In the camp of the Ming army, Wang Xinyu stood on the platform of the generals, looked around with great ambition, shouted orders, and dispatched troops according to the battle plan discussed by the generals.

There are not only the generals of Zheng Jiajun and Qiongzhou Army in the audience, but even the generals of the Zhejiang Army obey Wang Xinyu's arrangement.

"Brethren! This battle is a decisive battle that will determine the fate of our Ming Dynasty! We have recovered part of the land south of the Yangtze River, and now the Tartars are going to counterattack, and they are coming in to ride on the heads of our Han people again and plunder the wealth that belongs to us! They need the wealth of Jiangnan as military expenses to deal with us! Can you say yes? Wang Xinyu yelled.

"No!" All the soldiers shouted in unison.

"Huang Zhao!" Wang Xinyu shouted.

"The last general!" Huang Zhao stood up and bowed.

"You lead the 5,000 men and horses of your headquarters, cross the Tianmu River, go to the west bank to set up a position to block the enemy, and fight and retreat! Remember not to be surrounded by tartars! Retreat into the city of Qianxian within one day! ”

"No!"

Wang Xinyu turned his head to look at Yang Guanyu again: "Yang Guanyu!" ”

"The last general!"

"You led 3,000 soldiers and horses from your headquarters and settled in Qianxian County! When General Huang crosses the river and retreats, you enter the city to garrison, and block the Tartars for two days and two nights! ”

"No!"

Next, Wang Xinyu ordered Xie Yongchang to lead 5,000 men and horses to set up an ambush in the path at the foot of Qingling Mountain, if the Qing army came to attack, it must hold on for three days and retreat after three days. Ordered Qiu Hui to lead 5,000 men and horses, lay an ambush at the foot of Dongwuling Mountain, wait for the Qing army to attack, hold on for three days, and then gradually retreat.

Seeing Huang Zhao and Yang Guanyu retreating in front, the Qiongzhou army put the Fujian army and the Zhejiang army over, and then blocked the enemy step by step, retreating ten miles in two days, and joined Liu Guoxuan.

Because the Qing army adopted the method of advancing steadily and steadily on the whole front. In response to this tactic, Wang Yuyou formulated a three-way Ming army to block the enemy at the same time, the middle route Ming army retreated a little faster, and the two wings blocked the enemy more tenaciously, causing the middle road Qing army to break through, and then let the two wings of the Ming army launch a counterattack, repelled the Qing army on both wings, and cut off the retreat of the Qing army in the middle to achieve the goal of annihilating the enemy.

Serving as the two flanks for the counterattack were Yang Laijia and Yang Fu, who led the most elite Chinese troops of the Zheng family's army. It is suitable for fighting a counterattack and cutting off the retreat of the Qing army in the middle.

Wang Xinyu's own general, Gong Xiaoda, was responsible for arranging mortar cannons and trebuchets on various hills to kill and injure the Qing army by surprise. The one who was responsible for the counterattack in the middle was Liu Guoxuan, who had the strongest combat effectiveness of the Zheng Army, as well as the mercenaries of the Qiongzhou Army, and the newly established fire van battalion.

This is a decisive battle related to the fate of the Chinese nation, if this battle is won, the Ming army will have a chance to turn over, and there will be no unequal treaties more than 100 years later. With all kinds of humiliation, the Chinese nation will not lag behind the West. If this battle was lost, the Ming army was forced to withdraw from Jiangnan.

Wang Xinyu, a little butterfly, came to this world. A lot of things have changed: the first is that Yongli was saved by him; The second is that Li Dingguo will not die young again; The third is that Zheng Chenggong has lived for more than two months, so there is Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong's Fourth Northern Expedition.

Huang Zhao's 5,000 soldiers and horses crossed the Tianmu River and arrived at the west bank, where they set up defensive positions on the official road.

Evening. When the scouts of the Qing army found the Ming army under the banner of the Zheng family, they judged that it was the main force, so they reported to Zhuo Butai.

"Attack now!" Zhuo Butai ordered.

The Qing army launched an attack on Huang Zhao's troops. First, the artillery of the Han Eight Banner firearms unit bombarded violently, shattering the wooden fence that the Ming army had just built, and then a large number of Qing infantry launched an attack on the front. Zhuo Butai asked Asha to lead the cavalry of the Eight Banners to outflank the past from both flanks, in an attempt to cut off the retreat of the Ming army.

Due to the effect of the trenches, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army did not cause much damage to the Huang Zhao army.

Banners were waving war drums, and thousands of Qing soldiers of the green battalion wore white and red tasseled hats, wore blue uniforms, and wore black armor outside, lined up in a neat formation, and pressed up towards the Ming army.

"The Tartars are coming! Brethren! Get ready to kill! Seeing the dense Qing infantry coming up step by step, Huang Zhao pulled out his sword and shouted.

Behind the trench, inside the dilapidated wall, more than 1,000 Ming archers shot random arrows. The overwhelming feather arrows swept across the sky and landed in the crowd of Qing troops. Although the Qing army had shields and armor, many Qing soldiers were shot in the unprotected face and limbs, and fell down screaming. Five hundred Ming soldiers poked out of the trenches, the birds roared, spewed out white smoke, and the dense projectiles pulled out blood lines in the crowd of Qing troops.

"Kill the dog!" The Qing army shouted and charged the camp ahead.

The Qing army rushed to the front of the Ming army, stretched out spears from behind the dilapidated wall, swallowed like a poisonous snake's letter, and stabbed the Qing soldiers who rushed up into the trench one by one. When the Qing soldiers rushed to the front, the spearmen of the Ming army wearing light armor retreated, and the ironclad soldiers holding long-handled swords stepped forward, and rows of knife lights flashed, this kind of long knife soldiers who could split the cavalry company and horses into two pieces were like chopping melons and vegetables, and the Qing infantry was cut to pieces.

"Sure enough, it's the elite of the barbarians!" Zhuo Butai sneered, "It's a pity that our Eight Banners warriors go up, and these barbarians will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Those green battalion soldiers will not feel distressed no matter how many Zhuo Butai dies, the frontal infantry attack, is to cover Asha's Eight Banners cavalry from the side to attack the Ming infantry, as long as it can disperse the formation of the Ming infantry, the cavalry is a one-sided slaughter of the infantry, and it can be pursued all the way for dozens of miles.

Asiha led the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry and went up from the flank.

The mountain roads here are narrow, and the Eight Banners can only be detoured from the path behind the hills. However, when Asiha easily detoured back to the flank of the Ming army, he found that the ground on the flank of the Ming army had been dug into potholes, and there were obstacles such as trenches, wooden stakes, deer and horses blocking the way.

Of course, it was impossible for the cavalry to storm these obstacles, and Asiha could only let the Manchurian cavalry dismount and destroy the obstacles.

"Put!" Huang Zhao roared.

The archers of the Ming army in the distance opened their bows and arrows one after another, and the overwhelming arrows flew indiscriminately, shooting in the crowd of Manmeng Eight Banners cavalry who dismounted and destroyed obstacles. Although these Eight Banners soldiers wore lightning rod helmets and bright cotton armor, which could offset a large part of the lethality of bows and arrows, there were still many Qing soldiers who were killed or wounded by arrows.

"Fire!" A Ming army general yelled.

Rows of infantry in the Ming army camp spread out to both sides, revealing the black hole in the cannon behind them.

More than a dozen tiger squatting cannons spewed fire, and shotguns drilled into the crowd of cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Bloody flesh and blood flew again and again, and dozens of Eight Banner soldiers were beaten into a sieve on the spot.

The Eight Banners in the back dismounted and shot at the Ming army with strong bows. The random arrows drilled into the Ming army's formation, and many Ming archers and bird guns had arrows in their hands, screaming and falling.

Under the cover of the shield bearer, the bird gunners came up and opened fire on the Eight Banners cavalry who were destroying the obstacles, and the dense bullets penetrated into the crowd of Qing soldiers. Zheng Jiajun's bird guns are all sophisticated weapons carefully crafted by craftsmen, and their lethality is much greater than that of the Ming army's bird guns that the Manmeng Eight Banners encountered in Liaodong that year, and the projectiles fired can easily penetrate the cotton armor of the Qing soldiers. Knocked down a lot of Eight Banner soldiers.

The two sides fired at each other for a while, and the Eight Banners lost more than 100 people, although it shows that the casualties of the army are not small, but it is obviously not cost-effective to exchange one cavalry for one infantry.

"Withdraw!" Atha shouted.

The Eight Banners screamed, stepped on their horses and left, giving up this senseless attack. However, the Eight Banners cavalry did not really stay away, but circled around the periphery of the Ming army, looking for opportunities to attack. Some of the bold Eight Banners also rushed into range from time to time. He dismounted quickly, changed into a bow, shot a few arrows, and quickly mounted his horse and left.

Harassment of the Eight Banners Cavalry. Huang Zhao has a means to deal with it, which is to protect it with a shield. Some foot archers also fired arrows, which made the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed over to release arrows fearful.

On the front, the Qing infantry fell one by one under the sophisticated sword array of the Zheng family's army. The losses inflicted on the Ming army were minimal. Seeing that the infantry of the Green Battalion had rushed into the camp of the Ming army, Asha originally planned to order the Eight Banners cavalry to take the opportunity to follow the infantry and charge into battle, but he saw the wooden fence of the trench in front of the Ming army. There are also the long knives and spears in the Ming army's formation, Asiha gave up the plan to charge the formation with cavalry, he knew that the cavalry rushed into the neat infantry formation in vain.

After a fierce battle, the sky gradually darkened, and the Qing army was blocked by the Ming army, and it was difficult to move an inch.

"Your Excellency, it's time for us to retreat! Otherwise, as soon as the left and right armies of Aobai attack, our back road will be cut off! Huang Zhao's subordinate Chen Yuan stepped forward and said.

Huang Zhao nodded and said, "We were originally bait, and we fought and retreated. This evening's battle has been fought very well! Now that we are withdrawing while it is dark, the Tartar cavalry will not be able to catch up with us. ”

Before leaving, Huang Zhao also used a trick to tie the sheep and beat the drum: he asked four goats to hang upside down on a big tree, and the sheep's hooves were aimed at the drum surface and kept beating the drum. Straw men in armor were arranged in the camp of the Ming army, and then they withdrew from the camp.

The rumbling war drums made Zhuo Butai on the opposite side uneasy all night, and the Qing army's nerves were highly tense in case the Ming army launched a counterattack overnight.

The Ming army retreated to Yuqian County on the east bank of Tianmu River overnight, and waited until Aobai mobilized the left and right armies to cut off the back road of the Ming army's camp. The next day, the Qing army rushed into the Ming army camp, only to find that the Ming army camp was empty, all the Ming troops had withdrawn, and there were only scarecrows and four upside-down drumming goats in the camp.

Zhangtai Beizi, who led the troops into the camp of the Ming army, was furious, pulled out his knife, split the upside-down goat in two, and shouted angrily: "Shameless and treacherous barbarian! Sang an empty city plan to Ben Beizi! ”

Mu Lima sneered: "Master Pei, didn't you say that you are familiar with military books?" How come you can't even see through such a simple scheme? ”

Zhangtai hurriedly flipped through the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he was carrying, but he didn't find a plan to tie the sheep and beat the drum. He wiped his sweat and asked suspiciously: "We love Xinjueluo and use a copy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to fight the world, why is it not working today?" ”

Mulima didn't say anything more, only sneered in his heart: There are brave and unscrupulous guys! Holding a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long, I think I am familiar with military books!

After this battle, Ao Bai judged: "The thieves are not strong enough, and they are also worried about being surrounded by our army, so they withdrew overnight after consuming our troops!" But fortunately, we have a lot of soldiers! Those green battalion soldiers can make more moves! Not afraid that they will be sent to death. As long as we cross the river, the bright dog in front of us will not be able to stop us! ”

The Qing army then crossed the Tianmu River and launched a siege battle against Yuqian County.

This small city could not withstand the fierce shelling of the Qing army, and after a while, the city wall was completely devastated, and the bricks of the city were shattered on the section of the city wall that was shelled by the Qing army, revealing the rammed earth inside. Then there was an overwhelming barrage of shells, and this section of the wall collapsed.

However, the Ming army in the city had already been prepared, and as soon as the Qing army opened a gap, the Ming army used sandbags and baskets filled with river sand to plug the gap. Sandbags and sand can reduce the lethality of solid shells, and behind the sandbags, the road is blocked with knife carts, and the auxiliaries behind them build brick walls.

The Qing army poured in through the gap, but this time it was different from the last time in Changhua City, there were not only Zhejiang troops in the city, but also well-armed and fierce Fujian troops.

The armor and long knives of the Fujian army are not covered, although these Fujian troops are not the most elite ironclad soldiers, but their armor is also very fine, the bows and arrows and knives and guns of the Qing army can not help the Fujian army, and can only use blunt weapons to deal with the heavily armored Fujian army.

The two sides launched a fierce battle in the gap opened by the Qing army's artillery, and the Qing army that rushed into the gap was like a sheep in front of the well-equipped Fujian army. The gap was very narrow, and although the Qing army was numerous, it could not be deployed, and it could only be attacked in a straight line, which turned out to be a refueling tactic, and they lined up to send them to death.

Of course, Ao Bai also knew the advantage of having many soldiers, and while launching a fierce attack on the gap, other Qing soldiers carried improvised ladders and launched an attack on the city wall.

The Zhejiang army and the people at the head of the city fought hard, the rolling wood and stones were smashed down, the gold juice and oil were spilled, and the blazing torches were thrown, which burned the Qing soldiers under the city. 10,000 enemies were also dropped at the head of the city, and arrows and projectiles rained down, killing and wounding the Qing soldiers.

The Ming army repelled round after round of attacks by the Qing army, and a wall was erected behind the city wall that was bombarded by the Qing army's artillery.

Under the city wall, the corpses of the Qing army were almost piled up on the city wall. A large number of Qing soldiers stepped on corpses and sandbags and jumped directly onto the city. The Ming army defending the city came up and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army, driving the Qing army out again and again. At the same time, behind the city walls, the Ming army erected a second wall.

In order to open the road as soon as possible, Ao Bai ordered the Qing army to attack the city day and night, and use the advantage of more soldiers to consume the Ming army defending the city.

Although it shows that the army has the defense of the city, has sophisticated equipment, and has strong combat effectiveness, but in the face of the wheel war of the Qing army, the Ming army in the city has no respite. Every time they had just repelled the Qing army's attack, the exhausted Ming army wanted to take a breath, and heard the news of the Qing army's attack.

"Thankfully, we only had to hold out for two days! Otherwise, the Tartars will attack with the mountain of corpses like crazy, and we really won't be able to hold on! Huang Zhao said to Yang Guanyu with palpitations. (To be continued.) )