The south gate of the Ming Jingshi was opened, and the 30,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty's Gongwei Beijing Division's Xuanfeng Battalion, under the leadership of Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the Ming Jingshi's soldiers and horses, rushed out of the city gate, and turned his head to kill the Hongtang army in the north.

The 40,000 partial divisions of the Hongtang army did not underestimate the Ming army too much, although it used a small number of troops against the enemy's majority of the army, and it did not divide its own troops, but the 40,000 army gathered a rope and concentrated in Beicheng to provoke the Ming Jing division.

The battle between the soldiers was only in an instant, and the Ming Dynasty army went out of the city to counterattack their own army, which was expected by Shang Kexi, and it was impossible for any other commander to show weakness to their opponents in the case of numerical superiority, and let them hit the morale of the army in front of their own soldiers.

"Divine Machine Camp Ready!!"

From the information collected, Cao Bianjiao already knew that the Hongtang army was good at using firearms, so when he came out with the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion this time, he also brought out the Shenji Battalion in his hand, so as to test the gap between the two sides.

The use of firearms into the system, the real pioneer should be the Ming Dynasty, as early as the expulsion of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang, the Ming Dynasty already has a fully armed firearms army, and even has continued to this day.

It's just that after seizing the world, it was subject to the manufacture of firearms and its various defects, and was finally refrigerated by the Ming government halfway.

Later, Westerners set foot on the Oriental continent and opened the coastal defense gate of the Ming Dynasty with artillery fire, and later Hongmen carried forward the firearms, so that the Ming Dynasty re-saw the great power and role of firearms.

The firearms that were originally put into the cold palace finally returned to the eyes of the Ming officials, and then sprouted and blossomed again in the Ming army.

The musket arms of both sides, before the infantry clashed, were already looking at each other from a distance and began to shoot.

The crackling sound, accompanied by a strong and choking smell of gunsmoke, quickly filled the battlefield.

Soon, the soldiers of the 5,000 Ming Army Shenji Battalion discovered the gap between each other, not to mention that the opponent's bullets are more powerful and the shooting is more accurate, that is, the interval between this shots, the other party is far shorter than their own, and the final result is that often the soldiers of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion only shot about two shots, but the gunners on the opposite side have already shot three or four shots!

The heroic soldiers of the Ming army, who were charging forward one by one, were hit by bullets fired from the Hongtang position before they approached the position of the Hongtang army, and fell prostrate on the gray ground.

And in addition to the muskets, behind the position of the Hongtang army, there is also an unknown artillery gun, roaring unscrupulously, one by one shells falling from the sky, exploded in mid-air, scattered on the heads of the charging Ming soldiers, and a large number of soldiers fell to the ground as soon as they exploded.

In the first three charges, the soldiers of the Xuanfeng battalion did not even get close to the position of the Hongtang army, and they collapsed, and the soldiers fled as if they were routed, and even the leaders around them roared and scolded Doi frantically to no avail.

It was not until after several charges that the Ming soldiers finally rushed to the front of the Hongtang army under the cover of the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who suffered heavy casualties, and the few remaining archers, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with them.

"Change the bayonet!!"

Since the Ming army is out of the city, Shang Kexi is trying hard to make the other party able to retreat calmly, he has great ambitions, and from the very beginning he wants to eat the Ming Dynasty vanguard army in front of him, which has reached 30,000.

Otherwise, with the 10,000 musketeers under his command, plus the cooperation of twenty field guns, where could the Ming soldiers rush into their positions so easily.

You must know that even the elite of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, which made the Ming border army fearful, need to use their cavalry to launch a charge, in order to complete the hand-to-hand combat position battle with the Hongtang army in a short period of time.

After finally rushing into the enemy formation, Cao Bianjiao suddenly found that this Hongtang army was indeed too easy to deal with after losing the advantage of muskets, at least their forward 5,000 soldiers fought against the opponent's forward at this time, and there were not too many disadvantages, but a little bit of foothold.

"Send me the brothers from the Fenwu Battalion too!"

Cao Bianjiao saw that the opportunity was in front of him, and hurriedly continued to adjust the deployment of troops, throwing out a reserve army in his hand.

Five thousand soldiers of the Fenwu Battalion, with an order, took a step and began to charge, after all, it was a soldier of the Beijing battalion, although it was a new army reorganized after Sun Chuanting recaptured the Beijing Division, but it was also the face of the royal family.

Lu Xuanwu flexibly brandished the spear in his hand, covering each other with the soldiers of the same class around him, and launched a fierce but dull battle with the opponent in front of him.

As a low-level warrior, Lu Xuanwu did not join Hongtang for a long time, and he was a Han child who was rescued from the hands of the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty after Hongtang occupied Liaodong.

Most of his relatives died miserably under the mistreatment of the Jurchens like livestock, and if it weren't for the timely arrival of the Hongtang army, he Lu Xuanwu himself would not have survived the cold winter of that year.

After being rescued by the Hongtang army, he was already disheartened and didn't know where to go, but because of his tall stature and burly appearance, he was valued by the non-commissioned officers recruited by the army, and persuaded himself to join the Hongtang army.

Anyway, Lu Xuanwu, who didn't know where to go or what to do, agreed at a loss at that time, and became a member of Hongtang's army.

After joining the army, Lu Xuanwu found that this Hongtang army was completely different from what he imagined, not only did they need to practice during the day, but they also had to read and write when they had time at night.

After joining the army, the army not only cared for these soldiers from daily life, but also won a share of their own industry for them, so that they could operate with peace of mind after being discharged from the army.

After all, this Liaodong Pass is sparsely populated, and after driving out the Jurchens, the master who originally belonged here, even if most of the land is distributed to the people in the hands of Hongmen according to the head, there is still a lot of leftover, and in the end, they are cheaper than these soldiers from the Northeast.

Of course, in order to get these lands in their hands, Lu Xuanwu and the others still need to serve in the Hongtang army for more than five years, or automatically retire after the age of forty-five.

But these conditions, for the Chinese people who regard the land as better than the world, give them an infinite hope, who will refuse?

(End of chapter)