On Luo Ming's side, the coalition army has just finished repairing, and the fatigue of the soldiers is inevitable, but the enemy has come from afar, and the fatigue level is definitely not bad.

Besides, it was only two hours before dark, and if the enemy started attacking directly, it would not be long before he had to collect his troops and set up camp.

Luo Ming believed that no matter how bad the coalition army was, it could rely on the fortifications to resist for more than an hour and drag it out until dark.

If you don't win the first battle and can only retreat and camp, you will only lose morale in vain, and most enemy generals will not choose to do this.

Although the soldiers are noble and fast, there is also a saying that "those who seek profit for a hundred miles will become generals", and it is very risky to go directly into battle after a long march in a hurry.

Luo Ming hoped that the enemy would do this, although the coalition forces that had been working for a long time would be severely damaged, but the tired enemy troops who came from afar would never feel good, and it would not be bad to let them die a few hundred more.

It's a pity that the other party came prepared, and the commander is obviously not half a bucket of water.

Beran's army camped two kilometers away, sending scouts in all directions, alerting the coalition surprise attack while also trying to find a way in the other direction.

However, the fortifications built by the coalition forces were not so easy to bypass, and no matter how well the Belans were prepared, their familiarity with the local terrain was obviously not comparable to that of a group of nobles born and raised in Vanchy.

This search can only be in vain, and even several scouts were killed by the coalition scouts, and similarly, the scouts on the coalition side also lost a lot, after all, the Beran army is a well-prepared elite, and the coalition forces are just a temporary patchwork.

But thanks to the fact that Luo Ming's scouts all carried pistols, fired first in case of indecision, and the habit of attacking together, several good Belan scouts hung up unjustly, leveling out the losses of the scouts on both sides.

To tell the truth, Luo Ming's pistol is placed on the earth, which is the level of the Renaissance era, although there are gunpowder granules and paper shell semi-fixed bullets, but all things considered, there is still a gap of almost one or two hundred years from the Napoleonic era.

It takes half a minute to reload once, and it may take more than a minute for unskilled people, and the pistol has a short range, so there is basically no chance of firing a second shot in battle.

Unless it is to replenish guns after the battle, or when the cavalry fights infantry, rely on the speed advantage to retreat and open the distance and reload.

But in a battle with a small number of people, such as scouts, it is very good, unless you encounter a strange person wearing full body armor who comes out to scout, you can knock down a person or more with a single shot.

To be honest, crossbows can also have a similar effect, and they are relatively quick to train, but Luo Ming did not equip the cavalry with crossbows, and there are good reasons.

No matter what kind of crossbow, the bow arm and string part are not cheap, and they also have to go through procedures such as drying, and the labor hours are quite long, and some even take more than several months.

The first impression of a pistol seems to be more expensive, but in fact it is much cheaper than a crossbow, the cost of a crossbow is enough to make two pistols, and even the unit price of the heavy arquebus that Luo Ming is now building is only a quarter higher than that of a strong crossbow, and the level of craftsmanship is lower than that of a crossbow, which means that ordinary blacksmiths are almost capable of doing this after a period of training.

The only more complicated process was to smooth and smooth the chamber – Lockin asked Archmage Gandhi to help him build a primitive boring machine by hand, and even this process was greatly simplified by the advent of the boring machine.

As for a qualified crossbow, it is not much cheaper than ammunition, and it is even heavier and larger, which is inconvenient to carry.

In addition, the bow and crossbow will become weak in rainy days, and the gunpowder will also be damp, but it can still be fired with a canopy, but the power is a little lower.

Crossbows can't fire shotguns or finer pieces of iron sand, while pistols can, so they can attack multiple people at once, and even if they encounter an opponent wearing heavy armor, they can often hurt the opponent's face or other armor gaps.

In addition, the sound and light effect of the musket is also incomparable to the bow and crossbow, the war horse has not undergone special training, and will be frightened when encountering this, and the mage of this world tries to use a burst fireball against the cavalry, which is the same principle, but the cost is higher and it is difficult to popularize.

The crossbow may be able to compete with the early gunpowder weapons, but gradually it will not be able to keep up with the progress of the times, which is why Luo Ming will not use it on a large scale.

Of course, arrows can be crafted from special materials, engraved with magic circles on slender arrows, and then combined with fighting energy or magic power to become a sharp weapon for long-range sniping, but that is obviously not something that can be done with mass-produced equipment in war.

If there were that conditions, Luo Ming would directly find someone to build an ultra-high-precision sniper rifle by hand...... No, sniper guns or sniper missiles do.

That will be said later, Luo Ming is now fully focused on the battle in front of him, and together with some officers, he compares the gap between the enemy's intelligence and the previous estimate, finely adjusts the original plan, and examines whether there are any omissions.

Of course, he can't calculate all the possibilities, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is possible for the main general of a certain side to suddenly fall and break his neck, and if he wants to calculate them one by one, even if a year is not enough.

But in general, it is still possible to make a plan, such as a rout, stalemate, the appearance of a traitor, and being selected as the main direction of attack, but not being the main attack...... With so many plans, it's almost the same to this extent.

While improvisation is indispensable, it is much better to have a few plans to lay the foundation and then make temporary responses on the basis of those plans than to rely entirely on the spot.

Moreover, the fact that a hypothetical situation is formulated in such a way as to train the officers' abilities. Even if Luo Ming can clone one one day, it is impossible for him to have dozens or hundreds of clones, and he can personally lead every army. Most of the time, it depends on the independent performance of the officers.

Luo Ming is going to form a new army for this world, so naturally there must be corresponding new officers to cooperate with it.

The next morning, Luo Ming got up early in the morning, breathing in the fresh air while sipping herbal tea.

This is the recipe given by Aya, which can refresh the mind and relieve fatigue, and at the same time, five drops of the potion prepared by Pelodiana are added to the tea, which is a powerful stimulant.

Stimulants naturally have damage to the body, and this kind of stimulant can basically burn out the brains of ordinary people with five drops, but Luo Ming can basically repair the body casually by relying on Cangyan, including the brain.

Of course, repairing the brain with cangyan requires subtle operations, so it is tiring and wasteful, but it is still worth using occasionally at such critical moments.

It was also the first time for Luo Ming to fight a large-scale battle with a human army, and he had to not only look at the overall situation and maintain the stability of the battle line as much as possible, but also analyze the intelligence of the enemy and us, and experiment with new weapons and tactics, which was a heavy burden and had to do so.