In the capital city of Guilin Mansion, Mang Gurtai was in the middle of the camp, and when he heard that the Southern Ming Army had actually sent troops, he was frightened and slipped off the chair, "My grandfather, I won't fight you, isn't it good for everyone to keep it like this?" I have to fight each other. Well, in that case, then I will pay some soldiers to kill you as well. ”

"Order Kong Youde's general Gao Zhixiang, ask him to reorganize his troops and horses, attack immediately, and give me the Su Zhengqing who went to fight the Southern Ming Army."

Mang Gurtai was also frightened by Su Zhengqing's style of play, just at the beginning, he came with 200,000 troops full of confidence, thinking that he could easily destroy the opponent, before the Southern Ming army heard that he was coming, he had already jumped and abandoned the city and fled, some of the old and weak soldiers who really couldn't go would surrender immediately, he was not embarrassed, as long as they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty, for the people of the Qing Dynasty, cut off contact with the Ming Dynasty, be a slave of the Qing Dynasty, and offer property and beauty, he would let it go.

In the past few years, it has become more and more difficult to fight, and more and more have to use some abnormal means, such as slaughtering villages, creating a few hundred miles of no man's land, so that those rat-like remnants of the Ming army can not eat, can not get the support of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and finally had to take the risk of fighting with them, and then he thousands of cavalry rushed out, a rain of arrows, killed a few stubborn, and immediately surrendered like a tide, and then he didn't have to use a full battalion of men and horses, just these Han soldiers, just did everything, troublesome, but it was not too difficult.

The most difficult thing is to come here, along the road there are constantly rebels to put cold guns, cold artillery, so that his 200,000 troops from Huai'an Mansion when the loss of thousands of soldiers, a few days ago a big war, he besieged the main force of Su Zhengqing's Southern Ming Army who rashly broke into Guilin Mansion, this is good, if you can exterminate these Southern Ming Army, you can wave your troops south to destroy Longwu Nanming, but I don't want to, the enemy is too powerful.

Confrontation with you head-on, fight several times, he suffers, usually 10,000 Han troops, a surprise attack was defeated by the enemy's cavalry, tens of thousands of troops were also beaten by the enemy with a cannon crying dad and shouting mother, no longer have the will to fight, he had to break up the troops, put 60,000 soldiers and horses on the left and right sides of the riverbank, and took 80,000 soldiers and horses with Kong Youde's general Gao Zhixiang to guard Guilin Mansion, he did not fight, he besieged, wanted to consume the opponent.

The previous attack was his direct full battalion troops, as well as the 10,000 full battalion of Guilin Mansion monitoring Kong Youde, as a result, 6,000 people died, more than 4,000 were injured, and 3,000 soldiers and horses fled back, and he now has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses directly under his direct command, and the rest are the troops that Hong Chengchou transferred to him to exterminate the Southern Ming Army, which are under his command and control, but not his troops.

This time, he would not let his direct troops go on no matter what, first take Kong Youde's generals to open the knife, and then other Qing army troops, anyway, he has a lot of soldiers.

Speaking with strength and muscles, this is Mang Gurtai's creed of fighting and being a man.

Gao Zhixiang had to go to war after receiving the order, although he was a general of Kong Youde's ministry and loyal to the king of Dingnan, but how to say that he was also a general of the Qing Dynasty, he had to listen to the words of the Qing Taijun, otherwise, it would be easy for 200,000 soldiers and horses to destroy him in turn.

He still has to defend Guilin Mansion for Kong Youde, he carefully deals with this Taijun, he has to leave, this is still the territory run by Kong Youde, they can't go, when the time comes, it will still be their world.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth with hatred for Ma Degong and Ma Deli brothers, if it weren't for them, his own strength would still be as much as seventy or eighty thousand, if it weren't for their monk Kexi's collusion, his own strength would still be more than 100,000, and it was not that he didn't have the strength to fight with Mang Gurtai, Mang Gurtai was the old army, but he had a new army with two towns in his hands, and he had seen the combat effectiveness of the new army.

The battle of Raozhoufu, he also participated, the kind of Huaxia army lined up neatly, artillery bombardment, musketeers advanced, the enemy was like tofu cut by a fast knife, like a stone smashed on tofu, tofu quickly fell apart, collapsed, plus the pursuit of the enemy's cavalry, he and Kong Youde were embarrassed to lead thousands of remnants of the defeated general, escaped across the river, and then became angry and strong, and trained the new army fiercely, the new army was much more powerful than their previous Shenji battalion, and the fire force was much more powerful.

The two sides lined up on the riverside, Su Zhengqing's more than 30,000 remaining new army troops were exhausted, each phalanx was thick and reached as many as nine layers, and the cavalry was cautiously arranged on both flanks to protect the phalanx troops, and in the middle of the phalanx troops was an artillery phalanx, with six artillery pieces in each artillery phalanx, a total of 36 artillery pieces.

Artillery from the Huaxia Army's three-pounder artillery to nine-pounder guns, ten-pounder guns are regulated in size, some imitations, such as six-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, some are purchased from the Huaxia Army, such as three-pounder guns, four-pounder guns, ten-pounder guns, these are all retired from active service by the Huaxia Army, and turned to arms for sale, but these arms are currently only Zheng Chenggong and Longwu Nanming can enjoy, other buyers do not have this preferential treatment.

After all, compared with other artillery, the Huaxia Army's artillery is of good quality, long range, powerful, artillery of the same level, completely defeated imitation or several similar level artillery of other forces, such weapons export is quite cautious, Huaxia Army is the most recent weapons to export these weapons, Nan Mingguo is to get the spot, Zheng Chenggong's sailors are only listed as sales objects, and they are not sold.

Here, Gao Zhixiang went directly to his own new army troops, he knew that the previous Han army flag firearms troops had no advantage in the face of these new troops of the Southern Ming Kingdom, and they would definitely lose, he would not use those soldiers as cannon fodder, how to say that they were also his own elite soldiers, the troops he had at his disposal were getting smaller and smaller, and he could no longer deliberately lose.

The serious battle here was a last resort, and he hoped that his new army could fight against the new army of the Southern Ming army.

He sent more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to the new army of a town under his control, and the new army of a town that Kong Youde left to assist, more than 9,000 people, and 2,000 cavalry, fought against the Southern Ming army in this narrow peninsula.

Behind him, Mang Gurtai also took his own pro-army to watch the battle between the two sides from a distance.

The drums of war are pounding, the atmosphere is about to explode, about to suffocate, and the main generals of both sides are solemn, this is a decisive battle that determines whether the two sides can survive, and it is a battle of national fortunes.

For Gao Zhixiang, if this battle cannot be won, then Guilin Mansion will be handed over to Mang Gurtai, and even if he can escape back to Guilin Mansion City, he will not have the strength or face to see Kong Youde, and Mang Gurtai will completely control Guilin Mansion, Kong Youde's rear homeland, and the territory will be handed over to the Qing army, and he will not have any capital to confront the Qing Dynasty in the future except wandering or completely kneeling in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, if he takes Yunnan Prefecture this time and defeats Li Dingguo who has returned, then he still has the capital to be proud of.

Gao Zhixiang looked back at the banner in the distance, and the Qing army of Mang Gurtai hidden in it, his heart was heavy.

Turning around, he said to the soldiers beside him: "Beat the drum and march." After a while, the drumbeat on Gao Zhixiang's side changed, and the 20,000 new troops slowly advanced, forcing towards Su Zhengqing's Southern Ming army formation.

Behind him 15,000 Han army flag troops followed, they are also firearms troops, but they are the elite firearms troops under Kong Youde before, this firearms unit was once the capital of Kong Youde's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, it was his pride, to open up territory for the Qing Dynasty, from Liaodong all the way into Yanjing City, from Yanjing to Shaanxi and Gansu, from Shaanxi and Gansu all the way to Sishan, from Sishan to Guizhou, Yunnan, until in Guangdong Prefecture, Guangxi Prefecture was like a bamboo to crush the Yongli Ming and Southern Ming Army.

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