The two sides lined up in the direction of the north gate outside Beijing.

The Ming guards who drove out of the city were brightly dressed and neat. Against the backdrop of the flying battle flags, a momentum that makes people feel very powerful emerges. The successive victories also made the morale of the Ming soldiers reach a peak. The neat queue and cheerful laughter also showed the confidence of the soldiers, they were not afraid of any strong enemy, they were the strongest army that made the enemy afraid.

Compared with the Ming army, Jiannu, who did not have a good rest and looked very tired, was obviously untidy. It's just that the Manchu army was a well-trained army after all, and they had experienced countless battles and killings, and the belligerence and bloodiness in their bones could not be erased, even in very embarrassing situations.

The two sides lined up five miles away, ready for battle.

There was no time to build trenches, and there was no sufficient artillery to support, which weakened the combat power of the Ming army to a certain extent. But none of the soldiers who went out of the city with Cao Yue to meet him were afraid of this. Cao Yue is the god of war in their minds, he has never been defeated, and it is impossible to defeat the battle by Cao Yue's side. This kind of blind self-confidence can be transformed into powerful combat power when fighting.

Duoduo really didn't expect that Cao Yue would agree to his challenge and lead his army out of the city to meet the battle. He suspected fraud, but he had no choice, he couldn't just flee Beijing and return to the grassland. In the current grassland, there is no place for the Qing Dynasty to gain a foothold, and even if they flee back to the grassland, they will have to compete for territory with several other forces under the threat of the powerful Ming army.

The Mongols and the remnants of Wu Sangui's Guanning army are no longer allies of the Qing army, they are also on the opposite side of the Qing Dynasty, and the former allies have become enemies, which will definitely be more ferocious than the original enemy, and there is a powerful Ming army on the side. Even if they could gain a foothold by defeating the Mongols or the remnants of the Guanning army by fleeing back to the steppe, the Ming army would not sit idly by and watch them become strong again.

And Duoduo was burdened with too much hatred, continuous blows. Dolgon's death, in particular, has made him a little on the verge of collapse, he doesn't want to continue to live against such a big burden, he wants to be free, once and for all.

If this battle can be won, Cao Yue will be killed or captured, then all the grievances with Cao Yue will be eliminated, and the great revenge will be avenged; If you are unfortunately defeated, you will have no regrets and let your life come to an end in a bloody battle. It's been a hundred years since then.

As soon as the two sides were in formation, Dodor attacked.

In order to defeat the Ming army, Duoduo spent a lot of brains, and he knew that a frontal attack was difficult to break through the Ming army's musket formation, even if it was a great price. If you want to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army, you can only attack in a roundabout way.

This time, Duoduo also adopted such a strategy, and he ordered a general to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to make a feint attack in the front. He and Abatai's son Yue Le, each led 10,000 elite cavalry to attack from the two flanks of the Ming army.

It was also when the musket team of the Ming army was still in formation, the two main forces commanded by Duoduo and Yue Le. and the 5,000 soldiers who had made a feint head-on, and attacked. The first to attack were naturally the 5,000 feint sergeants, and although they were feins in nature, their desperate intensity was completely the same as the usual frontal charge.

Jiannu also learned a little in the many encounters with the Ming army. That is, at any time the charge must not remain in a dense formation, it must be dispersed. Although spreading out will greatly reduce the power of the dash, it can effectively reduce the casualty rate. Artillery and musket fire of the Ming army. The lethality to dense crowds was very large, and in order to avoid huge casualties, the cavalry could only be scattered and charged.

Duoduo hoped that the thousands of men and horses who feinted head-on, and the formation of more than 20,000 men and horses after the break, could successfully blind Cao Yue, so that Cao Yue could put his main forces into the frontal defense against the enemy. In this way, the 20,000 elite cavalry led by him and Yue Le could break through the defense line on both sides of the Ming army and directly enter the Ming army's formation. As long as he could rush into the Ming army's formation, Duoduo was fully confident that he would defeat or even severely damage these tens of thousands of Ming troops.

More than 5,000 soldiers and horses who were feint in the front quickly rushed towards the direction of the Ming army's array, and the horses that rushed to run raised the dust and sand in the sky, which increased the momentum of the impact. Under the cover of the dust and sand raised, 10,000 soldiers and horses each led by Duoduo and Yue Le also killed the two flanks of the Ming army at the fastest speed.

It's just that Duoduo's strategy has long been expected by Cao Yue, and the Ming Guards, who are equipped with new rifled guns, actually no longer need to shoot in sections. The bullets fired by the thousands of sergeants in the front were dense enough to inflict tremendous damage on thousands or even nearly 10,000 charging enemies. In order to guard against Jiannu's flank attack, Cao Yue only arranged more than 3,000 musketeers in the front direction, and the other 8,000 or so musketeers were arranged on two flanks.

The seventy or eighty guns that were brought out of the city were arranged in front of the flank formation. These dozens of artillery pieces are mainly Franc machine guns, although the firing range is not far, but they are light in weight, easy to carry, and relatively mobile on the battlefield. This war was also kicked off by the firing of these artillery.

In the continuous firing, one cannon after another flew towards the head of the Jiannu who was rushing quickly, and some unlucky people were torn apart in the explosion of the artillery, thrown into the air heavily, and then scattered and fell. But more Jiannu luckily escaped the artillery bombardment and continued to kill in front of the Ming army.

There were only a few thousand Jiannu who attacked head-on, and Cao Yue became more and more convinced that Duoduo would concentrate his forces on attacking the two flanks, so he aimed most of the artillery at the two flank directions, and ordered the car formations in the two flank directions that had been basically laid out to shrink a little, so that the musketeers hiding behind the car formation could be better protected.

The situation seen in the telescope and the report of the sergeant of the special guard battalion further proved that Cao Yue's judgment was correct, and Jiannu really concentrated the main forces and attacked the two flanks of the Ming army. Cao Yue also immediately ordered the soldiers in the two flank directions to prepare for desperate battles. With Cao Yue's order, the musketeers on guard in both directions of the flanks were all ready to aim and shoot.

The cavalry guarding the response retreated to a later place, and they were ready to cover up the past when the musketeers inflicted a large number of casualties on Jiannu and Jiannu fell into chaos, and then dealt a fatal blow to Jiannu.

Because of the rapid growth of the number of musketeers, the role of the Ming cavalry has declined significantly, which makes the cavalry soldiers feel very unbalanced, and they hope that today, they can prove the role of cavalry again with their bravery. (To be continued.) )