Compared with the Ming army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, which was vigorously fighting with Meng Yuan, the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be synonymous with waste, losing consecutive battles, hitting walls everywhere, and even from the peasant army to the Jiannu Eight Banners, the Ming army was used as a copy to brush.

However, in all fairness, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually higher than that of the Ming army at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after all, for more than 200 years, science and technology were advancing, and the nine sides were replaced by full-time mercenaries instead of peasant soldiers, and the rudimentary musket rockets were also replaced by bird guns and Hongyi cannons modeled after Western arquebuses, the only sad thing is that this era has no spirit of forging ahead in the early Ming Dynasty, the scholars are greedy and ugly, the emperor is suspicious and incompetent, and a good Ming sword is dusty in their hands, and finally even fell into the hands of foreign races.

Fortunately, in the early stage of the Battle of Songjin this time, the Ming army rarely did not have any moths, and the imperial army that gathered the soldiers and horses of Liaozhen was held into a regiment under the command of Hong Chengchou, which eliminated the possibility that the division of troops in the Battle of Salhu was broken by each one, and Hong Chengchou was obviously more experienced than Zhang Chun, the military supervisor who blindly commanded the Battle of Daling River a few years ago, even if he had heavy troops, he was not in a hurry to relieve the siege, but it was like a defense, he couldn't move out a few miles a day, and every time he marched, there was a radish and a pit, and the vanguard built the camp in advance. The periphery was surrounded by heavy battlefields like the city walls, and then the army was stationed with artillery, and the strict defense was eager to really move the city walls to the same place.

And Hong Chengchou is also like a later generation to learn financial management, eggs are not put in a basket, the frontal battlefield he only put Wu Sangui Ning Yuan soldiers about 30,000, the eight general soldiers like a pyramid array, the distance between the 130,000 army before and after is more than 20 kilometers, the last Datong general soldier Wang Pu simply out of Ningyuan City less than ten kilometers, protecting the rear army grain road can not come out, the entire Ming army posture is like a spring, as if the Qing army fights, the Ming army will retract to Ningyuan.

In short, Hong Chengchou showed it in one word, cowardice!

But Hong Chengchou's cowardice is different from Liu Yuliang and others, he is aggressive, and the seven-point defense is also offensive with three points, just like a stone thrown up and down, aiming at the back of the Qing army's head at any time.

It didn't matter if Hong Chengchou was instigated, Huang Taiji was uncomfortable.

Although it was the Ming army that saved the city like fighting a fire, and Jinzhou had begun to run out of food, it was the Qing army itself that was really in a hurry.

God knows when Mao Jue will come back from the Wa Kingdom tour, who knows if his old man will be happy to bring some souvenirs to Shengjing to see himself, don't look at Huang Taiji is around Jinzhou City not to fight, but its intention is to fight quickly, encircle the point to send reinforcements, like the last battle of Daling River, around Jinzhou City quickly eat Liaodong Town reinforcements, and then go south to seize Ningyuan Mountain Pass.

Even Ningyuan and Jinzhou can't be beaten for a while, 20,000 soldiers and horses can be killed at Shanhaiguan, enough to resist the reinforcements of the Ming army, a city of 5,000 people and horses, trapped in these two fortified cities for a year, and the stone has to be trapped, and during this period, Huang Taiji can also comfortably return to Shengjing with the main force and a huge amount of booty.

But this Hong Chengchou put on a snail formation, all the strategic plans of Huang Taiji became empty, and he also fell into a dilemma, the 110,000 Qing army did not say that it could be withdrawn, but once it was soaked in mushrooms with the Ming army under the city of Jinzhou, the division consumed was exhausted, Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou came to a joint meeting, Zu Dashou dragged the Qing army, Hong Chengchou came from the side, even if he was the elite of the Eight Banners army, he had to be defeated.

This time Hong Chengchou is really a snail completely, Jinzhou began to be besieged in June, Emperor Chongzhen delayed for more than half a month to find the black pot, Hong Chengchou himself gathered soldiers and horses, and waited for the farthest Shaanxi soldiers to arrive It took another month and a half, he did not have Mao Jue's train, from Jizhou to Ningyuan, it was the end of September, the beginning of October, from Ningyuan to Jinzhou, the Ming army walked again for more than ten days, and finally the Qing army really couldn't wait, and took the lead in responding to the battle.

The two armies faced each other at the foot of Rufeng Mountain in the south of Jinzhou City.

On October 17, under the vast snow, Hong Chengchou led several general soldiers under his command to personally go out of the camp and start reconnaissance with binoculars.

I have to say that the time and place are favorable, the Qing army accounts for a small half, the weather has cooled down at this time, not to mention that the Dongjiang is more frost-resistant than the Ming army, next to the Dongjiang River, a large market for cheap industrial products, the Qing people's clothing is actually thicker than the border guards of the Ming Empire.

Geographically, the Qing army mastered the battlefield, the only way to Jinzhou from Rufeng Mountain was stationed on the peak and on the side of the road on the right side of the road, on the left front peak is the heavy army led by Tong Yangzheng, mainly the Han Eight Banners, on the right plain is the elite infantry of the White Banner of Dolgonzheng, the two armies together should have 20,000 people, slightly less than Hong Chengchou as the vanguard of Ning Yuanbing.

Not to mention the difference in combat effectiveness, this geographical advantage is enough to offset the difference in strength!

Fortunately, the two armies are about the same, needless to say the Qing army, the Ming army that has just come out of the customs is also in high morale.

Hong Chengchou who watched this scene was really frowning.

The attack dragged on for more than a day, and waited until noon the next day, when Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier under Lu Xiangsheng, led more than 10,000 Shanxi soldiers to catch up, and the first round of confrontation between the two sides officially began.

This time for the Ming army and the Qing army are a bit of cross-era significance, the first to open the posture, both sides are cannons, except for Mao Jue, the demon, this is the first large-scale artillery battle in the Ming and Qing dynasties in this era.

The heavy car camp was blocked outside, and the Hong soldiers pulled eight Hongyi cannons, more than 30 generals, and the second general's cannon spit out tongues of fire at Rufeng Mountain, which was two miles away, and the lead of seven or eight taels rubbed a piercing and sharp sound in the air, and it was fiercely thrown on the mountain, and the heavy guys were like a plow in the Eight Banners Heavy Barracks to dig out blood marks one after another.

However, the Qing army was not polite, it was not as good as Mao Jue, an upstart, and they still had a small advantage over Liao Town, and there were more than 20 Hongyi cannons, which were blasted from the mountain according to the Ming army's military town, which was also very lively.

Boom, imitating Qi Jiguang's partial van, the heavy border army chariot suddenly snapped the axle break, half of the wheel collapsed, the bouncing sawdust bombarded the Ming army everywhere on the car, and another cannonball smashed over, and a three-eyed sergeant trembled violently, and the big hole in his body was blasted out.

Standing for more than 100 meters, the minced meat could still collapse to Hong Chengchou's side, but this black-faced butcher, the ruthless man who sold dried beans to make a living and was admitted to the imperial examination did not blink his eyelids, and was still staring at the mountain with a telescope, in his sight, the Qing army on the mountain was also bombarded a little embarrassed, the war horse fell down screaming, the broken horse's leg sprayed blood, and the Qing army wearing heavy armor could not block the lead blow, and also vomited blood and died.

It's just that in this era, it's really unrealistic to rely on artillery battles to divide the winner and loser, and the two sides don't add more than a hundred guns, and there is no howitzer like Mao Jue during the Civil War.

The noon artillery battle lasted until the evening, rested for a night, continued to do it the next day, and fought until noon, the casualties of the two armies were only a few dozen, and the war was carried out in the afternoon, and in the end, the Qing army could not hold its breath.

The earth suddenly trembled, and tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampled on it fiercely, even if it was two or three miles away, a stream of smoke and dust came out from the northeast like an old demon of the Black Mountain, and white dragons with teeth and claws loomed in the smoke and dust.

Dolgon's cavalry attacked anyway.

Listening to the strange howl, the Ming army at the front line all showed a frightened expression, but Hong Chengchou, who was watching the battle in the back, finally showed a smile on the corner of his mouth at this time.

"The pro-soldier team is pressing! Bird's Gun Fight!"

"Yes!"

In the roar of the generals one by one, the typical three-fold formation of the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was vividly displayed by Hong Chengchou.

It was similar to when Qi Jiguang supervised Jiliao, the musketeers went out to fight with two people, one carried a bird gun to shoot, and the other was guarded by the hand, Qi Jiguang's rules, the enemy did not reach the firing range and the sergeant fired indiscriminately, the musketeer's ears were cut off by the knife hand, and after returning to the barracks, the earless person was beheaded!

In a few screams of cutting ears, in the face of the overwhelming Eight Banners cavalry, there were still soldiers in Jizhou Town who couldn't bear the psychological pressure and shot first, under their influence, more than 1,000 firecrackers also shot a few seconds in advance, and the effect of the bird's blow was very average, more than 100 meters away, there were only a few Qing troops who fell from the gun, which did not affect the momentum at all.

In the panicked shouting, the bird turned around and ran back to the car formation, but then some Ming troops with strange hammers with long handles came out again, and an officer with a three-handful beard and full of the smell of the northeast ballast roared heartbreakingly.

"Three-eyed guns!"

The crackling sound of popping beans, the effect of this blow is much stronger than the last one, after all, the enemy cavalry has run into a distance of more than 50 meters, and the three-eyed guns with three rings of bullets are intensively shot out of a row of bullets, and the Qing army who is preparing to shoot with bows and arrows has been swept down by more than 30 people.

The whistling rain of arrows intensified, and the Ming army did not please it, and the three-eyed guns that ran back in a panic were shot and killed.

However, when the hideous Qing army rushed to the front of Hong Chengchou's camp, this wave of offensive ended here!

In front of Hong Chengchou's army, all of them were heavy side vans, one car was a large piece higher, and the shooting wall built with thick wooden planks made of cavalry hit this thing, almost unable to overturn, and the momentum was full of momentum to the last ten meters, and the wild white flag had to slow down.

Some of the Qing troops stopped on the spot, pulled their bows and arrows and shot at the back of the side van, and some of them ran to the front of the twisted and crooked cart, and the knife began to cut with spears.

At this time, the Ming army was not ambiguous, and the firecrackers hiding behind the carriage were also bold, and they coaxed the head of the white flag at close range, and once again, there was gunsmoke everywhere in front of the Ming army. Please Baidu "Throw Book Network" Thank you for your support!