On the bank of Lingxi, the Nantang Battalion of the Zhejiang Ming Army and the elite Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian of the Green Battalion of the Southeast Qing Army are fighting with all their might, because the front row of soldiers on both sides are composed of spearmen with the long card players of the Ming Army and the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing Army, the stab has become the only theme on the battlefield.

Unlike the Ming Army's commanders, who were mainly responsible for protecting the rear soldiers and pushing the battle formation forward from the beginning of the army, the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army were originally mostly warriors in the army, and their task on the battlefield was to destroy the battle, rather than to provide protection for the spearmen as they do now.

However, this Ming army was completely different from other armies on the continent at the same time, not only in the mandarin duck formation they used, but more importantly, this army had begun to continue along this road. As a result, the Qing army, as an opponent, could only change with the changes, but in this way, it lost the familiar routine originally used to defeat the opponent, and could only rely on the most primitive numerical advantage to overwhelm the opponent.

However, for the Ming army, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and if it were not for the fact that there was such a terrain on the west bank of the landing site that was not conducive to the deployment of the army and was not conducive to outflanking, taking into account the concealment and narrow river channels, the current situation would only be worse.

But at this moment, the strength of the Qing army's standard battalion far exceeded the strength of the Ming army that crossed Lingxi, and even reached more than twice the numerical advantage, but even if the training is more rigorous, but people's physical strength is limited after all, once the physical strength is exhausted, the reaction is bound to be affected, then in the rapidly changing battlefield is the difference between life and death.

From the very beginning, the Ming army relied on the training effect achieved by mixing modern military training in the barracks, and the Ming army once achieved a fairly good exchange ratio. However, as the battle continued, the battle-hardened Qing soldiers began to gradually adapt to the Ming army's attack mode and rhythm, and the exchange ratio gradually declined. If there is no decisive way to end the battle as soon as possible, who knows what will happen in the next second!

Looking at the battlefield with a loud sound of killing, as the commander of this partial division, Li Ruixin was already anxious, and although he was now said to take advantage of the geographical advantage not to be driven to the river by the Qing army all of a sudden, the Ming army's crossing speed was too slow. From the beginning, he could not concentrate all his strength on the decisive battle with the Qing army, so he could only keep consuming like this.

However, as the battle continued, the physical consumption of the Ming army also began to affect the execution of tactical actions, although I don't know that the exchange is still in an advantage over the Ming army, but as the longest-serving cavalry general in this Ming army, he has already smelled some not very good taste.

The battle formation designed by Chen Wen is a mixture of the spear formation and the mandarin duck formation, and still maintains the style of the mandarin duck formation emphasizing offense in a state of both offense and defense. According to expectations, when the Ming army was in a stalemate with the Qing army in the spear formation, the killer team of the Mandarin Duck Formation between the teams should attack the Qing army. In order to disrupt the rhythm of the Qing army's defense, while the Mandarin Duck Formation was advancing at the same time, the spear formation could also use this short gap to adjust the formation to continue the attack.

But now, because the Ming army was still transporting the landing site behind it, the army did not dare to move lightly, lest it be detoured by the cavalry of the Qing army. In this way, the power of ten percent cannot be guaranteed by even half, and it is not easy to easily defeat the Qing army.

Glancing back at the landing site. It seems that what he wants has already been shipped, but it is a little too heavy. The small boats and bamboo rafts of the Ming army could not bear it, so they had to be disassembled and transported, and it seemed that they were being reassembled at the moment.

"You'd better hurry!"

There is no way to wait any longer, if this formation does not move, the spear array killer team in the front row as a blade will collapse on its own sooner or later, and there will be no chance to turn the tables.

As the flag pressed forward, the rhythm of the war drums changed abruptly. The Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team, which had always maintained a posture of assisting in defense, shouted the word "tiger", immediately formed a formation and pressed forward, and quickly crossed the line of the spear formation, relying on the wave of the wolf to quickly suppress the Qing troops in front of them. But this suppression ends here, the other blades of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team are too short. It can't be compared to those spears at all, and almost as soon as they complete the formation change, they fall into passivity again.

But at this moment, those firearms soldiers who were fighting with the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team appeared one after another with loaded Lumi guns and bird guns from the interval that had just been unfolded but still existed, and after opening the fire door cover, these soldiers aimed at the Qing army in front of them and pulled the bolt without hesitation.

The Ming army had too few musketeers, and the gap between the two teams was too short to provide a reasonable spacing for these arquebuses. But when the Ming army's shooting rang out, the Qing army, which had already relied on longer weapons to suppress the killer team of the Mandarin Duck Array, appeared to have the strange appearance of several people lying down at each distance.

Whether it is a bird gun or a Lumi gun in the Ming army's firearms, they are essentially front-loading smoothbore guns, which not only have a limited range, but also the accuracy of shooting cannot bear to look at directly in Chen Wen's opinion. However, at this moment, the distance between the Ming army and the Qing army is only a few meters, and it is almost a face-to-face beating, if this can't be beaten, the craft is really too trendy.

Although compared to the front row of the Qing army, several people were shot at intervals, and most of them were not killed by one shot, which is really nothing, but this tactic of the Ming army is really unheard of and unseen, but it suddenly beat the Qing army who saw all this with a dull stick.

However, this was not over yet, those Qing troops who were shot by the Ming gunners had time to retreat to the rear of the formation, but saw that the gunners who had just finished shooting did not stand in place to load, but immediately hid behind the mandarin duck array killer team. At this time, I saw that the pikemen killer team, who had just been in a still-standing state, immediately put their spears flat again and pressed them up with firm steps, while the Qing army battle formation in front of them was more or less open due to the Ming army's firearms.

Holding a line with the other teams and suppressing them for a while, the Qing army, which was heavily formed, quickly regained its position under the reprimand of the officers and the deterrence of the warlords. But at this time, the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team, which was in a state of assisting in defense in the interval of the Ming Army's spear array killer team, rushed up again......

Relying on the brand-new tactics, the Ming army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in strength, began to advance step by step, and once pressed the Qing army's standard battalion, which was far superior to its own strength. However, as the offensive unfolded, the Ming army advancing north became farther and farther away from the Lingxi River from the southwest to the northeast, and soon vacated a section of open space that was not enough to extend.

Seeing that the Ming army had detached itself from the stuck road, the left battalion of the superintendent in front of him immediately dispatched a garrison to press up from there. However, he did not wait for his men to go far. An exclamation immediately appeared on the front of the Qing army's large array.

The Ming army attacked several times, and the Qing army gradually found the pattern, and those officers with experienced battlefield experience immediately began to order their soldiers to concentrate on attacking the Mandarin Duck Array killer team in front, because compared to the relatively dense spear array killer team, their weapons were more lethal in the face of the Mandarin Duck Array.

The time for the Mandarin Duck Formation to be convex each time is very short, but every step forward has to be hard in the situation of being passively beaten. It often even leads to casualties.

The Ming army, which was getting more and more tired like this, could not last, but when the Ming army's spear array protruded again, the two mandarin duck array killer teams in the center of the battlefield suddenly dispersed, letting out the things behind them that had just remembered the creaking sound.

Franc cannon!

The black hole-like muzzle continued to advance as the Ming gunners pushed the gun wagons, until the long card players who approached the front row of the Ming army's spear array stopped.

The cold and dark muzzles of the cannons stretched out, and immediately frightened the Qing troops who saw their faces. But in the next second, I saw that the loader of the Ming army lifted the sub-gun of the Franc cannon and inserted it directly on the mother gun, and the entire artillery formed a whole. And wait until the loader is reloaded. The gunner gave the order, and the gunner with the torch pressed the torch to the fuse.

The moment the fuse was ignited, it immediately made a sound like a snake letter, and the spear arrays on the left and right sides couldn't help but move a little to the side after hearing the sound, as if this way they could get away from this monster that chose to eat people. But before they could take two steps, the two Francophone cannons let out a deafening roar one after another.

As the captain of the 4th Infantry Brigade of the First Outpost, Luo Yongzhong always approached and commanded the soldiers under his command to fight. When the Franc cannon near him opened fire, I saw that in the light of fire and gunsmoke, the shells rushed into the battle formation of the Qing army at a speed that was difficult to identify with the naked eye.

The shells were propelled by the gases and energy produced at the moment of the burning of black powder. Unstoppably, the lower abdomen of the Qing army in the first row was pierced, revealing the colorful intestines. Then he passed through the second Qing army at the same speed, and it was not until the entire battle formation was pierced that it landed more than ten meters behind the formation, stirred up a piece of dirt and smashed out a crater.

From the first one being pierced through the lower abdomen, to the wounded parts in the back getting higher and higher, and even the head of Zhang Guoxun, who was standing at the end as the supervising team, directly bloomed, spewing out a piece of red and white. Until this time. The Qing soldiers with fearful and incredulous eyes fell to the ground one after another.

At the same time, the same scene was played out in front of another tiger squatting gun......

The power of one cannon actually pierced a flesh alley in the Qing army's large array. Seeing such a scene, Luo Yongzhong, who had joined the army since the first year of Hongguang and had experienced a hundred battles, only felt that his appetite that had already been digested was turned upside down. Streams of sour water gushed down his esophagus, and he forcibly pressed them down until he was about to vomit.

He's the captain of his team, and he can't afford to lose face.

But at this moment, the other soldiers who saw this scene didn't care about this, even if they had killed people on the battlefield, received a reward for beheading, and saw a series of Qing soldiers' bodies being hit by cannonballs one after another flesh and blood holes, looking at those black smoke, scorching wounds gushing out of blood and internal organs, this degree of disgusting is far from being comparable to cold weapon slashing, especially this distance is still so close!

For a time, the vomiting of the Ming army on the battlefield and the stupidity of the Qing army contrasted with each other. But who knows, the sound of the Qing army falling to the ground after the first artillery bombardment just came, but the two Furlong machine guns of the Ming army opened fire again.

Because there was no time to reset after the last shot was fired, Luo Yongzhong watched this cannon rush the crowd of the Qing army obliquely, and after taking away the left hand of the first Qing army, he rubbed the abdomen of the second Qing army through the ribs of the third Qing army, and directly brought the Qing army to the ground, and then it seemed that due to the insufficient amount of gunpowder in the gun, when it passed diagonally through the second team of Qing troops, it began to receive the impression of gravity and gradually fell, until the right calf of the last Qing army was broken, and then slowly rolled to the feet of a supervising team. Blood, shredded flesh, scraps of internal organs, and unidentified objects were smeared on the tips of the Overseer's shoes.

A moment later, the Warlord let out a scream like no one had usually been. And this scream was accompanied by the sound of one after another relieved Qing soldiers who let out unexplained shouts and fled backwards in a panic, as well as the sound of the Ming army's two Furlong cannons being loaded, ignited, and fired......

The field combat ability of this Ming army had made these veterans of the Governor Battalion hit a wall once last year, and at that time they could also complain that the pig-like teammates of the Sifu Green Battalion could not hold on for a while, and were defeated by this Nantang battalion first, which led to the defeat.

However, in this battle, the field combat capability of this Ming army seems to be even better than last year. It really made them suffer.

If that's all it takes, although the Qing army only has the Governor Battalion this time, its strength is far more than the Nantang Battalion that is still crossing the river, and it is only a matter of time before they are crushed. With this thought in mind, the soldiers of the Qing army persevered under the encouragement of the officers and the deterrence of the retreating and dying of the supervising team.

However, when the Tiger Squat Cannon carrying the Ziqi shot at an unimaginable speed, it was as if a thick log was pressed against a camel that needed only a few ears of wheat to overwhelm it, and the Qing army in front of it was completely stunned for a moment, and the will to fight began to disintegrate and collapse in an instant. After all, this thing is not something that normal humans can carry. Who knows if the target of the next shot will be them.

With the repeated fire of the Ming army's Furlong machine guns, more and more Qing troops began to flee backwards. Collapse, once it appears on the battlefield, will spread like the fastest-spreading infectious disease. Everyone has selfish intentions, and when everyone else turns around and flees, those who remain will have to face more enemies, and it will be difficult to survive.

Seeing that the sixteen guns carried by the Ming army had not yet been used up, the Qing army was the first to collapse. As the flag was pressed forward, the drums of war sounded again. As soon as the order for the general attack was issued, the Ming army rushed forward immediately after the tiger roared, chased after the Qing army, drove the Qing army to flee under the command, and killed all the wounded soldiers encountered along the way and those Qing troops who tried to resist in vain.

And at this moment, there is no time to think about how many shells are left for those two Franc cannons behind him. The Qing army of the two battalions of the left battalion and the right battalion of the superintendent fled north under the drive of the Ming army, and in an instant, the middle battalion of the superintendent left behind as a reserve was crushed and fled together.

The Ming army of the brigade gave up the pursuit after chasing for several miles, and after the Ming army on the east bank completely completed the landing, it immediately went north along Lingxi to join the main force of the Ming army.

Early the next morning. The messenger arrived at the Ming army camp in Longyou Town, and Chen Wen, after learning the general situation, ordered the whole army to cross the Lingxi defense line, which was empty at this moment due to the news of the disastrous defeat of the Dubiao battalion.

It's just that at this moment, he didn't continue to chase in the direction of the retreat of the Dubiao battalion, and there was still a Dingyang River between Lingxi and Quzhou Fuzhi, which was really a big problem for the Jinhua Ming army, which was almost completely incapable of water warfare. Now, instead of forcibly crossing Dingyang Creek, it is better to capture Longyou County as soon as possible, and at the same time open up the waterway and ensure the safety of the back road, you can also meet the old friend who has never been masked - Jinhua General Soldier Ma Jinbao, who is known as the "Scattered Wealth Boy".

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A few days later, while the main force of the Ming army was besieging Longyou County, in Luochengyan in the south of Dongyang County, in the meeting hall where he had previously met with Yu Guowang, several leaders of the rebel army from Zhou Qingui and below bowed down in front of Lu Wenlong, the envoy of Jinhua County, the governor of Zhejiang, Cao Conglong, and listened to this civil official read out Cao Conglong's vow on behalf of the court of Lu Jianguo.

At the end of last year, under the contact of Yu Guowang, Chen Wen held a banquet in Zhou Qingui's hometown Yufeng Yuanli with the prestige of a great victory to discuss the integration with him.

There were more than 500 rebels in Luochengyan, including many old and young, and later with the Ming army occupying Jinhua Mansion, people continued to go down the mountain to return to their hometowns to farm, and when Chen Wen tried to incorporate the Luochengyan rebels, there were only more than 400 people left. In order to appease this rebel army that has persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty for decades in history, Chen Wen took out an official position in Jinhua Town to recruit these leaders of the rebel army, and Zhou Qingui, the leader of them, could get the military rank of general and exist as Chen Wen's direct military general.

Previously, Chen Guobao brought a large group of cavalry to vote, and Chen Wen just took out a general, although this and that army originally came to return as the Ming Army of Dalanshan, but it was not easy for Chen Wen, who had just become the general soldier of Dalanshan at that time.

However, the military positions of general, guerrilla, garrison, and general Qian did not succeed in convincing Luo Chengyan to the people, and when a leader of the rebel army named He Decheng asked Chen Wen to grant Zhou Qingui the post of chief soldier of the regiment training under the pretext that they were old qualified local soldiers in Jinhua Mansion to resist the Qing rebels, and was willing to serve Lu Jianguo as the main commander without interfering in military affairs, the integration negotiation was completely defeated in the intransigence of Luo Chengyan's generals.

With the unhappy end of the meeting, Chen Wen surrounded Luo Chengyan again, until this time Lu Wenlong came to recruit in the name of Cao Conglong, and the troops stationed in the left vicinity did not disarm.

At this moment, after Cao Conglong's letter of appointment stamped with the seal of the Zhejiang Governor that Cao Conglong awarded Zhou Qingui as the chief soldier of the Zhejiang Governor's Standard Battalion, Zhou Qingui and other Luochengyan rebels became Cao Conglong's direct subordinates in name, and even Chen Wen had no right to command them in law. It's just that Lu Wenlong only brought a letter of appointment and a silver reward, but the necessities such as official uniforms, weapons, armor, grain and grass were still not in place.

Facing the interrogation of Zhou Qingui and others, I saw that Lu Wenlong smiled coldly, and then replied: "This matter has been completed, and you will not be allowed to serve the imperial court empty-handed." (To be continued.) )