Jiang Quanyi's order was correct.

Although it is an official road, 3,000 people almost occupy the cross-section.

Meeting with your own reinforcements, 3,000 people is enough to crush your own reinforcements, there is no time for the two teams to slowly meet, decisively avoiding both sides of the official road is the only correct way.

The four or five thousand Jingjiang health forces from Taixing collided fiercely with hundreds of cavalry in the vanguard of the pursuing army.

Countless human bodies were knocked into the air by the Qing cavalry, and the situation was terrible, which made the soldiers on both sides, especially the cliff side cry out in pain, and their hearts were shocked, compared with those comrades who were knocked away, they were undoubtedly lucky.

There are many people, and many times it can be turned into a kind of courage.

Even if hundreds of people were knocked away by the Qing cavalry, but for only three or four hundred cavalry, they could not plow through the mile-long procession, the official road was not wide, and it could accommodate four horsemen at most, and the cavalry could not go down to the field, which would make the horse's hooves fall into the mud, and they could not jump off the cliff, which was to seek death.

Therefore, after charging for one or two miles, the cavalry in front gradually slowed down, but the cavalry behind continued to charge, maintaining a relatively high speed.

So Qing Qi began to hit his own people.

On the official road, there was chaos.

People are crowded, whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, at this time, they are looking at the military uniform and waving a knife.

This Jingjiangwei was temporarily formed because of the outbreak of war, and the main body was more than 2,000 and less than 3,000 veterans brought by Jiang Quanyi, and the predecessor was more than 300 survivors of the Yizhen defensive battle and the survivors of Wang Zhiren's new sailor division when he landed on the north bank and rescued the remnants of Yizhen.

Wu Zheng supplemented him with more than 4,000 recruits from the military academy, making up the number of 8,000.

There was not even a change of equipment, first, there was no time, and second, there was no stock in the military workshop, and the swords, bows and crossbows were still used.

The Northern Expeditionary Army is no longer equipped with armor, and Jingjiangwei naturally has no new armor, and the original armor is still used, at least more than half of the people at this time only have military uniforms and no armor.

So, encounters like this are basically the world of cavalry.

If it is open land, three or four hundred cavalry is enough to deal with the more than four thousand Jingjiangwei, and after the rampage, they can also leave calmly.

However, the terrain was absolutely unsuitable for cavalry combat, and they were trapped between the roads and could not extend to the sides.

In other words, like a sharp knife, once the tip of the knife is blunt, I am afraid that even the tofu will not be able to stab it.

At this time, the Qing cavalry striker was dull after hitting a hundred people in a row.

As soon as the cavalry slowed down, the Ming soldiers on both sides rushed up, jumped up, and dragged the riders down.

Or swing a knife at a rider on a war horse.

If it doesn't work, then pounce on it.

It is conceivable that a cavalry without speed is surrounded by several times the number of people, which is a dead end, and it is not as good as the infantry.

Gradually, the tide of battle became different.

A pillar of incense, the arrogant cavalry of the Qing army, was completely annihilated, like a group of ants gnawing an elephant.

It seems impossible, but it happens.

After the war, Jingjiangwei only lost more than 240 people, and the result of the battle was that he was born on the official road and annihilated more than 360 horsemen in a dignified manner.

The largest casualties came from the cliff side, where more than 400 people broke their feet, more than 60 broke bones, and three were seriously injured.

However, this is not the end of the battle.

This is just the beginning.

After this Qing cavalry, it was still the Qing army chasing soldiers, and then the cavalry and infantry of the Qing army crossing the river.

Jiang Quanyi limped and scolded: "He X's ...... Don't stand still and be stupid, help the fallen brothers and wounded soldiers on their horses, and the whole army immediately retreats to Taixing City...... Dog X, running for his life is not active! ”

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Karchuhun was extremely angry in his heart.

What kind of battle is this, to put it mildly, there is not even a chance to swing the knife head-on, and so many troops have been lost.

Looking at the mess on the official road, Kharchu felt a kind of heat that wanted to tear apart everything in front of him.

The war horse is definitely gone, and the corpse of the Qing rider has been stripped of his clothes, and the key point is that even the head is missing.

It's not necessarily too ruthless!

Of course, this will not be done by those military cadets who have just fought the first battle, and it must have been Jiang Quanyi's group of veterans who came from the sea of corpses and blood.

Karchuhun felt bitter.

This battle has not yet been fought, and the 50,000-strong army will go to Sancheng first.

Fortunately, the more than 10,000 Qing soldiers who fled were also considered old horses to know the way, or they really had no place to escape or defect, and they collected about 4 or 5,000 defeated soldiers along the way, and there were still nearly 40,000 people in the 50,000 army.

Looking into the distance, in the direction of Taixing City, Karchu shouted loudly: "Ten people fled to behead the team, a hundred people fled to behead the leader, and a thousand people fled to behead the leader...... If you can't capture Taixing City today, this commander will kill the commanders! ”

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However, the development of the war situation is not always subject to human will.

Before the expedition, Wu Zheng ordered three routes to the north, and the expected decisive battles were in Taizhou and Tongzhou.

But in fact, the Qing army went south at the same time, and was so nonsensical by Jiang Quanyi, it was obvious that Jiang Quanyi's troops could no longer go north, but were driven to Taixing by the Qing army.

In other words, the western battlefield has moved south to Taixing City.

Then, Hangzhou Wei, who started from Shizhuang, marched northwest to Taizhou through Huangqiao Town as planned, which was inadvertently equivalent to inserting the back road of the Qing army and outflanking the nearly 40,000 Qing troops with Jiang Quanyi's department.

Although it sounds ridiculous, it is inconceivable that 18,000 people outflanked 40,000 Qing troops, but the situation on the battlefield is like this.

Whether it is a knife or a strong shield, then the two sides have to set up the carriage and horses and take a look.

After Wu Zheng received the Taixing battle report, he scolded a few foul words.

The orders and prohibitions that dare to be repeatedly emphasized are not easy to use when it comes to Jiang Quanyi's bastard.

However, Wu Zheng also understood that his judgment was indeed wrong, and he thought that he could send troops overnight to preempt the Qing army in Taizhou before it went south, but he didn't want to, the Qing army was just more than two hours later than him.

Therefore, the battle in Taizhou is definitely impossible, even if Jiang Quanyi is ordered to hold in Taixing City, it is inevitable that the Qing army will march into Taixing.

On the contrary, it was Jiang Quanyi's "recklessness" that made the Qing army lose before fighting, and at the same time delayed the speed of the Qing army's southward movement, so that Hangzhou Wei could easily copy the Qing army's rear road.

But the situation is good, and the difficulty is great.

Whether it is Jiang Quanyi's troops or Hangzhou Wei, the troops are relatively weak, and it is too difficult to gnaw at the 40,000 Qing army.

The loss of Dashengguan and Longtan should be in danger of Tianfu, which made it even more difficult for Wu Zheng to choose.

But time waits for no one, Wu Zheng can only make up his mind and fight all the way, as for what the battle situation will turn into in the end, he can only rely on the will of heaven and do his best.

Wu Zheng ordered the 8,000 musketeers stationed in Xiangshan to cross the river with the whole army to support Taixing.

At the same time, Fang Guoan urgently dispatched more than 10,000 remaining recruits from the military academy to take over the defense of Xiangshan.

This is already the meaning of fighting a decisive battle with the Qing army on the opposite side.