Chapter 590: Side Wing

The sudden artillery fire from the opponent made the Ming army's positions show signs of chaos. Fortunately, the formations arranged by the generals of Liao Town were all in a normal manner, and they were set a distance between each other.

Some of the chaos could not affect other parts. Even so, the general of Liao Town Li Gufeng was also trembling in his heart. The other party had such sharp firearms. Although he was watching from a distance, he could see clearly that the other party's artillery was beyond the range of his red-clothed general's cannons.

However, it can accurately hit your own artillery position, and this range has already occupied the top, not to mention the neat and rapid movement of the opponent's artillery.

At this time, no one dared to regard the other party as a mob or a mob armed force. This was clearly a powerful army of battles. The thirty artillery of the Huazhou Army was shot in a dense and effective manner, but in the final analysis, it was just over a hundred lead bullets hitting the Ming army's artillery positions.

Although the metal debris were flying around and the Ming army around them cried and shouted at her mother, the momentum was huge, but the real killing was not that great, but the killing was not human life but psychology.

After this artillery bombardment, the artillery soldiers in Huazhou were still watering the cannons there to cool down. The Ming army, who was in front of them, or the Ming army within the range of the artillery, kept retreating, fearing that they would become victims of the next round of artillery fire. The two armies confronted each other, and the panic of one side was the opportunity for the other side.

I vaguely saw the flag and golden drums of the Huazhou Army sounding, and several soldiers and horses had already begun to move. The general of Liao Town Li Gufeng's face was no longer moving, and he ordered the guards below coldly:

"It is said that my general will retreat five hundred steps in the front town. If the opponent's artillery team follows up and the decisive cavalry will fight, be sure to pull out the opponent's artillery team!"

When the personal soldiers who were sending the order heard it, they quickly rode out and conveyed the order loudly. The soldiers in the front quickly retreated as if they were amnesty, and everyone rushed to the front, for fear that the cannons on their opposite side would come again if they ran slower, but in this way, the order gradually became a little out of control.

The Ming army officers here can even see that a large number of cavalry surged out of the Huazhou formation and lined up in front of the formation to prepare. A guerrilla in front of the Ming army was already anxious. He forgot that his identity was not enough to issue the following order, and shouted there:

"If you do not move randomly according to Caodian, you will be killed if you retreat, and if you retreat in a vain, you will be killed if you follow the front and back. The five small flags are a team, and the rest shall not be moved without action!!"

The guerrillas in Liao Town also had personal soldiers and servants. When the chief general said this, they all used swords to block the chaos in front of the front team. At this time, the Huazhou artillery was still cool down. If the artillery was fired at this time, it would be very effective. The retreating Ming army ran to the front in a mess and was slashed and killed by the guerrillas. The beheading method was the most efficient.

The chaos that had just emerged was quickly shocked. According to the guerrilla order, the retreating troops remained at a unit with dozens of people and one hundred people, and slowly retreated.

This kind of order that surpasses the level and kills soldiers is a serious crime in the Ming army. The military judges are right next to Li Gufeng. Their location is a slightly higher place in the entire battlefield. They are cushioned with soil to see the scene of the surrounding troops. This scene falls into the eyes of the military judges and the generals.

"General, is it..."

The military judge also knew that something was urgent, but the military regulations were placed there, and he had to take care of it when he saw it. However, how to take care of it depends on the general's decision. Li Gufeng looked at the guerrilla movement, and his calm expression was a rare smile, and he said:

"Qiu Feng actually has such courage. I will write it down. After the war, he will be promoted to a general. It is not impossible to do even higher."

This guerrilla Qiu Feng showed his courage in the emergency situation and was immediately appreciated by the general. This kind of thing happened all the time on the battlefield. After Li Gufeng ordered, senior officers such as deputy generals around him immediately knew the attitude of the chief general and sent orders one after another.

As long as the military formation showed signs of movement and killed people immediately, the Ming army was disturbed by artillery, and immediately calmed down. Seeing the stable situation here, the cavalry in front of the Huazhou army also began to stop gathering and rode their horses to the flanks.

Both sides were like two giants, carefully testing the other party's bottom line and flaws. The back and forth were all meaningless. The real killing was the last blow aimed at the other party's flaws.

Li Gufeng looked up at the sky, turned his gaze to the right side of the Huazhou Army, but there was a faint smoke and dust there. The general of Liao Town quickly ordered an officer next to him, and retreated five hundred steps ahead of the Ming army, and the interval between people began to evacuate.

This is a sign of charge. Li Liang, who was preparing to sacrifice his merits, led his cavalry to cruise in front of the formation, ready to pounce on the artillery in Huazhou at any time. The artillery in Huazhou saw that there was no cheaper to make. After receiving the order from the formation, the artillery quickly loaded the artillery back into the artillery cart, put on the horses and turned back.

On the right wing of the Huazhou military formation, the smoke and dust were already growing at this time. The generals of the Ming army passed on one step at a time. If the Huazhou military formation on the opposite side was unstable, they would immediately charge and break through the formation.

After the smoke and dust rose, the shouts of killing could be heard vaguely in the Ming army, but the Ming army officers were all focused on the opposite side. As long as the other party was distracted by the movements on the flanks, it would be the opportunity for the Ming army. However, the Huazhou army's main formation was as stable as Mount Tai, and even advanced dozens of steps forward before stopping.

If you have a bird's perspective and look down from a high altitude, you can see that although the Huazhou military formation is distributed in teams of 400 people and 1,600 people and 1,600 people and 1,000 people and 1,600 people and 1,000 people and 1,000 brigade, the overall appearance is a hollow square formation, with thin sides and thicker front and back. At this time, a cavalry was rushing towards the left wing of the Huazhou army.

The officers of the two wings of the Huazhou Army were wondering why the teams with excellent firearms in this kind of army should be at the forefront when fighting, but why are they allocated on the two wings? Moreover, the teams on the two wings are not the traditional proportion of two spearmen and one musketeer in Huazhou, but the proportion of two musketeers and one spearmen that have only been found in the past two years.

The density of musketeers is relatively higher, but the difference between the Huazhou Army and the Ming Army is that the quality of the Ming Army is closely related to the quality of the generals. If the generals are outstanding, the performance of the troops below will be much better. The generals are cowardly and incompetent, and the army they lead will not be a strong soldier.

The Huazhou Army is different. It relies on the rules and regulations of practice and training to restrain the army. The entire army seems to be a machine as much as possible. Every officer is an integral part of this machine. He does not need any outstanding talents from individuals. He only needs to fight according to the orders and the response methods learned during training.

When the right-wing Huazhou officers saw the cavalry attack, they did not need to ask for instructions above, but their own orders were just standing in the first row and aligning the formation. The musketeers were loading ammunition and igniting the fuse. The spearmen were holding the spear and stretching the distance forward at the same time, so that the musketeers had room to rotate and run.

The more than 2,000 Ming army cavalry was the elite of Liaozhen soldiers and was ready to attack the flanks of the Huazhou army. This cavalry had broken off from the formation three days ago and advanced alone. The battlefield was there. As long as you see the map and then calculate the progress of both sides, you can basically know where to fight. The area between Puhe and Fanhe may be the largest. The Ming army officer led the team is quite high and is a general. Although the cavalry team of only 2,000 people has been judged. After judging the battlefield, you will camp in the distance and wait.

When the battle started, it was estimated that both sides were in a state of exhaustion. He led the cavalry to attack the left wing of the Huazhou Army. When the Huazhou Army was caught off guard, the Ming army's main formation could launch an attack and defeat it in one fell swoop, but this was his own idea.

A hollow square formation has an advantage, which is that it can use limited forces to arrange relatively long fronts. According to the length of the left wing of the Huazhou Army, the Ming army cavalry faced more than one thousand muskets, which was only the first row. Because the front line was too long, the muzzles of Huazhou muskets on both sides were tilted in the middle direction.

Seeing the opponent's muskets and spears, the Ming army's surprise attack team was not panicked, but was secretly happy because the opponent's hair was not high, and the muskets were at best a smoke-producing thing in their eyes. As long as the horses were controlled, there was no threat at all. The general of the general left the team three days ago, so naturally he didn't know how powerful the firearms in Huazhou were.

After entering a distance of 110 steps, each team of Huazhou officers shouted loudly, and the sound of a bean-like explosion made a loud noise. The Ming cavalry that rushed in the front seemed to suddenly hit an invisible wall and suddenly flipped there. For Huazhou, there were so many muskets and such a high firepower density. Almost none of the Ming cavalry who rushed in the front escaped, and were beaten into a hornet's nest.

Since it was a sneak attack, these cavalrymen rushed their mounts to the maximum speed. They were about to break in even the sea of ​​swords and fires in front of them. They couldn't stop at all, and rushed forward one after another.

A hundred steps before the right wing of Huazhou, a line was formed. No horse was able to cross the line of death. Although the white smoke from the muzzle was almost obstructing people's sight, it was still firing. Not long after, the battlefield became quiet.
Chapter completed!