After a long period of training, the Sichuan army is now able to march to the beat of the drum, and even the soldiers who were recruited before the war have received enough training in their daily military training to fully understand and obey the army's golden drum banner. However, the Ming army still couldn't do it, and now only a small number of officers understand that beating the drum is advancing, but they still often make mistakes, or they can't hear the drum clearly and walk blindly.

"Bang!"

"Bang! Bang! ”

The three-eyed gun rang out, and after hearing this volley, the whole army was shocked, because there were often people shouting that they couldn't hear the drums clearly, and Deng Ming couldn't tell whether they really couldn't hear clearly, or they didn't want to come forward to fight, so they temporarily switched to the three-eyed gun to give orders. I have to say that the effect of this thing for conducting is much better than that of the golden drum, and no one can say anything anymore and have not heard it.

The first shot was to ask the army to pay attention: we are going to start the offensive, get ready.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops have been intimidating the Qing army on the opposite side for half an hour, but the other side still has not fled, which makes the Ming army realize that the opposite side is a strong enemy, and many officers and soldiers are beating drums in their hearts, hoping to scare the other party for a while. Seeing that Deng Ming announced that he was going to attack, many soldiers were uneasy, but they had no choice but to cheer up and prepare for the attack.

With the second sound, the Three-Eyed Gun Brigade took a step forward, and the entire platoon of Fuqing troops followed behind. The shooting of the three-eyed gun was quite loud, and it could also raise a lot of smoke, which played some role in blocking the enemy's field of vision, and when Deng Ming used the three-eyed gun as command equipment at the beginning, he also frightened many Fuqing troops - those new recruits and tenant farmers were not as knowledgeable as the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and they had never heard such a loud cannon sound, and they were shocked by the thunderous sound of the guns.

However, Deng Ming told them that this was just a sound, and according to Deng Ming's experience in raising horses, as long as they had seen the blasting of the city wall, the war horses would not be too afraid of the sound of the gun. The development of the matter also verified Deng Ming's judgment, after hearing the loud sound of the city wall collapsing several times, the Fuqing army was indeed not very sensitive to the sound of the gun.

However, the Qing army on the opposite side was not affected a lot, this group of Qing troops had just withdrawn from the Asan front line and planned to return to Dengzhou, and they didn't want the friendly troops in front of them to pass, but they were blocked behind by the Fuqing army. Because they had fought with the rebels, or at least seen the Central Army and the rebels fighting, the fierce shouts from the opposite Fuqing army did not frighten the courage of these Qing troops, and they even shouted in the opposite direction, trying to scare away some cowards on the opposite side.

However, this plan did not succeed, and the Fuqing army on the opposite side was obviously far above the rebel army, seeing thousands of Qing troops shouting loudly, and desperately colliding with their weapons against their shields, the rebels did not desert in large numbers. When the Qing army fired firearms at the Qing army, the morale of the Qing army was even more severely hit -- the thieves on the opposite side were not holding wooden sticks but swords, and they actually had firearms, not only did they not flee but also tried to fight with the officers and soldiers.

The Fuqing army advanced cautiously, and the three-eyed gun brigade in the front row were all elite soldiers in the Fuqing army, composed of particularly brave heroes and particularly honest tenant farmers, led by enthusiastic young scholars. In addition to these firecrackers, the elite of the Fuqing Army also had large shield soldiers, most of whom were also rural tenants led by scholars.

The traditional lineup generally has two categories, one is the cannon fodder rushing first, and the elite pressing the formation, which is generally used in advantageous situations, such as when attacking. The advantage of this formation is that the cannon fodder bears a larger loss, and the elite of the formation can ensure that the cannon fodder can play a greater role and consume more enemies - but it is not good to use when the cannon fodder is equal and defensive, because in case the cannon fodder rolls back, the elite may also be crushed, so be very careful when the enemy is likely to counterattack.

The other is that the commander with the elite family Ding charged, the fish belly troops on both wings waved their flags and shouted, Deng Ming in the glue river to break Zu Zepu is a typical example, after being sure that victory is within reach, the fish belly will bravely participate in the battle, helping the pursuit of the rout and capture the prisoners. This was a common field tactic used by feudal armies when they were outnumbered.

And today Deng Ming adopted the new tactics he had explored in Laizhou, the Three-Eyed Gun Brigade opened the way, and the same elite large shield troops surrounded the army, surrounding the entire army.

When the main force of the Fuqing army shouted at the Qing army just now, the big shield soldiers did not participate, but connected their shields into a wall, forming a continuous wooden fence. When the first firing of the Three-Eyed Gun Brigade sounded, the Great Shield troops carried wooden fences and shields and marched slowly with the main force.

Today, Deng Ming did not carry out any tactics of immobilizing the center and outflanking the two flanks at all, but the whole army slowly rubbed towards the enemy like a turtle. After walking for a while, seeing that there seemed to be some movement on the side of the Qing army, Deng Ming hurriedly ordered to stop advancing. With the sound of the third firecracker, the Fuqing army immediately stopped en masse, and the large shield soldiers around them inserted their shields and fences into the ground without hesitation, buried their heads in the earth, and reformed a fence wall that surrounded the whole army.

When the army was carrying out civil engineering operations, officers at all levels of the Fuqing Army carefully observed the movements of the Qing troops on the opposite side to see if they had the possibility of launching an attack.

When it was determined that the Qing army had no intention of attacking, and that the small commotion just now was only because of the threat of the Ming army, which caused their stress reaction, Deng Ming asked the three-eyed gun brigade that had been loaded to fire again, and at this time, the big shield troops had dug up the wooden fence and big shield on the original position and transported them to the new temporary camp wall.

If Deng Ming charges with the guards, it is estimated that he can take down the enemy army on the opposite side, but Deng Ming can't fight all the field battles in Shandong, the important thing is to try to cultivate the fighting ability of the Fuqing army, and this kind of turtle formation Deng Ming feels that it is most suitable for the current morale, combat skills and personnel composition of the Fuqing army.

Strictly speaking, Deng Ming's big turtle formation was not his first creation, and when Qi Jiguang formed a car formation in the north, the main purpose was also to prevent soldiers from openly escaping in groups on the battlefield -- Qi Jiguang said that as soon as the car was surrounded, it gave the soldiers a feeling of being in the city, making them feel that it was not safe to escape from the car formation; Moreover, there is a wall of cars in the way, and it is not easy for soldiers to escape; No matter how many directions the enemy came, the soldiers in the chariot formation were facing out of the formation, and the timid did not know if the escape formation would just hit the Tartar cavalry who were outflanking them, so they did not run.

All in all, the main purpose of the wall is to prevent one's own people from escaping, and causing trouble for enemy cavalry charges is a secondary goal. Whether it was Deng Ming's Fuqing army or the Shandong Qing army, their quality was not as good as Qi Jiguang's northern border guards, and Deng Ming had realized that the deployment of the car formation did contain profound and ingenious psychology, and he did not have enough carts and cattle to pull the carts, so he simply let the army advance with the camp wall on his back.

If the officers under Deng Ming had the qualities of the Huguang Green Battalion, he would not have designed such tactics for the Fuqing army. Before the Battle of Zhongxiang, there were still many officers in the Huguang Green Battalion who had fought with Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, and even He Zhen and Hao Shaoqi for more than 10 years, and they also had a lot of experience in field warfare. But now the officers of the Fuqing Army are not only chivalrous but scholars, and their understanding of war is to defend the county government officials who come to get people in the cottage, or stick to the fence or dam when the clan fights. Therefore, it is easier for the army to move forward with the camp wall on its back, and it is easier for them to give full play to the ability of the officers of the Fuqing Army, and they have the feeling of returning to the fighting ground after standing on the fence, and they can more skillfully control the soldiers under them to perform their duties.

Slowly moving to within a hundred meters of the Qing army, the Fuqing army refused to move on, but seriously strengthened the camp wall and fired arrows at the enemy.

If the firearms of the Fuqing army were not three-eyed guns but bird guns, Deng Ming felt that the turtle formation did not need to risk moving so close, and could start reinforcing one hundred and fifty meters away, and then hide behind the fence and shoot at the enemy incessantly, exhausting the enemy's patience and forcing them to attack the stockade of the Fuqing army or take the initiative to retreat - in that case, they would carry the stockade and then follow.

After the fence was erected, the Fuqing army and the Qing army began to shoot fiercely, and when the Fuqing army moved forward just now, the Qing army had been releasing cold arrows, and dozens of Fuqing troops were put to the ground. Now that they can finally fight back, the Fuqing army relied on the strength of the crowd, and soon recovered the losses just now, and after a fierce battle for half an hour, the casualties of the Fuqing army and the Qing army were close to 100 people.

This kind of battle made Deng Ming's guards feel very dull, but the officers of the Fuqing army gradually got into the state, shouting in front of the fence, directing the soldiers to fight bravely - since Deng Ming proposed this method of warfare, it has been loved by the gentry from the bottom of their hearts, they have the most grain and peasants, this kind of battle, although the pace is slow and it is difficult to distinguish the winner and loser, but it is easy to turn into the smooth war of attrition that the gentry likes - there are no big ups and downs, it is not a gambling game of getting rich overnight, It's about working hard to get a family foundation.

The wounded soldiers behind the fence were dragged into the battle to be cared for, and at this time the good men began to envy the tenants, because they all had their clansmen on their side, and they could also be cared for by their fellow clansmen even after they were wounded, and one or two wounded strong men who showed courage also received personal assurances from the scholars of the same village, saying that when they returned, they would tell the patriarch and give them a credit in the clan records.

The tide of the battle continued to develop in favor of the Qing army, and the key was that several improvised stone-throwing vehicles were finally put together. After setting up the stone throwing truck, the Fuqing army began to bombard the Qing army's position, further accelerating the enemy's casualties and at the same time severely damaging the opponent's morale.

After seeing that some people in the Qing army began to break away from their positions by dodging stones, the officers of the Fuqing army finally saw the dawn of victory in the field and threw stones at the opponent's position even harder, and the commander of the Qing army must also make a choice: should he temporarily retreat and retreat from the enemy's catapult distance, or should he take the initiative to attack the opponent's wooden fence and expel the enemy from the battlefield?

The former may cause a large number of soldiers to mistake the retreat for defeat and start to flee, and it is also dangerous to attack the wooden fence, after all, the Fuqing army is more numerous and has the advantage of defense.