On the plains northwest of Manila, half-man-tall weeds have been leveled to form a natural battlefield, and at either end of this battlefield, two immensely large armies are ready for battle.

"General, although the other party claims to be 300,000, but because the battlefield is limited, the other party in front of him only lists the most elite 200,000, and in the rear five miles, there are still 100,000 old and weak soldiers!" A detective colonel flew to report.

"Probe!" Zhou Long waved his hand after hearing this, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, so the information about the other party cannot be left behind for a moment.

"No!" The probe horse took the order and left. However, as soon as this probe horse left, the second probe horse arrived immediately, and with the report of these probes, all the information on the battlefield was gathered in Zhou Long's hands, and almost all the situation on the entire battlefield evolved in his heart.

The 300,000 troops of the tribal alliance did not all go into battle, and Zhou Long's 120,000 army was the same, and even in comparison, Zhou Long could only take out half of the strength, including 20,000 Japanese troops on the left, 20,000 Han troops on the right, and 10,000 grassland cavalry in the center as the main force. In addition, all the firearms units were also in battle, and the artillery positions were on the left flank of the army, and the other thousand musketeers were also on the left flank.

Compared with the strict military formation on Zhou Long's side, the 200,000 alliance troops on the opposite side are very loose, and it can even be said that there is no formation at all, and there is an obvious dividing line among these 200,000 people. On the left is the army of the Taga Alliance, while on the right is the Ilu Alliance. And within the two coalition armies, also according to the tribes. They are divided into dozens of small teams, generally with the largest number of people in the first place and the smaller ones in the back.

Zhou Long was not surprised by the looseness of these alliance forces, because he had long learned from the dwarf blacks about the situation when the war was fought on Luzon. Because they all exist in the form of tribes, although there are frequent fights between tribes, they have not yet evolved into real wars, and the forms of war of these tribes are simply put. It is still at the level of group fighting, not to mention the regular Tang army, even the affiliated armies of the Wa Kingdom can easily deal with it, of course, the premise must be a face-to-face plain war, not a war in the tropical jungle.

It is precisely because he understands this that Zhou Long will show weakness to the other party everywhere in the previous contact war, so as to be proud of the other party. Then he appeared on this plain with a large army with great fanfare, and the other party was really fooled, and even gathered all the troops and prepared to fight them to the death here.

I thought of the scheming I had worked on before. The corners of Zhou Long's mouth couldn't help but show a smug smile. At this time, Hu Li stepped forward and said: "General, the army has been prepared, can we start attacking?" ”

Looking at the bloodthirsty tiger power. Zhou Long smiled and said, "It's true that you can attack, but it's not the Tiger General who takes the lead." Zhou Long said this. With a pale face, he ordered, "Chuan Ben General order." Artillery ready, fire! ”

With Zhou Long's order, the commander standing on the high place immediately waved the order flag and gave orders to the artillery position on the left flank, and the artillery commander, who had been waiting for a long time, saw the order here, and immediately shouted: "Prepare ~, ignition!" ”

At the command of the commander, the artillerymen behind dozens of guns immediately lit the fuse with the torches in their hands, and with a deafening roar, a volley of hot projectiles flew out of the muzzles. The distance between the Union army and the artillery was less than two miles, just within the range of the artillery, and with the 200,000 troops gathered together, it was possible to hit the target even with the eyes closed.

The leaders of the tribal alliance are the patriarchs of the two alliances, and they are actually the first time to participate in such a large-scale war. But this time it was different, they had to face the army of those outsiders, through the previous slave trade they knew that the other party was not only well-equipped, but also experienced, for example, a dozen people slave hunting team can wipe out a tribe of hundreds of people, not to mention these regular troops.

It is precisely knowing this that although the two alliances are several times larger than each other in numbers, they do not dare to take the initiative to attack. In addition, they also had a layer of thought, that is, they hoped that another tribal alliance would attack first, and then fight the outsiders on the opposite side, preferably to the death, and then they might be able to destroy themselves, their allies, and their enemies, and then occupy all of Luzon.

However, just when the two tribal alliances were playing their own small calculations, the artillery under Zhou Long's order had already fired, and when the hot projectiles shot into the alliance army like black lightning, many unlucky soldiers didn't even have time to scream, and they were beaten into minced meat by more than a dozen pounds of iron bullets, and they were lucky enough to be grazed by the shells, and the result was also broken bones, and these people didn't realize that they were injured at first, until a while, they felt the sharp pain on their bodies, and suddenly the battlefield was full of wails, The sound of crying father and mother is endless.

This round of artillery is only the beginning, and the fifty cannons did not all fire, but divided into two rounds, after the first round of shelling, the second round of shelling also began immediately, although the lethality of solid shells is limited, and if a shell is lucky, it will not kill or injure several people at most, but this psychological deterrent is too great, after all, these Luzon natives could not have imagined that there would be such a weapon that fell from the sky, and the way of killing people was still so cruel.

The two groups of artillery were fired in turn, creating a kind of continuous artillery momentum, which also put the other party under greater psychological pressure, plus the tribal alliance army was originally scattered natives, and there was no discipline at all, so after a few rounds of shelling, the 200,000 army was already in chaos.

"Steppe cavalry, charge!" With Hu Li's order, 10,000 steppe cavalry under his leadership were like a black torrent. In addition, the Wa and Samhan people on the left and right flanks also began to rush forward, but few people noticed that there was also a special unit armed with muskets in the ranks of the Wa people.

There were no horses on Luzon, and the natives in the coalition army were also very surprised when they saw the steppe cavalry, and at the same time felt a little frightened by this unknown creature, which was one of the reasons why they did not dare to attack first. Now that they were in a mess under artillery, and seeing the opposing army rushing towards them on such huge animals, it made them even more frightened, and even those who were not shelled began to be confused.

The speed of the cavalry was the fastest, less than two miles away, almost a few breaths rushed over, and under the leadership of the fierce general of Huli, 10,000 grassland cavalry exerted their maximum combat power, brandishing sabers one by one, smiling and rushing into the alliance army, this group of murderous steppe demons did not know what mercy was, the sharp steel knife slashed through the enemy's neck, and the heads of people rose to the sky, blood was sprayed everywhere, dyeing the black armor on their bodies dark red.

As soon as they made contact, the alliance army was rushed open by the steppe cavalry of Huli, and then the cavalry of 10,000 people was like a sharp arrow, killing from the front of the formation to the back of the formation, and then all the cavalry went around in a circle and turned around to kill. As a result, these natives, who had no experience in dealing with cavalry at all, had no way to stop them, and could only let these cavalry charge their army out of shape.

However, the two alliance patriarchs felt fortunate that after making contact with the other party's army, the roaring weapon just now finally stopped, which made them all breathe a sigh of relief, after all, the two of them were also within the range of artillery, and no one knew if that kind of iron bump would fall on their heads? Now that the shelling has stopped, this gives them a sense of security.

However, the two patriarchs were obviously happy too early, the chaos caused by the cavalry was greater than the artillery bombardment, after all, no matter how sharp the artillery was, it was also limited by the number and the coverage was not large, many teams were not greatly affected, but the cavalry was different, every time they underattacked, at least thousands of casualties would be brought to them.

In addition, the armies on the left and right flanks of Zhou Long also began to engage with the alliance army, although the Japanese army and the Sanhan army were not as good as Li Su's directly subordinate Han troops, but after changing clothes and training by Zhou Long and others, the combat effectiveness was also greatly improved, at least it was very easy to deal with this undisciplined Nanyang natives.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Long's 50,000 troops faced a one-sided massacre against the 200,000 tribal alliance army. However, this situation did not surprise Zhou Long, he had long known that these natives had no discipline, and it was okay to fight with a smooth wind if they were angry, but if they were defeated at the beginning, then they would fall into chaos next.

It was precisely by grasping this weakness of the other party that Zhou Long used artillery to deter the enemy, and then used the steppe cavalry to attack, as a result, when the armies on both wings came into contact with the other side, the alliance army had almost fallen into a state of fighting on its own, and even many people began to flee.

Faced with this situation, the patriarchs of the two alliances also knew that it was not good, and immediately ordered the leaders of each tribe to restrain the soldiers, and at the same time let their direct guards drive some tribes forward by force, in order to block the opponent's attack.

However, their efforts were soon in vain, as the musketeers hidden in the Japanese army finally opened fire, and rows of muskets took turns firing, each time hundreds of natives were shot and fell to the ground. The natives were also very frightened of this smoke-breathing weapon, and they all evaded the shooting of the muskets, so wherever the musket team rushed, the natives began to scatter and flee.

Seeing this one-sided war, Zhou Long, who had been commanding in the rear, muttered very dissatisfied: "I didn't expect the natives here to be so weak, if I had known this, Lao Tzu wouldn't have had to make so many preparations!" (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )