"Taibao, this is the reconnaissance cavalry of the Pingyu Army firing artillery to drive away the Eastern Prisoners."

Just when Sun Chuanting was observing the enemy's situation, Zhu Dadian also rushed over out of breath. In the year of his sixtieth year, regardless of the danger, he climbed high to observe the enemy's situation on the Diao Fight, and the person stood on the Diao Dou more than ten meters high, and then used the telescope to see the battlefield situation very really.

At this time, although he was panting, he couldn't hide the smile on his face: "It's a good fight, it's a good fight!" ”

He has a spoken-mouth accent in eastern Zhejiang, and he usually speaks softly and weakly, but at this time he is strong and arrogant.

"The corpses are everywhere, after a few rounds of artillery, the slaves and horses scattered and fled, it is really happy, I have led the army many times, I have never seen this!"

Sun Chuanting also sighed sincerely, nodded and said: "There have been rumors about the power of the artillery of the Pingyu Army, but I really understand it today." In contrast, the Liaodong artillery is solid, but it is fixed in the city, and it cannot be moved, which seems to be far inferior to the Pingyu artillery. ”

"Exactly, exactly!"

Zhu Dadian stroked his beard and smiled, but in an instant, he was also restrained: "Taibao, are you going to go out of the camp and line up?" ”

"Yes, the timing at this time is just right, the slave rider is still far away, it seems that the smoke and dust are rising, but in fact, it is deliberate, and now it is the right time to go out of the camp and line up."

After that, Sun Chuanting gave an order to the Chinese army: "Pass the order, and the whole army will go out of the camp and line up!" ”

………… When the order to go out of battle arrived at the Pingyu Army, the officers and men of the third battalion had already made preparations.

There is no need to mobilize, and there is no need to deliberately form a team, and the noise and shouts of the whole team in the camp of the Ming generals elsewhere seem to be the business of another world.

The strict and almost cruel queue training is not useless, and its beauty lies in the ability to train soldiers to obey the public and coordinate as a whole.

Then after the brutal queue training, a few drums can make these soldiers put on any formation and trick that the Ming army generals can think of.

At this time, when he was preparing to leave the camp, he saw the difference between the Pingyu army and the Ming army in other camps.

The armor stomach has been put on with the help of the auxiliary soldiers, the fire gun hand is a single layer of iron armor with the shoulders and skirt removed, the weight is about 12 catties, and there is a big heart protection copper mirror in the middle of the armor stomach, which gives the fire gun hands effective protection and a sense of security.

The spearman and the halberdier are the protection of double or even triple iron armor, Zhu Cihong is very interested in plate armor, after all, the scale armor only takes into account the maintenance and replacement of the armor stomach, and the plate armor is more to protect the human body, but the current technology and pig iron reserves are not optimistic, so they can only rely on an extra layer of armor to enhance the defense.

Fortunately, the Pingyu Army was carefully selected when recruiting troops...... All spearmen and halberders were carefully recruited and selected in the land of Xu Huai, and the policy of generous salaries was the priority, coupled with various measures and means to increase the honor of soldiers, which made it very easy to recruit new soldiers.

It is indeed Zhu Cihong's good fortune to set up the foundation in a place where it has always been easy to produce elite soldiers and the people are strong.

The soldiers of the Pingyu Army are all very strong young men, they were already like this before entering the camp, and after entering the camp, under the daily meat and high-intensity training, these young men have become more and more powerful, and their bodies can bear more and greater loads.

At least, when Yuguan left the camp, the iron halberders wearing forty pounds of heavy armor were all relaxed and calm, and there was no hard work.

In a moment they will wear these heavy armors, wear stubbornness, and rush to the front line.

Only when the enemy formation is broken and the battle situation is favorable, will they take off their outer armor and rest for a while with the help of the auxiliaries who have been following behind them.

As for the iron spearmen, their iron spears were also carefully crafted, whether it was the length, the sharp spear point, and the sharp hook, they were all successfully made after a long period of experimentation.

With their spears, they can stab, pull, pull, or withstand the onslaught of enemy horsemen.

Everyone also has at least two layers of armor on their bodies, and when they move, they are also very relaxed.

In front of the state of the Pingyu Army, Zhu Cihong will naturally be very relieved to see it.

Everything he did in Qingjiang was nothing more than to do the scene in front of him, which is the so-called: Jiajian Bingli!

In the cheerful sound of waist drums, the officers and men of the third battalion of the Pingyu Army quickly marched out of the camp with a fast and orderly speed and attitude, and when many battalion leaders were still in formation, the team of 4,911 people of the third battalion had already formed a "product" shape in front of the camp gate.

Cao Qing is at the front, Zhang Quanbin's camp is on the left, and Jin Qianli's camp is on the right.

On the passage between the three battalions, there were generals on horseback and a small number of horses directly under the battalion, and a group of cavalry from the baggage battalion was also transferred, and together with the cavalry of the three battalions, a strategic assault force of less than 200 men was formed.

Less than a mile to the right of the infantry battalion, the artillery battalion had also been completed.

The artillery battalion dispatched 110 four-wheeled iron wagons, 50 wagons equipped with Franc cannons and tiger squat guns, and more than 40 two-wheeled carriages.

The light carriage is also a small phalanx, and the chariot artillery battalion is led by Bai Wenlu and others, and they are in the center of the command.

In addition to the upper body anti-artillery, there are also soldiers holding more than one person high hardwood covered cowhide shields, when the chariot array moves forward to engage the Qing army, these shields stand in the gap between the chariot and the two vehicles, so that a complete defense system is formed, so that the enemy has no chance to take advantage of it.

After such a solid armament, there were fifty tiger squat cannons and Franc machine bronze cannons, and all the members of the artillery crew were in place, gearing up, planning to fight well for a while, even if they were not as good as the serious cannons, they still had a numerical advantage, and they must not let the colleagues in the artillery battalion underestimate themselves too much.

In the iron box, on the side of the enemy, it is equipped with a cannon that can shoot hundreds of paces away, and this kind of cannon is not so much a cannon as a super-large caliber firearm.

The large guns in the infantry camp were only slightly smaller in caliber than these cannons.

After this battle, the Zhankou Cannon will definitely be withdrawn from the artillery battalion establishment, or even directly canceled.

Because in terms of power, it is only a little stronger than the firecracker, and it is a child's toy compared to a serious artillery, and if it is not leaned on both sides, it may be eliminated.

However, the gunners who were preparing on the car were still full of ambition, ready to use their weapons in the battle for a while, and put on a good show.

There may be differences in weapons, but every member of the artillery battalion has no intention of underestimating himself.

After the artillery battalion and the three infantry battalions were all deployed and moved closer to each other, the Ming army's large array was finally almost completed.

On the plains of the land of Qilu, there is a sea of flags everywhere, the banner of Sun Chuanting's Chinese army, and the flags and flags of the commanders, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, and first-class military attachés of the garrison.

Under the banner, there are armor soldiers whose armor is painted red and yellow, and under the bright banner, they show a special splendid magnificence.

Together with Zhao Yingyuan's Shandong Town cavalry, plus Xuzhou Town, Pingyu Army, 14,000 soldiers, 4,000 auxiliaries, and the entire division of the Ming Army, nearly 19,000 people.

The huge ranks spread out from east to west, with Zhao Yingyuan's cavalry and the cavalry and artillery battalions of the Pingyu army in the east, as well as a battalion in Xuzhen, whose main task was to cover the artillery battalions with strong fire output.

A battalion in Xu Zhen originally did not bear the responsibility of protecting the car artillery battalion, but made a resolute deployment after Sun Chuanting realized the power of the car artillery battalion.

Because of this change, it also greatly encouraged the morale of the whole regiment and artillery battalion, and when the formation was completed, all the officers and men of the regiment and artillery battalion were cheered by friendly troops from the east and west, and in the cheers of the landslide and tsunami, the officers and men of each artillery battalion raised their chests and their whole faces flushed.

Military honor, nothing more!

………… The smoke and dust were getting closer, and the earth began to shake.

The sun rises high, and in winter, it is also a rare warm day. But this day is destined to be such a big killing. This battle was originally launched by the Ming army in preparation for a strong attack on the weak, in response to the Ming army in Henan and Li Zicheng in the northwest battlefield.

The objectives of the initial phase of the strategy are strictly vague and unclear.

Is it to strike at the enemy's living forces, or to cross the river to the north, clear the enemy army of the whole of Shandong, and occupy all the cities?

All this was carried out vaguely, and even underestimated his own strength.

After all, the Ming army has been fighting with the Qing army for decades, and Zhu Cihong, as a traverser, can only overestimate the strength of the Qing army and will never underestimate it.

Therefore, the whole army was trembling, and the preparations for the decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army were, frankly speaking, insufficient.

Especially when mobilizing to the north, Abatai did not go south, and the Ming army command, especially Zhu Cihong, did not have sufficient ideological preparations for the scale of mobilization of the Qing army to the south.

Otherwise, he might have sent more than three infantry battalions, and he wouldn't have sent a cavalry and artillery battalion to reinforce the maneuver and train output.

Only after the battle was fought and the posture of the entire battlefield changed greatly, the important surnames of the entire battle were fully reflected.

At that time, it was a different story.

The smoke and dust are getting closer and closer, and the earth is shaking more and more, and the standard-bearer standing on the Diao Fight keeps changing the flag, reminding the commander and the generals of each battalion the size and distance of the enemy army.

In the face of the formation of the Ming army, the Qing army was also constantly adjusting and changing its formation.

The formation of the Ming army should be a crab formation, according to Sun Chuanting's assumption, the left wing is Gao Jie's subordinates, veterans of many years of fighting, experienced, in order to aid Gao Jie, morale is also very high, so the strength is very strong.

The right flank originally planned to send the cavalry from Shandong Town and Sun Chuanting's own Chinese army, but after discovering the terrible firepower output of the car artillery battalion, Sun Chuanting sent an additional battalion with cavalry, which was another solid support point.

As long as the Chinese army's Pingyu army is not very face-to-face, can withstand the impact, and keeps advancing on both flanks, it will not be able to win, and it can also fight a war of attrition with the Qing army exchanging heads.

With the powerful Ming Dynasty behind him, Sun Chuanting is not afraid of consumption!

(To be continued)