On the twenty-second day of April, the weather was fine.

About sixty miles south of Hengzhou City, Lin Zhe's army and Feng Ye's army slowly approached the center.

When the distance between the two sides was only about 400 zhang, Lin Zhe's army took the lead in stopping, the shield soldiers and pikemen at the front of Lin Zhe's army array quickly retreated, and the musketeers standing in three rows quickly loaded the ammunition, the first row of musketeers knelt on one knee, the second row of musketeers half squatted, the third row of musketeers stood, and the firecrackers pointed to Feng Ye's army in front.

On both sides of Lin Zhe's army, there were the artillery positions of the 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division, and the artillery of various calibers had been loaded with ammunition, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at Feng Ye's army.

As for the 5,000 cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Division and the cavalry of the 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division, they were all in the rear of Lin Zhe's army, and there were nearly 10,000 cavalry in total, that is to say, more than a quarter of Lin Zhe's army of about 34,000 people were cavalry.

Just when Lin Zhe's army had completed its combat preparations, the distance between Feng Ye's army and Lin Zhe's army was already less than three hundred zhang.

According to the normal battle array formation, in the distance, shield soldiers, archers, pikemen, and Pak sword soldiers, and when the two saber soldiers meet, the archers will retreat, and the pikemen and Pak sword soldiers are behind the shield soldiers.

However, Feng Ye's army in front of Lin Zhe's army was not like this from time to time.

In the field of vision of the telescope, Lin Zhe could clearly see that at the front of Feng Ye's army, there were still shield soldiers holding large shields, but in the end, there were no archers, and they were directly pikemen, and behind the pikemen, there were not even Pu Dao soldiers.

It is worth noting that the 20,000 people at the front of Feng Ye's army, whether they are shield soldiers or pikemen, are all dressed in armor, that is, these shield soldiers and pikemen are wearing heavy armor.

"They're hoplites!" Lin Zhe already knew it in his heart.

Lin Zhe, who has been in the army for many years and is familiar with military books, naturally understands what hoplites are, and also knows why the vanguard of Feng Ye's army has no archers and Pu sword soldiers.

The hoplites all wore heavy armor, and their own defense was enough to resist arrows, but their own flexibility decreased, so naturally there would be no archers and swordsmen, only shield soldiers and pikemen.

The hoplites only had to march forward in formation and crush the enemy.

The corners of Lin Zhe's mouth, who had already understood this, were slightly upturned, the hoplites could resist arrows, but it didn't mean that the hoplites could also shoot the shells fired by the artillery and the bullets fired by the firecrackers.

The hoplites at the forefront of Feng Ye's army are the Xuanjia Army, one of the elite troops under Feng Ye's command, in order to be able to defeat Lin Zhe's army, Feng Ye directly used the two killer weapons, the Xuanjia Army has been revealed, and the 20,000 Flying Leopard Cavalry have also moved, and when the battle begins, the Flying Leopard Cavalry will raid Lin Zhe's army array from the flank.

The distance between Lin Zhe's army and Feng Ye's army was rapidly shortening, and Lin Zhe was no longer willing to continue to wait.

"Drums, shelling!" Lin Zhe ordered.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hearing the sound of war drums, the artillery commanders everywhere waved their long swords one after another, pointing at Feng Ye's army two hundred and fifty zhang away in front of them.

"Fire!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Solid bullets flew out of the barrel of the cannon with flames and smoke, flying towards the Xuanjia army at the forefront of Feng Ye's army.

Bang!

A shield soldier at the front of the Xuanjia Army only felt as if something flashed in his sight, and the next moment, a solid bullet smashed on the big shield he was holding, and the solid bullet directly pierced the shield of the shield soldier and the body of the shield soldier, and the heavy armor on the big shield and the shield soldier was like a layer of newspaper in front of the powerful solid bullet, and it was easily pierced.

The solid bullet didn't stop there, and after piercing the shieldman, it pierced the two pikemen behind the shieldman, who were also wearing heavy armor, in turn.

The 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division of the Yunjia Army had a total of 224 guns of caliber of more than 3 inches (112 in the 1st Division), and 224 solid shells smashed into the Xuanjia Army array, more than 500 Xuanjia soldiers were directly killed by solid bullets, and a large number of Xuanjia soldiers were completely incapacitated by solid bullets and broke their arms and thighs.

But the Xuanjia Army did not stop because hundreds of comrades were killed or seriously injured, there are Xuanjia Army falling, and there will be a new Xuanjia Army to fill the vacancy, the Xuanjia Army of the Tang Empire has been established for nearly two hundred years, and the Xuanjia Army itself has a complete set of combat methods.

"Onward! Advance! ”

Twenty breaths later, the second round of solid bullets struck, and more than 500 Xuanjia troops fell on this land forever, but at this time, the Xuanjia army was still nearly 240 zhang away from the position of Lin Zhe's army.

The Xuanjia Army walked forward firmly, but every twenty breaths or so, a round of solid bullets would attack, killing or wounding hundreds of Xuanjia soldiers.

Every round of solid bullets attacked, the losses of the Xuanjia Army were not too much, but when the losses accumulated, the Xuanjia Army suffered heavy losses, and Feng Ye was bleeding from his heart, but he had already come here, if the Xuanjia Army was withdrawn, it would be all in vain.

Time passed quickly, the Xuanjia Army walked forward firmly, the Xuanjia Army was only one hundred and fifty zhang away from the position of Lin Zhe's army, but the Xuanjia Army paid the price of five thousand casualties, and the Xuanjia Army suffered serious losses.

However, this is only the beginning.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The war drums in Lin Zhe's army sounded again, this was a completely different rhythm from the previous one.

Hearing the sound of war drums, a commander of the firearms raised his sword and shouted, "Fire!" ”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In an instant, thousands of bullets flew towards the Xuanjia Army.

The Flame Gun can shoot through the enemy's heavy armor within 90 zhang, and the more powerful infantry gun is enough to shoot through the enemy's heavy armor within 150 zhang.

One bullet after another penetrated the shield and hit the shield soldiers, although because the power of the shield bullets was weakened enough to penetrate the heavy armor on the shield soldiers, but after the bullets hit the shield soldiers, the shield soldiers also felt the power of the bullets, many shield soldiers were directly hit by the bullets and suffered internal injuries, and the solid big shield in their hands unconsciously got out of their hands, although these shield soldiers did not die, but they could not continue to move forward.

The second wave of bullets came quickly, lacking the protection of the shield soldiers, and one bullet after another pierced the heavy armor of the pikemen, killing the pikemen.

Three-stage shooting, waves of bullets rain came continuously, rows of pikemen were hit by the rain of bullets and fell in a pool of blood, the one hundred and forty zhang seemed to be an invisible red line, the Xuanjia army desperately charged forward, but could not step on this red line.

"Damn!" Seeing the Xuanjia Army falling in rows, Feng Ye clasped his hands tightly, but there was no way to rescue the Xuanjia Army that kept falling.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

At this time, the artillery on both flanks of Lin Zhe's army replaced the shells with flowering shells, and one by one the flowering shells fell into the array behind the Xuanjia army, these soldiers were not wearing heavy armor, and each flowering bomb exploded to kill and injure more than a dozen soldiers of Feng Ye's army around them.