After passing the dangerous area and already less than twenty miles away from Dafang City, Huang Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the army was still marching cautiously. Li Yue's musket battalion was in the front, flanked by mountain battalions that were farther away and operating in the mountains and forests. In the rear were two battalions led by Huang Li, carrying a large number of rocket launchers.

At this moment, the troops in the front stopped advancing, and the sentinel came to report that more than a thousand enemy cavalry were coming and seemed to be about to fight with the forward.

"More than a thousand cavalry?" Huang Li pondered for a moment, then ordered the troops to advance quickly and gradually form a battle formation, forming a Z-shaped battle formation with Li Yue's forward musketry battalion.

The troops were deployed in position and ready for the enemy cavalry to arrive. In the middle of the three-battalion formation, dozens of rocket launchers were deployed, ready to bombard the incoming enemy.

Regarding infantry versus cavalry, Huang Li had no actual combat experience. However, he consulted many generals and generally believed that it was rare for cavalry to charge directly into a strict infantry battle formation.

In other words, Huang Li estimated that it would be difficult for him to see the scene in the movie where the cavalry clashed violently with the infantry like the tide hitting the rocks.

What's more, the thick pike phalanx is more defensive. No general in his right mind would command the cavalry to attack from the front. It is no different from facing death.

Excluding the frontal charge, only vertical and horizontal shooting was left, which should be what Jianlu was good at. The cavalry passed in front of the infantry battle formation, killing and wounding the enemy with rain-like bows and arrows, gradually causing the enemy to fall into chaos.
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Of course, there is also the dismounting method of fighting on foot, first defeating the enemy, and then mounting the horse to pursue them ferociously.

"I don't know how Wu Jun's cavalry will fight. I'm really looking forward to it!" Huang Li raised his telescope, and smoke and dust were rising in the distance, and he felt the tremor of the earth.

Gao Dejie took the lead and galloped ahead. The roar of horse hooves and the brave men behind him made him feel the pride rushing in his chest.

It had been a long time since I had felt this kind of excitement. Gao Dejie pursed his lips slightly, as if he had seen him leading his cavalry in pursuit of the enemy, beating the enemy until they were running away.

Gao Dejie looked down upon the sudden rise of the Ming army in eastern Sichuan. They were just remnants of thieves. They were defeated by the Wu army from the moment they were defeated. How could they have ever won a victory?

"What kind of third prince is created to confuse people's hearts? It can only succeed for a while, but it will never last long. If the fake clan is here, let's see someone capture him and make a good start for the prince to invade Sichuan."

Gao Dejie's heart was filled with passion. He grasped the handle of the knife hard and looked into the distance, where he could vaguely see the fluttering flag.

The two armies were getting closer and closer, and the cavalry stopped at a distance of a few miles. Although Gao Dejie was brave, he was not a brainless person. On the contrary, he was proficient in military affairs and could lead an army to fight alone.

"What kind of formation is this?" Gao Dejie watched with attention, a look of confusion flashed across his face.

After many years of fighting, he had never seen such a strange formation. Out of novelty and caution, he did not act rashly.

Huang Li held up his telescope and was observing these more than a thousand cavalrymen.

"Although he carries a bow and arrows, he doesn't look like a mounted shooter. I don't know what kind of attack the enemy will take, but there are too few people. How about one against ten?"

After the observation was completed, Huang Li did not wait for the enemy to take the initiative to attack. He issued orders to the artillery according to the parameters he determined.

The rocket launcher mount was being adjusted, the rockets were being loaded, and they soon entered the firing state.

"Times have changed!" Huang Li sneered lightly and gave the order to bombard.

At this time, Gao Dejie was still looking for the enemy's weaknesses.

The musketeers on both sides of the battle formation seemed to be a weak breakthrough point. However, the two battle formations behind made up for it and were able to form cross fire.

Moreover, on both wings of the battle formation, in front of the musketeers, there were seven or eight strange-looking vehicles. They did not look like Wugang vehicles or artillery vehicles, but looked like turtles with long thorns. They should be able to deter horses.

Right?

"There are really two brushes. It seems like a strange battle formation, but it has its own uniqueness. It's a shame that we didn't attack rashly, otherwise we would suffer a loss."

Gao Dejie felt that he could launch a tentative attack to find the enemy's weaknesses.

For cavalry and archery, as long as it is a regular cavalry, it should be a skill that must be mastered, although it cannot be as skillful as the Mongols or Donglu.

Ho-ha! Ho-ha! The Ming army gave out a deep cry, very rhythmic, accompanied by everyone's heartbeat, blood rushing, and the tension or excitement of the battle permeated the whole body.

This is the most loyal and capable Ming army. They fought hard in Xingshan. Even when facing powerful enemies, they were not afraid and fought bravely.

Huang Li's heartbeat resonated with the shouts of the soldiers. His hand holding the handle of the knife burst out with veins. Slowly pulling out the gleaming sword, he pointed forward with all his strength.

All enemies standing in front of him will be crushed. The road to reviving China will be filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He will not relent, nor will he back down.

"Be brave?" Gao Dejie listened to the shouts and pursed his lips slightly, showing a bit of contempt.

As for the Ming army, he fought many battles. Whether he was from the Shun army or the Daxi army, he fought from the north to the south and almost never suffered a defeat.

Before he could give the order to launch a tentative attack, trails of smoke suddenly rose behind the enemy's formation, and overwhelming rockets flew across the sky, dimming the sunlight.

Gao Dejie had already discovered that the Ming army seemed to have no artillery, and he felt more relaxed. However, he never expected that he would be attacked suddenly.

The manufacturing level of rockets is improving, and the charge amount is becoming more accurate. The army uses mostly explosive bombs, which lack the tip of the arrow at the front. With the addition of tube-mounted launchers, the accuracy has improved.

Even so, the dispersion rate of rocket launchers is still very high, making it more suitable for large-scale bombardment.

However, more than a thousand cavalry still occupied a considerable area, and the coverage of hundreds of rockets was about one to two hundred meters.

In Gao Dejie's horrified eyes, rockets fell one after another into the cavalry group, and a few unlucky ones were directly hit. Suddenly, people screamed and horses neighed, causing a chaos.

This was not over yet. A few seconds later, explosions started to sound. Balls of fire burst out, black smoke rose, and shrapnel hit the cavalry and horses.

With the launch of the rocket launcher, Li Yue commanded the infantry battle formation, marching with sonorous steps, and pressed forward firmly amidst the shouts of "Ho Ha".

Gao Dejie tried his best to control the frightened horse. The surroundings were filled with smoke, and his ears were filled with screams and neighing of horses.

The sudden and violent blow caused the more than a thousand cavalrymen to suffer little loss, but fell into chaos.

Huang Li showed a faint sneer and glanced at the artillerymen who were nervously reloading, feeling proud in his heart.

"What's going on? Have you never seen this kind of fighting style that doesn't respect martial ethics? If you come here in a hurry and don't entertain us warmly, how can you be a good person?"

"What about the cavalry? Whether it is cavalry, shooting or charging, it can no longer become the mainstream on the battlefield. In front of a strict infantry battle formation, it can no longer show its power and show off its ferocity!"

Gao Dejie was still showing off his strength and was unwilling to be defeated by the enemy and retreated after a confrontation.

Seeing that the enemy's front formation moved and opened some distance from the rear formation, he took hundreds of cavalry who had barely adjusted and charged diagonally towards the flank of the battle formation.

The sound of hoofbeats was like thunder, and the impact of hundreds of riders stirred up smoke and dust and shook the earth, which was quite astonishing.

The first to open fire were dozens of rifles, firing hundreds of heavy lead bullets, regardless of whether they were men or horses.

The downed horses and cavalry hindered the subsequent cavalry attack. Although they could barely maintain their formation, they already showed chaos.

Gao Dejie did not expect that the Ming army had such sharp firearms and had such amazing lethality at about a hundred steps.

Know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles. I wonder if Gao Dejie will not regret his reckless impulse and challenge the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, which is not familiar with tactics.

But he could no longer think too much, and the roar of the cannons resounded across the battlefield. The cannon soldiers took turns in an orderly manner using the backward reloading method, and fired rows of lead bullets at the enemy.

At the same time, half of the pikemen in the protruding pike phalanx in the middle advanced diagonally to one side, as if to protect the musketeers, and also to cut off the attacking enemy cavalry.

Gao Dejie didn't even notice that the infantry phalanx behind them was moving outward. To be precise, it was the musketeers who were moving laterally.

In his eyes, the distance was only fifty or sixty meters, still within the effective range of the gun.

The rockets were fired again at a fixed angle, bombarding the original large area, causing the cavalry to be killed and wounded, and once again plunged into chaos.

Obviously, the cavalry at that time had not been subjected to such a severe bombing. The horses lacked training and were easily frightened by the loud noises, fire and smoke.

The riders in front and behind him kept falling off their horses, from two hundred meters to dozens of meters. Gao Dejie held the sword in his hand, and his body gradually adjusted from lying on the horse's back to a sitting upright state.

He jumped into the enemy formation and hacked at them as he pleased. Then, he saw those strange vehicles advancing diagonally forward, making gestures to resist or attack the cavalry.

"With this crappy car?!" Gao Dejie didn't know why, but he wasn't too scared. He continued to urge his horse forward, preparing to go around the strange car.

Just when they were tens of meters away, the iron pipes and burning torches protruding from the front of several strange cars suddenly spurted out fire dragons. They were still a little far away, but the blazing temperature could be felt.<

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Although the range was not enough, the fire dragon spouted gave Gao Dejie and other cavalrymen great shock, and the horses' instinctive reaction was to avoid it.

The fire dragon was still spraying, and the oil burned on the ground, quickly forming a small sea of ​​​​fire, blocking the cavalry's attack route.

That's right, this is the super-era "fire-breathing tank". Its biggest function is to scare people.

If you don’t believe in evil, just come over and try it, it will definitely become a delicious barbecue.

In the midst of Gao Dejie's shock and confusion, there was a roar, and dozens of lead bullets swept towards him.
Chapter completed!