After some investigation, Tapotian learned that this time it was the real elite of the Golden Eagle Empire, and it was 500,000.

However, according to the scout, most of the soldiers in it were new recruits, and they didn't have the murderous aura of veterans at all.

After all, if it is a new recruit, even if it is well-trained and well-equipped, once it is on the battlefield, maybe ten percent of the strength can be exerted at most fifty percent. Some guys will be completely stunned, completely forgetting the combat skills they have learned in previous training.

The Blue Dragon Empire had suffered defeats before, and the active soldiers had suffered very heavy losses, so he guessed that this army must have just been trained by the other party, but it was only three months, how could it be able to train the real elite!

After determining in his heart that the other party was a group of vulnerable recruits, he led more than 20,000 troops under his command and took the initiative to meet the opponent's vanguard troops.

According to the scouts, the opponent's vanguard force, only about 10,000 people, walked very carefully, it seems that the day is at most twenty or thirty miles away, waiting for the other party to come over may have to wait until the evening, stepping through the day and not wanting to be afraid of the other party's night attack at night, so they took the initiative to attack, ready to annihilate the opponent's vanguard force in the daytime.

At the same time, the vanguard of the Golden Eagle Empire was still advancing slowly.

The reason why they advanced so slowly was not that they could not walk, but that they were not ambushed by the enemy.

Previously, Agucos summarized the reasons for the defeat of several official armies sent by the empire to quell the rebellion, and found that most of them were due to the ambush of the rebels.

And the reason for this situation, Agucos felt that it was likely that Du Geng secretly revealed the whereabouts of the official army to those rebels, otherwise there was no reason why the official army would always be guessed by those rebels on the marching route, and then collapsed after being ambushed.

So this time to send troops, Agukos is very cautious, and has been reminding his generals of this matter, after all, although it has been cleaned up before, no one dares to guarantee that Prime Minister Du Geng's eyeliner in the army has been cleared.

For this situation, many generals feel very aggrieved, feeling that this is very unfair, because with Du Geng's ventilation report, the rebels are like unilaterally opening the perspective hanging, and they can know the whereabouts of the officers and soldiers at any time, but it is difficult for them to know the movements of the rebels.

Although he felt very aggrieved in his heart, this battle still had to be fought, so the general of the vanguard could only obey the orders of the marshal Agucos, and every time he took a step, he had to let the scouts probe the surroundings several times, and walked cautiously, for fear of being ambushed by the enemy.

However, he led his subordinates, galloped like flying, and soon rushed to a road that the officers and troops must pass, and hid the troops in a forest that was very suitable for ambushes, and waited for those officers and soldiers to arrive and suddenly kill from the woods on both sides of the road, and hit the other party by surprise.

This trick can be said to be tried and tested, and the bandits and bandits under him are naturally far inferior to the officers and soldiers when it comes to fighting in a dignified formation, but this kind of surprise attack and melee is their strong point, and they really make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

And after stepping through the sky and letting his subordinates ambush him, it was only less than half an hour before the vanguard of the official army appeared in his field of vision.

However, what made Tapotian frown was that the other party stopped when he was still some distance away from the woods, and then sent hundreds of light cavalry to start an inch-by-inch ground exploration around, those officers and soldiers did not even let go of the weeds on the side of the road, and when they passed by, they would poke a few times into the grass with the spear in their hands, if there were ambushes inside, they would definitely not be able to hide.

"Boss, these officers and soldiers are so careful, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to succeed in the ambush this time! Why don't we withdraw? After seeing this scene, a cronie next to Tapotian leaned into Tapotian's ear and whispered.

"It's too unwilling to retreat like this, and more than 20,000 people retreated, and the movement was not small, it was likely to be detected by the officials and soldiers, and when the other party chased and killed with the tail, it was likely to be a big rout!" He thought about it for a while, but he didn't agree with his suggestion.

"So you still have to fight to withdraw? Why don't I go and tell the brethren to prepare for battle? ”

"Hmmm! Inform everyone to sneak closer, and wait until you get as close as possible to the official army, and then listen to my orders and kill them together! ”

So, under the order of stepping through the sky, these rebels slowly wriggled close to the officers and soldiers one by one like worms in the bushes.

In the end, when they got close to about 800 meters, they could no longer get close, because the cavalry sent by the enemy had already searched here little by little, and if they continued to advance, they would inevitably be discovered by those officers and scouts who were extremely cautious.

So he was not ready to go down when he stepped through the sky, and directly rode on his mount, a giant chicken dragon with nine strengths of the day after tomorrow, and then raised his thick-backed machete with one hand, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me to kill the officers and soldiers!" ”

As the leader of the bandits, this voice is indeed loud, and under this roar, not only did those rebel soldiers hear it clearly, but even the officers and soldiers not far away on the opposite side were startled by this sudden roar.

When the officers and soldiers turned their eyes in the direction from which the sound came, they saw a figure suddenly emerge from the mountains and forests, as if the mountains were full of enemy troops.

"Not good! Enemy attack! Prepare for battle! Seeing this, the vanguard general of the Golden Eagle Empire immediately gave an order.

This general named Zhang Xiangwu is actually not very capable of himself, and the reason why he can serve as this vanguard general this time is mainly because he also participated in the last big battle with the Qinglong Empire, and has seen how the Qinglong Empire uses those firearms.

Therefore, Agucos overrode the public opinion and made him a vanguard general, leading this vanguard army equipped with a large number of firearms.

This vanguard force numbered just over 10,000 men, but there were 2,000 musketeers alone, and ten more artillery pieces. One combat airship, five hundred cavalry and five hundred chariot troops.

Agukos felt that if this army could really give full play to the power of all kinds of firearms in accordance with the usual training, then even if it encountered the onslaught of 50,000 or 60,000 enemy troops, it would be able to support it for about half a day, and these times would be enough for the main force of the Chinese army to send reinforcements.

At this time, Zhang Xiangwu let the soldiers line up in formation as he usually trained, and then let the musketeers and artillery quickly start loading.

Unfortunately, due to the rush, most of the artillery had not yet had time to be unloaded from the gun truck, let alone reloaded.

Only the two thousand musketeers, under the cover of numerous pikemen, began to scramble to reload their ammunition.

It's no wonder that these soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire are so flustered, after all, they are all recruits who have just joined the army, and they have no actual combat experience, plus those rebels on the opposite side, most of them are still smeared with all kinds of colorful paints, and some even wear the kind of ghost masks with blue faces and fangs, and they will let out a strange scream when they run, and they look as terrifying as a group of mountain ghosts and demons from a distance.

Also because he was so nervous and panicked that a soldier, after reloading his rifle with ammunition, immediately opened fire on the enemy on the opposite side without waiting for the officer's order.

As a pop of gunfire rang out, the other soldiers who had already loaded their ammunition and were waiting for the officer's order to fire couldn't help but reflexively raise their rifles and fire.

After all, in such a tense situation, these people seem to think that the commander has actually given the order to shoot, and they are too nervous to hear it. So under the conditioned reflex, he also shot the bullet out.

This made Zhang Xiangwu and many Golden Eagle Empire officers dumbfounded, because the enemy was still more than five hundred meters away at this time! At this distance, the bullets of these flintlock rifles are not accurate at all, and their power will be greatly reduced, and they will not be able to kill a few enemies at all.

On the opposite side, it was the giant rooster dragon mount charging that he heard a burst of swishing sounds, and one of the bullets slashed through his mask mountain, and finally cut off a small piece of his left ear, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't help but clench his teeth.

Fortunately, it was blocked by the ghost mask made of fine iron, otherwise, the bullet would have made a big hole in his cheek.

However, there are not many unlucky rebels who are hit by bullets, and after a round of shooting, only a dozen rebels are shot down, and the other bullets do not know where to fly.

"What kind of weapon is this? How can you hit so far! While secretly shocking the range of this long-range weapon of the official army, he lowered his body as low as possible, almost lying on the back of his mount, in order to reduce his chance of being shot.

To be honest, this posture is not comfortable to ride this giant dragon, because this dragon only uses two legs to run after all, and it is far less stable than a four-legged horse, and the bumps are very violent, and you usually have to clamp the mount with both legs to prevent yourself from being thrown out.

As a result, he was still worried about loneliness in the end, and the musketeers of the Golden Eagle Empire on the opposite side were immediately severely reprimanded by the officers after releasing a round of guns in advance, and then under the urging of the officers, they hurriedly reloaded the rifles again.

However, the reprimand of the officers just now made these soldiers know that they have made a big mistake, and they cannot help but panic even more when they are worried that they will be punished after the war, and when they reload their ammunition, they are full of mistakes and omissions, and some of them have not even reloaded the gunpowder, so they hurriedly stuff the bullets into the barrel of their guns.

And the more panicked this is, the more mistakes will be made, and the slower the reloading speed will be, and the ammunition that can be loaded in tens of seconds has not been completed for more than a minute.

This made Tapotian wait there for a long time, without waiting for the gunshots to sound, only a few sparse arrows fell, which did not hinder the charge of the soldiers under his command at all.

At this time, the rebels on the opposite side had already rushed in front of them, and one of them took the lead, wearing a hideous ghost mask, and roared and threw a throwing axe at the enemy pikemen who were in front of him.

The other rebels followed suit, throwing throwing weapons such as javelins and throwing axes at the pikemen on the opposite side.

There were also some rebel crossbowmen who were holding crossbows and shooting fiercely at the opposing enemy almost at a distance close to their faces.

Suddenly, the pikemen of the Golden Eagle Empire were shot down, speaking of which, the current phalanx spear of the Golden Eagle Empire is much longer than before, about six meters, which is longer than the phalanx spear of the Blue Dragon Empire, which is obviously to specifically restrain the pikemen of the Blue Dragon Empire.

But with such a long phalanx spear in his hand, the soldier must have to exert his strength with both hands, and it is impossible to carry a shield at all, as for those elite sword and shield soldiers, their training is much more difficult than that of pikemen, and it is not something that can be completed in just three months, so except for Agukos, who has more than a thousand around him, there is no such sword and shield soldier in other troops. Because there was no shield to cover them, these pikemen were immediately knocked down by them on the spot.

The recruits who were on the battlefield for the first time looked at their companions who had fallen to the ground and their heads dented by the flying axes, and their legs trembled with fright, and they began to retreat involuntarily towards the rear, causing the originally tight gun array to quickly disintegrate itself.