A clearing near the No. 3 ferry port was brightly lit, and judging from the lights, the strength of the Ming army far exceeded that of the second mixed battalion of the Tang New Army on the opposite side.

However, Li Chunjing, who was at a disadvantage in strength, did not have the slightest fear on his face, he rode on his horse and looked at the Ming army in front of him, and did not speak for a long time.

And the soldiers under his command are also rapidly arrayed under the command of the officers of each team and platoon.

And in this process, apart from the commands shouted by the officers from time to time, the soldiers did not make the slightest noise.

Except for the sound of the torches burning and the sound of footsteps, the soldiers of the 2nd Mixed Battalion did not make the slightest sound, and did not even go more or less in the process of maneuvering the formation.

They are like inanimate machines, rigidly and meticulously following the orders of the officers to carry out various actions!

This is not because they are dead or mute, but because they have already learned what to do and what not to do in the past few months of harsh training, in the midst of various corporal punishments such as whipping and confinement.

And when the troops are in formation, without the officer's order, even if you take one step forward, it is a violation of the military order, and the officer asks you to take two steps, and you take three steps is also a violation of the military order.

If it is during training, there will be a whip immediately, and even the comrades in the same platoon will be punished.

Because almost all the tactics of the Datang New Army rely heavily on collective action, and each team and faction is a whole, it is impossible for the soldiers to fight alone.

So from the beginning of the training, they were trained as a whole, either all the people were sent to complete the training, or the whole team was punished.

In this process, some more extreme things will inevitably happen, such as after the recruit makes a mistake in training, and the whole platoon is punished, then he may be punched and kicked by the veterans of the same platoon in private.

Of course, if it is discovered by the officers, then it is inevitable that the whole platoon will be severely punished.

The military law of the Datang New Army is quite quite quite cruel, and the strict and strictly enforced military law is the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the Datang New Army.

The reason why the Datang New Army was able to prohibit these soldiers who were just farmers a few months ago was not because of some high welfare treatment, nor because of the fact that officers and soldiers ate and lived together, nor because of any faith or anything like that, such as letting them fight for His Majesty and fight for their families.

Rather, it is because of the daily rigors of training and military law, through which all the autonomy of the soldiers is worn out, and they become puppets who only obey orders and perform mechanical tactical actions.

Today, these soldiers are able to face the Ming army, which is five or six times their own strength, and they can still meet the enemy in the slightest array, and the formation is not chaotic at all, which is the result of the cruel training of the Datang New Army.

Of course, even the most brutal training could not overcome the survival instinct of the soldiers, and when the troops collapsed, they still had to flee.

And what Li Xuan and a group of officers asked was for them to be able to hold out longer when facing a strong enemy.

In a battle, some armies collapse after a casualty rate of 5%, and some armies collapse when the casualty rate reaches 50%, and this is the difference between cannon fodder and elite.

The 2nd Mixed Battalion was preparing the camp in formation, and the Ming army on the opposite side was also doing the same thing, and not long after they landed on the beachhead, they met the 2nd Mixed Battalion of the Datang New Army that returned to the No. 3 ferry.

Now they are in a hurry, but the Ming army obviously has not experienced the same brutal training as the new army of the Tang Dynasty in the past three months, so the speed of their formation is quite slow, and it looks chaotic.

When his troops finished arraying, Li Chunjing did not waste any time, and immediately ordered: "The whole army marches together!" ”

At this time, they were still about three hundred meters away from the Ming army on the beachhead, and this distance was obviously impossible to fight, and they had to get closer.

The Ming army on the opposite side looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army three hundred meters away and was gradually approaching, and the shouts and scolding of those officers were even louder, urging the soldiers to hurry up and line up, otherwise if the formation was scattered, even if it was a large number of troops on their own side, I was afraid that they would not be able to stop the neat pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side.

Li Chunjing naturally saw the movements of the Ming army on the opposite side, and he rode on a horse to accompany the troops forward, while estimating the distance and the preparation of the Ming army on the opposite side.

"Don't stop, keep in formation and walk in unison!" Li Chunjing did not forget to instruct the officers in the rear to let them maintain the formation of the troops.

At this time, the 2nd Mixed Battalion listed the most commonly used and most standard field offensive formation in the new army of the Tang Dynasty: spearmen were in the center, musketeers were on the sides, and sword and shield soldiers and archers were at the rear of the formation.

That's right, in the face of a strong enemy, Li Chunjing did not put on a defensive formation, but an offensive formation, because he wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army had just landed on the beachhead and had an unstable foothold, not to annihilate the thousands of Ming troops, but at least to kill and wound a large number of them.

Step by step, the soldiers of the 2nd Mixed Battalion carried torches and advanced through the field, not fast or slow, but they always remained the same.

The distance of two hundred meters was quickly completed, and at this time, Li Chunjing, who was riding on a horse, raised his right hand: "The whole army stops!" ”

After the voice fell, many officers in the rear also shouted: "Stop! ”

After a while, Li Chunjing nodded slightly, and the officer of the musketeer team behind him immediately rode away, riding directly in front of his musketeer array: "The musket team listens to the order, prepare!" ”

Immediately, the musketeers put down the muskets that they were carrying on their shoulders, which had already been reloaded!

The officers shouted again: "Ignition!" ”

The soldiers lit the arquebus!

The musketeer officer had already ridden across the array of musketeers, returned to the side of the array, and raised his waist knife: "First row aim!" ”

After a few seconds, I saw the command knife in his hand pointed forward: "Shoot."

After the crisp and dense gunfire rang out on the riverside, the officers of the musket team did not look at how many Ming troops had fallen on the opposite side, but continued to speak: "The second platoon stepped forward and aimed!" ”

"Shoot!"

"The third row comes forward and aims!"

"Shoot!"

The 100 musketeers of the musketeers have already launched an almost textbook multi-row round fire!

So much so that the gunshots kept rang out, again and again, and seemed to stop!

With the shooting of the musketeers, the Ming army on the opposite side also continued to fall, although the number of people who fell was not much, but the continuous fall of people, which greatly affected the morale of the Ming army still in the array, and the speed of the formation was even slower.

It was not good to make a leader of the Qianhu angry, and shouted a few words to a deputy Qianhu of the Ming army in the rear, and then the deputy Qianhu of the Ming army ran out quickly!

After a while, a group of archers rushed out from the rear of the Ming army's array!