Six hundred militiamen were left on standby in the forests on both sides of the junction as a receiving force.

After Chen Xian reorganized two infantry battalions and an artillery company, he continued to advance towards Xizhuangzi.

Already knowing that there was an ambush ahead, Chen Xian naturally couldn't continue to advance in the form of a marching army.

Fortunately, after leaving the forest, there is a large area of farmland in front, and it is early autumn, and the soybeans in the field have matured, part of the field has been harvested, and some of the soybeans are still left in the field, and the land has not been turned over, and it is very flat.

Chen Xian directly asked the infantry battalion to form a battle formation in a company and enter the farmland on both sides of the road to continue to advance, while the artillery company was sandwiched between two infantry battalions and continued to move forward on the road.

As the team moved forward, the farmland on both sides of the road became wider and wider, Chen Xian rode on a horse, walked in front of the artillery, led by his own soldiers, he held a telescope, and carefully observed the West Zhuangzi in the distance as he walked.

On the east gate tower of West Zhuangzi, three flagpoles are erected, and on the leftmost flagpole, a red flag is hung.

When Chen Xian walked to the middle of the open field between the eastern woods and the western Zhuangzi, a green flag was quickly raised from the flagpole in the middle.

Chen Xian turned his binoculars and looked at the woods to the north, and groups of soldiers walked out of the forest and began to line up in the farmland in front of the forest in an orderly manner.

Chen Xian frowned, turned the telescope to Xi Zhuangzi again, and his gaze fell on the remaining flagpole, under which was a black flag tied, and the flagbearer stood next to the flagpole, as if ready to raise it at any moment.

Although the development of the matter did not deviate from Chen Xian's prior investigation and inference, some ominous premonitions rose in Chen Xian's heart, and one question after another rose in his mind.

Why should the enemy in ambush in the woods to the north be exposed so early, shouldn't they wait until they are in the middle of their siege to attack them suddenly from behind? And the place where these people are ambushing seems to be a little far away from Xi Zhuangzi, didn't they plan to attack themselves from behind in the first place, why?

In fact, the infantry ambushed in this position a little far away from Xizhuangzi, Bai Shijie is also helpless, the woods sandwiched between the farmland and the Yi River in the south of the West Zhuangzi are not thick, and the closer to the West Zhuangzi, the thinner the forest, to the West Zhuangzi, the forest belt has even disappeared, the farmland is directly connected to the bank of the Yi River, there is no way to hide the soldiers, he can't hide the soldiers on the other side of the Yi River, the Yi River is not a small river, the river surface is more than 20 meters, the ditch is also hundreds of meters wide, and there are flood control embankments on the side of the ditch, It was difficult for cavalry to climb over.

In order to hide, the ambush position of the cavalry could only be in the position of Zhuangzi in the principle of Xi, and in order to cooperate with the cavalry and attract Chen Xian's attention, the infantry could only ambush in this position.

Chen Xian's last question was, what is the third flag used for? What kind of backhand does it represent?

These questions could not be answered for the time being, but they made Chen Xian subconsciously tend to be conservative in the next battle.

Although he had doubts in his heart, Chen Xian naturally didn't have time to think about it at this moment when the enemy was coming, so he immediately gave an order according to the plan made before the war.

"The second battalion faces north to deal with the infantry's first plan to unfold, and the second battalion is on standby on the south side of the road as a reserve."

"The artillery battery continued along the road, staggered with the infantry, and after gaining the firing range, it was ready on the spot and entered the firing state."

"After the artillery enters the firing state, first reload ordinary shells, wait for my order, and then open fire."

Several heralds quickly sent Chen Xian's order to two battalion commanders and a company commander.

Immediately, the second battalion on the north side of the road spread out four companies side by side, forming a large horizontal platoon facing north, and the four platoons of sword, shield and musketeers to which the four companies belonged, formed a loose six large horizontal platoons in front of the four small phalanxes composed of spearmen and axemen.

The first five rows of these six large horizontal rows are musketeers, and the last row is the sword and shield men.

After the formation change is completed, the sword and shield soldier puts the shield on the ground, and the long sword is inserted next to the shield, and he kneels on one knee to maintain his physical strength.

The musketeers also lit the arquebuses and were ready to shoot.

After Chen Xian's second battalion completed the formation, the Jin soldiers in the north had not yet lined up, and compared to the quiet and slaughter of Chen Xian's team, the Jin soldiers' team was somewhat chaotic.

Chen Xian's artillery was slightly slower than the infantry.

His artillery company consisted of twelve wagons of various sizes, each of which had a bronze cannon of greater or smaller size towed behind it.

The soldiers of the artillery company, in accordance with their usual training, took the sports car behind the infantry of the second battalion and staggered it some distance from the infantry formation in order to obtain a good firing range.

After arriving at the correct position, the artillerymen separated the cannon from the carriage, turned the muzzle of the gun to the enemy to the north, leveled the foundation, adjusted the gun mount, and adjusted the angle of fire......

Depending on the size of the gun truck, the number of artillery equipped with each gun carriage is also different, the smallest one-pound gun is equipped with only twenty artillery, and the largest seven-pound gun is equipped with forty artillery.

The entire artillery company had more than three hundred artillery men, which was clearly overstaffed, and this was intended to train soldiers for the new artillery company in the future.

The overstaffed artillery was divided into two teams, A and B, with the two teams taking turns to operate the artillery, one team to operate the artillery, and the other team to be responsible for the escort.

When Chen Xian's artillery company adjusted the cannon, loaded the ammunition, and then the company commander waved the flag to Chen Xian to signal that the cannon was ready to be fired, the Jin army in the north finally completed the formation and began to advance towards Chen Xian's side as a whole.

Chen Xian gave the artillery an order to shoot, but he also added the order that the cannon should be fired at a slow pace, and that the barrel of the cannon should not be overheated at all times and that it could explode at any time.

As Chen Xian's order passed, as the command flag of the artillery company commander waved, the twelve cannons roared at the same time, and the shells sprayed out with a faint smoke crossed a low ballistic parabola in the sky, and fell into the ranks of the Jin army, drawing bloody lines in the crowd.

These lines were long and short, the short ones only penetrated five or six people, and the long ones almost ran through the entire array of the Jin Army.

On this line segment, a large number of flesh and blood fragments appeared, and some guys who didn't know whether it was good luck or bad luck were just swept to a few parts by the cannon, and they were not dead for a while, and let out terrible screams.

This cruel scene caused a sudden confusion in the Jin army, which had never experienced artillery bombardment, and even some officers couldn't help but hold back and didn't have time to crush the soldiers.

Fortunately, after a shot on the opposite side, it stopped temporarily, and the Jin army's infantry formation barely maintained without breaking down.

Wan Yan Pingtao, who was watching the battle from the gatehouse of the Bai family Zhuangzi, couldn't help but change his expression when he saw this, he hesitated for a moment, and then issued an order to raise the last black flag to the soldiers around him.

Although Wanyan Pingtao also hoped to wait until Chen Xian and his own infantry were in the heat of battle before sending out cavalry to attack, if the infantry was defeated before he sent the cavalry to raid, it would have backfired.

As the black flag was raised, behind Chen Xian, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed out of the woods south of the Xizhuangzi Agricultural Open Land!