On the back of the hill more than three miles away from the Shuangchen River, the infantry of the Dragon Guard Army in dark green military uniforms lined up in a loose horizontal line, and the width of the entire line was nearly one mile. The soldiers in the front row were all dressed in knee-length cotton armor, but in order to reduce weight, shoulder and arm pads were eliminated, and the back was only half thick.

There were also several soldiers dressed as ordinary villagers carrying straw baskets on their backs to stand guard in front of the hills.

On each side of the infantry line was an artillery company, with gunpowder and shells ready to attack the enemy with crossfire.

Behind the infantry there were also three companies of artillery, which were bombarded with curved mortars.

The cavalry was concentrated a little farther away, and the light and heavy cavalry were divided into two formations, mainly responsible for coordinating with the infantry to defend against enemy surprise attacks, and to pursue and annihilate the enemy when the enemy army collapsed.

On the east side of the hill, Su Chengyu and all the main officers were holding an all-army combat meeting. The officers formed a circle, with a map and a sand table in the middle.

All of the Dragonguard's major military tactics must come from an all-army combat meeting. Although Su Chengyu had many advanced military concepts, he was not conceited enough to think that his decision-making ability alone could surpass that of all the officers under his command.

In fact, when the officers of the Ming Dynasty learned his military philosophy, the military talent they showed was not inferior to that of any modern person.

Only by gathering the common wisdom of all the officers of the Dragon Guard Army can the best battle plan be formulated. Of course, Su Chengyu, as the supreme commander of the Dragon Guard Army, has the final decision-making power of the all-army combat meeting.

"Then the main operational idea is to suppress the Qing army on the north bank of the Shuangchen River as much as possible, and use intensive firepower to seek the fastest possible defeat." Su Chengyu waited for the main officers to finish their speeches and concluded, "The artillery must be flexible and maneuver to find areas where the enemy is dense to kill and wound. But be careful not to be too protruding. ”

"Yes!" Chen Xiongfei saluted.

"The cavalry must be steady," Su Chengyu continued, "Your task is not to attack the enemy and break the formation, you must use speed to plug the leak at any time." ”

"Yes!" Brother Zhu and Zhao Zhixi said at the same time.

"Let's talk about the special case plan. First of all, how do we respond if the intelligence on the number of enemy forces is inaccurate and significantly exceeds expectations? ”

The officers quickly negotiated the best response plan according to the characteristics of the Dragon Guard.

Su Chengyu instructed the clerk on the side, "This is a plan for the first word." ”

"Also, if the enemy army pursuing Zhang Jiayu's troops suddenly stops, how will they respond?"

……

Zhang Jiayu ran out of ten miles in one breath, until the scheduled ambush location appeared in front of him, and when he looked back, he saw a miasma of smoke behind him, and people shouted and neighed.

He breathed a sigh of relief at this time, it seems that ninety percent of the Qing army is about to be tricked.

In a bush three or four hundred steps away from Zhang Jiayu, Wan Yuanji's subordinates were all covered with weeds and wooden sticks, lying on the ground.

His lieutenant Wu Zhifan saw the dust in the distance and quietly ordered his subordinates to light the flotine rope, but he was strictly ordered not to let it go.

And behind a large mound of dirt a little farther away, Zhu Youma's cavalry. He also had several ditches dug under his command, and his foot soldiers hid in them, and they had already burned the fire rope, waiting for the Qing army to approach.

Su Guansheng was stopped behind the bushes by Wan Yuanji's deputy Zhang Guozuo at first, but he heard the shouting and killing sound getting louder and louder from a distance, and finally couldn't hold back and squeezed forward. Zhang Guozuo couldn't stop it, so he had to follow closely.

Su Guansheng talked boastfully in front of Long Wu, as if he was proficient in the art of war, but in fact he had never been on the battlefield at all.

This time, he raised his own money to train 2,000 Xinwei Army, and dreamed of becoming famous in one battle, being a "new era" Wang Yangming, Yunwen Yunwu, and supporting Sheji Zhongxing.

But when he saw the dust covering the sky and the sun in front of him, and heard the screams before death, the ground under his feet was trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but turn pale for a while, raised his finger to the front, and said in a trembling voice: "Still, what are you waiting for, fight!" ”

Wan Yuan Ji glared at him, and Zhang Guozuo hurriedly pressed Su Guansheng down, "Lord Su, these are our soldiers in front of you. ”

Seeing that the group was getting closer and closer, within a hundred paces, the blood on the faces of those people and the arrows stuck in their bodies could already be seen.

Su Guansheng's eyes widened and widened, and he muttered to himself, "This is my own person, I can't fight, I can't fight ......."

When the wounded men had reached a distance of sixty or seventy paces, they suddenly parted to the sides, revealing the pursuers behind them.

Su Guansheng looked at the Qing army with bloody swords and roaring fiercely from a distance, and finally couldn't restrain his fear, and suddenly stood up and drew his sword and shouted: "Fight!" Kill the Jianju and serve the country! Call me—"

Wan Yuanji's people were stunned, Wan Dutang's order was that the enemy should fire within sixty paces, but the enemy army was still a hundred paces away.

Su Guansheng's Xinwei army heard his commander's order, and regardless of whether he was in the back or not, he raised the bird gun and shot indiscriminately.

Wan Wanji, who was ambushed in the front row, heard the sound of guns behind him, and turned back in shock, almost thinking that it was a sneak attack by the Qing army from behind.

Wan Yuan Ji had no choice but to loudly order his officers to suppress it, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.

Without extremely rigorous training, this kind of thing is very contagious. Soon, Wan Yuanji's shouting was suppressed by the noise, and the soldiers who were ambushed here had no one to drink, and they all raised their guns to shoot at the figures in the distance.

When the crossbowmen saw that the gunners had fired, they followed suit, and for a moment the arrows rained down and the sound of guns shook the sky.

Feng Junrui was chasing after him, when he suddenly heard a dense sound in front of him. He immediately took the telescope and observed, only to see the smoke of gunpowder in the bushes three hundred paces away, crowded with people, and I don't know how many people were in ambush.

He was shocked, but he didn't say that there was an ambush, but shouted: "General Gao has sent someone to intercept the Ming army, stop the pursuit, and form a formation on the spot!" Violators will be killed! ”

The fastest group of Qing soldiers were shot at a hundred paces away from the ambush, and several people immediately fell. However, the bullets of the smoothbore musket were not only inaccurate at a distance of 100 paces, but also had very weak lethality, so they did not cause much damage to the enemy.

Wan Yuan Ji saw the pursuers from a distance and paused, and he knew that it was not good. He didn't care about blaming Su Guansheng, drew his sword and pointed forward, shouting: "The whole army is attacking!" ”

The thousands of soldiers hidden in the bushes immediately shouted out, but at this time, Feng Junrui had barely gathered his men and ordered a group of cavalry to rush forward and drag the Ming army, while the others set up a defensive formation on the spot.

Wan Yuan Ji rushed out of the bushes, and when a cavalry galloped towards him, he stopped and fired his arrows to attack the enemy. So an ambush war turned into a positional war.

At this time, Su Guansheng was still stunned, and his Xinwei army saw the friendly army rushing out, but he didn't see his own lord ordering.

Zhu Youma, who was ambushed a little farther away, was even more confused - seeing that the Qing army was still far away, why did Wan Yuan Ji rush up? Could it be that you want to grab the merits of the war? This old horseman!

So he rushed out, "Give it all to me!" ”

Su Chengyu, who was in charge of the interception on the north side, also heard a loud noise on the other side of the mound, and climbed to a high place to watch with a telescope, only to see that the Qing army had been assembled, with rattan players and pikemen in front, gunmen and crossbowmen standing in the middle, and the cavalry on both sides were also ready to attack.

He immediately put away his binoculars and said to the herald: "Order the whole army to implement the B-word plan." ”

"Yes!"