Li Wuliu is ambitious.

Zhun Ta is also full of confidence.

Both sides that are going to fight a decisive battle are confident in themselves.

The most nervous thing is the third party next to the battlefield, the soldiers and civilians watching the battle in Haizhou City!

After the Qing army appeared, Haizhou was naturally very nervous, but with the experience of being besieged last time, they did not panic.

Especially Song Lian, immediately like last time, organized the people to kick the city, and at the same time controlled the grain store in Haizhou as soon as possible.

Song Lian is planning to replicate the last battle of Haizhou, of course, when Yang Chao is not there, he does not have much ambition, and he has no illusions that he can annihilate all the captives like last time, he just wants to be able to defend the city.

But for whether they can hold it, in fact, everyone doesn't have much confidence, last time there were Yang Chao's elite soldiers, everyone has the backbone, and now they can only rely on them.

Therefore, they trembled for many days, and yesterday they saw a ship coming from the sea, Yang Fan, and then shelled the Qing army, and the city of Haizhou suddenly rejoiced, because they knew that reinforcements were coming.

But they didn't know which way of reinforcements came, to this day quite a lot of people are in the east of the city, specifically to see the reinforcements, and wait until noon to see the reinforcements begin to attack, which makes many people feel nervous, a little military common sense, all sighed, feel that the reinforcement generals have made a stupid decision, how can you fight with the Tartars, Yang Chao didn't fight with the Tartars at that time, why do you dare to fight with the Tartars, do you think you are more powerful than Yang Chao?

I have to say that Yang Chao's reputation in Haizhou is extremely high, and all the generals of the Ming army, they have compared Yang Chao, and they are tired of it, and there is often only one result of the comparison, that is, others are not as good as Yang Chao.

"Look! Yang Ziqi! ”

Soon, someone saw the Ming army out of the camp and the banner was raised.

Suddenly, more people saw it, and then there was a burst of cheers on the entire east wall.

Yang Ziqi, this is Yang Chao's soldiers!

Suddenly, the military and civilians of Haizhou changed from thinking that the reinforcement generals would not rise sharply, and turned to full of confidence in him.

"Yang Jiajun, it's Yang Jiajun! Kill all the Tartars, Uncle Yang is blessed! ”

Many people couldn't help but shout.

Cheers from the city. Zhun Tower, who was already arrayed two miles outside Haizhou City, couldn't help but hesitate a little whether to send someone to keep an eye on Haizhou City, but after thinking about it for a while, he gave up this idea. He felt that those soldiers in Haizhou City definitely did not have the courage to go out of the city to attack him.

So he was relieved to boldly turn his back to Haizhou City, and I have to say that despite the Yangzhou War, the Qing army still had a psychological advantage over the Ming army. After all, since Nurhachi raised his army, defeat has almost disappeared from their dictionary.

As for the two major battles of Haizhou and Yangzhou, the captives also habitually found a reasonable reason for themselves, because the Ming army was cunning, not because the Ming army had any combat effectiveness.

At the front of Li Wuliu's large array were rows of soldiers pushing wooden shields forward, and they were carrying spears behind them.

The wooden shield in the hands of these people is a bit special, because there are two small wheels under the wooden shield, and you can push it when you move it, which saves a lot of effort. Otherwise, just after this inch, the movement of a shoulder-high thick wooden shield would be enough for the shield soldiers to have a headache.

There is nothing special about such a big shield, in fact, it is just a variant of the captive shield car, removing the cart below and replacing it with two small wheels, obviously the structure is more streamlined, but the movement is equally labor-saving.

"One-two-one, one-two-one."

The shield soldiers were followed by rows of horizontal formations, the grassroots shouting trumpets at the main entrance, and their ranks were inconspicuous among the large troops. They are just a part of the war machine.

And unlike in the past, when advancing, these teams were all in a horizontal line, and eleven people marched in a horizontal line. And the entire phalanx has a hundred such horizontal formations in each row, which is a huge machine.

With the shield in front and the long column behind, they slowly advanced towards Haizhou City, and soon they were a mile away from the captives.

And the two soldiers on both sides of the long row were the same as the shield soldiers in front. A cart and a shield cart.

"Didi!"

Suddenly, two crisp sounds rang out, with a sharp metallic tone.

This is the small copper trumpet made by Yang Chao, which is actually the charge of later generations.

The shield soldier at the front immediately stopped his advance and raised his shield.

Because they heard two trumpets, one long and one short, which meant "Stand shield!" ”

But the other soldiers behind them continued on their way, until they came to a halt three feet behind their shields.

The second platoon stopped three feet behind the first platoon, and so on, and the nine platoons of soldiers all stopped automatically.

"Didi-drip-drip!"

The sound of the brass horn sounded, and all the soldiers took small steps, their heads were forty-five degrees to the right, and the short and long hissing horns meant to look to the right.

"Didi!"

Two short trumpet sounds, which represent Lizheng.

At the same time, the two columns on the left and right of the large array, the outermost of them, also pushing the shields, immediately erected their shields, but not in advance, but towards the outside, and the sound of the two trumpets was not for them to stand upright, but to stand up the shield.

In this way, three shield walls were formed, which protected the entire phalanx.

A series of large-scale phalanx changes made the opposite side completely incomprehensible, what is this?

"Turtle shell?"

Zhun Ta couldn't help but snort, disdainful of this, and wrapped himself with three shields, what kind of formation is this?

Although Zhun Ta can't understand the formation of the Ming army, but it does not affect his disdain for this formation, as a veteran who is used to fighting, he is even the essence of the battle formation, the formation is just an attack and a defense, a collection and an exhibition, not only to be able to recover the one is conducive to defense, but also to facilitate the development of the attack.

Therefore, the simpler the formation, the more effective it is, just like the wedge-shaped formation of the cavalry, which is still in use for thousands of years, because the attack surface is narrow when impacting, and it is very convenient for the two wings to be expanded, forming a striking surface.

However, the Ming army's square turtle formation, so that the tower can not see any advantages, except for the possibility that the team attack will cause a little trouble, it is very inconvenient to expand by themselves, the rear is blocked by the front, if you want to attack the enemy, you can only cross the comrades in front, which is simply a waste of limited attack power on the battlefield.

The formation of the Ming army has been studied for so many years, the most optimistic about the tower, or Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck array, when advancing, a long snake, there is a shield in front, when it is expanded, the two wings immediately expand behind, and the wedge-shaped formation of the cavalry has the same effect, but the civilian officials of the Ming army always like to play some strange things, maybe this is the whimsy of a certain Wenchen, as for the generals of the Ming army, they have long degenerated to the extent of relying on the thickness of the armor and leading the troops to rush and fight, and the use of the formation is not as good as the nomadic army.

At this time, the two armies were one mile apart, and Zhun Ta had not yet ordered an attack, but he wanted to see what this turtle formation would do if he didn't attack.

That's when he heard "Drip-Drip!" Two brass trumpets sounded, and then I saw the Ming army's large array begin to move slowly.

Putting down the copper trumpet on his lips, Li Wuliu couldn't help but sigh: "This ghost thing is really troublesome!" ”

To be honest, he didn't want to use the brass horn, it was too troublesome, and although the password had been simplified as much as possible, he was still very unaccustomed to it, and how pleasant it was to use the roar like in the past.

But he also knew that it was unrealistic, the phalanx of hundreds of people had no problem with roaring, and it became very laborious for thousands of people, and when it reached tens of thousands, it basically couldn't roar, and it was not clear on the noisy battlefield.

It is also unrealistic to use the command flag, in the tense battlefield, who will have nothing to look at the officer's flag, it is important to pay attention to the enemy.

Therefore, Yang Chaocai thought about it and found someone to make this kind of copper horn with a sharp and high-pitched voice and high recognition.

In fact, Yang Chao has tried a variety of musical instruments, such as suona, such as waist drums, and in the end, this copper horn is the best operation.

And many tests, and finally determined the signal, two short horn sounds on behalf of the right and shield orders, a long and a short horn on behalf of the forward, a short and a long on behalf of a short rest, a short length of four on behalf of the right to the right, in addition to the preparation for battle and a full charge and other orders.

It can be said that this is simplified enough, and the previous orders for attacks have been abolished, and the power to determine the attack has been given to the soldiers.

Li Wuliu rode a war horse, followed by thirty pro-soldiers, according to the design of the establishment, a 10,000-person phalanx, should be equipped with 3,000 cavalry, but the effect of joint training is not very good, how to cooperate with the infantry and cavalry, and how to use artillery, there is no consensus in the army now, but the phalanx alone is already very terrifying, Li Wuliu even thinks that there is no need for other arms to cooperate.

So now only Li Wuliu is riding alone.

Riding a horse and following the phalanx slowly.

The shield wall at the front of the phalanx stood upright, with wheels underneath and a holster nailed to the inside, and the soldiers behind them leaned sideways, pushing forward one at a time, keeping them as stable as possible.

The most important thing is that after these shield carts move, there will still be some fluctuations, and the shield wall immediately becomes convex and concave, like a wind curtain gently rippling.

But this is not a good thing, the fluctuation of the defensive shield wall will obviously reveal the flaw, and the only solution is to restore the shield wall to a full state before the enemy can take the opportunity to attack.

After slowly advancing three hundred steps, Li Wuliu suddenly saw that the Tartars had moved, and sent hundreds of cavalry to kill them.

Li Wuliu immediately sounded the brass trumpet, a short four-tone trumpet, representing "preparing for battle."

The captives were still the old tactical cavalry, and after they had gone out of battle, they lowered their horses and ran slowly, at first keeping their fronts, and suddenly increased their speed at a hundred paces, and began to make a turn, towards the flank of the infantry formation.

Li Wuliu couldn't help sneering, thinking in his heart that a tartar is a tartar, and he has not grown at all.

As soon as the thought in his heart landed, the Qing cavalry had already rushed forward diagonally for thirty steps, and everyone took out their bows and arrows in their hands, drew the bows to the full, and maintained an aiming posture.

"Look for death!"

Li Wuliu snorted coldly, and as soon as the words fell, he heard a snapping sound.

A puff of white smoke came out of the barrel of the first birdman, and then, like dominoes, a row of bird's guns swept over. (To be continued.) )