The gunshots mean that the scout was discovered, and the news would soon reach the enemy's ears on the West Bank. Fortunately, at this moment, Yuan Zizhang's troops had advanced ten miles to the enemy camp.

He was afraid that the enemy would turn back and attack, and he expected the enemy to escape. As long as the French army began to retreat, even if they found a way to restrain the Beiyang army, they would fall behind in the speed of the march and be annihilated by the haunting and pursuit that was constantly eroded.

Because in the early morning of the French army's pursuit of Kanggulu on the East Coast, Yuan Zizhang discovered that the simple and efficient line-arrangement tactics of the Beiyang Banner Army had terrible disadvantages, and this disadvantage was likely to be wiped out in the battle against well-equipped enemy troops: their sweeping momentum was built under the iron law of equality of all beings under the bird gun.

But last night, in order to prevent the heavy bow shooting of the plate armored iron pagoda, Billon found a way to defend himself.

He asked the knights to chase him, and dismounted the horse when he was about to cross the bridge, mixed with the small infantry phalanx to become a pedestrian knight, and everyone rushed into the front line with short troops and large shields.

If it weren't for the Liumen Zhenshuo's artillery at the bridgehead position, his assault would have been successful.

At mid-close distance, the bird gun wheel shooting can pose a sufficient threat to the knights wearing plate armor, but if these knights lift their shields, the threat distance of the bird gun will become extremely close. As long as the knight is close to such a distance, even if it is equipped with a gun, it will be difficult for the flag army to kill the knights and heavy infantry.

The guns and spears exist to threaten and kill war horses and light infantry, rather than dealing with knights.

This tactic has been spent on Biron. The knights are likely to be killed by muskets during close combat. At least 200 knights are invested in such a battle. If they fail, the cost will be extremely high.

But for Yuan Zizhang, his emphasis on the flag army under his command far exceeds that of Billon's attention to the knights.

In other words, the Beiyang Banner Army, the leader of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, was no less important than the nobles on this land valued the knights.

They exercise almost the same functions on the battlefield. The best troops can form a one-sided massacre of the lowest enemy. Then it is obviously a wise decision to use the best troops on their own side to fight against the best troops in the enemy.

But the sky did not follow the wishes of others. The Beiyang Banner Army advanced rapidly. The Jurchen scouts who should have retreated slowly were defeated in a complete situation and fled in scattered manner. The scouts from all walks of life were frightened by the continuous gunfire sounds. The fleeing soldiers summarized the intelligence of multiple parties, which allowed Yuan Zizhang and Wang Youlin to establish a little vague consciousness about the situation of the battle between the two sides.

The scout touched the edge of a French marching team. He originally thought he was dealing with several scattered musketeers, but after the sneak attack failed, the musketeers immediately fought back. After the main force was frightened, he sent light cavalry and knight teams to pursue them all the way. The scattered scattered chariots who were difficult to form a military formation could not be stopped. More than ten people were killed on the spot, and more people were frightened by the subsequent massive advance and conquered.

The scattered soldiers fought, and the relatively simple equipment of Baishan Camp archers and the French French Knights were obviously the two most unbalanced combat forces.

At this point, Yuan Zizhang no longer continued to march. Liu Wang Youlin's troops gathered the scattered Jurchen step archers. While sending riders to gallop to the west high ground with a telescope to observe the enemy situation, he led his troops to quickly maneuver to favorable terrain.

When Yuan Zizhang led his troops to the high ground, Li Dai, a hundred households who led the horse army to the forefront, had already discovered the enemy situation: "At least two enemy troops three or four miles away were approaching each other, infantry were wearing armor and distributing weapons, and four teams of cavalry were scattered on both wings... There were many idle people behind their formation, and it seemed that the baggage had arrived, and it might be nearby merchants."

Li Dai said that a scout with a telescope stuck around his waist came forward to report: "A group of more than ten enemy troops gathered the defeated army to the east, and the charge was blocked by the tiger's squatting cannon."

Yuan Zizhang did not know that the enemy troops in the West Bank had changed their generals in the last battle. The supreme commander was replaced by Earl Charles to Marshal Matiweng, who was familiar with Chen Jiujing's defense. However, he could feel that the morale of the enemy troops who were besieged two days ago and did not dare to go down the mountain to get food. He led a few hundred households to a hill suitable for observation and looked at the enemy's formation and said, "The morale of the enemy troops who received the baggage is strong, it seems that they are in the array."

Two more cannons came from afar. Yuan Zizhang was not worried about Wang Youlin's four hundred flag army. A group of cavalry wanted to take advantage of his opportunity to gather the defeated army to attack them, but he tasted a lot of pain. At this moment, he had already saved the lives and healed the wounded and retreated to the infantry formation.

What it feels like to be covered in face by three tigers on the way to charge? The war horses lying on the ground full of blood holes are the most clear.

This kind of cannon with its own nail frame is quickly carried by infantry and runs all over the ground. It is probably accustomed to have a powerful knight master still remembers it for more than ten years after being sprayed.

Yuan Zizhang, who carefully looked at the enemy's formation several times, finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then he turned his head solemnly to several subordinates and said, "Although there are female relatives who don't look like a baggage team, they did transport two small Franchise cannons without wheels, and look at the size of the whole son and the eldest son's five hundred steps."

After saying that, Yuan Zizhang said with confidence: "After they line up, they will focus on protecting the two cannons. We do not have that far, only twelve Divine Power Arrows can hit that far, so we must take the initiative."

In fact, it is already very interesting that Yuan Zizhang cannons that were two Franco cannons, and the caliber is basically impossible to accurately describe the caliber, so he simply goes to the point.

He was transferred to the East and the Second War in Mingxi had ended, so he did not know that the Spanish caravans were following the troops to participate in the war in a mess. The inertial thinking of the Ming Dynasty also made him not think that serious businessmen could sell artillery.

The baggage team that appeared behind the Matien army was a group of merchants, providing supplies to the French army in this battle, and borrowing two Franco cannons and two barrels of gunpowder, the price was one-tenth of the spoils after the victory.

Perhaps this should not be called a general sale, but an investment.

Ever since I heard that the war in the south of Povadir was blocked, the caravan has come all the way from Western ports with artillery and food. Nothing is easier to make people rich than making a fortune in the war. If you win, you will naturally be happy. If you lose, you will not only lose all your money, but you may also lose your life.

At this moment, the spear and armor placed on the chariot were hung by legion soldiers. The soldiers mainly hired mercenaries in Switzerland, Germany, and France, and recruited soldiers were arranged in two square formations according to the pre-war plan. The reorganized light cavalry partly guarded the two vehicles carrying Fran's cannons in front of the formation, and some were lined up on both wings. The knights with both men and horse armor gathered in the rear formation of the central army, slowly pressing towards the Ming army, and stopped two miles apart.
Chapter completed!