But Tan Tai understands very well that this battle is related to the Qing court's Jiangnan strategy, and if he is not careful, the Qing army will be stuck in a quagmire and it will be difficult to extricate himself.

So he put aside his personal grudges and led his army to attack it with all his might.

Tan Tai, as well as He Hehui (this is also an authentic person with a white flag, because of the Emperor Taiji's Ming, slightly Jinzhou, because of the meritorious award of the Yellow Banner Mongolian Gushan Ezhen), all commanded the Qing army to fight on Jiangxin Island.

Now that Zhenjiang City and Dantu have fallen into the pockets of the Qing army, Tan Tai ordered He Luohui to cross the river into Dantu and command the Qing army to pass through the surrounding areas.

He Hehui is one of the eight great solid mountains of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, experienced a hundred battles, and fought extremely bravely, which is also the reason why he inherited the heir Niu Lu Ezhen (three hundred people for one Niu Lu) from his father's death, and in just seven years, he became one of the eight solid mountains of the Qing army.

And Tan Tai and He Luohui were not originally going to attack Jiangnan, but should have been sent to the northwest.

It was Wu Zheng who recovered the ten prefectures in Jiangnan and attracted the attention of the Qing court, and they were sent to Jiangbei.

He Luohui has outstanding achievements, but he also stops at Gushan Ezhen, not because his background and qualifications are not enough, but because this person is not good at scheming, to put it simply, he is brave and not strategic, but he can be a general, this is Dolgon's private comment on him.

Of course, it is enough for such a person to lead the army into battle in the era of cold weapons.

With He Luohui stationed in Dantu, the Dantu Qing army had reached a total of 12,000 people.

However, with the strategy to the east of Dagang, Angang and other places, the total number of Qing troops defending the city was more than 6,000 people.

Compared with the more than 5,000 people in Wu Zheng's department, this is not much different, and it can be described as evenly matched.

When Wu Zheng led his troops thirty miles away from Dantu, they were detected by the Qing army scouts.

This is not surprising, such a scale of march, if the Qing army scouts did not find out in advance, then the Qing army may not be able to enter the pass for another hundred years.

And Wu Zheng didn't hide his whereabouts, grabbed time and recovered the Dantu, there was no possibility of tricks, so he had to fight and take people's lives to fill in.

Wu Zheng was even ready to fight to the death, this battle was to defeat the arrogance of the Qing army, so that they would be jealous and dare not easily spread to the surrounding areas.

But at this time, a strange thing happened.

The scouts of the Qing army detected that thousands of Ming troops were advancing towards Dantu and had approached thirty miles outside the city.

If it is an ordinary guard, it should be sent to the upper officer, and then the whole city should be ordered to be on guard, and the horses and saddles and soldiers should go to the wall to organize defense.

But He Luohui is different, he really looks down on the Ming army, and it is no wonder that since the Qing army did not enter the customs, He Luohui has not been defeated in the hands of the Ming army.

But if he loses the last time, he will not be so lightly defeated.

He Luo would order the initiative to attack and meet the invading Ming army.

The problem was that He Luohui had no cavalry in his hands at this time, and the cavalry was sent to attack the counties and ports in the east.

He was stunned to lead the Qing army in the city and brazenly faced the Ming army.

In fact, in terms of troops, the Qing army still has an advantage, and in terms of actual combat skills, this ragtag new army under Wu Zheng is indeed not a one.

Even from the perspective of the main generals of the two armies, even if Wu Zheng is young and strong, and He Luohui is in his early forties, his physical fitness has declined, and Wu Zheng and He Luohui will fight alone, Wu Zheng will not take much advantage.

But after all, the battle between the two armies was not fought alone, and no matter how much the Qing army's individual skills crushed the Ming army, they could not resist the scorching projectile.

You compare your strength with me, I compare your strategy, you compare your strength, and I compare your weapons...... It's as simple as that.

Wu Zheng was indeed surprised when he learned from the scout that the Qing army opened the city gate to meet him.

He thought that the Qing army went out of the city to meet the cavalry, and the bloody price paid for the annihilation of the thousand cavalry outside Danyang City was still in Wu Zheng's mind, and that battle, although it showed that the army had won, but in fact the number of people killed far exceeded the Qing army's thousand.

If it weren't for the fact that this battle had to be fought, Wu Zhengzhen would have led the army to turn around and go back to Danyang.

Wu Zheng did not dare to enter, and immediately ordered to line up in place, with pikemen in front, musketeers in the back, and cavalry to protect the two wings, which can be described as decent.

This is a chance given by God to the Qing army to correct its mistakes, as long as He Luo will still have a trace of sobriety, the outcome of the battle situation is very likely to be rewritten.

It stands to reason that when he learned that the Ming army had stopped advancing and fortified in place, He Luohui should have understood that the suddenness of the battle had been lost, that is, both sides knew that the other had already known the existence of the other party, and then it would be a field offensive and defensive battle.

This kind of battle is fought only with attrition, and it is all about morale and weapons.

For normal generals, this will be avoided as much as possible, except as a last resort.

No one's life was picked up, was it?

He Luohui, who was proud of his martial arts, gave up this opportunity.

In his opinion, if you kill the past, the Ming army will collapse, and for many years, hasn't the Ming army been like this?

You know, what he is most proud of is the battle of capturing Hong Chengchou, defeating the Ming army with 400 people, and capturing the enemy commander, what a glorious battle?

Hearing that the other party is the Duke of Zhenguo, He Luohui will inevitably want to recreate the glory of the day.

The battle began under He Luohui's blatant order.

Only then did Wu Zheng know that the Qing army was coming with infantry...... Wu Zheng was dumbfounded, raised his head and asked the sky, God, you did this on purpose, right? You're also looking after the Han people in the world, right? I can't bear to let the Han people be enslaved, right?

Wu Zheng immediately changed his tactics, ordered the pikemen to detour the two flanks, the musketeers to meet the enemy, and the cavalry to detour from the left and right, outflanking and cutting off the enemy's rear.

The transfer of thousands of people takes time, in fact, at this time, the Qing army has discovered some abnormalities.

He Luohui also found out.

But this can't change He Luo's obsession with capturing the enemy commander and the enemy Zhenguogong.

Moreover, it is indeed not uncommon for the two armies to change their tactics and formations at any time against the enemy.

Even if you have cavalry outflanking both flanks of our army, so what?

I only have to lead the army to defeat your Chinese army, and you still have to collapse?

He Luohui probably wanted to defeat Wu Zhengzhong's army in one go, and then return with a big victory, adding a strong stroke to his life's achievements.

So, He Luo will personally send these thousands of Qing soldiers to the road of no return.

It was a massacre where there was no room for remark.

Unlike cavalry charges, no matter how fast the infantry runs, it can't withstand the projectile fire, and the most important thing is that the infantry lacks impact power, they can't be like the cavalry, even if the rider is killed, the war horse will still cause great damage to the opponent's array.

Of course, it's speed that makes the difference.

The cavalry charge outpaced the reloading of the musketeers, which the infantry could not.

They were slaughtered en masse in rows, and sometimes the Qing soldiers pulled their bows and wanted to fight back, but the problem was that the arrows could not reach far away, and when they were close, they didn't wait for the bow to be drawn, but a row of projectiles came.

Half a pillar of incense, the battle is over.

Within a radius of three miles, there were regular rows of corpses.

I have to say that the Qing army fell in the direction of the Ming army, and they died on the way to the charge.