To the north of the Ming army front, there was a canal used by English landlords to irrigate farmland.

In fact, it is a more accurate term for ditches. This kind of thing less than one meter wide will only be called a ditch in the Ming Dynasty. However, given that the longest and only artificial canal here is 14 miles long, it is still very suitable to call it a canal for the time being.

Since there were soldiers and horses traveling back and forth on this road at the beginning of this spring, no one had cultivated the surrounding fields and no one was able to clear the canals. Now the water in the canals is very shallow and there is also half a leg of mud.

This width is very awkward, and it is impossible to jump over it. The detour is not worth the loss. The most suitable choice for the coalition forces of England and Scotland is to slowly walk over here and climb up.

Therefore, in Yang Ce's theory, all enemies who want to attack him from the front must kowtow to him before hitting him.

General Yang, who was delusional about others kowtowing him, did not properly use this canal. Facing an unknown number of enemies but no less than four times, he did not dare to line up behind the canal, for fear that someone would shoot a longbow into a sieve before he could fight.

His men opened the front line just south of the canal, watching the chaotic enemy in the distance slowly approaching with various flags as if they were rushing to the market.

The Scottish army did not have much training and strict discipline. Although they seemed to be lined up with small square formations similar to the Swiss, even the bagpipes played military music could not keep them in a consistent manner.

Some are fast and some are slow, bringing the serious front out of a sexy curve.

Even so, on the front of the Western Han Alliance, no soldiers of all kinds of skin dared to laugh at them - this curve was too long, so long that they could not see the edge.

Layers of Scottish soldiers were crowded with people. The soldiers at the front were wrapped in linen, covered with a piece of upper body and a piece of lower body, and stood out two to three rows with long or short bows.

Behind are five rows of spearmen with the same outfit, even larger in depth. Every few of them have a swordsman with broad swordsman and half armor. Next to the swordsman, there is a swordsman with a swordsman and a shield, forming the entire formation.

Apart from three or four spear companies, there will be a company composed entirely of highland warriors carrying broadswords and battle axes. When Yang Ce saw them, he immediately ordered the Han musketeers under his command to take care of those square formations when the enemy crossed the canal.

There is nothing new in the future, nothing more than Scottish Highland riders and plate-armored knights riding on horseback. Although they are the most scary, with a complete Spanish phalanx in hand, Yang Ce’s least afraid of is the cavalry.

Even the Beiyang Army had never defeated the Spanish phalanx with cavalry on the front battlefield. In Yang Ce's idea, there was only one natural enemy of this phalanx, which was artillery, but the British and Soviet troops were assembled too fast at present, and even with artillery, they could not keep up.

The enemy's archers crossed the canal and began to kowtow to Yang Ce!

The people behind kowtowed one by one, then lifted their weapons and walked forward more than ten steps. The captains of each of them set off flags, pulled out bows and arrows to shoot several arrows.

The subsequent troops were still continuing to cross the canal. Two test shots had been completed, with a distance of about a hundred steps. The archers raised the bow to the same angle according to the captain's order, and pulled the first rain of arrows to shoot towards Yang Ce's front.

While they were shooting archery to measure the distance, Yang Ce's musketeers also set up muskets to ignite the fuse. The firearms used by the musketeers in Han Dynasty were messy, including light musketeers from Ming, Western and Portuguese, as well as Spanish heavy musketeers, but the ignition method was fired by the fuse.

The Spanish musketeers were much better. The old Duke of Alva, who returned to Spain from the New World a few years ago, promoted the domestic firearm reform. Now the phalanx legions have used heavy muskets with flintlock ignition.

This kind of thing that can hit one or two more bullets is absolutely powerful, and it is difficult to block no matter what armor it wears. It has an excellent range and absolute lethality that can make people who are accurately hit be shot, smashed, smashed, killed, and knocked out... There are few survivors.

The difficulty lies in the fate.

Pieces of feathered arrows were like locusts, covering a large area in front of Yang Ce’s army, creating opportunities for the troops surrounding the two wings.

The Han musketeers abide by the orders and suffered a rain of arrows with a scattered musket waiting for the launch.

However, the Spanish company was not that easy to speak. They knew the performance of the musket in their hands. They pulled the trigger almost at the command of the company commander when the enemy's rain of arrows hit.

Ten companies were hit with hundreds of heavy muskets one after another, and after only two steps, another musket was fired. The Spanish musketeers who had trained still used the method of backfire shooting, and the speed was not much slower than the archers on the opposite side.

The spacing between the line formations composed of the clamp gun is much larger than that of the flintlock gun. They do not stand dense formations, and each person is separated by two body positions. Each company has ten muskets at the same time before. Even so, every time the musket is released, two or three people will fall down opposite the company.

At this distance, heavy muskets can beat two or three people almost every time against Scottish archers who do not wear armor. In other words, it is good to hit one of ten muskets.

From Yang Ce's perspective, he did not think that the Spanish musketeers were much better than the Scottish archers in training.

His musket team is better than the Spanish in terms of precision. After all, he trains more, and with the gunpowder support of the Oriental Military Palace and the Kingdom of Sanghai, his muskets can be trained more fully.

The rain of arrows fell into the formation continuously, and the Spanish musketeers who were shooting back quickly paid a very small price to withdraw from the enemy's range. The Han musketeers remained in place, making them disconnected from the military formation. Fortunately, their troops were loose and the chance of being shot was very low.

The Spaniard's musket offensive was very powerful. When thousands of muskets sprayed projectiles in ten rounds of shooting, they hit the Scottish archers with a hit rate of only one tenth, causing the enemy to shake.

Even the muskets of this era are heavy muskets similar to hand cannons, unless they hit the head and the heart, it is difficult to kill people directly. Those who were hit fell to the ground and kept wailing. Only a few injured people could render a square array into hell on earth.

With a very short interval, the Spanish musketeers started a new round of shooting, shooting out a large piece of gunpowder in front of the formation, and continued to retreat backwards. Speaking of which, the spearmen in the Western Army were indeed miserable. This kind of long-range shooting was not their use, and they could only stand behind the musketeers again and again and again and continue to retreat.

However, for a moment, the Han musketeers who were standing still without moving were thrown by their robes for thirty or forty steps. After this round of musketeers' shooting, nearly fifty people had fallen from the Han musketeers' front, which was originally a thousand people.

Finally, the Scottish generals realized that it was difficult for their feather arrows to continue shooting at this distance, and the Spanish could continue to hurt them. The soldiers standing there eating feather arrows faced them in a loose formation. If they continued to fight like this, they would have too much damage to their morale, so they finally decided to continue to march forward.

"Pass, shoot, take sixty steps back."

Yang Ce, who had always looked at his subordinates who fell to the ground with injuries, finally ordered the Han musketeers to fire the first shot after the war at a closer distance.
Chapter completed!