The front row shield bearers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell to the ground as early as the first time the Tiger Squat Cannon was fired, and this kind of artillery was small and did not have the power to blow people apart, but the scattered shampnel made the soldiers lose their combat effectiveness.

Now rushing to the front is the Manchu spearmen, these people with spears and stabbed in front of them, this is the front of the soldiers suddenly scattered to both sides to reveal the formation behind them, behind these soldiers are holding maces, this scene can scare these Manchu soldiers.

But whenever there is a battlefield in close combat, only two kinds of weapons are used, one is a spear and a broadsword, which is used to pick up the formation when the two armies have just come into contact, and the remaining one is a shorter blade, such as a broadsword, a hand axe, and an iron hammer, which are all weapons for close combat, because people are mixed with people, and there is no room for turning back with a long blade, and there are people in all directions.

But there are very few maces used on the battlefield, this kind of thing belongs to the weapon of killing a thousand enemies and self-damage and eight hundred, left and right, the spikes on the mace do not know whether to hit their own people or the enemy, so this weapon gradually withdrew from the equipment of the military formation, and generally only the generals who practiced mace since childhood will use this thing when they go into battle.

And most of them are people who only have a body of strength and no brains will use this kind of weapon. Because this thing is heavy and difficult to change, you use the blade of Fang Tian's halberd, and you can pick it up if you don't stab it, this kind of thing has to use all your strength to smash it down, so it is possible to win, if you don't have the strength to go home, people can cut off their heads by enduring this blow, after all, they are all covered in armor these years, and no one will go to war with their arms.

Therefore, the Manchu soldiers who have not seen a mace on the battlefield for many years will suddenly be stunned, but the consternation on the battlefield is consternation, just like facing a group of pigs on the battlefield, you think it is stupid and stupid, and it should be killed. So these people were stunned for a moment, and then rushed forward with their spears in hand.

Daniel Zhang stared at the battlefield with a serious face, this kind of battle formation is something he was idle and nothing to study when he was in Ningxia, whether it is good or not has to try to know, in the past, when dealing with small troops, it was unfavorable, and now he is still a little worried about facing the army.

I saw that after the surrounding soldiers and horses withdrew, there was a circular battle formation left in this mace array, and when they rushed up, they immediately began to turn in circles, and the mace in their hands also waved, this thing is very powerful, blocking the previous mace, and the latter mace will crush the head when it is connected.

Cheng Xiaolian frowned in the rear: "This battle formation seems to have some flaws, you see that if this first person is blocked, the speed behind will be dragged down, and it will not be an effective offensive at all." ”

Chen Chengan laughed: "General Zhang naturally has a back-up move, Your Majesty, don't worry, if you can't even do this simple thing, I'm afraid that this battle formation will not be put on the battlefield at all." ”

Sure enough, Cheng Xiaolian quickly discovered the clue, as long as it was blocked, the soldiers holding the mace would immediately take off the mace and maintain the rotation speed, and the people behind would definitely smash the person in front of him to death, that is, a mace for a human life, this battle array only has 300 people, almost more than 200 lives have to be filled, if there are 100 people left, this battle array will be useless.

"This Daniel Zhang actually exchanged a mace for a human life, this method is really too damaging."

This method is indeed a bit detrimental, it takes a lot of pig iron to make a mace, and now it is discarded on the battlefield, but it is a bit wasteful.

But after only a few breaths, Cheng Xiaolian figured out what was going on, and immediately high-fived and said: "This method is good." ”

Chen Chengan was a little puzzled: "I don't see what is good about this deal." ”

"If you think about the soldiers at the front of the army, they are the most fierce soldiers in the military formation, and they can scare the enemy's courage by virtue of their tenacity on weekdays, but just one round of flintlock guns, plus a round of tiger squat cannons, there are not a few of these people left, Daniel Zhang's damage to this military formation is that it is clear that people will take human lives to fill it, and it must be the kind of warrior who is not afraid of death, which is not a small blow to morale, plus the most fierce warriors fill in two hundred, but it is in response to that sentence, one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion."

"Wouldn't the Manchus choose to bypass or even shoot the troops in the battle formation with archers?"

"They are like tigers coming down the mountain, and they have encountered a stumbling block, do you think it is cost-effective to rush over or stop and move the stone away?"

It's like a 100-meter race in later generations, and you've accelerated to 80 meters, and suddenly there's an obstacle in front of you, and if you stop, it's hard to lift that momentum again.

The soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have rushed to the front, if they stop, the previous morale is like a rainbow and no longer exists, if they don't stop, they have to use the spirit of not being afraid of death to smash this mace array, and then the people of the Ming army will not be polite.

Soon the Manchu generals made a choice, their own emperor was watching from behind, this battle must be fought beautifully, and the rapid sound of war drums reminded the soldiers in front not to stop.

The soldiers in the front row did not dare to disobey the military order, and immediately rushed forward and crashed into the mace formation, without the 200 casualties that Cheng Xiaolian expected, the actual effect was to smash the soldiers and horses in their early 100s. The mace array spread out on both sides, and the spearmen and broadsword soldiers behind them immediately rushed up.

Kangxi looked at the military formation, and suddenly had a feeling: "Tian Ji horse racing." We're going to lose this time. ”

Sure enough, the soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had dispersed in order to smash the mace array, and at this time, it was too late to synthesize the army formation in the face of the opponent's neat spear and broadsword formation, and the two sides slammed together, and the Ming army was slightly better.

In any case, they finally rushed to the front, and in the eyes of the Manchu generals, it was all worth it, and their warriors would definitely be able to use hand-to-hand combat to pay back the losses.

Maybe they didn't know that the soldiers and horses under the command of the Qi family army were all Yiwu soldiers, and these southern soldiers and horses did not lose a trace of inferiority in foot combat after they were transferred to Jiliao, and being physically strong has never been an absolute advantage in the military formation.

The two sides slammed together, and Cheng Xiaolian sighed: "The rest really depends on Daniel Zhang, we can't help at all." ”

At this time, the cavalry on Wang Jiyong's side also killed a river of blood, and they slowly found their rhythm after stabilizing their position with palm thunder, and also fought an evenly matched battle with the Manchu cavalry.

(End of chapter)