The western half of Baotaikou is a large barren beach, which is a large sandy land with sparse vegetation on the surface, mostly some thatch, and small shrubs.

After entering the barren beach at Baotaikou, Chen Xian did not hesitate to order his troops to expand from the marching formation to the battle formation, but it was not fully deployed, but from the four columns into a company-level phalanx. There were sixteen guidelines in total, in two columns, which were divided on both sides of the artillery team on the main road.

This kind of unfolding does not need to stop at all for Chen Xian's troops, and it can be done while marching.

When there were only more than 300 meters left in the woods to the west of Baotaikou, Chen Xian once again gave the order to change the formation.

The infantry, which had originally advanced in two columns, began to slowly unfold in the process of advancing, and finally formed a phalanx of 16 companies, divided into two rows in front and rear, with eight company-level phalanxes in each row, and the unfolded horizontal formation advanced until it was more than 200 meters away from the woods to the east before stopping.

The horizontal platoon formed this time is also a little different from the previous infantry horizontal platoon, leaving a large gap between the phalanx, which leads to the fact that the horizontal plane of this horizontal platoon is very large, and it basically blocks the barren beach at Baotaikou, which is gradually narrowing.

Huo Yiyuan, who was hiding in the forest and snooping, looked at the second monk Zhang, who was puzzled, what kind of medicine was bought in this Chen Xian's gourd? If he found an ambush and lined up in advance, shouldn't he have lined up this sparse big horizontal formation? Shouldn't the infantry be lined up in a thick phalanx to deal with the cavalry, or a large array of fish scales in depth?

If Chen Xian had already discovered his ambush and planned to block himself, then how could he stop the cavalry if he arranged the formation so sparsely?

What made Huo Yi even more incomprehensible was the action of Chen Xian's artillery team, which did not follow the infantry, but listed a long snake formation on the main road, and then turned the muzzle, half towards the left side of the road, half towards the right side of the road, and the artillery team of the long snake formation and the horizontal line of the infantry just formed a big T-shape.

After the infantry finished deploying, the small arquebus phalanx of the front company all stepped forward, forming a six-row horizontal formation in front of the spear phalanx.

In the last expansion of the army, Chen Xian canceled the sword and shield soldiers in the team, and replaced all the sword and shield soldiers with arquebusiers.

While the arquebusiers of the front company were deployed, the arquebusiers of the infantry company in the rear broke away from their company and advanced into the gap between the front and rear rows of company phalanxes, forming small phalanxes, with their muzzles facing the gaps on the left and right sides of the company phalanx.

After the infantry formation was completed, Chen Xian, with a mocking smile on his face, rode to the front of the infantry array, took the advice handed by the guards and lit the musket of the arquebus, and pulled the trigger towards the sky under the puzzled eyes of the enemies who were spying on him in the woods.

With this gunshot, Huo Yi, who was lying on the edge of the woods and snooping, suddenly heard a dense gunfire behind him.

This gunshot made Huo Yi's eyes widen instantly, and he was ambushed!? How could it be, unless Chen Er was the reincarnation of Zhuge , how could he have expected that he would ambush him here?

What Huo Yi didn't know was that Chen Xian didn't expect him to come back to ambush him at all, but he was cautious and asked Chen Xian to hide a thousand arquebus militia in the forest at this key intersection in advance to pick him up.

That night Huo Yi marched with torches, and was seen by the arquebus militia left here by Chen Xian to answer from afar, Zhang Song, who led the militia, personally investigated after discovering Huo Yi's horse team, and quickly made a judgment on the identity and intentions of the other party, and then he withdrew the arquebus militia into the deeper woods, and sent someone to inform Chen Xian overnight.

After receiving the information, Chen Xian quickly formulated a battle plan, and sent the best cavalry to give the order first, this team of cavalry ordered the cavalry to arrive at the westernmost part of Baotaikou first, and then burrow into the woods to the south, cross the forest and cross Huo Yi's ambush, find Zhang Song, and hand over Chen Xian's battle order to him.

The shot fired by Chen Xian just now was a signal to Zhang Song.

A single thousand arquebusiers on the plain, against nearly 2,000 cavalry, were basically certain to die, and they couldn't run.

But when a thousand arquebusiers and two thousand cavalry fought in a dense forest, it was self-evident whose side the advantage would be.

After the dense and chaotic arquebus rang out, the cavalry cobbled together by Huo Yi's men quickly fell into chaos.

As soon as he heard the gunfire behind him, Huo Yi knew that the general trend had gone, and this person was also a little decisive, and shouted to the other generals around him without hesitation: "Don't entangle with the musketeers, the horse team is too disadvantaged in the woods, get on the horse and rush out and step on his footsteps!" ”

After speaking, Huo Yi turned around and pounced on the place where his family was stationed, turned on his horse, picked up the spear handed over by his family, dragged the spear, and rushed out of the woods in an instant.

When Huo Yi was driven out of the woods by the musket, his vision suddenly widened, and he suddenly understood what the intention of this strange formation in front of him was.

Huo Yi is the second brother of Liu Erzu's sworn brothers, after Liu Erzu died in battle, he naturally would not ignore the defeat of his brother, on the contrary, Huo Yi collected many people who escaped from the battlefield.

Among Liu Erzu's defeated soldiers, some people with identities knew that Huo Yi was his second leader, and many of them came to defect.

Among these people, there are many of Peng Yibin's subordinates.

From these people, Huo Yi knew a lot about muskets and artillery.

Afterwards, Huo Yi found some people from the Peng family's village who had been captured by Chen Xian, and some of these captives had seen arquebuses up close, and even knew how to operate them, which was not complicated.

Huo Yi also got a lot of three-eyed muskets from Peng's village, and he also personally tested this weapon.

After Yan Pingtao's defeat, Huo Yi bought a number of defeated soldiers who escaped from the battlefield, and he also had a deep understanding of that battle.

It can be said that in addition to Chen Xian and his apprentice, Yang Miaozhen, who has been in Chen Xian's Zhuangzi for several months, Huo Yi is probably the person who knows most about guns in the world.

Although I know how powerful the guns are, people always have some inexplicable self-confidence, others don't believe it, it doesn't mean that I can't do it, if it were me, how would I ......

It was in this form, and he thought that he knew himself and his opponent, so Huo Yi dared to connect with him to ambush Chen Xian.

But it is precisely because of this understanding that when surrounded by guns, Huo Yi also knows best how terrible the situation in front of him is!

Seeing the opponent's intentions and understanding his situation at this time, Huo Yi only felt cold and full of despair.

What really made the benefit desperate was not the infantry in front, but the long snake array in the back, with the muzzles facing on both sides.

The twenty cannons of the artillery array are sparsely lined up for nearly 300 meters long, and the area of more than 300 meters pointed to by the muzzle of the cannon is the real place of death!