Lemon is arrogant, but nothing can happen to him.
First of all, he is the general of the Queen's Guards Division and a close confidant of Angelina. If he dies in the battle, it will greatly affect the morale of the Ross soldiers, and Xiao Chen and Angelina are not easy to explain.
Secondly, his sister Valova is Fatty's 'confidante', so Fatty can't just watch something happen to him.
This guy is brave in combat and likes to take the lead. He has never encountered a strong opponent before, so he was unscathed. Now he may not be so lucky when facing the powerful Tsuruta Akabi Army.
After discussing it, the two brothers decided to give him a layer of insurance and ask Xiao Ye to lead twenty knights to protect him. Not for his sake, but for the face of the two beautiful women behind him...
When Lemon, this ungrateful guy, not only showed no gratitude at all when Xiao Ye and the others came, he was even slightly dissatisfied. Why, Boss Xiao Chen, do you think I am greedy for life and afraid of death?
Besides, even if you want to send someone to protect me, just send these dozens of people?
And you don’t have to be a big boy, right? Is he the only one who can protect me? I'm pretty good at protecting him!
But he also knew that Xiao Ye was Xiao Chen's younger brother, but he didn't dare to let anything happen to him, so he asked him to stay with him and warned Xiao Ye to remember, you must follow me, don't run around!
This is a war, where swords and arrows have no eyes, and guns are ruthless, but it doesn’t matter whether you are the younger brother of Boss Xiao Chen or not, you will still die! He also ordered his personal guards to protect this boy Zhouquan no matter what crisis situation occurred. He was such a little burden!
The brothers of the Fifty Horse Guards were very dissatisfied with Lemon's attitude, but Xiao Ye didn't care. He only followed the orders of his two brothers to protect Lemon, not to make friends with him...
The next development of the battle was not only expected by Xiao Chen, Wei Yuntian and others, but also beyond their expectations.
When Xiao Chen, Wei Yuntian and others had just led their troops to go straight to Fengshan City, Lemon led 10,000 Russian soldiers to attack Anyue City.
He and his generals subjectively believed that the defenders of Anyue City would definitely adopt the battle mode of defending the city, but unexpectedly they dared to set up a formation outside the city to meet the enemy!
This was beyond Lemon's expectation, and he didn't recognize the Japanese formation, but it seemed ordinary.
This is a circular formation. The commander's flag is placed on a tall tree in the center of the circle, swaying in the wind, giving orders to the entire formation.
In the outer circle were spearmen who were squatting half-crouching to prevent the cavalry from charging into the formation. The spears were more than a foot long, sticking out densely. From a distance, they looked like a big hedgehog with spikes all over its body.
Behind them are the heavy infantry holding down the formation, and behind the heavy infantry are the 'iron artillery'.
The so-called "iron artillery" is actually a musketeer, because the Japanese habitually call this new type of firearm "iron artillery".
Muskets were first learned and introduced from the West, but the performance of the muskets at that time was very poor. You still needed to light a match to shoot. The range was short, the rate of fire was slow, it was limited by the environment, and the explosion rate was very high.
Later, a Japanese master named Huoshandao Xiaowen spent ten years transforming it into a new type of tunnel-fired musket, which was gradually used in combat. The most elite musketry unit in Japan is called the "Volcano Battalion".
Japan's current steel forging technology is very advanced, but their steel reserves are relatively scarce, and the process of forging a musket is very complicated and the cost is quite expensive. Therefore, the musket units equipped in the army are also relatively rare. One battalion and the rest exist as auxiliary arms.
Behind the iron artillery are the longbowmen, and behind the longbowmen are the guards. The guards are actually personal guards. They are the elite among the elite in the army and the last line of defense in the formation. Their duty is not to charge and fight, but to protect. Commander.
This circular formation is large or small, with about two thousand people. However, outside the circular formation, there are still more than a dozen smaller heavy cavalry formations surrounding it, with only a few dozen people in total. The people on the left and right are all wearing red helmets and red armor. From a distance, they look like balls of fire. This should be the famous Tsuruta Akabi Army.
Lemon did not expect that the Japanese would fight out of the city, so when they marched over, they used infantry as the vanguard and let the cavalry follow behind.
When they learned that the Japanese had come out of the city to prepare for the battle, they moved the cavalry to the front again. In the hurry, it was a bit chaotic.
And he believed that this was a tough battle, and he had no preparation for a field battle at all. Before setting off, he ordered all the cavalry to take off their heavy armor and go into battle lightly. So now he is using light cavalry who are not prepared for battle at all against other people's heavy cavalry!
Fortunately, the number of the opponent's heavy cavalry was relatively small, only a few hundred, and there were two thousand light cavalry on our side, so we should still have the advantage.
But his battle plan was also disrupted. He only thought about attacking the city and had no intention of taking any precautions. Therefore, he did not even carry the one hundred armored ballistas Wei Yuntian gave him, but instead arranged them at the end. The armored siege vehicles and catapults marching in front were placed in the vanguard...
Fortunately, the Japanese did not expect that Lemon would underestimate the enemy so much, so they set up this circular formation that focused on defense. If they directly sent heavy cavalry to launch a surprise attack, Lemon and the others might be in chaos immediately.
So far, both sides have made a mistake, not too big or too small. The Lemon side underestimated the enemy and advanced too lightly, and the Japanese side was too cautious and conservative. However, in terms of military strategy, the Japanese were better!
Their generals also reacted quickly. Seeing that the formation of the Russian soldiers was a bit chaotic, they made a prompt decision and issued the order to attack.
The longbowmen with ultra-long range fired thousands of arrows, killing hundreds of people and horses of the Ross light cavalry in formation. After the bows and arrows stopped, the small groups of red soldiers began to launch fierce attacks one after another.
Although there were only a few dozen of them, they were all heavily armored cavalry, and all of them were brave and good at fighting. They were as powerful as tigers. They charged through the two thousand Ross light cavalry that had not yet completed their formation and were invincible!
In an instant, at least a hundred people were beheaded. They took advantage of the opportunity to charge and then quickly left. After making a big circle, they returned to the back of the circle to rest.
The chasing Ross light cavalry were frightened by the long bows in the circular formation, but they did not dare to pursue. At the same time, another group of red troops arrived and charged again...
More than a dozen Red Army heavy cavalry squads took turns going into battle like this. Because they could get enough rest, they could maintain enough horsepower and manpower for each charge. After an hour, the Ross Cavalry was completely defeated!
However, the supporting troops from behind could not come up, because there was actually a large catapult in Anyue City. The soldiers at the top of the city marked the shooting points, and the catapult inside accurately shot flying stones.
The artillery at the top of the city also opened fire violently, smashing all the armored siege vehicles and catapults in the middle of Ross' team into parts!
