The elusive war eagle appeared on the battlefield near Pingdingshan.

At this time, Gao Yigong carefully led more than 20,000 elite battalions of the Dashun army to advance, and the scout cavalry shuttled back and forth along the way, covering the distance of more than ten miles before and after, covering the troops to move forward, and when they arrived at the old city and countryside, the scouts ran back and reported the news that the enemy had rushed head-on.

Gao Yigong was uneasy, he actually had no confidence in fighting the Qing army, the psychological shadow of the Qing army has been there since the Chongzhen era, every time he competed with the Qing army, they attacked the Qing army, and the Qing army's strength was several times lower than them, and now the enemy's strength is equivalent to the strength he bringed, and I heard that the combat effectiveness of the new army of the Qing army is only slightly lower than that of the Huaxia army, which makes him even more uneasy, but with the military order in his body, he does not dare to go back if the battle is not big, so Li Guo will kill him immediately.

Li Guo has Li Zicheng's courage and ruthlessness, as well as Li Zicheng's coldness, the repeated character of six relatives who do not recognize, and Li Guo's prestige in this army is higher than him, he has no power to resist, he can only obey, maybe Li Guo will not blame him for a defeat, but once he orders the initiative to retreat, and does not even contact the enemy, then Li Guo will not miss the old relationship with him when he goes back, he will not care what he is, and kill him directly, no one will stop Li Guo's arbitrariness.

When the Qing army arrived, Gao Yigong chose an open area to line up, preparing to meet the Qing army.

The 20,000 firearms troops of the Loyal Battalion refer to the combat units of the infantry, archers, sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, and cavalry units of the cold weapons troops, which are similar to the field brigades of the early Huaxia Army.

The loyal battalion has 4,000 Jingai 1 arquebuses captured from the Huaxia Army, as well as 1,000 bird guns captured from the Qing army, hundreds of imitation Jingai 1 arquebuses from the Southern Ming Army, various inferior arquebuses of the Qing army, and various arquebuses, artillery, and lifting guns of the original Ming army in the Yongli Ming Dynasty.

The loyal battalion studied the field brigade of the Huaxia Army, and organized two field brigades, each field brigade has two arquebus battalions, their battalion is equivalent to a regiment, and the name is different from the Huaxia Army, the battalion of the new army of the Qing Army, the Huaxia Army used to be called a battalion, and later after the reform, a battalion is only 500 people, at most 600 people, and the strengthening of business is only about 800 people, which is customized, and the battalion of the loyal battalion battalion should actually be called a force, which can be large or small, can be called a battalion by two or three hundred people, or a battalion by five or six hundred people, It can also be called a battalion for two or three thousand people, and a battalion for tens of thousands of people, in fact, which commander leads the army will give the commander's troops a military name, called Mo Moumou's battalion.

Of course, after learning from the Huaxia Army, the first battalion of their field brigade is about 2,000 people, and the number of people is almost customized.

Two arquebus battalions of 2,000 troops each, these arquebusiers are trained, they are either deserters from the new army of the Southern Ming Kingdom, or musketeers from the Shenji battalion of the original Ming army, or battalions of the Qing army firearms battalion of Kong Youde, or the battalion soldiers of Hong Chengchou's new army, and later when he negotiated with Tong Dawei to buy weapons, Tong Dawei gave them a training course for a period of time, taught them how to use weapons, and left the action team members of the intelligence force to serve as instructors. Therefore, after Li Guoneng easily captured the muskets of the Huaxia Army, he calmly organized the firearm troops, and he looked like it.

The 1st Brigade of the Field Brigade of the Loyal Battalion had two arquebus battalions, and the 1st Battalion had 2,000 arquebusiers, divided into 4,000 presidency, each team had 400 arquebuses, 30 archers, 20 shieldmen, 50 pikemen, and 12 artillery men with three tiger squat guns, and 12 artillery men with three three-pounder guns. A total of five hundred and twenty-four men, plus thirty thousand cavalry, made a total of five hundred and fifty troops.

After the strength of these two battalions, there were 1,500 infantry, soldiers with various weapons, 800 men, 200 archers, 300 pikemen, 200 artillerymen, pushing more than 30 cannons of various colors captured from the Qing army and the Ming army, and three 18-pounder cannons, the best artillery of the Chinese army, which was an infantry battalion.

There was also a cavalry battalion of 800 cavalry, a battalion of 200 commanders, and a battalion of 500 people's baggage, with a total strength of 8,000 men.

This is the most advanced Loyal Battalion Field Brigade of the 1st Arquebus Unit.

The other field brigade was much inferior, with almost the same strength, but they used arquebuses that were inferior to the Chinese arsenal, and they were also arquebuses of two battalions, some small cannons were in the teams, and the cannons were in the infantry battalions.

And the elite veterans of the original loyal battalion of 5,000 soldiers and horses led by Gao Yi were in the middle, 4,000 infantry, and 1,000 cavalry.

The 4,000 infantry and 2,000 infantry are the elite old battalion troops directly under him, with various weapons, strong martial arts, rich combat experience, and cavalry as the majority, and a hodgepodge together.

Although the other 2,000 troops are also elite, they are the battalions of soldiers and horses that Li Guocuo gave him, as well as the soldiers of the Han army flag, supplemented by his generals and soldiers, to rule them, these two thousand troops with the last cannons, six-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, ten-pounder cannons, as well as the heavy artillery of the Qing army, the general cannon, the red-clothed cannon, are all cannons that make people feel very powerful in size and weight, these cannons are pushed by 800 artillery, 500 soldiers, and 600 people's baggage soldiers, just in front of his Chinese army, Position at a distance of three hundred meters from the most elite field brigade in front of them, ready to meet the enemy.

The most elite field brigade was placed on the left flank, and the slightly inferior field brigade was placed on the right flank, and his central army was in the center, and a thousand cavalry but scout cavalry ran around to reconnoiter the enemy, and finally charged the final strength of the enemy.

Liu Guoxuan's 3,000 remnants of the defeated army will be placed in the back road, protecting the back road to prevent the enemy from sending troops to bypass his queue and copy his rear road, which is a high merit of the platoon formation.

At noon, the Qing army slowly appeared in Gao Yigong's field of vision.

The flags were flying, covering the sky and the sun, as if countless soldiers and horses were rushing towards them.

The troops of the Dashun Army, who had been waiting for more than an hour, immediately made a noise, but soon became silent under the pressure of the officers of the various armies and Gao Yigong's personal confidants.

The first to enter the battlefield was the 3,000 Han army flag troops commanded by Ma Bao, who stopped two miles away, followed by more than 15,000 new army towns, which directly crossed the Han army flag troops commanded by Ma Bao and drove into the open ground in front of Gao Yigong's troops, about one and a half miles away, separated from Ma Bao's Han army flag troops more than 200 meters away.

Ma Bao's Han Army Banner and Xinjun Zhen quickly separated in the face of Gao Yigong's troops, and set up a position against his troops.

Gao Yigong was anxious, anxiously waiting for the enemy to line up, his strength was not as good as the enemy, and his combat power was not as high as the enemy, he could only wait, the cavalry was not as good as the enemy's elite, the cavalry of the Dashun army, except for Li Zicheng's direct subordinate dead soldiers, there was really no cavalry of that army that dared to face the cavalry of the Qing army.

The Manchu cavalry of the Qing army can ride and shoot, and they are as flexible as the Mongols on war horses, and they may have a touch for the Han people in the north, and the cavalry of the army in the south, that can only find death, and ten cavalry may not be able to beat the enemy and a cavalry, so Gao Yigong can only wait, he does not want to give the poor more than 1,000 cavalry in his hands to the Qing cavalry who is famous for riding and shooting.

Gao Yigong's abacus was to fight for a while, depending on the situation, to consume some Qing soldiers, and then flee back to Fangcheng with his own pro-army, defend the city, and then wait for Li Guo's reinforcements or find a way to escape back to Nanyang Fucheng.

He didn't think about winning for a while.

(End of chapter)