Indeed, everything still has to be fought after all.

The next day.

The two sides totaled nearly 90,000 troops, and finally came to the battlefield of the decisive battle......

"This place is quite similar to northern Shaanxi!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked at the dust and sand next to him that was blown up by a whirlwind with emotion.

The sediment accumulated after the Yellow River burst again and again covered the originally fertile soil, and these nutrient-free sediments could not provide any food except for barely enough to grow some sorghum. However, the wheat is also being trampled by people and horses, and quickly merges with the surrounding weeds, and when the wind blows, the sky is full of grass clippings and fine sand.

The thieves are indeed very nostalgic.

It is said that they have been away from home for almost two years, although the women in Jiangnan are very good, but after all, it is inevitable that they will occasionally think of the mother-in-law and aunts in northern Shaanxi.

And Ying Guogong was still sitting on his huge mount, holding a telescope and looking around like a small Nana.

There was a hot air balloon above his head.

And there are also several hot air balloons rising in the sky in the distance.

This kind of thing that determines the fate of wild boar skin is now the standard configuration of the Ming army, and even the regimental exercises have tried to produce it, after all, it is not high-tech, it is nothing more than a giant Kong Ming lantern, even if you disdain to use Yang Xin's gasoline, there is also whale oil produced in Guangdong.

It has become common knowledge to raise a hot air balloon before a battle, just like modern radar, providing the commander below with overall control at high altitudes......

This is useful.

In such a big war, the scope of the battlefield has long exceeded the naked eye, and even beyond the observation range of the telescope on the ground.

Especially on such plains.

This is a pure plain, and the entire battlefield rises and falls no more than five meters above sea level.

At this moment, the Guangjing Nanjun Army itself laid out three army-level phalanxes, and the three phalanxes were lined up on the plain at intervals of half a mile, and in the middle of the two phalanxes was Yang Xin's Chinese army, and this Chinese army was also four battalion-level phalanxes, that is, his guard brigade. And one side of each army-level phalanx is a brigade, which is still a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry, leaving a battalion inside as a back, although the fourth side is a bit wasteful, but it is actually used to supplement the first line.

The core of each corporal phalanx is a slightly taller mound.

Speaking of such terrain, it would be good to find a mound, in fact, these mounds are also artificially piled.

The six-pound heavy artillery and mortar artillery at the army level are all on these mounds, and the four-and-a-half pound and two-pound artillery at the brigade and battalion levels can only be deployed on the front.

After all, this is the plain.

In this way, with Yang Xin's four battalion-level phalanxes behind, in fact, the 35,000 Jingnan Army formed an oversized quadrangular formation, and only three sides of the three army-level phalanxes were facing the enemy.

That is, three infantry brigades.

In the face of Lu Xiangsheng's troops with cavalry as the core, Yang Xin could only arrange the formation in this way.

As for his dragoons......

Those who are not on the battlefield, their duty is to wander the periphery, ready to attack Lu Xiangsheng's troops from the flank, including attacking their logistics line, Lu Xiangsheng has no river to rely on, their logistics is a weakness, but next to Yang Xin is the Huhe River, and those militiamen in small boats will bring what he needs. In short, the dragoons have been completely thrown out to play on their own, but even so, this huge formation thing is running for two kilometers, and no matter which way it goes, it is densely packed with human heads.

As for Lu Xiangsheng......

His side has reached a level that can be called boundless.

Because half of him was a cavalryman.

However, the Chinese army is infantry, that is, the new army of Jingying, the new army composed of these two armies, respectively with He Shixian and You Shigong as the general soldiers, the latter's younger brother You Shiwei, Shilu also commands a cavalry army, and the three brothers of the Yulin Wei You family were promoted by Lu Xiangsheng, especially You Shiwei, who can be regarded as Lu Xiangsheng's real cronies, as for You Shigong, he has always been with He Shixian.

In this way, at present, Lu Xiangsheng's three cavalry corps and two infantry corps are Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, You Shiwei, He Shixian, and You Shigong.

Two Liaoxi people.

Three Yulin guards.

The rest was Luo Yiyi, who led a cavalry corps to block the Mongol cavalry on the southern front.

"You talents from northern Shaanxi!"

Yang Xin said.

Indeed, the northern Shaanxi of the Ming Dynasty produced talents.

There are both fierce generals who can fight and anti-thieves, but the fierce generals still did not fight against thieves in the end, and the You Shiwei brothers and Li Zicheng fought for seven days, and finally Li Zicheng was killed. In addition, those fierce generals in Yulin and Suide who are more capable of fighting are also under Lu Xiangsheng at this time, for example, Hou Shilu is You Shigong's deputy general, but Sun Yuanhua's subordinates do not have this kind of this, and most of his subordinates are not famous.

Lu Xiangsheng took two infantry corps as the frontal ......

With twenty-four battalions, he finally realized the inventor of this set of tactics, because the ideal of a small country and widows had not been realized in a lifetime, he used twenty battalions of two armies to arrange a huge three-line formation that Prince Morris dreamed of. Six battalions are the forward, twelve battalions are the middle army, and six battalions are the rearguard, and the forward is facing one side of Yang Xin's forward one army-level phalanx, that is, a complete infantry brigade.

With the fire of six battalions against four battalions.

But it doesn't really work.

Because he still shoots in turns, but ten rounds of shooting become eight rounds.

The two cavalry armies of Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang were the left and right flanks.

You Shiwei is a cavalry army pressed the formation.

This is the Warlord!

This is already very necessary for Lu Xiangsheng.

"Lord, the second army has crossed the Huai River, and they have incorporated part of the surrendered army into the army!"

Li Zicheng urged the horse to Yang Xin's side, raised his head and saluted.

Yang Xin nodded.

The second army went north from Sizhou, even if it was faster, it would take three days, those soldiers were not mountain people's iron feet, and they couldn't do a forced march for a hundred miles a day, although there was a Bianhe River, but they also had to get off the boat in Lingbi, as for the army to be incorporated into the army, this is not a big deal, they are well versed in the way of transformation, and it is very simple to let part of the army quickly join.

At this moment, a high-pitched horn suddenly sounded overhead.

The offensive of the enemy troops began.

"Zu Dashou cavalry!"

Zhang Xianzhong looked up at the sky, where the observer was waving the flag, and he immediately shouted after learning this thing.

"Let's take a look at the real skills of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry!"

Yang Xin said.

At the same time......

"Let's take a look at the real skills of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry!"

Ma Jinzhong, who had already been wounded, looked at the surging cavalry, raised the axe and gun in his hand and roared excitedly.

He was almost blown up into rotten meat in Hengshan Fort, and he relied on his life, and he actually survived, because this can be said to be a miracle, he was directly promoted to the commander of the sentry, and he got an additional thousand taels of silver, which was rewarded by the Duke of Yingguo privately, after all, he blew up a fortress by himself......

Although it also killed many companions.

But credit cannot be erased.

Behind him, the musketeers were in full array.

Many people looked at their sentry commander with awe, this was a fierce man who had not died in nearly a hundred large and small wounds all over his body.

The torrent of cavalry in front is accelerating, this is not the Mongolian archer cavalry, this is the special ironclad cavalry of the Liaodong Army, the half-body armor of a water, and it belongs to the thickened half-body armor, and the legend is that the bird gun can't be pierced, because it is too thick and even has no back.

After all, horses have a limited load.

All the horsemen raised their short spears on the galloping horses, and as close as possible to form a wall of horses, they took aim in the gallop with their superb horsemanship.

And in front of them was a dense field of guns.

The original six rows of musketeers became three rows, the front row knelt in the second row and the back row stood upright, the third row of muskets aimed at the cavalry, and the cavalrymen continued to run wildly, and soon they reached the firing distance first, and the short guns of the wheel spewed flames. Almost at the same time, with the roar of Ma Jinzhong, his musketeers aimed at the war horse and opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets instantly made the cavalry turn on their backs, and at the same time, some soldiers on this side were also shot and fell.

"Retreat!"

Ma Jinzhong shouted.

All the soldiers turned around and ran behind the spears.

Remaining last, he was soon confronted by a cavalryman who was about to open fire with a second spear on horseback, when he swept with a roar of his axe, cutting off the horse's leg in an instant, and at the scream of the cavalryman's fall, he also turned around and ran.

Almost at the same time, the musketeers on the main line pulled the trigger.

The cavalry that was in pursuit fell off their horses.

However, these cavalrymen were prepared, and then drew their spears and rushed forward, and then the musketeers of the main line also turned around and ran, quickly retreating behind the spear phalanx, and the next moment one side of the spear phalanx stabbed to the side, and at the same time the musketeers on the other side pulled the trigger with a short gun in their hand. The musketeers of the infantry battalion in the back also opened fire, and the three-way attack instantly caused the dead bodies of this group of cavalry to pile up in the passage, and the subsequent cavalry could not move forward and could only go to the side, and then they fell into the embarrassment of the Mongolian cavalry last time.

"Fire!"

At Ma Jinzhong's roar, the musketeer, who had finished loading, opened fire again.

The cavalry with their backs to them fell.

At the same time, the reloaded musketeers of the main line returned to their original positions, while the attacking cavalry, under musket fire from the flanks and rear, quickly rushed through the side and circled the flanks.

But......

The flanks are the same as here.

This is a corps-level phalanx, they just go around to the back, and they also have to face this kind of line, the only gain is that the artillery that was originally on both flanks under their impact, they abandoned their cannons and hid in the spear forest, and watched the cavalry cut their own cannons as if they were angry.

That thing can't be broken.

And these cavalrymen did not dare to linger, because next to them were musketeers aimed at them.

They swept like the wind, and then the artillerymen saw that they were safe, and then ran out of the spear forest, hurriedly checked the artillery, and continued to aim at the main force of the enemy on the opposite side, while the hapless cavalry, while going around to the flank, faced the artillery bombardment of the army behind, and kept falling in the explosion of the flowering shells and the impact of the solid shells.

They eventually chose to evacuate.

And almost at the same time, on the frontal front, three waves of spear cavalry urged the war horses at the same time and launched an attack on the recovering Jingnan army.

(3 chapters)

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