Azig continued: "Turai and Tong Yangjia led the elite of the Han army with the Yellow Banner and the Blue Banner as the main strikers to attack head-on. ”

"Huh!" Turai and Tong Yangjia were both happy in their hearts. The former has always been worried that Azig will attack the enemy, and he can be careful to defend against the enemy as a striker. The latter only felt that the Ming army should be defeated with one blow, and he would definitely be able to gain a lot of combat exploits as a striker.

"Worship Yin Dai, lead the blue flag to cover the flank of Tulai. If the Yellow Banner crushes the Southerners, you will outflank them from both sides. ”

"Huh!"

"Zhuo Butai, you command the main force of the cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry such as Batel to form a formation behind Lietulai, and you are ready to be at my disposal."

"Huh!"

In fact, unlike most people's inherent impressions, although the Qing army is known as unparalleled in cavalry and archery, in fact, there are not many cavalry, generally only about 30% of the total strength, and its main decisive force is still heavy infantry.

In addition, the scene of relying on the cavalry to charge head-on as soon as the fight starts is a plot that only exists in the movie. Similar to the tactics commonly used in Europe in this era, the Manchus also reserved cavalry for critical moments.

For example, chasing and defeating the enemy, filling the loopholes in the formation, etc. As a last resort, cavalry is rarely used to charge the enemy's formation. You must know that Houjin are not nomads, and their war horses are also very precious.

"Han Dai, I order you to lead 2,000 men and horses from the Yellow Banner and 3,000 from the Green Battalion to line up on the left flank of the Chinese army."

"Huh!"

"Cao Cunxing, the 6,000 men of your green battalion are lined up on the right flank of the Chinese army."

"The last general obeys!"

Azig finally glanced at the generals in the tent, "This marshal will personally lead Bai Bayala to supervise the battle of the Chinese army. Today, in addition to the non-commissioned officers guarding the camp, the whole army will be reorganized and reorganized, and the army will be placed early tomorrow morning to directly take the main force of the southerners! ”

The Manchu and Han officers under his command immediately surrendered in unison.

When the Azig Cloth Formation was completed, another Xiaocai heard the news that the Ming army had camped on the outskirts of Zhima County, eight miles away.

Azig hurriedly attached himself to the map to take a closer look, and immediately burst out laughing, "These southern barbarians are simply disgusted with their fate, and they actually chose such a place to set up camp. ”

He pointed to the map, "There is such a flat land west of the gloss, and there is a flat river within a radius of dozens of miles. In the decisive battle here, there is no obstacle in front of our army, and we must sweep the southerners in an instant! ”

Everyone in the tent laughed with him, "Nanren is dizzy, right?" Ha ha. ”

"What kind of King Chen is this, I think I can only fight with Shi Fu and the like."

"It's so empty and flat, I'm afraid it won't take an hour for the war to end."

"Hey, it seems that all these feats belong to Lord Tulai."

It is no wonder that they are so excited, the south of the Yangtze River is mostly Heze hilly terrain, and the tactics used by Jianyu to camp and advance and cavalry attack are not easy to play, but it is very conducive to the positional defensive warfare that the Ming army is good at.

Therefore, since crossing the Yangtze River, the Qing army has always felt tied up since the beginning of the war, and it is refreshing to fight in the north.

Now that the Ming army has chosen such a large plain as the battlefield, how can they not be happy.

It's just that they don't know that the plain terrain is also more conducive to the firepower projection of the line infantry formation, as well as the maneuver of large phalanxes.

……

Next.

On the plain west of Zhima, a crucial battle began to determine the direction of the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Azig was wearing a leaf red satin armor, a red lacquered iron helmet on his head, and his bow was immediately under a golden wire plate dragon in the middle of the military array, holding a telescope and looking up at the Ming army formation.

He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, put down his binoculars and looked around, only to notice that the terrain he was in seemed to be a little lower than the enemy army, and it was a slow uphill slope from his side towards the Ming army.

"Hmph, no wonder Nanban wants to use this place as a battlefield, it turns out to be for this." He shook his head disdainfully, "It's just a slight back-attack." ”

Zhuo Butai beside him also looked at the Ming army, and said with some surprise: "Lord Belle, the formation of these southern barbarians is a little strange." ”

Azig also saw it just now, and the Ming army was setting up a long snake formation. And the middle part is very thin, I'm afraid there are only three rows of soldiers, but the phalanx on the two wings can be thicker, but it is only five rows.

He had read the military report sent by Jin Shenghuan to the imperial court, and he had mentioned this formation of the southerners, saying that this formation relied entirely on firearms, and the salvo was extremely powerful.

However, it is so thin, once engaged, it will definitely be broken in an instant. Azig sneered, Nanban has always relied on firearms and fought lightly, but when was it not a slight touch and collapse?

He had seen the 30,000 men of the Ming army outside the pass, putting up a formation of ten rows in front and back, and he was not overwhelmed by Huang Ama's army in half a day?

Moreover, he never saw the shadow of the cannon in front of the Ming army.

He sneered again, these southerners didn't know what method they used, and they rushed from Yanping to Shanguan in ten days, but it seemed that they must have marched all the way, and they couldn't even carry the cannons.

He glanced at the forward battalion where Bolo and Tong Yangjia were in one place, and there was a cannon between almost fifty gunslingers. He could almost imagine the scene of the Ming army being bombarded everywhere after the battle.

"Lord Belle," said a heavy cavalryman in silver armor galloping his horse, "the front battle is over!" ”

Azig turned his head to look at Cao Cunxing's department on the right flank, and saw that its formation was still quite chaotic, and couldn't help frowning, these green battalion soldiers were really slow.

He waved his hand to a Bai Baya cavalryman beside him, "Order Han Gushan and Zhang Cunren to lead their troops and horses to take the enemy position directly." ”

"Huh!" The silver-armored cavalry immediately turned his horse away.

It's just that Turai is in front of the army at this time as the general of the forward battalion, otherwise he will definitely come to stop Azig and ask him to wait for all the generals to prepare before attacking.

……

The formation of the Ming army was very simple, and the main force of the infantry of the Dragon Guard Army opened a line more than two miles long and crossed the middle of the battlefield.

The Broken Battalion was divided into two formations, with fourteen rounds on each side of the Dragon Guard infantry, forming fourteen standard Morris phalanxes. Among them, the heavy bird gun team is in the center, and the medium and light bird guns are on the sides.

Although the number of people in the camp was large, because the Morris phalanx needed five rows in front and back, the formation was only less than three miles wide after it was deployed.

However, even so, the combined formation of the Broken Camp and the Dragon Guard Army was nearly five miles wide, which was more than one and a half miles wider than the battle formation of the Qing army of more than 40,000 people on the opposite side. This is still Zhu Linmiao's infantry battalion, dragoon battalion and two broken battalion infantry as reserves, otherwise the width will be increased by about half a mile.

The most obvious advantage of such a large frontal width is that it can form a semi-encirclement situation against the enemy, and at this time, the two wings can fire at the enemy crosswise, which can cause several times the lethality of direct frontal fire. Of course, this is provided that the infantry formation is not overwhelmed by the enemy.

The cavalry of the Dragon Guard and the Broken Battalion also temporarily lined up behind the infantry, waiting for the enemy to strike a blow when there was a flaw, or to fill in the gaps in the formation.

As for the artillery of the Dragon Guard, at this time they were still standing by in the bushes half a mile away from the main force. The light and heavy cannons of the broken battalion were all lined up behind the infantry phalanx on both flanks, covered with tarpaulins.