In two weeks, Zhang Qiang trained two groups of rebel recruits, 400 troops, a group of musketeers, and a group of infantry.

These are all surrendered troops of the Qing army, although they are all surrendered soldiers, but they have no combat effectiveness, they are all guard soldiers, that is, the militia of the Ming army who surrendered to the Qing army, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's elite soldiers who surrendered to the Qing army in the previous batches of training is much lower.

They were all poor people, in fact, peasants with the title of soldiers, who had no formal military training, and maintained their simple nature, which also ensured their loyalty to Zhang Qiang's army, so that some of the bad habits and habits of the Ming army would not be brought into Zhang Qiang's troops.

The wounded 300 soldiers also recovered a lot, at least 180 rejoined the team, plus Mi Chun's 400 crossbowmen drawn from the captives, Zhang Qiang's strength did not decrease but increased.

In Zhang Qiang's troops, those who held arquebuses called by the Ming army were called musketeers, and those who held Portuguese arquebuses were called musketeers.

In comparison, the Portuguese arquebuses were higher than the Ming army's muskets in terms of workmanship and performance, so Zhang Qiang called them musketeers, which means more elite troops.

Previously, he could only bring out 1,800 troops, but this time, in addition to leaving Mi Chun's 200 infantry to guard the few prisoners and supplies, he took Wei Wuji, Xuanyuan Longfei, Zhou Congee, and Mi Chun's four troops of 1,600 troops, plus Hu Kui's 60 cavalry, his own 30 cavalry, and 600 firecracker troops, to go out again.

According to the intelligence reconnoitred by the sentinel cavalry, there were four generals in Wuyi County, with 7,000 troops, and two generals from Chen Jia's second attack with 7,000 troops.

Compared with siege warfare, Zhang Qiang prefers field warfare, because field warfare can be arranged by himself.

The wind and the sun are beautiful, and it is a good day.

Zhang Qiang's troops were lying in ambush in the woods five miles outside the town of Lutan, and the banner of the Qing army and Han army led by Chen Jia was passing through the official road outside the woods.

Chen Jia learned to be obedient this time, He Jin's troops were only five miles away from him, Zhang Qiang was very difficult to start, and with 2,300 troops attacking 7,000 troops, no matter how you look at it, he will suffer a loss.

Chen Jia called a personal soldier next to him and said to him: "Let Liu Guangbi bring someone out to pick up the general." ”

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief." The soldiers went away with five cavalrymen.

The soldiers beside him asked: "My lord, this is only twenty miles, and you will arrive at a faster speed, why do you still let the staff come to pick you up?" ”

Chen Jia grabbed the reins with both hands and looked into the distance, "The Ming army is cunning." ”

The soldier said: "Are you afraid that the Ming army will ambush our department?" ”

Chen Jia said with a smile: "The Ming army has few troops, and it is not possible to ambush it, but it is always not wrong to be careful, and it is very uncomfortable to blame Lord Ruan for losing troops for no reason." ”

While Chen Jia replied to the words of his own soldiers, he recalled that Ruan Dacheng went back and scolded him half to death, and if it weren't for the intercession of other generals, he would have been pushed out and beheaded on the spot.

"This time, we must annihilate the Ming army under Zhang Qiang." He muttered quietly.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the queue walking in front, and a black rain of arrows flew out of the woods, and before the Qing army below could understand, a crossbow bolt flew out of another forest.

The Qing soldiers were caught off guard, and they were beaten and suddenly messed up in formation.

At this moment, a loud trumpet sounded, and thousands of Ming troops poured out of the woods.

Chen Jia was frightened for a while, and fell from his horse, and the team of pro-soldiers panicked.

The war horses galloped, Hu Kui's cavalry came out of the woods, rushed directly into the ranks of the Ming army, and slashed and killed, and the Ming army was in chaos.

The sound of neat footsteps sounded in front of the chaotic Ming army, and Zhang Qiang rushed out of the woods with a large stride with the troops of the firecrackers, approaching, approaching, in less than five minutes, he was already close to the Ming army a hundred meters away.

Cut off the Ming army, stopped at a distance of seventy meters, formed a team, and then raised the fire.

Continuous firelight erupted from the ranks of firecrackers, with a huge sound, the Ming army was even more panicked, although the first shot did not kill many Qing soldiers, but this sound, so that the Qing soldiers who had not experienced such a neat firearm shooting were in chaos, and then there was chaos, many people began to run in the opposite direction.

Chen Jia got up from the ground in embarrassment, his own soldiers helped him to get on the horse, Chen Jia looked at the horse from afar, only to see the entire Qing army in chaos, some experienced soldiers immediately formed a team, and attacked the Ming army in front, some Qing soldiers who were used to escaping immediately led the team to escape, and some Qing soldiers were completely unclear about the situation and ran with everyone.

"Steady, steady, you immediately call He Jinbu to come to help." He pointed to a personal cavalryman and shouted.

Zhang Qiang led the musketeers to move forward, forward, although the Qing troops resisted, but under the fierce firepower of the six hundred musketeers taking turns to shoot, they fell down in pieces, and the musketeers lined up in six rows, continued to shoot, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the entire Qing army was cut off, and then Zhang Qiang's musketeers kept rushing towards Chen Jia's Chinese army, and the Chinese army collapsed instantly.

He Jin, who was in front, had already stopped moving forward when he heard the first gunshot.

He Jin's vanguard had already passed through Lutan Town, the Chinese army was in Lutan Town, and the rear army had just entered Lutan Town.

He Jin covered his shoulders, that night, if it weren't for Zhang Qiang's midnight in the dark, if He Jin hadn't been alert, he would have fled immediately when he saw something wrong, if it hadn't been for the eaves of a house in the abandoned village that blocked the bullet, He Jin was wearing heavy armor again, and he might have confessed that day.

At this time, he heard the sound of gunshots, and faintly felt that the wound was hot, painful, half of his arms were about to be broken, and the cronies around him desperately carried him away from the battlefield, and he recuperated in a mountain village for a week, before fleeing back to Jindong Town, Jinhua with the remnants of the defeated army of more than 100 people.

At this time, he heard the sound of fire guns more densely than that night, and he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Tian Bin beside him asked cautiously: "My lord, can you save Mr. Chen?" ”

He Jinleng paused for a moment and hesitated for a while, "Help, you take the rear army to take a look, and I will take the Chinese army to follow behind." ”

Tian Bin's face was as gray as ashes, and it was more ugly than crying.

"Go quickly, I missed the opportunity to rescue, Mr. Chen's troops were defeated and retreated, and you and I are not happy."

Tian Bin had no choice but to gather his subordinates with a sad face.

Five miles away, Zhang Qiang's firecracker team had already routed Chen Jia's Chinese army and was chasing Chen Jia's rear army, and Chen Jia accelerated to escape with the Qing cavalry.

Two miles away, Wei Wuji and Xuanyuan Longfei, Hu Kuibu were chasing the Qing army all over the mountains, Mi Chun and Zhou Congee were climbing the mountain quickly, and they were blocked on the slopes on both sides of the official road.

Tian Bin and the 500 people of He Jin's rear army had just approached the official road, and they were shot down by bows and arrows and crossbow arrows, and they couldn't advance or retreat.

In half an hour, Zhang Qiang returned with the musketeer troops, the musketeers were infantry, of course, they couldn't catch up with Chen Jia's cavalry, so they could only open the battle line, block the rear army and the Chinese army on the road, and capture the prisoners.

After another half an hour, when He Jin led the Chinese army to the Guandao Pass, Tian Bin was still cowering and tentatively attacking Mi Chun and Zhou Congee's Ming army.

Seeing the arrival of He Jinzhong's army, Xuanyuan Longfei gave up chasing the Qing deserters with the pikemen, returned to the mountain pass, and blocked the middle of the official road.

Zhang Qiang saw the crisis and accelerated towards the mountain pass with two hundred firecrackers.

He Jin saw the fire gun running over at an accelerated pace, stroked his shoulder and said to the soldiers beside him: "Withdraw the troops, let's go back to Wuyi County." ”

The battle ended at noon.

The Qing army captured Zhang Qiang and captured 2,000 people, but not many people were killed, but 1,300 people, and the rest ran away.

In the evening, Zhang Qiang's army drove outside the county seat of Wuyi.

He Jin, Ma Bao, Ma Weixing, Liu Guangbi, and Qi Sansheng looked at Zhang Qiang's troops, who were only 2,000 troops below, and calmly camped in Wuyi County.

Mi Chun rode a war horse to the county seat and shouted: "My lord said, let you surrender immediately, otherwise after the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs." ”

Liu Guangbi patted the battlements of the city wall and shouted angrily: "Joke, I have an army of tens of thousands, and you dare to attack the city with only 2,000 soldiers and horses, and you don't know what you can do." ”

Qi Sansheng looked up to the sky and laughed, and Ma Bao shouted loudly: "We can guard your family until the adults die of old age." ”

Mi Chun argued a few words, scolded a few times, and ran back, "My lord, what should I do?" We have too few troops, and we really can't help them. ”

Zhang Qiang snorted coldly, "It's okay, just let them live one more night for the time being, I have already sent someone back to pull the cannon, and when the cannon arrives tomorrow, it will break through the city wall, rush into the city, and kill them." ”

Zhou Congee was taken aback, "My lord, we have too few troops, and we are afraid that the enemy army will counterattack in the middle of the night, how should we deal with it?" ”

Zhang Qiang raised his head and laughed, "If the enemy army comes tonight, it is exactly what I want, even the artillery is not needed, all of them will be annihilated, and the whole army will be able to rest and recuperate in Wuyi County early tomorrow morning." ”