It stands to reason that Duoduo's army was twice as large as the Ming army, and he brought almost everyone except the troops to be stationed in the area to deploy this ambush, and victory was within reach.

But he never thought that the most unstable factor in this ambush would appear in a woman.

Wu Xiaomei.

Maybe it's the sadness of the girl leaving home, or maybe it's willful.

Wu Xiaomei suddenly teamed up with Zhou Simin to stop Chen Sheng and wanted to go back to Wuzhuang to have a look.

If it was someone else, just kidding, Chen Sheng greeted him with a big mouth.

Today is not an ordinary march, but a breakthrough, and there are hundreds of officials and family members of the imperial court traveling together, and a slight mistake is not a small crime.

But in the face of these two daughters, Chen Sheng didn't dare, and he didn't dare to borrow his two guts.

Chen Sheng persuaded him well, but the second daughter insisted on her own opinion, proposing that as long as a small number of people were sent to escort them to Wuzhuang, the army would only march according to the original plan, and after they arrived in Wuzhuang, they would catch up with the large army by themselves.

But how dare Chen Sheng agree?

One of these two daughters is the sister-in-law and the other is the mother-in-law, and she is pregnant.

In desperation, Chen Sheng could only ask Zhu Yujiao.

Chen Sheng originally wanted Zhu Yujiao to coerce the second daughter as a prisoner, but Chen Sheng didn't expect that after Zhu Yujiao heard about it, he actually ordered to agree to the second daughter to visit Wuzhuang, not only that, but Zhu Yujiao also had to go along.

This result made Chen Sheng dumbfounded, but he had to obey the decree of the state.

So Chen Sheng thought of a compromise strategy, that is, the army temporarily stopped and rested in place for half an hour.

Then a battalion of soldiers was sent to escort the three women to Wuzhuang.

A distance of more than ten miles, as long as you don't stay too long, half an hour round trip is almost enough.

This was a small accident for Chen Sheng, and a big accident for Duoduo.

Duoduo saw that the Ming army suddenly stopped for no reason, and the first thing he thought of was that the ambush was exposed, and the Ming army was vigilant, so he camped and did not move forward.

This realization forced Dodor to change his original plan.

If you can't fight an ambush, then you can only fight in the field.

As a result, the 20,000 Qing army ambushed troops suddenly and launched an attack on the Ming army several miles away.

With the favor of the sky, the Ming army, which was miles away, had enough time to deal with the surprise attack of the Qing army.

The Qing army had only a small number of cavalry, and most of the cavalry was sent to the Bolo Division.

Therefore, the Qing army had to charge through several miles, and the time required for this journey was not short, at least a quarter of an hour.

A quarter of an hour was enough time for the Ming army to respond and defend.

The ambush war thus became a field battle.

But the situation was still unfavorable to the Ming army, first of all, the strength of the Qing army, which was twice as large as the Ming army, and secondly, the Ming army needed to protect hundreds of officials and their families.

Chen Sheng was in a hurry, and suggested that Zhu Yujiao take the officials and their families to avoid Wuzhuang.

Zhu Yujiao was going to go to Wuzhuang with Wu Xiaomei and her second daughter, so she naturally agreed.

So Chen Sheng sent a force of 300 cavalry to escort Zhu Yujiao and a group of people to Wuzhuang.

ordered the rest of the cavalry to meet the enemy first, and he led the infantry of the Ming army to follow the cavalry behind the countercharge.

The intention was to prevent the Qing army from intercepting and killing the imperial court of the monarchs and ministers who were going to Wuzhuang.

This decision allowed Zhu Yujiao and others to leave the battlefield smoothly, and the Ming army could finally let go of their hands and feet to fight with the Qing army.

Since most of the cavalry was taken away by Wu Zheng, there were only 800 cavalry under Chen Sheng, and there were only 500 cavalry under Chen Sheng, except for 300 to escort Zhu Yujiao and his party.

The 500 cavalry was of little use in a battle of this scale, but it was still useful for temporarily curbing the momentum of the Qing army's charge.

The Qing army was hit head-on by 500 cavalry halfway through.

But the Qing army originally planned to ambush, so they naturally made preparations in weapons.

A lot of spears and hooks and sickles were prepared for the cavalry, so although the Ming cavalry achieved the purpose of delaying the Qing army's charge, the result of this move was that the 500 cavalry were completely wiped out, like a stone thrown into the ocean.

But their role should not be underestimated, first, it delayed the momentum of the Qing army's charge, and second, it gave Chen Sheng the opportunity to lead the army to fill the position smoothly.

It is conceivable that the two armies collided head-on, one side was prepared, the infantry line was flat and neatly pushed, and the other side was in a triangle, and this difference in formation was enough to cause a rout on the triangular side.

And the five hundred cavalry, with their entire annihilation, were exchanged for Chen Sheng's time to deploy the defensive line in the charge.

Like two rolling waves, the two armies collided head-on, splashing in all directions.

The consolidation and neatness of the defense line enabled the Ming army to withstand the attack of the Qing army at the moment of contact.

Although the Qing army had 20,000 people, it was impossible for these 20,000 people to spread out on the official road, and the fields on both sides were not enough.

In other words, the contact surface of the two armies can only be filled with thousands of people.

It is necessary to wait for these thousands of people to be consumed and then replenished, until one side is defeated, or one side has no follow-up, and the winner can be determined.

It takes time, not a short time.

In fact, strategically speaking, Dodor has failed.

Because this kind of war of attrition, for him, is undesirable.

His initial idea was to ambush and get the most out of it at the least cost.

But now, it's clear that the opposite has happened.

Duoduo did not regret attacking, because there were hundreds of monarchs and ministers in Shaoxing Mansion, and it was still a temptation for him.

When he saw the Ming army's counter-charge without fear of life and death, the corners of his mouth showed a trace of pride and sarcasm, this phenomenon just confirmed his judgment, nine times out of ten the Ming court monarchs and ministers were in this way, and Wu Zheng and his party in the direction of the Three Realms should be just a trick.

Duoduo was not worried about Bolo's department, firstly, Bolo brought the Eight Banners cavalry, which was far better than the cavalry of Tianwu Zheng, which had only been formed for a year, and secondly, Bolo himself had experienced a hundred battles and was enough to deal with all kinds of sudden changes.

Duoduo made a move, and then sent an order, ordering a partial division to intercept the small detachment of the Ming army.

……。

The official road east of the Three Realms has not yet dissipated the smoke of gunpowder.

Countless war horses and human body remnants all show that this place was once like a purgatory.

But the battle began abruptly and ended too quickly.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the more than 10,000 armies of the two sides that had been assembled disappeared in an instant.

Wu Zheng did not order the pursuit, it was really out of helplessness.

According to common sense, like this situation, the Qing army retreated in a panic, and as long as the Ming army pursued, the results of the battle would expand, of course, the premise was that it could not pursue too far.

Because although the Qing army retreated, it was not a rout, and a good hand on horseback like this could slowly adjust the formation and morale as long as he galloped for more than ten miles.

However, proper pursuit helped the Ming army to control the rhythm of this battle and grasp the initiative on the battlefield, which was equivalent to mastering victory.

It's a pity that Wu Zheng was worried about the imperial court and his relatives who accompanied Chen Sheng, so he could only give up the pursuit.

But this also gave the Ming army enough time to turn, even if the Qing army finished purging twenty miles away, and then returned to pursue Wu Zhengsuo's department, it would be forty or fifty miles to come and go.