On the south bank of the Dawen River, in the Guishan Heights, in the early morning of November 24.

The sound of the gun still sounded sporadically, and there was no time to stop. Named Kameyama, it is actually a small mound underneath the Kameyama Heights, and it is a lively scene where the army is deploying and preparing for battle. Hundreds of side vans, around Guishan, set up a boxy military formation. All the vans were pushed on their sides, and the large shields that had been mounted on the bodies were also removed and placed side by side with the overturned bodies, and some of the grain trucks were also pulled to make up the numbers, which were also turned over on their sides and placed together with the chariots and shields.

Between the body and the shield, it is fastened with a ring buckle, and a triangular strut is placed behind it. An extra-long spear with a length of more than eight feet was also mounted on the body and shield, and the tip of the spear pointed forward, turning the car formation into a hedgehog formation.

The soldiers of the car battalion, at this time, each has a shovel in their hands, and everyone is sweating like rain, digging and mounding soil.

Under the bombardment of enemy artillery, the wooden body and shield were vulnerable. Must be filled with earth to reinforce!

Unfortunately, it's freezing time! Not only is the surface of the Dawen River frozen, but even the land around Turtle Mountain is also frozen. The shovel was thrust in and could only pick up a small amount of dirt.

But the Ming army was still working like crazy. Whether it is the chariots, infantry, cavalry, artillery, from yesterday during the day until now, no one has rested.

Not to mention how useful their efforts were, but this kind of momentum, the Ming army in the past could not be compared to - oh, it can't be said that more than two hundred years earlier, there was still this kind of hard-working Ming army.

At the end of a day and a night, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Zuo Maodi and Huang Degong's eyes were all red. The four of them sat in their tent on the slope of Kameyama Mountain, listening to the staff members report on the losses of the rearguard troops.

"Inspector, it's been counted, at least 1,200 people haven't returned......"

Shi Kefa sighed: "The list is all recorded?" ”

"It's all written down!"

"The list is going to be collected," Shi Kefa said, "they are all here to defend Confucius Chengren and righteousness, these are all Confucian saints, and they will all deserve to enjoy the Confucian Temple in the future...... If you can find your family, you will give them a piece of land in Shandong, and protect Confucius for generations to come! ”

Shi Kefa is handsome!

Of course, we have to use Confucian principles to inspire people! The Qufu training army was formed to protect Kong Lin, and now they have become benevolent for the tomb of Confucius and the army of the Qing Dynasty to fall to the emperor Amma, this is the martyrdom of Weijiao, they are all great Confucians! Canonization of saints, with the Temple of Confucius, it is all due - after this war is over, it is estimated that the Temple of Confucius is about to become a martyr's shrine, how many tablets of saints and Confucians must be placed in it?

The saints and Confucians are like that, and it is clear that Confucianism is prosperous! Confucius, how happy he should be!

"Supervisor, the ground is frozen, and the brothers below have worked in vain all night." Immediately after that, another soldier reported on the construction of the fortifications.

Shi Kefa glanced at Huang Degong, and Huang Degong said: "Then don't dig, rest for a while, and have a good meal!" ”

Shi Kefa nodded: "That's it...... Eat a good meal, white flour pancake roll salted pork, and one person will be given one or two wines. ”

"Whoa."

Immediately, a staff member in charge of the food of the three armed forces answered, and went down to make arrangements.

Shi Kefa then asked, "When will the emperor arrive?" ”

"Tonight at the earliest."

"As long as the emperor's soldiers arrive, we will win!"

"That's right, the Dongyu is at most 50,000 thousand, we have more than 40,000 people on hand, and the emperor can bring more than 30,000 people, adding up to at least 80,000 people, how can they all win."

"If we win, we'll have made a great contribution!"

Shi Kefa nodded, and looked at the sky again, it was still early in the morning, it seemed that there was a hard battle during the day today!

.......

A watchtower car raised a lookout outside Baijiazhuang, which was seven or eight miles away from the Guishan Heights, and because the Ming army occupied the high ground first, Dorgon's Qing army had to line up on the flat ground. In order to get a better line of sight to observe the opponent's formation and scheduling, he asked people to use grain trucks to transform several watchtower cars.

Under the white white flag, Dolgon held a monocular, scanning the Turtle Mountain battlefield.

The terrain of the Turtle Mountain Battlefield is a mountain with water, a village and a forest, and the mountain is the Turtle Mountain Heights, just in the middle of the battlefield, not very high, but you can condescend and peep at the battlefield. The water is the Dawen River, which has been frozen, and it is the same as nothing.

As for the villages, there are three or four, but they have all been abandoned, and only ruins and broken walls remain - this area has been a battlefield in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the past two or three years, and naturally there are no people living there.

The woods are concentrated on the east side of the battlefield, and behind Lizhuang and Niujiazhuang is a large area of woods.

Now the Ming army is defending the mountain with its back to the water, while the Qing army occupies four villages, including Xiaowangzhuang, Baijia Village, Lizhuang, and Niujia Village, and spreads a front of about 20 miles opposite Guishan.

On the one hand, the reason why such a large front was spread out was that Dorgon's army was mainly cavalry and mounted infantry, which required a large space for movement, and did not need to form too dense formations.

On the other hand, in order to control the two strongholds of Lizhuang and Niujia Village, and at the same time control the large woods behind the two villages, Dolgon hid some of his forces in and behind this woods to act as a surprise soldier.

He brought a total of 139 Old Eight Banner Niulu (including the Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia) and 105 Zhenglu Banner Niulu this time, plus the old Eight Banner Niulu's coated minions, with a total strength of more than 78,000 people (more than 67,000 people after deducting the coating). But he hid a third of them, nearly 26,000 people, in the woods and behind them. Only more than 50,000 people were shown to the Ming army.

And the Ming army that formed the chariot formation was about 40,000 people. They formed a large phalanx of vehicles and shields, resembling a castle from afar. The height of the "castle" is very low, less than a man high, and at the top of the "castle" there are countless spears, the tips of which glow in the sun, which is a little scary.

"King Pingnan, you have been on the front line in Shandong and Henan in the past two years, and you have fought many times with the Qufu army, how about you look at the car formation they put up?"

After Dolgon finished speaking, he beckoned to Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, who was standing under the watchtower carriage on horseback.

Shang Kexi is now one of the three banner masters, and he has also been crowned the king of Pingnan, and the palace is not in Shandong, but in Shangqiu, Henan. However, Henan has been relatively calm in the past two years, so Shang Kexi frequently sent troops to Shandong, and Qufu is an old rival.

Shang Kexi, who was in green armor, climbed the watchtower and stood beside Dolgon with his body hunched - he was a big man, more than a lap older than Dolgon, so he had to shrink a little and look humble and polite.

"Huang Ama," Shang Kexi also took out his binoculars and looked at it, and then said, "That's what the chariot formation is, the cavalry can't rush, and it's difficult to attack with infantry, but they can't help shelling, unless they can fill in the soil." But it's cold today, and the ground is frozen, so you have to burn it before you can dig it. They have no time to burn the earth, so they can only resist our cannons.

However, Qufu is very fierce in training, and Huang Degong's Huaibei soldiers are not easy to fight, so we must be careful. ”

Dolgon nodded: "I have also heard of the reputation of Qufu training the army...... Invulnerable! But in the period from yesterday morning to early this morning, didn't you still kill us more than a thousand? How much have we lost? Less than 300 people. ”

The combat effectiveness of the old Eight Banners is still very strong, and the Qufu training army is not an opponent, and Dolgon also uses artillery!

"That's," Shang Kexi immediately complimented, "how are they the opponents of Huang Ama?" As soon as Huang Ama made a move, no Qufu training army, or any new army that overcame difficulties, had to be wiped out! ”

Dolgon laughed, laughed a few times, and waved his hand again: "Let's start!" Hit hard, and let them know the power of our Daqing artillery team! ”

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