The two teams looked at each other from a distance, on one side was a phalanx of officers and soldiers carefully huddled into a group, and on the other side was a scattered formation of rogue bandits. Judging from the pure momentum, the rogues were much more powerful, they were armed with all kinds of exaggerated huge weapons, their clothes were also arrogantly open, and their sun-tanned skin was sweating in the sun. They also had confident and calm smiles on their faces, as if the officers and soldiers in front of them were local chickens and dogs, which were not worth mentioning.

On the other hand, on the side of the officers and soldiers, the soldiers shrank their heads and showed a very frightened and solemn expression, many of the soldiers had horror on their faces, and some of them were still shaking their hands.

There is a good saying that the older the rivers and lakes, the less courage they have, and it is precisely because the officers and soldiers have participated in many battle formations and seen the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood that they will be more cautious and cautious when facing the enemy, fearing that they will become one of the corpses in the mountains of corpses. In front of them, the rogues are like newborn calves, and they do not know the horrors of war.

"Protect the wings!"

"Shieldman...... Harden me ......."

"Spear, straight...... Hey......"

The shouts of the bannermen began to sound in the battle array, and at this time they were lying in the shadows, constantly echoing, and interfering with each other. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were led by a small flag for every ten people, and a general flag for every five small flags. Although these bannermen are one level higher than ordinary soldiers, they are still soldiers and must also join the battle formation. Only those who are above the level of 100 households can be regarded as military generals, and they do not carry out the work of charging into battle, but are only responsible for command.

The first to get excited were the flag soldiers, who kept giving orders to their men who were close at hand, and since their orders were only to be given to ten or fifty people, they could just shout at the top of their throats without the use of a military band.

Amid the shouts of the flag soldiers, the military formation of the officers and soldiers began to move forward! Step slowly!

Zheng Yanfu on the other side laughed heroically: "Brothers, kill!" Kill all the officers and soldiers. ”

At the sound of an order, more than 400 rogues screamed together, and all kinds of strange-shaped weapons were raised high, and they rushed forward with their legs.

Wang Er was overjoyed: "The war has started, and I can finally see the war with my own eyes." Brother Zhu, you can see that the officers and soldiers are walking slowly and without momentum, and they are silent and breathless. Zheng Yanfu rushed fast and ruthlessly here, and he knew that this side was stronger without looking. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "The momentum of Zheng Yanfu and his group is very sufficient, but they are too good at fighting. The two armies were arrayed, separated by a mile, and at such a distance, how could the infantry charge? Defeat is inevitable! I don't believe that you are wearing armor and holding heavy weapons, and you run a mile to try, and after running, do you still have the strength to fight people? ”

"Silk!" When Wang Er heard this, he suddenly woke up.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "The method adopted by the officers and soldiers is correct, when the time comes, move forward at a very slow speed, the slower the better, pay attention to maintaining the formation and saving physical strength, get closer and closer, walk within 100 steps, and shoot arrows at the opponent's military formation first, in an attempt to hit the opponent's morale and cause confusion in the formation. Then they continued to walk forward, and when they reached within fifty paces, the Chinese army beat the drums, and this is when the soldiers began to charge. ”

Not long after Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, the front row of people in the Liukou had already rushed to a hundred steps in front of the officers and soldiers. Yang Hong didn't give an order at all, and some experienced archers in the back of the officers and soldiers took the initiative to pull the bow, and when Xinding, who had never been on the battlefield, saw that the veterans pulled the bow, they naturally pulled out the bows and arrows in their hands together, and there were about a hundred archers, who pulled out the bows and pointed diagonally to the sky......

The rogues are still rushing forward, the rogue in front has entered the distance of seventy steps, and the Chinese army has reached a distance of about one hundred steps, the experienced old archers took the lead in loosening the bowstring in their hands, a rain of arrows, brushing the ground and flying, and then Xinding also began to release arrows, "brushing brush" arrows like flying locusts, and the bows and arrows thrown out drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, and then fell down......

"Oops!"

"Oops!"

"Ahh

The screams resounded in the crowd of rogues, one after another, endlessly...... All of a sudden, I don't know how many people were hit by arrows, and blood splattered everywhere.

Wang Er covered his face, couldn't bear to watch, and muttered: "It's miserable, now Zheng Yanfu and his gang are only afraid of heavy casualties." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head again and said with a smile: "This is not necessarily, the power of the bow and arrow is really not very good, although it hurts to enter the flesh, but this thing is not fatal, as long as it does not hit the eye or something, it will not cause serious damage, at most open a small hole, bleed a little, and it will not affect the action." This kind of bow and arrow attack is mainly used to demoralize the enemy. ”

Wang Er raised his eyes and looked, and sure enough, the rogue who had just fallen to the ground with an arrow rolled over, and actually got up again, scolding and swearing in his mouth...... The power of bows and arrows in these years is indeed very low, and the officers and soldiers are poor, and the arrows they use are all light, and most of the bows they use are between seven buckets and one stone, and they can't shoot strong arrows at all.

"Don't be afraid of officers and soldiers!" Zheng Yanfu shouted: "Their arrows don't hurt at all. ”

"It doesn't hurt!"

"It doesn't hurt at all, rush!"

The rogues picked themselves up again, screaming and rushing wildly.

Zhu Yuan shook his head and said, "It's almost there...... Zheng Yanfu and his gang charged so loudly and indiscriminately, they were about to get tired. ”

Without him explaining, Wang Er actually saw that the rogues who had just rushed very arrogantly were no longer as majestic as they were just now, especially those guys with very exaggerated heavy weapons, who had run hundreds of paces and were already exhausted and out of breath. Moreover, when the rogues were charging, they did not maintain any formation, the front army and the rear army were extremely open, or they did not distinguish between the front army and the rear army at all, the one who ran fast was the front army, and the one who ran slowly was the rear army.

This kind of army, which is broken in two, naturally does not have any depth and heaviness, and can only see chaos.

Zhu Yuanzhang watched the two armies get closer and closer, his fingers flicked slightly, as if he was looking for a rhythm, just when Wang Er wanted to object to his movements, Zhu Yuanzhang flicked his fingers violently, and shouted softly: "Drumming...... Enter! ”

As soon as his words fell, a "dong" drum suddenly sounded among the officers and soldiers, and then, the drums like dense raindrops sounded rapidly, "Knock knock!" Knock knock! "It's like a drum, and it keeps ringing.

"Huh?" Wang Er was taken aback: "How do you know that the officers and soldiers are going to march with drums at this time?" Are you commanding this officer and soldier? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "I'm just judging by common sense, as long as this leader of the Thousand Households is not a fool, he should beat the drum at this time." ”

Wang Er pointed at himself and said depressedly: "I don't know, it seems that I am a fool." ”

"You're not stupid, it's just that you haven't learned how to lead a battle." Zhu Yuanzhang patted him lightly on the shoulder and said in a low voice: "Look at it well, the next thing is the key." ”

With the sound of drums, the formation of officers and soldiers, who had been cowering and moving slowly like turtles just now, suddenly changed. The soldiers in the front row strode forward sharply and charged forward. As soon as the front row moved, it naturally drove the back row, and the military formation began to tumble forward......

It is also interesting to say, as soon as the rogues run, they will immediately be in chaos, but the officers and soldiers will not be chaotic when they run forward, their steps are actually the same, even if there are a few random steps occasionally, they can be quickly adjusted, which makes the moving military formation will not be deformed, horizontal row or horizontal row, vertical column or vertical column, the front edge of the entire army is only some very slight, like wavy folds, but on the whole, it still remains rectangular.

"Huh? How is this done? Wang Er was puzzled.

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the direction of the military band and said in a low voice: "There is a mystery in the drum, this drum is not a nonsense, but a trained drum, the soldiers usually practice in the queue, they have to supplement this drum to change the formation, over time, even if the stupid people can't remember the military order, their body can remember the drum and adjust their pace according to the rhythm of the drum." ”

"And this kind of learning?" Wang Er's sweat soaked down his forehead: "I have a lot of knowledge about fighting, I ...... I thought that fighting a war was better than anyone's strength and martial arts. ”

After just a few dozen paces of charging, the front rows of the two armies finally collided together......

The rogues wielded Xuanhua axes, giant hammers, maces, halberds, and hooks...... All kinds of strange weapons move forward together, and they look quite extraordinary. However, the officers and soldiers in the front row did not have so many tricks, and the officers and soldiers in the front row raised their leather shields, wooden shields and other objects upward, touching their whole people behind the shields, and the soldiers in the back row stretched out their spears from the middle of the shield array......

The officers and soldiers looked very afraid of death, very unpresentable, or like a group of turtles with shrunken heads. The rogues opened and closed wide, as if the gods had descended to earth, and these "gods" who did not pay attention to protecting themselves and only knew how to act brutally and recklessly immediately paid the price for their rash charge.

The densely packed spear tips made the ranks of officers and soldiers look like a porcupine covered with thorns, while the rogues who took the initiative to pounce on the porcupine looked like stupid wild boars.

"Poof! Poof! The sound of spears entering flesh sounded, and blood rushed to the ground in the formation of the two armies.

"Ahh

"Their spears are so long, I can't cut them ......"

"No, although our weapons look powerful, they are not as simple and easy to use as other people's spear arrays......"

Those who can still scream are already considered lucky, and the rogues who are not lucky enough have been stuck in the spear forest, dying so much that they can no longer die, and the rogues who rushed to the front row lost their lives in an instant, their bodies hung weakly on the tip of the spear, and their frightened eyes widened.

Until they died, they didn't understand how the brave heroes of the green forest were stabbed to death by a group of turtle-like officers and soldiers?