When the Yu family army had just completed the adjustment, Dolgon led the Jiannu army to roll in and arrived at the front of their position, Yu Xiaotian erected a watchtower more than ten meters high, personally climbed the watchtower, raised the telescope and looked in the direction of the Jiannu army.

Looking around, I saw a dense army of Jiannu along the west bank of the canal a few miles away, all kinds of flags representing their eight banners, waving around, a group of Jiannu cavalry and armored infantry troops, like ants, slowly walking towards his location, and there seemed to be a strong murderous aura in the air.

Yu Xiaotian took a breath secretly, although he had long known about the strength of Jiannu, but it was all on paper before, and now when tens of thousands of Jiannu troops appeared in front of him, this was a real thing in front of him, and the kind of coercion that tens of thousands of troops could produce was definitely not something that could be experienced when thousands of people fought against each other before.

This is the first time that he has commanded a major battle of this scale since Yu Xiaotian fell into the sea and become a thief, which is different from a naval battle, with nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, placed on such a small piece of land, this kind of pressure is so great that even he himself feels a little frightened.

Now he realized that those generals, when they were about to fight, when facing tens of thousands of enemy troops, had to bear a lot of pressure, not only him, but even his general Meng Fei, at this time, also put away the cynical expression on his face that he always liked to carry, and became stern.

"Fuck! There are really a lot of soldiers and horses in this Jiannu! More than ten years ago, if Lao Tzu had seen this situation, it is estimated that he would have been scared to pee his pants by this time! Although the expression on Meng Fei's face was much stricter, this old problem of flamboyance still revealed his true nature.

Yu Xiaotian almost turned around and kicked this guy off the lookout, but he still held back this desire and asked Meng Fei: "Meng Fei, you guy shut your mouth for me first, let me ask you, in your opinion, can we stop the army of Jiannu this time?" ”

Meng Fei hurriedly straightened up and replied, "Lord! You don't ask, why are we waiting here for so many days? Isn't it just to stop these kings? Now that we're here, where can we let them slip out of our noses so easily!

Don't look at the number of them, in the eyes of the last general, they are just piles of rotten meat! It's just right for the little ones to practice their hands and use it as a live target!

No matter how fierce this Jiannu is, he is raised by his mother's father, and he will still die if he is shot! I don't believe they can crush us!

Unless they don't care about anything now, throw away all the goods they have gained here, and discard all the captured population, immediately hurry around here, rush to Wuqing, cross the river from Wuqing to the Xianghe, and estimate that they still have a chance to slip away, we may not be able to hold them back, but as long as they are reluctant to give up these people and goods, then they will definitely not dare to slip away from the flanks! ”

After listening to Meng Fei's answer, Yu Xiaotian nodded with satisfaction, Meng Fei This guy is a war maniac, he will be energetic when he fights, the more he fights, the more excited he is, this guy also represents the thoughts of the young Zhuang faction in the Yu family army and army, these guys are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and they have long sharpened their knives, and they want to have a good battle with Jiannu.

Two days ago, Yu Zhenshan of the Seventh Brigade first got the advantage of fighting with Jiannu for two days, killing a lot of enemies, so that Meng Fei and many of his officers were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, and they were hungry to death.

These guys have followed him to fight in the north and south for so many years, it can be said that they have made many military exploits and won many battles, and they have already developed their unruly character, and they will never be soft on the Jiannu army, even if they have more troops, who let them have so many advanced firearms that should not have appeared in this era?

Although looking at it, Jiannu's current strength on the west bank is as many as 60,000 or 70,000, while Yu's army only has three brigades here, of which the fourth brigade is not a full brigade, and the strength is only 20,000 or weaker, but this does not mean that these generals under his command are afraid of the Jiannu army, on the contrary, the stronger the Jiannu army, the happier they are.

Yu Xiaotian always instilled various concepts in his officers and soldiers during the construction of the army, the most important of which was to instill in his officers and soldiers the threat of Jiannu to their Han Chinese, as well as the cruelty and inhumanity of Jiannu, as well as the heinous crimes committed by Jiannu in Liaodong.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Yu family will wait for the upper and lower people, under such continuous indoctrination, everyone hates Jiannu, there was no chance not to talk about it before, and now they have finally waited for the opportunity to compete with the Jiannu army, how can they not all gear up and prepare to do a big job.

So at this time, the generals of the Yu family army were not more nervous, but a kind of excitement that was about to explode, and many people even had a desire to draw their swords and charge, and they couldn't wait to quickly chop a few Jiannu with their own hands now, so that they could vent happily.

Don't look at the strength of the Yu family army at this time, there are not many soldiers, but there are really not many soldiers who are really afraid, for so many years, fighting pirates, fighting bandits, fighting with the official army, they have long been unable to arouse their interest, the generals always love to raise the bar in private, saying that if you have the ability, you can cut off the heads of a few Jiannu, that is called the ability, the ability to win the bandits! Therefore, at this time, the soldiers and generals of the Yu family have been waiting a little impatiently.

However, as the Jiannu army came and stopped in the opposite formation, Yu Xiaotian and his generals saw from a distance that Jiannu drove from behind to a large wave of ragged Ming people in front of the formation, so everyone's hearts sank suddenly, and they immediately realized what Jiannu might have to do.

Meng Fei suddenly clenched the hilt of the knife on his waist and said angrily, "Is this Tartar still a fucking human?" Have the ability to come up and fight with Lao Tzu! What is it to drive the common people to the front and block the knife for them? I am the ancestor of eight generations! ”

Yu Xiaotian's face also suddenly tightened, revealing a look of rage, he had already heard of Jiannu's despicability, Jiannu's army attacked the city, and he liked to drive the captured Ming people to take the lead for them, although this practice was often used in this era, but Jiannu was the most used, and it was also the most cruel.

Unexpectedly, today he just met the main force of Jiannu head-on, and Jiannu had not yet made a move, so he sacrificed this trick first, which is really despicable to the extreme, how can Yu Xiaotian not be angry.

The most important thing for him to go north this time is to buy people's hearts, and let the world know that only he can save the people from fire and water in this big tomorrow.

And the reason why he wanted to fight to the death against Jiannu in Tianjin, and blocked Jiannu in the pass so that he could not retreat with his whole body, was that he wanted to intercept all the hundreds of thousands of people who were captured by Jiannu, and these hundreds of thousands of people will become his spokesmen and his most loyal believers.

When Jiannu slaughtered them, plundered them, and forced them out of the customs, none of the officers and soldiers came to save them, only he led the troops in Yu Xiaotian to save them, as long as he preached a little, the people in the north would return to him, and when he passed through the north in the future, he would not encounter too much resistance, and he could avoid a lot of unnecessary battles and casualties among the common people.

But today, Jiannu sacrificed such a tactic on the first side, which is really despicable to the extreme, if he does not care about these people and orders them to be slaughtered, even if he wins this battle, I am afraid that he will have to bear the charge of a butcher in the future.

The common people don't care why you do this, in short, they only recognize who can save them and who kills them, so once Jiannu succeeds, then this time it will make many of Yu Xiaotian's plans fall into the open space.

Yu Xiaotian's mind began to spin rapidly in an instant, and various plans flashed in his mind like a marquee, and then he was denied one by one, and after a while, his eyes suddenly paused, and instantly became firm.

"Meng Fei! Quickly pass my general order, order the Fourth Brigade to leave an opening at the junction with the Seventh Brigade's defensive line, the Fourth Brigade shrinks its strength, concentrates the cavalry for Lao Tzu, and you personally lead the team to prepare!

Sent an order to the First Brigade to be ready to receive refugees in the back, and be ready to seal your mouth at any time, since this Dolgon wants to give Lao Tzu a big gift, Lao Tzu is not welcome! Yu Xiaotian shouted to Meng Fei.

After Meng Fei heard this, when he understood what Yu Xiaotian wanted to do, he immediately answered the order loudly, turned around without saying a word, ran off the high platform, and went down to start sending orders to dispatch troops.

After a while, there was a dull sound of horns and rumbling war drums from the side of the Jiannu army, and the nearly 10,000 Jiannu army slowly followed behind thousands of Ming people, forcing them to slowly press towards the front of the Yu family's army.

"Artillery ready! Turn up the angle of fire by 30 degrees, full charge! The ruler is 400 paces, and when the people come, they are ready to fire artillery at any time to stop the Jiannu army behind! Rush to shoot! "The officers of the artillery battalion began to be hysterical, giving orders to the artillery batteries under them.

The artillery of the Yujia Army, the main equipment is the twelve-pounder mountain howitzer, this kind of gun can not only shoot flat, but also has a high angle of fire and can use a high throw trajectory for hanging fire, when the Jiannu army used such a despicable tactic, the artillery officers immediately thought of a way to deal with it.

That is, to give up direct shooting, the use of high angle of fire for hanging fire, the shell can pass over the crowd in front, directly into the follow-up enemy formation, in the past, mostly to intercept the enemy's follow-up troops, when using solid bullets, the power will be reduced a lot, the shell is not easy to land in the high parabolic ballistic situation to produce a ricochet effect, the killing of the enemy infantry will be weakened a lot.