As soon as the connoisseur stretches out his hand, he will know if there is one.

After spending half a day's effort, Zuo Liangyujun finally reversed the direction of the formation and adjusted the front to the west. However, at this time, the sun was already slightly westerly, and the strong late spring sun was shining on people's faces, and the heat was felt deep in the skin, and sweat was constantly coming out from under the armor.

The left army is still guarded by more than 1,000 cavalry on both wings, and more than 100,000 infantry on the front, Zuo Liangyu's central army is the core of the whole army, and more than 20,000 elite cavalry guards around his 3,000 standard battalions.

The roars of the officers and generals scolding and cursing the soldiers were still echoing, but Zuo Liangyu turned a deaf ear, just staring at the army on the opposite side and observing.

Compared with the noisy and noisy roar of his own army, the position of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion was much quieter.

The formation of the Zhenshan battalion was not quite the same as that of Zuo Liangyu's army, with thousands of cavalry in the center and thousands of infantry on each flank. The formation of the infantry alone made Zuo Liangyu feel a chill behind him, the troops were neat, the personnel were fierce, and almost everyone was a person with a helmet and armor.

According to the practice in Zuo Liangyu's army, generally only elite soldiers and family members have the possibility of wearing full body armor. In terms of equipment, the earthquake battalion in front of you knows that it is definitely the elite of the camp!

"It seems that Li Chuang is planning to entangle me with this elite army, and then wait until they have cleaned up those scraps before dealing with us!"

After summoning a few capable generals around him for a brief discussion, Zuo Liangyu's military horse began to move.

Thousands of infantry walked past his standard battalion and moved to the front of the array, where they would be the first wave of charging divisions. There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, this is Zuo Liangyu's consistent style. The rewarding person had already shouted a few times in front of the array. Rushed up and slew the rogues, their armor, and their belongings around their waists. Not to mention that all the weapons in his hand belong to him, and the marshal will reward him with five silver dollars!

"General Luo, our cannon is ready!"

Although Luo Hu was not yet eighteen years old at this time, on other occasions, he was still a child who had just come of age, but here. He is the commander of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion. The commander of the artillery team naturally had to strictly report to him about the deployment of the more than a dozen six-pounder guns and the Big Buddha Franc machine.

"Fuck him!"

The cavalry of the two armies kept clashing on both flanks of the battlefield, preventing the opposing cavalry from trying to approach the vicinity of their own array.

Under the cover of the cavalry, the thousands of forwards of the left army slowly pressed up, and the formation was chaotic, twisted and crooked, but the crowd was dense, swords and guns were like a forest, and there were constantly slogans sounding from the formation, followed by someone shouting in response.

"Kill the thieves!"

"Make a fortune!"

Bursts of wild shouts mingled in one place. As they shouted, the knives and guns in their hands rolled up like waves with their steps, and the swords and guns flickered and rose and fell in the sun. The majesty of thousands of people rushing wildly, Rao is Zhang Dingguo has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is also worried and a little uneasy. However, Luo Hu, Wang Si'er and others also clenched their cheeks, and their faces were flushed. His eyes were full of excitement.

"Put!"

Instead of rushing forward to meet the attack of the left army, the thousands of cavalry in line in front of the formation quickly retreated to both flanks under the orders issued by the Chinese army. Expose the six-pounder cannon and the big franc machine behind him. The lightweight six-pounder cannon and the big Buddha machine that were easy to move quickly had already been reloaded and adjusted, and the muzzles of the guns were almost parallel to the ground, and the black hole was aimed at the thousands of men and horses who were screaming and rushing towards them. With a loud shout from the gun commander, a six-pounder cannon shook violently, and the muzzle of the cannon erupted with fierce fire. Thick smoke then rose. The strong recoil force caused the two-wheeled gun carriage to take a big step back, and in the deafening loud sound, a round six-pounder shell smashed viciously into the formation of the left army.

The tidal wave of cheers was suddenly suppressed by the loud sound of cannons, and it came to an abrupt end in an instant. The soldiers of the Left Army, who were still shouting and scolding just now, closed their mouths. Eyes on the direction in which this cannonball is flying.

The cannonball flew straight into the crowd, bouncing around the dense ranks, stirring up countless blood flowers. The head of one person, the arms of two people, and the thighs and calves of many people have become the bloody number of its kinetic energy. A ballistic trajectory full of flesh and stumps and broken bones remained in the vanguard of the left army, leaving a long and mournful howl of blood and weeping along the trajectory.

Looking at the miserable appearance of the people waiting around him, the soldiers of the left army who were still in high morale just now were in a commotion, and many of them were earthy-faced, running around like headless flies. A single shell in the Zhenshan battalion had already opened the way for the rout of these soldiers of the left army.

Zuo Mengeng, who was watching the battle with his own soldiers in the back, saw it clearly, and his face suddenly changed, he never dreamed that this group of people who caught up with the camp actually carried artillery, not only in large numbers, but also to fight so far!

Before he could come back to his senses, the sound of almost all the soldiers on the left being incontinent came again. The shell just now was just a test firing of the benchmark gun, which belonged to the dessert before the meal, and this shelling was officially served! And it's a real big dish! The roar of dense artillery sounded, and more than a dozen large and small iron balls smashed over their heads and faces again, and they fell in the forward array of the left army, smashing and rolling everywhere, making the soldiers of the left army cry and cry for their fathers and mothers, and just run around.

There was another round of artillery roars, another wave of shells roared, and dozens of large and small iron balls smashed into the forward formation of the left army again, watching the people around them fly with flesh and blood, broken hands and feet. They were also in a violent commotion, and it was useless for the officers to desperately suppress them. Suddenly there was a shout ahead, and with a bang, the entire forward collapsed.

The two groups of cavalry, which had just retreated to the two flanks of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion, shouted and fought out from both flanks, drawing a beautiful arc on the two flanks of the rout. The momentum of thousands of cavalry made these routs even more terrifying, but more terrifying things were yet to come.

The horse team that galloped past the flank of the rout, and did not rush into the ranks of the routs and slash and slaughter, but clung to the ranks of the routs, no more than twenty or thirty paces away.

"Fetch the gun!"

"Raise the gun!"

"Put!"

Amid the constant sound of commands in the ranks, the horse soldiers each took their horse guns from their backs, pulled out their guns and caps, and pulled the trigger on the soldiers of the left army who were crying and galloping in front of them. The faucet is powered by a spring. Rubbing with the flint creates a spark that ignites the ignition powder. The propellant in the barrel also expanded dramatically, kicking the lead bullet out.

Most of these horse teams that crossed the two wings of the left army were soldiers recruited in Shandong, and in the eyes of the old battalion soldiers, their riding skills were just about being able to ride horses and use firearms on horses. At best, they are infantry who can ride horses. But. These people were greatly praised by Li Yan and Li Gongzi, who were recognized as the most learned in the camp, and found a resounding name for them from the classic historical materials, called dragoons.

This tactic of the dragoons is actually no different from the cavalry used by the northern nomadic cavalry experienced by previous dynasties, but the horned bow is replaced by a fire gun, and the silent arrow becomes a projectile with a huge deterrent weapon.

With the dense accumulation of projectiles, a wave of blood immediately turned out in the crowd, of course. In fact, if you count carefully, this casualty is not large, if it is during World War I and World War II, then the soldiers will even feel that this kind of damage is simply negligible, but unfortunately, this is the Chongzhen period. The two wings of the wandering dragoons fired freely, and according to the experience of countless predecessors and juniors, side shooting was always the most convenient way to exert firepower. At the same time, it will also minimize losses. Of course, the infantry can also make a turning motion. Turning the side into the front, but making the entire military formation turn the side into the front in a short period of time is definitely not something Zuo Liangyu can do. The reality of Zuo Liangyu's infantry is that they can't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest at all, and they only know the blind chaos. It is impossible to even fix an escape direction, let alone switch queues to meet it en masse.

"These useless rice buckets!"

Under the handsome banner, seeing that the infantry phalanx in the vanguard had been completely chaotic, and was slaughtered by the infantry cavalry who were not in a hurry to catch up, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but feel anxious. Although the infantry is said to be some miscellaneous soldiers for attrition. But if there were no miscellaneous soldiers, how many battles would those elites and standard battalion families under his command be able to fight, and how many days would they consume?

"Lu Guangzu, Li Guoying, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong, Jin Shenghuan, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yuxian, you all go back to the headquarters and press the marshal from the north and south wings, and the marshal will surround and annihilate this group of thieves in one fell swoop!"

Almost without thinking, Zuo Liangyu made up his mind, he wanted to use his military advantage to form a huge encirclement in the land of eastern Henan, and swallow this elite thief in one bite!

In order to buy time for his generals to mobilize men and horses after returning to the headquarters, Zuo Liangyu did not hesitate to order Zuo Mengeng to transfer the 20,000 elite infantry cavalry who followed the actions of the standard camp Jiading, and attack the Zhenshan Battalion dragoons who were shooting frantically on both wings, so as to give his huge infantry team time to change formations and launch attacks.

What made Zuo Liangyu feel very pleased was that it seemed that Zuo Mengeng's offensive attack was very effective, under the pounce of 20,000 elites of the left battalion, he had been going to the left battalion formation to gallop and constantly shoot the defeated soldiers of the left battalion with firearms, and the Zhenshan battalion dragoons who created huge pressure on both wings of the retreating army and behind them seemed to feel fear, and almost did not mean to fight with Zuo Mengeng, but just hit a few guns casually from a distance, and turned his horse's head and fled west to his own camp after covering his own retreat.

There is a door, it turns out that this kind of firearm cavalry is afraid of close combat! Hey, that's easy! I will first use the elite men and horses to kill your group of firearm cavalry in close combat, and then lead a large group of infantry to storm your Chinese army with the elite of Jiading as the lead!

Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong! This great gift you have sent, but it is disrespectful and deserved! When I put the team in order, this gang of thieves sent by you thieves will become fat in Ben Shuai's mouth!

Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu immediately ordered: Chase! Be sure to wipe out all the thieves and cavalry!

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that when he saw Zuo Liangyu's family team start to pursue the dragoons, Luo Hu's face couldn't help but have an innocent and lovely smile, this kind of smile is very common on the face of a teenager of Luo Hu's age, but it is not common on the face of a person like Luo Hu who has been struggling to survive on the battlefield since he was a child. Zhang Dingguo, Wang Si'er and others on the side couldn't help but move in their hearts when they saw Luo Hu's expression, it seems that Lao Zuo is going to be unlucky! Because the person who has seen Luo Hu with such a look is not his friend, then he is in the West Heaven.

"Artillery team, aimed at Zuo Menggeng's cavalry team, boom! Big Buddha machine, change shotgun. ”

"The horse team is ready to attack!"

The gunners replaced the guns for the big Buddha Lang machine one after another, and the shells fell in Zuo Menggeng's cavalry team one after another. Beat these cavalry, which had no formation in the first place, into an even more chaotic formation.

However, Zhang Dingguo glanced at the Zhenshan Camp horse team that was nervously lined up with only a saber in his hand, and couldn't help but feel sad on his handsome face.

"Huzi, let my men go up with your horse team! Your horse team is so bad! ”

The horse team of the Earthquake Mountain Camp consisted of fifty people. The long column was formed into two columns. According to Zhang Dingguo's standard evaluation, these horse teams can only be barely called horse teams, riding skills, martial arts, at most, they can ride horses, and they can cut people with knives on horses.

Although no one could be heard in the entire array except for a few occasional neighings during the formation, Zhang Dingguo was still very worried. This little brother of his own will suffer! The cavalry under Zuo Liangyu, he has been taught many times, they are all old fritters who have followed him in the southern and northern wars for many years, their personal skills are exquisite, and the war horses are also fed better, far from being comparable to the cavalry of the ordinary Ming army.

"Brother Ning Yu, it's okay! Your team will be in the third column, and they will rush up. Chop off people's heads, take prisoners. Collect the war horses! Luo Hu didn't care, and Zhang Dingguo almost laughed out loud when he said it. Are you kidding?

However, Luo Hu's next sentence made Zhang Dingguo change his attitude in an instant.

"No matter how strong his cavalry is, can it still be stronger than the cavalry of the Liao thief?"

Zhang Dingguo's hundreds of personal soldiers and hundreds of veterans in Luohu's battalion barely formed a third column behind the two columns of cavalry in an evacuated formation. Prepare to act as a receiver after the first two columns rush up.

As soon as the sound of the cannon stopped, the gunners cooled the barrels of the cannons with water-soaked wool pushers. The sizzling heat was non-stop, and the barrel exuded its enthusiasm from the inside out.

The cavalry of the Zhenshan Battalion, which poured out like a tide, slowly crossed the artillery position and began to accelerate towards the opposing cavalry.

At this time, Zuo Mengeng was roaring angrily.

In almost every round of shelling, at least 100 of their own cavalry were hit by shells. Or trample on one another and die. What's even worse is that the momentum of the entire charge was disrupted.

"Stand back a little and make a charge for the brothers!"

His order, which did not go through the brain, played a good role in creating greater chaos and conflict between his infantry and cavalry, and providing space for the cavalry of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion to display. If he ordered the cavalry of the left battalion to rush forward and mix with the cavalry of the Zhenshan battalion, which could barely be called a horse team, with the individual skills and combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the left battalion, it would be impossible to say that he would be able to destroy Luo Hu's thousands of horse troops.

However, there is no such thing as regret medicine for sale in the world.

The retreating cavalry and the slowly advancing infantry mingled together, trampling, colliding and shouting at each other, while the cavalry in front was let go of the speed of their horses, and the cavalry of the Zhenshan battalion rushed in line like a mountain of knives to cut down their horses one after another in a state of harvesting wheat.

"Damn! I see! ”

Zhang Dingguo, who had dealt with the Model Brigade in Sichuan, could see at a glance that the cavalry tactics of the Zhenshan Battalion were the same as the tactics of the Horse Brigade of the Model Brigade! First, the artillery bombarded for a while, and the cavalry formation of the opposing party rushed over was even more scattered, and then the cavalry of a group of fifty people advanced like a wall, and crashed into it, and the sabers were everywhere, trampling the cavalry of the left battalion, which was originally scattered and abnormal, under the iron hooves.

The cavalry of the Left Battalion, who was lucky enough to have a good personal martial arts, was lucky enough to break through the attack of the first column of horses, and ran into the second column that followed closely behind. The screams continued, and people continued to fall from their horses, and in the blink of an eye, they were trampled to broken bones and turned into a mess of flesh.

The brothers in front of them encountered such a thing, and the cavalry of the left battalion naturally did not go to the confrontation with this group of madmen who rushed up to change their lives, so they just turned their horses and fled backwards, but the infantry of the brigade in the back and the north and south roads were gathered together, how could there be a path for the cavalry to escape?

However, they couldn't care about that much, and many cavalry of the left battalion broke into the ranks of the infantry as soon as they rode their horses!

Naturally, the elite infantry of the left battalion would not willingly let the cavalry masters step over their ranks or even overhead, and for a while, curses and screams continued to come out of the ranks, and blood had burst out in several places.

That's not all, though.

When beating the cavalry of the left battalion, Luo Hu had already mobilized thousands of firearms from the Zhenshan battalion in place, and slowly pressed up behind Zhang Dingguo's cavalry team.

A quick and short command sounded in the ranks of the cavalry, and with this urgent order, the cavalry did not dare to slack off, and turned their horses to the sides. An extremely wide front was left to the thousands of firecrackers who were in two formations and were no more than 100 paces away from the broken elite of the left battalion.

"Go back! Rush up! Kill the thieves' infantry! ”

Seeing this, Zuo Mengeng couldn't help but be overjoyed, what kind of weapon is the fire gun, he knows too well, at most two rounds, it is not as good as a burning stick. At present, there are at least fifteen or six thousand infantry cavalry under his command! Even if you fill it with human lives, you can defeat this thief's firecrackers!

The chaotic infantry and cavalry of the left battalion, mixed with each other, rushed towards the fire soldiers of the earthquake camp like a filthy flood.

"Put!"

Thousands of firecrackers opened fire calmly when the soldiers and horses of the left battalion rushed to a distance of less than sixty paces from him, and there were already arrows shooting at him! The continuous sound of firearms like popping beans sounded on the Great Plain of Eastern Henan! (To be continued......)