Siming Lake is nearly twenty square kilometers in circumference, but this refers to area, not distance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The ambush point of info Dasu is actually only four or five miles away from Chen Wen's general banner. For the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Manchurian Eight Banners can be regarded as mounted infantry, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army also have a large number of pack horses, this distance can be described as fleeting. Along the way, probably, only the stream west of Liang Lane Town could barely delay a little collision.

At this moment, Chen Wen's third battalion on the northern front was about to engage with the promotion and fubiao, and the Qing army on that side only had the green battalion soldiers who raised the standard and raised the standard, and Chen Wen simply delegated the right to command the battle to Ma Xin, the battalion officer of the Tiantai battalion, and he was responsible for commanding the operation on that side. And he concentrated on facing the upcoming Eight Banners Army.

"Guogong, quickly transfer back some soldiers and horses, it's the Eight Banners Army coming from the other side of the lake!"

Holding the binoculars and continuing to observe the movements of the rushing Eight Banner Army, Chen Wen didn't even look back, just replied lightly, "I don't need it", and stopped paying attention to Huang Zongxi and the others who were still anxious.

Soon, after completing the last round of the whole team, the northern front troops of the Ming Army, composed of the three battalions of Tiantai, Ruian and Huangyan, broke out into a fierce collision with the only remaining elite troops of the Zhejiang Green Battalion, the Admiral Standard Battalion and the Governor Standard Battalion.

At the same time, the front of Dasu's Eight Banners Army had also rushed to the small bridge leading to Liangnong Town on the big stream. It's just that there are a lot of troops, but there is only one bridge, and more Eight Banners troops still need to ride horses and wade through the water to cross this stream. But once the river was crossed, there was only a mile or two left from the rearguard of the Ming army.

The perfect ratio of troops of the Qing army, composed of the eight banners of Manchuria, Mongolia and the Han army, when entering the customs, this is where Dasu depends. Relatively speaking, Chen Wen only had the two battalions of Nantang and Feixiong and some cavalry in his hands, and they had already completed the formation at this moment, and they were stuck between Siming Lake and the gradually rising mountains and forests in the east, forming another steel jungle with spears, wolf whisks and other weapons.

The first to cross the river, although Dasu did not have the monocular that had gradually become popular in the command of the Ming army in Zhejiang, it did not prevent him from sending a scout horse to observe the movements of the Ming army. Behind him, the officers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria passed over the bridge, the junior officers and non-commissioned officers waded through the water on both sides of the bridge, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia waded through the north and south of the Eight Banners of Manchuria under the leadership of Wu Ruyu and the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen.

In the north, after the 3rd Battalion of Tiantai engaged the Green Battalion, as always, they relied on formation tactics and more vigorous combat ** to suppress the Qing army without any power to fight back. However, these Qing troops, this time, are like taking medicine, sticking to the front to the death, even if they know that there is no hope at a glance, they are still holding the front.

As the minutes and seconds passed, the stream was not wide, and Dasu's Eight Banners Army quickly passed through, and quickly crossed the town of Liang Lane and began to line up.

The number of cavalry of the Qing army was huge, but on the shore of Siming Lake, in the face of the Ming army in Zhejiang, Dasu still took out the old tactics of the Eight Banners of the Eight Banners - the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of the Han Army got off the war horses and pack horses respectively, and fought on foot, leaving only those Mongolian Eight Banners with circles and legs left by the cavalry.

The Eight Banners of the brigade began to line up, the Qing army was centered on the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Han Army was divided into two wings, and the Ming army was on the side, Chen Wen was in the middle of the flying bear battalion with mules, and the oldest Nantang battalion was divided into two wings because it still retained the formation of the Mandarin Duck Array.

The infantry in front of the Ming and Qing armies was also less than 4,000, and they also had the idea of breaking through the center, so they put the toughest and sharpest side in the middle. The only difference is that the Qing army relied on the strong combat effectiveness of the Manchurian Eight Banners, while the Ming army had the characteristics of the spear formation, which was more suitable for battle.

It's just that unlike the Green Battalion, the number of cavalry of the Eight Banners Army is too much, even if only the Mongolian Eight Banners are still on the horses, but they still have a huge number of nearly two thousand. After a little rectification, it was they who were the first to kill, rushing out from the junction of the flank and the battle formation, and a large number of cavalry rushed over.

The distance between the two sides was only a mile or two, and the cavalry roared in. In the face of cavalry of such a large scale, Chen Wen did not release his pitiful hundreds of cavalry, but simply ordered the artillery and the front row of musketeers and archers to withdraw behind the front three rows of pikemen, and covered the pikemen with long card players, and the pikemen half-squatted to show the pikemen to prevent these Qing cavalry from kicking the pikemen forest directly.

At the same time as the horses' hooves splashed the wet and soft soil along the lake, the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners arrived in an instant, seeing that they were about to crash into the jungle of spears, but these Mongolian Tartars suddenly turned around at the last moment, and while passing sideways, they only heard the sound of the bowstring, and an arrow hit the Ming army like a storm.

There are long players in the front row of the Ming army, but the distance is too close, and the riding and archery skills of these Mongolian Eight Banners are also proficient to the extreme, as if the war horse under the crotch and the riding bow in the hand are all long on the body. It's just that in this round of shooting, half of the arrows were nailed to the long card and armor of the long player, and most of them passed over the long card player and shot at the spearman in the back three rows at a condescending angle, and in an instant, the spear array in the middle of the battle formation that was the focus of the attack was shot into a hedgehog.

The cavalry shooting of the Mongolian Eight Banners is quite vicious, especially those warriors in their respective tribes, often aiming at the parts of the armor that cannot be perfectly covered or shooting directly at the face of the Ming army's unarmoured, even if the head has been lowered at this time according to the drill code, just relying on the edge of the helmet, in front of those arrows shot at strange angles, the effect can be extremely pitiful.

After a rain of arrows, the spear array of the Ming army immediately turned into pockmarked faces, and those pikemen who were shot to the point fell sporadically, most of them were directly shot in the face and killed with one arrow!

Looking ahead from afar, Chen Wen's brows couldn't help frowning, although the Mongols in this era have been beaten by the Ming army for two hundred years, they have not been castrated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years, especially these Mongolian Eight Banners' horsemen, the tactics derived from the advantages of riding and archery really shocked his heart.

"It turns out that this is the reason why the Iron Man Army in history needs to be equipped with face armor."

has never encountered the Mongolian Eight Banners, especially the history of Qi Jiguang beating the Mongols, which made the Zhejiang Ming army from top to bottom full of contempt for this powerful barbarian who had long ceased to be tyrannical. But at this moment, the nomadic cavalry still has extremely strong lethality in today's era of alternating hot and cold weapons.

Chen Wen remembered that he had seen such a statement on the Internet before, saying that it was the alliance with the Mongols in the Huang Taiji era, especially the entrance of the Yisi Change, which equipped the Manchus with two horses on the chessboard, just like Kong Youde's surrender to the Qing Dynasty and the fall of Jinzhou with double cannons for the Manchus, so that this barbarian tribe had a more reasonable configuration of troops.

Now, it seems, it is!

The cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners roared past, and the Ming army in Zhejiang was not completely powerless, the long cards and armor were only defenses, but nearly half of the musketeers and foot archers in the Ming army were immediately fired back at them under the cover of the spear forest, and even after they entered the firing range, they had already started.

In the process of charging, these cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners were always suffering from the shooting of the Ming army, and could only rely on equestrianism to evade, and some of them were extremely strong in equestrian skills to avoid shooting.

But even so, after this first round of whistling, these Mongol cavalry still left nearly a hundred lives.

It was not how accurate the Ming army's marksmanship was, even a long training could not avoid the hit problems caused by the high-speed running of the war horse and the accuracy of the front-loading smoothbore gun. However, this area is too narrow, so that the distance between the Mongolian cavalry is very small, densely swept in front of the Ming army, unless the gun is empty or aimed at the sky, otherwise, there is always a good chance to shoot.

In the first round of confrontation, neither side took advantage of anything, the Qing army lost nearly 100 Mongolian Eight Banners, and dozens of pikemen on Chen Wen's side were shot in the face and died.

The whole army was fully armoured, which undoubtedly made the losses of the Ming army even lower; The firing of the musket and the infantry bow at such a dense number of units at a relatively close range also led to many casualties among the Qing army. Especially when the Qing cavalry rushed into the effective range, Lu Mi immediately showed a more amazing armor-piercing ability than bird guns, foot bows, and cavalry bows.

The Ming army on the northern front is still pressing those green battalion soldiers at the moment, and it is only a matter of time before they are defeated. However, such a victory was something that Chen Wen did not want to see, and what he needed was a victory that broke the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and a victory that completely established the image of the Ming Army in Zhejiang that was not inferior to the Eight Banners of Manchuria in terms of combat effectiveness.

"Those real and fake Tartars are still grinding and embroidering, we won't wait for them. Beat the drums, advance, rush up, and crush them! ”

"Tiger!"

With the march of the Ming Army in Zhejiang, the Nantang Battalion and the Flying Bear Battalion of the Ming Army in Zhejiang were able to make up for the loss of pikemen from the rear team, rolling forward with firm and powerful steps. A moment later, the battle formation of the Eight Banners Army, which had completed the whole team, also began to face the Ming army with Dasu's order.

Although the Eight Banners Army, as the anchor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's maintenance system, began to degenerate and corrupt after entering the customs, it has only been 11 years, and there are still a large number of experienced officers and veterans who were in the army before entering the customs, and their combat effectiveness has not completely degenerated to the point where they strongly relied on the Green Battalion soldiers to quell the chaos as they did during the rebellion of the three feudatories.

For victory, stemming from the invincible prestige of the Manchurian Eight Banners, they were full of confidence. Although there are only 2,000 people in the Manchurian Eight Banners here, the Mongolian and Han Army Eight Banners are all there, and the complete combat system of the Eight Banners Army in the Huang Taiji era is still there.

As the two infantry formations continued to approach, like a river overflowing the horses' hooves, leaving less and less room for the Mongol cavalry to move around, and reluctantly carried out a round of cavalry shooting, and after paying greater casualties, the Mongol Gushan Ezhen retreated to the rear of the formation with the entire cavalry to wait for the pursuit.

At this moment, at the southern end of Siming Lake, the two infantry battle formations strode towards each other. Soon, the Ming army redeployed the musketeers and archers to the front of the formation, and even some artillery barely kept up with the artillery crew members pushing the gun carriages. And the Qing army is the same.

When the two sides entered the range of the artillery, they began to fire at each other, but the infantry line did not stop because of this, but accelerated its pace and continued to advance.

Until the distance of a hundred paces, the Ming army stopped first. From the mouth of the Eight Banners of the Han Army that fled back to Hangzhou last year, Da Su and Wu Ruyu knew very well that the range of the Ming army's guns was longer than that of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, so they did not stop while returning fire with their bows, but continued to move forward in order to enter the effective range of the birds as soon as possible.

Soon, when the Qing army's bird gunners finished a round of shooting, they retreated to the back of the formation, replaced those sword and shield soldiers, jumped out, and threw throwing weapons such as throwing axes, knives, and javelins into the Ming army's battle formation.

The tactics of the Qing army, or the usual tactics of the Ming and Qing armies in this era, have long been in the calculations of the Ming army. When they entered the distance, the Ming army's musketeers had already completed two or three rounds of shooting, and retreated directly to the back of the formation, and the long players in the front row resisted these kills.

Due to the use of the spear array and the mandarin duck array, the battle entered this stage, and the Ming army inevitably had a gap in attack. Stopped, the rain-like projectile weapons flew at various angles, and the long card players resisted the long cards with regular tactical movements as required by the drill code, providing cover for the soldiers behind them.

Until the end of the projection, when the Qing army took advantage of the situation to rush up, these long card players took the opportunity to adjust the attitude of the engagement, and used their sabers to nail the arrows and projection weapons on the long card, and then the long card in the left hand was blocked in front of them, and the saber bow arm in the right hand was clenched, and the posture of engagement was put on. At the same time, the spears in the back row lay flat and burst out of the gap between the long players.

"Kill!"

The shouts sounded, and the Zhejiang Ming Army and the Eight Banners Army collided together at once.

Shi Daniu of the Fourth Infantry Team of the First Bureau of the Nantang Battalion is now the captain of the team. At this moment, his team was close to the Flying Bear Battalion, and in the collision just now, with the advantage of a five-foot spear in the face of the sword and shield soldiers, he stabbed four Qing soldiers to death in an instant. But at this moment, the sword and shield soldiers who took advantage of the situation to break into the spear forest also began to frantically chop these spears.

As far as the eye could see, the only recruit who had been added this year had just stabbed the Qing army with a full beard in the lower abdomen, and brought out his intestines with a twist. But at this moment, his spear was a little slow to retract, and it was immediately cut off by a Qing soldier next to him, and the head of the spear was cut off. Unexpectedly, in the next second, the recruit collected the gun, and stabbed it out again, stabbing directly into the neck of the Qing army.

Facing the armorless neck, even without the head of the spear, the sharp wooden stick was smoothly stabbed in. With the sound of whining and vomiting blood, blood gushed out, but the length of the spear was not short, so that the blood of the Qing army did not even splash the long card player in front of the recruit, but only dyed the disconnected tip of the spear red, and changed the target of the splash to the ground as the Qing army fell to the ground.

The spear forest of the Ming army stabbed out, retracted, stabbed again, and retracted again, and so on, even more violent than the last time he faced the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

As a junior officer, Shi Daniu understood the feelings of these soldiers far better than those high-ranking officers. Since I learned that this opponent is the Eight Banners Army, and it is also Zhenyi, the Zhejiang Ming Army's own strong combat effectiveness and the myth of the invincibility of the Manchurian Eight Banners continue to impact in the hearts of the soldiers, the survival of fear **, the self-esteem generated by the glorious history of the Zhejiang Ming Army, or the desire to surpass the Manchu Dynasty, or the sense of mission to maintain the Han family, these are all impacting the hearts of the soldiers all the time.

After the guidance of the prison officer, everyone knew that only by defeating the Eight Banners Army in front of them would it be possible to recover all the lost territory and drive the Tartars out of China in the future, so they all used all their strength to try to get closer to that happy future with the simple action of assassination.

"Kill!"

Every assassination was accompanied by a shout, and at this moment, the shouts of killing had become so connected that it was almost impossible to hear the gap.

The Ming army's spears were densely stabbed, and it was really difficult for the Eight Banners Army, which was still relying on individual martial arts, to the point that there had to be enough space between each soldier to wield weapons. One shot stabbed and opened with a shield, the second shot stabbed and opened with a knife holder, but the third and fourth shots followed at the same time, even if they were as agile as a monkey, they would inevitably be injured or even killed by one shot.

However, even in the face of such a predicament, the Manchurian Eight Banners in the center of the battle array were still chopping, blocking, and dodging, doing everything possible to rush into the spear forest, taking advantage of the disadvantage of the spear to break the formation.

The fierce battle on the southern front continued, but at this moment, there was a faint burst of earth-shattering cheers from the battlefield on the northern front outside Lixu, and the gray-blue turbidity current, which was still barely holding on to the fiery red, seemed to be at this moment, as the embankment between the two collapsed to the north, and was gradually driven northward, and the speed of this trend became faster and faster.

The green battalion soldiers on the northern front have collapsed, and from a distance, it seems that only the general flag of the Chinese army is still struggling to maintain itself in this torrent. In the next step, what the Ming army will do, whether to send some troops and horses to reinforce the southern front, or to divide troops to bypass Siming Lake and intercept them in the process of pursuit, will take a long time to be effective. But the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for him, and for the sake of now, there is no other way to fight to the death and try to defeat Chen Wen with the momentum of the weak Ming army.

"Beat the drums, press the whole army up, and kill all these Han dogs!" (To be continued.) )