It was approaching noon, the wind was sunny and the temperature was not high, which was a good time for the two armies to fight.●⌒, after confirming that the opponent would not leave the camp to fight, the Eight-Nation Alliance began to slowly advance. Twenty-one infantry phalanxes were arranged in three rows, as if a large area was moving to the long spears from the forest, slowly moving forward. Except for the neat footsteps, there seemed to be no other sound on the entire battlefield.

"The Xu Rulin..."

Boyan stood above the tower, his face turned blue and white, and blurted out what was said in "The Art of War".

The camps of the Delhi Sultanate Army were built on the Yamuna River, and the tall walls of Delhi City were separated by a river. There was a floating bridge between the camp and Delhi City. Once the battle was unfavorable, the army could retreat to Delhi at any time to defend. The camps were built into a narrow shape, like a barrier, placed in the northeast of Delhi City. The camps were built under the guidance of Boyan. They were not wooden villages, but composed of two low rammed earth chest walls, and there were also semicircular cannon barricades built into a chest wall. Outside the chest wall, there were trenches two meters deep and three meters wide, which attracted the water of the Yamuna River.

The archers and musketeers of the Delhi New Army were on guard behind the first rammed earth chest wall. The cannons were also set up, filled with solid bullets, and pointed the muzzle at the Eight-Nation Alliance that was advancing in a forest.

The Delhi New Army also used a compound bow, similar to the model used in Persia and Central Asia. Before the eight countries arrived, a row of arrows had been shot out, and the clusters of arrows were inserted obliquely on the ground, forming a layered white line. This is the effective range of the arch. The Mongols provided by the Mongols were the two-year-old type of Heavenly Dao seized on the European battlefield, and the effective range was larger than the Delhi Army's compound bow. However, Boyan still suggested that the Indian New Army unify the firing distance of the coercion gun and the compound bow, both at about seventy steps.

Behind the second chest wall of the Delhi military camp were maces and maces. Just like the Mongols did when fighting against the Ming army, they were all protected by steel armor. The maces were basically useless. Maces and maces were the correct choices.

However, the officers leading the team at all levels still held a cold sweat in their palms, watching the Eight-Nation Alliance brigade slowly approaching within the range of their cannons.

It is said to be the Eight-Nation Alliance, but in fact, the four teams of the British, Song, Lu, and Su were in battle, and the black warriors of the British Navy did not go to the battlefield. They were not professional infantrymen, and Chen Defang brought them here just to strengthen their momentum. Now these black men, Sanfoqi, Ladakh, Guge, and Sakya sent French troops to guard the camp together.

So what is placed on the battlefield is twenty-one infantry brigade and an artillery brigade belonging to the British army. In addition, the coalition forces also have two light cavalry brigades, both Shi Tianze's army, both armorless light cavalry, and cannot be used for rushing, so they are deployed behind the battlefield and standby without participating in the battle.

When the coalition formation approached two and a half miles away from the Delhi military camp, Chen Defang, who was riding a horse behind the twenty-one infantry phalanx, suddenly raised his whip high and ordered loudly: "Stop!"

I heard a short dull sound of horns. All the infantry phalanx suddenly stopped moving forward. The orders were prohibited, as if they were alone!

Chen Defang nodded with satisfaction, and for this rigor, the twenty-one infantry brigades here were no less than the elite of the Ming army.

"Just follow Caodian to fight, first shelling, then infantry charge."

Chen Defang seemed to be the so-called "Zheng minister" of the Song Dynasty. The scholars were in charge of the army and used literature to control the military. Of course, there were staff officers and officers below in charge of the specific operations. Many senior officers of the four armies of the British, Song, Su and Lu were studied in the Ming Army Academy, and even opened a military academy with the camp. Most of the middle and lower-level officers came out of the camp military academy.

Using officer schools to train standardized officers in batches is actually a far-reaching military change. This allows the court or civilian government to easily master a large amount of officer resources. If it is combined with smoothbore guns, rifled guns, and bronze cannons, it is easy to be standardized and easily mastered by soldiers, but its power is more powerful than before, which requires long-term training to use good cold weapons, and the civilian government cannons can master a truly combat-ready army.

On the artillery position, the 108 3-inch bronze cannons of three artillery regiments and the 12 8-inch mortar cannons of a siege artillery battalion have been laid out in front and rear.

"Three miles away! Target enemy camp!"

"All direct gun companies. Open fire!"

The commander of the gun brigade kept getting close to the telescope supported by the tripod. With a command, a thunderous roar swept across the field, and the white smoke from the muzzle suddenly spread across the battlefield.

The heavy and dull sound of cannons hit the eardrums, making Boyan's brows tighter and tighter. It was just the vassal of the Ming Dynasty. The firepower was already so powerful. If he met the main force of the Ming army, he would not know how powerful it was! I heard that the Ming Navy also had a giant ship equipped with 108 cannons! So many cannons were cast in bronze, and the success rate of casting cannons was low, which was only two or three. Although most of the bronze could be recycled, the loss was still amazing. If you cast so many cannons, the money you spent would probably pile up into a mountain.

It seems that there is a good news that there are mountains of gold and silver in the north and south Mingzhou!

Unfortunately, the navy of Great Mongolia was too weak to go to Mingzhou and could not capture enough gold and silver. Even after taking over Paris and seizing a large area of ​​wealthy plains in Europa, Great Mongolia's financial resources were still not comparable to those of the Ming Dynasty...

The artillery of the Delhi Sultan Army also began to counterattack. Their artillery were eliminated by the Mongolian army, with different calibers, and the castings were sloppy, and the quality of the H-drug was poor. The shells fired could not reach the artillery positions of the coalition forces at all. It caused a lot of smoke.

It was still the dry season in India, and the wind direction was mostly northeast and northwest. Now the battlefield was blowing northeast wind. The wind was not strong, but it blew all the smoke from more than 100 cannons on the battlefield to the Delhi Army's position. In just a few rounds of artillery fired, the frontier of the Delhi Army was swallowed by choking smoke, and the scene was no longer visible twenty or thirty steps away.

Boyan put down his telescope and ignored the sound of artillery. Although the artillery fire of the coalition forces was fierce, he was not worried that the Delhi troops would suffer heavy losses. The anti-aircraft gun capabilities of those low and thick rammed earth chest walls were tested in actual combat on the battlefield of Europa.

"Drumman! Hit the drum!"

"Mustrator, gun on shoulder!"

"Shield player, raise the shield!"

After the artillery shots without stunning on both sides lasted for about half an hour, the new orders of the coalition forces had been conveyed. It was not because the artillery shots had severely damaged the opponent, but because after half an hour of bombardment, the barrels of both sides had heated up and the firing rate of the artillery began to drop significantly. The Delhi Army had only thirty or forty artillery guns, and the firepower was spread evenly, and the firepower was already sparse. Once the rate of fire was reduced, it basically did not pose a threat.

Lai Hama, who had just been promoted to the acting battalion commander of the Second Battalion of the First British Infantry Musketeer Corps, drew out a big sword and pointed forward. He ordered loudly with anger.

He didn't know that his father had sacrificed his life for the country. His younger brother Lai Fu did not follow Lei Batian to join the army, but boarded Selassi and Solomon's slave ship and headed to the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, the two brothers had no chance to meet.

As a Brahmin in the Great Britain of India, Lai Hatao can be said to have received three wealth and sex officials these days. The newly married wife is a rare little beauty. Not only is she much more beautiful than Lai Hatao's first wife in China, but even Du Shisanniang can't compare with her. She also brought a generous dowry. She really received both wealth and sex. After the wedding, she returned to the military camp. Not many days later, Lai Hatao was promoted to two levels, jumped from the second lieutenant to the captain, and was sent to become the acting battalion commander.

The reason why officials were promoted so quickly was that Toad was born in Chen Huaiqing's Guards; the other was that many middle-level officers of the British army were transferred to serve as local officials. The territory of Great Britain was getting bigger and bigger, so it naturally required a large number of local officials. The vacant positions were cheaper to lower-level officers like Lai Toad.

At this time, an artillery battalion arranged in the center of the battlefield had stopped firing and gave the route of advance to the infantry. Then, a dull and rapid sound of trumpets continued to sound. This was a signal to urge the British First Musketeers, Second Musketeers and Third Musketeers to attack.

"Militarian Second Battalion, move forward!"

Lai Hata raised its horizontal sword, pointed it forward, and counted its steps silently in his heart, then took the lead in entering the battlefield filled with smoke. Behind him, a shield company and two musketeers had formed three horizontal lines. More than 400 soldiers, under the command of the company commander and platoon leader, followed Lai Hata without hesitation, so as to rush into the smoke at the speed of walking.

Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong...

With the rapid rhythm of drumming, more than 3,600 people from the nine musket battalions gathered on the battlefield, forming a moving city wall, and quickly approached under the cover of gunpowder smoke.

"Stop moving forward!"

Lai Hata shouted loudly, raised his sword high again, then swung it down suddenly, and issued an order to stop moving forward. The drummers of the Second Battalion of the First Musketeer Corps immediately stopped beating the drums, and the company commanders and platoon leaders below also issued the same orders.

"Blade and shield company, whole team, set up shields! Half-squat!"

"The first company of muskets, half squats, set up a gun! The second company of muskets, half squats, prepare!"

Lai Hata issued orders continuously, and commanded the command to set up the shield first, and then put the heavy Tiandao two-year-old mesh gun in the locket on the shield.

Lai Hata also squatted down and squinted his eyes and looked around. The battlefield was filled with smoke and visibility was extremely poor. Only the rammed earth walls and friendly troops could be seen more than a hundred steps away. They all formed a formation to prepare for shooting, just like Lai Hata's second battalion of musketeers.

The Tiandao Two-Year Musket is a heavy musket, which can theoretically hit targets a hundred steps away, but that is just a theory. If it weren't particularly unlucky, it would be unlikely to be killed by a musket that fired a hundred steps away in this era.

"Open fire!" The toad ordered loudly.

"Bang bang bang..."

The sound of the convex gun shooting suddenly rang across the front line.

"This is……"

Standing in a tower in the Delhi Army camp, Bo Yan, who heard the gunshot, quickly raised his telescope and looked at the place where the gunshots came. In the eyepiece, red muzzle flames flashed in rows, and then a white smoke sprayed out.

"So far?" Boyan frowned deeply. He opened fire a hundred steps away? What could he hit?

Just when he was confused, gunfire came from the Delhi military defense line, but it was much more messy.

"I play the piano randomly, shoot a hundred steps apart, and there is still such a lot of smoke, how can I hit it?"

Boyan had some practical experience in the H-drug era. After the Battle of the Vistula, he followed Kublai Khan to sweep the Pod-German-French plains. He fought all the way from the Vistula River to the banks of the Seine, and fought dozens of battles of all sizes with the Europa army, and had accumulated rich experience. Naturally, he knew that although the theoretical range of the heavy convex gun was not close, it was difficult to hit the target if it was fifty steps away, and even the volleyball gun could hit anything if it was a hundred steps away.

Fire at this distance is a waste. It not only wastes H medicine, but also causes the barrel to overheat, and you will be unable to shoot when the opponent approaches...

"Damn it!" Boyan thought of this and fully understood what was going on. He turned around and shouted loudly at his followers, "Tell me my order and tell them not to shoot. This is the trap of the Han people. They want our gun barrel to heat up!"

Boyan is worthy of being a famous general in history and reacts quickly enough. Unfortunately, the one who is firing now is not his Mongolian white flag, but the new army of the Delhi Sultan. He was originally a new recruit, but he was nervous when he went to the battlefield. When he saw the enemy firing, he would fight back immediately. Who cares about the distance?

Moreover, the Delhi army on the battlefield is all believers of the true God. Who would really listen to the words of this Christian, Beyan?

Boyan's words did not work at all. Instead, the gunfire on the battlefield was as fast as the other side was separated from each other, and it was a great time to fight.

The nine coalition forces were spear corps. At this time, they had already assembled after the formation of musketeers who were firing in the third regiment. They were called "spear corpses", but no one really held a spear. Everyone was a steel knife and a vine shield. There were also teams of shirtless men holding a vine shield. Seven or eight people were carrying long ladders, standing in front of the soldiers with steel armor and swords. They all stretched their necks and were eager to try, completely ignoring the sporadic shells. Just waiting for the sound of the attack drums to sound! According to the combat plan, they would charge after the Delhi Army's gun fire weakened (because the barrel and the barrel became hot), and use hand-to-hand combat to solve the opponent, and take the first line of defense of the Delhi Army.

At the same time, on the Yamuna River west of the battlefield, the brigade of Delhi cavalry and a considerable number of servants were quietly leaving through the pontoon bridge. When they heard the sound of gunfire from the east, they turned their heads to look, and then marched again.
Chapter completed!