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After the autumn, Wu Sangui and Li Laiheng set out at the same time, and the Wu army went on a northern expedition and broke into the west to conquer the west.

It was also when the two Ming armies were on the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition respectively, and the long-awaited Fengyang Armageddon finally kicked off. The 50,000 Qiongzhou army launched an offensive against the 200,000 Qing army.

The 200,000 Qing troops, plus the auxiliaries and the people, totaled 500,000, known as 1.5 million troops. 50,000 Ming troops, plus railway soldiers, auxiliaries and Minzhuang, a total of 200,000, known as 50,000. The claim of the Qing army is to exaggerate its own strength, while the claim of the Qiongzhou army only counts the soldiers, not the auxiliary troops. This is a bit similar to a major battle in later generations, on the Huaihai battlefield, 550,000 against more than 800,000, 550,000 side won, in fact, 550,000 is just a combat force, many militia, assisting in the transportation of the common people as many as 5.43 million!

It's just that the difference in that battle is that the 800,000 troops on the losing side are also real combat troops, and they are not shameless enough to include logistics support and transportation workers.

The decisive battle of Fengyang attracted the main force of the Qing army. In order to be able to defeat the most powerful Qiongzhou army in one fell swoop, the Qing army even did not hesitate to send the Korean Eight Banners in Dadu, as well as some of the elite Eight Banners outside the Bahai Pass. The Qing army had high hopes for this battle, hoping to defeat the core force of the Ming army, the Qiongzhou army, in one fell swoop. As long as the Qiongzhou army is defeated, then both the Wu army and the Chuang army will lose their logistical support, and the Qing army will still have a chance to turn over.

"50,000 against 1.5 million, this is simply a miracle in the history of world warfare!" Wang Yu looked up to the sky and laughed.

Although the dense formation before the birth of machine guns required much less battlefield area than in the later era of machine guns and cannons, hundreds of thousands of troops were laid out, and a small town still could not accommodate them, not to mention the factors such as cavalry detours, artillery position layout, infantry offensive and defensive fortifications. The battlefield will be lined up from Haozhou to Fengyang Fucheng.

With the use of large-scale lethal firearms such as swarms of rockets, flowering shells, and grenades, the Qing army also improved its tactics, no longer meeting the battle in a dense formation, but observing the Ming army's formation, learning the three-person hand-to-hand combat formation, the thin musket line formation, the straggler charge formation and other new formations.

It was that the decisive battle had not yet begun, and the skirmishes between the cavalry had already begun.

Dai Qiusheng rode a Don hippopotamus and carried out a reconnaissance mission with his ten comrades. He carried a brand-new rear-loading rifled gun on his back, two six-shot rifled Thunderbolt shorts and four grenades stuck in his waist, a saber hanging from his belt, and he did not wear too thick armor on his body, only a green battle suit made of canvas, iron goggles on the front and back, iron protection on the abdomen and waist and other vital parts, the suit was lined with silk, which had a good anti-arrow effect, and he wore a six-petal wide-brimmed bright light helmet on his head, and his whole body was well protected against arrows.

The weapons that the Ming army did not collect at night were changed many times, and it was regarded as a long detour, which was initially equipped with an electric gun and an ordinary rifled gun, and later eliminated the electric gun with serious air leakage, high cost, and too close range, and replaced it with a double-barreled long gun and a six-shot short gun; Later, it was equipped with a six-shot short gun with a rifle; With the official entry into service of the rear-loading gun, the cavalry eliminated the double-barreled long gun and replaced it with a breech-loading rifled gun.

This rear-loading rifled rifle was named the Yongli 24-Year Cavalry Rifle, while the Mini rifle equipped by the line infantry was named the Yongli 24-Year Rifle, and the large Mini rifle equipped by the skirmishers and snipers was named the Yongli 24-Year Sniper Rifle, and all three guns were equipped with troops at the same time.

The Yongli 24-year-old cavalry gun is a firing needle-type rear-loading gun, which fires paper-shell primer bullets, with a maximum range of 260 steps and an effective range of 80 steps, which can accurately hit the target within 80 steps.

"Here comes the Tartars! It's a real tartar! One of the night horsemen shouted.

At the beginning, they faced the vulnerable green camp sentry cavalry, and each time they won more with less, easily drove away the green camp sentry cavalry and blocked the Qing army's intelligence transmission. As the Eight Banners gradually entered the Fengyang battlefield, the elite Eight Banners cavalry outside the Guanwai of the Qing army began to become Dai Qiusheng's great enemy.

Dai Qiusheng picked up the binoculars and saw thirty Eight Banners soldiers wearing white armor appear by the small river in front of him.

"The famous white-armored Ba Ya La! It's the best of the Tartars! Dai Qiusheng said.

Dai Qiusheng and his ten men were equipped with two Yongli 24-year sniper rifles with scopes, nine Yongli 24-year mounted rifles, and 22 breech-loading rifled Thunderbolt short guns. However, if the white armor soldiers of the Qing army dismounted and shot arrows, the maximum range of the bow and arrow could reach one hundred and fifty steps!

"The Tartars are dismounting!" A night does not close.

Even the most elite white-armored soldiers were able to shoot a hundred paces if they were on horseback and shot arrows. Dismount and shoot arrows with the help of leg strength and waist strength to shoot one hundred and fifty steps. Generally, white-armored soldiers shoot arrows on horseback, and they can shoot fifty to sixty steps, which is already very amazing, and they can penetrate Yang in hundreds of steps on horseback, which is only one of the few fierce generals to achieve.

"You have sharpshooters, I have sharpshooters! Let's distance ourselves from the Tartars! Dai Qiusheng ordered.

"Let's go!" Eleven night cavalrymen whistled, and Tsemara opened the distance between him and the white-armored soldiers. The Qing soldiers had just dismounted, and they didn't have time to get on their horses to catch up, and the distance was pulled two hundred paces away.

The two snipers dismounted, picked up the Yongli 24-year-old sniper rifle with a scope, and aimed at the two white-armored soldiers who had just climbed onto the war horse and were about to chase after them. After the bullets were fired, the two snipers reloaded as fast as they could.

The Qing soldiers rode their horses to chase after them, and the two snipers just pressed the bullets into the chamber with a strip, and they didn't have time to load the primer, seeing the Qing army catching up, the two snipers climbed on horseback, followed the group to ride away, and pulled away again.

The white-armored soldiers needed to dismount and shoot arrows to shoot a hundred and fifty paces away, and seeing that they were about to enter the range of the infantry bow, before they could dismount and shoot arrows, the Ming army in front rode away again.

"Dog brute! Don't dare to fight with our Manchurian warriors face-to-face, only know how to run, what kind of heroes are you! A white-armored soldier of the Eight Banners scolded.

The Ming army, which had just opened the distance, stopped, and the two snipers had already loaded the primer, turned around, aimed at the two Qing soldiers and pulled the trigger, two gunshots, and the two white-armored soldiers fell off their horses.

"Don't dismount and shoot arrows! Catch up with the brutes! Shoot them all with your horse! They can't reload bullets on horseback! It's too late when you're done! A soldier shouted.