Wang Deren is now in charge of the others, took his own 100 personal soldiers, ran out of the valley, got on the horse and ran to Ganzhou and fled, until he escaped for ten miles, and found that there was no Ming army chasing behind, so he began to collect the defeated army.

As a result, he found that less than 10,000 of the 30,000 horses he brought out were left, and most of them were missing, either killed or run away. Wang Deren didn't dare to take someone to find the Ming army again, so he had to hurry back to Ganzhou to report the news.

Jin Shenghuan, who was in Ganzhou, didn't expect Wang Deren to come back just a few days after going out, and was surprised when he saw Wang Deren's embarrassment.

"Brother Xian, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Deren saw Jin Shenghuan as if he saw his own father and mother, and cried.

Jin Shenghuan, who was crying Wang Deren, was at a loss, and hurriedly persuaded him, and it was easy for Wang Deren to stop crying, and he told Jin Shenghuan in detail about the situation at that time.

"Big brother, I ran into the Ming army on the third day when I took my brother out, there were less than 10,000 of them, and they were wearing strange clothes with red on the top and blue on the bottom. Originally, the brothers wanted to ambush in a valley and catch them off guard, but they didn't expect that the firepower of these Ming troops was really sharp, and the brothers' army was killed thousands of people in less than a quarter of an hour. ”

After listening to Wang Deren, Jin Shenghuan was taken aback, he didn't expect that Nanming still had such a fighting army, could it be the Ming army in Nanzhili?

Jin Shengheng also heard of the Battle of Nanzhili, where he was killed in the Jiangyin court, a prince of Baylor, and tens of thousands of Qing troops. At first, Jin Shenghuan thought it was a rumor made up by Nanming, after all, he had also seen the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, and Jin Shenghuan did not believe that Nanming and the army could be the opponent of the Qing army. But here are the examples. Wang Deren's combat effectiveness he knows that they are all veterans who have fought for many years, and they may not be as strong as the Manchu Eight Banners, but it is still no problem to beat the Ming army.

After Jin Shenghuan comforted Wang Deren with kind words, he returned to the camp outside the city, and Jin Shenghuan felt that he could not take this Ming army lightly. However, he believed that he was still not afraid, and Wang Deren should be a light enemy. What's more, he still has nearly 100,000 horses, of which 10,000 are still cavalry, and the other side has less than 10,000 people, so he should be able to win.

Zhang Jiayu, who is thirty miles away, can be regarded as having seen the combat effectiveness of the new army with his own eyes, no wonder these guys are so horizontal, they really have horizontal strength. When Zhang Jiayu first came to Nanxiong, he still had a little complaint about the new army guys eating so well, he thought that it was enough to feed these Qiu Ba, and still eat meat every day? You must know that even small landlords in rural areas cannot eat meat every day. But now Zhang Jiayu feels that these guys eat meat every day is really worth it, Ma Liang only has 3,500 people, and there seem to be at least more than 20,000 people on the opposite side, but he didn't expect to be defeated in less than a quarter of an hour.

Zhang Jiayu took 3,000 militiamen to guard the baggage behind, and when he saw Ma Liang and Ma Rufeng leading the team back, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Two generals, the new army is really strong in combat, I really admire it now!"

Ma Liang dismounted, smiled and said: "These Qing troops should have just surrendered, if it was the Eight Banners of Manchuria, it wouldn't be so easy!" ”

"I don't know what happened to the two generals?"

"There should be 2,000 people killed, and more than 5,000 people caught, all of them are behind, please send them down! Twenty-two people were killed in the battle, fifty-four were seriously wounded, and more than one hundred and twenty were slightly wounded! ”

Nearly 10,000 enemies were destroyed in the first battle, and more than 20 people died themselves, which is really a strong army in the world. Zhang Jiayu is really satisfied in his heart, His Majesty really trusts me in handing over this strong army.

Zhang Jiayu thought for a while and said: "Our army is outside, it is really inappropriate to keep so many prisoners of war, it is better to kill them all!" ”

Ma Liang had no opinion, Ma Rufeng wanted to speak, but after thinking about it, Zhu Hongsan had an order to listen to Zhang Jiayu, so he didn't say anything.

Seeing that the two agreed, Zhang Jiayu asked his 3,000 militiamen to come forward to take over the prisoners of war, and all of them were beheaded on the edge of the valley. Those Qing troops originally thought that they would be fine if they surrendered, but they didn't expect this ending. Seeing that the Ming army began to kill prisoners, someone in the Qing army shouted: "Brothers, the Ming army wants to kill us!" Fight with them! "But now they are unarmed, and Zhang Jiayu's militia is also trained according to the discipline of the new army, and the difference between them and the new army is that one uses muskets and the other uses cold weapons. Those Qing troops were opponents there, and they were quickly cut down.

Killing prisoners is not Zhang Jiayu's ruthlessness, in the eyes of the scholars in the late Ming Dynasty, these rogues are without a king and a father, from Yang Sichang at the beginning to Hong Chengchou later, and then to Shi Kefa, they have never regarded these rogues as people, and they all kill as many as they catch.

After the prisoners of war were killed, Zhang Jiayu ordered people to bury all these people, and then led the team to Ganzhou.

Ganzhou Mansion is located at the confluence of Zhangshui and Gongshui, where two tributaries converge to form the Ganjiang River, and Ganzhou is located on the delta by the river. Ganzhou city wall is built along the riverside, the circumference is thirteen miles, the city wall is six meters high, the moat, the wall battlement, the city tower, the police shop, the horse face, the cannon city and other facilities are complete, the whole city has Xijin Gate, Zhennan Gate, Baisheng Gate, Jianchun Gate, Yongjin Gate five city gates, among which the first three city gates also have two or even triple urn cities. Since Ganzhou is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the south is land, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, Zhang Jiayu was fortunate that the land side of Ganzhou was connecting the official road of Guangdong, so the new army in Guangdong did not need to cross the river by boat. However, because this side is land, Jin Shenghuan's 100,000 horses are also stationed in the south, and if you want to attack Ganzhou, you have to defeat these 100,000 horses.

Zhang Jiayu finally got out of the difficult Da Yuling Mountain Range on the first day of the first month of March, and out of the Da Yu Ridge is to enter the hinterland of China, and then to the north of Ma Pingchuan, there is no big mountain range at all, so Ganzhou is an important place that Zhu Hongsan must take.

Jin Shenghuan waited outside Ganzhou for three days, and finally waited for these strange Ming troops. In the past few days, the Qing army has also been scattered one after another, bringing bizarre news, what Ming army artillery is huge, the Ming army will sacrifice flying swords, thousands of miles away to take people's heads, and so on. Of course, these Jin Shenghuan didn't believe it, but it also increased his curiosity to see what this Ming army looked like.

On the afternoon of the sixth day of the third lunar month, the Ming army on the opposite side finally arrived. When the scout sent the information to Jin Shenghuan, Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed, and this was the time he was waiting for. The Ming army was all infantry, and they had just come out of the opposite mountain, and their own army had rested here for many days.

Jin Shenghuan hurriedly organized people and took 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry out of the camp, preparing to take advantage of the Ming army's foothold to defeat him.

Although Zhang Jiayu could only talk about the army on paper, he had read a few books of war, and he was afraid of being caught off guard by the Qing army, so he did not let the troops hurry up when he was in a hurry, so he only walked a thirty-mile road for three days.

Looking at a large number of soldiers and horses coming out of the Qing army camp opposite, ready to rush towards him, Zhang Jiayu said: "Two generals, my business is over, now the troops still have physical strength, how to fight is your business, this official will press the two generals in the back!" ”

Ma Liang arched his hand and said, "Okay, please see how we break the enemy!" ”

Now there are still five miles to go to the Qing army, and there is still time to arrange the formation. Maleonn arranged the formation as the simplest horizontal formation, the musketeers stood in four rows, and when firing, the two rows shot together, the hundredth squatted down to shoot, and the second row stood to shoot, so as to ensure the density of firepower. In front of the musket column was the artillery position, and now each regiment of the new army had 90 field guns, and two regiments were 180, and they were lined up in front of the musketeers three meters apart, and they were the first wave of attack fire.

At this time, the Qing army was already three miles away from the new army, and it was already clear that Jin Daoming on the side of Jin Shenghuan (why can't Jin Dao * Ming be sent, there is no way to change the name, it's called Jin Daoming) suddenly saw the artillery on the opposite side a little familiar, and suddenly remembered Zhu Hongsan, who had fled from the desert when he had fought back then.

"Daddy! I see that these cannons are so familiar, very similar to the artillery that Zhu Hongsan made back then! ”

"Zhu Hongsan? That Zhu Hongsan? ”

"Dad, you forgot? It's the clan in Wuchang County, you forgot to let your son take someone to get his gunpowder recipe! ”

Only then did Jin Shenghuan remember. "It turned out to be that ruthless little guy! Didn't he run? Did you go to Guangdong? Jin Shengheng was closed to news in Huguang, and he didn't know that Zhu Hongsan had arrived in Guangdong, and he was even named the king of Chu.

"Regardless of him, now that the army has come out, let's fight it first, I don't believe that I now have an army of 40,000, and 10,000 are cavalry, and I can't beat their Ming army of less than 10,000! Someone, order the cavalry to charge! ”

Jin Shenghuan's order was passed down, the whole army began to move, 10,000 cavalry in front, 30,000 infantry in the rear, enter the second mile cavalry began to charge, rushed into the enemy position and the infantry followed to expand the results, this is Jin Shenghuan's tactics.

At the time of entering Erli, the cavalry began to accelerate, but unexpectedly, the artillery of the Ming army on the opposite side also began to fire. Jin Shenghuan was shocked, the range of the Ming army's cannon was so far, and the range of Erli was already the same as that of the 5,000-pound Hongyi cannon.

The first batch of solid bullets hit the cavalry ranks, and these solid bullets had limited effect on the cavalry in loose formation, and only a few unlucky people were hit, and of course they died very badly.

A mile into the artillerymen replaced with grenades, shells that could explode in mid-air. But now there is no delay fuse, the setting of the fuse depends entirely on the experience of artillery, some shells only explode when they hit the ground, and some explode just after they are discharged, completely losing their effectiveness. However, one third of the 180 projectiles still exploded on the heads of the cavalry, and the 18 walnut-sized projectiles formed a fan-shaped killing surface with great power.

Seeing the increase in casualties, the cavalry generals who led the team hurriedly urged their horses and prepared to speed up and rush into the enemy formation as soon as possible.

At the 500-meter mark, the artillerymen were replaced with shotguns, a weapon of killing. Each shotgun contained 68 submunitions, and 12,240 submunitions were fired from 180 artillery pieces at the first time, forming an ammunition belt three meters high and 1,500 meters long in front of the 10,000 cavalry of the Qing army.