"The only battle?"

Yang Feng looked at Feng Menglong with contempt...

"I'm very curious, what are you going to fight me? Officials and gentry with their own ulterior motives? Generals who just want to make money? Or those soldiers who are about to collapse at a moment's notice? Are you shouting here that you can only fight. Do Gu Tianye and Qian Longxi agree? Are you willing to fight with me for the Danyang gentry? Are those gentry behind you also willing to let you bring disaster to yourself on impulse?"

He said.

Feng Menglong was silent.

He is just an aide.

At this time, the command of the Changsheng Army was Gu Tianxia, ​​a Hanlin who fled back from the capital.

From Kunshan, Tanhua in the 20th year of Wanli, grandfather was still the top scholar in the Hongzhi period. It can be said that he has a strong and beautiful generation of talents.

In fact, there are many officials who have fled from the north this year. After all, they are boring in the north, and it is impossible to make money. They rely on that fixed salary, and they are not even free enough to go out. Life is almost fading out. Not only in the capital, but also in the southerners who are officials in other places in the north, there are still people who can't stand the abandonment of their official positions and return...

The Red Turban Army in the capital will not let the Beijing officials make money. Will the gentry in the north allow the southern local officials to make money on their territory?

That's their money.

Although it belongs to local people, it is theirs in the final analysis.

However, the gentry in the south did not dare to treat northerners who were officials in the south like this.

After all, under the current situation, it is important for the northern gentry to continue to watch the wall, so Liu Yuanlin, who was residing in Qiuji in the Northern Zhili, was still the governor of Jiangnan Daying and the governor of Yingtian.

Gu Tianxiao himself has zero military capabilities, and he is just respectful of his identity. Therefore, the actual matter of the Changsheng Army is that his staff is responsible for the charges. Qian Longxi from Songjiang, Chen Renxi from Suzhou, Wu Zongda from Yixing, etc. are all young and strong sects among the scholars of Su Song Chang's three prefectures. Feng Menglong is just one of them, and he is an ordinary aide. As the main aides around Gu Tianxiao, Qian Longxi and Chen Renxi, who are mainly determined by the Changsheng Army.

And those Portuguese mercenaries were Qian Longxi hired through the missionaries in Songjiang...

In fact, at this time, because the Ming Dynasty had been divided into some sense, power was more turned to local areas, and war stimulated the pursuit of new technologies in various places, so the missionaries were delighted to face the open Ming Dynasty, and the coastal provinces no longer restricted their entry.

Of course, they have to bring good things.

New weapons, mercenaries, craftsmen who know how to make arms...

Anyone who brings these things will quickly become a guest of honor for the gentry, and then be allowed to live and even build churches everywhere.

This is also the reason why military forces in various places are advancing by leaps and bounds.

Currently in Songjiang is the boss of these missionaries, Fan Li'an, the head of the Holy See in the East. He went north to Japan at this time in history, but now the Ming Dynasty is more important than Japan. He went north from Macau and personally presided over the affairs in Songjiang. He brought one hundred mercenaries from Macau and even three hundred sets of half-body armor, which should have been brought from the Spanish in Luzon. The gentry of Songjiang is trying to imitate these half-body armors.

This is obviously better than the Ming version of the plate armor.

He was accepted by the gentry of Songjiang because of this. Xu Guangqi and Qian Longxi were closely related to him. Although he believed that he had not yet, he was indeed allowed to live in Shanghai. This small county town is also rising due to overseas trade.

Of course, like Matteo Ricci, he dressed himself up as a Confucian scholar, even studied the Four Books and Five Classics, and wrote poems against Confucian scholars, and even claimed to have become a Taoist.

This was the first group of missionaries.

They used the practical knowledge brought by Europe to gain the respect of the gentry. The gentry of the Ming Dynasty was open to accepting new knowledge. At the same time, they used bribes to obtain permission from local officials. In Guangdong, they bribed the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Chen Rui, a thousand gold coins, many self-tone bells, glass mirrors, and so on at one time. Then they dressed themselves up as Western scholars who exchanged knowledge and relied on knowledge to enter the social circle of the gentry. However, their own behavior was actually absolutely beyond the red line of the Holy See.

In Europe, it must be stolen.

So after Long Huamin replaced Matteo Ricci, he immediately began to purgate.

Then……

He was purged by the Ming Dynasty.

"You learned some basic knowledge from the Portuguese and thought you were able to deal with me? Then today I will let you see what is the most important thing on the battlefield."

Yang Feng said.

Then he looked at Feng Shan beside him...

"attack!"

He said.

The latter immediately issued an order to attack.

Feng Menglong looked nervously at the distance. Here they were a slightly raised mound, overlooking the two armies that were lined up.

With the orders issued here, the field guns immediately spit out flames in front of the formation of the Jing camp, and the shells then splashed out mud in front of the formation of the Changsheng Army. Some shells directly entered the formation. The huge kinetic energy allowed these shells to easily knock down a string. The soldiers of the Changsheng Army, who had been in line for many days, were immediately panicked, and some people were instinctively turning around, but at this time they saw the benefits of this formation. Occasionally, a few people who tried to escape were useless.

They can't even squeeze out.

The brave are not allowed to advance alone, and the cowardly are not allowed to retreat alone.

At the same time, the field artillery in front of the Changsheng Army also targeted the Beijing camp and opened fire.

However, because the gunners' level is relatively poor, their number of cannons is slightly larger, but their number of hits is much smaller.

Of course, it also has to do with the difference in formation.

The Eternal Victory Army is a large square formation, with the spearman as the core, which is a huge square. Even if the shells are slightly higher, they will fall among the soldiers behind. Especially the Eternal Victory Army is still the old-fashioned three thousand-man large square formation. At this time, there should not be so many people in the Spanish square formation. The Spanish square formation is not unchanged. This infantry square formation that has been rampant for nearly a century has been constantly improving. In the later stage, basically one square formation is about one thousand people.

This should be related to the Portuguese they hired that they had not returned to Europe for many years.

The spearman in the core is just a huge block with a length of more than fifty meters. Compared with a line, it goes without saying that one is easier to be hit.

Moreover, the Jing camp is in the depths of six soldiers.

Even if you are hit, it is difficult to cause too many casualties. After all, there are only six people. One shell cannot be accurate enough to kill them all, right?

But the spearman of the ever-winning army is as deep as twenty-seven people.

The artillery fire between the two sides continued, but the ever-winning army obviously could not withstand this pure battle of will. More and more soldiers tried to escape. The Beijing camp still remained unmoved by the attack of shells. Even with Feng Menglong's military knowledge, he knew that the gap between the two armies was very big.

Of course, the Portuguese mercenaries who actually commanded the ever-winning army on the opposite side were more clear.

Immediately afterwards, the Central Army flag was waving, and the cavalry guarded on both wings attacked.

But the Jingying side still remained unmoved.

Two thousand cavalry under the General Office of Wusong Town rushed straight to the Beijing camp. Like the previous cavalry of Langshan Town, they first chose to attack the infantry...

After all, the infantry in the Beijing camp looked very good.

The cavalry in Beijing still did not move, but just watched silently on both wings.

The Wusong Town cavalry who rushed towards the infantry dropped dead bodies in the shooting of shotguns and bullets, and finally rushed to the front of the infantry in the Jing camp. However, these guys who were not honest at all hid behind the spearmen as quickly as possible. The Wusong Town cavalry could not hit the dense forest of the spears, so they had to rush to the main formation behind, and then continued to drop dead bodies in the crossfire of the mezzanine. However, when they rushed to the main formation, the musketeers here quickly hid behind the spearmen, just like the ones in front.

The cavalry continued to move forward.

They had to shrink into a line of spears on both sides of the left and right sides, and rushed through the line at the original position of the musketeer.

However……

There are still musketeers behind!

The Wusong Town cavalry on the horse turned around without hesitation.

They could not see any hope of rushing away, because the musketeers behind them were cavalry.

They were now in the clamping of left and right spear forests, facing the clamping of musketeers in front and the clamping of flanking musketeers, and they had to be forced to pass through a narrow gap, which was not enough for three cavalry to pass side by side.

There are still dense muskets on the opposite side.

withdraw!

If you don't retreat, you will be a fool.

But at this moment, the cavalry camp on both wings rushed towards them who were retreating.

As soon as the galloping war horses were running, the cavalry of the Beijing camp lined up in a formation that did not need to control the horses, with a short spear and a cavalry sword in one hand. In the horrified eyes of the cavalry of Wusong Town, they rushed to a distance that could almost see the whites of their eyes. Then they directly shot them in the face. After firing the bullet, they held the cavalry sword and leaned forward, and the whole person turned into a spear and crashed into them...

"Are you using such soldiers to deal with me?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

The Wusong Town cavalry on the battlefield had been driven away by ducks.

These cavalry actually had short guns, but they did not have the courage to rush to fire. Facing those fierce cavalrymen in Beijing who were completely dead, the only thing they could do was to escape at full speed.

What else could Feng Menglong say? He could only watch silently there, but fortunately, the main formation of the Changsheng Army had not collapsed yet.

However……

"Infantry Attack!"

Yang Feng said.

Feng Shan immediately issued an order to attack the infantry.

The infantry that had just completed the reorganization immediately began to move forward. All the spearmen held their spears up with their hands, like a moving forest, while the musketeers carried their meskeletal guns. The two spear arrays that were originally protruding in front returned to the main formation, and finally formed a huge line across the battlefield. Everyone walked neatly and continued to advance towards the enemy on the opposite side.

The cannon opposite is firing.

The shells kept falling from them.

There were even shells directly hitting them and breaking through the formation.

But amid the sound of war drums, all the soldiers still moved forward silently, as if they were a group of machinery. As the distance was closer, the opponent's musketeers joined the fire and the bullets continued to fall among them. However, the line still moved forward silently against shells and bullets on the battlefield.

"This is the real soldier!"

Yang Feng said proudly.

However, the performance of the Changsheng Army also surprised him a little. Although the soldiers were panicked and fled, most of them could still persist. Even the musketeers were able to fire against the Beijing soldiers in front of them. Although this should be mainly because the soldiers in the Beijing soldiers did not shoot. The performance of the Changsheng Army was worthy of the money spent by the Jiangnan gentry in the past few months, but their shooting was useless. It was a miracle that the tugging rope gun could hit people a hundred meters away.

However, after those cannons were replaced with shotguns, they did cause certain casualties to the Beijing Camp.
To be continued...