readx;?“ General, the Qi army is setting up their artillery array again, if we sit idly by, we will probably be scattered by their wave of artillery, or let me lead a cavalry to charge once. "Zu Dabi was in a hurry, he saw that the Qi artillery array a hundred paces away was getting into a small wheelbarrow under the carrying of the enemy's foot soldiers, and he knew that the situation was going to happen.www.biquge.info

As for the Qi army, it is worthy of being the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty to train artillery, they have explored a set of independent artillery and firearms methods on the battlefield, because the battlefield is not necessarily plain, and the ground is not flat, so when moving at the beginning, except for a small part of the artillery is set up on a two-wheeled cart to act, as a necessary means of counterattack, the rest are all carried by soldiers to move quickly.

Because the artillery mounted on two-wheeled vehicles and wheelbarrows is very difficult to move, it is necessary to wait until it is close to the target before using this trick, which is also to save the physical strength of the soldiers, and when they are outside the optimal range, everyone immediately begins to assemble, after fixing the cannon, three people move the cannon, and then another soldier with lead and iron bullets is responsible for loading the cannon, another single gun aiming is responsible for attacking, and there is a soldier with a large amount of cold water who is responsible for cooling the barrel after the cannon is fired. to prolong the firing life of the gun barrel so as not to explode the chamber.

In this way, a larger artillery requires six people to maintain, and the smaller thirty or forty pound tiger squat cannon is handed over to two or three people to operate, they are responsible for supporting the infantry attack at close range, usually mixed in the gap of the array, firing at a distance of 40-60 steps, firing dense iron nails and fragments, a fight down is a large area, but this kind of small tiger squat cannon is not very popular in the army.

Because the manufacturing quality is not up to par, the internal workmanship of the barrel is not fine, and the ammunition is not treated with special treatment, it is extremely easy to blow up the chamber and it is very difficult to load.

"The drums, spears and sword and shield teams are responsible for covering the firearms team on both flanks and in the rear, forming an array line to defeat this Guanning army." Jin Hengsheng, who personally beat his horse to catch up with the command, saw that the situation was developing step by step in the direction of his own victory, and was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the entire 1,200 foot soldiers who took the lead to start lining up to prepare for the attack, and in the interval between the arrays, he urgently arranged a full 600 cavalry and 20 tiger squat cannons that approached the attack to provide support.

After everything was prepared, with the sound of huge drums, the whole army began to move forward one after another, and behind the forward army was 1,500 cavalry led by Jin Hengsheng himself, and he was ready to invest in this main force at any time to try to open up the situation in one fell swoop.

Almost at the same time, Mao Chenglu and Shang Kexi on the left and right flanks each began to put 5,000 men and horses into the battlefield to prepare for battle, and the forwards of the three armies began to break away from their own formations one after another, and in front of them, there were 20,000 Guan Ning troops, but no one cared, Jin Hengsheng, as the temporary commander of the front army, he didn't even wait for the support of Kong Youde's main formation, and directly started a big battle.

If nothing else, just with the 170 artillery pieces of all kinds that the vanguard army is now holding in their hands, Dongjiang Town is invincible, and it is an invincible and invincible weapon.

On the other hand, on the side of the Guanning army, although it has cavalry troops and total strength that exceed the opponent's forward army, it is a pity that from Zu Dashou to Wu Pai, down to Zu Dale and Zu Dabi, they have no determination to fight to the death, and even tried to support the army to protect themselves, not to mention Jin Guoqi and Liang Fu, who came to help with the troops, they have long been chilled by the Qi army.

"Mr. Jin, do you think the Guan Ning Army has a chance of winning?" Baoding General Liang Fu was full of uneasiness in his heart, he could not accept this so-called positional warfare offensive and defensive, because no matter which time, it ended in their defeat, in the past, even the Qi army had fewer troops, they could not win, so now the strength of the Qi army is twice as much as theirs, what to use to win?

Jin Guoqi forcibly suppressed the war horse that was restless because of the impact of the drum, and then said in a condensed voice, "I don't think it works, although the Guanning army has a lot of cavalry, but they chose to fight head-on with the Qi army, the most important thing is that the other party also has an elite cavalry unit, and the Qi army also has a firearms army, I see that the Guanning army can't be defeated." ”

"So what do we do? This ancestor Dashou was also dizzy, he actually transferred all the cavalry in the east to strengthen the west, isn't this ready to consume the troops in your hands and me? Liang Fu looked back at his last 1,500 foot soldiers, this is his hole card, if they are all thrown here, won't he be in name only and become an empty shell in the future?

"Hmph, do you still have to think about this?" Jin Guoqi also sneered and said, "He thought he had settled on us, so he wanted to use us to fill this hole, but who said that we only had such a choice as him?" ”

"What? You mean, let's join forces to pit Wu Ji? Liang Fu was shocked, they are all desperate now, where is there still a way to live?

"Hmph, don't pit him, it's best to let the Qi army take his life," Jin Guoqi dropped a sentence fiercely, and then began to retreat towards his own cavalry troops with a wave of his horsewhip, Liang Fu saw it, and immediately hurried to follow, he can only rely on Jin Guoqi for the time being, once he loses his protection, his little soldiers and horses will be swallowed up in an instant.

"You see, Wu Pai will definitely let me take people to the southwest, and the cavalry of nearly 2,000 people under my command will definitely let the left wing of the Qi army come to fight first, but this is his big dream of the Spring and Autumn Period, wait for him to send people, we will first pretend to flatter, and then wait for a while and then fight, we will find an opportunity to get out of the battlefield, and let him go to hell." Jin Guoqi was reluctant to use his own soldiers and horses to pave the way for Zu Dashou and Wu Zhuang.

At present, although they have no expectations for the Ming court, they still take their own future seriously, after all, the martial artists have loyalty to the court, and naturally there are selfish ones, otherwise they spend money to support a small number of family members, is it to serve the country?

"Do you want to take refuge in Kong Youde? But aren't you from the Liaodong Army, and the grudge against him shouldn't be too small, right? "Liang Fu is a little curious, Dongjiang Town and Guan Ningjun are simply an incompatible system, and they join forces, isn't this nonsense?

"Do you think that only Kong Youde has to work now? We waited for Guan Ningjun to be trapped, and then immediately turned back to Tianjin Wei, and sent someone to send a letter to King Qin to express our sincerity, believing that His Royal Highness King Qin would definitely accept us. Jin Guoqi has already had his own plans, so he doesn't want to be swallowed up in a daze.

"That's right, now whether it is Kong Youde or Guan Ningjun, there is no Qin army to come reliable, I fancy it, then I will only look at your banner to act, and please ask the general soldier to remember the old feelings in the past, pull me at the critical moment, don't call the cavalry of the Qi army to come up and disperse my troops." Liang Fu finally said worriedly, after all, this is his last hole card, if he is killed, where will he go to recruit when the time comes?

"Don't worry, Tianjin Wei's city defense still needs you to come, how can I leave you alone." Jin Guoqi patted his chest and reassured, hearing him say this, Liang Fu was a little relieved, and went down to prepare for the march.

"Kill~!" In the time when the two of them were chatting, Jin Hengsheng had already commanded the forward army of the Qi army to launch an attack on Zu Dale's department, as expected, the firearms troops of the Guanning army could not compete with the Qi army at all, their front army only had twelve small cannons, although there were nearly 500 firecrackers, but they only fired for a while, and they were not in order, and they were stunned by the two salvos of the approaching Qi army.

It stands to reason that at this time, he should take up the melee combat, but Zu Dale was bent on saving his cavalry troops, and even refused to launch a counterattack in the front, but let Zu Dabi lead his men and horses to attack the foot soldiers of the Qi army from the right flank, but this just hit Jin Hengsheng's arms,

I saw him sitting on top of the war horse, looking at the cavalry of the Guanning army who began to run from afar, and suddenly sneered and said, "Tell Gao Chengyou to bring the eight hundred cavalry of his department to the top for me, and be sure to kill the cavalry of the Guanning army." ”

"Rush~!" With the order of the former army general, Gao Chengyou's eight hundred cavalry quickly began to attack, this cavalry is the real elite main force of Dongjiang Town, it is Kong Youde's own old battalion soldiers and horses specially selected in order to balance Jin Hengsheng, and handed over to Gao Chengyou to command, but at this moment, their first formation directly hit Zu Dabi's body.

However, when it comes to the elite of the cavalry, the Guanning Iron Cavalry led by Zu Dabi is the first elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, not to mention Dongjiang Town, even if even the second cavalry army of the Qin army comes up to fight, I am afraid it is not their opponent, because the Qin army pays more attention to a whole, and the cavalry alone cannot even rank in the top three in the east.

"Give me death~!" As soon as the two sides came into contact, the leading dozens of cavalry suddenly played with their own skills to manipulate the war horse, after all, no one was just on the horse, but a battle-hardened brave man, their simple and effective riding skills, all of a sudden let the opponent's first wave of attacks most of the failure, except for a few unlucky people because they were hit by the war horse, had to regret the fall off the horse foot battle, everyone else relied on their own skills to avoid the attack, and immediately returned to the horse, picked up the weapons in their hands and fought together.

"Ah~!" Zu Dabi is in the Guanning Army, and he is also a good general, but now he is leading 500 cavalry to support Zu Dale in battle, so he must obey Zu Dale's command for the time being, but his repeated suggestions have not been accepted, so he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and at this moment he vented all the vent to the Qi army, only to see the tigers and tigers wielding the two iron hammers on his left and right.

No matter who is in front of him, as long as he is next to him, he will be injured, and he will die when he touches the vital point, and the three or five Qi cavalry who tried to approach were beaten back again and again by him, and if they didn't pay attention to it, they were caught by him and directly knocked to the ground with a hammer, and even the war horse couldn't bear it, and neighed again and again.

"This man is handed over to me, just call a few good men to come up and besiege him with me." Gao Chengyou was on the second shock wave, and when he saw Zu Dabi killing and injuring his own cavalry, he suddenly became angry, so he just yelled behind him, and then the war horse quickly rushed up.

"Dismount me~!" Gao Chengyou is worthy of being a general who can survive the vicious battle on Phi Island back then, only as soon as he came up, he waved a big knife with both hands, and his legs clamped the wide back of the war horse, and he joined the battlefield with a sneak attack, and suddenly blocked Zu Dabi's offensive, but who can say what happened on this battlefield.

Although the Qi army is 800 to 500, and both sides are elite, it stands to reason that the Qi army should occupy a certain advantage, but on the battlefield it is not a simple comparison of forces to win, because the area of engagement is so large, although the Qi army has a large number of people, but it is not as fearless and battle-hardened as the Guanning army.

In other words, the cavalry from Dongjiang Town, except for those who followed Mao Wenlong into battle at the beginning, the rest fought with the Houjin soldiers, and they have always been a dip away, after all, the Houjin invaded from Gaizhou and other places, and the cavalry of Dongjiang Town had to avoid its edge, and in the past two years, due to the de facto division of Dongjiang Town, with Zhang Tao, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming going south to Dengzhou, Chen sometimes avoiding Jinzhou, their internal instability was unstable, and this training also fell.

On the other hand, the Guan Ning army has been in the front line of the confrontation with the Houjin, Chongzhen also fought two major battles with the Houjin soldiers and horses in the second and fourth years, although it did not achieve a decisive victory, but the Guanning army was very damaging to the Houjin soldiers, the so-called Houjin is not more than 10,000, and the myth that the 10,000 is invincible is only boasted in the case of the real nine-sided elite of the Ming Dynasty either annihilating the whole army or avoiding the war.

At least in the later Songjin War, the Eight Banners Army, which had established the Manchu Qing State, still suffered heavy casualties against the last elite of the Ming army, and its true Jurchen Tartars suffered thousands of casualties and never broke through the Songshan defense line of the Ming army.

Therefore, as soon as these two cavalry engaged, as expected, the situation of the rapid collapse of one side did not happen at all, there were many cavalry in Dongjiang Town, and the cavalry of the Guanning Army was mostly from a large number of people, and they also fought to the death, and the two sides fought selflessly in a small area, and even some cavalry of the Guanning Army in front saw that their own master would be besieged, and immediately came to help the battle, and for a while, the two sides were inseparable.

"There seems to be something wrong with the right flank of the Guanning army, just look at their formation, the number of cavalry that stopped is less than four or five hundred, what is the situation?" After Shang Kexi also entered the battlefield with his men and horses, he suddenly found that the right wing of the Guan Ning army, that is, the left wing of his own family, had a full 2,500 cavalry, and the other party seemed to have less than 500, didn't this give him an advantage?

"General, I didn't find that the other side was ambushed, but a little further east, there were troops with the golden banner and the Liang banner, but looking at their movements, it seems that they have no intention of entering the battlefield." Ban Zhifu, the general of the Qi army, was in charge of reconnoitering the battlefield, and immediately answered a sentence. (To be continued.) )