If you look down from the sky, from north to south on the battlefield, the fiery red color slowly begins to squeeze the larger gray-blue of the hedge to the west after a short stalemate, and only the southernmost piece is still barely supporting in the torrent. But in fact, with every step forward in fiery red, gray-blue takes a step back, but with each step back, a little bit of gray-blue is completely devoured, so that at the beginning of the period the fiery red was much larger and began to gradually shrink.

The Qing army's Chinese army was the Jiangxi Admiral's standard battalion, and the elite of the Jiangxi Green Battalion of up to 4,000 people had begun to fall behind in terms of tactical establishment due to their ignorance of the Zhejiang battlefield.

In contrast, the right flank of the Qing army, which was located near the Qujiang River, and the left flank at the southern end, respectively, faced opponents who were not weak.

In the Ming army facing the right flank, although the Dongyang battalion only had half of the strength, if you add the infantry teams of the two bureaus temporarily supplemented by Chen Wen, the strength is almost the same as that of the battle battalion. Even if the combat effectiveness is a little uneven, the Qing army on the right flank is only a few local green battalions that have been repeatedly attacked by the Jinhua Ming Army and have long been frightened, and it is quite easy to maintain it without collapsing for the time being.

As for the Qing army on the left flank, at present, it is only relying on the elite of the Fujian Qing army, the general battalion of the left road in Fujian, to maintain the front. And this is still the result of Wang Zhigang, the chief military officer, not daring to disobey the order of his immediate boss Chen Jin, reorganizing the army, and relying on the newly added spearmen to line up and stab the Ming army, otherwise I am afraid that it would have been like the Jiangxi Admiral Biaoying.

The Ming army had just completed the division of land and established a system of dividing military merits into fields, and morale was at its most vigorous; Most of the Qing troops were guest troops, and they had been assembled in Quzhou for a long time, and homesickness had begun to affect the morale of the army. In a hasty battle, even if the troops are obviously superior, it is extremely disadvantaged.

The general situation on the battlefield was already clear to Chen Wen with the exchange of heralds, which was not unexpected by him. In fact, it was not only him, but the commander of the Qing army, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, had also expected it, but he didn't expect the disparity in combat effectiveness between the two sides to reach this point.

"It wasn't supposed to be this way."

Chen Jin sighed secretly, due to the failure of the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army in Zhejiang in the first half of the year, even the governor was surrounded in the city, and the Qing court decided to let the commander of the infantry army, Arzin, lead a Manchurian Eight Banner Army to the south to help suppress.

However, with the reversal of the Hunan battlefield, Li Dingguo forced Kong Youde to kill, and Guangxi was recaptured by the Ming army, this series of events forced the Qing court to change its plan, leaving Arzin's Eight Banners Army in Jiangxi to prevent the southwestern Ming army from entering Jiangxi and threatening Zhejiang or, more importantly, Jiangnan.

"If it weren't for Shen Yongzhong's waste ......"

Since Zheng Chenggong captured Zhangzhou last month, the situation in the southeast began to become more and more unfavorable to the Qing army, and it was a fool's dream for the mobile units of the Qing army in Fujian to repel the Ming army in Fujian alone. But if the local green battalion is transferred, the victory or defeat is not known, Zheng Chenggong's sailor is the best in the Fujian Sea, once the Fujian Ming army comes to bloom everywhere, the whole province of Fujian will be completely eroded.

Originally, at Chen Jin's repeated requests, the Qing court sent the "real Manchuria" south to help suppress it. However, also last month, half a month earlier than Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Zhangzhou, Shen Yongzhong abandoned Changsha under the Ming army and retreated to Yuezhou.

As for Shen Yongzhong himself, his title of Duke of Xushun was inherited from his uncle Shen Zhixiang, and Shen Zhixiang was given the title because he was the son of Shen Shikui, the last commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town.

"Back then, Shen Shikui climbed up because his daughter became Mao Wenlong's concubine, and the family surnamed Shen was a bunch of waste!"

Arzin temporarily stayed in Nanchang Mansion, Jiangxi Province in preparation for the Southwest Ming Army, which was on the offensive in Sichuan, Huguang and Guangxi battlefields, but Zhejiang could not ignore it, so the Qing court sent the Jiangxi Admiral Biao Battalion to help suppress it.

"But a banner man of the Han Army Banner with a group of green battalion soldiers, how can it be compared to the Manchu Eight Banners?!"

Due to the sharp decline in the war situation in the southwest, it failed to go as Chen Jin wished. Fortunately, during this time, he also learned from the pain, and did not blindly put all his hope on the reinforcements. The power of the Mandarin Duck Array is extraordinary, at least in the terrain of Zhejiang, it is indeed taken advantage of. In this case, he used Wang Sheng, the general from Siming Mountain, to copy the entire superintendent battalion according to Chen Wen's establishment.

Until today, although the training has only been two months, it is not comparable to the several battalions under Chen Wen, but the absolute superiority of the strength of the troops makes him have the opportunity to use the Qing army of other departments to contain the Jinhua Ming army, so as to obtain the opportunity to use the Mandarin Duck Formation form of the supervision battalion to reverse the tide of the battle.

Moreover, Chen Jin's killer feature is not the only one!

The 3,000 Governor's Battalion got up from behind Chen Jin's flag, shouted "Tiger" to the abruptly heavier war drums, and marched towards the General Battalion on the left road of Fujian at the southern end of the battlefield. However, they did not intend to fill or replace the positions of Wang Zhigang's subordinates, but used the advantage of their strength to continue southward to achieve a flank attack on the Yiwu battalion on the left flank of the Ming army.

"It turned out to be the Mandarin Duck Array, Chen Jin, count you ruthless!"

The spitting words turned into a mouthful of spit after a few circles in the cavity and was spit on the ground by Chen Wen, he still remembered that last year, the supervising battalion used the advantage of strength and the cavalry of the brigade to crush the Yiwu battalion that only had an infantry team, and now Chen Jin obviously wants to take advantage of the mandarin duck formation to repeat the old tricks of the supervising battalion.

No, there's something missing!

A cruel scorn crossed the corners of his mouth, and then Chen Wen ordered the battalion directly under the town as a reserve and the garrison infantry of the two bureaus to move towards the left flank of the Ming army, even he was no exception.

"Mr. An Qian, you are from the first outpost of the old Nantang battalion, you should still remember the Wu Chang Niu of the first mandarin duck array killer team at the beginning of the army."

Niu Ping'an is one of the oldest qualified officers in the Nantang Battalion, and An Youfu is with him at the first outpost, so naturally there is no possibility that he does not know. His man was responsible for guarding Wang Jiang last year, but he was completely annihilated by the Ningbo Green Battalion, and his opponent was the same Mandarin Duck Formation as the Ming Army, and Wang Sheng copied Chen Wen's Mandarin Duck Formation.

This is the first defeat in the history of the Jinhua Ming army, and it is also the only time that the Qing army was annihilated into the formation of the fiasco, and also lost the governor Wang Jiang, although these soldiers were all martyred, but they have always been regarded as a great shame by the Jinhua Ming army. Hearing this, An Youfu was stunned for a moment, and then replied to Chen Wen: "Obey orders!" ”

It's not that you know, it's that you obey!

Chen Wen looked at the back of the former Yongkang County defender Qian Youfu, who was appointed to command the infantry teams of these two bureaus, and nodded with satisfaction. The task was very heavy, but he had no choice but to gamble.

At the southernmost end of the battlefield, the Commander Battalion, which set off first, quickly bypassed the flank of the General Battalion on the left side of Fujian, and tried its best to extend to the flank and rear of the Yiwu Battalion before it began to make contact.

Although the commander of the Supervisory Battalion is still Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Supervisory Battalion, Wang Sheng has already been promoted from an ordinary garrison of the middle battalion to the commander of the capital, and is now responsible for assisting Zhang Guoxun in commanding the battle, and his old subordinates have also become the last reserve in Zhang Guoxun's hands.

The supervision battalion has only been training mandarin ducks for two months, and Wang Sheng has also been promoted, but the resistance of officers at all levels has always existed, and the resistance to the new tactical establishment is more of a resistance to him, a new general. For this reason, they joined forces to promote the abolition of the establishment of the firefighters, not only to give him a disadvantage, in fact, even Chen Jin and Zhang Guoxun did not think that this establishment had any significance in existing.

Seeing this, Wang Sheng had no choice but to choose silence, although he knew that there were firefighters in the Mandarin Duck Array in Qi Jiguang's era and Chen Wen's hands, but he didn't know why it existed. And most importantly, he is not willing to offend his colleagues for this.

The opponent also used the Mandarin Duck Formation, which was undoubtedly a great shock to the Mandarin Duck Array Killer Team in the half of the Yiwu Battalion flank, but as the officers shouted angrily with contempt and disdain, the teams on the flanks immediately began to change their formations, from the small three talent formations that were still on the offensive just now to the big three talent formations that were conducive to defense. At this time, the reserve team that was running forward also quickly approached the battlefield to prevent the Biao Battalion from continuing to extend and surround the Yiwu battalion.

The Mandarin Duck Formation of the Inspector Battalion was trained by Wang Sheng, and after frequent battles, it has been converted into a combination of firearms and infantry.

Without the javelin projection of the sword and shield soldiers, the two armies always shoot at each other with archers and bird-gunners before they collide. Fortunately, with the continuous extension of the army, Wu Dengke, the commander of the Yiwu battalion, put the four outpost infantry teams in his hands and the reloaded artillery and musketeers into the flanks, and the Ming army did not suffer any losses in the long-range weapons shooting.

Until they approached a certain distance, the Yiwu battalion and the Dubiao battalion retreated to the back of the long-range shooters, but exposed the two mandarin duck formations carved out of a mold, and then collided fiercely.

Since both sides were using the Mandarin Duck Formation, the first reaction of the wolf players was not to suppress and destroy the opponent's formation, but to attack the opposite wolf players. Without the harassment of the wolf, the pikemen of the two armies came out together, and with the protection of the long players and the assistance of the rattan players, they fought the fiercest battle with their opponents.

The two armies were like beans growing from a pod, and the moment they collided, they fought in the bloodiest way possible. The attacking Governor Battalion used the Small Sancai Formation, while the Yiwu Battalion on the defending side used the Big Sancai Formation to resist in order to reduce its own casualties.

Just after the collision began, the two bureaus under the command of An Youfu also rushed into the battlefield, so that the Governor Battalion had to abandon the plan to quickly complete the flank attack, and instead use the advantage of troops to engage in a war of attrition with the Ming army.

As an archer behind the formation, Zhang Yida could only harass and kill the Qing army by shooting from the back on such a battlefield, and at the same time, the Qing army was doing the same thing, which made him feel very unbearable. Standing behind the formation, he could clearly see that the support soldiers he belonged to had been forced to change from the junior talent formation at the beginning of contact to the big third talent formation for defense.

"We have been using the Mandarin Duck Formation and the Mandarin Duck Formation for attack training before, so we should be more proficient than the Tartars."

As he said, on the battlefield on this flank, the Ming army, due to its longer training time, was indeed better at dealing with the opponent's attack and taking advantage of the opponent's negligence to launch a counterattack. However, if you look closely, although the Qing army's mandarin duck array is relatively clumsy and slightly less cooperative because it is not skilled enough, it is not without confrontation training, and it can even be said that it is a special training on how to fight against the mandarin duck array. On the battlefield, there was no one-sided situation as Zhang Yida imagined.

Moreover, there is indeed an overwhelming superiority in their strength, which is an advantage of three thousand against eight hundred!

The left flank of the Ming army was only 3,000 people, while the Qing army had reached an astonishing 8,000. Although the absolute superiority of the troops could not be fully exerted, it made them quickly stabilize the front, and even began to slowly squeeze the space of the Ming army through wheel warfare, pressing the Ming army on the left flank to the east.

If you look down from the sky, on the battlefield at this moment, the fiery red and gray blue have begun to rotate slowly like a pointer at the connection point between the Nantang camp and the Yiwu camp, and the momentum of victory and defeat is no longer as obvious as just now.

"Kill!"

The cries of battle were so combined with the wails of pain that it was difficult to distinguish them. Chen Lan, who had already drawn his sword in his hand, watched a captain help the pikemen in that team to remove the attack of a Qing army pikeman, and immediately fell into the attack of a Qing army pikeman and a Qing army long card player.

"Dog Tartar who can't kill enough!"

Since the collision with the Qing army began, although the Qing army on the opposite side was far inferior to them because of its coordination, it was able to immediately transform into a vertical formation after every loss of one or two soldiers, and replace the intact team behind to continue the attack. And they, always stuck to this line, are not able to rotate at all, not because they don't have a chance, but because they can't get the rotation of troops at all.

As the sentry commander, none of the four infantry teams in Chen Lan's hands were intact, the least casualties were the loss of a pikeman and a long-card player, and the most was three pikemen and a rattan player who had fallen on the battlefield forever. To this end, he had to order the firefighters of each team to replenish them, and even had to order the musketeers who had barely touched the spears to pick up the spears and replenish the battle formation.

"Mr. An Qian, the brothers can't hold it anymore, please ask the marshal for support."

"Sentry Commander Chen, now that all fronts are tight, you don't have to think about reinforcements. I have only one order, and that is to defend this front for Lao Tzu. The killer team is dead, and the firearms team is making up for it; The firearms team is dead, and the captain makes up for it; The captain is dead, and you sentinels will make it up for me; If you are all dead, I will make up for it myself! ”

Mr. Qian, in the Jinhua Ming Army, is the dispatch of the old battalion and garrison, and the sentry commander is the official position of the infantry team. Although An Youfu is the general manager of Qian, he originally had only one post in the direct subordinate unit as the deputy of the guard general in Yongkang County, and although Chen Lan was not the sentry commander of the war team, the scale of the Dongyang County garrison was very large, and his sentry commander was also worthy of the name.

However, the rank in the army determines everything, although An Youfu's rank of Qian is not high, but he has the right to command these two bureaus, Chen Lan gritted his teeth and had to step back and continue to command the operation.

"There is also a battalion directly under the town in the hands of the marshal, this is not for nothing, the Tartar must still have a killer weapon that has not been taken out, so I must stick to it and buy time for the marshal!"

As time passed, the rotation between the fiery red and the gray-blue became larger and larger, and although the gray-blue squeezed more and more at the lower half of the pointer, the fiery red began to break away from the link at the upper half of the pointer, squeezing the Qing army's center and right flank farther and farther away. The collapse of gray-blue in the first half may be in the next second.

"It still doesn't work."

Chen Jin gritted his teeth and gave the next order, and with his order, the nearly 1,000 iron cavalry that had been guarding under his general banner began to gallop southward, and the order they received was to bypass the infantry of the two bureaus of the Governor Battalion and the Ming Army as reinforcements, and go straight to Chen Wen's general banner.

And this is Chen Jin's last killer feature! (To be continued.) )