In terms of tactics, during the Ming Dynasty, the mainland was roughly the same, at most, the Maohulu soldiers, and the Shaolin monks and other soldiers seemed a bit different. Even in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming and Qing armies were the same in tactics, until Chen Wen, a guy who didn’t like to follow the crowd...

However, in the southwest provinces, due to the different environments, more tactics were created different from those in the mainland. The most famous of them were the Baigang Soldiers of Shizhu Tusi in Sichuan. This mountain infantry made many achievements in the Ming and Qing wars and was a famous strong soldier in the world. He repeatedly recruited the Ming court to the battlefields in Liaodong and mainland to fight against the Later Jin and bandits.

Xiying was in chaos in the mainland during the Chongzhen period, but by the Southern Ming Dynasty, it had already entered the southwest. Especially after Zhang Xianzhong's death, his four adopted sons led their troops into Yunnan. It can be said that the current Xiying actually originated from a military group in Yunnan that mainly dominated the Southwest tactics. This is true for Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang.

Since neither side came according to the rules, the temptation before the war became inevitable. Sun Kewang is testing Chen Wen, and Chen Wen is also testing Sun Kewang.

"kill!"

With one knife, a Qinfan cavalry was knocked down before he could resist. He killed two people in a row, and the Qinfan cavalry was gone. Wang Xingzhi breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at the arm armor that had just been cut. It seemed that the armor leaves were just a little sunken. He didn't feel that the arm was under heavy force just now. After all, the armor leaves were indeed thick enough.

As a scout captain of the cavalry team directly under the Yuyao Division, he was not from any army. However, his father was from Dongjiang Town, and his skills were learned from his father. However, he did not take it for too long. A few years later, with Mao Wenlong's death, the chaos in Dongjiang Town day after day, and their fellow villagers took the ship and fled to Shandong. Later, they made a living on the canal. It was not until Chen Wen recovered Hangzhou, the southernmost end of the canal, but they rushed to join the army.

At this moment, the martial arts of these two cavalry were the same thing. They had also been in Fujian and Guangdong before, and the psychological fluctuations were less. Of course, what was more important was that the armor was strong and the soldiers were strong. The thick armor and the half-body armor, coupled with the waist knife knocked out by the hydraulic forging hammer, the Mongolian horse under the crotch was not satisfactory, but it was still somewhat cheaper than the two Qin cavalry cavalry.

The battlefield changed rapidly. Wang Xingzhi glanced at him. Most of his scouts solved the entangled opponents. One of them even grabbed a tongue, and at this moment he was pulling the Qin Fan officer who was knocked out.

On the battlefield, the scouts fight lightly and dogs, and killing and destroying the morale of their opponents is a side job. The real main job is to be the eyes of the army, and the first priority is to explore the virtuality and reality of the opponent.

Seeing this, Wang Xingzhi made a gesture, and most of his scouts were assigned to escort the tongue back, while he took a few other people out of the battlefield, bypassed the area and tried his best to explore some more back camps.

The cavalry rushed away, but there were always people who noticed their intentions in the breeze and lightning, and then chased them. While fighting, they finally managed to get rid of a group of people, but more cavalrymen came to kill them. Wang Xingzhi knew that they were too deep, so he took out his telescope and looked at the camp in the distance at this moment.

Fortunately, this time he was rushing. An extremely large object was slowly moving in the telescope, and he looked at him.

"withdraw!"

After observing some information, you must withdraw it as soon as possible to return it. Otherwise, if you throw your life here, no matter how much you see, it will be useless to the army.

From Sun Kewang's camp to the Shui River, the cavalry of the two armies fought hard and found as many information as possible that could be useful for the next decisive battle. Chen Wen had several cavalry teams going deeper and saw some things with a telescope. On Sun Kewang's side, Chen Wen didn't know what he had observed, but through this Shui River, there were very few people who could see.

Sun Kewang fought on both sides. Will the Yunnan side, which was slowing down, stab him in the back while he was killing here? Sun Kewang felt that if it were him, he would definitely do this, so he was quite anxious about the decisive battle with Chen Wen as soon as possible.

However, it started to rain here early the next morning. Chen Wen leaned against the helmet and the fire door cover to ensure a certain degree of firearm firing rate. However, Sun Kewang's firearm was not only difficult, but the archers were even more impossible to fight in this weather. They had to wait until the rain stopped and organized an attack on the third day.

As noon approached, the Qin vassal cavalry were everywhere, and the army slowly left the camp and rushed towards the direction of Yuanzhou Prefecture. Since this was Chen Wen's heavy grain storage area, there was no possibility of Sun Kewang crossing the water and siege him. As the scout returned the news that the Qin vassal army had come back, the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also crossed the water as quickly as possible and began to gradually approach it according to the previously formulated plan for the Qin vassal army to take the initiative to attack.

The cavalry confrontation became more and more intense as the two armies got closer and closer. Soon, the two armies entered into contact, and the army began to line up in armor to prepare for the real decisive battle.

This area is mountainous in the north and south, with water on the east, and not all smooth to the west, but for both sides, this is the best place to fight.

On the battlefield, the flags of rebellion and king-fighting are approaching, and the two sides are approaching a certain distance and they start to line up. This is a matter of course, but this time, Chen Wen does not intend to continue to rely on his range advantage to force his opponent to launch an attack, and then defeat his opponent through defensive counterattack.

"Attack, there is no need to waste time with a waste like Sun Kewang."

The commander's flag was pressed forward, and all the troops responded with the flag. After responding to the Yuzhang Division of the central army, the Siming Division of the left wing, and the Yuyao Division of the right wing, the entire battle formation began to slowly advance towards the Qin army to the west.

The Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army launched a general attack on them as soon as they finished wearing armor. This eagerness really made Sun Kewang and his confidants feel unreasonable. However, when the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army made moves, Sun Kewang could only continue. However, unlike Chen Wen, his army configuration is more suitable for attacking than defensive counterattacks. To see who has a sharper spear.

The two armies couldn't wait to attack the opponent. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army was in a vertical formation as usual. The teams were separated by distances, which were both attacking and had to change the formation before joining the battle. However, for the training intensity of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army, this was not a difficult task. On the contrary, the Qin Fan side, due to its strong military strength, the battle formations with a heavy formation were always dense, especially the existence of those war elephants made the infantry more crowded.

"It's indeed a war elephant, I knew that Sun Kewang would take out this treasure."

As he said that, Chen Wen smiled coldly, and then he remembered something interesting, and the coldness quickly dissipated.

"I remember that on Dalan Mountain, Zhao Qian asked me how thick my legs were. That guy probably thought it was not enough to cheat people and get rid of horses. He wanted to play with big things, but unfortunately he forgot to bring him this time. It was such a pity."

Chen Wen said with a relaxed face. Chen Fugui, the captain of the guard beside him, still had his big face tense and looked into the distance without looking sideways. He didn't even answer a single thing, as if Chen Wen was talking to himself. But he also knew that the system was like this. Chen Fugui's task was to protect his safety, so he naturally had to devote himself to observing the enemy situation. He would be spared.

As he spoke here, the artillery of both sides also began to fire at the target. However, the frequency of artillery bombardment was very low. Chen Wen could not see it with his own eyes, and he could think of Sun Kewang's artillery as well as following the battle formation.

However, this idea was quickly left behind by him. As for the reason, it was that Sun Kewang had a necessary existence that had to reduce the use of artillery.

The army approached step by step. Chen Wen quickly noticed through the telescope that the movement speed of the Qin vassal army began to slow down, but it was not the entire army that slowed down. The speed of the tall war elephants in the formation did not slow down at all, and their positions were getting closer and closer to the front of the battle formation.

Chen Wen didn't know how many war elephants Sun Kewang brought out, and he couldn't confirm it at this time, but the number was quite large, but it was true. At this moment, dozens of war elephants gradually stood out from the battle formation. As for what was about to happen next, he didn't think about it at all!

The battle elephants attack the battle formations are a common tactic. Such a giant attack at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, and its skin is thick and thick, even the jungle of spears is difficult to stop it. Since ancient times, there have been many ways to defeat the battle elephant. The most common and effective ones are fire attacks. Secondly, methods such as javelin throwing, attacking elephant trunks, spear siege, and shooting of beds and crossbows are everywhere. As for the methods used by Zong Qu of the Southern and Northern Dynasties to use fake lions to destroy the real battle elephant.

However, the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had never faced such a giant before and had severely lacked experience in this area. There were no weapons such as crossbows, long-handled swords, javelins, etc., let alone fake lions. For the sake of the present, we can only deal with such extremely destructive troops in the best way.

The distance between the two sides had entered three hundred meters. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang took the lead in stopping, and the artillery that followed the formation was pushed into front by the auxiliary soldiers. As the artillery was loaded, the vertical formation behind also began to change its formation, and the entire battle formation quickly changed from independent combat troops to hollow square formations with whistles.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. While the loading and transformation of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang completed at an extremely fast speed, the war elephants had already emerged from the crowd.

The cavalry confrontation between the two armies began to reverse at this moment. Although the war horses of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had an advantage over the Yunnan horses of the Qin army, as the war elephants advanced, the war horses of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were all affected. At the least, they were anxious, and at the worst, they did not obey orders, and even they were even soft on the ground.

Chen Wen was not sure whether it was the smell or simply the fear that was inevitable for such a huge thing. However, once he discovered this, he did not need to wait for orders, and the cavalry on the battlefield retreated in the direction of the battle formation.

Sun Kewang listened to the battle report ahead under the banner of the King of Qin, and had expected the result. The situation was still as expected. This was a good start. He learned from the pain after the fork in the road, and decided to fight Chen Wenjue to the death and never retreat, because at this moment, he had no way out. Even if he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he still needed to cross Huguang. The large area of ​​Ming army occupied in Sichuan was already standing on the edge of the cliff. If he took a step back, he would be doomed!

After the battle elephants emerged in front, the infantry battle formation quickly returned to normal speed after a whole team, and was separated from the battle elephants by a short distance to prevent the battle elephants from being harassed and killed by long-range attacks, causing unnecessary damage to the battle formation in the team.

The drivers, archers and spearmen on the battle elephant, and the guards behind the battle elephant side were all ready. As the distance was closer, the drums in the rear sounded, and the drivers drove the war elephant to rush towards the jungle of the Ming army's spears of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army. The guards were closely behind the battle elephant side. This distance was not the best distance for infantry to charge, but the war elephant needed enough distance to accelerate, and as guards they could only advance with the war elephant.

The battle elephant rushed towards the battle formation of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang like a sharp arrow. After the gun group commander in front of him determined the best shooting distance, he gave an order. Each gun group aimed at the battle elephant in front of him, lit the fuse according to the command of the flag.

With roar, the cannon sounded and the smoke filled the guns. The front-loaded cannon and the Flang machine cannon fired respectively. Nearly four divisions of troops, more than 200 artillery fired in the division units, and in just a moment the loaded shells poured out.

The shells were bombarded by the bombardment, and the battle elephant accelerated and ran in the artillery fire that fell like hail. He dodged left and avoided the right, and the driver could no longer control the direction of the battle elephant's travel, and was completely charged out of instinct.

The bombardment of artillery shells can only serve as a foil for the charge of war elephants. The dust and soil stirred up can confuse the eyes of the drivers and soldiers, and can injure the infantry that match these war elephants, but it cannot pose any threat to the thick-skinned war elephants. However, once they are hit by the shells, the most powerful array of broken formations in the era of cold weapons, the ultimate enhanced version of armored cavalry, is still not much stronger than a piece of paper when facing the shells.

The whine of the attacked elephant came. In the middle of the battlefield, a war elephant fell to the ground. The elephant was directly broken by a shell, and blood gushed out. In the miserable whine, the archers on their backs had already been thrown away and fell to the ground and were unconscious. However, the guards following behind were all filled with panic and at a loss.

Not far away, the other war elephant was much more lucky than this one. Just now, a shell fell down and hit the top of the war elephant's head. The brain splashed, and the war elephant rushed to the ground, saving the pain that it would end at some point. Only those drivers and archers, their fates were just like the former, fell on the ground and even died directly on the ground.

The war elephants move at high speed, and only a very small number of them can be hit. Although more war elephants seem quite panicked when they are shot, they subconsciously continue to rush towards the battle formation of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army while the drivers are strangling the reins to death.

The loading of the front-loading gun takes time, resetting, clearing the slag, aiming, and loading. A series of steps have been completed. It is estimated that the war elephants have rushed over at that time, and even stepped on the gunners into meat paste. After the first gun, the front-loading gunners pushed the guns back to the battle formation, but only the Folang machine cannons are still pouring shells into the war elephants through the guns.

After the fourth round of artillery attacks, more than a dozen war elephants were killed and crippled on the battlefield, becoming a mountain of meat that stretched between the two armies.

However, when the guns were used up, there were still no less than twenty battle elephants rushing over. Although it was so small that it was compared to the huge battle formation composed of tens of thousands of people, the Qin army, which was far larger than the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was backed by the Qin vassal army. As long as it could break a hole in the battle formation, even if it was a small hole, the torrent would inevitably destroy the embankment with an uncontrollable momentum.

However, just at this critical moment, Chen Wen was calm and calm. Looking into the distance in the telescope, a cruel sneer appeared.
Chapter completed!