On the evening of the third day of the first month of the seventh year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, about 15 miles northeast of Yanshan Town, Cangzhou, near a small village called Zhuangqiao Village, 40 "black spearmen" belonging to the Huaibei Domain of the Ming Dynasty ambushed hundreds of Mongolian cavalry belonging to the Zhaowuda League of the Great Qing Dynasty, which opened the prelude to the battle between the two armies of the Ming army known as the decisive battle of Yanshan.

However, before the early morning of the fourth day of the first month of the seventh year of Hongxing, neither of the warring sides realized that they had collided with the main force of the other party.

In fact, this important battle, which was later called "the first modern inter-military battle in the East", was fought in a chaotic situation.

This is simply a muddled war between modern armies.

After setting up an ambush in the grove outside Zhuangqiao Village and killing more than 30 Mongolian cavalrymen, Li Tieniu, the platoon commander of Huang Degong's army, let his men clean up the battlefield, carry fresh heads, lead Mongolian horses that were not injured, and pick up a bunch of miscellaneous things, and retreat to Zhuangqiao Village, which looks relatively strong, to prepare to eat and sleep......

By the way, the hundreds of Mongol warriors who were ambushed by them had already fled without a trace at this time.

These Mongols from the Zhaowuda League were not from the Horqin Six Banners, so their equipment and combat effectiveness were poor, and they had been beaten with black guns by the king's men when they were in the Hetao grassland. So after being sent out by Biertahar, he has been worried, and he didn't even dare to let go of his hands and feet when he robbed Han villages.

But they still fell for it, they were robbed of a group of fleeing Han refugees by the Ming army lying on the side of the road with black guns, and then by a group of lancers (10 lancers and 10 archers) to hit a surprise, hundreds of Mongols were frightened, in the panic did not know how many enemies there were, simply came and scattered.

Li Tieniu, who had won a great victory, did not chase and kill, and after cleaning up the battlefield, he escorted the 100 crying and crying people who were saved by them back to Zhuangqiao Village, these people were the peasants in Zhuangqiao Village. This Zhuangqiao village was shot down by Li Tieniu's men with 20 flintlock pistols at noon, and after taking Zhuangqiao Village, Li Tieniu learned from the people of Zhuangqiao Village that there were Mongolian cavalry activities nearby, and then he "borrowed" the people of Zhuangqiao Village to lay a trap......

Li Tieniu, who thought that he could rest comfortably in Zhuangqiao Village for a night, had just had a beautiful meal with his subordinates, but before he could arrange the order of taking turns to rest, the early warning gunshots rang out.

This is still the Mongols, but it is obviously more powerful than the previous Mongols, they are the men and horses of the Six Banners of Horqin, and the leader is the Zasak of the Horqin Left Wing Central Banner, or a prince and a forehead, named Manzhu Xili, he is Wu Keshan's younger brother, and the Qing Kingdom is also a family, and the adopted daughter of Huang Taiji, the Gege of Yue Tuo's family, became a Heshuo forehead.

This time he led his own 1,500 cavalry to attack with Zhuo Butai's firearms battalion, and the Mongol cavalry walked fast, so they opened the way in front and arrived at the battlefield first.

Different from the previous "miscellaneous Mongolia", the Manzhu Xili brought serious Horqin warriors, everyone had armor to protect their bodies, and there were more than 100 shotspearmen to protect the prince of Manzhu Xili.

However, after Manzhu Xili arrived on the battlefield, he did not immediately order his subordinates to launch a strong attack. Because he found that although Zhuangqiao Village is a small village, it has a double protection composed of a wooden fence and an earthen wall. Wooden fences were used to protect horses, and earthen walls were used to protect the defenders.

In addition, on the four corners of the square village, there are four wooden towers.

This is not a village inhabited by Han sheep at all, but a small but sturdy castle!

Looking at the fortifications of Zhuangqiao Village, Manzhu Xili was a little helpless. What does it mean that a small village is actually made like this? Who is this for?

These days, he can get a lot of reports from his subordinates, saying that the grass valley is not easy to fight! The villages of the Han people in the Beizhili area are almost as good as fortresses, and the strong men in the village are armed, so it is very difficult to fight!

Now it is the black spearmen of the Ming army who are guarding inside, how many people will die in this fight?

However, it is not easy to explain if you don't fight, so Manzhu Xili ordered his shotgunners to dispatch, don't get too close, just let the gun go far away and listen to the sound, just be able to explain the past to the Manchurian master.

As a result, more than 100 arquebuses crackled.

You can't kill a few people...... But there was a lot of movement, and it soon attracted a "black gun platoon" operating nearby.

These black spearmen of the Ming army were very cunning, and they did not fight with the warriors who were full of pearls and etiquette, but smeared them and put black guns, or rode horses to fight black guns, and ran away after the fight, leading the Mongols to chase. If the Mongols are hit, then wait to be beaten by the languiers and archers!

After suffering several losses, Manzhu Xili sent a large group of cavalry to expel him, and at the same time, another platoon of black spearmen arrived, so another melee opened around Zhuangqiao Village.

And the melee between the two black gun platoons of the Ming army and the Mongols made the sentry horses sent out by Manzhu Xili not dare to move - it was so dark, and there were so many Ming troops with black guns around, of course the Mongolian warriors had to be careful......

As a result, an infantry regiment of the Huaibei Army led by Qi Yuanbi, a military division of the Governor's Mansion of Shandong and Liaodong, and Huang Fugui, an adopted son of Huang Degong, approached Zhuangqiao Village in the dark - Qi Yuanbi attacked with two regiments and two artillery companies, but halfway through the road, he heard the gunfire in the direction of Zhuangqiao Village, so he asked Sun Yougong, an old regiment commander with him, to slow down with a regiment and two artillery companies, and he and Huang Fugui led a regiment of infantry to form a three-battalion phalanx and march quickly to Zhuangqiao Village.

Because these Ming infantry marched in the dark and did not light torches, and the battlefield of Zhuangqiao Village at this time was noisy and noisy, so it was not until the first battalion of Ming infantry who fought in the vanguard arrived to the south of Zhuangqiao Village and began to light the fire rope in the whole team that Manzhu Xili was reported by his subordinates.

And he didn't know the specific situation, only that a group of Southern Barbarian infantry had arrived!

"What? Is it infantry? Not on horseback? Manzhu Xili asked in surprise.

"It's the infantry, and they've formed a phalanx, and they're carrying long spears...... one of the Mongol warriors reported aloud, "and they've got a lot of shotguns, and they're lighting the arquebuses when the minions get close!" ”

"The brigade of the Southern Barbarians!" Manzhu Xili gasped, this is really confused, and he actually let the infantry of the Ming army take advantage of the chaos to touch under his nose...... Luckily, they were still using arquebuses, and if they had changed to flintlock pistols, they wouldn't know yet!

"Blow the trumpet, retire!" Although Manzhu Xili and the Qing Dynasty are a family, he still doesn't want his warriors to fight with the Han people, and he can't fight.

Not to mention that the muskets of the Han people are sharp and the phalanx is strong, even those of Li Chengliang's family in the past, the Mongolian warriors can't beat it!

But the trumpet is easy to blow, but it is a little difficult to retreat.

Because before the prince of Manzhu put away his shotgunners (they dismounted and released their guns), the Ming infantry began to attack!

They did not go any further, but drove towards the place where the prayer was. Because the Manzhu ritual had a bonfire lit not far from him, and a hundred and ten Mongolian spearmen fired their guns in front of him, it was very lively, so it became a big target.

The two rows of musketeers of the Ming army operating around Zhuangqiao Village also found their own reinforcements coming, so they did not entangle with the Mongolian cavalry, and all rushed towards the location where Manzhu Xili was.

The Mongol cavalry who were fighting around Zhuangqiao Village reacted super quickly, and when they heard the clarion call for retreat, they immediately scattered and fled, and no one went to find their prince......

Now the prince of Manzhu really couldn't cry, and he didn't have the time to shed tears, and he didn't care about the shotgunners who hadn't found their horses yet, so he ran north under the escort of a few personal guards, but before he ran far, he ran head-on into the pikemen and musketeers of the brigade.

The prince of Manzhu knew that the big thing was not good, but he couldn't let the Ming army's muskets go off, otherwise he would die.

So the prince who reacted quickly shouted in Chinese: "Don't fire the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow, I am the prince of Horqin, and I am willing to submit to the ...... of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty."