The Ming army of the three war battalions went all the way west from the official road north of Jinhuafu City, and soon encountered the cavalry of the Qing army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the face of the mixed infantry and cavalry of the Ming army in Zhejiang, the light cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Army only stepped forward to harass them by relying on the speed of their horses, and they did not dare to have any other extravagant hopes, and they did not even dare to stop and confront the Ming army. It's not that they are not brave enough, and the warriors who can become cavalry in the Eight Banners of the Han Army are all warriors in the army, but the range of the riding bow is really pitiful compared to the foot bow, and if you stand there and shoot at each other, the Qing army's cavalry bow has not yet reached the distance where it can shoot effectively and will be shot into a hedgehog by the Ming army's infantry archers.

However, even so, compared to the Ming army, the cavalry of the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage in numbers, and the three battalions of the Ming army still had to slow down and advance in formation. In this way, the cavalry of the Qing army could no longer even harass them, and could only watch the Ming army advance, but their goal had been achieved.

Taking advantage of the time difference caused by the harassment of the cavalry, Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan withdrew the besieging army and retreated two miles to rearray.

This location is actually not good, there is a waterway more than ten meters wide in the north and south of the flank, one leads from the Dongyang River from west to east, and the other is a river pond of three or four hectares that flows from the mountainous area in the north to the left flank of the Qing army's formation. This hindered the use of cavalry of the Qing army to a certain extent, but the water network of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not conducive to the mobility of cavalry, otherwise the Manchu court would not have lowered the ratio of infantry and cavalry of the army here to the pitiful level of nine to one.

However, at this moment, the main force of the Ming army is approaching, and the only place they can retreat to for a while is the best, at least it is much stronger than fighting with the main force of the Ming army under the city, and on the other hand, they have to guard against the possible flank attacks of the Ming army in the city.

After the Qing army was deployed, they began their final rest, accumulating the last trace of physical strength for the decisive battle. It didn't take long for the Ming army to arrive a mile away and begin to rest there.

Jinhua Mansion is his base, Chen Wen is very familiar with the terrain here, the current position of the Qing army is not very good, it is true, but if you want to find an open land of sufficient size and not hindering the movement of the cavalry, you have to retreat at least four or five miles to the northwest, at that time they have already been caught up by the Ming army, far from being a duel here.

Relatively speaking, the Ming army is not much better, although the city can be sheltered behind you, but the south side of the Ming army's formation is a small wood, the terrain is also higher than the periphery, and there is also a mound slightly higher than the four in the north, the Ming army needs to go out from this narrow area to completely expand the formation, which will undoubtedly affect the advance speed of the Ming army.

It is impossible to consume it like this all the time, and the Qing army that has no camp to rely on all night in the city of Dun cannot afford it, and the Ming army, which has been running for more than 100 miles, cannot afford it.

Both sides are tired soldiers, and a quick victory is a common aspiration. When the infantry of the two outposts and the cavalry of more than 200 people sent by Yin Yue arrived, Chen Wen gave the order for the whole army to advance.

The infantry of these two outposts were the defenders of the northern, eastern, and southern walls and the recruits assigned to them, and although they had not slept all night, they were still in better condition than the troops of the Dongyang battalion who had been completely disabled at the Tongyuan Gate and the gap, both in terms of physical strength and the integrity of the formation. And the more than 200 cavalry are the cavalry of the Dongyang Battalion and the officer corps that can ride and fight in the martial arts school, which is the capital left by Yin Yue to make the final counterattack, and the state is relatively good.

Together with three battalions of cavalry and sappers, these non-commissioned officers formed Chen Wen's reserve. However, now that the soldiers on both sides have not consumed the strength, it may not be the turn of the reserve team to come out, and the battle will be over.

The Ming troops of the brigade slowly walked out of the narrower area, and soon stretched out the formation of the three battalions. The Nantang battalion occupied the central army, the Shentang battalion was responsible for the left flank, and the guards battalion was left for the right flank. The reason for this arrangement was that Chen Wen knew that the waterway to the south of the Qing army was not straight to the east, and that she would turn in the other direction behind the temple a few miles away......

With the start of the first round of test firing, more than a dozen shells came whistling one after another, smashing out craters one after another within 100 meters in front of the Ming army's formation, stirring up pieces of plaster, and even the most recent one turned several Ming troops in the front row of the Nantang battalion into mud figures.

The Ming army completed the whole team at a very fast speed, and at the moment when the war drums sounded, an earth-shaking tiger roar broke out, and the Ming army of three battalions did not advance step by step as usual, but jogged in the direction of the Qing army.

"Traitor Chen Wen, is this crazy?"

No better than Liu Zhiyuan, Shi Tingzhu, who had never fought with this Zhejiang Ming army, looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and really imagined that even the other Qing army officers also showed unimaginable looks.

The confrontation between the armies was not a hooligan brawl staged in the TV series of Chen Wen's era, and the formation was a crucial existence. No battle, this is the iron law of infantry, and with the ability of the army in this era, it is necessary to stop the whole team to advance a certain distance in formation to ensure the integrity of the formation, and the difference between elite and waste wood is only the number and time of the whole team. It is simply unimaginable for the Ming army to run forward like this.

"Shi Shuai, Liu Shuai, let the cavalry kill them, and these traitors will be finished with a charge."

Hearing the suggestion of the Manchurian Eight Banners officer with mixed qualifications beside him, Shi Tingzhu shook his head, and then explained to him: "Although the opposite side is running forward, the formation has never been scattered, and the basic formation and flags are not disordered. The slightest movement of the cavalry, they only need to stop and regroup, rushing up will affect the artillery fire, and the traitor Chen Wen seems to be intending to weaken the effect of the artillery bombardment. ”

The predecessor of the Eight Banners of the Han Army was the artillery unit of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it can also be seen in the establishment of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners that only the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty had an artillery establishment, while the Eight Banners of Mongolia focused on cavalry, all of which were used as auxiliary troops of the Eight Banners of Manchuria on the battlefield.

Shi Tingzhu is the earliest leader of Wuzhen Chaoha, and he is also a figure who has sat in Wuzhen Chaoha, and he is a very experienced artillery officer in the Manchu army, and he can see the clues almost at a glance.

On the battlefield, the shooting of the Qing artillery never stopped, but the calculation of the distance still relied more on experience than scientific instruments, coupled with the unreasonable movement speed of the Ming army, so that their shells often shot behind the Ming army's formation, even if there were a very few that could hit, most of the hits were the Ming army behind the formation, and it had no effect on those advancing arrows.

Running is a compulsory course in the training of the Ming army, each team runs forward in formation, in order to launch a surprise attack faster, originally this will be launched after a certain distance, but Chen Wen does not plan to walk this mile in the dense artillery fire of the Han Army's Eight Banners, which is a loss of morale, and he must send the Ming army into hand-to-hand combat with the highest morale, only in this way can it be possible to defeat this elite army of the Qing army.

In fact, Chen Wen also knew that if it weren't for the super high veteran ratio of these three battalions, if it was replaced by other battalions, even if it wasn't a pure new battalion like the Lishui battalion, it wouldn't be able to do it at all. Most of the veterans of these three battalions have been in the army since the recovery of Jinhua Mansion in the fifth year of Yongli, and even the Shentang Battalion, which has the least qualifications, has also experienced the first confrontation between Shentangyuan and the Qing army's Mandarin Duck Array, and has fought bloody battles and long-term training, otherwise it would be difficult to reach this level.

After running a distance of about 100 paces, the Ming army really stopped and began to regroup, but the speed of the whole team was still a little too fast in the eyes of the Qing army, as if every soldier of this Ming army could consciously and automatically adjust his position in the queue through the knowledge of the left and right.

I can't tell the difference between the left and right people in the army, although I don't know how the Ming army did it, but Shi Tingzhu began to feel the threat here, because the fewer times he carried artillery fire on the battlefield, the more casualties he could reduce, and the number of times the whole team was determined according to whether the formation was scattered.

A hundred steps, this distance is still running, Shi Tingzhu really can't imagine all this in front of him, and even he once suspected that he was wrong, but when he turned his head and looked at Liu Zhiyuan, that guy was also full of shock, which deepened Shi Tingzhu's inner shock.

"Let the cavalry go up, don't let them rush too fast, this Ming army doesn't seem to be a weak brigade, you must inflict enough casualties on the road, and you can break the enemy faster after engagement!"

With Shi Tingzhu's order, the Qing cavalry of the brigade rushed out from the gap between the two wings and the Chinese army, and roared towards the Ming army.

Seeing that the Qing army dispatched cavalry, the Ming army's brigade stopped and re-formed and advanced, not only exposing the dense spears like hedgehogs, but also those foot archers had already set up arrows to aim, ready to take advantage of the difference in range between the foot bow and the riding bow to launch the first shot.

Surrounded by the Qing army, the Ming army did not stop advancing, but continued to advance under the artillery fire from the front and the harassment of the flanks, and even the speed was only slower - from jogging to fast walking.

The three battalions marched in unison, and after a while, they had already reached the range of less than 100 paces, which had already entered the range of the infantry bow, and the Ming and Qing armies did not wear armor due to the weather in Zhejiang, and there was no problem of armor breaking, so they generally began to use infantry bows to shoot at each other when they arrived here.

However, after reaching this distance, the Ming army did not continue to advance, but the whole army stopped, and moved the foot archers and musketeers to the front of the formation, as if intending to shoot at the Qing army here.

"It can't be!" (To be continued.) )