After slaughtering Yongfeng County, Liu Guangbi soon led the army to join the main force of the Qing army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As early as the morning of the day he received the siege order, the 30,000 troops of Jingbiao Wuzhen and Jiujiang Zhenbiao left Guangxin Fucheng and marched towards Yushan County in great strides. However, Bu Shilong, the chief soldier of the green battalion of Guangxin Mansion, is also a military general transferred from the north, and Hong Chengchou is quite confident in his ability.

It took 30,000 soldiers, plus slightly more than this number of auxiliaries to finally reach the south bank of Yulang Creek in two days, and even if it weren't for the large number of auxiliaries, the generals of the Jingbiao would have great confidence that they would be able to arrive here at a faster speed. On the third day, the Qing army began to cross the stream, and the first one was Jingbiaoqian Town.

Bai Guangen, the commander of the town before the standard, was the general of the Liukou Monkey at the beginning, and was repeatedly promoted by suppressing the Liukou after the Ming Dynasty, and was already the chief military officer during the Battle of Songshan. After Jiashen, Bai Guangen first surrendered to Shun, and then to the Qing, and before Hong Chengchou asked the Qing court for him, he was an official under the banner.

The pioneer of the ancients, opening the road in the mountains and building bridges in the water. Bai Guangen is a general, and his task is to break through Yulang Creek, find out the situation near Yushan County, build a pontoon bridge for the follow-up troops, and resist the counterattack of the Ming army.

Yulang Creek is only a few miles away from Yushan County, and Bai Guangen's troops are not in danger of crossing Yulang Creek, but when they crossed and began to build more pontoon bridges so that the follow-up army could follow up at a faster speed, the Ming army appeared unexpectedly.

In half a year, the Ming army Hong Chengchou stationed in Yushan County has probably also figured it out, and there are two battalions of banners dispatched here, namely Yiwu and Yushan, led by Li Ruixin and Zhang Zisheng respectively, along Jinsha Creek, backed by Bingxi Town. Among them, the Yushan battalion was located on the bank of Jinsha Creek, and the Yiwu battalion was in the north, in order to make it easier for Li Ruixin to command the half of the cavalry battalion.

The head of the Ming army's battalion was twice as strong as the Qing army, and Bai Guangen did not dare to support it, so he had to send four battalions to meet the front, back, left and right, and his middle battalion was used as a reserve in case of accidents.

In this way, the vanguard of the Qing army and the troops of the Ming army who went out of the city to test the formation opened their positions, and soon approached a distance of one mile. After regrouping the ranks, the Ming army took the lead in attacking.

The Ming troops of the brigade marched forward slowly, and the gunners and loaders pushed the gun carriages to keep up with the queue. It was not until the remaining distance of less than 300 meters that the artillery of the Qing army began to fire sporadically at the Ming army.

Jingbiaoqian Town has just crossed the Yulang River, and most of its artillery and cavalry are still on the opposite bank, and the cavalry can find a suitable place to wade in the water, but the artillery is not at all. During this period, the Qing army's artillery was relatively small, which was the result of the deduction of the staff officers of the three battalions on the Yushan front, so the Ming army was not in a hurry to enter hand-to-hand combat, but stopped the queue after entering the range of its own artillery.

The artillery of the Qing army was still reset, cleared, loaded, and aimed so that it could be refired. However, the Ming army was not in a hurry, the artillery crossed the infantry queue, and according to the usual practice, the loader tore open the cloth bag, poured the gunpowder directly into it, and then loaded the shells, while the gun commander took a telescope and other tools to measure the distance of the Qing army's column, and then issued a series of orders to the gunners to adjust the muzzle. For a time, the speed of loading and aiming was much faster than that of the Qing army.

"Fire!"

Although the artillery produced by the Ming army is still different in size, weight, shell size, charge, range, power, etc., the general uniform specifications still make these guns not too different in range.

Shells whizzed past and blasted into the ranks of the Qing army. Because this Qing army turned to the Spanish phalanx, the formation was much denser than before, and almost every shot of the Ming army would take the lives of one or several Qing soldiers, and it was basically impossible to have the kind of luck that smashed into the mud between the two Qing troops when it was back, and it was just a matter of splashing a few people around them with a body of plaster.

Being hit by a cannonball, he was either killed on the spot, or his bones were broken, and for those Qing soldiers who looked at the robes around them, it was a great psychological torment, and the fear brought by them could easily overwhelm the recruits and make them lose their minds.

In fact, from the very beginning, the Ming army stopped within the firing range, and Bai Guangen had already realized that something was wrong. However, he had not led troops into battle for several years, and by the time he noticed that the Ming army had far more artillery than his, the first reloading had already been completed.

"Beat the drums, and the whole army will advance."

Compared to who held out longer under the bombardment of artillery, Bai Guangen did not have this idea, but the movement speed of this phalanx was really not fast, and when they moved, the bombardment of the Ming army had already begun.

I watched with my own eyes in the queue in front of me, accompanied by a splash of plaster, and the spears that stood as straight as a forest were instantly missing. After the first round of firing, almost all the shells of the Ming army entered the ranks of the Qing army, but the shells of the Qing army could only hit the front of the artillery positions of the Ming army at most, and many of them often did not even touch the artillery positions of the Ming army.

In a similar situation, almost every burst of artillery will appear in a different position, but according to training, the subsequent spearmen will also quickly fill in and make the formation back together.

"The Tartar walks slowly enough."

Holding the binoculars, Zhang Zisheng watched from a distance, and the Qing army marched in formation, and the speed was slower than the green battalion soldiers he had encountered in Jiangxi back then. But think about it carefully, the size of the pace when people march, originally for wielding weapons, there must be a certain space between the soldiers, the spacing is large, and the size of the steps does not need to be too concerned, but such a dense formation, the big steps will step on the people in front, and the small steps will be stepped on by the people behind, and the overall formation will be affected if there is a little chaos, but it is better to walk slowly and steadily.

The Qing army advanced slowly, but it was like mountains moving forward. Although the Ming artillery was far superior to the Qing army in terms of range and firing speed due to the use of fixed charge packs and granulated gunpowder, coupled with aiming equipment, it often only caused a little ripple and disappeared.

With current technology, artillery alone is not enough to defeat a regular army like the Qing army. This was learned in the martial arts school, and Zhang Zisheng naturally did not pin his hopes on it.

The Qing army of the brigade was getting closer and closer, and seeing that the Qing army had entered the range of Lu Mi Gong, with an order, the firearms team in the front row of the Ming army began to shoot.

In the crackling sound, in an instant, the Qing army fell to the ground. However, as just as it was just now, the spearmen in the back row will also make up for the injuries they have suffered in the front row to ensure the integrity of the formation.

In the front row of the Qing army, there was a drummer beating a small drum at intervals, and they were completely indifferent to the casualties around them, and just marched according to the order. At this moment, the front row of the Qing army is all spearmen, Zhang Zisheng can clearly see that the length of the spears of the Qing army is almost exactly the same as that of the Ming army, and this dense formation is just like the spear formation of the Ming army.

At the end of the next shooting, the gunners and firearms teams of the Ming army retreated to the rear of the formation, and the spear array killer team and the mandarin duck array killer team with cold weapons stepped forward one after another.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the Ming army originally used the usual long card hand to defend against the attack of the Qing army's projected weapons, but when the distance between each other was shortened to about 20 meters, the Qing army still moved slowly, which really surprised the Ming army.

There was a change in the tactics of the Qing army, and the Ming army had expected it according to those small pieces of intelligence, but who would have thought that the change would be so huge, completely abandoning the tactical dogma of the late Ming Dynasty.

Soon, the battle formation of the Qing army marched to a distance of only ten meters from the Ming army, and there would be a projectile from the archers of the Ming army in the sky, but the Qing army was still beaten until now, and did not carry out the slightest counterattack. In the next moment, the war drums behind the formation sounded, but the spearmen in the front row of the Qing army straightened their spears in the same way as the spear formation of the Ming army on the opposite side.

Little by little, the spears approached, and soon the spearheads made initial contact amid the rebuke of the officers on both sides and the heavy breathing of the soldiers.

Contact is not the goal, the spear is a weapon, there is only one way to attack, and that is the thrust!

The spears gradually crossed each other, and the soldiers on both sides advanced more and more slowly. In the next second, with a loud shout, the spearmen of the two armies stabbed towards the opponent's vital point almost at the same time.

"Kill!"

The spears of both sides are generally the same length, and there is no difference in the posture of holding the spear, and when the spear is stabbed at the opponent, the soldier who is pointed directly at the spear on the opposite side will probably not even have the opportunity to stab the opponent to death.

In an instant, the soldiers in the first row of the Qing army were almost swept away, and on the side of the Ming army, the long players in the front row were only trying to protect themselves and the super spearmen behind them, but those who did not have the protection of the long players were often stabbed by the Qing army on the opposite side at the same time as they were stabbed.

In the shouting, the spearmen in the first row were exhausted, and while they were taking over, those who had not yet had the opportunity to release their guns came out of the spearmen with waist knives and short daggers, and rushed towards the Ming army in a half-crouching position at the moment of the next stab of the long soldiers on both sides.

Both sides are spears, of the same length, so they tend to target the more threatening opposing spearmen. And under the net woven by those spears, the short soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to stab and rushed like mice.

As a result, the already small number of long players immediately became the focus of the siege, as they were more threatening to the Qing army's short-handed birds, and the only thing that could support them was the spears that came out of the gaps in the crowd in the back row.

It's just that, compared to the embarrassment of the spear array, the mandarin duck array is completely reversed.

It is not that the mandarin duck formation is more able to deal with the Spanish phalanx of the Qing army, a distance of a few meters, only two wolf whisks can compete with the spears of the Qing army in length, but because the use of wolf whisks is not only the method of thorns, so that the wolf whiskers can not hold the tail end like a spear in the posture of holding the troops to maximize the advantage of length.

As a result, the Ming army's Mandarin Duck Array immediately fell behind, just relying on the wolf wolf hand to constantly wave the wolf wolf to protect the other soldiers, and those spearmen who were holding seven or eight feet of spears, the original main attackers of the Mandarin Duck Array did not even have a chance to step forward.

However, the characteristics of the Mandarin Duck Array are also undoubtedly displayed here. Weakness in the face of spearmen, but when those rats rushed over, spears, long cards, rattan cards and other weapons cooperated with each other, and it was a complete slaughter, so that in the face of the Ming army's mandarin duck formation, those bird gunners had completely lost the courage to fight rats.

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The battle in the afternoon lasted for a short time, and the Qing army that had formed and trained the Spanish phalanx was generally superior, but its ability to tolerate casualties could not be improved much by relying on a single battle formation.

It was almost a pure war of attrition, and it stimulated each other's nerves all the time, until the moment when it was completely crushed.

Bai Guangen, who was old in military affairs, felt that the spearmen in the front row began to lose the courage to attack, so he decisively gave up the attack and turned to the defensive. The Ming army, which did not achieve the task of breaking through the first battle, did not dare to launch a counteroffensive, not only more Qing troops had already begun to cross the Yulang River, but they did not stay for a moment and were in danger of being annihilated by the Qing army with superior forces, even Li Ruixin and Zhang Zisheng themselves did not have the confidence to completely defeat them. When he returned to the city, Li Ruixin took advantage of the fact that the Qing army had not yet besieged the city, and hurriedly sent a messenger to Chen Wen.

After nightfall, thousands of cavalry had begun to roam outside the city to ensure that the Ming army could not evacuate at night. In the camp on the south bank of Yulang River, the Qing army was celebrating this rare victory.

"Admiral Bai, well done."

Hong Chengchou praised him, and the generals also applauded Bai Guangen and the generals under his command.

Since the first battle of Chen Wen in the south of Siming Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli, the Qing army on the upper side was almost defeated in every battle, and only Wang Sheng was lucky enough to annihilate a small army with several times the superiority of the Qing army, and Ma Xin's attack, so that the green battalions of the four southeastern provinces were saved from the ridicule of "every text must be defeated".

In this battle, although it was a draw, the Ming army, which had a significantly higher ability to endure casualties, did not take advantage of the slightest, and the casualties on both sides were almost the same.

However, the draw on the local battlefield was a victory for the Qing army on the whole. Because there are still six in the hands of Hong Chengchou in the army like Jingbiaoqian Town, and there are only fourteen battalions like the Yushan Battalion and the Yiwu Battalion, and not only a small half of them have to assist in the defense of various prefectures, but Yushan, Yiwu and the guards are surrounded in Yushan County.

The strategic initiative in the local battlefield has changed hands, and if Chen Wen comes to the rescue, he will inevitably have fewer enemies and more enemies; If you don't come to the rescue, the army will besiege you, and after eating this Yushan County, you will move to Zhejiang, and Chen Wen will still have fewer enemies and more enemies.

No matter how you look at it, victory is already beckoning to the Qing army, and Hong Chengchou, who has been suppressed for more than a year, can't help but feel happy.

"Before autumn, completely eradicate the thieves in Zhejiang!" (To be continued.) )