And on the same day that Sun Yuanhua landed in Huainan and began to attack Xuyi.

Fengyang.

Imperial Mausoleum.

"The Duke of Yingguo is really a loyal minister!"

Fengyang garrison eunuch Liu Zhen said with a smile.

Governor Yang, who had just finished worshiping Zhu Wusi, stood up with a solemn expression.

"Eunuch Liu, what do you mean?"

Then he said with a deep face.

At the same time, a group of generals behind him also stood up one after another...

"Mr. Liu, do you have any misunderstandings about Yang? Why is Yang really a loyal minister? Isn't it natural for Yang to be a loyal minister? Do you also believe in the slander of those treacherous ministers? Do you also think Yang is unfaithful to Your Majesty?"

Yang Xin scolded angrily.

Behind him, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong immediately drew their swords at the same time, looking at Liu Zhen like a ferocious person.

Liu Zhen was so scared that his legs were weak and he knelt down.

"Duke Yingguo is willing to spare my life, but I was so young that I was confused and talk nonsense. Please ask Yingguo is willing to spare my life!"

He said.

"snort!"

Duke Yingguo snorted coldly.

The generals who were left behind in the Zhongdu Department were sweating coldly.

"This time, my title was launched to clear the king's rebellion and storm the country. It was just for the treacherous ministers in the court to deceive the holy and therefore had to follow the example of the sages and use extraordinary actions to support the country. However, my title's loyalty to Your Majesty can be revealed. Those treacherous ministers falsely accused me of rebellion, just to disturb people's hearts and cover up their crimes. You must not be deceived by these treacherous ministers."

Duke Yingguo said.

A group of generals quickly nodded to show that they fully understood the good intentions of Duke Yingguo.

Of course, it's just that if you understand or not.

Anyway, Fengyang had been taken over by the Jingnan Army. The generals of Fengyang guards had been driven here to guard the tomb at this time. The original military households outside had already divided their land and were not confiscated, which means they surrendered quickly. As for Yang Xin's rebellion or not, they were no longer able to control. Be honest in guarding the tomb here and wait for the outcome of this war!

Isn't it good to be alive?

"Lord, the Mongolian cavalry has arrived at the north shore!"

At this time, an officer came over and saluted Yang Xin and said.

"It seems that Lu Xiangsheng doesn't want us to cross the Huai River safely. Let's go and meet these Mongolian cavalry. By the way, our brothers have not fought before!"

Yang Xin said.

Linhuai Pass.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled with rumbling sound of cannons.

In the wilderness on the north shore, countless torrents of cavalry surged forward, and the horses ran out of the thunderous sound of hooves.

Flowering bullets kept blowing up among them.

The whistling of the solid bullets was also constantly slashing through the air, hitting a splash of flesh and blood, but it could not stop the torrent formed by the number. Even if hundreds of cannons were bombarded on the south bank of the Huai River, it was useless. The shells had no power and no accuracy after flying across the vast river. Even if hundreds of cannons were of no use in front of more than three thousand cavalry.

"Stay!"

Li Jin, who has been promoted to brigade commander, shouted.

There was a small formation in front of him, with his back facing the Huaihe River array to guard the pontoon bridge behind him.

This formation is not Morrisian.

The entire formation is not a third-line formation, but the main force is all pressing on the front line.

But unlike the Morris style that is lined up in a row, this formation is in a pin-shaped shape.

At the front is a 36-by-6 spear phalanx, and on both sides of the spear phalanx are two groups of spearmen.

Behind this forward is the same spear phalanx on the left and right, with a gap in the middle. On both sides of the two spear phalanxes, there is a thirty-two by six musket array. All musket players are four by six, and there are larger intervals between each group for easy access.

Outside the musket formation is a small number of cavalry to protect the flanks. The cavalry is also divided into four small formations, two on the left and right. In the middle of the two cavalry formations, there are two musketeers of twenty to six each.

Behind is a spear musket formation that is the same as the front...

OK, this is Gu Erye’s style.

A standard Swedish brigade-class inverted T formation with cavalry.

What they faced was the Mongolian cavalry from the grasslands in the northern desert.

Outer Khalkha tribe.

Or the current subordinate of the Ming Dynasty's Shunchang County Prince.

This cavalry from the far north of the desert was the first to reach the Huai River. Although they were enduring the torture of the hot Huaibei in early summer, these cavalry from the northeastern Mongolia and the Hulunbuir prairie in Inner Mongolia still showed their bravery.

They also have no choice.

Because the rewards they received for the Ming Emperor were the only hope for those tribes in the north to survive the famine. The Ming Emperor gave them military pay, and they handed over the military pay to merchants, who were responsible for transporting the food to them to the grassland. Although the food price was ridiculously high, these foods were the only hopes for their tribe to survive.

The climate outside the pass has not improved this year. In fact, it will only become more and more serious in the future. It will soon become the original historical battle between Lin Danhan and Wild Boar Skin. The entire grassland was hungry all over the world. At this time, the whole world was feeling the power of the sudden change in climate. It does not mean that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by this natural disaster, but Lin Danhan was also destroyed by the natural disaster to some extent.

Japan is also entering the Kuanyongqi desert.

Europe……

Europe is reducing taxes.

The impact of natural disasters on them was completely offset by the sea of ​​blood in the Thirty Years' War. In fact, the root of countless bloody wars in Europe throughout the seventeenth century was famine.

Including the British Civil War.

Everyone struggled to find their own way of survival in the midst of famine.

Following Lin Danhan's attempt to loot Shuolei by force, he quickly chose the Prince of Shunchang, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, to survive as a mercenary. At this moment, the cavalry on the horse's back shouted like their ancestors who were rampant in Eurasia, clamping their spears on the horse's back, and violently crashed into the small pure infantry formation ahead.

"Change the array!"

Li Jin yelled.

The next moment, the second row of the musketeers who were originally six rows stepped forward and stood side by side with the first row, half kneeling on the ground and raised the new type of mesh gun that no longer needed a bracket.

The third and fourth rows are forward at the same time.

They stood side by side behind this row, leaned forward and bowed slightly, and raised the convex guns to aim. Then the fifth and sixth rows stepped forward in a row and stood behind them. The entire formation was four groups in front and back, with a total of nearly 600 convex guns aimed at the cavalry's forward at the same time.

The entire formation is actually not wide, and it is only more than 200 meters in total. There are not many front-facing cavalry vanguards with such a width.

There are only one hundred riders who can beat the sky.

"Stay calm, no fire is allowed without orders!"

Li Jin shouted.

All the musketeers watched the torrents hitting from afar and waited quietly, and no one retreated. Although they were also full of fear when they went to the battlefield for the first time, behind them was home, the happy life they had just obtained, and the relatives they were looking forward to.

They cannot retreat.

Even if you die here in battle, you cannot retreat.

The three spear phalanxes are scattered at the same time, and the six-level spear forest is still enough.

The torrent of the cavalry was quickly becoming clear.

The charge of thousands of troops made the ground tremor equally clear, and the shelling in the rear continued, and the flowering bullets continued to explode among the cavalry, and even exploded in the sky due to fuse problems.

All the soldiers were shaking.

This is instinct, nothing embarrassing. The infantry faced the cavalry that hit them, fear and tremble were all instincts, but belief made their legs firmly nailed to the ground under their feet, and then silently watched the torrent of the cavalry approaching, and soon it was less than fifty feet, then less than thirty feet, followed by twenty feet...

But the order to open the fire still did not sound, and all the soldiers continued to wait silently.

Then there is ten feet.

The final order rang when the cavalry's forward arrived within ten feet of a drawn white line...

"Open fire!"

Li Jin yelled.

Then countless of the same shouts rang out.

All the musketeers pulled the trigger, and the volley of nearly 600 muskets also sounded like thunder. After firing the bullets, the two groups of musketeers in front of them didn't even look at the situation on the opposite side. According to their daily training, they put away the muskets as fast as possible and retreated to the gap between the three spear formations and reloaded them.

And they were already overturned.

Although the Jingnan Army had two rows in front and back, the length of a spear between the two rows was negligible. The distance was closest to the cavalry when the musketeers in the front row fired, even for the musketeers behind, the distance was only more than 30 meters. Such a distance could reach a hit rate of 40% of the actual combat, and nearly 600 musketes fired at the front of only 100 cavalry. As a result, almost none of the cavalry vanguards were spared and all fell under dense bullets.

Their fall forced the follow-up cavalry to slow down to bypass them or control the horses to jump over them, but the result was that the entire cavalry formation was in chaos.

But there are still successes.

But unfortunately, they have lost the initial shock speed that seemed unstoppable.
To be continued...