99 first battle

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Thousands of people marched in array, but there was not a single murmur, only the sound of some officers' commands, and the sound of neat steps taken by the soldiers.

Just moving forward in such a formation, one by one murderous, but surprisingly quiet, like a big mountain slowly crushing towards you, is enough to make people feel a sense of suffocation.

Qi Wei took three hundred cavalry men, who were also at the end of the phalanx, and couldn't help but smile bitterly as he watched the infantry army formation of the White Dragon Army in front of him march steadily.

To tell the truth, Qi Wei himself is also from the official army, and he has led soldiers and been a horse thief, and he has not experienced many battles large and small, but it is the first time he has seen such a combat method as the White Dragon Army.

Although he was also in the White Snake Village before, he had seen the White Dragon Army's infantry drills, but after all, it was not a battle at that time, and it didn't produce much shock.

Before, Qi Wei even disagreed with Li Zixiao's manipulation of soldiers and horses, thinking that there were many fancy ingredients, but it was not practical.

Qi Wei thought that with this kind of time to practice the queue non-stop, it would be much more useful to let the soldiers catch and practice some fighting skills.

But what really made Qi Wei feel the terrible thing about the White Dragon Army, this way of training.

It was a drill half a month ago, because of Qi Wei, Li Tianba has always been not optimistic about the White Dragon Army's training method, and once laughed at the White Dragon Army's combat method.

As a result, Zhou Dazhu was angered, and he immediately wanted to compete with Li Tianba and the two, and Li Tianba immediately agreed.

After obtaining Li Zixiao's consent, the two prepared separately, and Li Zixiao even deliberately appointed Qi Wei as the referee of this acting confrontation.

The two of them each led people outside the White Snake Village, and a vacant lot opened the posture, and Zhou Dazhu brought out two hundred soldiers from his own team, in fact, one hundred and fifty pikemen and fifty bird guns.

A small infantry phalanx was set up in the open space, and Wang Li Tianba was not used to the White Dragon Army's infantry tactics, so he borrowed fifty cavalry from Qi Wei.

Li Tianba thought that he used more than 50 cavalry to deal with Zhou Dazhu's 200 infantry troops, which was not a problem at all, and in field battles, the cavalry advantage was much greater than that of the infantry army, and it was a trivial matter to have fewer enemies and more enemies.

Li Tianba laughed, he thought that he had won, after all, in his opinion, as long as he led fifty cavalry in the field, dealing with those infantry would be a massacre.

But what Li Tianba didn't expect was that as soon as he fought, he found the terrifying spear phalanx used by the White Dragon Army.

After the entire Zhou Dazhu's spear array was arranged, the dense bullet forest made it impossible for his cavalry to rush into their ranks.

If he had to charge hard, it would not be impossible, but even if he broke through Zhou Dazhu's infantry phalanx, he would at least pay more than half of the casualties.

Moreover, the fifty firecrackers on Zhou Dazhu's hand also brought him too much of a threat, and a few temptations basically consumed more than a dozen of his subordinates.

After testing a few times and losing ten cavalry, Li Tianba knew that it was not possible to play with this kind of spear formation, so he could only rush hard.

In the end, he led forty cavalry to charge, and after a round of charge, Qi Wei, as the referee, judged that Li Tianba broke through Zhou Dazhu's spear formation at the cost of losing thirty cavalry.

It was judged that Zhou Dazhu lost forty pikemen and ten birdmen, which was barely fair.

But before Li Tianba could turn his head again and accelerate his charge again, Zhou Dazhu on this side immediately shouted, and quickly rearranged the formation in a very short time.

The remaining 110 pikemen once again set up a new pikemen, and the remaining bird-gunners also reloaded, and by the time Li Tianba turned his head again and led the cavalry back, they had already put in order to form a new formation.

In this way, in the face of Zhou Dazhu, who was waiting for him again, Qi Wei finally decided that Li Tianba's second round of charge was all killed.

Although it was only a small-scale exercise, the impression of Qi Wei that time was too deep.

Now when he saw the battle formation of the White Dragon Army, Qi Wei couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness.

Faced with such a spear-based phalanx, Qi Wei didn't know if he could eat them if he had the same cavalry.

So after that lesson, he agreed with Li Zixiao's way of arranging and training troops, and Li Tianba also honestly trained his subordinates.

In fact, if it were another army, Li Tianba would fully believe that he would be able to deal with a 200-foot army with 50 cavalry, which he had not done before.

In a solo fight in the field, Li Tianba once led thirty cavalry, chasing the enemy and slashing hundreds of enemies, until the enemy was killed.

But when Li Tianba encountered the strict spear formation of the White Dragon Army, such a thing would not have happened.

In order to do this, there are two things that must be done, one is team discipline, and the other is to line up quickly, and only Li Zixiao, the White Dragon Army, can do this.

If the infantry army wants to deal with the enemy in the field, huddles are the best tactics, the strength of the team is always stronger than fighting alone, and even such a team is less likely to be defeated.

Qi Wei thought as he led the second cavalry team, and the large group of men and horses in front of him moved slowly, and their cavalry team was ready to attack at any time.

Seeing that the rebel army on the opposite side suddenly launched, and the entire team was lined up in a neat formation, pushing towards them like a mountain, Qi Lin was suddenly shocked.

When he led his troops over, he saw that there were mostly infantry troops on the opposite side, and he thought that the other party wanted to wait for him to lead the army to kill the general.

So after the team stopped marching, Qi Lin didn't have time to arrange a formation and prepare for defense.

But he didn't expect the leader of the rebellious army on the other side to be so decisive that he didn't give him time to think about and arrange at all.

As soon as they stopped marching, the rebel army came towards them first, and this time Qi Lin was a little hurried, and then began to arrange the formation.

Qi Lin is still very capable, otherwise, it would not be possible to climb step by step to the position of guerrilla without any background in the army.

And he can now see that now that the situation is becoming more and more chaotic in various places, the imperial court has begun to pay attention to them again.

The status of military generals has improved a lot compared to before, and at this time, whoever has soldiers in their hands will easily not move anyone.

It's that the civil officials are not having a good time now, and they were arrested by the current emperor by the slightest accident, and they either went to the edge or cut down and abandoned the city, which finally made the generals feel better now.

After all, the times are becoming more and more chaotic now, and if the emperor wants to sit firmly in the world, he has to rely on them now, and at this time, he needs to be even more meritorious.

He fixed his eyes on the chaotic army advancing head-on, obviously to strike first and catch him off guard.

Looking at the opponent's lineup again, it is advancing like a mountain, even if it is on the way, the opponent's big array is not chaotic at all.

Such a purged army is really the only time he has seen it in his life, just looking at the other party's formation, Qi Lin knows that this chaotic army is not easy to deal with.

At this time, Qi Lin didn't have time to think about it, and immediately asked his subordinates to prepare for the battle, but fortunately, Qi Lin's subordinates were all veterans and acted very quickly.

The distance of less than two miles was only a moment's work for the White Dragon Army advancing forward.

As the White Dragon Army got closer and closer to them, these officers and soldiers could gradually see the faces of the White Dragon Army generals clearly.

I saw the generals of the White Dragon Army, all of them pursed their lips tightly, without any expression on their faces.

They just clenched their hands silently, and the weapons in their hands, following the command shouted by the officer, marched forward with neat steps, and always kept the queue undispersed.

Just like this, the sense of coercion exuded by this kind of exudation also caused great pressure in the hearts of the group of elite veterans opposite.

At this time, that is, it is replaced by Qi Lin's subordinates, and if it is replaced by other villagers here, it is estimated that they will flee before the war starts.

The White Dragon Army went out to fight this time, and many of them had just finished training from the recruit camp, and they were not too long recruits.

These people were deliberately arranged at the front of the line, according to the custom, and the experienced veterans were arranged at the back of the line.

For them, a few months of recruit training have made them familiar with the change of queues, and at the same time, they have mastered some skills of fighting on the battlefield.

Among them, many people have even seen battles and participated in some actions of the White Dragon Army, but they have not really done anything to people.

The only difference between them and the veterans is that so far, they have not really seen the red of the sword.

And this time there was also some psychological pressure on them, and it was for this reason that Li Zixiao deliberately arranged them in front of the team.

It is to let them really see blood in this battle, and in the blood and fire, they can really grow into a group of fierce soldiers.

As the White Dragon Army continued to move forward, approaching the opposing officer and army more and more, the recruits in the front still showed some of their nervousness.

However, after a long period of rigorous training and raining down military sticks, they have formed an instinct to execute orders mechanically.

Even though they were very nervous at this time, they still automatically and strictly followed the order, silently executed, and did not make the queue deformed at all because of nervousness.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, but Li Zixiao, who is in the formation, has never given the order to stop advancing, so that the White Dragon Army's army has been advancing forward like a wall.

Finally, when the two armies approached 200 paces, the soldiers in front of both sides could clearly see each other's faces.

The officers and soldiers had already set up three tiger squat cannons, and at this time, Qi Lin had to complain that he was carrying too few cannons this time.

Because Fengyang Mansion was attacked by the rebel army before, the loss of firearms and other things was very large, and it has not been replenished until now, and it has no intention of replenishing it.

Artillery is not a sword, a gun and a stick, it is cheap and easy to get, and these big iron bumps can only be built by the firearms bureaus in places like Beijing or Nanjing.

And the price is expensive, and if you want to transport it to Fengyang and equip it in the army, you need a lot of silver, but now the court can allocate a pitiful amount of silver to them.

So much so that Feng Yang commanded Wu Laifeng to simply not plan to equip his officers and soldiers with these iron lumps.

As for Qi Lin's three tiger squat cannons, as well as the seven or eight artillery pieces carried by Wu Laiyun of the army behind, they were all looted from everywhere, and they were all very old cannons, and it is estimated that the power will be unsatisfactory.

At this time, the officers and men who were operating several artillery pieces in front finally could not bear the increasing mental pressure and set fire to the artillery one after another.

And the few cannons placed in front of the official army are just three old tiger squat cannons, and the distance of more than a hundred steps is simply not enough to reach the White Dragon Army.

After flying out of a hundred steps, the big lead bullet smashed to the ground, only raising a cloud of dust, not to mention the small lead, dozens of steps away, it had no power.

The projectile flew farther, but it didn't fall into the formation of the White Dragon Army, and even after hitting the formation of the White Dragon Army, it had basically lost its power.

Therefore, after a few cannons were fired, only the two soldiers in the front row of the White Dragon Army were injured, leaving a pit in the shields of several white dragon saber shield soldiers in the front row.

Basically, it didn't cause much damage to the White Dragon Army, and the casualties of these two soldiers did not disrupt the White Dragon Army's array.

was pulled to the back and handed over to the medical soldiers to deal with, and the soldiers in the back row refilled the vacancy in the front, which would definitely not affect the White Dragon Army formation.

After walking more than a mile, the array of the White Dragon Army at this time still maintained an abnormal neatness, slowly advancing forward like a mountain.

Li Zixiao saw the officers and soldiers on the opposite side firing cannons, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

From the fact that they fired the artillery from such a long distance, it can be seen that these officers and soldiers probably did not conduct much training on these artillery pieces on weekdays.

After this round of artillery was released, at best, it gave them their own courage, and it couldn't stop the White Dragon Army's advance at all.

So Li Zixiao pursed his lips, with a cold face, he still did not give the order to stop advancing, and continued to lead his troops to move forward step by step.

After the officers and soldiers saw their side firing the artillery, they began to applaud one after another, cheering themselves up.

But when the smoke cleared, they found that the rebel army on the opposite side was walking towards them step by step as if they were all right, without the slightest intention of stopping.

As a result, they were all immediately greatly discouraged, and the little morale that had just been stirred up suddenly declined again.

The officers and men who operated the artillery let go of the cannon, but they found that it was too early and they were a little embarrassed.

So they hurriedly reloaded, but the reloading of these old tiger squat cannons was too troublesome, and a group of officers and soldiers who were busy were in a hurry, and they didn't finish reloading for a long time.

However, the White Dragon Army had high morale and fighting spirit, and after entering a distance of two hundred paces from the enemy and us, it significantly accelerated the pace of marching.

The generals were all in good spirits, striding forward to the beat of the drum, and soon the distance between the two armies was much closer.

"One hundred and ten steps...... One hundred steps...... Ninety steps...... Eighty steps ......"

A personal guard followed Li Zixiao and began to report the distance between the two armies, and when he shouted eighty steps, Li Zixiao immediately raised his right hand and raised it in the air into a fist.

"Stop!"

When the guard next to Li Zixiao saw Li Zixiao's signal, he immediately became hysterical in the army and shouted loudly.

All the generals adjusted their pace, and stopped with a bang, and the first row of sword and shield soldiers immediately raised the skin wooden shields in their hands, forming a shield array in front of the formation, covering their figures.

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