said that it was a special battalion, but in fact it was more than 1,000 people, imitating the mandarin duck array of the Qi family's army. With the small flag as the basic combat unit, each small flag has two rattan players, three pikemen, two wolf sheng soldiers, two boring rake soldiers, and two fire guns.

In fact, the Mandarin Duck Array was invented by Qi Jiguang specifically to deal with the Japanese Invaders, and it was a kind of skirmish suitable for the south. The weapons of the Japanese were mainly swords and spears, and there were no large numbers of bows and arrows, let alone cavalry.

Therefore, this tactic must be unsuitable for the north to deal with the Mongols and even the Eight Banners, so Qi Jiguang was later transferred to Jizhou, and retrained the chariot tactics to deal with the Mongolian cavalry.

Chen Yue once also wanted to train the army on a large scale with the method of the Qi family's army, but then he thought about it, after all, it has reached the era of hot weapons, and it is more necessary to make full use of the power of firearms.

After all, the Musketeers and Lancers are the quickest classes of troops, and they can be deployed into battle after months of training. And the training of the Mandarin Duck Formation is too time-consuming. In hot weapon combat, no matter how strong your foot combat ability is, you can't resist the fire of the gun......

However, although there was no large-scale training of the Mandarin Duck Formation, Chen Yue still tried to train a battalion of soldiers according to the Mandarin Duck Formation model, in order to use it on occasions when he had to fight hand-to-hand. After all, the Eight Banners Army relied on hand-to-hand combat ability, and when firearms could not contain them, the Mandarin Duck Array could be sent to the battlefield.

With Li Yi's order, Yin Yuanshan immediately rushed to the middle of the battlefield with his battalion, and while walking, the soldiers of each small banner had already arranged their formations according to the training mode, and they were walking in their own positions.

In the Chinese army, the flag danced left and right, and the sound of the military horn changed abruptly. With the military order, the troops who were desperately resisting the heavy armor of the Eight Banners dodged left and right, giving way to the Chinese army.

The heavy armor soldiers of the Eight Banners were overjoyed, thinking that the Ming army was afraid of being killed, and immediately rushed forward without thinking, as long as they could break out of a bloody road, the follow-up Eight Banners soldiers followed in and completely chiseled through the Ming army formation, and the Ming army would be defeated.

However, their hopes were dashed on their own initiative, because the special battalion of Yin Yuan Mountain had already stood in front of them.

"Rush, break through the Ming army array, and kill the Ming army!" Manchu Beizi Man Dahai, who led the heavy armor soldiers, shouted loudly, looking at the thin front of the Ming army that appeared in front of him, his heart was full of excitement.

With the shouting of Man Dahai, the heavy armor soldiers of the Eight Banners also re-energized the strength of their whole bodies, experienced the initial rush formation, and a thousand heavy armor soldiers were also killed and wounded, and were shot dead by the Ming army's firecrackers when they rushed into the battle, and more than two hundred were killed when they entered the battle, and now there are less than four hundred people left, and after such a long battle, wearing such a heavy armor to fight, even if these are the warriors with infinite strength among the Manchurians, they are also a little tired. However, looking at the thin Ming army array in front of them, as long as they broke through this line of defense again, they could completely chisel through the Ming army front, so everyone re-energized their strength.

"Kill!" A heavily armored soldier swung his mace and smashed it hard, but was blocked by the wolf milling hand of the Ming army. The wolf mills more than two zhang long, the head of the machine is sharp like the head of the gun, the end of the machine has several layers of multi-bladed branches, it is a dense branch of the knots, the head and the rod are made of iron, and it weighs seven catties. The wolf miller is also a powerful man selected from the army, and it is impossible for the ironclad soldier to smash the wolf mill.

The soldier who took the wolf mill pushed the wolf mill upward, and the mace in the hand of the heavy armor soldier was involuntarily picked up, revealing the gap in the abdomen. The pikeman, who stood at the side of the wolf miller, took the opportunity to aim his spear at the ironclad soldier's abdomen and stabbed it fiercely.

The mace in the hand of the ironclad soldier was hooked by the wolf milling and could not be retracted, and he saw that his abdomen was pierced by the spear, and he only felt a sharp pain, and looked down, fortunately, the spear did not pierce the three layers of armor.

At this moment, the rattan player in front of the Ming army array took the opportunity to sprint forward, and the short knife in his hand was inserted into the root of the iron armor soldier's thigh. The ironclad soldier is covered with three layers of armor, even the outer thighs are covered with armor leaves, but the inner thighs are not, otherwise they will not be able to walk. The Ming Army's rattan player's thorn was extremely damaging, and he felt a cold place at the root of his life, and then a sharp pain hit, and he couldn't help but let out a beast-like howl, "Ah..."

The wolf millers and palladium boring men, located on both sides, were responsible for blocking the enemy's weapons and defending them; The pikemen took the opportunity to attack the enemy; The first rattan soldier is responsible for defending against enemy arrows and enemy short-rangers coming in through the gaps in the spear-wolf, as well as attacking enemies with locked weapons with short knives; And when the two sides are at a standoff, the two musketeers in the middle of the formation will shoot, and the accuracy of the firing at close range is needless to say, and there is no problem in penetrating the three layers of thick armor.

As soon as the special battalion joined the battlefield, the offensive momentum of the Eight Banners heavy armor soldiers was immediately contained, and Man Dahai was shocked to find that under the resistance of this Ming army, his heavy armor soldiers suffered heavy casualties. This Ming army consisted of a dozen or so people as a small team, some of whom were responsible for defense and some of whom were responsible for attacking, and they were extremely skillful in cooperating with each other. In a short period of time, dozens of ironclad soldiers died tragically at the hands of the Ming army.

"Kill, kill!" Man Dahai roared angrily, wielding his mace and rushing towards the Ming army in front of him.

The mace in his hand was eight feet long, and his head was once spindle-shaped and full of spikes, and even the giant shield of the Ming army could smash it when it danced. Man Dahai is more than six feet tall, more than one meter nine, his body is extremely burly, and he wields a heavy weapon, the mace, which has never been invincible in previous battles.

Today, however, he finally met his opponent. The length of the wolf mill and boring palladium in the hands of the Ming army was far above his mace, and he could not threaten the Ming army without breaking through the barrier of the wolf milling and boring palladium. The mace danced, easily smashing the wolf milling in the hands of the Ming army, but the Ming army in the back of the boring palladium hand quickly went further, and locked the mace with the boring palladium in his hand at once, and quickly pushed it up. The wolf millers of the Ming army also took the opportunity to provoke the wolf milling and the mace to entangle.

Although Man Dahai has great strength, but the wolf hand and the boring palladium hand of the Ming army are also strong people, and Man Dahai's personal strength can completely crush any Ming army, but it is a little difficult for two people to deal with him.

Man Dahai pulled back hard, and the Ming army's wolf hand and palladium hand also approached, making his mace unable to get rid of the entanglement of wolf milling and palladium.

And at this moment, the firecrackers in the Ming army array fired, and a projectile flew out of the chamber, penetrating the three layers of armor, and shot straight into the abdomen of Mandahai, the projectile carried a huge amount of energy, and when it penetrated the armor, the direction changed, stirring in his abdomen, and the internal organs were stirred to pieces.

An unspeakable pain struck, the strength of his body disappeared at once, and Man Dahai stood in a daze, his face full of disbelief. I want him to love Xinjue Luo Mandahai, the grandson of Taizu Nurhachi, the seventh son of Prince Li Daishan, he joined the army at the age of fifteen, fought on the battlefield for more than ten years, experienced countless battles, the name of Baturu spread all over Manchuria, and every time there was a fierce battle, he led the Eight Banners to charge into battle, and I don't know how many Ming soldiers were killed under the mace, but I didn't expect to die here today.

The Ming soldiers didn't care about his identity, the wolf milling hand and the boring palladium soldier shook hard, and then knocked the mace out of his hand, and as the mace fell, Man Dahai's huge body also fell on his back. The rattan soldier quickly stepped forward, knocked off his helmet, slashed his short knife at his neck, grabbed his head and tied it behind his waist.

With the death of Mandahai, the attacking heavy infantry was quickly killed, and under the attack of the special battalion, not many people could break through the array of the special battalion.

With the encirclement and annihilation of the heavy infantry of the Eight Banners, the momentum of the Qing army's offensive was curbed, and the Ming army took the opportunity to carry out a counteroffensive, and the two sides entered a stalemate stage.

South of Linqing and east of the canal, tens of thousands of people in the Ming and Qing dynasties fought together on the vast battlefield. After the more than 30,000 Ming troops commanded by Li Yi and the 15,000 Eight Banners of Shi Tingzhu Aobai were at a standpoint, and thousands of Ming army sailors arrived at the Qing army array along the canal in a boat, Dolgon immediately divided an army to prevent the Ming army from going ashore from the boat, and the Ming army in the river attacked the Qing army on the shore with artillery rockets.

The central part and the western part of the canal were in a fight, while the battlefield in the east was somewhat quiet. The 20,000 men led by Ma Chuang and Wu Sangui's 8,000 men and horses were separated by half a mile, but neither of them launched an attack on the other side.

In this case, Dolgon naturally found out that something was wrong, Wu Sangui's performance was too weird. In the past, Wu Sangui fought many battles with the Eight Banners, chased and killed Li Zicheng, crossed the river and fought countless fierce battles with the Southern Ming Army, and performed very well, but why is there a fear of war now?

"Lord Wang, something is wrong with the situation. Will Wu Sangui ......" Fan Wencheng said with a trembling voice. Although he didn't finish speaking, everyone knew what he meant.

A chill rushed from his body to Dolgon's mind, could it be that Wu Sangui really wanted to rebel?

"Send someone to Wu Sangui's army and order him to immediately launch an attack on the Ming army!" Dorgon shouted.

"Yes!" A Qing soldier, Goshha, took Dorgon's arrows, flew on his horse, and galloped towards Wu Sangui's army.

In the rear of the Ming army, 50,000 people lined up in several neat phalanxes, and all the soldiers sat on the ground to rest and recuperate. These are all reserves, and when the two armies are fighting, it is impossible to press all the forces at once, and it is common sense that there must be reserves. When your own side is not supported or stalemate, then release the recharged reserves to win the victory.

Chen Yue had as many as 100,000 troops in his hands, and the number of troops sent to attack in the early stage was 50,000, which was already the sum of the number of all Qing troops. So the remaining half did not go into battle, but had to wait for the right time before sending out.

But there is no need to send your own army now, because there is still an army that has just taken refuge and has not yet attacked.

"Tell Wu Sangui that you can start." Chen Yue said lightly.

Wu Sangui had already decided to surrender, but Chen Yue didn't dare to trust him easily, so he had Ma Chuang and 20,000 troops to fight against him, in order to regret it. After all, for a repeated person like Wu Sangui, Chen Yue didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, there were many troops under his command, and sending an army to the embankment was nothing.

However, if Wu Sangui decided to surrender, the strength of the two sides has undergone great changes, excluding Wu Sangui's 8,000 men, the total strength of the Qing army is only more than 40,000, and his own strength is more than 120,000, which is already three times that of the Qing army.

On the right flank of the Qing army, Wu Sangui's 8,000 men were the first to attack, but they stopped after five miles out of the camp. Wu Sangui's camp naturally sent a prison army sent by Dolgon, but no matter how urged by the prison army, Wu Sangui was reluctant to launch an attack.

The main forces of the two sides in the middle have already come into contact with fierce battles, and the battle is in full swing, and the prison army sent by Dorgon has long been in a hurry.

"King Pingxi, you must immediately launch an attack and cooperate with General Shi Tingzhu of the Chinese army!" The Manchu army stood in front of Wu Sangui's horse and ordered sharply.

Wu Sangui glanced at him lightly: "What's the hurry, it's not the right time yet, didn't you see that the regent didn't urge?" ”

"You ......" The Manchu Prison Army pointed at him speechlessly, the soldiers on the battlefield were like fire, how could he be so slow and methodical!

At this moment, the herald sent by Dorgon arrived on horseback.

"The regent has an order, the Han army banner immediately launched an attack on the Ming army, there must be no mistake!" Dolgon's own soldiers shouted with arrows held aloft.

"King Pingxi, the regent can't wait, now you can attack." The Manchu Prison Army said coldly.

Wu Sangui nodded slightly: "Of course, the order will go down, and all the soldiers will prepare." ”

Following Wu Sangui's order, two thousand cavalry immediately mounted their horses, and the infantry also stood up from the ground and sorted out their armor and weapons.

At this moment, a war horse galloped out of the Ming army array and galloped towards this side. Some archers raised their bows and arrows and tried to shoot, but were stopped by the officers.

"The messenger of the Ming army, let him come!" Staff member Li Yousong shouted, so the front array split on both sides, and the Ming cavalry galloped directly in front of Wu Sangui.

"The messenger of the Ming army?" Man Jian Jun was stunned for a moment, and immediately doubted in his heart, "King Pingxi, what are you going to do?" ”

Wu Sangui waved his hand: "Don't be impatient:"

I saw that the envoy of the Ming army rode straight to the flag of the Chinese army, and did not dismount, and said to Wu Sangui, who was surrounded by everyone: "The king of Qi has an order, and Wu Sangui of Pingxibo has an order!" ”

Wu Sangui hesitated for a moment, got off his horse, and stood solemnly.

"The king of Qi has an order, and the cavalry of Pingxibo Wu Sangui immediately attacked the flank of the Qing army, and cooperated with our army to annihilate the Qing army, and the infantry cooperated with the left flank of our army to launch a general attack on the middle army of the Qing army. The king of Qi said that the Guan Ning army had committed a lot of crimes after surrendering to the enemy for a long time, and now is the time for you to make meritorious contributions, don't make mistakes! ”

After the envoy of the Ming army who gave the order finished speaking, he beat his horse and returned, and thousands of Guan Ning soldiers watched blankly, and no one dared to stop them.

Seeing that Wu Sangui actually dismounted to listen to the envoy of the Ming army, the face of the Manjian army changed greatly, and at this time, he didn't know what was going on, and he took out his bow and arrow to shoot Wu Sangui, who was about to get off the horse. With a few bangs, the full prison army stared blankly at the several holes that appeared in his chest, and fell off his horse.

When more than a dozen guards around the envoy drew their swords and wanted to fight, they were already surrounded by Liu Tailin's people, and Guan Ning's sabers and guns were everywhere, and more than a dozen guards were cut down to the ground.

"Get ready, act according to King Qi's orders." Wu Sangui sighed and said gloomily.