Chapter 590: Flanks

The artillery fire that came from the other side suddenly made the Ming army's position a little chaotic here, but fortunately, the formation arranged by the generals of Liaozhen was decent, and there was a certain distance between them.

Part of the chaos can not affect the other parts, Rao is so Liao Zhen General Soldier Li Gufeng's heart also trembled, the other party has such a sharp firearm, although it is watched from a distance, but it is also clear that the other party's artillery is outside the range of his own red-clothed general artillery.

However, they can accurately hit their own artillery positions, and this range is already the peak, not to mention the neat and rapid movements of the opponent's artillery.

At this time, no one dared to see the other party as a rabble, what mob armament, this is clearly a strong army in a hundred battles, the Huazhou army's thirty guns fired intensively and effectively, but in the final analysis, it was just more than a hundred lead bullets smashed into the artillery positions of the Ming army.

Although it was metal chips flying around, and the surrounding Ming troops were crying and shouting for their mothers, the momentum was huge, but the real damage was not so big, but it was not human life but psychology that was killed.

After this shelling, the artillery in Huazhou was still there to pour water on the artillery to cool down, and the Ming army in front of it, or the Ming army within the range of the artillery, kept retreating, for fear that they would become victims of the next round of artillery fire.

Vaguely saw the banner and golden drum of the Huazhou Army, several soldiers and horses had already begun to move, and Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, was already motionless, and coldly commanded the guards below:

"Pass my general, the front town is five hundred steps back, if the opponent's artillery team follows up, and the cavalry will fight to the death, be sure to pull out the opponent's artillery team!"

When the soldiers heard the order, they hurriedly rode out and conveyed the order loudly, and the soldiers at the front hurriedly retreated backwards as if they were amnesty, and everyone scrambled to be the first, for fear that the artillery on the opposite side would hit them again, but in this way, the order gradually got out of control.

The Ming army officers on this side can even see that a large number of cavalry poured out from the large array in Huazhou, preparing in front of the formation, and a guerrilla in the front of the Ming army was already in a hurry, forgetting his identity was not enough to give the following order, and shouted there:

"Those who do not move according to the code of conduct will be killed, and those who retreat will be killed, according to the front and back, the five small flags are a team, and the rest are not allowed to move!!"

The Liaozhen guerrillas' subordinates also have pro-soldier Jiading, hearing the main general say this, they are also holding knives forward to block some chaotic front team, at this time the Huazhou artillery is still cooling time, if the artillery is fired at this time, I am afraid that the effect is good, those retreating Ming troops rushed to the front, and the guerrilla looked at the head with a knife, and his subordinate Jiading pro-soldiers were also slashed and killed with knives, and this method of cutting off the head was the most efficient.

The chaos that had just emerged was quickly shaken, and according to the guerrilla's order, the retreating troops were all units of a few dozen or one hundred people, and they slowly retreated.

This kind of overstepping the order, and it is a big crime to kill soldiers, in the Ming army, the military judge is next to Li Gufeng, where they are located is a slightly higher place on the entire battlefield, and they take the soil to pad it, just to be able to see the scene of the surrounding troops, this scene is in the eyes of the military judge and the general soldier.

"General, isn't it ......?"

The military judge also knew that the matter was urgent, but the military laws and regulations were there, and he had to take care of it if he saw it, but how to manage it depended on the decision of the chief military officer, Li Gufeng looked at the guerrilla's actions, and with a rare smile in his calm expression, he said:

"Qiu Feng actually has such courage, and write it down, after the war, he was promoted to a general, and it is not impossible to do higher."

This guerrilla Qiu Feng showed courage in the emergency situation, and was immediately appreciated by the general soldiers, this kind of thing happens all the time on the battlefield, after Li Gufeng gave the order, the surrounding adjutant generals and other senior officers immediately knew the attitude of the commander, and gave orders one after another.

As long as there are signs of chaos in the military formation, kill people immediately, and the Ming army was disturbed by the shelling, and immediately calmed down, seeing that the situation on this side was stable, the cavalry in front of the Huazhou army also began to stop assembling, and the horses came to the flank.

The two sides are like two giants, carefully testing each other's bottom line and flaws, and the tricks that come and go are trivial, and the real killing is the final blow aimed at each other's flaws.

Li Gufeng looked up at the sky, and turned his gaze to the right side of the Huazhou army, where there was a faint look of smoke and dust, and the general soldier of Liaozhen hurriedly ordered an officer on the side, and retreated five hundred steps back to the front of the Ming army, and the distance between people began to become evacuated.

This is the precursor of the charge, ready to be the meritorious Li Liang led his cavalry to cruise in front of the formation, ready to pounce on the artillery of Huazhou at any time, the artillery of Huazhou saw that they had nothing cheap to earn, the artillerymen after receiving the order of the formation, quickly loaded the artillery back into the artillery cart, put on the horses and turned back.

On the right flank of the Huazhou military formation, at this time the smoke and dust were already big, and the orders of the Ming army were passed on one level at a time.

After the smoke and dust were raised, the sound of shouting and killing could be faintly heard here in the Ming army, but the attention of the Ming army officers was on the opposite side, as long as the other party was in a mess because of the movement of the flanks, it was an opportunity for the Ming army, but the main formation of the Huazhou army has always been as stable as Mount Tai, and even broke through dozens of steps to the front before stopping.

If you have the perspective of a bird, looking down at the sky, you can see that although the military formation of Huazhou is distributed according to a team of 400 people and a team of 1,600 people, the overall appearance is a hollow phalanx, the sides are relatively thin, and the front and back appear to be much thicker, at this time there is a cavalry rushing to the left flank of the Huazhou army.

The officers on both wings of the Huazhou Army were puzzled, why this kind of army engagement, the well-armed team should be at the front, but why it was assigned on the two wings, and the square team on the two wings was not the traditional ratio of two spearmen and one musketeer in Huazhou, but the ratio of two musketeers and one spearman that only existed in the last two years.

The density of the musketeers is relatively much higher, but the difference between the Huazhou army and the Ming army is that the quality of the Ming army's battles has a lot to do with the quality of the generals.

The Huazhou Army is different, it relies on the rules of discipline and training to restrain the army, and the whole army is as if it were a machine as much as possible, and every officer is an integral part of this machine, and there is no need for any outstanding individual talents, but only needs to fight according to orders and the way of dealing learned in training.

The Huazhou officers on the right flank saw the cavalry attacking, and they didn't need to ask for instructions from above, but their own orders, some officers stood in the first row or aligned the formation, the musketeers were loading ammunition and lighting the arquebus, and the spearmen were holding their spears forward and pulling the distance forward at the same time, so that the musketeers had room to rotate and run.

More than 2,000 Ming army horses, this is the elite of the Liaozhen soldiers, ready to impact the flank of the Huazhou army, this horse team has been out of touch with the formation three days ago, the lone army advances, the battlefield is there, as long as you see the map, and then calculate the march of the two sides, you can basically know where to fight, the area between the Pu River and the Fan River, may be the largest, the Ming army officer who led the team is quite high-level, is a general, although only 2,000 horse team. After judging and understanding the battlefield, he camped in the distance and waited.

As soon as the battle started, it was estimated that the two sides were in a state of some exhaustion, and he led the horse team to attack the left flank of the Huazhou army.

The hollow phalanx has an advantage, that is, it can be arranged with a relatively long line with limited forces, according to the length of the left flank of the Huazhou army, the Ming army horse team is facing more than 1,000 guns, this is only the first row, because the battle line is too long, so the muzzles of the Huazhou guns on both sides are inclined to the middle direction.

Seeing the other party's firecrackers and spears, the Ming army's surprise attack horse team was not alarmed, but secretly happy in their hearts, because the other party's long hair density is not high, and the firecracker is a smoke-emitting thing in their eyes at best, as long as the horses are controlled, there is no threat at all, this general broke away from the team three days ago, and naturally does not know how powerful Huazhou's firearms are.

After entering the distance of one hundred and ten steps, each team of Huazhou officers is shouting and giving orders, and the sound of popping beans is loud, and the Ming army horse team that rushed to the front seemed to suddenly hit the invisible wall, and suddenly turned over there, for Huazhou, so many firearms salvos, such a high fire density is also the first time, almost none of the Ming cavalry in the front escaped, and they were all beaten into a hornet's nest.

Since it was a sneak attack, these cavalrymen had pushed their mount speed to the maximum, and the sword mountain and sea of fire in front of them were about to break in, and they couldn't stop at all, so they rushed forward one after another.

A hundred steps before the right flank of Huazhou, a line was formed, not a single horse, a knight was able to cross this line of death, although the white smoke from the muzzle of the gun was already almost obstructing people's vision, but it still kept firing, and it didn't take long for the battlefield to be quiet.

The Huazhou Musketeers stopped firing, and there was not a single enemy in their eye-level vision......