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Chapter 1397 Divination
The battle was scheduled for February [-]th, and it was the first time that Ying Ming used this method of negotiating the time and agreeing the place.

It was a novelty to him.

What's new in this world?He had never fought a gentleman named Carrothead.

Maybe this battle will be called defending the radish in the history of war in the future?

But in fact, before the start of the battle, the two sides had three small-scale encounters.

First, the scouts from both sides attacked each other in the process of testing the stationed border. The generals agreed on the time for the battle, and the soldiers below must fight to the death when they meet.

For the first time, since both sides were light cavalry, there were casualties after a brief contact, and the Ming army took the lead in withdrawing from the battle.

For the second time, the scouts in England added some infantry hunters using longbows, and the scouts of the Ming army sent more than a dozen Miaoluokui combat teams. No one knows how to get the corpse.

However, before the two sides sent heavy cavalry to the front line in scouting operations, the south began to make real moves.

Both armies assembled their troops after they decided to fight, and the troops were not far away. Yingming transferred the third pasture camp from Southampton, and Master Carrot transferred five hundred sailors from the south.

During the march, the sailors gathered with more than a thousand sailors supported by the east, and crossed the Yiqin River together to gather with the main force.

On the way to the march, the No. [-] Mu camp met a large number of registered sailors. For the sailors, it could be said that meeting enemies made them jealous.

The main reason they lost their jobs was that the Ming warships swimming in the English Channel bombarded their merchant ships and pirate ships. The most sailors on the Ming warships were these Muye soldiers with tattoos on their faces and bone decorations on their ears and noses.

On the boat, the Muye soldiers can show their prestige with strong ships and sharp guns, but can they be rampant again on land?
In particular, this enemy carried six swivel guns, which did not appear to be ready for battle, and the sailors were able to hand over these six guns to Robert Dudley after the quick attack was successful.

Apart from anything else, the London sailors, full of anger, held a sword in one hand and a gun in the other, and launched an attack on the still dazed Muye Camp.

Mu Yeying is indeed in a daze, because the leader of the army is not General Song Yang, Wei Siye's godfather is still in Southampton at this time leading the fourth Mu Ye Camp to defend the city, and the important task of leading the troops to assemble to Yingming falls to Mo Huo from Muye On the shoulder of Xiao Mo, the leader of the Ke tribe.

Xiao Mo's father, Lao Mo, was the leader of the Mohawk tribe. This time he drove Li Yuxi to recruit soldiers, and the Mohawk warriors followed Xiao Mo to apply and came to England.

He is still learning the way of thinking of the Ming people, and he strictly abides by the military orders. Ying Ming said that he had reached a battle agreement with the carrots in England, so his reaction was slow.

Xiao Mo had already discovered that this British sailor unit was operating without cover, but he had been thinking about whether he should take the opportunity to attack them.

Attack it, for fear of being punished by the general in the future; don't attack it-they look really easy to fight.

Although there were many of these enemies, their main weapons were knives, swords, bows and arrows, and hand guns. Most of them did not wear armor, some wore helmets, and some wore breastplates, and their protection was very simple.

Xiao Mo even used his half-baked divination skills to do a fortune telling before the battle.

In the past, the Iroquois League used tortoise shells for divination. There were no tortoises in the Iroquois land, and the tortoise shells for their divination were traded from far away places.

Now advancing with the times, Xiao Mo will use Longqing Tongbao for divination.

Xiao Mo felt that the hexagrams showed that the gods neither allowed him to attack nor retreat, but asked him to stand still.

Not only did he strictly follow the Feathered Serpent God, no, now he is called Yinglong God, Xiao Mo strictly followed Yinglong God's suggestion, not only told the troops not to move, but also made them chat loudly.

Xiao Mo explained it this way: "Master Ying Long told us to stand still, which means that the enemy will find us first. If the enemy makes a move, then Xiao Mo will not blame the general for fighting back. Come on, the big shield is ready, the big crossbow Tune in!"

The sailors found themselves in a trap after charging.

He obviously didn’t look like he noticed himself just now, why the big shield was placed under his feet, why the huge crossbow opened as soon as it opened, and why the 800 people scattered in the open area were suddenly divided into countless small groups. What about groups?
In fact, everyone has practiced, and these registered sailors were not idle when they were stationed in the rear. Robert Dudley was once saved by Philip. Fights the Battle of San Quentin for Spain.

Mr. Carrot has seen the advanced infantry phalanx tactics in Europe, so these sailors have also been trained in the form of phalanx infantry reorganization.

But without the unified management of the chief general, their officer level is obviously not as good as the third animal husbandry camp with a complete organization and the care of the dragon god.

Xiao Mo had been prepared for a long time, and the troops formed an irregular and loose formation at the first time, consisting of 32 Miaoluokui combat groups scattered in all directions, each group consisting of five five-member squads.

Almost immediately, the shield players of each group formed a shield wall facing the direction the sailors were attacking, and two large crossbows were set up on the shoulders of the shield players, shooting at the scattered sailors rushing forward. At the same time, it is also mixed with hand crossbows shooting at close range.

For a time the scene was very ugly.

The sailors used matchlocks, flintlock pistols and even several wheel guns to shoot from a long distance. The distance has already exceeded the best range of short barrels. No one knows where the bullets will fly, let alone even if they barely hit , will also be blocked by a large shield, and this kind of distance musket has almost no power.

The Miao people's hand crossbows are similar, at best, they add some tension to the sailors.

But the big crossbow is different.

The medicine crossbowman hiding behind the large shield tiptoed to buckle down the hanging knife, and the foot-long iron cluster crossbow bolts sprang out with a thunderous sound of crumbling strings, nailing through the sailors dozens of steps away in a blink of an eye.

Even though they were wearing breastplates, many people were still pierced by crossbow arrows, and some were lucky enough to be sideways by the crossbow bolt rubbing against the armor, sweating from fright, and being shot by another crossbow arrow the next moment. .

The two crossbowmen quickly shoot the hand crossbows at the enemies they see nearby, and then they back up with the medicine crossbowmen holding the big crossbows and rewinding. Step back three steps with both hands together, and send the shield wall to the crossbowman.

Five quick shots from the crossbow in one go, and the group would take a full fifteen steps back.

For the sailors, the more they charged, the more frightened they were, because the small scattered formations of the enemy had retreated with the shots and merged into a large horizontal formation facing them.

The more dense the crossbow arrows were, they couldn't even touch the enemy's side.

The person in front was shot and held his wound again and tried to retreat, but he couldn't climb a few steps while dragging the grass before foaming at his mouth.

Seeing this, the people behind did not dare to step forward, and it was only a thought to go from stepping back to fleeing, which continued to cause a big collapse.

At the most critical juncture in this battle, Xiao Mo looked at the wailing battlefield, took out a few Longqing Tongbao from his waist pocket and sprinkled them on the ground, frowned and watched reluctantly, and finally raised his hand Give orders.

"Ying Longshen won't let us chase, clean up the battlefield, kill the wounded, let them go if they run, let's go north to find General Ying."

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)