Three low walls, each two meters apart, stretch from the stream to the north to the forest.

The low wall is not completely closed, and there are several passages in the middle that are more than three meters wide, through which the town of Beigang looms in the distance.

At a distance of two hundred meters behind the low wall, a Ming army of two or three thousand people lined up in a neat queue, blocking the road to Beigang Town, and red battle flags fluttered above the queue.

Cuarón looked carefully, he couldn't figure out what the low wall in front of him was, if the Ming army wanted to use this to block the Dutch army from going to the North Harbor, this wall was too low, and why didn't it close? However, during the cautious period, he still ordered his subordinates to stop advancing and carefully observed the movements of the Ming army on the opposite side.

Caron naturally didn't know that there was a trench just behind the low wall, and the trench was now full of Ming gunners, waiting for their arrival.

After the musket appeared and replaced the bow and arrow, because of the accuracy of the musket shooting, the current musket tactic in the Western battlefield is the well-known queue shooting. The musketeers of the two sides approached each other in a tight line, and when they came to range, they fired at each other. This tactic is very brutal, and there will be huge casualties on both sides of the battle, and it is more about the morale and perseverance of the troops.

Positional warfare like the trenches of later generations did not appear on a large scale until more than 200 years later, so it is completely unclear what the purpose of the trenches dug by the Ming army and the low wall that covered the trenches was Karon.

After taking a closer look, Cuarón didn't think that these low walls would cause much of an obstacle to his side, and out of caution, he still sent five soldiers to test the low wall.

The three soldiers held shields to cover the five people, and walked forward cautiously, but the Ming army on the opposite side did not move. It wasn't until they were about ten steps away from the low wall that dozens of Ming soldiers with crossbows suddenly stood up from behind the low wall, and then the crossbow arrows shot at the five unlucky guys.

"Ah.....h The three shields could only cover the front, but there were too many crossbow arrows to cover the crossbow arrows behind the low wall on the side.

"Cunning Akito!" Only then did Caron realize that there were Ming soldiers in ambush behind the low wall, and he couldn't help but sneer. This means to stop the advance of the Dutch army, what a dream!

With Caron's order, the shields originally used to prevent the harassment of the Ming army in the dense forest were moved to the front of the formation, and more than 100 shields covered the army tightly, and behind the shields were musketeers who had been loaded with gunpowder. As long as you can get close to the low wall, you can deal a devastating blow to the Ming army in the rear.

At this time, Caron still treated the Ming army on the opposite side as an ordinary indigenous army, but he didn't know that he had made a great mistake.

Five light guns were placed on Cuaron's orders, and the muzzles were aimed at the low wall of the Ming army and opened heavy fire.

In the rumbling cannonball, the shells flew towards the Ming army's position, the low wall was smashed and tattered, the dust flew, and in a piece of dust, more than 100 Ming soldiers fled towards the Ming army array on the opposite side like rats.

"Is that what you can do?" Caron laughed. Under his command, the whole army slowly pressed towards the opposite side under the cover of more than a hundred shields. With a shield in front, even if there are Ming troops behind the low wall, it won't do much damage to you.

And at this time, the Ming army array on the opposite side was also slowly moving towards this side, and it seemed that the Ming army had also decided to have a decisive battle, and Caron suddenly sneered.

The two armies approached each other, and Caron saw that there were also many musketeers in the Ming army array opposite, and his expression became serious.

"The whole army obeys my orders, and no one is allowed to open fire until thirty meters away from the enemy!" Caron commanded in a cold voice. The Ming army was several times larger than its own, and it was necessary to inflict huge damage on the opponent in the first round of fire, which greatly reduced its morale in order to win the battle. Thirty meters is the most lethal range of the musket, and the accuracy of the shot cannot be guaranteed if the distance is long.

With Cuarón's order, the war drums beat, and with the beat of the drums, the Dutch marched in unison and pressed towards the Ming army opposite. Cuaron himself beat the war drums, carefully controlled according to the speed of the march of the two sides, he wanted to build the Ming army as the basis of the low walls, and when his side reached the low wall, the Ming army also happened to enter the range of thirty meters of muskets. In this way, when the first round of muskets is loaded with gunpowder, there is a low wall in which the Ming army cannot quickly impact their own ranks!

"It's a beautiful idea!" Looking at the Dutch slowly approaching on the opposite side, Chen Yue smiled. Chen Yue knew a little about the tactics of the Western army queuing up to shoot in this era, so he designed those trenches and low walls.

In the artillery attack of the Dutch just now, Xiao Bingbu, who was hiding behind the low wall, feigned defeat and fled, and in fact there were more than 500 people hiding in the trench, waiting for the Dutch to surprise them when they approached.

Chen Yue knew that the purpose of the Dutch slowly approaching was nothing more than to wait for the two sides to approach the range of the muskets before firing. Chen Yue, who was sharp about the Dutch's muskets, naturally understood, and he was unwilling to cause too many casualties on his own side by shooting at them, because there were means to deal with them.

So, when his side was about fifty meters away from the low wall, Chen Yue ordered to stop advancing, and then more than 100 tiger squat cannons were carried to the front of the formation, and they were lined up and aimed at the opposite side, and the muzzle of the black hole was diagonally facing the front.

Four artillerymen waited for each tiger squat cannon, one artilleryman took out a huge iron nail and inserted it into the front paws of the tiger squat cannon, and the other raised an iron hammer and smashed it, which was a fixed artillery.

The other two artillerymen were busy loading gunpowder projectiles, which had already been weighed and wrapped in oiled paper, and the projectiles were 100 small pieces of lead weighing five coins, and then pressed with 30 taels of large lead.

The artillery crews of the Zhoushan Army have long been well-trained, and it only takes half a minute from fixing the artillery to loading.

At the same time, hundreds of rockets such as "a swarm of bees" and "flying dragons" were placed in the middle of the tiger squat cannon, and the arrows were all pointing forward.

When it was less than twenty meters away from the low wall, the Ming army on the opposite side suddenly stopped advancing, and then suddenly put out a large number of artillery pieces like a trick, and Caron was stunned all of a sudden. At this time, he did not know whether to move forward or give the order to open fire.

Because at this time, there are still more than 50 meters away from the Ming army's array, and if you shoot, you can shoot at the opponent's array, but because the distance is a little far, it can't cause too much damage, but if you don't fire, you have to continue to move forward, but the opponent's artillery is hundreds of guns!

When did the Ming army actually use firearms on a large scale, which was never found in Caron's previous dealings with the Ming people, Nikolai. The army of the first officer also mostly uses cold weapons such as broadswords and spears!