Unlike the real and real Qing army, the position where the Ming army was located was almost completely in the frozen land area of ​​the swamp area. The ground was relatively flat, and a few commanding heights were far lower than that of the United States. The villages that could hide their troops were burned down. The Ming army also focused on defense, so they could only set up large formations and unfolded in front of the army.

Huguang and the regiment training regiment were mainly soldiers and horses under Hong Chengchou, with more than 100,000, and there were particularly many light and heavy artillery. The Northern Xunzhen Group was mainly the former Green Camp soldiers in Zhejiang. They were awarded titles in Nanjing, but their fiefs were all enthroned in Lianghuai and Central Plains provinces. Therefore, they were named by the Commander-in-Chief. In addition to the former Green Camp, these so-called ministers also gathered a large number of local garrisons in Lianghuai and Shandong and other places. The regiment training, regardless of whether they were elite or not, all were brought to the battlefield and placed in front of the formation.

Overall, the Qing army was more elite, and the reserves were hidden, taking the initiative in the attack of the Ming and Qing armies. The Ming army opened its defensive posture from the beginning, spreading its heavy formations on the front line, controlling the vast battlefield, and the infantry formations were stacked layer by layer, giving full play to its advantage in force, with a large depth, and laying out simple fortifications such as fences, chest walls, artillery bases, etc. overnight, concentrating the cavalry behind the side of the formation, with a typical defensive posture.

The sky was already bright, and Li Mingxun adjusted his deployment slightly, dispatched the frontier foreign vassal corps to the right wing, allowing a mixed brigade to fill the gap between the central army and the left wing, and dispatched a division of the Guards in the rear to the junction of the right wing and the central army to prevent the right wing from being squeezed and retreated or even collapsed. Shortly after the military order was issued, the frontier observation and the right wing command reported the joy of the battlefield respectively.

According to the frontier observation report, the Qing army dispatched the Coat Army and Shandong regiment training to strengthen the new army in the Central Plains, while the Green Camp in the Northwest continued to extend the front to the northeast and expand the attack surface.

The right-wing command judged that the Qing army would launch an attack and achieve the goal of attacking the right wing side by stretching the front line. Gao Feng's countermeasures were not to dispatch the two army divisions hidden behind the side, but to take the initiative to start a war, disrupt the Qing army's offensive rhythm and save the reserve team.

Leonardo Lee said to the contact staff of the right wing command less than a minute, “The right wing has been handed over to Gao Feng, and he is fully responsible, but when you go back, tell him that I can only provide him with a brigade reserve team at most, and he must stick to the right wing until the end of the battle.”

Contact the staff and turned around and left.

In less than half an hour, the right wing had already begun to operate. Li Mingxun walked out of the war room and came to the observation deck with a wide viewing field. This was also the area where the observation groups of various countries were located. The people here were all observation envoys or representatives sent by various countries. They were dressed gorgeously and were lamenting the huge scale of the national destiny war. They also discovered that the right wing had some abnormal movements and set up a telescope to look at it.

The front of the right wing is the Oriental Legion of the United States, which is divided into two parts: North Korea and Japan. The North Korean part is mainly open flame army, and there are also some Korean camps recruited in Jeju. The Japanese army is mainly composed of three guns, mercenaries and southwestern Daimai reinforcements. The Oriental Legion is commanded by Kagoda Bingei. However, in the summer and autumn of last year, this legion was reorganized again.

The reorganization changed the army organization with the lord as the core in the legion, but was unified into division and battalion organization, using the army's inventory of the melee, spear and armor. The basic unit of the Eastern Legion is the battalion, imitating the European square formation, with five hundred people in the first battalion, five rows of arrays, and the armored spearmen and the melee gunners adopt a two-to-three configuration. Two hundred spearmen list a 5x40 square formation in the center, and the musketeers are arranged on both sides, so that they can fully exert firepower and flexibly adjust the array to prevent cavalry assaults.

Four battalions were organized into one regiment, four regiments were organized into one division, and the entire Eastern Legion had five divisions. The battalions of each regiment were arranged in front two and two back two, forming two lines of defense, which was considered to be in depth. Four divisions were in front and one division was the reserve team, and a line of more than fourteen miles was drawn. At the far end of the front were reinforcements provided by the British East India Company and the Governor of Goa, Portugal. Although they were all battalion-level units, the number was about two thousand. These troops arrived late and did not have time to reorganize and train, and still used their own weapons and formed a classical large array according to combat habits, which could be protected at the end of the right wing.

The Central Plains New Army and the Northwest Green Camp, which were against the Eastern Legion, were completely different. The Northwest Green Camp was still the habit of following the wind by the generals. The generals, deputy generals and sect generals led their troops. After adjustment, most of them were about 5,000 people in a large square formation, mixed with musketeers, archers, spearmen and ordinary cold weapon soldiers, but most of the cavalry had been concentrated, and the large square formation itself was deep, divided into three battalions in the front, middle and back.

The new army of the Central Plains is very well-organized. It uses a square array commonly used when fighting against the army line infantry. Like the Eastern Legion, it has a mixed armored spearmen and musketeers, but its array is thicker, with nine rows of arrays, the first three rows of spearmen, and the back six rows of musketeers, using a three-stage attack tactic of two rows, which is simple and practical, but it uses an offensive posture, and has changed to the spearmen behind and musketeers in front. The Qing army already has the advantage of military strength, so it uses a two-layer square array, which still stands out to the northeast, but the Qing army is still not satisfied. It constantly stretches the front line to the northeast, and dispatches the assembled firearm regiments and coated soldiers to the northeast.

As Gao Feng said, once the enemy was fully deployed, after the attack, the end of its left wing would advance in a column and appear on the right side of the army's right wing. After turning around, there would be a favorable situation of side attack. However, the Qing army's array was too thick, the unit size was too large, and the quality of soldiers was not high, especially the coat of arms and regiments who were transferring positions were in chaos, like flocks of sheep. When they set off their positions and prepare for the attack, it was probably noon.

"Go to do it, we have received the order!" In the command center of the left and right wings, Wu Xing and Gao Feng issued orders almost at the same time, but in terms of specific arrangements, the two were different.

The military command ordered the twelve-pound field cannons assigned to the army, whether they are assigned to each division or independent artillery units, to be dispatched from the front to carry out firepower preparations, aiming at several important support points of Huguang, the regiment training regiment and the Northern Xunzhen Legion. After the firepower preparations, the line infantry of the four brigades of the front line launched the first wave of attacks, and the cavalry supported on the flanks, first captured the front support points of the Ming army, destroyed artillery bases, fences and other facilities, and then invested in the main force of the large corps, and made a concerted effort to break through the Ming army's formation.

The right wing commanded by Gao Feng was originally defensive, but it took the lead in provoking the war. The method was very simple. The independent artillery units were supported forward, penetrated into the gap between the Eastern Legion's phalanx, and then deployed rockets to the front. The supported artillery units were already deployed before the order was issued. After obtaining permission from the commander, Gao Feng ordered the Rocket Battalion and the Engineer Regiment to deploy rockets to the front to attack the Qing army's formation.

As the order was issued, more than 30 baggage transport vehicles advanced from the rear, passed through the gap between the various arrays, and entered the frontier. The layout locations were all selected, the ground was flat and there were few ups and downs, which facilitated the entry of vehicles and horses. The rockets used were not heavy rockets from the Army, but light rockets.

This type of rocket does not need to rely on professional launch vehicles and launch slots. It only requires a tripod. It can be launched by igniting it. Its range is similar to that of heavy rockets, but it has a smaller power and does not have so many types of bullets. It is very convenient. This portable rocket is not without its shortcomings. First of all, it only comes to the tripod, making its accuracy very low. Secondly, this type of rocket has very low safety. After all, there is no standard storage launch box like the Army, so it cannot be produced and used on a large scale, and can only be temporarily filled with gunpowder. Rockets assembled on the spot have various problems, different power, different range, and even the success rate is difficult to grasp. Therefore, it is mostly used for harassment warfare or positional warfare. This type of rocket has a lot of experience in the Qingzhou camp.

The carriage transported the launcher and the rockets to the designated location. The launcher carefully opened the box containing the rockets and carried the rockets weighing 50 kilograms out of the grass balls and cotton wool. He did not dare to put them on the ground, waiting for other companions to develop the launch frame before placing them.

Li Mingxun was very familiar with this process, but in the telescope, he saw that on a launching position aimed at the new army in the Central Plains, the soldiers were carelessly carrying rockets, and some of them even fell to the ground. The tripods arranged did not have more than five meters apart as stipulated by the Jiaotong Department. He knew that there was something wrong with this. Li Mingxun smiled and said, "This guy Gao Feng is a real and false. He set up thousands of them at once, wouldn't he scare the Qing army on the opposite side to death?"

As Li Mingxun guessed, only two hundred of these thousand rockets were real, and the rest were fake. They were made with bamboo wood and painted black with asphalt. The purpose was to force the Qing army to send troops to destroy these rockets.

Sure enough, as the right wing arranged a large number of rockets to the front, the Qing army immediately responded. Four cavalrymen rushed out from the Northwest Green Camp legion and rushed towards the rocket's launch position. Behind them were four large infantry formations, thinking that they would succeed, and this was just in the face of the high front.

In fact, Gao Feng was able to play with this method of using fake rockets to dispatch the enemy and disrupt the enemy's offensive rhythm. The main reason was that there was a problem with the arrangement of the coalition forces in the Ming and Qing dynasties. From the beginning, the coalition forces seized the No. 4 Highland, and spread large groups of troops from east to west, with the offensive and defensive postures clear at a glance. There is nothing wrong with this book, but the mistake is that the frontal distance between the two sides is too far, exceeding two thousand meters, and some places, such as the wide right wing, even reached 2,500 meters.

This arrangement is beyond the conventional state. If the two sides had a distance of 600 to 800 meters in the Ming and Qing War, the distance between the fronts of the two sides was only 600 to 800 meters, restricting the cavalry from maneuvering in the center. In the Sino-Qing War, because the long-range firepower of the United States Army, especially the twelve-pound field artillery, which could maneuver with the army, joined the front more than 1,000 meters. Only in this way can we avoid being bombarded when the formation was assembled. However, since the Qing army witnessed the ultra-long range and super lethality of the rockets of the United States, this decisive battle keenly opened the front to more than 2,000 meters.

In fact, this is completely unnecessary and extremely wrong. Rockets are not cannons and cannot be used in infantry arrays. Even if a high front is deployed forward, it is more than 100 meters away from the front to ensure the safety of the infantry phalanx. In field battles, it is impossible to place the rockets on their own infantry fronts and launch them. If so, it is not the enemy army that is defeated, but the friendly army.

In fact, rockets are weapons for siege, not field weapons at all. If the Qing army had not pulled the distance too wide, the high front would not have people use such weapons. In fact, according to the army's exercise experience, even if the opponent had rockets, the frontline only needed to be about 800 meters away from the enemy. In such a space, if the enemy set up rockets on the frontline, the long-range volleys of the infantry and the cannon shooting of cannons will interrupt the enemy's rocket soldiers. Even if the enemy arranged rockets behind the infantry and then retreated, the line infantry could also use the "fast step" charge footwork method, charge at a speed of 80 meters per minute, and directly take advantage of the enemy's retreat to destroy the enemy's infantry phalanx.

The stupidest thing is the current response method of the Qing army. For safety, they took great strides to widen the distance. Once the rockets were used on the opposite side, the stupid infantry formation would not have time to react to stop it, and the artillery could not reach it. The cavalry could only stop it. The cavalry could only use dense arrays to rush to the army formation that was ready to fight and strengthened its firepower.

Do not invite the upright flag or attack the dignified formation. This is the iron law of military strategy. The Qing army did not understand it, but it was even more difficult for them to accept the ending of thousands of rockets covering the frontier infantry formation, which may directly lead to the collapse of the two heavy army groups.

At least twelve artillery companies were stuffed into the gap between the various formations of the Eastern Legion. These twelve artillery companies did not belong to the Fourth Army, but were temporarily dispatched and strengthened. The temporary artillery regiments were formed. There were three heavy artillery companies in the twelve companies, all of which were six twelve-pound cannons and two 510-kilogram and 6-caliber heavy howitzers, four light artillery companies, six six-pound cannons and two 210-kilogram and 4.6-caliber light howitzers. The rest were flying cavalry cannon companies, with four-pound cannons and light howitzers as standard.

With the huge impact of the Qing army's cavalry, the rocket launching positions were already in chaos. Because the Qing army's reaction was very fast, some real and fake rockets were not arranged, while some ran away without the ignition man. Some did not aim seriously, and they ignited the fire man at will and left the launching positions.
Chapter completed!