The first to be defeated was the French light cavalry, and even Marshal Matthion, who had the clearest understanding of war, could not call the iron pillar cast with the word Shenwei a rocket, they did not know what a rocket was.

On the contrary, it was the German Dubler swordsman in the mercenary army, shouting 'Chinese guns' as if he were having a nervous breakdown, fleeing the battlefield or launching a lonely desperate charge.

The Chinese gun is an ancient name, which comes from the Eastern European battlefield three hundred years ago, the Battle of Gleniz.

In the battle, Poland and Germany gathered 30,000 allied troops to fight against the Mongol army of the Western Expedition was brutally killed, and the Mongol legions achieved a complete victory with a strategy and tactics far superior to the enemy.

When the Eastern European coalition forces encountered a column attacking forward, the Mongol corps in front of them retreated, using a swarm of cluster rockets to create smoke and kill enemy troops, while the two parallel columns continued to advance from the flanks to cut off the Allied lines of communication and force them to retreat, encountering confusion and annihilation in the retreat.

It was the first time that Europeans had encountered rockets, but fortunately due to the death of the Great Khan Ögedei, the Mongol army returned to Korea and did not continue to attack westward, so that Europe was spared from being conquered by a military civilization superior to them in all aspects.

At that time, the European knights still wore chain mail, and the light cavalry of the Mongol army wore leather robes, and the heavy cavalry was equipped with the same full set of heavy armor as the Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, which were almost invulnerable; They use cluster rockets and muskets, and return cannons to deliver long-range thunderstorms.

This military empire, which emerged from the battlefields of East Asia, could become anyone's nightmare if he wanted to.

And this time, the offensive came from the west.

Although a small number of Dubler swordsmen in front of the battle charged forward with heavy swords and shouting Chinese guns, for Marshal Matthion, who was frightened by the explosion of Shenwei machine arrows in front of him, he thought that this was a new type of artillery of the Ming army.

When he saw the four Ming armies sweeping northward, his eyes were still fixed on the south, at the high ground where flames had risen not long ago.

The early trombone sounded a soft tone, and the chaotic but well-trained knights quickly assembled, and the horsemen who had no combat ability joined the infantry under the command of the Earl of Shire to stabilize the line; More than 100 heavily armored knights gathered more scattered light cavalry, and charged south with the Ming heavy cavalry that Martin tried to bypass the advancing Ming army line and the Ming heavy cavalry who gave up the challenge.

The more lethal the artillery, the more difficult it was to arrange the artillery positions, and Matthion had to grab them.

From the perspectives of Wang Youlan, Xu Jin and others, this is not the case.

The Ming army could not imagine that being hit on the head by the Shenwei machine arrow would directly beat the enemy phalanx to the point of almost collapse, and the infantry line that realized it quickly marched forward, and just after walking a hundred steps, it saw the enemy knights and cavalry gathered in one place and launched a surprise attack on the flank.

Xu Jin's side was better, Wang Youscale's horizontal formation stopped directly, and he planted a shield tiger squat cannon on the spot, and even used a high-pitched suona to tell the hundred households that once they were approached by the knights, all the firepower would be greeted to them, and then they would enter the white-knives battle...... Even if you are unlucky, you have to drag them down if you say anything.

They were about to break the cauldron and fight against the water, but they saw the imposing knights running over from far and near, from near and far, without looking at the whole army waiting for battle.

Matthion didn't know that when he led his army through this Ming army, Wang Youlan, the general of the horizontal formation, had already thought through his life in his mind and regretted everything.

As a result, they didn't come to beat grandpa, they went backwards.

Compared with Wang Youlan, Yuan Zizhang, the main general who was delayed, was more like a berserker in tactical decision-making, waving a big flag and ordering to the four-way horizontal formation: "Rush straight to the enemy formation to annihilate the phalanx, don't care about the enemy cavalry, the rear of the middle army!" ”

Regardless of whether he was born as a martial artist or a graduate of the martial arts hall, Yuan Zizhang couldn't escape the samurai who grew up in the Ming Dynasty, and under the concept of firearms in the national dynasty that he had been exposed to since he was a child, he couldn't figure out the brain circuit of Mathion wanting to use mobile power to take away the 'artillery' of the Ming army behind the battle.

He believed that the most important knightly force of the French army on the battlefield was to break through and launch a flanking attack on the military formation from the rear.

Martin had already swept past the front army, and he would not want to break into the middle of the four-way horizontal formation, and the Bird's Banner Army would shoot at them in all four directions, and no matter how thick the armor was, it would not be able to withstand such a beating.

So apart from launching a front and back attack, Yuan Zizhang couldn't think of any other reason...... He couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break through the sky, but Matthion's real purpose was the two carts carrying war drums and flags drawn by the big horse of the Western Kingdom of his Central Military Department.

As long as the two board cars are erected diagonally, the double-layer structure of the board is the launch platform of the six-pack Shenwei machine arrows, and it can also be used as the general flag arrow launcher if necessary, but the size of the general flag arrow is much smaller, and it must be put into the car with a wooden barrel shell, and its range is much closer, so the flag army usually likes to carry the general flag arrow on the shoulder like a small flag arrow to launch.

Only the Shenwei Trap Arrow, which has a three-hole rotating spray made by the Guangzhou Jiangwutang, does not have an arrow shaft for the tail flame spin spewed by this thing, and needs to provide an initial ballistic control in the long tube of the launch vehicle, which is also the source of its more accurate and longer range.

Yuan Zizhang's headquarters only has 200 banner armies, and both of them are 100 households, but in order to deal with the foot knights with shields, he specially assembled the handcuffs in the army, so that the two banner armies of the 100 households of birds and guns in addition to the long bird guns, try to make each person have a flint hair or steel bar wheel handcuff.

The source of the handcuffs in the army is messy, there are Beiyang made, Nanyang made, Xuanfu made, Jizhen made, there are also Western made, Portuguese, French made these battlefield capture, various, different production methods in various countries, the appearance is also different, the same is that the gun tube is short, the killing is weak, the accuracy is poor, the quality difference is only in the workmanship.

Relatively speaking, the most popular handcuff in the army is still the Ming Fourth Weapons Bureau, because of the unified system, the parts, shapes, charges, and guns and bullets are the same, and they can be changed at will; The most popular among the soldiers is the French-made made that was captured here and purchased from the White Mountain Battalion, although it is not a standard, you may pick out two handcuffs at random, the length of the gun, the shape, the accuracy, the size of the bullet are different, but there are some beautiful and good-looking treasures.

Yuan Zizhang's pistol team was created to deal with the toughest battles, when his army was forced into hand-to-hand melee under the charge of the foot knights, and these handcuffed bannermen would be able to kill the knights as much as possible at close range.

But his wish was in vain, and the French knights swept through his line with great mercilessness, and without even looking back, they headed straight for the high ground they had just descended.

Yuan Zizhang, who was sitting on horseback with a helmet and armor and dragging the Glaive Moon Knife, opened his mouth slightly, and squeezed his eyes fiercely at the high ground where the knights disappeared: "This, this is ...... Ran away? ”