On October 23, twenty miles east of Zhangqiu County, Zhong Feng led 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Tiger Division to march on the south side of the official road, forming a circular formation and walking on the east side of a small river, approaching 30,000 Shandong soldiers and horses six miles away. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Wang Yongji, the governor of Shandong, and Liang Fengchun, the governor of Denglai, led 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jinan Mansion. This Wang Yongji and Liang Fengchun had never seen the combat effectiveness of the Tiger Division, and only felt that the number of soldiers and horses was six times that of the 5,000 Tiger Division, and they would definitely be able to defeat the Tiger Division no matter what.

Wang Yongji even fantasized about leading 30,000 men to surround Jinan and attack the city wall to defeat the tiger division.

However, his intention to attack Jinan was not realized. Zhong Feng rushed to Jinan according to Li Zhi's arrangement, led 5,000 soldiers to kill, and found Wang Yongji, who was marching towards Jinan in Zhangqiu.

To the great surprise of the civil officials in Shandong, the 5,000 tiger soldiers did not avoid it, and swaggered towards the 30,000 Shandong soldiers and horses.

Liang Fengchun, the governor of Denglai, stood at the top of the carriage and looked at the murderous tiger master in front of him and frowned silently. He looked at Wang Yongji beside him and said, "Governor Wang, the tiger is a strong army in the world, and even if we have six times the strength, we should not underestimate it. ”

Wang Yongji smiled and said, "Governor Liang don't have to worry, Benfu led the army to conquer the Wenxiang Sect twice, and it was a big battle of tens of thousands of people. Li Zhi's five thousand thieves have not been taken into account by Benfu. ”

Liang Fengchun was very worried, and said hurriedly: "This..."

Wang Yongji said loudly: "Governor Liang rest assured, this battle will be won. The art of war is cloudy, five out of ten sieges are attacked, our army is six times the size of the Li thief, and we can besiege the front and left and right wings of the Li thief in three ways, which will definitely make the thieves tremble and crush for thousands of miles. ”

Liang Fengchun is a gentle character, not as strong as Wang Yongji in the army, and over time, the generals listen to Wang Yongji. Liang Fengchun still wanted to speak, but Wang Yongji had already sent the order down. The herald galloped quickly to give the order, and it didn't take long for the 30,000-strong army to split into three groups and attack the Tiger Division.

Seeing Wang Yongji's soldiers and horses attacking in three ways, the tiger master laughed.

"Jiang Chong, what do you mean by this Wang Yongji? Why did we swing back to the formation on all four sides without any weaknesses, and he still attacked the flanks in three ways? ”

Jiang Chong is a native of Fanjiazhuang, Chongzhen joined the Tiger Ben Division in the seventh year, and was originally the company commander of the trapping regiment. Because he performed well in the Battle of Jinzhou, this time the Tiger Division expanded by 10,000 people and needed new officers, and Jiang Chong was promoted to battalion commander. He led a thousand men to camp in Shandong, this time under the command of Zhong Feng.

Zhong Feng saw that Jiang Chong was a little arrogant on weekdays, and was a little curious about him, so he asked a question to see Jiang Chong's knowledge.

Jiang Chong put down the binoculars and said: "My subordinates think that Wang Yongji is a civilian official who has not seen our combat effectiveness, and he thinks that he wants to surround and crush our morale on three sides when he has many soldiers. He left a face in the back not to attack, according to the principle of the art of war, the siege of the division must be que, and he wanted my tiger division to collapse faster. ”

When several battalion commanders heard Jiang Chong's analysis, they felt a little interesting and laughed.

Zhong Feng smiled, looked Jiang Chong up and down again, and said loudly: "The artillery is out of the ranks, blow him up!" ”

Twenty-five eighteen-pounder guns were pushed out, and the gunners skillfully cleared their charges, loaded them with flowering shells, and aimed at the Shandong soldiers and horses five or six miles away.

A deafening loud bang was heard, and twenty-five heavy guns spat out tongues of fire and hurled shells at the enemy in the distance. The area occupied by 30,000 Shandong soldiers and horses was very large, and although the 25 shells were scattered within a range of several hundred meters, they all smashed into the ranks of the local army.

Zhong Feng and the officers held binoculars and waited for the moment when the shells exploded.

None of the 30,000 local soldiers and horses in Shandong had ever seen a flowering shell, and although the shells flew from five or six miles away to surprise the soldiers, the shells fell to the ground and killed a few unlucky ghosts, which did not cause panic among the soldiers. Even the officers, too, walked straight past the shell with a grin, without shying away.

Then after a few seconds, one after another, huge sparks appeared in Zhong Feng's telescope. The projectiles fired from the flowering shells swept across the ground like a storm, and the soldiers a few meters near the shells were blown to bloody pieces, and one by one they fell in a pool of blood screaming.

The local battalions in Shandong have never been on the battlefield a few times, where have they seen such a posture? The soldiers near the shells seemed to have seen a ghost, and they ran wildly to the periphery, and suddenly they did not form a queue.

The general's men rushed out, brandishing their swords and forcing the soldiers back into the ranks. It took half a minute for the frightened 30,000 local troops to finally regroup.

However, more flowering bombs await them.

The cannonballs were like the Grim Reaper, with a loud screech in the air, and they were fired towards the 30,000 local army cannons. This time, the local army had seen the explosive effect of the flowering shells, and as soon as they saw the flowering shells falling nearby, they ran wildly, for fear of being killed by the shells. Even if there were no shells nearby, the fear made the soldiers flee with their heads in their hands. The team of 30,000 people was again in chaos.

Twenty-five cannons fired at the Ming army at a rate of one round per minute, and after six rounds, the Ming army in front was almost blown up. Although the soldiers knew how to avoid shells, there were not many deaths. But the shells that exploded almost blew up the morale of this local army.

Zhong Feng looked at the approaching Ming army with a telescope, and saw a group of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses suddenly put down the flag and fled into the distance. At the front of this thousand routs were a few generals galloping on horseback, and it was obvious that the local generals were panicked and fled with their soldiers and horses.

Zhong Feng laughed and shouted, "Blow him up three more rounds!" ”

The heavy artillery blew up three more rounds at the Ming army in the front, and at this time the Ming army had already entered the direct range of the artillery, and the heavy artillery was a direct fire. The bouncing shells mercilessly tore apart the bodies of the soldiers who were shot before they exploded, and the Ming army was even more in the wolf cry.

The soldiers in these places are usually very exploited by the officers, and although they are also battalion soldiers, their morale cannot be compared with the border army, and they may not be able to win compared with the thieves. And the power of the dense explosion of the flowering bomb is very terrifying, even if the Qing soldiers are beaten, they will be chaotic. The local army in front was bombed nine rounds and was demoralized.

Only a loud bang was heard, and the 10,000 local troops in front of them no longer had the courage to rush into battle after receiving 225 shells, and one by one they turned around and fled to the rear, collapsing.

The 20,000 local troops attacking on both flanks were stunned when they saw that the friendly troops in the middle were blown up so quickly. Before the battle began, a third of the soldiers and horses collapsed? The 20,000 soldiers who had not yet collapsed did not dare to rush forward, and hesitated to stand two miles away from the soldiers of the Tiger Division, losing their ground.