Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Battle Is Raging

The sound of the golden drum shook the heavens and the earth, and the general soldiers of the six routes were divided into four front and two behind, forming a surprisingly positive array, like a high wall pushed flat, pushing towards the Qing army.

There is no caution and hesitation in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the past. To the sound of golden drums, a column of armored soldiers strode forward.

Junta was startled, he wasn't ready to start fighting right away. According to the Tartar custom, it was to harass with light cavalry for a while, then with Aha to charge, then the dead soldiers to charge, and finally the main force to follow.

And the Ming army is like a dead pork, only putting on a huge and cumbersome battle to be beaten, although the size is very large, and the defense is also very strong, but in the end it always falls apart. Just do it in front of him, it's the first time he's seen it in so many years.

But Zhun Ta is not afraid, not to mention that he can't retreat.

With a wave of his hand, hundreds of coats were pushed to the front of the array, surrounded by two Mongolian light cavalry, "Kill, ......"

There was a shout of killing in the cloaked procession, and these slaves, who did not even have armor and only held knives and guns in their hands, did not dare to resist the Tartars' orders at all, even if they knew that they had become cannon fodder.

In the sound of "knock ......" war drums, the Ming army's array suddenly changed, Cao Bianjiao guided his soldiers to speed up, and the three thousand armored soldiers at the front of the array strode forward, and the red lines seemed to be moving cities!

This is the real elite. Kill from the middle of the pass to the outside of the pass.

"Tense ......" the sound of the bowstring bouncing rang out.

The two Mongol light cavalry discharged the sparse array and rushed towards Cao Bianjiao's army, but the damage they gave could not hurt the Ming army at all.

"Brethren, onward! Forward! A Ming officer shouted hoarsely, waved the broadsword in his hand, and drove forward the front horizontal formation of long-card soldiers and pikemen. If you stand on a high place and look down, you can find that on the battlefield, two streams of people are quickly colliding together. The scattered Ahabs were easily crushed to powder by the moving wall made up of armor soldiers!

They are just hors d'oeuvres, and the Qing army and horse army that followed hundreds of Aha rushed in behind were the real test that Cao Bianjiao's army had to experience.

The 3,000 people in Cao Bianjiao's department are his absolute elite, and there is not a trace of water, which you can know as long as you look at the fact that there is not a single musketeer in his army.

But it is impossible for such a Ming army to completely reject the Qing troops.

In addition to a large number of unusable firearms in the army, there is no large number of bows and crossbows to kill and injure enemy horses, when hundreds of Qing army horse armor soldiers rushed to the front and back, the front line of Cao Bianjiao's army immediately sank a large piece.

In the midst of a loud collision, a stone bullet collided with the city wall.

Stone bullets will shatter, and the walls will sink heavily into pieces.

"Boom, boom, boom......" At the same time, grenades were also exploding. Compared to the musket, this is the most suitable weapon for them, with a spear and a large shield in front and a grenadier in the back.

"Kill......" Alami shouted with his sword, he was the commander of the other Tartar, and Zhunta used his brother as his deputy, and before the army was divided into two roads, and the two brothers led one way each.

Three or four hundred Tartar horse troops slaughtered like arrows directly to the flank of Cao Bianjiao's army.

"Raise your gun!"

Three columns of long-card soldiers, with a spear behind their backs directly on the long-card soldiers.

The collision of the war horse and the shield spear, a terrible shout, there are people, there are horses.

Iron hooves stomp through the long card, and spears pierce the flesh.

The sound of the sharp blade cutting into the flesh was even louder—this was the sound of the dead soldier in front of the Tartar riding his horse and crashing into the flesh and blood of the Ming soldier! The huge impact force is not at all something that human power can withstand, and dozens of people are immediately knocked into the air!

But the dead soldiers of the Tartars are really dead and can't die anymore.

If it was an ordinary Ming army, such a collision, and then the Tartars only needed to continue to let the horses kill, then it would inevitably be a rout. But these 3,000 people were the most elite troops in Cao Bianjiao's hands, and they resisted it stubbornly.

"Bomb, bomb......" shouted the officer in the back column. At the same time, in Cao Bianjiao's rear formation, a large number of Ming troops also took the opportunity to kill.

Liu Zhaoji is located on the west side of Cao Bianjiao, and he has the least elite soldiers, or he doesn't even have many armored soldiers. It's not that Hong Chengchou lent him his standard camp, and Liu Zhaoji's armor soldiers were afraid that they wouldn't even be able to put up a small thousand-person phalanx.

But that doesn't mean people don't know how to fight. At this moment, seeing that Cao Bianjiao's army withstood the impact of the Tartars, he immediately shouted loudly, so that the deputy general Ma Yingkui led a thousand troops to quickly go to the Qing army.

Acting quickly and decisively, Ma Ke on the east side of Cao Bianjiao fell behind.

Bolo's face changed drastically when he looked at the back, especially when he knew that Bai Guangen's army, which was on the easternmost side of the Ming army, had suddenly accelerated to the north. The four-way general soldiers lined up in front of the Ming Dynasty have now changed from a long snake to an "L" that is squarely flattened.

Hong Chengchou is going to completely block them at the south end of the Qingshui Stone Bridge.

At that moment, he shouted to the soldiers to immediately come forward to support the tower. The Eight Banners have repeatedly defeated the Ming army over the years, and they have all shown absolute self-confidence, and Bolo still firmly believes that his army will be able to defeat the Ming army on the other side.

But it was at this time that he received an urgent report from the rear - Zheng Zhilong, who was on the other side of the canal, was going to lead the army across the river!

"How did he cross the river?" Bolo felt like he didn't have enough brains.

Because of the infusion of water, the width of this section of the canal has increased dramatically, and the east and west banks are no less than 30 zhang. With the current thickness of the ice on the canal, how can an army cross the river? He didn't pay attention to Zheng Jun on the other side of the strait before, wasn't that the reason?

Now you're telling him that Zheng Jun can cross the river again?

Bolo's eyes were as big as bull's eyes.

"The minions don't know. But when Nikan made the men spread some straw mats on the ice, and then added planks, the armoured soldiers could walk on them freely. ”

"Then tell Hurib to burn the straw mat with a rocket." Bolo was a little angry and yelled at the man.

The Ming army in the south has not yet been resolved, and something has happened on the back road, and Hu Libu has hooked the word 'waste' in his heart.

"Ordered Zhao Bin to transfer all the soldiers and horses on the north bank, no, leave one or two hundred people behind, and watch the baggage, men and women who live across the river." Bolo had already regarded the baggage of the cart and the thousands of men and women as the property of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if Zhao Bin's people were transferred to the south bank, the men and women on the north bank would inevitably have to lose money, food, and materials, which would make him feel distressed. "Tell the baggage to continue crossing the river, and speed up the crossing. Both men and women stopped and circled for the time being. I'll give Hulib another 500 steps, and I'll keep the back road firmly guarded. There was a mistake, and the lord cut him. Saying that, Bolo called a Goshha beside him and went to the infantry to transfer troops.

And he himself immediately rushed to the battlefield with an army of two thousand horses.

A sense of urgency suddenly rose in Bolo's heart. Whether it was the sudden attack of the Qing army in the south, or the possibility of Zheng Zhilong on the other side, this shows one thing - this is a battle that Nikan has been planning for a long time.

The instability of the back road, the disparity in troops, and the unfavorable terrain ......, Bolo found that his current situation was too unfavorable.

Still, he wasn't afraid.

Although this is an overall situation set by Hong Chengchou, he has also unconsciously entered the game, but so what? He still has thousands of Eight Banners in his hands, so what if he has already won the scheme?

If you win the scheme, will you definitely lose?

Even those cowards in the south can stop the trampling of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry?

Even if you are in the middle of the scheme, you can also break through the encirclement.

As long as you tear up all these all-Ming troops who block you, you can't count anything, and they will all go with the wind.

It would be a big win.

Bolo has full confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners are invincible in the field, and the Ming army is as timid as a mouse, which is his biggest psychological advantage.

The tiger roared, leading the infantry cavalry to rush down.

Regardless of whether Zheng Zhilong can cross the river or not, as long as he defeats Hong Chengchou first, then the general trend is decided!

The west embankment of the canal.

A pair of turtledoves and big turtledoves, the muzzles of the guns are aimed straight at the opposite bank, and there are snipers like Hong Peng, the muzzles are also aimed at the opposite side, under the cover of a long card in front of them, they are very safe.

"Aim, put-"

As soon as the green smoke rose, the Qing troops on the other side of the river did not suffer any casualties, because the muzzles of the guns were all facing the sky. Otherwise, Zheng Zhilong was afraid that the projectile would not kill the Qing soldiers, but would kill the troops crossing the river below.

But even so, it still needs a sound to cover it, because it can give confidence to the troops crossing the river.

The first batch of troops crossing the river were all from the Xiao Yuan battalion.