The Dengzhou phalanx slowly moved forward, with the company commander and the company flag walking on the right flank of each phalanx, and the deputy company commander on the left flank, who walked back and forth, reminding the squad leader and flag captain in the queue from time to time to pay attention to a certain formation.

The flanks were pulled apart, and the infantry formation of Jiannu was also stretched very long, and the Dengzhou phalanx needed to be defended with a greater width, from two fronts and two rear to four side-by-side phalanxes, and the Houjin infantry was about 1,300 people, six or seven rows in front and rear, and the front and rear were slightly longer than Dengzhou Town, and they were firmly approaching in the sound of big drums.

The spear array in the middle of the Dengzhou phalanx was covered with gently shaking spears, and the Dengzhou soldiers put the spears on the right side, holding the spears at the bottom with their right hands and the body of the spears with their left hands.

When the horse thousand headquarters marched, there were special horses and spears to carry the carrying equipment, which preserved the soldiers' bodies, and the human body was abundant at this time.

"The spear on the opposite side is not shorter than ours, keep a slow pace when receiving the enemy, don't think about rushing to kill, those who want to live can hear clearly, the spear is quite, don't think about rushing up and killing, then you are likely to hit their spearhead head, when you meet the enemy, you should be slower, the drum beats once before taking a step, remember to side the flat gun, the gun head is in a line."

In the neat drum beat and the sound of footsteps, Zhong Laosi rode a horse and ran in front of and behind his two phalanxes, and he was accustomed to reminding the officers and soldiers in a loud voice that he had just borrowed the telescope of the artillery group to observe, and deduced from the height of the spear and the Houjin soldiers that the spear was very close to his own, and Lai Jiannu also learned the lesson of Shenmi Island.

Zhong Laosi's second division was placed on the side of the cavalry, and the first division was on the side of the river, the iron armor of the army was shining, as Chen Xin's fist troops, all the spearmen were issued with iron armor, and most of the musketeers wore chain mail, which was the best equipped infantry in Dengzhou Town.

Zhong Laosi crossed the front row, ran sideways in front of the spear formation to the musketeers on the left, and shouted: "Jiannu has no way to retreat, this time I am here to fight hard, this is Liaodong, you have no way to retreat, if you want to live, remember the pawn, when the spear engaged, the phalanx musketeers took daggers and waist knives, and drilled over to cut off their feet." The detachment fired only one salvo, and then prepared fire to protect the flanks and counterattack the broken Jiannu at any time......"

Brother Guan in the first row of spears looked over the head of the detachment in the front row, and glanced at Zhong Laosi, who was running on horseback, he knew that this time it was not the Dengzhou rebels, but the strongest Jiannu, Brother Guan moved his gaze to the front, and observed the Houjin army from the crack in the head of the detachment, opposite a black human wall, with dense guns on his head, like a long wall composed of blades, and there were some archers in front of them as usual.

Brother Guan glanced at both sides with the corner of his eye, and he was also a continuous comrade-in-arms, and his heart was suddenly relieved. This is what Zhong Laosi told them, when he felt that there were many enemies and were afraid, there were actually more people on his side.

After listening to Zhong Laosi's howl, Brother Guan raised his right hand slightly, and was sheathed by the dagger on the belt, and a little sense of security surged in his heart.

The brisk brass flute blew, and Brother Guan's heart relaxed for a while, and he felt that this flute was very good for the first time. It is said that it was designed by Lord Chen, and it is called the Infantry March.

The two sides quickly approached, and when they reached almost one mile, another military horn sounded under the banner of the Dengzhou infantry Qian, and the Ming infantry shouted "tiger" in unison, and stopped at a moment's notice, and the flag captain gave an order, and Brother Guan touched the spear to the ground and leaned on his shoulder.

They only walked a short hundred steps, and they made more of a head-on posture to improve the morale of the soldiers, while the Houjin soldiers on the opposite side walked very fast, because they did not have much time to grind.

Two divisions of infantry each with a four-pounder gun came to both sides of the formation, the solid ammunition has been loaded, Dolgon fortunately, each of the two divisions has a four-pounder gun truck damaged, was left behind, the Guards Battalion and the fourth battalion each two eight-pounder guns did not arrive, Zhu Guobin couldn't help but feel a little helpless in his heart, he really wanted to use four eight-pounder guns to warmly welcome Dolgon, but the surprise attack is like this, taking care of the speed can not be foolproof, if you wait until the artillery arrives, the fighter is not there.

Zhu Guobin welcomed Dolgon's infantry attack, after all, Dengzhou also started with infantry, and the current 700 cavalry was only expanded after the Battle of Jinzhou. In the face of Houjin's flexible guerrilla tactics, Zhu Guobin was a little bottomless in his heart, these Houjin soldiers were very cunning, and after learning a lesson in the Battle of Jinzhou, they were unwilling to charge with the Dengzhou cavalry.

As the two infantry formations approached, the forward cavalry of the Houjin soldiers also advanced to cover the flanks, but there were still two groups of horsemen left behind on the flanks, and once the Wenden cavalry launched an attack, the horsemen left behind could entangle them from both sides. It is possible that they were dragged from the flank and fell into a melee, so the Dengzhou cavalry only moved on their own front. As long as the infantry wins, they can expel the Dengzhou cavalry to the west with the cooperation of the infantry, so as to break through and escape, and give the Dengzhou cavalry a heavy blow.

Zhu Guobin frowned at Houjin's transfer, it was the first time he commanded so many cavalry, and his actual combat experience was much worse than that of Houjin's generals, but Wendeng's blue team and confrontation training system can reduce this difference, similar to this kind of containment tactics have also appeared in confrontation, he came up with several methods, but each has advantages and disadvantages.

He quickly made up his mind, rode his horse and ran to Tan Shen's side, pointed to a group of cavalry on the west flank of the infantry covering Jiannu, and said loudly to Tan Shen: "The cavalry will take turns to attack, each group will have two rounds, and the remaining one game will be handed over to me as a reserve." This cavalry has to cover the flanks of the infantry armor, they can't hide far, and when the enemy gets close to two hundred paces, they have only a short time to dodge, and you immediately start to charge. ”

Tan Shen asked, "What if they really dodge?" ”

"Dodge you, you will attack the flanks of the Jiannu infantry formation, let the saber cavalry use their short guns, or go straight into the infantry formation and disturb their morale. If the Jiannu cavalry is hedged, you will rush all the way to the opposite hill, and after the impact, you will break away from the west, and even if you encounter a volley, you will not be able to counterattack and engage the battle, no matter how many casualties you have, just flee back; The other two groups were responsible for responding, and as long as the other Houjin rear cavalry tried to entangle, the group in the right position flanked those Jiannu. After the first group returned, the new group attacked the Jiannu flank position. ”

Tan Shen agreed, he was also very anxious by Hou Jin's wandering, the cavalry under his command was not well trained, and the two hundred step charge could only be regarded as just qualified, and the melee was by no means the opponent of Jiannu.

Tan Shen personally ran along the front line, and gave orders to the hundred generals of each bureau, and the cavalry of the three leftmost bureaus crossed the line, the first group was led by Tan Shen himself, and the second group was led by the deputy battalion officer of the cavalry battalion.

Zhu Guobin quickly rode his horse back to the westernmost side of the infantry, and when he arrived at Zhong Laosi, who was running on horseback, he shouted to Zhong Laosi: "Transfer a detachment for me." ”

Zhong Laosi opened his mouth and said: "The infantry formation is flattened, the detachment is the reserve, I have no extra ......."

"Execute!"

"Old ...... Be. Zhong Laosi was suppressed several times, and he had always been in awe of Zhu Guobin, so he accepted the order and handed over the fifty bayonet flintlock pikemen of the fourth company to Zhu Guobin.

Zhu Guobin personally led these people to the cavalry formation, divided them into two groups and placed them between the cavalry, as the long-range firepower output of the cavalry, used to cover the reorganization of the cavalry, this tactic was also summarized by Zhong Laosi, but Zhong Laosi is now unwilling to hand over people. According to Zhu Guobin's idea, it would be better to have more detachments, but now the pressure on the infantry is also very great, and he can only mobilize one detachment.

Zhu Guobin took the last cavalry bureau, staying at the place where the cavalry and infantry were handed over, Zhu Guobin calmed the Jiannu front, the infantry was about 1,400, and there were some white-armored soldiers behind the infantry, seven or eight hundred cavalry, the total number was slightly superior, and the main force of Dolgon was here.

After the infantry formation by the river was opened, dozens of special service teams went to the rear of the infantry to serve as reserves, and half of the auxiliary soldiers of the mounted infantry also temporarily served as a reserve, and the other half of the auxiliary soldiers were in charge of horses on the east bank of the Fuzhou River.

Zhu Guobin looked to the east and south, as long as the two reinforcements arrived, Dolgon would be doomed.

At this moment, two cannon shots were heard from the infantry formation, and the battle began......

When the Jiannu infantry entered a mile, two four-pounder cannons roared at the same time, and two iron bullets rushed out of the muzzle and smashed into the Jiannu Front with a faint white trail, and the two iron bullets smashed dozens of steps in front of the Jiannu Formation, splashing a large cloud of debris and mud and grass, and an iron ball jumped forward and stopped twenty steps away from the Jiannu Front.

The two artillery groups quickly completed the loading of the whole ammunition, maintained the height of the muzzle, and waited for the Jiannu front to approach the hit point just now, and the two guns ignited at the same time, this time an iron bullet hit the Jiannu queue, and the Guan elder brother was able to reach a few Houjin soldiers were overturned, and the cannonballs brought up a mess of flying blades and stumps.

A small gap appeared in the rear front, and soon the infantry armor behind it was filled, and the front line still moved forward firmly.

The commanders of the two artillery groups ordered loudly, and several gunners cooperated skillfully, while adjusting the angle of fire while continuing to shoot, maintaining a rate of one round per minute, and the Houjin queue was hit from time to time, but the power of the three-pound solid bullet was not enough to shake their determination, and every time there was a break in the battle line, there were people behind to come up to make up for it.

"I'm really desperate." Brother Guan muttered in his heart, his heart began to beat faster, he had already written a suicide note in Jinzhou, if he died in battle, he decided to use the dividends of the pension to raise an orphan, although he had a younger brother, but he preferred to have an heir of his own, even if it was in name.

A faint smell of gunpowder smoke permeated the front line, and Brother Guan hoped that the more such guns there were, the better, and it was best to put a whole row of dozens of guns and wipe out the opposite side with a terrifying scattergun salvo.

The rate of fire of the two four-pounder guns was gradually increasing, and probably the gun commander also understood that Jiannu would approach quickly, and there was not much time for them to bombard. The closer the distance, the higher the hit rate, the fifth round of shelling hit both shots, the screams more than 200 steps away can still be faintly heard, the gap was quickly filled in again, and the corpses on the ground were quickly blocked by the human wall.

Jiannu's indomitable momentum shocked the soldiers in the front row, and the voice of Zhao Xuan, the instructor of the Thousand Headquarters, sounded at the right time, "The soldiers of the fourth battalion, Dengzhou Town is the strongest military town in the world, the fourth battalion is the strongest battalion in Dengzhou Town, we, the Dragoon Thousand Headquarters, are the strongest thousand headquarters of the fourth battalion, no one in the world is your opponent, no one is more determined than you......"

In Zhao Xuan's familiar shout, Brother Guan gave up the illusion in his heart, clenched the spear in his hand, closed his eyes and muttered: "Jade Emperor, Grandpa Chenghuang, Taishan Old Mother bless ......"

While Brother Guan was praying amid the sound of artillery, the first group of cavalry on the right began to jog.

(To be continued)