"The wind is whistling, and the Yishui is cold. Once the hero leaves, he will never return." Bathed in the bleak autumn wind, a literati is full of poetry.

Looking at the entire battlefield from Fenglong Mountain, 300,000 soldiers and horses in the Jing camp have entered the battlefield early and built strict fortifications in the battlefield.

Under the gaze of the crowd, a special army began to enter the battlefield.

This army is the Shandong Army's "New 01st Division" that participated in this war. It has a reinforced division of 20,000 people and has two artillery regiments.

What surprised everyone was that the army was not wearing any armor or equipped with cold weapons. It was covered with colorful camouflage uniforms and a black helmet. Most soldiers held a musket that people had never seen before.

However, this unified military uniform and unified pace have greatly shocked people.

Sun Chuanting was also extremely shocked when he watched Shandong's "New 01 Division" entering the battlefield on Fenglong Mountain. What shocked him was not the neat steps of the New 01 Division, but the appearance of many equipment he did not know in the New 01 Division.

The largest one is the heavy machine gun, which is dragged by horses and looks the same as the super-large version of the Ming Dynasty musket.

What made Sun Chuanting even more solemn was that this strange army was equipped with a large number of artillery artillery, although it was very small.

Since Sun Chuanting did not know that these cannons used new launching drugs and new explosives, he did not know much about the surnames of these cannons. In his perception, the cannons are so small that they may not be very powerful.

What made Sun Chuanting most worried was the new musket used by the Shandong Army.

The musket used by the Shandong Army had a range of 170 meters, but later it became a range of 500 meters, and this time it was replaced with a new one.

What is the range of this new musket? What is the rate of fire?

Sun Chuanting had no idea.

...While Chongzhen looked at the battlefield on Fenglong Mountain and looked around, he felt that the Beijing camp had an absolute advantage, because the number of people was fifteen times higher than Zhao Yan's 20,000 people.

Furthermore, the new 01st Division sent by Zhao Yan this time has no armor and no swords and guns, only a bayonet on the spearhead.

How can such an army resist the well-equipped Beijing camp?

... Zhao Yan looked at the battlefield and felt a little sad.

This time it was a civil war.

Moreover, the 300,000 Beijing camps are about to be massacred, which is still a psychological burden for Zhao Yan, but in order to minimize the losses, the decisive battle is undoubtedly the best choice.

...After entering the battlefield, the new 01st Division immediately began to build a line of defense.

At 45 miles south of the battlefield, the New 01st Division also built three defense lines, but these three defense lines simply pulled a barbed wire in the front, dug two trenches from the back, and then set up machine guns.

This is just an eight-mile-long defense line, which is 4,000 meters.

This time, the machine guns were equipped with 300, twice as many as the original 144. Not all of these machine guns were put into the battlefield, but the added machine guns were arranged at the back, and some were left as backup.

144 machine guns were arranged on the first line of defense. On average, there was a heavy machine gun every 27 meters on the first line of defense, and the distance from the barbed wire was about 300 meters.

The same arrangement is true on the second line of defense, and there is no machine gun on the third line of defense, but the arrangement points of the machine gun are being delineated.

After consultation, the General Staff divided the first line of defense into 300 meters sections, each section with an infantry battalion arranged, and a total of 14 infantry battalions were arranged.

The remaining four infantry battalions are left as reserves, and no troops are arranged on the second line of defense.

The reason why three lines of defense were arranged was mainly for deep defense, but the troops were insufficient after all, and they could not be arranged at the same time on the three lines of defense. Twenty thousand people were arranged on the four-kilometer defense line, and they could only defend the first line of defense closely.

The other four infantry battalions can be used as reserves to block the first line of defense or to block the attack on the second line of defense.

This arrangement is relatively average and there are no weak links.

The General Staff divides the defense surface into 14 points, each with 1 infantry battalion. Any point is attacked, and other points can support the attacked point.

At the same time, each battalion is equipped with 5 75mm caliber infantry artillery, and there are 36 regiment-level 75mm caliber infantry artillery and 12 150mm caliber infantry artillery in the reserve state.

The artillery also has 92 75mm caliber cannons, 64 105mm caliber howitzers, and 24 12 150mm caliber howitzers.

As a strengthened A-type division, the new 01st Division is equipped with an artillery regiment. Now the new 01st Division has two artillery regiments (division level) and two artillery battalions (brigade level), with a total number of more than 20,000.

Regarding the construction of fortifications, the General Staff does not believe that fortifications can be useful, because they do not need defense at all this time.

Under the cover of powerful artillery, you can attack and then attack.

But just in case, I still carefully arranged the defense line.

Three days passed gradually, and the New 01 Division's defense line was not jealous of others in its layout and did not cover up any concealment. Sun Chuanting clearly saw the New 01 Division's defense line.

...September 18, early morning.

Zhao Yan and Chongzhen came to the top of Fenglong Mountain. Under the protection of a group of guards, the civil and military officials of the court, as well as dozens of civil and military officials from Shandong, gathered under the Fenglong Mountain altar with hundreds of famous gentry and hundreds of famous masters who came to watch the battle.

"Now the Ming Dynasty is reviving, the enemy is destroyed, and the martial arts are prosperous. The achievements are all done by General Jianwei. General Jianwei had no intention of fighting with the royal family in the world, but now it is said that the royal family does not want to defend the territory, and they gather heavy troops in the capital. The king and his ministers said that there will be a battle in the future, and the final plan is already completed. Oh my, if a civil war begins, the people will be displaced, and General Jianwei will be unable to bear it..."

Mao Yuanyi stood on the altar and read loudly: "In order to avoid the disaster of Dingge, General Jianwei wanted to fight with the royal family of 300,000 Beijing camps with 20,000 soldiers. This battle is the battle of Dingge. If the royal family is defeated, he will abdicate himself at General Jianwei. If General Jianwei is defeated, he will retire overseas and give up his foundation to the Zhu family royal family. However, regardless of the outcome, the winner cannot imprison the loser by force, threaten the life safety of his relatives, and must not rob his personal legal property. The loser cannot regret it, nor can he set off again..."

"The rules of this battle are as follows, that is... if half of them quit the battlefield, they will be judged as failure..." Mao Yuanyi finally asked Chongzhen: "Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian, would you like to accept this agreement?"

"I accept it." Chongzhen said confidently.

"General Jianwei Zhao Yan, is willing to accept this agreement?"

"Accept." Zhao Yan stepped forward and said.

"The two sides accepted this agreement, and the celebrities and gentry present witnessed and those who repent were not tolerated by heaven and earth..." Mao Yuanyi said loudly.

There were hundreds of celebrities present and gentry with representative surnames, hundreds of merchants, and hundreds of people listened to the ceremony hosted by Mao Yuanyi, and their emotions were different.

Some people cheered for Chongzhen, and Zhao Yan was too stupid.

Some people are worried about Zhao Yan. If Zhao Yan really retires overseas, wouldn’t such a good situation be ruined?

Most people don’t think Zhao Yan will win, but some people still think that Zhao Yan will win, so what is revealed on their faces is expectation.

Since Zhao Yan dared to fight 300,000 with 20,000 people, he must be prepared.

Next is a series of rituals, first of which is sacrifice to heaven. This aspect is arranged by the Ministry of Rites, and both parties made a vow to make an agreement under the altar.

…”Boom boom boom boom boom boom..."

At nine o'clock, the eighteen salutes on Fenglong Mountain fired one after another, which was a signal of war agreed by both sides.

Eighteen salutes passed.

The two armies gave up their defense line at the same time and began to move forward. In addition to leaving 50,000 people to defend the defense line, the remaining 250,000 people moved forward.

While moving forward, Sun Chuanting also sent 30,000 cavalry to attack and harass the new 01st Division. This time it was a battle to determine the tripod. These 30,000 cavalry did not have much effect on this restricted battlefield, so they were used by Sun Chuanting as artillery to attack the test.

This kind of test is very important, which allows him to understand the true strength of the new 01st Division. At the same time, the new 01st Division has no spear soldiers or armor. If it is broken through by the cavalry, it will quickly turn into a massacre. Therefore, Sun Chuanting feels that this test is very likely to collapse the defense line of the new 01st Division immediately.

In contrast, the new 01st Division is advancing step by step.

The entire defense line is moving forward, and each battalion moves forward in its own defense line area, and will not leave the entire team. The marching speed always prevails the pace of one battalion. Comparing step by step, the speed of the top battalion moves as fast as the bottom battalion moves.

The two sides were only 5 kilometers apart, and 30,000 cavalrymen quickly came.

The new 01st Division only advanced for half an hour, and the 30,000 cavalry led by Zu Dashou had already been pressed to 800 meters away.

"Stop moving forward, prepare for battle."

The regiments quickly issued orders, and the entire division stopped within a moment. The battalions quickly arranged defense lines. Machine guns and infantry artillery were set up to the predetermined position.

In fighting this kind of position war, there is no technical content, and it is under the conditions limited by the battlefield. I saw the marching soldiers put the machine gun on the ground, and there was the combat position. During the entire marching, there was no change in the position at all.

The earth began to tremble.

The soldiers of the New 01st Division were all veterans who had been on the battlefield. They immediately knew that it was the cavalry. When some soldiers lay down, they immediately guessed the approximate number.

However, no one showed a panic look, but instead looked eager to try.

Zu Dashou brought 30,000 cavalry to the front, and did not rush to launch a charge. Instead, he sent three thousand cavalry to order the charge.

Still a test.

No one in the entire Beijing camp could understand the new army opposite. As Zu Dashou thought, Zhao Yan was well versed in the battle formation and would never make any low-level mistakes. He would definitely rely on the courage to fight 300,000 with 20,000 people.

Three thousand cavalry rushed towards the position of the New 01st Division in the rumbling horse hooves. The speed was not fast and had not yet entered the charge distance.

Five hundred meters away, these three thousand cavalrymen were changed to trotting forward.

The cavalry in Beijing was trained according to the training method of Shandong cavalry, and the three thousand cavalry were uniform in action.

On Fenglong Mountain.

The cavalry of Beijing camp who showed good training qualities immediately attracted a lot of surprise. Chongzhen was excited to see with a telescope.

"Your dear, how do you think of my warriors in the capital?" Chongzhen asked proudly to Zhao Yan, who was sitting next to him.

"Not bad, but..." Zhao Yan pondered for a moment and said, "It's a bit too dated."

"Old-time?" Chongzhen couldn't help but snorted and said proudly, "Then let's wait and see~!"

...Looking at the three thousand cavalry rushing towards him five hundred meters away, the commander of the 05th Regiment quickly mobilized the infantry of the three battalions, and 1,500 infantry were lined up.

“Free shooting.”

"Architecture shooting."

"The machine gun waits for the enemy to enter a range of 200 meters before firing."

Wang Shuofeng, the leader of the 05th regiment, issued an order.

"Baobabababababa..."

One thousand five hundred infantrymen opened fire suddenly and fired violently at the three thousand cavalry who were rushing five hundred meters away. The three thousand cavalrymen who were trotting forward fell one by one from the horse.
To be continued...