On the three- or four-mile-long front, the Wei army marched forward in unison.

"Let's go!" The Wei army in charge of each small formation gave orders one after another, and the foot drummers beat the waist drum rhythmically, and the gunners stepped on the drums, and their footsteps fell in unison, and the ground shook slightly.

Originally, Wu Sangui was going to gallop back and forth a few times, and after bringing the morale of the Guanning army to the peak, he reined in front of the battle, made a bold statement, and made the final mobilization, but he didn't expect Gao Yihuan to be unparticular, and actually directly bombarded him, interrupting his mobilization.

Wu Sangui rushed back to the formation with a gloomy face, and when he was in a hurry to arrange, Guo Tuzhuang shouted: "Lord Wang, the Wei army is pressing up!" ”

Many Guanning generals, looking up, saw a black wall slowly advancing forward, and tens of thousands of Wei troops were like ocean waves, pressing towards the Guanning army at a very high level.

At the front of the Wei army were three horizontal formations, each with three rows of firearms, like three waves, layered on top of each other, and behind were several phalanxes of the Wei army. On both flanks were accompanying bronze cannons, as well as cruising cavalry.

In addition, before the three horizontal formations, there were some Wei soldiers with the flag team as the unit, who dispersed and advanced forward, forming a scattered line, I don't know what role it played.

The Wei soldiers carried their guns on their shoulders, and under the drumbeat of the "General's Order", they stepped forward in unison and slowly pressed up, but they gave the Guan Ning army a huge coercion.

"Lord Wang, the Wei army's fire gun breaks through the armor in seventy steps, once it is pressed, we can only be beaten passively!" Xia Guoxiang said urgently.

"That is, you can't play a defensive counterattack?" Wu Sangui's brows furrowed.

The bow and arrow of the Guan Ning army are thirty steps away from the armor breaking, and the distance from the bird gun is fifty steps, that is to say, the Wei army stops when the fire is seventy-five steps forward and shoots on the spot, and the Guan Ning army can only stand as a target, and the Guan Ning army has a chance to fight in close quarters.

Wu Sangui looked up and saw the Wei army in black armor pressing over, they walked in a neat pace, carrying fire guns on their shoulders, the heads and poles rose and fell regularly, the cheek muscles agitated a few times, and immediately waved their hands, "Order the infantry army to attack!" Attract enemy troops to the front! ”

Saying that, Wu Sangui looked at the Daxu Banner in the Wei army's array, gritted his teeth and said: "The Ma army is ready to detour from both sides of the infantry army, chisel through his horizontal formation, drive away the defeated army, and go straight to Gao Yihuan's Daxu Banner!" ”

At this time, the infantry army of the Wei army can be said to be unrivaled in the world, and it has the same momentum as Wei Wu in the early years of the Warring States Period.

The Guan Ning infantry army could not be compared with the Wei army at all, and the advantage was only the horse army.

In this battle, there were many Wei soldiers and few people in Guanning, so Wu Sangui started to plan to capture the thief and capture the king first.

The infantry army was used to attract the firepower of the Wei army and disrupt the Wei army's front, and the cavalry took the opportunity to break through the Wei army's horizontal formation and behead Gao Yihuan.

The military flag in the Guanning army was waved, and the battalions in front of the formation responded with flags.

A moment later, the horn of the Guanning army sounded, and the battalion headquarters drew their swords one after another, urging their horses out, and the guards with the flag followed behind, followed by the infantry of the field, and began to advance forward.

More than 10,000 Guanning infantry troops, composed of more than 30 small phalanxes, each formation of a division of troops, about 300 people, they form a total of two fronts, the first line of fifteen phalanxes, are fire gunners and archers, each phalanx left a gap of three zhang wide, for the back of the cold weapon killer team, as well as cavalry rush out.

The fifteen phalanxes behind were all broadsword and spear phalanxes, each of which was aimed at the gap in front.

This kind of formation is very similar to the battle formation of the Hunan army in later generations, which is a battle formation that combines hot and cold weapons.

The Wei army used to use this formation, and the idea was that when the battle was approaching, the firecracker would first hit him in a round, shoot the enemy line, and then the cold weapon would kill out of the gap between the firearms, and take advantage of the confusion of the enemy army to rush up and use the cold weapon to fight in close combat.

The Wei army was mainly equipped with spears, and the soldiers formed a spear formation, and the spears pierced and killed the opponent.

In the Wei army's formation, under the banner of Daxu, Gao Yihuan rode on a horse, took out a clairvoyant mirror to watch the front of the Guanning army, the artillery roared on the left and right flanks of the Wei army in the field of vision, and the shells smashed between the gaps between the two armies.

Behind the infantry line, the Guanning horse army stood in place, and the war horses kept moving their front hooves and snorting restlessly.

At this time, the artillery on both wings of the Wei army, "boom boom" made a loud noise, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the cannon body retreated sharply, a shell smashed in front of the front of the Guanning army's front, splashed a piece of soil, the shell bounced, just hit the calf of a Guanning army, directly smashed the whole leg, the soldier who was hit, immediately fell to the ground, hugged the injured leg, wailed and rolled.

The Guan Ning army behind him didn't dare to look at it, staring at the Wei army on the opposite side with a firearm in hand, and the soldiers bypassed the wounded soldiers and continued to step forward.

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly when he saw this, took away the clairvoyant mirror, and waved his hand, "Rocket!" ”

The front horizontal formation of the Wei army is connected by a small horizontal formation, each small horizontal formation, composed of a division of the Wei army, about 300 people, they are lined up in three rows, the head of each division holds a war knife high, standing in the middle of the queue, behind him is a recognition flag, and there are step drummers.

Before the small horizontal formations of each division, there was also a skirmisher of the flag team, armed with self-made firearms and various equipment, which was responsible for disrupting the enemy's line before engagement.

At this time, there were only two miles left between the generals, and a horn sounded in the Wei army's formation.

The flag team sentry commander on the skirmish line suddenly shouted: "Rocket! ”

There was a roar on the Wei army's battle line, and thirty or forty white smoke rose into the air, leaving a crooked trail in the air, shooting towards the oncoming Guanning army.

Wu Sangui stared at the Wei army's battle line, watching the rockets like spears fly into the line of the Guanning army, with orange flames spraying from the tail, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the infantry of the Guanning army immediately rioted.

Although Guan Ningjun and Wei Jun had fought twice, Wu Sangui had already heard of Wei Jun's powerful firearms, but Wu Sangui himself saw it for the first time.

The distance between the two armies continued to close, and the Wei army's formation was still neat, but the Guanning army was harassed by artillery and rockets, and the military formation was already a little chaotic.

At this time, the stragglers of the Wei army, who were about thirty steps in front of the Wei army's front, had already approached the line of the Guanning army, and the Guanning gunners on the front line couldn't help but light the fire rope and raise the pole one after another in the advance.

The Wei army stragglers were in front of the Wei army's front, so the Guanning army first entered the range of the stragglers, and a "bang bang" sound sounded sporadically, and a cloud of white smoke rose up on the straggler line, and the advancing Guanning army was hit by a projectile, and the guns immediately fell to the ground on the line of formation.

The tactics of the firecrackers are basically to approach the rear and shoot a salvo to defeat the opponent.

For a while, the guns of the Guan Ning Army were entangled, not knowing whether to fire back, or continue to move forward, waiting for the order to launch again.

If it was an ordinary army, it would have already gone off at this time and began to fight back, but the infantry of the Guanning army was still advancing with guns.

In the gap between the two armies, white smoke filled the air, the sound of guns was endless, and the officers and men of the Guanning Army in the queue were constantly hit, and there were screams around them, even the generals were highly nervous, and their mouths were dry.

The two armies were eighty paces apart, and the Guanning army was fifty paces apart from the skirmishers, and after the gunners on the skirmishers fired the guns in their hands again, the Guanning army's infantry finally set off with a gunshot, and then the surrounding soldiers opened fire one after another, and the fire flashed on the Guanning army's front, and the entire front was instantly drowned in gunsmoke.

The Wei soldiers on the straggler line were interrupted one after another, fell to the ground and wailed, and the commanders of each outpost immediately screamed, "Retreat!" ”

The stragglers of the Wei army, scattered in front of the line, immediately took their guns and retreated backwards, passing through the gaps in the small horizontal formations.

At this time, the Guanning arms fired a round, and the front was even more chaotic, while the Wei army front was already close.

"Stop!" Guan Ningjun was the first to stop, and the officer led by him let out a howl, "Quick! Put! ”

"Bang bang bang" sounded, the soldiers in the second row of the Guanning army front hurriedly stepped forward, the platoon fired a volley, the projectile roared, hit the Wei army line, and after the soldiers were shot, they immediately fell down in succession.

The Wei army generally did not open the first round in the platoon shooting, and the front continued to move forward, and the Guan Ning infantry army began to stir.

"Lift it, put it!" Finally, the Wei army stopped within thirty paces, and the fire guns were raised, connecting in a straight line.

"Bang bang bang!" The flames flickered on the Wei army's front, like a galaxy, and the Guan Ning army on the opposite side suddenly blew like a strong wind, and the soldiers in the first row fell to the ground together, and the corpses were neatly lined up in a straight line.

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