Gao Wencai took the two hundred-year-old rider and turned around to the direction of his own formation. While galloping, he turned around and shot arrows from time to time. Originally, their riding and archery skills were higher than Liu Liangzuo's rangers, and they turned around and ran backwards, so that the pursuers could just hit the arrows they shot, which was equivalent to increasing the range.

The Jinyi New Army's cavalry turned around and shot arrows repeatedly, and kept shooting Liu Liangzuo's rangers who were chasing him down. However, the arrows that Liu's cavalry came from behind were all under the influence of air resistance and soon landed behind the Jinyi New Army's cavalry.

Gao Wencai led the Jinyi New Army and led Liu Liangzuo's cavalry toward his own infantry formation.

Liu Liangzuo's cavalry was getting closer and closer to the infantry formation of the Nanjing New Army. When less than fifty steps were left, a young man next to Zhao Peng shook his flag and the grassroots officers shouted: "Tiger!"

The sword players in the Spanish phalanx stood up one after another, raised their shields to support them, and the spearmen behind them squatted down, hid behind the sword player's big shield, and pointed the spear in his hands diagonally forward. Behind the spearmen, the bird gunners and the turtledove gunners had already lit the fuse and prepared to shoot.

The infantry in the front row were staggered by spearmen and swordsmen. Looking from the enemy's direction, I saw dense spears stretching out between a row of iron shields, forming a spear forest and pointing to myself.

In fact, the Spanish square in history, at the beginning, there were swords, shields and axes and spearmen. The Spanish swords, shields and swords are equivalent to the Eastern swordsman, holding heavy swordsman in one hand and shields in the other. The existence of axes and spearmen is because the spears are easy to use. The axes and spearmen and swordsman in combination with spearmen can be compensated when the spears are used.

Later, the Spanish phalanx gradually abolished the sword and shield hands and axe spearmen, and changed to a single spear with muskets. That was because the steel technology was improved. All spearmen were equipped with iron armor that could withstand the opponent's bows and arrows. They were completely immune to the bows and arrows, so the sword and shield hands were eliminated by the Spanish. As for the old problem of the easy use of spears, after the sword and shield hands were cancelled, muskets were added, and the appearance of the flintlock gun made the reloading speed of muskets faster, so it was best to simply cancel the axe spearmen, leaving only the spearmen and muskets, and the proportion of firearms was further increased.

At this time, the new Nanjing army was not equipped with armor. Most of the infantry only had a mandarin duck battle jacket and a goose yellow red tassel hat, which is the Fan Yang hat. Only a few people had a leather armor or a cotton armor, so the protection was almost zero, so Zhao Peng could not cancel the sword player at this time.

"No, the rebels are going to lead us into their spear formation!" Seeing the dense spear forest in front of them, a servant shouted at Hu Shoujin.

"Quick, slow down!" Hu Shoujin shouted.

Liu's cavalry stopped their horses and slowed down. In fact, they didn't need to slow down. As long as there was no fast horse whip, the war horses would stop when they saw the dense spear forest in front of them.

"Shoot the arrow!" Hu Shoujin gave the order.

Liu Liangzuo's cavalry took out their cavalry bows, posed arrows, and shot rows of light arrows at the infantry formation of the Nanjing New Army.

"Swoosh swish swish" rows of light arrows flew into the sky and fell towards the Ming army formation thirty steps away.

The Ming sabre players in front raised their large shields one after another. The first row of sword players held the large shield flat to block the front, while the second and third rows of sword players raised the large shield to block the top of their heads. The arrows shot by Liu Liangzuo's cavalry fell into the shield formation, and most of the arrows were blocked by the shields. Only a few arrows passed through the gaps in the shields and shot the Ming sabre infantry behind. The person who was caught screamed and fell down, and the infantry behind immediately restocked and filled the vacant position.

"Fire the cannon!" Zhao Peng gave the order.

Chen Xinyuan, who was standing beside Zhao Peng, shook his flag: "Fire!"

Twenty 300 kilograms of general artillery, twenty 500 kilograms of Franchise and one hundred kilograms of light Franchise made roars almost at the same time. Large and small artillery shells swept over the heads of their soldiers and hit Liu Liangzuo's cavalry formation.

Because the front row of infantry were all half-squatted, the shells fired by the gunners just flew over their heads and pierced into the crowd of Liu Liangzuo's cavalry. The two kilograms of shells fired from twenty 300 kilograms of general artillery hit the cavalry crowd. The shells hit the war horses, and suddenly knocked the bones on the chest of the war horses to sink. Liu Liangzuo's cavalry flew back with their men and horses. The shells hit the cavalry directly on the horse's back, and instantly knocked the cavalry into pieces, turning into a scattered blood mist and disappeared into the air.

The shell fell to the ground and bounced up again, hitting the cavalry behind him, hitting the man, immediately smashing the man to pieces; hitting the war horse, which neighed with a sad voice.

The shells fired by the 500-jin Franc aircraft are the same as the 300-jin general cannon. They are two-jin shells, and the killing effect is almost the same as the 300-jin general cannon.

Forty two-pound shells fell into the Liu Liangzuo's cavalry crowd, and nearly a hundred cavalrymen were taken away.

The 100-jin Franchise projectile is about the same size as the turtledove gun, but when it hits a person, it can only smash people to pieces with just one gun. Even if a war horse, which is much stronger than a human, is unbearable to get a 100-jin Franchise projectile weighing half a pound.

The light cavalry of Liu Liangzuo, who was shooting archers with a bow, was knocked over a large area on the spot. At this moment, the bird gunners and turtledog gunners behind the infantry phalanx also opened fire. A total of 4,800 bird gunners and 1,200 turtledog gunners fired at the same time. The dense sound of guns was connected into a mass, comparable to the shooting sound of the red cannons. The dense projectiles penetrated into the Liu Liangzuo's cavalry and immediately knocked down half of the cavalry of Liu Liangzuo.

"Go away!" Hu Shoujin shouted.

It is obviously a disadvantage to use the cavalry's cavalry's bow to shoot against the Nanjing New Army's firearms, but if you rush up, you will be even more disadvantaged by waving your sabre formation with a cavalry wielding a sabre to attack the spear formation. The range is not as far away as the infantry, and you dare not rush, so Hu Shoujin had no choice but to order the cavalry to evacuate beyond the range of the Nanjing New Army's firearms.

Liu Liangzuo, who was at the city behind, saw his cavalry suffer a great loss, and his mouth twitched with pain. He also knew that it was obvious that the light cavalry would suffer a loss when they fought against the infantry in the dense formation. Look at the infantry from Nanjing, they were lined up with dense formations and advanced step by step, and the formation was not messy! It seemed that it was impossible to find the opponent's flaws by cavalry harassment, so he ordered infantry to attack the formation of the new army in Nanjing.

"Xingpingbo, there are many cavalry in your army, why don't you go up to attack the rebel formation?" Liu Liangzuo turned his head and asked Gao Jie.

Gao Jie replied: "Mingfu, the rebel infantry formation is tight. If our cavalry comes out at this time, we may suffer a great loss. Let's do this. I order the 30,000 infantry under my command to follow your infantry to break the enemy's formation!"

There are quite a lot of cavalry under Xingping Bo Gaojie, with a total of 20,000 cavalry. Some of them are scattered in various parts of the Huai River. The cavalry brought over were 15,000 cavalrymen and another 30,000 infantry.

Liu Liangzuo's troops slowly advanced towards the formation of the new army in Nanjing. They received the order and waited on the spot for a while. After a while, 30,000 infantry from Gao Jie's troops also joined the formation, with a total of 80,000 infantry launching a fierce attack on Zhao Peng's troops.

The 80,000 army was huge, with a huge momentum, and it was covered with darkness all over the mountains and fields, and there was no sight at all. The infantry formation was pressing over, and the footsteps were like thunder and the war drums were rumbling, giving people a sense of oppression that would oppress the heart. When the two sides were getting closer and there were still 100 steps left, Zhao Peng ordered his infantry to stop advancing and wait for the opponent to hit his formation.
Chapter completed!