At night, the county town of Shanyin looked like a giant beast crouching on the ground from a distance, and in the depths of the dense forest on the side of the southwest city, piles of bonfires were lit, and many people in shabby clothes sat around the bonfire and whispered.

On a relatively flat grass there was a dilapidated tent with many patches, and Li Zicheng, Gao Guiying, Liu Zongmin, Niu Jinxing, and other important leaders of the Gao family army were holding a meeting.

When Tan Biao led the soldiers of the second battalion to face off against Wang Dingguo's 5,000 elite cavalry, Li Zicheng and his more than 300 men and horses were ambushed in the dense forest on the side of the battlefield and witnessed the entire battle with their own eyes.

When the second battalion was surrounded by Wang Dingguo's 5,000 elite cavalry regiments, Li Zicheng almost led more than 300 brothers to kill and snatch peach fruits, but the next battle made them all dumbfounded, one by one hissing and inhaling cold air, the back was chilling, and the timid were even more frightened to the point that their faces were pale and bloodless, Li Zicheng was even more glad that he was not reckless, and hesitated for a moment, otherwise, he rushed up not to snatch the peach fruit, but to send people's heads.

5,000 elite cavalry against 1,000 infantry, no matter how you look at it, they are crushed, but they are beaten miserably by 1,000 infantry equipped with muskets, it is not called a battle at all, it is clearly a massacre, and the battle formation composed of a thousand musketeers is like a big hedgehog, no matter which direction the cavalry attacks, they are beaten to death, and there is no chance to get close at all.

Wang Dingguo's 5,000 elite cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and after collapsing on its own, the Ming army of 1,000 people lined up in a neat hedgehog battle formation to attack the south gate of the Ainengqi Division, and the more than 10,000 infantry of Ainengqi fought a battle in a dignified manner, and also caused heavy casualties to the Ainengqi Division, although the Ming army of 1,000 people also had casualties, but compared with all the losses of the Zhangjia Army, it was completely negligible, if it wasn't for the darkness, I am afraid that Ainengqi would have been beaten to the ground.

After Li Zicheng witnessed these two battles with his own eyes, he no longer had the courage to fight, hiding in the dense forest as a turtle with a shrunken head, and he also sent people to reconnoiter the vigilance of Tan Biao's department, and found that although the number of people was small, the vigilance was extremely strict, and camped on a small hillside, stacked a few fortifications with sandbags, and there was no chance of a sneak attack, so he could only retreat into the depths of the dense forest, and hold a military meeting after eating.

"What do you think?" Li Zicheng looked around at his henchmen, frowned and asked, on the way to retreat into the depths of the dense forest, he found that everyone, including the fierce general Liu Zongmin, was a little depressed, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart, he thought a lot along the way, and also felt some new things, and had some ideas, and was sharing them with his brothers, but it turned out to be like this, which made him very depressed.

"Big brother, you can't fight this battle......" Liu Zongmin, who has always been outspoken and short-tempered, had a depressed expression on his face, people didn't give you a chance to fight hand-to-hand at all, they slammed you from a distance, no matter how high the martial arts were, it was useless, and it was still a shot to knock down, this battle really couldn't be fought.

In addition to the military advisor Niu Jinxing, all the civil officials and generals nodded in agreement, even the most brave in battle, the least afraid of death, every battle must be the first soldier, Liu Zongmin, who charged at the front, said so, even if they were afraid in their hearts, they did not feel ashamed, this Ming army is Gao Jie's forward troops, only a thousand people are so coaxed, and when Gao Jie's main force arrives, there is no way to fight, thousands of guns, Brother Chuangwang, a green hat is also green, one more is also green, you will admit it, Gao Jie's guy has four or five thousand elite male soldiers, Don't mess with him again. Of course, no one dares to say such things, and can only complain in their hearts.

Li Zicheng's face instantly became gloomy, are you all cowards? Have you forgotten your vows? Do you want to take revenge on the eldest brother? So many brothers died under the butcher's knives of the official army, do you want to avenge them?

"King Chuang's anger is relieved." Military advisor Niu Jinxing stood up and gave him a look.

Li Zicheng sat down angrily, he had chatted with the military advisor Niu Jinxing before, and the two of them had almost the same perception and thoughts, and he knew that Niu Jinxing would firmly support his ideas and plans.

"All the brothers have seen today's two battles, and they can also see that this Ming army of about 1,000 people is different from the previous Ming army." Niu Jinxing said slowly, his gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and he looked at the expressions on their faces.

"Master Niu is right, this Ming army is indeed very different from the previous Ming army."

Everyone nodded in agreement, except for Qin Liangyu's white pole army, Cao Wenzhao's Guangping army, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, Sun Chengzong's Xi'an Mansion soldiers, Sun Chuanting's elite partial division, the other Ming troops are all five scum, well, the five powerful Ming armies mentioned above are a bit similar to Gao Jie's Royal Guards Independent Battalion in terms of battle formation play, Gao Jie's army is more simple and crude in battle formation tactics.

Niu Jinxing stroked his long beard under his chin, smiled and nodded, he can think of it with the five powerful Ming army, and they are not all reckless people with heads and brains, there is still hope.

He is like a teacher, to a group of lecturers, slowly explained a lot, this Ming army is only a thousand people, the battle formation is ordinary and simple, but with long-range attack of the musket is very practical, or phalanx or circle formation, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended, no matter which side you attack from, you will be hit fiercely, just like a big hedgehog covered with spikes, want to bite a bite, but the result is pierced and bleeding.

Our understanding of muskets may be insufficient, single or several muskets shooting, the power is not great, but when used together, the situation is very different, well, you have seen both battles, it is simply a one-sided slaughter, it does not give you a chance to fight hand-to-hand at all, the volley of the gun solves the problem of firepower, and the three-stage shot solves the problem of rate of fire, so we can copy the battle formation tactics of the official army, and use all the muskets together, as long as you train well, you can create an iron-blooded lion and overthrow the corrupt rule of the Ming court, Let the people of the world live a good life.

There are also some small problems, for example, why didn't the musket of this Ming army explode so many times? Either it is a new type of musket, or the quality of the barrel has been greatly improved, much better than the previous muskets, we can also create a high-quality barrel, without worrying about blowing up the chamber, not killing or wounding the enemy, first blow yourself up and blow yourself up.

Not to mention, Niu Jinxing's explanation is a big summary after the war, so that the big leaders present understand a lot of things, and also understand that they can build a similar strong army and overthrow Gao Jie's elite strong army.

Of course, these are all theoretical things, to really realize, there are too many conditions, first of all, there must be a huge amount of silver, there is a huge amount of iron ore, high-level blacksmiths smelt high-quality fine iron, and then through cumbersome processing procedures, in order to create a high-quality barrel, make a sophisticated musket, as for the output, raw materials for making gunpowder, etc., Dongdong will not be considered for the time being, just a silver problem will make the heads of Li Zicheng and other big leaders N times bigger, and they haven't even solved the problem of eating.

If Zhu Jian knew the content of Li Zicheng's important military meeting, Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing and others regarded Gao Jie's Royal Guards Independent Battalion as the strongest army in the world, so how could the three main forces of the Wolf Battalion, the Phoenix Legion and the Shenji Battalion, which often faced the thousands of iron horsemen of the Jin Army rushing frantically and standing still?

At this time, in the dead of night, several black shadows appeared silently near the camp of Ainengqi like ghosts at night.