"It's pretty much like it." Zhao Xuan looked at the phalanx approaching in the distance in surprise, the middle was a spear, the two wings were musketeers, the main formation was six lines, and there were two rows of detachments in front, the number of people was about the same as the phalanx company in Dengzhou, about two hundred and fifty people, judging from the color of the flag, it was mainly inlaid with yellow, blue and blue flags.

The position of Dengzhou Town is high, and you can clearly see the formation of these Wuzhen Chaoha, the six phalanxes on the road are spaced before and after, one after another along the road, and there are armored soldiers supervising the battle behind each phalanx. They stopped three hundred paces away and did not come close. The town of Dengzhou had only one four-pounder gun, and there was no long-range strike in order to save ammunition.

Zhu Feng was beside Zhao Xuan, and he whispered to Zhao Xuan: "My lord, they only have a single formation of musketeers of one hundred and fifty people, we have three hundred muskets, and three artillery, this kind of phalanx defense is solid, but it moves slowly when attacking, our phalanx company training is very harsh, and it still looks clumsy during the offensive exercise. ”

Zhao Xuan nodded and said, "No wonder I waited for a long time to come, and some armor soldiers entered the forest, do you want to come from the side?" ”

"My lord Mingjian, those armor soldiers must be assembled after entering our formation, and then attack in two directions, but the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and it will take time for them to reach the predetermined position, as long as this wave is repulsed, it will take even longer for Jiannu to organize the next attack, and I am afraid that Lord Zhong will arrive."

Zhao Xuan said worriedly: "Even after Jiannu enters the battle, the whistle horses we sent to check the mouth of the Caohe River will not come back, and I don't know how Shen Zhixiang's side is fighting, Zhong Laosi should not be messed up by them." ”

Zhu Feng said confidently: "Don't worry, Master Trainer, Master Zhong has experienced a hundred battles, and many of his battle examples have been included in the martial arts course, so there will naturally be a way." ”……

A quarter of an hour later, the rear of Dengzhou Town sounded the sound of the conch horn, and a succession of armor soldiers came out of the forest and began to assemble on the road, many people sat on the ground as soon as they came out of the woods.

Sporadic light arrows shot from the woods on both wings, landing aimlessly on the Dengzhou position, occasionally hitting the soldier's helmet with a crisp sound. The Dengzhou soldiers all lowered their heads slightly, using the brim of their bright helmets to defend against the light arrows thrown at them, and they were all wearing stripped Jiannu armor, which looked a little messy, but the defense power did improve, and those light arrows could only play a role in disturbing.

Some well-equipped soldiers were still digging trenches, and more than 200 corpses of Jiannu were piled up on the breastwork, and the earthen was planted in the front and back to make the breastwork stronger. Fifty musketeers were killed and wounded, more than a dozen lightly wounded remained on the line, seriously wounded soldiers were placed in the middle, and their remaining muskets were loaded and placed on the breastwork as reserve fire.

Zhao Xuan walked on the front line, constantly cheering up the soldiers, and after encountering the psychological trough after the first wave of casualties, the morale of the soldiers was slowly recovering, and after the first battle, these soldiers would become staunch veterans.

Zhu Feng was next to the four-pounder gun, discussing with the gun commander how to distribute firepower, this four-pounder gun is the strongest firepower output weapon here, and it moves quickly, Zhu Feng hopes that it can move quickly in the front and rear formations, rather than fixed in the front formation, so after consulting with the gun commander, he found a broken mandarin duck formation group, Zhu Feng asked them to assist the artillery in moving, and cover to prevent Houjin's skirmishers from threatening these gunners.

After arranging the movement line of the four-pounder cannon, Zhu Feng went to the rear formation to face the Zhenyi armor soldiers, several sentry cavalry were twenty steps away from the line, using the flintlock machine to lay 10,000 bullet mine guns, this time it was set up in the way of pulling hair, using a few tripping horses to connect them to control the flint engine, this road was overgrown with wild grass, and the tripping horses were flooded by the wild grass after being placed, and they were detonated by pulling the hair, which could be detonated when the Houjin soldiers were most dense, and it was better to kill and injure the enemy than the way of trampling.

They didn't have much spare gunpowder with their troops, so only six of them were used in this round, which were placed on the left and right center flanks of the front and rear formations. Zhu Feng also learned how to lay mine artillery, and after helping the sentry cavalry, he returned to the center of the position again, stood on a platform with corpses piled up into an observation platform, and began to check the situation of the Houjin army.

Houjin's offensive has been prepared for more than half an hour, and more and more armor soldiers have appeared behind the formation, the number has exceeded five hundred, there should still be some people in the jungle on both wings, plus the Han soldiers in front, the total number is about two thousand people, the biggest threat is still those Zhenyi armor soldiers, once they rush into the front, the musketeers will lose their advantage, and Dengzhou's melee soldiers are only one hundred, and they lost twenty in the last round, so Zhu Feng is still the most concerned about the rear formation......

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Feng transferred fifty musketeers from the front as a reserve, and the company commander of the flintlock company personally commanded the company commander of the flintlock company, stationed in the middle position to retain firepower, and could support the rear at any time, so that there were only one hundred and fifty people left in the front formation, more than one hundred and eighty flintlock guns, and the firepower was reduced by three percent.

The Houjin army in the rear sent out three consecutive conch horn sounds, and the Wuzhen Chaoha in the front replied three times, and then the drums sounded in front and back, and the Han army's spear jungle on the official road in front began to shake, and the formation walked towards the Dengzhou position......

The first phalanx was two hundred paces, the road was not wide, most of the front of the phalanx was on both sides of the road, the road was rugged, and it was constantly divided by those bushes, and the speed of travel was much lower than normal.

At two hundred paces, the phalanx stopped the whole team once, and then continued to advance, during which it was hit twice by the live ammunition of the four-pounder cannon, and the three-pound bullet broke through the queue of the six elements, and Wuzhen Chaoha lost nearly twenty people, and there was chaos in the queue.

The front and rear armor soldiers desperately pressed the bullets, the first formation in the same place after a while of chaos, barely able to keep forward, this time after the Jin soldiers also learned to behave, they knew that the Dengzhou soldiers only had a small cannon, and they could not shoot live ammunition when they shot shots, so there were only two formations in the first wave, waiting for the Dengzhou artillery to be replaced with scattered bullets, and the phalanx behind continued to advance, no longer as the last time, and was not hit by Dengzhou artillery to heavy losses.

After the first formation of the Han soldiers entered the hundred paces, the Dengzhou four-pounder cannon could only be replaced with scattered bullets, and the tail was raised, and the rear phalanx only accelerated at this time, and the whole process was not hit by the Dengzhou artillery.

The detachment in front of the Han army accelerated under the pressure of the armor soldiers, and soon entered seventy paces, and the flintlock pistols of the Dengzhou soldiers were placed on the breastwork, and the soldiers only showed a bright helmet with fluttering red tassels.

Zhenyi in the rear is the same as the first round of attack, this time the queue is not strict, but the attack is very firm, Dengzhou Town is at a high elevation, and the position of the position cuts off the sight of the two Houjin soldiers in front and behind, so that the Houjin generals can only use the drum and horn to communicate, the amount of information that the drum can transmit is very limited, and it can only coordinate the time to start the departure.

When it was time to coordinate the attack, the Houjin soldiers showed the shortcomings of the non-professional army, and there was a big gap in the progress of the Houjin soldiers on the two roads. The assembly place of the Zhenyi armor soldiers in the rear formation was temporarily selected, and the departure distance before and after was not the same, the Han soldiers in the front had advanced seventy steps, but the armor soldiers in the back were still two hundred steps away, Zhu Feng calmly observed on the corpse platform in the middle, and immediately re-put the reserve team into the front after discovering the difference in progress.

The Han army's array was getting closer and closer to the accompaniment of the drums and drums, and the faces of the ragged Han soldiers were full of horror, they had no combat experience, and they were not psychologically prepared to be the main force on the battlefield, especially behind the opposite breastwork was the world-famous Dengzhou soldiers.

Zhao Xuan and the second son of the guard also stood behind the chest wall with a flintlock pistol, and the drum beat on the opposite side sounded sharply, Wu Zhenchaoha stopped at forty steps, and the second son said to Zhao Xuan easily: "My lord, Jiannu can't learn it, they don't know how to fight." ”

Zhao Xuan asked hesitantly, "How should they fight?" ”

"They should keep walking, the front battle is dead, the back battle can be closer, they stand like this and fight us, we have a breastwork, they can't beat it no matter how much they come."

Zhao Xuan sighed, he felt that he really should learn more tactics, even the guards knew something, he couldn't say it, no wonder Zhong Laosi always wanted to laugh at himself.

There was a command in front, the Houjin soldier detachment just raised the gun, Zhu Feng shouted, the quiet Dengzhou front was a row of guns and four-pounder guns roared, the neat Houjin soldier queue was shattered, the front row of detachments fell to the ground one after another, revealing those overwhelmed spearmen behind, the whole queue was in chaos, the panicked Han soldier musketeers did not have time to wait for the officer's order, the messy gunfire rang out, and the white smoke in front of the eyes was filled, but there were almost no casualties to the Dengzhou soldiers behind the chest wall.

Immediately after the arrival of the second round of guns, there were only more than ten people left in the more than 50 detachments, and many spearmen in the phalanx in the back row were also hit.

The armored soldiers of the superintendent slashed and killed the Han soldiers who were screaming and running around, forcing them to storm the Dengzhou position, the broken phalanx advanced chaotically, and after walking to the position of thirty steps, the third platoon of guns arrived, and at the same time there was the oblique fire of the tiger squat cannon, and the dense periphery of the phalanx fell down with a brush, Wuzhen Chaoha couldn't bear it anymore, and fled to the back like crazy, and the second group of Han soldiers who came from the rear put their spears in Zhenyi's superintendent array.

The first group of rebels who retreated like flies were all stabbed to death in front of the spear array, and the remaining desperate Han soldiers screamed in panic and fled to both wings.

After the rout in front fled to both sides, the second formation appeared in front of Dengzhou Town, and the Zhenyi armor soldiers in front and behind roared angrily, driving the second formation to continue to charge, their muskets were still firing indiscriminately.

The four-pounder cannon fired another scattered bullet, and the second burst was chaotic, Zhu Feng saw that the Jiannu in the rear was almost to the sprint distance, and shouted: "The first company stops shooting!" The four-pounder cannon goes to the rear! ”

Several gunners immediately dragged the four-pounder cannon and ran back along the predetermined route, the black Zhenyi armor soldiers in the rear had already rushed in like a tide, and the second Han army phalanx in front also entered forty paces, and the figures of archers appeared on the jungle border on both wings, firing arrows at the Dengzhou soldiers in a scattered formation.

The Houjin soldiers in the rear shouted for a while, shouting at the same time before and after, the Dengzhou front was still quiet, Zhu Feng stared at the Han army in front of him, they slowly walked thirty steps, and Zhu Feng slowly raised his hand. (To be continued.) )