As the mournful whistle sounded, the soldiers in the front row raised their big shields with both hands at the same time, and at the same time, a little behind, the sound of the small drums also sounded rhythmically. The use of drums to give orders to attack has been a custom since ancient times. But the drums of the revolutionary army also had the same effect, that is, they were used to control the pace of the soldiers and maintain the rhythm of their advance. In the months outside Kaifeng, walking to the beat of the drum has become a habit of the elite soldiers of the revolutionary army.

With the beat of the drums, the mandarin duck array began to approach the enemy troops on the opposite side. The first hand-to-hand battle between the two armies was about to begin.

Zuo Liangyu, who was standing on the watchtower car, looked at the movement of the thief army array on the left flank moving forward, and his eyes widened suddenly: "This is ...... These thieves are all elites of a hundred battles! ”

Standing there and standing still, you can stand in a neat queue, although it is no longer something that ordinary rogues can do, but it is not too difficult, as long as you have a little training, you can still do it. But moving so quickly and neatly is not something that an ordinary army can do. Even if it is Zuo Liangyu's family, although his combat effectiveness is obviously stronger than that of ordinary armies, it is difficult to say that he can perform better than those thief armies in this aspect. If such an army can do this, it must be elite. The Huwei battalion and the Breaker camp were ordinary soldiers, and before that, they had dispersed in order to avoid the shelling in the process of advancing. Now that you collide with such an elite, most of you will suffer a big loss. Moreover, the number of thieves who set up the mandarin duck array is very large, and at a cursory glance, I am afraid that there are seven or eight thousand people. Looking at the spearmen standing neatly in the center of the thief army, Zuo Liangyu felt a little difficult to ride a tiger.

"I really didn't expect these thieves to be so difficult, if I had known this......

But at this point, it's obviously too late to think about it. The Huwei battalion on the left flank and the 2,000 soldiers who broke the camp had already collided with the opponent's more than 1,000 people.

The arquebus was very slow, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were already a little confused, so when the soldiers of the revolutionary army rushed up with large shields, they were not subjected to much musket fire. However, the distance is much closer, and some bullets are already able to penetrate the large shield and kill and injure the soldiers holding the shield behind. However, when the warrior with the shield falls, the spearmen behind him will immediately throw away their spears and immediately step forward, take his shield and continue on. And the distance between the two sides is very close, and almost in the blink of an eye, everyone is close to the distance of hand-to-hand combat.

The big shield was in front, blocking the attack line of most of the weapons on the official army's side, and the wolf spears on both sides made the spears of the pikemen of the official army almost send them forward, and then they would be assassinated by the spears of the revolutionary army. As for the sword and shield, when facing several spears and wolf stalks, they couldn't rush up at all. What's more, even if they use shields to protect themselves and collide with them, they will be blocked by the big shield, and then there are two musketeers behind the mandarin duck formation now, and they will hold muskets and shoot at them at a distance of only a few steps from the sword and shield bearers of the official army. At such a distance, the musket was almost a hundred shots. And even if it is holding a cut corners version of the musket produced by the Jokhang Imperial Court, at this distance, its bullets can still penetrate the rattan card in the hand of the sword and shield soldier and the cotton armor on his body that has also cut corners.

As a result, the hand-to-hand fight between the two sides had just begun, and the exchange ratio immediately became one-sided. A large number of officers and soldiers fell down row by row, just as the wheat in a wheat field was cut down by a sickle. The mandarin duck formation of the revolutionary army continued to maintain a stable formation and moved forward. Although it was only an infantry-to-infantry collision, the revolutionary mandarin duck array had the same effect as when the heavy cavalry attacked the lightly armed infantry. When the Mandarin Duck Formation arrived, the officers and soldiers either fell to the ground one after another, or fled in a hurry, and the small Mandarin Duck Formation advanced in unison, and it seemed that the speed did not even decrease much.

"This is really ......" Niu Juming looked at the advancing right flank, and couldn't help muttering to himself, "This is really invincible!" ”

In fact, it's not just Niu Juming, this situation even scared Huang Zide a little. Yes, unexpected victories, sometimes frightening the winners. Huang Zide secretly pinched himself, it still hurts, it shouldn't be a dream. Then he turned his head, only to see that Xuanyi Daoist actually had his eyes wide open, looking stunned. Looking at Niu Juming again, although he is also quite excited, it seems that he has not yet reached the point of Xuanyi.

"Hehe, the Taoist chief looked like he didn't care about facing so many enemy troops just now, and now, seeing that his own people had won, he was frightened. Speaking of which, this set was proposed by the Daoist himself, but now it seems that even the Daoist himself did not expect that this thing is so powerful. Huang Zide couldn't help but think again, "Now it seems that the Taoist is calm in the face of bad things, and in the face of a good situation, it is easy to hold on." On the contrary, Mr. Niu, although he was a little nervous at the beginning, he was not too nervous, he was still much stronger than ordinary people, and in the face of such a good thing as victory, he seemed to be more calm than Xuanyi Dao people. Well, Mr. Niu still has a lot of advantages. ”

There is actually a reason why Xuan Yi behaves like this. First of all, Xuan Yi was a human being and was used to seeing big wars, so before the war, he naturally seemed light. But even with the addition of his previous life, Xuan Yi has never seen such a one-sided victory. And Qi Jiajun's training strategy, as well as various tactics, in fact, did not really come from Xuan Yi himself, but from Huang Tian, so whether this set of things is useful or not, Xuan Yi himself has no bottom in his heart. Seeing such an effect now, I am naturally quite shocked. However, this is not the reason why he was so shocked that he lost his temper a little. What really shocked him was the change in the clouds in the sky at this time.

Before going to war, Xuan Yi habitually observed the luck of the two armies. In fact, this is not very useful, because the cloud qi represents the overall strength of the opposing sides. Even, to be more precise, it does not reflect the real overall strength of both sides, but also includes the role of people's hearts.

In fact, until now, the cloud qi representing the imperial court has not changed much, in fact, even if this battle is defeated, the cloud qi of the imperial court will not change much, at most, the dragon form has become a little decadent. But the clouds of Huang Zide Group are different. Before the start of this battle, the form of the cloud qi of the Huang Zide group was still just a big python, but at this time, after just a contact battle, this cloud qi flipped violently, and a small horn suddenly appeared on the head of the big python - this has begun to turn into a dragon.

According to Xuan Yi's estimate, this battle was won, and the cloud qi of Huang Zide Group might be able to complete the transformation, but at this time, just by gaining the upper hand in the contact battle, such a change occurred, which is completely unreasonable!

In fact, in the high sky, there was a god who looked at the clouds of the Huang Zide Group like Xuan Yi and was dumbfounded.

"This, how did this change happen all of a sudden?" A delicate-looking deity with a tiger's back and a fire-breathing spear in his hand couldn't help but mutter, "I obviously haven't had time to do it yet, how can this luck have such a change?" The god stared at the half-dragon and half-snake cloud that had grown two small horns, and suddenly smiled at the half-dragon and half-snake cloud, and said, "I have already done what my father asked me to do, don't you say?" ”

Although the half-dragon and half-snake cloud seemed to be vivid, it was not really a living thing, and naturally it could not answer him. However, the god did not expect an answer from it, and after saying this, his form began to fade, and then vanished.

"That god just now was really interesting." Huang Tian's voice suddenly sounded in Xuan Yi's mind.

"The deity? Was the gods present? Xuan Yi hurriedly asked in his mind, and then he added, "Also, at such a critical moment, how can there be no gods present." I just don't know which god it is, and I don't know why you said it was interesting. ”

"It's the god of the Three Altars Sea Society." Huang Tian replied, "As for why it's interesting...... Hehe...... New gods are always easy to change, and they are easy to become the backstabbers of other gods. Well, it's the meaning of carrying the black pot for others, and I also learned this from another unlucky guy. ”

The great god of the Three Altars Sea Society has another name among the people, which is the third prince of Nezha. In terms of priesthood and divine power alone, He is indeed a high level in the Heavenly Court. Now that Huang Tian said this, Xuan Yi was naturally very surprised, and couldn't help but ask.

"Now is not the time to talk about that." As if to see Xuan Yi's thoughts, Huang Tian said again, "Look at the battlefield, the enemy army has begun to send cavalry. ”

In order to rescue the two battalions that were in chaos, Zuo Liangyu sent a thousand cavalry and rushed towards the advancing battalion of the revolutionary army from the side.

Huang Zide noticed this movement of the enemy army at the first time on the high platform, and immediately asked people to wave the flag towards Tian Xiucheng and issue a warning. Tian Xiucheng followed the drill code, and every twenty breaths, he had to look back at the instructions of the Chinese army, and as soon as he saw the movement of the flag, he immediately ordered to go to defense. At the same time, Huang Zide issued an order to the heralds around him to press the troops on his left flank to attack. Since the facts have proved that the revolutionary army's mandarin duck formation has an overwhelming advantage in hand-to-hand combat, it is natural that it should take the initiative to attack in order to defeat the opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

On the other side, Zuo Liangyu was already thinking about whether he should risk attacking the enemy's Chinese army or simply retreat.