The sound of gunfire meant that the scouts had been discovered, and the news would soon reach the ears of the enemy troops on the west bank, and fortunately, at this moment, Yuan Zizhang's troops had advanced to a distance of ten miles from the enemy camp.

He feared that the enemy would come back to attack, and hoped that the enemy would flee, and as soon as the French began to retreat, even if they found a way to restrain the Beiyang army, they would fall behind in the speed of the march and be annihilated by the constant encroachment on the pursuit.

Because in the early morning of the pursuit of the French army on the east coast of Kangguru, Yuan Zizhang found that the simple and efficient line tactics of the Beiyang Banner Army had terrible drawbacks, which were likely to be wiped out in a major battle against a well-equipped enemy: their sweeping momentum was based on the iron law of equality of all beings under the bird's gun.

However, last night, in order to prevent the heavy bow and face shooting of the plate armor Iron Float, Billon found a way to defend.

He gave the knights in pursuit, and dismounted as he was about to cross the bridge, and mixed with the phalanx of small infantry to form knights on foot, each with short men and large shields as the front line.

If it weren't for the six Zhenshuo guns in the bridgehead position, his assault would have been successful.

At medium and close range, the Bird's Gun Round Shot can pose enough threat to the knights wearing plate armor, but if these knights hold their shields, the threat of the Bird's Gun will become extremely close, and as long as the knight is close to him, even with the spear, it will be difficult for the banner army to kill the knight and heavy infantry.

The Spike was used as a threat to horses and light infantry, not to knights.

This tactic was a bloody blow to Billon, and the knights were likely to be killed with muskets in hand-to-hand combat, and at least two hundred knights were involved in such a battle, and if they failed, it would be very costly.

But for Yuan Zizhang? He valued his banner army far more than Billon valued his knights.

In other words, the Beiyang Banner Army, the leader of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, is no less important in the eyes of the generals than the nobles in this land value the knights.

They perform almost the same functions on the battlefield, and if the best troops can slaughter the lowest enemy in a one-sided manner, then it is obviously a wise decision to use the best troops of their own side and the best troops of the enemy.

But the sky did not follow people's wishes, the Beiyang Banner Army advanced rapidly, and the Jurchen scouts who should have retreated slowly scattered in all directions, and the scouts from all walks of life did not even see the shadow of the enemy, and they were frightened by the gunshots that rang out one after another.

The scouts touched the edge of the ranks of the French army, originally thought that they were dealing with a few scattered musketeers, but the musketeers immediately returned fire after the sneak attack failed, and the main force was frightened and sent light cavalry and knight squads, all the way to pursue, the stragglers who were difficult to form a military formation could not be stopped, and more than ten were killed on the spot, and more people were also frightened by the huge march that followed, and they were scattered one after another.

The skirmishers were engaged in skirmishes, and the relatively poorly equipped White Mountain Battalion Infantry Archers and the French Knights were obviously the two most unbalanced combat forces.

At this point, Yuan Zizhang did not continue to march, leaving Wang You's scales to gather the scattered Jurchen archers, while hurriedly sending riders to gallop to the western high ground to observe the enemy situation with telescopes, and on the other hand leading his troops to the favorable terrain for rapid maneuvering.

When Yuan Zizhang led his troops to the high ground, Li Dai, who led the horse army first, had already found out the enemy's situation: "At least two enemy armies three or four miles away are close to each other, the infantry is wearing armor and distributing weapons, and four groups of cavalry are scattered on both wings...... There are many idle people behind them, and it seems that the baggage has arrived, and it may also be the nearest businessman. ”

Li Dai said as he said that a scout with a telescope inserted in his waist stepped forward to report: "A group of more than ten cavalry enemy troops approached General Wang, who had gathered the rout on the east side, and the charge was blocked by the tiger squat artillery. ”

Yuan Zizhang did not know that the enemy army on the west bank had changed their generals, and the supreme commander had been changed from Count Charles to Marshal Matthion, who was familiar with Chen Jiujing's defense, but he could feel that the morale of the enemy troops who were besieged two days ago and did not dare to go down the mountain to get food had been greatly improved. ”

There were two more cannon shots in the distance, Yuan Zizhang was not worried about Wang Youlan's 400 banner army, a group of cavalry wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of his rout to attack them, but they tasted a lot of hardships, and at this time they had already withdrawn to the infantry phalanx with their lives saved.

What is it like to be squatted by the three tigers on the way to charge, and the war horse lying on the ground covered in blood knows best.

This kind of small cannon with its own nail frame is laid out very quickly, and is carried all over the ground by the infantry, which must make the majestic knight master remember it vividly for more than ten years after being sprayed.

Yuan Zizhang, who had carefully watched the enemy formation several times with a telescope, finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then turned his head solemnly and said to a few subordinates: "Although there are female dependents who don't look like a baggage team, they did transport two small cannons of the Franco machine without wheels, and look at the big and small scattered three hundred steps, and the eldest son five hundred steps." ”

After that, Yuan Zizhang said conclusively: "After their formation is over, they will focus on protecting those two cannons, we don't have a cannon that can hit so far, only twelve Shenwei machine arrows can hit that far, we have to strike first." ”

In fact, at this distance, Yuan Zizhang can tell that they are two Furlong cannons, which is already very interesting, and it is basically impossible to accurately describe the caliber, so he simply said it bigger.

He was transferred to the East, and the Second War between Ming and Western China had ended, so he didn't know that the Spanish caravan was messily participating in the war with the troops, and the inertial thinking of the Ming Dynasty also made him not think that a serious businessman could sell artillery.

The baggage caravan that appeared behind the Martignon army was a group of merchants who supplied the French army for the battle, and lent two Furlong cannons and two barrels of gunpowder for one-tenth of the spoils after the victory.

Perhaps this shouldn't be called a buy or sell in general, but an investment.

Ever since he heard that the Count of Charles had been hampered in the southern part of Povalier, this caravan had come all the way from the western ports with artillery and food, and there was nothing easier for people to get rich than to make a war windfall.

At this moment, the spears and armor placed on the carts were draped by the legionnaires, and the soldiers who were mainly mercenaries from Switzerland, Germany, and France, supplemented by levies, arranged two phalanxes according to the pre-battle plan, and some of the reorganized light cavalry escorted the two chariots carrying the Franco's cannons in front of the formation, and partly lined up on both wings, and the knights in full armor gathered in the rear of the Chinese army, slowly pressed towards the Ming army, and stopped at a distance of two miles.

In front of them, 400 households of Wang You's scale banner army guarded more than 200 Jurchen step archers who had gathered up, and slowly retreated to the Chinese army in a stacked formation, and finally stopped in front of the right side of the Chinese army.