"Boom, boom, boom......"

From a distance, there were neat footsteps, not fast, but extremely neat.

Then a pole of battle flags fluttered and fell into view, and a group of soldiers with crimson armor and battle robes marched towards the Zheng family's army formation.

Zheng Zhibao thought that he had experienced a hundred battles, but when he saw this situation, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and look at all the soldiers opposite, unable to believe that there was such an army under the sky.

If the ordinary Ming army encountered the battle formation, it was a step forward, and this Ming army simply stepped into the battlefield fearlessly.

When the two armies were two hundred paces apart, a general in front of the Shandong army formation waved his hand, and all the soldiers in the three directions stopped and began to line up.

Then more than a dozen nine-pounder and six-pounder marching guns were pushed to the front, and after these ten cannons were launched, Zheng Zhibao felt a chill in his heart, it turned out that he was not the only one who had this idea.

Seven or eight small bronze cannons were also placed in front of the Zheng family's military formation, which were used to destroy the enemy's formation by firing scattered bombs when the enemy was in battle, and it had always been a sharp weapon for the Zheng family's foot warfare.

However, the firing range of this kind of small cannon is only less than 100 steps, to be exact, it is more than 60 steps, and the range of the artillery pushed out by the other side is only a few hundred paces away, and the distance between the two sides is only 200 steps.

Today's situation is that the artillery of the Shandong Army can easily hit Zheng Zhibao's infantry army, and the small copper cannon that the Zheng family uses as a sharp weapon for the battle has actually been eliminated by the Shandong Army as early as last year, and only the urban defense battalions in some local towns are still in use.

The Shandong artillery pays attention to the range and power, and does not have the technology to shoot shells.

The Zheng family is rich in technology, and the flowering shell is the nemesis of the dense military formation of the Shandong Army, and most of the artillery has been improved by the Western style, and the front sight and the light door have been popularized, and the accuracy has been greatly improved, but the types of artillery are not as rich as the Shandong Army.

The Zheng family and the Shandong army have their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of sea routes and firearms, and the Shandong army can crush the Zheng family's army on land, but once the Zheng family's huge naval division is fully assembled, it can also defeat the Shandong naval division at sea.

The battle has been going on so far, although the victory or defeat of the two sides is already doomed, but there is no saying that anyone crushes whom, and it has always been their own merits and weaknesses.

It's just that Zheng Zhilong was too careless, and fell into Wang Zheng's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and left Anping with the main force of the Zheng family's army.

Although the scale of the rest of the naval divisions staying here in Anping is not small, they can't exert their due combat effectiveness, they are congested in the dock and can't move, and the Zheng family's artillery, although accurate, but the range is suppressed by the Shandong army, and it doesn't play much role at all.

Wang Zheng made full use of his strengths to attack the weakness of the Zheng family, regardless of decency, he only wanted to win or lose, and he would shoot without any worries about any yin tricks, which was the key to victory or defeat.

The sound of "clanging" sounded in the array on the opposite side, and the gunner began to clean up the artillery, seeing that the shelling was about to begin, Zheng Zhibao gritted his teeth with hatred, knowing that he could no longer sit still.

He reluctantly ordered the Zheng family's soldiers to abandon the fortifications that had been arranged and march towards the broken army, otherwise when the other party finished clearing up and began to fire artillery, his own position would be broken up by them.

The soldiers of the Zheng family walked quickly towards the military formation of the Broken Army, unexpectedly, when the soldiers of the Zheng family had just advanced more than thirty steps, and there were still one hundred and seventy steps away from the military formation of the Broken Army, they ushered in the first blow, and the firecrackers in the front row of the Broken Army actually fired a volley.

"Bang bang bang-"

The sound of fire rang out, the white smoke dispersed, and the soldiers in front of the Zheng family's army array fell to death.

The Zheng family's military formation was also taken from the French, Portuguese and Spaniards, and they were also three-row musketeers, but they bought arquebuses from the Portuguese with a maximum range of only 70 paces, which was still a lot worse than 100 paces.

The Zheng family originally hired a team of more than 300 Spanish foreign guns, these yellow-haired people wore strange military uniforms, but the guys in their hands were very powerful, and the range of the muskets could even reach 500 steps.

Five hundred steps, what kind of concept is that, in the eyes of today's people, it is like fighting cattle across the mountains in mythology, and the other party is shot through the sieve before seeing anyone, which is simply too terrifying.

Zheng Zhibao couldn't figure it out, the bird gun held by the opponent was still an arquebus, but how could the range be so far?

The soldiers of the Zheng family received a blow from the head, but they did not disperse, but directly began to move forward quickly, most of them wanted to reach their range quickly, this kind of day when they were only beaten and couldn't fight back was really sad.

But when they reached the seventy paces and had just stopped to open fire, the other side was again deafening with the sound of cannonballs, and the cleared more than a dozen guns in front of the formation and the second round of bird guns came as scheduled.

Thousands of large and small projectiles rushed into the Zheng family's military formation, but this round almost swept away the Zheng family's firecrackers and foot archers in the first and second rows, and many Zheng family's soldiers were beaten into a sieve, lying on the ground and howling, and the mournful shouts were terrifying.

Although the Zheng family was able to fight back, only the last row of firecrackers entered the firing range, and the remaining ranged soldiers were less than half of the initial ones, and their attack power was greatly reduced.

Despite this, in the third row of fire, the Zheng family still caused some casualties to the Shandong army.

However, the Shandong army's gunners and gunners had an absolute advantage in numbers, and the Zheng family was able to inflict casualties on the Shandong army only a small part of the gunslingers.

At this time, the gap in the equipment of the two sides was revealed, except for the remaining guns, even if the rest of the archers continued to attack, the soldiers of the Shandong army were still negligible under the dense formation of full armor protection.

The Shandong army did not spare any hands, and those who arrived one after another, as well as the gunners who had been standing in the lineup, began to carry out repeated strikes on the Zheng family's army formation, and almost slaughtered the Zheng family's gunners and foot archers.

The Zheng family's army had already lost six or seven hundred people before it collided with the Shandong army, and the long-range soldiers were almost completely killed and wounded, except for the seven or eight small copper cannons with a range of less than 100 paces in the back, the Zheng family had no ability to fight back.

The Zheng family had already paid a lot of casualties in order to get closer, while the Shandong army on the opposite side only suffered dozens of casualties.

Zheng Zhibao can only count on the melee combat between the two sides, and his subordinate soldiers can break the enemy in one fell swoop, of course, he still has something to rely on, at least according to the past, the Kunlun Nu and the Japanese are indeed fierce in close combat, and often quickly let the opponent disperse.

After the two sides engaged, the Zheng family's formation was relatively loose and the lack of cooperation was reflected.

But compared with the Shandong Army, the Zheng family's individual soldiers are indeed the most courageous one they have encountered recently, and they dare to fight, but their weakness is that they have no formation at all, they are relatively loosely distributed, and they all fight separately after going into battle.

This weakness was immediately seized by the soldiers and generals of the Shandong Army, and now the upper and lower troops of the Shandong Army can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, and the enemy's weakness will be immediately discovered and exploited as soon as it appears.

The Shandong army believed in winning and losing, and they didn't care what means they used to win the other party, because history is often written by the victors.

The soldiers of the Shandong army closely relied on the formation to fight together, although the number of people occupied an absolute advantage, but the victory was not arrogant, the defeat was not discouraged, with a dense tiger gun formation to form a defensive position, besiege but not attack, in order to consume the last ability of the Zheng family soldiers who jumped over the wall in a hurry.

This kind of almost tricky style of play quickly made the Zheng family's soldiers pay the price.

Almost all the soldiers of the Shandong army are northerners, and most of the soldiers of the Zheng family are composed of Kunlun slaves and Japanese soldiers, and they are also at a disadvantage in height, and the spears in the hands of the Shandong soldiers have been remodeled and are slightly longer than those of the Zheng family.

Moreover, the soldiers of the Shandong army are carrying steel axes and guns, and when they really hit, even the Jiannu outside the gate will suffer heavy damage, and when these weaknesses accumulate together, they will become an absolute advantage in the battle.

The Shandong army has been in battle for many years, and the prestige of the army is often a scene of invincible collapse, and these small details and inconspicuous factors are precisely the prerequisites for all victories.

Although the Zheng family soldiers fought bravely, they suffered heavy casualties and gradually lost their opponents, and the front began to retreat.