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At this moment, Chen Tai, the general of Qingjingnan, was standing at the head of the south gate, looking at the movement in Jiao Lian's military camp outside the city in horror......

Two days ago, Ben was ordered to lead the army to Fuzhou, but was attacked by Jiao Lian's half-crossing, Chen Tai was caught off guard, left behind the troops who had crossed the river, and fled back to Nanchang in embarrassment.

Unexpectedly, Jiao Lian did not give up, covering up all the way to the city, and finally escaped into the city under Chen Tai's inventory, and found that more than 2,000 foot soldiers had been lost.

Seeing that he couldn't fight this fierce and abnormal Ming army in a hurry, Chen Tai had to close the city gate and wait for reinforcements, using the cannon at the head of the city to defend the city, and at the same time send people to Hong Chengchou who was sitting in Nanjing for help.

Two days and two nights passed, and Chen Tai, who was eager to wear it, had not waited for news from Nanjing, but Jiao Lian's Ming army only spent a day building a fortress and camping, and had already begun to attack the city yesterday.

And the day before yesterday, when Jiao Lian's army was busy building a camp, his courage to go out of the city to fight back was completely extinguished......

Judging from Jiao Lian's arrangement, this person is worthy of his name, and he is indeed a brave and resourceful general.

From the topographical point of view, the hilly area in the south of Nanchang is actually very narrow, except for an official road out of the city, the sides are relatively flat, and the distant mounds are not low but densely wooded, or a few small rivers.

A tributary of the Fu River in the east and the narrowest part of the Gan River in the west are only more than ten miles apart, once the Qing army comes to help, whether it is from the Fu River or the Gan River to attack, it is difficult for the Ming army to turn around.

Jiao Lian's army did not all gather under the city of Nanchang, he set up the main camp on both sides of the official road five miles outside the moat, and sent troops to build seven or eight wooden forts on the west bank of the Fu River and the east bank of the Gan River.

The Art of War: "First of all, it is invincible, and then the enemy can be defeated." ”

Jiao Lian's move ensured that even if the enemy soldiers came to help, they could not land quickly, and they were able to calmly organize defense.

Seeing the Ming army busily building camps, filling rivers and building bridges, all of them looked indifferent, Chen Tai was angry and hateful!

Chen Tai is also a veteran, and he knows that once Jiao Lian's camp is built, it will be like a hedgehog, and it will be difficult to smash it.

You look down on me like that?

Let's not mention reinforcements, how can we say that there are 20,000 soldiers and horses in Lao Tzu's city, and you don't take Lao Tzu seriously?

If you hadn't been caught off guard in the battle of the ferry, you wouldn't know who would have won and who had lost!

"My lord, this Ming army is really too deceitful! Instead of being trapped and killed, it is better to take advantage of his unstable foothold to go out of the city and kill him with a horse gun! ”

Just as Chen Tai was standing at the head of the city and gritting his teeth, a subordinate general named Gai Chaoxuan beside him offered his advice in time.

"Rush?" Chen Tai was still very cautious, and his eyes looked out of the city uncertainly.

Outside the city, Jiao Lian's elite cavalry was unguarded, most of them were busy building camps, and there were only five or six hundred armed horsemen swimming in front of the formation, and behind them, there were more than a thousand foot soldiers sitting on the ground......

In the bushes on a few small mounds in the distance, it was impossible to see whether there were ambushes, but on this mound, which was not much bigger than the grave, there were not a few people to hide, and the cavalry could not hide them.

"Rush at him, look at their hanging, a little arrogant...... Is it tolerable or unbearable! ”

"Good!"

Chen Tai looked around, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and shouted, "Which one is willing to fight?" ”

"Mark your wish!"

Seeing that the others were silent, Gai Chaoxuan shouted, this is Chen Tai's most courageous subordinate general, and he has a team of 3,000 elite horsemen.

Chen Tai's department was put together by the armies of several places, and although there were many generals under him, most of them were not something that he, the temporary leader, could call on casually.

"Remember, if you don't fight, you can't be afraid of casualties, if you want to fight, you will be like a tiger, if you succeed, I will then lead the whole army to cover up!" Chen Tai said vigorously, he also wants to have military exploits!

"Huh!"

As a result, Gai Chaoxuan led his 3,000 cavalry out of the city to attack, while Chen Tai ordered the rest of the generals to gather their men to prepare for the attack.

The city gate opened, and three thousand iron horsemen rushed out, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed to the front of the Ming army.

Thereupon...... A strange scene appeared, and the Ming army continued to build camp, as if they had not seen them coming......

The only movement was that the more than 1,000 foot soldiers began to form a team, and the hundreds of vigilant cavalry were divided into two teams and guarded on both sides of the infantry formation.

"Made, when my five thousand iron horsemen are papier-mâché?"

Gai Chaoxuan scolded in a low voice, drew his battle knife, glared and waved his knife forward: "Speed up!" ”

As he got closer, he could see that the foot soldiers looked like musketeers!

And...... They lined up in four rows, each with only about 300 men, the first of which was ......

Wolf soldiers?

Gai Chaoxuan's heart thumped!

Gai Chaoxuan is too familiar with this thing, a cavalry who can't ride and shoot, and when dealing with infantry, the things he fears the most are spears and wolf stalks, except for muskets and crossbows.

The wolf was originally invented by the Ming Dynasty miners' rebel army, and later Qi Jiguang became one of the configuration weapons of the "Mandarin Duck Array" when he was fighting against the Japanese invaders, which was too useful to deal with the Japanese who held sharp blades but could not shoot arrows.

This thing is actually a large bamboo pole about five meters long with layers of branches and leaves.

During the battle, although the long knives of the Japanese are sharp, they cut through the soft branches and leaves, and the length of the spear is not enough to pierce the soldiers holding the bamboo poles.

Taking a step back, even if you happen to cut off the head of the bamboo pole, the sharp and hard head of the bamboo pole can still poke you to death, and even if the long bamboo pole is cut a few times, you still can't rush to him.

Later, Qi Jiguang was transferred to the edge of Jimen Town, and he could not find fresh bamboo poles with leaves in the north, so in order to deal with the cavalry, he improved the wolf whisk, and installed an iron spear head on the top of the long and multi-knotted bamboo, and there were several layers of multi-bladed iron branches tens of centimeters long on both sides of the spear head.

This thing weighs seven or eight pounds after improvement, and it is a burden when charging, but it is a sharp weapon when defending, especially when used against cavalry without bows and arrows, and it is the most powerful.

At present, Chen Tai's subordinates, in addition to the green battalion soldiers, also have Han Eight Banner soldiers, but after all, they are all Han people, although some can shoot arrows, but they will not ride on horseback like the Manchurians and shoot arrows while charging.

Therefore, even the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty only had some archers and musketeers among the infantry, and the cavalry simply abandoned bows and arrows and used all swords.

Compared with musketeers, archers have two fatal drawbacks: one is that they have no accuracy at more than fifty paces, and they must be fired in a volley of many people to be effective; Second, it takes at least one year of training to train a good archer, so it is not easy to train a qualified archer in the Han army, except for nomads like the Manchu and Mongolians, who practice riding and archery since childhood.

Right now, Gai Chaoxuan's cavalry has no bows and arrows.

Then there is only a hard rush, as long as you fight for your life to rush away from the wolf formation, the foot soldiers behind you are not to be afraid!

Gai Chaoxuan thought so.

At that moment, he raised his saber, turned his head and shouted: "Give me a charge, decapitate one, and reward one or two silver!" Those who kill Jiao Lian will be promoted to three levels! ”

(End of chapter)