The double-headed eagle battle flag of the Muscovy Principality slowly moved with the Rostov soldiers who were stepping forward, and the commander of the main force of Rostov, who was standing on a small plateau behind the army formation on a war horse, held a monocular with deep eyes and carefully observed the Shuzifeng military formation opposite.

Since the fall of the Rostov avant-garde, the aristocratic generals of the Third Route Army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, even if they did not regard Shu Zifeng's army as an equal opponent, have put away all their previous contempt and regarded it as a real army, not a militia bandit.

Naturally, in the face of Shu Zifeng's large-scale attack, Rostov-on-Don's main force also paid enough attention to pulling out all the elites in the base camp and listing an upright formation against the enemy.

The military formation of the main force of Rostov still adheres to the routine of the previous cold weapon warfare, the Chinese army is the elite main force of infantry, the projection troops are in the front hand-to-hand combat units in the rear, and the wings are the cavalry teams on standby and a small number of winged infantry.

Of course, with the strength of the main army of Rostov-on-Don, there was no need to line everyone in front of the formation, and about a third of the elite infantry was left in reserve.

Due to the absolute superiority of the main army of Rostov-on-Don, the cross-section of the battlefield is much longer than that of the troops under Shu Zifeng, and the entire Rostov Middle Route Army has included the entire army of Shu Zifeng, and the aristocratic cavalry on both flanks can carry out roundabout operations more easily after the battle breaks out.

In a war, as long as there is a small gap in the quality of the army against each other, the superiority in strength is a very important data, more troops means more opportunities and space to outflank the enemy, and there are also more reserves to check and fill in the gaps after the battle is launched, to make up for the temporary defeat, act as a firefighting team, and greatly reduce the probability of the collapse of the whole army.

It is precisely for this reason that the example of winning more with less is achieved either by relying on special terrain, or by the excessive gap in the military quality, weaponry, and even morale of the soldiers on both sides.

However, even so, any case of winning more with less is worth going down in history.

Rostov-on-Don's main military formation is not much different from the traditional military formation, but Shu Zifeng's military formation makes Rostov coach full of freshness.

In order to consolidate the connection point of the Chinese army and prevent it from being breached, Shu Zifeng placed the warrior battalion in the middle of the long spear phalanx, and the left and right sides of the warrior battalion were divided into 500 Swedish senior musketeers, the left flank of the whole army was guarded by 500 leading muskets led by Bandak, and the right flank was the 1,500 first battalions with a thick military formation.

The morale of the first camp has been fluctuating greatly, so Shu Zifeng did not count on them as the main force of the battle this time, but just let the first camp set up an array to act as a human shield on the right flank, and on the right side of the first camp is the hundred-man heavy armored musket cavalry team led by Shu Zifeng himself.

Shu Zifeng's position is on the outermost side of the overall military formation, which is suitable for flexible and mobile combat, and the movement of the cavalry will not be constrained in any way, and at the same time, it can also guard the unstable morale of the first camp military formation nearby.

Shu Zifeng's troops were too small, in order not to fall into the enemy's semi-encirclement situation at the beginning of the battle, he had to place everyone in the front line, open a long enough battlefield cross-section, at least, if the battlefield cross-section is wide enough, even if the enemy noble cavalry wants to outflank, it will take a lot of time, this time is enough for Shu Zifeng to make temporary adjustments, and order the rearguard troops to turn their spearheads to guard against the enemy cavalry detour, so as not to be unsuspecting to explode chrysanthemums......

"The subordinate rebel formations of the Grand Duke Yaroslav were very similar to the armies of the Habsburgs in Western Europe, with a large number of musketeers, and even a separate line of musketeers in front of them, and the commanders on the opposite side paid much attention to the musketeers.

However, more than half of the battlefield was guarded by musketeers, and I would like to see if these musketeers can hold their line after hand-to-hand combat. ”

After observing Shu Zifeng's military formation, the commander of the main force in Rostov thought secretly in his heart.

Soon, with the sound of a loud horn, the Rostov infantry who were resting in front of the formation all got up in the sound of armor and armor, and the archers and musketeers staggered forward under the command of the officer.

Since Muscovy was once a vassal state of the Golden Horde, and its weaponry was heavily influenced by the Mongol army, the proportion of archers and scimitars in the army was still quite high, and the ordinary noble guards may not be able to train many archers, but in the regular army and mercenaries of Moscow, archers were not a scarce class.

Of course, compared with the major khanates established by the Mongol descendants who played cavalry and archery with the whole army, the archers of Muscovy were more amateurish, which is also the reason why Muscovy gradually abandoned the bow and crossbow and promoted muskets in history.

The Mongols have played with bows and arrows and cavalry archery to the extreme, and if they want to defeat them, they must open up new fields of warfare and advanced firearms, and they must not find a way to win the battle in the direction that the enemy is best at, and not knowing how to be flexible in war means stupidity and suicide!

In this era, due to the loading efficiency of the arquebus, the use rate of the bow and arrow is not low, in addition to the armor-piercing ability, the bow and arrow are not worse than the arquebus, whether it is the rate of fire or the range, it is not worse than the arquebus, especially the rate of fire, it can completely explode the arquebus!

This is why muskets and crossbows went hand in hand in the 16th century, and it was not until the widespread spread of flintlock pistols that even small soldiers could wear plate armor, and the bow and crossbow were completely eliminated.

Shu Zifeng's front is not a one-yard horizontal line, except for the era of queuing up to be shot, there are few horizontal fronts often shown in movies on the battlefield of cold weapons, and it is useless to do so except to look more beautiful!

In Shu Zifeng's array, the queue of Swedish senior musketeers was extremely high, completely standing out from the overall array, while the warrior battalion led by Leonidas was the back, and only when hand-to-hand combat was about to be made, the warrior battalion with cold weapons would move forward.

When the Rostov projection troops were attacking in advance, under Gustav's orders, the senior Swedish musketeers quickly jogged in front of the Warrior Camp in a thin three-row line of guns, the first of which was stretched out on his shoulder.

The Rostov army on the opposite side did not know that the veteran Swedish musketeers were using flintlock muskets that were cross-era, because of better air tightness, the effective range was higher than that of arquebuses, and they could easily kill targets within nearly 200 meters, provided that they could hit......

However, the Rostov army's ancient cold-weapon combat method, with a close spacing between personnel and a much wider cross-section of the battlefield than the Platoon of Swedish veteran musketeers, did not seem to require precise aiming.