In order to avoid arousing vigilance, Fang Yuan's cavalry adopted the method of marching day and night, and after three days, they finally caught up with the Fan family's grain transport team that stretched for 30 miles in the Great Plain, which was still a hundred miles away from Xuanfu Military Town.

At nightfall, the mighty grain convoy was stationed in the Great Plains to rest.

Tonight is the bright moon in the sky, reflecting the grain transport team on the entire plain, faintly visible.

Minfu and ox carts crowded in the middle of the valley, 500 Mongolian mercenaries in the grain protection team guarded the north side of the grain team, and the remaining 1,500 family members, divided into groups of 500 people, were stationed on the east, west and south sides.

It was pitch black in the middle of the entire grain transport team, and only the surrounding grain guards were lit with sporadic torches, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

Fang Yuan, Qin Zhan, Jing Jie, and Chigutai led three hundred cavalry tails to ambush two miles away from this grain transport team, like three hundred night wolves ready to raid their prey.

The four of them got together for the last military meeting before the raid.

Fang Yuan asked straight to the point, "Jing Jie, Chigutai, the grain transportation team has 2,000 grain protection teams, how to fight this battle, you two will talk about it." ”

Jing Jie glanced at Chigutai and said in a deep voice, "The so-called capture of thieves and kings, the strongest combat power of this grain protection team is 500 Mongolian mercenaries, and this Mongolian mercenaries must be defeated first." ”

Fang Yuan thought of one thing with him, but after all, Chigutai was also a Mongolian, and he still knew each other with these Mongolian mercenaries, so they Mongolians killed each other, and he didn't know what Chigutai thought.

Chigutai seemed to notice the abnormality on the faces of the three people, and he also came back to his senses, and hurriedly waved the thunderbolt in his hand and said, "Kill!" My swords and guns are already hungry and thirsty, and in my eyes there are no Mongols or Han Chinese, but the messenger of the shaman god has given me a livelihood, and I wish to be loyal to the messenger of the shaman god forever. ”

Fang Yuan saw that he took the initiative to propose a war, but he saved a lot of tongues, got up and held the thunderbolt fire gun high, and shouted, "Jing Jie, you command the drone team to sneak attack the Mongolian mercenary camp. ”

Jing Jie said in a deep voice, "Yes! ”

Fang Yuan continued to give command, "Chigutai, I order you to be the vanguard, once the Mongol camp is on fire, immediately raid, after annihilating the Mongol mercenaries, and then from north to south, sweep the camp of the grain guard team one by one, and do not kill or injure the grain carriers." ”

Chigutai ordered the Mongol warriors of the cavalry battalion to turn over their horses, brandishing thunderbolts in one hand and fine iron sabers in the other, and shouted, "Yes! ”

The teams of Jing Jie and Chigutai disappeared into the night, one after the other.

Qin Zhan was itchy to see, with Fang Yuan's temperament, there would be no share of the spoils without meritorious service, he rubbed his hands and said, "Boss, there is no share of me?" My team of brocade guards also fought with the Manchu Tartars, not a bad breed. ”

Fang Yuan looked at the twenty brocade guards behind the two, these brocade guards had sneak attacked the Manchu Tartars in Yanzhou Mansion and had also pacified the civil unrest in Jiangnan, so they shrank behind, and they were indeed wronged, so he said, "Fourth, you follow me to sneak attack the other food guard camps." ”

Qin Zhan asked in a low voice, "Boss, what is the battle plan this time?" ”

Fang Yuan looked at the fire in the camp of the food protection team, and said in a deep voice, "There is no battle plan, it is a surprise attack and containment, and you can achieve as many results as you can, and the most important thing is that the brothers must be safe." ”

Qin Zhan responded loudly, and began to order Jinyi Wei to carry a thunderbolt fire gun, two bird guns, and two three-eyed guns, all filled with gunpowder and lead bullets.

'Bang Bang Bang'

In the distance, the camp of the Mongolian mercenaries was on fire, and the shouts of killing were heard in the distance, kicking off the prelude to the raid.

Fang Yuan chose to attack the camp on the southern flank of the grain guard, he led Qin Zhan and twenty brocade guards to rush to the dense forest in front of the camp, but saw that there was a panic in the camp, obviously the Mongolian mercenary camp was attacked, which made the family guards in this camp also panic.

Fang Yuan ordered to come out of the dense forest, and shot at these food guards in a round of indiscriminate shooting.

The food guards of this camp were preparing to go to the northern flank to support the Mongol mercenaries, but they did not expect that the enemy would come out of the dense forest, and they were caught off guard.

A dozen or so food guards who came back to their senses gained a foothold and began to defend under the cover of the camp's ox carts, and some sporadic bows and arrows came from afar, which was tantamount to scratching their boots for the brocade guards wearing explosion-proof equipment.

Fang Yuan didn't go to annihilate these stubborn remnants of the enemy at all, it was more than worth the loss, and he took the Jinyi guard to fight from the other end of the camp, and began to annihilate the grain guards on the other side of the camp, who had not yet entered the state of preparation for battle.

After Fang Yuan rushed to three camps in a row with fast and slow fighting, and annihilated nearly a hundred grain guards, he was finally caught up by the grain guards who came from three directions, and the enemy was armed with fine iron waist knives, and there were as many as 50 people on each road.

In close confrontation with these food guards, the advantage of the firearms will be lost. Although Jinyiwei has explosion-proof equipment, it will also suffer a lot of casualties, and if it is surrounded, I am afraid that there is a danger of being completely annihilated.

"In a group of five, take turns to break off, and follow me into the dense forest!"

The twenty brocade guards divided into four groups, each group kept a distance of ten meters, and began to retreat towards the dense forest.

Shooting in groups of five, after a round of shooting, they retreated to the rear, began to fill with gunpowder and buckshot, and so on.

After a few rounds, Fang Yuan led the Jinyi Guard, and after annihilating more than 20 pursuing grain guards, he had safely retreated into the dense forest, and continued to snipe the enemy's advance with the help of the cover of the dense forest.

'Crackle'

There was another burst of intensive strafing with three-eyed eyes, and the pursuing grain guards suffered heavy casualties, so they had to give up the pursuit, withdraw to the camp, and push out several ox carts full of grain as cover, hiding behind the ox carts, shooting from a distance with bows and arrows, and not daring to pursue again.

The two sides held their own positions, and the battle fell into a stalemate.

Fang Yuan ordered Jinyiwei to continue to load gunpowder and lead bullets, and asked Qin Zhan, "Fourth, how are Jinyiwei's casualties?" ”

Qin Zhan counted the casualties of the Jinyi Guard and reported to him, "Boss, only three people were slightly injured by arrows, two were injured by the bombed bird gun and the three-eyed gun, and one person fell down a steep slope during the retreat, and his life and death are unknown. ”

In the dark night, there was no way to explore the life and death of the Jinyi guards under the steep slope, and the enemy food guard team was also on standby, and there was no good opportunity for a sneak attack.

Fang Yuan immediately ordered to leave five brocade guards to take care of the wounded in place, pretending to be a momentum, occasionally firing a few shots to attract the attention of the food protection team, but if the enemy attacked on a large scale, it was impossible to fight, and immediately retreated into the dense forest to escape.

Fang Yuan led the remaining ten brocade guards to detour to the other side of the dense forest and go to the camp on the west wing of the grain guard team to look for enemy fighters.

The two sides fought fiercely in the dark night for an hour, and Fang Yuan's team of twenty brocade guards were elusive, constantly interspersed in the camps on the south and west wings, skillfully fighting guerrilla warfare.

Fang Yuan's side had at least five hundred or more grain guards in check, creating an excellent environment for the raid on Chigutai.

After Jing Jie's drone team set fire to the Mongolian mercenary camp, the musketeers of Chigutai drove straight in, killing the Mongolian mercenaries on their backs. Chigutai's cavalry was able to shoot from afar as to slash and slash in close combat, clashing back and forth in the camp without encountering a decent resistance.

In less than half an hour, the 500-strong Mongol mercenaries were crushed, fled in disarray, and disappeared.

Chigutai easily routed the defenseless Mongol mercenaries, then turned east and met the grain guards who had arrived from the eastern flank.

How could this kind of grain protector with weak combat strength withstand the impact of the Mongolian musketeers in the field battle, and was directly torn open by Chigutai, forcibly broke into the Chinese army, and directly killed the leading head of the family.

Chigutai rose to the occasion, and then ordered his two centurions to divide into two teams of men and horses, and raided left and right, continuing to tear the loose formation of the grain protection team.

After the two teams of cavalry on the left and right fought separately and then joined the siege, this 500-man grain guard team was also rushed to pieces, and there was no resistance in any formation, so they could only fight sporadically and were annihilated by the encirclement one by one.

At this point, less than two hours have passed since the entire raid battle, and the overall situation has been decided.

The more than 300 grain guards who confronted Qin Zhan's Jinyi Guard on the southern flank saw that the general trend had gone, and the wolf-like Mongolian musketeers had already been killed from afar, and they were so frightened that they immediately threw down their weapons and heavy armor and fled for their lives.

The West Wing Food Protection Team, which was restrained by Fang Yuan, had no fighting spirit, and they were scurrying around like headless flies in the dark night, trampling on each other and trampling on countless dead.

By dawn, there was no shadow of the grain protection team on the entire battlefield, only one remained, and 20,000 panicked people looked at Fang Yuan, Chigutai and others in horror.

This new-style army won a complete victory in the first battle, which greatly increased Fang Yuan's confidence, such a powerful field combat ability, the iron cavalry of the Manchu Eight Banners is nothing more than that!

Before, he played a package ticket in front of Chongzhen to face the Manchu Iron Cavalry, but in fact, he still had no bottom in his heart, and now the performance of this new army is a big reassuring pill for him.