The 7 battalions led by Jiang Yulong all landed on the west bank, and the 600 soldiers of the artillery battalion had already carried 24 artillery pieces and 12 mortar guns onto the ship.

"Let's go, what do you think, let's go back and talk about it, the Tartar army is gathering men to form a formation, it is estimated that Azig is determined to fight us to the death, let's go and meet him together."

The sporadic cannon fire had ceased, and the neighing of horses and the cries of the towns to the north were clearly audible.

Two musket battalions led by Guo Zhongjun, with 1,200 soldiers divided into five teams, rushed to the villages on the east bank, crackling gunfire and wailing.

The six medium-sized patrol clippers captured in the Battle of Dengzhou had sailed down the river to the mouth of the river and rushed to the western waters to join the 15 main warships lined up facing the Tatar assembly area, and the remaining 40 or so transports of various sizes frequently traveled between the two sides of the strait, sending a group of soldiers and more than 300 war horses to the west bank.

Zhu Daolin and Zhang Deyi boarded the west bank surrounded by more than ten personal guards, turned on their horses, and rushed to their own array.

A calm and cautious Jiang Yulong placed the 4,000 musketeers who were the first to cross the river in the northwest corner of the Gushan camp, which was littered with corpses, just within the maximum range of his own naval guns.

The Tartar army, which was two miles away from each other in the west, had been frightened by the intensive artillery bombardment, and even Azig, who had always been fierce and strong, did not dare to take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold to launch an attack, let alone risk being covered by hundreds of artillery pieces to attack in a half-crossing, and could only watch Jiang Yulong lead his troops to cross the river and land on the shore to line up in formation.

Until dozens of artillery pieces of the Dongjiang New Army arrived one after another under the traction of horses, and quickly deployed the formation, the 4,000 Tatar soldiers and civilians of the regrouped Azig Division did not dare to step forward easily.

After Zhu Daolin arrived at his own array, he erected a rare fiery red handsome flag, and the fire phoenix soaring in the center of the battle flag showed in the wind. Caused a restlessness in the Tartar array.

Azig, the commander of the White Banner, his younger brother, Heshuo Ezhen Duoduo, and Wu Anfu, the general of the Liaodong Han army, stood in front of the military formation, behind them more than 4,000 tartars and 1,500 terrified vassals.

Everyone looked at the neatly lined and strangely dressed army two miles away, and at the fiery red handsome flag that fluttered high but did not have the title of the main general, and the weapons and equipment of the opponent. Talk.

"Brother, look, these thousands of Ming troops on the opposite side are strangely dressed, equipped with all long-barreled muskets, which seem to be farther than the bird guns and three-eyed guns equipped by the Xuanda Ming army, and the dozens of wheeled guns just arranged in the middle of the formation have small barrels, but they are very convenient to move, so I can't be careless!"

Knowing the bottom of his heart, Duoduo reminded Azig loudly that after withstanding the intensive naval bombardment, he could no longer maintain the composure and disdain he had faced the Ming army for several years.

Azig, who looked solemn, nodded: "It's really weird. I have never seen a warship equipped with so many generals' cannons, and the cannons on the ship can hit 5 miles away, the eight generals' cannons in our camp and the opponent's artillery can not be compared, not only can not hit the enemy's warships, only two rounds of fire were blown off six, if we don't decisively give up the camp and withdraw, I'm afraid most of the people and horses today can't keep it, alas...... Wu Anfu! ”

"The minions are here."

Wu Anfu, who was riding on a war horse, stepped forward. Hurriedly bent down and bowed his head.

The dull sound of drums and sharp copper whistles came with the wind, and the Ming army array on the opposite side began to move forward slowly.

Azig stared at the two large phalanxes of the enemy's Ming army attacking in formation. Yao pointed to the enemy artillery array arranged between the two phalanxes and asked sharply: "When you were on an errand in the Ming army, did you ever see this kind of light artillery on wheels and driven at will?" ”

Wu Anfu looked at it for a moment and shook his head again and again: "The minions have never seen this kind of artillery, and there are very few artillery pieces in the Ming army that can be loaded into carriages...... There are only tiger squat cannons with little power and short-barreled copper cannons below a thousand catties, because ...... Because it is very bulky, the range is only three or five hundred steps. It takes more than 20 breaths to complete the reload and fire again after a shot, and it is not as good as the three-eyed gun, so for so many years, it has only been used when defending and besieging cities, and I have never seen anyone use it in field battles. ”

"Didn't you take charge of the Ming artillery team before you joined it? How far do you think the two dozen or so guns on wheels on the opposite side can hit? Frankly. Don't spit out. Azig asked again.

Wu Anfu didn't know how to answer, and a big cold sweat quickly broke out on his forehead: "Slave...... The minion has never seen this kind of cannon, and the barrel seems to be small, and it is estimated that it is similar to the tiger squat cannon, but it is ...... It's just that the barrels of those cannons seem to be a bit long, and they are estimated to be able to hit a little farther than the Tiger Squat cannon......"

Azig glared at the sweaty Wu Anfu in annoyance: "Useless dog minions, after the Ming army on the opposite side who doesn't know whether to live or die moves forward for five hundred steps, you lead the headquarters to rush out, storm the left flank of the enemy and don't look back, as long as one person and a horse dare to turn around and flee, Lao Tzu will cut off your dog's head!" ”

"Slaves obey!" Wu Anfu hurriedly bowed, gritted his teeth and rode his horse to the front of the right flank of the array, and opened his voice to give the order to attack loudly.

Azig, who was full of voice, immediately issued an order to his younger brother Duoduo, although he looked at the Ming army slowly approaching with the beat of drums and whistles, and his calloused big hand subconsciously held the hilt of the sword at his waist, but he did not pull out the bright sword and raise it high as before.

If he faced the Ming army on the front line of Ning Jin or Xuanda, even if it was ten times more than his own troops, Azig would not hesitate to lead his troops to attack, killing like a tiger rushing into a flock.

In more than ten years of warfare, the Ming army did not dare to fight in the field even if there were more troops, all of them hid in the city like turtles to avoid the war, even if the Jin Tieqi burned and plundered outside the city, dragged thousands of Han people outside the city gate to wanton killing and provoking, or beheading and dismemberment or **** torture and killing, the Ming army in the turtle retreat city could only watch in horror, and never saw the Ming army dare to rush out of the city to fight bravely.

However, the actions of the Ming army in front of him completely subverted the knowledge of Azig and Duoduo, and from a distance, there was no resemblance to the ordinary Ming army, all black iron helmets, shiny chain mail was put on the outside of the leather wallet, and all the long-barreled muskets were raised diagonally, advancing neatly.

More than 20 light artillery pieces located between the two phalanxes dared to advance slowly, and this kind of array, which had never been seen before, made Azig and Duoduo, who were trying to fight a battle, panic and lose their ground.

Just as Azig was about to give the whole army an attack, the drums and sharp copper whistles on the opposite side suddenly stopped, and thousands of soldiers of the Ming army in the two phalanxes stopped moving forward, and the whole world seemed to fall silent in an instant. (To be continued.) )