The Qing army camp was in chaos, and the fierce soldiers of the Ming army's lynx battalion lit fires everywhere and cut people when they saw them. Most of the Qing soldiers didn't even have time to put on their armor, so they grabbed their weapons and rushed out of the camp tent, and met the Ming soldiers head-on. Some Qing soldiers didn't even have time to pick up their weapons and rushed out of the camp to flee for their lives. In the chaos, the Qing soldiers who fled for their lives could not distinguish between east and west, north and south, and many people threw themselves into the net and ran to the side of the Ming army, but their heads were cut off.

was stolen and defeated so badly, this is actually not to blame Li Zhifang for being too loose-guarded, because his troops are not much, and his camp is located between the former army Luo Keduo and the Chinese army Aobai, and it is not a rear army camp related to grain and grass, according to normal people's thinking, it is impossible to sneak attack his camp, because the sneak attacker must enter the encirclement of the Qing army, and after succeeding, it is a question whether he can safely evacuate.

"My lord! The pirates are in! "There are pro-soldiers panting and breaking into Li Zhifang's Chinese army camp.

The shouting and killing sound outside woke Li Zhifang from his sleep. He stretched out his hand to get his official uniform and hat, but one of his own soldiers said, "My lord, you can change into our clothes!" ”

Li Zhifang put on the clothes of his own soldiers and fled from the chaotic camp under the protection of several personal soldiers.

"This thief is too bold, isn't he? Why the attack on our army camp? Aren't they afraid of being surrounded by us? Li Zhifang, who had just escaped and was in shock, thought hard about this question, and really couldn't figure out why the Ming army wanted to go deep into the encirclement of the Qing army to deal with him, was it because he had a personal vendetta with himself?

Ao Bai Chinese army camp, the wooden fence inside the lights are brilliant, the outside of the camp dug a trench, the periphery also arranged a trap, the earthen wall of the camp every ten steps is lit with a torch, every fifteen steps stands a sentry Qing soldier, vigilantly looking outside, the defense can be said to be impeccable.

"There's a fire in the east!" Suddenly, a Qing soldier shouted.

"There's a fire in the east!" All the soldiers woke up from their sleep.

Ao Bai, who had just fallen asleep. Woken up.

"Lord Ao, my humble subordinates saw a fire in the east, and I don't know where it was attacked!" One of the Eight Banners soldiers who came in reported to Ao.

Ao Bai put on his clothes, sat up, and said in his heart: Who was attacked? There is the barracks of Rocoduo and Li Zhifang in front, it is impossible for Rocoduo to be attacked at night and be stolen, he is the vanguard army, and the guard will not be worse than his own, the only possibility is that Li Zhifang was attacked! Thinking of this, Ao Bai said: "Send someone to Li Zhifang's camp immediately!" ”

Several Qing army spies were about to set off. But I saw a large group of defeated soldiers pouring towards the Chinese army camp in Aobai.

"Don't open the gate! Drink so that they are not allowed to come close! Otherwise, the arrows will be released! Wait until dawn to open the door and let them in! Ao Bai stood on the earthen wall and shouted loudly. He was worried that these Ming troops would disguise themselves as Qing defeated soldiers to deceive the gate of the wall, so he prevented the defeated soldiers from entering the Chinese army camp.

Li Zhifang, who was wearing the clothes of a pro-soldier, walked out of the crowd of defeated troops, raised his head and shouted: "Lord Ao, you are a slave!" It's the minion Li Zhifang! ”

With the help of the firelight, several Qing soldiers saw that it was indeed Li Zhifang, so they reported to Aobai.

Ao Bai said: "Let Li Zhifang come in alone, no one else is allowed to come in!" ”

Seeing Li Zhifang, Ao Bai figured out what was going on, it was Li Zhifang's camp that was attacked at night. The Qing army suffered heavy losses, and the large camp was taken by the Ming army.

"Beware of thieves stealing the camp, it is the most basic common sense to march and fight, why were you a dog slave being stolen by someone?" Ao Bai was so angry that he trembled. pointed at Li Zhifang's nose and scolded.

"Damn it! Spare your life! Spare your life! Li Zhifang knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Ao Bai waved his hand and said, "Get up!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Ao Bai suddenly turned his head and shouted at his own soldiers: "Immediately send me an order, let the army pull out the camp and raise the village, and attack the thieves who attacked Lord Li overnight!" In addition, fireworks signals are emitted to the wings. Let them immediately move closer to the middle! Don't take any more detours! Immediately concentrate your forces and eliminate the sea bandits that attacked Li Zhifang! ”

"My lord, why did you attack overnight?" Zhang Chaoxuan asked.

Ao Bai replied: "The thieves attacked Li Zhifang's camp at night. It is to cut off the retreat of General Rocodo of our army! They want to concentrate their forces and eat our front army! We must attack overnight and get Roccodo out of here! ”

Most of the Qing soldiers at that time had night blindness, but they could still march at night with torches.

On the official road, moving fire dragons appeared. A team of tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of torches lit up the sky, and from a distance, it seemed like the Milky Way had landed.

After the Qiongzhou army succeeded, the Zheng family army that followed behind also arrived and settled in the position, plus Huang Zhao, Zhang Wei, Qiu Hui, Xie Yongchang, Chen Wenda and other Ming troops who met from the two wings, a total of more than 15,000 Ming troops entered the blocking position.

"Hurry up and dig a ditch! Dig up the dirt and pile it up! Jiang Zhiping shouted loudly, asking the Ming army to dig up the soil, digging criss-crossing trenches in the original Qing army camp, and piling up the excavated soil into earthen walls. The wooden fences of the Qing army camp were dismantled, cut short, and made into wooden stakes and deer barricades, which were arranged in the position. Some Ming soldiers dismantled the tents of the Qing army that had not been burned, cut them and put them on soil to make sandbags.

At the same time, the main force of the Ming army in Lin'an moved outside and entered the positions outside the city.

Wang Xinyu stood on the podium, looked around, and shouted: "Brothers! The former army of the Tartars has already been made dumplings by us! We are now attacking overnight, storming the Tartar camp at night! We must annihilate all the Tartars who are surrounded by us! As long as we eat the Tartar in front, Aobai will be defeated! ”

At midnight, that is, at half past three in the morning, the artillery of the Ming army's counterattack began.

Thirty-two Hongyi cannons, twelve 32-pounder copper mortar cannons, sixty-four eight-pounder copper mortar cannons, sixty-four sub-mother cannons, more than 100 Franc machines, more than 100 three-pounder four-pounder cannons, and more than 200 tiger squat cannons opened artillery bombardment, the earth-shattering sound of artillery pierced the quiet night sky, the cannonballs roared and fell in the Qing army camp, the solid cannonballs smashed down the wooden fence of the wall, overturned the tents, and the flowering cannonballs fell in the camp and exploded a ball of fireball.

Although the Qing soldiers had seen the movement of the Ming army and were prepared, the power of hundreds of artillery bombardments. It still shocked Roccodor.

The artillery of the Qing army counterattacked, and a fierce artillery battle ensued between the two sides.

Artillery fire, shells flew around, and the light of the fire lit up the night sky. In the artillery battle, the Ming gunners also suffered casualties, but the Ming army struck first, and concentrated a large number of artillery pieces at the same time, and the firepower far exceeded the firepower of Rocodor's front army. The total number of artillery of the Qing army exceeded that of the Ming army, but it was too scattered, and some were in the hands of Yue Le and Mu Lima on both flanks. Some of the Chinese troops in Aobai were attacked by the lack of firepower.

At the same time as the Ming army launched an attack, Aobai's middle army also launched an attack on the Ming army blocking the road.

The artillery of the Qing army did not pull up for a while, so it could only rely on the infantry and launched a charge against the positions of the Ming army.

"Kill!" Hordes of Qing soldiers rushed up with torches and shouts.

The soldiers of the Qiongzhou Army Shenji Battalion, Taixi Battalion and the Zheng Family Army's Black Musket Team hid behind the earthen wall, rows of gunfire rang out, flames continued to erupt in the darkness, and the torches that poured up fell to the ground one after another. The archers of the Ming army shot an overwhelming barrage of arrows. In an instant, a large number of torches were extinguished.

The Qing army paid a heavy price, and someone finally rushed to the Ming position.

Criss-crossed trenches, dense earthen walls and wooden fences form passages. The Qing soldiers could only pass through the passage, and as a result, spears stretched out from behind the wooden fence and stabbed the Qing soldiers who entered the passage to death one by one. However, the Qing saber and shield men were blocked by the wooden fence and could not attack the Ming spearmen behind the wooden fence. The sword and shield hand of the Ming army. At this time, he was used as a bombardier, hiding behind a wooden fence, and throwing 10,000 enemies and national surname bottles to the most densely populated place of the Qing army in the trench.

The Qing soldiers who were lucky enough not to die could only use knives and axes to chop the wooden fence. Try to cut down the wooden fence, so that you can cut the Ming army behind. But every Qing soldier could not cut a few times, and was stabbed to death by the spears that stretched out densely behind the wooden fence.

I don't know how many Qing soldiers fell, and sections of trenches were filled with corpses.

Finally, a section of the wooden fence was cut down by the Qing soldiers.

The sword and shield hands of the Ming army immediately rushed in, blocked the gap, and fought with the Qing soldiers. The musketeers in the back came up from both flanks and constantly output fire.

The fierce battle was raging until dawn, and the corpses of the Qing army were piled up in front of the Ming army, but the Qing army still failed to break through the Ming army's defense line.

But after dawn, the artillery of the Qing army also pulled up. Ao Bai gave the order, set up artillery, and violently bombarded the Ming army's position.

In the sound of artillery, the earthen walls collapsed one after another, the wooden fence was reduced to fragments one after another, and the defense system of the Ming army was damaged to a certain extent. Then a large group of Qing troops poured up and once again launched a dream attack on the Ming army's position.

Although the earthen walls and wooden fences of the Ming army were destroyed, the Ming soldiers hid in the trenches and suffered few casualties. When the Qing soldiers attacked, the Ming troops hiding in the trenches fired muskets, bird guns and bows and arrows, overturning the charging Qing soldiers in a pool of blood. When the Qing soldiers approached, the small cannons such as the tiger squat cannon and the eight-pounder copper mortar cannon carried by the Ming army also showed their might. The shotguns sprayed by the Tiger Squat Cannon killed and injured a large number of Qing soldiers, and the flowering shells of the copper mortar cannon continued to fall and explode in the crowd of Qing soldiers.

Even if the Qing soldiers rushed to the front, the Ming army's sword players and pikemen mixed formation, forming a defense line that the Qing army could not cross, and the king of close combat, Miao Li Yi, the mountain soldiers, showed their might, using the Qing army's inability to form a formation on the potholed terrain to fight, shouting and killing into the Qing army's formation, cutting the Qing soldiers' flesh and blood.

"Kill!" A Miao pawn split the head of a Qing soldier with an axe.

The two Qing soldiers on the left and right came up and slashed at the rattan armor of the Ming soldier, but they couldn't cut in. The Miao soldier wielded a big axe, and the two Qing soldiers were in different places. At this time, a sneak attack Qing soldier appeared from the side and stabbed the Miao soldier in the leg without rattan armor. But as if he didn't know the pain, the soldier returned with an axe and split the Qing soldier with his gun into two pieces. More than a dozen Qing soldiers came up together, slashing and stabbing with guns, and the Ming soldier was injured in many arms and calves, and the big axe also fell to the ground. However, the Ming soldier hit with his knees, knocked over a Qing soldier, and then pressed on the Qing soldier's body, opened his mouth and bit the throat of the Qing soldier, until more than a dozen Qing soldiers came up together and cut off all his limbs, he still bit the throat of the Qing soldier, and the Qing soldier who was pressed in the dirt by him had already lost his breath.

There is more than one such madman! The hundreds or thousands of mountain soldiers frightened the Qing army, and the morale of the Qing soldiers, who had easily rushed up, soon fell to the bottom and turned around and fled from the Ming army's position.

Under the city of Lin'an, the counterattacking Ming army and the Qing army fought until dawn, and the Ming army did not use infantry to charge, because the night charge was very inefficient in those days, and it may not be able to break through the opponent's defense line, but it will cause unnecessary losses to their own side. It was only at dawn that the formation of the Ming army steadily advanced.

The Ming army arranged the artillery on both flanks, with an infantry formation in the middle, and advanced slowly.

After a night of artillery fighting, the artillery of Rocoduo's department had been completely destroyed, and he could only watch the Ming army shell himself, but he could not launch a counterattack against the Ming army.

"My lord, the thief artillery is on both flanks, and the thief has left their trench, we can charge their artillery with cavalry! Just take their cannons, and we'll be victorious! Uhe suggested to Rocodor.

Rocodo agreed to Uhe's proposal: "Good! Our Manchurian warriors are invincible in the world with arches and horses! As long as there is a charge, the Han dog will definitely drop the cannon and flee for his life! ”

Song Kui said: "Two generals, be careful of the Han Dog's deception!" Look at the artillery of this Han dog, there is no infantry protection, there are only some strange carriages behind the artillery, and the slave suspects that the Han dog deliberately set a trap to lure our Eight Banner cavalry into being fooled! ”

Wu He said angrily: "That's the Han dog who thinks he has won the battle!" Their artillery is not protected by infantry, and this is not our best chance? Even if there are traps and trips, how many of our warriors can be injured? When their infantry storms our camp and our infantry is defeated, we won't stand a chance! ”

The Qing army sounded the war drums of the charge, and Wu He rode a war horse and personally led the 3,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to rush to the artillery position of the Ming army, which had been separated from the protection of the trench and was not even protected by infantry, three miles away.

The morning sun shone on the formation of the Eight Banners Cavalry, the eight colors of flags, the eight colors of armor, it was particularly bright and dazzling, although the number of three thousand cavalry was not very large, but the formation of the cavalry charge was huge, and the three thousand cavalry were larger than the charge of ten thousand infantry.

In order to prevent the Ming infantry from coming to the rescue of the artillery, the green battalion soldiers also charged the Ming infantry formation in front.

"Kill the dog!" When there was still a mile away from the Ming army, the Wahe quickened his speed, and the war horse accelerated on the flat ground, and soon galloped like the wind. The three thousand Eight Banner soldiers in the back, all of them quickly whipped their horses, like a landslide and tsunami, and the sound of thunderous horses' hooves poured towards the artillery position of the Ming army.

"Fire!" Wang Xinyu personally ordered.

Several cannons turned their muzzles and spewed fire at the Eight Banners cavalry who rushed up. (To be continued.) )