Vol 5 Chapter 272: Go to war

Three days later, in the early morning, in the wilderness outside Chengdu, the Central Plains and Nanzhao armies looked at each other. The soldiers lined up in a neat array, flags spread, knives and guns lined up, and the cry of the soldiers of the two armies reverberated in the mountains.
The area of ​​Shu is mountainous, but the geological conditions around Chengdu happen to be special. The Chengdu Plain with an area of ​​18,000 square kilometers is suitable for large-scale field battles.
If you just look at the military capacity, the Central Plains Crusade Army will far win. The Shenji Battalion wears a standard military uniform, and the weapons are unified into blunts and spears, and the array is neat and standardized.
The Black Miao barbarians were far behind, because the soldiers came from various tribes and belonged to different cave owners, with mixed armor and various weapons.
The Crusaders did not fight the entire army. On the frontal battlefield, the barbarians lined up with only 30,000 magic gunmen and 5,000 artillery soldiers. This is also considered to be Li Xiaoyao and Jing Xiaolou’s military books. The soldiers were crowded on the battlefield, unable to exert their fighting power at all.
What's more, the Shenji Army uses firearms to fight, and the soldiers' fronts are too long, and the fire density will not increase much. If the enemy forces break through the front and enter the army, strangling with friendly forces, the broken soldiers will attack the original battle. Self-conflict.
The mortal soldiers of the Crusade Army invested a small amount. A total of 700 extraordinary men and 3,000 elite demon vassals were all present, wandering outside the battlefield, waiting for orders to perform special storming tasks at any time.
The sacred armament gunmen are listed in the Spanish infantry phalanx, each with 1,000 men, including 600 pikemen, 300 arquebuses, and 100 swordsmen. The soldiers lined up in three dense formations, each with fifty people on the front and twenty columns in depth. On the four corners are dense formations of arquebus soldiers.
It is worth mentioning that the firearm firing technology of the Shenji Army uses matchlock. This is mainly due to the backward metallurgical and chemical technology in the Song Dynasty, let alone a flash hider. Even the elastic reed of the flintlock gun cannot be produced. We can only take the second place and equip the soldiers with matchlock guns.
The Spanish phalanx was in the shape of a "return", with a hollow array. Soldiers surrounded the center of the phalanx with a few artillery pieces. When needed, the soldiers on the front of the phalanx could give up firing channels for artillery to fire. Artillery positions were also set up between the phalanx and the phalanx. After the battle, artillery fire was used to block the speed of the enemy's charge.
The Spanish phalanx tactics have a miraculous effect against the cavalry, not to mention the pure cold-armed infantry that is an era behind. Using the powerful power of firearms and the left-stab tactics of the Pikemen, the Spanish phalanx can send any traditional cold weapon era army into the garbage dump of history.
The reason why Jing Xiaolou arranged such a formation was that it was written in the infantry exercise code compiled by Luo Guoshi. He carefully studied it, and the more he looked at it, the more he realized that Luo Guoshi was indeed a literary and military genius. Di Zun Zhao's code was executed.
In fact, there are really not many cavalry in the Nanzhao Barbarian Army. In addition to dozens of mighty armored war elephants, there are only a dozen barbarian generals riding a variety of wild animals.
Tigers and leopards are regarded as ordinary mounts. There are even strangers who ride giant anacondas with thick water tanks, and there is even a general who imitated Chi You and rode a demonized panda with an extremely large head and body.
Compared to riding wild beasts, barbarians prefer to command wild beasts. The Nanzhao army is mixed with many beasts and poisonous insects, and they lie down on the ground very obediently under the control of the orcs.
It took almost a morning for the two sides to set up the formation. When the opposing army formation was completed, the sun was near mid-sky, and the time for the battle to begin was about to come.
Originally, according to ancient rituals, the two sides should send envoys to contact before the battle before the battle, or the exchange of vanguards to fight in front of the battle will boost morale, but neither side had such plans.
Only at three o'clock in the afternoon, three horn cannons came from the back of the Central Plains army. The leaders of the barbarian army screamed and gave orders in Miao language, and the Nanzhao barbarians ran wildly like a tiger opening the gate, brandishing weapons. The infantry phalanx rushed to the Central Plains Crusade.
Correspondingly, the military band in the center of the Huizi phalanx beat gongs and drums, and the phalanx soldiers stepped on the drums and moved forward in neat steps.
Looking down from the air, the squares on the ground moved slowly, and on the other side, the densely packed brutal pigs rushed forward and poured down.
Because the generals of the Central Plains Army carried telephone snails, the command transmission had a great advantage. Jing Xiaolou picked up the phone and dialed the number of the artillery battalion commander, and gave the artillery free firing order.
The roaring cannons and the thick smoke rose from the gap between the army formations, and the charging barbarians only heard the fourth phase of howling, groups of black shadows slammed in front of them, and the comrades beside them inexplicably opened huge blood holes on their bodies. The solid shell hit the ground after hitting a few people, but immediately bounced up again, knocking over a few people again, just smashing a path full of flesh and blood.
The enemy was still a kilometer away, and the barbarians were hit head-on by artillery fire, and nearly a hundred people fell in one round of artillery.
Have you ever seen the Black Miao barbarians of this modern combat method suddenly feel terrified, thinking that the Central Plains Army has used the magic weapon of immortality, but the psychological quality of these barbarians is much better than the soldiers on the real side, even if the Central Plains artillery is fierce, they But still bite the bullet and rushed bravely, but accelerated the pace.
Switching to the real world, the barbarians might be like the Aztecs facing Spanish adventurers, thinking that the enemy’s shelling was the power of the gods, and morale collapsed immediately.
But the fairy sword world does have extraordinary power. Although the artillery is powerful, it is not comparable to the fairy magic and witchcraft, and it is far beyond the psychological tolerance of the barbarians.
The Lord of the Moon worshipped the gu worm to give secret orders to the Gu masters in the army, and the Gu masters who were ordered chanted the piercing ancient spells. A burst of black air rose in the barbarian formation, and a demon wind blew up on the battlefield, and the black miasma filled the air. , The gust of wind suddenly blew from the back of the barbarian army, and for a while, the sand and rocks were flying, and the miasma rushed to the Central Plains army.
The charging barbarians are hiding in the black mist, and their figures are looming, artillery, or firecrackers with their guns ready to shoot. Either they are blinded by the flying sand, or they can’t see the target in the black mist, and they estimate their position. Random guns were fired, but I don't know the result of the battle. How many barbarians were shot.
Loading ammunition in front of the firearms is a tactical action that tests proficiency and psychological quality. The barbarians have used demon methods, and they don’t know whether the black mist is poisonous. The musketeers in the phalanx are in a hurry, and they usually train for loading. The movements have changed shape. Many people either forgot to plug the lead bullet or forgot to pull out the loading rod. They either shot the gun empty or shot the loading rod out, and they could no longer load ammunition.
The ideals are full, but the reality is very skinny. It stands to reason that the modern firearms army of the Chinese Empire adopted the tactics of the most refrigerated weapon army, which should have the advantage, and there is no suspense about the outcome.
However, the fairy sword world is not the real world. Due to the existence of extraordinary powers, there are too many factors that affect the outcome. It is impossible to apply the laws of war of the real world. Luo Feng's efforts to improve the combat power of the Central Plains are nothing but general The pure waste is raised to barely worth a battle.
The old Song Leng weaponry army that had not been upgraded by Luo Feng might not be as good as this modern firearms army, and it is no wonder that the Lord of the Moon worshipped the ambition to destroy the Song Dynasty to dominate the world.
In the original plot, if the Lord of Moon Worship controlled the water monsters to destroy a few extraordinary people in the Central Plains, only the Song army composed of mortals would be left, and the brutal soldiers who were brave enough and had the demon skills to assist in the fight would be able to push it. The world?