Thundered

With the deafening sound of horses' hooves, 50,000 Qing troops Manmeng Tie rode under the leadership of Tuo Yue and attacked the 140,000 Ming army on two wings.

"Array!" Huang Degong had already taken precautions, and all the soldiers immediately formed a formation to meet the attack.

"Bang bang bang" A wave of lead bullets swept hundreds of Qing army iron horsemen off their horses.

The Qing army also began to shoot arrows, causing some casualties to the Ying Long army, but in the face of the Ying Long army's muskets, the casualties of the Qing army were undoubtedly greater.

There was also a part of the Qing army's iron cavalry that specifically attacked the 100,000 ordinary Ming troops.

These ordinary Ming troops are worse than the Ying Long army in terms of morale, weapons and other aspects, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not high.

"Split Attack!" Huang Degong and Zhou Cao decisively ordered 40,000 Ying Long troops to divide into formations.

Immediately, the 40,000 Ying Long army was divided into dozens of small formations, each 600 people were a unit, scattered, and constantly attacked the ground where the Qing army's iron cavalry was, because the Qing army and the Qing army were all cavalry, riding on the war horse was a lot higher than the Ming infantry soldiers, and the Ying Long army was not afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so even if they were mixed with the Ming soldiers, they would inevitably be hit by the muskets of the Ying Long army.

It is true that heavy rain can restrain Ying Longjun's muskets, but not all of them rain, as long as the weather is clear, Ying Longjun's muskets are still as sharp as ever, and it is difficult to stop.

Dozens of Yinglong army formations, scattered in all directions, where there are Qing troops, they will go, muskets continue to fire, countless Qing soldiers died.

"Sons, let Qing Lu see the power of our Quanzhou army!" Although Zheng Sen was on the battlefield for the first time, he was like a natural general, not only was he not afraid of blood, his face was flushed, his expression was excited, and his fighting spirit was boiling.

The equipment of the 20,000 Quanzhou army is the most sophisticated among the 100,000 ordinary Ming army, and these people have been trained by the Zheng family, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

Zheng family is the overlord of the South Seas, the annual income of 10 million silver, although only 30,000 troops are trained, but the silver spent on them is a lot, in history, the Zheng family has relied on 30,000 army as the foundation, established 200,000 Fujian army, in Fujian to resist the Qing army for several years, until Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing, Zheng Sen fled before the final collapse, if there is no Ying Long army, the 30,000 Quanzhou army will be the most elite army under the banner of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

With 20,000 elites, Zheng Sen saw the location of a Mongolian general, so he led his men and horses to rush there.

There, there were 5,000 Mongols gathered, as if they were guarding something, and Zheng Sen felt that it must be a great official of the Mongols.

Although the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition army is dominated by Manchus, the Mongols occupy a lot of weight in it, and less than 20,000 of Tuoyue's 50,000 Manchu and Mongolian iron cavalry are eight banners, and there are more than 30,000 Mongols, and the Mongolian prince is led by a Mongolian prince, and the place where Zheng Sen's 20,000 army rushed over is where the Mongolian prince is located at this moment.

"Minggou is so daring!" Seeing 20,000 ordinary Ming troops rushing towards him, the Mongolian prince was furious.

He may have some heart palpitations in the face of Ying Longjun, but he never pays attention to ordinary Ming Army.

In order to show his bravery, the Mongolian prince immediately led 5,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to meet him, intending to defeat the 20,000 Ming army. This is not the first time he has done this, in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he also led 5,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to defeat a Ming army of 20,000 men. It's just that what the Mongolian prince didn't know was that the 20,000 Ming army he defeated back then was a rout, and he didn't have any fighting will at all, how could it be compared with the Quanzhou army that Zheng Sen is now leading with a lot of money from the Zheng family.

Therefore, when the Mongolian prince took the 5,000 Mongolian iron cavalry around him to meet Zheng Sen's 20,000 Quanzhou army, it was immediately tragic.

Almost several Quanzhou soldiers surrounded a Mongol and slashed.

The neighing of the war horse! The horse's leg was cut off, and after the Mongol on horseback fell, he was instantly chopped into meat sauce. Within a moment, the Mongols had more than 1,000 casualties, while the Quanzhou army had less than 400 casualties.

Before the Mongolian prince had time to kill a few Quanzhou troops with his own hands, he saw that his side had suffered heavy casualties.

"Grandma's, when did Minggou become so powerful!" The Mongolian prince's face turned white, and he said angrily.

"Withdraw!" With the order of the Mongol prince, the remaining Mongols immediately retreated.

Zheng Sen once again knocked a Mongol off his horse and slashed at the Mongol. As one of the generals in command, Zheng Sen naturally has his own war horses to ride, not only himself, but the entire Quanzhou army has thousands of war horses, and those who can ride on the back of these war horses are the elite of the elite in the Quanzhou army, and they are Zheng Sen's personal soldiers.

"Kill!" The 1,000 soldiers followed closely behind Zheng Sen and chased after the fleeing Mongolian prince like wolves.

Not far away, Huang Degong saw this scene and immediately exclaimed: "This kid of the Zheng family is so vigorous and vigorous, he is worthy of being a person who makes the emperor fancy him, and he is a rare general!" ”

As long as it didn't rain, Ying Long's army was almost the nemesis of the Manchu cavalry.

Tuo Yue led 50,000 Manmeng iron cavalry to directly charge and kill 140,000 troops, including 40,000 Ying Long troops, and under such a hard encounter, they suffered heavy casualties in less than half an hour.

"Retreat!" Tuo Yue resolutely ordered.

His main purpose was to drag down the 140,000 Ming army and prevent them from going to Xuecheng so quickly to stir up the situation, so after fighting for less than half an hour, Tuoyue was no longer entangled.

The Qing army was all iron cavalry, and they moved extremely fast, and soon withdrew without a trace.

"Poor Kou Mo Chase!" Huang Degong did not let the army pursue, and after simply gathering his troops and horses, he continued to march towards Xuecheng.

This time the Qing army attacked, the Ming killed and wounded 5,000, most of them were ordinary Ming troops, and only more than 300 were Ying Long troops. Under the muskets of the Ying Long army, the Qing army suffered more casualties, killing and wounding more than 6,000 iron cavalry.

This result made Tuoyue almost vomit blood.

Of course, Tuo Yue would not retreat like this, gritted his teeth hatefully, and attacked Huang Degong and them again every once in a while, almost making it difficult for Huang Degong and them to move an inch.

"It's really hateful, the Qing captives attack again every half an hour, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach Xue Cheng for three days!" After the Qing army attacked again, he fled, and Huang Degong stared at the back of the Qing army that was gradually moving away, and said with a gloomy face.

They have wasted three hours of coming and going like this, but they have only traveled less than thirty miles, and Xuecheng is more than a hundred miles away from Xuzhou, even if there is no Qing cavalry attack, it will take a whole day.

Zheng Sen frowned and didn't ponder, it really can't go on like this, you have to think of a way.

A moment later, Zheng Sen's eyes suddenly lit up, and this scene happened to be seen by Huang Degong.

Huang Degong immediately asked curiously: "What strategy did General Zheng Xiao think of?" ”

Zheng Sen nodded and replied: "I remember that there is a Shishui River in the northeast of this place, although the river is not wide, but the water is very deep, we only need to send dozens of scouts along the river to destroy all the bridges after crossing the river, which is enough to stop the Qing cavalry from crossing the river and harassing." ”

When Zheng Sen went to the capital to study, he passed by the Shishui River, so he knew.

"That's a great idea! Although in this way, the distance is at least thirty miles, as long as it is free from the attack of the Qing army's iron cavalry, the army will be able to approach Xue Cheng before dark! That's it! Huang Degong happily adopted this suggestion.

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