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However, in ancient times or in modern times, most armies attached great importance to strict formation, and rarely put on a chaotic formation on the battlefield, and the reason for this is self-evident, it is nothing more than to show that the military deterrence of the opponent and the convenience of the commander to observe and dispatch.

Take the two sides of the current battle of Xindang as an example, although the Jishi army is firmly defended by the wall, but still maintained a very neat queue, 8 of the 11 infantry companies, respectively, outside the wooden fence of the Xindang city walled city set up a standard three columns, all the soldiers, both Chinese and Western, standing straight and solemn, holding a smoothbore gun in their hands, and the grassroots officers holding Western sabers all stand on the right side of the queue, restraining the soldiers under them, while waiting for the orders of their superiors.

In front of them, there is also a breastwork wall made of sandbags, in front of the breastwork, is the moat of Xindang, which is about ten meters wide, and there are several pontoon bridges on it, but the water depth is only a little more than one meter, which can be crossed, but the premise is that the platoon guns that braved the rain of the other party!

In the Xindang Walled City, there are 3 infantry companies, 1 light infantry company, 1 artillery company (only 3 cannons), 3 baggage companies and 1 engineer company, these troops are also in strict formation, the baggage company and the engineer company are also issued with smoothbore guns, and the artillery company's 3 9-pounder cannons are hung on the gun trucks, each dragged by four tall horses, which can move to all directions of the Xindang walled city at any time for fire support.

The headquarters of the Jishi army is in the western-style building in the center of the Xindang Walled City, through the windows on the top floor, Zhu Jishi can have an unobstructed view of the situation of his own army, and a row of heralds is also standing in the headquarters, waiting for orders at any time, through their more than 2,000 officers and soldiers can be completely mastered by the command headquarters, forming a sophisticated and powerful war machine.

Well, at least it looks pretty powerful!

Zhu Jishi, who was on the battlefield for the first time, saw more than 2,000 men under his subordinates put up such a battle formation, and his heart that had been hanging for a long time finally relaxed.

Now there are only more than 2,000 people, if there are 20,000 such elite soldiers in the future, they will probably be able to become the lord of Guangdong, right? If there can be 200,000 such elites, the dragon chair in Beijing ...... It's in your own pocket!

Looking at his opponents, the "Qing Heavenly Soldiers" and the Sudanese native soldiers, they were simply an army labeled as a rabble, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many of them, Zhu Jishi would have wanted to order the troops to leave the fortifications and take the initiative to attack - in fact, the five old French officers had unanimously put forward a proposal to attack, but General Zhu Daming, who was in battle for the first time, still decided to be conservative.

"I said Lao Pi'er, although my Jishi army looks quite like the same thing, but after all, it is a newly formed army, and it can't be compared with the old guards of Emperor Napoleon, so let's let the enemy attack first."

After listening to Zhu Jishi's words, Jérôme. Pee was almost going to laugh out loud, if there were more than 2,000 old guards here, the more than 10,000 rabble would be scared away, and they would be a fart!

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"Ann...... Mr. Anderson, are you still fighting? ”

When Liu Asheng asked this, he even had some cramps in his legs and stomach, what do you mean by "not afraid of not knowing the goods, only afraid of comparing goods"? His 6,000 "Qing Heavenly Soldiers" looked quite majestic and high-spirited when they were on the road, in the end they were 6,000 strong men, still wearing the same clothes, carrying all kinds of weapons, and although they were not very neat, they were also a vast procession that connected the heavens and the earth. In the opinion of Liu Asheng, who has been in battle for a long time (if the group fight is considered a war), with such an army, the small Xindang City has also been stepped on! After this battle, this West Borneo is the independent kingdom of the Liu family.

It's just that this wishful thinking has only been played for less than two days, and he was poured a basin of ice water on his head under Xindang City! Looking at the team of the anti-Ming Ji army outside Xindang City, and then looking at the army that was crowded together and noisy like a vegetable market, this battle seemed to be a bit hanging.

As for the native soldiers of Wanna and the Sultan of Brunei, it seems that they are also in the same chaos as the "Qing Heavenly Soldiers", only to see the black pressure on a piece of naked-shirtless native people wearing hangers or holding knives or carrying guns, barely posing two large phalanxes, respectively located in the north of Xindang City and the east of Xindang City, the "Qing Heavenly Soldiers" are in the west of Xindang City, and the Kunjiang River is not far from the south of Xindang City, there is not enough space to set up a brigade of several thousand people, so it is empty and there is no deployment of offensive troops.

And the actual commander of this army, which totaled about sixteen,000 men, was Zhu Jishi's rival, the Dutch Major Andersen. Compared with Liu Asheng, he is a professional officer who really knows the goods, and he also participated in the Napoleonic War in his early years, and when he saw the neatly arranged line infantry under Xindang City, he knew that Zhu Jishi must be assisted by extremely good Western officers around him, and there was more than one, otherwise there would be no way to train more than 2,000 recruits like this in such a short time.

"Let's test it first!" Anderson put down the monoculars in his hand and instructed Liu Asheng beside him, as well as the two princes of the Tubang wearing golden robes, and said, "Ah Sheng, Prince Siti, Prince Xue Di, you each send 400 musketeers and 400 hand-to-hand soldiers to Xicheng to gather. He also gave an order to a young Dutch officer beside him: "Lieutenant Hortmann, you are responsible for commanding this round of attacks, and the eight cannons of the Qing army are also under your command." Remember, don't storm and just shoot at the enemy with a smoothbore gun within 100 yards. ”

"Yes, Major!"

1 yard is equal to 0.9144 meters, and 100 yards is 91.44 meters, which is barely enough for the effective range of a smoothbore gun, but it must be a well-trained soldier using a well-made smoothbore gun and ammunition to have a certain chance of hitting the target, and it is clear that there are no such soldiers on both sides of the battlefield today. So Anderson is just testing the reality of the Jishi Army now.

It took a little more than two hours for the mobilization of the 2,400 rabble, and it was not until after lunch on December 17 that the first wave of the tripartite coalition attack officially began, with 1,200 musketeers in front and the same number of hand-to-hand fighters behind.

The dispatch of the coalition forces naturally could not be concealed from Zhu Jishi, Robert who condescendingly watched the battle and commanded. Churchill, Will. Hemming, and of course Jérôme, the old Guard. Pir.

"The enemy wants to attack Xicheng, let Reye command the artillery to provide fire support, and then let Dwicone command and command the light infantry company to reinforce, and all the troops in Xicheng will be under the unified command of Dvikne."

Jérôme. Pi'er made a suggestion at the first time, and Qiu Fatzi and Haiming looked at each other and nodded in support of Lao Pi'er.

"Well, that's all!" Of course, Zhu Jishi is as good as a stream, how can everyone be an experienced "old guard", and he is always experienced in fighting.

In fact, Peere's arrangement is a decent "textbook" tactic. Although the tactics of the European Army in this era were ridiculed by later generations as "lining up to shoot", it was not so simple to fight at all, and it was constantly changing.

By the 40s of the 19th century, due to the development of rifled guns, the simple "line up to shoot" tactic had long been eliminated. Light infantry with rifled guns played an increasingly important role on the battlefield, and the confrontation between infantry was often provoked by the light infantry first, without the protection of the light infantry, and the line infantry forming a horizontal formation, phalanx or column was a group of stupid targets to be beaten.

Of the two sides in today's confrontation, only the Jishi Army had a light infantry company, and neither side had cavalry that could pose the greatest threat to the light infantry company. Therefore, the first shot of today's battle was fired by them.