At a distance of less than 100 meters, it stands to reason that the gunners of the Qing army had time to carry out another artillery bombardment in the same way that the left battalion was raised to the southern part of Siming Mountain.

However, due to the lack of long-range support capabilities in the last battle, Chen Wen increased the proportion of archers when revising the establishment, although the archers in the Yiwu battalion are still using rifles as weapons, but the distance of less than 100 meters between them, the interference and killing of the Ming archers to the Qing gunners is really difficult for Zhang Guoxun, who is in charge of commanding the standard battalion, to bear.

The gunners were withdrawn, and the artillery was left in front of the formation as an obstacle to interfere with the Ming formation. Facing the large formation that the Governor Battalion was waiting for, the killer teams of the Mandarin Duck Array in the front row of the Yiwu Battalion quickly spread out when they were close to about fifty meters, and transformed into a small three-talent formation that was more conducive to attacking.

The firearms team of the Yiwu battalion and the musketeers and archers of the Dubiao battalion were still under the cover of the infantry and carried out seemingly never-ending projectiles, but the firing speed became slower and slower as time went by and the approach of each other's battle formations.

The Governor Battalion, whose full name is the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, was a mobile unit used by the Qing army in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces to suppress local rebels. Such an elite is naturally much higher than the ordinary local green battalion in terms of combat effectiveness, at least in Zhejiang, in addition to the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners, only the standard battalion can compare with it.

As the elite unit of the Southern Green Battalion, the Governor Battalion is almost entirely armoured, and even the number of cavalry is slightly higher than that of other troops.

In the face of the Yiwu battalion's projectile, the Qing army suffered very little damage, but on the side of the Ming army, the armor rate of the Yiwu battalion was ridiculously low, and it was not at all like what a Ming army marshal should look like under the command of a commander who fought and won successes, and this directly led to the damage of the Ming army far exceeding that of the Qing army in the diffuse fire of both sides.

The distance of 100 meters is not too far, and in later competitive competitions, athletes even need only nine to ten seconds to run. However, to fight in formation, you need to move forward steadily while ensuring that the formation does not become disjointed.

The various mandarin duck array killer teams in the front row of the Yiwu battalion marched in unison under the command of the officers according to the appearance of the training, and pulled out a straight line like a tide. At this moment, the Governor Battalion had no intention of catching up, but placed a platoon of pikemen in the front row, ready to engage in battle.

The spearmen in the first platoon of the Supervisory Battalion were not armed with spears of seven or eight feet used for fighting in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but spears that were more than three or four feet long.

Such weapons are too long due to their length. It is not conducive to infantry combat, and is generally only used by cavalry lances and horse lances, or infantry to defend the fortress and form formations against the enemy's superior cavalry. At this time, the cavalry of the Ming army was far inferior to the Qing army in terms of quantity and quality, and the two sides were fighting in formation on flat terrain, so it seemed a bit deliberate.

Compared with Chen Wen in the distance, Wu Dengke, as the commander of the Yiwu battalion, always followed the battle formation of the battalion, and saw the movements of the Qing army from afar. Wu Dengke couldn't help but be shocked.

The longest weapon in the Mandarin Duck Formation is the Wolf Tree, which is about one zhang and five feet long, and is the most suitable for pressing the array. However, the platoon of infantry in the Governor's Battalion at this moment was armed with spears that were not inferior in length to those of the wolf. In this way, it is difficult for the pikemen who are the main attackers in the Mandarin Duck formation to create an effective threat with the cooperation of other weapons.

Wu Dengke didn't know that when the Dubiao Battalion participated in the Battle of Zhoushan, he had observed the small unit formed by Xu Lei imitating the old Nantang Battalion. Later, Chen Wen went down to Dongyang and Yiwu counties in Jinhua, and completely disabled the Qing army left behind, Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun learned from the Qing army that Chen Wen was using a mandarin duck array. That's why there was this arrangement, in an attempt to weaken the battle formation of the Ming army.

But at this moment, Wu Dengke has no time to think about this. The task he received was to try to contain the Qing army's standard supervision battalion, and at present, the ratio of armor between the two sides was huge, and only by meeting the Qing army in a line could he have a chance to complete the task.

At the same time as sending a herald to tell Chen Wen all this in front of him, Wu Dengke's general flag also pressed forward slightly. The first drum has not yet ended, but the order to attack has been issued, and the officers in the Yiwu battalion who are the bureau commanders and sentry commanders are all from the old Nantang battalion last year. They have gone through brutal battles, and they have also advanced under the leadership of Chen Wen against artillery fire. Although the artillery bombardment of the Biao Battalion was more intensive than that of the Raising Battalion, under the leadership of the high morale and these more tenacious officers, the recruits of the Yiwu Battalion were not inferior to the veterans of the same column in terms of performance.

The distance between the two sides grew closer and closer, until the tips of the wolf and spear made the first sound of gold and stone. The Inspector Battalion and the Yiwu Battalion finally fought together.

In Chen Wen's past battles, the Mandarin Duck Formation can effectively suppress the opponent's attack and interfere with its defense by virtue of the wolf's pressure formation, and at the same time, relying on the cooperation of long cards, rattan cards, spears and boring palladium, it is easy to maintain the steady pressure of the formation and tear apart the opponent's formation.

However, this time, the Qing army's extra-long spears suppressed the power of the wolf and suppressed the attack of the pikemen with their length. The hope of some rattan players to rush into the thin spear formation to break the formation was quickly stopped by the sword and shield soldiers who rushed out of each interval of the spearmen in the front row of the Qing army.

The Ming army's Mandarin Duck Array was both offensive and defensive, but the Qing Army's whimsical spear formation also effectively curbed the attack of the Mandarin Duck Formation, which made the Yiwu battalion seem to be punched on the cotton, and there was a feeling that it could not be used.

Although the wolf wielders of the Yiwu battalion were far fewer than the pikemen in the front row of the Qing army, they relied on the branches in the front section of the wolf whizz as interference, as well as the systematic training of the wolf whizz six styles, but they also fought back and forth with the pikemen in the front row of the Qing army who were not very suitable for the length of the weapons in their hands.

For a time, neither side could help each other, and even effective killing methods could not be used, so that the confrontation between these hand-to-hand infantry on the battle formation was far less fierce than the archers and musketeers behind their respective formations, and although the proportion of shooters in the Ming army was larger, the damage in front of the Qing army, which was fully armored and far superior to the opponent.

And this is not the biggest problem, the Yiwu battalion has four infantry bureaus, 1,56 troops, and the superintendent battalion has three battalions in the middle and left, with more than 3,000 troops. Even if there was some damage in the battle of Zhoushan, it was actually very small, and it was also completed in the rest in front of the station, and this time it can be said that the whole division came.

There is a big gap between the forces and equipment of the two sides, and as a general, Zhang Guoxun knows it very well. When the situation that both sides could not advance an inch after the battle was presented, he constantly ordered the follow-up troops to extend to the north of the Yiwu battalion away from Nantang.

The gap between the strength of the Yiwu battalion and the supervising battalion is too large, and the Yiwu battalion accounts for nearly half of the total strength due to the archers, so that the proportion of hand-to-hand infantry is far inferior to that of the Qing army.

Relying on the superiority of troops, the Governor Battalion continued to extend the battle formation, trying to crush the Yiwu battalion by increasing the length of the battle array. In the face of such a situation, Wu Dengke had no choice but to send the reserve in his hand, which was originally used to make a final decision, the first bureau of the Yiwu battalion, which was almost composed of veterans, to intercept the Qing army to prevent it from completing the encirclement.

The front line extended by the Yiwu battalion is no longer straight, but consciously forms a certain arc outward, in a vain attempt to narrow the gap between the forces in the battle array. However, the Dubiao Battalion has too much advantage over the Yiwu Battalion in terms of strength, and with the continuous extension of the formation, the limited strength of the Yiwu Battalion has been sent to intercept the Qing army, while the follow-up troops of the Dubiao Battalion seem to be inexhaustible and continue to extend from behind the formation......

Once copied behind by the Qing army, for the Yiwu battalion, which has been forced to pull into a straight line, the collapse of the formation after being pulled apart may be in the next moment. At this moment, after Chen Wen had no choice but to send the reserve of the only bureau in his hand, he no longer had the mind to continue to look at the right-wing Yiwu battalion.

Compared with the Supervising Battalion, the Green Battalion of the Jinquyan Prefecture under the command of Ma Jinbao was much slower in terms of advancing speed, and when the Supervising Battalion stopped to load the artillery, the Green Battalion also stopped, as if it was trying to delay more time by taking advantage of the difference in distance.

Ma Jinbao's mind has been perceived by Chen Wen with the communication with Lou Jiye with the help of the herald, but to speed up and move forward, it is difficult for the Nantang Battalion, which also has three bureau recruits, to continue to maintain the same speed.

The Nantang battalion still maintained a vertical formation, and if it could look down from the sky, it had already crossed the line of battle between the Yiwu battalion and the Dubiao battalion at this moment. The disparity in strength is also huge, and at this time, the artillery of the Green Battalion of Sifu has been loaded, but it will not open fire until the Nantang Battalion is closer.

The shouts of killing on the right flank rose higher and higher, and the Nantang battalion continued to advance in the oppressive air here, and the distance between the two sides continued to decrease.

One hundred and thirty meters......

One hundred and twenty meters......

One hundred and ten meters......

One hundred meters!

Compared with the Yiwu battalion, the Nantang battalion can be described as fully armed, not to mention the armor of the hand-to-hand infantry troops, and even the bird gunners have helmets as protection. Due to the higher armor rate, the Qing army's archers and firecrackers suffered much less damage. However, just after the Nantang battalion stepped into about 100 meters, with the order of the officer in charge of commanding the gunners of the Qing army, the gunners of the Qing army lit the fuse like the battalion.

A series of artillery sounds came, and the shells, stones, and iron sand sprayed by the artillery flew towards the front line of the Nantang camp at an uninferior speed. The advantage of the column is that it can reduce the area of long-range hits, but once hit, the fate of the hit will be no different from other formations.

After the sound of the cannon, the long players, rattan players, and even wolf players in the front row of the Nantang battalion suffered a lot of damage, and even a cannonball pierced the infantry in a column behind him like a string of sugar gourds after hitting a rattan player, until the kinetic energy was completely exhausted before rolling down to the feet of a rattan player in the back row of mandarin duck formations.

In the face of the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the Nantang battalion did not carry the artillery to the front of the formation to return fire, but chose to move the mandarin duck killer team in the back row to the front row like the Yiwu battalion and continued to advance.

The distance between the two sides continued to approach, and the gunners of the Sifu Green Battalion also gave up the second round of artillery bombardment under the suppression of the Ming gunners like the Commander Battalion, and chose to retreat behind the infantry.

It wasn't until the distance between them was only thirty meters that the Nantang battalion suddenly stopped advancing, and one artillery group after another either pushed or carried under the cover of the big shield hand that Chen Wen had prepared before, and stepped into the interval of less than a few meters when the killer team of the Mandarin Duck Array maintained the vertical formation.

The loading had already ended long before that, and the muzzle of the gun had already been aimed at the Qing army in front of them, but the distance between the two sides was close! (To be continued.) )