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Geng Zhongming's troops moved, and immediately, the Ming army also moved slowly, generally slowly and orderly, and after slowly moving west for half a mile, it stopped.

The troops of King Sanshun were the most unusual in the Qing army, and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were known for their shooting, and although the Han military banners of the Tong family also operated firearms, they mainly relied on artillery, and due to lack of training, their combat effectiveness was average.

The troops of the king of Sanshun are different, their troops except for a small part of the cavalry, are completely good at relying on firearms, the foreign teacher Xi hired by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, trained the troops of Kong and Geng into the most elite firearms troops in China at that time, the artillery and muskets are proficient, and they have mastered the relatively high-end technology of unified ranging.

"Huh!" Zhu Youlang put away the clairvoyance and said with a smile: "Tartar, this is trying to fight with us with firearms!" Well, I will fulfill them! The order, the Jingying Gongsheng Camp pressed forward three hundred steps! ”

The 3,000 sergeants of the Gongsheng Battalion are all elite firearms men selected from various battalions, and they have all been trained by Portuguese and foreign teachers, and the whole battalion is equipped with the latest quality turtledove and bird guns produced in the Zhaoqing Arsenal. It can be regarded as the ace of firearms in the Beijing camp.

As soon as the flag moved, the drums sounded, and the soldiers of the Gongsheng Battalion moved about 300 steps to the west in a uniform manner to the beat of the drums, and at the same time, the two artillery teams, which were also equipped with all kinds of high-quality artillery newly produced by the Zhaoqing Arsenal, also took turns to move the gun positions to the west some distance. At the same time, two cavalry teams of 1,000 men also quickly followed, guarding the two wings of the musket array.

Seeing that the Ming army moved, Geng Zhongming also sent a herald to shake the order flag, pressing the team forward five hundred steps, and the gap between the two armies was no more than a mile and a half.

Zhu Youlang is in the regimental guard of Dingba Durui, surrounded by heavy soldiers from Beijing, and his life safety is still guaranteed, as the king of a country, he doesn't need to go to the battlefield in person, and the reason why he still supervises the army in person is also forced to have no choice.

Jiao Lian, as the commander of the reinforcements, has more qualifications and less ability; Li Dingguo, as the chief general of the army, has more than ability, insufficient qualifications, and it is difficult to transfer the Beijing camp in a short period of time, and the emperor is not at ease to hand over all the military power to him, and other generals such as Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Wu Jihei, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Shaoqi and other generals have such and such problems, either lack of ability, or lack of qualifications, no one can convince everyone to obey the order.

Helpless, in order to effectively mobilize the armies, wrap the power into a fist and concentrate on it, so as not to make each of them fight, as the emperor, Zhu Youlang can only personally go into battle to supervise the army, but he also knows that he has a few catties and taels, so he will not give military orders indiscriminately, and every military order is to follow the opinions of Li Dingguo and Jiao Lian and others beside him, and after comprehensive judgment, he strives to avoid the defeat of the war due to command mistakes to the greatest extent.

With more than 40,000 reinforcements, the main force of the Ming army besieging Yiyang was about 60,000, of which more than 12,000 people from Hao Shaoqi's department plus 5,000 men and horses from the previous Gao Yigong Department took over Li Dingguo's 10,000 elites of Zhongwu Town, responsible for besieging the city and trapping the men and horses in the city.

In this way, the emperor gathered Jiao Lian, Wu Jisi, Li Dingguo, and Yuan Zongdi, the four elite main forces, with a total of more than 45,000 battles and auxiliaries.

Zhu Youlang was transferred, and Geng Zhongming's follow-up troops also arrived one after another, about 2,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry, all of whom were the elite of the Dongjiang River, as well as eight Hongyi cannons dragged by dozens of cattle.

Although there were three-wheeled artillery carriages, the artillery was too heavy and inconvenient to move, seeing that the sergeant had already driven the artillery and led away dozens of old oxen, Geng Zhongming immediately dialed his horse and gave the order, and after a while, the cavalry and foot soldiers guarding the two wings were in place.

Seeing this, Zhu Youlang pulled out his waist knife, raised it above his head, and was about to act, when a general suddenly jumped out of the generals on his side, walked quickly to the emperor, knelt on one knee, and said with a fist: "Your Majesty, the minister Liu Muzhi wishes to lead the troops to break the formation!" ”

Liu Muzhi is about thirty years old, not tall, with dark skin, bright eyes, a short beard, a capable look, ape arms and a bee waist, and a standard martial arts figure.

Zhu Youlang knew that he was the son of the late general Liu Fangliang, who was one of Li Zicheng's henchmen and served as the general of the left battalion. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), he led his troops from Shanxi to Taihang, entered northern Henan and southern Jinan, and went straight to Baoding, cooperating with Li Zicheng to attack Beijing. Later, with Li Zicheng, he withdrew from Shaanxi and entered Huguang. After Li Zicheng was killed in Jiugong Mountain in Tongcheng, he joined Tian Jianxiu and Wu Ruyi with Li Guo and Gao Yigong, and insisted on Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty. The following year, he crossed the river to the north to besiege Jingzhou, but was suddenly attacked by Qing soldiers and died. His son Liu Muzhi held Liu Fangliang's corpse, put on his father's armor and fought desperately, led the rest of the troops to break through the Manchurian Eight Banners military formation, broke through successfully, and belonged to Li Guo, Gao Yigong's loyal battalion, and then settled a monstrous blood feud with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Before the emperor's more than 40,000 reinforcements set out on the expedition, Liu Muzhi took more than 600 elite iron horsemen from his father's remnants and asked for orders to go to war with the army to avenge the killing of his father, and the emperor allowed it.

Zhu Youlang knew the truth that the mourning soldiers would win, he smiled and put away his waist knife: "Go, I believe in you!" ”

Liu Muzhi got the order, summoned more than 600 cronies of the cavalry, through the gap between the phalanx, stepped on the earth, rushed out from the south side of the array, from east to west, galloped through, and held the Qing army a mile away.

"It's the rest of the camp!" Geng Zhongming admired the performance of the Ming knights, stroked his beard, and asked.

"Hmmm! I think so, how can the Southern Barbarians have such elite knights! Shang Kexi echoed.

Geng Zhongming shook his shoulders, seeing that the Ming army was not in a hurry to exchange fire, he did send a separate cavalry to the front of the battle, and the Ming army wanted to fight the cavalry first? Geng Zhongming couldn't help but wonder a little: "Order the forward two-winged knights, allocate five hundred people, and go to meet them for a while!" ”

"Wow!"

Shang Kexi turned around to give the order, and a cloud of smoke and dust immediately rose from the position not far away, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves immediately spread.

The 500 cavalry on the right flank tidied up a little, formed two horizontal columns, protruded from the camp, moved forward, gradually widened the distance between each other in the process, went forward on the right side, made a diagonal line, and ran slowly.

This trip was different from the previous times, the five hundred cavalry were not sweeping the formation, but in a horizontal formation for a charge, seeing that Liu Muzhi had also gathered more than 600 cavalry around him, Zhu Youlang's order flag was also changed, Liu Muzhi held the fine iron spear obliquely, leaned forward slightly, clamped the horse's belly with both feet, and led the cavalry of his cronies to rush out head-on. (To be continued.) )