Chapter Eighty-Six: Destroying the Withering and Decaying

Seeing the Ming army out of the city, Jin Shengheng hurriedly ordered a formation to meet the battle, and ordered Ke Yongsheng and Li Yingzong to lead their troops to the riverside to block the Ming army Hao Yongzhong's troops who came to help, and he personally led his headquarters to meet the Ming army Ganzhou Town that came out of the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, Pang Yue placed the nearly 6,000 foot soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion and the trapping camp in front, followed closely by the infantry of the Dian Battalion and the Yue Battalion. The cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the Dian Battalion and the Yue Battalion were located on the left and right flanks.

Pang Yue himself was also neatly dressed, stepped on the jujube red horse, and personally went into battle to command. Although they have been fighting against the Qing army these days, they have mainly fought defensive battles, and they have fought a little aggrieved. In contrast, Pang Yue still liked this way of defeating the enemy army in a dignified formation in a field battle.

Seeing Pang Yue's Chinese army Daxu appear, the surrounding soldiers of Ganzhou Town immediately let out a tsunami-like cheer, and their eyes were full of reverence and fanaticism. In their eyes, the combination of bravery and wisdom of the general soldier led the whole army to victory after victory, allowing them to find the dignity and glory that belonged to the dignified men. Moreover, the commander-in-chief sympathized with the soldiers, and almost all the soldiers were treated as their own siblings. With such a superior, can he not serve it and fight to the death?

For a while, slogans such as "Wansheng" and "mighty" swept around like a huge wave rolled up on the ground, shaking the sky and the earth, and the faces of Hu Yiqing, Tong Yizhen and other guest generals were full of shock, and it also made the Qing army on the opposite side chill.

Jin Shengheng's eyes were even more round, he didn't know where the confidence of the Ming army on the other side came from, although his own number was still superior, but at this moment he had a trace of apprehension in his heart. This has never been the case before.

Not long after, with the order issued by Pang Yue from the Chinese army, the soldiers of the Ming army began to attack.

First of all, more than a dozen guns of the artillery team suddenly appeared from the formation and opened fire on the unsuspecting Qing army. Today, although the infantry and artillery coordination tactics in Ganzhou Town are not very exquisite, they are enough to deal a big blow to the Qing army. After only one round of bombardment, the front of the Qing army's large array was already in chaos, and those Qing soldiers who bore the brunt of the attack were beaten to pieces.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of Ming army foot soldiers in the center took the Gangfeng of Ganzhou Town and the second battalion of the trap as the lead, and broke out a shocking shout, passing the artillery team and crushing the Qing army.

The cavalry on both flanks also began to speed up and rushed towards the Qing army. Among them, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion on the left flank almost all held a cavalry spear in their hands, and the little glow of death on the blade of the spear was chilling.

"Kill!! -- "The slogans of the soldiers of the Ming army became simpler and simpler, and finally they were condensed into one word.

Kill! Kill the enemies in front of you, cut off their heads, and use their blood to write our own exploits! This is a sentence that Pang Yue often said during the pre-war mobilization, and it has also become the resonance of almost all the soldiers in Ganzhou Town at this moment.

Seeing that the Ming army on the opposite side rushed towards them like chicken blood, the Qing soldiers were a little drumming in their hearts, but they were not allowed to think too much, and Jin Shengheng also gave the order for a general attack. The military order was like a mountain, and the Qing officers and soldiers could only put away their distracting thoughts, shouting to give themselves courage while facing the Ming army.

The two armies soon collided together, and in an instant, the sound of shouts and swords and soldiers clashing was accompanied by bursts of blood.

At this time, on the shore, the Ming army of Hao Yongzhong's department, which was the first to cross the Zhangjiang River and land on the east bank, also exchanged hands with Ke Yongsheng and Li Yingzong's department. At first, Hao Yongzhong's troops suffered heavy losses under the frantic onslaught of the Qing army due to the small number of people who went ashore. However, as more and more Ming troops came ashore, and the momentum of the Qing soldiers had already been frightened off by the news of the arrival of Ming reinforcements, Hao Yongzhong's troops gradually got rid of the situation of being slaughtered by one side. The officers and soldiers who had already gone ashore fought hard to create passages for their follow-up companions. …,

Hao Yongzhong, the commander of the Ming army who came to help, saw that the officers and soldiers under his command had opened a breakthrough under the bloody battle, so he invested more elites in order to completely break the resistance of the Qing army and join the Ming army on the shore.

"Nan Amber, it's our turn next, right?" A black and thin young general came to Hao Yongzhong and said, this person is none other than Shi Lang, who led the army to escort Emperor Longwu into Huguang last time, and returned to Ganzhou with Hao Yongzhong after completing the escort task.

Hao Yongzhong couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw that the person who took the initiative to ask for war was Shi Lang. Originally, Hao Yongzhong considered that Shi Lang had only more than 1,000 men, and he had heard of many legendary deeds of Pang Yue, so he had the heart to make friends with him, so he did not let the more than 1,000 soldiers of Ganzhou Town led by Shi Lang enter the battle to avoid the suspicion of using friendly troops as a shield, but he didn't expect Shi Lang to bring it up himself.

"General Shi need not be anxious, the soldiers who have already crossed the river will soon defeat the Tartars. Moreover, for Hao, your unit is a guest army, and a few days ago, you had the merit of escorting, how could Hao increase casualties in vain? Hao Yongzhong said, no matter what, polite words are always necessary.

Unexpectedly, Shi Lang was a little anxious: "The last general thanked Nan Anbo for his kindness, but the last general and others were originally the men and horses of Ganzhou Town, and now that they have arrived in Ganzhou City, how can they watch the rest of the robes fighting with the enemy and be indifferent?" Please allow us to go to war! ”

"General Shi's loyalty and courage are commendable!" Hao Yongzhong sighed, "That being the case, well, when enough ferries return, you can cross the river!" ”

"Thank you, Nan Amber!" Shi Lang replied with a fist, seemingly a little excited.

Do you need to thank me for taking the initiative to ask for war? Hao Yongzhong felt a little unbelievable about Shi Lang's behavior. Not only that, along the way, Shi Lang and the more than 1,000 Ganzhou town soldiers under him brought Hao Yongzhong a lot of surprises. These people took the lead in personnel matters, and their obedience and physical fitness surpassed that of Hao Yongzhong's soldiers. If this was a team that had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, then Hao Yongzhong would not be surprised, but when he heard that the vast majority of recruits in this team had only been trained for a year, he felt a little shocked, and he was also full of curiosity about Pang Yue, who had never met him: he could train an army so far in just one year, and if it took some more time, what would it be?

The earth-shattering shouts and killing on the other side of the river came clearly, and Hao Yongzhong, who had many years of battlefield experience, could of course hear that most of the voices came from the main force of Ganzhou Town and another Qing army. Although he couldn't witness the scene with his own eyes, he could also know the fierceness of the battle and the high morale of Ganzhou Town from this explosive shouting and killing, and he couldn't help but be even more surprised at the moment: What kind of army is this?

After a while, the ferries that had previously transported Hao Yongzhong's soldiers returned from the east bank of the Zhangjiang River, and Shi Lang hurriedly led his soldiers and other Hao soldiers to get on the boat and prepare to cross the river to attack the Qing army.

Just before Shi Lang got on the boat, Hao Yongzhong suddenly remembered something and asked him, "General Shi, it is said that your Pang Zongbing is from Shanxi?" ”

"Well, that's right, Shanxi Datong."

"Datong......" Hao Yongzhong's open mouth froze for a moment.

Hao Yongzhong's momentary gaffe, Shi Lang didn't notice it, he was already busy directing his soldiers to board the ship.

On the east bank of the Zhangjiang River, the officers and men of Hao Yongzhong's troops who had previously gone ashore had already occupied a large foothold through hard work, and the follow-up Ming officers and soldiers continued to jump from the boats, tearing the gaps in the Qing army's defense line bigger and bigger.

After Shi Lang and more than 1,000 other officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town entered the battle, they were extremely brave, and rushed to the front beyond the Ming soldiers of Hao Yongzhong's department. And these people all formed a small group when they rushed to kill, in which the long and short weapons cooperated with each other, like a steel beast with open fangs, and the Qing army flew flesh and blood everywhere they went. This kind of scene not only surprised the officers and soldiers of Hao Buming, but also made the Qing soldiers frightened. …,

When the fighting on the shore gradually intensified, the fight between the main force of Ganzhou Town and the Qing army of Jin Shengheng also entered a white heat. Long before the contact, the Ming army, which was still inferior in numbers, completely overwhelmed the Qing army in terms of momentum. After the two armies officially encountered, the front of the Qing army's large array suddenly sank a large piece, and the soldiers of Ganzhou Town, who had been gathering momentum for a long time, were like tigers descending from the mountain, and in an instant, they hit out blood flowers in the Qing army's formation.

The whole battlefield was cold and rolling, shouting like thunder, although the Ming army in front of the infantry was only a few thousand, but the Qing soldiers felt great pressure, the continuous fierce impact of the Ming army almost left them with only the ability to parry, and there was no chance to counterattack at all. At this time, for the Qing soldiers, the superiority of their own strength could no longer make them feel at ease, but caused a serious blow to their self-confidence.

Jin Shengheng was also surprised by the scene in front of him, and he found that in just a few months, the combat effectiveness of Ganzhou Town seemed to have increased a lot. If Jin Shengheng could comfort himself with the words "eager to retreat and don't want to fight back" in the last defeat outside Ji'an, then this time he really didn't know what excuse to look for. In a dignified battle and a face-to-face fight, the officers and soldiers under his command still did not take advantage of the slightest advantage, but there was a trend of being unable to support them, and this situation made Jin Shengheng, who was "like a bamboo" all the way after shaving his hair, always difficult to accept.

In the middle and rear of the Ming army's phalanx, Pang Yue's Chinese army has been erected high. Under the big curtain, Pang Yue, who was dressed in silver mountain armor, was silently staring at the situation ahead, although the angular face under the silver helmet was not shocked, but his heart was already surging. Now, as the coach of a town, Pang Yue has rarely had the opportunity to fight in person, and even if he came to the front line, he was tightly surrounded by a large number of personal soldiers, but this did not affect him to directly feel the hot fighting scene. Looking at the scene of his officers and soldiers fighting bravely to kill the enemy, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: With this elite soldier in hand, why worry about the big thing?

When the foot soldiers of Ganzhou Town rushed the Qing army to the ground and only had the ability to parry, Pang Yue ordered the cavalry on the left and right flanks to also accelerate the impact on the Qing army.

The men roared and neighed, the hooves rolled, and the first to open the situation was the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion on the left flank. This battalion is relatively old in Ganzhou Town, and it is led by a battlefield madman Shi Youliang, and the combat effectiveness that erupts makes people have to look sideways. After several hedging attempts, the cavalry of the Qing army, which confronted it head-on, was rushed to pieces, and the slight advantage in numbers still did not play a big role. Seeing the progress of the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion on the left flank, the cavalry of the Yue Battalion and the Dian Battalion, which were already inferior, were also greatly encouraged and turned the situation back with one blow, forming a confrontation situation with the Qing cavalry in front of them.

The sound of fierce fighting continued to flutter in the air, and after a long time, it became almost a battlefield from the shore to the city. The officers and soldiers on both sides were fighting hard, waiting for the moment when the other side would collapse first.

More than an hour later, as more and more reinforcements from the Ming army came ashore, Li Yingzong and Ke Yongsheng, who were responsible for blocking the attack, finally couldn't bear it. After fighting for so long but still not taking advantage of the slightest advantage, there was a danger of being attacked by the Ming army on both sides, and the confidence of the Qing soldiers was violently shaken, and then, the phenomenon of small-scale and very individual escape from the battle became a mass move, and more and more Qing troops began to flee in the direction that they thought were safe regardless of military discipline.

The general trend has gone, Li Yingzong and Ke Yongsheng beat their chests and still could not change half a point, in order to avoid their troops falling into a situation of complete collapse, they had to order the whole army to retreat south.

Li Yingzong and Ke Yongsheng retreated, Jin Shengheng was so angry that he almost rolled off his horse, but in the face of the Ming army rushing from two directions, he did not have the courage to continue to persevere, so he had to order a retreat to the south.

Seeing the retreat of the Qing army, Pang Yue and Hao Yongzhong both ordered their troops to cover up for a while before giving up, and then the two Ming armies began to meet.