The infantry charged after the Ming army had reached fifty paces, and before that, the cavalry of the three battalions of Nantang, Shentang and Guards had already been dispatched to fight the cavalry harassing the flanks of the Qing army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are a lot of cavalry sent by the Qing army to harass the flanks, which is their biggest advantage, but they have not been able to play a greater role due to the geographical environment of this place, but they still hold the handle with horse shooting.

The cavalry of the brigade galloped forward from about fifty or sixty paces away from the spear forest on the flank of the Ming army, twisting their waists and shooting hard, even if the bumps on the horseback and the high-speed movement of the war horse made their accuracy greatly reduced, but a large number of arrows still swept towards the Ming army's unarmored soldiers, and the Ming army had to turn the flank teams to face the Qing army, and the long players and rattan players defended.

Before the Ming cavalry was dispatched, only the infantry archers and musketeers could counterattack the cavalry, but the high-speed movement often caused their shots to be empty, and the pressure could not be reduced. It wasn't until the cavalry of the Ming army went out and diverted the attention of most of the harassing Qing cavalry that they finally reversed the trend in the confrontation.

It's just that in every encounter, although the cavalry of the Ming army has also undergone strict training, and the tactics are very different from those of the Qing army, the gap in experience and number still makes them continue to decrease in numbers. Almost every encounter will have more or less Ming cavalry fall off the horse, although the Qing army is not comfortable, but the numerical advantage is too huge, always more energy than the Ming cavalry.

At the same time, the infantry of the Ming and Qing armies were close at hand, and the distance between the mouth of the bird gun and the long card player of the Ming army was only a few steps away, which can be said to be breathing. In fact, not to mention this distance, even if it is thirty paces, the bird can still break the armor, let alone the infantry on both sides are not wearing armor at this moment.

With the issuance of the military order, the Qing army's bird gunners took the place of the second row of those used to supplement the first row of sword and shield soldiers, and when the subordinate Niu Lu Zhangjing gave the order, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row squatted down after trying their best to get rid of the attack of the Ming army's spears.

The scream of the bird gun sounded, and Shi Da Niu realized the next tactics the moment he saw the Qing army replace the bird gun, and it didn't matter whether he was smart or not, from the back of the Siming Mountain Palace to the present, every battle must be fought with, and this little experience and reaction is still there. Not even him, many soldiers at the head of the battalion full of these three veterans subconsciously moved closer behind the long card player, and even if they didn't react, their bodies unconsciously adjusted when they heard the captain's shout.

It's just that the movements of the Qing army are really not slow, and the lead bullets fired by the bird guns are even more instantaneous, and many soldiers have not had time to retract their bodies and return to the state of the vertical formation, and they have already been knocked to the ground in the smoke of gunpowder, and some of them were directly shot in the face and died on the spot. Many soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team and the Spear Array Killer Team at the front were shot by the Qing army, either wounded, or shot on the spot and killed, and the Ming army's offensive couldn't help but be stunned.

Relying on his more experience, Shi Da Niu squatted down as fast as he could, and blocked in front of him with his long card, covering his torso behind. But even then, a buckshot shot pierced the long plate he was holding the iron sheet in his hand, leaving a clear gap in his arm.

Enduring the pain, Shi Da Niu saw that it was only a skin injury, so he hurriedly glanced around, the casualties of several teams on the left and right were very different, some had already wailed and lay down, and some were only suffering some light or serious flesh injuries.

The tactics of the Qing army have long been adapted to by the Ming army, but these newly figured out to fight against the Ming army have never been seen, and the Ming army was indeed caught off guard. But when the smoke cleared, what appeared in front of him and the rest of the Ming army was an even more shocking scene.

Because the pikemen of the Qing army were completely furnished, they could only stay behind the battle and were at a loss, and the sword and shield soldiers completely fell into the dilemma of being pressed and beaten by the Ming army. The Chinese army and the Qing army on the right flank were all transferred from Beijing for just over a month, and they were not familiar with this method of warfare, and besides, everyone had a desire for self-preservation, and they were still too late to deal with the dense and crazy spurts of the Ming army in the face, and the officers' orders were often carried out by them slowly.

On weekdays, a slow beat is a slow beat, after all, the Qing army is a tactic that strongly relies on individual martial arts, but this time it is completely different. As soon as the order was issued, the bird gunner had no habit of aiming, and the conditioned reflex generally pulled the bolt to shoot, but many sword and shield soldiers were placed with their own firearms, and the red and white were scattered on the ground, which frightened the infantry of the Ming and Qing armies who were in the middle of the battle.

For a time, only those Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners on the left flank had been trained for several months, and the sword and shield soldiers in the front row immediately squatted down after receiving the order, regardless of the Ming army's attack, to prevent accidental injury, but they were also taken advantage of by the Ming army to complete a wave of harvesting.

The casualties of each team were different, and because the tactics had not been seen, the reactions of the officers at the grassroots level were also different, and even the reactions of those sentry commanders, bureau commanders, or battalion officers were very different. Some teams are still letting firefighters or musketeers fill the formation, some have already begun to switch with the infantry teams behind, and some have simply transferred the firearms team with a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood, and the Qing army in front of them is a salvo without even aiming.

Zhang Yida's Shentang battalion was on the left flank of the Ming army, facing the right flank of the Qing army, and the Qing army's shooting just now caused the killer team in the front row of their team to fall four people in one go, two were slightly injured, one was seriously injured, and one was directly killed by the Qing army. The captain of their infantry team was a well-known guy for guarding calves, and seeing so many casualties, he immediately transferred the firearms team and fired at the Qing army on the opposite side.

The infantry attack still had to advance to assassinate, and the firearms in the firearms team had already been loaded, and the infantry archers could shoot at the face of the Qing army with their bows and arrows. It's just that after this round, more than half of the bird gunners in front of him have fallen, and even those sword and shield soldiers who have squatted down and haven't stood up have a few unlucky eggs who have been affected by the pond fish.

Just a moment later, the battalion officer's order had been issued, the war drums sounded again, and the three battalion flags were tilted forward in unison, which was the order to launch an attack on the whole line, and the task of charging naturally was not the turn of these musketeers.

In the formation, Chen Wen clearly saw the new tactics of the Qing army, and he was indeed surprised, but at this time of the battle, the temperature was getting higher and higher, and the physical strength of the Ming army, which was already more tired than the Qing army, would definitely drop faster. At this time, once the morale of the Ming army, which was already in the spirit beyond the body, began to decline in the midst of the obstruction of the offensive and the heat, the collapse would also break out in an instant, and it was bound to be unstoppable.

It is necessary to keep the offensive, and end the battle as quickly as possible, blowing the horn of the general attack, the three battalions of the Ming army can no longer care about whether the formation of the front row is complete, with the help of the overwhelming length of the spear immediately launched a general attack, even the more than 200 cavalry transferred from the city of Jinhua Mansion also shouted and rushed to the right flank of the Ming army.

"Kill Liu Zhiyuan!"

The shouts shook the earth, and the three battalions of the Ming army on the frontal battlefield rushed to the Qing army almost regardless of casualties, and immediately beat the Qing army back with the advantage of formation and weapons, and even those cavalry took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, and the Qing army was only between this line from collapse.

From the beginning of the battle, this everywhere strange Ming army has always overwhelmed them, originally thought that they could rely on the experience and battle of this Qing army to hold on to the collapse of the Ming army, but who would have thought that the first step on the verge of collapse was the Qing army rather than the Ming army from afar.

Shi Tingzhu didn't want to believe everything in front of him, because his subordinates, these Niu Lu were full of veterans who had been in the army for more than ten years, and they were all treasures in the army, but in the face of the Ming army, which had only been in the army for more than two years, they were always hung up and beaten, and there was no hope of breaking it with force.

The general offensive of the Ming army suddenly began, and even after the shot he had just placed high hopes on, the infantry of the Qing army had no chance of reversing the situation on their own. Fortunately, he still has a cavalry in his hand, those cavalry from the Hangzhou garrison of the Eight Banners are waiting for him and Liu Zhiyuan's generals, although the terrain is limited, but he believes that this cavalry will be able to turn the situation around, even if it is only to slow down the Ming army's offensive a little, and his army should be enough to withdraw from the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Shi Tingzhu nodded to Liu Zhiyuan, who stepped on the war horse without hesitation, and led nearly a thousand iron cavalry to run unstoppably towards the left flank of the Qing army, the area where the cavalry of the two armies were entangled.

However, a moment later, Shi Tingzhu just retracted his gaze towards the cavalry, and in the exclamation of the generals beside him, he saw the direction of Jinhua Mansion City at a glance, and a sea of billowing smoke and dust carrying a flag was coming here. And he clearly remembered that in addition to the disabled Dongyang battalion of the Ming army in Jinhua Mansion, there was also a battalion named Pujiang, which was stationed in the direction of crossing Jinhua Mansion City.

"The tide is over!" (To be continued.) )