Three days later, in the early morning, on the wilderness outside Chengdu, the armies of the Central Plains and Nanzhao looked at each other from afar, and the soldiers lined up in a neat array, with flags unfurled, swords and guns in a forest, and the shouts of the soldiers of the two armies echoed among the mountains.

Shu is mountainous, but it happens that the geological conditions in the vicinity of Chengdu are special, and the Chengdu Plain, which covers an area of 18,000 square kilometers, is suitable for large-scale field warfare.

If you just look at the appearance of the army, the Central Plains Crusade Army is far superior, and the Shenji Battalion wears standard military uniforms, and the weapons are also unified into firearms and spears, and the formation is neat and standardized.

The Black Miao barbarians are far behind, because the soldiers come from various tribes and belong to different cave masters, their clothes and armor are mixed, and their weapons are varied.

The crusading army did not go into battle with the whole army, and there were only 30,000 magic gunners and 5,000 artillerymen facing the barbarian army on the frontal battlefield.

What's more, the Shenji Army uses firearms to fight, and the soldiers' battle lines are too long, and the firepower density will not increase much, if the enemy breaks through the battle line and enters the military formation, and hangs together with friendly troops, the scattered soldiers will attack the main formation and mess up their own positions.

The number of mortal soldiers of the crusading army was small, but a total of 700 transcendents and 3,000 elite demon vassal armies were all present, wandering on the periphery of the battlefield, waiting for orders to carry out special assault missions at any time.

The Divine Arms Men were Spanish infantry phalanxes, each with a thousand men, including 600 pikemen, 300 arquebusiers, and 100 sword and shield men. The soldiers were arranged in three dense columns, each with fifty men in front and twenty columns in depth, and on the four corners were arquebusier soldiers in dense squares.

It is worth mentioning that the firearm firing technology of the Shenji Army uses the arquebus, which is mainly because the metallurgical technology and chemical technology of the Song Dynasty are backward, not to mention the fire cap, and even the flintlock pistol elastic reed can not be made, so it can only retreat to the second place and equip the soldiers with arquebuses.

The Spanish phalanx was in the shape of a "Hui", with a hollow formation, and the soldiers surrounded a few guns in the center of the phalanx, and at the moment of need, the soldiers in front of the phalanx gave way to the firing channel for the artillery to fire. Artillery positions were also set up between the phalanxes, and after the battle began, artillery fire would be used to block the enemy's charge.

The Spanish phalanx method of warfare worked wonders against cavalry, let alone against the infantry with pure cold weapons that was an era behind. Using the power of firearms and the left-hand stab tactics of pikemen, the Spanish phalanx can send any army of the traditional Cold Weapon era to the dustbin of history.

The reason why Jing Xiaolou arranged the formation like this was because it was written in the infantry drill code compiled by Luo Guoshi, he studied it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Luo Guoshi was really a civil and military all-rounder, and it was written in the book very reasonably, so he was as good as a stream, and he carried it out according to the plan.

In fact, there are really not many cavalry in the Nanzhao barbarian army, in addition to dozens of armored war elephants that are quite mighty, there are only a dozen barbarian generals riding a variety of wild animals.

Tigers and leopards are all ordinary mounts, and there are even strange people who ride giant forest snakes with thick water tanks, and there is even a barbarian who follows Chiyou and rides an extremely large demonic panda.

The barbarians preferred to command the beasts rather than riding the beasts, and the Nanzhao army was mixed with a lot of fierce beasts and poisonous insects, and they were very obedient and lay on the ground under the control of the beasts.

It took almost a morning for the two sides to set up their formations, and when the opposing army formations were completed, the sun was approaching midday, and the time for the battle was approaching.

Originally, according to the ancient rites, the two sides should send envoys to contact before the battle, or send each other's vanguards to fight in front of the battle to boost morale, but neither side has such a plan.

It was only three o'clock in the afternoon that three trumpets came from the rear of the Central Plains army formation, and the leaders of the barbarian army roared loudly in Miao language to give orders, and the Nanzhao barbarian army rushed like a tiger opening the gate, brandishing weapons and rushing towards the infantry phalanx of the Central Plains crusading army.

Correspondingly, the military band in the center of the square formation beat gongs and drums, and the soldiers of the phalanx stepped on the drums and slowly advanced with neat steps.

Viewed from the air, the squares on the ground moved slowly, and on the other side, the dense scattered barbarian pigs suddenly advanced and poured down.

Because the generals of the Central Plains Army all carried telephone snails, the command and herald had a great advantage, Jing Xiaolou picked up the phone and dialed the number of the commander of the artillery battalion, and issued an order for the artillery to fire freely.

The rumbling cannon and the thick smoke rose between the military formations, and the charging barbarians only heard the whistling sound for four periods, and the black shadows in front of them smashed rapidly, and the comrades next to them inexplicably opened huge blood holes in their bodies, and the solid cannonballs smashed through several people and fell to the ground, but they immediately bounced up, smashed over several people again, and smashed out a path full of flesh and blood stumps.

The enemy was still a kilometer away, and the brutes were met with artillery fire, and nearly 100 people fell in one round of shelling.

He had seen this kind of modern combat method of the Black Miao barbarian soldiers suddenly frightened, and thought that the Central Plains Army had used immortal magic weapons, but the psychological quality of these barbarians was much stronger than that of the soldiers on the real side, even if the Central Plains Army was under fierce artillery fire, they still rushed bravely, but accelerated their pace.

In the real world, the brutes would probably be like the Aztecs facing the Spanish adventurers, thinking that the other party's shelling was the power of the gods, and their morale would immediately collapse.

However, there is indeed extraordinary power in the world of fairy swords, and although the power of the cannon is great, it is not comparable to the immortal magic and witchcraft, which is far from beyond the psychological tolerance of the barbarians.

The Moon Worship Sect Master released Gu worms to secretly give orders to the Gu masters in the army, and the Gu masters who received the order recited the piercing ancient incantations, and a burst of black gas rose in the barbarian army array, and a demonic wind suddenly blew on the battlefield, and the black miasma spread out of thin air, and the wind suddenly blew from the rear of the barbarian army formation, and for a while, the sand and stones were flying, and the miasma was overwhelming and surging towards the Central Plains army array.

The charging barbarians hid in the miasma of the black mist, their figures loomed, whether it was artillerymen, or the musketeers who raised their guns and were ready to shoot, they were either blinded by the flying sand, or they couldn't see the target in the black fog clearly, and they estimated the position and shot out randomly, but they didn't know what the result of the battle was, how many barbarians were hit by lead bullets.

The loading of ammunition in front of the firecracker formation is a tactical action to test proficiency and psychological quality, the barbarians cast a demon spell, and I don't know if the black fog that swells contains poison, the musketeers in the phalanx are in a hurry, and the loading action of the training on weekdays has been deformed, and many people either forget to stuff lead bullets or forget to pull out the loading rod, or shoot the loading rod out, and can no longer load ammunition.

It stands to reason that the modern firearms army of the Chinese Empire has adopted the most restrained weapon army's tactics, and it should have had the upper hand, and there was no suspense about victory or defeat.

But the world of fairy swords is not the real side world, due to the existence of extraordinary power, there are too many factors that affect the outcome of the victory, and it is impossible to apply the laws of war in the real side world, Luo Feng's efforts to improve the combat power of the Central Plains army are just to raise the pure waste to barely a battle.

The old Song Leng weapon army, which has not been upgraded by Luo Feng, may not perform as well as this modern firearms army in the face of the enemy, and it is no wonder that the Moon Worship Sect Master has the ambition to destroy the Great Song Dynasty and dominate the world.

In the original plot, if the Moon Worship Sect Master controlled the Water Demon Beast to destroy a small number of transcendents in the Central Plains, leaving only the Song Army composed of mortals, and the barbarian soldiers who relied on their superior strength and demon magic to help them fight could be pushed flat, why couldn't he dominate the world?