Three days later, Zhang Pengyi knew Duoduo's intention to accompany him here.

The cavalry of the Qing army crossed the river with a pontoon bridge in Qingcheng.

Duoduo played a trick of Ming Xiu plank road darkness Chen Cang used the speed advantage of the cavalry to bypass Jinan and cross the river directly into the only gap in the Ming army's strategy.

But this time there was no one to surrender.

Of course, it was not the gentry's discipline in this area that was recharged, but that they all organized militia groups to participate in the attack on Zichuan, and even at this time these militia groups were transferred to Qingzhou. In this way, even if they surrender, they will inevitably suffer retaliation, they don't think that the Qing army will treat them traitors preferentially, it is better to take advantage of the support of the common people, and play a loyal and brave game!

However, the Qing army did not have time to deal with them.

The 10,000 musketeers and 10,000 Mongol cavalry led by Bolo relied on the support of the gentry who learned that the regent had returned to the path of the Holy Lord Mingjun in Qinghe Town, and quickly built a pontoon bridge to cross the Daqing River. The water depth of the Xiaoqing River was not enough to stop the cavalry from wading, and Bolo, who learned that Zichuan had been conquered, immediately turned east and went straight to Qingzhou, and the cavalry forced the march to reach Qingzhou in only one and a half days.

Such is the advantage of cavalry.

He then encountered the Ming army on the south bank of the Zihe River.

"Ready!"

With the roar of those officers, the marines who were lined up in a standard formation quickly raised their arquebuses in their hands.

In front of them, the cavalry was like a torrent.

Immediately after that, the soldiers of the spear phalanx who came forward raised their spears, and the soldiers of the last two spear phalanxes also raised their spears, and the three such triangular formations were arranged in a large infantry formation, and on the flanks of these infantry formations were a line of cavalry. But just like the Ming army was used to in the previous battles, these cavalry still did not attack, but lined up as a meat shield for the infantry on both flanks to wait for the enemy to be pursued after defeat, and the Mongol cavalry did not charge them......

Who will have infantry that does not charge, but goes to storm the phalanx of cavalry?

Not to mention that these cavalrymen also had muskets.

It was also impossible to rush straight at the Mongol cavalry of the six-fold spear phalanx, and began to diverge in front of the spear phalanx that came out in front.

"Fire!"

The order to open fire in the Ming army suddenly sounded.

On the flanks and flanks of the other two spear phalanxes that came out of the front, the musketeers pulled the triggers one after another, and the crossfire from the left and right immediately knocked down the Mongol cavalry in front. But this did not stop their divergence, and the Mongol cavalry, past the dead bodies of their companions, continued on both flanks, but on both flanks they were still phalanx of spears. However, before they could hit these spear forests, the musketeers hiding in the protection of the three spear forests opened fire on the Mongol cavalry on both sides within a distance of less than ten meters, and such a distance did not fail. More than half of the Mongol cavalry who were the first to rush into this fire trap fell, and the few remaining ones crashed into the spear forest in confusion in the flip of their horses.

At this time, the musketeers who were the first to fire were reloaded.

Subsequent Mongol cavalry entered crossfire.

The musketeers pulled the trigger one after another, and behind the dead bodies of the cavalry stretched in front of them, more dead bodies fell in the sound of gunfire, and then the obsessed Mongol cavalry still did not dare to crash into the dense forest of spears that came out of them, they still parted to the left and right, and continued to rush to the main line column with the dead bodies of their compatriots everywhere. But by this time, the musketeers hiding behind the spear forest had also reloaded, and they pulled the trigger on the second group of Mongol cavalry who had entered the fire trap.

The latter contribute more dead bodies to this trap.

At this time, the Mongol cavalry came to their senses, and under the fire of the left and right crosses, they did not continue to divert but directly hit the first spear phalanx.

But the Ming army remained unmoved.

A whole six spears are densely arranged.

The Mongol cavalry was the first to have to fire muskets before they charged!

Not only that, but after the cross-fire on the two flanks was completed, the musketeers behind the spear protection also completed the reload and fired forward, and the continuity of fire was compensated. And in this narrow front, it is impossible for the Mongolian cavalry to collide with thousands of iron cavalry at once, in fact, the entire attack front can squeeze into more than 100 cavalry at a time, even if there is an endless stream of more than 100 cavalry, it is useless. Because on such an attack surface, only two or three hundred cavalry and the dead corpses of war horses are needed to block it, and no matter how high the riding skills of the Mongolian cavalry are, it is impossible to charge with dead corpses and wounded war horses in the first step.

"What the hell!"

Commanding the Mongol cavalry, the former banner of the right wing of Korqin, Zasakdoroza, the king of Saktu County, Baisgal, said hatefully.

His father Budaqi was one of the first five Zasaks of the Horqin Department to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, second only to the eldest son of Tushetu Khan, Badali, and the two elder brothers of Da Yuer, Wu Keshan and Manzhu Xili, and he was also one of the Mongolian princes with the strongest relationship with our Qing Dynasty.

But now the relationship is not iron.

The strange tactics of the Ming army are more difficult than those of Checheng, and it seems that there is no shield car to protect it, but the trap formed by the firepower is more ruthless than the shield car.

"Dismounting?"

His cronies said tentatively.

"The cavalry is like this, do they dismount and die? Send a letter to Bolo and tell him that we can't open it for the time being, so it's up to him there! ”

Baisgal said.

The relationship is iron, but it has not yet reached the point of paying no price for the Qing Dynasty.

They are Mongolians, not the Eight Banners.

However, what he didn't know was that at this time, Bolo also hit his head and bled out, and the latter hit the Ming Army Che Battalion, an infantry brigade from the Eighth Army in Yizhou, which was back-to-back with the Marines. Four small battalion-sized phalanxes arc across the Marines' line, but there is also a reserve battalion of Marines in the middle, and eventually the two brigades form a strange forward and rear arc like a giant semi-compass.

The Mongol cavalry attacked the horizontal part of the line.

Bolo's Eight Banners Manchurian elite musketeers attacked the arc-shaped part, that is, the four chariot battalions.

But the Ming army was more than that.

In fact, Qingzhou also has a cavalry brigade of the Ming army and nearly 20,000 surrendered troops and rebels, who are responsible for besieging Qingzhou to block the 7,000 Qing troops in the city, preventing the latter from going out of the city to meet or escape, and the two brigades of the Marine Corps also broke through Weixian, and they are also rushing to reinforcements at this time. If Bolo can defeat the Ming army in front of him, then he will cut off the two battlefields of the Ming army in Shandong, and instead go west to besiege the Ming Ninth Army with Duoduo, at least he can drive the Ninth Army back to the south of Mount Tai, so as to regain control of Shandong.

If he fails......

Then don't talk about anything, immediately retreat and abandon Shandong to defend Jinan with all your might, in order to get a salient to cover the flank of the main defense line of the Liaocheng Canal.

This was the last effort to retake Shandong.

However, this effort ......

"He's not easy to fight there, is it easy for me here?"

Bolo said angrily.

His musketeers were also bloodied in front of the Ming army's chariot battalion, and he was even inferior to Baisgal, who at least did not have to face a shield wall that bullets could not penetrate.

He was a cavalryman.

The largest artillery in his hand is only a hundred-pound cannon, and he has no shield car, the elite musketeers of the Eight Banners Manchuria, holding arquebuses and pushing these small cannons, bravely rushed to the Ming army Checheng, and then were beaten all over the field, and they did not say that the bullets fired, even the shells could not shake the shield car of the Ming army. And the cavalry attack is also meaningless, it has been confirmed twenty years ago on the banks of the Hunhe River, it is meaningless to attack such a car battalion with cavalry, and this cannot be fought at all without artillery.

"Trap them, wait until it rains, I don't believe their muskets can still fight in the rain!"

He looked at the sky and said viciously.

Indeed, this is a cloudy day, if we can wait for a heavy rain to solve all the problems, I have to say that our Daqing has now fallen to the point of relying on God.

He had good luck.

"The trouble is coming, the cavalry battalion attacked, and the infantry retreated into the car battalion!"

Lu Zhiyu raised his head and looked at the cloudy sky, at this moment, a drop of rain fell on his face, it was obvious that he was unlucky today. As soon as his order was given, the cavalry on both flanks immediately struck out, and at the same time the shield wall of the rear chariot battalion separated, and another cavalry brigade also fought out to cover. With the cavalry attack, the infantry of the marines quickly retreated, but at this time there were some scattered raindrops, which did not affect the use of arquebuses, and the Mongol cavalry, which was blocked by two cavalry battalions, did not dare to really attack.

The retreating Ming army, from a state of retreat to a state of combat is a definite turn, although it is best to drag these infantry with an attack and then drag it until heavy rain falls.

But......

How many Mongol cavalry would have to die!

Bolo didn't attack either.

He didn't dare to provoke these guys while the arquebus was still working, he was waiting for the rain to get so heavy that the arquebus was useless.

As for the withdrawal of these Ming troops into the Che Battalion, it was no big deal, as long as the rain was heavy enough, the arquebuses and cannons of the Che Battalion could not be used, although his musketeers were the same, but his Eight Banners Manchurian elite still had spare bows and arrows. Heavy rain can indeed affect the use of bows and arrows as well, but at least they can still be used at the initial stage, and completely reverting to the state of cold weapons, he is confident enough in the bravery of his subordinates.

Soon the Marine infantry entered Checheng.

The cavalry who had completed the covering task outside quickly retreated from the battlefield, and there was not enough space in the camp to accommodate them, and the task of these cavalry was completed.

"Prepare for a bloody battle!"

Looking at the heavy rain that finally fell, Lu Zhiyu said with a solemn face.

Beside him, all the Ming musketeers behind the shield wall took off their bayonets, and the Fran crews took out spare steel crossbows. These military crossbows are not for the police of the Jinyi Guard, and in fact they still have enough armor-piercing ability, the only problem is that there are not many of them. However, compared to the Qing army's bows and arrows, which could only be used for a short period of time, these crossbows with steel plates as bow arms could be used continuously in the rain.

The more than 8,000 Ming troops and the more than 18,000 Qing troops, who had completely retreated to the state of cold weapons, completed their pre-war preparations in this way.