The old camp of the Nanjing army is located on the west bank of Chushui, surrounded by mountains and mountains, in fact, the terrain around Chuzhou City is not wide, and hundreds of thousands of troops are squeezed in at once, but some can not be moved, especially there are several rivers in the territory to divide.

As a result, the Ming Dynasty officials and peasants formed several disconnected camps. In addition, Fan Jingwen fought against the water in accordance with the art of war, broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, and deliberately set up the old camp in the salient west of Chushui, and was fiercely attacked at the first time.

In fact, this situation was also expected by Fan Shangshu. It would be good for the thief army to choose itself as the first target, which was just right for the Nanjing army to grab this great achievement of eliminating thieves. The morale of our army is booming, and the two thieves Gao and Zhang should not be a problem. Even if the war is unfavorable, there is no water in Chushui anyway, and the successor Tianxiong Army and Guan Ning Army can easily wade into the water.

In this way, our army can surround the thieves under the city of Chuzhou and gather and annihilate them.

It doesn't have to be like before, once the thief army suffers a little, they will leave the battlefield and flee.

Our Nanjing Army is to firmly attract thieves on the east bank of Chushui and come to a center to blossom.

The sky has completely opened, the gray wind is howling, and this largest internal station since the beginning of Chongzhen's first year has unfolded.

After receiving the alarm of the enemy's attack, the Nanjing army took the guard post as a unit, and the pair drove out of the old camp and lined up in the wilderness west of the river.

The enemy came suddenly, but not quickly.

In fact, before the battle, each side sent countless small groups of scout cavalry to test and reconnoiter each other, and they were already familiar with each other to the core, and the battlefield situation was almost transparent to both sides.

Small-scale battles may also use intrigue and trickery, but in this kind of life-or-death battle between the two armies, the so-called stratagem is useless. At the beginning, the commanders of the two sides are like Go players who keep falling on the chessboard, and when they make contact, they have become a general trend with each other, and there is no room for regrets, and all that remains is a contest of strength.

Most of the thieves were infantry, who came from afar, and in order to save their physical strength, they all advanced slowly step by step.

There is an endless stream, and no one knows how many men and horses there are, whether the whole army is coming or not.

After only a moment, looking over from the side of the Ming army, the field of vision was full of black and oppressive crowds

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The sound of footsteps gradually became clearer, and in the end, only the rumble of footsteps remained in the heavens and the earth, and the rest could not be heard.

"Bang bang bang!" The first to do it was the Nanjing Army, and all kinds of large and small cannons rang out. Clouds of white smoke rose in the Ming army's formation, and then were torn apart by the early morning wind.

I don't know how many solid cannonballs screamed through the air and fell in a parabolic way into the sea of thieves.

Looking at the old camp of the Ming army, the moment each shell landed, a small dot of red flesh and blood could clearly appear in the sea of thieves. But in an instant, this small clearing was filled by the thieves who came one after another.

After the cannon, there is the bow and crossbow. Although hot weapons have been popularized at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the quality is too poor, and on the battlefield, if it comes to lethality and reliability, officers still trust archers more.

When the thieves came into range, the officers let out a shout, a "buzz" buzz, and countless white feathered arrows roared into the sky, paused at the highest point, and then fell rapidly, shooting into the celestial spirits, necks, shoulder sockets, and chests of the enemies below.

The thieves used a standard crowd offensive, with hardly a single gap between people.

The cannons and crossbows of the Ming Dynasty did not need to be aimed at all, as long as they were shot, they could hit the target. At the moment, all they need to do is shoot and shoot, keep shooting.

After three rounds of attacks, it was estimated that more than a thousand peasant soldiers were left in the mud and never had a chance to get up.

In the obscurant skylight, flickering red.

Although the Nanjing Army was all guards, its equipment was a grade better than that of the peasant army. The design of this long-range weapon has achieved good results

The wild wind expanded, and the northwest wind blew with it a heavy layer of dirt and human blood.

For a time, there were only black and white between heaven and earth, the white is Chushui and the sky, and the black is the mud and human blood under the feet, just like an old-fashioned black and white movie.

Sun Yuan's Ningxiang Army had already gotten up to cook at the end of the day, which was the rule of the Tranquility Army. Therefore, when the main force of the thief army came to attack, the whole army was ready and went to the battlefield as soon as possible

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It's a pity that on the surface, there are too few soldiers in Ningxiang, after all, Sun Yuan only has 2,000 men and horses, and the other guards, families, and auxiliaries add up to more than 10,000. In addition, he was quite excluded in the Great River Guard, so he was squeezed by Fang Richang to the river beach, behind the butt of the main force of the Nanjing Army.

In the eyes of all the officers of the Nanjing Army, this time there were many officers and soldiers, and the Tiecai of Guan Ning and the Tianxiong Army, which had won a hundred battles, were helping each other. And the thief army began to come east from the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, whether it was in Luzhou or Nanjing and Hezhou, they all ran into blood, their morale had fallen, and it was not a problem to destroy them. When the time comes, I don't know how much credit everyone will get. Sun Yuan is really disgusting, and he has offended the impostor, so he naturally has to be placed at the back of the team and not given him any chance to be rewarded for meritorious service.

Moreover, looking at the appearance of the Ningxiang army, they are all dressed in tatters, not only can they not make a piece of armor in their hands, but even the soldiers hold the simplest and cheapest spears in their hands, although this spear looks really undecent, it looks really funny. This kind of unit must also have little combat effectiveness, and if it is placed in the front, it will be scattered by the enemy, and it will shake the large formation of our army.

For such an arrangement by his boss, Ning Xiangjun had no choice but to stand there in silence.

Seeing the cannons and bows of the Ming army, and seeing such a magnificent battlefield, Sun Yuan in the formation lost his mind for a while. When he was in Fengyang, he also saw the situation when the camp army marched, and he was shocked at that time. But what is it compared to what it is now?

Such a general battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, even in the war-torn late Ming Dynasty, is not rare, and only the battle of Zhuxian Town, a piece of stone, and the Qing army's two-way attack on Nanjing can be similar.

Speaking of bow and crossbow warfare, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army seems to be very good at it. The old camp was attacked, if nothing else, Lu Xiangsheng's army would soon come over, and I don't know what a magnificent situation it would be at that time?

At this time, Zhu Xuanshui, who was standing beside Sun Yuan, suddenly frowned and muttered, "It's not good, it's not good!" ”

"What's wrong?" Sun Yuan asked curiously.

"It's not going to be a good fight." Zhu Xuanshui said: "The thief army is a plate of scattered sand, and they have already paid more than a thousand casualties under the volley of artillery and crossbow fire from our Nanjing army just now. The battle was so fierce that the thief army should have retreated. Why are you still rushing forward desperately at this moment, something is wrong, something is wrong. ”

Sun Yuan glanced back at Fei Hong, and Fei Hong and the other old soldiers were also worried.

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