Standing on a small hill 200 meters outside the city gate in the north of the city, holding a telescope in both hands, carefully observing the situation of the two warring sides, the distorted faces of the soldiers were clearly visible due to the close proximity of the battlering battlefields.

In the three and a half years since the formation of the Volunteer Army, it has grown from scratch, and the training of the army has become more and more regularized.

However, in the era of cold weapons, the competition between the two sides was momentum and barbaric killing, and because the Sichuan people were shorter, they were originally worried that they would suffer losses on the battlefield.

However, in recent years, the increasingly formalized training, strict military discipline, coupled with the coordination and cooperation of artillery, muskets, and infantry in the process of fighting, as well as the high momentum played a role on the battlefield, the battlefield has not yet fallen behind with one enemy and two enemies.

Obviously, the generals of the green battalion on the front line have fallen into a state of anxiety, and they are constantly adding troops to the front in order to suppress the opponent on the battlefield, in an attempt to save face.

With a long sigh of relief, Yang Lin put down the binoculars and looked at the people around him, everyone was overjoyed, and the battlefield situation was also unexpected.

Since the Wanli period, the Tartar field battles have been invincible, and everyone has been apprehensive about fighting out of the city, even in the face of those green battalion soldiers and horses reorganized by the Ming army, some people are not very optimistic.

But as Qian Bangji, who was watching the battle next to him, said, although the soldiers and horses of the green battalion were considered elite in my Ming Dynasty in the past, they are now completely invincible in the face of our volunteers after taking refuge in the Tartars.

Everyone was quite puzzled, and Yin Chengqi next to him analyzed: "Since the Yellow Emperor, I have been a country in China for more than 4,000 years, and even the women in the mountains and villages you despise know benevolence and righteousness.

Since the Tatars entered the Central Plains, although hundreds of thousands of elite green battalions have been recruited, although these green battalion soldiers and horses have made great contributions to the Tartars, but like all traitor troops, they can certainly fight in the face of the rabble, but if they face our volunteers, the departments are not only well-equipped, but also the soldiers of the three armies fight to the death with their lives, so the essence of traitors is undoubtedly expressed.

Although some hardcore traitors on the battlefield are willing to fight to the death, the ordinary soldiers below usually bully the righteous army, and it is okay to bully the Ming army with very weak combat strength.

Now we have to face tens of thousands of our volunteers who are more powerful, even if the two armies are evenly matched, but the other side does not have the courage to fight to the death, so of course they will lose the upper hand on the battlefield."

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty liked to talk about military affairs, just like many hot-blooded men in modern times, of course, they understood the truth that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and everyone nodded in approval.

After recognizing that the strength of the volunteers was stronger than that of the Green Battalion, Qian Bangqi put forward a bold idea, that is, to lead the troops to assault and force the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to fight in the field.

According to the original plan, on the left, center, and right flanks, a field regiment and a militia regiment fought head-on with the green battalion, gradually leading the opponent into the first line of fortifications, and then suddenly launching a counterattack, either to annihilate the enemy who invaded the position, or to force the Tartar cavalry to dispatch, while the Volunteers used the fortifications to maneuver with the Tartar cavalry.

At present, although the green battalion is constantly increasing its troops, the field regiments on the front line are in full swing and have not fallen behind at all.

However, the two sides fought head-on on the battlefield, and although they killed and injured each other in large numbers, the volunteers also suffered great damage.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin decided to change his strategy slightly, so that the warring units waited for the opportunity to retreat, and the main force of his troops moved to the two wings, leaving a front for the green battalion to enter, and invited Jun into the urn and let it enter the ambush place.

At this time, in order to save face, Bai Yongfu, Gao Mingzhan and others continued to send more troops to the front line, which helped the retreat of the various units of the Volunteer Army.

Everyone relied on the fortifications to retreat and walk, gradually retreating to the two flanks, leaving the front to wait for the green battalion to advance.

Seeing the retreat of the volunteers, the green battalion soldiers who had been pressed and beaten did not know what to do, and rushed over with shouts and went deep into the position for a mile.

In the first hour, all the front-line troops were lost, and Bai Yongfu once felt that his heart was dripping blood, and he desperately increased his troops in order to maintain his status as a minion, and hoped that a miracle would turn the tide.

Unexpectedly, the other party was fighting more than once, retreating backwards, or fleeing to the slopes of the two wings.

Seeing the volunteers fleeing, the morale of the Green Battalion recovered slightly, and everyone shouted and rushed over, or sent troops and horses to surround the hill and prepare to gather and annihilate them.

Bai Yongfu was full of confidence at first, but now he finally won the favor of God and escaped from the other party.

Led the troops to pursue for hundreds of meters, and was pulled by the master around him to feel that the situation was wrong, the situation on the battlefield was too weird, the left and right wings of the volunteers actually retreated to four or five hillsides, obviously the other party was to let go of the front to occupy the two wings.

In addition, there were actually a few war horses around him who fell into the rejection pit.

When I got off the horse, there was a horse rejection pit about 10 meters long and two meters wide, supported by a bamboo basket and covered with mud.

At first, I didn't think about it, and the defending side would dig a rejection pit, and it was natural that these two or three horses were unlucky enough to fall into the rejection pit.

But when he turned his head to look, he found that more than ten war horses had fallen into the horse rejection pit, and Bai Yongfu felt that something was wrong, and was preparing to withdraw from the command post.

But now it was too late, the volunteers launched a counterattack, Jing Keqin and others led their troops to kill, everyone suddenly stood up from the hidden fortifications, lined up in several rows, and aimed at the swarming green battalion soldiers will take turns shooting.

The soldiers in front of them fell bravely, and three consecutive volleys were fired, so that the green battalion soldiers were scattered, and now even ordinary soldiers and generals knew that they had fallen into the opponent's trap and retreated back.

But on the battlefield, the dispatch is very difficult, although the front is defeated like a mountain, everyone retreats, but the unclear reason behind has charged forward, the two sides bumped together, and the scene was chaotic.

At the same time as the rear counterattack, Wang Zhibang and Qi Lianfang also led their soldiers and horses to kill from the hillside, and stopped firing a salvo when the two sides were sixty or seventy paces apart.

At that time, the green battalion soldiers had already been scattered in all corners of the battlefield, and there were not many soldiers and horses besieging Wang Zhibang, Qi Lianfang and others, and they collapsed after two rounds of salvos.

The killers in the rear rushed into the flock of sheep and were unstoppable, while the musketeers reloaded the gunpowder and lead one after another, and then led the squadron leader and group leader to the rear.

The soldiers and horses of the green battalion who defeated the siege were met head-on by the musketeers and archers of the green battalion, and because they were not equipped with any spurs, the musketeers had no ability to fight in close combat.

Seeing the arrival of the volunteers, some tried in vain to shoot back, and most of them fled in many ways.

The Nikan and Malashi who were standing in the rear and swept the formation gasped, as usual, the Manmeng Eight Banners mostly swept the formation in the rear, and then suddenly attacked before the opponent collapsed, in order to win the victory on the battlefield.

At first, the two sides went back and forth and killed each other, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed in half an hour, and the soldiers and horses of the green battalion suddenly exerted force on the battlefield, and the other side retreated one after another.

In order to plunder the fruits of the war, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manmeng got on their horses one after another, preparing to fight on the battlefield, after everyone was divided into five formations, they saw the reversal of the battlefield situation again, the volunteers launched a counterattack, and the soldiers and horses of the green battalion retreated back like a tide.

There are people and horses everywhere, there is no space for the Manmeng Eight Banners to charge, seeing the retreating green battalion generals, Nikan raised his saber and repeatedly slashed several fleeing soldiers, so it took half a day to stabilize the situation, Nikan led more than a thousand Mongolian Eight Banners around him to charge forward.

At this time, the volunteers had recaptured their positions, and although most of the thousands of green battalion soldiers and horses who rushed into the formation escaped, more than 1,000 people fell into the formation, either surrendered or were killed.

The morale of the volunteers who regained their positions was great, and everyone waved their weapons and shouted loudly in demonstration.

Seeing the opponent's cavalry, the atmosphere of the whole battlefield became solemn for a while, and some people even felt that their hearts were about to burst.

The rapid maneuvering of the cavalry on the battlefield was far from being matched by the infantry, and when there were still a hundred paces away, the rows of musketeers fired continuously, and although they shot several horses, the horses were too fast, and before everyone could finish the second round of shooting, the cavalry rushed closer.

Some of the riders began to bend their bows and shoot from a distance, while others in close range drew their sabers and prepared to slash the Volunteers in front of them.

The front row of war horses actually fell into a huge horse pit, this is strange, just now the volunteers were walking on the ground like a flat ground, why are they digging a horse pit now?

In fact, the principle is very simple, when constructing the fortifications, dig a large pit with a length of 3 meters, a width of 1 meter and a depth of 1 meter on the mud ground in front, and bury antler guns and bamboo sticks in the pits.

Its pit is connected like a sub-character, shaped like a hook, on which it is supported by bamboo utensils, and is made into a dustpan for silkworms in the countryside in the past, and on top it is covered with green grass and fine sand as a camouflage.

The weight of a human being is far inferior to that of a war horse, and the weight of a Mongolian horse (weighing 267-370 kg, plus the armor on the back of a knight and a horse, the weight is close to 450 kg, which is 9 times the weight of ordinary people in this era), and the momentum of the front and rear feet of the war horse after galloping will only be greater.

The people stepped on the horse rejection pit safely and unharmed, and the war horse stepped on the top and stepped into the air and sunken.

The war horses that rushed to the front row fell into it one by one, and although the war horses struggled to jump out of the pit, they were stabbed by spears and bamboo sticks in the pit and could not do anything.

The war horse behind did not know the risk, and still charged forward at a gallop, and for a while, rushed to the front and saw that many cavalry were trapped in the horse pit in front of them, and hurriedly tightened the reins of the horse, but the speed of the high-speed running war horse was very fast, and it was not something you could stop if you wanted to. (This is not an advanced tactic, it was introduced by the Tang Dynasty general Li Jing, and it is also explained in detail in his military book)

All of a sudden, dozens of war horses fell into the horse pit, hundreds of war horses crowded together, everyone saw that the situation was not good, and some wanted to fight the horses and escape, but it was not too late.

The cavalry who fell into the trap of the horse had a dead end, and the knights who were panicked and tightened the reins of their horses were no better, because they were mostly in the range of muskets and crossbows, under the command of the squad leader, a squad of musketeers fired a volley at the knights on horseback, Rao is superb riding skills, and it was difficult to dodge, and the riders in front of him were shot on their backs.

The few survivors were no better, and everyone jumped over the trap and rushed over, the first of course being the tall wolf hand, waving a wolf whick about two feet long to attack the war horse.

The wolf is about two zhang long, one inch long and one inch strong, the attack range is very large, often two wolf wheaths side by side, sweeping left and right, blocking the momentum of the war horse.

In the face of the wolf-swatters' frantic sweep, the riders tightened their horses to dodge, and at this time often rushed out two spearmen and two palladium-boring men.

One spearman wields a hooked sickle and the other uses a common spear, mainly attacking the feet and bodies of horses.

Palladium boring can be used as a large stick to hit the neck of a horse, or the horizontal spines on the palladium can attack the horse's legs and body.

This is not over, the most annoyed is the rattan player, often under the cover of the wolf hand, spearman, and palladium hand, the left hand protects the upper body with the rattan card, and he rushes under the horse, facing the panicked war horse, brandishing the horse chopping knife and slashing at the war horse.

Depending on the number of enemy cavalry in front, everyone forms different combinations, and if the strength is overwhelmingly superior, a squad is a combat unit.

If the strength is not too dominant, a unit will form a combat unit, combine long and short weapons, use wolf stalks, spears, and boring palladium feints to attract the attention of the opponent, and then attack the horse's legs with sabers, hook sickles, and boring palladium.

There was a bloody storm on the battlefield, and the war horses that fell into the horse pit wailed, and the war horses that lost their legs fell to the ground and made a heavy impact sound.

Nikan felt that his heart was dripping blood, many of them were the Manchu and Mongolian children who were selected by thousands of people, unlike the Han people, the Manchu Mongols were scarce, and one died less than one, in the face of the continuous death and injury of the Eight Banners warriors, Nikan was heartbroken.

But the battlefield is the momentum of the competition, although the casualties are very large, but Nikan does not dare to retreat, if it is so easy to retreat, then since Lao Nu for decades the myth of the Eight Banners field battle won a hundred battles will be self-defeating.

Now Nikan's only hope is to continue to persevere, that is, the Green Battalion soldiers and horses will be killed as soon as possible to reduce the pressure on the Eight Banners generals.