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Chapter 1196 Divine Power
A group of French soldiers rode lightly across the front line. In their eyes, the Ming army in the distance looked silly doing earthwork with shovels.

Behind the light cavalry, two infantry phalanxes who had completed the preparation stage were like a forest of spears, and began their last prayer before the battle.

The guerrilla general Wang Youlin didn't even take out his binoculars, and the enemy's front line was already clearly visible. Hundreds of engineers and soldiers shouted to the busy banner troops on the left and right: "Stop work, kneel down, they kneel down!"

The Ming army didn't understand why the enemy would kneel before the battle. Maybe they knew but didn't bother to waste energy to understand.

For them, it is enough to know that the enemy will get up after kneeling down, and the main general will launch an offensive.

During the display of the command flag, the labor flag army picked up their beloved small steel pickaxes and sailor axes, untied the small weather-beaten shield on their backs, and joined the front line of the bird gun flag army.

The banner army led by the engineering soldiers Baihu is not equipped with muskets, so their combat effectiveness is relatively low, but their equipment burden is not light, which is basically equivalent to that of heavy infantry. In an outnumbered defensive position, they would bury shields as reinforcing materials in the earth wall in front of the half-length ditch dug quickly, making it a simple earthwork that could defend against direct fire from muskets.

After the job is done, the pick ax has a sharp armor-piercing stone cone, making it the backbone of the defense against heavily armored enemies in the musket line.

After all this was done, hundreds of households from all directions lined up in a three-layer horizontal formation with small depth, small width and large width, and slowly approached Yuan Zizhang's troops.

Wang Youlin stood in front of the formation and watched the enemy's formation. They were so deep that one couldn't tell how many rows of soldiers there were. He could only see the first row of heavily armored soldiers holding a large shield in front of them. Qing's spears and halberds, obviously...they were using the tactic that Billund had figured out.

However, when his troops retreated slowly and tried to get close to Yuan Zizhang, he saw Yuan Zizhang on the high ground unfurl the command flag ordering him to march, and four hundred households lined up from the high ground, and the same four horizontal formations with engineers and soldiers swept down .

Afterwards, the two Centuries Jurchen heavy cavalry kicked and slowed at the back. It looked as if Yuan Zizhang planned to put the only cavalry force in his hand into the battlefield as soon as possible to break the deadlock.

The high-pitched suona sounded in the formation, and the French army could only see small flags surrounded by large flags on the opposite side.

It's time to test the luck of the banner officers. Each small banner officer in the horizontal formation stands in the front left of the subordinate banner army with a helmet on his head, and the deputy banner officer stands in the same posture on the left rear. In the middle of the three rows of nine people is the same A preacher with a different-colored helmet and gun, and the flag army dragging a bird gun beside him revealed a piece of bright gun thorns that were as high as the helmet gun, forming the smallest combat unit of the Ming army's horizontal formation.

However, the life of the small banner officer is not that dangerous. The engineering soldiers of the four hundred households lead a team to form a single row to protect the front, and the engineering banner army with shields is at the forefront, just like the French army thought that the lead pills could not pass through. After penetrating the shield and causing damage to the plate armor, the Ming army can also use this defense.

Two horizontal formations, one on the left and one on the right, approached the French army like two giant turtles like crabs.

Finally, the horns sounded in front of the enemy formation. Their musical instrument was a trumpet equipped with a telescopic tube. He couldn't hear the other party's military music, and the fleshy voice couldn't suppress his suona at all.

What's more, the guerrilla general Wang Youlin who led the phalanx alone didn't know the meaning of the general Yuan Zizhang, Xu Jin knew very well that they were not only the two [-] men in the horizontal formation, but also had reinforcements behind them.

In Xu Jin's field of vision, the enemy Qingqi was trying to move across the formation from the frontal battlefield to gather on the left flank. As a result, he was in a more dangerous position, on the far left of the left flank... This was obviously set up by Wang Youlin. The tiger squats and cannons are afraid of attacking, and they plan to pick the persimmons and squeeze them softly, and plan to attack one side first and swallow their horizontal formation first.

But he also has tiger squatting cannons, one for each general flag, not to mention that his six general flag arrows and twenty small flag arrows have not been used yet.

"Change the tone, the general flag arrow and the small flag arrow are Kaifeng, and the flag troops of each department pass the grenades forward and hand them over to the engineers."

The enemy's artillery did not move. Seeing that the infantry phalanx was parallel to the two Franco cannons, the artillery finally let out the long-awaited roar.

The roar was full of power, red light was emitted from the muzzle, and a scattered stone pierced through the gunpowder smoke, scattered in the middle area where the formations of the two sides were about to meet. Xu Jin could see it with the naked eye, and a large area of ​​dry grass and soil about a hundred steps ahead was swept by the scattered stones.

Accompanied by the sound of military music, Xu Jin's horizontal formation stopped, and guerrilla Wang Youlin's horizontal formation also stopped. The distance between the two armies was only four or five hundred steps, and they were about to enter the shooting range of the general flag. The big shield slammed down heavily in front of the formation, and then they all squatted down. They had three spherical grenades hanging from their waists. They took the small flag quiver from behind and carried it on their shoulders. They lit the fire pocket for use.

On the four sides of the horizontal formation, they nailed the tiger-squatting cannons. The main defense direction was still the front, and the thunderbolts of each general banner were arranged behind. It is difficult to win in this battle where the enemy has heavily armored shieldmen in front.

The two phalanxes of the Ming army in the eyes of the French army seemed very strange. They stopped suddenly on the way to march, and everyone squatted down and hid behind the shields. They thought that the Ming army was frightened by the firing of the Fran cannon. It's a morale booster for them - field artillery, well, that's what it's for a lot of the time.

However, on the high ground behind the enemy army, two phalanxes of similar size are ready to go. It seems that they were regarded as a reserve team by the enemy general and spread forward under the protection of cavalry. With a small vertical body, it is difficult for cavalry to break into the front and back from the middle.

In Mattion's mind-filling, he believes that the distance between the two reserve teams behind and the front line is to better shoot the cavalry attacking the front line and protect their backs.

But in fact, the latter two troops are also the main force. The reason for their late attack is that Yuan Zizhang wants the French army to think that their front army is not strong enough so that they can move forward. Now that the goal is achieved, he will naturally let the rear army start .

At this moment, Marshal Matteon, who reined in his horse and followed the phalanx, suddenly narrowed his eyes, raised his hand and raised his baton towards the Ming army's position, lowered his voice and exclaimed: "What is that!"

Everyone could see that shortly after the two reserve teams left the high ground, light and shadow across the sky rose one after another quickly. Those things trailed their fiery tails and let out a frightening scream, passing through in an instant. He flew to the highest point above the battlefield, and then fell as quickly as if he had eyes.

The screeching sound was getting closer and louder, as terrifying as a devil's cry.

Unfortunately, the place where the shells fell was between the two phalanxes of the French army.

Boom!
The extremely heavy pointed iron column shells slammed a knight off his horse, and then stabbed him obliquely on the ground. This scene happened all over the square formation, and the tails of those shells that fell on the ground continued intermittently. Faint flames and gunpowder smoke were emitted from the ground.

The iron pillar was slightly rusted due to damp, and a little mud was splashed on it, but the words cast on it were still clearly visible.

It only has two words - Shenwei.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)