After Ma Degong gained the military power, he retreated in the capital of Jining Prefecture, and Ma Bao couldn't do anything to him because he was only a supervisor of the army, so he could only lead his two new army town troops, 26,000 green battalion troops, 4,000 Han army banner troops, and 6,000 conscripted people's baggage troops to attack.

The three regiments of the Guards Brigade each had 3,300 troops, marching in a zigzag shape in three directions, with the troops directly under the brigade headquarters in the middle, the general guards, the artillery directly under the army, the baggage troops directly under the army, the engineering troops, the cavalry battalion, 2,000 people, 1,000 militiamen, 300 cavalry of the cavalry brigade, and Zhang Qiang's personal guard with a total of 5,000 troops.

The 1st Regiment of the Guards Brigade soon arrived at Hushan Town, and after a little rest for a day, the 2nd Guards Regiment arrived, and the 1st Guards Regiment departed, and soon arrived at the outskirts of Ningyang County, where scout cavalry was sent to reconnoitre, and then camped and waited for the troops behind to come up.

Half a day later, the rested 2nd Guards Regiment arrived, and the two regiments camped five miles apart, guarding the two key junctions leading to Ningyang Town, and sending scout cavalry to reconnoiter on both sides.

The 3rd Regiment also arrived at dark, camped some distance about five miles back in the middle of them, and after rearing the news of their arrival, received the news that the headquarters of the Guards Brigade had arrived at Hushan Town.

At this time, they were fifteen miles away from the county seat of Ningyang County, not that they did not want to attack, but the scouts of the first regiment had already reconnoitred the news, the enemy had 4,000 Han army flag troops stationed in Ningyang County, and there were 2,000 green battalions, 1,000 people, 20,000 green battalions and 2,000 Mongolian cavalry were stationed in the three towns on the first line of Ningyang County, and the enemy's 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, 6,000 green battalions, 5,000 young and strong, Xiangyong, regimental training, and the strength of two regiments of the enemy's new army were stationed in four towns 30 miles behind the county seat. This is simply to use this place as a line of defense to block the attack of the Huaxia Army.

In a nearby county, there are more than 8,000 enemy troops stationed in the new army town led by Kong Youxing, and the main force of this enemy is stationed in the county town of the Shang District sixty miles behind, the new army town with 14,000 troops, 2,000 Mongolian cavalry, 2,000 Han army banner soldiers, and 1,000 green battalion soldiers, as well as 6,000 village warriors, regimental training troops.

According to the confession of the prisoners captured by the cavalry, Ma Degong sat in the capital city of Jining Prefecture, Ma Bao was in the eastern part of the Shang District and the county seat of the forty miles away, and Kong Youxing's troops led the vast majority of the troops of a new army town in Wenshang County to prepare to flank the Guards Brigade and cut off the Guards Brigade at that time.

In the front, the Green Battalion led by Ma Deli and the soldiers of the Han Army Banner were stationed in Ningyang County, blocking the advance of the Huaxia Army.

It is likely that the Mongol cavalry would attack the Chinese army from behind or from the flank.

Ma Bao arranged a pocket for Huaxia Jun here, waiting for Huaxia Jun to get in.

After receiving this information, the commander of the first regiment of the Guards Brigade quickly summoned the other two regiment commanders to discuss, and then reported the information here to the brigade headquarters in Hushan Town to wait for the decision of the brigade headquarters.

It's not that they don't want to attack independently, it's not that they don't have the right to attack a county town, but the battlefield is too big, and they need to obey the brigade headquarters and even Zhang Qiang's dispatch.

Soon the troops were ordered from the brigade headquarters, no matter how many enemies there were, the first regiment attacked the town on the west side of Ningyang County, the second regiment attacked the town on the east side, and the third regiment was responsible for attacking the town of Ningyang County.

There was nothing to say about the attack of the first and second regiments, in the face of the two towns with insufficient defense, even if the enemy had a lot of cavalry, there were a lot of troops, and the three thousand troops had to deal with at least twice the enemy's strength, as well as the harassment of the cavalry, but they were quickly defeated, and the regimental headquarters and camps were smoothly transferred in, mainly in Ningyang County.

Although the county town is not big, the city wall is more than four meters high, more than two meters thick, the enemy has the red-coated cannons of the pre-Ming Dynasty on it, all of them are eight thousand pounds of artillery four, with six thousand pounds of the Great Qing Dynasty's general cannons, and four thousand pounds of general cannons, although these cannons are old, five minutes to shoot a shot, but also ultra-long range cannons, eight thousand pounds of cannons can hit seven or eight miles away, six thousand pounds of cannons can also hit five or six miles away, four thousand pounds can hit three miles to four miles away, for the marching Chinese army is still a threat, The commander of the 3rd Guards Regiment did not want his soldiers to be hit by enemy artillery without getting close to the enemy, losing dozens of people, which would be a great blow to morale.

Even if a shell from a 4,000-pound cannon weighs 20 pounds, rub it, and a person's whole body will be gone.

The commander of the 3rd Guards Regiment first asked the dragoon squad to use rifled flintlock pistols to use the tactics of the Mongol cavalry medieval European heavy infantry phalanx to mount and shoot against the cannons on the enemy's city wall. Then send another squad to approach from another direction, attack the enemy's walls on three sides, and then order the artillery to advance rapidly, every five minutes, quickly disperse and take refuge.

The infantry was then allowed to advance in a skirmish line, advancing rapidly, and the loose formation made it almost impossible for the enemy's artillery to find its target.

Twenty cavalry squads made the enemy's artillery unable to exert its power, and soon more than 3,000 soldiers advanced to the enemy's four-mile range, and then the artillery quickly dispersed, aiming at the enemy's city walls for artillery suppression.

In fact, the Guards Brigade is not much worse than the Class A Field Brigade, at least not much worse in terms of artillery equipment, and they are only equipped with an eighteen-pounder heavy gun than the Class A Field Brigade.

Zhang Qiang believes that under the current circumstances, the Huaxia Army does not need to use heavier heavy artillery, because although the enemy's artillery hits far, it can be heavy and unbearable, weighing several thousand catties, and the heaviest eighteen-pounder cannon of the Huaxia Army plus carriages, horses, and ammunition is only 2,500 catties, and it can still be moved, and the enemy's heavy artillery is not as convenient as the Huaxia Army if it wants to move the two-thousand-pound heavy artillery, and the enemy's heavy artillery is inferior to the Huaxia Army in terms of rate of fire, power, and mobility, so the eighteen-pounder cannon is enough to suppress the enemy in field and siege battles, and it has achieved victory.

What's more, the artillery of the guards brigade of the Huaxia Army is equipped with flowering shells, this big killing weapon, compared with the solid shells of the Qing army, the lethality of the flowering shells of the Huaxia Army is very large, and one shot can not only blow up the enemy's city walls and destroy the city towers, but also kill dozens of nearby enemies.

While paying attention to the training of the phalanx in peacetime, the Huaxia Army tried to familiarize the soldiers with how to form a salvo at the enemy in a loose formation, fire firepower, suppress the enemy, and kill and injure the enemy, instead of rushing up stupidly, or advancing in a neat queue like the Westerners, and then being pierced through the thick phalanx by the enemy with a solid bullet, taking away at least a dozen soldiers at once, so that the soldiers died unjustly, even if they win, it is not good for the morale of the entire army.

The smoothbore flintlock soldiers of the three battalions held their guns, lowered their heads, bent their waists, and braved the enemy's reaction to occasionally shoot heavy shells of dozens of pounds, stopping from time to time to form a whole team, so that the formation would not be too loose, and when the time came, when the enemy cavalry went out of the city to assault, then even the later army with machine guns would be difficult to ensure that their troops would not be broken by the enemy, not to mention the flintlock pistols that the Huaxia Army was now fighting alone and could not guarantee 100 percent fire.

Just like a lighter, you can't guarantee that every blow can make the flint spark ignite the combustible gas in the lighter, if the lighter that used to rely on the friction between the steel wheel and the flint is even worse, the current level of the flintlock pistol of the Huaxia Army is the situation of each fire of the previous inferior lighter, sometimes he can hit 99 percent, sometimes, only three or four times out of ten, in this case, if you can't gather enough people to rely on the number and platoon to hit the enemy, then the enemy's cavalry is their nightmare.

The Qing army was very good at cavalry raids.

After all, the Qing army is not a fool, when people swept the land of the Ming Dynasty, the Huaxia army was still a weak Jinhua righteous army, only a few thousand troops, with big swords and spears, bows and arrows, crossbow arrows, a small amount of Ming army firearms, the Qing army's inferior bird guns fought with the Qing army, and only survived after several twists and turns, creating today's prosperous era.

Sure enough, soon when the Huaxia army approached Sanlidi, the city gate was opened, and a thousand Mongolian cavalry mixed with Han cavalry rushed out and rushed directly to the front of the third battalion of the third infantry regiment of the Guards Brigade, trying to use the gold to change the 1 arquebus, and attack the musketeers of the third battalion like the cavalry of the Huaxia army attacked the enemy.

The 3rd Battalion quickly closed its formation, spaced about two meters apart from each other, and then, in a loose formation, formed a line, and opened fire on the enemy's galloping cavalry.

In the firelight, the enemy's cavalry took advantage of the speed advantage and quickly rushed to a distance of two hundred meters, then approached, and then approached, reached a distance of one hundred meters, opened fire quickly, and then prepared to draw a semi-arc circle to the front of the second battalion and continue the attack.

But they only had one chance to fire, and most of those bullets were empty, because they did not have the training level of the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, at this time, the smoothbore flintlock pistol of the third battalion fired, although because of the cavalry rushing, these soldiers of the Guards Brigade because they did not fight for a long time, their hands were a little rusty, and their courage was a little small, but their technical combat level was still very superb, and they were the elite of the various armies before.

So after a row of fires, the small smoothbore flintlock pistol killed at least fifty cavalrymen at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, wounded a hundred cavalrymen, and more than thirty cavalrymen were knocked off their horses, and more than a dozen cavalrymen's horses were killed, and they fell off their horses, either trampled to death, or were dragged to death by their horses, or they were seriously wounded, and those who escaped with minor injuries were quickly killed by the soldiers of the third battalion who fired rapidly behind.

Although the smoothbore flintlock pistol was not very accurate, it was definitely the fastest, and these elite soldiers were also very fast to reload, shooting from firing to reloading and firing again in less than ten seconds, killing those cavalry who survived.

This is the result of the first row of soldiers shooting, the second row of side a little, in turn, so that the Mongolian cavalry charge like hitting the wall, have begged for their own suffering, a round of shooting, the three rows of soldiers killed a total of more than 300 cavalry, wounded more than 400 cavalry, wounded more than 100 enemy horses, those who fled to the front of the second or first battalion also suffered heavy losses, in the end the enemy 1,000 cavalry only returned seventy or eighty people, the rest were either seriously wounded and fell to the ground, or died, or were taken farther by the horses, or captured.

The vast majority of wounded cavalrymen were captured.

Ma Deli saw the poor performance of the cavalry on the city wall, patted the city wall and scolded the cavalry for being incompetent, and then turned to the generals behind him and said, "Cannon, have our cannons been raised?" ”

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