It takes a long time for the chariots to form a formation, and it is not at all like the infantry and a small number of cavalry on the opposite side that can quickly move and deploy the troops. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The impact distance of the vehicle must be one hundred and fifty paces away to accelerate, and there must be enough clearance between the vehicles to ensure a perfect impact.

Normally, this wave of chariots should be placed in the first column, and once the war starts, it will be directly impacted, but Su Yue feels that the resilience of the Xia army is not those clans that make do with it, in case the first wave does not rush away, and the warriors are all lost, and this battle will not have to be fought.

Therefore, he divided the soldiers in addition to these chariots into three armies, left, center, and right, all of which were about the same in number, and slightly opened a wide enough front to force the Xia army to maintain the same width.

The difference in numbers is too great, and maintaining the same width means that the Xia army's front is thinner, which can give the chariot a chance to succeed.

After the chariot is in the Chinese army, the Chinese army is a soldier who can walk twenty steps and stop beating the drum according to the model of the Xia army.

The chariot shoots left and right, and after rushing close to the enemy group, it either rushes in with a weight of hundreds of kilograms, or turns diagonally to the left and attacks with a hand.

But there is one thing, you can only rush once, and it is difficult to retreat to organize a second wave of attacks, especially since the infantry of the Xia army is advancing fast enough, so where and when it is used is extremely critical.

The 2,000 Dongyi archers supported by Qiongxi were not assigned to the three armies, but were waiting for the Xia army to line up to determine which side to put on.

The distance of four miles is the perfect distance, and once the Xia army chooses to avoid the battle, or the main force uses mobility to move to the left and right, Suyue's side will have enough time to adjust the military formation.

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At the other end of the battlefield, Jian Chen relied on the advantage of scouts to control the front end of the battlefield to ensure that his troops would not be harassed by the other party when they deployed, and he was not afraid of the opponent's sudden impact on him at a distance of four miles.

I roughly measured the width of the opposite line, because it was a plain, and the view was blocked by the first row of soldiers on the opposite side, so I couldn't guess which side the opponent's archers and chariots were arranged.

The order went down, and the four battalions spread out in one line, twenty paces apart. The battalion on the right flank was not on par with the first three battalions and retreated thirty paces. The fifth battalion is in the Chinese army, and it will not be deployed for the time being, and it will be on standby at any time. Let Li Si bring three three-pound cannons on the left flank and test it. ”

Each battalion had three spear companies and three musket companies, and the entire summer army had five battalions, and the fifth battalion had only two spear companies and two musket companies, which were placed in the second line as reserves.

The herald rode on horseback and quickly passed down the order, centering on Chen Jian's position, and the four columns of each company turned forward, lining up against the position that the herald had stood in advance.

The fourth battalion on the right flank retreated slightly thirty paces, forming a slight diagonal line, while three three-pound bronze cannons spread out on the right flank, trying to test the other side.

The lines of the two sides were about the same length, and Su Yue's 2,000 archers, plus more than 3,000 chariots and foot soldiers who followed the chariot on the front line, were not placed on the front line, so the number of coalition troops on the front line was only more than 6,000.

In addition, some archers needed to go forward, and Su Yue was not worried about his infantry, so the front was slightly thicker than the five-row formation of the Xia army.

On the Xia army's side, there is a musket company sandwiched between two spear companies, and there is also a spear company sandwiched between two musket companies.

The spear is not very long, about three steps, not the kind of super spear that requires a dense formation, and there are some long ges on the sides to reinforce.

The musketeers, led by the captain, lit the arquebus, loaded them with gunpowder and buckshot, and waited for the order to fire. Because it is a rudimentary arquebus, the distance between people is very wide, and it does not form a violent barrage like a flintlock pistol.

In addition, the ignition method is not even a serpentine rod, but a simple Z-shaped rod, and there is no lid above the primer pool, so a slight spark blowing into it may be fired early. Everyone carried a pile of gunpowder on their backs, and when they got close, they were ignited by the people around them, and that was also a life of death.

Bayonets were even more impossible, arquebuses were too heavy to wield and could not move, so these musketeers could only be issued with bronze swords.

In fact, compared to the archers, these primitive musketeers did not have much advantage, but the bows on the opposite side were not much stronger, and everyone was only half a catty.

The only thing that can be said to be ahead of an era is those guns, but although there are gun lugs, there are no torsion rod bolts to adjust the angle of the gun, and you can only dig a hole under the wheel or pad a piece of wood behind you to adjust the angle.

Fortunately, the weight of these three-pound guns was not large, and the horses could be pulled and moved quickly, and it was easy to deploy, and they could keep up with the speed of the infantry.

The four battalions and three guns were deployed extremely quickly, beyond the expectations of the opposite side, and in the absence of long-range artillery strikes on the opposite side, and their own scouts controlled the flanks and the front to prevent harassment, each company first turned and then maneuvered in four columns, and after arriving at the designated place, they collectively turned to the left and right, and quickly filled the position to form a horizontal formation of five or six columns.

This is the result of Chen Jian's seven years of training, and it looks like the level of high school students in the previous life, but in this era, it is enough to shock the jaw of the other side.

In the case of Su Yue's army, it took at least four times as long to deploy the troops as the Xia army, and if the troops did not develop a chaotic group, they would have no combat effectiveness at all--ten years ago, everyone was fighting in such a chaotic manner, but ten years later, it is no longer the same.

After the front line of the troops was deployed, Chen Jian ordered: "Beat the drum and march!" ”

The drummer plays the snare drum and the flute player plays the flute and moves forward quickly, stopping at eighty paces to regroup to keep the group level.

On Su Yue's side, some guerrillas carrying curved bows and bronze swords came out, trying to hinder the advance of the Xia army, causing a situation of uneven fronts.

The light cavalry and scouts in the rear rushed out of the gap between the companies, and dispersed the opponent's scouts in groups of three or five, leaving only a safe distance of 300 paces for the infantry behind, and after more than 300 paces, they did not chase and quickly retreated to their own team.

On the left flank of the Xia Army's front, Li Shilang and his comrades in the artillery crew carried all kinds of strange tools needed for artillery: wool brushes to cool down and extinguish the sparks in the barrels, vinegar barrels, spiral-shaped iron rods to clean the bore or get the shells out, semicircular scales, blocks of wood to adjust the angle of the artillery, fuses and iron drills to tie into the fire door.

Pulling the expensive copper cannon, there were five three-pound cannons and a dozen one-pound small cannons or heavy muskets in the back, which were not deployed, and maintained a state of mobility.

He blinked his eyes from the musket blast, cursing at the glaring of the sun on the other side, and the cold cannon with a few flies squatting there, licking something, or someone drinking sweet wine on it before leaving.

"Lick it, if you still lick it stupidly after a fight, then it's cooked."

Muttering quietly, a comrade on the side who had burned his palm from the artillery during the last attack on Xijon couldn't help but curse, and he carried a small shovel on his back to dig a pit when adjusting the angle.

When they advanced to 800 paces away from Su Yue's army, Su Yue's army also began to move forward slowly, and the flute of the Xia army stopped playing when the company commander shouted to stop.

The musketeers and spearmen on either side of the artillery crew quickly stood in line, and the musketeers took five steps back, with the first row exactly at the last of the spearmen.

Take out the wooden fork and place the musket on the wooden fork, making sure that there are no comrades within one step on both sides in case your arquebus ignites your comrades or you become the first person your comrades inadvertently kill.

The soldiers in the first row were half-crouching, and used wooden forks that were burned shorter; The soldiers in the second row were slightly taller, but bent over; The third row is the normal height. There are also two rows of soldiers in the back, and when needed, they can quickly get out of the station and form a line to complete a salvo.

Basically, only the first salvo is the most effective, and later there will be a variety of situations such as forgetting the whole stick in the gun, stabbing the lead bullet first and then pouring the gunpowder, and pressing the fire rope out with too much force.

The artillery crews on the side quickly unloaded the light copper cannons, visually measured the distance of the other party, adjusted the angle of the artillery, placed wooden blocks, took out gunpowder and iron balls wrapped in linen cloth from the wooden box, and placed them in.

A three-pound cannon fired at a forty-five-degree angle could hit a limit of a thousand paces, but it was meaningless.

The battlefield was silent, waiting for the first bloodshed and fighting to begin.

At this moment, the battle line of the Xia army was not level, with three guns on the left flank, while the right flank was deliberately dragged back thirty paces in an inclined plane, which seemed to be to delay the time of engagement with the Suyue coalition army as much as possible.

Because the main force of Suyue was blocked by those soldiers, and there were no high mountains nearby, it was impossible to determine where to attack.

The only thing that could be seen was that there were about 400 horsemen on the right flank of the Sogaku army and on his own left flank, moving towards the flank, and it seemed that they wanted to go around the rear, but the speed was extremely slow, and they did not go beyond the military formation, as if waiting for orders.

In the center of the battle array, Chen Jian shouted at the herald beside him: "Let Yu Linwei and the black-clothed guard go to the left flank, and tell Li Si that once the enemy gets close to six hundred paces, he will fight and force those light cavalry on the opposite side out." ”

After repeating the order, the herald quickly maneuvered to the left with the flag.

Yu Lin Wei and the black guards who rode quickly moved closer to the left, forming an array on the left flank. The fifth dissatisfied battalion still did not move, and continued to be by Chen's side.

Ji Bai was riding on a horse, and he was a little strange about Jian Chen's movements. As one of the few veterans of a hundred battles in the Xia army, the black-clothed guards were generally used only when they had to wait at the last moment.

Now that the left wing has concentrated the most elite forces of the entire Xia army, Yu Linwei and the Black Guard, and the right wing has deliberately delayed backwards, Ji Bai feels that this is a bit risky.

Obviously, this is the time to prepare for delaying the right flank to engage the enemy, concentrating the main forces on the left flank, attacking on the left flank and defending on the right flank, trying to break through on the left flank.

But how could anyone have pressed all the family resources so early? Besides, even if this is the case, those Thunder Fire Guards should also concentrate on the left flank and concentrate on using the military formation that blasts away the opponent.

It's just that a military order is a military order, and before the war, you can question that it must be obeyed in wartime, and when he was about to leave, Chen Jian rode his horse to Ji Bai's side, said something, and handed over the command of the left wing to Ji Bai.

After the elite of the two guards maneuvered to the left flank, the soldiers of Yulinwei mocked Ji Bai, a group of cavalrymen who walked and rode horses to fight, and deliberately teased their horses and raised their hooves to splash the dirt on the bodies of these soldiers.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was close to four hundred steps, Li Si shouted at the two cannons next to him, and the gunners who had already prepared immediately lit the fire rope.

Rumble......

The three small iron pellets leaped three hundred paces, then bounced high on the stiff ground and smashed down on Su Yue's soldiers.

One jumped too high and smashed wide, and two smashed right into the crowd, this was the first time that the opposing troops had seen artillery, and this weapon beyond the usual killing distance made them extremely terrifying.

An iron pellet broke the leg of a rider's warhorse, jumped up and stuck to the face of a person behind him, and smashed his head off.

The soldiers on the right wing of the Suyue army looked in horror at the white smoke rising from the opposite side, and the black, not too big iron pellets seemed to fly very slowly, and it felt like they could reach out and catch them, but it was this extremely slow speed that could pierce the bodies of three people.

The right flank of Su Yue's army immediately became chaotic, and there were uneven and gaps in the originally flat front, these soldiers had not suffered the shelling at all, and there were not many people killed in the shelling, but the shock of the scene made it difficult for these soldiers to bear.

After two rounds of artillery fire, the riders on the right flank of Suyue's army seemed to be unable to bear it anymore and charged towards this side.