I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 545 Change of formation
"What are they shouting in the city?" Guan Dali looked towards the capital city in the distance in confusion.

Xia Songshan put down his chopsticks, listened attentively for a while, then shook his head and said, "I can't hear what they are shouting."

"Hurry up and get a bowl of ginger soup. It will make you feel comfortable and can also drive away the cold. This is what you should drink in such a cold day," Xia Songshan continued.

"Okay! I'll go have a drink." Guan Dali said.

The Royal Group would not skimp on food, even in this kind of weather and environment, the Old Guards could eat as much as they wanted as long as they didn't waste food.

Guan Dali took the bowl to get ginger soup, but found that the soup was all gone.
"Sir, do you want some ginger soup?" Guan Dali suddenly heard a voice coming from the side.

"Yes!" Guan Dali turned his head to look, but was stunned.

"Guan Gui! Why are you here?" Guan Dali said in surprise.

"Da Li, I didn't expect to run into you." Guan Gui said excitedly, "King Wu summoned us to support the front, and all the men in the village came. After we arrived, we were assigned to cook for the old guards. Just now we were discussing whether we could run into you, but in the blink of an eye, I saw you."

"Ah?" Guan Dali was stunned. He turned around and looked around, and sure enough, he saw many familiar faces.

"Da Li, do you want to drink ginger soup? I just made a pot here. I'll serve you a bowl." Guan Gui said enthusiastically.

Guan Dali was a little overwhelmed and just handed the bowl out mechanically.
"Da Li, you are so awesome! The Guards are so awesome too! We have been watching you guys practicing formation and firing guns these past two days." Guan Gui looked at the military uniform on Guan Da Li with envy.

"Hmm." Guan Dali took the ginger soup and took a sip. After taking a sip, he immediately felt warm all over. He didn't know whether it was the effect of the ginger soup or the effect of Guan Gui's words.

Guan Gui didn't care about Guan Dali's attitude and continued excitedly: "When we set out, our great grandfather told us: Don't bring shame to Guanjia Village, and work hard."

Hearing this, Guan Dali raised his head and was about to say something.
"Assemble! Assemble! Battalion 38, assemble quickly!" someone suddenly shouted.

Guan Dali paused, drank the ginger soup in the bowl in one gulp, and said, "Don't worry! I'll go over first."

Guan Gui took the bowl and said, "Then we will wait for news of your victory."

Guan Dali nodded and limped over.

"There is movement at Anding Gate. Our mission is to protect the road construction team. The best way is to block the enemy in the city. Now that the enemy is showing signs of coming out, we must fight them back!" Ma Desheng quickly gave the order. Then the entire 38th Battalion quickly entered the combat position.

At this moment, Anding Gate was opened, and teams of guards walked out of the city gate.

Shi Wanshan, with a gloomy face, was also among them. He was the commander of the troops going out of the city. Jiang Bin had been urging him to leave the city, saying that the morale of the soldiers was high and should not be wasted. He wanted to wait until the artillery was ready before going out of the city together. As a result, Jiang Bin said that no signs of artillery were found among the enemy troops outside the city, so he asked him to leave the city immediately.

Shi Wanshan had no choice but to lead his troops out of the city.
Six thousand guards quickly left the city and formed a musket and spear formation outside the city gate, but Shi Wanshan looked at the opposite side and found that they were in a strange formation.

The entire formation was arranged into four thin rows, with a gap of two or three meters between rows. Each row of soldiers was arranged very closely. The width of the formation was very fast, about 3 miles long. The entire formation had to people, and all the soldiers in the formation were equipped with rifles.

Shi Wanshan didn't take it seriously at first, but soon frowned. He found that the musket and spear formation he had set up was completely useless against this kind of formation.

The width of the opposing team's formation was sufficient to fully utilize the firepower of their flintlock muskets, but they were huddled together, with only the front few rows able to fire. The people behind could only watch, as muskets could not fire projectiles, and the spearmen were of no use at all.

Moreover, the enemy's formation was more conducive to preventing them from running away. Even if the shells penetrated all four rows, they would only kill four people. However, if their current musket and spear formation was hit by a shell, a bloody alley would appear, killing more than a dozen people.
The more Shi Wanshan looked at the opponent's formation, the more difficult it seemed. At this time, Jiang Bin kept sending people to urge him, which made him extremely annoyed.

Finally, he made a quick decision, sent back all the spears, replaced them with musketeers, and arranged the six thousand musketeers into three rows according to the enemy's formation, so that he could exert all his firepower. As for the next victory or defeat, it was a competition of willpower and training between the two sides.
Jiang Bin was also observing the formation of the old Guards. He also saw the beauty of the old Guards' formation and appreciated Shi Wanshan's adjustment.

Give them a taste of their own medicine. Anyway, volley guns are one of the key training subjects of the Guards, and all the Guards are very familiar with this.
The guards quickly changed their formation, and then they followed the drums and marched forward in an orderly manner. The heavy armor on their bodies also slowed down their speed.
The old guards stood quietly 3,600 meters away from the city wall, quietly waiting for the advance of the guards in the city. This was the battle area selected by Zhu Houxuan. Behind this area were the railway workers who were busy building the railway. The old guards could not retreat any further.
Xia Yingyong was walking in the formation, carrying his Zhengde 16-style flintlock rifle. He looked at the neat formation of the old guards in the distance and asked a comrade beside him with some uneasiness: "Why do I feel that the other side does not look that simple? Are they really employees of the Royal Group pretending to be them?"

The comrade said: "I don't know, but Admiral Jiang said so."

"The enemy doesn't look like it's their first time on the battlefield." Xia Yingyong murmured, "Could it be that they are retired veterans of the Guards?"

"It's possible, but it's not something we can worry about. It's something the officers above should consider," the comrade continued.

Xia Yingyong nodded. He was just a soldier and his mission was to obey orders.

Following Shi Wanshan's order, the entire formation slowly moved forward.

They formed their formation 2 kilometers away from the city wall. When they advanced to about 300 kilometers away from the city wall, all the Guards soldiers knew that they had lost the support of the city defense artillery. They were still meters away from the maximum range of the Zhengde Sixteen-Type Artillery.

The 300 meters were covered quickly, but the enemy showed no intention of firing. The soldiers of both sides were only meters apart.
But neither side had any intention of opening fire.
At this distance, soldiers with good eyesight can already see the expressions of the soldiers on the other side.
(End of this chapter)