Chapter 12: The Battle of Jinzhouwei

"Report, the Qing army is coming again." The soldiers below reported up.

Zheng Chenggong stood on top of the watchtower and looked at the Qing army in the north with a clairvoyant mirror.

But seeing countless cavalry galloping forward, Zheng Chenggong could see it clearly, coming from all directions, smoke and dust piled up, and Zheng Chenggong couldn't see how many people there were for a while. Zheng Chenggong said: "Ma Sanbao, go to war, and the Qing army is not allowed to approach the camp. ”

"Yes." Ma Sanbao gritted his teeth and said, preparing to go down.

Zheng Chenggong said: "You don't have to work so hard, you just need to guard outside the camp." The artillery in the camp will help. ”

Ma Sanbao said: "Yes." ”

This is no longer the first case of the Qing army.

The cavalry of the Qing army was divided into several teams, and almost an hour apart, a large number of cavalry rushed over.

Of course, it was impossible for the cavalry to storm a fortified camp.

However, the large amount of smoke and dust kicked up by the cavalry blocked the view from afar. I don't know if it's intentional or not.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong was worried that the Qing army would hide some means.

With such fanfare, doing useless work, there must be another hidden murderous purpose.

Zheng Chenggong naturally tried his best not to let the Qing army approach, anyway, what the enemy wanted to do, Zheng Chenggong was naturally unwilling to let him do it, but the number of cavalry of the Xia army was insufficient, and there was only Ma Sanbao's department, so the Qing army went into battle for the first time, and Zheng Chenggong sent Ma Sanbao to fight.

Ma Sanbao's ability is good.

There were not many cavalry under Ma Sanbao, only more than a thousand horsemen. With the support of the camp's firepower, the Qing army was also blocked on the periphery of the camp.

But the Qing army came suddenly and left abruptly.

Ma Sanbao has played three or five times.

The Qing army came in batches, but on the Xia army's side, there was only Ma Sanbao's department.

Although speaking of which, the Qing army was just a touch away, and there was no really tragic engagement. But after returning from such three battles, Ma Sanbao has been tense in his mind, and now even if his physical strength can support it, the physical strength of the soldiers under his command can support it. Their horses were not enough to support them.

Speaking of which, the quality of the Xia army's war horses is not as good as the quality of the Qing army, and it can't be compared in terms of quantity.

Such a high-intensity battle can't be supported at all.

If the situation was the same as before, Ma Sanbao went to war, he didn't dare to go more, it was about more than a hundred steps outside the camp, and if the Qing army didn't want to go straight to the Xia army camp, Ma Sanbao would not have fought with it.

Suddenly, the Qing soldiers retreated as if the tide was receding.

Because it's afternoon.

The Qing army did not come out again.

But even so, Ma Sanbao's department was exhausted.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong sighed lightly and said, "Let's go out of the camp tomorrow." ”

Liu Guoxuan said: "Lord Wang, we don't just want to hold on

Qing Army? ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "Looking at the appearance of the Qing army, if we don't fight, I'm afraid it won't work." The reason why Zheng Chenggong did not sit like this was that he was worried that the Qing army would come like this again and cut off the connection between the battalions, and second, he was worried that if they did not fight, the Qing army would retreat.

"Today, the Qing army is just a temptation." Zheng Chenggong said: "You are not needed here. Go back and prepare. ”

Liu Guoxuan said: "Yes." ”

Zheng Chenggong had already ordered that he would fight this battle in Jinzhouwei, but the real winner was not in Jinzhouwei. Zheng Chenggong prepared Liu Guoxuan's naval division to attack the rear of the Qing army. Fuzhou Wei or Gaizhou Wei, under the front and back attacks.

Meanwhile.

Golden State Guard.

Azig is also thinking about storming the Xia army camp, but he will never be able to. As soon as he looked at the camp of the Xia army, he knew that if he wanted to capture the camp, he didn't know how many people died. 、

His battle today is just a temptation.

He did everything possible to lure the Xia army out of the camp to fight.

Azig sent the order and said, "The families of the Jinzhou Wei garrison and the baggage will retreat first. ”

"Yes." Someone immediately gave the order.

Early the next morning, the north gate of the Jinzhou Acropolis was opened, and the chariots and horses went north.

Immediately, the Azig brigade went out of the city and lined up.

This time, Azig did not have the slightest intention of harassing the Xia army's camp.

Rather, the man sits and the horse is saddled. Arrange a neat phalanx casually. Rest in place.

Only a few cavalry teams were on guard outside.

Such a movement quickly reached Zheng Chenggong's hands.

Zheng Chenggong sneered in his heart and said secretly: "That's true." ”

This is a conversation between Azig and Zheng Chenggong.

Azig meant: "I know, you want me to attack the camp, I don't attack, if you want to fight." and went out of the camp to fight. If you don't want to fight, I'm leaving. ”

Zheng Chenggong didn't dare to bet on whether Azig would go or not.

Because Azig has a criminal record, he did not hesitate when he gave up northern Korea in a big way.

For Zheng Chenggong, if he wants to conquer Liaodong, he always has to fight head-on with the Qing army. And this battle, fought in Jinzhouwei, should be fought in the hinterland of Liaodong, which is much better, because the battlefield situation is favorable to the Xia army.

In this regard, Zheng Chenggong did not hesitate too much about the current situation, and immediately ordered, "Go to war." ”

The Xia army had already made preparations, and Zheng Chenggong gave an order, and the soldiers of each battalion came out like a tide.

However, even so, the Xia army was not fast.

The first to come out was still Ma Sanbao's department, just to be vigilant, and then the Xia army units came out from several camps.

The camp set up by Zheng Chenggong is not a large camp, but is divided into several small camps.

There is in between

Passage. It's the so-called company battalion.

The opening of more gates in the camp is for a quick counterattack.

Immediately, the Xia army was like flowing water, and on the open space in front of the camp, a phalanx was lined up.

Each phalanx is the strength of a battalion, and the layers of phalanxes block each other. A steel wall is lined up. Among them, there are all kinds of firearms, spears, and in the gap of the phalanx, there are tiger squat cannons, and all kinds of small cannons.

And after the army came out of the battle, there were more than a dozen cannons, slowly out of the camp.

These dozen or so cannons are all Hongyi cannons.

It is also the most powerful artillery on the battlefield of the Qing Dynasty this summer. However, generally speaking, it is difficult for such artillery to be dispatched in the field, if it were not for the current battlefield situation, so that the Qing army would not have a little detour, and there was room for side attacks, Zheng Chenggong would not dare to put the cannon here.

Because the artillery moves slowly, it also takes time to set up artillery positions.

If you encounter a surprise attack, you don't even have time to react.

And this artillery is placed in the back, and there are problems in use, at least in this era, the artillery is mostly direct fire, and it is quite technical to want the cannon to cross the phalanx of your own people and hit the enemy's head. If it weren't for Zhang Xuan, since he had artillery in the army, he had been emphasizing the shooting technology of artillery.

I can't do that now.

Even so, Azig saw it at a glance with a clairvoyant. For no other reason, the movement of this Hongyi cannon is too big. And in the eyes of many people, the Hongyi cannon is a strategic weapon.

Azig frowned secretly.

He was quite surprised that the Hongyi cannon appeared on the battlefield. And he quite disliked such accidents.

In previous battles, Hongyi cannons appeared on the battlefield, usually at the head of the city, or on ships. This is also the first time he has seen it.

He didn't like it, such a situation.

It's not just that he doesn't like it, the Hongyi cannon appeared on the field battlefield, he didn't want to take the initiative to attack the Xia army camp before, and part of it was that he saw that there were Hongyi cannons in the Xia army camp. What he didn't like even more was that Xia Jun's use of firearms became more and more exquisite.

It can be said that the Qing army's current use of firearms is to learn from the Xia army.

But this kind of learning seems to be learning something wrong.

What makes Azig even more uncomfortable is that the importance of firearms on the battlefield is becoming more and more important. This also seems to have become the key between the combat effectiveness of the Qing army and the Xia army.

It's just that before the war, Azig collected all his thoughts, and then gave an order, and the cavalry under his command rushed out like flowing water, and thousands of cavalry swept past in front of the Xia army's formation, like a light swift, around the rock-like Xia army's formation, like a dragonfly dotting water. With a slight attack, he immediately retreated.

This is all to test the details of the Xia military formation and find weak links. When the weak link is found, there will be a fatal blow.