The cavalry of the Ming army rushed all the way to the edge of the tent of the Qing army, and did not meet any effective resistance, and when they saw Deng Ming and them coming, most of the Qing soldiers who had just come out of the tent were still at a loss, and the ones who reacted the fastest only had time to shout jǐng.

Rushing into the camp of the enemy army and easily cutting down the enemy with bare hands, the knights of the Zhejiang army were very excited, and after seeing the enemy in front of them fleeing with their backs, they naturally began to pursue. However, Deng Ming and the others were different from these Zhejiang troops, they had already carried out many attacks, and in the past, Deng Ming would sum up his experience after each battle, and found that the enemies who could pose a threat to his own side were those who had not yet lost their organization.

Today, although the Ming cavalry is divided into several teams, the leader of each team is Deng Ming's guards, after they rushed into the enemy camp for a distance, they no longer continue to pursue those fleeing enemies, but turn back to look for those Qing soldiers who are still trying to resist, which is also the precautions that Deng Ming repeatedly explained before the battle.

When the Ming army set up a formation outside the camp, hundreds of armored soldiers were deployed in the front row, but after the charge, the first to follow the cavalry into the camp were some unarmored soldiers who were relatively far forward and ran very fast. When they arrived in front of the camp tent of the Qing army, Deng Ming and other cavalry had already rushed over, driving away the Qing soldiers who were the first to get out of the tent, and at this time, some Qing soldiers were woken up by the noise and came out in a daze to see what was going on. Many heads had just poked out of the tent when a stick struck with the sound of breaking through the air, striking heavily on the lid of the heavenly spirit.

Many Qing soldiers who were startled from their dreams were still confused when they were hit in the skull, "bang", the Ming army went down with a crisp sound, and after the stick bounced off the enemy's skull, the enemy soldiers were still at a loss. Let the Ming army who attacked them also feel a little hairy in his heart: Could it be that after being hit with all his strength, the enemy acted as if nothing happened, are they King Kong indestructible?

Many Ming soldiers saw this scene, some of them were already thinking about raising the stick, and then hit the stick to see the reaction, almost at the same time as the attacker raised this thought, the person who was hit would suddenly change, let out a "oops" scream, and fell to the ground, some people could not stand up without saying a word, and some people still had the strength to struggle, holding their heads and rolling on the ground.

At this point, the Ming army also understood that it was not that they were too light, or that the other party had magic skills such as golden bell jars, but that the enemy was slow to react and did not enter the battle state at all. The Ming army, who was determined in their hearts, did not hesitate, and some of them continued to move forward, knocking on the brains of more tents in front; Others beat the water dogs, and the sticks rained down, and beckoned to the Qing soldiers on the ground with all their might.

Before, whether it was Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, or Hao Shaoqi, He Zhen, they often explained tactics to Deng Ming, and there was also the problem of cooperation with foot riders. At this time, Deng Ming often called the guards too, and if there was anything he didn't understand, he could also discuss it together.

Several generals have their own cavalry experience, and their tactics are also very different, and they even look down on each other. Even if Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi are close friends, although their tactics come from breaking into the camp, they also think that their tactics are better in private, if Deng Ming asks Liu Tichun with Yuan Zongdi's tactics, the other party will definitely advise him not to study Yuan Zongdi's tactics anymore, and to learn his advanced methods of Liu Tichun in a whole. In Deng Ming's view, it may be that the new type of military technology of blasting will be discussed openly and honestly, but it is estimated that it will soon develop separately and form a number of sects, each with its own tricks -- Deng Ming did not know that in fact, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and other four generals have already hidden their explosive skills, and the reason is not only the inconvenience of information transmission in this era, but also the natural behavior of various factions in the feudal army.

After meeting Li Laiheng, Deng Ming found that Little Tiger also had a similar conceit, Li Laiheng thought that his coordinated tactics of cavalry and infantry were the most authentic descendants of the camp, although Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun were Li Laiheng's uncles and elders, but they could never represent the highest military level of the camp.

When discussing various tactics with the guards, Zhou Kaihuang was the staunchest supporter, and he believed that Yuan Zongdi's various methods were especially wonderful, while Zhao Tianba was more dismissive, often citing some tactics of the Jin dynasty in Xiying to attack the idea of breaking into the camp. The largest number of Deng Ming's guards is the old Sichuan military system, the leader of this faction Li Xinghan thinks: In terms of tactics, neither Zhou Kaihuang nor Zhao Tianba can get rid of the consistent rogue style, other tactics, such as the cooperation of foot and cavalry, Li Xinghan believes that Deng Ming should believe most is the experience of the Sichuan army, after all, this is a regular tactic, in terms of dignified confrontation, the Sichuan army's method is obviously much stronger than the rogue road.

For this reason, Li Xinghan, Zhao Tianba, and Zhou Kaihuang often fought for a red face and thick neck, shouting in front of Deng Ming, which is the precipitation and accumulation of three hundred years of Ming officers and soldiers, and it is a valuable intellectual wealth.

Although Li Xinghan's words caused a buzz and applause from Deng Mingwei's guards, they also led Zhao Tianba and Zhou Kaihuang to share the same hatred, and Zhou Kaihuang immediately sneered: Three hundred years of precipitation and accumulation, being beaten all over the ground by the two battalions of Chuang and Xi, don't want such useless knowledge; And Zhao Tianba sarcastically said: I am not afraid of not knowing the goods, I am afraid of comparing the goods, the Ming army that adheres to the tradition has been wiped out by the Tartars, and now the rest are the men and horses of the two battalions of Chuang and Xi.

In the end, Deng Ming came out to play a round, and at the same time strictly forbade mutual criticism - Deng Ming found that if mutual criticism was allowed, it would eventually become endless mutual belittlement, and people from various factions would take microscopes to look for the tactical shortcomings of other factions, and then magnify them infinitely, go online, and generalize to the whole, calling them worthless; In defending the tactics of the faction, even if you know that it is a mistake, you must resolutely defend it, use strong arguments, and try your best to quibble, and you must say that the theory of your faction is perfect...... Although the generals of Kuidong and these guards were not literati, Deng Ming found that their ability to disguise the tactics of their faction was actually not bad at all.

Therefore, Deng Ming's tactical seminar only studied the common points of each faction, and never touched on the differences. Deng Ming felt that as long as any theory or idea could be adopted by all factions, it would mean that there was something reasonable - of course, if it was contrary to science, it could be falsified, such as the monk could guide the great power of gunpowder, and so on, Deng Ming did not hesitate to discard.

The assault involved cavalry and infantry tactics, and Deng Ming found that all factions seemed to pay attention to a problem of coordination, that is, cavalry and infantry should in principle cooperate and cover each other. Of course, this is not absolute, the Ming Army's Sichuan system, Xiying's Jin Wang system, and the various systems of the Chuang Camp have given a large number of exceptions. It is difficult to verify the correctness of these exceptions, because once such theoretical differences are discussed, the defenders will have heated arguments and will have a wrong attitude towards people. Even if they belong to the same Sichuan military system, there are many different voices within Li Xinghan's camp, and they are incompatible. Therefore, Deng Ming could only believe that under normal circumstances, the coordination of infantry and cavalry should be regarded as the most important operational principle, and specific tactics should be implemented around this center.

Today, Deng Ming had such a plan, before the attack, he would rather sacrifice some horse team to attack suddenly, but also to ensure the speed of the infantry to follow up. After the cavalry entered the enemy camp, the cavalry of the Ming army repeatedly turned back to assist their own infantry in battle. Every knight of the Ming army opened his eyes wide, looking for the enemy army that was organizing on the battlefield. If it is discovered that these cores of resistance are forming in front of the Ming infantry, the Ming cavalry will immediately attack, flank the infantry on both sides, and destroy them before they can be formed; Deng Ming believed that the main job of dozens of cavalry of the Ming army was not to defeat and destroy all the enemy troops alone, but to ensure that the infantry of the Ming army could continue to advance and overwhelm the opponent.

With the cooperation of the cavalry, the Ming infantry advanced rapidly, and the Qing army, which tried to resist sporadically, not only had to face the Ming infantry with an absolute superiority in numbers, but also immediately suffered a cavalry surprise attack from behind. Every time they saw someone who looked like a Qing army officer, hoarsely gathering the soldiers around him, the Ming cavalry would regard him as a key target, rush to attack as much as possible, and break up these Qing soldiers before they formed a group.

When the Ming army advanced forward, the infantry behind was engaged with the remnants of the enemy. Unlike the cavalry, the infantry's actions were not planned too much, and the general idea was to shout and then the whole army would launch a charge. This line of thinking is not much different from the ambush of Tan Hong by the Yangtze River, and the current situation of the Zhejiang army is similar to that of the army around Deng Ming at that time, lacking weapons, equipment and officers, and the combat experience is inferior to that of the Ming army at that time.

Due to the terrain, the lack of preparedness of the enemy army, and Deng Ming's exemplary role, the speed of the Zhejiang army when it launched an attack today was stronger than that of the ambush of Tan Hong, but the appearance after rushing into the enemy camp was about the same. The Zhejiang soldiers in front of them bravely advanced and followed closely behind the cavalry, not even having time to check whether there were any enemies in the camps left behind; After the Ming soldiers in the back rushed into the enemy camp, they began to lift their tents to check whether there were still remnants of the enemy. As the front line rapidly advanced, the following Ming troops also spotted more and more enemies behind the front line.

The Ming army began to engage these enemies, and then some of the Ming troops came up to help, and some of them did not pay attention to these stragglers at all, brandishing clubs and shouting to chase the front line. After entering the camp, the generals of the Zhejiang army quickly lost their ability to control their subordinates, and they could only make their own judgments about the situation, either calling the soldiers around them to continue to advance, or stopping to collect the enemy soldiers hiding in the tents. Regardless of their decision, the number of soldiers these generals could control was rapidly decreasing, and soon the men they could command were limited to what they could see.

Since he did not know the location of the enemy's central military tent, Deng Ming did not plan to raid the head of the enemy army today, he originally estimated that the Qing army would soon begin to form a line of resistance, blocking the rapid advance of the Ming army's front, and as the Ming army's front line was blocked, more Qing troops were able to organize to further slow down the advance of the Ming army. Deng Ming thought that this was an inevitable situation, especially since he emphasized that the first task of the cavalry today was to cover the infantry.

In the pre-war discussions, the Ming officers believed that this line of resistance would keep the Ming army far out of the Qing army's tent. If the tent of the Qing army commander was located in the middle of the camp, it is optimistic that the Ming army would be able to break through the outer camp by one-third to one-half of the distance. At this time, the personal guards of the Qing generals should have rushed to participate in the battle in armor. The Zhejiang army lacked armor, and these generals, who were equipped with good equipment, were able to buy a lot of time, allowing the Qing army's defense line to be organized, and finally forming a strong battle line to protect the main general's battalion behind them.

Therefore, before the war, the Ming army also spread out as much as possible, forming a larger encirclement arc, hoping to make the Qing army's resistance line become a convex arc. After a stalemate is formed, the cavalry of the Ming army will of course no longer be able to easily break through behind the enemy, and then flank the enemy with the infantry in front and rear, and then the cavalry of the Ming army will outflank from both flanks, trying to surround the Qing army, or exert enough pressure on the enemy to force the other side to take the initiative to retreat, giving the Ming army a chance to pursue the victory.

But to Deng Ming's surprise, the Qing army's line of resistance has not been established for a long time, and now the front line of the Ming army has swept through one-third of the entire Qing army camp, and the resistance of the Qing army still looks very messy, and there is no solid front in front of it, but a loose and messy group of enemies. Although these group enemy soldiers have a certain organization, but on the whole they are still fighting separately, there are huge gaps between them, and the cavalry of the Ming army can still break through from the organized enemy soldiers, chase the scattered enemy soldiers to run for their lives and do not dare to turn back, and then turn around to assist the infantry to attack those enemy soldiers in groups.

Because the Qing soldiers did not form a line of resistance, the Ming army's arc-shaped encirclement could not be formed, and the situation of melee made the Ming army more and more disjointed. After destroying the enemy in the tent, many Ming soldiers couldn't wait to find their armor and put it on, and the other Ming soldiers saw it, and they didn't care about chasing the front line, but looked around for weapons and armor, at least to replace the stick in their hands with a steel knife.

At this time, Deng Ming had already crossed the center line of the Qing army camp, and in the center of the camp, Deng Ming had just seen a few Qing soldiers wearing armor who came out to fight, and the uniforms of these few armored soldiers were also very messy, and the helmets seemed to be a little crooked, obviously tied in a hurry. After seeing these armor soldiers, Deng Ming hesitated for a moment, gave up the urge to rush straight in, looking for the traces of the opponent's main general, and instead bypassed the center of the Qing army's camp according to the prior plan, and continued to move forward to disrupt the enemy camp - since the situation is already so chaotic, let it become more chaotic - Deng Ming felt that the current situation was becoming more and more like the scene of ambushing Tan Hong, both armies were disorganized, so if more chaotic enemy troops could be dispersed at this time, the Ming army would finally be able to crush the opponent even by relying on numbers.

As the horse galloped past a tent, a soldier came out of the tent, and the sword of Deng Ming fell down, and the enemy fell backwards. Deng Ming noticed that although the enemy who was killed was not wearing armor, he was wearing good riding boots, and he should have been an officer. It has now penetrated into the center of the Qing army camp, and many of the surrounding tents may have belonged to officers or personal soldiers. In this chaos, Deng Ming also heard the exclamations of a woman.

Deng Ming's suspicions were soon confirmed, and as he continued to charge forward, his mount nearly crashed into a woman who had just come halfway out of a tent. Deng Ming's war horse rushed over against her forehead, and Deng Ming's horse sword was raised in the air at that time, and he instinctively wanted to cut it off when he saw the figure, but at this moment he saw the woman's long hair, as well as her raised face.

It was a young woman, although there was only a moment of staring at each other, Deng Ming still saw strong fear and tears in her eyes, and also saw that the woman who had just climbed out of the tent was halfway out, and the upper body that had been exposed was **.

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The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and ended much faster than the Ming army expected, and the Qing general's death struggle in the Chinese military tent did not last long.

"These Tartars are Yangzhou Green Battalion, they just arrived in Nanjing five days ago, when they arrived, the king of Yanping County had already withdrawn his troops, and after learning that there was a jǐng report in Wuhu, they set off from Nanjing, to rush to the upstream direction." After interrogating the captives, Deng Ming gathered the generals together and briefed them on the situation: "They were originally going to deal with us, but we beat them here. ”

These green battalions hoped to be able to go to Wuhu by boat, but the sailors had just transported another group of green battalions to the upper reaches, and there were no boats for a while, so they camped at Dashengguan, wanting to wait for the sailors to return, so as not to have to walk on their own.

"The Yangzhou Green Battalion has 1,200 armor, about two and a half times that of our armor soldiers, and there are 1,500 auxiliary soldiers in the battalion, of which 300 were allocated by Lang Tingzuo after arriving in Nanjing. Today we have exterminated about two thousand Tartars and fled six to seven hundred...... The captives confessed that they had two hundred military horses, of which one hundred were war horses, and now we have captured one hundred and eighty-eight, and the rest may have been taken away by deserters. Now the Zhejiang army is counting the captures, although hundreds of Qing soldiers have escaped, but most of their armor has not had time to take away, Deng Ming estimates that the number of captures should be about so much: "This is a relatively strong green battalion, so Nanjing will send them to Wuhu, whether it is to guard or wait for the opportunity to recapture Anqing, they can play a big role, at least much stronger than those places where the green battalion intercepted us in Huangchi." ”

After a pause, Deng Ming said to everyone: "The green camp Tartars who intercepted us in Huangchi may only be a few hundred armor, and there will definitely be no cavalry, but if we fight with them, even if we are lucky enough to win, we will suffer heavy casualties; But today, we eliminated the Yangzhou Green Camp, but it was easy for us. This is the difference between being prepared and being unprepared, even if the troops are weak, they can still make a strong enemy fearful; If you are unprepared, you will be strong and vulnerable. Ladies and gentlemen, in the future, even if we lead the troops, we must not forget to build the camp wall and dig trenches, even if we walk less every day, and do not neglect the fortifications, so that we will not regret it. ”

Everyone responded, only Mu Tan thought of the hundreds of thousands of strong generals of the Min army, and sighed secretly.

After the war, the Ming army also found many women, many of whom were from Zhenjiang. After Zheng Chenggong retreated, the Qing army "recovered" Zhenjiang, Guazhou and other places, Guan Xiaozhong and Jiang Guozhu rewarded the women in the city to the sergeants in the name of recovering the city. Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan, sold the women of Zhenjiang, Guazhou and other places on the way to follow Zheng Chenggong eastward, and then took away the women of Wuxi and other newly recovered cities; Now they are in Suzhou, and they plan to sell the women when they leave Suzhou. Everywhere the Qing army passed, a large number of people from the "recovered" cities followed, plastering lists all over the city, looking for the abducted wives and daughters, and trying to spend money to redeem their relatives.

Yangzhou Green Camp originally planned to do the same, but Nanjing is a provincial capital, and it was not captured by Zheng Chenggong, so naturally it is not possible to recover, so the guest army is not allowed to plunder, Yangzhou Green Camp plans to take these women to Wuhu first, sell them before the war, and after recovering Anqing, you can take new ones, and these women will eventually be sold in Nanjing or Yangzhou.

After hearing what happened to these women, Deng Ming just shook his head and sighed, and ordered a women's battalion to be set up for them, and the soldiers were not allowed to go and disturb them.