The envoy of the Qing army returned to the camp to report: "Good news, Wang Wei has been fooled!" He agreed to fight with our army in three days! At that time, they will abandon the barracks, advance three miles, and launch an active attack on our army in the area of Weng Village! ”

"Great!" Zhuo Butai was overjoyed when he heard the news, "As long as the thieves leave their turtle shells, whether they take the initiative to attack or wait for us to attack in the field, we are not afraid of them!" As long as I go to the wilderness, my Eight Banners cavalry will definitely be able to crush the thieves! ”

Li Sang'er laughed: "The thief can't just use the fortifications to defend it!" Our cavalry could not charge their ranks, and the cannons did not have the same range as theirs. Now they take the initiative to leave the turtle shell, it is self-defeating! ”

When the Ming army relied on small villages to build fortifications, the Qing army did not think of bombarding with artillery, but the Qing army knew that both the number of cannons and the range were inferior to the Ming army.

Liu Liangzuo said with a little regret: "It's a pity that my new army has not been fully trained, otherwise it will be the best time to annihilate them when the thieves are concentrated in the village and entrenched!" There is a large number of heavy artillery bombardment, and the thieves will be destroyed! ”

Liu Guangdao: "My lord, although the thieves are willing to come out to fight us, we can't take it lightly. The thieves relied on nothing more than a large number of artillery. When we wait for them to come up and attack, we need to arrange fortifications around Weng Village, dig trenches, build camps, and arrange certain suspicious soldiers. We then ambushed the main cavalry in the grove on the side, and when the thieves came up, our cavalry rushed out and killed them by surprise! ”

Zhuo Butai nodded: "Yes! Soldiers don't get tired of cheating! Since they are going to go out to fight in the field and make an appointment with us to fight, then we might as well arrange fortifications and set up an ambush! Annihilate them all in one fell swoop! ”

Compared to the straightforward Mongols, the Manchurians were like a sinister serpent. In fact, the Manchurians didn't have so many fancy intestines at the beginning, and when the old slave raised the army, the Manchurians were only chieftains outside the Guan, and they didn't have so many vicious schemes. However, since the beginning of Huang Taiji, all kinds of insidious and vicious tricks have emerged in an endless stream, and they have completely become poisonous snakes that are not trustworthy and make good use of conspiracies.

The Qing army began to arrange troops, arrange fortifications in the direction of attack agreed by the Ming army, and ambush in the nearby woods, just waiting for the Ming army to attack, the Qing army suddenly killed with cavalry.

The time for the battle was getting closer and closer, and it was April 18, the night before the battle.

"Marshal, we have agreed with the Tartars that it will be a decisive battle tomorrow. Tartars will definitely let their guard down tonight! We can surprise the Tartar camp tonight! Luo Xiang offered a plan.

Wang Yuyou disagreed with this plan: "No! Do you still think that the Tartars speak of credit? Houjin Tartar has always been the most untrustworthy and the most insidious and cunning! They have been thinking about us for the past few days, and they must have thought about what kind of fortifications and ways to set up ambushes halfway! Won't they prevent us from stealing the camp? Let me tell you, the Tartars are on guard! Fighting at night is not conducive to the use of our firearms, and the trick of stealing the camp is the next step! ”

"Tartars are so cunning? They build fortifications, and they set up an ambush in the middle of the road? Li Rui's mouth opened wide in shock.

Wang Yuyou shook his head and said with a smile: "The art of war of the Tartars is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!" They're playing a lot of tricks! Fortunately, our army is upstream, otherwise the Tartars would still want to play the trick of flooding the Seventh Army! A few days ago, a small group of Tartars went back to our upstream to observe the terrain, but the old man was guarding against their tricks! ”

Luo Xiang said angrily: "Since the Tartars are so sinister, why do we still keep our word with them? ”

Wang Xinyu laughed: "In the face of absolute strength, we are not afraid of the conspiracy of the Tartars!" Tomorrow will attack, the sword will be pointed at the camp of the Tartar army, they must fight, and then they will know the pain! As long as this battle can be won, our army will have no opponent in the field in the future! The Tartars will not dare to go out of the city to fight again, and our army can calmly attack the city! ”

In the past few days, although the Ming army has been on the defensive, in fact, the activities of the sentinels, secret agents, meticulous work, and intelligence personnel behind enemy lines of the Tiandihui have not stopped, and Wang Xinyu and Wang Yuyou are well aware of the situation of the Qing army.

It has to be said that the scout cavalry of the Eight Banners degraded after entering the customs, and the intelligence work of the Qing army also degenerated. Originally, when he was in Liaodong, the Ming army did not collect the sentry cavalry at night and had no chance to spy on the intelligence of the Qing army, and before they had time to get close to the Qing army, they were hunted by the scout cavalry of the Eight Banners. But now the Qiongzhou army does not collect the sentry horses at night, and they can come and go freely. On the one hand, there was the degradation of the Qing army scouts, and on the other hand, the dominance of the Don hippo.

The Qiongzhou army riding the Don hippopotamus did not meet the Qing army scouts at night, and they fought if they could beat it, and if they couldn't beat it, they quickly fled with the speed of the Don hippopotamus.

The Don hippopotamus is fast, and the endurance is good, and the ordinary Qing army sentry can't catch up at all, unless the Qing army lets those who ride the dark clouds and snow, the night jade lion or the sweat and blood horse to chase after them, but the people who are qualified to ride those horses are all extraordinary, how can it be a small scout sentry horse.

The intelligence work in the secret of the Ming army was also very perfect, and the Tiandihui lurking behind enemy lines could obtain information through various channels, and even many people from the Tiandihui were mixed into various yamen, and some of them became grassroots officials within the Qing army.

Since it is already known that the Qing army has an ambush, there is no need to worry, when the Ming army is about to approach the woods, it will stop and bombard the woods where the Qing army is ambushed with artillery, and blast out the ambushes hiding inside. If the Qing cavalry came to charge the battle, it would be their own death. Even if they don't rush into battle, don't worry, as long as the Ming army continues to advance, the target is the Chinese army camp of the Qing army. Once the Ming army attacked, the Qing army could not help but deal with it.

Wang Xinyu, who had a swarm of bee fire vans at hand, was waiting for the scene of the Battle of Baliqiao to be staged in Jinhua two hundred years in advance.

At the fourth watch, it is the darkest hour in the early morning. Under the cover of night, the camp of the Ming army began to make noise, and all the officers and soldiers had gotten up, and the leaders of the gang opened fire to cook food and prepare breakfast for the army; Soldiers put on armor, inspect weapons, and prepare for the battle; The auxiliaries were busy pulling down the wooden fences, loading various supplies onto the vehicles, and checking the condition of the vehicles. The sentry riders were also busy at night, attacking everywhere to find out the situation. The hidden agents of the Heaven and Earth Society also came back to report the situation.

The Qing army camp not far away was also busy, and the Qing soldiers got up one after another and waited for dinner.

"The brute is still very punctual!" Zhuo Butai looked at the busy Ming army camp from afar and sneered.

Liu Liangzuo said complimentingly: "Handsome and wise! We've set the trap and are waiting for the brutes to get in! ”

In the Ming army camp, Gong Xiaoda, the chief soldier of Tianlei Town, who was most familiar with muskets, personally commanded the grassroots officers to inspect the weapons and equipment of the musketeers. Each musketeer had checked his equipment himself and waited for a superior officer to inspect it.

Gong Xiaoda personally took the flintlock pistol handed by a musketeer, pulled the trigger, saw the sparks ejected from the hammer, and then handed the gun back to the musketeer, patting him on the shoulder. Another officer inspected the musketeer's bullet pouches, primer jugs, tongs, and bayonets; There was also an officer inspecting armor, straw sandals.

After inspecting the weapons and equipment, when it was time for dinner, the officers and men sat down and each of them was given two large meat buns, a bowl of soy milk and an egg for them to eat, and a dry food cake was also handed out, which was to be put into a dry food bag for later use.

After the meal, the whistle sounded for the assembly, and the officers and men assembled according to their respective ranks, such as the army, the tire, and the hundred.

The grassroots military cadet officers of each hundred-member team walked up to the team and began to make a pledge mobilization.

The military cadet shouted loudly: "Brothers! The Eastern Tartars killed my Han people, stole my great rivers and mountains, the land of China is full of fish, and my Han family is not clothed! Under the iron hooves of the Tartars, how many Han'er families are broken and their wives are scattered! The Tartars want to rob us of our grain to feed their hardcore crops, want to use butcher knives to kill all the hot-blooded men who are unwilling to shave their hair, want to turn each of us into their minions, and want to turn us Huaxia into barbarians, do you promise? ”

"No!" The soldiers replied loudly.

"We are standing here today to kill the Tartars on the other side, to kill those fake Tartars who helped to abuse and forget our ancestors, and to restore the clothes of our Han family! In today's battle, there is no draw, only a battle of life and death! Anyone who retreats will be killed! We are fighting today, not only for ourselves, but also for our children and grandchildren to never be slaves! Never shave your hair! In order for our parents to enjoy their old age in peace, for our wives and daughters not to be bullied, and for our children and grandchildren to continue, kill the opposite Tartar with our weapons today! The cadet officer shouted.

"Expelle the Tartars and recover China!" The rank and file officers shouted.

A thunderous roar erupted from the crowd: "Expelle the Tartars and recover China!" ”

The shouts shook the sky and resounded through the sky.

"Brothers, go!" Wang Xinyu, who was standing on the platform, shouted.

"Let's go!" The rank and file officers gave the order to set off.

The sky was slightly bright, and the stars in the sky were gone, leaving only the moon that was about to set in the west and the morning star hanging in the sky. The morning air is exceptionally fresh, and a morning breeze with the smell of earth and fish blows in the face, which makes people feel more refreshed.

Wang Xinyu only felt that his whole mind was doubly clear. He shouldered the heavy responsibility of restoring the Chinese clothes, and even more importantly, shouldered the important task of supporting the Eastern civilization and not allowing China to lag behind the West. Think about the previous life, because of the delay of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Eastern civilization was left far behind by the West, and all kinds of humiliations, loss of power and humiliation of the country, loss of territory, and Japanese invasion followed. In the end, it was only with the help of the two great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union that the foreign enemy could be driven out. However, in the 21 st century, because of its backwardness of more than 300 years, China is still unable to catch up with the advanced countries in the world.

Now that you're here, you can't let it happen again!

The drums rumbled, the trumpets sounded, and groups of Ming troops walked out of the camp in a neat formation.

Sentinels, heavy cavalry, flying cavalry, artillery and dragoons set out first to prevent the Qing cavalry from harassing the infantry. (To be continued.) )