Two miles outside Lucheng Town, Ma Cheng and Qi Biaojia's tens of thousands of troops were facing each other two miles apart. Both armies had already completed their entire teams, but the side did not take action first. The battlefield was very quiet for a while, and the neighing of war horses could be heard.

Ma Cheng used to start films directly when fighting with the Qing Dynasty, and he never encountered such a quiet scene. Ma Cheng didn't know if this was the rule of the Ming Dynasty war. Whether the two leaders still had to ride horses to compete, just like later TV series.

There are very few details of war in ancient Chinese official history, mainly for detailed descriptions of pre-war preparations and post-war results. There is no way, because in ancient times, intellectuals were the ones who had the right to speak, and because of their precious identity, these scholars did not go to the battlefield, so under their understanding, the face of war was recorded in all kinds of strange things.

For example, what formation maps, what tricks, etc., ancient wars had formations, but they were only a few basic formations, such as round and square formations, etc., in order to organize scattered soldiers for easy command. As for the tricks, the novelist said that the war progress was changing rapidly, and it was impossible for any gods to predict the results a few months ago.

However, the fight is still a bit influential. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China was the aristocratic era, and the war was all aristocratic scholars and officials. They believed that fighting was their own business and had nothing to do with the civilians. As long as the aristocrats resolved, the war could be ended. Therefore, there were many records of fighting generals in the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, in the Qin and Han dynasties, officials became a profession, and military generals were similar. They worked for the emperor, and there was no need to fight alone with the other generals. So from this period, wars were all spreading towards vulgarity. It would be better if you didn't know anything. I'd better catch you off guard when I was at the city.

Since the Song Dynasty, military generals were not allowed to study, and their social status was reduced, and no one really recorded what was going on in war. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, those unsuccessful literati sat at home to imagine the scene of war. With the records of star-studded generals in history, these literati thought that war should be like this. Before the two sides fought, the highest commander first scolded the other party for being immoral and unpresent, and then the commander beat each other with a knife. The morale of the winning party was greatly boosted, and the morale of the defeated party dropped sharply.

Ma Cheng didn't know what steps the war was going on during this period, but the experienced Zhang Guozhu had not come yet. There was no way Ma Cheng had to ask Tian Boguang beside him: "Old Tian, ​​what should we do next? Do we still have to fight alone?"

Tian Boguang was stunned when he heard Ma Cheng's question, and quickly replied: "Master, what is a one-on-one challenge?"

Ma Cheng said the meaning of fighting the general. Tian Boguang thought for a while and said, "Master, the general of the Mo was not yet heard of this kind of war in Guizhou. We just searched the guys and beat them up. Is there any kung fu fighting alone? But the general of the last was just a small flag before, and the customs in Nanzhili were probably different from those in Guizhou!"

After hearing Tian Boguang's words, Ma Cheng was hesitating whether to ride a horse out to fight Qi Biaojia alone. He heard that Qi Biaojia was an old man in his fifties and a civil servant, so he should not be able to defeat him. At this moment, the Lu Wang army on the opposite side changed. The central army divided a cavalry of thousands of people and rushed towards the Shenji Camp.

Chen Zhen, who was newly promoted to admiral on the Lu Wang Army, originally wanted to wait for his leisure and use his heavy infantry to consume Ma Cheng's cavalry. After all, Ma Cheng's cavalry

The number of people was greater than that of himself. But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement on Ma Cheng's side. The cavalry stood beside him and had no intention of charging.

Seeing this stalemate, Chen Zhen knew that this was his own battle. If he didn't win, then there would be no admiral. There was no way Chen Zhen had to send cavalry to attack the enemy infantry first, and at the same time arranged a deputy general on his side to lead 5,000 infantry to guard against the opponent's cavalry.

When Ma Cheng saw the cavalry on the opposite side rushed out first, his expression was revived. He took this opportunity to see how the Shenji Camp fought against the cavalry. The Shenji Camp had been training for two years. Although he had defeated the Mongols and Manchus in the Battle of Nanjing, it was in a specific environment, so the Shenji Camp's tactics specifically against the cavalry had not been effectively tested.

The tactics of Shenji Battalion against the cavalry are very simple, which is the hollow formation of Napoleon in later generations against the Russian cavalry.

The scientific name of the hollow large square array is the linear musket square array. Each thousand people form a hollow large square array. Each side of the square array is five rows, each row is fifty, and a total of 250 people. The first two rows of these five rows will stab the sword outward to prevent the impact of horses. The latter three rows use muskets to continuously shoot and damage the cavalry. At the same time, if conditions permit, you can arrange artillery at four corners to shoot shotguns, so that the defense is stronger.

This square formation was created by the Spanish, improved by Swedish King Gustav II, and finally flourished in the hands of Napoleon. Napoleon used this large square formation to fight the brave and warlike Cossack cavalry that could not find the north.

The core of this tactic is musket. Ma Cheng's newly improved musket has reached the strongest power of flints with the blessing of new gunpowder, so this tactic can be made possible. During this period, Spain was still using 80% of musket soldiers and 20% of spearmen to resist the impact of cavalry because of the power of gunpowder.

The five thousand households of Shenji Camp were all experienced veterans. When they saw the enemy cavalry rushing over, they immediately organized musketeers to change their formation and formed five hollow large formations.

As soon as the formation was changed, the enemy cavalry had already rushed into five hundred meters. At this time, the artillery at four corners of the square formation began to power, and the first wave of shotgun hit the cavalry.

The sound of artillery shocked Qi Biaojia. He had just seen the cannons in Ma Cheng's army, but he thought it was a Folang machine with a short range. Due to airtightness in the Ming Dynasty, the range was less than 200 meters. Qi Biaojia did not take the cannons on the other side at the beginning.

But now seeing a flash of white smoke flashing past, and the cavalry on his side were defeated one after another, Qi Biaojia knew that something was wrong.

But now the battle has begun, and it is impossible for Qi Biaojia to take any regret medicine. Seeing that his cavalry was defeated by artillery, only a small part rushed to 100 meters of the enemy infantry. If Qi Biaojia's cavalry was replaced by Mongolian cavalry, it was the shooting range of bows and arrows at this time, but Qi Biaojia's cavalry was not good at riding a horse. To put it bluntly, it was just a group of infantry riding on horses. It was okay to run on horseback, but it would be a bit difficult for people to shoot arrows on the horse.

These cavalry entered a range of 100 meters, and Ma Cheng's Divine Machine Battalion began to fire. With the blessing of the third-section attack, the cavalry in front of him were soon killed, and some war horses without their masters ran away in scattered.

An Zhennan, the commander of the Shenji Camp in the middle of a square formation, saw that the cavalry on the opposite side were destroyed, and the personal soldiers took the flag to change the formation.

.The Qianhu of the other four square arrays saw the banner and directed his subordinates to start to turn into ten horizontal lines again.

The cavalry was destroyed, and the next step was Ma Cheng's Divine Machinery Camp. Under the command of various horizontal and horizontal families, these veterans walked towards the Lu Wang Army in neat steps. Yes, it was walking, which was completely different from the chaotic formations of other Ming troops when they charged. This seemingly slowness shocked Qi Biaojia. This orderly march was under great pressure on his side.

The Shenji Camp advanced slowly, and the artillery soldiers of the rear team also began to fire live ammunitions. This time, Ma Cheng brought 200 artillery pieces, two hundred solid ammunitions at one time, and 200 blood alleys were torn open in the dense formation of the Lu Wang Army.

Now Ma Cheng's artillery is two miles away from the Lu Wang Army's team, and the range is comparable to that of a red-clothed cannon. Qi Biaojia saw Ma Cheng's firepower so strong, and knew that he was defeated today. He also knew that Ma Cheng brought 10,000 people to fight with him alone. It turned out that those rumors were true. Ma Cheng really defeated the 400,000 Qing army with 10,000 people.

The main force of Lu Wang's army was 20,000 Zhejiang's Japanese army. These reserve teams that defended coastal Japanese pirates had better combat effectiveness than the guards, but were limited. In addition to these guards and soldiers, Qi Biaojia also had more than 10,000 guards under these guards and soldiers, and these guys were even more complete. From sixty to sixteen, many people had never taken swords and guns before. Now they saw the firepower of the opposite army, and their comrades around them were either knocked off their heads by shells or broke half of their bodies. In the fear of death, these guards could no longer hold on and shouted and threw the swords and guns and ran back.

In the tense atmosphere of the battlefield, it can be contagious when escaping. In addition, those Japanese troops were not originally elite, and without the constraints of qualified grassroots officers, these Japanese troops looked at the Ma Chengjun, who was pressing forward step by step, and saw their comrades behind them leaving their swords and guns and running away. They could still control their fears and began to escape.

At first, they escaped one by one, and soon evolved into groups of escapes. Qi Biaojia sighed when she saw this. Originally, he thought that even if he was not as good as Ma Cheng, he could fight for a while, but he didn't expect that the defeat was like a mountain. Now, there is less than half an hour before the war begins, and all the soldiers on his side have escaped.

Qi Biaojia said listlessly to the people around her: "Retreat the troops, retreat to the camp to reorganize the army and fight again!"

Qi Biaojia had a good plan, but he forgot that Ma Cheng had a cavalry of 5,000 people opposite him. In this case, how could Ma Cheng give Qi Biaojia a chance to reorganize his army?

Ma Cheng rode on the horse and saw the defeat of the Lu Wang army on the opposite side. Many soldiers began to turn around and escape. Ma Cheng laughed and said, "This Qi Biaojia, I thought he had some skills, but I didn't expect that he was just a fool!"

Seeing that Shenji Camp made such a relaxed contribution, Tian Boguang's eyes turned red, and he clasped his fists and asked for his orders: "Master, now is a good time. Please let the last general fight!"

The opportunity in front of us is indeed good. The Lu Wang army is still two miles away from its own camp. How can human legs run past horse legs? So we can send cavalry to rush into the enemy camp by taking advantage of the defeated army.
Chapter completed!