On the second day, because it was agreed in the previous military discussion, it was necessary to cook food on the third watch and pull out the camp on the fifth watch today to meet the Qing army.

It's just that today, the third watch is not a problem for the auxiliary soldiers and men from Dalan Mountain, but the fifth watch is absolutely impossible. Because by the fifth watch, many friendly troops had not yet arrived, and even some were still lying under the covers, let alone sending troops after dinner.

All morning, Shen Tiaolun had been running around the camps of the friendly troops outside the town of Liang Lane, and it was easy to get them all up, and he had breakfast, and he was ready to set off in full gear, and the meal for lunch was almost here. In this regard, he can only comfort himself with the fact that this is the first time to mobilize many friendly forces to fight together, and this experience is also an experience for Wang Yi to mobilize a large army to recover lost territory in the future.

Since the third watch made rice, close to the fifth watch, many friendly troops have not gotten up, Wang Yi has always suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and said that the fifth watch will gather the generals, but when the time comes, the generals will basically come, but the soldiers have not seen much, if it is not for Liu Yiming's earlier suggestion not to swear on the temporary construction platform before the assembly is completed, I am afraid that there will be some trouble.

Since it was no longer possible to cook on the third watch and camp on the fifth watch, Wang Yi had no choice but to modify the plan to set off after lunch. With so many friendly troops, all of them of good and bad, he really couldn't find the feeling of being like an arm and a finger when he was only commanding his headquarters in battle.

It seems that Liu Yiming and Huang Zhongdao's ideas are still very constructive, and they still can't gather too many friendly troops in the future, so they are really a bit of a hurry. Now I only hope that this experience of being refrigerated can teach Chen Wen, a young military general whom he has always valued, a lesson, so that he will no longer be able to cultivate a demon king who will cause trouble to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

It's just that the explanations of those friendly generals when gathering the generals still made Wang Yi angry enough, such as "the war will start tomorrow, and the soldiers are so excited that they can't sleep at night", "I sleep late on weekdays, and I am not used to getting up so early", "I should pull out the camp later and let the Tartars walk more to save the physical strength of the sons" and other reasons abound, and what is even more annoying is the sentence of the general who rushed to ask for food, "I ate too much yesterday, and my stomach was so swollen that I couldn't sleep".

Why don't you die?

As soon as this idea popped into his mind, Wang Yi immediately forcibly suppressed it to prevent the slightest displeasure from appearing on his face.

He knows very well that at this moment, the authority of the Ming Dynasty is far less than it was back then, and he can nominally dispatch and command various departments, but in fact, these people can only come for the sake of their own personal face. Once the coordination here is not good, it is likely to ruin state affairs, which makes him always restrained and uncomfortable in doing things.

The state affairs made Wang Yi very sad, but even if he was uncomfortable, he never chose to give up, this was the case when Master Jiang was defeated, and it was the same when he was chased and killed by the Fubiao battalion, even when he just got this information.

As long as he is willing to put in the effort, the national affairs will continue to improve, this belief has supported him to the present, and the current war is the key to determining whether the efforts over the years have been effective. If it wins, it will no longer be a dream to defend Siming Mountain, or even cooperate with the Zhoushan Wang Division to restore Ningshao; If he is unfortunate enough to lose, at least he will have a seed left, and he will not be able to see what this seed will grow into at that time.

At lunchtime, the scouts came with the news that the Qing army had approached Dingshan on the shores of Siming Lake before noon.

After receiving the news, Wang Yi immediately ordered troops to gather after dinner, and after inspiring his morale with the righteousness of loyalty to the monarch and rich material rewards, all the troops participating in the war rushed out and marched according to the plan made before.

From the moment the standard battalion was stationed in Yonghe Town, the sentinels of the two sides have always maintained contact. As the Qing army began to advance towards Liangnong Town today, the sentinels of the Ming army were also squeezed, so that they continued to retreat, but the Qing army was still tenacious and kept in touch, without the slightest intention of cutting off information between them.

As the sentinels on both sides continued to feed back the opponent's movements, about an hour later, the Ming army in the north and the Qing army in the south finally encountered each other in the area of Houyu Village.

Compared to the rather bloated Ming army, the Qing army moved quickly, and they quickly occupied the village of Houyu and began to line up along Siming Lake to the south of the village; Not to be outdone, the Ming army immediately stopped at the north of a small hill and began to line up along the lake according to the previously formulated plan.

At this moment, the two sides are far away, and only the sentry can vaguely observe the other party's movements. The Ming sentinels who were constantly squeezed south by the Qing sentinels who were backed by the main force, and after receiving the support of the cavalry of the headquarters who entered the battlefield, the sentinels of the Ming army also began to try to expel the scouts of the Qing army with their numerical superiority, which was also convenient to obtain more military information and suppress the morale of the opponent.

Compared with when the Qing army just entered the customs, the Ming army from all walks of life fled in the wind has passed several years, and the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area has also got some time to recuperate after the Ming army in Dalanshan captured Shangyu County twice, so that the Qing army was forced to take the defensive after the pressure on Shaoxing Mansion increased sharply. Of course, Lu Jianguo's troubles in Fujian were also a big reason why the Qing army in Zhejiang did almost nothing during that time.

Taking advantage of this period of time, even if the Ming army was full of self-defended short-sighted people, they knew that they had to train their soldiers and horses well, and in the skirmish with the Qing army near Siming Mountain, the soldiers were also trained, and their combat ability was no longer the same.

It's just that compared with the veterans of the hundred battles who were under Huang Degong since the Chongzhen Dynasty and followed Tian Xiong, who was only a general of the Chinese army at that time, to encircle and suppress the Liukou, although the Ming army scouts in the Siming Mountain area were also composed of proud sons in the army, they were inferior in both riding skills and experience. At this moment, even if the number is superior, it is only equal to the opponent, and it is far from achieving the expected results, expelling the opponent's sentinels from the battlefield.

Standing on the hillside, Wang Yi, who was wearing armor, looked at the sentry riders on both sides who were chasing and killing like dogs on the battlefield. Although the numerical Ming army can only fight with the opponent, Wang Yizhi is quite satisfied with this, after all, the soldiers on the Ming army's side have only been in the army for five or six years, and most of the opponents are veterans who have fought for more than ten years.

"Good!"

A cheer came, Wang Yi looked fixedly, but it was a Ming army's sentry riding sideways on the horse and dodged an arrow from the opponent, and a backhand arrow hit the opponent's arm. Although the opponent had already left the battlefield with the speed of his horse, the performance of this sentry cavalry still boosted the morale of the Ming army, and the key thing was that the soldier was not a man from Dalan Mountain.

"Chief Ren's soldiers are training very well."

The general surnamed Ren was the general of the sentry cavalry, the general surnamed Ren had sat in the Fang Guoan Army in his early years, and the captain of the second squad of the firearms team in Chen Wen's army could be regarded as a former colleague.

However, before this moment, Wang Yi's sense of this person was very bad, because this guy was the "beggar" general who didn't bring any weapons and armor to other soldiers except for his own soldiers and family members.

In this joint operation, Wang Yi prepared a lot of spare weapons in advance, but now it seems that it is still too wishful thinking to arm all the Ming troops of Siming Mountain. Fortunately, some of the Ming soldiers did not come to the appointment this time, and after he dug out the family's funds, he finally ensured the armor and weapons of the sharp soldiers in the army, as for the rest of the people, their weapons were only not found, and they were not unexpected.

The Qing army on the opposite side has finished putting on armor, and the entire formation began to slowly press forward, and after the Ming army's sentry cavalry was squeezed again, they withdrew from the battlefield and rushed back to report the information obtained to the commander after summarizing.

"Raise the middle battalion on the right flank? Raise the right battalion on the left flank? Raise the left battalion in the middle army? ”

Compared with the conversion of the position of the left battalion and the right battalion, Wang Yi is even more strange in the promotion of the middle battalion. As far as he knows, among the standard battalions, the strongest combat effectiveness is the middle battalion, then the left battalion, and finally the right battalion.

Since the two sides fought a decisive battle along Siming Lake, close to the side of the lake, because the ground on the shore of the lake was soft and muddy, making it more difficult for the attacking side to march, while the opposing defending side was easier to plug the gap with the advantage of terrain; In addition, even if the opponent is surrounded by a lake on one side and supported by friendly Chinese troops on the other, it is far less easy to form a flank than the side away from the lake, or to force a breakthrough through the opponent's defenses in the middle lane to achieve victory.

According to this reason, on the side of the Ming army, because the combat effectiveness of friendly forces was not very well understood, Wang Yi decided to occupy the middle road with the middle and front battalions of the Ming army in Dalanshan and some friendly troops after discussing with Liu Yiming and Huang Zhongdao, two generals who were old in military affairs, and the left and right battalions in the hands of Liu Yiming and some friendly troops to occupy the right flank responsible for outflanking, while the left flank along the lake was all handed over to several relatively large friendly armies, including Feng Jingdi's subordinates.

As for the Qing army, they occupied the right flank along the lake with the middle battalion, mainly because this army had just returned from the area of Huiji Mountain, and although it had been resting for a day, it was still far from being as recuperated as the other two battalions; The relatively weakest right battalion is actually much stronger than the Qing army's local green battalion or most of the Ming army near the left side of Siming Mountain, Tian Xiong used this army to be responsible for the left flank, in order to resist the attack of the main force of the Ming army's right flank with cavalry; As for raising the left battalion to occupy the center, it is even simpler, and the normal central breakthrough tactics are just that.

Whether it was the flank outflank chosen by Wang Yi or the breakthrough in the middle designated by Tian Xiong, it was actually a battle plan generated by the terrain restrictions. At this moment, the two sides are like two thieves who have touched the same pocket, pressing all the keys to determining the outcome on the side away from the lake shore, whether the Ming army completes the outflanking first, or the Qing army presses the left flank before completing the breakthrough in the middle, this is the key to the whole battle, so the two sides invariably gathered the cavalry and prepared to deal with emergencies.

Compared with the Qing army, the Ming army's side is relatively much thicker because of its stronger troops, and except for Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion with a strength of more than three hundred, which is already hidden on the side of the battlefield at this time, Wang Yi has another killer weapon in his hand, which is the treasure at the bottom of the box that he presses, and he will not easily take it out.

The middle battalion of the Ming army in Dalanshan was divided into four garrisons, three of which, like the other divisions, were composed of infantry, cavalry composed of personal soldiers, and archers and musketeers; The other garrison is different, this is a unit specializing in firearms, from the Franc cannon to the Tiger Squat cannon, although there are not many standard battalions opposite these things, but it is not nothing, but this garrison has a Hongyi cannon, which is a rare thing in normal field warfare.

The Hongyi cannon originated in Europe and was introduced to China by Portugal in the late Ming Dynasty. Compared with rifled guns, the Hongyi cannon is a typical front-loading smoothbore gun, and compared with rifled guns, the firing range is shorter because the cannonball and the gun chamber are not tightly bridged, the gunpowder gas is diarrhea, and the gunpowder thrust is reduced. But in the late Ming Dynasty introduced to China at that time, rifling drawing is not easy, can not be popularized, compared with the traditional local firearms, the range is longer, the power is more amazing, so it is deeply loved by the Ming Dynasty large and small civil officials, from the purchase, to imitation, to self-research and development, and even in technology once caught up with the world's advanced level.

The Ming and Qing dynasties purchased and cast an astonishing number of Hongyi cannons, but this kind of artillery due to the bulky body of the cannon, and each time after the fire will be too large because of the recoil and seriously deviate from the original firing position, so that time is wasted on repositioning and loading, resulting in a slower firing speed, even the most well-trained British artillery at that time also took up to two minutes to complete an artillery bombardment, which is unimaginable in the rapidly changing battlefield.

The Hongyi cannon in Wang Yi's hand came from Shangyu, and he found this rare object as early as when he first captured Shangyu County, but that time he was driven out by the Qing army's Fubiao battalion that night before his butt was hot, and then chased all the way to Tiantai Mountain and defected to Yu Guowang.

Perhaps because it was too bulky, the Qing army did not take it away and remained there. In the next year, after Wang Yi captured Shangyu County for the second time, this cannon was brought back to Dalan Mountain, and now it has appeared on the battlefield.

In fact, Liu Yiming had persuaded Wang Yi earlier, he had seen this thing when he was under Liu Mu's tent, and thought that it was too bulky, not to mention, the rate of fire was still slow, and it was completely useless in field combat, so it was best to keep it for the siege or defense of the city. It's just that Wang Yi, like other civilian officials of this era, attaches more importance to range and power than the transportation speed and firing speed of the field troops, so Liu Yiming can be regarded as a vain persuasion.

After the completion of the armor array, the Ming army did not rush to attack, but the Qing army, which was only half of the Ming army, was always approaching, and did not take the opponent with the numerical advantage in the slightest.

At this moment, a light horse galloped behind the battle formation of the Ming army, and after the identity was confirmed, this person was brought to Wang Yi and handed over the letter he was ordered to pass to Wang Yi.

This knight was the messenger sent by Chen Wen, and Wang Yi also showed a trace of worry after reading the letter. Wang Shanchang and Zhang Qincheng's containment operation failed completely, not to mention that the entire army was annihilated, and the Qing army besieging them was composed of the middle battalion of the promotion and the green battalion of Shaoxing Mansion.

At this moment, the battalion has appeared on the battlefield. So, where will the strength of the Shaoxing Green Battalion be?

Although even if the Shaoxing Green Battalion appeared on the battlefield, the Ming army still had an absolute advantage in numbers, but the adaptability of the feudal army was low, and the Ming army was composed of troops belonging to different Shangguan from all walks of life.

After sending a few undispatched sentinels in the direction of Liangnong Town, Wang Yi immediately gave the order to open the cannon after receiving a report that the Qing army had entered the effective range of the Hongyi cannon.

On the one hand, there are more than 3,000 people who have been in the army for more than ten years, most of them are the Zhejiang Admiral's Standard Battalion composed of veterans who have survived a hundred battles, and more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers formed by the Qing army's control area; On the other side is a coalition army composed of more than 8,000 soldiers and 12,000 auxiliary troops of the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area, including the main force of the Dalanshan Ming Army that has been rampaging in Ningshao and Shaofu and entrenched in the hinterland of Siming Mountain in recent years.

The two sides are tense just for the moment when the victory is decided, because this will determine whether the Qing army is likely to attack Zhoushan next year, so as to decisively extinguish the anti-Qing forces in Zhejiang. However, the outcome and end of this battle were far from being predicted by both sides at this moment.