On March 25, the third year of the Republic, in the early morning, the sound of military trumpets broke the silence of the grassland, the fog gradually dissipated, several huge infantry formations faintly appeared, and the weapons flashed a cold light under the sunlight - the Datong army entered the battlefield in advance, waiting for the opponent to come.

The rear of the large array was full of weapons and ammunition, and the defense army and militia lined up to replenish the ordnance in turn, and then silently returned to their own ranks -- hundreds of carts of ordnance donated by Datong businessmen were sent to the front, and Congressman Li Mao was the organizer of the action.

"You are not a citizen and have no right to bear arms." Li Mao withdrew the handkerchief he handed out, and the young man in front of him still had his hair in a bun, obviously an immigrant.

"Sir, I'm from Zhuozhou, give me a gun, I want to avenge my father." The young man pleaded.

"Nonsense, this is the battle to liberate Manchuria, do you think it's revenge, return to the auxiliary queue." Li Mao scolded angrily.

A group of cavalry galloped by, shouting loudly, "The president has an order, if there are Manchurian soldiers who do not want to fight, they will be allowed to withdraw from the battlefield", and one after another people walked out of the queue with their heads bowed.

Li Mao sighed, stopped the young man and handed him a spear: "Let's fight it all and you go up again, take this to take revenge." ”

More than 2,000 Manchurian soldiers retreated to the rear of the battle array, but they were reluctant to leave, Sonny sat silently on the grass, and the curb next to him kept nagging: "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm a businessman, and I can make a lot of money, and I can do great things to rebuild Liaodong in the future, so Brother Erlu transferred me out of the Manchurian Volunteer Army. ”

Ao Bai came over and pulled Huaisu to sit down with him, and whispered with an embarrassed face, "This is a war to destroy the country, and I really can't start it" - Duolunoer's defense army guarding Qianhu walked by, most of them were also Manchurians, and glanced coldly at the same clan sitting on the ground, and the waist pole straightened up, and Qianhu Changshun shouted loudly: "Brothers, sing our song to eliminate the Dolgon traitorous party." ”

"The world is for the public, our country is the sect, the people are the citizens, and the country is said to be the same; The tricolor eagle banner, freedom and equality, not tyranny, but charity; Homogeneous and different customs, the legacy of martyrs, sincere friendship, and the eternal family and country; The people are rich and the country is rich, the people are strong and the country is strong, East Asia is dominant, and only we are the federation. The teams strode forward, and the songs resounded one after another.

Datong scouts galloped back and forth, forming a shield within twenty miles around the army, and at the same time there were various military information, several cavalry quickly galloped through the battle formation to a high underground, and Li Xuan, the commander of the Flying Tiger Battalion, jumped off his horse and ran upwards - under the three-color Flying Tiger, Li Yu and the generals of the Datong Army were discussing the military situation.

"The Qing army is still ten miles away from us, mainly the Green Camp Army, about 50,000 people, and there are also four or five thousand Han troops of the Eight Banners, the main force of Duoduo has not appeared, I have sent people to continue to search south." Li Xuan wiped his sweat and reported.

"It's still the same old thing, the Green Battalion soldiers take the lead, but they are not afraid of being eaten by us when they break away from the main force?" Garchuri shook his head and said.

"The Green Battalion Army is just a decoy, Duoduo's main force will definitely follow behind to find fighters, however, the meat delivered to the mouth is not eaten in vain, we have sufficient troops, and it is okay to destroy the Green Battalion Army first and then clean up the Eight Banners Army." Bai Xianzhi sneered.

"The Han soldiers in Guannai are easy to deal with, president, let's take the lead!" Gulu Siqibu and Sergulun's eyes lit up, and they patted their chests and asked Li Yu to fight.

Li Yu didn't say anything, turned his face to Hei Yunlong and asked, "Old Shuai, you have fought most of your life, how to fight this battle?" ”

"The old foundation of the green battalion is the official army of the Ming State, and the combat power is not as good as our militia, since the fighter plane appears, it must be seized, and the more troublesome thing is that the fifty or sixty thousand green battalion soldiers are shrunk into a group, if we invest insufficient troops, I am afraid that we will not be able to eat the opponent, and if we invest too many troops, we will take the risk of dividing the troops, and the key to this battle is how to distribute the troops." The Black Cloud Dragon pondered for a moment before replying.

Li Yu nodded, and waved his hand to the generals, "Wait a little longer, let the brothers smoke and relax", when the sun hung on the treetops, the sentry officer of the Flying Tiger Battalion, Chalibu, rushed to report - the main force of the Eighth Banner Army about 70,000 people appeared twenty miles southwest, among which there were many Duoduo Daxu, Li Yu lifted his spirits and ordered loudly:

"Sun Shoufa and Zhu Riga led the second town of Bu and the Kaiping Guard Army to block the main force of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, and the white marshal and the old black marshal led the first town of Bu, the second town of the gun, the Mongolian departments, and the militia departments must eliminate the Green Camp Army as soon as possible, and the iron cavalry departments will follow me everywhere and act immediately."

Bai Xianzhi and Hei Yunlong immediately led their troops to the south, less than ten miles away in a moment, the green battalion soldiers were obviously prepared, launched thousands of large carts lined up in front of the formation, the cars erected baffles, erected cannons, and were connected with iron chains between each other, the whole army retreated to the rear of the car to line up for defense, and the Mongolian cavalry that rushed to the front did not dare to attack, and surrounded the Qing army.

The green battalion soldiers play with the car formation, which is not a bad thing for the Datong army, which is good at firearms attacks, it is nothing more than a cavalry blockade, artillery breaking, and infantry assault - Bai Xianzhi and Hei Yunlong shook their heads again and again after they arrived, and the battle outside the fortress all relied on mobility, Qi Jiguang and Sun Chengzong all tried to fight field battles with car formations, but they never achieved victory, and the green battalion soldiers were looking for death.

"You go and persuade them to surrender, and reward these rotten soldiers with a way to live." Bai Xianzhi smiled and gave an order to his own soldiers.

The pro-soldiers rushed to the front of the Qing army and shouted: "Listen to the rotten soldiers of the green battalion, you first served the traitor party of the Ming State, and then took refuge in the bandit party of the Qing State. ”

This is not a persuasion but a provocation, several pro-soldiers were quickly driven back by a firecracker, the Datong army immediately opened artillery to retaliate, a cannon accurately hit the target, a cart was smashed to pieces, the green battalion soldiers also fired back, the two sides first launched an artillery battle.

The Datong army was divided into three at this time, Bai Xianzhi trapped about 60,000 Han soldiers of the Qing army, concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard the car formation, Sun Shoufa advanced ten miles to the west to defend the main force of the Qing army's eight banners, and Li Yu led more than 30,000 cavalry to patrol and guard between the two.

According to Duoduo's plan, the Qing army led the green battalion soldiers led by Liu Zhiyuan, Li Guohan, Zu Zerun, and Wu Shoujin of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to lure the Datong army into dividing the troops, and the Eight Banners Army followed behind and waited for the opportunity to attack, everything went well, and the Datong soldiers really divided their troops, and the enemy who blocked the front was less than 20,000, but the main cavalry of the other side was not dispersed, and it was more difficult to deal with.

"Haning, Arzin, you take the cavalry up to entangle Erlu, you must be careful, the elite iron cavalry of the Great Qing Kingdom has been handed over to you," Duoduo suddenly had a fever last night, and after observing the battlefield for a while, he felt that his body could not support it, so he dismounted and sat on a chair to continue to order, "Han Dai, Tong Tulai, you lead 40,000 foot soldiers and Wuzhen Chao's Harbin army to attack the enemy in front, there is Datong's Buer Town, you must completely annihilate this elite, and this king will sit here and watch the battle." ”

Haninga and Arzin led the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to roar, and the Datong Iron Cavalry was jubilant - since the start of the war, the main cavalry ran a lot, but they did not fight a decent battle, but they waited for the opportunity to show their faces, and the generals asked for battle, and the main and deputy towns of the second town, Hadari, Meng Ke, and the main and deputy towns, Chaolu and Qiu Xian, of the four towns, quarreled over who took the lead.

There were no less than 20,000 iron horsemen rushing over, and Dolgon was really desperate, and he actually gambled on the old book of the Eight Banners - Li Yu shook his head and put down his clairvoyance, waved his hand and ordered: "Don't quarrel, ride the second town and the fourth town together, remember, drag the Qing army to fight slowly, and wait for Bai Shuai to pack up the green battalion soldiers and then attack with all his might, Meng Ke, you stay and stand by." ”

Hadari, Chaolu, and Qiu Xian laughed and ran away, and Meng Ke was a little angry: "Why, big head, you can't be partial!" ”

"I'm afraid that you will cause trouble, stay honest, when you are up" Li Yu said coldly, Meng Ke didn't dare to be angry - he has not changed his bad habits in the past few years, and he has done some bad things such as gambling and prostitution, fighting and brawling, and even his wife and children scolded him for being a loser, if it wasn't for Li Yu's protection, he would have been driven out of the army by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion long ago.

The Datong Iron Cavalry and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry walked opposite each other, getting closer and closer, and stopped advancing at the same time at a distance of two miles - after twenty years of dealing with each other, they were too familiar with each other, and the brave warriors deserved respect even if they were enemies, and both sides showed respect to the opponent at the same time three times at the same time, as is customary.

"Prince Jin is auspicious, Princess Heshuo Duanshu is auspicious!" The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry shouted loudly, and Dolgon did not recognize the titles given to Li Yu and Erniu by Emperor Taizong, but the people in the Eight Banners were proud.

"Emperor Taizu Shengming, Emperor Taizong Shengming!" The Datong Iron Cavalry also responded immediately, as if it was a Daqing Zhengshuo.

The horn of the attack sounded, and the two armies started to accelerate at the same time, and soon collided together, but then it was funny, there was no tragic shooting of arrows and arrows on the battlefield, and the white-knuckle fighting scene, the soldiers on both sides seemed to have made an appointment, shouting and entangled with each other, but the fight was very gentle, and the intensity was not even as good as usual, but it was difficult for either side to get out.

There are 30,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners pressed to the front, and unlike in the past, the Qing army actually spared no expense to start an artillery battle with the Datong army this time, and the use of Datong was made, the cannon of the thousand catties of camp fire was fast, the firing range was long, and the accuracy was good, and the more than 100 formation walls at the front of Buer Town were destroyed soon after the battle.

The unfavorable start of the war made Sun Shoufa angry, so he had to quickly adjust the deployment, put the left association in the front, the front association and the right association withdrew to the side and rear, and the Kaiping defense army was also transferred to the front - most of the Chahars in this team were not good at using firearms, but they were good at riding and archery, which could just make up for the gun loading gap.

"Sun Dasheng, I've brought you good things, go out and have a look......" Rep. Li Mao is very inopportune to break into the big tent.

Sun Shoufa just found the object of anger, jumped up and grabbed Li Mao's collar and scolded: "The surname Li, listen to this cannon, it must be a cannon built by Xuande Iron Works, there is nothing in this world that you profiteers dare not sell, I should really kill you to pay for my brother's life!" ”

"If you don't sell these rags to make money, how can you have so many new guns in your hands?" Li Mao struggled to break away from Sun Shoufa, and asked loudly with angry eyes, "You still dare to scold me for being a profiteer, so what is my boss?" ”

The Xuande Iron Works was opened by the president's wife, of course he couldn't scold, Sun Shoufa was stunned for a moment, and shouted a little angrily: "Get out of here!" ”

Sun Siwang, the deputy town commander, hurriedly sent Li Mao away with a smiling face, and after a while, he returned to the big tent, waved his hand at Sun Shoufa and said: "The elite of the Eight Banners who have been killed are twice as large as me, and they have too many people, and we can only suffer if we defend it." ”

"This town has always been stronger in offense than in defense, and only by attacking instead of defending can it be fought, and all associations are ordered to be ready to counterattack at any time." Sun Shoufa rubbed his head and replied.

"The guard battalion must also be prepared, if the front can't withstand it, we will rush up and entangle the Qing army." Sun Siwang nodded.

The conch horn sounded, the Eight Banners shouted and attacked, it was still the same old way of playing, the dead soldiers in heavy armor charged ahead, the light armored soldiers held fire guns, bows and arrows followed behind to cover, the bulky cart was long gone, that thing could not stop the guns shot out by lifting the guns - the Datong army immediately intercepted with fire, the camp artillery, mortar artillery, and tiger squat artillery rang out together, and the Qing army did not show weakness, the artillery fought more intensively, the front of the two armies was filled with gunsmoke, and there was no human figure visible from a hundred paces, and the gunners shot almost by feeling.

Gao Baozhu, the commander of the Left Association, was born in the board, and from a small soldier step by step to the rank of deputy general, he did not panic after a hundred battles, observed the battle situation for a while, and whispered to his deputy commander, "You command here, I'll go to the front to see", picked up a simple knife and left.

The Qing army's offensive was too fierce, guns, bows and arrows could not block the impact of the dense flow of people, the walls of the two battalions at the front of the Left Association had been destroyed, the spearmen were in the front hand-to-hand combat to block, the Qing army was familiar with the Datong Army's style of play, and also matched the heavy armored dead soldiers with spears, the two sides stabbed each other with red eyes, spears went back and forth, and occasionally there were firearms, bows and arrows to shoot at close range, and people were constantly falling, and people kept going up, just to see who could hold on to the end.

The number of the two battalions of the Zuo Association was too small, and they gradually couldn't resist, and the Kaiping Guard Army immediately went up, and Duo Luno guarded the Thousand Households Chang Shun was red-eyed, and simply took hundreds of soldiers to rush out of the infantry array to fight, but was soon surrounded by the Qing army, Zhu Riga saw that his subordinates were in danger, and gritted his teeth to rush over to fight, but was pulled by someone.

"Don't be reckless, gather your people to cut off the Qing army's support with a rain of arrows," Gao Baozhu shook his head at Zhu Riga and waved his hand to his own soldiers, "Blow the trumpet and order the front battalion and the right battalion to launch a counterattack." ”

The Kaiping defense army quickly gathered together and threw a dense rain of arrows forward, Gao Baozhu also led the brothers of the front battalion and the right battalion to kill the infantry formation, the Datong army suddenly made the Qing army a little unprepared, Chang Shun took the opportunity to break through and join the army, but the Datong army advanced less than half a mile, and the Qing army stabilized its position and launched a counterattack.

Gao Baozhu has fought for 20 years, and he personally feels that the combat strength of the Eight Banners Army is declining year by year, and the Datong Army's one-on-one fighting ability has prevailed, but this time the Qing army is really desperate, gritting his teeth and refusing to retreat, he is a little anxious, waving his hand and ordering loudly: "Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet, transfer the left battalion up, and attack the Qing army in a dense infantry formation, Lao Tzu wants to see who is cowardly today." - The Left Association attacked the Eight Banners Army with outnumbered enemies, and gradually showed its decline, but the former Association and the Right Association were also in a bitter battle and were unable to rescue, and Gao Baozhu became more and more unfavorable the more he fought, and he was so anxious that he rushed forward to fight.

"Quickly dodge, the artifact that killed the East Captives is here!" Rep. Li Mao suddenly rushed to the front, and behind him there was a large group of auxiliary soldiers pushing over dozens of strange things with wheels, as if dozens of heavy lifting guns were tied together.

Gao Baozhu shouted at Li Mao: "You are messing up something nonsense, take your people away!" ”

Li Mao pushed away Gao Baozhu without saying a word, waved his hand and ordered the auxiliaries to light the fire rope, and after a muffled sound, a dense gun erupted, and the Eight Banners on the opposite side fell a large piece, Li Mao cracked his mouth and smiled, waved his hand and shouted to the auxiliaries, "Reload the bullet plate, continue to fight!" ”

The auxiliaries unloaded the beaten cartridges, loaded the preloaded cartridges, locked the iron gate at the rear end, and then ignited again, and after three rounds of rapid fire, the Qing army finally retreated - this thing is too powerful, a piece of death, and heavy armor can't stop it.

Gao Baozhu breathed a sigh of relief, ordered his subordinates to stop the pursuit, hurry up and drink water and eat dry food, and then grabbed Li Mao and asked, "Mr. Li, what kind of artifact are you?" It's a bit like a swarm of bees in the Ming army. ”

"A swarm of bees is a fart, this is a machine gun, each car with thirty rods and five taels of guns, it is much more powerful than a swarm of bees that release arrows, only Xuande Iron Works can create such an artifact." Li Mao was a little proud, the Xuande Iron Works under the Black Eagle Trading Company had the best level in the world in building guns, which was really not bragging.

"I'm embarrassed to mention your gun factory, you've made us miserable," Gao Baozhu kicked over a foot gun next to the corpse of a Eight Banner soldier, and shouted angrily, "This gun has a black eagle mark on it, it was built by Xuande Iron Works, don't admit it!" ”

"I can't tell you." Li Mao turned his face and continued to fiddle with his machine.

A hurried whistle sounded in front, and the Qing army rushed up again, Gao Baozhu stomped his feet, waved his hand and shouted to his own soldiers, "Adjust a sentry to protect the organ, and the others will follow me", and strode forward with the Pu knife.

The frontal battle resumed, the sound of guns and artillery was endless, the rain of arrows covered the sky and the sun, the officers and men of the two armies did not give an inch and fought hard, after noon, thousands of corpses had been left on the battlefield, the Qing army had an absolute advantage in strength, regardless of the casualties and launched a continuous attack, Sun Shoufa could not stand it, and ordered the two towns of Bu to move closer and form a dense formation to block the Qing army.

The madness of the Eight Banners Army surprised Li Yu, and he couldn't hesitate anymore at this time, he shouted "Send arrows, all departments attack with all their might", stepped on the war horse and led the seven towns to gallop to the battlefield, and the second and fourth towns of the horse also suddenly attacked the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.

The time for the final decisive battle has come - Duoduo wiped the sweat from his head, waved his fist and shouted to the generals: "The rise and fall of the Great Qing Kingdom is here in one fell swoop, kill them all, and never die!" ”

At this point, the main forces of the two armies were all put into battle - Bai Xianzhi led Buyi Town, Gun Cannon Town, Mongolian cavalry and militia about 70,000 people to besiege 60,000 Qing Han soldiers, Duoduo led 40,000 Eight Banner Army to storm Datong Army Bu Er Town, Kaiping Guard 15,000 people, and more than 20,000 Eight Banner Iron Cavalry were also struggling to resist Li Yu's 30,000 Iron Cavalry.

On the grassland, the sound of killing shook the sky and the cannon rumbled, and both sides understood that only by defeating the weak enemy first could they win the final victory, and they bit each other together and fought to the death.