Bolo made an impassioned speech, but there were very few of them, only a young man beside Abatai kept applauding, this was Bolo's younger brother Yue Le, at this time he was only nineteen years old, and he had not yet been able to lead the army, so he had been pressed by Abatai's side.

Except for him, the older clans and Gushan all had the same expressions. Zilharang beckoned to Bolo, who walked over with hope, but Zilharang gave him a slap in the face.

"I don't need your bravery here, there are minions out there who are not afraid of death, I need your wisdom and strategy." After giving Bolo a crisp slap, Zilharang said indifferently.

Yue Le saw that his brother was beaten, and he was about to step forward, but he was directly stopped by Abatai, Yue Le said anxiously: "Ama........" ”

"If it's me, I'll give him ten lashes. You remember, if you fight a war in the future, it will be smooth, and if you are frustrated, you must not be angry, and the more angry you are, the more stupid things you will do. For the general, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, and the success will still be so, if it fails......... That is going to destroy the country and the species. Abatai's face was solemn, and he said to his son.

He also didn't want his son to be beaten by outsiders, but Abatai knew that the art of fighting was definitely not something that could be mastered by bravery and fearlessness.

If Zilharang's slap calmed him down, Abatai's words made him sober up completely.

Zierharang then said: "Seventh brother, we don't have a cannon now, all we can use is the shield car, try a round with the shield car, if you can't beat it, return to Gaizhou, and wait for the red-coated cannon from Jinzhou to arrive, what does Seventh Brother think?" ”

Abatai said: "You and I are one mind, but I asked the minions who handled it, even if we made some temporary, we only have less than ninety shield cars. ”

According to the rules of the Qing army, there should be four shield cars for every 100 people, this time the Qing army went south more than 8,000, there should be more than 300 shield cars, but the shield cars are also very heavy, and the Qing army galloped all the way south, only in the Haicheng area to collect some, to Gaizhou, temporarily transformed a group of smaller defense shield cars, but the number is only more than 80 cars.

Zilharang said lightly: "If you want to deal with the Ming army, there are fewer than eighty vehicles, but to deal with the thieves in front of you, it is more, and it looks like it is arranged in two rows, or even three rows." ”

Abatai was stunned for a moment, and then everyone around him understood.

The large and small phalanxes of the Eastern Brigade have strong firepower, and the use of shield vehicles is to defend against its firepower, but the problem is that the frontal width of the Eastern Brigade's phalanx is too narrow, and the front of the small phalanx is only 150 meters wide.

Sonny said on the side: "Two princes, we can just take this pair of belongings, and we can't ignore them." ”

As he spoke, he stepped forward and drew a square and a rectangle on the ground with the scabbard of his saber, representing the two phalanxes of the Eastern Brigade, and then said: "Naturally, we want to attack the northwest side, if we set up two or three columns of shield carts to attack, the rear phalanx will split up a group of people around the two wings to attack our shield cart array?" ”

"Can't we just put the two wings of cavalry to cover?" Yue Legao said loudly.

Abatai glared at his son and scolded: "You shut up for me, do you think this is fighting the Ming army?" ”

If the Ming army is beaten, the shield car will naturally advance under the cover of the cavalry, the cavalry is arranged on both wings, behind the shield car array, let the shield car attack with the shotgun fired by the Ming army's various guns, and advance until the distance is less than ten steps, and then let the Qing army behind the shield car shoot the face and throat of the Ming army with a clear bow and arrows.

But the problem is that it is not the Ming army in front of us.

In the field against the Ming army, the cavalry is spread out on both flanks, as long as it does not get close to one hundred and fifty steps, there will be no effective firepower, but in the face of the Eastern Brigade, at least five hundred steps is safe, is there any effect of such cover?

Bolo crouched beside the pattern drawn by Sony, he looked carefully, completely engrossed, picked up a branch casually, and drew it up beside it, Zilharang did not let anyone disturb him, and after a while, seeing that Bolo had broken the branch, he asked, "Bolo, but what do you think?" ”

Bolo said: "Prince Zheng, I thought that the shield cart could cover, but it should not be a horizontal formation lined up in two or three columns, but advance at an angle. ”

As he spoke, he drew two lines on the northwest front of the formation, one almost at a right angle to the front of the attack, that is, extending from the north corner to the northwest, and the other extending forty-five degrees from the first line, and the two lines were the two rows of shield carts arranged by Bolo, forming a forty-five-degree angle, which could protect a considerable area.

This painting has not yet been explained, all the people are stunned, Zilharang simply sat cross-legged on the ground and pondered, the angle formed by the defense line of these two shield cars directly against the north corner artillery of the opponent's phalanx, there are three guns, if it is a frontal shot, the shells will encounter a lot of shield cars.

Zilharang had a wealth of experience in fighting the Ming army, and he knew very well that if people lined up in a row for the red-clothed cannons to hit, they would kill a dozen people in one shot, but the shield cart was very hard, and it was difficult to penetrate more than two shield carts.

Abatai also looked out of the doorway and said: "Prince Zheng, you see, the light red-coated cannon here, if it hits the front of this shield line, if it hits the front of the shield, it will damage two or three vehicles, if it hits the diagonal one, it will also hit one, because if it hits diagonally, except for the minions of the cart, the soldiers will not be killed." ”

Zilharang nodded heavily: "If the enemy really has the courage to divide his troops to attack from this formation, even if our cavalry does not cover in time, it will be difficult to use it after it is deployed. From the east, facing a row of shield carts, let's arrange the archers behind the shield carts, and use the shield carts as cover, and their group of unarmored gunners will be shot into hedgehogs.

It would be even more interesting if they attacked from the west, they would go between the slash shield carts and the small enemy phalanx, and their guns would not dare to fight.

It's really still a tactic, a belligerent formation. ”

Speaking of this, Zilharang laughed, patted Bolo, and said to Abatai: "Seventh brother, you have given birth to a good son, how come I don't have such good fortune." ”

Bo Luo was praised by so many people, and he didn't flutter, but rubbed off Fang Cai's corner shield car battle formation, and then drew a closer to the main attack point, and said: "Prince Zheng, Amma." My method is not used to directly break the formation. ”

Zilharan said, "Then you say, tell me in detail." ”

Bolo said: "Although our shield cart is strong, it will inevitably be broken by the enemy's artillery, I mean, the shield cart advances to a hundred paces away from the enemy and then stops temporarily, and uses the archers to throw light arrows, first destroy the three artillery pieces that the enemy has placed at the sharp corners, and I have seen that they are there, as long as the soldiers with firearms, none of them are armoured, and the light arrows thrown at a hundred paces can still cause casualties."

Then after driving the artillery away, he advanced again, so that the diagonal line of shield carts was parallel to the enemy's infantry, fifty paces away, or even closer, and let the archers shoot them in the front, first breaking them down, and then letting the armor that followed them charge. ”

Zilharan nodded his scabbard on both flanks and said, "What if the enemy's infantry outflanks your flanks?" ”

Bolo rubbed off the horizontal and vertical lines represented by the shield cart with his foot, and then redrew the diagram, one parallel to the horizontal formation where the standing camp to the northwest was located, and one perpendicular to it, forming a T-shaped array. "If the enemy attacks from both flanks, moves the shield cart perpendicular to the enemy's attack to the west, we avoid it from the east to the west, and if we attack from the west, we avoid it to the west, and then defend by the shield cart and shoot at the unprotected enemy with bows and arrows, and we will win," Bolo said. ”

Abatai frowned: "Then why don't you divide the shield chariots into two teams and form two defensive lines, so that the enemy can defend even if both wings attack at the same time." ”

Bolo said: "Amma, our goal is to destroy the enemy's phalanx, if it is only a defense, the enemy can advance and retreat freely, except for killing and injuring the enemy, how can we break the formation?" The best outcome is that the enemy can't stand it and breaks through in the direction of Yulinpu.

If it were me, I would leave a dozen shield carts in the camp, and when the enemy's flanks attacked, I would use the shield carts to cover some of the archers to flank the attacking enemy, and the friendly forces behind the shield carts would be flanked on both sides, forcing them to collapse, and when they returned to the camp, they would follow with cavalry and break through the enemy formation. ”

Zilharang looked at Abatai, the veteran seemed to want to refute Bolo with some words, but he couldn't think of any good way, Zilharang patted him on the shoulder and said: "How about it, Seventh Brother, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, our generation is old." ”

Abatai clapped his hands helplessly, and didn't feel any shame, as a man, he might be unwilling to be surpassed by other men, but he was surpassed by his own son, it was better than blue, and it was too late for him to be happy.

"Just follow Bolo's method, Seventh Brother, you command the cavalry to prepare for a breakthrough, Bolo, you come with me." Zilharang said.

Bolo said, "Prince Zheng, let me command the shield chariot." ”

"You, you are too young, how can such an important matter be entrusted to you. Sony, the attacking shield car, is at your command. Zilharang looked at Sonny and said.

Sonny was startled at first, and then nodded: "Yes, Prince Zheng, the slave will go and prepare." ”

Abatai saw Sonny go out, and cast a grateful look at Zilharang, the shield car is really close, the so-called attack, that is, the front defense, must be attacked by all kinds of firearms of the Eastern Brigade, especially the solid shells fired by those artillery, the shield car cannot be defended, even in the shield car is too dangerous.

Zilharang's arrangement is also a pity for talents, Bolo has great talents, he doesn't want this young man to charge into battle.

Under the arrangement of Zilharang, the Qing army began to move, and Li Zhaoji, who was directing the defense in the phalanx, immediately reacted.

The distance between the two phalanxes is only fifty meters, and between the phalanxes is the place of death, except for the unlucky ones who were brought into it by the crazy war horses, no one will come in, so the communication between the two phalanxes is smooth, after the Qing army's attack first took shape, Yang Yandi immediately sent Balai to report.

The reason why ordinary heralds are not sent is because heralds can only bring oral messages and letters, cannot convey too much news, and cannot understand the overall situation, but Balai is far better than heralds in the duties of staff officers.

After Balai arrived at the main formation, a hand-drawn sketch drawn by Yang Yandi was spread out on an ammunition box, and the two lines outlined the offensive intentions of the Qing army.

Yang Yandi obviously did not guess that the Qing army's shield car attack was a defense after advancing, after destroying the artillery position, using the shield car cover to carry out a projectile attack, and there were infantry who came out to attack the side with their back hands, but the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of shield car arrangement, Yang Yandi had already seen that even if it was only an offensive formation, it was also a huge threat.

"Map." Li Zhaoji said to his entourage, and then shouted: "Call all the battalion commanders, we are going to launch a counterattack." ”

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