In the Jin army's array, the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, the flags danced, and the fast horses of the herald galloped between the formations, and the army immediately began to set up formations, ready to meet the enemy.

It's just that there is such a nail in Xinfeng Town, but it is very inconvenient for the Jin army to line up.

If the formation is in the north of the town, once the Ming army arrives, it will be able to support the town, and the formation is in the south of the town, separating the Ming army reinforcements from the town, which is also inappropriate, which is equivalent to being in a two-sided attack, in case something goes wrong in the back, the entire golden array will collapse.

In the end, for the sake of safety, Meng Qiaofang still chose to line up in the north of the town, and the Jin army followed the past habits, and nearly 60,000 horses were in a hurry to take their respective positions.

Each battalion of the Jin Army Infantry formed a square formation, and there was a large gap between the phalanx, spread out along the battlefield, and nearly 10,000 Jin Army cavalry were lined up behind the phalanx, and they could charge from the gap at any time.

In the past, the Ma army was the core force of a large army's attack, equivalent to a heavy hammer, but now the status of the Ma army is a little embarrassing.

The firearms concession army gradually ascended to the king's position, and the cavalry gradually became a supporting role. Of course, this is not to say that the cavalry is no longer good, if you ignore him, once he catches the opportunity, it will definitely make people regret it for life.

At this time, Meng Qiaofang and the generals were in front of the battle, waiting for the battle, and Zhao Liangdong's troops in front of them were fighting to the death with Ruan Mei's remnants in the town.

The river breeze along the Weishui River blew, the banner of the Jin army fluttered, the hunting sounded, Meng Qiaofang rode a horse and stood under the Wang Qi Daxu, staring into the distance with gloomy eyes, waiting to compete with the Ming army.

This battle is a battle to destroy the country, which is related to the life and death of Dajin Kingdom, and it is also related to the life and death of Meng Qiaofang, as well as his political future, and he will definitely go all out.

"Pass the order, Zhao Liangdong will continue to storm Xinfeng Town, there is no need to hesitate, and then order the Ma army, once the thief arrives, take advantage of the instability of his formation, and immediately storm them!" Meng Qiaofang shouted in a deep voice.

Meng Qiaofang is very confident, no wonder he is so arrogant, this is the battlefield selected by the Jin army, the Ming army is lagging down, plus the Ming cavalry is surrounded, the Jin army cavalry has an advantage, and the current terrain is in the wilderness, Meng Qiaofang feels that no matter how you look at it, his chances of winning are the majority.

Just as the Jin army was arranging the formation, the general Zheng Wencheng suddenly shouted: "It's coming!" ”

Meng Qiaofang and the others looked south, and sure enough, they saw flags all over the sky, and Ming army reinforcements came all over the field.

He hurriedly took out his clairvoyant mirror to look, only to see a dazzling red line appear in the south, and the soldiers of the Ming army lined up in a neat line among the knee-length weeds, marching in formation.

The phalanxes of the Ming army were in the trumpet, the order was forbidden, and the soldiers stepped neatly, moving forward slowly, maintaining a straight line.

Meng Qiaofang's face changed slightly when he saw this, he didn't expect that the Ming army would actually advance in a battle formation, and as soon as they entered the battlefield, they could directly enter the battle, which surprised him a little.

However, looking at the number of people, the strength of the Ming army does not seem to be as large as his, about only thirty or forty thousand, which makes him not hesitate, and decisively ordered: "The Ma army attacked, don't let them get close!" ”

Meng Qiaofang didn't consult with anyone, so he ordered directly. If the Ming army is allowed to advance to Xinfeng Town and join the defenders in the town, the Ming army has the town as its backing, and it will be difficult to defeat them.

As soon as he gave the order, the horn of the Jin army suddenly sounded, and the 10,000 cavalry of the Jin army slowly drove out.

Zhang Mingzhen led 30,000 cavalry to advance to the north, and many Ming army flag teams with mandarin duck formations were scattered in front of the front, and they were 12 people in a group, walking in front of the infantry formation 50 steps, and each flag team was spaced more than 20 steps apart to form a straggler line.

At this distance, the platoon fighters behind the skirmishers can give fire support, and the skirmishers can also support each other to shoot the Jin Army scout squad who dare to harass.

This is also the lack of cavalry of the Ming army, so a skirmish line was used to walk in front of the large array and cover the advance of the large array.

However, this kind of skirmisher is okay to deal with the harassment of small groups of scouts, and in the face of the 10,000 cavalry who came out of the golden array, it is a mantis arm as a car.

Zhang Mingzhen, as the head of the Lu generals, once independently supported half of the world in the south of the Yangtze River with Wang Yi of Siming Mountain, restrained a large number of Qing troops, and shared huge pressure for the Longwu court and Wang Yan to resist the Qing in the southwest.

In the official history, after the fall of Zhoushan, Zhang Mingzhen escorted King Lu to Xiamen.

Zheng Guo's surname didn't look down on Zhang Mingzhen, who lost Zhoushan, and said: "What did you do to wait for a few years in Dingxi?" ”

Zhang Mingzhen replied: "ZTE is a great cause! ”

Zheng Guo asked again: "Where is the great cause?" ”

Zhang Mingzhen replied: "If you are not good, you will collect the actual achievements, and if you are not good, you will be in every inch."

Zheng Guo asked again, "What is the basis for the square inch?" ”

Zhang Mingzhen replied, "On the back." "After speaking, undressing and showing it, there are four words of 'serving the country with a naked heart', which go deep into the skin.

Zhang Mingzhen can be said to be a battle-hardened veteran, and if it weren't for the factional problem, the achievements would be more than that.

Wang Yan knew his ability, so he made him the main general of the northern front to block Meng Qiaofang's attack.

At this time, when he saw the cavalry of the Jin Army coming out of the battle, he did not panic, but waved his hand, and the Daxu Banner behind him immediately stopped, and the 30,000 Ming Army saw that the Daxu Banner stopped, and they also immediately stopped their pace, and the entire Great Array stood silently.

The 30,000 horses led by Zhang Mingzhen, only four divisions of dragoons, plus a battalion of stragglers sheltered in front of the formation, which could not withstand the impact of the nearly 10,000 cavalry of the Jin army.

Zhang Mingzhen waved his hand to stop the big formation from moving forward, and then ordered loudly: "The army will be arrayed on the spot to meet the enemy, and the Shanzi battalion in front of the formation will gather in one place and continue to advance towards Xinfeng Town!" In case of enemy cavalry attack, you can form a hollow array to defend on the spot. ”

As soon as he gave the order, the Ming army remembered the sound of the horn, the army stopped and set up, and the stragglers in front of the formation gathered the camp flag in the middle in the sound of the horn, formed a phalanx, and headed for the town two miles away.

Seeing the enemy cavalry attacking, Zhang Mingzhen's troops set up the formation in an orderly manner.

In front of the large array, a row of spears was in front, and the soldiers crouched down, stepped on the tail of the spear, held the shaft of the spear with both hands, and let the sharp spear stab out diagonally. The spearmen crouched, not interfering with the shots of the musketeers behind them, and behind them were three rows of self-generated gunners who were reloading.

These were the four rows in front, fifty paces apart from them, and so was the second line, and after them was the third such line.

In addition to the soldiers, the Ming army also placed vehicles in front of the formation, arranged obstacles such as antlers to resist horses on the front line, and placed artillery behind the obstacles, ready to fire.

The Ming army responded calmly, mainly because when the Ming army was planning to defend the north and attack the south, it had already made plans for how to deal with Meng Qiaofang's attack.

The battlefield is located on the plain, the terrain is not complicated, after the Ming army left the camp, the formation was set up outside the camp in advance, and then the general formation was maintained and advanced forward, so after arriving at the battlefield, only simple preparations were needed, and the large array was quickly formed.

In the distance, Meng Qiaofang rode on a horse, used a clairvoyant mirror to check the Ming army's front, and saw that the cavalry attacked and forced the Ming army to stop, but the Ming army quickly formed a formation, and it was unlikely that the cavalry would take advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold and crush the Ming army.

He took the clairvoyant mirror, quickly scanned the entire Ming army front, and saw more than 3,000 Ming troops in the front, out of the cover of the large array, and continued to advance towards Xinfeng Town, he immediately put down the clairvoyant mirror, and shouted: "Order the Ma Army, detour to the west, attack the flank of the Ming army, and then order the Pucheng camp and Chengcheng camp in Tongzhou Town to go forward, one left and one right, to attack the Ming army in front, and not let them enter Xinfeng Town." ”

After the Jin cavalry came out of the battle, they gradually increased their speed and galloped forward, preparing to disperse the Ming army.

They first met the Shanzi battalion that broke forward, and the three thousand Ming troops were immediately in the wilderness, forming a phalanx, and the spears were pierced obliquely, and the cavalry of the Jin army looked at the bright spears and did not dare to hit the phalanx.

Most of the cavalry that can charge into battle are heavy cavalry, and they also need special training, otherwise people are willing to collide and horses do not want to be sent to death.

Besides, even if it is a heavy horse, it cannot be blindly bumped, otherwise even if it is worn as a tin can, it is easy to be stabbed to death by a spear.

The cavalry of the Jin army galloped forward, when approaching the phalanx, the war horses were divided into left and right independently, bypassing to both sides, and the cavalry on the war horses bypassed from both sides of the phalanx, and the cavalry suddenly fired bows and arrows and firearms, and the soldiers in the phalanx immediately fell to the ground one after another.

However, at the same time, the front, left and right sides of the phalanx opened fire at the same time, and the firearms fired in unison from three sides, and the flames flashed again and again, and the Jin army suddenly fell off their horses.

In the Ming army's array, the iron sand from the copper cannon swept down the golden cavalry, which frightened the Jin general cavalry behind and hurriedly bypassed.

The Ming army attached great importance to artillery, and each bureau was more than 100 people, and it was equipped with a small cannon, some of which were three-pound guns and some were six-pound guns, as fire support for the infantry army.

The cavalry bypassed the phalanx of the Ming army and appeared in front of the Ming army's large array, they saw that the Ming army was in a line, the front was rejecting the horse, and the spears were ready, but without an order, they could only rush forward.

"Boom, boom!" On the Ming army's front, the artillery suddenly fired in unison, and the golden cavalry who rushed forward suddenly turned over.

At this moment, a horn sounded from the Jin army, and the cavalry who rushed forward suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the reins of their horses one after another, and turned to the west and galloped away one and a half miles away from the Ming army's front.

Zhang Mingzhen immediately understood Meng Qiaofang's intentions, and the Dufugou in the west had fallen into the hands of the Jin army, where the Ming army had no support.

The Ming army was arrayed in a line, with strong frontal firepower, but the flanks were relatively thin, and Meng Qiaofang obviously wanted to break through from the west and attack from the side and back.

If the Jin cavalry went around behind the Ming army and launched an attack on the Ming army, the Ming army would be very dangerous, and once the Jin army broke through the Ming army's defense line, I am afraid that Li Guo had not defeated Wu Sangui, and the Ming army would almost be defeated.

As a veteran, Zhang Mingzhen has been in the campaign for no less time than Meng Qiaofang, and he has experienced no less battles than Meng Qiaofang. In the case that the four towns were surrendered and the Ming Dynasty had no elite soldiers, he was able to rely on a group of newly recruited soldiers to support him in the south of the Yangtze River, so he naturally had the ability.

At this time, he saw the cavalry of the Jin Army heading west, and he didn't even move his eyelids, and directly ordered: "Order Qin Feng to block the gap in the west!" ”

Under the order of the Chinese army, among the 2,000 cavalry who retreated from the front, Qin Feng, who had already become a thirty-year-old middle-aged man, immediately took his war knife and shouted loudly: "Zhongwu Town, it's time to wash away the shame!" ”

After speaking, he took the lead, led the two thousand dragoons who escaped from Lintong, drove the war horses dragging artillery, and immediately galloped westward.

The front of the two armies stretched from Dufugou in the west to Lingkou Town in the east, with a ditch in the west of Dufugou and a river in the east of Lingkou Town, and the battlefield was just sandwiched between a ditch and a river.

Qin Feng led two thousand dragoons, and soon galloped to the west, on the west side of the Ming army front, between the water ditch and the Ming army line, quickly turned over and dismounted, the soldiers quickly formed a formation, and the artillery was pushed forward, waiting for the battle.

After a while, thousands of horses galloped, and the cavalry of the Jin Army appeared in front of them······

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