During the Qing army's great array, Pire and his companions, at the request of his Fan Shaozu, also came to visit their campaign to exterminate the Ming rebels.

As the personal assistant of the governor of Portugal, he needs to observe the battle between the Ming Empire and the Qing army, who will win in the end, at least he has to understand whether the Qing army can occupy the sphere of influence of the Southern Ming in the short term, so as to provide some administrative advice to the governor, and who to befriend, this is not a child's play, it determines the Portuguese colonial territory, who the entrenchment mirror will deal with in the end.

After all, the Portuguese colonists have long realized that this is not the Mughal Empire, a seemingly powerful empire without bounds, but it is simply a palace made of sand, which only needs to be brought down by the tide, and a few hundred Portuguese can disrupt the entire empire, and a few hundred British can fight tens of thousands of so-called imperial warriors crying and crying for their mothers.

No, they have tried, and they have not conquered this place for nearly two hundred years, and they are still tossing and turning on the seashore in a small land, even the Dutch, they cannot advance half a step, and have to retreat to the treasure island, where, from a barren land where the plague is rampant, start from scratch, and the business for decades will bear fruit.

They can't afford to provoke, they can't afford to provoke the powerful dynasty in this land, when this powerful dynasty is in trouble, they need to choose, choose whose side they stand on in the end, it mainly depends on who is the final victor of them, at present, who is still pressing the territory around their trench gate, although they took advantage of the weakening of Nanming's power to occupy several small towns around the trench gate, the land of two small counties, but they still do not think that they have the ability to advance to the land, they must choose the winning side, he the victor stands together.

"Your Excellency Pire, it seems that this Ming army seems to be more powerful, at least they seem to know more about the art of battle formation, and they are comparable to our army." Rafael, the captain of the Trench Mirror Infantry beside him, said to him sideways.

"Raphael, don't you see anything?" Pire didn't respond directly to Lephil's words, but asked rhetorically.

Raphael grabbed the reins in his hand, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and after a few seconds, he suddenly shouted: "Dovetail flag, Spanish phalanx, not like, some strange formation, this is definitely not what the Ming or Manchu barbarians can understand, are there European people on the other side?" ”

Pire said: "It's the Spanish phalanx. ”

Rafael frowned and said, "The deformed Spanish phalanx,"

Piret said: "Yes. ”

"It's still a Spanish phalanx with wings."

Rafael smiled, he glanced sideways at the commander of the Qing army in the distance, Fan Shaozu, the other party was transferring troops, and the entire Qing army began to press on it in a big way.

Piret looked at him and smiled, "Do you think the other party is about to win?" The Qing army had no chance of winning. ”

Rafael said: "At least, the commander of the Qing army, whose troops are several times greater than the opponent's, will suffer heavy losses. ”

Pire was silent for a few seconds, "Yes, this will delay the Qing army's plan to unify the entire Ming land." ”

Rafael said: "Let the two sides fight, the more chaos there is, the better it will be for us." ”

Just when the two of them were evaluating the battle between the two sides, the Qing army and the righteous army were already ready, the Qing army was carefully pressed, and Zhang Qiang's army was advancing in great strides.

Behind him, the big drum on Zhang Qiang's side was rhythmic, according to the drum beat taught by Zhang Qiang, "Knock, knock

And the war drums of the Qing army beat violently, knocking and knocking endlessly.

Due to the different drums used by both sides, the sound of the drums is very different, so that even from a distance, they can be clearly distinguished.

A banner of the Jinhua Righteous Army, under the banner is Zhang Qiang's cavalry guards, behind are several large drums consigned on the open carriage, on both sides are two spear phalanxes to protect them, behind them is a row of cavalry, scattered very wide, there are not many people, but protect the rear wing of the entire formation.

A general flag, a general flag of the firearm troops, arranged in five rows, in a long horizontal formation, the long lines are about five meters apart from each other.

Behind the musketeers is the main force of the Chinese army in the Spanish phalanx formation with wings, and the front row of the main force of the Chinese army is a rectangular phalanx composed of three musketeers of one hundred households and one hundred households of musketeers, and the musketeers are at the bottom of the wild goose marching formation, followed by a sword player of one hundred households.

On the two wings, a thousand archers, a thousand crossbowmen, behind the archer team is a thousand households of pikemen, a thousand households of sword players, and then behind two hundred households of firearms, mixed with some rebel infantry units, these are captured soldiers, forced to take up arms to fight, and they are guarded by the fire soldiers who are hanging their swords.

The whole force was about 10,000 people, more than 7,000 regular soldiers, and 3,000 auxiliaries, among which there were many archers, crossbowmen, pikemen, all recruited from the captives who surrendered.

The whole team, stepping on the drums, strode forward, forward, the heralds beside Zhang Qiang, waving various flags, commanded the team.

From a distance, the Jinhua Righteous Army looked like a generous force to the death, crashing into the enemy without hesitation.

It was the first time that the Qing army had seen such a neat order, with 10,000 men stepping on the drum and striding forward, rushing towards the opposing troops with oppressive momentum.

The feeling of tens of thousands of people stepping forward together is very oppressive.

Especially the footsteps, as neat as a person stepping out.

The ranks of the Qing army began to stir, many people were oppressed and breathless, some timid began to retreat, and some people looked left and right uneasily, swallowing saliva, and their faces turned pale.

Fan Shaozu saw that his troops had become chaotic, and couldn't help but be furious, and gave several orders in a row, some cavalry immediately rushed out and killed some Qing troops who wanted to escape, and the Qing army stabilized the formation after a while.

At this time, the two sides had only gathered for 200 meters, and had already reached a distance where they could fight.

As Zhang Qiang raised his hand, the herald cavalry immediately shouted loudly, "The whole army stops." ”

A few cavalry standard-bearers on horseback beside him changed into a red flag one after another.

Suddenly, a cloud of dust kicked up.

The whole army stomped its feet for the last time, and it should be said that after stopping the advance, they put down their feet and brushed together, "Boom." "A bang.

The drums of war behind him stopped suddenly.

There was an uproar in the cavalry team of the Qing army on the opposite side, many cavalry shook their bodies for a while, and several cavalrymen couldn't help but fall from their horses, causing a commotion in the team.

"Knock knock" three war drums, and then suddenly stopped.

I saw the artillery on both flanks, coming out of the ranks behind, and then seizing the high ground and beginning to arrange positions nervously.

At this time, the Qing army had already sent infantry on both wings to charge forward, trying to crush the firecrackers on both wings.

Flags are flying, and the drums of war are sounding again, but they have changed their tone.

One by one, the two winged musketeers began to aim.

Rushing out from both flanks, two teams of hundred-household cavalry intercepted and harassed the cavalry rushing over, and the two sides fought together.