At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will find that with the Acropolis of Bronze Drum as the center, the armies of the two sides are wrapped in layers, and the canine teeth of the phalanx are intertwined with each other.

In the middle of the battlefield between the two sides was the bronze drum acropolis and the Ming army in the city, about 3,000 people.

However, on the north side of the Tonggu Acropolis, that is, on the side close to the Ming army, there was the second infantry regiment led by Li Chunjing, according to each infantry battalion as a phalanx, and its three phalanxes basically blocked the contact between the Ming army in the city and the main force of the Ming army in the north in a zigzag shape.

Its fifth infantry battalion is just 300 meters outside the north gate of the Tonggu Acropolis, and if the Ming army in the city wants to rush out, it must first defeat the fifth infantry battalion.

However, about 100 meters to the left and right of the 5th Infantry Battalion are the 4th Infantry Battalion and the 6th Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which are ready to support the 5th Infantry Battalion at any time.

About 200 meters to the left of the 2nd Infantry Regiment is the 1st Infantry Corps, whose three infantry battalions are more concentrated, and the most elite 1st Infantry Battalion is on the far left, which is to prevent the Ming cavalry from attacking the flank of the army.

A hundred meters away from the left of the 2nd Infantry Regiment was the 4th Infantry Regiment, also in a dense formation.

The artillery battalion, as well as the two spear corps temporarily reinforced and used to protect the artillery battalion, were directly behind this first corps!

These three infantry regiments, as well as an artillery battalion, of about 6,500 people, were all located in the direction north of the Tonggu Acropolis, blocking the convergence of the main force of the Ming army and the Ming army of the Tonggu Acropolis!

On the right side of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, there are the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 5th Infantry Regiment, which also present a zigzag formation.

However, on the left side of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, there was a blank space, but on the left rear of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, there were the personal guard battalions, baggage regiments, cavalry battalions and other auxiliary troops led by Li Xuan himself.

The vacancy on the left side of the bronze drum acropolis is more than 300 meters wide, and a discerning person can see at a glance that this is a trap, and he doesn't dare to dare that the Ming army inside the city wants to rush out, or the Ming army outside the city wants to rush in from this passage, which is just under the firepower of most of the new Tang army!

The artillery of the artillery battalion turned around and fired scattered shells, which could inflict heavy casualties on the Ming troops passing through this passage, and the musketeers could also inflict a large number of casualties on the Ming troops passing through this passage when they turned around.

If the guard battalion and cavalry battalion led by Li Xuan launched a charge, they could also inflict heavy casualties on the Ming troops passing through this passage.

Therefore, the generals of the Ming army who have a little military knowledge will not choose to attack or break through from this channel!

Qiu Yu naturally has basic military knowledge, he is almost able to see the deployment of most of the pseudo-Tang thief army clearly on the city wall, and he can see at a glance that the passage on the west side on the left seems to be empty, but in fact it is a dead end, whoever goes will die.

If he wants to rush out and join the main force, or cooperate with the main force, he actually has not many options left, it is nothing more than to rush out and fight from the east, south, and north.

Over there, it's not so easy to mess with, there are at least three hundred puppet Tang thief army cavalry, and the cavalry he saw is a cavalry team in the guard battalion and nearly two hundred cavalry in the cavalry battalion, which adds up to just three hundred cavalry.

Launching a breakthrough charge against the cavalry, no matter how you look at it, how stupid!

And if you break through from the south, the main force in the north will not be able to support him, because even if the main force in the north wants to bypass, it will have to break through the defense line of the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army first, and the defense line of the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army is so easy to break through?

Others may not know, but Qiu Yu has already deeply seen the strength of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, and the phalanx of the main force of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army of more than 6,000 people in front of him is not so easy to break through.

Even if you want to go around, you know that if you go around, the puppet Tang thief army will follow and maneuver, so easily bypass.

If you go around from the back to the south, the main force will also move to the south, and the formation of the two sides will still be the same at that time, and what has changed is to change the name of the southeast, northwest, and northwest.

Because the troop movement of the two sides has lasted for a morning, this morning, the two sides are running around the Acropolis of the Bronze Drum, and finally formed the current pattern, there is a reason, that is because both sides can no longer find a better formation, but now this formation is reluctantly acceptable, so it will stop and officially enter the stage of fighting.

Of course, in the process of fighting, the formations of the two sides will continue to change, and the positions of each phalanx cannot remain the same.

And again, there are a large number of heavily armored units in the troops on both sides, a large number of heavy armored spearmen, heavy armor sword and shield bearers in the Datang New Army, and there are also a large number of heavy armored infantry on the Ming army's side.

Therefore, there is also a limit to the change of the formation of the troops, and it is impossible to say that the generals can change how they want, and many practical factors must be considered.

If you are in the east, it is not easy to go, because there will also be no support from the main force of the friendly army, and on his own, he really does not have the confidence to break through the defense line of nearly 4,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops, so as to converge with the main force.

At this time, he didn't know that the puppet Tang thief army east of the Tonggu Acropolis had recruits in the third infantry regiment and the fifth infantry regiment, and there were no guns, and the combat effectiveness was the worst in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Even the two garrison battalions in the 3rd Infantry Regiment were much stronger than them!

But the strength of a force, most of the time it can't be seen just by looking at the surface, at least now separated by a few hundred meters, Qiu Yu can't be sure, the pseudo-Tang thief army in the east is a weak chicken, and he can get a big victory after rushing out.

In the end, Qiu Yu chose the direction that seemed to be the most difficult, but at the same time had the most possibility of success, that is, to kill from the north.

In this way, although it is necessary to encounter the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, but it can be supported by the main friendly forces in the north, and the probability of a successful breakthrough will be much higher.

Even under the front attack, maybe it will be able to completely defeat the more than 6,000 main forces of the puppet Tang thief army in the north!

Seeing that the Ming army in the city actually took the initiative to rush out, whether they wanted to break through or wanted to flank the main force of the Ming army in the north, but Li Chunjing showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth!

In the past two days, he has had a lot of dealings with the Ming army in the city, and also launched a tentative attack, but it was only a tentative attack that was intended to put pressure on the Ming army and force the main force of the Ming army to go south, but it almost entered the Acropolis of Tonggu.

This is enough for Li Chunjing to make a judgment that the Ming army in the city seems to have 3,000 people, but in fact, it is already like a frightened bird, and its morale is extremely low, which can be described as unbearable.

They couldn't even defend the city, and now they even want to take the initiative to go out to fight!

They're looking for death!

Immediately, Li Chunjing ordered: "Order the Fifth Infantry Battalion to stop them head-on, and the Fourth Infantry Battalion to move south!" ”

"Order the 6th Infantry Battalion to shrink 100 meters to the rear!"

At this time, one of the staff officers in his narration said: "Do you want to ask for artillery support from the artillery battalion?" ”

At this time, Li Chunjing looked at the artillery position in the left rear, where there was still artillery fire, and they were continuing to shell the Ming army in the north, especially the artillery in the Ming army.

At this time, the artillery battalion had a more important task, and it was simply impossible to distract yourself from artillery support, even if it was just the support of one artillery.

So he said very simply: "No, we can do it ourselves!" ”

His Second Infantry Regiment is the only two fully manned infantry regiments in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, its Fourth Infantry Battalion is an old unit, although the Fifth Infantry Battalion is newly formed, but its officers are soldiers who are veterans who were directly transferred from other battalions, the number is new, but the troops are old troops, and the predecessor of the Sixth Infantry Battalion is the First Mixed Battalion.

Most of the soldiers have been in the army for more than half a year or even a year, and their combat effectiveness was on a par with the first infantry battalion, and then after expanding into the sixth infantry battalion, the combat effectiveness has declined, but in fact, the sixth infantry battalion is still the leading trump card unit in the second infantry regiment, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the fourth infantry battalion and the fifth infantry battalion.

This is also why he used the fourth and fifth infantry battalions to meet the Ming army in the city, but the sixth infantry battalion was shrinked and still faced north, because if the main force of the Ming army in the north rushed up, he needed the sixth infantry battalion to block them.

Qiu Yu rode a high-headed horse and rushed out with his troops!

There was still something shouting in his mouth, a look of excitement and a desire for victory, but most of the Ming soldiers behind him showed nervous and even desperate expressions.

The three thousand Ming troops in the city, in so many days of fighting with the puppet Tang thief army, their morale has been completely broken, the two thousand people in Qiu Yu's headquarters have become frightened birds a few days ago, and the morale of the original thousand Ming troops in the city was originally good, but under the influence of the two thousand people in Qiu Yu's headquarters, the morale will inevitably be affected.

And in yesterday's defensive operation, they really saw the strength of the puppet Tang thief army, especially the sharpness of the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, which had left an indelible impression on them.

Now, Qiu Yu actually rushed out with them, saying that he wanted to break through and join the main force, or even to flank the thief army in front of the main force.

But is it possible?

How can it be!

They don't believe that they can rush out, shouldn't the best thing to do at this juncture be to obediently hide in the establishment and sit back and watch the friendly army and the pseudo-Tang thief army fight?

If the allies are victorious, then they are saved, and if the allies are defeated, then ......

Well, it's a big deal to surrender!