Sun Kewang held the reins of his horse in his hand and watched the duel between the two armies on the Western Front, only to see that on the two fronts, countless flames were sprayed at the same time, and the smoke that rose spread along the front line, instantly forming two parallel smoke belts.

Liu Wenxiu said worriedly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the Ming army is going to be bad again." ”

Sun Kewang was very unhappy, the Wei army's musket was very strong, the Ming army was repeatedly defeated in the shooting, and now it is shooting at the Wei army, and the defeat is simply self-inflicted.

However, the line infantry army is an infantry array that shines the frontal firepower to the extreme, and the Ming army will only lose worse and faster in addition to shooting in horizontal formations.

With the development of firearms, the previous military formations were gradually eliminated, like the Wei army in the general battle, the infantry army only had two formations, a horizontal formation, and a hollow phalanx.

With the same strength, the front of the horizontal formation is wide and can shoot more projectiles at a time, so he restrains the phalanx, while the hollow phalanx has depth, and the internal configuration of musketeers can restrain the cavalry, and finally the cavalry can restrain the horizontal formation without depth and weak flank firepower, thus forming a cycle of mutual restraint.

The Wei army is not only elite in the infantry army, but also has a large number of cavalry, with the whole cycle, while the Ming army is missing a link, they lack cavalry, which is equivalent to one less card, so in the battle, they are often very passive.

On the western front, bursts of gunfire rang out, and the two sergeants fell to the ground in pieces, and the sergeants in the back row stepped forward again.

Sun Kewang watched the two armies shoot at each other, the Wei army's horizontal musketeers had been dispatched, and he waited for the Wei army to play the second card, but the Wei cavalry stood on their horses, did not help the musketeers, and quickly defeated the Ming army's horizontal formation.

If the Wei cavalry attacked, Sun Kewang would consider rushing down from a high place, outflanking the advancing Wei army, and flanking the Wei army with the Ming army, but the Wei cavalry did not come out, so he did not dare to rush into the western front easily.

He was thinking about it, but he forgot to observe the battlefield, and at this time, Liu Wenxiu's exclamation came from his ears: "It's not good, the Ming army's front is loose!" ”

The two armies fired at each other, and the Ming army finally couldn't stand it, and in the volley of the Wei army's muskets, there was a riot on the front, and the salvo was no longer neat, and someone began to retreat.

Sun Kewang looked up and knew that he couldn't wait any longer, he saw that the Wei army on the Western Front did not give him a chance to make a move, so he immediately made a decision, waved his hand and ordered, "The war elephant will attack and crush the right flank of the Wei army!" ”

Sun Kewang was ready to outflank the left flank of the Wei army, but the cavalry on the left flank of the Wei army did not move, so he did not dare to make a rash move, and the musket array of the coalition army wavered, and the left flank was afraid that it would not be able to hold out for too long, so he decided to attack the weak right flank of the Wei army, and then outflank the middle army of the Wei army, so as to reverse the situation.

As soon as the military order was given, the trumpets and drums suddenly sounded, and the soldiers of Zhou drove the war elephants out slowly.

At this time, Huang Bingzhong led 50,000 foot cavalry, which had already formed a large array. The Wei sergeants were in the front with spears and guns in the back, riding on the two wings, with antlers in front of the formation to resist the horses, connected by iron hooks, and the artillery was placed on the two wings, ready to fire.

"Moo~" The war elephants of the Zhou army raised their noses and hissed, and more than two hundred war elephants, after walking down the high slope, gradually raised their speed.

These behemoths shook the mountains with momentum, and their intention was also very obvious, that is, to directly impact the front of the Wei army and smash the Wei army's front into pieces.

The war elephants of the Zhou army rushed towards the top of Mount Tai, which made the Wei soldiers change color, and many Wei soldiers who had never seen elephants couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and their palms were sweaty.

Huang Bingzhong's face was gloomy, and he raised his spear, "Arrange!" ”

"Mountain! Mountain! Mountain! "The spearmen of the Wei army, shouted in unison, emboldened themselves, and stabbed the spear diagonally.

The artillery on both flanks of the Wei army, the muzzles of the black holes were high, the ammunition had been filled, and the gunners with torches in their hands stared at the rushing war elephants with extremely serious expressions.

On the Huguang battlefield, the Wei army was defeated by the Zhou army several times, and the infantry troops wearing heavy armor and holding a long spear of more than a zhang, as well as a large number of musketeers, all watched the cavalry charge with solemn expressions.

Although the soldiers of the Wei army were full of fear of war elephants, the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, knowing that they might die, would also stick to their positions under the strict warlords.

The ground is trembling, the Wei army's defense line is trembling, and the huge hooves of the Zhou army's war elephants trample the earth, like a monstrous wave, hitting head-on!

After the war elephant, 100,000 Zhou soldiers, followed closely behind, launched a fierce charge on the right flank of the Wei army, intending to defeat the right flank of the Wei army in one go.

"Artillery bombardment!" Huang Bingzhong shouted the order.

The Wei soldiers in front of the battle felt the trembling of the earth, and couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the wings, hoping that the Wei army's artillery could give these giants a head-on blow and boost the morale of the army.

The gunners of the Wei army on both wings brought the torch close to the lead, and the lead immediately flashed with fire, and "Xiu Xiu" drilled into the medicine room.

"Boom, boom!" The voice of anticipation of the Wei soldiers sounded, and the artillery arrays on both sides rose up clouds of gunsmoke, and the shells whistled out and smashed into the enemy group.

When a puff of dirt was raised in the herd, the struck elephant let out a terrifying scream, and its huge body rolled and rubbed on the ground due to inertia, which immediately made the Wei soldiers cheer.

However, immediately afterwards, the Wei soldiers found that the remaining war elephants continued to gallop wildly, and their faces immediately showed fear again.

Under the banner of the Wei army in the distance, Gao Yihuan looked at the right wing with a solemn expression, and Chen Mingxia beside him said in a deep voice: "Sun Kewang knows that our firearms are powerful, so they must have conducted special training for war elephants, or made some preparations. ”

Gao Yihuan was silent with a gloomy face, but just held the clairvoyant mirror and continued to observe.

"Muskets, rockets, earth-shattering thunder!" Huang Bingzhong shouted loudly, the speed of the war elephant was fast, a distance of hundreds of steps, in the blink of an eye, it was too late to give orders one by one.

"Bang bang bang ~" In the Wei army's formation, the musketeers turned the fear in their hearts into projectiles in the chamber of the gun, and shot out suddenly, and the gunfire in the formation was like a thunderbolt.

At the same time, the Wei army's rockets with tail flames swished out, and the soldiers threw earth-shattering thunder, and the war elephants that rushed to the front fell to the ground in response, and the huge corpses rolled forward, rubbing out a deep ditch, and directly knocked the spearmen in the front row of the Wei army into the air.

The front of the front line was filled with gunsmoke, and the war elephants of the Zhou army fell in half under the bombardment of various firepower, forming a certain amount of chaos, but the remaining war elephants still rushed out of the smoke and crashed into the Wei army front.

In an instant, the spear broke, and the huge war elephant smashed the Wei army front away with an irresistible attitude, and the long ivory arched left and right, and the Wei soldiers were knocked to death.

The spear formation, which was effective against the cavalry, was useless in front of the war elephants, and the war elephants of the Zhou army turned over the Wei army line like a plow, knocking the entire army formation through.

On the high slope, Sun Kewang collected the clairvoyant mirror, and his face showed a smug look, "Defeat the Wei army." ”

(End of chapter)