Zhang Qiang didn't want to see such a Qing army, he was anxious for Su Zhengqing, but Su Zhengqing was desperate to strike, and if he didn't succeed, he would become a benevolent, so where was Li Chengdong's troops?

And where are the reinforcements.

Although Longwu Nanming was extremely panicked, because Kong Youde defeated Wuzhou Mansion, it was possible to wave the army to Zhaoqing Mansion, and Nanming Kingdom would once again experience a war of annihilation, so he continued to ask for reinforcements from Su Zhengqing, weakening the original 100,000 troops of Su Zhengqing's troops, Su Zhengqing had to send nearly 60,000 troops back to help, but the war eased slightly, Su Guansheng for the life of his nephew, or fought with Longwu to send more than 10,000 reinforcements.

More than 10,000 reinforcements met Wang Deren who was acting alone on the road, but Wang Deren led him astray, detoured to the south, and traveled hundreds of miles.

The enemy is too strong, he doesn't want his 6,000 soldiers and horses, no, his cavalry brigade is 6,000 soldiers and horses, he still has 2,000 old battalions, his own direct troops, and the 20,000 captives of the Qing army from Li Chengdong.

He really didn't want to fight with tens of thousands of Qing troops, and a few thousand soldiers were the guarantee of his glory and wealth.

So he kept watching, waiting for the result, whether to go, or to fight, his idea was to go.

He is not Su Zhengqing, a hot-blooded young man, he has already passed the desperate time, so he can't make up his mind to go because of his horse exploration report, Li Chengdong and Tong Dawei are also here, but on the Jiang side, their troops are more than their own side, close to 40,000 soldiers and horses, plus 20,000 prisoners, there are 60,000 soldiers and horses.

There were prisoners on both sides, and they didn't wander around for a while, they took many surrounding towns and towns, swept away the garrison troops of the Qing army on the periphery of this place, and fought the county towns recovered by the Qing army again.

But Mang Gurtai lost 20,000 soldiers and horses because of Su Zhengqing's blow, he was licking his wounds, and he didn't dare to attack, who knows if those sweeping soldiers and horses were as powerful as Su Zhengqing, if they were all like this, the 200,000 soldiers and horses he was holding in his hands now could not beat the other party, this is Mang Gurtai's judgment, the Southern Ming army here is much more powerful than the Ming army of the Yongli Ming Dynasty that he fought.

It is also much more powerful than Feng Shuangli's Southern Ming Army, which has been against them before, Mang Gurtai does not dare to act rashly, he knows that there are two such armies lurking around, but he is helpless, he wants to see if Gao Zhixiang can defeat the current Southern Ming army, if he can defeat, he will fight with 200,000 soldiers and horses to destroy the other two Southern Ming armies.

The battle continued, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the Southern Ming army lost more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, the first line of arquebuses and infantry was beaten into a sieve, and the artillery also lost a lot, the twelve cannons in the middle lost six, the twelve cannons on both sides lost three, the twelve cannons in the rear lost one, and the heavy artillery lost five.

The Qing army, on the other hand, is more appropriately described as miserable.

The 60 cannons in front lost more than 30 guns, and the remaining three heavy artillery were lost, while the new army lost more than 4,000 people, and the four phalanxes were directly defeated, and the scene was in chaos, Gao Zhixiang sent infantry to stabilize the new army troops, one person stood behind one person, if he dared to retreat, he went down with a knife, and cut nearly 100 people in a row, only to stabilize the troops, and then drove the rear phalanx to the front line and fight against the Southern Ming army.

The two sides started a new round of artillery battles, the artillery on the side of the Qing army was weakened, Gao Zhixiang no longer wanted to solve the battle through artillery, he directly sent the infantry and pikemen, archers behind the new army, and when the new army killed a distance of 100 meters, he let these cold weapon troops cross the new army and fight directly with the Southern Ming army, anyway, there was also Mang Gurtai behind him, leading 80,000 Qing troops to sweep the formation, even if he was defeated, there were still 80,000 Qing troops, and the Southern Ming army would definitely be difficult to withstand such a force, and it would inevitably collapse, Victory still belongs to the Qing army.

This is undoubtedly a cruel choice for him, he lost the troops that Kong Youde had high hopes for, maybe Guilin Mansion is about to give it away, but it is also sent to the Qing army, not the Southern Ming Army, he will definitely die if he is caught by the Southern Ming Army, but the Qing army has failed, there is Kong Youdebao, he can't die, it's just that he will be beaten into the cold palace for a period of time, and his life is saved, then he can make a comeback, no life, don't say anything.

The premise is to win this battle, otherwise, if you go back to Mang Gultai and kill him, you will not be able to resist.

He sent a herald to communicate with Mang Gurtai, and Mang Gurtai promised him that the 80,000 Qing army would then press on and give the Southern Ming army the final blow, and at the same time ordered the Qing army on both sides of the strait to start crossing the river to attack the already empty Yongfu County behind Su Zhengqing's army.

Su Zhengqing felt the pressure, he issued multiple orders in a row, adjusted the deployment, the artillery withdrew to the rear flanks on both sides, and gave way to the arquebusiers, heavy artillery and the artillery in front of the Chinese army to continue to maintain the bombardment, after all, the losses of these two artillery positions were not very heavy, and they could also suppress the enemy.

The heavy artillery in the rear bombarded a round, completely ending the heavy artillery position of the Qing army, and the Qing army lost all its heavy artillery.

Twelve nine-pounder guns shelled the twenty guns on the side of the Qing army, and in just one round, the artillery that had been adjusted many times was more accurate, so that the Qing army lost five cannons and hundreds of artillery pieces again.

Part of the artillery of the Qing army abandoned the cannon and the people, and the infantry fled together, and were immediately beheaded by the cavalry behind.

The heavy artillery in the rear adjusted its muzzle and began to bombard the dozen or so remaining cannons on the other side.

The arquebusiers of the two armies marched to the beat of the drums, forward, approached, and approached, one hundred and fifty meters, and these new troops of Kong Youde did not panic, it was already past the time of panic, one hundred and twenty meters.

The Southern Ming army began to fire first.

They are more accurate and more stable than the five hundred new army arquebusiers commanded by Kong Youde's veteran in Wuzhou Mansion, the first row used the arquebuses imitated by the Southern Ming Army itself, and more than 30 people were injured, the first column of the Qing army did not fire, and their arquebuses were not at the distance of firing, even if they fired, the injuries of more than 30 people were no longer in the desired results of the Qing army commanders who commanded the first line.

Then he endured as many as three rounds of shooting, and fell more than 200 Qing troops in a row, after three rounds of shooting, the phalanx of the first line of the Southern Ming Army quickly led the gun back to the second row of the phalanx, and the second row of the phalanx was three rounds of shooting, and the first row of the three rows of the Southern Ming Army shot back directly back twenty meters, so the Qing army sadly found that although the enemy was also advancing, their distance was still ten meters larger, and they had to advance ten meters to get close to the distance of one hundred meters.

That's right, the platoon of the Southern Ming Army was calculated in a phalanx.

One platoon actually had three rounds of arquebusiers, three shots, after firing, they ran directly to the back to load, the second row, three rounds of arquebusiers, they advanced ten meters, then stopped, began to fire at the Qing army again, after ten meters of advance, stopped, suffered three more rounds of shooting, and fell more than 400 people.

At a distance of one hundred and ten meters, they lost five hundred people, which was almost the strength of a phalanx of the Southern Ming army.

When they reached a distance of 100 meters and wanted to shoot, they found that the enemy also quickly carried out a rotation, and retreated 20 meters, and the second platoon of the Southern Ming Army after three rounds of salvo fire ran behind the third platoon, although the third platoon was also advancing, but they were too far away, 30 meters away, they ran about 10 meters away, the two platoons in front had already finished, and it was their turn to confront the Qing army.

This time, the Qing army didn't wait, a distance of 110 meters was 110 meters, they quickly fired a shot, and then, the commander asked the second platoon to grab a distance of one meter to stand in the first row, and the first platoon ran to the third platoon to load.

They used methods taught by the Portuguese and Dutch.

In this battlefield where the array line is extremely narrow, they could not spread out the troops behind them, so they had a lot less troops than the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army rotated through two phalanxes, retreated, and fought for their guns to shoot farther than the enemy, and won two three-stage shooting opportunities, causing more than 500 injuries to the enemy.

In fact, the confrontation situation of one phalanx on the battle line, and the confrontation situation of several other phalanxes was similar, so in the first encounter, the Qing army was completely defeated and lost about 1,800 troops, while the Southern Ming army lost about 200 troops.

Originally, the new army had more than 10,000 people than the Qing army, but the Qing army had four new armies, and the establishment was less than that of the Qing army, but the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was completely outstanding.

The Qing army had only two new armies, followed by a cold weapon unit of 15,000 men and Kong Youde's old firearms unit armed with firearms and shotguns, as well as a cavalry unit.

The artillery battle between the two sides is still continuing, only five of the artillery of the Qing army can fire, and the others are either frightened and run away, and then they are caught and beheaded, or they are trembling and can't even load the shells, because the artillery of the Southern Ming Army will tremble every time they hit, and then subconsciously run away, more than 20 minutes, they actually did not load a cannon, the five are still relatively calm artillery veterans, otherwise the Qing artillery does not have to play, just come down and forget it.

"Assault," Gao Zhixiang finally couldn't help it, and sent the old firecrackers behind him, the Shenji Battalion, to a lot that was emptied.

Suddenly, the battlefield was in chaos.

The arquebusiers of the Southern Ming Army in this section no longer retreated, and the empty two-round musketeers did not replenish, but stood in place under the enemy's fire, and began to shoot in seven rows in turn.

Under the barrage, these old Shenji battalion firearms troops, had to brave the rain of bullets, assault dozens of meters before they could fire, they did not have to wait for the officers to shoot in a whole team, ready to aim or something, that is, rushed to the front, probably felt that they were still alive, so they hurriedly put a shot in the general direction of the Ming army, and then ran backwards with the gun, not to mention the heavy casualties, the effect was not to say, in the dense seven rows of volleys, they caused very little damage, it can be said that every loss of fifty soldiers can cause one casualty to the Southern Ming army.

Gao Zhixiang's heart was dripping blood, his two new armies were disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the enemy's artillery began to join the slaughter, which was simply lining up for the other party to slaughter, but his own side had no choice, three phalanxes had already disappeared in the front, and they had to be topped with archers and infantry, and these soldiers rushed towards the enemy's increasingly thin arquebus queue.

(End of chapter)