As soon as Li Zicheng crossed Yingshui, he received a message from the rangers: Li Ji's troops were south of Xuzhou, defeated Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue's troops, killed more than 10,000 enemies, captured 3,000, captured countless armor and weapons, and Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue fled back to Kaifeng!

This is the only good news Li Zicheng has received in recent days.

Li Jibu defeated the coalition forces of Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue, solved the worries of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and the Heavenly Mandate Army could face Zuo Liangyu with peace of mind.

40,000 against 40,000, two regiments of soldiers from the Song Ministry of Culture were armed with rifles and mountain artillery, and Li Jibu was able to rush to reinforcements later......

Li Zicheng promptly conveyed the news of Li Ji's great victory to the whole army, and the soldiers cheered, and the speed of the march increased sharply, and before the time came, the army rushed to Mapo Village, less than 20 miles away from Yuncheng.

The Mandate of Heaven set up a large camp at Mapo, and the firefighters cooked a sumptuous dinner, and the soldiers ate deliciously.

After dawn, Zuo Liangyu left 5,000 soldiers in Yuncheng to defend the city, and personally raised 35,000 soldiers, entered Mapo, and confronted the Mandate of Heaven.

The Heavenly Mandate Army had rested for a night, and the fatigue of the marching for days had been greatly relieved, and Li Zicheng personally led his troops out of the camp to meet the battle.

The two regiments of the Song Ministry of Culture were in the center, Li Xin's independent battalion was on the right, and the two regiments of the Chengtian battalion were on the left.

Li Zicheng was guarded by his own soldiers and stayed behind the Chinese army to supervise the battle.

In the face of the inhumane Zuo Liangyu Division, whether it was a general or a soldier, they all asked to fight, hoping that the headquarters would take the lead in making meritorious contributions.

Li Zicheng sat on a yellow-maned horse, scanning the entire battlefield with a telescope, and as far as his eyes could see, there were soldiers everywhere, and he couldn't see the edge at all.

This is a plain terrain, and you can't even find a small hillside, so it's really a battlefield for a duel between large armies.

Li Zicheng's heart was surging, the Mandate of Heaven Army participated in the seventy or eighty thousand battles, this is the first time, in the past under the Guguan City, although the tens of thousands of soldiers of Hong Chengchou have been annihilated in a row, but it is based on the city wall, itself is invincible, today's battle, but the first large-scale duel between the Mandate of Heaven Army and the Ming Army on the frontal battlefield.

There is no conspiracy, no trickery, the two sides are competing for strength.

No matter which side is defeated, it is a rout, and when the formation is scattered, the military order cannot be conveyed to the soldiers at all, and the soldiers can only be watched being surrounded and slaughtered.

Such a large-scale battle, the defeated side, will surely be a disaster!

Niu Jinxing also rode a war horse and scanned the battlefield opposite with a telescope, "Governor Dadu, the Ming army does not move at all, Zuo Liangyu's military discipline is not bad!" ”

"Military discipline?" Li Zicheng sneered: "An army that slaughters the people, will there still be military discipline?" ”

"The subordinates know their mistakes...... Niu Jinxing hurriedly got off the telescope and lowered his head to apologize.

"Actually, Mr. Niu is also right, from the perspective of the battlefield, the soldiers of Zuo Liangyu's department can still obey the order, not a plate of loose sand in Ding Qirui's department, we must not take it lightly," Li Zicheng said: "In this way, the matter of slaughtering the city in Linying should be a military order issued by Zuo Liangyu." ”

Niu Jinxing nodded and said, "Governor, what should we do now?" Want to be proactive? ”

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Mr. Niu is a military envoy, what do you think of Mr. Niu?" ”

Niu Jinxing hurriedly said: "If you want to give full play to the power of the rifle, you can only wait for the Ming army to attack, and now you can only be patient with the Ming army!" ”

Li Zicheng is also helpless, although the rifle has a long range, but it is troublesome to load, and he can't take the initiative to attack, so he can only passively wait for the opponent to attack, Zuo Liangyu is a treacherous person, I don't know if I can fool him, "Wait, it's okay, but we can also make some movements!" ”

"The Governor is ......"

"The left and right wings can make impatient moves, and even take the initiative to attack!"

"This ......" Niu Jinxing nodded violently, "Governor, my subordinates understand, with Zuo Liangyu's cunning, if there is a change in our wings, he will definitely attack from the middle......"

"Xiaomi, send people to the left and right wings to give orders, but the action is not easy to be too big," Li Zicheng said: "In case Zuo Liangyu is not fooled, we can also change the combat deployment at any time." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

The Chinese army of the Mandate of Heaven did not move at all, but the left and right wings were moving, and the soldiers were all pulling out their waist swords, ready to attack at any time, and the Ming army on the opposite side saw it and quickly reported the information to Zuo Liangyu.

Zuo Liangyu was really fooled, he ordered the generals on the left and right flanks to prepare for the battle, but it was the 20,000 soldiers in the middle who rushed forward with the whole army.

The Chinese armies on both sides were separated by less than three miles, just a blink of an eye.

Song Wen stared at the Ming army that was surging up like a tide, his eyes were gloomy and uncertain, his heart was full of anticipation and a little nervous, and he directly faced the 20,000 Ming army, which was the first time on the battlefield.

There is always a first time in everything, and the battle between the Heavenly Mandate Army and the Ming Army is getting bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more battles of tens of thousands of people.

The seventh battalion is the Chinese army, and it is an elite equipped with firearms, which will definitely be able to defeat the Ming army.

In his heart, he didn't think about defeat at all, it was nothing more than a question of how many enemies to destroy, and he was never timid in the face of the nomadic cavalry, and today he was just an infantry of the Ming army.

However, his hands were still a little trembling, the victory or defeat of the Chinese army will determine the direction of this battle, and the Governor of Dadu will hand over the victory or defeat of the decisive battle to himself, and he must not let the Governor down, otherwise, he must hand over the command of the seventh battalion......

"General, it's almost two thousand paces away!"

Song Wen looked at the opposite side, the speed of the Ming army's advance was very fast, and a sneer appeared on his face, Zuo Liangyu, you don't think the soldiers died fast enough!

At a distance of two thousand paces, Song Wen issued a military order: the Chinese army scattered to the left and right!

Behind the Chinese army, there are forty mountain cannons, each regiment is twenty, Song Wen used all the belongings, this is the most important decisive battle after the Mandate of Heaven Army came to Henan, there is no need to keep it at all.

The base and barrel of the mountain guns were small, completely hidden behind the soldiers, who had already finished debugging and were just waiting to be reloaded.

"Fire!"

The artillerymen methodically reloaded the flowering shells, and then lit the fuse!

Zuo Liangyu watched the battle in the Chinese army of the Ming army, and in order to control the overall situation, he asked the soldiers to set up a five-foot high platform, standing on the high platform, and the entire battlefield was unobstructed.

Seeing the mountain cannon exposed by the Heavenly Mandate Army, Zuo Liangyu was taken aback, what kind of firearm is this? Fortunately, this firearm is too small, and its power should not be as good as that of the Ming army's artillery, it should be a kind of earthen cannon, right?

I knew that the Heavenly Mandate Army was so numerous, and it was a real army, and it was not like Zhang Xianzhong and them, with many people, and they should have brought some artillery from Huguang at the beginning, but now, ......

I can only watch the Mandate of Heaven Army open fire, and I don't know how many soldiers will have to be sacrificed before the front army can enter the blind spot of artillery.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

Zuo Liangyu was still annoyed, the flowering bombs of the Heavenly Mandate Army had already struck the top of the Ming army's head, and colorful arcs were intertwined into a firepower network in the air.

The arc is beautiful, but it is the line of death!

From the moment the flower ejected the bore, Zuo Liangyu had a bad premonition, the sound of the cannonball was so loud, did it come out of that narrow barrel?

Hey? After landing, how can there be an explosion? Secondary explosions?

Zuo Liangyu was shocked, could this be the legendary flowering bomb? Why didn't anyone tell me that the Mandate of Heaven had flowering shells? It's all these scum of the imperial court......

Scolding and scolding, Zuo Liangyu still stared wide-eyed, looking at the attacking Ming army, and as expected, where the flower bombs landed, a disc-shaped hole was blown up, and near the landing point, the soldiers fell to the ground one after another!

The wind is gusting, the cold snap is pressing, the weird Destiny Army, and the unexpected flowering bomb!

Zuo Liangyu seemed to hear the screams of the soldiers, and he closed his eyes in pain, letting the sweat flow down his cheeks and into his neck.

What to do?

Under the visual inspection just now, the soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, do they want to withdraw their troops?

Or grit your teeth and stand tall?

Artillery has a fatal weakness, as long as the soldiers continue to attack, they will soon be able to enter the blind spot of the artillery, and the artillery will lose its effectiveness!

The battle has already begun, the officers and soldiers have not gained anything, if the troops are withdrawn now, the demoralization is still a trivial matter, and once the Mandate of Heaven army is then covered up, the Chinese army will surely collapse.

The Mandate of Heaven army on both flanks is already eyeing each other, and if they cover up again, it is likely that the whole army will be defeated.

This consequence is unacceptable in any way!

Just grit your teeth and hold on for a moment...... Yes, hold on for a moment, in the blink of an eye, the soldiers have advanced at least dozens of steps, right?

The high platform where Zuo Liangyu was located was at least three or four miles away from the battlefield, and he couldn't accurately judge the range of the Heavenly Mandate Army's artillery with the naked eye, if he knew that the range of the mountain artillery reached two miles, I don't know if he would change this decision?

When the third wave of mountain artillery was firing, Zuo Liangyu finally received a message from the herald in front: the artillery of the Heavenly Mandate Army had a range of two miles, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties......

Two miles? Zuo Liangyu gasped, this is simply the range of the Hongyi cannon, even if he brings the tiger squat cannon from Huguang, it will inevitably be slaughtered!

Why does the Manifest Destiny have such sharp artillery?

Zuo Liangyu's question will not have an answer for a while, the only thing that makes him happy is that the soldiers did not retreat, they threw away the unused suits and accelerated the speed of advance, during this time, they have advanced nearly a thousand steps!

With five hundred steps left, it's time to enter the blind spot of artillery, right?

Zuo Liangyu's upper and lower teeth clenched together, his hands were already clenched with blood, and he scanned the battlefield again with a cold gaze, yes, although the officers and soldiers continued to suffer casualties, but from a distance, they were almost connected with the Heavenly Mandate Army, as long as they held on for another moment......

Expectation, the expectation of turning the tide of the war is to enter a short-range battle, with the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers, the Mandate of Heaven Army will definitely not be able to harden it, Zhang Xianzhong will not be able to do it, Luo Rucai will not be able to, Li Zicheng will not be able to do the same, and the rogues are only worthy of drilling the ravine!

Zuo Liangyu is ready, and when the Heavenly Mandate Army is defeated, just like Linying County, all the prisoners of war will be killed, and no one will be left.

"General, the Mandate of Heaven has stopped shelling......"

Zuo Liangyu unconsciously let go of his hands, and looked into the distance, there was really no fiery arc in the sky, and he couldn't even hear the sound of cannons!

The soldiers have already entered the blind zone of artillery.

Zuo Liangyu soon felt that something was wrong, the front of the officers and soldiers entered the blind spot of the artillery, and the middle and rear parts were not still within the range of the artillery. The battle of 20,000 men......