"Quick...... The pikemen form a formation, and the musketeers step forward! ”

"Hurry up, get in shape...... Formation ......"

At this time, the battalion soldiers in front of the castle of the thousand households were in a hurry, and under the shouts of the officers, the remaining 2,000 battalions hurriedly formed a formation. At the front of this phalanx were 300 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, 400 pikemen in the middle, 500 sword and shield soldiers on the last layer, and 800 cavalry on both sides, so the remaining 2,000 battalions formed a standard phalanx.

This battalion is also Xu Hongji's ancestors have been operating for hundreds of years and is also the most important sergeant force, their Wei Mansion can stand in Nanjing for a hundred years, this force has played a very important role, because they are all fed with silver by the Wei Mansion, their loyalty to Xu Hongji is naturally undoubted, under the shouting of the officers, this phalanx was quickly assembled, but just when they had just formed a formation, Zhang Weixian and a group of defeated soldiers retreated from the front.

After seeing this scene, Xu Hongji, who was protected by many personal guards, changed his face. In this year, the war relied on the battle formation, and once the battle formation was dispersed, he didn't have to think about it and knew what the consequences would be, so he quickly opened his throat and shouted: "Let them bypass the military formation, bypass the military formation, and they must not be directly let over." ”

Under Xu Hongji's order, there were also people in front of the military formation who shouted loudly, and they shouted loudly to their companions who were retreating in embarrassment: "Go around, don't storm the military formation, and those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

"Get around! Bypass the military formation! ”

Zhang Weixian, who was coerced by the guards to retreat, was not a fool in the end, and naturally knew that it was a capital crime to attack his own army formation under any circumstances, so he shouted loudly while riding his horse and running to the side to order the retreating soldiers to retreat to both sides of the military formation.

With Zhang Weixian's efforts, most of the soldiers who retreated obeyed the order and bypassed from both sides of the military formation, only a small part of the frightened or chaotic soldiers still rushed towards their own military formations in a daze, at this time the Shenji battalion in front of the military formation was not polite, with a burst of firecrackers, dozens of soldiers who ran in the front fell in a pool of blood, the crisp soft voice and bloody facts finally made the frightened soldiers behind sober up, These routs who had originally rushed towards the army formation were so frightened that they quickly dispersed to both sides.

Looking at the dozens of soldiers who fell in front of the battle, Xu Hongji clenched the hilt of the knife and looked very ugly, these Jiang Ningwei's cavalry came at an inopportune time, and they actually killed them when Zhang Weixian dispersed his troops to expel those Zhuang Ding, otherwise the two sides would have made it clear that the chariots and horses would kill a deer and die, but now they are about to collapse at the touch of a button, and this battle is really too bad.

Contrary to Xu Hongji's mood, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Gate Qianhu Office on the city wall cheered loudly, and they originally thought that they might be in danger of escape today, and after seeing their cavalry appear, and killing the Nanjing battalion soldiers who were burning and plundering, they all jumped up excitedly.

Not to mention Xu Hongji's ugly face, Liao Yongquan was also panicked in his heart. He offered advice to Xu Hongji: "Grandpa Xu, the thieves are menacing, but this official found that they only came with hundreds of cavalry, so we might as well take advantage of the fact that their infantry has not yet arrived and let the cavalry launch a counterattack against them, so as to deal a blow to the arrogance of the thieves, what do you think?" ”

"Lord Liao has a point."

Before Xu Hongji could speak, Lu Jianshen on the side also echoed: "The thieves are menacing, if we don't take advantage of the opportunity of the thieves' foot soldiers to kill them, we will be in trouble when most of the thieves arrive." ”

"This ......"

Xu Hongji hesitated, his original idea was to lure Jiang Ningwei's cavalry to attack his own formation, and use the Shenji battalion and spearmen to kill and injure the opponent's cavalry in large numbers, but after hearing Liao Yongquan say this, he also felt that the other party should not be so stupid, and he would take the lead in attacking his own own formation when his own strength was far inferior to the opponent's, so that the battle situation would fall into a stalemate, and once the opponent's foot soldiers arrived, it would easily fall into a stalemate, which was contrary to his idea of quickly resolving the incident.

Thinking of this, Xu Hongji turned his head to a general beside him and said, "General Shi, you immediately lead the cavalry of your headquarters to charge against Jiang Ningwei's thief soldiers, and you must kill and injure a large number of the opponent's cavalry!" ”

"The last will be ordered!"

After the general answered loudly, he gave a military salute to Xu Hongji and rode away, and soon the eight hundred cavalry who were originally guarding on both sides of the military formation slowly moved, and soon met the cavalry rushing towards them in front.

Seeing the other party's cavalry coming up, Yang Daniu, who was directing the cavalry to charge and kill, took out his neck and blew up, and the rapid and rhythmic whistle echoed in front of the formation, with the whistle, the cavalry that was originally scattered because of the pursuit of the enemy regrouped, and when Yang Daniu saw the enemy army rushing towards him in front, his face showed a solemn look.

He has served in the Guanning Army for several years, and he can see at a glance that the overall riding skills of the enemy army on the opposite side are very good, although it is far from being comparable to the Manchurian horse armor soldiers outside the Guan, but it is still much stronger than the cavalry behind him that has just been formed for a few months.

However, Yang Daniu is also a veteran who is used to fighting, and knows that if the cavalry behind him has just been formed, it is the time to take shape, and if he orders to retreat, it will be too big a blow to this team that has not yet been formed, in view of this, he gritted his teeth and issued an order to continue the charge, and as the supreme commander of this cavalry, he also rushed to the front of the team.

Amid the rumbling of horses' hooves, the two cavalry drew closer and closer. Whether it was the sergeants watching the battle on the city wall or Xu Hongji and others in the military formation, they all held their breath and watched this duel between the cavalry.

"Shoot the arrows!"

When the distance between the two sides reached a hundred paces, with a loud roar, a rain of arrows was shot from the cavalry on Xu Hongji's side, which was also one of the most common tactics of the cavalry, using bows and arrows to inflict maximum damage on the enemy before contact.

"Raise your shield and protect your horse's head!"

With the shouts of the officers, Yang Daniu, who had been prepared, also raised the shields in their hands, due to the limited area of the shield, they could only protect themselves and the heads of the war horses, and the rest of the places could only be left to fate.

I only heard the sound of "dangdang" metal impact, which was the sound of arrows hitting the shield, but this was only a few sounds, more of which were the cavalry who were shot by arrows falling from the sky, but the armor on their bodies was not an ornament, these armor made of high-strength steel plates made of high-strength steel plates built in batches by modern industrial equipment were very strong in this era, and the arrows could only be ejected helplessly when they hit it.