More than 100,000 people, that's really dense and endless. In comparison, the officers and soldiers are less than 15,000, which does not seem to be proportional.

When the soldiers and civilians at the head of Chongzhou City saw it, they were all shocked.

"Where did this army come from? It looks so different. Some people looked at the military uniform of the 01 Infantry Division in surprise, which was not the mandarin duck robe worn by the ordinary Ming army.

"It seems that I came to Jingying from Beijing, I heard that as a soldier in Beijing, the military salary is the highest, and there are 3 silver dollars per month!" Some people say that Shandong is also close to Beizhili, especially near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the transmission of news is also more convenient. There are also many rumors about the change in Jingying.

Under the city, the 01st Infantry Division calmly set up a formation. On the side of the Wenxiang Sect, they are trying their best to concentrate their forces, but the command of the Wenxiang Sect is very slow, and the Beijing camp has already set up a formation, and the Wenxiang Sect has only concentrated less than 100,000 troops.

Tom tom tomm~!

The earth-shattering war drums sounded suddenly, and the flags of the formations of the 01 Infantry Division flew up, and in the blood-boiling drumbeat, the formations of the infantry division began to advance slowly, brazenly pressing towards the Wenxiang Sect rebels.

The soldiers and civilians in Chongzhou City couldn't help but be shocked when they saw it, this was simply crazy. Not to mention being outnumbered, but also taking the initiative to attack, is this not enough to die fast?

The two flanks of the 01st Infantry Division were covered by the Tengxiang Cavalry Division, which also slowly advanced with the pace of the 01st Infantry Division.

The Wenxiang Sect did not sit still, but divided a large number of troops from both sides and outflanked the two wings of the Beijing camp. It seems to be like a bloody mouth, wanting to swallow the 01 Infantry Division and the Tengxiang Cavalry Division in one bite. As long as they are completely surrounded, they are likely to be drowned in the vast sea of the Smelling Fragrance Sect's rebellious army.

"Speed up." Zhou Chao is at an altitude with a sword. Loud roar.

The situation they are facing at this time. Only before being completely surrounded. Defeat the thief army head-on with lightning speed, otherwise the two wings and rear will be completely surrounded by the Wenxiang Sect thief army, and will be directly dragged into the 'endless' melee wear and tear quagmire, which will be unbearable.

Only advance, not retreat!

All the soldiers accelerated forward, closer and closer, closer and closer. Finally, three hundred meters away from the thief army. The drumming stopped.

All are established.

"Artillery preparation."

I saw that one infantry cannon was pushed out, which was two hundred three-pound cannons, and three hundred one-pound cannons. These infantry guns were so light that they were directly equipped for infantry use.

An artilleryman, quickly coordinated operation, loading and charging.

"Ready...... Put! ”

With the order, all the torches were pressed down and ignited.

Streaming down...... The fuse burned rapidly, flickering wildly with sparks, followed by a thunderous roar, and in an instant, a hundred cannons rang out in unison. One after another, the cannonballs turned into balls of light and shot out from the muzzles of the cannons, directly breaking through the air.

Shout~~!

Hundreds of shells with an unstoppable force. smashed directly into the dense formation of the Smelling Fragrance Sect thief army. One piece was stoned to death on the spot, and all the thieves along the way broke bones and tendons, and blood, brains, intestines, stumps and broken arms were splashed everywhere.

The thief army was in chaos on the spot, they were so densely arranged, almost like ant colonies, they couldn't even move their feet. The artillery of the Ming army does not need to be aimed at all, as long as it is roughly in the right direction, it can definitely shoot a grand slam.

After those shells destroyed the first thief army, they still had no loss. The scorching shells bounced wildly on the ground, killing the second, third, and even seven or eight in succession. However, the power of a pound cannon is much smaller, usually killing three or five people will be exhausted, and the potential energy of a three-pound cannon is much stronger, but it cannot easily kill more than a dozen people like large-caliber artillery.

If there had been large-caliber artillery at this time, the scene would have been even more spectacular. Or rather, more tragic.

500 shells were smashed, and the thieves were killed or wounded on the spot by at least more than 2,000 people. Although the artillery of later generations is powerful, the enemy will not be stupid BB in a dense formation for you to fight, but adopt skirmisher tactics, and at the same time there are various ground bunkers for protection. For example, in World War II, tens of thousands of bullets could kill one person, a dozen shells could kill one or two, and sometimes even an enemy could not be killed.

Huge damage, or secondary. The most terrifying consequence was that after a round of shelling, the thieves exploded with a bang. A large number of thieves cried for their fathers and mothers, scrambling to dodge the shells. The consequences are self-evident, and the formation, which originally looked a little like it, became a mess on the spot. From a bird's-eye view from above, the entire army of thieves is like a wave, rolling to this side and that way.

In a dense formation, there is not much room for movement at all, people can only push and crowd. The scene of the shelling was so tragic that the peasants, who were so frightened that they peed their pants, cried for their fathers and mothers, desperately squeezed in one direction, and the direction of the squeezing had to follow to the other side, and the result was like dominoes, producing a terrifying chain reaction. It also looks like rolling waves.

But the direction of dodge chosen by each person was different, so that the entire military formation was chaotic on the spot, like boiling hot porridge, tumbling and boiling. The thief army on the outer edge can only scatter frantically in order to avoid crowding. So much so that after a while, the originally dense formation of the thief army became much looser after a while, and many spaces of different sizes appeared inside, creating sufficient conditions for the cavalry to charge.

Just thirty seconds later, a second round of shells whizzed.

The scattered thieves were less lethal this time, but the dodge of multiple shells was even more violent. After the first round of shelling, the thieves realized the power of these shells one by one, and they became even more brainless in dodging. So much so that the space has become larger, and the military formation is almost completely chaotic.

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and I looked up. The thieves found the left flank cavalry in the Ming army, and they had begun to slowly accelerate and rush towards them.

The cavalry struck.

Accelerate, accelerate.

Flying cavalry wall, at a distance of less than three hundred meters from the thief army. Then he launched an all-out charge. In the astonishing speed of the charge. The Tengxiang Cavalry Division still maintained a perfect formation.

The degree of discipline and training of the Tengchamp Cavalry Division. It has reached an alarming point.

The thief army wanted to close the formation, but unfortunately their soldiers were all peasants who were not uniformly educated, and they were already panicked under the shelling of artillery, how could they restrain it? So they could only watch as the Tengxiang Cavalry Division crashed directly into their military formation. In the military formation of the Smelling Fragrance Sect thief army, those infantry who saw the cavalry rushing towards dodged left and right.

Without much effort, I rushed in, and it was unbelievably easy. Loose space in the formation of the thieves. It also provided enough room for maneuver for the Tengxiang Cavalry Division. Or rather, it gave the thief soldiers room to dodge a path. So much so that the Tengxiang Cavalry Division only dispatched half of its troops, only 1,500 cavalry, and was invincible and unstoppable among the thieves of 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Strictly speaking, there was no decent resistance.

Most of the thieves saw the cavalry coming, and they dodged left and right, but they didn't have time to dodge, or those who tried to resist were directly crushed by 1,500 cavalry on the spot. And the resistance that the Smelling Fragrance Sect tried to stop was quickly dispersed by its own rebels. Unable to do anything, he can only join the ranks of evasion.

For those thieves who dodge to the side. The Tengxiang Cavalry Division did not care. The entire cavalry brigade was like a sharp awl, directly chiseling through the frontal formation of the thief army. Kill from the front to the back, cutting a bloody path along the way. In less than three minutes, the thief army had already been killed.

After killing the thief army, the cavalry brigade quickly formed a team, and then killed the horse pistol again, and once again fiercely cut into the formation of the thief army. There was another wave of rolling chaos, and under the dodge of the thief soldiers, they were soon killed by the cavalry brigade and killed again.

The whole team, turn back, and fight again. The Smelling Fragrance Sect thief army's formation was completely chaotic under the repeated charges, making the charge of the cavalry brigade almost incomprehensible. One by one, the thief infantry, in front of these cavalry, only the part of the slaughter remained.

Realistic war, after all, is not a stand-alone game in later generations, as long as A passes, each unit can be consumed completely without brains. Although the strength of the Wenxiang Sect thief army is large, it is useless, everyone is thoughtful, they all have survival, when they are not fighting, or when they are coerced by the situation, the number of people has become a fatal factor.

But the thief army on the front is still struggling to support, because on the other side, the thief army has outflanked the left and right flanks of the Ming army. The thieves on both sides numbered more than 40,000.

Zhou Chaohai immediately made contingency measures and reached an agreement with Li Wei on a combat plan. Zhou Chaohai immediately arranged all the 200 three-pound cannons on the right flank, and after launching a round of artillery bombardment on the rushing thief army, he successfully disrupted the formation of the thief army, and then Li Wei personally led the cavalry brigade that had not yet been put into battle to charge the thief army on the right flank.

At the same time, the infantry division quickly set up a defensive formation, aimed at the thieves on the left flank, and all the 300 one-pound guns were replaced with shotguns, aiming at the rushing thieves for a burst of bombardment.

At three hundred meters, the lethality of these shotguns is even more terrifying. After the thieves on the left flank were bombarded in one round, they almost fell in pieces. Every cannon turned into a lethal weapon.

The thieves are all infantry and are slow to move. At a distance of three hundred meters, it is impossible to launch a direct charge. When he rushed over, he was already prostrating. So much so that the left-wing bandits, when they got close to a hundred meters away, had already suffered three rounds of shelling. And at this distance, the musketeers of the 01 Infantry Division also began to shoot wildly.

The equipment of the Smelling Xiang Sect thief army is too bad, and they are shot casually from a distance of 100 meters.

"Ready, put!"

"Ready, put!"

Under the rows of guns, they fell to the ground one by one, and the scene was really terrifying. If the people on the side fall one after another, maybe the deterrent effect is not so strong. But when I suddenly saw a group of people falling on the side, the shock was incomparably greater. Even the regular army is often defeated by the blows of the platoon guns, let alone this group of peasants who carry themselves out to the battlefield. Barely driven by the backbone of the Wenxiang Sect to fifty meters away from the left flank of the Ming army, it finally couldn't hold on, and a rout quickly occurred, and the thief army in front scattered and fled, scattering the behind.

The situation on the right flank was even worse, after being bombarded by a round of shelling, Levi led the cavalry to rush casually, and once again rushed through, unable to continue the advance at all. The more they advanced, the looser the formation became, and the cavalry led by Levi could divide more small units to charge and kill, without fear of being eaten by the thief army after dividing into small units.

The situation on the front of the battlefield was still relatively stalemate, because the frontal thief army did not advance, and the cavalry brigade that attacked the thief army formation did not dare to divide small units to disperse the attack, so that it killed seven in and seven out back and forth, and the main frontal force of the thief army became difficult to maintain, showing signs of rout. (To be continued......)

PS: The first update has arrived! I'm going to go out today and strive for three watches.