Especially in this kind of battle of ten thousand people, cooperation and combat is more important. For these new recruits, it is even more important to improve their tacit understanding of cooperation.

Mishen Mountain is about ten miles away from Dengzhou City, with a wide enough area in the middle for the two sides to fight, so there is no need to worry about not being able to set up the formation.

When the scouts came to report that most of Zhang Ke and Zhang Tao's troops had left the business, the battle officially began.

Like Kong Youde, the soldiers and officers below all finished their breakfast and maintained their energy to welcome the battle.

Then Kong Youde led 7,000 troops to the north to face Zhang Keda.

Li Jiucheng also led the group to suppress that group of people, and followed closely behind and headed towards the northwest to face Zhang Tao's troops.

As soon as he arrived at the open area, Kong Youde ordered all troops to start placing troops. A complete array is the key to victory. Otherwise, the generals would not even be in command, so how could they fight?

If you encounter an enemy, it will be a death-seeking act. The team development is not a short-term task, especially for such a large army with nearly 10,000 people. The enemy takes advantage of this opportunity to charge and will definitely have to be defeated.

After about half an hour, the entire team was completed, and the seven thousand troops continued to advance towards the north to fight most of Zhang Ke and the eight thousand troops.

Modern armies have unified training standards, so the combat effectiveness levels of the same number of troops are similar. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness levels of the army are uneven.

This situation exists in both Kong Youde's army or Zhang Keda's army, so the troops must be arranged according to the specific situation.

Under Kong Youde's command, there were two musket battalions in the middle, and there were infantry holding spears on both sides, mixed with a small number of archers to ensure the safety of musket soldiers.

The outermost periphery is a thousand cavalry from two cavalry battalions. They wander on the battlefield and wait for an opportunity to move. Once they grasp the enemy's weakness, they can give the enemy a fatal blow.

Soon, the generals of both sides saw the local army, plains, and the sight was wide open. Even if they saw it, they were almost three or four miles away. The armies of both sides continued to approach China.

Kong Youde was under a greater pressure when he saw the neat array of Zhang Ke's army. He was worthy of being the right governor of the Nanjing Governor's Office, and his troops were more powerful than Yu Dacheng's Fubiao Battalion.

Zhang Keda also saw Kong Youde's army, but he did not despise it. As a veteran, he had a deep understanding of the inevitable defeat of arrogant soldiers.

In order to boost morale, he told the soldiers that Kong Youde's army was full of refugees, ruffians, and prisoners, so there was no need to be afraid.

But he knew in his heart that Kong Youde had won consecutive victories along the way, which was definitely not because of luck, but because Kong Youde's subordinates did have certain combat effectiveness.

When it was almost two hundred feet long, Zhang Keda ordered to stop moving forward. Kong Youde also issued the same order after seeing it.

In this way, both sides remained on alert, and no soldiers below made unnecessary moves, waiting for the orders passed by the superior officer.

Kong Youde felt that such a stalemate was not a big deal, so he sent out seven hundred troops on the right, intending to attack tentatively and test the enemy's reality.

Although the soldiers who returned to Baiyun Temple had a conflict with most of Zhang Ke's subordinates, no one expected that both sides were injured, and Jiaozhan was not large in size, so it was impossible to judge the combat effectiveness of the enemy. The current tentative attack seemed necessary.

The main force in the battle was the 500 infantry of the First Infantry Battalion, led by Liu Bao, the chief of the First Infantry Battalion. The target of this attack was the left wing of the Ming army.

The other two hundred people were firearm soldiers, and they were all veterans in the first battalion of muskets. Their combat effectiveness was very strong, but the infantry was not bad. In addition to the one hundred veterans, the other soldiers were basically captured guards from the Zhongtun Guard of Chenyang. After so many battles, their combat effectiveness was significantly improved.

When it approached Zhang Ke's Ming army fifty feet, the left wing of the Ming army actually began to attack. Regardless of whether it was enough, the bows and arrows and muskets began to shoot.

Since ancient times, at the beginning of the battle, long-range weapons have always been used to disrupt the enemy's formation.

This is almost the same from throwing stones between primitive tribes to precise missile strikes in modern warfare, and this battle is of course no exception.

But after this battle, we can see the shortcomings of the left-wing Ming army. Before it was close to fifty feet, the Ming army musketeers and archers standing in the front row could not withstand the psychological pressure and began to attack one after another.

At such a long distance, the range of muskets and bows had basically not caused any casualties to Kong Youde's troops.

When it was almost thirty feet away, the Ming army launched the second round of attacks, and only a few projectiles and bows reached this distance. However, these arrows had already lost their momentum. Even if they hit, they would be slightly injured.

Just as the Ming army was rushing to load the medicine, Liu Bao had already brought the army to a distance of twenty-five meters. At this time, only a few archers of the Ming army shot out a few sparse arrows, and the casualties caused could be ignored.

Under Liu Bao's order, the infantry and musketeers stopped. The musketeers in the front row raised their bird guns in their hands and carried out their first volley under Liu Bao's order.

The power of the bird gun is already quite good, and they are all high-quality bird guns made by Sun Yuanhua. They are twenty-five feet long and can just swing out the power of the fire gun, so they also have great lethality.

Moreover, the Ming soldiers on the left wing basically had no armor. After a round of volleys, the musketeers and archers in the front row of the Ming army fell down a row, and almost thirty or forty people lost their combat effectiveness.

Even the Ming army musketeers who were not hit were blinded by this round of volleys, so they forgot to continue loading the musketeers in their hands.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, under the command of Liu Bao, two hundred musketeers completed the loading operation and fired another volley. Forty or fifty people fell to the ground on the Ming army's position.

In fact, the situation of immediately dying in the abdomen in the TV series is basically a lie. Most Ming soldiers did not die immediately after falling to the ground. As long as they did not hit the chest, even if they hit the abdomen, they would not die immediately.

The enemy who hits the abdomen will feel severe pain, then scream or weak "shenyin", and then continue to lose blood due to the wound, gradually hemorrhage shock, and eventually die.

Because of the screams of the fallen Ming army and the blood everywhere, the other Ming army seemed very panicked at this moment, and some Ming army even wanted to escape.

Liu Bao was naturally not a fool who could do it. He seized the opportunity very keenly. He knew it was the time for infantry performing.
Chapter completed!