Chen Mu regretted that the trenches had been dug so low.

From this vantage point, the horse's hooves were all visible at eye level, and the Mongolian horses, which had been short in stature, had become unusually tall, and their galloping pressure on the banner troops in the trenches had been exerted.

It is not surprising that the flag army in the first formation sounded the bird gun early.

Chen Mu, who was holding the gun, couldn't help but want to open a gun first every hundred steps, but he couldn't help it.

There was no artillery deterrence, rows of Tumut warriors dismounted on the bridge to clear those thistles, followed by a line of infantry and cavalry across the bridge deck quickly, the first to disperse was the dismounted infantry with round shields, and the two wings of the Ming army ran to the rain of arrows and spread out to form a shield wall, just dozens of steps in front of the trench.

Then the archers on horseback swung their horses around the shield wall and returned fire with their bows and arrows on both wings.

Chen Mu held the bird gun on the wooden shield that was placed obliquely in front of the trench, licking his dry lips, their bird gun team seemed to be selectively ignored - he thought that they would be the first to be shot, but he didn't expect those Tumert people to fight directly with Deng Zilong and Hu Daxiong on both wings as if they didn't see this.

With such a large trench, hundreds of densely packed heads peeking out behind the shield, can't they see?

They really couldn't see it, there was a heavy rain curtain of tens and nearly 100 paces, and there was an inverted spear outside the trench, and even some of the Mongol soldiers who were repulsed at the beginning did not think that there would be Tibetans here, let alone ...... Those northern soldiers who were frightened by the artillery bombardment and even the tribal leaders were bombarded to death, and they had long been out of formation, so how could they be sent by Ji Neng again.

When people attack the tethered horse bridge, they will subconsciously think that this is a trench and dirt slope to block the cavalry, and even if there are people, they should be behind the dirt slope.

Chen Mu was relaxed, but for Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng, it was a hard battle.

"Strong crossbow, release!"

Deng Zilong had forgotten how long it had been since he had commanded a crossbow unit, and the cold weapons that he was once so familiar with the battalion soldiers that he could no longer be familiar with them were now like a world away. The surrounding recruits followed his orders in a panic to raise strong crossbows of different sizes and strengths, and pulled the trigger with the crossbow machine high, and in the sound of collapsing strings, the arrows were like locusts.

"Wind! Archers shoot! ”

Hundreds of strong crossbows fired in a volley like an enemy cavalry position, and there was a clanging sound of crossbow bolts nailed to wooden shields, and then there was a tooth-sore crossbow winding around him, mixed with the screams of his own soldiers being hit by Tumut archers.

Deng Zilong wiped the rain on his face, and there was a flowing arrow nailed to his chest with a whistling sound, and he was suddenly hit by the momentum and took half a step back, and subconsciously looked down, but there was almost no feeling on his body, just like being pushed, causing him to smile and continue to give orders.

No one cares about the effect of rain on bowstrings and crossbows, even if all these bows and crossbows are scrapped after this fight, not to mention that rain is not so destructive.

It's nothing more than animal tendons and fish glue that swell when exposed to water and become soft.

Following Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, who was accustomed to using bird guns, seemed to have become soft and not soft, but in fact, they were all soft, and the Tumut infantry held a broken wooden card to block it, and a large number of arrows rained down into the enemy formation but may not be able to kill the enemy, which made him anxious, and looked at the trench from time to time.

General Chen is also too calm.

There were only two arrows in the battle, although Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng's subordinates kept shooting seven or eight hundred bows and crossbows, but the damage to the enemy cavalry was really limited, but the endless enemy cavalry on the bridge was crossing the river in large numbers under the protection of the shield wall on the periphery of the infantry, and the cavalry circle that was wandering in the shield wall was getting bigger and bigger, constantly throwing arrows to the two wings.

These vanguard cavalry were well protected, with heavy leather and iron armor protecting them from bows and crossbows to the greatest extent, but Deng Zilong and Hu Liangpeng's recruits did not have such good armor, even if it was also leather armor, their armor was terrifyingly thin compared to the Tumuts.

Can't stop the bow and arrow.

The two sides did not engage in close combat, but the casualties continued to rise, and every moment the sergeants in the formation fell to the ground screaming, bringing deeper fear to the robe, if it were not for the Nanyang Guardian Army with spears and large shields to hold the front of the formation, the army was afraid that the army would have collapsed in time.

However, after only half a moment of fighting, Deng Zilong had handed over the task of giving orders to hundreds of households under his command, and he led his own soldiers to stand on the side of the formation and kept shouting: "Don't mess up, don't retreat!" Those who enter are alive and gone, and those who retreat die! ”

The situation on Hu Daxiong's side was not much better, he simply carried a long knife and his own soldiers to stand in front of the battle with a big flag, trying to arouse the morale of his subordinates, he was fearless by wearing double armor and protected by the Nanyang cuirass, but before the big flag was waved twice, as a live target, he was pierced with a few stray arrows, and the seven personal soldiers around him fell four in a blink of an eye.

"Why hasn't the general given the order yet!"

The tide is irreversible.

Chen Mu stood in the trench, gritted his teeth, and forced himself to calmly look around the battlefield not far away, this is an extremely rare learning opportunity for generals, the past hard study of the art of war is imprinted in his mind, at this moment, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph comes to mind, as long as he can grasp a few sentences, he can fully improve his talent in battle.

The enemy formation he saw was not only the infantry squatting in front of the two outer layers with round shields and holding bones, the cavalry galloping around inside, but also a large whirlpool ready to go, although his flanks had more than 50 casualties in a short period of time, and the rear had even been recruited out of formation, but for the enemy army, this battle had not yet begun.

They ran around, just the process of gathering troops, Chen Mu in the trenches clearly captured this process, and then grasped the tactical purpose of the enemy army in his hands - gathering troops, hitting morale, and when there were enough troops, they broke through in one fell swoop.

"The one who unleashes the sword without an order - slash!"

The battle formation would change, because he had already grasped the enemy's target, and he could anticipate their next move, and they would rush at the point where the wings were about to collapse under the overwhelming pressure.

At that time, it was also the time when the infantry formation was the least threatening to the cavalry, and only a small price was required, and the entire bank of the Juma River would be trampled by iron hooves after the enemy formation was crushed.

"Raise your guns, get ready."

Chen Mu's voice was very soft, and the two nervous heralds beside him shouted out the general order in the trench, and then conveyed it from the left and right, this is a useless military order, because all the birds have been set up and ready to be released, but this military order is very important.

Let the rear waiting to be replaced with the flag army cheer up.

The trenches were full of deep breaths that the banner army couldn't stand because they didn't dare to breathe out loud, Chen Mu didn't squint, but he knew that there was a flag army trembling beside him, his eyes were firmly fixed on the Tumut army cavalry galloping around the circle, watching the enemies who kept shooting his men with feathered arrows, and also watching them be knocked over by the arrows, until the whistle of the enemy was out of tune.

The galloping ring array turned into two formations left and right in front of him, and the shield hand in front of the formation rushed forward, and at this moment, Chen Musheng was hoarse.

"Bird, let's go!"

Bang bang, bang!

In the smoke of gunpowder and the heavy rain, the trenches spewed projectiles and shot directly at the enemy formation.