Lu Xiangsheng sent several teams of envoys in a row to urge the troops of Gao Qiqian to move closer to him, however, the news brought back by these envoys was almost all this:

"Gao Gonggong and the other generals are still studying the route of the march. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Grandpa Gao, they are still preparing for breakfast, and they will set off after eating."

"Grandpa Gao, they are still having breakfast, they said......"

"Grandpa Gao, they're still packing things, they say......"

"Father-in-law Gao, they are preparing to eat lunch......"

In addition to this bad news, there is even more bad news, and that is that fewer and fewer Scouts are sent back in return. This situation only shows one thing, and that is that these scouts encountered the Manchu scouts and were eliminated by them.

"Governor Lu, we are now hanging here alone, and it is very dangerous. Now the Jianxuan army is coming, but the high eunuch and those Guan Ning troops are reluctant to come. Now, even if they pull out the camp, I'm afraid it's too late. Without them at odds with us, Jarjan would not be a good place to defend. Your Excellency the Governor must make up your mind quickly! Chief soldier Yang Guozhu half-knelt down and said to Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng also knew that the position of Jiazhuang actually had a big flaw, that is, if the army on the flank was not taken care of, it would be easy to be cut off from the back route, and then only need to cut off supplies, and it would not be long before the army would collapse without a fight.

"Exactly, Lord Governor, Jia Zhuang can't stay here, now this is a dead land!" The commander-in-chief, Hu Dawei, also pointed to the map and added, "We immediately pull out the camp, whether it is forward or backward, such as here, and here there are better places." ”

What the two chief soldiers said, Lu Xiangsheng also understood very well. He also knew that Gao Qiqian might not move. So now he had to make a decision about whether to move forward or backward.

Advancing forward, of course, it is easier to run headlong into the Qing army, and if the position is not right, if the army reacts too slowly, it is entirely possible that it will be defeated by the Manchus in one fell swoop during the march. And what about retreating? The possibility of retreating to a suitable position seems to be greater. But is that really the case? Although Lu Xiangsheng is a civilian official, he has fought many battles and is very familiar with military affairs, and he knows that this kind of enemy retreat is really the most dangerous thing. Even now, retreating in front of the enemy is an extremely difficult tactical action, and if it is not done well, it will be over. If they were caught up by the enemy on the way to retreat, with the organizational ability of the army at that time, it would almost certainly be crushed.

So after thinking about it for a short time, (in fact, there was no time for Lu Xiangsheng to think about it in the long run) Lu Xiangsheng ordered the whole army to move forward.

……

Lakshin jumped off his horse, drew the knife at his waist, and walked towards the Ming scout who had fallen to the ground. In the chase just now, Lakshen and the others have already killed several Ming Dynasty scouts. The skills of the Ming cavalry were average, the horses were also poor, and the weapons used were not good enough, so in the battle with them, Lakshen and them easily gained the upper hand and cut down the scouts of the Ming army one by one. The one who has run the farthest is now.

Lakshin walked over, the Ming soldier lay on the ground and did not move, there was an arrow stuck in his back, it was simply an arrow, it may not be fatal, but it is not necessary to run so far with the arrow.

Lakshin approached very carefully, he first stepped on the right hand of the Ming soldier with his foot, and then with a wave of his right hand, he plunged the long knife in his hand into the back of the Ming army's vest, and stirred it vigorously. The Ming soldier twitched, and then stopped moving.

Lakshin grabbed the Ming soldier by the hair, lifted his head up, and then waved the knife in his hand, and with just one slash, cut off the head. Then he looked at the Ming soldier's wide-eyed men with satisfaction, and the other Manchu scouts behind him also let out a burst of applause at him. With a triumphant wave of his hand, Rakshin turned and walked over to his warhorse, where another human head hung from the neck.

At this time, there was a noise from a distance, and Lakshen, who was an old scout, immediately heard it, it was the sound of the march of the army. He tied his head with his hand, then jumped into the saddle, and looked from afar, and saw a large area of the Ming army advancing in this direction.

……

"Governor Lu, there is Artemisia Bridge in front of you." An officer pointed ahead and said to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Very good, tell everyone to work harder, walk another five miles, and then stop and camp." Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said to the officer.

At this moment, the sound of a bull's horn suddenly sounded in front, followed by another, and then more and more horns sounded, and gradually joined together. At the same time, more and more Manchu troops appeared around them, and one after another the Niulu flags waved against the cold wind.

The front army of the Ming army stood still at once, and all kinds of panicked exclamations also came out in the military array.

"Prepare for war! The chariot formation was outward, and the soldiers were dressed in armor, ready to meet Jian Yan. There is panic and confusion, and the military heart is slashed! Let Hu Dawei guard the left wing, and Yang Guozhu guard the right wing! Lu Xiangsheng immediately gave an order.

After a brief period of panic, the Ming army quickly unfolded its formation.

……

"It looks like this group of Ziming troops is still a little capable of fighting." Standing on a small hill, Dolgon pointed to the Ming army formation in front of him with his horsewhip and said to Hauge, who was standing aside.

"The Ming army estimates that there is only so much left to fight. Today, it was swept away by our army in one fell swoop, and there is no longer anything to compete with our army. Hauge replied as well.

"This is the only one that can fight?" Dolgon sneered, "Can't the Jinghai team fight?" ”

"That's the Dutch, not the Ming army." Hauge said, "If you are not convinced, when you go back, you will take your people to try?" ”

Dolgon listened, but did not answer, but snorted through his nose, and then said, "Hauge, you take your men, go over from the left flank, and open their carts." Morrigan, you take your men and cut off his back path. Erjin, you go and prepare the shield car......"

Orders emanated from Dolgon's mouth. The Qing army, numbering tens of thousands, moved rapidly.

……

"Governor Lu, you see, that's Jian's shield car." A general pointed to the approaching Jianxuan in front of him.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "Help me put on my armor." ”

Although Lu Xiangsheng is a civil official, he has learned martial arts since he was a child, but he can also go into battle to kill the enemy. A few personal soldiers came over to help Lu Xiangsheng put on two layers of armor and brought his big knife.

The formation of the Ming army was a typical defensive formation, with convoys carrying baggage surrounding the outside, like a city wall, soldiers in charge of hand-to-hand combat holding spears and swords behind the chariot formation, and some light tiger squat cannons were also placed in the gaps of the vehicles. Further behind are the archers who provide projectile fire.

"Fifty paces for the enemy!" The officer in charge of the observation reported the distance, and the archers of the Ming army began to shoot at the Qing army.

The Ming army used a large number of light arrows, which could reach far, and if there was a tailwind, it was not uncommon for them to shoot a hundred steps away when thrown. This is the lack of lethality of this kind of arrow, usually, most of the Ming army will be thrown at a distance of about 70 paces, at such a distance, light arrows can already cause considerable damage to unarmored targets. Of course, this kind of damage is actually very limited, and it is difficult to directly kill or make the enemy incapacitated. However, there is a considerable risk of causing confusion among the enemy forces. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, especially after Yongle, the main combat objects of the Ming Dynasty army became the domestic rebel army and Mongolian herdsmen. These guys generally lack armor and are generally very organized. Therefore, light arrows that can kill and injure unarmored targets at a long distance and cause chaos among the enemy are more and more popular with the Ming army and have become the mainstream of the Ming army's bow and arrow equipment.

But this kind of thing is really good to use against the rogue, but it is very problematic to use it against the Jianxin. Because today's Manchu Qing Dynasty is not lacking in armor compared to the Ming Dynasty, through trade with the Shanxi Eight Families, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has obtained a lot of iron, plus the current Manchu Qing Dynasty is far more than the Ming Dynasty in terms of government organization, although today's Manchu Qing Dynasty can not be said to be free of corruption, but the degree of corruption is far from reaching the point of the Ming Dynasty, so these iron can be really turned into armor and steel knives on the soldiers. Therefore, the proportion of armor of the Manchu army, as well as the state of armor, were also better than those of the Ming army. So Lu Xiangsheng asked people to reduce the distance from the start of the projectile to fifty paces. At such a distance, if you are lucky, you may still be able to hurt some Manchu troops.

However, the fact is that the Ming army carried out several rounds of shooting in a row, but the Qing army's military formation was unmoved, and they still relied on the shield cart and slowly approached in a good time. Seeing that the long-range attack was not effective, Lu Xiangsheng asked the archers to stop throwing and prepare for close-range shooting.

The Manchu shield carts continued to close, and the Ming muskets fired the first round at a distance of forty paces, while the tiger cannons began to fire. A burst of cyan gunpowder smoke suddenly enveloped the large array of the Ming army.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the soldiers of the Ming army could not see the results of their shooting clearly, and the fear of the enemy's approach and the inability to see anything clearly gave the soldiers great psychological pressure. In many cases, the Manchu army only needed to advance the shield cart to a certain distance, and the soldiers of the Ming army could fire frantically in a panic, and all the barrels and barrels of the firearms in their hands were red in one go. Thus losing the ability to shoot while the Manchus continued to approach.

However, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army is also a rare army capable of fighting in the late Ming Dynasty, so this problem did not appear in them. However, the problem of insufficient lethality and penetration of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was not something they could solve.

The salvo at a distance of forty paces did not stop the Manchu shield carts, and even the Tiger Squat Cannon was unlikely to penetrate the shield carts at such a distance with a shotgun, and such a shot was basically just a sound.

At a distance of thirty paces, the Tianxiong Army fired another volley, but it still did not receive too good results. The Manchu shield chariots continued to approach until they were about twenty paces away from the chariot formation, at which point the Manchu heavy arrows were able to fire effectively.