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Wu Sangui heard that the formation of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was changed so fast, and it was a heavy blow to Zhejiang in Siming Mountain, and the mandarin duck formation was from the big three talent formation to the small three talent formation, and the arms cooperated seamlessly, and later changed the formation in many confrontations with the Qing army, which accelerated the collapse of the Qing army.

The new army is like this, Wu Sangui couldn't help frowning, his twenty battalions, even the ten battalions that were trained earlier, could not be compared with this new army in terms of formation rotation speed. The gap between the two sides in terms of training time is an insurmountable gap, and now all he can count on is the difference in the strength of the army and the difference in tactics. But at this moment, his twenty Spanish phalanxes have more than 15,000 shooters, but they don't seem to be as many as the 7,200 firecrackers on the opposite side!

The new army completed the transformation of the formation, five towns, twenty battalion heads, aside from the convex battalion heads, a full fifteen battalions of musketeers, 5,760 Lumi guns, divided into three formations in front, the back two rows were still standing there with firecrackers, and the first row pointed the firecrackers at Wu Sangui's Spanish phalanx.

"Put!"

The waist knife of the officer wearing the cotton armor of the Qing army slashed sharply, pointing directly at the Guanning military formation in the distance. The trigger was pulled, and the gun sprayed smoke and sparks, accompanied by recoil, and the rain-like shot covered the Spanish phalanx in Guanning in an instant.

In an instant, the thumping explosion from a hundred paces away turned into one wail after another, and the Lu Mi gun was not enough to penetrate, so the casualties were also in the first two rows. Seeing that the front row was injured, the officers of each battalion hurriedly organized the rear row of non-commissioned officers to replenish it. Just like the new army, the soft monster only squirmed a little before regaining its full formation, and it seemed that the impact on this heavy phalanx was even minimal, even beyond the reach of the naked eye.

However, after the first row of firing was completed, it was only ten seconds, and the second row of firing sounded, and Wu Sangui's Spanish phalanx had just regrouped its formation, but it was once again traumatized by the volley of the new army.

It was impossible to be beaten passively, the commander of the front gave the order, and the infantry archers of the phalanx began to return fire. The throwing distance is not enough, and the foot archers in the front row draw their bows and shoot directly. Just seeing the new army shooting at this distance, Wu Sangui's head broke out with sweat not long after he regained his hair - Hu Guozhu said that the range of this new army's guns is longer, similar to that of the infantry bow, but according to this view, there are many infantry archers in his Spanish phalanx, but if he shoots at the new army like this, there is only a dead end.

"Press it up, get into range of the bird, and then shoot."

Overall numerical superiority is often of no use, and since it is a counter-fire, an effective shot that can inflict lethal damage on the opponent is the key. Wu Sangui has been fighting for decades since the end of the Ming Dynasty, has been a marshal for decades, and has been in battle for a long time, and this truth is still understood.

With Wu Sangui's order, the Spanish phalanx began to slowly move eastward. The monster got up and walked in a slow, heavy step in the direction of its opponent.

The salvo fire continued, and after the new army completed the first three rounds of shooting, the firing frequency began to slow down, but Wu Sangui always felt that it was still a long time before his phalanx completely got rid of the situation of being passively beaten. As for the reason, it is very simple, because the movement speed of these Spanish phalanxes is too slow, especially compared to the new army, which is no different from a turtle.

Fortunately, the tortoise also had the benefits of the tortoise, and it was subjected to several rounds of shooting along the way, approaching within a range of about sixty paces, and the phalanx relied on its heavy characteristics, and the loss of soldiers was far from reaching the level of collapse.

When the phalanx approached this distance, the formation was changed, the spearmen were still in the center, and the small formations at the four corners remained the same, only the bird-gunners were lined up between the two corner formations on the front, thus completing the formation conversion from the mobile fortress to the shooter's corner formation-shooter queue-shooter's corner.

Wu Sangui's generals are also generals, they took advantage of the shooting gap of the new army to complete the change of formation, the bird guns and foot archers pointed the bird guns and foot bows at the new army in the distance, almost with the new army at the same time, the Guan Ning army also broke out a long-squeezed roar.

The trigger of the bird gun was pulled, and the gunsmoke, sparks, and lead bullets came out of the gun like the Lu Mi gun on the opposite side, and swept through the ranks of the new army in an instant. The arrows of the bird gun were like this, and the arrows of the infantry bow were also close behind, whether they were fired directly or projectilely, and the dense rain of arrows also covered the battle formation of the new army in an instant.

On the battlefield filled with gunpowder, this gap could not be observed from any side, and Wu Sangui was able to get through the mouths of the heralds who came and went that the soldiers in the front row of his side had suffered a volley of the new army, and the casualties were no different from before. On the side of the Forces nouvelles, it can only be relied on speculation.

However, he had more archers than the New Army, even if most of them were foot archers, but the numerical advantage was particularly obvious, and the casualties of the New Army were certainly not few. Especially after a while, news came from the volunteer battalion under the command of Xia Guoxiang, and the situation of the Qing army on the opposite side did not seem to be very good, and the formation had even begun to have a slight commotion.

The Fifth Battalion of Volunteers is a unit that Wu Sangui trained with the backbone of the Ganshan Green Battalion Returning to the Hometown, and when it comes to the proficiency of the Spanish phalanx, it is the same period that began to be trained, and the loyal and brave battalion that he values more is also quite different. In the final analysis, the Ganxi Green Battalion Homecoming Regiment is the elite of the Ganshan Green Battalion who returned to their hometowns after the Southeast Jingbiao was broken up, not to mention anything else, at least one year earlier than the Guanning Army to contact and train the Spanish phalanx, and with them as the main body of the training, it is twice the result with half the effort.

It was precisely because the five battalions of the volunteers were the most elite that Wu Sangui directly placed them on the left flank of the army when arranging the troops. It was on the verge of Weishui, which was not conducive to rolling back more routs after breaking the formation, but the opposite side of the left flank of the Guanning army was the right wing of the Qing army, where was the Eight Banners Army led by Fu Shou using old-fashioned tactics, not the new army that Hu Guozhu called a strong enemy, at least not all!

This kind of counter-shooting, composed of the Manmeng Eight Banners, the Eight Banners Army that used the infantry bow to shoot was obviously a little uncomfortable, and the casualties of the Volunteer Battalion were nothing more than the soldiers of the rear team to make up for them and pull the wounded into the formation. However, on the side of the Eight Banners Army, there was no shield cart, no advance, and it was just shooting against the opponent with superior numbers, and the fluctuations in casualties on the morale of the army were obviously slightly greater than those on the side of the Guanning Army, and the degree was getting bigger and bigger.

"Keep watching, now is not the time to press up."

As Wu Sangui said, now is indeed not the time to press up. According to the old method of warfare, no matter how the formation is changed, in principle, the shooter will inflict more damage before engagement, so that he can defeat the opponent more quickly after entering hand-to-hand combat. The shooter is an auxiliary existence, and the key is to look at hand-to-hand combat. However, after coming into contact with the Spanish phalanx, Wu Sangui always felt as if these new tactics were more and more inclined to rely on firearms to inflict more casualties, and hand-to-hand combat was only used to make a final decision, nothing more.

Because of this, when Wu Sangui was training the phalanx, he chose to increase the proportion of shooters. Now it seems that the effect is not bad, it just needs to be held on for more time.

As the minutes passed, the firing never stopped, and almost every certain amount of time they would fire in the direction of the gunsmoke, and the opposite side of the gunpowder would shoot a barrage at them as promised.

However, the more this is the case, the heavier the pressure on Wu Sangui becomes. What is the situation on the other side, it is almost completely shrouded in the smoke of gunpowder created by oneself and the other party, and it is not clear at all. On his side, he originally relied on the thick formation and constantly adjusted the formation to maintain the killing of the Qing army, but after a few rounds of shooting, Wu Sangui noticed that his phalanx did not seem to have too much advantage in strength - the Spanish phalanx was like a mobile fortress, looking down from the sky and even having the appearance of some old-fashioned fortresses, the enemy on all sides could be calmly dealt with, but if there was only a frontal enemy, the two corner formations behind it would be completely furnished.

The range of the phalanx is not small, and it is lined up, and there is no place for the corner array behind to be lined up even if it is fully pressed. Nearly half of the shooters can't be replaced even if they are rotated, so they can only watch dryly, and without the numerical advantage that they originally had high hopes for, they will naturally become more and more intolerable when they look at their own casualties.

With the passage of time, the casualties continued to accumulate, but Wu Sangui had also tried this kind of war between Taixi and Western tactics, so he had to cross the river by feeling the stones. Fortunately, after a while, the shooting of the Qing army's central army and the left flank had stopped, and the old-fashioned Eight Banners Army on the right flank had even shown signs of instability.

"The whole army pressed up, defeated this Tartar, and slaughtered into the capital, pouring the wealth of the sky, and the king and the soldiers shared it!"

Wu Sangui still couldn't see clearly what was behind the gunsmoke, but the fighter plane was fleeting, and it was impossible for him to sit back and wait.

Now that the new army will not continue to shoot at it, it is even more impossible to fight each other, and it would be even more dreamy to let the Manchurian ironclad infantry block the guns for the Han army. At this moment, the formation of the Eight Banners Army is already a little unstable, and the new army here is probably about to be unable to bear it. The superiority in strength was revealed, and at least Wu Sangui's troops could continue to bear it.

At this point, as long as the Qing army is crushed by pressure, it will be a great victory. Otherwise, let the Qing army, which has a large number of horses, escape, fight but not die, die without stiffening, who knows what kind of unexpected situation will occur in the future.

The handsome flag waved, the battalions echoed each other from afar, and the Guan Ning army stopped shooting, changed the formation and strode towards the direction of the Qing army.

The shooting stopped, the smoke slowly cleared, and the advance of the army accelerated their escape from the smoke. Just seeing the new army in the distance clearly, Wu Sangui's brows still couldn't help frowning. Because the number of corpses in front of the new army was far less than he expected, and now that it was the iron-armored spearmen composed of the Manchurian Eight Banners in front, the musketeers of the Han Army Banner had already retreated to the back of the formation, and it seemed that it had not just been completed.

This is not a good thing, at least it has begun to deviate from his expectations, but looking at the right flank of the Qing army in the north, the old Eight Banners Army there still looks so unstable. And according to his understanding of the Eight Banners Army, there is no possibility of falsification at all.

"Tell Xia Guoxiang to pounce on it and defeat that Tartar, and the first credit is his!"

Xi Tian is jealous of horse racing, Sun Bin uses the upper horse to the middle horse, and the middle horse to the bottom of the horse, so that there is a chance of winning. But on the battlefield, two to one is not enough. Wu Sangui is now using the most combat-effective volunteer battalion under his command to deal with the weakest old-style Eight Banner Army of the Qing army, although it is not the green battalion, he has no other choice. Only by defeating the Qing army at the fastest speed can we achieve a great victory, otherwise it is still unknown who will die if it continues to be consumed like this.

The Qing army was like this, but Wu Sangui didn't have time to hesitate, let alone let the army stop and wait for the next command. The army continued to advance, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and the distance of sixty paces was not more than half the distance, and this distance was usually the distance at which the sword and shield men threw their javelins in preparation for the charge.

Without Wu Sangui's expectations, the Eight Banners Army on the right flank of the Qing army could not bear it, and with the projectile of the infantry bow, the sword and shield soldiers of the brigade rushed up.

The javelin crossed this short distance and inserted it into the body of the Guan Ning army in the front row, but when the Eight Banners Army rushed up, the wounded were already pulled into the formation, and the soldiers in the back row were also immediately replenished.

Stabbed, twisted, and pulled out, the tactical movements were completed in one go, just like the southeast Jingbiao camp in Nanchang, Jiangxi. The Volunteer Battalion only used the simplest method to defeat the sharp spirit of the Eight Banners Army, and then, the phalanx slowly advanced, and the heavy and powerful steps crushed everything in front of the feet, and the Eight Banners Army, which was once the strongest barbarian in the seventeenth century, did not even have the strength to parry in front of the Spanish phalanx, let alone fight back.

The Guanning Army of the Volunteer Battalion entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat with the Eight Banners Army in the northernmost part of the battlefield, on the bank of Weishui, but it was not so much a battle as a one-sided massacre. At least in this part of the battlefield, there is no distinction between fighting and carnage.

The right flank was close to the river beach, so there were not many cavalry, but at this point, Fu Shou had to send the cavalry out when he asked Jidu for help. However, the Spanish phalanx was like a moving fortress, facing in all directions, without any defensive corners, and these Eight Banners Iron Cavalry did nothing but force the Righteous Left Battalion, which was closest to the river beach, to slow down its advance.

However, even this effect only worked for a moment. When Wu Sangui was assigned to the cavalry on the left flank and cooperated with the Volunteer Battalion to form a flanking attack on the Eight Banners cavalry, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, known as the "unparalleled cavalry and archery", soon fell into a one-sided desperate situation, no different from those Eight Banners infantry.

The upper and lower sir, just a little contact has already shown a crushing state, maybe there is a moment and a half of effort, when this Manchurian Eight Banners is completely destroyed by the volunteer battalion, Wu Sangui's expected anti-roll rout will also appear here. But at this moment, the Chinese army and the new army on the left flank suddenly switched formations within a distance of less than thirty paces between the two sides.

The spearmen stood still, the gunners of the Forces nouvelles pushed out small-caliber guns from the gaps between the battalions, and the gunners advanced through the gaps between the two battalions.

When the three rows of musketeers crossed the spearmen, the first row of musketeers half-crouched on the ground, the second row of musketeers collectively took a step to the right and bent down, while the third row of musketeers stood still and simply stood up straight.

"Raise the gun!"

The New Army officers in the front row shouted in unison, and the New Army Gunners in the third row raised their guns in unison.

"Open the fire door cover!"

The fire door lid opened, and the new arms men in the third row put their fingers on the trigger. With the force of the index finger, the faucet holding the fire rope falls down to ignite the gunpowder in the medicine pool.

"Aim!"

Three rows of new musketeers, three heights, the second row in the middle has staggered their positions, and thousands of pairs of eyes are looking straight at the Guan Ning army who are not far away. As for what gaps, crosshairs, and what three points and one line have no meaning at this distance.

"Put!"

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The tactics of the new army have been kept secret since its formation, and in fact, some readers must have seen it in the recent chapters. The mystery will be revealed tomorrow. As for the question of whether the combat effectiveness of the new army has been exaggerated in the past two days, there will be an answer tomorrow, and His Royal Highness King Qi, who stands at the top of the military thinking of this era, will answer it for the elders of the Senate.