Early morning.

The winter sun is shining on the yellow fields, and the surface temperature is starting to rise. The temperature is still very low, and the water vapor in the soil evaporates into the air, condensing into a faint mist at a height of half a meter on the surface, wisps of which, dancing in the breeze, slowly disappears.

In the small basin on the southwest side of Drum Mountain, war horses neigh. The soldiers gathered here walked in the fog, like a grand stage play.

The cool sound of the military horn sounded, and when the breakfast time was over, the soldiers stood under their respective military flags and lined up according to the number. The veterans were more relaxed, took out their pipes, borrowed fire from each other, and chatted about the homely weather. The recruit's expression stiffened and became the object of jokes from the veterans.

He doesn't sleep well, and every night before a battle, all kinds of thoughts will flood into his mind, causing him to toss and turn, and often can't fall asleep until late at night. After waking up, the bronze mirror showed a tired face.

It seems that it will have to rely on burning health to survive the day.

Hurriedly washed with cold water, put on a full gown, and grabbed a saber in his left hand. Taking a deep breath, the consul, who opened the curtain of the tent and appeared in front of the officers and soldiers, regained his previous look. When passing by the barracks, the veterans saluted themselves in various ways. Shou ordered to call out their names with a smile, occasionally cracking a joke or two with some of them who knew each other.

The commanders gathered at the mountain pass, came in order, and they stopped the last discussion before the battle.

Shou Zhi casually greeted, "You go on, leave me alone." ”

Passing by the marching band on the hillside, they were adjusting their instruments. Walk to the top of the mountain you had been to a few days ago. The soldiers of the guard set up a marching chair, but did not sit down. He pulled out the binoculars and put them on Lin Izuyong's shoulder, overlooking the entire battlefield.

Three lightly organized light infantry companies that had been temporarily transferred from the Fanshe in Taipei and from the Ming army had set out to open a long line of skirmishers to carry out the final clearing of the battlefield.

On the left flank of the battlefield, the water of the Min River rolls eastward and flows to the sea.

Looking back, in Mawei Harbor, the frigate Qingyun and two notification ships untied their cables and hoisted their sails, and behind the battleship were dozens of river gunboats and flat-bottomed boats. The detachment was commanded by the captain of the Qingyun, Emmanuel. Nansuti was in charge, and the navy was fighting with the army this time, and Nansuti was to be under the command of Langemann.

Most of the sailors of this river fleet were civilians forcibly recruited in the vicinity, many of the soldiers were guards who had just gone anyway, and the core of the combat effectiveness of the detachment was the 300 people newly arrived by Hu Min.

Langemann shook hands with the commanders of the troops, about the end of the pre-war meeting.

A rapid snare drum was heard in the distance, attracting Order's attention. Re-pointing the binoculars at the Green Battalion's military village, some people could be seen hurrying to the commander's tent.

The enemy has noticed something strange from a different outpost.

The army has raised the contact level of the outpost for several days in a row, completely blocking the reconnaissance of the green battalion soldiers, and they can only rely on guessing.

The water of the Min River is slowly rising, lapping against the reef on the shore, and today's high tide time has arrived.

Longgmann walked up behind Order, "Archon, we can begin. ”

"Carl, it's your time, you decide."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

The signal corps signaled to the fleet on the river, and the Lingjiang tightened its sails and slowly sailed out of the bay hidden by the Drum Mountain as the lead ship, appearing in the field of vision of the battlefield.

Jiang Feng tugged at the Changliu flag on the battleship and made a hula sound. Even if it is a notification ship, it is a powerful existence that can sweep across the Min River.

The battle was started by the navy first. Three battleships went against the current. Stopping the ship and anchoring on the channel facing the camp on the south flank of Jianzhou, the ship's guns poked out the gun door and announced the start of the battle with a salvo.

The 4-pounder gun could not reach the military stronghold of the Green Battalion, it was just a demonstration. Maintaining order requires dozens of cannons and tall hulls on these ships to intimidate the enemy and boost the morale of their own troops.

About 20 river gunboats and flat-bottomed boats overtook the battleship and continued to row upstream. Swimming against the current, the boat is slow.

The enemy's flags waved rapidly, and a unit of several hundred men was drawn from each of the two large battalions, following the river flotilla, moving parallel beyond the range of the naval guns. A smile appeared at the corner of Shou Order's mouth, the initiative is mine, and the enemy has no choice.

At the foot of the mountain, the army is making final preparations. The soldiers checked each other's belts, ammunition bottles, arquebuses, and tongs, and finally said something encouraging.

Langemann ordered the marching band, and the slightly cheerful music of "Austerlitz" resounded over the camp. A slower pace is used at this time, which can help the soldier get into the groove faster.

When the veterans heard the military music, they extinguished their pipes and turned to stand. On the top of the hill, it was clear that the columns of the companies were abandoned.

The pass was narrow enough for only three soldiers to walk side by side, and the battalions passed in turn as they were deployed. The combat sequence is the Taipei battalion, the volunteer battalion, the Dengzhou soldiers, the Guizhou soldiers, the field artillery, and the Taipei garrison battalion. 200 sailors and 300 Ming troops drawn from various warships in the harbor were the reserve of the whole army.

The gendarmes erected signs at the mountain passes and marked the direction of the battalions with lime on the ground. When the volunteer battalion from the mainland passed through the mountain pass, I don't know who started and cheered wave after wave to the order on the top of the mountain.

The orchestra conductor switches the piece to "La Victoire est à Nous!" at the right time.

As the Taipei battalion entered the battlefield, the army's 12-pounder and 6-pounder guns fired test firing one after another, marking the range of fire.

The cold weather during the Xiaoice River period froze the ground, and the solid bullet smashed on the ground, splashed a burst of dust, bounced heavily, and jumped forward happily. The 12-pounder bronze cannon uses the strongest voice on the battlefield to show the empress of the land battlefield in front of everyone.

The rousing military music and the firing of cannons stimulated the soldiers, both new and veterans, and their red faces were engraved with the belief of victory.

The Taipei battalion turned to the left in the center of the battlefield and formed two 5-platoon horizontal formations, the first two rows were hand-to-hand infantry armed with spears and wearing cuirasses, and the last three rows were heavy arquebusiers.

The volunteer battalion was deployed on the right flank of the Taipei battalion, and it was also two 5-row horizontal formations, and the two battalions were advancing side by side.

Jin Shiying's 800 Dengzhou soldiers roughly maintained a column formation behind the Taipei battalion, and Yang Qianqing's 700 Guizhou soldiers were behind the volunteer battalion.

The field artillerymen hung up six 4-pounder and 6-pounder guns on their horses and waited for the order to strike.

A total of 400 garrison battalions from Taichung and Yilan were at the end, responsible for escorting the people who towed the ship's guns.

There were not so many men in the divisions, and the rest of the troops either opened a skirmish line in front of the line infantry or dispersed to the rear of the battlefield to carry out their duties.

The large battalion of the Green Battalion fired a burst of cannons, and the enemy troops from the north stepped out of the main camp and lined up in the open space in the center. The enemy troops on the southern flank remained in the camp and did not see an attack.

Orderly, with a telescope, swept over the enemy formation. China has had in-depth exchanges with Europe for more than 100 years, and military technology is the key content.

Whether it is Jianzhou or the Ming army, the military formation at this time has traces of Europe. The main body of the military formation is also composed of spearmen in the front row and bird gunmen in the back row. The Green Battalion was a bit thicker, with 3 rows of spearmen and 5 rows of birds, and light guns such as Franc and Tiger squat guns in front of the formation. The Green Camp Military Band is located at the back of the formation, using Chinese instruments such as military horns, war drums, and suona. Judging from the formation that has been formed, this is obviously influenced by the Spanish phalanx.

What is quite different from Europe is that, in addition to the birds, francs and cannons, the green battalion soldiers born from the Ming army also have many messy and ineffective firearms, and the military formation has also made some changes to adapt to these firearms.

It may make many people feel subversive, but Jianzhou is actually very active in learning advanced military technology in Europe. The elite Jianzhou infantry can even quickly expel the hollow phalanx of anti-cavalry.

Of course, the green battalion soldiers in front of them do not have the quality of the Eight Banners, but just in terms of the static military formation in front of them, the appearance is there. Because the means of command and communication, such as flags and military music, are different, and the technical level of weapons is not on the same level, the difference between the two armies can only be revealed when they can fight.

Once on the battlefield, the battalion's own junior drummers and flutists took over the step command, and they played La vieille garde, a concise, bass-heavy military music used for marching in formation.

The troops came out of the narrow mountain passes, and the battle line became wider and wider. The horizontal march of the infantry battalion was not fast, and the Dengzhou soldiers and Guizhou soldiers in the column quickly caught up, the Dengzhou soldiers spread out on the right flank, and the Guizhou soldiers spread out on the left flank. On the right flank there was the difficult to climb Drum Mountain, on the left flank there was the Min River, and the entire front was inclined to the right flank.

More than 400 lightly armed infantrymen selected from various divisions were at the forefront, opening a long line of skirmishers.

Of the four forces on the front line, Yang Qianqing was the weakest, and Langemann handed over the relatively safe left flank to them, where they could be covered by naval guns.

The backbone of Jin Shiyingdeng's state soldiers fought against Jianlu for a long time in Guanning and Dongjiang, and they dare not say that they fought against the Eight Banners, which is definitely stronger than the southern green battalion in front of them. Langemann gave them the right wing peace of mind.

The six motorized guns of the field artillery company entered the battlefield after the line infantry, and only 28 horses were able to keep steady under the sound of the guns, and it was these horses that now led the field guns and followed the infantry.

The battle line is getting wider and wider, and the formation of the Ming army on both flanks is slightly sparse. The stragglers of the Dengzhou soldiers probably looked down on the southern green battalion on the opposite side, and accelerated forward, forming a prominent right flank on the entire front, and the left flank was dragging behind.

Well, again the slash tactics invented by the Theban gay legion, and later carried forward by Frederick II.

No matter in which era, whether it is naval or land warfare, it is always a system of equations composed of firepower and human life. Before industrialization, there were no convergent solutions to these systems of higher- or lower-order nonlinear differential equations, and it was all up to the personal experience of the boss.

Tactics don't make much sense.

Whether it is a diagonal phalanx or a parallel horizontal team, the main force is in the center or on the flanks has no value in promotion. As a manager, the always thing to keep in mind is to form a T-shape with the enemy and use as much firepower as possible to meet as little firepower as possible. In this regard, the Navy is the same as the land war. All kinds of troop movements are aimed at this purpose.

The diagonal tactic made it possible for Frederick II to form a T-shape of fire on the flank, but the focus of this tactic was not on the diagonal line, but on Frederick's own grasp of the timing of the attack and retreat, the determination of the offensive and retreat starting line, the stopping line, the control of the reserves, and the daily training of the Prussian Army in shooting and maneuvering.

These things and the experience of famous players are full of random events, Brownian sports, and most of the time, even the main general does not know why he can win. Therefore, the military books of the East and the West before the industrial era all rose to the level of nihilistic philosophy, trying to interpret war with some inscrutable nouns and plausible logic. A typical example of this is the Art of War.

As for the art of war, "the use of wonder, with one heart", the first person in Chinese history to fight in military battles, Yue Fei has a clear understanding of this problem.

With the sound of artillery rumbling and standing on a high place overlooking the battlefield, try to understand and learn about ground warfare.