Seeing that the Qing army came up with exactly the same tactics, Chen Wen sighed secretly, as if he still underestimated the learning ability of Ma Jinbao, the "boy of scattered wealth".

After that charge against the artillery of the standard battalion to shoot at close range, Chen Wen learned this tactic without hesitation after learning from the pain. The reason is also very simple, since this hand almost tore apart the battle formation of the Nantang battalion at the beginning, then the effect should not be much worse when used on the Qing army.

It's just that he didn't expect that the tactics used by Ma Xin in order to break Yu Guowang's half-finished Spanish phalanx were learned by Ma Jinbao in this way, and they were even more used on him at the moment, which made Chen Wen's heart suddenly have a ridiculous feeling of going off the rails.

But absurdity is absurd, since he has already taken over this "Tianji horse race" duel, then he must try to smash Ma Jinbao to command the right wing of the Qing army composed of the green battalion of Sifu before the Dubiao battalion crushes the Yiwu battalion without artillery support.

As a video clip he had seen on the Internet in his early years surfaced, Chen Wen thought for a moment, and then ordered the heralds around him to inform the general Lou Jiye, who was in charge of the command of the Nantang battalion, of the battle order, and he turned his attention to the Yiwu battalion, which was about to face the approaching shelling of the supervising battalion.

The Yiwu battalion has only been in force for more than a month, and the proportion of veterans in the first infantry of the Yiwu battalion, which is the main force, is very high, while the other three bureaus have adopted the method of organizing with the same township and clan as the link, so as to improve the combat effectiveness.

However, since each infantry team has a Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team and a Firearms Team, Chen Wen formed the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team with many Yiwu soldiers with martial arts, and most of the area is in the mountainous area and Dongyang soldiers who can use archers and arrows form a firearms team with foot bows. In this way, each infantry team can not only benefit from the feelings of the same country and clan to improve the resilience of the battle, but also achieve the effect of containing each other to a certain extent.

In the 31st Infantry Brigade of the Second Bureau of the Yiwu Battalion. The Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team is all composed of the children of the Chen family of Bei Lei, and its captain is called Chen Lan, who is one of the leaders of the regimental training who participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Nantang Battalion before, and was appointed by Chen Wen as the captain of the team because of his popularity among the villagers.

The firearms team of the same infantry team as Chen Lan's Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team is composed of soldiers from Dongyang County, and they are basically composed of full-time hunters or farmers who usually farm and hunt in their spare time to subsidize their families. There is only one exception to this, and that is the former house slave of the Feng family in Hengdian Town. After the defenders of Dongyang County were defeated by the Ming army, Zhang Yida, who fled to Yiwu to join the army.

Since passing the primary election in Qi's house, Zhang Yida has entered the new barracks outside the west gate of Yiwu to participate in training.

Just like the traditional training arrangement of the Nantang battalion, every morning when you get up, you must first practice the military physical boxing of the Qi family army, and after breakfast, you will start personal martial arts training, followed by lunch and a short lunch break, and in the afternoon, it will be the queue training and the "column anti-pressure training" of the Lao Shizi that will be carried out in the later stage of the training, and in the evening, in addition to the additional training in order to ensure that you will not be eliminated by the barracks, you must also learn those complicated military laws and regulations under the teaching of officers and calming soldiers.

Recruit training is hard. But compared with the humiliating life in the Feng family, Zhang Yida still felt what the word happiness looked like.

In the army, although officers, military judges, and suppression soldiers are all fierce, and they are often whipped and caned in public for violating regulations, these military laws and regulations treat everyone equally, and even Zhang Yida heard those officers and veterans proudly mention the story that Chen Dashuai, who fought even in battles, was no exception in front of the military law regulations.

Recalling the incredible faces around him, the little sporadic slander that Zhang Yida had bred disappeared in an instant.

Chen Dashuai, that is the son-in-law of the Penglai Qi family, the chief military officer who was ordered by His Royal Highness to carry the seal of the general. The commander of the Ming army entering Jinhua, such a big man was willing to obey military law. And what reason did he have to disagree with the legal norms of these armies?

Besides, I heard those comrades who had served as soldiers in other Ming armies mention that the military law of the Ming army was very harsh, and corporal punishment was imposed at every turn. Far more moderate than the rest of the Ming army.

In the evening, I can listen to the glorious deeds of the old Nantang battalion while studying the military law regulations, especially when I run and train outside the camp every day, those Yiwu people are envious, jealous and appreciative. Let Zhang Yida get the spiritual satisfaction that he has never had while working hard.

Dignity, although he didn't know the word, but from the first day he felt this feeling, he began to train like crazy, and even every night he would do high-intensity training in order to be able to successfully stay in the barracks.

Fortunately, in this world, at least in this army, there is still a belief in the truth that kung fu pays off, and Zhang Yida, who had never used a bow and arrow, relied on his crazy hard training during this period, and finally barely passed the assessment at the end of the recruit training.

Although his shooting skills are much worse than the rest of the team, the most basic movement essentials and precautions have begun to form a certain muscle memory. In terms of action, it is also relatively standard, and the hard training on weekdays is also seen by the officers and calming soldiers in charge of the assessment, so he was able to get lucky and be assigned to the Yiwu battalion.

Officially became a soldier of this Ming army, wearing a military uniform, in the eyes of ordinary people, he already looks like a warrior, but the training after entering the camp has never stopped, even harder than when he was in the new barracks. But in Zhang Yida's view, at least here he will definitely gain if he pays it, unlike in his past as a domestic slave, all the gains and losses depend on the master's face, and there is no fairness at all.

The training is still ongoing, but the dark clouds of the Qing army's encirclement and suppression have always besieged the Ming army. Until that day, Chen Dashuai decided to swear to go on the expedition, and vowed to live and die with the soldiers on the point platform, he had never heard of such a coach, even in the mouth of the storyteller, but Zhang Yida was willing to believe Chen Wen's words. Because it was Chen Wen's appearance that changed his situation as a domestic slave, and finally gave him the dignity he never had.

Waking up from the memories in a trance, the Qing army in front of him was not far from a stone's throw away, and even some of the firearms in the opposing army had stirred up bursts of gunsmoke. With the officer's order, Zhang Yida and his comrades quickly pulled out the arrows in their quivers, and pulled the bowstring with the memory that had melted into their muscles. Began to shoot upwards at the line of the Qing army.

At the same time that the Ming army began to shoot, the Qing army also began to return fire in the same way. The rain of arrows staggered in the clear sky, and the arrows kept hitting in the air and falling to the ground with all their kinetic energy, but more arrows flew straight to their destination after crossing a parabola.

Zhang Yida did not dare to do any dodging movements, because dodging would cause chaos in the formation, so he could only lower his head and rely on the big hat on his head as a helmet to resist the Qing army's projectile, and then continued to advance and draw his bow to fight back.

The proportion of armor in the Ming army was very low. This is even more true of the Yiwu battalion, which only plays an auxiliary role on the battlefield. There was no armor, and even the helmets were made of bamboo-woven large hats, and the soldiers of the Yiwu battalion suffered far greater casualties than the fully armored battalion in the process of firing from the advancing fire.

Compared with the Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team with rattan cards and long cards in the front row, the firearms team will have soldiers fall in the rain of arrows of the Qing army after almost every round of projectiles. The order to move forward continued, but looking at those comrades who fell to the ground wailing or simply lost their breath, Zhang Yida's feet were still moving forward mechanically, but his hands had begun to tremble slightly.

He didn't want to die. But if he lived in humiliation as he once did, he didn't want to imagine it. The distance between the two sides is still getting closer. And Zhang Yida was still obeying the officer's orders, drawing his bow and shooting.

Soon, in this oppressive endurance, the forwards of the Yiwu battalion and the Dubiao battalion had approached a distance of less than 100 meters. At this time, with the order of Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Central Army of the Supervising Battalion, the auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army immediately rushed to the front of the formation with artillery and began to load, and the entire formation stagnated.

Artillery is being loaded. All this was seen in the eyes of all the soldiers of the Yiwu battalion, and fear began to spread like a contagious disease, and those more experienced officers, under the command of Wu Dengke, did not stop, and ordered the firearms team in the rear row to maintain the suppression of the artillery in front of the Qing army formation while the front row was in a small position.

Just shoot the gunners of the Qing army to death. They couldn't fire the cannon, and this idea instantly made Zhang Yida's stiff movements flexible again.

Draw arrows, mount arrows, draw bows, aim, shoot!

After doing all this step by step, Zhang Yida's arrow flew out the moment he released the bowstring, and flew straight towards the Qing gunner who was loading the gun in the direction in front of him.

However, the bow and arrow are far inferior to the firecracker, and the distance of the flight is determined by the material of the bow itself and the strength of the bow, rather than the trick of gunpowder. Zhang Yida's arrow did fly out, but he didn't find a feeling in the strength for a while when he just regained his flexible movements, and when he flew in front of the gunner, it was already the end of the crossbow, and he saw that it was inserted into the dirt in front of the gunner after the kinetic energy was exhausted, and there was not even a little dirt stirred.

The artillery was still loading, Zhang Yida didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly pulled out the next arrow and shot at the gunners of the Qing army......

While the artillery of the Inspector Battalion was loaded, the archers and musketeers continued to shoot to interfere with and suppress the advance of the Ming army. Soon, one cannon after another was loaded, and with the officer's order, the gunners pressed their torches to the fuse.

The moment the fuse ignited, it quickly burrowed into the cannon body like a frightened grass snake, leaving only gray-white crawling traces. The sound of ignition at the tail of the cannon body was lost, a roaring thunder sounded, and the orange-red artillery fire was wrapped in gunpowder smoke and spit out from the muzzle of the gun, and at the moment when the gunpowder smoke erupted, the cannonballs, stones, iron sand and other loadings came first, and flew through the fire to the Ming army's front.

The direct shot at close range will naturally be much higher in terms of hit rate, and even if the Yiwu battalion uses a vertical formation to reduce the hit surface, it cannot avoid casualties.

The shield could not withstand the artillery fire, and the front row of the Yiwu battalion was greatly damaged in just this moment under the bombardment of artillery fire. As a child of Beilei's Chen family, Chen Lan grew up in the stories of Qi Jiajun's exaggerated exchange ratios since he was a child, but the scene in front of him completely subverted the concept of the invincible mandarin duck array in his heart.

Under the artillery fire, almost every team in the first platoon was crippled, and there were soldiers, officers, captains with long cards, and wolf fighters who were responsible for pressing the formation. Some of these people were silent, and many more were lying on the ground wailing in pain. Even the 31st Infantry Corps, which he commanded, had several men who were slightly or seriously wounded, including one of his own brothers.

During the training of recruits, he had heard countless stories from those officers and veterans about the old Nantang battalion advancing against the Qing artillery fire in the battle behind the palace of Siming Mountain, but when he saw all this with his own eyes, Chen Lan was completely blinded, standing in place and at a loss, not at all like he fantasized about the heroism of leading the charge like Chen Wen every time he heard that story.

The Mandarin Duck Formation is a formation that emphasizes cooperation, so according to Chen Wenjun's regulations, the Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team that is injured under such circumstances and cannot maintain a complete formation will enter the battle as a supplementary existence to the complete team of other personnel.

The drums behind the formation sounded, and the killer teams of the second row quickly crossed the first row and shouted a word at the moment when the drums sounded.

"Tiger!"

The shouts of the attack ignited the familiar rhythm, and Chen Lan was dominated by the sound of cannons and wails in his mind for a moment, and it was only in this moment that he completely reacted.

"Brothers, the time has come to prove that we are no worse than those veterans, rush forward, kill all the Tartars, and avenge the villagers!"

On the battlefield, the gunners of the Qing army gave up the second round of reloading and fled behind the waiting formation. At this moment, after the Yiwu battalion completed the switch of front and rear positions, the Mandarin Duck Array killer team, which was already in the front row, quickly changed into a small three-talented formation that was conducive to attack with the swing of the flag, and those injured teams followed closely behind and jointly rushed to the Commander Battalion, which had an absolute advantage in strength and firepower...... (To be continued.) )