Just as the light was shining on December 12, the muffled trumpets of the horns characteristic of the Tartar army sounded all around Lu Xiangsheng's camp.

The soldiers and horses of the Tartar army, which had already gathered overnight, began to move one after another, and the armoured soldiers began to drape their heavy iron armor on their bodies with the help of the followers, while the archers and followers showed their large shields, hung the bowstrings on the bows, and placed the quivers in the most convenient positions, ready to attack.

Bands of Tartar warriors also put on their armoured horses, put the arrows in the quiver in order, and brought out their spears and halberds, and many of the short weapons such as knives and axes on the saddles, as well as small shields, were also placed in their places.

The quality of the equipment of the Tartar soldiers today is much better than when the wild boar skin raised the army, and the conquests between the tribes all the year round, coupled with the defeat of the Ming army from the Ming army seized a large number of armor, as well as the weapons made of iron they set up themselves, have armed their barbaric army to the teeth, even in terms of firearms, the quality of the equipment of the Tartar soldiers is not inferior to the Ming army, especially after Nurhachi suffered the loss of the Ming army's Hongyi cannon in Ningyuan, they also began to pay attention to the casting of artillery.

After the traitors Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming defected to the Manchurian Tartars, in addition to bringing some muskets and artillery, they also took away a considerable number of Ming Dynasty artillery craftsmen from Dengzhou, providing sufficient technical support for the Tartars, so that the Manchurian Tartars could also cast their own cannons of quite good quality, and at this time, even the cannons in the Tartar army were not at a disadvantage compared with the Ming army, and even gradually began to catch up and began to surpass the artillery of the Ming army.

As for the gunners, they are also not lacking, over the years they have captured a large number of Ming troops, including many gunners of the Ming army, these gunners have basically been treated well, and they have been fully utilized by Huang Taiji and incorporated into the army, so even in terms of gunners, there is no shortage of Tartar soldiers.

But there is a little Tartar belief in bow and arrow victory, in their eyes, the Ming army is equipped with those three-eyed guns and fast robbery, bird guns, fire guns and other things, although the power is okay, but these firearms have a lot of faults, slow loading, can not melee and other reasons, far less than the strong bows and arrows used in their hands, so in the current Tartar army, in addition to the Han army is also equipped with firearms such as birds, the Manchurian Eight Banners are disdainful of equipping these things, Therefore, in terms of long-range rifle firearms, the Tartar Army did not deliberately develop them.

After these Tartar troops sorted out their equipment, they could only hear the roar of a few trumpets and cannons from the north, and the bannermen roared in unison, shouting something earth-shattering and rushed towards Lu Xiangsheng's camp, rows of followers with large shields walked in front, and archers followed closely behind the big shields, holding bows and building slowly forward.

A large number of armored infantry armor followed behind them, waiting for an order to launch an attack, all of them had no expression, a look of indifference, as if this war did not affect anything at all, and some people's faces showed a look of arrogance, and their eyes were full of murderous aura, these battle-hardened Tartar soldiers had already been tempered into a ruthless killing machine step by step, and it seemed that even their own lives had long been indifferent.

This time, in order to encircle and annihilate Lu Xiangsheng's department, Dolgon and Yue Tuo can be said to have done their best, not only sent the main force of the white flag, the white flag, the red flag, and the red flag under their command to the battlefield, but even the Bayala soldiers they relied on the most were also sent to the battlefield.

This time Lu Xiangsheng led the Xuan soldiers did a good job after entering the guard, they followed Lu Xiangsheng and the Tartar soldiers fought a few fierce battles, although they paid a lot of price, but also played the prestige of the Ming army, on the contrary, Chongzhen regarded as the support of the Guanning army, known as the world's first male soldier, after entering the guard, followed Gao Qiqian basically did not do anything serious, first lying on the outskirts of Beijing did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Tartar soldiers, and then followed Gao Qiqian Hebei for an armed parade, and the Tartars did not say anything, But there is no less harm to the common people, so in the eyes of Dolgon, the Xuanda army under the command of Lu Xiangsheng has become their last obstacle, and he and Yue Tuo both want to completely destroy the Xuanda army under the command of Lu Xiangsheng in a battle, and they will cause any trouble to the Qing army in the province.

As the Tartar soldiers began to move, Lu Xiangsheng's battalion also began to move, and the officers and soldiers who were hungry and cold also cheered up one after another, and began to pick up the weapons in their hands, put on their battle armor, and walked to the designated positions under the command of the officers.

And Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei, Zhang Yan and other generals were each responsible for one direction of the battalion, Lu Xiangsheng was in the middle of the command, as the Tartar soldiers got closer and closer to them, the roar of the generals sounded on all sides: "Ignition!" ……”

At the same time, the sound of cannons sounded almost simultaneously on all sides of Lu Xiangsheng's camp, and all kinds of Francos and small Hongyi cannons and even Tiger Squat cannons all fired one after another, and all kinds of cannonballs flew out of the barrel and smashed into the queue of these Tartar soldiers who surrounded them, and immediately made a gap in the queue of Tartar soldiers, and the ground that was frozen hard also became an accomplice of these shells.

The Tartar soldiers seemed unmoved, and continued to indifferently push the front forward, constantly carrying large shields to fill the gaps opened by the Ming artillery, covering the archers and infantry behind them to continue to move forward.

"Fire! Keep firing! Lu Xiangsheng rode his horse to the west of the camp, brandished the snowy broadsword in his hand, and yelled at the gunners here.

The gunners were nervous about the reloading of their guns, but their reloading action was more complicated, because it was not the overall charge used, which made the reassembly very cumbersome, although after the cannon fired, it caused a certain amount of damage to the Tartars, but it could not form a continuous artillery bombardment to prevent the Tartars from approaching their camp.

The Tartar soldiers continued to bear the shelling indifferently, slowly advancing forward, the long-term battle made them form a strong discipline, and everyone knew what terrible consequences disrespecting the order would bring to them and even their families, so when facing the enemy, they not only considered their own lives, but also considered the future of their own family and children, so they also made them extremely fierce on the battlefield, and they were not shocked by such blows at all.

With the opening of Lu Xiangsheng's camp, this battle also kicked off, the Tartar soldiers strode towards Lu Xiangsheng's camp with the Ming army's artillery fire, and from the northwest direction, a large group of people and horses with black borders and white flags also pulled out a few Hongyi cannons, slowly aimed at Lu Xiangsheng's camp, with the roar of the army general, these Qing army's Hongyi cannons also immediately made a roaring sound, and a huge cannonball whistled and fell to Lu Xiangsheng's camp. Suddenly, a cart blocking the edge of the camp was hit by a cannonball, and when even the sawdust flew and scattered, even some archers with bows and arrows on the cart and a small Franc cannon were also blown away, and in a blink of an eye, the Ming army killed and wounded many people, and opened a hole in the edge of the camp.

But now, the Ming officers and soldiers were afraid that they had no choice, so they could only immediately send troops with shields to plug the gap, and some archers were transferred to the gap and continued to release arrows outward to prevent the Tartar soldiers from approaching the edge of the camp.

As the distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer, a large number of archers are engaged in the battle, the archers on both sides are desperately splashing the rain of arrows they shoot at each other, one side tries to block the other party's approach, one side tries to sweep away the enemy in front of them, but relatively speaking, the Ming army shoots a rain of arrows is obviously much weaker than the Tartar army, such a launch is obviously unable to block the attack of the Tartars, although the artillery is more powerful, but in the face of the Tartars like ants are so thin, so that the archers fight, It was suppressed by the Tartar archers, and from time to time there would be a sound of a three-eyed or bird's gun, but in such a large-scale attack, the same sound seemed very thin.

Although these soldiers from Xuanda showed courage beyond the vast majority of officers and soldiers, but helplessly their number of archers was far inferior to the Tartar archers, not to mention that archery is not a labor-saving job, after the first few arrows were fired, soon the archers began to be tired because of hunger, but the arrows of the Tartar archers who were forced up were dense and powerful, and some of the archers who were blocking the edge of the camp began to shoot arrows, either screaming and falling next to the camp fence, or planting the cart at the edge of the camp.

And the archery skills of the Tartar archers are obviously much higher than the Ming army, they have lived on horseback since childhood, they began to learn to use bows and arrows since childhood, and they are good at making strong bows, and the arrows used with them are also heavy arrows, such heavy arrows are powerful in armor piercing, once nailed into the human body, the damage caused is greater.

Although the range of such heavy arrows is average, but one arrow is an arrow, the power is relatively large, coupled with their accurate aiming, they often aim at the face of the Ming army to shoot, avoid the armor on their bodies, and cause greater damage to the enemy, so that many Ming soldiers are still in the throat of the arrow, even if it can cause fatal damage, on the other hand, the Ming archers, even if they shoot the Tartar soldiers, but the Tartar soldiers who rushed up, each wearing a placket cotton armor with copper nails, and the cotton armor is lined with iron plates, and the arrows are shot on their armor. But generally unable to penetrate the armor, even if it penetrates the armor, the damage caused to the Tartar soldiers is very limited, some fierce Tartar soldiers were shot several arrows, but they still roared and hung with arrows all over their bodies, like monsters swooping forward, on the one hand, you can see the fierceness of the Tartar soldiers, but also shows that the lethality of the Ming army's bows and arrows to them is really limited.