Li Chengdong stood in the middle of the array, looking coldly at the Qing cavalry behind the wall of fire.

Since yesterday evening, he and a battalion of men have been waiting in the reeds by the river for most of the day, for this moment.

After receiving a detailed report from the Enemy Intelligence Department buried in Liu Zhong's army, Chen Yue formulated such a plan. First, Yu Feng led the troops to attack the green battalion soldiers who were collecting grain and catching Ding, and then lured the Qing cavalry to such a specific place, where the two rivers were sandwiched by a narrow strip and there was only a wooden bridge in front of them that could be crossed.

If the wooden bridge is burned, the Qing cavalry will not be able to advance, blocking the back road, and the Qing cavalry will be trapped in this narrow area with no way to escape, and then there will be a river water army to attack with artillery rockets, leaving this cavalry without a problem.

And Li Chengdong's battalion is responsible for blocking the retreat of the Qing cavalry.

For this reason, his department had moved here by boat yesterday, and then dug a shallow ditch, and put a lot of dry wood and thatch near the ditch. And after getting the news that the Qing cavalry had indeed been lured over, Li Chengdong immediately sent someone to pour fire oil into the ditch, and then the whole army quietly leaned down in the reeds under the river embankment, waiting for the Qing cavalry to pass.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to see his own cavalry battalion coming quickly, followed by thousands of Qing cavalry not far behind.

After carefully waiting for the Qing cavalry to cross the shallow ditch, Li Chengdong immediately rushed out with his troops and ignited the fire oil in the ditch.

The soldiers of the Ming army carried out the horses hidden under the embankment, and some soldiers took out a large amount of dry firewood prepared in advance and threw it into the flames.

In an instant, flames rose and the horses were arrayed, forming an impenetrable defensive line.

Looking at the Qing cavalry retreating behind the flames, Li Chengdong quickly ordered a battalion of 3,000 soldiers to form a complete array, with two rows in front of them being shield bearers, and behind the shield hands were fire guns, with a total of three rows and one row of one hundred and fifty people. This is already all the musketeers in the battalion.

With Li Chengdong's order, three rows of firecrackers took turns to fire, and the rain of bullets was impenetrable and endless. Three-stage shooting, the method used by Mu Wangye when he was on an expedition to Yunnan, Chen Yue naturally would not forget it when he trained the firecrackers.

At first, the Mongolian cavalry was naturally unwilling to be trapped by this not too wide wall of flames, and the horses flew over the wall of flames, but they crashed heavily into the rejecting array. The war horse screamed and was pierced by the thick spear mounted on the rejection horse, and the Mongolian cavalry on the horse had just come off the horse when the Ming army behind the rejection array stabbed to death with a spear.

In a short time, dozens of cavalrymen crossed the wall of fire, but they were hit by the repulsion of the horses and broke the blood, turning into a ball of fire that burned in front of the formation.

There is a wall of flames in front, and behind the wall there is a horse rejection array and a Ming infantry array waiting for the battle, and it is more difficult to break through the siege than to wait for the sky.

The rain of bullets continued to shoot from the Ming army array behind the wall of flames, and from time to time cavalry or war horses were shot to the end, and the Mongolian cavalry was forced to retreat.

Without waiting for Nikan's order, the Mongolian cavalry spontaneously drew their bows and arrows, and shot a continuous rain of arrows into the Ming army formation on the opposite side, but they were blocked by the Ming army's shield, even if there were arrows over the shield and shot on the body of the Ming army, the Ming soldiers in the front rows of the battle were wearing armor, although most of them were only leather armor, there was no problem in resisting the shooting of the cavalry's soft bow, as long as they were not shot at the vital point, they could continue to fight.

In the canal, the Ming army on the boat was still firing artillery and rockets, and the Ming cavalry in the north was also attacking the Qing army with firearms.

Nikan was desperate to see that he had fallen into the siege of the Ming army on three sides, and from time to time there were cavalry around him who were shot and fell, and the array had thinned out.

At this time, the only way to escape from the siege is from the west canal. Nikan looked at the canal, it was more than three zhang wide, and if the war horse ran away at full speed, he might be able to cross it, but now there was no place to speed up the war horse, so he could only wade through the river to the other side.

I just don't know how deep the canal is? Will the soldier enter without a top. But at this time, Nikan didn't have time to take care of this, so he could only try.

The Mongolian cavalry pulled their horses and wanted to go to the canal, but the warhorses that were extremely docile in the past were extremely disobedient at this time, and their bodies kept retreating, as if there was an abyss in front of them.

The cavalry looked to the other side of the canal in shock, and saw countless Ming soldiers suddenly appearing on the other side of the canal, and the big word "Ming" on the flaming red banner held high was waving in the wind.

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The flames were still burning, but they were much weaker, and in some places the dry wood had burned out, leaving only faint traces of smoke.

Li Chengdong led his men across the flame ditch and came to the battlefield, tidying up the battlefield behind the station.

Tragic, the scene is extremely tragic. This narrow area between the two rivers was full of corpses of men and horses, swords, guns, weapons, arrows, and fallen flags everywhere.

However, unlike the previous battles between the two sides, the corpses belonged to both sides, but all the dead in this area were Qing soldiers.

Trapped in this narrow area, the Mongol cavalry had no way forward, and the only ditch that could be crossed was also blocked by the Ming army, and a large number of cavalry were shot under the heavy fire of the ship's rocket artillery. The last of them cried and pulled their horses to cross the canal and escape the siege, but they were easily killed by the Ming infantry on the other side.

Losing the advantage of war horses, the combat power of the Mongolian cavalry was reduced by more than half, and even the usual combat power could not be exerted. The scimitar has no advantage over the spear, and the proud cavalry is no match for a large number of firearms. What's more, the Ming army that surrounded them was several times larger than theirs.

In order to encircle and annihilate this Qing cavalry, Chen Yue sent an army of 15,000.

None of the 3,000 Mongol cavalry escaped the net, and even Belenica, who led the army, was shot by firearms. And the Ming army paid nothing more than dozens of casualties, all of which died under the arrows of the Mongol cavalry. It's a big win.

The battlefield was quickly cleared, and the projectiles of swords, guns, bows, arrows, and even fallen artillery on the ground were all picked up and taken away.

This time, more than 500 war horses were also captured, and the number of cavalry of the Pingnan Army could be increased a lot. What made Yu Feng, the chief soldier of the cavalry battalion, mad was that most of the war horses were killed by artillery guns and rockets, and there were only so many that could be used without injury.

Originally, the Mongol cavalry was one man, two horses and three horses, but this time it was not a long-distance expedition, so they did not bring so many horses with them, but even then the number of war horses reached 4,000. It's a pity that most of them died under the curtain of bullets and arrows.

This made Yu Feng extremely distressed, if he could capture them all, he could greatly expand the cavalry under him.

After clearing the battlefield, the soldiers of the Pingnan Army quickly crossed the canal and retreated to the east bank under the guidance of the canal boats. The battlefield here is less than thirty miles away from Yangzhou, and perhaps the main force of the Manchu Tartars has received news and is sending a large number of troops south.