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Under the command of Lieutenant Hortman, the coalition forces pressed less than 500 meters from the city, then stopped and began to form a team, and set up artillery - their 2,400 men had not been trained in strict queues at all, and they were already scattered after walking a few hundred meters, and if they did not organize their formation, they would be defeated in the event of an attack.

While they were in a hurry, seventy or eighty foreign soldiers in red uniforms crossed the moat from the pontoon bridge, and then swaggered towards the coalition army. When the "Qing soldiers" and the native soldiers who saw this scene were inexplicable, suddenly a crisp gunshot rang out on the ground, and a gunner who was setting up a cannon fell to the ground with blood splashing on his head!

The coalition army was stunned, more than 2,000 men stopped the whole team at the same time, and looked ahead, and saw that the seventy or so foreign soldiers were only two or three hundred steps away from the coalition army's main array, and the rifles in their hands were raised, followed by a crackling gunshot! The coalition forces were immediately covered with blood, and dozens of men fell to the ground, and screams rang out one after another.

"Hell! It's light infantry! "Lieutenant Hortman, who was in charge of the command of the former enemy, had just cursed, and the coalition muskets were fired.

"Ceasefire! Cease fire......" Lieutenant Hortman roared. The coalition forces are equipped with smoothbore guns, rifled guns in this era are very inconvenient to use, not well-trained infantry can not be used at all, Zhu Jishi hired foreign soldiers will shoot, and selected 70 excellent marksmanship from them to form a light infantry company, and the coalition army has no conditions for forming light infantry at all, so there are only smoothbore guns. However, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is notoriously poor, and it simply misses the target at a distance of two or three hundred yards, even within 100 yards, it is necessary to use the platoon gun shooting mode, relying on a dense rain of bullets to effectively kill the opponent.

But now, the Coalition forces are scrambling their guns less than three hundred yards away. Although the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, the 70 or so foreign devil light infantry of the Jishi Army on the opposite side were all safe and sound, and they were very leisurely loading and shooting. Because the coalition formation was too dense, the bullets fired from the 70 or so Baker rifles were almost missed, and the musketeers in the front row of the coalition army were knocked on their backs. Before the formation was formed, there was some confusion, and some of the officers and men who were more slippery had quietly taken a few steps back, as if they were ready to slip away at any time. Liu Axing and Anderson, who were so angry that they supervised the battle, screamed and screamed, and Liu Axing sent his own guards to supervise the formation, and he barely stabilized his position.

As for Zhu Jishi, who was watching the battle from a high place, he was even more stunned by the scene in front of him! A mere 70 or so light infantrymen actually shot at a brigade of 2,000 or several hundred people, and it seemed that they had the upper hand!

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The three 9-pounder cannons of the Ji Shijun also fired at this time, and they were all solid bullets, that is, a 9-pound iron ball rolled straight into the coalition formation under the thrust of the black powder explosion, and the three iron bullets swept down dozens of people all the way!

"Sir, it's time to fight back! Put all three infantry companies in the reserve under my command! ”

It was Jérôme who spoke. Peel, the old man had already put on the blue "Old Guard" uniform, and a bearskin hat was buttoned on the bald head, and stood in front of Zhu Jishi energetically to ask for battle.

"Fight back now? Isn't it a little early? The enemy shows no signs of routing! Qiu Fatzi interjected on the side.

"It's the right time, the enemy's attention is drawn to the front, and it's time to attack their flanks with Frederick's slash array!"

Frederick's slash formation is actually a tactic of rapid conversion between columns and horizontal teams, first use a section to attract the opponent in the front, the main force quickly detours in columns, and converts into horizontal formations on the enemy's flanks...... Don't think it's easy, anyone can do radio gymnastics on the school playground, but this is the battlefield! It is not easy for a large group of men to move quickly under the enemy's guns and change formations.

Well, of course, it doesn't seem to be very difficult, because the enemy Zhu Jishi is facing today is really a bit of a dish.

"Quick! Keep up! ”

Han Si was on a cane and yelled at the top of his voice, as if he wanted his two companies to fly to the left flank of the enemy, and in front of him was Jerome. A company of foreign soldiers led by Peel himself was also running with vigor. Old man Peel was also shouting: "Young men, work harder, victory is ahead, as long as the detour is successful, we will win!" ”

The old man's words are not wrong at all, if these three companies can complete the detour in time, the left flank of the coalition army will definitely not be able to carry it, so now it is a time to rush to bring the team to the designated position and spread the formation before the coalition forces react.

At the same time, the two infantry companies deployed outside the west city of Sindang also crossed the pontoon bridge under the command of Dvikine, and formed a formation in front of the coalition formation, but did not press, but stopped 300 yards away from the opposite side of the coalition forces, and did not shoot, but only loaded their bayonets, and stood silently.

The anti-Ming army wants to fight against each other! Liu Axing gasped when he received the report from the front. He couldn't overlook the battlefield from his position, and there was a crackling and crackling in front of him, and the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, so he didn't know that there were three companies of enemy troops making a detour to the left. Of course, it is not that no one on the battlefield has discovered this situation, but the battle report transmission system of the command of the coalition forces is very bad, and the situation on the front line cannot be transmitted to the command center in a timely and accurate manner.

As a result, the report that Liu Axing and Anderson received only contained the content that "at least 2,000 thieves are approaching" -- the enemy situation was of course exaggerated! This is always the case on the battlefield, where the weak, poorly trained and inexperienced side tends to magnify the enemy and scare itself enough.

"Mr. Anderson, now that the traitor has been discovered, can he be withdrawn?" Liu Asheng asked with a cool breath. Although this battle has just begun, General Liu has already repented, it turns out that fighting and fighting in a group are not the same thing at all!

Anderson glanced at him and said, "You can't withdraw now!" One withdrawal is the collapse of the whole line! Liu, don't worry, although the Ming army is elite, the number of people is only more than 2,000, and we are eight times as many as them, we will definitely be able to hold on! ”

He turned back to a few Dutch officers behind him and said, "Go and give orders to Prince Siti and Prince Xue Di to launch an attack on the eastern and northern cities of Xindang, where the troops must be very empty. ”

At this time, Zhu Jishi was also in Robert. Churchill and Will. At Hemming's suggestion, he adjusted the deployment, replaced the two infantry companies in the south of the city with three baggage companies, and then threw the two companies of infantry into the battlefield west of the city and handed them over to the command of Dvikine.

Waiting for the three companies commanded by Peel and Han Si to return to their positions, they launched a frontal assault on the coalition army.

"Stand upright! Xiangyou turn! ”

The battlefield was not wide, so the detour of three infantry companies was also completed in a very short time. At the command of Peel and Han Si, more than 360 smoothbore gunmen from three companies quickly converted the column into a horizontal line.

"Onward! March! ”

The beat of tapping and tapping drums sounded, and more than 360 infantry marched in unison to the left flank of the coalition formation.

At this time, Lieutenant Hortman had also discovered that an unknown number of enemy troops had detoured back to his left flank, and hurriedly adjusted his deployment, trying to let his left flank drag the enemy troops in order to cover the retreat of the brigade. However, he is not now commanding the Dutch army, not even a real army, but a rabble who can fight in groups, and they can make do with a good fight, and now it is more difficult for them to block the bullet hole than to climb to the sky.