In the early winter, in the col of Tiantai Mountain, a small group of Ming troops was blocked by the superior Qing army, and the Ming army that came to relieve the siege had been defeated, and the deputy general led by him was also shown to the public. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but even so, the Ming army in the col has not been discouraged because of this.

This was not only because they were protecting a high-ranking official of the Ming court, but more importantly, although this army had only been in existence for a year, it had a strong cohesion and something that he simply could not understand.

At the entrance of the col, the swings, strikes, picks, and thorns between the wolf whiths and the wolf whizzes in the pressure formation, and the dense branches interfere with everyone's sight and movement; The long player lowers his body to protect the front row of the formation in response to the spurt of the opposing spearman; The flexible rattan card holds the waist knife and the rattan card looking for every trace of the opponent's mistakes, just like a wolf, as long as it is found, it immediately pounces, uses the rattan card to shake the opponent's blade, resists the opponent's body, and slashes mercilessly with the waist knife; While the pikemen shouted and stabbed, the boring palladium players in the formation were struggling to protect their teammates......

The captain with the flag gun commands in the center, while the seemingly cowardly Mariners are always ready to provide their teammates with spare weapons and rush to replenish the ranks if they can no longer fight. Whether it's because of wounded, or because of death.

The mandarin duck formations used by the two sides were almost identical, and in that mountain col, the two sides slashed each other in an extremely clumsy way, like two hedgehogs squeezing each other close together. It wasn't until the moment when he was bruised and exhausted, relying on the superiority of his numbers and the number of archers he carried was even more astonishing, that the gray-blue turbidity current slowly rushed into the col and completely extinguished the fiery red magma.

On the battlefield, the high-ranking officials protected by the Ming army have been captured by the Qing army, but whether it is him or other Qing troops, they are all shocked by the tenacity of this Ming army, and the tenacity of never giving up until the last soldier.

In late autumn, on a flat land in the Jinqu Basin with the Qujiang River to the north and hills a few miles to the south, two armies of 23,400,000 soldiers were fighting frantically.

On the edge of the right wing of the gray-blue turbidity current, he looked at the familiar scene in the distance and occasionally felt it, but this time it was not he who went into battle in person, and the mandarin duck formation of the Qing army fighting on the front line was all trained by him. Even if it seems to be a little less than what it was, the absolute superiority in numbers will lead to the same outcome as a year ago.

With 2,000 Fujian Jianning Mansion Green Battalion plus 3,000 Fujian Left Road General Battalion plus 3,000 Zhejiang-Fujian Governor's Standard Battalion, the more than 8,000 troops were faced with nothing more than a battalion called "Yiwu" and two infantry bureaus drawn from the reserves.

The duel between the Mandarin Duck Formation and the Mandarin Duck Formation was staged again, relying on the overwhelming superiority in numbers, the five thousand old-style green battalion soldiers from Fujian were still struggling to support, and the army he was in was at the very edge of the battlefield constantly squeezing the living space of the Ming army, constantly pressing the opponent's formation to the flank.

The essence of tactics is to concentrate all your strength at a crucial point, just like in a fight, and it is better to break one finger than to hurt ten fingers. As long as the enemy army in front of you is routed, the balance of victory will be deflected as the rout breaks up the formation. Of course, it would be better if you could directly kill the opponent's boss and cause the enemy's morale to collapse completely. It's just that it doesn't have much to do with the infantry-based army he is in.

The battle line is advancing step by step, even if every step takes a long time to take out, even if every step has to pay more than the opponent, he and the marshal beside him have never felt distressed, because if the soldier dies, he can recruit again, and if he can't recruit, he can go directly to Lafuzi, those cannon fodder are just a bunch of numbers.

All in all, as long as the Ming army on the opposite side can be defeated, promotions and fortunes will follow, and what is paid is just some consumables, what's the big deal. Isn't that what you're talking about?

However, I don't know how long has passed, the Ming army in front of him is still struggling to support, and he even saw with his own eyes the officers in charge of commanding the battle one after another to supplement the formation to ensure the integrity of the Mandarin Duck formation. And the addition of every officer will make the Ming soldiers who were already about to collapse burst out with even more surging war spirit.

Especially the officer wearing chain mail, he seems to be the commander-in-chief of these two bureaus, but such a senior officer also did not hesitate to add to the formation, and he did not have the kind of self-preservation psychology of the son of a daughter who does not sit down in the hall with his identity, so he can't do it at least.

The officer corps of the Ming army led his subordinates to hold on with the spirit of leading by example, but the Qing army he was in began to show fatigue. But at this moment, the fear on the other side of the battlefield has completely exploded, and it spreads as quickly as an infection. Relying on their own superiority in strength and the fact that their opponents were indeed unable to pursue, they withdrew from the battlefield after leaving all the corpses and wounded soldiers, and came to this Jiangshan county with those Fujian soldiers.

"Marshal, I think that our department should continue to reproduce the establishment of the Ming army, and organize and train a new battle formation with the spear formation as the main body and the mandarin duck formation covering the flanks......"

"Humph!" Before Wang Sheng's words were finished, and he didn't see his proclaimed marshal Zhang Guoxun react, he heard another military general present say in a strange manner: "Wang Dusi, you said the day before yesterday that you practiced the Mandarin Duck Formation, and today you said that you practiced the Spear Formation, the Mandarin Duck Formation was created by Qi Shaobao, and it is naturally powerful, and the big blue thief Chen Wen is only like this after learning Qi Shaobao's military book." As for the spear formation, it didn't show how powerful it was, this mandarin duck formation hadn't been practiced yet, and it couldn't be chewed too much, so I think it's better to leave it for the time being. ”

At the beginning of the training of the Mandarin Duck Formation of the Supervising Battalion, the generals could be said to have opposed it en masse, and if it were not for Chen Jin and Zhang Guoxun's strong support, they were afraid that they might not be able to practice it in that war. But even then, the unit of the firefighters was abolished, and the officers of the battalion were full of complaints from top to bottom about the fact that they could only eat one empty salary with eleven soldiers.

But since that battle, although Chen Jin was besieged in the city, even if he could avoid death, he didn't look like he could be the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian anymore, but no one objected to the formation of the mandarin duck array.

After all, the situation that day is obvious to all, even if the original battle formation of the Qing army has an overwhelming advantage in numbers, it was also hung up by the Mandarin Duck Array, and the use of spears to suppress the formation can only delay the speed of collapse, only their Governor Battalion, which also uses the Mandarin Duck Formation to fight against the Ming Army, can rely on the advantage of numbers to dominate the crowd, even if the effect is not as good as expected, it is a world of difference compared to the other Qing armies.

Now that the Ming army has captured the city, the news of Chen Jin's death has come, and Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, has been given full command of the Qing army in the four provinces of Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian. The order to kill all the doors if he couldn't hold Jiangshan County aroused a great sense of urgency among the supervising generals, so much so that during this time, while relying on Raffzi to replenish the soldiers, even the formation of firefighters returned to the sequence of the infantry of the supervising battalion.

The formation and training of the Mandarin Duck Formation has become the only way for this Qing army to survive, but as the thinking of that battle continued to unfold, Wang Sheng suddenly realized that the spear formation, which was originally considered to be defective, successfully made up for the relatively thin problem of the pure Mandarin Duck Formation infantry with the change of use method.

In Qi Jiguang's era, this was solved only by using partial vans and rejecting horses, but on the Zhejiang battlefield that was not conducive to the use of partial vans, the new means taken by the Ming army achieved this effect, so that Wang Sheng, who had been continuously promoted by imitating Chen Wen's establishment and tactics in the past two years, was determined to continue on the road of copying, but it also caused the dissatisfaction of other Qing generals.

Zhang Guoxun didn't speak, Wang Sheng knew that his boss didn't want to offend other colleagues too much, so he had to argue himself: "General Li, the spear array can make up for the problem that the mandarin duck array is not thick enough, and fewer types of weapons are easier to replenish......"

"The mandarin duck array of the traitor Chen Wen, you Wang Dusi have seen it with your own eyes on Dalan Mountain, and we can also make up for what you don't understand by reading Qi Shaobao's military book. But what about this spear array, everyone has seen it once, and most of them have heard it from the mouths of that group of Fujian guys, who knows how many changes there are in it? ”

Wang Sheng sighed, this thing is indeed as the general said, but ......

"What General Li said is true, so he thinks that spies should be sent to figure out all these things. But it's best to prepare the weapon in advance, and the personnel should also start training, otherwise even if you figure it out, I'm afraid it's too late. ”

"Late? It's late, and the time for our supervising battalion to practice the Mandarin Duck Array is far shorter than that group of Jinhua thieves, and now I haven't understood the Mandarin Duck Formation, so I went to learn what spear formation, and I am afraid that I will learn a four-way difference. ”

"General Li, I don't plan to suggest that the whole army should be changed to a mandarin duck formation, but imitate the formation of the Lighting Army and change half of the infantry into a spear formation."

"Come on, Wang Dusi, I see that you are just scared by that big thief, you can learn whatever he practices, but if you don't practice your skills solidly, do you think the apprentice can beat the master?"

"You ......"

"Enough!" Seeing that the anger of the two sides had risen, as the deputy general of the Supervisory Battalion and the highest-ranking officer here, Zhang Guoxun had no choice but to open his mouth to put an end to this debate for the time being. "Do you two still have me as a lieutenant in your eyes?"

"Despicable duty deserves death."

"The last general will not dare."

Wang Sheng is Zhang Guoxun's direct subordinate, and he is only a powerful commander, so when he heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground; And that general, called Li Xun, was a senior officer in charge of a battalion, and the existence of the phenomenon of the size of the green battalion made him just get up and expose the matter.

There was no way to continue talking about this matter, so Zhang Guoxun had to say that he would continue to train soldiers according to the Mandarin Duck Formation, and at the same time send spies to find out the military situation of the Ming army, including the spear formation. As for whether to practice or not, we will discuss it when we understand it.

"A group of rat-eyed people, when Chen Wen kills you all, you will know that Lao Tzu is right."

After the military discussion was over, leaving Zhang Guoxun's line, Wang Sheng spat on the ground, glanced back at the gate of Xingyuan, and then hurried back to his residence.

Along the way, Wang Sheng thought about it, and when he returned to his residence, he summoned three cronies who had followed him in Siming Mountain in turn, and then gave orders one after another, and then sent these three people out separately under the pretext of going out of the city to find out the enemy's situation.

Who knows, the front foot Wang Sheng sent people out, and the back foot Zhang Guoxun beat the drum to gather the generals, the reason why this is the case, there is no other reason, according to the return of the exploration horse, the Ming army has moved out of Quzhou City, is heading towards Jiangshan County.

"The generals will strictly guard the city defenses everywhere, and must not fight with the Ming army in the field. Sending people to ask Wang Shuai of Xianxia Pass and Yang Shuai of Yushan County for help explained that the main force of the army was coming, and asked them to send a large army to contain the Ming army. ”

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As witnesses of the whole battle, Li Zhifang and several of Chen Jin's other aides fled the city before dawn, preparing to go to Beijing to join Zhu Zhixi and Ji Zhenyi to bribe the magnates and high-ranking officials of the Manchu court and repay Chen Jin's kindness. At the same time, it is also to find a way out for their future with the help of this trip.

To this end, they prepared to head west into Jiangxi, enter the Yangtze River through Poyang Lake, and finally follow the current down the river and turn north through the canal. This road will take a long time, so after they entered Jiangxi and temporarily got rid of the threat of the Ming army, their group of Chen Jin's staff had a lot of differences.

"Li Tuiguan, we are all subordinates of Master Chen, and we need to explain the truth clearly to the imperial court. Passing by Jiangning this time, it is better to go to Jiangnan and Jiangxi Governor Ma Lao, there are good words from Ma Lao, and the matter of Chen Laoming will naturally get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"This ......"

This is a little different from the plan, according to the arrangement of Chen Jin when he was alive, they went north in batches, mainly to the capital to use the relationship of the ancestral family in the Manchu and Han Eight Banners to carry out this bribery strategy, among which it is naturally impossible to have Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi who is at the same level as him. But now, from some acquaintances with the government along the way, they have obtained the news that Ma Guozhu is temporarily in charge of the military affairs of the four southeastern provinces, and the qualitative issue of Chen Jin's matter Ma Guozhu's report to the Qing court is impossible to ignore.

"Li Tuiguan, it's not that he's suspicious, Zhu Hanlin and Ji Zhixian have already set off, but there has been no news. Indeed, it will definitely not be possible to reach Jingshi in a month, but even if they get to Jingshi, it is unknown whether they can succeed, and we can't put all our eggs in one basket. ”

These people are Chen Jin's personal staff, and Li Zhifang and others were temporarily recruited by Chen Jin, and they are clearly distinguishable on weekdays, if these people can't hide it at all, Li Zhifang will not escape with them.

Li Zhifang knows very well that the thoughts of these people can never be so simple. At least as far as he knew, the old gentleman at the head of the group had a friend working behind Ma Guozhu's scenes, and they may not have no intention of changing the court.

It's just that what these staff members said is not a lie, if Zhu Zhixi and Ji Zhenyi failed to persuade the ancestral family to help, with the good words of Ma Guozhu, who was already an extremely important Hanchen of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when his father Emperor Taiji was still alive, the guilt of Chen Jin for the fall of Jinhua and Quzhou can naturally be reduced a lot.

"Okay, then let's go to Jiangning first, if Master Ma is willing to help, it is naturally the best, if he refuses to help, we will not be able to delay the journey for a few days if we continue on the road." (To be continued.) )