Wang Deren left Ganzhou with 30,000 horses and hurried to Nan'an Mansion, a hundred miles away.

Wang Deren, a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi. He once followed the uprising at the beginning of Li Zicheng's uprising, because he was "born with two hairs", and was also called "Wang Zamao" in the army, and was "a general who broke into the army, and was brave and good at fighting". Later, he joined the Wangtizhong Battalion and served as the flag of the Wangtizhong Army. After Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Wang Deren followed Liu Zongmin into Beijing and participated in the recovery of stolen goods. In March of the first year of Hongguang, Li Zicheng retreated into Huguang and mobilized 70,000 soldiers and horses from Xiangyang, Chengtian, Anlu, and Jingzhou to go south. In May, Li Zicheng was defeated and died, and Wang Tizhong and Wang Deren entered Jiangxi with Bai Wangbu. On the way, Wang Tizhong took advantage of Bai Wang's unpreparedness and secretly attacked and assassinated Bai Wang to seize military power. Then he took his people hostage and surrendered to the Qing army, and Wang Deren also followed Wang Tizhong to capture Jiangxi and enter Nanchang at this time.

The 30,000 people brought out by Wang Deren this time were basically his former subordinates, and Wang Deren felt that this time he went to Nan'an Mansion, and he was holding a snail with ten fingers, holding a handle. So bring all your descendants and go to get rich together.

Although Wang Deren's troops were all rogue of the year, there were not many cavalry. Jiangxi is located in the south, the cavalry is really not suitable for fighting in places with dense water networks, and now a war horse is really expensive, so there are only 3,000 horses left in Wang Deren's army, these are Wang Deren's personal soldiers, the absolute main force.

At this time, Zhang Jiayu had already led the Guangdong New Army to Nankang. Nankang County is under the jurisdiction of Nan'an Prefecture, and after Nankang County, it enters the boundary of Ganzhou, which is only less than 30 miles away from Ganzhou.

In Nankang County, Zhang Jiayu had already received the news of the loss of Ganzhou City, and the result of the discussion with Erma was to rush to Ganzhou immediately, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Qing army to take Ganzhou in one fell swoop. Zhang Jiayu saw that Ma Liang was confident that he could take Ganzhou, and he couldn't say anything, so he agreed to rush to Ganzhou tomorrow.

Neither the Ming army nor the Qing army knew each other's actions, but Wang Deren had been a rogue and was chased and beaten by the Ming army in the Central Plains, so he developed a habit, that is, the Guangpai scouts.

Wang Deren's scouts were all the elite Ming troops of the Nine Sides back then, and a team of ten people per ten people reconnoitred the enemy situation ten miles away from the brigade.

Zhang Jiayu's new army marched on the road in a big way, coupled with bright clothes, it was discovered by the Qing army at night far away, and the news soon spread to Wang Deren.

"My lord, there is a large army rushing towards us twelve miles ahead!"

There is an enemy, is it the Ming army in Nan'an Province?

Wang Deren asked, "How many?" Is it the Ming Army? ”

"The number of people is about 10,000, they are wearing strange clothes, red on the top and blue on the bottom, they are very conspicuous, and the banner is the flag of the Ming army! But they were all armed with muskets, and very few were armed with knives and guns! ”

Are they all firearms? This is the Ming army there, so rich! Wang Deren fought with the Ming army all his life, and knew that the firearms of the Ming army were very powerful, but they were expensive, and only thirty percent of the most elite Ming army could be equipped with weapons such as firearms.

Wang Deren groaned, it is not easy to deal with firearms, plus this place is full of mountains and forests, his cavalry is not easy to charge, and the loss of charging with infantry is too great.

At this time, the adjutant general on the side said: "My lord, this place is all woods, there are many places with high mountains and dense forests, let's pick a place to ambush in the woods, and wait until the Ming army passes by and kills him condescendingly, and he is caught off guard!" ”

Wang Deren nodded and said, "It's a good idea, we passed through a valley when we first came, and that place is suitable for setting up an ambush!" Give the order to go down, and the whole army will turn around and return to that valley to set up an ambush! ”

Here, Wang Deren was preparing to surprise Zhang Jiayu in front, but Zhang Jiayu had not yet discovered that the whole army was marching on the road in four columns.

The Ming army was in a standard marching formation, with a regiment of Ma Liang in front, Zhang Jiayu's Chinese army in the middle, a baggage, artillery company, and a cold weapon team of 3,000 people in the middle, and Ma Rufeng's regiment behind the palace. Because they were all infantry, the Ming army marched very slowly, and it was not until noon that they reached the valley where Wang Deren had set up an ambush.

Zhang Jiayu looked at the valley in the distance in the middle, it was really a precipitous place. Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province is originally a mountainous place, the high mountains on both sides of the valley in front of it are hundreds of meters, the road passes through the middle of the valley, and the road side is the primitive deep forest. It's noon, but the visibility in the forest is less than 100 meters, so it's very quiet.

Ma Liang in front saw that there was a valley in front of him, and he was also afraid of an ambush inside, after all, it was only less than thirty miles away from Ganzhou, and it was easy to meet the Qing army.

Ma Liang said to the herald: "The order goes down, change it into a defensive formation, and send a message to Master Zhang of the Chinese army, ask him to wait outside the valley, and let the rear team enter when we walk through the valley!" "The herald was ordered to go down and inform.

The defensive formation is that the musketeers are on the sides and the artillery is in the middle, and this formation can easily change into a square defensive formation after an attack. The soldiers received an order to turn four into two, and the rear team of gun trucks came to the middle.

Wang Deren in the forest saw the Ming army change formation, and the artillery carriage followed. The adjutant general on the side whispered: "My lord, I didn't expect this Ming army to be so careful, and there are a lot of their cannons, there are eighty or ninety of them!" ”

"Hmmm! It seems that it should be a Franc machine gun, with a range of only 200 steps, and after a while, he ordered the subordinates to rush in and grab the cannon first, this thing is a good thing! ”

When Wang Deren was speaking, the Ming army below had already completed the whole team and began to enter the valley.

When most of the Ming army entered the valley, Wang Deren shouted: "Begin! Brothers, do it! ”

With Wang Deren's order, the forest immediately let out a howl, and a large number of Qing troops rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the Ming army in the middle of the road.

Although Ma Liangbu has been trained for a long time, after all, he has not yet been tested in large-scale battles, and as soon as an emergency occurs, ordinary soldiers immediately fall into chaos. Fortunately, Zhu Hongsan promoted a large number of experienced soldiers to grass-roots officers after the end of the Nanzhili War, and enriched them into various units.

Due to the narrow roads in the valley, it was not suitable to set up a large phalanx at the regimental level, so Ma Liang ordered the formation of a phalanx at the battalion level immediately. The 3,500 men immediately turned into seven or eight small phalanxes, with musketeers on the outer three floors and an unequal number of artillery pieces in the middle, and began to shoot at the Qing troops who rushed out of the woods.

Since this place is a valley, there are forests less than ten meters on both sides of the road, and dense trees block the fire of the musketeers, and most of the first shots are blocked by trees, and less than a hundred Qing troops are defeated. The artillery was similar, the commander was inexperienced, and when he saw that the Qing army was close, he ordered to load the shotgun, but he didn't expect that after the shotgun was fired, because the distance was too close, it hit the tree before it exploded, and it didn't hit a few people.

Seeing that the power of the artillery was blocked, Ma Liang immediately ordered all the artillery to be replaced with solid shells. But after such a delay, the Qing army rushed into the phalanx in several places, and hand-to-hand combat began.

Originally, Wang Deren's calculation was to rush into the enemy formation with the power of firearms, and in his experience, as long as he was in close contact with the Ming army, most of the Ming army would collapse immediately. Now when I see my men rushing in, I can't help but applaud, it seems that I have won this time.

Unexpectedly, the development of things was beyond Wang Deren's expectations, and the Ming army formation below was rushed away and did not panic, but under the leadership of several officers, a part of the people were divided to load the muskets with a strange long sword, forming a spear, and the Qing troops who rushed into the enemy formation were assassinated in the enemy formation.

What Wang Deren didn't know was that the most important training for Zhu Hongsan's new army was what to do in the face of the formation being disrupted, and each battalion had a company dedicated to dealing with this kind of hand-to-hand combat soldiers who rushed in. In addition, Zhu Hongsan's new army food is too good, although the soldiers are about the same size, but their physical strength is definitely much stronger than the Qing army, as well as Zhu Hongsan's strict military discipline, a large number of well-trained grassroots officers, even if they put on cold weapons, they also beat the Qing army.

At this time, the artillery had been replaced with solid bullets, because the terrain of the valley was narrow, and a large number of Qing troops who had just rushed out of the woods gathered on both sides of the middle road, and they immediately became the targets of solid bullets, and a large number of soldiers were reduced to body parts by solid bullets.

Wang Deren, who was watching the battle from behind, looked stupid, where had he seen the tragedy of this kind of hot* weapon war. The fiercest battle I've ever seen before was the death of people everywhere, but now there are dead people everywhere, red, white, and green, red is blood, white is brains, green is the internal organs, and green is the contents of the internal organs.

Wang Deren saw with his own eyes that a cannon shell of the Ming army flew half of the brains of a Qing army, and then the potential energy was undiminished, breaking the hands and feet of several soldiers, and it was deeply embedded in a big tree next to the road.

Now, less than ten minutes before Wang Deren ordered the attack, the trenches on both sides of the road were filled with the corpses of the Qing army, and the losses were estimated to be in the thousands.

Now the new army has adapted from the panic of the beginning, and the commander of the artillery company set up a typewriter and began to shoot with this primitive automatic weapon. This guy is definitely a natural enemy in a dense formation, and as soon as the typewriter was put into use, the Qing army finally couldn't resist and began to retreat.

Wang Deren's subordinates are not Manchurian Eight Banners, they are okay to fight a good battle, and the Ming army that bullied and bullied Nanming is an expert, and this time they will not be able to bear it if they meet in front of the new army. At first, one or two secretly ran away, and then a large number of Qing troops began to retreat and ran into the woods.

As soon as Ma Liang saw that these guys were about to run, he immediately ordered the pursuit to begin. The new army began to rush into the woods in a company unit to pursue the fleeing Qing army.

Wang Deren was also carried away by his own soldiers at this time, and when he turned around and saw this group of murderous demon kings following, he was so frightened that he really hated his parents for having two legs, and no matter what formation it was, the 30,000 Qing troops scattered and fled like ducks.

Ma Rufeng of the rear team also received the news, and hurriedly led people to the front and joined the pursuit team. But their two regiments only had 7,000 people, and 1,000 were artillerymen, and 6,000 people could kill 30,000 people.