Before leaving, Tuntai had already greeted them, saying that although their army was cavalry, they would deliberately slow down the rescue speed, in order to take advantage of the Ming army's attention to Geng Zhongming's Western Route Army, and his first army would surprise the Ming army's position and destroy the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to this strategic assumption, Geng Zhongming's first army undertook the main attack and gradually made progress, and Tuntai, as a surprise soldier, used the combat form of surprise attack to surprise the enemy, and then chose a favorable time and place to carry out a decisive battle.

On the third day of the seventh month, on the fourth day after Zhu Youlang's pro-conquest army arrived in Yiyang, the Western Route Army led by Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi reached the mouth of the Ruan River.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ……”

Gunpowder smoke filled the south bank of the mouth of Dongting Lake, and 100 large and small river boats half hung their sails, lined up, like centipedes, carrying the Qing army, rushing to the shore.

At the beachhead, the three columns of Dongjiang soldiers and birds had already opened their positions in an orderly manner, and with the assistance of dozens of Franco machine guns, they formed a thin but solid iron wall.

Not far away, there were scattered Ming soldiers who fled, occasionally looking back, but they lost their lives under the black muzzles and muzzles.

The 60,000 Qing army horses and infantry troops continued to land on the shore, like a trickle, gathered together, and quickly formed one huge phalanx torrent after another.

Monk Geng Zhongming stood side by side on the bow of the boat, admiring their masterpieces.

There was only a small open area at the Nguyen River Pass, and due to the restrictions of terrain and ships, the Qing army could only land 3,000 people at a time, and the Ming army garrisoned at the mouth of the Nguyen River had several hundred people.

After all the troops landed, Geng Zhongming sent a large number of rangers to reconconnoiter the surrounding situation, and the information reported was that there were no defenders around, only one hundred and ten scattered routs at the mouth of the Ruan River.

Geng Zhongming, who adhered to the cautious way, was also afraid that this was a trap set by the Ming army, and urgently ordered the cavalry under his command to expand the scope to continue to investigate, and the rangers went out to inspect for most of the day, and finally returned to the thirty miles without finding any trace of the enemy, and there was no place to ambush the soldiers, Geng Zhongming then dared to go south, after they entered the mouth of the Ruan River, on the first day, the army advanced to the south for fifty miles.

After a period of rapid marching, the military baggage could not keep up, resulting in a shortage of food supply, they searched the surrounding villages, all kinds of coarse and fine grain were added up to less than 300 stones, fortunately, after the army stopped, the baggage gradually followed, do not have to worry about the problem of insufficient food The army rested in place for a night, and continued to go south.

At this time, it was resisted by part of the Ming army, but it was defeated and defeated in a few rounds, and the advantage was firmly in the hands of the Qing army, and it fought five times in a day, each time it won the battle, and the Ming army that came to block it was defeated. The main force of the Qing army took advantage of the situation to enter the Yiyang boundary.

The smooth march, even if it encountered resistance, it could still be defeated effortlessly, five battles and five victories, so that the Qing army could not help but have some contempt for the Ming army, as the destination gradually approached, so that Geng Zhongming, who was originally a little cautious and did not dare to advance, was also relieved to boldly advance to the south with the main force.

Soon after the army entered the Yiyang realm, the Ming army built the city was already faintly in sight, and when the news came, the Qing army felt the excitement that they were close to the target and were ready to win a decisive battle under the city.

Geng Zhongming immediately convened Shang Kexi, the general army line Guoan, Zhang Wenhuan, Li Yangxing, Kong Long and others for a military discussion, after the military discussion, immediately made a dispatch and arrangement for attacking the city, the line national security department of 4,000 Dongjiang soldiers is the main force of the attack, and sent Zhang Wenhuan, the chief soldier of the green battalion, to take 5,000 green battalions to continue to respond.

Geng Zhongming, as the commander of the Chinese army, set off closely with the front army, and Zhishun Wang, and Shang Kexi, the general staff of the marching army, were at his side to prepare for consultation and help him command the battle. The 12,000 Green Battalion soldiers under the General Soldier Li Yanghe and Kong Long served as the rear army, protecting the grain route and urging some Dongjiang soldiers and Green Battalion soldiers who had fallen behind because of the hot weather.

The distribution here has just been decided, and suddenly there is a report from the horses, and a large army of Ming troops appeared twenty miles east of the city. At this time, Geng Zhongming was engrossed in the front of the city, he was competing for time with the Ming army, hoping to capture a section of the city first, and defeat the Ming army inside.

Knowing that there was a Ming army in the east, Geng Zhongming's first thought was that those Ming troops might be the defeated soldiers who were killed and retreated a few days ago, and some men and horses were gathered nearby to challenge, and the Ming army with a total of two or three thousand people was no longer in his heart at this time, so he casually ordered: "This must be the remnants of the puppet dynasty defeated, and the rear army can be ordered to capture it." ”

Not long after the spies came to report again, the Ming army horse infantry tens of thousands of troops are coming, Li Zongrong's 8,000 green battalion was defeated without turning, the department suffered heavy losses, has been retreating, Geng Zhongming was shocked, secretly hated himself for underestimating the enemy's carelessness, fortunately, most of the losses are cannon fodder, not to the point of breaking the muscles and bones, he urgently ordered Li to retreat, on the other hand, he led Shang Kexi, personally arranged the whole army, in order to wait for the enemy, and at the same time continued to order the report, soon, several spies came to report, the Ming army came about 40,000 horses, it was the puppet emperor Yongli personally unified the army.

More than two hours later, a burst of smoke and dust rose in the distance, from far to near, stopped about five miles in the position of the Qing army's central army, the dust settled, tens of thousands of Ming troops lined up in formation, and a banner embroidered with the word "Ming" was waved in the wind.

"The puppet emperor is still a little bold, and he dares to come to the front line in person!" Geng Zhongming secretly estimated the strength of the other party and said.

"Is the way of battle formation child's play? The layman leads the insider, but he is just seeking his own death, and he is worried that he can't catch him, just in time! Shang Kexi said with a happy face, not remembering that his side had been defeated for a while just now.

Geng Zhongming raised his clairvoyance and cautiously observed the Ming army formation on the opposite side, the front army of the Ming army lined up in six columns of horizontal formations, and completely spread out the queue.

Geng Zhongming is also an expert in the use of firearms, but he will not charge head-on like others, but there is still a necessary temptation.

After examining his army, he gave a resolute order, and instructed the heralds on the left and right: "Go, send a team of cavalry to sweep the formation, don't get too close, and see what kind of road those southern barbarians are!" ”

"Wow!"

A horn sounded, and dozens of horsemen galloped out from the side of the formation, drawing a rounded arc, from west to east, gradually approaching the Ming army's formation.

Dozens of Qing army riders roared past in front of the Ming army, but the Ming army did not move, did not fire or let go of the gun, Shang Kexi leaned on Geng Zhongming's side when he saw this: "Handsome! ”

Geng Zhongming also frowned slightly, I don't know which one Ming Jun is singing!

He turned around and felt the strength of both sides again, and pressed forward slightly with his gesture, and the herald on the side immediately waved the flag a few times, and the team slowly moved forward a mile. (To be continued.) )