Of course, the imperial uncle is sage, but Aobai's brother Mulima is not very sage.

Today he took eight of Niulu's infantry to ambush in the Victory Lake...... The so-called "ambush" was said casually by Dord, and it did not have to be lying on his stomach in the woods or in the grass.

Although it is a wetland and forest, it is difficult to pass, but it is not true that there is no way to go. There are no wide official roads, but there is still a road that is not too difficult to follow through the southern forest area of Tokukatsuyo.

For the black spear and mule soldiers of the Ming army, this road is the most ideal passage!

If Ao Bai had commanded the eight oxen, he would have used them to block the road - cutting down some trees and piling up a few sandbags would still make it very easy to block the road.

As long as the road is blocked, it will not be easy for the Ming army's horse team to pass. But Mulima was too honest, and when Duoduo let him ambush, he really went to ambush. Divide the troops in the woods on both sides of this road, wait for the Ming cavalry to pass through, and take them by surprise.

The sound of muskets that Duoduo heard was that of Mulima's ambush soldiers shooting at the passing Ming cavalry with arquebuses. But Li Yuanyin, who commanded the cavalry of the Ming army in a roundabout way, was also an expert in ambushes and sneak attacks, so he had been prepared for a long time. He sent one battalion of cavalry to the front with great fanfare, while the remaining seven battalions of cavalry dismounted and led their horses (this time they did not bring mules) on foot, quietly following.

As a result, when Mulima's ambush saw four or five hundred Ming troops on horseback, they hurriedly opened fire and fired arrows, killing and wounding some people (about forty or fifty), and then ambushed and killed the rest and besieged the rest on the road. But they were soon shot at by the "black pikemen" who dismounted and came on foot, and that was more than 1,700 flintlock musketeers!

The firepower of more than 1,700 flintlock pistols was completely more than Mulima's eight cattle could bear. If they can hold the fortification, they may be able to withstand the Ming attack, at least until reinforcements arrive. But now they are scattered on the main road, and they have little to rely on, how can they resist more than 1,700 flintlock pikemen?

It didn't take long for people to be killed and wounded, and the corpses were paved all the way. Mulima's soldiers are all old peasants who went out of the gate, how can they bear such casualties? As a result, they scattered and fled, and they were not killed, but they all drilled into the forest. Mulima himself was bruised by a lead bullet on the scalp, his head was covered with blood, and he fled all the way under the escort of a dozen or so personal soldiers, and became the commander of the light pole. Three thousand cavalry horses led by Liuyong.

The fourth son of Liuyong's father, Wakda's Daishan, is the confidant of Dolgon and Duoduo brothers, and has been following Duoduo when he left the town of Liaodong, and has also been crowned the king of the county. However, he died of illness in the ninth year of Shunzhi, and the position was inherited by his son Liuyong.

Compared with Laozi Wakda, Liuyong seems a bit mediocre, he is a "full three generations", and he was born in a powerful family, he has been pampered since he was a child, and he has not experienced much danger.

Now when I see a tiger general like Mulima beating people with blood all over his head, he suddenly panicked. Hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Mulima, what's wrong with you?" ”

"It's hard to get a stubble!" Mulima covered his head, "The ambush failed, and the black gun was called to ......"

"The black spearmen of the Southern Barbarians? How many? ”

"Thousand......s," said Mulima, "each with a black gun, accurate and ruthless!" ”

"Thousands!" Liuyong panicked, "What should I do then?" The 3,000 horsemen I brought with me didn't even have a musket! ”

"Then retreat to the open space outside the victory lake and fight them face to face!" Mulima gritted his teeth, "Lao Tzu doesn't believe that the black spearmen of the Southern Barbarians can charge as well as our forward battalion!" ”

Mulima is also a first-class tiger general in the Manchurian army, and the forward battalion of Manchuria was founded by him and Aobai, and he is naturally good at fighting cavalry assaults, but there is no forward battalion cavalry at hand, only some traditional Manchurian cavalry, and it is not his own command, which is a bit troublesome.

Just as Liuyong and Mulima were packing up their ranks and preparing for another battle, Nikan, who commanded 8,000 forward cavalry, 6,000 cavalry, and 12 cannons, was also in big trouble—as soon as his 12 3-pounder guns were deployed, they were knocked out by a third of the opponent's nine 12-pounder guns, and the remaining eight 3-pounder guns had to move their positions immediately.

The effective range of the smoothbore cannon is related to the weight of the bullet, the charge, and the length of the barrel, although the nine 12-pounder guns that Wang Qi has at hand are not long guns, but relatively light short guns, and they are also cast iron cannons (cast iron cannons have a slower rate of fire), but their effective range is still not comparable to 3-pounder guns.

So Nikan's artillery at hand is simply not useful!

Without the support of artillery, the cavalry of the forward battalion that dismounted and acted as musketeers had to charge against the eighteen 3-pounder guns of an artillery battalion belonging to a division of the Ming army.

But after all, the cavalry of the forward battalion is a cavalry that does odd jobs, a class of troops that can do everything, but is not proficient in anything. How can they dismount and engage in a shootout with the elite infantry of the Ming army who are in the Morris phalanx?

Nikan stubbornly let the infantry of the forward battalion attack three times, but they were all driven back by Ming fire. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Qi, the commander of the 10th Division of the Ming Army, only had one cavalry company at hand and had no way to cover the infantry to launch a counterattack, he would have crushed Nikan's forward battalion long ago.

After three failed attacks, Nikan's forward battalion cavalry had already lost more than a thousand men and no longer had the courage to launch a fourth assault. However, he was unwilling to retreat, so he divided 2,000 forward battalion cavalry to Bal Chuhun (Yue Tuo's fourth son) from Taiyuan, and let Bal Chuhun command 3,000 cavalry of the Red Banner, 2,000 forward battalion cavalry and eight 3-pounder guns to confront the Ming army, and he led more than 4,000 forward battalion cavalry and 3,000 blue flag cavalry to the back of the Ming army, trying to find the weakness of the Ming army's deployment. Not long after leaving, a thunderous drum beat and a tsunami-like cheer came from the center of the battlefield.

Nikan hurriedly reined in his horse and stretched out his ears to listen.

"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated...... Invincible! Invincible! ”

This is the cheers of the Ming army!

Nikan's heart sank, thinking that it must be the Ming army that was counterattacking head-on, and he had to find the weakness of the Ming army as soon as possible to launch an attack, and it would be too late to finish!

The cheers he heard were from Qin Mingtao's 12th Division, which belonged to fourteen of the sixteen infantry battalions that were now forming the Morris phalanx, with the support of eighteen three-pounder guns, storming Yue Le's left flank.

At the same time, the thirty-two battalions of Gao Jie's department, which was still running fast just now, suddenly rose up, and under the cover of more than 20 3-pounder guns, they fought back against the artillery and bullets of Yue Le's department.

And after Wang Qi found that the Qing cavalry in front of him gave up the attack and began to make a detour, he also asked the nine 12-pounder guns at his disposal to shift their positions under the cover of two infantry battalions to bombard Yue Le's right flank.

Yue Le's infantry army is all old peasants who go out to make a living, and it is no problem to fight a good fight, but now they are being flanked by the Ming army that exceeds their own at least fifty percent in number and firepower, and they will not be able to bear it immediately - they have been fighting back and forth with Gao Jie's troops for most of the day, from early morning to afternoon, they have long been exhausted, plus they have suffered heavy casualties, and now they are on the verge of collapse, and if they continue to carry it, it will not be a fake Manchuria, but a real Manchuria!

Uncle Duoduo had been watching the battle from the high platform, and he also knew that Yue Le would not be able to withstand it, so now he had to invest in an elite counterattack, and he said loudly to the left and right: "Let Zhan Dai lead the Baya soldiers to charge into battle...... Unload your armor and pinch the gun to charge, and go to the Hongyi artillery array on the right flank of the Southern Barbarians! The Hongyi artillery array of Nanmanzi must be captured, otherwise it will be killed! ”