Dragoons are essentially mounted infantry troops, and if they fight on horseback, they are certainly not the opponents of the golden cavalry, and their advantage lies in their ability to maneuver, be fast, move quickly, and occupy advantageous terrain formations.

At this time, two thousand dragoons came to the west, and twenty three-pound and six-pound artillery columns were placed on a high ground behind the array, the muzzles of the black holes were high, the ammunition had been filled, and the gunners with torches were staring at the oncoming golden horses, ready to fire and bombard at any time.

Zhongyong Town, as the most elite people of the Ming Army, has lost a big face this time, 30,000 brothers in a town, and they are rushing to compete for the position of a pioneer, and they want to make another great achievement, and they will miss a face again, and sit firmly on the trump card and the position of the first strong town, and they don't want to be such a big thing as the battle of Mingjin, but Zhongyong Town has become a spectator, and was surrounded by the Jin army in the city, which makes the people who escaped also feel deeply ashamed.

The Ming army's front is very long, the defense is very wide, after the loss of Dufugou in the west, Zhang Mingzhen has already arranged an extra battalion here, but mainly to increase, the thickness of the western front, and the Jin army infantry confrontation, between the ditch and the Ming array, there is still a gap of about half a mile.

This gap is not wide, if the infantry wants to pass through from here, it is easy to be suppressed by the side fire of the Ming army, and the infantry army also has time to respond, but the cavalry gallops past, it is different.

After the artillery was placed on the high ground behind, the soldiers of the dragoons began to form a formation under the slope, and the strange thing is that the first line of the Ming army was not lined up in a straight line, but three divisions were soldiers, lined up in three phalanxes, with an interval of fifty steps between each phalanx, arranged in a zigzag pattern, and then the remaining 1,000 people were placed in a horizontal formation behind the three phalanxes.

The second front is very particular, he is very close to the lower two formations of the Pinzi array, far away from the upper one, and the gap between the three phalanxes and the second front states just forms a "convex" line of traps, waiting for Jin Qi to drill in.

In front of the horizontal formation, there was a row of spearmen armed with one-foot spears, and they squatted in front of them as a matter of course, stabbing their spears diagonally. In recent years, the armor of the Ming army has become lighter and lighter, and Wang Yan's personal guards and iron men have also given up heavy armor, but these spearmen are still wearing heavy armor. Behind them, there were three rows of musketeers, and then the same was true of the second front.

Almost at the moment when the Ming army lined up in formation, the cavalry of the Jin army bypassed the Ming army's line and also reached the west.

In terms of cavalry, in addition to Wu Sangui's iron cavalry, most of the other cavalry are trained and commanded by the generals of the two ethnic groups.

Jidu is the second son of Jierharang, his ability is more prominent, and he also has a Chinese name, called Zhao Du, in fact, including Haoge, many clans in the Jin Kingdom have changed their Han surnames, but they are not commonly used.

At this time, Jidu led more than 10,000 Jin troops to detour to the west, and the earth-shattering hoofs resounded through the battlefield, and the ground trembled under the trampling of ten thousand hooves.

When the Jin cavalry came around, the Jin army, which occupied Dufugou in the west, had already killed the Ming array. The cavalry of the Jin army bypassed behind this infantry, walked to the north of Dufugou, and then suddenly turned from the west to the south, intending to kill the Ming army by mistake.

However, although the attack of the Jin army infantry in the west blocked the sight of the Ming army, Zhang Mingzhen had already judged that the Jin army's forward detoured to the west of Dufu ditch and went south along the ditch, wanting to stick to the ditch and intersperse it, and when he rushed behind the Ming army, there was already a Ming army in the distance.

The Ming army formed a three-square formation in front, which was a formation that Qi Jiguang organized and trained when he was guarding Jiliao and the northern captives, which was similar to the hollow array in the west. The Ming army made some improvements to this, which were specially designed to deal with the onslaught of cavalry. If there were no cavalry, the Ming army would basically be a simpler horizontal formation now.

At this time, Du Qi led the cavalry to the west, and he had already seen the blocking Ming array, but due to the obstruction of his vision, he could only see the three phalanxes in front, and did not see the horizontal formation on the second line.

The black oppressive Jin army cavalry galloped forward, Du Qi galloped forward under the embrace of the cavalry, the earth trembled under the trampling of ten thousand hooves, and the iron hooves of the Jin army trampled the earth, like a monstrous wave, head-on.

Du Qi saw the gap between the three phalanxes, as long as he rushed over, and detoured to the back of the Ming Array, there were unsuspecting firecrackers, and it would be a massacre at that time, and the Ming Array would inevitably collapse quickly.

"Kill! Rush over! Du Qi waved his sword, the war horses on the left and right surged together, and countless horse heads rushed to be the first like a race, and the Jin army brandished the war knife, let out a burst of strange screams, and urged the horses to rush quickly.

"Boom, boom!" Several artillery roars, and on the high ground behind the Ming Array, twenty field cannons roared continuously, and black projectiles roared out, jumping over the heads of the Ming Array at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye, and smashed towards the Golden Cavalry.

The cavalry that rushed to the front, in the roar of cannons and horses' hooves, the war horse fell suddenly, shook off the cavalry, and smashed heavily on the ground, the knight rolled, and the war horse neighed. Jidu only heard a miserable hissing from the left and right, but the sound was quickly left behind, and he galloped with Wan Qi, and this little artillery bombardment did not want to stop them.

Since the Battle of Sichuan and Shu, he has been on the battlefield for many years, and the Ming Dynasty had to use a large number of generals of the Tang faction and the Lu faction in order to expand the army, so that these people who failed in the political struggle have a chance to return to the mainstream stage. In order to expand the armament war, many full generals who lost in the political struggle on the Jin side were also reactivated to help the Jin army train the army and lead the men and horses to fight.

Being in the midst of ten thousand horses, Ji Du's heart was full of pride, recalling the majesty of his ancestors back then, only to feel that he was no longer able to stop.

In recent years, the Ming army has powerful firearms, and it is so capable, in addition to these artillery and firearms, what tricks can they play?

The cavalry of the Jin army galloped under artillery fire, and took out weapons such as guns and riding bows, and some carried horse lances and lowered their bodies and rushed forward. Soon, the cavalry of the Jin army galloped to a distance of one hundred and fifty paces from the phalanx.

The Jin army did not intend to ram the spears stabbed diagonally outside the phalanx, and Du Qi deliberately avoided the front of the phalanx, and the sound of hooves rumbled, quickly closing the distance between the two armies.

"Firebolt! Put! In the front phalanx, the shouts of the officers came and went.

Hearing the order, the firecrackers raised their flintlocks flatly, and they didn't aim and raised them to shoot a **, the projectiles fired in unison, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the golden horsemen in front of the phalanx abounded. This caused the rushing Jin soldiers to separate from the front one after another, turning into two strands, bypassing the front of the phalanx.

"Put it again!" The Ming army general shouted again.

This time, it was not just the frontal fire of the first phalanx, but the front of the first phalanx, plus the left and right sides, plus the front of the two rear phalanxes, a total of five Ming troops fired in unison.

At the end of the first round, the gunners moved in unison, retreated to clear their chambers, and then loaded their ammunition and tamped them with wooden poles. I have to say that Zhongyong Town is indeed one of the most elite and well-trained armies of the Ming army, this is not to say that their formation is good and their clothes and armor are beautiful, mainly depends on their basic tactical moves.

When the cavalry of the Jin army was bombarded, they also fired guns and arrows to fight back, and the Ming army also continued to die, but in the face of thousands of troops and horses, they were able to do not panic and chaos, and they were loyal to the guard, not to be interfered with by the enemy, and to shoot rows of firecrackers, which can be called an elite division.

At this time, the whole battlefield has been in the exchange of fire between the two sides, full of white gunsmoke, the vision of both sides is blurred, from time to time there are war horses crashing into the Ming army formation, and they are immediately pierced, but there are also cavalry who break the spears of the Ming army, and the Ming army formation is dented.

In order to avoid directly colliding with the spear, the golden cavalry and the cavalry instinctively galloped along the gap between the phalanxes. Du Ji rode a war horse, advancing in the smoke of gunpowder, he avoided the spear stabbed in front of the Ming army, and finally rushed out of the area filled with white smoke after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, thinking that he had rushed out of the Ming army's blockade, and his heart was suddenly happy.

But as soon as he raised his head, his face couldn't help but be stunned, and a group of Ming troops blocked them in front of them in a horizontal formation.

In the array, Qin Feng pointed his knife and shouted: "Release!" ”

On the entire horizontal formation, a drum sounded, and the first row of gunners suddenly released their guns in unison, and the sound of "bang bang bang" was connected together, and the Jin cavalry, who was the first to rush out of the smoke, suddenly had a burst of shock on their faces, and wanted to turn their horses' heads, but they were blocked by the cavalry that kept pouring in.

"Woohoo!" Almost at the same time, behind the first phalanx, the two phalanxes behind the two phalanxes caught one side of the golden horse, and at the same time, the golden horse fell like a jujube under the strangulation of the fire guns on all sides.

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