Wang Degong didn't know that this scene in front of him was supposed to take place in the east more than two hundred years later, the last battle of an old and backward dynasty in the sunset, that battle, Bali Bridge, the backward and barbarian iron cavalry that had swept everything in the east was completely buried with iron and fire by the invaders from the west.

But today, here, two groups of people from the East and the West, respectively, have completely reversed their status on the battlefield, and those who once lagged behind have become Europeans in the West, while those who represent advanced military technology have become Chinese.

Advanced vs. backward, this is the crushing of the times! It is vividly displayed on this battlefield.

Now it's the turn of Westerners to get a taste of it.

The Iron Knights, on whom the Byzantines had high hopes, charged, only to be bled by their heads in front of the seemingly thin array of musketeers.

General Dimites stood in front of the formation, his face pale.

The Catholic Cardinal Deacon, who had previously clamoured in his ears countless times for the Knights to charge, and the great knights who would show the unbelievers of the East on the battlefield the power of the Holy Faith, was stunned, and this cardinal was said to be from Rome, Italy, and was a popular man before the current Pope.

It was because of their demagoguery that the fools of Constantinople in Byzantium decided to join the war with all their might, ignoring the danger that such an action would bring to Byzantium, and insisted on sending troops to wake up the giant beasts of the East.

What is this a good opportunity for the revival of the Byzantine Empire, and what will bring the empire back to the eyes of the European mainstream, and the fanatical believers will regard them as heroes.

Manuel IV did not know what was being deceived by these hated deacons, and he was convinced that he would be able to become a king in this war compared to his ancestor, the Byzantine Lion, Manuel I.

The most hateful thing is that these guys still have to come to the front line and dictate to the wartime command of the front line.

Dimmites would not admit that when he first saw the majestic Knights Hospitaller, he was intimidated by the heroic appearance of these tin cans, and he had a little hope that these guys could play a role on the battlefield.

As it turned out, this was just a luxury.

The time of knights will never return.

The world has fully entered the age of firearms.

The greatest benefit of the death of hundreds of the most elite papal knights is that it has finally silenced the group of religious maniacs around them.

It was clear that the real battlefield in front of them had been unexpected.

Dimites fiercely drew the long sword at his waist and swung it into the air,

"Order, Bulgarian infantry regiment, sortie!"

"Order the Thracian Heavy Infantry Regiment to attack!"

“……”

Orders were handed down, and the defeat of the ancient Knights Hospitaller did not stop the Byzantines, but allowed him to launch a general attack in advance.

The Thracian heavy infantry regiment was just behind the Knights Hospitaller's formation, and following the attack of the Knights in front just now, the line of the heavy infantry regiment also moved forward, reaching only two or three hundred meters away from the opposite battle line.

Of course, the so-called heavy infantry regiments of the Byzantines were not really heavy infantry hundreds of years ago, but also mixed infantry regiments with siege capabilities equipped with arquebuses, spears, chariot shields, and mobile platforms.

The shield can withstand rifle bullets and bows in battle, and the moving platform gives your musketeers a condescending view advantage.

These are proven and effective tactics in the warfare of the early arquebus era.

With these, the Thracians almost in the blink of an eye set up a mobile city in front of the Japanese army.

The greatest strength of this legion is that they are equally adept at this kind of one-sided battle.

Hundreds of years of tug-of-war with the steppe horsemen allowed the Byzantines to have such an army as well.

The Thracian infantry regiment numbered about three thousand people.

A large phalanx was formed, facing the north of the Japanese front, replacing the Knights Hospitaller, who had just failed to charge.

Now is the real battle begins.

"Artillery! Artillery! ”

As the soldiers in front of the formation separated to the left and right, dozens of guns were exposed in the middle, which looked extremely bulky, but it did have a certain ability to move.

The Byzantines have moved away from the category of mortar artillery, and have some of the style of modern field artillery.

At this time, the enemy pushed out here, obviously trying to use artillery to bombard the Japanese formation.

The Byzantine artillery carefully kept a distance of about two hundred meters, lest it come within range of the musketeers.

At this moment, even if it's not Wang Degong, or the officers and soldiers on the bottom line want to laugh and compare artillery with us?

The Byzantines in this war were indeed an eye-opener for the soldiers.

Arquebuses, spears, shield carts...... It feels like going back to a few decades ago, when the Tianzhu people were still fighting against the Hu people in the north.

It was with these weapons and similar tactics that the Tianzhu people defeated the Mongols in the north bit by bit, and expanded the border north to the Pamir Plateau little by little.

But when did everyone suddenly feel that all this was so backward, and the backward people were like primitive people.

It turns out that humans are always forgetful.

They forget the facts. Even they themselves have only been carrying out military reform for two or three years.

But it all really feels like it did decades ago.

The times have changed, and the Tianzhu Army has surpassed the armies of all other countries in the same era by nearly a hundred years.

Rumble! Rumble!

The old artillery of the Byzantines had just fired a few shells, and they fell weakly in the formation of the Japanese army, in exchange for a shout of joy from the Thracian infantry of the heavy infantry regiment!

But immediately, the return fire from the Japanese army left the Thracians stunned.

A series of earth-shattering artillery rang out one after another, dozens of pillars of smoke exploded, and the artillery they had just set up was wiped out under the blow of the Japanese artillery!

The Byzantines didn't even see where the artillery that held the Japanese army was?

They didn't know that artillery could hit targets without having to shoot directly at people, and that the curved firing technique of artillery was still a miracle in this era.

It was only with a large amount of actual combat experience and a certain mathematical foundation that the Japanese artillery found a little way.

But just a little bit of the way, so that the Japanese artillery can win in the artillery battle of any artillery in this era!

A few rounds of shells fell, and the artillery on which the Byzantines relied all disappeared.

The Byzantine soldiers looked at the huge crater and looked at each other.

They no longer know how this war was fought.

Immediately after that, as soon as the artillery of the Japanese army rang out, it was endless, and the vehicle shield and mobile platform in front of the Thracian heavy infantry regiment were completely lost under the artillery attack of the Japanese army.

The Thracians dared to swear that they had never seen such a dense shelling, and the formations of the infantry regiments were blown to pieces.

Then they found that in the fog of the battlefield ahead, accompanied by the rhythmic beat of drums, an army was striding out of it!