That night, the various units were uneventful, and the next morning they set up their own positions, ready to fight to the death.

The 3rd Regiment of Long Frame, the 9th Regiment of Ma Mingluan, the 1st Regiment of the Buning Cavalry, and the 2nd Regiment of Guo Chonglie's Cavalry were stationed in the camp, and everyone died down as a reserve.

Yang Lin personally led the escort regiment, Yang Cheng's 1st Regiment as the Chinese army, Yang Bingyi's 5th Regiment and Wang Zhibang's 10th Regiment as the left flank, Jing Keqin's 6th Regiment, and Feng Youqing's 7th Regiment as the right flank.

Standing on a hill, seeing that the opponent's soldiers were less than 20,000, Zhang Nengqi smiled and said: "Yang Lin implements the strategy of elite soldiers, although the department is excellent, but after all, the number of people is too small, and now he actually wants to rely on such men and horses to defeat my army, it is really too arrogant." ”

Zhang Kewang shook his head and said: "Yang Lin is scheming and thinks he has a plan, if my expectations are right, his camp will be silent, and there will definitely be a large army."

Yang Lin is too arrogant, it is really unbelievable that he wants to defeat my tens of thousands of troops with such men and horses. ”

Raise your eyes and look into the distance, the volunteer army camp is built along the river, spreading for two miles from east to west, although the flag is silent, and there is no one to see outside, but it still gives people the feeling of being near a great enemy.

After thinking about it, Zhang Nengqi asked, "Jian Jun, I have the opposite opinion. Yang Lin probably played a trick, the elite infantry was exhausted, and there were only a small number of cavalry in the camp, and the old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

Although Zhang Nengqi ranked fourth, he was quite popular with Zhang Xianzhong, and when the Great Western Army occupied the CD, there were more than the other three.

Because he has long developed an unruly character in the army since he was a child, and he has developed a character of not admitting defeat after many years of fighting on the battlefield, he heard the other party hesitate in his words just now, and actually openly refuted it.

Although he was quite unhappy in his heart, Zhang Kewang couldn't do anything, so he had to make the other party cautious, so as not to fall for the treacherous tricks of the volunteers.

To everyone's surprise, the Volunteers were the first to attack, and although they were very cautious, they were quite shocking to the rogue on the opposite side.

Unlike the other divisions, the Volunteers have always advocated a combination of attack and defense, although they are divided into three wings, the left, the center and the right, but one regiment is on the offensive and the other is on guard in the rear.

Now each regiment has at least three battalions, just like the escort regiment has four battalions, and now the regiments that are responsible for the attack are gradually taking place, generally in a regular figure-eight formation, that is, the main battalion is in the center, two battalions are in the rear, and the troops belonging to the regimental headquarters are in the rear.

At the same time as the positions of each regiment and battalion were being deployed, the various Franc machine gun brigades under the regimental headquarters were pushed to the hill at the front of the attack, and the gunners lit the arquebuses and fired solid bullets into the opponent's formation.

In order to deter the opponent, the six Fran cannon brigades of the six regiments participating in the attack and cover were used, and nearly 50 Fran cannons were constantly ignited, and solid iron balls fell into the opponent's formation.

Due to the use of iron mold casting, water cooling and other processes to cast the iron core bronze body Franc cannon, its process has been close to the level of modern casting cannons, from a distance to see the gun body smooth without any obvious flaws, the cast Fran cannon is strong and durable, can continuously test fire more than 60 pieces without any damage.

Now facing the Great Western Army, which has completed the formation, the gunpowder is fully loaded, and the solid ball is also shot very far, often shooting six or seven hundred meters, and falling far into the depths of the opponent's formation.

The iron ball weighed about a catty, smashed down from a distance, the force was very large, some even smashed several people, often hit in front, the huge sprint force passed through the body of the unlucky guy in front, and smashed on the person behind again, and the back was also seriously injured and fell to the ground.

At this time, although the artillery did not have much crosshairs, and the aiming position was 100 meters away from the landing point, the opponent was in a dense formation, and even if it deviated from the landing point, it often hit people.

Now the Onishi regime in the four Chuan administration is not satisfactory, has long lost the support of the people, this year began the Ming army to attack on all sides and even defeated the army, the morale of the army was originally unstable, and now Zhang Xianzhong actually vigorously purge military discipline, but also give the feeling of excluding dissidents.

The Sichuan soldiers in the army have already been rebellious, and many of the Huguang soldiers they brought have also left Germany, and now the only thing they rely on is the old thieves who follow them all year round to fight in the south and the north, but after all, the number is small.

The two armies faced each other, Zhang Kewang initially planned to rely on the numerical advantage to drag the other party, who would have expected that the artillery of the Volunteers was so sharp, not only shot from a long distance accurately, but also the rate of fire was very fast, basically one shot a minute, which greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

Before the two sides officially clashed, they took the lead, and with each round of shelling, there was a commotion in the formation of the Great Western Army, and many people were terrified.

Zhang Kewang complained bitterly, if he changed his position, he was afraid that the other party would take advantage of the situation to attack, and if he did not change his position, he would be so continuously bombarded by the other side that he might mutiny.

After all, it is a generation of heroes, Zhang Kewang was not surprised, rushed out of the formation, and led his troops to rush over.

Standing in the rear formation a mile away, watching the dense formation of the other party, the tide of people like a flood of people, from a distance, there are crowds everywhere, all of them are crawling like ants.

Standing on a small hillside in the back to closely observe the battle situation, Yang Lin initially had a strange worry in his heart, worried that the soldiers in front of him would retreat timidly, but the facts soon proved that his worries were unnecessary.

The people of this era, like those in the thirties and forties of the last century, usually live humbly, but when they need to work hard, everyone often seems to care.

Everyone shouted that it would be a big deal to be a good man again in eighteen years, and everyone thought about the peace of their parents, brothers, sisters and wives, and thought of the rich pension for the war dead and wounded, and they did not want to be shameful deserters.

The Great Western Army rushed like a tide, with shields in front of them and wet quilts, shouting and waving weapons in their hands.

In the face of the Great Western Army, which was several times its size, the Volunteers did not panic at all, and launched more than ten rocket vehicles from the rear, and everyone lined up, and suddenly ignited when the other party rushed to about 150 steps.

Before the invention of musket artillery, rocket turns were the best weapon to deal with dense cavalry charges, and to deal with large numbers of cavalry, in order to compensate for the problem of the rate of fire of bows and crossbows, crossbows and rocket turns were often used in dense strike groups.

Hundreds of rockets soared into the air, and fireballs were shot into the air, raining down on the opponent's back.

Due to the small reticle and the scattered landing points, although the damage is not too large, the battlefield deterrent power is very large.

In addition to the rocket car, the more powerful is the Tiger Squat Cannon, although the range is far inferior to the rocket car, and the projectile landing point is also more concentrated, but the lethality is far greater than that of the rocket car.

Each battalion of the Volunteers has two strike squads, which are equipped with rockets and tiger squat guns.

In the face of the tide of the Great Western Army, it was suddenly difficult to attack at close range, and after a round of shooting, in the face of the unwarranted disaster, seeing that his companions were injured for no reason, there was a burst of chaos in the rear of the Great Western Army.

In the era of cold weapons, the battlefield was fought for momentum and the bloody nature of the soldiers on both sides, and it was suddenly hit by rockets and tiger squatting artillery, and the morale of the Great Western Army plummeted.

In order to boost morale, or to strengthen their courage, some veterans in the front row stopped, while some recruits fired arrows from a distance, hoping to suppress the opponent.

There are people in the distance who shoot arrows from a distance, because the distance is too far, and they shoot light arrows, the arrows are flowing during the flight, there is no crosshair, and the lethality is quite limited.

Some of them hid behind their shields and fired their guns, and they were fired one after another 150 paces away, and the lead bullets pierced the sky, not only failing their strength against long-distance targets, but also having no crosshairs.

In the face of officers and soldiers, or other soldiers and horses, in the past, everyone mostly used numerical superiority to deter the opponent, or shot arrows intensively from a long distance to deter the opponent.

But this time when they encountered the nemesis, in the face of the intensive charge of tens of thousands of Western troops, the volunteers did not dance with it and release arrows from a long distance, let alone collapse.

Seeing the Great Western Army approaching, the three regiments in the front line were arranged in accordance with the figure of eight, one infantry battalion was pushed to the front, two infantry battalions on the left and right flanks each defended the flanks, and in the rear was the battalion headquarters in the center at any time.

No matter how the other party provokes and how to release the guns from a distance, everyone stands still, everyone looks at the commander around them, and launches a counterattack at any time.

Some veterans felt that something was wrong and took the opportunity to stop their pace, not wanting to be cannon fodder.

However, many of the recruits had not encountered such an experience, and some considered the Volunteers to be cowardly and were now ready to pursue the fleeing enemy at any time.

Everyone held their breath, and Wang Zhiyao, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 9th Regiment, took a deep breath.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Wang Zhiyao stood at the forefront and hoped that all the soldiers would see him.

The two were getting closer and closer, and at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, a general took it, and nearly a thousand soldiers of the Western Army behind him shouted loudly, ready to rush over and settle the battle.