Their arrangement, at first, was decided by many generals together, but now it seems that the front is blocked by a wooden fence, and then used bows and arrows and firearms to shoot at the rebels, which is completely useless, and it cannot stop the rebels from having many arrows.

Moreover, after the rebel archers threw away their bows, they were also good at foot combat.

Most of the archers were professional archers and rarely fought on foot.

Xu Cheng believed that the wooden fence was useless, and the wall was built directly with mud and stone, and the officers and soldiers should shrink behind the wall, so that they could effectively defend with the help of geographical advantages.

The officers and soldiers were on the defensive, with five or six hundred thousand people, because they were afraid of the rebels' artillery and wanted to use layers of mud walls to consume the rebels' artillery.

Xu Cheng thinks this is useful.

Just as he was providing ideas for the back, the rebel army in front had already begun to change formations.

Woo, woo-—— woo-—— woo-—— the horn of the rebel army seems to have a saying, one short and three long, and then the dark banner waves.

Xu Cheng watched the back of the rebel army writhe like waves.

After a full quarter of an hour, I saw the rebel army parting layer by layer like a tide, and strange vehicles appeared behind them.

It is the car commonly used by Jin in the late Ming Dynasty.

These carts had been prepared in the middle of the rebel army's large array, and they were originally used to prevent the front from rushing into the unfavorable position, but they did not expect that the wooden fence of the officers and troops was directly removed from the front, and now they were replaced after seeing the mud walls and firearms.

It was the first time Xu Cheng saw the rebel army's car, and he was stunned, and subconsciously felt that this car looked bulky and bulky, and it might be difficult to deal with.

The rebel army shrank behind the carts one after another, and after a while, hundreds of carts lined up in the front row.

The Houjin car is two-wheeled, after the founding of the Houjin Dynasty, it is extremely good at using the car, regardless of the field siege, every battle must be used.

Huang Taiji even gave an order: "If you encounter an enemy, if you don't have a car, don't go to battle."

Zhu Gaoxu's chariot is four-wheeled, and it is used as a transport vehicle in peacetime, and in wartime, the four sides are removed and overlapped on the front side, and the four pieces are integrated into one, which immediately becomes a chariot.

The body is about four steps wide and six steps long, the front plate is six steps wide, three people in the back, two people on the left and right, and seven people push at the same time.

After every push moment, someone will rotate behind to maintain everyone's physical strength.

When the Houjin was fighting, four chariots were allocated for every thirty people, also to maintain physical strength.

The formation of the rebel army changed unhurriedly, and after the first row of wagons was lined up, there was immediately the sound of cannons, and then an order came from the rear to advance.

Under the movement of the chariot, the rebel army followed behind and attacked again.

The officers and soldiers were a little helpless in the face of such a 'weapon', and Xu Cheng was also full of surprise.

But he didn't hesitate, and when the rebel army entered the range of the bowl, he immediately gave an order.

Boom, boom, they began to fire a large number of bowl-mouth guns.

At this time, he was a little depressed, because it would take a long time to shoot a second shot.

And the rebel army pushed the cart very slowly, unlike the previous infantry battalion rushing forward.

Knowing that the rebel army was attacking with a chariot, he would definitely not use such a formation.

However, the rebel army did use the infantry battalion to rush before, and Xu Cheng also thought that after the first shot, there would be no chance to shoot the second artillery, so the layout was naturally more casual.

Unexpectedly, the rebel army suddenly changed its style of play and pressed forward with a chariot.

In the first wave, many of them hit the rebel army, some hit the crowd, and some hit the car.

Hitting the car can't completely break the combined four thick plates, especially at 50 steps away, the power will be smaller.

In the first round of bowl-mouth blows, only thirty or forty cars were scrapped.

As soon as their cannon fire was over, the rebels quickened their speed and pushed the cart forward desperately.

The people behind also threw into the official army formation from time to time.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides were once again in close arms.

"Kill." The dense flow of people of the rebel army roared like a flood and rushed to the first wall of the official army.

Bang bang bang, the rebels jumped on the cart one after another.

Originally, the officers and soldiers were behind the wall, and there were still some obstacles in front of them.

Unexpectedly, the rebel army jumped into the car and directly became condescending.

Fluttering, the front of the rebel army was all replaced by pikemen, condescending, stabbing under the wall.

The officers and soldiers couldn't stand it for a while, and they ran back one after another.

Behind is the pit, with a springboard on it, and you can only run backwards one by one.

Someone fell directly into the ditch in a hurry.

The rebels either climbed over the earthen wall, or toppled the earthen wall, and then either knocked the wall down in the ditch, or removed the slabs from the cart and spread it on the ditch.

There were also rebels who directly pushed the corpses and wounded of officers and soldiers into the ditch.

The officers and troops were defeated and retreated, and they were lost everywhere.

In less than half an hour, Xu Cheng already felt that he couldn't hold on.

The rebel army fought too fiercely, and all kinds of means emerged one after another, and the walls and ditches of the officers and troops could not be stopped.

Zhu Di's idea was to organize layers of defense, consume the artillery of the rebel army step by step, and finally rely on the advantage of troops to fight a decisive battle.

But I didn't expect that the rebel army didn't use artillery at all, and the infantry directly pressed up for hand-to-hand combat.

If you have a wall, I will tear down your wall, and if you have a ditch, I will fill it.

The ditch that the officers and soldiers had worked so hard to dig and the wall that was built became a joke.

If you can't stop the ants in the infantry camp from engaging in hand-to-hand combat, no amount of walls and ditches will be useless.

And the key is that the officers and soldiers really can't stop it.

Because Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses fought a bit like the Houjin of later generations, the front was in hand-to-hand combat, the back row was still using heavy arrows, and there were intermittent artillery hitting the middle and rear of the officers and soldiers.

It is equivalent to carrying out three-dimensional strikes on the officers and troops in three directions.

It can be said that without strict discipline and the determination to fight to the death, no army can resist it.

The walls of the officers and soldiers were layered one by one, and if the officers and soldiers in the back row wanted to come out to support the front, they would be shot by heavy arrows in the back row of the rebel army.

If you don't come out to support, you can only watch the officers and soldiers behind the front wall being slowly stabbed to death by the rebels.

Xu Cheng kept dispatching troops, but he could only watch as the rebel army tore down the walls they had built, filled in the ditches they had dug, and approached layer by layer.

The shouts and killings at the scene shook the sky, and they were all the voices of the rebel army, and only the screams and wails of the officers and soldiers echoed.

The two sides fought in every wall and ditch, and the officers and troops were defeated one after another, losing one position after another.

The rebels climbed over walls and ditches like ants.

The two sides fought from morning to noon, about two hours later, when suddenly there was a commotion among the officers and soldiers, and then a large number of officers and troops fled backwards.

Xu Cheng's front line of their defense was finally broken down after holding out all morning.

At first, it was just a retreat of the officers and troops on a stretch of line, then a retreat on the whole line, and many people jumped directly into the ditch, and then waited in the ditch to surrender.

After Xu Cheng finally collected the defeated troops in the second line of defense, there were 15,600 soldiers and horses in the three guards, and less than 10,000 retreated.

Nearly a third was lost in one morning.

At this time, behind them, the second wave of soldiers led by Tan Qing was already in full array, and the phalanxes were lined up for several miles.

The second wave had about 50,000 horses, and knew that the rebel army did not have much artillery, so half of the soldiers and horses were already lined up, and there were infantry horses gathering outside one after another.

Prepare to wait for a counter-charge that will hit the rebels.

Xu Cheng and Jiang Shan went to see Zhu Di in disgrace.

Zhu Di asked them that they were not allowed to retreat if they were not half killed, but the officers and troops could not resist it at all, and the defense line of more than 10,000 people was broken down in the morning.

Zhu Di was afraid of cannons, so he was far behind.

He had already received the news that Xu Cheng and Jiang Shan had retreated in front of him, and he was annoyed and angry: "Let them fight with Tan Qing and defend the second line." ”

He almost wanted to kill these two, but after thinking about it, he held back.

So Xu Cheng and Jiang Shan and the others reorganized the soldiers and horses, lined up among Tan Qing's soldiers and horses, and waited quietly.

The rebel army in front was still filling in the ditch and pushing the wall, and in less than half an hour, soldiers and horses entered within 500 steps of the official army one after another.

Tan Qing rode on the horse, Zheng, directly drew his knife, waved the knife and shouted: "Give me, the whole army charges-"

"Rush"

About 60,000 men from the two divisions of the official army suddenly made a counter-charge on the entire front, trying to take the rebel army by surprise when the rebel army was not firmly established.

To say that Zhu Di's command and arrangement are okay.

It is not easy for ordinary people to get into the first line of defense, and it is estimated that it will be like this in the back, with walls and ditches.

Unexpectedly, the second wave of officers and soldiers was waiting for them, just to catch them off guard.

But the officers and soldiers dug so many ditches, pitted the rebel army, and also pitted themselves.

Before the rebel army came completely, they did not dare to rush.

Now the rebels have finally come and are charging forward.

The rebel army, which had finally managed to kill the first line of defense, was also hurriedly assembled and assembled in place.

But seriously, 500 steps is really not close, and you usually have to take a good breath when you run 500 steps.

Tan Qing couldn't wait to give the order to charge, the distance is really far, why don't you wait for the rebel army to step forward, your army will slowly press up, and finally rush again.

I saw a mighty army rushing over, just past three hundred and fifty paces.

Suddenly.

Boom, a cannon rang out from the sky.

Whoosh, a black cannonball flew from behind the rebels.

"Charge, don't be afraid, the rebels don't have much artillery available." Tan Qing was still yelling.

Boom, boom, boom, the next moment, the continuous sound of artillery non-stop.

Whoosh, hundreds of shells flew over.

This was the largest artillery bombardment since the rebel army was formed, and there were more artillery pieces than in the last Guangxi battle.

In the last Guangxi War, in order to maintain continuous artillery bombardment, Zhu Gaoxu took into account the long rate of fire in this era, more than 200 artillery pieces were divided into seven or eight rounds, and only a few dozen guns were fired in each round.

The interval between each round is about one and a half minutes, and the firing time of the same round is also before and after, which forms a continuous cycle.

Now close to a hundred guns.

The launch time of each gate also varies.

Boom, boom, boom, a hundred cannons went off for more than three minutes in a row before they finished.

The scene was spectacular, with a constant stream of cannonballs flying in the air.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, one shell after another fell into the large array of officers and troops.

This wave of artillery fell, and the scene was full of wailing, with countless casualties.

Tan Qing and Xu Chengzhen understood that His Majesty the Emperor said that Zhu Gaoxu had no intention of fighting and did not follow common sense shamelessly.

The officers and soldiers were heavily killed and wounded by this wave of artillery, and when they rushed in front of the rebel army, they were faced with layers of carts and a dense rain of arrows.

The situation was reversed, and the rebel army was used as a wall, with pikemen in front and archery in the back.

Once again, the two sides entered a fierce hand-to-hand fight.

But this time, it was less than half an hour before the winner was decided.

The rear of the officers and soldiers was the first to turn around and flee.

(End of chapter)