A group of French troops swept across the front line on light horses and horses, and they looked stupid at the sight of the Ming army in the distance carrying shovels and earthwork.

Behind the light cavalry, two infantry phalanxes that had completed the preparatory stage were speared and began their final prayers before the battle.

The guerrilla general Wang Youlan didn't even take out his binoculars, and the scene of the enemy front was clearly visible, and the 100 households of sappers shouted to the banner troops who were busy on the left and right: "Stop working, kneel, kneel, they kneel!" ”

The Ming army did not understand why the enemy knelt before the battle, perhaps because they knew but did not bother to waste their energy to understand.

For them, it was enough to know that the enemy would kneel before getting up, and the general would attack.

During the exhibition of the banner, the Workers' Banner Army shouldered their beloved small steel pickaxes and sailor axes, untied the weathered small shield on their backs, and joined the front line of the Bird Banner Army.

The banner army led by the engineer Baihu was not equipped with muskets, and their combat effectiveness was relatively low, but the burden of equipment on their bodies was not light, basically equivalent to the heavy infantry, and today they dug a trap in the horse pit, and did not need a shield, if they were outnumbered by the enemy, they would bury the shield as a reinforcement material into the earthen wall in front of the rapidly excavated half-length trench, making it a simple civil fortification that could defend against direct fire from muskets.

When the work is done, the Pickaxe has a sharp armor-piercing cone, making it a staple for defending against melee heavily armored enemies in a musket formation.

After doing all this, the four roads and hundreds of households lined up in a triple round-fire horizontal formation with a small depth and a large width, and slowly moved closer to Yuan Zizhang's troops.

Wang Youlan stood in front of the formation and watched the enemy army set up, their depth was so great that people couldn't see how many rows of soldiers there were, and could only see countless spears and halberds behind the first row of heavily armored soldiers with the big shield in front of him, obviously...... They're using the same tactic that Billon has figured out.

However, when his troops slowly retreated and tried to get close to Yuan Zizhang, they saw Yuan Zizhang on the high ground waving the order flag ordering him to march, and four hundred households lined up from the high ground, and the four horizontal formations in front of the same sappers swept down.

Then the two hundred-man Jurchen heavy horses kicked and slowed down, as if Yuan Zizhang planned to throw the only cavalry force in his hand into the battlefield as soon as possible to break the deadlock.

The high-pitched suona sound sounded in the formation, and the French army could only see small flags on the opposite side surrounded by big flags.

The time has come to test the luck of the flag officers, each small flag officer in the horizontal formation stands in front of the left of the subordinate flag army with a helmet and a gun, and the deputy flag officer stands in the left rear with the same posture, and in the middle of the three rows of nine people is the propaganda officer with a different color helmet and gun.

However, the life of the small flag officer is not so dangerous, the engineer and the hundred households in the four hundred households led the team to form a single row of horizontal formations to protect the front, and the Gongqi army with the end of the shield is at the front, just like the French army thinks that the lead shot cannot cause damage to the plate armor after penetrating the shield, the Ming army can also use this defense.

Two horizontal formations, one on the left and one on the right, like two big crabs, approached the French army with their teeth and claws.

Finally, the horn sounded in front of the enemy formation, their instrument was a trumpet equipped with a telescopic tube, and before the other horizontal formation, Xu Jin, who led the infantry to march, was sure that his banner army would not be able to hear the other party's military music even if he pricked up his ears, and the fleshy sound could not suppress his suona here.

What's more, the guerrilla general Wang Youlan, who led the phalanx alone, didn't know what General Yuan Zizhang meant, but Xu Jin knew very well that they were not only these two horizontal formation 900 people, but also reinforcements behind them.

In Xu Jin's field of vision, the enemy light cavalry tried to sweep through the formation from the frontal battlefield and gather on the left flank, so that his position was more dangerous, on the far left of the left flank...... This is obviously because Wang Youlan was afraid of setting up a tiger squat cannon in front of him, and he planned to pinch the persimmon softly, and planned to attack one side to swallow their horizontal formation first.

But he also has a tiger squat cannon, and each general flag has one, not to mention that his six general flag arrows and twenty small flag arrows are useless so far.

"Change the tone, the general flag arrow, the small flag arrow Kaifeng, and the flag army of each department pass the grenade forward and hand it over to the engineers."

The enemy artillery did not move, and the infantry phalanx was parallel to the two Fran cannons, and the artillery finally let out the long-awaited roar.

The roar was full of might, the muzzle of the cannon spewed out red light, and a scattered stone pierced through the gunsmoke, scattered in the middle of the two formations about to meet, Xu Jin was visible to the naked eye, and a large area of withered grass and soil about a hundred steps ahead was swept by the scattered son.

With a change of tone in the military music, Xu Jin's horizontal formation stopped, and the horizontal formation of the guerrilla king with scales on the other side also stopped, the two armies were only four or five hundred steps apart, and they were about to enter the range of the general flag arrows.

In the four sides of the horizontal formation, they nailed down the tiger squat artillery, the main defensive direction is still frontal, the thunderbolts of each general flag are arranged in the back, this kind of experimental armament from the Oriental military Zhao Shizhen has a fast rate of fire and low lethality, it is difficult to achieve results in this battle in which the enemy has heavy armor and shield hands in the front.

The two Ming army formations in the eyes of the French army looked very strange, they suddenly stopped on the way to the march, and everyone crouched down and hid behind their shields, they thought that the Ming army was frightened by the firing of the Fran cannon, which was very morale-boosting for them - field artillery, many times it was used to strengthen their courage.

However, on the high ground behind the enemy, two phalanxes of similar size were preparing to go, and it seemed that they were used as a reserve by the enemy's commander, and spread forward under the protection of the cavalry, so that the Ming army also had a lot of columns, and it was difficult for the cavalry to break through the back of the front from the middle.

In Matthion's brain, he believed that the distance between the two reserves and the front was to better shoot at the cavalry attacking the front and protect their backs.

But in fact, the latter two troops are also the main force, and the reason why they sent back was only that Yuan Zizhang wanted the French army to think that their front army was insufficient, so that they could go a little further, and now that the goal was achieved, he naturally let the rear set off.

At this moment, Marshal Matthion, who was advancing with the phalanx, suddenly squinted his eyes, raised his hand and raised his baton towards the Ming army's position, and exclaimed: "What is that!" ”

All could see that not long after the two reserves left the high ground, there were successive, rapid rises of light and shadow across the sky, and those things carried their tails of fire and let out a terrifying scream, and in an instant they flew through the sky above the battlefield to the highest point, and then fell as quickly as if they had eyes.

The screams grew closer and louder, like the devil's cry.

Unfortunately, the shells fell between the two French phalanxes.

Boom!

Heavy pointed-tipped cannonballs slammed a knight off his horse, and then slammed into the ground diagonally, as happened throughout the phalanx, and the tail of the falling cannonballs spewed faint flames and smoke intermittently.

The iron pillar was damp with a little rust and a little dirt, but the handwriting on it was still visible.

It only has two words – Kamui.