At this time, Butcher Chen couldn't bear it, and personally commanded an 800-kilogram artillery to shell the Ming army, and kept shouting: "Rapid fire, fast, fast, open fire to Lao Tzu!" ”

The other artillery units of the Tang Dynasty's division, such as the two battalion artillery teams that stayed with the infantry on the front line and provided direct front-line artillery support for the infantry, and the third artillery team to which the second artillery battalion belonged, were also making final preparations for battle.

If these Ming troops want to rush out and fight the infantry hand-to-hand, they have to withstand their intensive artillery bombardment first!

The Ming army moved, and the Tang Army also reacted quickly, and Hao Bonian, who was in the rear, smiled and talked with his subordinates.

Hao Bonian in the rear looked relaxed and full of confidence, not only him, but even if other people saw that the Ming army took the initiative to come out, they were also excited and confident!

After Hao Bonian finished speaking lightly, he also changed to a serious look and formally ordered: "Order, the first step corps, the second infantry regiment, and the fifth garrison regiment are ready to meet the enemy!" ”

"Order the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to get ready for an attack!"

"Order all artillery teams to be sure to fire as quickly as possible to kill and wound the enemy!"

"Order the whole army, for Your Majesty, for the Tang Dynasty, for the glory and wealth, this battle must be defeated in one battle!"

Fang Dongquan on the side also said with excitement on his face: "The show is finally going to appear!" ”

Although he has no right to command this battle, and he is watching the drama from beginning to end, but being on such a large-scale battlefield, just participating in it is enough for him to be extremely excited.

He, the bandit leader, has always liked this kind of large-scale scene, otherwise he would not have been reluctant to push it down, but would continue to stay in the main force.

As soon as Hao Bonian's order was issued, several flag soldiers around him began to play flags to convey his orders to the troops, and at the same time, the heralds also rode fast horses to deliver orders to the troops as soon as possible!

Because in the last Rongxian Campaign, there was a mistake in the transmission of orders by the banner soldiers, which caused an extremely bad impact, and after the incident, Major Lu Yuzhi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Battalion, personally wrote an excerpt and sent it to Li Xuan.

Nowadays, the Datang Army has urgently improved the order transmission process, stipulating the transmission of orders on the battlefield and the issuance of important orders, if possible, the dual transmission of heralds and flag soldiers is used as much as possible, and when passing through the flag at the same time, there must be two flag soldiers transmitting the same order at the same time.

At the same time, after the subordinate troops accept the order, they must confirm whether the order is correct or not, and at the same time, it is strictly required that every officer must understand the flag!

On the front line, Li Chunjing, who was wearing a dark blue military uniform, rode on a horse and listened to the report of the flag soldiers beside him: "The general has issued an order, the first step corps, the second infantry regiment, and the fifth garrison regiment are ready to meet the enemy!" ”

"Order the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to get ready for an attack!"

"Order all artillery teams to be sure to fire as quickly as possible to kill and wound the enemy!"

Li Chunjing immediately said: "Confirm whether the order is correct!" ”

Soon, the herald beside him retold the order through the flag, and Hao Bonian, who was behind, watched Li Chunjing's flag soldier repeat the order, and immediately nodded and said, "Confirm!" ”

Immediately, the herald beside him waved the flag confirming the order!

Immediately, Li Chunjing said: "Reply, the Second Infantry Regiment obeys the order!" ”

The same situation happened in the First Infantry Corps, and Colonel Chen Keqiao also said: "Reply, the First Infantry Corps obeys the order!" ”

Lu Yuzhi of the Second Cavalry Battalion also nodded and said, "Reply: This battalion will take the opportunity to attack!" ”

After the orders were issued one after another and confirmed, the Tang Army on the front line finally moved!

The first to move was the First Infantry Corps located in the Chinese Army!

As the most powerful combat unit, the First Infantry Corps deservedly recognized the position of the core of the Chinese army and launched an attack as the core pillar of the whole army!

The infantry of the infantry regiment began to march forward in unison!

This time, the phalanx of the First Infantry Corps was different from the previous phalanx in which each battalion fought alone, and its three main infantry battalions were arranged in a zigzag pattern.

The 1st Infantry Battalion was located directly ahead, and the spearmen of two squads of this 1st Infantry Battalion were located directly in front, listing a dense phalanx of spears!

And at the rear of the spear phalanx were two teams of musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion, lined up in vertical formations facing the sides!

To the left and right of the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion were the spear phalanx of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, and on one side of the spear phalanx were the musketeers of the battalion.

On the other side of the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion was the spear phalanx of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, and on the other side of the spear phalanx was also concentrated the musketeers of two teams of the battalion.

In this way, the spearmen and musketeers of the three main infantry battalions formed a zigzag formation, and were densely packed and covered by crossfire.

In the rear of the three main battalions, there were two reserve battalions, the archers of which were located in the front row, just behind the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion, which could provide bow and arrow projectile coverage to the left and right, as well as to the front and even the rear.

The spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the reserve battalion can cover the flanks and rear of this phalanx.

Not only has the formation of the First Infantry Regiment changed from the past, but also the phalanx of the Second Infantry Regiment.

As for the Fifth Garrison Regiment, which fought with the two main infantry regiments, it was lined up on the right flank, and their formation was relatively simple, with the traditional dense rectangular infantry phalanx, with archers in front, spearmen in the rear, and sword and shield men in the rear.

Directly behind the battlefield is the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, which will choose the moment to attack, bypassing the enemy's flank or simply charging from the rear!

The 1st Corps began to move forward, while the 2nd Infantry Regiment did not move, and neither did the 5th Garrison Regiment!

Even the first regiment only advanced about twenty meters before stopping, and the officers at all levels rode on their horses and kept shouting for the soldiers to stay in formation!

At this time, the Ming army had already rushed out of the camp!

At this time, the shotguns of the three teams of the Datang Army finally began to shoot, although the momentum of these guns was not as loud as that of heavy artillery, but the killing effect at this distance was quite obvious.

Every time the artillery is fired, it can cause a lot of casualties to the front row soldiers of the Ming army!

However, in the Ming army array, there are also people pushing small-caliber bowl-mouth guns forward, but their small-caliber bowl-mouth guns have a very short range, and if they want to effectively kill and injure the soldiers of the Tang Army, I am afraid that they will continue to step forward to a distance of less than 100 meters or even seventy or eighty meters.

The speed of the Ming army's charge is not too fast, and this is actually not normal, because they can only be beaten passively at medium and long distances, since they want to rush up, the faster the better.

But the speed of these Ming army's charge is not fast, the soldiers of the Tang Army, especially those middle and senior officers, are a little incomprehensible, the speed of these Ming army's charge is a little slow, could it be that they came out to fight without eating enough today?

No, even the Ming army, which was not at a good level of food supply, knew that the soldiers could not be starved when the war was approaching.

Could it be that they have a deeper plan?

Li Chunjing and Chen Keqiao on the front line were a little worried about this, but they were afraid that they would not come up with it if they wanted to break their heads, and these attacking Ming troops did not think of fighting to the death with the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side.

Many high-ranking generals of the Ming army have already secretly instructed their henchmen: "When you are ready to charge, be smart, and be stupidly rushed to the forefront, otherwise, you can't run if the retreat order is ordered!" ”

And there is not just one person who is such a smart Ming army general, but most of them!

Therefore, these Ming troops all wanted to let others rush in front, and they followed slowly behind, so that they could run away as soon as the retreat order was reached.

Not to mention these ordinary soldiers, even those generals gathered their own soldiers to their side one by one, waiting for the retreat order to be issued as soon as they fled.

Therefore, in the charging Ming army, in fact, the most front are some ordinary guards and soldiers, and there is no core combat power of most Ming troops: the generals' personal soldiers!

These elite forces of the Ming army are all staying with their main generals in the back!

Since the speed of the Ming army's charge is not fast, this also means that the artillery of the Tang Army has more time to carry out artillery bombardment!

The continuous shelling made the Ming army in the charge fall one after another!

And when these Ming troops finally rushed to a distance of 100 meters, the musketeers in the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army finally fired the first round of guns!

The crisp and dense sound of gunfire on the battlefield sounded less scary than the artillery fire, but the lethality was good.

With so many muskets fired together, even if the hit rate of a single musket is very low, but the target on the opposite side is so obvious, this hit rate is indirectly increased.

The advancing Ming soldiers continued to fall!

Casualties continue to mount!

However, the Ming army will not always be passively beaten, after entering within 100 meters, the archers of the Ming army finally began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, almost seven or eight hundred archers fired bows and arrows into the sky, and then fell in a curve!

But these Ming soldiers did not have many opportunities to bend their bows and shoot arrows, because the musketeers of the Tang Army had already aimed their muskets at them and opened fire.

At the same time, nearly 1,000 archers of the Tang Army also began to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

Yes, you read that right, there are more archers in the southward troops of the Tang Army than the archers of the 8,000 Ming Army in front of you!