Since he was attacked by the Zhejiang governor standard camp two years ago and fled, Wang Yi has always been doing his best to train the troops, for which he not only delegated power to the old generals Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan, but also recruited Liu Yiming, who was once a general under Liu Mu, through Chen Tianshu, and this year he has promoted Chen Wen, who is likely to become a new generation of famous generals in the country.

Huang Zhongdao is a Confucian general, knows the art of war, and knows things well; Mao Mingshan is a brave general, loyal and honest, and brave; And Liu Yiming is good at training and deployment, and he is proficient in all kinds of battle formations, and when it comes to the art of war, the martial arts are better than the previous two.

As for that Chen Wen, although he never dared to rest assured, but the scene on the school field a month ago was too shocking, a new battalion that had been in the army for only one month could destroy the withered and decaying middle battalion twice as many as its opponents, this person's ability was likely to be above the three generals under his original command, even if the brilliance of this Chen Wen at the moment was still covered by Qi Jiguang, Wang Yi still felt so.

After more than two years of training, I thought that I could get a shame from the standard promotion battalion, but now it seems that this standard promotion battalion is much stronger than the standard raising battalion two years ago. Wang Yi regretted a little at the moment that he did not transfer Chen Wen and the Nantang battalion, since there was only a standard battalion here, then at least he could rely on the mandarin duck array of the Nantang battalion to break through on the front line of the battlefield, thinking that it was a way to win.

It's just that in the previous intelligence, the Tartars also participated in the battle of the Shaoxing Green Battalion, and the strength of the Qing army on the southern front was also stronger, and the strong strength of the Qing army coupled with the pressure created by the various divisions of the King of Siming Mountain, as well as his unease about Chen Wen and the new battalion that had never seen blood, all of this led to the current situation.

Fortunately, in Chen Wen's previous plan, although the Nantang battalion was not there, Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion was still in the predetermined position, and now, they will also cooperate with the Wang Division cavalry, which has moved to the right flank, which is in absolute numerical advantage, to directly attack the commander of the Qing army, Tian Xiong.

Win or lose!

Wang Yi strode to the side of the Chinese army drummer, snatched the two drumsticks, and immediately began to beat the drums to help the battle.

After the Ming army noticed that Wang Yi, who was already a valuable strategy at this moment, was beating drums for them to help them fight, their morale was also boosted. Although it was still suppressed by the Qing army at this moment, the decline at the beginning of the attack was also reduced by a few points.

At this time, Tian Xiong, the governor of Zhejiang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was still riding his horse and standing under the banner of the Chinese army behind the left battalion of the raised standard that occupied the middle road, and in addition to his own soldiers, family members, and more than 200 infantry directly under him, there were also cavalry gathered from various battalions, and these elites who were used to decide the outcome were all temporarily under the command of the deputy general Ba Chenggong.

Ba Chenggong is a Mongol, and his name is also transliterated as Chenggong in many historical books. This person is Tian Xiong's confidant and favorite general, and he is quite good at kung fu and the skills of training and commanding cavalry. After the Battle of Zhoushan, this person served as the deputy general of the Zhoushan Association. In the ninth year of Yongli, Zhang Mingzhen and Chen Liuyu recovered Zhoushan, Ba Chenggong led his troops to surrender, and was appointed by Zheng Chenggong as the former town of Xuanyi and the iron horseman. It's just that at this time, Ba Chenggong was only a deputy general of the Zhejiang Admiral Biaoying, and he was also in charge of the cavalry of the Chinese army.

From the beginning of the war, Tian Xiong was looking for the Ming army ambush mentioned in the information, until a group of birds in the woods on the side of the battlefield were alarmed and flew away, and he immediately determined the location.

It's no wonder that the sentinels of the Ming army just now have always intentionally or unintentionally covered up the situation there.

Tian Xiong saw at a glance that there were already many Ming troops leading war horses in the woods, and as far as his eyes could see, behind the main position of the Ming army a few hundred meters away, those cavalry who were in reserve had also moved towards the side away from the lake and close to the woods.

Can't hold it back now?

Tian Xiong looked at all this with a sneer, and out of prudent consideration, he detained some of the spearmen of the middle battalion of the promotion with a lighter combat mission, and arranged all of them under the banner of the Chinese army, cooperating with his personal soldiers and family members to protect his own safety. At this time, the intention of the Ming army was already obvious, and it was definitely intended to rely on the superior cavalry to attack, and after defeating their own cavalry, they formed a situation of encirclement, so as to achieve the goal of a quick victory.

Obviously, the opponent has lost confidence and patience with the continued consumption, but fortunately he himself has no intention of wasting time further.

"Ba Chenggong!"

"The last general!" The Mongolian man, who spoke in an urn, immediately responded to the call of the commander.

"Get rid of the thieves."

Ba Chenggong glanced at the two Ming cavalry who were preparing to merge with his eagle-like gaze, full of disdain.

"The last will obey." After that, Ba Chenggong did not rush to ride his horse to attack, but gave an order to the cavalry under his command.

Noticing that the cavalry of the Ming army was deliberately coming towards the left flank, the adjutant general in charge of commanding the right battalion immediately ordered the pikemen on the flanks and rear of the battle formation to form a dense gun formation in order to contain the charge of the opposing cavalry.

At the same time, Li Rong, who was in the middle of the road and was in charge of the guerrilla affairs of the Left Battalion as a deputy general, also noticed this. At the moment when the Qing army was in a surprise battle, the performance of the left and right battalions on the right flank of the Ming army, commanded by Liu Yiming, was obviously much stronger than the first two battalions in front of him, not only due to the faster reaction and a lot of losses, but also a certain counterattack.

Only, that's all.

During this period, the left and right battalions of the Ming army were still pressed and beaten by the right battalion of the promotion, and the casualties were far more than those of the opponent, but the strength of the Ming army was stronger, and the battle formation was thicker, coupled with Wang Yi's drums to help the battle, the morale was not too low. At this time, although the loss of troops was not small, it was far from collapse.

Seeing that the gun array had been formed, Li Rong, who had always been expressionless, turned to continue to pay attention to the battle situation in front of him. How long it will take for the opponent of the right battalion to collapse is not obvious to him, but it is estimated that it will not take long on his side.

On the battlefield, Liu Da, the sword and shield soldier of the left battalion, is still fighting bravely, as a veteran, he is not in a hurry to break through the opponent's formation, because he has seen too much over the years, the opponent's strength far exceeds his own, the formation is so thick, rushing up at this moment, I am afraid that he will die faster.

With a "dang" sound, Liu Da shook the spear of the pikeman in front of him with the shield in his left hand, and then cut off the spear with a knife. And the Ming soldier opposite Liu Da, who had just been forced to change from a pikeman to a stick soldier, was stabbed to death by a Qing army pikeman next to Liu Da before he had time to adapt to this change.

Take your time, don't be in a hurry, these recruits won't be able to bear it for a while.

After a closer look, Li Rong knew very well that his opponent was not too far from the limit of suffering casualties. It's just that at this time, since the boss has not yet given the order for a general attack, he doesn't mind wearing down some opponents' will to fight, and fortunately he can defeat the opponent faster when launching a general attack.

Li Rong was not a famous general of this era, and he was not even famous during the rebellion of the three feudatories. However, it was this person who defended Quzhou, a key prefecture from Fujian to Zhejiang, when Geng Jingzhong attacked Zhejiang, and the name of Quzhou's "Iron City" left by later generations is related to this person. Then, Zu Hongxun, the chief soldier of Wenzhou Town, Qingqing, took refuge in Geng Jingzhong and recruited Geng's army to enter Zhejiang in a big way, which was also the lost territory that this person cooperated with Chen Shikai and Mu Dayin to recover.

Although Li Rong is not as famous as the four generals of Hexi who were in the limelight in the rebellion of the three feudatories, this person can steadily block the thunderous blow of Geng Jingzhong's rebellion in the early stage, and then recover the prefectures and counties occupied by Geng Jingzhong due to the erosion of Zhejiang caused by Zu Hongxun's rebellion, and he is by no means a good character.

Compared with Huang Zhongdao, who was under the heavy pressure of the raised left battalion commanded by Li Rong, Liu Yiming, who was responsible for the command of the right wing of the Ming army, had only a slightly better life.

The elites of the left and right battalions under Liu Yiming were carefully selected by him from Wang Yi's original left and right battalions, supplemented by the veterans he brought from Liu Mu and the recruits who were re-recruited according to his requirements, and then re-organized and trained for more than a year, and many of them have been in the army for five or six years.

In the past, when facing the local green battalion of the Qing army, these two battalions could win relatively easily, even if he had been able to realize that this battle was not easy to fight before the war, but he was far from expecting that it would be so suppressed as it is now.

You should really call the Nantang camp!

Although he hadn't watched the school competition, but after listening to Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan and Fang Garrison of the middle battalion who was a witness, Liu Yiming still had to admit that the new battalion that was compiled and trained by Qi Jiguang was probably much stronger than the two old battalion leaders in his hands.

Why didn't I think about using Qi Shaobao's method to train soldiers?

Fortunately, as Wang Yi's confidant and favorite general, he also knew very well that the key to the victory in this battle was actually on Chen Tianshu and the cavalry gathered from all parts of the Ming army in Siming Mountain, and he, Liu Yiming, only needed to take the two battalions in his hand and the friendly troops arranged on the right flank to withstand the attack of the Qing army's right battalion.

At this moment, he has already made up his mind, as long as he can win this time, he must discuss Qi Jiguang's military training method with Chen Wen, and he will also practice the mandarin duck formation of Lao Shizi in the future.

On the right flank of the Ming army where Liu Yiming was, the cavalry of the Ming army had already completed the confluence, and they did not go to the spear forest on the side of the left battalion of the standard, but went around directly, obviously preparing to attack Tian Xiong's banner of the Chinese army. At this time, Ba Chenggong had already met him, but he stopped at an angle between him and the left camp.

The iron cavalry of the Ming army is getting closer and closer......

200 meters......

One hundred and fifty meters......

100 meters......

Fifty meters!

Ba Chenggong gave an order, and the Qing cavalry immediately lit the three-eyed gun in his hand, holding the wooden long handle behind the gun in both hands, and waited unhurriedly for the moment when the projectile erupted.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Because the fuse was lit in turn before being fired flat, the three projectiles of the three-eyed gun were fired from the mouth of the three-eyed gun to the opposite side one after another, and the smoke produced by the ** combustion also shrouded the Qing army just like when the Ming infantry fired.

"Kill!"

Ba Chenggong roared angrily, and the cavalry of the Levy Battalion hung their three-eyed guns on the victory hooks, lifted the spears, horse oars, axes, knives, sledgehammers and other blades that had been hung on them, and rode their horses out of the smoke that obscured their vision.

Much faster than these cavalry is the projectile of the three-eyed gun they just fired, the maximum range of the three-eyed gun can reach about 100 meters, but the effective range is only less than 50 meters, but at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army, especially the front row, has already rushed into this distance.

**After discovering that the gas produced by the combustion could not break through the thick wall of the Three-Eyed Gun, it transmitted all the kinetic energy into the small projectile, and these small projectiles also flew out of the mouth of the Three-Eyed Gun. In an instant, these worthless little things crossed the distance between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and hit the soldiers of the Ming army and their war horses hard, breaking out in addition to patches of blood mist.

The temperature in Zhejiang, as well as the financial resources of the Ming army, made their cavalry wear at most a piece of leather armor on their bodies, and more of them were just cloth armor, not to mention war horses. In fact, even if you are wearing armor, what can you do if you are hit by a firearm at this distance, the projectiles fired by these breech guns will also break through the armor, releasing all the kinetic energy on the human body protected by the armor, and then smashing the musculature, bones and organs of the injured parts, thus creating a lethal record.

After three shots, the Ming army in the front row was empty, and those who were hit by the key point died at the time, and those who did not hit the key point either fainted to the ground, or lay on the back of the horse and wailed, even the war horse that was hit was the same.

The men and horses in the front row fell to the ground, and there was no way to stop the advance of the cavalry in the back row, but suddenly many obstacles appeared, and many of the war horses in the back row were tripped and fell to the ground, and as for those obstacles, they were more trampled to death.

The casualties of the Ming cavalry were not very large, but the momentum of their impact was completely contained by the fire of the guns for a while. At this time, the iron cavalry of the Qing army pounced violently, and the two sides instantly fought together.

The cavalry is a clutch soldier, Chen Tianshu and the leading officers dispatched from the Chinese army tried to entangle Ba Chenggong several times with their numerical superiority, and then divided part of the cavalry to attack Tian Xiong, but each time they were recognized by Ba Chenggong, and they could not divide their troops to assault at all. Even if he could, Chen Tianshu didn't plan to do this, because after he found out that Tian Xiong still had hundreds of spearmen around him, he had to give up his risky move and continue to fight and scuffle with Ba Chenggong on the side of the battlefield.

With the impact contained, coupled with the fact that their horsemanship and martial arts were far less superb than their opponents, even if they were more numerous, the cavalry of the Ming army was still unable to open up the situation in a short period of time.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Ming army are still struggling to fight for their lives with the opponent in front of them, behind them, the commander in Shanwen armor, the commander appointed by Lu Jianguo to serve the military affairs of Zhizhejiang, the left squire of the military department and the left deputy envoy Wang Yi is still waving the two drumsticks in his hands frantically, doing his best to boost the morale of the soldiers.

As a civilian commander, Wang Yi does not have the ability to rush forward with perseverance, nor does he have the resourcefulness of Yu Yunwen to calculate his opponent, and even the battle plan is made by his subordinates. However, this did not stop him from working hard for the cause of Zhongxing Daming, just like at this time, although he could not kill the enemy with his own hands, he could also improve morale, so that the soldiers could continue to fight.

It had been nearly three quarters of an hour since the battle, and the soldiers of the Qing army, especially the soldiers in the front row of the battle array, although they had more powerful martial arts and more rich combat experience, but the fatigue caused by the long battle made their movements begin to make frequent mistakes, and the speed of damage was gradually accelerating.

Their opponents, the Ming army, which had an absolute numerical advantage, were inspired by the thin but majestic civil official, and not only did not fail to collapse as expected, but also tried to reverse the defeat.

Victory or defeat may not have become as clear as it was just now.

The battle continued, from the left flank of the formation along Siming Lake, to the Chinese army that withstood the fiercest attack of the Qing army, to the left flank that tried to outflank the opponent with the cavalry, and those iron cavalry selected from the Ming army, all the Ming army was fighting with all their might, fighting for the moment when the situation was reversed.

But at this moment, the general flag of Du Xingguo, the commander of the left wing of the Ming army and the general soldier of Xue Ao, was suddenly cut down to the ground, and a sharp cry seemed to freeze time in an instant, and also condensed the breath of all the people who heard this shout.

"General Du is dead, and the Ming army is defeated!"