The commander of the Mongol Han army, who had long held his breath, could not wait to give the order after the two sides entered the arquebus attack range, and the arquebusiers in the front row fired a volley, and then he launched an assault order against the spear phalanx in the front row.

Long before the enemy approached, Chen Xian's flintlock musketeers had already lined up a large horizontal platoon of three rows before the big formation.

The salvo of the arquebusiers of the Mongol Han army was not good, because the distance between the two sides was too far, almost just entered the range of the arquebus, and when the bullets on the opposite side reached Chen Xian's side, they had been scattered very badly, and the hit rate was less than 10 percent, and they knocked down some of the flintlock musketeers in Chen Xianjun's formation.

Chen's flintlock musketeers were not in a hurry to counterattack, and they waited until the Mongol Han army's spearmen phalanx charged within 70 meters before they began to fire in rotation.

In the dense volleys of flintlock muskets, the charging Mongol Han spearmen and phalanx soldiers fell in rows and rows.

However, under the pressure of the harsh military law, the Han army had to charge forward.

After withstanding a round of flintlock firing from the flintlock line, the Mongol Han army's spear phalanx finally quickly advanced to a position less than thirty meters away from Chen's main array.

Chen Jun's musketeers immediately began to change formations and shrink into a phalanx of twenty-four columns and nine rows in accordance with the drill code.

This is a defensive phalanx of flintlock pistols that can be used against cavalry and, of course, against hand-to-hand infantry.

The musketeers who formed the defensive phalanx would all have their bayonets loaded, and in the phalanx, all soldiers would take a crouching position, and only the formations that received the order to shoot would stand up and shoot at all enemies approaching the phalanx.

After the musketeers retracted, the spear phalanx in Chen's array immediately launched a counter-charge against the charging Mongol Han army.

Soon, the spear phalanxes of both sides were strangled together.

In the gap between the spear phalanx of the Mongol Han army, the musketeers of the Mongol Han army also advanced, and they began to fire at close range with the musket phalanx of the Chen army.

Of course, the arquebus could not shoot the flintlock musket, and the musketeers of the Mongol Han army were quickly routed.

Then, the musket phalanx in Chen's army began to penetrate into the gap between the spear phalanx, and supported his own spear phalanx with fire from the flank.

The number of spear phalanxes in the Mongol Han army was much larger than that of the Chen army, and some of the spear phalanxes of the Mongol Han army, which were not blocked by the spear phalanx of the Chen army, changed their goals and charged towards the musketeers phalanx of the Chen army.

But these spearmen of the Mongol and Han armies found that even if they charged at close range, it was difficult for them to shake the phalanx formed by the flintlock musketeers, because the firepower of the flintlock musketeers was too dense, and if it was a cavalry charge, it was possible to rely on the rapid speed to break the flintlock phalanx, and the pike phalanx to rush the flintlock phalanx was simply to die!

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Just when the artillery of the Chen army began to thin out, the Mongol cavalry, which had been waiting for an opportunity behind the Han army's large array, finally moved.

The Mongol cavalry bypassed the chaotic cavalry battlefield on the right flank of the Great Formation, trying to bypass from the right side of the battlefield and attack the back of the weak chaser line of Chen's army.

Yang Miaozhen, who had been standing on his horse and observing the battlefield, saw that the Mongolian cavalry immediately gave an order.

With Yang Miaozhen's order, the horse infantry brigade, which had been anxiously watching the bustle on the battlefield, finally moved.

Two brigades of horse infantry quickly interspersed behind the chasseurs.

Because the Mongolian cavalry has been following behind the Han army, there is a distance of three or four miles from the battlefield, and the cavalry charge can not last, generally at a distance of three or four hundred meters will start the charge, before the charge, the Mongolian cavalry can only trot close to the battlefield.

Therefore, the horse infantry of the Chen army had enough time to penetrate behind the chasers, dismounted and formed a flintlock pistol defense phalanx, protecting the chasers behind them, so that they could go to destroy the cavalry of the Mongol Han army with peace of mind.

Therefore, when the Mongol cavalry came near the battlefield, they were faced with a seemingly thin phalanx of muskets.

Although Mu Huali was an experienced commander, he didn't know anything about muskets, and he didn't understand the difference between flintlock pistols and the arquebuses used by his Han army.

So when he found that the infantry blocking the front were all musketeers, Mu Huali didn't think much about it, and ordered his armored cavalry to charge.

The reason why he did not use light cavalry to harass was because Mu Huali knew that in front of the pure musketeer phalanx, the light cavalry would be sent to death.

There is an essential difference between the Mongol iron cavalry in the era of Genghis Khan and the Mongol cavalry that could not bear the casualties in later generations.

The Mongol cavalry, who received the order, charged quickly and resolutely, and without hesitation crashed head-on into the musketeer phalanx.

After the first row of soldiers fired, they squatted down and pierced the ground with a flintlock pistol with a total length of more than two meters with a bayonet in their hands, and the bayonets moved forward at 45 degrees to form a rejection horse, while the flintlock muskemen in the back row continued to reload and take turns shooting.

The flintlock muskets were at least three times as dense as the arquebuses, but they were unable to stop a desperate cavalry, and despite heavy casualties, the Mongol cavalry slammed into the flintlock phalanx in front of them.

At the last moment of the collision, all the flintlock muskeviolers gave up shooting, and they all crouched down, using their rifles and their bodies to form a rejection.

The rejection of the horses in the ninth row did not block the iron hooves of the Mongols, but after all, they slowed them down.

When the Mongol cavalry penetrated the first row of phalanxes, he was in the best range of the second row of musket phalanxes.

As the speed slows down, the firing of the flintlock phalanx becomes more deadly.

The charge of the Mongolian iron cavalry was a typical cavalry charge of this era, and they formed a loose arrow formation, charging like a torrent, going forward and one after another.

Therefore, although the vanguard of the Mongol cavalry was halted by the second column of flintlock pistols because of the reduced speed, as the cavalry behind did not slow down and passed the corpses in the front row, they finally increased the speed of the charge, and they finally broke through the second row of flintlock pistols when they paid more casualties.

Although he broke through the enemy formation, Mu Huali, who was standing on horseback and watching the battle, had an ugly and terrible face, because the casualties were too great.

In the few tens of seconds when the cavalry broke through the enemy's flintlock formation, almost a third of the iron cavalry fell.

These charging horsemen had to face not only the fire of the musketeers in front of them, but also the fire of the musket phalanx on both sides that were no longer in front of them.

Mu Huali even found that Chen's musket line began to change formations after determining the target of their charge, and the Tanma changed from a large horizontal row to a V-shape, sandwiching the charging Mongolian iron cavalry in the middle, shooting desperately.

After breaking through the musket phalanx of horse infantry, the Mongol iron cavalry finally came behind the chasseurs......

But in fact, it was not behind him, at this time, the cavalry of the Mongol Han army had completely collapsed, and the chasseurs had already turned their horses' heads again by taking advantage of the blocking of the horse infantry just now.

Therefore, at this time, the Mongolian iron cavalry was actually facing a line array of chasers that had been lined up in three rows.

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