To Li Zicheng's surprise, after the Xuanjia Army arrived at the battlefield, it did not immediately attack, and also lined up a five-layer military formation.

The first formation is the big shield position, a total of 6,000 big shield hands, divided into two factions, each row of 3,000 people, as the front line of defense, led by Hao Shaoqi.

The second formation was the Fire Gun Position, where 9,000 infantry battalion sergeants armed with Xuanjia Divine Guns, followed by the big shield hand in a three-stage strike formation, and served as the heavy task of long-range attacks, led by Zheng Zhibao.

The third formation was an elevated artillery position, with 100 large and medium-sized artillery pieces erected on each elevated position, forming a longer-range strike firepower, which was commanded by Li Zongze.

The fourth formation is the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, 30,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry are lined up in a ten-row charging formation, ready to attack as the strongest attacking force, led by Zhao Quanzhong.

The fifth formation is the Chinese army formation where Fang Yuan, Jing Jie, and Gan Hui are located, and the guards of the central army formation are the sergeants of the 10,000-foot battalion, and the 5,000 special operations army sergeants, escorted by Zhang Ying.

There are also 12,000 train battalion sergeants, covering the left and right rear flanks of the army formation, which can be attacked and retreated, and is commanded by Bai Guangen.

The commander of this decisive battle is Jing Jie, and the commander-in-chief of the battlefield is Gan Hui.

Fang Yuan and Jing Jie sat on the high platform of the Chinese army formation and watched the battle on the spot. Gan Hui stood on the lookout of the central army formation and arranged 500 heralds to grasp the form of the battlefield at any time and command the change of formation at any time.

What is even more eye-catching is the 30 loudspeakers between the first and second formations, which broke the fighting spirit of the army.

As the sun approached, Jing Jie asked in a low voice, "Boss, can the high-pitched shouting begin?!" ”

Fang Yuan sipped the tea leisurely and said lightly, "Let's start!" ”

Jing Jie gave an order, and thirty tweeters sounded in unison,

The first round of broadcasts was the 30 captured family members of the army, who had already been trained by the Xuanjia Army, and complained with tears that Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing and others had caused the soldiers to leave their hometowns and their families were ruined.

The second round of broadcasts is the surrender of the thirty sergeants of the army, they are full of voices, cheering and vinegaring to advise the sergeants opposite, the Xuanjia Army's preferential treatment of prisoners' policy, once surrendered, the past is not to blame, joining the army has a generous salary of five taels of silver per month, there are fair incentives, there is an open and transparent promotion space, there are no women, the army arranges marriage and family; Each person can be allocated five acres of cultivated land, and each household can be allocated 20 acres of land, and the government will provide cattle and seeds, and the whole of Huguang and Henan will not pay grain for three years.

The third round of folk songs were played in Huguang and Henan where the old mother was looking forward to the return of her wanderer at home, and the wife was looking forward to her husband's return home. Because most of Li Zicheng's subordinates are from Huguang and Henan, this is targeted and embattled.

Thirty loudspeakers took turns to broadcast a round, and the entire military formation of the invading army was silent. The Xuanjia Army did not start attacking, but began the second round of looping.

Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing were so angry that they gritted their teeth when they saw that Fang Yuan was using this kind of heart-attacking method outside the battlefield, but they were helpless. With Li Zicheng's original intention, he wanted Fang Yuan to attack, break into the army's defense, and give full play to the advantages of the five-fold battle formation.

But Fang Yuan showed no sign of taking the initiative to attack at all, but instead launched an offensive battle, and the loudspeaker was extremely loud, even overpowering the commander of the Chuang Army, and the sound of the loudspeaker echoed throughout the battlefield.

Li Zicheng is also a veteran of the battlefield, and he knows that if Fang Yuan is allowed to play like this, the morale and morale of the 70,000 troops will be even lower, and the combat power will be sharply reduced.

Since Fang Yuan gave up the initiative to attack, Li Zicheng's only way was to take the initiative to attack the Xuanjia Army's military formation.

Li Zicheng gave an order, and Liu Tichun of the second formation led the foot soldiers, driving away a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, and began to attack the Xuanjia army formation.

When Gan Hui saw that the army formation of the invading army began to move, he immediately issued an order, turned off the loudspeaker, and the big shield array, the fire gun position, and the artillery position entered the combat state.

"Boom, boom!"

A deafening sound of artillery rang out.

Because the medium artillery was erected on an elevated platform, the firing range was between 300 and 500 paces, and when the first army of the invading army advanced to 400 paces, the 100 guns of the artillery position rang out in unison, and the old and weak soldiers who exploded for a while were crying and almost collapsed on the battlefield in fright. But because Liu Tichun's foot soldiers in the second formation behind him were supervising the battle, there was no way to retreat. Some stubbornly continued to rush forward and kill, while others simply took advantage of the chaos to lie down in the pile of corpses and hide and pretend to be dead.

After waiting for a while, the old remnants rushed to within two hundred paces and had already entered the range of the Xuanjia Divine Gun, Zheng Zhilong immediately ordered the nine thousand firecrackers to start firing a salvo.

"Bang bang bang!"

The sound of dense firecrackers rang out, and the lead bullets were thrown at the old remnants like a raging storm, and all of them were killed instantly.

Before rushing to the shield position, the 30,000 old remnants suffered at least 10,000 casualties, and this was not an offensive and defensive war at all, but a one-sided massacre.

Li Zicheng's purpose was to use these old remnants to cover the charge of the infantry in the second formation, and consume the sharpness and combat power of the Xuanjia Army. Before dealing with the Ming army, this man's shield tactics were tried and tested. The only difference is that the Ming army is simply unable to kill and injure the invading army in such a short distance like the Xuanjia army, and often the old and weak soldiers of the first formation can consume all the firearms, bows and arrows of the Ming army, and the foot soldiers of the second formation no longer need to be attacked by long-range weapons, but directly close to the hand-to-hand combat.

However, the firepower of the Xuanjia Army was obviously far greater than that of the Ming army that Li Zicheng had fought before, and a group of 30,000 old remnants of soldiers were directly defeated and collapsed before they could rush to the big shield position. Most of the old remnants did not dare to charge forward, and they crawled on the ground one after another, dodging the rapid firepower of the Xuanjia Army, and no matter how the foot soldiers of the second formation drove away, they would rather die. Lie down and pretend to be dead, it is still nine deaths and one life, and charging forward is ten deaths, so the fool continues to rush forward.

However, under the cover of a group of old remnants, Liu Tichun's foot soldiers in the second formation had already reached a distance of fifty paces from the big shield position. In the face of the fierce firepower of the Xuanjia Army, the foot soldiers of the second formation were also frightened to death, and they imitated the old remnants of the soldiers for a while, prostrate on the ground, using the corpses on the ground as cover, and did not dare to rush forward.

However, they have been forced into a rather awkward position. Rushing forward, though dangerous, is only fifty paces away; If you go back, you have to retreat at least one hundred and fifty paces to get out of the range of the Xuanjia Divine Gun, and if you count the range of the elevated artillery, you need to take four or five hundred steps. Even if he fled back, according to the military law of the breaking army, he was only killed by three formations of Li Guo's cavalry.

Liu Tichun, the commander of the second formation, weighed the pros and cons, and it may be more effective to rush forward, otherwise when Li Guo's cavalry arrives, they will inevitably trample their second formation's foot soldiers into pulp.

Liu Tichun ordered the five Guoyi generals to divide the infantry of the second formation into 3,000 archers to shoot arrows and fight back, and the remaining 6,000 or 7,000 sergeants to make the final charge.

The rain of arrows from 3,000 archers was thrown into the Xuanjia army's formation, and the big shield position was covered by shields, so there were few casualties. However, the fire gun position suffered heavy casualties, and 300 people were shot, wounded, or killed. Under the cover of 3,000 archers, the foot soldiers of the second formation finally rushed to the big shield position, and began to wield boring guns and sabers, slashing at the first line of defense of the Xuanjia army.

The first 3,000 sergeants abandoned the firearms, replaced them with boring guns that had been prepared earlier, unsheathed their swords, and began to slash and kill the intruders outside the shields. The remaining 6,000 fire-gunners were still in the same formation, took the stepping stones that had been prepared earlier, stood on the stepping stones, and continued to shoot the archers who broke into the army and the foot soldiers who rushed forward with a two-stage attack.

The two sides fought fiercely for two hours, and after a brutal war of attrition, at least three or four thousand infantry soldiers were killed or wounded in the second formation, and they gradually lost their support.

Li Zicheng's army saw that the infantry had suffered heavy casualties, and immediately ordered Li Guo's 10,000 ordinary cavalry to launch a third wave of attacks on the Xuanjia army's military formation with a bloody path opened by the infantry soldiers.