There is a mountain a few miles outside the city of Jianping, and there is a temple on the mountain, and there is a nun in the temple, and her name is ......

Alas, that was all in the past, and now there are no nuns in the temple, and there are no monks.

Maybe there was before, but now, there are only Ming soldiers coming and going in this place.

Two days ago, the Ming army arrived here, and then occupied the temple, which is rumored to have been abandoned for half a day, and Wang Yiqi's base camp is temporarily located here.

The reason why Wang Yiqi came here with a large army was that he thought that the puppet Tang thief army had occupied Jianping, and at the same time deployed a large army in and outside the city, and if he went a few miles ahead, he could basically go directly to the city, and his army came from afar, so it was naturally impossible to run directly to the city stupidly, and then send a general and the general of the puppet Tang thief army to fight alone.

Because in that case, it is estimated that Wang Yiqi will be greeted by countless cannonballs!

So Wang Yiqi stopped the 100,000 army here, and then camped to rest, the big war is approaching, he needs to let the soldiers eat and drink enough, and at the same time, he needs to make all kinds of preparations.

At the same time, in Jianping City, Chen Keqiao of the Fifth Infantry Division was also holding a telescope looking at the Ming army outside the city.

The number of Ming troops was extremely large, and the camps they were stationed in were spread for several miles, circle after circle, which was a full 100,000 army, more than the people in the city plus the total number of the Fifth Infantry Division.

But in the south, there was another force, that is, the main forces of the Second Army led by Li Chunjing, who arrived a little later, only yesterday.

Now, the two sides are stationed around the small city of Jianping.

As for Jianping Castle itself, it also became part of the entire battlefield.

The big war is approaching, and Chen Keqiao himself is also a little nervous, because although this battle is said to be the decisive battle that Li Chunjing wants, the ratio of forces between the two sides is slightly larger.

The divisions of the Second Army, including the Fifth Infantry Division, had only two infantry divisions, two mixed regiments and a heavy artillery battalion, with a total strength of about 40,000 men.

On the other side, the Ming army had 60,000 Jiangnan New Army, 20,000 border troops, and 20,000 guards, no more, no less, just 100,000.

The ratio of troops between the two sides is 40,000 to 100,000!

There is no doubt that the Ming army has an absolute advantage in terms of troops.

In terms of equipment, it is the Datang Army that occupies a clear advantage.

In terms of muskets, the various departments of the Second Army had about 16,000 muskets, and the Ming army on the opposite side was actually about the same number.

The Tang Army occupies an obvious numerical advantage in the number of long-barreled artillery such as field artillery, and the total number of field guns in each department has reached more than 150, while the Ming army on the opposite side is about 50 pieces.

It is worth noting that there are only a few nine-pound artillery pieces on the Ming army's side, while the Tang Army's side has nearly forty nine-pound artillery pieces.

In terms of shotguns, there were more Ming troops.

In terms of armor, the Second Army of the Tang Army is equipped with a large number of plate armor and old-style iron armor, cotton iron armor, etc., and the proportion of 20,000 people equipped with cold weapons such as spears, swords and shields, bows and arrows has reached one-third, that is to say, the Second Army has at least 7,000 armored soldiers.

The Ming army on the opposite side is equipped with traditional iron armor and cotton armor, and there are also some cotton iron armor, but in terms of equipment ratio, it is far inferior to the Tang Army, 100,000 troops, and there will be no more than 5,000 people in armor, and these people are mainly concentrated in the border army.

However, in addition to the large number of troops, the Ming army also has a huge advantage, that is, they have enough cavalry!

The 100,000 troops under Wang Yiqi have a full 3,000 cavalry, these 4,000 cavalry are not ordinary cavalry infantry, but all professional cavalry, most of them are cavalry drawn from the northern border army, and a considerable part of the cavalry are skilled in arching and horseback.

On the side of the Second Army, the number of cavalry was much smaller, and the Second Cavalry Detachment, which was temporarily formed by the whole army, had about 800 cavalry.

It can be said that in the cavalry, the Ming army has an absolute advantage.

Of course, the comparison of the strength of the above two sides, whether it is Li Chunjing or Wang Yiqi, in fact, they are not very clear about the details of the other party, so they can only guess a rough idea.

Overall, both sides have their own advantages!

The Tang Army has more guns and artillery, the quality of the soldiers is higher, and the armor rate far exceeds that of the Ming army.

The Ming army had a large number of troops and cavalry.

When such two armies set up a position here, who wins and who loses, it is really necessary to know after the fight, although Chen Keqiao has confidence in this, but it is not blind confidence.

After observing the city, he went out of the city to the camp of the Chinese army of the Second Army, met Li Chunjing and other generals of the Second Army, and held a brief meeting.

This meeting didn't say anything like a detailed strategic arrangement, because both sides had set up a position, and once the fight started, it would be a hard fight, and there was no strategy at all.

And the formation of specific details and the like, that is not something to be discussed at the meeting, the specific details, basically have to let them go back and discuss with the regiment commander and battalion commander level people.

Li Chunjing can't directly command the battalion!

On November 9 and 10, both sides spent their lives in silence.

But the two sides won't be so silent forever.

On the 11th, Li Chunjing ordered all units to line up and artillery to line up to build field artillery positions!

Li Chunjing was the first to move, and the Ming army on the opposite side naturally moved, and a large number of soldiers in the camp began to rank, and then listed one huge party after another.

By noon, the two sides had completed their formations, and the Tang Army even took the initiative to abandon Jianping City and all went out of the city to fight in formation.

The two sides deployed around several low hills, and the army of more than 100,000 people drained the surrounding crowd!

At noon, the 4th Mixed Regiment took the lead in launching a tentative attack, of course, not stupidly rushing head-on, but trying to maneuver and detour.

However, the vigilance of the Ming army was quite strong, and after seeing the 4th Mixed Regiment moving, they also followed, and also sent their cavalry troops to try to detour to the flank of the 4th Mixed Regiment.

Seeing that the Fourth Mixed Regiment was about to fall into a crisis, Li Chunjing ordered again, and the Seventh Infantry Division of the Chinese Army directly pressed on it, directly shortening the distance between the two sides to 300 meters.

At the same time, the artillery of both sides also began to fire in large quantities and intensively.

The Tang Army and the Ming Army added up to almost 200 field artillery, and the momentum of fighting each other was called a huge, solid artillery shells were flying indiscriminately on the entire battlefield, the cannon rumbled, and the people's shouts were directly muffled.

In the artillery bombardment, the heavy howitzer of the Tang Army also exerted an amazing power, in the past when attacking the city, this kind of artillery played a huge role, but it was directly used in the field, to be honest, this is the first time.

It's not that the Tang Army doesn't want to do this, it's that the Ming Army didn't give them the opportunity to fight a frontal field battle at all in the past.

Now, the opportunity has come, and this howitzer can be used on the battlefield!

Under the rumbling of artillery, the infantry phalanxes on both sides are constantly coming and going, and this kind of decisive battle, which involves more than 100,000 people, is naturally impossible to simply charge and then defeat the opponent.

Because both sides will arrange the rear depth, one infantry phalanx in front is finished, and there is one or even two or three behind.

When the infantry and artillery on both sides fought fiercely, the cavalry on both sides also moved frequently, and there was no cavalry battle between them, but frequently interspersed on the battlefield, the main purpose was to threaten the flank of the main infantry phalanx through the mobility of the cavalry, so as to force the infantry phalanx to change formations and create more favorable opportunities for their own infantry.

At present, the battle between the two sides is still concentrated between infantry and artillery!

But it is obvious that due to the large number and power of the artillery of the Tang Army, the intensive artillery fire is to collapse one phalanx after another of the Ming army, which makes Wang Yiqi's face dark.

Although Wang Yiqi has never personally led the battle, he is still a civilian official who knows the soldiers, and many military books throughout the ages are basically read through, and he also knows that the situation is not good when his own artillery on the battlefield is almost completely suppressed by the artillery of the thief army, resulting in a large number of casualties among his own infantry.

But he can't do anything about it!

Who made him not have so many artillery!

Immediately, he turned around and discussed with a few generals around him, and then passed down the latest order, asking the cavalry to knock out the artillery position on the left flank of the thief army, where the artillery position of the thief army was deployed on a small high ground, and there were dozens of guns, which were condescending, and caused great damage to their own infantry phalanx below.

If you don't knock out the artillery positions of the thief army, I'm afraid that my 100,000 troops will be bombarded by these artillery pieces today!

Of course, Wang Yiqi would not be stupid enough to let the cavalry charge directly head-on, but let them attack the flanks, and at the same time, in addition to the cavalry, he also sent tens of thousands of Jiangnan New Army to attack the infantry phalanx of the enemy's left flank, which was used to contain the enemy's infantry phalanx to cover the actions of the cavalry.

With Wang Yiqi's order, the situation on the battlefield also changed in an instant.

On the left flank of the Second Army, on the artillery position, a young lieutenant colonel looked relaxed and commanded the nine-pound artillery of the artillery battalion under his command to carry out artillery bombardment.

In addition to directing the artillery to fire, he also had the leisure to chat with others.

But soon his expression changed slightly, and then he took out a single-pass telescope, and in the sight of the telescope, a group of Ming cavalry appeared on a low hill, and then slowly approached his artillery position.