However, the light cavalry of the Zhao family army did not cooperate very much, although these light cavalry also got as close as possible to the official army array, but they ignored the provocation of the official army light cavalry, and only began to fight back when they were chased tightly, some people even kept running with their heads bored, the distance between the two armies was one thousand or hundreds of steps, and it was easy to run back to the team at this interval, and it was impossible to catch up.

The cavalry sergeants from Mongolia often take advantage of a lot, their riding and archery are quite successful, the two sides are close to within twenty steps, everyone on the bumpy horseback to open the bow and aim and fire, the cavalry of the Zhao family army born in Mongolia has no stage fright, and even has a lot of tricks to play, while the cavalry of the other Zhao family army can only cooperate with each other, or rely on the protection of the team.

Even so, the light cavalry of the Zhao family army did not have the upper hand on the whole, and the advantage of the cavalry of the official army seemed quite obvious, which made the officers and soldiers cheer continuously, the morale was high, and the generals who led the team kept rewarding and rewarding.

"There are cannons on the city walls, but they have not yet been seen in the ranks of the officers and soldiers."

"There are more than a dozen artillery pieces being pushed to the front of the formation, and the artillery position is assumed on the east side of the enemy array, and I don't know when the ammunition will be stated."

The light cavalry of the Zhao family army kept coming forward to go around, just to find out these news, the proportion of firearms and equipment of the Ming Dynasty officials is very high, and casting cannons is the tradition of the officials and soldiers in these years, but these cannons are more used to defend the city, and the field battle is less, but today's battle is a matter of importance, and the officers and soldiers should also use their weapons as much as possible.

"According to the information of the internal guard, there are a total of twenty-three artillery pieces, and it seems that the location has been clarified." After the light cavalry returned, Zhao Jin showed a smile on his face, and in the right rear of the formation of each regiment, a lookout platform was built with a bamboo and wood frame, Zhao Jin was standing on the platform and observing the enemy formation with a clairvoyant mirror, and below was the horseback guard who gave orders.

"Keep an eye on the enemy's artillery and report back at any time!" Zhao Jin gave the order, and the cavalry below roared away.

"Order the artillery regiment Meng Zhiqi, once the battle starts, stop immediately after knocking out the enemy's gun position, and not delay the march of the army." Zhao Jin issued one order after another.

The sound of war drums in the direction of the county gradually became rhythmic, Zhao Jin also came down from the lookout, and said in a deep voice: "The enemy army is divided into three roads, in fact, we are fighting on two roads, the enemy army near the canal is the weakest, just used to defend the army, the Chinese army is the strongest, the western army is second, after the war, it is estimated that the western army will attack our left flank, and the Chinese army will fight head-on." ”

With Zhao Jin's narration, the records that the clerks around him couldn't defend in person, Zhao Jin said again: "But the enemy's movements are much slower than our army, I will use the horse team to contain the western army, and the brigade will turn to the enemy after defeating the front, and the artillery regiment will always obey the order and send it down!" ”

The following guards agreed loudly, and several clerical guards quickly recorded and played, and handed over the orders to the heralds, who wanted to repeat Zhao Jin's orders, and if in doubt, they would use this text to proofread, and it was really an emergency, so naturally it was just a password, and it was not yet that kind of Cheng dù.

The herald rode away, Zhao Jin felt something, looked up at the sky, and found that there was a black spot in the sky, it should be a bird like an eagle falcon, flying high enough, so he dared to come, if it was a small bird, it would have been frightened and flew away.

If you look down from the perspective of the falcon in the sky, you can see that the two brigades and eight regiments of the Zhao family army have been arranged in horizontal formations, four regiments of the second brigade are in the first row, the first brigade is in the second row, the first regiment of the personal guard brigade is in the right rear position of the big horizontal team, and the Suzhou regiment is in the left side of the back, the teaching brigade ironclad mounted cavalry brigade, the mounted sergeant regiment and the mounted sergeant company directly under each brigade are in the right rear corner of the entire large formation, and the artillery position is further behind, but there are also artillery pushed forward, and the other teams of the teaching brigade are escort artillery arrays.

And the side of the official army has also been laid out, according to their respective subordinates, with the soldiers led by the thousand generals as a unit, the cavalry in the front, the foot soldiers in the rear, the general soldiers, deputy generals, generals, guerrilla military attaches at all levels are in the key positions surrounded by the pro-soldiers, everywhere banners are displayed, looking down from the sky, you can see that the officers and troops are also neatly formed, and the soldiers and horses in different military towns are clearly distinguished, but compared with the neat array of the Zhao family's saber and axe chisel, the officers and soldiers seem to be barely formed batter.

The number of officers and troops is more than three times that of Zhao's army, but because the formation is tight and loose, looking at each other from the sky, they still look at each other in front of the formation, and the size of the officers and troops is five times or even more than that of Zhao's army, so the disparity makes the officers and soldiers more confident.

On the side of the official army, the main general Zhang Jixian sat in the Xuanfu army, surrounded by the guards and generals, and the handsome flag fluttered beside him, and the supreme commander of the official army, Wang Zaijin, was in Jinghai County at this time.

Looking at the light cavalry entanglement between the two armies, watching the cavalry of the Xuzhou thief army turn their heads and flee back from time to time, the morale of the official army array is getting higher and higher, cheering and shouting wave after wave, but the generals at all levels in the army are not so happy, although they are outnumbered, but the neatness and quietness of the thief army make people feel very uncomfortable, as a general, they naturally know that this queue is important for combat power.

"What a luxurious armor, is this to make bamboo and wood painted?" More than one person said this.

In the morning light, the armor of the soldiers of the Zhao family army reflected the light, even if the thieves in Xuzhou were greedy everywhere, how could they have the money to build so much armor, could this rebellion just to equip the soldiers, don't you want to enjoy it a little? Many people are wondering if this is a thief's bluff, getting bamboo and wood paint, and deliberately making such metal reflections, but bamboo and wood paint also cost a lot, looking at the anti-thief array opposite, how can it not be so crazy.

What's even more puzzling is the opposite style of play, the array and action of the Xuzhou anti-thief and the art of war are completely incompatible, a team stands densely, the spear looks like a dense forest, and then before this team of spears, it is a relatively loose horizontal team, and there are light horsemen who see the return, saying that they are all holding firearms.

This Xuzhou thief is crazy or don't understand, don't you know that this firearm is not the decisive victory in front of the battle, the cavalry rushed over, what can he use with the firearm, and he was not rushed to the front to chop melons and vegetables, but from the entry into the north Zhili Xuzhou thief has been very calm, should not make such a mistake, the remnants of the cavalry of Eryang said that the firearms of the Xuzhou thief are extremely sharp, and they are dedicated to breaking the cavalry, but the blocking near Qingxian County proved that it is not necessarily the case, Xuzhou's firearms are indeed not bad, but at that time, as long as there were enough cavalry, With a little more strength, you will definitely be able to attack it.

The banner in front of the official army formation is to move, and the cavalry of each battalion begins to gather in this direction, since it is a dignified battle, then there are not too many tricks to play, it is nothing more than to use the cavalry elite to break the thief formation first, and then the army covers and kills, at this time, it is nothing more than to see the determination of the commander and the generals, and they will not lose if they are willing to die or be wounded

At this time, a low roar sounded in front of the Zhao family's army array, which made the official army array immediately a little scattered, and the thieves fired so early? The distance between the two sides is almost more than 1,000 steps, does this Xuzhou thief have a big general cannon? Is it a bluff?

In the chaos, the shells whistled and fell on the side of the team, so that the officers and soldiers over there immediately fled in all directions, some people looked over, but found that it was the official artillery team, and the officers and gunners over there were running away in a panic, but the casualties were not strict, the shells smashed in the air, and they only took two lives when they ricocheted, but this artillery shot was already panicking, and no one dared to lean over.

Not only was the artillery array panicked, but the officers and soldiers who had just stood up were panicked, the other party could actually hit so far, what if they hit their own queue? The roar of the artillery continued, and the front of the officers and soldiers was already a little panicked, but the shells always fell on the left side of the official artillery team, and the soldiers and soldiers who were still building the artillery mounts and batteries all fled far away, and no one dared to approach.

"The horse team will attack the enemy formation, and the horse team of the Western Army will attack the enemy's left flank, and immediately send troops!" Although the commander Zhang Jixian couldn't understand why the other party was staring at the inconsequential artillery bombardment, he knew that if the other party was allowed to fight, the entire military formation would not be able to maintain, and he had to fight back.

The cavalrymen were ordered by the general, and shouted to beat their horses and began to move forward, and they did not have the heart to stay for too long, and the sound of the cannon made people panic, and God knows when it may fall on their heads.

When the cavalry was advancing, there was a loud explosion at the position of the official artillery array, and there were sparse screams, and some people shouted heartbreakingly: "The gunpowder has exploded!" ”

The officers and soldiers are scolding and complaining, since the thieves opened fire, everyone has long avoided the location where the shell fell, but there is still such a trouble, the artillery is cumbersome and has no damage, it is said that a cannon erodes more than ten miles, kills thousands of people, but I have never seen such a powerful time, at this moment to add chaos, the battle array, to put it bluntly, is not the cavalry foot soldiers to fight in front of them? Is there a bird for the musket artillery? If it had been useful, the steppe Mongolia and Jianzhou Jurchen would have been pacified long ago.

There are even some things that everyone doesn't want to think about, this official army suppresses thieves, the officers and soldiers are all well-armoured and have superior equipment, shouldn't the officers and soldiers show their firearms and bombard them with artillery, and when the cannons sound, the thieves' army will break up? But now it seems, who is the thief and who is the official army? The generals are better, and the soldiers below can't help but think about it, and the more they think about it, the more panicked they become.

"General, it may be a thief's cannonball hit our army's brazier, and the charcoal fire ignited the gunpowder"

The commander of the artillery team is a thousand generals in the Beijing camp, but this thousand generals are not very well treated in the Beijing camp, so there is nothing to be afraid of in front of the main general, Zhang Jixian is too lazy to pay attention, in his opinion, the soldiers who operate firearms are greedy for life and afraid of death.

However, at this time, he didn't bother to bother with the other party, so he just said in a cold voice: "Useless waste, when the army presses forward, go and pack up the artillery, and then go to the city to standby." ”

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