Ren Siqi attacked the Qing army camp and took away three battalions of 3,000 infantry, and the remaining seven battalions of 7,000 infantry Li Yanzhi brought them out, leaving only 1,000 sailors to defend the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Except for 3,000 sailors who remained on board to guard the ship and operate the artillery, all 7,000 infantry disembarked from the ship and quickly lined up according to their battalions.

Each battalion was formed in a small formation under the leadership of the battalion leader, with three musketeers at the front and six musketeers at the back. According to the Daishan Army system, each small banner has ten people, of which three are musketeers, five pikemen, and the remaining two are sword and shield soldiers or spear and shield soldiers, which are generally served by two low-level officers, the small flag officer and the army commander.

In the formation, the soldiers of a small flag were in a column of ten, and the musketeers were in the front. One general flag has five small flags, and one team has three general flags, with four teams per battalion, and a total of ten horizontal and sixty columns are arranged in a small formation. The seven small formations of the seven battalions were connected to form a large formation with a width of more than 600 steps. Officers of all ranks are located on the side of the array at the headquarters.

After more than half a year of rigorous training, the results were finally achieved today, and it took only a moment from disembarkation to formation, which was simply incredible for the army in the late Ming Dynasty. You know, this is a phalanx of 7,000 people!

During the period when the infantry of the Daishan Army disembarked from the ship, the Qing soldiers had been trying to harass and stop it, but under the continuous bombardment of the ship's artillery, most of the Qing soldiers were unwilling to risk their lives to cross the line of death formed by the shells, and could only shoot arrows at the river bank from a distance, but the arrows at such a distance were not even harassing the Daishan Army who were disembarking.

Seeing that the Ming army kept getting off the boat in the distance, Kong Youde hurriedly scolded, but his scolding was covered by the sound of cannons, and it could not reach the other side at all.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to introduce the situation on the battlefield. This east-west unknown name of the small river and the north-south canal intersect, Ren Siqi with 3,000 soldiers in a hundred river boats was blocked in the river, and in order to flank Ren Siqi's troops, the Qing army's strength was divided into two, half on the south bank, half on the north bank. The total strength of the Qing soldiers was 18,000, and more than 2,000 died under the guns of the Daishan army in the battle just now, and now only 16,000 remain. Because it was inconvenient for the horses to swim across the river, the 3,000 cavalry were all on the north bank. On the south bank, it was the 8,000 infantry who swam across the river to flank Ren Siqi's fleet. With the status of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, Gui Wei is naturally unwilling to swim from the river to the other side like a small soldier to command. In fact, the commander of the 8,000 Qing troops on the south bank was only a staff leader of the Qing army, named He Gui, who was Kong Youde's old subordinate.

And now the 8,000 Qing troops on the south bank have to suppress the 3,000 Ming troops of Ren Siqi's division in the river, and they also have to deal with the Ming army led by Li Yanzhi who came ashore from the canal, and the strength can be described as stretched.

If you want to cross the river to the south bank to support, it depends on whether the 3,000 Ming troops in the small river agree or not!

Moreover, on the north bank, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming could not directly command the battle, so the only thing they could do now was to order the 5,000 infantry on the north bank to make a detour downstream and swim across the river to support.

Under Kong Youde's orders, 5,000 Qing infantry headed downstream, trying to swim ashore to support.

Seeing the army commanded by Li Yanzhi on the canal coming to the rescue, Ren Siqi's heart fell. In order to put pressure on the Qing troops on the south bank, he ordered all the musketeers on the ship to attack the Qing troops on the south bank with all their might, and made a move to try to land on the south bank, forcing the 8,000 Qing soldiers to leave 3,000 people to prevent the Ming troops in the river from disembarking and going ashore. At the same time, Ren Siqi sent the last twenty river boats to turn around and go downstream to stop the Qing army from swimming on the north bank.

With the Ming army on the boat, the Qing soldiers on the north bank could no longer cross the river, nor did they dare to go into the water at all, forcing Kong Youde to recall the 5,000 infantry and send 3,000 cavalry to the south bank to support instead.

There was a small bridge five miles upstream of the river, from which the Qing cavalry could go around to the south bank.

The fleet in the canal was in a stalemate with the Qing army, and now the reinforcements became the main force in the decisive battle.

After the 7,000 infantry formed a phalanx, the artillery on the canal stopped bombarding, and the infantry phalanx marched in a neat pace, stepping on the drums and pressing towards the Qing army. There were special drummers in each battalion, and seventy or eighty drummers of the entire army beat the drums at the same time, and the drums shook the sky and made the morale of the soldiers of the Daishan Army high, and the drums reached the ears of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side, and they were shocked and discolored.

The Qing soldiers under Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were all former Dongjiang soldiers and Shandong soldiers. Since the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, he has been accustomed to the days of fox and fake tiger, and in recent years, he has faced successive victories in the face of the Ming army, and has never been defeated. Except for a few tough battles against the Dashun army in the past year, I have never seen the Ming army that dares to take the initiative to attack them.

The successive victories made these Eight Banners Han Army swell up, and they looked down on their original colleagues at all.

It is strange to say that most of the Ming army was not good at fighting when they were under the rule of the imperial court, and they never dared to fight tough battles. However, as soon as he threw himself into the Qing camp, his combat power immediately increased a lot, and the combat power of the Ming army in the same camp was overwhelming.

On the one hand, the Manchu capital had strict military discipline requirements and never showed mercy to the generals of the defeated army, which led to the surrender of the Han army, which no longer dared to be like before. On the other hand, it is the psychological advantage of the fox and the fake tiger, backed by the invincible Eight Banners soldiers, and these Eight Banners Han Army also trembled.

He Gui, the leader of the Qing army who led the team, saw that the Ming army was attacking, so he naturally did not want to lose the battle, and immediately commanded 5,000 Qing soldiers to meet him. In He Gui's opinion, the combat power of the Ming army is not worth mentioning, even if the array of the Ming army on the opposite side is more neatly arranged.

The two armies approached each other from a distance of more than two hundred paces and slowly pressed towards each other.

More than 1,000 Qing archers were at the forefront, and the arrows were already on the bows, waiting to enter the range and immediately draw their bows and fire a volley. The same number of sword and shield bearers walked beside the archers, holding their shields to protect the archers around them.

The 2,000 musketeers of the Daishan Army had already loaded the gunpowder on the ship, and all of them aimed at the Qing army array opposite with their muskets.

One-third of the 5,000 Qing soldiers had armor, mostly cotton armor, and most of the generals were chain mail. The rest are also wearing leather armor, and the archers are ranged soldiers who don't need hand-to-hand combat, but everyone has a mandarin duck battle jacket. Of course, most of their armor was captured from the Ming army, but in terms of defense, the defense of the Qing soldiers was above that of most Ming troops. Even if it's just an army of Eight Banners.

Compared with the Qing army, the equipment of the Daishan army is much shabby, except for the mandarin duck jacket for everyone, the number of armor is very small. After all, the Daishan army has been in army for too short a time, and the speed of expansion is too fast, and the production capacity of the Daishan Workshop cannot be used to equip everyone with a pair of armor. So only officers above the general flag can be equipped with a pair of armor.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and war is on the verge of breaking out!

PS: I'm not very good at describing battle scenes, so I always want to write in more detail. In the evening, try to add another chapter. (To be continued.) )