In terms of tactics, in the Ming Dynasty, the mainland was basically the same, at most, the Mao Hulu soldiers, Shaolin monks and soldiers and the like seemed a bit different. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is to the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing armies are also the same in terms of tactics, until Chen Wen, a guy who doesn't like to follow the crowd very much......

However, in the southwestern provinces, because of the different environments, more tactics different from those in the interior have been born. One of the most famous is the white pole soldiers of Sichuan Shizhu Tusi, this mountain infantry has repeatedly performed meritorious services in the Ming and Qing wars, and is a world-famous strong soldier, and has been recruited by the Ming court many times to fight against the Later Jin and Liukou in the battlefields of Liaodong and the interior.

Xiying was in the interior of the Chongzhen Dynasty, but when it arrived in the Southern Ming Dynasty, it had already entered the southwest, especially after Zhang Xianzhong's death, his four righteous sons led troops into Yunnan. It can be said that the current Xiying is actually a military group that originated in Yunnan and mainly focuses on southwestern tactics, and this is the case with Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang.

Since neither side came according to the convention, the temptation before the war became inevitable, Sun Kewang was testing Chen Wen, and Chen Wen was not testing Sun Kewang.

"Kill!"

With a single sword, a cavalry of the Qin Domain was cut off before he could parry. Killing two people in a row, there was no cavalry of the Qin Domain near the left, Wang Xingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at the arm armor that had just been cut, it seemed that it was only the armor leaf at the place where the force was a little dented, and the arm did not feel too heavy just now, in the final analysis, this armor leaf was indeed thick enough.

As a scout captain of the cavalry team directly under the Yuyao Division, he was not born in any army, but his father was a night leader in Dongjiang Town, and his skills were all learned from his father. A few years later, with the death of Mao Wenlong, the chaos in Dongjiang Town day after day, a group of villagers seized the boat and fled to Shandong, and later begged for a living on the canal, until Chen Wen recovered Hangzhou, the southernmost point of the canal, and rushed to join the army.

At this moment, killing these two cavalrymen in a row, martial arts are one thing, and they have also fought in Fujian and Guangdong before, so the psychological fluctuations are small. Of course, the more important thing is the strength of the armor, the thick armor of the half-body armor, with the waist knife knocked out by the hydraulic forging hammer, although the shoulder height of the Mongolian horse under the crotch is unsatisfactory, but it is still somewhat cheaper than the Yunnan horse ridden by the two Qin cavalry.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, Wang Xingzhi glanced left and right, most of the scouts of his team have eliminated the opponents who have been entangled, and one of them has also grabbed a tongue, and at this moment he is dragging the Qin Domain officer who was knocked unconscious onto the horse.

Scouts on the battlefield, light riding dog fights, and hitting the opponent's morale by killing and wounding are side jobs, and the real main business is to serve as the eyes of the army, and finding out the opponent's reality is the first priority.

Seeing this, Wang Xingzhi gestured, and most of his scouts were divided to escort the tongue back, while he took a few other people out of the battlefield, bypassing the area and exploring some of the further camps as much as possible.

The cavalry galloped away, but there were always people who noticed their intentions and chased after them. While fighting and watching, it was easy to deal with a group of men and horses, but more cavalry were killed. Wang Xingzhi knew that they were going too deep, so he took out his binoculars and looked at the camp in the distance at this moment.

Fortunately, this time he was in a hurry, and there was a huge and incomparable object moving slowly in the telescope, and he saw one of them.

"Withdraw!"

If you observe some information, you must withdraw it as soon as possible and return it, otherwise if you lose your life here, no matter how much you see, it will be useless to the army.

In the area of more than 20 miles between Sun Kewang's camp and the water, the cavalry of the two armies fought hard to find out as much information as possible that could be useful for the next decisive battle. On Chen Wen's side, there were several cavalry teams that went deeper, and they also saw something through the telescope, while Sun Kewang's side, Chen Wen didn't know what he had observed, but there were very few things he could see through this water.

Sun Kewang fought on two fronts, whether the Yunnan side of the delaying army would stab him in the back when he killed him, Sun Kewang felt that if it was him, he would definitely do so, so he was quite anxious about the decisive battle with Chen Wen as soon as possible.

However, early the next morning, it rained lightly, and Chen Wen's side could still ensure a certain degree of firearm firing rate by relying on the helmet and fire door cover, but Sun Kewang's firearms were not only laborious, but the archers could not fight in such weather, so they had to wait until the rain stopped before organizing a large army to attack on the third day.

Near noon, the cavalry of the Qin Domain was everywhere, and the army then slowly came out of the camp and killed in the direction of Yuanzhou Prefecture. Since this is Chen Wen's grain storage land, there is no possibility of letting Sun Kewang cross the water to besiege him, as the scouts sent back the news that the Qin Domain's army poured into the nest, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies also crossed the water at the fastest speed, and began to gradually approach it according to the plan formulated before for the Qin Domain's army to take the initiative to attack.

The battle of cavalry intensified as the two armies drew closer, and soon the two armies came into contact, and the armies began to line up in armor in preparation for the real decisive battle.

The area is mountainous in the north and south, the water in the east, and not all in the west, but it is the best place for both sides to meet.

On the battlefield, the banners of the rebel and the king of Qin were approaching, and the two sides began to line up in armor when they approached a certain distance. This is the right thing to do, but this time, Chen Wen does not intend to continue to rely on the range advantage to force the opponent to attack, and then defeat the opponent through defensive counterattacks.

"Attack, there's no need to waste time with a waste like Sun Kewang."

The handsome flag was pressed forward, and all ministries responded with the flag. After the Yuzhang Division of the Chinese Army, the Siming Division on the left flank, and the Yuyao Division on the right flank responded, the entire battle array also began to slowly advance towards the Qin Domain's army to the west.

The Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies launched a general attack on them as soon as they finished their armor, and this eagerness really made Sun Kewang and his cronies feel unreasonable. However, when the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies made moves, Sun Kewang could only follow, but he was different from Chen Wen, and the configuration of his army was more suitable for attacking than defending and counterattacking, to see whose spear was sharper.

The two armies couldn't wait to attack the opponent, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies were in a vertical formation as always, with distances between the teams, and it was an attack, so it was necessary to change the formation before engagement. However, for the training intensity of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, this is not a difficult thing. On the contrary, on the Qin Domain's side, the battle formations with heavy formations due to the strong forces were always dense, especially the existence of those war elephants made the infantry battle formations more crowded.

"Sure enough, it's a war elephant, I know that Sun Kewang will take out this treasure."

As he spoke, Chen Wen smiled coldly, and then remembered something interesting, and the coldness quickly dissipated.

"I remember that when I was on Dalan Mountain, Zhao Qian's family also asked how thick the legs of the king's war elephants were. That guy probably didn't like trapping people or something, and wanted to play big, but unfortunately he forgot to bring him this time, which is a pity. ”

Chen Wen said with a relaxed face, but Chen Fugui, the captain of the guard beside him, was still tense with that big face, looking into the distance without squinting. didn't even pick up the stubble, as if Chen Wen was talking to himself. However, he also knew that the system was like this, and Chen Fugui's task was to protect his safety, so he naturally had to devote himself to observing the enemy's situation. Chat, or free.

As they spoke, the artillery of both sides began to fire at each other. However, the frequency of artillery bombardment was very low, and Chen Wen could think of Sun Kewang's artillery from the artillery that he was pushing forward by the auxiliary soldiers without seeing it with his own eyes, and most of them were also advancing with the battle formation.

However, the idea was quickly put on his mind. As for the reason, it is that Sun Kewang has a necessary presence that has to reduce the use of artillery.

The army was approaching step by step, and Chen Wen quickly noticed through the telescope that the movement speed of the Qin Domain's army began to slow down, but it was not the entire army that slowed down, but the speed of the tall war elephants in the formation did not slow down in the slightest, and their positions were getting closer and closer to the front of the battle array.

Chen Wen didn't know how many war elephants Sun Kewang had brought out, and there was no way to confirm it at this time, but the number was not a few, but it was true. At this moment, dozens of war elephants gradually stood out from the battle array. As for what is about to happen next, don't do what he thinks at all!

It is a common tactic to use war elephants to attack battle formations, and such behemoths are impacting at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, and their skin is thick and thick, even a jungle of spears is difficult to stop them. From ancient times to the present, there are not no ways to defeat war elephants, the most common and effective is fire attack, followed by javelin throwing, attacking elephant trunks, spear sieges, bed crossbows and other means abound, as for what Northern and Southern Dynasties Zongqi used fake lions to break the real war elephants and other methods are not nothing.

However, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies had never faced such a behemoth before, and seriously lacked experience in this area. There were no weapons in the army, such as bed crossbows, long-handled broadswords, or javelins, let alone fake lions. For now, the only way to deal with this extremely destructive class is to do it best.

The distance between the two sides has entered three hundred meters, and the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang took the lead in stopping, and the artillery that followed the formation was pushed forward by the auxiliaries one after another. When the artillery was loaded, the column formation behind it also began to change formation, and the entire battle formation quickly changed from an independent battle team to a hollow phalanx with sentinels as a unit.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and while the loading and changing formations of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies are being completed at a very fast speed, the war elephants have also come out of the crowd.

The cavalry confrontation between the two armies began to reverse at this moment, although the war horses of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies had an advantage over the Dian horses of the Qin Domain, but with the advance of the war elephants, the war horses of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies were all affected, and they were restless at best, and they did not obey orders, and even some simply softened on the ground.

Whether it was the smell or simply the inevitable fear of such a behemoth, Chen Wen didn't know very well, but once he found out, without waiting for orders, the cavalry on the battlefield retreated in the direction of the battle formation.

Sun Kewang listened to the battle report in front of him under the banner of King Qin, and he had already expected this result. The situation is still as he expected, this is a good start, and he is even more painful after the battle at the fork in the road, determined to fight to the death with Chen Wen, never flinching, because at this moment, he has no way to retreat, even if he descends to the Qing Dynasty, he also needs to cross Huguang, Sichuan, a large area occupied by the Ming army, is simply standing on the edge of the cliff, a step back is a catastrophe!

After the war elephant came out, the infantry battle formation quickly returned to its normal speed after a whole formation, and the war elephant was separated from the war elephant by a short distance to prevent the war elephant from being harassed and killed by long-range attacks and losing control, causing unnecessary damage to the rear team's battle formation.

The pilots, archers and spearmen on the war elephants, and the infantry guards behind the war elephants were all ready, and as the distance was closer, the drums in the rear were beating, and the drivers drove the war elephants towards the spear jungle of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies. The infantry of the escort followed closely behind the elephant, which was not the best distance for the infantry to charge, but the elephant needed enough distance to accelerate, and they could only follow the elephant as a guard.

The war elephant rushed towards the battle formation of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies like sharp arrows, and the commander of the artillery group in front of him gave an order after determining the best firing distance, and each artillery group lit the fuse in accordance with the command of the general's flag, aiming at the war elephant in front of him.

There was a roar, the sound of artillery sounded, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the front-loading gun and the Franc machine gun opened fire separately. With nearly four divisions of troops, more than 200 artillery pieces fired in turn in divisional units, and the loaded shells rained out in just a moment.

The shells came in a cable-pulling blast, and the war elephants accelerated in the hail of falling artillery fire. Dodging left and right, the rider was no longer able to control the direction of travel of the war elephant, and was completely instinctively charged.

The vast majority of artillery shells can only be used as a foil for the charge of war elephants, and the dust and clods of dirt can confuse the eyes of the pilots and soldiers, and can injure the infantry supporting these war elephants, but it cannot pose any threat to the rough-skinned war elephants. However, once it is actually hit by a cannonball, this strongest formation-breaking class in the era of cold weapons, the ultimate enhanced version of the armored cavalry, is still not much stronger than a piece of paper in the face of cannonballs.

The wails of the struck war elephant were heard, and in the center of the battlefield, a war elephant fell to the ground, this war elephant was directly broken by a cannonball, and blood gushed out. In the miserable wail, the riders and archers on their backs had already been thrown away and fell to the ground unconscious. However, the guards who followed closely behind were full of panic and confusion on their faces.

Not far away, another war elephant was much more fortunate than this one. In the same moment, a cannonball fell, directly hitting the top of the war elephant's head, and in the splattering of brains, the war elephant fell directly to the ground, but also avoided the pain of not knowing when it would end. Only those pilots and archers, their fate was just like the former, they fell on the ground, and even fell to death on the ground.

War elephants move at high speed, and only a very small number of them can be hit, and more war elephants appear to be quite flustered in the shelling, but in the case of the drivers desperately tightening the reins, they also subconsciously continue to rush towards the battle formation of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

It takes time to reload the front-loading gun, reset, debrass, aim, and load, a series of steps are completed, and it is estimated that the war elephants have already rushed over at that time, and even the gunners have been trampled into pulp. After the first shot, the front-loading gunners pushed the guns back into battle, but the Franc cannons continued to pour shells on the war elephants through the guns.

After the fourth round of shelling, more than a dozen war elephants were killed and maimed on the battlefield, becoming a mountain of meat between the two armies.

However, when Zi Gong ran out, no less than twenty war elephants still rushed over. Although it is so small compared to the huge battle array composed of tens of thousands of people, behind those war elephants is the Qin army that is far larger than the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang as the backing, as long as it can break a hole in the battle array, even if it is a small opening, the torrent is bound to break the embankment with an unstoppable momentum.

It's just that at this critical juncture, Chen Wen was calm and relaxed, looking into the distance in the telescope, and a cruel sneer emerged.