's eyes were like knives, staring at his tall back, and his heart was also ruthless, he shouted loudly, turned the horse's head, and returned to the formation. As the rumbling war drums sounded, the Liukou army continued to shout loudly, rushing towards the Tang army's machine-like battle formation. It's just that the 10,000 elite soldiers, including the forward general Liu Zongmin, who rushed to the forefront, didn't notice that in the shield formation of more than 2,000 people in front of the Tang army, on each big shield, there was a slender black shiny Lu Mi gun that had lit the fire rope, had been loaded with gunpowder, and was carefully aiming. And after the first row of 1,500 Lu Mi soldiers, there are two more rows of Lu Mi soldiers, who are also ready. These three rows of focused and neatly rhythmic Lu Mi soldiers are Li Xiaojun's latest training results, three stage strikes. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", these three strikes were a tactical shooting method that Mu Ying, a general who pacified Yunnan in the early Ming Dynasty, first used firearms to deal with rebels, elephants and other beasts or troops, and felt that the gunpowder loading speed was too slow. This was done in teams of three, with the musketeers at the front firing, then retreating to the rear of the group to concentrate on reloading, with the second soldier coming forward to fire. Three people alternate reloading and firing, tripling the efficiency of arquebuses that would otherwise take a minute or more to shoot at a time! Approximate European semi-maneuver tactics. This is also the three-stage strike tactic used by Li Xiao now. In addition, this is the first three-stage striking technique that appeared in the early Ming Dynasty, and in the later Warring States period of Japan, another three-stage striking technique appeared. For example, in the Battle of Nagashinosa, Oda Nobunaga's musket team defeated Takeda Katsuyori's cavalry with three shots. He first arranged for 3,000 musketeers to set up a horse barrier in front of the formation, and then arranged for the soldiers to work in groups of three, with the most accurate shooters among them acting as marksmen, and the other two being responsible for assembling the bullets and arquebuses. After the shooter fires, a second soldier takes the musket and loads the gunpowder from the front end, which is tamped and loaded with bullets. The third soldier simultaneously adjusts the position of the arquebus from the rear, moves the trigger to its original position, and then hands the musket to the shooter, allowing for non-stop firing. These two three-stage shooting techniques have their own advantages and disadvantages, and there is a reason why this shooting formation is adopted. This is because, at that time, although the arquebus was more powerful than the bow and crossbow, after the musket was fired, it had to go through the gunpowder, put in the lead pellet (at that time, the real bullet did not come out, and some countries even used stones that can be seen everywhere), draw out the through strip from under the barrel, ram the lead shot and gunpowder, and aim at the enemy at the fire rope, and occasionally clean the gun hole after shooting, so it takes about a minute to put a shot, and in the interval after shooting, the enemy in close combat will charge (especially the cavalry), so that the musket team with weak defense, Suffered a lot of losses. Therefore, some generals who have made achievements have come up with a method of warfare, the musket team is divided into three rows, the first row shoots after the second row shoots, the first row and the third row exchange positions when the second row shoots, and then the rear is loaded with gunpowder, etc., the second row shoots after the second row shoots, the second row exchanges positions with the first row at the beginning, replenishes ammunition, and the first row shoots after the third row is finished, so that the interval time is greatly shortened. In the early days, arquebusiers used this method to continuously demoralize the enemy and frighten the horses of the enemy's cavalry, which was feared by the feudal knights who were known as the kings of the battlefield in the Middle Ages. Later, after the advent of the flintlock pistol, due to its adaptability to various weather conditions (it can be used in rainy or snowy days) and the speed and convenience of reloading (the flintlock pistol can eliminate the ignition procedure, reducing the probability of firing failure and shortening the firing time), the flintlock pistol with the three-stage combat method can effectively disrupt the enemy's formation and cause a large number of casualties to the enemy. Therefore, muskets have gradually become the protagonist in the military arena, accelerating the demise of feudal forces in various countries, and making the trend of the whole world evolve from feudal society to modern society. When he saw the enemy troops who were already lined up in a dense battle formation, and walked more than 170 steps away from him with guns and shields, Hu Ben, the chief commander of the firearms, couldn't help but have a smile on his face. He took a deep breath and waved down the red flag raised high in his hand violently, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Release!"

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