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Chapter 531 Who is the ups and downs (4)

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The enemy's cannons in the distance were still ringing like thunder. Zhu Gaoxu shouted, turned around and passed by a burnt ruin of the village; after a while, he led a group of soldiers to the north hillside.

The only thing left on the hillside is burnt and vegetation ash.

Two or three hundred steps away is the enemy formation!

The dust rolled in the air, and the smoke filled the distance.

Amid the huge roar, the cannons in the enemy's war shone and were particularly dazzling, the firearms in the smoke flashed, and the arrows in the sky were like swarms of locusts.

It was clearly sunny, but the sky above the enemy formation in the north seemed to be covered with clouds.

The smoke was too strong, and Zhu Gaoxu could not fully see the battle on the front line; but within his sight, he could also see the scene of the Han King cavalry turning on his horse and more than 200 steps away, which was very tragic.

You can also hear the neighing of horses, the crying and screaming of people, and the desperate and miserable shouts!

Only the most loyal and brave soldiers can do this.Zhu Gaoxu stared at his eyes and said with heartache.

But he let the most loyal and brave soldiers die in front of him!He could only hope that they would not die in vain and that they would have value.

Zhu Gaoxu's left hand tightly clenched the handle of the waist and the right hand clenched into a fist, his heart was nervous and his emotions surged.

The cruel battlefield aroused his memory, and the scenes of the losers in his mind being killed by the clan were uncontrollable from time to time.

But he understood that too much feeling at this time was useless!

Reason reminds him that he must face everything calmly, make correct judgments, and make correct decisions!

There is no pity, no sympathy, no heartache and weakness...

Zhu Gaoxu looked back and forth. The nearby Han King cannons were already being arranged and set up. The artillery guards were digging and slapping sand and soil in sacks around a door with a triangular red flag.

There is also a hillside on the left, and the artillery on the other side has also been pulled uphill.

There are more than forty Han King cannons, such cannons are the only ones in the world at this time.

On the hillside behind, there were loud whips and donkeys, and soldiers were pushing behind donkey carts.

Each donkey cart is equipped with a triangular red flag, and the number is also written on it... because the size of the shells used for each Han King cannon is different.

Each cannon only has a donkey cart iron bullet, and it is gone after it is shot. It can only be asked to ask craftsmen to re-cast and screen them in the big city.

All Han Wang cannons were deployed in two gentle slopes; each cannon array was divided into two rows in front and back.

The space between the cannons is very large, so as to avoid being hit by heavy artillery by the government army.

This place is completely within the range of the official military artillery!

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the battlefield for a while, thought for a moment with a serious expression, and suddenly turned around and shouted: Beat the drum!Facing the east side, shaking the Han King's flag, three left and two right.Send someone to send peace and attack immediately!

Get order!

Dongdongdongdongdong... The drum sounds sounded, but amid the huge cannons and noises, the drum sounds seemed to have little momentum.

After a while, Zhu Gaoxu turned to the right and saw the Ping'an military flag on the back of the right beginning to move forward.

There was a big man under the army who looked here and couldn't see his face clearly, but he seemed to be safe when he looked at him.

Zhu Gaoxu also faced there and nodded his head vigorously, not knowing if he could see it in the distance.

He thought to himself: I trust Ping An so much, you must not make any mistakes in a critical battle!

The sound of horse hooves gradually roared, and the huge movement seemed to be endless thunder in the sky.

Zhu Gaoxu looked east, and there was smoke and dust everywhere. He could not see the east end of the horses, as if the entire land was covered with cavalry!

The total strength of the cavalry troops under Ping'an was about 20,000 cavalry.The cavalry occupied much larger space than the infantry. The 20,000 horse troops were dispatched, which was simply boundless.

The horse army in front had begun to jog one after another, looking like the fields and countless animals were migrating when a storm came.

Huguang is not suitable for cavalry combat; the terrain on the entire land is relatively complex, and fields, ditches, villages and ponds are not conducive to cavalry charges.

Therefore, most of the time the horse team is jogging and will only launch a short-distance charge when necessary.

But no matter what, the horse army's tactical mobilization on the battlefield will always be faster than the infantry and military camps!

The grand horse herd to the east, like a torrent, gradually spreading northward.

From the distance to the northeast, a roar was also faintly heard.

Zhu Gaoxu looked out and saw the movement of the horses in the distance in the north when the smoke and dust were thin.

The main force of the official army's large cavalry was also dispatched!

With such a wide and crowded battlefield, the arrangement of the army is indeed difficult to hide.The official army should have explored the location of the Ping'an Cavalry in advance, so a large number of cavalry teams were transferred to the east to reinforce.

At this moment, around the hillside where Zhu Gaoxu was located, he was gradually filled with tide-like infantry formations.Countless large and small military flags fluttered in the wind, and the waves of the sea of ​​infantry began to cross the position of the artillery array.

Several infantry and hundred households formed a large square formation, and each unit generally maintained a line and order to move forward.

However, due to terrain restrictions, some square arrays that walked to both sides of the cannon formation hillside were forced to temporarily become longer and narrower columns; after passing through the hillsides on both sides of the east and west, those square arrays returned to their position.

In this situation, the infantry formation of the right wing army is as grand as the ocean.The entire army was divided into two front and back quadratic formations, and there were some quadratic formations of the Power and Braves behind them, all of which were moving forward!

The right-wing offensive did not fight repeatedly, and did not advance or retreat!

Before the battle, Zhu Gaoxu believed that the right wing had a greater chance of winning, so he suppressed all the troops at the beginning and mobilized all the Han King cannons here; when it was time to rush, he must not be lenient!

Knights rushed up one after another to report military information.

Chen Dachui, the military general of the Northern Division, now also commands Zhu Gaoxu's personal military general, Chen Dachui and several civil officials are talking to the scouts who have come one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu ignored the ordinary military situation. He was staring at the scene on the battlefield with concentration.

The big brown horse sitting down seemed a little anxious amid the huge roar, and its hooves kept paced in place.

Zhu Gaoxu's body was slowly shaking with the horse's back, but he was very quiet, with a calm expression and breathing evenly, trying to get rid of distracting thoughts.

So far, no unexpected mistakes have occurred on the battlefield, and Zhu Gaoxu's mentality is very stable.He also secretly prepared himself, and even if there is a mistake, he cannot panic and anxiety.

He calmly watched the changes in the right-wing battlefield, observed the distance between the infantry and the official army formation, and was thinking about the time for infantry and cavalry to march everywhere.

Bang!A stone bullet suddenly hit more than ten steps away, and a horse neighed from the left.But Zhu Gaoxu didn't look back and ignored him.Chen Dachui said in his voice: Be careful, you are very dangerous here!

Zhu Gaoxu did not respond, his eyes still watched from the distance between the horse army and the infantry artillery array nearby.I kept thinking and thinking in my mind.

A voice said: Report to Prince, the King of Han is ready!

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and nodded.He waited for a while and shouted: Give an order, prepare to bombard the enemy's formation!

Get order!

The generals on the cannon formation shouted and beat the drums again, and shouts came from the hillside on the left.

Not long after, there was a loud bang!Zhu Gaoxu, who was on the hillside, only felt a flash in front of his eyes. His eyes blinked, and the horse under him was frightened and ran forward.

There were several horse neighing sounds coming from around, and white smoke rolled on the hillside. Some horses rushed down the hillside indiscriminately, and people shouted and scolded from the hillside.

The Ming army's war horses were trained in gunfire and cannon sound, but the sound of cannons near me was too big, and the hillside seemed to shake!

The horses were probably not careful all of a sudden, and several war horses were frightened.

Wait!Soo... Zhu Gaoxu pulled the horse and stroked the horse's neck to comfort her.

His horse was very human, and he stopped quickly, hissed and screamed.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't see the effect of the shot just now.The smoke in the air was also very large, and it was estimated that only the gunner in front of the artillery array could see it.A moment later, a huge cannon sound came from the hillside on the left.

A stream of white smoke rose from there, and Zhu Gaoxu heard the howling sound in the air!

The enemy formation in the distance kept firing artillery and firing guns, and gun smoke and dust fog spread.

But after a moment, Zhu Gaoxu still saw a turbulent formation in the middle of the wide enemy formation, and the crowds between dozens of steps in depth were in chaos.

It even seemed like I could hear a scream.

Zhu Gaoxu was secretly happy!

Through his observation of the artillery test on the school ground, he had long expected that the low-level bouncing of the Han King cannon shells was far more lethal to the infantry phalanx than the Hongwu cannon that fired dozens of kilograms of shells into the air. He saw that it was indeed true!

On the hillside not far ahead, the remaining twenty Han King cannons began to adjust the height.A bigger situation is about to appear!

The artillery of the Han Wangjun also does not have a calculation tool. It mainly relies on the observation of the gunner to adjust the orientation, and the accuracy is also relatively poor; but the deviation is not too outrageous. What accuracy is needed to hit the dense arrays on the opposite side?

Just because the shells don’t float too far, they can hit a rough position and they will definitely hit someone!

The artillery array is only two or three hundred steps away from the official army formation; but the place where the artillery bombards is not in front of the enemy formation, but in the depth behind it!

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu has not issued a military order to withdraw Wang Bin's troops so far; at present, Wang Bin's cavalry is still attacking the front of the enemy's formation from time to time with columns.

Zhu Gaoxu could not only consider the length of time that Wang Bin's troops would have more dead cavalry, he forced himself to think about the chances of victory.He thought to himself: After the King of Han fired a round of cannons, he ordered Wang Bin to withdraw his troops!

Beware!A general in the cannon formation turned his head and shouted, then raised his knife high.

Zhu Gaoxu stared at the large square formation in the north and waited quietly.