There were a large number of Qing troops on the city wall of Yangzhou, in addition to planting flags, Lin Qilong also collected a large number of clay pots from the people, and the Qing army put these clay pots between the wall stacks, and the mouth of the black hole hole was facing the outside of the city. Now there are still thousands of workers between the Ming army and Yangzhou City, and Deng Ming does not have binoculars, so he is indeed frightened by these clay pots dressed as cannons.

Although he didn't know the quality of the "artillery" deployed on the city wall, Deng Ming felt that the number of cannons in Yangzhou was a bit outrageous, and it was likely that there would be huge cannons. As a result, the Ming army kept a distance of miles from the walls of Yangzhou - a safe distance even if Yangzhou had a huge cannon. Deng Ming planned to send scouts to reconnoiter the details of the other party after dispersing the Caogong, and adopt a long-distance cave attack mode to prepare for the blasting of the city wall. The archers who were sent to attack the workers in front of the city gates were also ordered to shoot at extreme distances. The power of the bow and arrow has become very poor when shooting at such a long distance, and although the enemy soldiers on the opposite side are all wearing cloth clothes, the feathered arrows will only cause serious injury or death if they do not hit the vital parts.

Deng Ming felt that this was the best of both worlds, and if Yangzhou suddenly opened fire, the losses of the Ming army would be much smaller; Moreover, these Cao Gong had already proved that he had neither morale nor danger, and Deng Ming did not have the idea of killing them in large numbers. The Ming army's formation was farther away from the Caogongs than the archers who came forward to attack, and they did not outflank the Caogongs' flanks, and according to previous experience, Deng Ming estimated that after a dozen or dozens of Caogongs were killed or wounded, they would begin to disperse. Death could be controlled at very low levels, and Deng Ming even optimistically estimated that the expulsion war outside the city might only cause single-digit deaths, and on the premise of the Ming army's strategy, Deng Ming hoped that the fewer orphans and widows created on both sides of the canal, the better.

When the bows and arrows of the Ming army flew into the air, Dong Xiaoye and the others looked up to the sky and looked at them, and the explanation of the Caoyun Governor Yamen was very clear, they needed to firmly guard the city gate in the south; They had been warned that the Ming army would attack the workers with bows and arrows, but they were told that the Ming army had a limited number of bows and arrows and would soon run out.

When the Ming army rushed up, it was the time to take revenge, Dong Xiaoye held the iron rod in his hand hard, waiting for the moment to repay the blood debt from the Ming army. The Yangzhou side made the strategy very clear, and when the Cao Gong fought with the Ming army and attracted Deng Ming's attention, the officers and soldiers would kill from the east and west, and the Ming army would be defeated in one fell swoop by attacking from three sides.

The bow and arrow fell into the position of the Caogong, round after round, and after three rounds, dozens of people were already wounded. When they saw these companions shouting in pain, some of the workers showed fear on their faces. However, the various bosses and their thugs boosted the morale of their men with louder shouts: "Where can you run?" The house was burned, the family died, and they stayed to kill the thief for revenge! ”

With the encouragement of the Caotou, these Caogong, who saw the fire in the direction of the canal and had heard about the tragic situation around the canal, plucked up their courage, and did not run towards the gap deliberately left by the Ming army, but continued to stand in front of the gate of Yangzhou.

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"What's going on?" After a few rounds of shooting, seeing that the workers had not yet broken up, the officers of the Ming army all looked at each other, wondering how the other party had suddenly become so tenacious.

"Send a hundred more archers." Deng Ming, who was originally careless, ordered to increase the number of troops on the front line after a short period of astonishment, and at the same time a doubt appeared in his heart: "Are these not Cao Gong, but a green battalion disguised as Cao Gong?" ”

In the first confrontation with Zhao Liangdong, Deng Ming had similar doubts, but in the end it turned out that those were just some overly scared Guizhou auxiliaries.

"Is that scene repeating again? But why are these workers scared like this? Deng Ming's suspicions became more and more serious, and he carefully observed the further development of the battlefield.

The Ming army did not rush up, as the officials asserted, but instead rained more and more arrows, and more and more workers were shot, but they still did not break up on a large scale, and the great fear did not disperse them, but brought them closer and closer together, trying to gain a sense of security from their companions who were only relying on them.

After a few more rounds of arrow rain, Dong Xiaoye finally waited for the moment when the other party stopped attacking, and a man who had been fighting with him for many years was holding an arrow in his hand, covering his wound and moaning quietly, and trying to squeeze out a smiling face, being a good man to the boss and brothers, claiming that a small injury was nothing.

"The thieves are coming." Dong Xiaoye held the iron rod in his hand tighter, and finally he was about to get out of this situation of not fighting back, he stared at the Ming army opposite with red eyes - these thieves ruined him in one Qiē, business, property, family, and his two sons - all hope had come to naught, Dong Xiaoye vowed to smash the head of every thief he met until the last one.

Under Dong Xiaoye's gaze, the Ming army strode forward for a while, but they did not draw their blades and pounce on them, but lined up again, bent their bows and arrows together, and once again pointed their feather arrows in the direction of Caogong.

"Not good!" Dong Xiaoye had just had this idea in his mind, and a large number of feather arrows were shot into the sky by the Ming army, and the angle of the Ming army was obviously lowered a lot when shooting this time, and the trajectory of the oncoming Dao Dao cold light was low and urgent; Before the locusts arrived, the breathtaking sound of breaking the air had already entered the ears.

This time, when the feather arrow was shot into the crowd of Caogong, the number of injured people was far more than before, and the damage of the feather arrow was much greater. This time another of his men was hit by an arrow, and the arrow seemed to be nailed to his bones, and although others tried to help him take it out, they could not pull it out in a row or two, and when he shook the shaft of the arrow, the strong man screamed in pain. Several people pressed the man to the ground, Dong Xiaoye pulled out the arrow violently, and the wounded man rolled his eyes and fainted in pain.

"Here we go again!" One of his men exclaimed.

Before Dong Xiaoye could turn around, he heard the terrifying whistling sound of feather arrows coming from behind him again......

"Last time it was Zhao Liangdong, this time it was Lin Qilong, it's all this hand." Deng Ming had already determined that the opposite side was full of unarmored Caogong, and the Ming army was shooting round by round, and the screams on the opposite side came and went, gradually continuing into pieces.

"Stop, give them time to run." Deng Ming said to a herald beside him, he estimated that the Cao Gong on the opposite side was the same as Zhao Liangdong's Guizhou auxiliaries, and it was fear rather than morale that supported them to fight against the Ming army, and now Deng Ming felt that it had also caused a huge sense of fear to the other party, almost canceling out the influence that the Qing army could exert on Cao Gong Shi: "Do not attack the Cao Gong who escaped." ”

When the Ming army stopped attacking, Dong Xiaoye and several of his men squatted on the ground, holding their companions who had been shot dead in front of them, waiting bitterly for the Ming army to stop attacking.

Half a day after the Ming army ended the attack, a large number of Cao Gong poked their heads out from behind the corpses of their comrades to confirm that the other party's attack had indeed come to an end.

After a few moments of silence, a few of the workers suddenly came to their senses from their daze, and finally looked around at their companions, who had been killed and wounded beside them, and let out a desperate cry, and stood up and ran towards the empty gap.

After seeing the actions of these people, many people also began to follow suit, and Dong Xiaoye noticed that there were also people around him who were ready to move.

"Kill the thief!" Dong Xiaoye did not flee, but let out a sad and angry shout, which sounded like the roar of a wounded beast when it was dying: "Avenge your loved ones!" ”

Some left deaf ears, but after hesitating for a moment, many of the workers did not choose to flee but shouted along: "Kill the thief!" ”

More and more people shouted along, and more Caogong workers were also infected, and even a few Caogong, who stood up and were about to escape, also squatted down again, and shouted with their companions: "Kill the thief!" ”

"Go and ask the Governor for some weapons." Taking advantage of this gap, Dong Xiaoye shouted to an old brother who had followed him for many years: "Go and order a shield and a steel knife." ”

Dong Xiaoye is unwilling to be shot alive here, as long as he can get the steel knife, he will rush up and chop all those archers of the Ming army into meat sauce, even if the governor of Caoyun wants them to continue to hold on, those armor is also necessary, Dong Xiaoye will not expect the government to provide them with armor, but the shield is always okay, even the wooden plate shield is stronger than nothing.

At this time, the faces of Lin Qilong, Liang Huafeng, and the prefect of Yangzhou were all very unsightly, although they had known that Deng Ming's army was powerful, but they did not know about Cheng Dù.

Deng Ming's act of ordering the archers to shoot at Cao Gong at the limit distance just now was a kind of show-off in Liang Huafeng's eyes. The abundant food supply and a large amount of training time allowed Deng Ming's archers to shoot quite a long distance, and the archers he sent to attack the Qing army were all classified by Liang Huafeng as wrestlers. Seeing that there were so many wrestlers under Deng Ming, Liang Huafeng's face was of course very bad, Lin Qilong and the Yangzhou prefect were not completely unaware of the level of the green battalion army, and as soon as Deng Ming's army made a move, they knew that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was by no means comparable to the officers and soldiers of the river and the defenders of Yangzhou Mansion.

Immediately after that, Deng Ming sent more archers, obviously the other party had a large number of such elite soldiers, at that time Lin Qilong still had a bit of luck, hoping that the officers and soldiers directly under the Yamen of the Governor of Liangjiang under Liang Huafeng could compete with Deng Ming, after all, those soldiers of the green battalion could almost guarantee a drill every ten days. However, when he saw the gloomy look on Liang Huafeng's face, Lin Qilong knew that he didn't have to count on it. Later, the Ming army advanced, lined up, and fired in rapid succession, and in Liang Huafeng's view, Deng Ming was demonstrating.

At this time, under the city, a bloodied laborer stumbled to the tower and shouted to the city wall: "Lord Governor, give the little people some shields, swords and guns." ”

When the Ming army stopped shooting just now, Liang Huafeng thought that the Cao Guild deployed in front of the city gate would flee in the wilderness, but he didn't expect that someone would take the lead in shouting to kill the thief.

"Lord Governor," Liang Huafeng felt for the first time that the tools under the city had a use value: "Do you throw some knives and guns down and see if they can kill a few thieves?" ”

"No, do you think they can win? Can't win, right? Wouldn't giving them the same name as giving Deng Ming? Lin Qilong shook his head violently: "This is an enemy." ”

"And throw some shields at them?" Liang Huafeng felt that Deng Ming might not be rare with some broken knives and guns, the Ming army on the opposite side had distinct armor, and the cold light of the large blades and armor shot out of the military formation made many Yangzhou Green Battalion soldiers feel weak when they looked at it. However, if you don't give the knives and guns, you won't give them, since the governor of Caoyun is worried that the attack weapons will fall into the hands of the Ming army, Liang Huafeng doesn't insist: "Or throw them some door panels?" ”

"No, if Deng Ming plans to attack the city, wouldn't these shields and door panels help him?" Lin Qilong refused again without thinking, he had already discussed with Liang Huafeng beforehand, these Cao Gong were just delaying Deng Ming's time, consuming his bow and arrows, and his body, Lin Qilong felt that there was no need to modify the set strategy on the spot: "These Cao Gong are fighting well, so it's better to fight like this." ”

Dong Xiaoye's subordinates shouted again and again under the city to ask for some equipment, and the Qing army at the head of the city shouted again and again, but that person refused to leave, knocked his head on the ground and bled for a long time, crying for the official title of the governor of Caoyun.

At last an officer got impatient, snatched the bow and arrow from one of the soldiers, drew the strings and aimed them earnestly at the beggars in the city, and then slammed the strings.

The feathered arrow was not far in front of the kowtower's head, interrupting his shouting and movement at the same time, but by the time the frightened gaze fell on the city, the officer had already drawn his bowstring again and threatened the thug with a new arrow: "The Governor has said no! Why don't you get out of here? ”

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"All obey the order-march in unison-" After seeing Deng Ming's banner, officers and non-commissioned officers at all levels of the Ming army issued orders to the troops under their jurisdiction.

The upper body was still straight, and the eyes under the helmet were also looking straight ahead, but the body of the Ming soldier had begun to lean forward after hearing the order.

"Let's go!"

With the officer's order, all the Ming soldiers were neatly arranged

Step forward with your left foot and move forward in a uniform motion. Because Deng Ming intended to further let the archers come forward, he let the whole army advance appropriately to keep the army out of touch.

During the five-day exercise in Chengdu, the first thing the Tongxiucai learned was a variety of queue commands, because of the limited time, some people may not have received too much weapon training, and no one was left behind in the queue change training. Even the conscripts were extremely skilled in carrying out such orders, and the combat skills of the current Ming army conscripts could be said to be far below their queue skills.

"Stand upright, look to the right - look forward." After stopping, the officers of each column skillfully completed all the orders, and then reappeared with the soldiers to face Yangzhou.

In the era in which Deng Ming lived in his previous life, the greater significance of military training was to improve the discipline of soldiers, and the requirements for infantry formations were not too high.

But in this era, it is completely different, just now when I saw the Ming army marching forward in unison, several henchmen and officers around Liang Huafeng were so shocked that their mouths opened and closed.

In this day and age, a break in the infantry front means that defeat is not far away, and maintaining the integrity of the battle line while on the march is an extremely difficult tactical maneuver, even if the speed is very low.

But the Ming army on the opposite side did it easily, and thousands of armored soldiers began to maneuver at a fairly high speed, and then quickly stopped, as fast as a few seconds, and as slow as a dozen seconds, the queue connection was completed in a dozen seconds. The generals around Liang Huafeng were not completely uninformed, and the rapid movement of the Ming infantry made them completely unflawed by cavalry raids.

"It's too fast." One of the generals rubbed his eyes and muttered to himself, in such a short period of time, the enemy generals might not have time to decide on the position of the surprise attack, and even if they had time to make up their minds to attack, the cavalry would definitely not have time to receive the order and rush to the position with the defective formation. Moreover, the so-called fracture of the battle line of the Ming army is only relative to the flawless queue when they are stationary, if it is according to the general standard, they have not broken the battle line at all when they are marching at high speed.

Like the subordinates behind him, Liang Huafeng's chest was also turbulent at this time, compared with the military elements that the Ming army had just come out, the demonstration of those shooters just now was simply child's play. When he first saw the Ming army's neat battle line like swords and tofu, Liang Huafeng was already secretly admiring Deng Ming's good training; When he saw the Ming army start to move forward with exactly the same action just now, Liang Huafeng almost thought that he was dazzled; Now, the Ming army was once again still, and in the blink of an eye, the battle line was restored to the straight front it had been.

"How did you train a strong soldier?" Liang Huafeng didn't know the military password, but he knew that even his own family Ding team might not be able to do it like this, and Deng Ming commanded not dozens or hundreds of pro-Ding teams, but nearly 10,000 soldiers, which was far beyond Liang Huafeng's military cognition.

Liang Huafeng didn't realize that an army could have an extremely high ability to change formations when its combat skills were still very lacking. In Liang Huafeng's view, these skills should be at a similar level. Being able to skillfully change formations and keep moving in line means having a lot of actual combat experience, a high degree of tacit understanding with your teammates, and unlimited trust in your officers. Since this is the case, the combat skills of these Ming soldiers must be unimaginably powerful for Liang Huafeng.

"I heard that Admiral Deng can deceive twenty miles, and then regroup to fight back against the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi...... I always thought that this was nonsense by the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in order to shirk responsibility, is it possible that this is true? Liang Huafeng held on to the wall with both hands, and involuntarily leaned forward, wanting to see the Ming army on the opposite side more clearly.

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"Archers, attack with all your might." After the team stopped, Deng Ming immediately ordered solemnly, and the shouts that sounded from the enemy army on the opposite side just now made him immediately realize that what supported the other side was not the fear of the Qing army, but the hostility to the Ming army, and the real fighting spirit and morale.

A Caogong army with high morale and strong fighting spirit, and there is no equipment worth mentioning, Deng Ming doesn't understand how there can be such a ridiculous thing, but since the other party's fighting spirit is considerable, whether there is excellent equipment or not, Deng Ming has to take it seriously. Since the opponent's equipment is ridiculously poor now, it should attack immediately, lest the Qing army have a chance to make up for this mistake - if the army on the other side is well-armed and has high morale, then Deng Ming will undoubtedly have to pay a lot of price.

Even if they had to take some risks of being bombarded by the artillery, there was no way out, and if these Cao Gong showed a higher fighting spirit, Deng Ming would even let the infantry launch an attack and wipe them out directly in front of the walls of Yangzhou.

The Ming archers opposite Dong Xiaoye had already gotten quite close, and they had already flattened their bows and began to aim and shoot at Caogong's side.

One after another sharp arrows flew, and several of the Cao Gong who were hit fell to the ground without saying a word, and the Ming army shot while advancing, and the casualties of the Cao Gong increased dramatically. Soon more than 200 people were killed, and others began to flee in frustration...... The Ming army was getting closer and closer, and two people fell next to Dong Xiaoye in a row.

"Kill the thief!" Dong Xiaoye also endured to the limit, he pushed away the corpse used as a cover in front of him, jumped up, and swooped at the Ming army archers with an iron rod.

Many of the workers who were cornered were also inspired to have the courage, and no longer bowed their heads in vain to avoid the inevitable death, but shouted and rushed out together with their poles.

The Ming archers seemed to have been prepared, and after making one last shot, they quickly retreated and ran to the infantry behind them for cover. After seeing the Ming shooters who were still killing unscrupulously just now fleeing, the Cao workers were even more demoralized, their eyes were red, and they shouted and chased away.

As soon as he chased a short distance, the sound of horses' hooves and vicious shouts came from the side.

"It's completely unorganized." Deng Ming, who was watching the battle, commented softly, and the Caogong on the opposite side had begun to collapse, but there were still hundreds of people who did not retreat but advanced, wanting to counterattack the archers of the Ming army. After these Cao Gong rushed out, the Ming archers completely dispersed their formation with a slight retreat, and the cavalry of the three walls, which had already been prepared on the flank, launched a charge.

Looking at the three or four hundred workers who brandished their poles and charged the soldiers of the Wanming Army, Deng Ming sighed softly: "It's really lamentable, respectable. ”

After seeing the cavalry that suddenly came from the side, Cao Gong's courage finally disappeared without a trace, threw down the guy in his hand, turned around and ran back.

Zhang Yiqian and twenty-nine other companions charged together, and during their few months in Chengdu, the three walls further strengthened their tactics, and both the older riders and the younger newcomers put queue training first, and no longer the individual riding was a qiē as before.

Thirty cavalrymen lined up in a row and charged in unison, crushing the last few hundred enemy soldiers who had not yet collapsed.

Before the charge, Zhang Yiqian observed the enemy soldiers on the opposite side for a long time, and he saw that the enemy soldiers were all dressed in shabby cloth clothes, holding sticks and flat poles; On their side, there is no shortage of armor, armor-clad soldiers, archers, crossbowmen, and cavalry.

This kind of scene makes Zhang Yiqian have a sense of déjà vu, no, it's not déjà vu at all, but very familiar, isn't this the scene he faced again and again in the camp when he was young?

When rushing towards the first enemy, although it was only a short moment, Zhang Yiqian still saw the dense patches on the enemy's clothes, the fast-wearing pants, and the straw sandals with exposed toes and feet; When he raised the saber above his head, Zhang Yiqian also saw the deep wrinkles on the other party's forehead, and the skin was like dead tree bark.

"Kill!" When he shouted and waved the steel knife, Zhang Yiqian subconsciously turned his wrist, and at the same time reduced the force on his arm, and hit the back of the knife on the back of the person instead of the blade.

The enemy has begun to flee, but Zhang Yiqian has no pursuit, he looked at the ragged workers who stumbled and fled from him, as if he saw his young self.

After breaking the enemy's last fighting spirit, the thirty cavalrymen tacitly pulled the horses together, and none of them launched a pursuit. They lined up in a silent row, each with their mouths tightly pursed, watching the laborers flee the battlefield.

Zhang Yiqian and his companions were also like these people, running desperately, trying to escape from the armor-clad iron cavalry, but they did not hold the reins at that time. The current Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Battalion and the cavalry of the Qin Army in those years have cut down tens of thousands of homeless people who helped the old and the young flee from the famine one by one, and almost let the corpses spread all over the land of Shaanxi and Henan -- it is not only the big eaters and the robbery of grain stores that are capital crimes; Failure to pay food in a year of calamity is also a capital offense; Fleeing with one's parents and wife is also a capital offense; The young children who left their hometown with their father and mother also committed a capital crime, and when they met Sun Chuanting's cavalry, none of them, old and young, wanted to live. Zhang Yiqian and his companions all thought that they could survive only because there were too many dead people, and God couldn't bear to kill them all, so he didn't take all their lives.

Zhang Yiqian withdrew his gaze from the fleeing Cao Gong and looked at the way their pair of cavalrymen came from. Zhang Yiqian found the enemy soldier he had cut down, the man's body was bowed on the ground, lying on his side on the ground, coughing violently in pain, it seemed that although he had been hit hard, he still had a great chance to save it.

Along the way, there were dozens of workers who fell to the ground, they were all knocked down by the three walls, many of them were groaning, writhing and struggling on the ground, and some people tried to get up, it seems that these enemies have a good chance of surviving -- this time the killing efficiency of the three walls is unprecedentedly low, and the last time they fought with Li Guoying's Ganshan Green Battalion, where the three walls passed, 99 of the 100 enemy soldiers who were knocked down were killed on the spot.

"Why do you want to serve the Tartars?" Zhang Yiqian stared at the workers on the ground, and asked silently in his heart.

Infantry of the Ming army began to come up, pick up the prisoners on the ground, and take them to the rear for interrogation.

In the distance, Dong Xiaoye fell in the arm of a brother, just now he was the first to rush out, in the last round of shooting by the archers of the Ming army, he was hit by three arrows, if it wasn't for his strong body, he would have died long ago.

"I can't do it, old five, run." Dong Xiaoye had seven righteous brothers, five of whom died in the battle for territory, and the last two righteous brothers were shot dead by the Ming army just now, and he struggled and said to the last brother: "Run, don't forget to mention our revenge." ”

After speaking, Dong Xiaoye's eyes rolled and he swallowed his last breath.

"Big brother, don't worry, the hatred of the brothers, the hatred of your whole family, I will definitely pay it back for you." The person who spoke cried and closed Dong Xiaoye's eyelids, looked back at the approaching Ming army, jumped up and rushed towards the Yangzhou city wall, and while running towards the city gate, he secretly swore in his heart: "I want to join the army, I want to follow the governor to work hard to avenge the eldest brother and brothers!" ”

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"Someone stormed the gates." An officer came over to Lin Qilong and Liang Huafeng to report that a large number of workers had fled to the city gates, shouting for the defenders to rescue them into the city.

Deng Ming's military appearance made Lin Qilong also shocked, and he stood at the head of the city until he was awakened from his dream by this officer's report.

"Shoot them all." Lin Qilong waved his official sleeves and ordered without hesitation.

"Yes." The officers had also anticipated this order, and the archers had been waiting for the order from the Governor or the Admiral.

The officer walked to the battlement and waved his hand, countless arrows were spilled, and the workers who fled to the edge of the city were hit by arrows one by one and fell into the trench one after another.

"Send someone out of the city to negotiate with Governor Deng." Lin Qilong summoned a henchman and ordered him to take his treasured piece of Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy out of the city as a gift to Deng Ming, and at the same time brought Lin Qilong's words: "These thieves outside the city don't know the Admiral Huwei, and they are bewitched by the salt merchant Xiaoxiao, so they have to go against the Admiral. The admiral showed his might, the thief brought about his own destruction, and the lower officials admired and admired him. ”