Zhang Jiayu led his people out of three or four miles, expecting that the enemy had been lured deep enough, so he turned around and ordered his officers to gather their soldiers.

The task of luring the enemy was very dangerous, and when he finished counting the number of soldiers, there were only 1,000 soldiers left.

Zhang Jiayu originally planned to let the soldiers return to the camp to repair, after all, they had completed the most difficult task.

But before he could give the order, he saw a large group of men and horses shouting "the building is strong" and "the Ming army is defeated", and so on, rushing towards him.

Zhang Jiayu was extremely suspicious in his heart - even if his plan to lure the enemy into an ambush failed, at most he would change to positional warfare. Even if the Ming army was weak enough to defeat the Qing army, it should not be defeated like a landslide in a moment.

He ordered his subordinates not to move without permission, and when he let Su Guansheng and Wan Yuanji's defeated soldiers, he saw that there were only more than 100 chasing soldiers.

The 100 cavalry of the Qing army saw from a distance that a group of men and horses in front of them were waiting for them, and they only thought that the Ming army was responding to the troops, and they did not dare to come forward to fight, so they turned their horses back.

Zhang Jiayu knew that if the army broke and fled all the way, Jinxi County would definitely not be safe.

He immediately ordered his soldiers to pick up the weapons discarded by the defeated army, and led the army to kill them again, only reporting the plan to delay the Qing army's pursuit and give Wandutang a chance to breathe.

Su Chengyu called the herald and ordered the Long Wei army to immediately rely on the Shuangchen River to line up and prepare to meet the large Qing army.

As for the task of pursuing the enemy's route, it is enough to leave it to the dragoon company. Dealing with a defeated army, even if you put a few chickens behind, you can drive them all over the world.

The pre-war plan did not take into account the situation that the Qing army had a large number of reinforcements, and it took a long time after his order was conveyed that the Long Wei army gathered the formation.

Fortunately, the infantry has always been lined up in a neat horizontal column, and at this time it is only necessary to change the formation and turn.

Gao Jinku led the troops to rush to the lower reaches of the Shuangchen River, but only heard sporadic ringing, and was wondering, so he heard the Malay report, "General, Feng's guerrilla headquarters was defeated by the Ming army, and most of them have fallen into the Shuangchen River. ”

Gao Jinku's face changed greatly, that was his five thousand descendants!

He hurriedly took the binoculars to watch, and saw three or four thousand strangely dressed Ming troops forming a long snake formation on the north bank of the Shuangchen River, and they were waiting for the formation.

In front of the Ming army's flank, his forward troops were fluttering in the Shuangchen River, and about forty percent were left.

After Gao Jinku learned that Feng Junrui was ambushed, he desperately drove the soldiers to reinforcements as quickly as possible, but he didn't expect that it would take a moment for his five thousand elites to be killed or wounded.

"Damn*, Feng Junrui, this waste!"

He was very clear about the strength of the Ming army in Jiangxi, except for Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youling's thousands of royal palace guards, the vast majority of them were temporary recruits recruited by Yang Tinglin, lacking training, poor equipment, and low morale.

In several encounters, the Ming army was defeated after a little battle, but Feng Junrui was beaten like this by the Ming army, how could he not be angry.

In fact, according to his conscience, Feng Junrui played well enough this time, and once defeated the ambush troops of the Ming army, if it weren't for Su Chengyu's Dragon Guard, it was too buggy, and now he has almost occupied Jinxi City.

Gao Jinku saw that nearly 2,000 of his descendants were still alive, so he was anxious to rescue them from the river.

He shouted the order: "Guerrilla Ning Wei, lead the Chinese army of 6,000 people to attack the Ming army head-on." The Ming army's formation is thin, and it can be broken quickly! Even if you can't defeat it, hold it back! ”

"Obey!"

"Guerrilla Liu Bolu, you lead my own soldiers, and then lead 800 cavalry, around the right flank of the Ming army. If Ning Wei has broken the enemy, he will chase and cover up. If it is not broken, it will advance in both directions, and the enemy will be crushed. ”

"Obey!"

"Thousands of generals are super over, lead a thousand crossbowmen to follow Ning Wei and shoot the Ming army!"

"Obey!"

Gao Jinku arranged for 800 people to explore along the north side to find out whether the army was ambushing, and sent more than 1,000 soldiers to take advantage of the chaos to go down to the river to catch people.

After some arrangement, he drew his sword and pointed at the Ming army's position, "March!" ”

Ning Wei gathered the Qing troops and divided the six thousand foot soldiers into three teams to form three slender phalanxes to charge.

In front of each phalanx, there are five rows of rattan players, wearing cotton armor, and each row is forty people. The rest of the gunners, axemen, and spearmen followed.

He had just seen the horizontal formation of the Ming army, which stretched for nearly a mile wide, but there were only three rows of soldiers, and they were all the weakest soldiers.

For this kind of formation, as long as the offensive formation is narrowed, the area of frontal bullets is reduced, and after two or three rounds, or at most four rounds of firearms, they can rush in front of the guns.

With the front five rows of rattan players defending, the fire bolt will not cause too many casualties.

Once the hand-to-hand combat is short-lived, it is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables to destroy these soldiers with thousands of axes and spearmen.

This time, it was a good deal, and it was a good thing to make a military achievement! Ning Wei was very happy in his heart, and when his subordinates finished forming a formation, he immediately drew his sword and ordered, "The whole army is attacking!" "That posture is as if he is commanding someone to cut off the head of the Ming army and calculate the merits of the war.

In fact, his theory is very correct in the current arquebus era. Because the arquebus has a poor rate of fire and fire density, it is difficult for the enemy to suppress the opponent if he charges desperately, so it is necessary to cover the musketeers with cold weapons.

The most typical way is to mix arquebusiers and spearmen to form a phalanx, move together and support each other. The Mandarin Duck Formation of the Qi Family's Army, the Spanish Grand Phalanx, the Swedish Phalanx and other famous battle formations are all products of this tactic.

However, in the era of flintlock muskets, due to the greatly increased attack power of muskets, everyone began to seek to spread fire on as large an area as possible, and line infantry tactics became the mainstream. If the enemy concentrates on a point on the line, the entire line of infantry will form a semi-encirclement posture and quickly crush it with crossfire.

As a result, Ning Wei, who didn't know what was going on, was tragic.

Chen Xiongfei saw the three Qing army charging phalanxes next to each other a mile away in the telescope, and immediately ordered the artillery to start firing.

Each artillery team is responsible for exactly one piece of artillery, and the pipe team is equipped with telescopes.

Soon, a team of commanders estimated the distance of the enemy and said in a loud voice: "Six hundred and seventy steps away from the enemy's front." Immediately, according to the gun table that he had memorized countless times, he shouted out the shooting parameters, "The elevation angle is three points, the direction is due east, and the maximum charge." ”

Immediately, one of the loaders shoved the largest powder bag into the muzzle of the gun, and the other man then stuffed the iron ball into it. The loader immediately compacted the shells and gunpowder with a battering staff.

Someone else measured the elevation angle of the muzzle with a gun gauge and instructed the igniter: "Go up two." The latter immediately rotated the screw of the tail of the gun, raising the muzzle of the gun by two degrees.

Then the igniter punctured the powder pack with a hammer and inserted the ignition tube, "Ready!" ”

The corners of Chen Xiongfei's mouth curled slightly, and he ordered: "Release!" ”

The herald's small flag was raised, and immediately four earth-shattering roars rang out. Almost at the same time, there were also four loud bangs on the right side of the infantry line.

Eight iron balls weighing about six pounds roared and flew into the Qing army's charging phalanx, and in an instant, eight neat ravines were plowed out of the crowd, and the forty or fifty Qing soldiers in the front row immediately turned into blood foam.

After the iron ball fell to the ground, it bounced twice in succession, breaking the legs of more than a dozen people before finally stopping.

In the Qing army's array, someone reached out and wiped a handful of flesh and blood on his face, was stunned for half a second, and suddenly shouted hoarsely: "It's a cannon!" ”

"Where's the cannon?!"