The west of Qingxi City is more than 30 miles away, the closer to Qingxi City, the more cautious the Qing reinforcements are, although the opponent has been identified only 20,000 or 30,000 people, but can have the courage and strength to sweep in the territory of the Qing Dynasty like walking on the ground so far, the Ming Dynasty army of these two or thirty thousand is still not to be underestimated.

However, what Prince Rang Li didn't expect was that this opponent, whom he thought he had already attached great importance to, actually gave up their previous target, Qingxi City, and turned around and found him, didn't they worry about being defeated by their own army? Are they afraid that they will be flanked from the front and back and become the meat of their own reinforcements and the defenders of Qingxi?

Anyway, the battle-hardened Prince Dai Shan couldn't figure out what the army general opposite him was putting in his head.

However, since the other party insisted on fighting against him, he happened to have less trouble, and his original purpose was to solve the Ming army outside Qingxi City as soon as possible, and then turn back to the west to solve the Ming army besieging Liaoyang.

"Pass on the king's order, and the whole army is ready for battle!"

Sitting on his thousand-mile horse, Prince Li issued instructions with kindness and some feelings.

This time, Prince Rui Dolgon led the army south, for Dai Shan, who got up from the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, in fact, he hoped to be able to follow Dolgon to the south to establish meritorious deeds. For the throne, Dai Shan is not very interested, before there were ministers and nobles who elected themselves to succeed to the throne of the Qing Dynasty, but let themselves refuse, he preferred to lead thousands of troops and horses to conquer the vast land, to destroy the ancient civilizations, watching the people of those kingdoms wailing and shouting under the iron hooves of the Qing Dynasty, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, but it is also a kind of enjoyment from the heart.

But because he was unwilling to ascend to the throne and inherit the position that seemed to be bright, he made himself a bridge of communication between Dolgon, Haoge and the little emperor who supported Shunzhi.

It is still a great pity for Dai Shan that he failed to go south to make contributions, but he didn't expect that when he was lost, such a Ming army would come out to make trouble, so that Prince Dai Shan, who was in a depressed mood, suddenly found the fun, and even didn't care about Emperor Shunzhi in Shengjing City, so he chased and killed him with a large team.

"Musketeers prepare!!"

"Gun loaded, listen to my orders!!"

If the scouts can find the traces of the Qing army, then if the Qing scouts such as the head snake can't find their existence, then they are also ashamed of the so-called invincible army in their own mouths.

Therefore, the 20,000 Hongtang army led by Wu Chao stopped in front of a valley and aimed their troops at the Qing reinforcements who were about to meet here.

Although Wu Chao has already decided to fight to the death with the Qing reinforcements, it does not mean that he will give up the defense against the 20,000 defenders in Qingxi City, and choose such a valley terrain, although he will not be able to get out of the decisive battle, but it will also allow him to occupy a certain geographical advantage, and at the same time, he can also give full play to the strength of the 20,000 troops of Hongtang with a broken attitude.

Prince Daishan once followed Huang Taiji to conquer the Korean Kingdom, and fought with the Hongtang army in Kaesong, and also came into contact with the Korean iron artillery army with good combat effectiveness in a large scale, plus the Ming army in Dongjiang Town has been harassing and attacking the Qing coastal area in recent years, so that he has a certain degree of defense against the firearms offensive possessed by the Hongtang army.

At the beginning of the battle, the Hongtang army relied on the terrain of the valley, and the musketeers and artillery stationed between the slopes of the two wings did not hide too much, and lined up as a long dragon to face the Qing reinforcements.

Both sides came prepared, in fact, there was no room for fornication at night, after the face-to-face, a group of 20,000 Han soldiers in the Qing Dynasty were greeted by the generals of the Han army, took steps, brandished weapons and attacked the Hongtang army.

This is the habit of fighting in the Qing Dynasty, as the backbone of the Jurchen Mongolian elite, never in the early stage of the confrontation, but by the Han Korean soldiers with inferior strength and lower status to test or consume the opponent's strength first, until the decisive battle or find the opportunity for the opponent's flaws, the sharpness of the Qing Dynasty will be decisively launched.

Anyway, in the eyes of the Jurchen high-level leaders of Daishan, the Han people are as easy to raise as livestock in the grassland, or it won't be long before they can give birth to more children.

Since the death of Huang Taiji, the new generation of nobles such as Dolgon has taken power, and the pro-Han policy formulated by Huang Taiji has been repeated. For example, Fan Wencheng, who was highly used by Huang Taiji at the beginning, has almost been insulted by the royal prince even his wife and relatives, not to mention other Hanchens with worse status and strength, and the status of the Han people began to decline again for a while.

In order to survive, the soldiers of the Han army trembled and charged towards the valley where the Hongtang soldiers were located, and the Hongtang Division, which had been prepared, used muskets unhurriedly to start blocking it, and before the two sides directly fought, the front row of the Han army's battle formation was destroyed in a burst of dense and rhythmic gunfire, and dead bodies were everywhere.

Fortunately, thanks to God's favor, although there were some gloomy clouds these days, it was fortunate that it did not rain when the war began, which made the most powerful firearms of the Hongtang soldiers able to exert their maximum power and not become decorations.

Several waves of Han army charges were defeated and retreated by Hongtang troops and other musketeers, and even several charges, the casualties brought by Hongtang's army were not as expected.

With the entry of the flintlock era into the flintlock pistol era, the shooting steps of firearms have been greatly simplified, and at the same time, the success rate of firing and the accuracy of firing have been greatly improved. Advanced shooting methods, such as three-stage shooting, make up for the loading time of about 20 seconds after shooting, so that the larger the musket team, the more powerful the musket can be demonstrated.

The advent of the new era is often trampled on the remnants of the backward mechanisms of the old era, and used as steps and nutrients to feed itself.

"Useless stuff!!"

He cut off the heads of several Han generals one after another and hung them on high flagpoles for display, which boosted the morale of the army and once again increased the number of Han troops attacking the front line to 30,000.

And the most powerful cavalry warriors of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were sent out by him at night to cruise on both sides of the Hongtang soldiers, bringing heavy pressure to them.

(End of chapter)