"Array! Array! ”

"The gunner loads the cannon and prepares to meet the enemy!"

In front of the Qing army, countless foot soldiers with slender and obscene braids were running, lined up in a phalanx under the orders of their respective generals, and the green battalion soldiers holding bird guns stood on the front line, looking at the Ming army slowly entering the battlefield on the opposite side, nervously but orderly loading the bird guns.

However, the wind seemed to be a little strong today, and one of the Qing soldiers frowned at the military flag that was constantly fluttering by the wind, and then at the soldier who was pouring gunpowder into the barrel of the gun beside him, and some of the gunpowder that the soldier poured out of the medicine bag was blown out by the wind, causing him to curse in a low voice.

Not only him, but many of the soldiers in the queue also encountered this situation.

"It's not good." The general manager secretly thought in his heart, he thought about it, but still found Mr. Qian, and told the other party what he saw, but Mr. Qian waved his hand disapprovingly, and said: "Don't worry, this wind is due south, we will be affected, and the Ming army will also be affected, go back to your queue." ”

Since Mr. Qian said this, he had no choice but to take this matter to heart, and returned to his team, and when he returned to the team, he saw that the Ming army on the opposite side had stopped entering and began to set up an offensive formation, and the hundreds of artillery pieces were not set up in front of the military formation, but placed on the higher ground on both wings, and had heavy guards.

He looked up at the dazzling sunlight, and estimated the time in his heart, combined with the hunger in his belly, if he was not mistaken, it should be noon.

"It's about four o'clock in the afternoon, Inspector."

On the opposite side, in the Ming army formation, Wang Yi withdrew his gaze from the sky and said to Su Yan.

"It's noon." Su Yan nodded, remembering the common "noon has arrived" in film and television dramas, so he said rather funny: "Noon has arrived, it's time to send the Qing army on the road." ”

Who knows, Wang Yi and Su Ci seemed to have received an order, and promised: "Oh! ”

Subsequently, Wang Yi said in a loud voice: "The superintendent has an order, it has arrived at noon, send the Qing army on the road!" ”

"The superintendent has an order, noon has arrived, send the Qing army on the road!"

Su Yan's order was quickly reached to everyone's ears layer by layer, and when he saw that Wang Yi was so serious, he was immediately a little embarrassed, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only acquiesce.

Soon, the Ming army was arrayed, Su Yan immediately ordered to blow the horn of attack, and several phalanxes of the Ming army advanced at a neat pace, and at the same time, the artillery erected on both flanks also began to ignite the lead and launch an artillery bombardment on the Qing army's position.

Seeing that the Ming army took the lead in attacking, Tan Tai, who was sitting firmly in the army, was like sinking water, he waved his big hand, and the flag bearer on his side raised the flag, the war drums of the Qing army sounded, and dozens of shield carts immediately rushed forward under the impetus of the green battalion soldiers, and the foot soldiers holding bird guns followed closely behind, and there were archers behind them, and finally the sword and shield bearers in armor.

However, because the soil on the battlefield was relatively soft, the cavalry of the Qing army could not fight from the flanks and surrounded the Ming army in a roundabout way, and the same was true for the Ming army, so on this battlefield, the two sides could only fight with infantry.

Su Yan looked at the skin-covered shield cart slowly pushed by the Qing army on the opposite side, his brows frowned slightly, he naturally understood the usefulness of this shield cart and the object of restraint, so he ordered: "Let the punishment battalion come forward and snatch the shield cart of the Qing army." ”

"The punishment battalion stepped forward and attacked!"

Su Yan's order was quickly carried out, and the 5,000 infantry soldiers of the punishment battalion immediately carried their shields and weapons into the battlefield amid the shouts of the officers in the battalion, and they passed through the passage reserved by the Ming army in front of them to the back of the line infantry, and as long as the line infantry and the Qing army exchanged fire, they would launch an attack.

"Fire!"

Rumble –

A series of cannon sounds sounded behind him, and Ma Xin then heard the cannonball whistling overhead, and then crossed the Ming army formation, and smashed into the Qing army formation on the opposite side, although the view in front was blocked by the line infantry, but Ma Xin could still see the human limbs that were torn apart after being hit by the cannonball.

Ma Xin, who was once a general of Taizhou Prefecture, intended to use the natural danger of Yandang Mountain to resist the Ming army going north, but was stolen by the Ming army, and had to surrender to the Ming army after the fall of the mansion, and then was incorporated into the punishment camp and became a garrison with jurisdiction over 1,000 people.

Although he is the garrison of the punishment battalion, but his status in the Ming army is not even as good as a hundred households in the regular army, in order to be able to climb up and turn over as the master, he behaved very positively in several battles, and his luck was not bad, and he did not die in the first few battles, and successfully survived to this day.

Rumble!

At this time, a cannonball hit a shield cart head-on, making a deafening sound, and the layers of special skin wrapped on the surface of the shield cart failed to protect the shield cart under the shelling, and the shield cart was directly penetrated, sawdust and fragments flew sideways, and the soldiers hiding behind the shield cart were also hit by the piercing shells, and there were no corpses.

"Don't waver, keep going! Those who retreat without permission, behead! ”

The Qing army generals and commanders who were personally active on the front line roared loudly and angrily, warning the green battalion soldiers who were shaken by the artillery bombardment, although the latter was frightened, but after seeing the bright waist knife in the hand of the general commander, the idea of retreating suddenly disappeared.

At this moment, the artillery of the Qing army also launched a counterattack, accompanied by the sound of continuous artillery, the shells flew directly over the heads of the Qing troops on the front line, and fell head-on into the Ming army's formation.

For a time, the Ming army continued to wail in the column, and dozens of people died on the spot, but they showed no signs of wavering, and the soldiers gritted their teeth, stepped on the corpses of fallen comrades to fill the vacant positions, and continued to move forward.

Finally, the distance between the two armies was constantly drawn, and the line infantry stopped only after entering a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, they stood firm, raised their rifles, and fired a volley of guns under the anxious gaze of the Qing army on the opposite side, and the bullets crackled on the shield cart, even if they penetrated the skin covering it, they were still blocked by the wood behind them, stuck in the wood and unable to continue to move forward.

The soldiers in the first row fired a volley and quickly squatted down to reload, and the soldiers in the back row immediately raised their guns to shoot, after three consecutive volleys, although the Qing army did not suffer too many casualties due to the cover of the shield carts, but those soldiers in the gap between the shield carts were miserable, they only felt a pain in their chests, and the whole person fell down with a wail.

After three rounds of volleys, just when the Qing soldiers behind the shield car were glad that the shield car had protected themselves, they heard the passionate horn sounding in the Ming army formation on the opposite side, and then saw countless bald soldiers wearing uniforms, holding shields and spears, and waist knives shouting and rushing out along the passage reserved by the Ming army in the front row.