Vytautas asked himself what he would do if he had Lomin's current situation.

Of course, there is a possibility that he will continue to defend the city and gradually integrate and annex the strength of other nobles.

But it is also possible that Luo Ming will use Qi Ce to attack this line of defense, anyway, Luo Ming is now in the upper hand, even if Qi Ze fails, it will not shake the overall advantage.

Sniping commanders is a very common tactic in any war, and Vytautas can't help but be on guard.

However, Vytautas's very careful approach did not come in handy.

Instead of waiting for any snipers, he saw the gates of Ironfire open, lower the drawbridge, and pour troops out of it.

This made him nervous immediately, and at this time, he didn't care about revealing his identity as a commander, so he quickly gave the order to let the troops who were working begin to assemble.

This is not a modern PLA, blow a trumpet and within a few minutes you can see the soldiers standing there in order. Even in the case of the People's Liberation Army, the time it takes to simply stand in line and enter a state of imminent battle is completely different.

Not to mention the discipline of the Belan army and the puppet army, even if they are all highly disciplined, it will take a while to assemble.

Digging and mounding dirt are all hard work, and in order to save effort, the soldiers who do the work will naturally put aside their weapons and even armor.

Many people even thought that the weather was hot, and even took off the thick cloth armor used to make the inner lining of the armor and worked shirtless.

Now, if you want to assemble in full, you have to put on your armor, then put on your armor, and pick up your weapons, which won't take you a few minutes.

Thankfully, Vytautas knew it was too risky to leave the entire army to work, and left some of his soldiers still on standby, partly to guard against enemy surprise attacks, and partly to rest in shifts with the working soldiers, which came in handy right now.

Seeing that the soldiers were moving, Vytautas felt a little relieved and continued to observe the enemy.

I saw that outside the Iron Fire City, several infantry phalanxes were slowly lined up, and there were two teams of cavalry on both wings to defend them, and they slowly advanced in the direction of the defense line at the speed of a normal person's walking.

At this rate, it would take about sixteen or seventeen minutes before they could advance to the defensive line.

However, given that Lockin had a cannon, Vytautas was still not careless.

"Oh, that's pretty fast. Luo Ming sat on the top of a specially made carriage, watching the crowded scene on the defensive line in the distance, and couldn't help but admire.

But no matter what, it's not bad, he doesn't really want to break through the defense line this time, it's just a test - unless the other party is really too lame, he can't do anything about it.

The army did not approach the defensive line, but lined up more than two hundred meters from the defensive line.

At the same time, Luo Ming's army also placed a lot of wooden carts in front of the formation.

The wooden cart has been improved and stands firmly on the ground. The cart was equipped with a high wooden frame, and the soldiers hung two thick cloths soaked in water on top and one at once, and they immediately became a curtain, only a gap in the middle was open for bullets to pass through, and people could look through this small opening to see the opposite side.

Originally, at a distance of more than two hundred meters, it was already relatively difficult for most archers to shoot at the target.

Now there are more of these curtains, not only can they block the archer's field of vision, but after flying over such a long distance, even the strength of the strong bow and crossbow will be attenuated very much, and they will be blocked by the curtains, and the long-range attack on the side of the Beran army can be said to be abolished immediately.

Vytautas frowned - this measure could indeed protect against arrows, but why should it be arranged so far away, so that not only artillery was left on Lormin's side to be lethal enough?

If such protection was placed a hundred meters away, Luo Ming's soldiers could have fired at this side with muskets calmly, and the Belan army could not raise their heads.

Of course, he did not know the specific principle of the musket, but he could roughly judge its range and the way of direct fire.

Luo Ming didn't care what the other party thought, Meiquan's main force hid behind the cloth mantle car formation, stopped on the spot, and from behind the cloth mantle, a group of about two hundred soldiers walked forward.

The more than 200 people were divided into three phalanxes, a large pike-lined phalanx in the middle, and two smaller musket phalanxes on both sides.

A few days ago, Luo Ming's doppelganger was not idle in the rear - for example, he reduced the extra-long spears used by the soldiers from five meters to four meters five.

However, after the experiment, he confirmed that this reduced weight and burden, and still ensured that the ability of the spear phalanx to cope with the impact of the enemy army was not much reduced.

Behind the spearhead, a half-meter-long shaft was nailed to four slender iron sheets, which made it more difficult to cut or pinch the spearhead – the wooden shaft was already hard, and now it was difficult for an ordinary soldier to cut it with an axe.

This group of soldiers was at the forefront, followed by more than 100 cavalry and 40 heavy infantry armed with swords, shields, and halberds, and then stood still about eighty meters in front of the defensive line.

The musketeers quickly lined up on either side, forming a wide surface of fire, and then divided into three rows, front and back, and fired a volley in turn.

However, the line of defense built by the Berans was also excellent—almost every soldier and even spellcaster helped build it before the Belan army left, so that it was very strong.

There was a trench on the inside and outside of the earthen wall, the outer ditch was about one and a half meters wide to keep the enemy out, and the inner ditch was about three meters wide for the soldiers to hide in.

The earth excavated from the two ditches was mostly piled up in the middle, with some planks, sticks and stones—some of which had been pulled from the ruins of buildings left after the nearby Loming Fortified Wall was cleared.

Especially in the front section of this defensive line, the height of the earthen wall is close to two meters, and the width is more than two meters, even if Luo Ming's cannon with the largest caliber is moved closer to bombard, I am afraid that it will have to be fired more than a dozen rounds to open a small opening.

Even if they don't hide in the trenches behind them, even if they don't hide in the trenches behind them, they are basically immune to long-range attacks from flat fire as long as they bow their heads.

Next, the musketeers began to reload their ammunition, while more than a hundred cavalrymen behind them trotted towards the defensive line.

They didn't just test each other's reactions, a few cavalrymen with strong arms grabbed grenades, and if they found an opportunity, they would throw them coldly across the earthen wall.

Naturally, there were some observation openings on the earthen wall, and after the Berans found this group of cavalry approaching, they directly threw dozens of arrows outward.

These dozens of arrows were not accurate, but the cavalry did not like to fight, and they did not throw grenades, so they went around directly, shouted and cursed, and returned to the back of the phalanx.