Nothing is smooth sailing.

No.

Just when Long 13 thought that the overall situation had been decided, and did not launch an attack on Zhang Dechang's troops overnight, things suddenly changed!

Tiger Dawei is coming.

Besieging Zhang Dechang and then attracting Hu Dawei out was the planned plan of Long Thirteen, but it was not just Hu Dawei at the moment!

And Cao Bianjiao!

Hu Dawei brought all his 1,000 steps in Fenxi County, and Cao Bianjiao also had 1,000 steps to ride!

In other words, in addition to Zhang Dechang's 600 steps to ride, Dragon Thirteen is now facing another 2,000 steps to ride!

However, Long Thirteen was only slightly taken aback, and then understood.

"After Cao Wenzhao attacked Lingshikou Pass and Jingsheng Fort, he naturally thought of taking a detour to Fenxi County, starting from Xiaoyi County, there is a post road through Xinzhuang Fort, Shuangchi Fort, and Kang Castle to reach Fenxi County, although the distance is at least four or five times longer, but after all, can you come over?"

At present, Dragon Thirteen has 1,000 pikemen, 400 firearms, 100 artillerymen, and 400 cavalry, a total of 1,900 people, which is only slightly less than Hu Dawei.

Of course, the other side has a thousand elite cavalry, which is his biggest threat.

However, although Hu Dawei and Cao Bianjiao rushed here overnight, they did not take advantage of the night to attack Long Thirteen's camp, and the next morning, it was still Long Thirteen who left the camp first!

By the time Hu Dawei and Cao Bianjiao came out, Long Thirteen had been waiting for a long time.

It is still a large Spanish phalanx, but with the arrival of Dragon Thirteen, it has become a large array with four posts and two hundred people horizontally and six posts vertically, but there are four posts vacant in the middle.

This position was naturally occupied by the thirty horsemen of Dragon Thirteen.

It is clear that he is going to take charge of this Spanish phalanx that he has adjusted today.

The four corners are still ninety firecrackers each, lined up in a 30*3 row - at this time, don't look at only ninety people, do you want these ninety firecrackers to be lined up in three rows in a short time, or on the tense battlefield, if these ninety people are unorganized, the superiority of ten people and fifty people in the first half of the line is also the main reason why Long Thirteen gave up the set of later generations and continued to use the battalion system.

Fifty people are a sentry, and ten people are a tithe, so when the chief of the tith stands, his subordinates can quickly arrange on one side of it, and after determining the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth tithes, after the chief of the first tithing stands, the chief of the second, third, third, and fifth tithes also has a position.

And the chief of the first post is all concurrently served by the sentry chief in the troops of Long Thirteen, so this sentry chief will take the initiative to choose the most suitable position to stand.

And the commander of the first post is also the commander of the spear battalion, that is, the leader of the four posts and two hundred men, and he will stand in place before the other posts.

After the first outpost is settled, the other three outposts have a reference, the second outpost is to the right of the first outpost, the third outpost is behind the first outpost, and the fourth outpost is behind the second outpost.

Thus, a pikemen and pikemen formation of eight hundred men was formed.

At this time, there are still four outposts and two hundred people left, which will normally serve as the force of the large battalion left behind.

At present, Long Thirteen left all the two cavalry battalions in the main camp, and drove all the infantry outside, in addition to the thirty guards and cavalry, there were also a hundred artillery and firecrackers because of the arrangement.

If there is no dragon thirteen, when it is necessary to pull all the infantry out to fight, what remains in the middle of the large array is the extra four sentinels and two hundred people, in addition to being a supplement to the rest of the sentinels, it can also be used as an independent force to kill from it.

If the number of your army is not regular, given that the literacy rate of your soldiers is extremely low, you should not even think about quickly deploying a large array on the battlefield.

A strange array with four corners and one horn growing out of it, which has never been seen by people including Hu Dawei and Cao Bianjiao.

If it is placed in peacetime, whether it is Hu Dawei or Cao Bianjiao, they will send cavalry to meet the battle, because according to the usual idea, it is impossible for the thieves to set up a large formation in a short time, even if they are deployed, if they are all infantry troops, they will be broken by sending a cavalry at will.

But Hu Dawei and Cao Bianjiao have both suffered losses from Long Thirteen, and obviously they will not be fooled so easily, but in any case, the two of them drove their men out, and still left Zhang Dechang to guard the camp.

Both of them had half of the cavalry under their command, and when they left the camp, they were all infantry in front and cavalry in the rear, obviously in their minds, cavalry was used as a decisive force, and as for the infantry army, even if it was elite, it existed as an auxiliary force, or even a consuming force.

This is the reality of the official army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cavalry has gradually become a private army, and the infantry army has gradually become a cannon fodder unit.

It is hard to believe that such a force can have any combat effectiveness, that is, it can deal with the thieves in the early stage, and once it is against an elite like the Jianzhou Jurchen, it will naturally fall for a thousand miles.

Of course, in this era, there was not a lack of elite infantry troops, such as the southern provinces that lacked horses and were not very conducive to cavalry activities, and their infantry troops naturally became an important force, and they may also become domestic soldiers.

But in the north, in any case, cavalry was still the decisive force.

At present, if this situation is consumed, it will be detrimental to Long Thirteen, because he doesn't know which Ming army will join in, so he must be the first to move!

The strange big array moved!

This looked very funny in the eyes of Hu Dawei and the others on the other side, as if they were looking at a huge turtle.

But both Hu Dawei and Cao Bianjiao did not show contempt because of the funny of the Dragon Thirteen Great Array, but they both became dignified.

As soon as Dragon Thirteen moved, they had to move too.

The 1,000-foot army of the Ming army was dispatched, and it was still the usual routine, taking into account the fire soldiers that the opponent was inexplicably placed in the four corners, they were in front with sword and shield soldiers with large shields, followed by ordinary sword and shield soldiers, behind were archers, and behind them were two captains of spearmen.

A thousand people lined up in a "product" shaped formation to greet them!

"Boom ......"

Seeing this, Long Thirteen immediately made people sound the big gong, and when the fire soldiers at the four corners heard it, they immediately turned around and ran towards the large array of pikemen!

At this moment, Cao Bianjiao seized the fighter plane, and he set out with five hundred cavalry!

"Now I can see that the firecrackers can be hidden in the pikemen, but if you want to change the formation on the battlefield and in front of us, aren't you afraid of being hit by our cavalry?"

He rushed with five hundred horsemen to the firecrackers of one horn!

At this time, the distance between the two sides is no more than two hundred meters, and the axis of the three rows of musketeers almost coincides with the diagonal of the pikemen's array.

Then the remaining musketeers moved closer to his right, while another sentry commander was next to him, and this sentry commander's men lined up to his left.

The advantage of this is that once the three-stage strike is carried out, the head of the post can take the lead and quickly turn backwards, and both posts can be turned at the same time, so the speed will be much faster.

When Cao Bianjiao's cavalry rushed over, they could avoid the spear formation!

Also, when they turn in, they must be hiding in the back rows of pikemen, and if they hide in the first three rows and affect them, it is very likely that the pikemen will be damaged.

In this case, only the sentry can always take everyone to hide in the right position, otherwise, they will all hula and hide inside, and they will definitely be chaotic.

For Long Thirteen, whether it is a pikeman or a firecracker, except for a few outstanding ones, they are all easy to drill and easy to form an army.

Of course, even so, it is impossible to train without a lot of frequent training.

So, when Cao Bianjiao rushed over, what was left for them was Rulin's spear!

This is not the end of the story, as mentioned earlier, when such a large Spanish phalanx is formed, the length of its side facing the enemy is about 200 meters (four sentinels, the widest of which allows the musketeers to hide in), and when it shrinks, it is about 100 meters.

And when the pikemen formation was shrinking, the firecrackers on the horns were naturally shrinking with it, so just when Cao Bianjiao was stunned, his cavalry entered the effective range of the other two horned firecrackers!

"Bang ......"

The musketeers on both sides are starting to shoot!

Round after round, there are three rows in total, and the two corners are six rounds!

At this time, Cao Bianjiao naturally wanted to ride his horse to the other corner, but first, he didn't know if the firecrackers on the opposite side would still hide in the spear formation like just now, and secondly, when the firecrackers sounded, after seeing his companions being hit, the war horses would instinctively dodge.

As a result, it is completely impossible to instigate the war horse to get to the position he wants.

At this time, their horses were running backwards.

But at this time, their infantry also approached the spear formation!

I saw that the platoon of pikemen facing the enemy suddenly became slack, and then ten tiger squat cannons were revealed from inside!

"Boom ......"

The Tiger Squat Cannon flew out with five solid shells!

The solid bullet knocked five large shieldmen with shields to the ground, and then brought down a large piece of the back!

"Boom ......"

The artillery is roaring again!

This time it's a shotshot!

The roaring shotgun "penetrated" into the formation of the sword and shield soldiers like wind and sand, and the formation that had been loosened due to the impact of the five solid bullets just now!

That's where the Tiger Squat Cannon comes in.

If it is a general artillery, it is impossible to move it to a suitable position at any time according to the enemy's situation, but only a 50-pound tiger squat cannon can be completely done, and a soldier with great strength can carry it alone.

This kind of tactic was often used by Qi Jiguang when dealing with the Mongols in the past, but then I didn't see it much later, maybe it was the real elite of the Jianzhou Jurchens who would not retreat even if they were killed or injured at the beginning.

Because at this time, if the artillery wants to complete the clearing, reloading, and then fire the next round, it will take at least a few minutes, and the infantry on the opposite side will have already been killed!

At this time, the Ming army, who knew their strength, did not talk about artillery, and even the heavily armed pikemen, sword and shield soldiers would scatter and flee, and those who had the ability to stand still could only flee in a hurry under a charge from Bayara on the opposite side.

But this was obviously not the case with Long Thirteen's infantry troops, and I saw that the pikemen in the first two rows broke away from the pikemen formation and began to rush towards the enemy infantry on the opposite side in a trotting manner!