From Zhangde Mansion to Mengjin, it was only three or four hundred miles, Xu Yifan led eight thousand elite horsemen, and arrived at Mengjin in less than three days.

At this time, Jierharang had already left Mengjin for more than four days, and had advanced six hundred miles to Lucheng towards Taiyuan.

"Yifan, how to fight this battle?"

Deng Jiuru asked in a deep voice.

Xu Yifan sneered: "Lord Deng, although Zierharang has withdrawn now, the remaining Zu Dashou and others still have thirty or forty thousand troops, we will definitely not be able to defeat them if we attack head-on, what we have to do now is to cover Li Dingguo's fourth town to cross the river, they are the main force to encircle and annihilate Zu Dashou." ”

Deng Jiuru nodded and replied: "I naturally know this, but there is an artillery battalion under Zu Dashou, at least dozens of artillery, forcibly crossing the river, the fourth town will inevitably encounter strong resistance from artillery, and the ...... will suffer heavy casualties."

"It's up to us!"

Xu Yifan said in a deep voice: "Brother Jiuru, you lead six thousand elite cavalry to launch a surprise attack on the Qing army from the front to attract the attention of the main force of the Qing army, and I will lead the remaining two thousand main forces to look for an opportunity to raid the artillery positions of the Qing army from the side and destroy their artillery in one fell swoop!" ”

Deng Jiuru said with a smile: "Brother, this is the Tartar's favorite tactic......"

"Exactly, in the way of the other, give back to the other!"

Xu Yifan sneered, "Act now, Brother Dingguo has been waiting for us to attack, as long as our cavalry launches an attack, Brother Dingguo will immediately forcibly launch a river crossing, Zu Dashou, this time, I will let his whole army be annihilated!" ”

Deng Jiuru bowed his hand to Xu Yifan, turned around and shouted: "Order, Tongzhou Town, the cavalry of the Fifth Town will launch a frontal attack on the Tartars with me, the musket battalion will prepare to cover, and the rest of the troops will attack with all their might!" ”

On the south bank of the Mengjin ferry, now Li Dingguo is also ready to attack, this operation, but with the emperor's deployment, it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, and the goal is to completely annihilate the 60,000 Qing troops under Jierharang!

Li Dingguo gathered hundreds of ships at the Mengjin ferry, and all the soldiers were ready to board the boats to cross the river, but the order of the chief soldier had not been given, and he had waited for two days, and the fourth town had already been impatient.

"My lord, when will we be able to send troops, the brothers can't wait, these days, all the limelight has been robbed by Inspector Xu, Inspector Sun and Inspector Qin, and our brothers have become a foil......

General Deng Xiao was a little anxious and asked urgently.

"Wait!"

Li Dingguo replied indifferently, "If we attack rashly, we will encounter a fierce counterattack by the Tartar artillery, we will not be able to counterattack on the river at all, but we will suffer heavy losses, only when the cavalry led by Xu Dushi arrives, we can launch an attack!" ”

While he was talking, there was a sudden sound of dense muskets on the other side of the Yellow River......

"Let's go!"

Li Dingguo's spirits were greatly lifted, and he shouted suddenly, and then, climbing towards the mast of the big ship, holding a monocular in his hand, looking into the distance, only to see the north bank of the Yellow River dusty, and a group of cavalry was charging!

"Deng Xiao immediately gave the order, and the whole army attacked, went straight to the north bank, and attacked!"

Li Dingguo shouted loudly.

At the sound of the horn, the civilian boats began to sail towards the other side of the Yellow River!

Mengjin Ferry, the width of the Yellow River is more than five miles, plus the Tartar artillery battalion in the rear, the distance between the two artillery is more than seven miles, and the range of ordinary red-coated artillery cannot reach it at all, unless it is a heavy artillery or shore defense artillery of more than 5,000 catties can barely cover the range.

It's just that the 5,000-pound heavy artillery is too cumbersome and too expensive, and it is impossible for any military town to carry too many such artillery, and the Tianwei Army also does not have it!

How easy is it to rush to the other side under the blockade of the Qing army's artillery? This is also the reason why Zilharang looked at the river and sighed.

On the other side, in the face of the sudden arrival of the Tianwei Army's elite cavalry, Zu Dashou didn't expect it at all, he really couldn't imagine how the Tianwei Army would rush here, could it be that the battle situation on the front line of the Daimyo Mansion Zhangde had changed? Otherwise, how could the Tianwei Army send so many cavalry to raid the Mengjin Ferry?

Zu Dashou faintly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Order, the cavalry attack, be sure to repel the cavalry of the Tianwei Army in front of you!"

Zu Dashou gave an order, five thousand Manchurian elite cavalry rushed out, straight to the Tianwei army in front of him, in Zu Dashou's opinion, five thousand Manchurian elite cavalry even if it is not the opponent of the Tianwei army in front of him, it is enough to withstand the opponent, as long as they can't rush up, the green battalion behind has a chance to counterattack, I already know that I still have thirty or forty artillery?

However, Zu Dashou made a mistake, just comparing the combat power, the Manchurian elite cavalry is only slightly inferior, but the six thousand cavalry has a thousand musketeers?

A thousand musketeers were separated on the left and right, and they were impressed by the fierce fire of the Manchurian cavalry who launched the assault, and the dense rifle fire held back the desperate attack of the Manchurian cavalry.

Waves of bullets completely covered the advance of the Manchurian cavalry, just in the blink of an eye, dozens of Manchurian cavalry were shot and fell off their horses, the forwards of the two sides have not yet touched each other, several waves of musket attacks have brought a huge blow to the Manchurian cavalry, the vanguard suffered heavy casualties, and the cavalry ranks were out of order.

Charge, the formation of the Manchurian elite cavalry is scattered, the cavalry of the Tianwei army is very neat, the momentum is like a rainbow, rushing towards the Manchurian elite cavalry, just a surprise attack, the Manchurian elite cavalry was scattered, the Manchurian elite cavalry was frightened by the musket, plus the strength was originally inferior to the Tianwei army elite cavalry, even more chaotic, the opponent suppressed the retreat, can not stand, can not withstand at all!

Zu Dashou looked horrified, the musket battalion is a musket battalion again, and the cavalry equipped with muskets is too difficult to deal with!

"Order, mobilize artillery, mobilize artillery, attack with all your might, I must repel the Tianwei army!"

Zu Dashou roared.

It's just that the artillery of the artillery battalion had just turned the muzzle of the gun, and before he had time to fire, Zu Kuan on the side screamed in panic!

"Father, father! Look, look, the Tianwei army on the other side has launched a river crossing, and the Tianwei army has begun to cross the river! ”

Zu Dashou was shocked, and looked at the other side of the Yellow River on his warhorse, only to see that hundreds of big ships had appeared on the Yellow River, and they were impressed by the assault on the north bank!

"Ahh The order, the artillery battalion turned around, and made every effort to prevent the Tianwei army from crossing the river! Mobilize the archers to shoot, mobilize the archers! ”

The artillery battalion began to turn again, but it was the elite cavalry of the Tianwei army, Zu Dashou still had the confidence to be able to resist, but once Li Dingguo's Tianwei army crossed the Yellow River, it really couldn't be stopped!

However, without artillery support, in the same way, the Manchurian elite cavalry could not stop the cavalry of the Tianwei army, and the Manchurian elite cavalry could not hold on for long.

"Zu Kuan, lead five thousand infantry, support the elite cavalry, you must resist!"

Zu Dashou had to press his most elite 5,000 green battalion up!

(End of chapter)