"Now we can't even recruit people, occupy a piece of land, it's all empty land, no one's. How do we deal with the Tartar move? Luo Xiang asked.

Wang Xinyu said: "The best way is to take the city as soon as possible, the people have been transferred to the city by the Tartars, and when we capture the city, these people can all go home." ”

"Not necessarily!" Wang Yuyou shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that these people are afraid that the Qing army will come back to retaliate against them, and they will not be willing to go with us. After we take the city, they will look for an opportunity to run away. ”

"yes!" Wang Xinyu nodded, "The common people are afraid of being killed by the Tartars!" It was the same before, every time the king conquered a place, it was lost soon after, and the Tartars fought back, slaughtering the city and the village. ”

Early the next morning, the Ming army continued to advance. As we got closer and closer to Jinhua, more Qing scouts began to appear in front. The Ming army fought with the Qing army scouts several times, killing more than 20 Qing army scouts, and three people were killed in the Ming army's night retreat.

It was only more than 130 miles from Yiwu to Jinhua, but the Qiongzhou army, which was seeking victory in stability, walked for five days to reach more than 10 miles east of Jinhua City, and the speed of action can be said to be very slow. However, because of its stability, the Qing army had no chance to attack the Ming army halfway.

Along the way, although the villages were relocated by the Qing army, the Ming army occupied the empty village and turned it into a defensive fortress.

On April 10, the Ming army arrived at their destination, using a small, abandoned village as the center, and the auxiliaries began to busily set up camp and prepare to build defensive positions.

"The Tartars are attacking!" Someone came to report it.

Before the Ming army could arrange its defensive positions, the Qing army couldn't wait to launch an attack.

"The Tartars want to wait for their work, thinking that we have just gone through a long march and want to attack? Then let them know how good we are! We have this small village to rely on, it's enough! Wang Xinyu sneered.

Wang Yuyou judged: "Looking at the posture of the Tartars, it should be a tentative attack, and we should not expose our strength too early." But let's go outside and have a look. ”

Walking outside the camp, Wang Yuyou climbed into a watchtower car, stood on a high place, picked up a monocular to observe the Qing army that was approaching step by step not far away, only to see the battle drums on the mile-long line, accompanied by a low horn sound, the black and oppressive Qing army lined up in a neat formation, lined up one square formation, and walked slowly under the gloomy sky. The Qing army looks huge, with swords and guns like a forest, and flags like a sea. The Eight Banners cavalry around the infantry phalanx, wearing colorful armor, looked extremely bright and conveyed a strong visual stimulus.

In addition, there is a strange Qing army, although like the green battalion soldiers, they also wear white red tasseled hats on their heads, but they all wear light brown armor instead of the dark blue or black uniforms of ordinary Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers in light brown armor looked very well armoured, most of them were armed with muskets, the rest were spears, and some were elite iron men with long knives in silver-white armor.

Needless to say, I also know that the most well-equipped Qing army must be the Huguang New Army.

Wang Yuyou, whose judgment was very accurate, could see at a glance that the Qing army must be a tentative attack, because the Qing army moved forward with only more than 3,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, about 5,000 infantry of the Han Eight Banners, 5,000 infantry of the Green Battalion, and 2,000 of the new army.

"If the Tartars are officially attacking, they will not only use so many forces to advance forward, they will test our strength, if we have a flaw, all the Tartars will press up." Wang Yuyou said loudly.

"Since the Tartars are testing our strength, we don't have to expose the strength of a swarm of bee cars." Wang Xinyu asked his soldiers to pass the order.

At present, the Ming army has just arrived, and it has not yet formed a good formation, and Wang Xinyu does not plan to have a decisive battle with the Qing army immediately, but first stabilizes his position, first relies on the barracks for defense, repels the tentative attack of the Qing army, and then finds an opportunity to have a decisive battle with the Qing army outside Jinhua City.

"Cloth Formation! Put the deer on the stake! Don't stop digging trenches! Go on! Outside the village, officers of all ranks, commanding the auxiliaries, shouted.

The officers' personal soldiers passed orders with banners, and the auxiliaries quickly pushed the carts around the outskirts of the unfinished barracks, and some auxiliaries took the deer from some of the transport wagons and placed them on the periphery of the cart formation; Some auxiliaries removed stakes and rafts from their carts and erected them between the formations. The auxiliaries digging trenches on the periphery did not stop, but sweated like rain and accelerated their excavation. Although the Qing army was getting closer and closer, no one dared to leave the auxiliary until they received the order to retreat.

Liu Liangzuo rode on a spotted Dawan horse, looked at the formation of the Ming army, and sighed: "The speed of the thieves is really fast!" Defenses can be set up so quickly! An elite soldier indeed! ”

Wang [Fu] Chen, who was riding a jade lion on the night, laughed: "Although there are many thieves, there are no fierce generals!" If you don't believe it, wait for General Ben to challenge it, and see which thief dares to come alone? ”

Liu Liangzuo advised: "General Wang, don't challenge! Beware of thieves with a long-range firebolt, they don't dare to fight, they will only hide from a distance! ”

"Might as well!" Wang [Fu] Chen smiled, "I will be far away from them and shout!" I don't believe that a hundred and fifty steps away, they can still hit the general! ”

After speaking, Wang [Fu] Chen waved his horse and spurred the horse to gallop out, and the snow-white jade lion without a single miscellaneous hair spread its hooves and galloped out, rushing straight to the camp of the Ming army.

Seeing their generals rushing out, the Qing infantry and cavalry paused their advance.

Wang [Fu] Chen rushed to the position of one hundred and fifty steps in front of the Ming army's formation, restrained his war horse, and pointed the leopard tail spear in his hand in the direction of the Ming army's main array: "This general is the white horse harrier Wang [Fu] minister is also!" The thief dares to fight to the death with General Ben? ”

"Single-handedly? What age are you still playing this set? Thought it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Even during the Three Kingdoms period, no one really went into battle alone, it was just a novel. Seeing that someone came up to call for the battle, Wang Yuyou sneered.

Wang Xinyu picked up the telescope to observe the Qing army general who came to call the battle, and saw that this person was seven feet long, with a fair face, no beard, eyebrows like a lying silkworm, as the statue of Lu Wenhou in the world, a batch of pure white white horses under his crotch, and a spear in his hand, he was indeed a fierce general. Listening to his self-registration as the king [auxiliary] minister, you will know that this person is a fierce general.

"The general who challenged, our army has just arrived, and the officers and soldiers are physically exhausted, and they don't want to fight today, so please go back, and we will fight again in the future!" Wang Xinyu asked people to talk back.

Wang [Fu] Chen laughed: "If you are incompetent, you will only shrink in the barracks!" If you don't dare to fight, we will attack! ”

Seeing that the Ming army became a shrunken turtle, the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and they all accelerated their speed and moved forward.

"Attack!" Zhuo Butai roared.

"Kill!" The formation of the Qing army was like a wall, pressing towards the unfinished Ming army camp.

In the camp of the Ming army, the grassroots officers asked their own soldiers to send a signal to the auxiliary soldiers digging trenches: "When the Tartars are within a hundred steps of you, drop your tools and withdraw to the camp!" ”

In the large camp surrounded by various vehicles and wooden fences, all kinds of artillery of the Ming army raised their muzzles and aimed at the Qing army. Rows of musketeers stood behind vehicles and wooden fences, barrels sticking out from behind them. The pikemen stood between the vehicles, and as soon as the Qing army broke through the trenches and deer barricades, the pikemen would immediately come forward. In the center of the camp, on the roof of the small village, Ming army sharpshooters and rifled gunners climbed onto the roof, rifled guns and compound bows pointed outside.

"Fire!" When the two sides were still a mile apart, the artillery officers at all levels shouted.

The six-pounder and four-pounder guns spat out fire in turn, and the shells burrowed into the Qing infantry formation and crashed into the human body, and the sturdy shields were vulnerable to the impact of the shells and turned into pieces. Cannonballs bounced through the crowd, knocking down a large area of Qing soldiers, and various human parts, fragments of weapons and shields flew everywhere, and a blinding mist of blood flew in the crowd.

In this round of shelling, a total of 20 six-pounder guns and 30 four-pounder guns opened fire, and 50 shells penetrated into the crowd, causing more than 300 casualties among the Qing soldiers.

But the Qing army did not stop the pace of the charge, but increased its speed and launched a charge against the Ming barracks.

After firing the shells, the Ming gunners quickly cleaned the chambers, loaded the six-pounder and four-pounder guns with gunpowder, put a wooden board to press them, and then loaded the shrapnel through the muzzle of the cannon, waiting for the order to fire.

The Qing army entered within 300 steps, and more than 100 three-pounder guns of the Ming army spewed fire at the same time, and the whistling solid cannonballs smashed into the crowd of Qing troops.

Immediately afterwards, a row of fire [gunpowder gas bursting] was heard in the small village, and a puff of white smoke rose from behind the earthen walls and houses in the village, and twelve flowering shells filled with black [gunpowder] left the muzzle of the mortar cannon, rose into the air, pulled an arc in the air, and smashed down on the top of the Qing army's head.

The mortar shells fell to the ground, and a series of explosions sounded, and a large 32-pound shell exploded, the flames were blazing, the air waves were rolling, and the white smoke was filled, and the Qing army was like being swept away by a strong wind, and a large area was overturned at once.

The Qing army had already rushed within 100 paces, and the Ming army auxiliaries working in the trenches threw away their tools one after another, turned around and ran back to the camp.

"Put!" The six-pounder and four-pounder guns that had been reloaded spit out fire, and shrapnel shrapnel rained down on the crowd of Qing troops, forming a fan-shaped killing surface in front, and the Qing soldiers fell countless times.

Some of the Qing troops, who had suffered heavy losses, began to run back, but their heads were cut off by the officers.

"Those who escape without hearing the sound of gold will end up like this!" Several officers shouted with deserters' heads in their hands.

Although it was a tentative attack, the Qing army still wanted to test the details of the Ming army, so it did not withdraw from Mingjin despite heavy losses, but continued to charge. When the Qing army entered seventy paces, rows of feather arrows were shot from the Ming army's large array, piercing into the Qing army's crowd in a parabola. (To be continued.) )