Tang Feng rode his horse and stood at the front of the team. Behind him, the three teams were already in formation.
The carriages were lined up in a row in front of them, forming a wall. Behind them, the musketeers stood in rows, forming several square formations.
In the era of muskets, there were no decent tactics. To put it bluntly, when everyone went to the battlefield, they would line up and be shot.
However, he knew the simplest of the three.
Of course, he wasn't the only one who knew. The two brothers, Ding Jia and Ding Yi, were from the Xiang Army in the later generations. They were also familiar with the three phrases.
Therefore, each formation of the soldiers stood in three rows.
After the first row finished shooting, they retreated to reload. The second row moved forward, fired, and then retreated to reload. The third row took over, and so on.
All the infantrymen were facing the Hou Jin Army and Ming Army in the wilderness. Their expressions were solemn, and because of their nervousness, some of their bodies were trembling.
However, with the elite musketeers as the team leaders, the team did not show any signs of crumbling.
In the vast wilderness outside Guang Ning City, the cavalry of the Later Jin Army galloped on their horses and charged towards the Ming Army.
Tang Feng stood there in his military uniform, unmoving.
"Artillery."
Tang Feng raised his hand.
Under the control of the elite cannoneers, the cannons behind the formation began to roar angrily.
Instantly, a smokescreen spread out from within the army.
The black metal lump shot out from the cannon barrel under the push of the gunpowder, streaking across the sky and accurately smashing into the Houjin cavalry.
At this moment, the Houjin Cavalry were thrown into chaos.
Dozens of cannons fired at the same time. The scene was spectacular. Although the cannonballs fired were all solid shells, they still killed many of the Houjin cavalrymen.
After three consecutive volleys of cannon fire, the Houjin cavalry finally managed to get within a hundred meters of the formation.
In that short distance of 200 meters, the Houjin Cavalry had already lost 300 to 400 men.
The Zhenglan Flag had a total of twenty-five Niulu, and seven thousand six hundred soldiers. Each Niulu had about three hundred people.
This bombardment was equivalent to killing one of Houjin's awesome warriors.
When Hou Jin's cavalrymen were within a hundred meters, Tang Feng retreated to the defensive line formed by the carriages.
A heavy atmosphere covered the entire Guang Ning City.
The officials on the city wall held their breaths.
Tang Feng slowly raised his hand again.
"Shoot."
The sound of the flintlock rose and fell, and the sound of ping ping ping echoed in the wilderness.
The elite musketeers led their troops and followed the rules of the battlefield. They led the new musketeers to shoot at the Jin cavalry in front.
With a single volley, the Houjin cavalrymen at the front fell like wheat being harvested.
"The first row reloads, the second row forwards.”Ding Jia and Ding Yi had cold expressions as they calmly commanded the musketeers.
At this time, the elite musketeers played a crucial role.
With their leadership, the entire team didn't panic too much. The new musketeers only needed to follow their instructions and shoot forward and backward.
The intensive gunshots continued to ring out.
The entire Ming army formation was engulfed by the smoke of gunpowder.
This short distance of a hundred meters was like a battlefield, constantly devouring the lives of the Houjin cavalry.
Looking at the Hou Jin cavalrymen who kept falling off their horses, the Ming army gradually calmed down from their initial nervousness.
Only then did they realize that the muskets in their hands could also kill their enemies. Those ferocious Houjin barbarians could also be killed.
The artillery fire did not stop, and the shells continued to land on the dense ranks of the Jin cavalry.
Guns and cannons were fired. In the wilderness, this short distance of a hundred meters became the nightmare of the Jin cavalry.
Behind him, Manggu Ertai's face was ashen.
He had always believed that he only needed one charge from his cavalry to completely defeat this Ming army that was seeking death.
But now, his cavalry had already suffered heavy losses before they could even get close to the enemy's formation.
Damned Great Ming people, all of you will die. As long as my cavalry charges into the army formation, all of you will be massacred.
On the city wall of Guangning City, Wang Zai, Jin Yu, Huafeng, and the others looked at each other.
They had never expected that the firearms and cannons they had looked down upon could actually cause such a great deal of damage to the Houjin cavalry.
The dense formation of muskets, the unified artillery, the continuous firing, and the repeated firing. These were things that they had never thought of.
So guns and cannons could be used like this.
At this moment, a window opened in Wang Zaijin and Yu Huafeng's hearts. They saw a new world.
The Houjin cavalry finally approached the Ming army.
However, their charge was stopped by the first carriage in front.
"Spear soldiers, attack!"
Tang Feng's icy cold voice echoed across the wilderness.
Thousands of pikemen replaced the musketeers and pierced through the gaps of the carriages.
The dense spears turned the entire army into a porcupine.
The Houjin cavalrymen outside the carriage became huge live targets. Their bodies were pierced by the spears and they fell to the ground.
After the musketeers finished reloading, they found different openings and fired at the Houjin cavalrymen outside the formation.
Just like that, a different Spanish phalanx appeared on the Liaodong battlefield of the Ming Dynasty during the Tianqi period.
One had to know that this Spanish phalanx was originally created to restrain the enemy cavalry. It was almost the nemesis of the cavalry.
In addition, Tang Feng's wild ideas created a defensive line in front of the square formation with the carriage. This square formation was even more terrifying.
This seemingly fragile line of defense had actually become an impenetrable and solid line of defense.
Although the Houjin Cavalry were fearless, their charge was simply courting death.
Even the cavalrymen who couldn't get close to the carriages weren't spared.
The musketeers behind the spearmen and the artillery behind them were still firing.
This had practically become a one-sided massacre.
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