Chapter 207: Sentinel Engagement

Let's say that Geng Zhongming got the order of Luck Dehun and led 30,000 horses and infantry troops to attack Yuezhou, so as to cut off Wang Yan's way back, but he didn't want Wang Yan not to take Wuchang, but to attack Jingzhou.

The Qing army wanted to behead Wang Yan under the city of Wuchang, but the Ming army wanted to go down to Jingzhou and regain the initiative on the battlefield.

After withdrawing the army from Yongding, Geng Zhongming still asked Shen Zhixiang, the Duke of Xushun, to lead the Han army to garrison Changde with a white flag, so that the Qing army could move south again after destroying Wang Yan.

At that time, he and Luck Dehun were separated in Jingzhou, Le Ke Dehun led more than 40,000 elite people in Manmeng, and rescued Wuchang along the Han River through Qianjiang and Xiantao, while he marched along the Yangtze River and rushed to Yuezhou, as for Jingzhou City, it was still defended by Zheng Siwei with 10,000 soldiers.

At this time, Wang Yan went to the west and Geng Zhongming went to the east, and both armies wanted to sneak attack each other, but they met unexpectedly at the border of Jiangling, and an encounter occurred in which neither side had made much preparation.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was only ten miles, and the cavalry could be killed in half an hour, so even if Wang Yan learned of Geng Zhongming's traces first, he didn't have much time to prepare.

At this time, in the dense forest, Wang Yan and the generals sat on the ground, forming a circle, and among them, there was a topographic map of Jingchu.

Wang Yan asked the generals, and Wang Shixiu said: "You can ambush the soldiers in the dense forest, and when the Qing army passes by, you can suddenly kill it, and you can defeat its army." ”

General Dai Zhifan said: "No, our army is mostly a car battalion, good at fighting in formation, if you suddenly attack, this is a short attack and a long one." In addition, the Qing army rode a lot, and once it reacted, he would take advantage of the cavalry and rush at my scattered soldiers, and our army would be defeated. ”

Wang Yan listened to the words of the generals, and said: "That being the case, Dai Zhifan and the Governor led the chariot battalion to meet the enemy head-on, Wang Shixiu led 2,000 cavalry, Zhang Youde led 2,000 infantry troops, and waited for the army to engage Geng Zhongming. ”

"Nuo~" The generals immediately got up, and Qiqi responded with a fist.

The distance between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties was too close, and soon the Qing army also discovered the sentinels of the Ming army.

At this time, Geng Zhongming, who was aware of the movement of the Ming army, couldn't help but be shocked, just like Wang Yan was shocked to meet him suddenly, Geng Zhongming was surprised in his heart, "Isn't Wang Yan attacking Wuchang?" How did it end up here? ”

When the two armies encountered, all kinds of intelligence were very expensive, and Geng Zhongming soon knew that Wang Yan had taken the lead.

At this time, if he wanted to redeem the disadvantage discovered by Wang Yan first, he had no choice but to send a sentry cavalry to sweep a radius of ten miles, so as to find out the layout of the Qingming army and whether there would be ambushes.

At this time, the sentinels on both sides began to engage first, Geng Zhongming was anxious to find out the situation of the Ming army, and the Ming sentry cavalry interfered with the Qing army's field of vision with strength, preventing the sentinels from approaching the place where the Ming army's ambush was.

In the field, the sentry cavalry of the two armies fought in all directions, and from time to time a knight fell off his horse, and the battle was extremely fierce, and both sides were trying to compress each other's activity space.

The cavalry of the Qing army is powerful, and the sentry cavalry is naturally very elite, and because of this, Geng Zhongming was overconfident in his heart, and did not use the superior force to sweep away the Ming army's sentry cavalry, but only sent more than 100 horsemen.

In his opinion, the Eight Banners are in the world, and this hundred cavalry is enough to defeat a thousand Ming troops, but the result is that the Ming army sentry cavalry drove the Qing army sentry back to the brigade with the number of people.

One of them, the general flag of the Ming army with a small flag on his back, led nine cavalrymen to chase and kill the Qing soldiers' sentry cavalry, and reached the Qing army's field of vision.

Geng Zhongming rode on a war horse, looking at a Qing army sentry horseman, who was cut down under the pursuit of this Ming army cavalry, leaving only an ownerless war horse, running back into the battle in terror, and couldn't help but be slightly angry in his heart.

At this time, he frowned, and with a wave of his arm, a group of yellow-armored cavalry behind him met him.

The name of the general banner of the Ming army is Zhou Zebin, the word is frugal, he is the son of Zhou Zhiwei, who is eighteen years old, likes war strategies, good swords and guns, and was transferred by Wang Yan to the pro-army of the superintendent and stayed by his side to cultivate.

At this time, looking at the rolling Eight Banners elite soldiers, Zhou Zebin's face showed a hint of hope for battle, and the Ming army on the side just wanted to remind him to evacuate, but he grabbed the horse's belly and greeted the Qing soldiers.

Geng Zhongming saw this, but couldn't help but be interested, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Ming army fled in despair, and he himself did not lose, he was invincible as he pointed out, almost no Ming army dared to fight with him.

At this time, before his 30,000 army, the Ming army sentry rode no more than ten horses, and they were not afraid to chase after him, even the Guanning Iron Cavalry back then did not have this courage, but in Geng Zhongming's eyes, in addition to a trace of surprise, it was more of a sneer at his ignorance.

Zhou Zebin guarded the city when he was in Yangzhou, but because of his young age and because of his father's relationship, he was not assigned to the most dangerous place, so he did not fight the Qing soldiers a few times.

In Yangzhou City, teenagers of the same age as him, such as the three Wang brothers, Wang Ji, Wang Xu, and Wang Shixiu, are not much older than him, but they have all become great talents under Wang Yan, which makes Zhou Zebin very envious, and always blames Zhou Zhiwei for this, he didn't let him rush to the front line at the beginning, otherwise he would have become a young general with a white horse and a silver spear by now.

It is this regret in his heart that makes Zhou Zebin work very hard, he studied under the general Wang Wei, good at using long knives, and because he has practiced a good equestrian skill on the thousands of miles south from Yangzhou, so when Wang Yan reorganized the army, he was selected as the general banner of the horse.

This time, fighting in Chu was Zhou Zebin's debut, so he was extremely excited, and it was his excitement that made him forget the words confessed by Ma Zhanji.

At that time, there were more than 20 Qing cavalry, twice as many as them, and they were all elites of the Han Eight Banners in armor.

"General Banner, you can't fight, retreat quickly~" A sentry caught up with Zhou Zebin and reminded him again and again. "Whoosh~" But before he could speak, he was shot by a feathered arrow and fell from his horse and died.

Seeing this, Zhou Zebin's mind was slightly sober, but the war horse was already close to the Qing soldiers, and he couldn't turn at all, he couldn't help but be anxious, and secretly regretted that he was too impulsive.

At this time, the Qing soldiers had already stretched their bows and arrows, and Zhou Zebin had to gallop with the knight behind him, while picking up the three-eyed system.

"Whoosh~whoosh~" Another wave of arrows came, and two more people from the Ming army were shot off their horses.

"Bang Bang ~ Bang ~ " In the middle of the Qing soldiers' arrows, the firearms of the Ming army finally erupted with a burst of anger, and they actually took away four Qing soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the two teams of cavalry had been staggered together, and after the Ming army finished unifying, they picked up the command pole and smashed the Qing army, and the Qing army cut the armor of the Ming army with a knife.

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