"the thief! What kind of fame are they doing? Lao Tzu really can't understand it, and after this battle, he will go home to retire and go to the ball! ”

Ma Jinzhong stood under his own flag, looked at Wang Kefan's Zhongjun Daxu on the dirt mountain, and then turned his head to stare at Tongcheng in the southwest direction, the Qing army brigade was emerging from behind the woods at the corner of the city wall, because the speed of the march was not fast, thousands of people did not raise much dust, high and low flags fluttered in the wind, swords, guns and weapons flashed with fine light, like rippling water under the sun.

In Ma Jinzhong's view, the Chu army suddenly detoured to the north gate before the battle, just like two people suddenly turning around when they were fighting for their lives, and selling the defenseless waist and abdomen weakness to the other party was undoubtedly a very risky behavior. But the strange thing is that the Qing army did not seize this opportunity, or did not think that it was an opportunity, did not send cavalry to raid, and still came to fight slowly and step by step.

Ma Jinzhong had a deep sense of frustration, could it be that Wang Kefan and Chen Tai were too much smarter than him? I can't understand the deployment at all!

After receiving the news of the arrival of the Qing army, the Ming army immediately stopped advancing and lined up to prepare for the battle with the support of the Tushan, the Chu army undoubtedly served as the main force in the front, and Ma Jinzhong's troops were placed behind the flank of the Tushan, responsible for covering the flank of the Chu army. It was not a simple matter for the 20,000 army to suddenly change from a marching state to a combat state, and Ma Jinzhong was busy for a long time before deploying his thousands of men and horses in place, but the Chu army's movements were very fast, and it seemed that they had been prepared. This deepened Ma Jinzhong's suspicions.

Looking at this, Wang Kefan was ready to face the Qing army in Tushan before he made a detour to the North Gate Wharf. However, the terrain in the Tushan area is very ordinary, and there is nothing special about it, Wang Kefan tried his best to lead the Qing army here for a decisive battle, is there really a certainty of victory?

Ma Jinzhong is not afraid to fight with the Green Battalion soldiers, but he has always been jealous of the True Tartars, and it seems to him that it is a very stupid act to fight head-on with the Eight Banners Cavalry in this open area. is more likely to lose a battle, but he has a strong Jianghu spirit, and he dares to win and dare to lose. I'd rather take some risks than try to run away on my own.

"Hey, I don't want to do so much, just bet with him to see ......"

After the Qing army entered the open area. At the first time, it unfolded into a battle formation from the marching state of the column. The cavalry of the Eight Banners of the front army was divided into two, and advanced forward for 500 steps on the left and right, Chen Tai led the Bayala soldiers to sit in the center, the fire and artillery units of the Tianyou soldiers followed closely, and the infantry of the green battalion fell slightly, and the 5,000 men and horses quickly completed the formation.

Less than five miles to the northeast was the camp of the Chu army, after they received the news that the Qing army was approaching. They had long been lined up to meet the battle, and the two armies were so close. Stretching out your fist to hit the opponent, no one can retreat in a roundabout way, and a hard-fought head-to-head duel is inevitable.

At this time, both sides were more cautious, both making the final pre-battle preparations, and did not launch an attack lightly, only the rangers of the Qing army relied on their superb riding skills and constantly rushed to harass the Ming army. The rangers of the Ming army were obviously inferior in strength, and they quickly lost the upper hand in the struggle, and after fighting and retreating to the back of the formation, the rangers of the Qing army were even more arrogant, spreading out the formation and rushing to the two wings of the Ming army's array, constantly shooting light arrows with cavalry bows.

The Eight Banners are most fond of using this harassment tactic in the field, the Ming officers and troops are often defeated, under the continuous accumulation of bows and arrows, it is difficult for ordinary people to bear to only be beaten and not fight back, the formation will be loose and rioty, and the large forces of the Qing army take the opportunity to carry out concentrated assaults, often crushing the Ming army's formation in one fell swoop.

But the Chu army is not an ordinary Ming official army, they use the small round shield on their arms to protect the throat of the face, they no longer pay attention to those flying light arrows, the lethality of the riding bow is very limited, can not penetrate the armor on the Chu army, as long as the fear is overcome, the harassment of the cavalry is difficult to have too much lethality.

The archers in the back row of the Ming army began to fire back at the same time, and the rows of feather arrows shot at the Qing rangers, who used powerful foot bows, and the Qing rangers could only be beaten and could not fight back, and two horses were injured by arrows and had to retreat.

Morale was slightly frustrated, but Chen Tai's face was not shocked, Wang Kefan has been famous in the past two years, and is considered to be a rising star in the Ming army, the most warlike general in Huguang, if his troops don't even have this ability, wouldn't it be a joke.

The real killer move hasn't been used yet!

Not far from the east gate to here, the two red-coated cannons of the Qing army were equipped with artillery carriages, which were pushed to the front of the battle by the Tianyou soldiers, and the other six light tiger squat cannons were placed behind the horse rejecting pistols to prevent the Ming army from raiding the Chinese army.

There are also a few artillery pieces on the position of the Chu army, but it seems that they are all small guys, the largest should only be able to hit more than three catties of artillery, and it is certainly not the opponent of the Qing army's red-coated artillery, the experienced Tianyou soldiers immediately noticed this, and under the cover of cavalry and infantry, they pushed the two red-coated cannons to a distance of 1,500 steps from Tushan, which is the limit of the effective range of the red-coated cannons, but the Ming army cannons can't hit themselves.

Chen Tai immediately stepped forward, observing the formation of the Ming army, the only commanding heights near is the small earth mountain with a small slope, 20,000 Ming troops rely on this earth mountain to deploy, Wang Kefan's Chinese army Daxu is at the top of the earth mountain, where the defense force is the strongest, but it is also the "formation eye" of the Ming army's formation, as long as this earth mountain is captured, this battle will inevitably be won.

"Fire!"

Chen Tai gave an order, the horn sounded, the flag waved, and the two red-clothed cannons of the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers spewed out smoke and fire one after another, and the two heavy five-pound cannons roared towards Tushan.

The red-coated cannon is actually a copy of the Western ship-borne gun, the trajectory is low and flat, so the parabola of the shell running is far less than 45 degrees of angle, and the range has been affected to a certain extent, but there is a disadvantage and a benefit, the low and flat trajectory creates a smooth angle of injection, and it will not lose too much kinetic energy after landing, and if it bounces forward repeatedly on flat ground, it will cause two, three or even four kills, and a large number of kills and injuries of the enemy in dense formation.

The Ming army formed a wide defensive zone on the slope of the mountain, with rough fortifications and barricades in front and layers of soldiers in the back, Chen Tai was very sure that these two red-coated cannons could easily smash those fortifications and break through the flesh alleys in the formation of the Ming soldiers.

Ma Jinzhong was watching the battle from the side and rear, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.

He had escorted artillery units for Azig, and had a certain understanding of the artillery of the Qing army, Chen Tai's two red-coated cannons with artillery carriages that could be pushed, both of which were imitations of the Shenwei general cannon of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was one of the most advanced weapons in this era, and the power was extremely amazing.

On the top of the mountain, Wang Kefan looked very calm, but there was a little nervousness in his heart, the test of using the soil slope to prevent the ricocheting missile kill has been done a long time ago, and the angle of this hillside is also quite ideal, but what the actual effect is, it still needs to be tested in actual combat.

"Bang! Boom! ”

The two cannonballs fell on the slope of the hill one after the other, making a dull sound, one hit the antler array, and the other landed in the archer camp of the Ming army, those Ming archers saw the cannonballs flying towards them, and they all hurriedly dodged around, Chen Tai saw their wolf bèi appearance, the corners of his mouth showed a sneer of disdain, the cannonball hit the ground and then bounced up is the time to really hurt people, the speed is too fast, and you can't hide if you want to.

However, the next scene was something he never expected.

The shell fell on the slope of the mountain, and when it bounced again, it did not move forward, but flew almost straight into the sky, and the nearby Ming army watched the shell fly higher and higher, and hurriedly scattered around, and the shell fell and was still near the point of the first bullet, and it didn't hurt anyone!

The other cannonball also looked similar, completely different from the usual low and flat ejection angle, and after landing, it also bounced upwards, only slightly deflected to the left front, bounced back and forth like a leather ball several times, and finally fell to the ground and did not move, only two antlers were broken.

How so!

Ma Jinzhong was surprised and delighted, if it wasn't for the middle of the battle, he would have rushed to Tushan to ask why those shells lost their power, and whether this qiē had been arranged by Wang Kefan a long time ago.

On the top of the mountain, Wang Kefan laughed loudly, the effect of this hillside anti-ricocheting was very good, even exceeding his expectations, and the soldiers around him saw that he was in control, and all the remaining tension disappeared.

Chen Tai was dumbfounded, and it took a long time before he ordered someone to call the artillery officer over and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"The last general can't say clearly, the cannon kills the most on flat ground, and it tends to turn on slopes, but this kind of flying straight towards the sky, the last general is also the first time to see ......"

"What's the solution?" Chen Taiqiang asked angrily.

"This, Rong Mo will try again." The officer ordered the Tianyou soldiers to fire again, to their disappointment, the effect was similar to the last time, he proposed to Chen Tai to build yì and push the cannon forward for another three hundred steps, but was reprimanded by Chen Tai, these cannons move slowly, if they are too far away from the main formation, they are easy to be attacked by the Ming army.

At this time, a loud bang came from the top of Tushan, and one of the largest guns of the Ming army opened fire.

"Zhang Jing doesn't have to pay attention to him, Nanban's cannon can't hit our ......" The artillery officer's voice did not fall, but his face showed a look of astonishment, and the shadow of a cannonball in his pupils became bigger and bigger, Chen Tai had already seen that something was wrong, kicked the artillery officer to the ground, and urged the horse to rush out towards the oblique spur.

With a bang, the cannonball landed more than twenty paces ahead, but luckily it didn't bounce to this side, but it rushed into the musket team of the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers, and immediately smashed the flesh and blood into the air, screaming again and again. (To be continued......)