The advantages and disadvantages of early hot weapons are too obvious, and they must be used in conjunction with cold weapons to exert their power. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the weapons technology of the Western world was developing rapidly, and the hot weapons were in the process of continuous improvement, and the Dutch from the West also brought the latest tactical methods of warfare on the European continent.

Compared to artillery, which requires highly qualified gunners and commanders, arquebuses are much simpler. However, due to the limited number of arquebuses, Jiannu learned from the Dutch the old-fashioned Spanish phalanx, which built a very thick omnidirectional spear formation, and arranged firecrackers on the four corners of the formation. Spears for long-range shots and spears for close combat.

Tan Feng was so angry that he found that his artillery could not hit the enemy who was close at hand, and he actually opened the camp gate in the southwest and mobilized several infantry phalanxes to kill it - in his opinion, it was nothing more than more deaths, and he would definitely be able to defeat the opponent by virtue of his superiority in strength. And what the 'God Blessed' army lacks is not people.

"Idiot." Seeing the enemy open the camp gate, the tall bull could see clearly in the binoculars. He turned his head to look behind him and asked, "Is our artillery in position?" ”

The staff officer of the brigade headquarters shook his head and said: "Not yet, it is estimated that it will take about ten minutes, and it will take time to build the gun position." ”

"Then don't wait for them." Gao Da Niu felt that with the few infantry battalions he had brought, he could completely crush the enemy on the opposite side, "All stand and prepare for battle." ”

...... call, the soldiers, who had been resting cross-legged, immediately stood up, everyone checked their equipment, and began to reload ammunition under the orders of the officer. Gao Daniu himself was no longer on the front line, and when he returned to his command position in the rear, he ordered his cavalry battalion to prepare for a roundabout journey, while placing two cavalry artillery platoons on either side of the ranks.

When everything was ready, the tall cattle behind the dirt slope soon saw a large number of enemy troops slowly advancing on the opposite side. The enemy army is particularly numerous, and the dense spears are raised high, and the field of vision is full of people, and at first glance it seems to be pouring out of the nest. The tall bull rode his Arabian horse, grabbed the binoculars, and mocked: "They don't have cavalry, it's bold enough." ”

Tan Feng, who was 'proficient' in the art of war, learned from the Dutch that as long as his spear formation was thick enough, he did not need to fear cavalry. Because the configuration of the Spanish phalanx was omnidirectional, with rows of spears on all four sides. The spear is lowered like a hedgehog, not afraid of any close combat

Moreover, the cavalry will be bombarded by arquebuses if they are close, even if the cavalry armor can penetrate it. Therefore, the Spanish phalanx was not afraid of cavalry attacks - there were no light things like cavalry artillery and battalion artillery in Europe, and the Dutch could not teach them, so they were naturally not afraid.

Seeing that the opponent did not have cavalry that could attack quickly, the cavalry artillery platoon under the tall Niu suddenly laughed happily. They are most afraid of encountering cavalry that can move quickly on the open battlefield, which is really like a natural enemy. The platoon commander of the cavalry artillery platoon even stopped his subordinates from immediately shelling the idea, but shouted with ambition: "Let those fools come up again, Lao Tzu will fight one more round." ”

The omnidirectional Spanish phalanx is quite poorly mobile, and a thick formation has to move a few hundred meters, which is like a turtle. Tan Feng personally led the team, gritting his teeth and following behind a phalanx. When he walked to the dirt slope that affected the artillery shooting, he secretly cursed in his heart how could this dirt slope make him so embarrassed? However, when climbing the dirt slope, it is a bit of a condescending psychological advantage......

"The prestige of this 'revolutionary army' is so great, but it doesn't seem to be like that." Tan Feng looked down at the opponent about two hundred steps away, and found that the formation on the opposite side was very thin, the horizontal column was very open, and there were not many people in the vertical column. It feels like you can defeat it with a single rush as long as you push hard.

"Blow the trumpet and stir up the soldiers." Tan Feng also rode a horse to command the army, and as soon as he raised his hand, he shouted to the shaman priest beside him, "Let them die for the Great Khan." So the shaman priest came out with big crosses in his hands......

Zhou Qingfeng sat on the city wall of Shanhaiguan, and he had always treated the ongoing battle with an extremely serious attitude, after all, there were tens of thousands of people on the opposite side. And behind this gang of traitor troops, there is still an army of Mang Gurtai, so it is even more necessary to solve it quickly.

But when he saw that there were many shaman priests wearing robes and holding crosses in Tan Feng's team, his first reaction was to check if there was something wrong with his telescope. When you are sure that you are okay with it, it is the enemy who has a problem......

"What's the going on here? When did the Jurchens engage in such tricks? How did the cross appear? Zhou Qingfeng felt that his mind was messy, and he really hated to immediately step forward and ask his opponent, "Where did you cross over?" Wrong place, right? ”

The shaman priest chanted Nurhachi's holy name and prayed for reinforcement from His Holiness the Pope. The Wild Boar Skin Pope's reaction was quite fast, and one after another lights lit up in Tan Feng's step array, shining brightly and dazzlingly for a while. Thousands of brainwashed soldiers of the 'Heavenly Blessing' Army suddenly burst with courage, became fearless, and strode forward with the order.

This one frightened the tall bull and his subordinates. He commanded the reorganized First Brigade of the National Defense Force, which was the earliest unit of Zhou Qingfeng. This brigade has many veterans, many non-commissioned officers, and has fought many battles, and its combat effectiveness is definitely the strongest - but no one has ever seen this situation in front of them.

The enemy looks like it's very strong!

"What are you doing? Fire! "Finding that the enemy's morale is bursting, and the movement speed is accelerating, Gao Da Niu really has a long-lost panic, for fear that his own firepower output will not be able to match the enemy's superiority in strength. The only thing he could rely on now was the advantage of his weapons - the flintlock pistol could hit two hundred meters, while the enemy was already close to one hundred and fifty meters.

Even the mounted artillery platoons on both flanks were taken aback, looking at each other as if they were heavenly soldiers. The platoon commander who commanded the cavalry artillery was almost not frightened, and now he really didn't care about letting the enemy come forward a little more, he immediately shouted: "Open the artillery!" ”

The light cavalry guns opened fire first, and the two wings crossed to form a cross-shaped covering fire. Due to the close distance, the small-caliber projectile rushed into the phalanx of the 'Tianyou' army almost as soon as it erupted from the barrel, knocking over the seven or eight people in one go.

The flintlock musketeers, who were waiting in line, also fired a volley of guns, and the sound of thumping gunfire was continuous. The front row immediately turned back after firing the gun, while the rear row did not move forward, but aimed at the gun on the spot, fired again and retreated. Round after round of guns rang out one after another, but the queue kept retreating, distancing itself from the 'Tianyou' army that was trying to approach quickly.

The effective range of the arquebus is much shorter than that of the flintlock gun, about 80 meters. Tan Feng shouted the order forward, and found that the opponent was frightened by his morale-boosting actions and opened fire directly. He laughed at first, because this kind of firing from a distance was the fault of the Ming army in the past. And under the teaching of Taixi's tactics, it is necessary to close the distance in order to exert firepower.

This is an iron law that Tan Feng firmly remembered in the small book, he thinks that he has learned very hard, and today is the stage of applying what he has learned. According to Instructor Tessie, the enemy will not cause much damage if he fires first from a long distance, and his own side must overcome his fear with a stubborn will and bravely close the distance to the enemy. Hit the enemy while they're reloading......

Crackdown!

The cavalry artillery platoons on both flanks came first.

The characteristic of the cavalry artillery platoon is to output as much damage as possible within three minutes, and when the barrel of the gun is hot and can no longer be fired, it will leave immediately. It was because once they fired the artillery, they would not stop, so the shells continued to pour in - the high morale of the 'Tianyou' army just now was too terrifying, and it scared the brothers of the mounted artillery platoon to squeeze out their maximum potential.

Fire, reset, reload, refire, and so on.

The scorching cannonballs were whirring and flying, all hitting the densely arranged 'Heavenly Blessing' formation. As soon as this cannon sounded, the whole battlefield could hear it. Tan Feng looked left and right, and found that the opponent had arranged several cannons on both wings - seeing that those cannons were not big, he thought they were small gadgets such as the Ming army's tiger squat cannon and the captive cannon. But......

As soon as these cannons fired, the soldiers in their own formation were like felled woodland, and their heads fell one by one. A large 'Tianyou' military array is about a thousand people. After being shelled, one corner of the phalanx was blown down, and the scene was like an open-air slaughterhouse.

Dozens of shells flew in three minutes, and the casualties caused by the shelling were extremely tragic. In the face of the dense spear formation, the power of the artillery fire was brought into full play, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded in one breath. The ground was full of red and white stumps and severed arms, and all kinds of organs were thrown everywhere, and blood rushed to the sky.

Tan Feng was at the back of his queue and could not see the situation at the scene of the shelling. But the phalanx soldiers who were bombarded on both flanks were immediately stupid, they were in a frenzied stage of extremely high morale, and their minds were full of thoughts of rushing to kill and fight for their lives. But now that the shelling rained down, they were stunned on the spot, stunned, and stood still, as if the life and death in front of them had nothing to do with them.

And it was not only the cavalry guns that fired, but also the seemingly thin rows of flintlock musketeers on the front. They were also frightened by the scene of the wild boar skin pope to inspire the morale of the believers, so they could only use violent fire to vent the fear in their hearts - if you dare to scare Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will beat you to death!

The slight loss that Tan Feng imagined did not exist. When gunshots rang out from the opposite side, nearly a third of the people in the first row of his phalanx immediately fell. And this gunfire appeared every ten seconds or so, and each time it was like peeling off the outer layer of several phalanxes of the 'Heavenly Blessing' army.

Tan Feng himself was riding on a horse behind the formation, and the whistling stray bullets swept past him like flying locusts. The powerful projectile drove the air current, and each shot represented the imminent death of the projectile. He watched as his opponent's array rang out gunfire, white smoke rose from it, and his own formation was weakened.

"Kill it!"

The tragic death made Tan Feng feel a spirit, he seemed to wake up from a nightmare, and urged his subordinates to run again and again. His mind was a little confused, but he knew that there must be something wrong with this battlefield. And now the only way to remedy it is to kill decisively, and closing the distance between you and the enemy is the only way to get out of the predicament.

"Kill, kill!" Tan Feng rode back and forth on the battlefield, trying to order his subordinates to guerrilla, and Qian Zong and other officers organized his attack. The sound of the rumbling cannons and the sound of the guns made his horse jump in shock, as if trying to overturn him and flee quickly.

After a round of furious fire, the cavalry platoon had already slipped away, and the front of the flintlock pistol array was also shrouded in white smoke, and it was impossible to see the opposite side clearly. The pouring of fire had to be stopped. Gao Da Niu didn't hear the movement of the enemy on the opposite side, and he hurriedly ordered his troops to turn back and retreat fifty meters.

And when the smoke gradually dissipated, the 'Tianyou' military array that was critnly hit by the projectile on the opposite side had not collapsed. Thousands of people were still in place, standing in front of piles of corpses, not moving at all. They are still in dense queues, and they are really immovable.

Gao Da Niu exclaimed in his heart: "Why are these guys so strong? The platoon of guns and cannons can't move, they can't be cast in iron? What can I do? I'm in big trouble today! ”

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the Wehrmacht stared at each other, feeling that the opponent's spiritual strength was too strong. Their training emphasizes the need to face the projectile head-on, without fear of life and death. Right now, it seems that his opponent has such qualities, and he is really invincible.

What to do? What to do? Do you want to lose?