In the era of cold weapons, night marching is not as simple as mentioned in the novel. Only a few troops with very high organization, discipline and tactical capabilities can be competent! Not to mention in the era of cold weapons, just like modern troops marching at night, with various technological equipment, sometimes they can get rid of people, let alone in ancient times.

After the two sides set up camp, the degree of strangulation between Ye Bushou was significantly lower. However, there were still a large number of casualties and injuries every day. However, the Guanning Army retreated. The war was imminent, and the loss of such a cavalryman was not very meaningful in the scout strangulation battle. It would be better to stay for the final decision!

After five days of rest, the sound of war drums sounded from the Ming army camp and began to fight! The rebels were not willing to be outdone and also went out to fight. Both sides knew that the victory and defeat were just one day today!

The first one to go out of the camp of the Ming army was the Central Army, which is Liu Pei's troops. This time, Liu Pei's troops were fully armed! From the helmet to the breastplate, the arm armor was all complete! In the sun, the dark armor seemed particularly cold.

Liu Pei is a central army today, so he did not set up a hollow square formation. Instead, he was densely stacked fish scale formation! The so-called fish scale formation is the body in the front row and the back row, and it looks like layers of fish scales.

This advantage is that it is conducive to the use of the musket. People in the back row can directly shoot outward from the gap between the two people in the front row, which can maximize the fire density.

As soon as the team reached the predetermined position, more than a dozen carriages rushed out of the queue, unloaded the wire mesh from the car and started to arrange it. In a blink of an eye, two wire mesh were pulled up. The farthest wire mesh was less than thirty steps away from Liu Pei's position. The second one was within ten steps!

Then a large number of civilians began to pile up breast walls. After the chest wall was completed, Liu Pei ordered to pile sandbags behind the chest wall. After seeing the sandbags stacked, Liu Pei went to look behind.

When Liu Pei was about to tell the story, the artillery position was also ready. This time, Liu Pei not only supported the thirty cannons he brought, but he also tried every means to get more than twenty cannons from Laizhou City and transported them over. Whether their central army can withstand the fierce attack of the rebels this time depends on the strength of the artillery.

Fortunately, Liu Pei's base camp is in Shandong,

The day before yesterday, Liu Pei had just received a batch of supplies. The most abundant supply was various shells, followed by two thousand spare muskets and supporting ammunition. The two thousand swords and shield hands led by Qi Qitao.

After checking the artillery position, Liu Pei walked to the front of the position and said to the four thousand hand-to-hand combat soldiers in front: "Sit down on the spot!"

Except for the two thousand people who were Liu Pei before, the rest were sent by various camps, specializing in the face-to-face fighting. At this time, Qi Qitao ran away and said, "I have more than a dozen Franco cannons here, and I'm putting them on the chest wall. Do you want to go and see?"

This kind of Fran machine cannon is a small cannon with a sub-gun. The sub-gun is pre-loaded with the sub-gun and can be fired directly into the cannon chamber. Therefore, the rate of fire is extremely fast! Generally speaking, each cannon carries the fifth brother's gun. The sub-gun is best to attack infantry after it is filled with lead.

Liu Pei said: "I won't watch it anymore, you can arrange it yourself! I'm here to tell you to master the team!"

Qi Qitao nodded and said, "Don't worry!"

After checking it, Liu Pei returned to the command position. With Liu Pei's formation complete, the soldiers and horses on the left and right wings were also in place. As the saying goes, there are 100,000 people in the Ming army. It is also a huge area if more than 40,000 people are arranged here!

As for the rebels, it was even more exaggerated! The formation was completed here, and the rebels were still pouring out from several camps one after another.

Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and several others were all in the formation, keeping looking at the position of the Ming army. Li Jiucheng hit his thigh with a whip and said, "It seems that the imperial soldiers and horses are just planning to let us attack! Look, they stopped moving as soon as they left the camp."

Kong Youde said, "There is no choice! We can only attack. Even if they don't leave the camp, I will take action! If they drag on it, the food in the future will not be able to be provided. At that time, these people may disperse!"

Li Jiucheng said: "It seems that Zhu Dadian's central army is very thin! There are only 10,000 people up and down! It's better if we just attack the central army in a while!"

Kong Youde thought for a while and said, "Will there be a fraud?"

Kong Youde has fought for so many years, but he has never seen this before.

It’s not a big mistake for Kong Youde to guess, because what he said is right, the position of the central army is too critical! Generally, the camp that can attack the most can defend the position of the central army. But in this case, everyone is desperately trying to accumulate troops in the central army, for fear that the central army will be unstable.

But at this time, Zhu Dadian's central army had only about 10,000 people, forming a dumbbell with two thick ends and thin middle. This made everyone a little confused. So Li Jiucheng said simply: "No matter what strategy he has, it is always impossible to resist us! This war depends on strength!"

Kong Youde thought about it and said in agreement: "Since that's the case, then prepare to start a war!"

At this time, the cavalry of both sides had already evacuated between the two teams of positions, waiting for the teams of both sides to get closer and then start fighting. There were not many people on the first batch of battles on both sides, both of them were swords, shields and archers. Both sides were hoping to use their own archers to shoot the opponent's formation. However, the only thing the central army did not come forward, which surprised the rebels.

But this is not the time they were thinking about it. The rebels felt that there were no archers on the other side, perhaps it was safer. Only the veterans felt that something was wrong. You should know that no commander on the battlefield would make such a low-level mistake.

As the brigade approached the opponent, the Ming army's artillery began to fire, but the effect was not great. As for Liu Pei, he was not ready to fire! After all, he didn't need artillery to deal with the archers.

Seeing the rebel archers in front of him approaching step by step, Liu Pei ordered: "When they get closer to 80 steps, they will start designing."

Liu Pei stood in the back row and kept estimating the distance from the enemy. He estimated that the rebel archers had entered the distance of 80 steps, and immediately shouted loudly: "Shoot!"

With Liu Pei's order, a smoke of gunpowder immediately rose from the frontier positions! The dense lead bullets passed by in the air, and it seemed to hit the rebels on the opposite side! More than 200 people were knocked to the ground in an instant!
Chapter completed!