"Quick long spearmen form formation, musket soldiers come forward!"

"Hurry up, form a formation"

At this time, the battalions in front of Qianhusuo Castle were in a mess. Under the shouts of the officers, the remaining two thousand battalions formed a formation. At the front of this phalanx were three hundred soldiers from Shenji camp, four hundred spearmen in the middle, five hundred sword and shield soldiers on the last floor, and eight hundred cavalry on both sides. In this way, the remaining two thousand battalions formed a standard phalanx.

This camp soldier was also the most important force of soldiers who had been operating for hundreds of years. The Duke of Wei was able to stand in Nanjing for a hundred years and never fall. This force played a very important role. Since the Duke of Wei was fed with silver, their loyalty to Xu Hongji was naturally unquestionable. With the shouts of the officers, the formation was quickly assembled. However, just when they had just formed the formation, Zhang Weixian and a group of defeated soldiers retreated from the front.

After seeing this scene, Xu Hongji, who was protected by many personal guards, changed his face. In this day, the battles are based on the battle formation. Once the battle formation is dispersed, he doesn't have to think about what the consequences will be. He quickly opened his throat: "Let them bypass the military formation and bypass the military formation, and you must not let them come here directly."

At Xu Hongji's order, someone shouted loudly in front of the military formation. They shouted loudly at their companions who were retreating in embarrassment: "Go around, do not attack the military formation, those who violate the order will be killed!"

"Around the army! Bypass the army!"

Zhang Weixian, who was surrounded by his personal guards, was not a fool, and naturally knew that it would be a death sentence to attack his own military formation under any circumstances. While riding his horse to run to the side, he shouted loudly to order the retreating soldiers to retreat to both sides of the military formation.

With Zhang Weixian's efforts, most of the retreating soldiers followed the order and walked around the sides of the military formation. Only a small number of soldiers who were scared or ran away were still rushing towards their own military formation. At this time, the Shenji Camp located in front of the military formation would not be polite. With the sound of a musket, dozens of soldiers running in the front fell into pools of blood. The crisp and slight voices and bloody facts finally awakened the scared soldiers behind. The frightened soldiers who were originally rushing towards the military formation were so scared that they quickly dispersed to both sides.

Looking at the dozens of soldiers lying in front of the formation, Xu Hongji held the knife tightly and looked very ugly. The cavalry of Jiangning Guards came too badly. They actually came over when Zhang Weixian dispersed his troops and drove them out of Zhuang Ding. Otherwise, it would be clear that the two sides would have killed each other. But now they were about to collapse at once. The battle was so cowardly.

The opposite of Xu Hongji's mood, the soldiers of the Thousand Households of Jiangdongmen on the city wall cheered loudly. They thought they might be doomed today and saw their cavalry appear and killed the Nanjing camp soldiers who were burning and killing them so hard that they all jumped up in excitement.

Without mentioning Xu Hongji's ugly face, Liao Yongquan felt equally panicked. He offered advice to Xu Hongji: "Mr. Xu, the bandits are coming in full force, but I found that they only had hundreds of cavalry. We might as well take advantage of the opportunity when their infantry had not arrived to let the cavalry launch a counterattack on them, and also to hit the bandits' arrogance. What do you think?"

"Mr. Liao's words are reasonable."

Before Xu Hongji could speak, Lu Jianshen, who was standing beside him, also echoed: "The bandits are coming in full force. If we don't take advantage of the opportunity when the bandits and infantry are not here, we will be troublesome when most of the bandits arrive."

"this"

Xu Hongji hesitated for a moment. His original idea was to lure the cavalry of Jiangning Guard to attack his own formation and use the Shenji Battalion and the Gunmen to kill the opponent's cavalry in large quantities. However, after hearing what Liao Yongquan said, he felt that the opponent should not be so stupid. He would take the lead in attacking his own formation when his troops were far inferior to those of the opponent. In this way, the battle situation would be in a stalemate. Once the opponent's infantry arrived, it would easily fall into a stalemate, which was contrary to his idea of ​​quickly resolving the matter.

Thinking of this, Xu Hongji turned his head to a lieutenant general beside him and said, "General Shi, you will immediately lead the cavalry to charge against the bandits of Jiangning Guards. Be sure to kill and injure the opponent's cavalry in large quantities!"

"The last one will receive orders!"

After responding loudly, the gang general saluted Xu Hongji and rode away. Soon the 800 cavalry guarding on both sides of the military formation moved slowly and quickly faced the cavalry rushing towards them in front.

Seeing the opponent's cavalry coming up, Yang Daniu, who was commanding the cavalry to rush, took out his neck and blew it up. The rapid and rhythmic whistle echoed in front of the formation. As the whistle sounded, the cavalry, which were originally scattered because of the pursuit of the enemy, gathered again. When Yang Daniu saw the enemy rushing towards him, a solemn expression appeared on his face.

After serving in the Guanning Army for several years, he could see at a glance that the overall cavalry of the enemy on the other side was very good. Although it was far from comparable to the manned vest soldiers outside the Pass, it was still much stronger than the cavalry behind him that had just been formed for several months. If he really wanted to start, he might suffer a big loss.

However, Yang Daniu is also a veteran who is used to fighting wars. He knows that if the cavalry behind him had just been formed and it was the time to form, if he ordered to retreat, it would be a big blow to this unformed team. In view of this, he gritted his teeth and issued an order to continue charging, and the supreme commander of this cavalry rushed to the front of the team.

Amid the rumbling sound of horse hooves, the two cavalry were getting closer and closer. Whether it was the sergeant watching the battle on the city wall or Xu Hongji in the military formation, they all held their breath and watched the showdown between the cavalry.

"Shoot the arrow!"

When the distance between the two sides reached one hundred steps, with a loud roar, bursts of arrows were shot out from Xu Hongji's cavalry. This is also one of the most common tactics for cavalry. Before contact, they used bows and arrows to give the enemy the greatest damage.

"Raising a shield to protect the horse's head!"

With the shouts of the officers, Yang Daniu and others who were prepared also raised the shields in their hands. Due to the limited area of ​​the shield, they could only protect themselves and the heads of the war horses. As for other places, they could only leave the fate.
Chapter completed!