According to the report, there were about 20,000 Qing troops in the Zhangjiawan area, including more than 3,000 cavalry, armed with artillery and bird guns.

At present, the two sides are facing each other five miles apart, and Hong Jiuzhi has set up camp and plans to launch an attack after three days of rest.

This was a field battle, and Zhou Lang wanted to let the Shuai battalion go to support several times, but in the end he held back.

If the main force of the First Army under his command cannot defeat twice the heavy troops of the Qing army, then he should immediately go home, instead of trying to touch the city of Beijing.

Zhou Lang believed that he was a soldier by a soldier, Hong Jiuzhi was the first member of the Heaven and Earth Society to take refuge in him, of course, he had long since lost any shadow of the Heaven and Earth Society, after half a year of formal training, he had a very strong military taste.

Hong Jiuzhi also started with dozens of people to now command 10,000 people to fight, and there are still some gaps in the level of knowledge, for example, under the supervision of Zhou Lang, he is already literate, and he has nothing to do with a military book to study, and Fischer, a European officer, has always instilled in them the ways and methods of fighting in the firearms army.

He believed that Hong Jiuzhi might not have enough education, but the experience of commanding the army was enough.

10,000 firearms armed with rifles and cannons are enough to defeat 20,000 cold-weapon troops.

Sure enough, at noon three days later, the battle report reached Wuqing, where Zhou Lang was temporarily stationed. Hong Jiuzhi used two hollow phalanxes to protect the two wings, and the central infantry covered the artillery to carry out a long artillery bombardment of the Qing army. The Qing army's horse team harassed and could not break through the hollow phalanx facing all sides, and the range of the rifle prevented their bows and arrows from entering the effective range, so there were almost no casualties on both sides, and four people on the other side fell off their horses, but after the battle, they cleaned up the battlefield and found that they did not die from rifles, but trampled to death, which is estimated to be caused by the fright of the war horses. It is also related to the riding skills of the Qing army, according to Hong Jiuzhi's report, he said that the riding skills of the Qing army are very crude, which Zhou Lang did not expect.

There are many rumors that many of the Eight Banners soldiers in the Beijing camp even had to be supported when they got on horseback, and they were negligent in training at ordinary times, and even spent money to hire people to be on duty when they encountered a review.

The two sides came and went, until the time (09 o'clock to 11 o'clock), Hong Jiuzhi saw that the Qing army retreated slightly, ordered the left flank to outflank, the main force of the front pressed forward, and then the Qing army retreated as a whole, counting the results, the Qing army killed and wounded more than 100 people, and most of them died in artillery shelling.

No prisoners were captured.

It was a field battle in which there were hardly any major battles.

After seizing the Qing army camp in Zhangjiawan, Hong Jiuzhi stood by in place.

Chen Xiaoshou will continue to move forward in place of Hong Jiuzhi, and Zhou Lang will also camp for Zhangjiawan.

Arrived in Zhangjiawan, at this time Chen Xiaoshou has arrived in the area of Bali Bridge, there is no big battle along the way, the small battle has been fought four times, annihilating more than 300 enemies, two casualties, caused by the musket explosion, Zhou Lang's musket will also be blown up, but most of them are operational errors, complex battlefield environment, some soldiers will be nervous to repeat the reloading many times, because sometimes there is no firing occasionally, the normal step is to withdraw the bullet and reload. But if you are not careful on the battlefield, you don't know if your rifle is ringing, and you have to check it before you reload the next round according to the regulations, but some people just forget it and continue to load.

During the American Civil War, it was recorded that some soldiers would reload more than a dozen rounds of ammunition multiple times; Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to explode after reloading, but if there is an occasional explosion, it will often explode.

In fact, it was not only these four unlucky eggs who blew up the chamber, there were dozens of muskets that were blown up, which is quite small for 10,000 people, but it is still very unlucky to die four people, under normal circumstances, ten rounds of the chamber can not kill a person, so according to the regulations, Chen Xiaoshou must record this incident and hand it over to the logistics to check the quality of the army's rifles.

According to Chen Xiaoshou's report, the Qing army deployed nearly 50,000 troops in the area from Zhangjiawan to Bali Bridge, and now all of them have retreated to Bali Bridge, dug deep ditches, and built barracks, seemingly intending to resist for a long time. Chen Xiaoshou tried to force the opponent to fight in the field, but the opponent was very cautious and did not attack.

The rest of the First Army was almost over, and Zhou Lang asked Hong Jiuzhi to go to support, and if there was a chance, he would choose to take a detour.

Fischer was also with the army, and he was no longer an employee of the China (East India) Company, but the official military general adviser under the Generalissimo of the Restoration of the Kingdom.

Zhou Lang has changed his banner, from the auxiliary country to the restoration of the country, and removed the word South Road, this is seriously discussed with Wang Fuqian, Wang Fuqian thinks that it is time to get rid of the connection with the Heaven and Earth Society, after this coercion of Beijing, Zhou Lang Daming will be known to the world, and people need to know that Zhou Lang is Zhou Lang, and Heaven and Earth will be Heaven and Earth.

As for the self-proclaimed generalissimo, because it was not yet time to be called emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang was also proclaimed emperor after the Northern Expedition.

The reason why he still took Fischer with him was because Zhou Lang was still a little worried, although his army had been fighting constantly and had rich combat experience, he had no experience in this kind of group army battle, so he still needed Fischer, an officer who had experienced a battle of 10,000 people on the Indian battlefield, to give some advice.

However, all of Fischer's suggestions must be approved by Zhou Lang, and if Zhou Lang feels that it is unreasonable, he will not give an order.

For example, Fischer suggested traveling along the mouth of the Baihe River, where the river was wider, and Zhou Lang chose the North Canal, which he felt was easier to control, but it turned out that his consideration may not have been thorough, and the Qing army destroyed several sluices on the canal, resulting in Zhou Lang's boats now only reaching Zhangjiawan and becoming impassable.

The advantage is that the White River was not chosen like the British army, and the Bali Bridge was no longer a battleground, because both sides of the canal were controlled by Zhou Lang's army, and there was no question of crossing the river, and if necessary, pontoon bridges could be built on the river, and the armies on both sides could support each other through the pontoon bridges.

Now Chen Xiaoshou's army is on the left bank of the canal, Hong Jiuzhi is on the right bank, both have entered the Bali Bridge, but the battle of the Bali Bridge still has to be fought, although the importance here is not great, but because the terrain is higher, and the Bali Bridge is a stone bridge, the Qing army regarded this place as a commanding height, erected dozens of cannons.

Chen Xiaoshou acted as the main force to attack Bali Bridge, because the main force of the Qing army was on the west bank, Chen Xiaoshou met the firearms battalion of the Eight Banners Beijing Camp in the front, but it was only half of the troops, because half of them were transferred to Hubei to fight the White Lotus Sect, the firearms battalion was divided into two battalions inside and outside, inside and outside, inside and outside Beijing, the inner battalion was stationed and trained in the city, and the outer battalion was outside the city.

This is the real Eight Banners, and looking at the way they are deployed at the forefront, it is probably because the Manchu officers feel that the thieves they encounter are all shotspearmen, and they plan to have a king against a king.

However, the firearms unit led by Chen Xiaoshou is indeed a trump card, and the firearms camp is really disappointing.

Chen Xiaoshou withstood the thousands of horsemen harassed on both sides, and chose to break through from the center, and the deep ditch barrier of the firearms battalion only lasted for half an hour, and then threw away the strong camp that they had been digging for more than ten days, and did not even burn a fire before leaving.

After Chen Xiao's troops occupied the barracks, the troops on the left and right flanks covered each other's advances and stationed in the barracks at the same time. The horse team, which was harassing from a distance on the left, saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, and they were still eating the opponent's cannons, and Yushi gradually withdrew.

On the other side, Hong Jiuzhi's trouble was greater, the Qing army artillery on the Bali Bridge had an artillery battle with him, and the artillery attached to the infantry was not only small in number, but also small in caliber, all of which were 8-pound and 6-pound infantry guns, and there were no siege artillery, so there were some Qing cannons that could not suppress the Bali Bridge.

Hong Jiuzhi finally divided his troops, detoured from the north, forcibly captured the Bali Bridge, annihilated 1,000 Qing troops, captured 300, was the biggest victory since the start of the war, because it was blocked on the bridge, the Qing army put up a desperate resistance, and even caused more than 100 casualties to Hong Jiuzhi, which is also the biggest loss since the war.

The two major battles that took place on both sides of the Bali Bridge quickly crushed the fighting spirit of the Qing army, and the Qing troops who were several miles around the camp actually pulled out their camps at night, and before dawn, they had withdrawn to Tongzhou.

So far, in fact, the damage of the Qing army is still not fighting, and in the case of being unable to defeat, it is not a defeat to be able to retreat.

But now they have no way to retreat, Qianlong sent a messenger to send a decree, let them defend Tongzhou, lose Tongzhou, then the deputy capital and above the generals will be beheaded, and their families will be assigned to the army. If you can retreat from the enemy, you will be promoted to the first rank of knight, regardless of the victory.

At this time, the highest official guarding Tongzhou was Liang Kentang, and in the suppression of the uprising, the highest person in charge was the governor, for example, the person in charge of suppressing the White Lotus Sect was several governors of neighboring provinces, and Liang Kentang was stationed in Tongzhou as the governor of Zhili. However, the order he accepted was to recover Tianjin, but now it seems that it would be good to be able to keep Tongzhou, the gateway to Beijing.

There is not even a single one of his subordinates who can fight, not that there are no soldiers, but a major general, and a group of veterans who have followed Fukangan to fight Jinchuan and Gurkha, such as Le Bao and Delentai, either went to Zhejiang to suppress Chen Zhouquan's bandits, or went to Huguang to suppress the White Lotus Sect bandits, so that Liang Kentang's subordinates can fight the most is only a protector commander Hui Lun.

It's not that Whalen can't fight, but it seems that he can't beat the rebel now.

Hui Lun is a native of Manchuria with the Yellow Banner, the son of a powerful person, and the son of Kui Linzi, a first-class Chengen Gong.

This person was able to be promoted to the commander of the protector army, mainly because of the shadow, and he succeeded his uncle Mingrui, and attacked the other party's first-class Chengjia Yiyong Duke title.

It is also a coincidence that he was able to come to Beijing this time, he was originally ordered to take the northeastern deputy capital Ahabao to lead the troops of the three eastern provinces to Hubei to suppress bandits, but Zhou Lang invaded Tianjin and was sent to fight under Liang Kentang.

The group of northeastern soldiers did not have the heavy habits of the Beijing camp, and Ahaboo was also able to fight, and he took 2,000 northeast soldiers to guard the Bali Bridge, but he still couldn't defeat the thieves, and half of them were killed, and Ahaboo was killed.

Liang Kentang saw that the thieves had sharp firearms, so he asked the Beijing Firearms Battalion to guard the Baliqiao Camp, but the firearms battalion ran away without a few deaths.

This made Liang Kentang feel gloomy.