Xiao Xuan didn't plan to take the risk in the end, when the army approached outside the city of Baoding Mansion, if the main force of Jianzhou had not yet been assembled, he would not only have to carry out a decent supply, but also avoid the battle as much as possible. Judging by the confrontation with the opponent in many previous encounters. Although it is not difficult to deal with the main force of Jianzhou with only the horse team, it will be a great test for the army if it faces the opponent's composite troops, including car shields and artillery. Xiao Xuan conducted a simple deduction and estimation with several young recruits in the camp tent, showing that if the main force of the Jianzhou army concentrated more than 10,000 armored soldiers and more than 20,000 main forces, then the entire guard battalion and the Yongwei battalion would face a great test. Especially in the case of such a marching field, and not defending in a place where you have long prepared.

It's just that just as Xiao Xuan crossed the Daimyo's Mansion and walked forward for only about two days, he suddenly found that in the early winter on the barren field, there were only four or five hundred Jianzhou horse teams scattered and wandering a few miles away, and the other huge enemy troops did not know where they went. A little girl of four or five years old in the camp, who was in charge of observing the lookout, waited on a bamboo pole about 100 feet high with the help of a kite string, and observed the enemy situation with a telescope rarely seen in the East at this time, and did not report the existence within the estimated range of about twenty or thirty miles. The size of the four or five hundred horses also seems to be ingenious, which is almost a bottom line capable of suppressing the cavalry strength of the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion. If according to common sense, the two battalions made up a horse team of about 2,000, and it is very likely that they will suppress each other according to the standards of the elite of the Ming army. However, Xiao Xuan also knows where his team's shortcomings are. Compared with cavalry and cavalry shooting, this is probably a shortcoming of the team he is leading now. After all, after a year of rigorous training, the infantry archers could not meet the ideal standard, let alone the mounted archers, so the horse team did not allow the horse team to maintain a reconnaissance cavalry confrontation with the opponent at a longer distance.

"Why are there so many enemies all of a sudden? With only a few hundred troops left, it is impossible to contain the march of our army... Many officers of the guards battalion around Xiao Xuan also said with some doubts.

Xiao Xuan didn't make a conclusion, so as not to affect his prestige by saying the wrong thing, he just ordered the team to take the opportunity to launch a forced march and march north as quickly as possible. According to Xiao Xuan's estimation in his heart, the biggest possibility is, of course, that some other Qin King's army rushed to reinforce him. But what kind of people can make the main force of Jianzhou who entered the customs feel so much pressure? Leaving only a few hundred centaurs in the direction of their own team?

Just when the more than 10,000 people led by Xiao Xuan slightly stretched the team and started a forced march without rest, on the field not too far from Qingyuan County, the main force of about 23,000 Manchu troops, including about 12,000 armor, gathered together, and set up a strict formation as if preparing for a decisive battle.

What Hun Tai Jihei didn't expect was that in addition to the more than 10,000 elites led by the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty, a Ming army estimated at about 5,000 men and horses came out of nowhere. Moreover, the armor style of these Ming troops is like the legendary Western army, so that Hei Huan Bolie, who learned about this, did not dare to despise it at all, and prepared to gather the heavy troops near Qingyuan County and the main force gathered to gather and annihilate this 5,000-strong army that does not seem to be a mediocre hand.

"Judging from the previous skirmishes, the opponent's musket is very sharp, much stronger than the Western guns I have seen. Even two layers of armor of our army could not stop the large muskets that fired one or two bullets. What's even more terrifying: the opponent's smooth armor that shines with stainless steel. The projectile of a soldier's ten-force bow from a distance has little effect. The other party is also equipped with a lot of large and small artillery, and the archery skills seem to be no worse than those elites around the new emperor of the Ming court... ”

"Gather the elite of the Guardian Cavalry Archers who are ready! The shield chariots advanced in a single way, covering our elite cavalry archers and firearmsmen, and the infantry and horsemen spread out as much as possible... Black also commanded.

Since the lessons of the Battle of the Hunhe River that year, the main force of the Eight Banners has made great efforts in how to deal with the Ming army with strong firepower and projection troops.

At this time, Huang Dou, who had taken advantage of many previous skirmishes and knocked hundreds of Eight Banner Horse Teams to the ground with very slight casualties, still recovered from the panic of the first misguided world in the late Ming Dynasty. Seeing that the Tartar on this plane didn't seem to be much stronger than his own plane, and the strength seemed to be far less than that on his own plane, his ambition couldn't help but rise again: "It seems that the great god of crossing in the underworld still takes good care of us, hehe." If that's the case, even if only a few thousand people from the Guards Brigade cross over, it's enough... ”

A personal soldier next to him seemed to hear the coach's whisper: "Huang Shuai, you say it again... ”

"Oh! I'm talking about hurry up and get ready for battle! Although I don't know for what reason, our army suddenly crossed from the city of Fuzhou in Liaodong to the Gyeonggi area of the Central Plains many years ago, but I think that with the combat effectiveness of our army, we can completely repel this only 20,000 Jiannu... ”

Although the entire pro-guard brigade in the plane where Huang Dou is located has not yet been upgraded to the level of the war era or even more advanced, it is also much better than the conditions of Huang Shi in the other "Stealing Ming" at the beginning. The 3,000-odd soldiers had already popularized large-caliber flint guns without bayonets, and the auxiliaries were also armed with a large number of carbines. Almost all the soldiers can popularize the full-body armor with perfect protection, and at least about a thousand spearmen have also been trained in many bloody battles in Liaodong. The cooperation of "stabbing to the right" between each other is already very skillful.

"Let's shoot!" At this time, Huang Dou quickly ordered. The entire Huang Dou's personal guard brigade was equipped with eight nine-pound artillery pieces and twenty-four four-pounder light guns, far exceeding the ratio of about three guns per 1,000 people during the war. In addition, there are quite a few trump cards: the multi-pack rocket that simulates Congreve. It gave Huang Dou complete confidence that he would rely on artillery fire to severely damage the opponent's car shield at a distance of about a mile. After all, in his own plane, there are still many late Ming Dynasty that he has seen. Jiannu's car shield is sometimes impossible to resist even ordinary Furlong cannons.

In the rumbling sound of artillery, the nine-pound heavy artillery directly under it was the first to test-fire and speak. It was also at this time that Huang Dou felt a faint unease. The firing distance of about one mile is bound to hit in your own plane, but it took three test firings in this plane before a heavy artillery shell hit the opponent's car shield and completely pierced the opponent's shield, and there was not much blood in the telescope, all of which seemed to be very different from the situation when I fought with Jiannu in another plane?

(End of chapter)