Cao Zongyu is at the forefront.

Heavy arrows passed by him, and almost every heavy arrow was shot at the face of every Xia soldier.

And the firecrackers were already mixed in the formation of sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, and under cover, they desperately released their fire outside.

At the time of the last battle, Zhang Xuan had already felt that the firepower of the firecrackers was relatively weak, and if someone really rushed forward desperately, they could still rush into the firecracker array, let alone the cavalry. Comparing to modern times, there are still people who say that the bayonet is a good man, and the bullet is a stupid person.

At that time, this was certainly a backward and ignorant concept.

But at this time, it is a correct concept.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan generally liked to let the firecrackers build fortifications first, and then garrison them. It is to use the terrain to make up for the lack of hand-to-hand combat ability of the firecrackers. Extend the amount of time the enemy leaks into fire. This works well, but the firecrackers can't attack.

After the first battle at Hukou, he wanted to combine cold weapons with firearms.

Referencing the Spanish phalanx, add the muskets to the infantry formation. Maintain fire output under the protection of the hand-to-hand class.

It's just that the number of such transformations is not much, that is, a few battalion leaders among Zhang Xuan's headquarters.

There is no other reason.

Even if Zhang Xuan is in his own headquarters, he has a lot of decision-making power, and he doesn't need to report it, and even if he does, Luo Rucai won't care about it, but if he wants to reach out to other armies, he can't.

At this moment, it really exerts a different power.

In order to keep the formation tight, the speed of the Nanyang battalion's advance was not too fast, but it was a little unstoppable. The cavalry that rushed up either fell off their horses in front of the formation, or were broken up in formation, even if dozens of people rushed into the formation and killed a few foot soldiers, it was easy to be besieged and killed by the soldiers of the Nanyang battalion.

Azig held the long knife in his hand, tight and loose, loose and tight, and had an urge to rush forward.

To Azig himself, he was also a fierce general.

It can even be said that the sons of the old slave, and even the children of the Eight Banners, have been cultivated since childhood, and even if the archery is weak, it is not weak. But it's only one or two generations, and when it comes to their children and nephews, it's a different story.

Azig took a deep breath and said, "Is Zhang Cunren in place?" ”

"It's time to reckon."

Azig said, "Send a signal. ”

"Huh." With a bang, a rocket burst into the sky. A roar erupted in the sky.

Before the sound fell, I heard the sound of fighting in the distance. The cavalry galloped from the mountain on the west side, bypassed the Xia army's brigade, and rushed towards Zhang Xuan's handsome banner.

The purpose is clear, just

It's a draw.

"What a beautiful means." Zhang Xuan was between life and death, but calmed down.

It can also be regarded as a valuable quality of Zhang Xuan, the more critical the moment, the more Zhang Xuan can be calm, on weekdays, Zhang Xuan often suffers from gains and losses in his heart, but at the moment of life and death, Zhang Xuan can calm down. He immediately figured out where this army had come from.

The battlefield Zhang Xuan chose was a gap in the Dahong Mountain that was more than ten miles wide, but Zhang Xuan stationed men and horses on both sides of the mountain, condescendingly monitoring the movements in the vicinity, one of which was the key place for the battle, that is, the nameless mountain.

On the west side, this mountain peak has also been planted with people, but it does not show a trace of movement.

made Zhang Xuan very puzzled.

There were not many people he arranged, but only one or two thousand, but one or two thousand people were either one or two thousand pigs, or one or two thousand pigs were killed cleanly, and it was impossible for them to be free of movement.

As a result, it was taken down so easily that the cavalry of the brigade bypassed the military formation and rushed directly in front of Zhang Xuan.

"Guogong, please also ask Guogong to retreat quickly." The generals around Zhang Xuan said one after another.

Zhang Xuan had to say that Azig had chosen a good time.

The reserve team beside him has just stepped forward to fill in the position. Many of the guards around him were also sent out to supervise the battle. There are only more than 2,000 guards around. Among them, there are many civilian personnel, saying that these people are powerless, which is a bit excessive, but it is not even too much to expect them to go into battle to kill the enemy.

However, if you want to retreat, Zhang Xuan is not without a chance.

First of all, there is a camp not far behind. As long as Zhang Xuan retreats here, he will definitely be safe and sound.

But as soon as he moved, the morale of the army was shaken.

Zhang Xuan would never do it.

He smiled and said, "Okay." He immediately called the name and said, "Lou Lei, Zheng Lian, you take the paperwork and go north with me." And the rest of Qin Meng's people are under your command, you are my most trusted person, and the one who leads you is also my personal guard. You can solve these Qing troops for me. ”

Qin Meng knelt on the ground and said, "The lower official obeys the order." ”

Zhang Xuan patted Qin Meng's shoulder and said, "Life and death are on your shoulder." ”

When Qin Meng heard this, his intuition surged up, and he said, "Please rest assured, Qin Meng is determined to live up to his mission." ”

Zhang Xuan stared at Qin Meng, suddenly smiled, and said, "I can trust you." ”

Immediately, Zhang Xuan took only more than 100 people with his entourage, and more than half of them were clerks. Rushing north with the banner and ordering the drums to be beaten everywhere was the beginning of the onslaught.

In an instant, I don't know how many large drums sounded in an instant, and all that could be heard in everyone's ears was the rumbling sound of drums, accompanied by the sound of cannon fire that seemed to be a murmur.

The army and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry have long been mixed together. The entire formation is like layers of embankments, cracked in many places by the impact of the Eight Banners flood.

Although there is a sense of crumbling, in fact, many soldiers are not useful.

That's how a war of this scale is.

The number of real battles is not much, many low-level soldiers, many times they win, I don't know why they won, they lost the battle, they don't know why they lost the battle, and many times they just go with the flow. And the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry style is even more so, with high-speed movement to choose the battlefield, oppressing the Xia army to fight, so that the Xia army is empty, and the manpower to fight with the Qing army is actually a little bit of the frontier.

Azig was very familiar with this style of play, and this was the point of dealing with the Ming army, a little collapse, and the whole army was defeated.

Zhang Xuan urged all the troops to attack at this moment, but in fact, the effect was not too great, he just wanted to force the Qing army to retreat, even if the Qing army slowed down a little, so that Zhang Xuan had the opportunity to adjust the Runing army that had just come forward, and let the Runing army rearrange in the rear.

No matter how much Zhang Xuan said that he believed Qin Meng, in fact, in Zhang Xuan's heart, Qin Meng was an outcast.

An outcast who procrastinates.

Everyone on the battlefield is a chess piece, including Zhang Xuan himself.

Qin Meng led more than 1,000 people and quickly collided with the Qing army that rushed over.

This Qing army is also a member of the Eight Banners, but it is the banner of the Han army, led by Liu Wu. Liaodong people, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with guerrilla ranks, included in the Han army, and raised the flag. At this moment, he brought thousands of men and horses to attack Zhang Xuanshuai in a roundabout way.

The reason why he easily detoured was that he was helped by a person, and this person was none other than Ma Shixiu.

After Ma Shixiu followed Zuo Mengeng to surrender to the Qing Army, the Qing Army appointed them and his party at the same time, they were also divided, Zuo Mengeng went to Beijing to live idle, and Ma Shixiu was included in the Han Army Banner, but his status plummeted, not as good as when he was in the Left Army.

However, when Ma Shixiu was in the Left Army, his prestige was very high, and he was an important general in the Left Army, and at this moment, what Zhang Xuan sent to the mountain to garrison was Zuo Liangyu's surrender, or the Qing Army's realistic assault, and then Ma Shixiu came forward to surrender, these people easily made a choice.

For the sake of their own lives. Surrender to the Qing court.

Immediately, almost non-stop detours. gave Zhang Xuan a heavy blow.

As soon as Ma Shixiu saw Qin Meng's department, he knew that it was Zhang Xuan's personal guard, when he was in Hukou, the two sides had fought each other, and for a while there was a feeling that the enemy was very red when they met. Qin Meng's subordinates and the Han Army's banner cavalry collided together in an instant.

In fact, the number of cavalry in the Han army banner at this time was not too much. More about artillery.

The first Han army formed by Huang Taiji in the Qing army was artillery. Immediately, more and more departments surrendered, and the Han army flag was formed, and before entering the customs, there were already eight banners, among which there were cavalry.

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