The previous response had greatly surprised Yu Guowang and the Ming army officers under his command, and while feeling at this new formation, he couldn't help but worry about everything that happened in front of him. The Qing army charged at the officer's command, and the Ming army under his command, even though they had spears far longer than the length of the Qing army's weapons, still showed signs of retreating.

"Death to those who retreat, kill the Tartars!"

With an angry roar, Yu Guowang drew his sword and gave the order to attack the officers and non-commissioned officers under his command. "Those who retreat die" is a word he has almost never used, but this time Yu Guowang sent troops to contain the Qing army on the southern front, if the current Qing army cannot be defeated, or if it cannot retreat, what about this containment?

Hearing the commander's order, the tendency of the Ming army to retreat was largely curbed. The front row of the Qing army had already rushed to the front, and the Ming army's sword and shield soldiers were still in their posture, while the pikemen were ready to attack, ready to stab.

Compared with other Qing troops in the same platoon, Tan Jingren always maintained the rhythm of the charge, keeping the speed not too fast, and not falling to the level of the back row. It's just that when the other Qing troops rushed to the front, he had to grit his teeth and rush towards the spear forest.

"Kill!"

Using his shield to block the thrust of a spear, Tan Jingren took a step back with his strength, and then slashed at the shaft of another spear that stabbed at him, cutting it off with just one slash, thus defusing the threat.

With a style that never rushes forward, Tan Jingren chose to retreat at the moment of first contact, and the other Qing troops were far less fortunate than him.

When Tan Jingren retreated with his strength, the sword and shield soldier on the left struggled to break between the two spears. According to the reason, although the long soldier has the advantage of being the first, once it is broken close by the short soldier, it is mostly a dead end, and the longer the blade, the more reasonable this reason is.

However, these Ming troops in front of them relied on a dense formation to flatten their spears, thus creating an extremely dense jungle of spears through the gap of about half a meter between each soldier, and this jungle refers to the current Qing army.

The Qing army on Tan Jingren's left rushed between the two spears in the front row, but it was the spears of the spears in the back row, trying their best to block the spears close to the side of the shield, followed by the thrusts of more spears. Under the left and right dodge, the Qing army was quickly stabbed in the thigh by a spear, but it was a momentary stagnation, and the two spears in the back row pierced him in the instant.

Tan Jingren took a step back, keeping a slight distance from the current spear, and Wang Qinian behind him did not continue to move forward, always assisting him in the fight against those spears.

It's just that in the battlefield, under the boiling blood, more Qing troops still chose to fight hard to attack these Ming troops who were still full of fear in their eyes. But even so, under the siege of this dense spear forest, these brave Qing troops still found it difficult to display their usual martial arts, and began to decline rapidly in the continuous siege.

Soon, the Qing troops who broke into the formation were all killed, and the follow-up Qing troops rarely dared to approach again, but in exchange they only cut off the barrels of most of the spears in the front row, and the casualties of the Ming army can only be described as negligible.

Ma Jinbao's Zhenbiao Battalion is not the elite of the Green Battalion like the Zhejiang Admiral Biao Battalion among the green battalion soldiers, and it is quite handy to bully the common people on weekdays and suppress the rebels. However, in the face of the current structure of the army, which is still a feudal army and has a lot of combat experience, the army that is using the formation of the army modified from the modern era is definitely not an opponent.

The Qing army but all those who tried to charge the battle were stabbed to death by the dense spear forest, even if there were fish that slipped through the net, they would be immediately besieged by the sword and shield soldiers of the Ming army, and the personal martial arts became worthless here, and the soldiers who rushed into the battle were all sharp soldiers who had been in the army for many years, but they had no power to fight back in front of the spear forest composed of these ragged Ming troops.

Seeing that the comrades around him were almost swept away, even those sharp soldiers who were highly admired in the army also broke through the front line of the Ming army of Tiantai Mountain, which had always lost more and won less, and the survivors of the first few rows of the Qing army, including Tan Jingren and Wang Qinian, looked at each other for a long time after they broke away from the attack range of the Ming army's spearmen.

Not only these soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies, but also the officers of the two armies, including Yu Guowang and Ma Jinbao, couldn't believe all this in front of them, after all, such a devastating scene of killing the front row of the Qing army Neither Ma Jinbao nor Yu Guowang had ever imagined.

It's just that at this moment, Yu Guowang relied on the previous competition and the observation and training in the past few months, and his ability to withstand this shock was slightly stronger.

"Beat the drums, attack!"

The stunned standard-bearers and drummers reacted strongly only after Yu Guowang had roared three times, and the Ming troops began to regain consciousness under the scolding of the officers who had been instructed by the commander-in-chief. After switching the positions of the pikemen in the front and rear rows, the Ming army's spear forest was as dense as ever, and then marched in formation, which was self-evident.

And the defeat of the first shock instantly affected every Qing army who saw this scene, and began to advance slowly in the face of the Ming army. Most of the Qing troops, who knew that they were invincible, involuntarily began to stagger back, and after finding that such a speed still could not completely get away from the dense spear forest, they turned and fled, and had no will to continue fighting.

The Qing army, which consisted of the Biaozhong battalion in Jinhua Town, collapsed in an instant, as did the right-wing Qing army facing the Ming army on the left flank. It's just that at this time, the right flank of the Ming army has been defeated by Ma Xin's Taizhou Qing army.

The right-wing Ming army was originally composed of Jintang's small army that had practiced the new formation for more than ten days and the soldiers of the other two Ming armies, and it surpassed the Taizhou Qing army in terms of strength. However, the training time of Jintang's small army was too short, and the selection of soldiers was not as strict as Yu Guowang's help with Chen Wen's, so it was actually just an old-style army with the same weapons as the new formation.

In addition, the right-wing Ming army was originally composed of three troops, and it was difficult to solve the coordination problems that arose in the unified command, and it was far inferior to the Taizhou Qing army in terms of response.

Different from Ma Jinbao's ignorant fearlessness, Ma Xin had already observed this formation in Sanmen County before, and then sent a detective Ma to reconnoitre, and he immediately thought of artillery when he felt that it was difficult to break the formation with cold weapons, and only by using artillery to blast the entire battle formation apart could it be easier to break the formation, just like the Sichuan white pole soldiers in the battle of the Hunhe River that he heard from a certain military senior in his early years.

This time, Ma Xin led his troops to attack in turn with birds, bows and arrows, and throwing weapons, and soon disrupted the formation of the small army of Jintang, which was the backbone, and then launched a fierce attack in one go, almost crushing the Ming army on the right flank at the same time as the two parts of the Qing army under Ma Jinbao's department were scattered.

The rout of the right flank made Yu Guowang give up the idea of pursuit, and his phalanx has been practiced until now, in fact, in Chen Wen's mouth, it is just a half-finished product that can only stand on the pile to defend and counterattack in battle, and can only move with extremely slow steps to advance and retreat, and if you speed up even a little speed, the formation will be pulled apart.

As for how to solve this problem, although Yu Guowang only got an answer from Chen Wen's mouth, "It will be better to practice more", but his views on Chen Wen's military affairs have always been regarded as the truth, after all, the military general who taught him this formation not long ago achieved a great victory that the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang could not complete in these years, so he did not plan to pursue it at the risk of being counterattacked by the Qing army by over-penetrating too much, so he had to turn to rescue the Ming army on the right flank that was closer.

However, at this moment, after Ma Xin's flag waved for a while, the Taizhou Qing army did not hesitate to disengage with the current Ming army, and directly gave up the pursuit of the fleeing right-wing Ming army. After firing at Yu Guowang's headquarters, he turned to form a formation and retreated backwards to cover the retreat of the other two Qing troops.

The speed of the reversal of the situation was too fast, and before Yu Guowang could figure out what was going on, the battle was completely over, and seeing the departure of the Qing army, the Ming army on Tiantai Mountain let out a cheer of victory, which resounded throughout the period.

The Qing army retreated in a hurry, leaving behind some of the baggage and almost all the wounded, and only those who could barely move fled with the Qing army on the spot. Many of the Ming troops who had just fled also turned to discover the situation here after hearing the cheers, and turned back to the Ming army's front to share the joy of victory.

It has been four or five years since the army was raised, and Yu Guowang's troops may not be able to win even if they engage an opponent like the Shaoxing Green Battalion. Even in his dream, he couldn't imagine that the standard camp in Jinhua Town would be defeated so easily today, and it was not far from the strength of the two sides.

"Chen Dashuai is really talented, this Spanish phalanx is really easy to use!"

The Qing army had already fled, and Yu Guowang issued an order to stop the pursuit for fear that the formation would be scattered and the Qing army would counterattack. After handing over the matter of cleaning up the battlefield to the officers below, Gao Yiqing, the chief military officer in charge of the left wing command, rushed to Yu Guowang's banner to discuss the next step.

With this old brother who raised the army together back then, Yu Guowang never hid anything, even the name that Chen Wen used to pack the phalanx in front of Yu Guowang.

It's just that no one except Chen Wen knows that this formation is actually an improved version of a certain stage of the Spanish phalanx, and it is deliberately based on the product of targeted improvements made by Yu Guowang who are considered weak brigades in the feudal army.

The Spanish phalanx originated from the Swiss infantry phalanx used by the Swiss mercenaries who were rampaging across Europe at that time. Morality. Córdoba adapted its troops to the battlefields of Italy, resulting in the emergence of the Spanish phalanx, which was feared by the nations of Europe.

The earliest Spanish phalanx was not a simple formation of spearmen and musketeers as described in the online novels and forums that Chen Wen saw in later generations, but a mixture of four arms: sword and shield soldiers, Swiss halberders, spearmen and arquebusiers.

Later, due to the imitation of all European countries, the Spanish phalanx also followed the progress of the opponent and the increase in the power of firearms, and then successively eliminated the Swiss halberdier and sword and shield soldiers from the queue of the phalanx, and the ratio of arquebusiers in the phalanx was gradually improved, which led to the Spanish phalanx with a 1:1 ratio of spearmen and arquebusiers that prevailed in the network in later generations.

The pirated goods that Chen Wen sold to Yu Guowang were actually just products after the cancellation of the halberd hand in the history of the Spanish phalanx, and because Yu Guowang's army was still very feudalized, Chen Wen gave Yu Guowang a new plan in desperation, that is, to select some soldiers, led by their original officers, to join the phalanx. During the battle, officers commanded their soldiers, and these officers obeyed orders from Yu Guowang or other phalanx commanders such as Gao Yiqing.

In this way, not only can not violate the feudal power of these officers, but also can make full use of limited resources to enhance combat effectiveness, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, and also maintaining Chen Wen's tradition of being kind in marketing.

It's just that the Ming army under Yu Guowang is still a feudal army in essence. Even if the Spanish phalanx is used, it is only a form but not a god.

The existence of the tradition of soldiers and the inability to eliminate the phenomenon of eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood have led to the fact that in addition to the allocation of weapons, the most important aspects of discipline, training, command, and all-important team spirit are almost the same as the old feudal army. Many of the normal formations and responses of the Spanish phalanx cannot be used, and can only stand on the pile output as they are now.

Perhaps, with the increase in the length of training, this army can gradually increase the completion rate from the current state of semi-finished products, so as to further improve its combat capability, but if we do not try to improve the organizational structure of the army, then at most it will only be a deformed product like the Huai army.

Fortunately, his opponent this time was the Jinhua Town Standard Battalion, which was not the elite among the green battalion soldiers, and the performance of Yu Guowang's department over the years made Ma Jinbao misjudge to a certain extent. In this way, with only the improvement of weapon configuration and targeted training, this semi-finished army can still easily beat the feudal army under Ma Jinbao.

Repelled the two most important green battalion infantry in Taizhou at present, Yu Guowang knew that the strength of these two Qing armies was not very weak, and the established plan to lead the war had been achieved, Yu Guowang led the Ming army of Tiantai Mountain to return to the camp and continue to maintain the existence of Taizhou Mansion, while killing pigs and sheep to reward the whole army.

Just when the Ming army on Tiantai Mountain was still immersed in the joy of repelling the current Qing army, five days later, in the Yangshan area north of Zhoushan, the Ming army on the northern front facing Wu Songshui's division also successfully defeated the opponent.

Although the news from Taizhou did not come at this moment, looking at the remnants of the Qing army sailing away, as well as the captured and burning ships in front of them, it still made Zhu Yihai of Lu Jianguo and the soldiers of the Ming army on the northern front full of pride and ambition for the future.

The Qing army that defeated the northern front can return to the division to cooperate with Ruan Jin to meet the Qing army from Dinghai, as long as it is eliminated, or even as long as it is disabled, this elite army composed of all the strength of the Qing army in Zhejiang, then it is no longer a dream to recover the entire territory of Zhejiang.

Perhaps, ZTE Daming will start from this moment!

But just when the Ming army on the northern front was looking forward to the future, Haitian was facing south, and a Ming warship sailed. After reading the letter brought by the messenger, Lu Jianguo sat down on the dragon chair in grief, and Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, who was the commander of the northern line and the powerful minister of the Lu Jianguo Dynasty, was also stunned after picking up the letter that had fallen to the ground, unable to believe everything written on the letter.

"On August 21 of the sixth year of Jian Guolu, Ruan Jin, Marquis of Danghu, died in Hengshui Yang, and Zhoushan was in an emergency."