After the Ming army landed, although the mountain on the west side of the mountain was not steep, the downhill along the mountain to the flat section where the Ming army was located was a large area of dense woods, and it was not easy to make a small detour with a large army.

When the Qing army bypassed the mountains and woods, the first thing they saw was as the scouts said, the vanguard of the Ming army crossing Lingxi was already in full battle, but the Nantang battalion in front of them was very different from before, so that Zhang Guoxun and Wang Sheng and others almost did not recognize it.

The battle formation of the Ming army in front of him, a row of tigers squatting in front of the cannons, followed by a firearms team composed of firecrackers and archers, these are not unexpected, but if you look back, there are rows of spears, but the wolf squirrels that have been particularly remembered by the Qing army before have not only decreased sharply, but also been placed in the queue further back, and I don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of the Ming army.

Zhang Guoxun rode on his war horse and observed the Ming army's front from a distance, obviously very different from last year, and Wang Sheng was even more surprised, because the last time he personally fought with this Ming army, it was the escort unit besieging Wang Jiang last year, and the Nantang battalion used the original version of the formation, not the mixed formation of the killer team and the firearms team that Zhang Guoxun saw.

But no matter how the establishment changes, the intention of that spear forest is obvious!

Returning to the position of the Chinese army, Zhang Guoxun informed Chen Jin of the details of what he had seen. From the perspective of the Qing army, the formation of the Ming army stood in the middle of that flat terrain, with the river beach to the east and the woods to the west. Divide it, surround it, and finally eat it completely, so that it can be done once and for all.

It's just that the current army under his command is about three times more than three times the strength of the Ming army that crossed the stream, and the Ming army still on the other side of the stream is difficult to achieve effective support.

After a rapid march, Chen Jin was very relieved that his standard supervision battalion did not fall behind too much. Although this army has been reorganized this year. But now it seems that the combat effectiveness has been preserved, and it is still the elite unit of the green battalion in the Zhejiang Qing army. However, even the most elite troops need to rest after a rapid march, so that they can maintain a better state to attack the Ming army.

There were still about two hours before nightfall, and there was plenty of time, but there was no room for too long. Especially after nightfall, night fighting is not good for either side. And there is another point, once the Ming army is dragged to transport the whole army, then the sky-high advantage of half-crossing will no longer exist.

The transportation of the Ming army on Lingxi was still going on, and the two armies were separated by a large open space. Outside the range of the long-range weapons of the two sides, there was a tacit understanding to do the last rest before the war. About a quarter of an hour later, the Qing army, which was still a little tired, had to stand up and start the formation under the order of the officer, while the Ming army on the opposite side also quickly stood up after observing the Qing army finishing their rest, and immediately returned to their previous appearance after only adjusting their position slightly.

Chen Jin didn't know how Chen Wen's army was trained, but as long as this Nantang battalion could be disabled today, then it didn't matter how it was trained.

The war drums sounded, and the Qing army, which had just completed the whole team, slowly marched in the direction of the Ming army's battle formation under the command of the banner. This time, the Ming army's Franc machine gun was still on the opposite bank. It was inconvenient to transport, and the Qing army, which came on a rapid march, could not carry slightly heavier artillery. It also carries a light Tiger Squat Cannon as a long-range fire support for the whole army.

Inspired by the sound of war drums, the left and right battalions, which were the vanguard, always moved slowly, without the slightest intention of advancing or stagnating, and marched towards the Ming army's front at a uniform speed.

As the commander of the Nantang battalion, Li Ruixin did not participate in the battle of Xiaoshun Town last year. Rather, it is in Shaoxing Mansion to deter Shaoxing Green Camp. At this moment, his understanding of the actual combat effectiveness of the Supervisory Battalion was not very clear, but when he noticed that the Qing army was always trying its best to maintain a straight line, the combat effectiveness of the Supervisory Battalion rose to a new level in his heart.

Before serving in Huang Degong's army, the sergeants he saw still paid more attention to the training of personal martial arts. The march of the queue on the battlefield is basically a slight formation at intervals. However, this army has always maintained a straight line, even if it is only moving slowly, there is no trace of breakage, and the training on its queue is definitely not below the standard battalion, which means that its degree of training and the implementation of military orders will certainly not be comparable to that of a weak chicken unit like the Shaoxing Green Battalion.

The first time he led the troops to confront such elite troops, and it was in such a predicament, Li Ruixin's palms began to get wet, which was a situation he had never had since he followed Huang Degong, who led the cavalry charge, to kill the first enemy on the battlefield, but both Huang Degong and Chen Wen had said that the more nervous he was as a commander, the more he tried to calm down his mentality, and only then would he not faint and so on.

So, let's do something more meaningful!

The Qing army was still approaching, and I saw Li Ruixin snatching the iron horn of the herald under the battalion flag, and shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, the front is the Governor Battalion that was defeated by us last year, and now we are indeed fewer than them, but the commander once said that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road." Back then, when we followed the commander to face the standard battalion, only one-fifth of the Tartar troops were different, did we win? Now we still have colleagues behind us who are struggling to cross the river to help, kill them all, go north to join the marshal, recover Quzhou, and everyone has a share in the military achievements! ”

Li Ruixin is not a man of tongue, but his years of experience in the army allow him to understand what the soldiers are most eagerly looking forward to!

Secretly changing the concept and using the standard battalion as a comparison, the standard supervision camp does not seem to be much stronger. The military merit system formulated by Chen Wen tied the soldiers to the chariots of the Ming army, and as long as they obtained the military merits, they could get a land reward that could be passed on to future generations, which was much more tempting than rewarding some silver.

Driven by the hope of survival and the abundant reward, sure enough, the tension of the soldiers in the Ming army suddenly relaxed, and the contempt for the enemy and the beautiful desire for the reward of military merit prompted them to clench the blades in their hands and concentrate their attention as much as possible on obeying the command to kill the enemy, just as they did when they were training in the barracks.

Soon, the Qing army's brigade marched to the farthest range of the Tiger Squat Artillery, and there was almost no damage at this distance, so the officers leading the team of the Tiger Squat Gun Gunners only informed Li Ruixin and continued to observe the distance. However, in order to prevent unnecessary casualties, the Ming army still chose to take out the big shield players who had worked well in the battle of Xiaoshun Town to protect the artillery, and the shields in their hands were no longer the standard long cards they once had.

With the order of the artillery officer, the big shield bearers in charge of protection stepped forward with great difficulty carrying a heavy door panel covered with iron sheets, and stood on both sides of the muzzle of the tiger squat cannon to protect the gunners who operated the guns.

Just as they were standing up the door and hiding behind with their bodies as support, the Qing army also entered the range of bows and arrows. I saw that after the captains of the firearms teams got the signal of the flag, they immediately ordered the archers under their command to set up arrows and aim, and just waited for the exit of the word shooting, and a dense rain of arrows pierced the sky above the big shield hand and flew towards the battle formation of the Qing army.

Almost at the same time, the archers of the Qing army also drew their bows and fired back, and those sword and shield soldiers immediately rushed forward and raised their shields to resist the projectile of the Ming archers.

The shooting effect of the Ming army was not good, under the skillful tactical movements of the Qing saber and shield soldiers, only a few arrows hit the Qing army in this rain of arrows, and they were not critical, and the biggest achievement was to make the Qing army's pace of progress pause. As for the Qing army's counterattack, it was even more useless in front of the door panel and the long and rattan players of the infantry team.

After the first round of temptation, the Qing army, which maintained the rhythm of the attack, continued to advance, while the second wave of arrows also staggered over the battlefield, and then stuck in the open space and shields between the soldiers, and only a few unlucky people were dragged behind the battle by their comrades after being shot.

The distance between the two armies is getting smaller and smaller, and both sides seem to have forgotten about the matter of firing artillery together. But at this moment, with the beginning of a new round of firing between the two sides, the Ming army's battle formation took the lead in raising a piece of gunpowder smoke while a banging sound spread.

The wind in the mountains blew in the direction of the Qing army downstream, and the smoke dissipated, but what I saw was a small piece of the Qing army in the front row lying down with scattered wails. Holding their thighs or clutching their stomachs, the pain tore at their nerves, but the wounds were just small hollows, gushing with blood.

The archers in the front row of the Qing army and the sword and shield soldiers who guarded them paid far more casualties than if they had simply fired with bows and arrows.

But even so, the Qing army only stopped for a moment and continued to advance, and those archers and sword and shield soldiers in the front row also continued to carry out their respective tasks under the reprimand of the officers, and did not dare to stop at all. At this moment, after the Ming army carried out a simple round of bow and arrow shooting, a new round of bow and arrow and fire gun combined shooting was staged again......

The distance between the two sides became closer and closer, until the third round of coordinated shooting began, and the Qing army was only a few tens of meters away from the Ming army's battle array. At the same time, the tiger squat cannons in the front row of the Ming army were also lit with fuses, and those stones and iron sand followed the bows and lead bullets to the Qing army's battle array.

It's just that at this moment, the battle formations in the front row of the left battalion and the right battalion of the superintendent were empty, exposing the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers who were used for hand-to-hand combat in the back. In the front row, there were corpses lying on the ground, wounded people holding their wounds trying to stop the blood gushing, and scattered stumps and broken arms.

The smoke blowing to the north obscured the battle formation of the Qing army, and only the wails of the wounded soldiers and the shouts of the officers were heard, as if the Qing army was shocked by this fierce volley and lost the courage to continue advancing.

However, this is not the case. When the smoke of gunpowder completely swept in front of the Qing army, the tiger squat cannons, which were far more numerous than the Ming army, were already standing in front of the formation, and those gunners pressed torches on the fire doors of the tiger squat cannons at the same time as the order of the artillery officer of the artillery team was given.

In the way of others, give back to others! (To be continued.) )