[Because my cold continues to worsen, I have been on a drip for half a day today, and I can still only update one chapter...... I hope that all book friends can understand, and the chapters owed will be made up as soon as possible, thank you for your support. 】

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The horse's hooves made a clattering sound, bringing out some mud with every step.

Su Chengyu frowned and looked at the horseshoe prints behind him, and there were many overwintering grass roots on the wet ground on the bank of the river.

He raised his binoculars again, and saw that the order for the whole army to change formation had been carried out, and the Ming infantry brigade in front had changed from a marching column to a three-line horizontal formation, ready to meet the enemy troops who suddenly appeared at any time.

At the same time, if the enemy is cavalry, the horizontal team only needs the soldiers on both flanks to bend 90 degrees to quickly turn into a hollow phalanx.

The cavalry units were swords unsheathed and held in their hands, walking on both sides of the ranks. It was possible to cover the artillery on both flanks, and also to facilitate the charge in formation.

And all the tarpaulin jackets of all the cannons have been removed, and the artillerymen dismount and walk, and as long as the rear wheels of the gun carriage are removed, they can immediately reload and fire.

But there was no sign of the Qing army in Su Chengyu's sight.

Hussars patrolled within two miles of the main force at all times, but no one detected the enemy until the Dragonguards had completely entered the depression.

Zhang Jiayu looked at the hussars patrolling on the slopes on both sides, and wondered in his heart, could it be that he was wrong, there was no ambush of the Qing army here?

He thought about it for a while, and it was right, the Battle of Fuzhou Longwei had completely broken the morale of the Qing army, and the Qing army in Guangxin Mansion had really lost all fighting spirit, so it was not surprising that they left Shangrao Empty City and fled.

At the same time, on the edge of the nearly dry river downstream of Luxi, which the Long Wei army had just bypassed, Ke Yongsheng was directing the Qing army with wooden sticks in his mouth to climb the river embankment along several slopes.

The "big net" that he had carefully arranged for a long time finally waited for the Ming army to jump in, and it was obvious that the Ming army was carried away by the series of victories since entering Guangxin Mansion, and was rushing to Shangrao's "empty city" without warning.

Now it's time for him to reel in the nets!

After the soldiers behind the Ming army passed overhead, he immediately ordered the brigade to drill out of the river where he was hiding.

The battlefield he chose was on the road to Shangrao, and the Ming army that walked by Luxi was extremely difficult to find the troops hiding in the dry river, even if they did their reconnaissance carefully. Not to mention that there are very dense withered yellow reeds along the river, and even if you get close to within ten paces, you can't see anyone on the other side.

The large number of Qing troops that suddenly appeared on the river bank naturally could not avoid the hussars patrolling around the Dragon Guard, and the sound of warning immediately sounded all around.

Ke Yongsheng turned his head and saw that more than ten cannons had been dragged up the riverside, and he couldn't help but smile proudly, how many days of careful arrangement, seeing that big things can be accomplished - the left and right sides of the Ming army are slopes, although it is quite gentle, but it will definitely take a lot of effort to climb up. And at this time, the army hidden in the river valley is blocking behind them, and when these more than 20 cannons are fired in a volley, they will not be able to escape if they stick their wings!

Almost at the same time, Su Chengyu, who heard the alarm from the horn, immediately looked behind him with a telescope, and saw that the Qing army had begun to line up behind the Long Wei Army.

Don't keep running at this point! He knew very well how dangerous it would be to leave his back to the Qing army. The enemy may not be able to kill many people after him, but even if the morale of the troops is high, it is very easy to collapse when they are chased and killed by the enemy forces behind them.

He immediately said to the herald: "Order the whole army to turn to the rear and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

"Yes!"

The Dragon Guard infantry, which had already formed a horizontal line, quickly stopped and turned around, while the charging infantry in cotton armor ran from the back row to the front row, and it took less than a minute for the array of thousands of people to complete the turn.

The new gun carriage used by the Dragon Guard was originally used to transport artillery with the muzzle facing backwards, and at this time even the U-turn was saved. The well-trained artillerymen quickly removed the wheels from the tail mounts, pulled the horses apart, and the guns were almost immediately ready for firing.

Several artillery units are already beginning to estimate the distance of enemy troops.

And in Su Chengyu's telescope, the Qing army was rapidly forming a strange formation.

The phalanx in the center consisted of more than ten columns of Qing troops armed with strange spears in five rows. The length of the whole gun was more than four meters, and the front half of the gun stretched out obliquely more than a dozen branches more than a foot long, and a word immediately appeared in Su Chengyu's mind - wolf whi. It is Qi Jiguang's wolf!

At the back of the two ends of the wolf phalanx are two slightly smaller phalanxes of bird-handers, each of which is a neat array of five rows and five columns.

In the long strip formed by the wolf hand and the bird hand, all of them were spaced three feet apart, and there were dozens of such mixed phalanxes connected left and right, forming a long snake formation of about one mile.

This formation looks quite similar to Su Chengyu's line infantry formation, except that it is a mixture of wolf and bird guns, and the interval between soldiers is much larger.

Su Chengyu almost blurted out, "Morris phalanx!" ”

Ke Yongsheng commanded the Qing army to discharge the battle formation invented by the Dutch military strategist Morris at the beginning of the 17th century. It was a huge improvement over the Spanish phalanx, which was popular in Europe at the time, and he adapted the bloated Spanish phalanx into a small, mixed horizontal formation that was flexible, fast, and more powerful, and then used the small horizontal formation to form a narrow formation.

This formation was the prototype of the line infantry tactics that would later dominate all the world's theaters.

You must know that the Morris phalanx has only appeared in Europe for thirty or forty years, and for the Ming Dynasty, which was closed to information, Ke Yongsheng can be regarded as using the world's most advanced military tactics!

However, Ke Yongsheng's rudiments of line infantry tactics will face the line infantry that will be fully developed and matured a hundred years later.

Then Su Chengyu saw that on the side of the Morris phalanx, there were more than 20 artillery pieces preparing for firing. A tall triangular wooden frame was erected next to each cannon, and the Qing soldiers used ropes to go around the pulleys at the top of the wooden frame, tying the cannon at one end, and more than a dozen people pulling the other end of the rope vigorously. The heavy barrel gradually left the ground.

However, it can be seen that these more than 20 artillery pieces were gathered into an artillery position, which was completely different from the traditional way used by the Ming army to clamp the artillery between the gunners.

This is another new tactical idea in Europe - the centralized use of artillery.

Speaking of which, in addition to the traitor, I really have to praise you for being a diligent and studious general. Su Chengyu shook his head with "regret", "But no matter how diligent a horse is, it will definitely not be able to run the train." ”

He immediately ordered the artillery on both flanks of the Dragon Guard to shoot at the Qing infantry phalanx at an angle.

The hussars were responsible for covering the infantry flanks.

Heavy cavalry and dragoons slowly approached the Qing from both sides, but were not allowed to attack until the enemy infantry phalanx had collapsed.

Infantry line up to engage the enemy and prepare to carry out the tactics of close firing!

He put away his binoculars and looked at the neatly arranged "advanced" phalanx of the Qing army in the distance, as if he was saying to himself, "In more than half a century, someone will tell you that the best tactic to deal with Morris's phalanx is the line infantry." ”