After the defeat of Li Zicheng, the question of 60,000 captives made Li Long very worried, take it, is there enough grain and grass to feed them, let it go, I'm sorry for the people who have been abused by them. In a desperate situation. Li Long first took these 60,000 prisoners, and the army set out from Kaifeng to move south, passed through Huainan and Shouchun, and then merged with Li Jiantai in Hefei. Li Jiantai had already been guarding Hefei and was ordered to block Feng Shuangli from going north here.

There is a Grand Canyon in the south of Hefei, which is the ancient battlefield of the Wuchu War in the Warring States Period, on this day, Li Long let the captured 60,000 soldiers secretly bring here, and all the 60,000 captives were killed in this canyon.

The general of the Lujiang garrison is Feng Shuangli, the chief general Feng Shuangli, and there are more than 90,000 garrisons in Lujiang City.

In the early offensive warfare of hot weapons, in fact, it was a matter of coordination between artillery and infantry, and if you bombarded with artillery first, and then put on infantry after suppressing the enemy, it was of course the safest tactic. In this way, there is a possibility that the enemy will be repulsed by artillery fire, but the infantry will not be able to catch up with the enemy and expand the opportunity to expand the results first. Therefore, it is necessary for infantry and artillery to attack at the same time to ensure the most effective strike against the enemy. Then the timing of the artillery firing is very particular, not sooner or later, it must be in the infantry to give up a firing distance, and did not enter the range of the period of time, which must be calculated in more detail.

When he arrived at the camp outside Lujiang City, Feng Shuangli saw that there were only 50,000 horses outside the city, and led all the horses in Lujiang City, a total of about 97,000 people, out of the city to meet the Ming army.

Because the Shandong soldiers had just arrived at Lujiang and had not had time to arrange their positions, Li Long immediately ordered the soldiers to set up a formation to meet the enemy as soon as he saw the western army coming out of the county seat. Due to their well-trained training in peacetime, the Shandong soldiers quickly arranged a three-stage continuous firing formation. And these Western troops also killed in front of the Shandong soldiers.

Li Long looked at the army on the opposite side, only to see that the array was not in order, the flags were also messy, and the whole team was in chaos, so he couldn't help frowning, and said, "Is this also called the army?" How it's like a rabble. ”

Li Jiantai said on the side: "What about him? Brother, let's rush up and kill him for a while. ”

Yang Dali also said: "I think this team has no rules at all, and it is far worse than Li Zicheng's people." There's no need to wait for them to rush over, just rush straight up, and a single charge can knock them to the ground. ”

Although in the battle with Li Zicheng, the Shandong soldiers basically chose to fight in the field, but they basically arranged their positions in advance, and then waited for the invading army to rush up, and only after the attack of the invading army was frustrated and the men and horses suffered heavy losses did the Shandong soldiers give a counterattack. This set of defensive counterattack tactics can give full play to the advantages of Shandong soldiers in long-range strikes and firepower, and in the case of being outnumbered, it is of course the most reasonable tactical choice.

However, Li Long also knew that it was impossible for a set of tactics to conquer the world, and it was impossible for the Shandong soldiers to always wait for others to attack mainly, and it was Li Long's style to firmly grasp the initiative, and the Shandong soldiers must master the initiative to attack. Therefore, in peacetime training, the Shandong soldiers have not carried out tactical drills for taking the initiative to attack, but they have never had the opportunity to display them on the battlefield in the past. Because the Shandong soldiers encountered opponents who were multiple to themselves.

However, this time, the number of people on both sides is about the same, so Li Jiantai, Yang Dali and others are also a little eager to try.

Li Jiantai immediately gave the order and the whole army advanced.

As soon as the order was laid, the musketeers in the front row of officers and soldiers immediately lined up in three neat rows and marched in unison towards the western army. And behind the musketeers, followed by a battalion of pikemen lined up in a second platoon.

Since the Western Army had never fought with officers and soldiers before, Feng Shuangli did not know how powerful the officers and men's long-range strike capability was, so he led the team until it was more than 200 steps away from the positions of the officers and soldiers before stopping, and now it was basically within the strike range of the artillery, so the artillery of the officers and men did not advance, but only waited for the musketeers to go out of a certain distance to leave a space for the artillery to fire.

In the early offensive warfare of hot weapons, in fact, it was a matter of coordination between artillery and infantry, and if you bombarded with artillery first, and then put on infantry after suppressing the enemy, it was of course the safest tactic. In this way, there is a possibility that the enemy will be repulsed by artillery fire, but the infantry will not be able to catch up with the enemy and expand the opportunity to expand the results first. Therefore, it is necessary for infantry and artillery to attack at the same time to ensure the most effective strike against the enemy. Then the timing of the artillery firing is very particular, not sooner or later, it must be in the infantry to give up a firing distance, and did not enter the range of the period of time, which must be calculated in more detail.

In this regard, the officers and men have gone through countless tests and calculations and many more drills before they have come up with a series of valuable data. Therefore, as soon as the musketeers and pikemen arrays set out, the ranged artillerymen closely observed and calculated the distance of the infantry array. At the back of the infantry array, the soldiers who were also responsible for reporting to the artillery the distance they had traveled, and every ten paces of the infantry array, they would report to the artillery positions in the rear once to provide reference data for the artillery. After checking the distance between the two, it can basically ensure that the distance is not far from ten.

Therefore, after the departure of the infantry array, the artillery responsible for observation continued to report loudly various data:

"The enemy's array is two hundred and twenty paces, and our infantry array has advanced ten paces. The guns began to be reloaded in position. ”

"The enemy's array is two hundred and twenty paces, and our infantry array has advanced twenty paces. The guns began to adjust their firing angles. ”

……

"The enemy array is two hundred and twenty paces, and our infantry array has advanced forty paces, and is about to walk out of the firing area, and all artillery pieces are ready."

"The enemy array is two hundred and twenty paces, and our infantry array has advanced fifty paces out of the launch area. All the artillery, fire. ”

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Like all armies engaged with officers and soldiers for the first time, in Feng Shuangli's eyes, this was a very strange Ming army, although it took the initiative to attack, but did not discharge the usual cone-shaped formation, or phalanx, but spread out horizontally in a row, although the queue was very neat, but the whole team was wide and thin. And the speed of progress is not fast, the most ridiculous thing is that what the Ming army is holding in his hands is not swords, guns, swords, halberds, but seems to be firearms.

In Feng Shuangli's impression, it seems that he has never seen the Ming army rushing forward with a firearm. Therefore, I also feel inexplicable. However, even if the Ming army took the initiative to attack, then he could not show weakness, and Feng Shuangli was also ready to give an order to attack the whole army.

At this moment, only to hear "boom-boom-boom-boom-" emitted a series of earth-shattering loud roars.

Because the distance was so close, Feng Shuangli only felt his heart tremble, his eardrums were shaken, and even the earth seemed to shake. In his own army, more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground because they were unprepared.

"What's the matter, does the Ming army have artillery? But now that their infantry has come out with a warp attack, is it difficult not to be afraid of artillery hitting their own people? These thoughts flashed through Feng Shuangli's mind, and he saw that from above the head of the Ming army's array, more than twenty black things flew out, slamming down towards his side.

The power of the solid bullet falling down is simply not something that flesh and blood can resist, the previous Qing army and the recent invasion army have suffered, and now it is the turn of the Western Army to compensate, and a series of screams immediately sounded in the formation of the Western Army, and the soldiers who were hit by the shells were all smashed to the point of flesh and blood, and juice was splashed everywhere.

A round bullet hit the head of a small leader who was less than four feet away from Feng Shuangli's body, and immediately smashed the head of the little leader to pieces, and the red brain also flew out, shooting far away, sticking a lot on Feng Shuangli's body and face. Feng Shuangli couldn't help but tremble with fright, and hurriedly said loudly: "Attack, attack, rush!" Rush me! As he spoke, he urged his horse, drew his saber, and took the lead in rushing towards the infantry array of officers and soldiers.

Under his leadership, the only more than 3,000 cavalry of the Western Army also urged their horses to rush forward, and most of the infantry also brandished their weapons and rushed behind the cavalry. It should be said that Feng Shuangli's order cannot be regarded as a mistake, because after rushing up and engaging with the infantry of the officers and soldiers, the artillery will not dare to fire again, which also shows that Feng Shuangli's mind is still very clear now. But Feng Shuangli also forgot that the soldiers of the officers and soldiers were holding firearms.

But it is a pity that the officers and men are not the same as the other troops, as soon as they saw the enemy attacking, they immediately waited for the pace of advance, quickly adjusted the array, and the musketeers in the front row picked up their muskets and pulled the trigger on the cavalry that rushed into the firing range.

"Bang bang bang!"

A burst of gunfire sounded, and among the cavalry of the Western Army, people shouted and neighed, and nearly half of the men and horses immediately fell.

The musketeers immediately loaded their ammunition on the spot, while the musketeers in the second row immediately took two steps forward and fired their guns. Instead, the sound of a row of guns and shots sounded, and among the remaining Western cavalry, most of the horses fell, and there were less than thirty horses left.

And most of the less than 30 horsemen were frightened by the fierce fire of the officers and men, and they dared to rush forward, and they turned their horses' heads and turned to flee.

But it was too late at this time, because the musketeers of the third row of officers and soldiers came to the front row and raised their guns to shoot, but none of the remaining cavalry was spared, and all of them were shot down from their horses, and the generals were also killed under the indiscriminate fire of the officers and soldiers.

In this way, the cavalry of the Western Army was wiped out after three rounds of blows by officers and soldiers, and the infantry continued to charge forward, because they did not understand what was going on, but it was soon their turn. At the same time, the artillery of the officers and men also stopped firing, so as not to injure their own people by mistake.

The musketeers who fired the first round were now reloaded with ammunition, and once again stood in the first row, and launched another merciless attack on the infantry that followed behind the Western Army.

There was another volley of guns, because the infantry was much denser than the cavalry, so the damage was much greater, and after the gunfire rang out, almost all the infantry who rushed in the first row fell to the ground. Then came the second and third rounds.

After three consecutive rounds of shooting, the infantry of the Western Army fell seven or eight thousand people, and the other infantry also knew that it was powerful at this time, and the main general Feng Shuangli was also killed, and the remaining soldiers dared to continue to rush forward, so they turned their heads and ran. Because the musket fire of the officers and men was advancing layer by layer, the distance between the two sides was not far at this time, only about forty or fifty paces, and after the defeat of the Western army, the musketeers pursued two more rounds of pursuit, and then they all loaded their bayonets, and together with the pikemen, pursued the rear of the enemy army, and rushed forward. And the Western Army was suddenly completely defeated.

Li Jiantai saw the entire battle clearly from the command vehicle in the rear, and he did not expect that the victory and defeat of this battle would be decided so quickly, on the one hand, of course, because the firepower of the officers and men was too strong, and on the other hand, it was also because the combat effectiveness of the Western Army was too weak, not to mention that compared with the Qing army, it was also much different from the breaking army, and it almost broke up in one fight. It seems that Zhang Xianzhong is much easier to deal with than Li Zicheng.

Li Jiantai immediately ordered an all-round pursuit, taking advantage of the victory, to capture the Lujiang River in one fell swoop.

It has to be said that the fighting will of the Western Army is indeed inferior to that of the Chuang Army, and under the fierce pursuit of the officers and soldiers, the defeated army did not even dare to defend the Lujiang River, but passed through the city and continued to flee in the direction of Wuchang. And the officers and soldiers took advantage of the victory and also occupied the Lujiang River in one fell swoop.

After entering the Lujiang River, Li Jiantai did not stop for a moment, and immediately ordered Huangshi to lead a musket battalion and two spear companies of soldiers to continue to chase the defeated army, and directly attack Xiaogan County in one go.

The western army was chased in disarray, and before they could escape to Xiaogan, they scattered with the scriptures. And Hu Yi led the troops of this battalion and two companies to take Xiaogan directly. At this time, Xiaogan was an empty city at all, so as soon as Hu Yi's men arrived, they took Xiaogan County without blood.

After Li Jiantai of Lujiang received the capture of Xiaogan County by Yijing, he immediately ordered Tang Hekuan to lead the men and horses of the remaining two companies of another battalion to seize Yingcheng County immediately.

After Tang Hekuan led his army to leave Lujiang, he sent people back to Lujiang at dusk to report to Li Jiantai and take Yingcheng County. Li Jiantai also felt very satisfied, and immediately sent people to report to Li Long in Hefei to win the victory and take the three cities in a day.

The three counties of Lujiang, Xiaogan, and Yingcheng were all lost within one day, and the news quickly spread to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but be secretly surprised after learning that the three counties were lost, although he didn't care about the places of the three counties, but the Ming army captured these three counties, which meant that the spearhead had been shifted from the destruction of Li Zicheng and aimed at himself.

To say that Zhang Xianzhong is not afraid, it is a lie, although now Zhang Xianzhong is the king and an official, and it seems that he has made a lot of noise, but after all, he is not as powerful as Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng and the main forces of the Ming army, such as Sun Chuanting and Zuo Liangyu, have fought a few battles with real swords and guns, and they have enough confidence and hard speech, and they dare not to take the Ming army in their eyes. And Zhang Xianzhong is basically still a rogue doctrine, picking up soft persimmons to start, fighting if he can beat it, running away if he can't beat it, and never daring to move seriously with the powerful Ming army.

In fact, at the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was far inferior to Li Zicheng, but he was only active in the Qianshan area of Anhui, and was once defeated by Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong, and the form was very passive. Many places have provoked a popular uprising, Zhang Xianzhong from Anhui to Hubei, even take Huangmei, Guangji, Qizhou, Macheng and other places, and kill the squire, recruit a wide range of people, Macheng alone, there are 50,000 or 60,000 people defected to Zhang Xianzhong, only to be able to greatly increase the strength. However, although Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang, he also knew that his strength could not compare with Li Zicheng, in terms of troops, although Zhang Xianzhong now claimed to have an army of 300,000, but in fact there were only 130,000 or 40,000, and most of them were parting cobbled rabble, and the real elite of the old battalion was less than 20,000. And now Li Zicheng's subordinates can be regarded as fully equipped with civil and military forces, and there are many talents, and Zhang Xianzhong's side mainly relies on Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu, the four generals, are far from catching up with Li Zicheng in terms of quantity and quality.

Now Li Zicheng was destroyed by officers and soldiers, and when he heard the new news, the Ming army actually conquered three cities in a few days and was coming towards Wuchang.

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to leave Wuchang and find another place to live, but at this time, Li Long, the governor of Shandong, led his army to fight Li Zicheng fiercely. It also made Zhang Xianzhong breathe a sigh of relief and decided to see the situation.

And after learning that Li Zicheng was defeated by the Ming army, captured Li Zicheng, and slaughtered Li Zicheng's surrendered troops, Zhang Xianzhong's heart was also very happy: Li Zicheng, do you have today? But he never expected that the Ming army did not chase after him and returned to the nest in Shandong, but turned the spearhead and aimed at himself. Zhang Xianzhong's heart was also very annoyed: he stayed in Wuchang, and he didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, why did he always have trouble with himself? Can't you just live two days of peace of mind?

However, complaining is complaining, the Ming army is coming, and there is always a way to deal with the past, so Zhang Xianzhong immediately recruited four generals: Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu to discuss whether to fight with the Ming army, or give up Wuchang Mansion, and then run away. If you want to fight, now the Ming army seems to be fierce again, and even Li Zicheng is not an opponent, can he beat the Shu army? If you want to flee, where will you flee? You must know that there is still a Zuo Liangyu squatting in Jiujiang, Li Zicheng can not take Zuo Liangyu in his eyes, but Zhang Xianzhong does not dare to despise him.

After the four of them gathered, Zhang Xianzhong immediately said his thoughts.

Sun Kewang first said: "Don't worry, the king, I have sent someone to inquire clearly, it turns out that the three men and horses of Zuo Liangyu of the Ming army are now standing still, and the Ming army that seized the three counties is led by a newcomer, this person is called Li Long, the official position is the governor, very young, less than thirty years old, but he only has more than tens of thousands of horses under his hands. ”

After Zhang Xianzhong listened to Sun Kewang's words, he couldn't help but feel at ease.

Liu Wenxiu said: "Even if this Li Long can fight again, we have more than 100,000 horses, are we still afraid of him?" Even if he is Qi Jiguang, what can he do? Fourth, if you are timid, then don't go, please give me a general, let me immediately lead the troops to attack, recapture the three counties, and beat him to a falling flower. ”

Sun Kewang was also a little displeased: "Second brother, what are you talking about, I fell behind you in that battle, I just said that we should not underestimate the enemy, as the saying goes, 'arrogant soldiers will be defeated'." And Li Long's men and horses were numerous, and Li Zicheng was surrounded by his army, and I heard that a total of 1 million people were invested, and the enemy should not be underestimated" Therefore, I thought that we might as well hold Wuchang Mansion steadily, and when Li Long led the army to attack, the Ming army would inevitably cross the river, or attack half-crossing, or fight against the city, and it would be victorious. And it is not far from Wuchang Mansion, it can be attacked, retreated and defended, and it is free to advance and retreat. ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "It's easy to tell you, but will the Ming army do what you think?" In case Zuo Liangyu leads the army to take Wuchang Mansion and join forces to trap the city, then won't we have to sit in the lonely city and wait to be killed? ”

Liu Wenxiu retorted: "If Zuo Liangyu and the others want to send troops, then they will arrive a long time ago, and they don't have to wait until now, they are all greedy for small profits, and they will never lead the army to attack before our army leaves Wuchang Mansion." ”

The two of you and I said one sentence at a time, and the words became more and more intense, Sun Kewang hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, the second and fourth, you all say a few words, whether you are fighting or defending, everything is arranged by the king." ”

He moved Zhang Xianzhong out, and of course Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu didn't dare to argue anymore, so they both looked at Zhang Xianzhong and listened to his decision.

Although Zhang Xianzhong knew that Li Zicheng was defeated by the Ming army, after all, he did not have professional spies, and he did not care much about the process of this war. And now there are only tens of thousands of people who come to attack him, and he doesn't care about it at all, if he is scared away by the Ming army, it will be too timid.

And to speak from the heart, Zhang Xianzhong is reluctant to leave Wuchang Mansion now, because although Zhang Xianzhong turned the Ming Dynasty upside down, but for more than ten years, he has been living a life of running around, almost precarious. Now Zhang Xianzhong finally occupies a foothold, and can also be called a lonely widow, and has a dry addiction, his West Palace, in fact, was rebuilt with the Chu Palace, but the palace was built to be magnificent, extravagant, and the eunuch palace waited to see, living in it, I don't know how comfortable, Zhang Xianzhong was a little happy. And once he leaves, he may not be able to live such a comfortable life in this life, so Zhang Xianzhong also decided that no matter what, he will also fight with this Ming army.

So Zhang Xianzhong said: "We must fight this battle, but what we hope to say is also reasonable, we must not underestimate the enemy." And Zuo Liangyu doesn't see rabbits or eagles, and he won't attack us easily. However, if we just sit in Wuchang Mansion like this, we will be too passive. And after Li Long captured the three counties, the next step must be to attack Wuchang Mansion, so I think we might as well face Li Long's men and horses in Wuchang Mansion.

The four of them listened and had no objections. In fact, Liu Wenxiu did not disagree with the war with Li Long, but advocated not to stay away from Wuchang, Zhang Xianzhong's method can be regarded as a compromise, in Wuchang Mansion and the Ming army, you can also use the tactics of half-crossing and attacking, so Liu Wenxiu felt that there should not be much problem in doing so.

Zhang Xianzhong saw that the four of them agreed with his proposition, and he was also very satisfied, and said: "Okay, then it's decided, Kewang, Wenxiu, the two of you will take 30,000 horses first, and set off to Wuchang Mansion today to station, in case the Ming army comes to take Wuchang Mansion, I will lead a large team of men and horses, and then arrive, join forces in one place, and meet the Ming army." ”

The four of them hurriedly said in unison: "The ministers are respectful." ”

The next day, a spy came to report that it was the vanguard of the Shandong official army who had crossed the Han River near Liujia Village in the upper reaches of the Han River.

When the two heard this, they couldn't help but secretly say that they were lucky, fortunately, they were one step ahead, otherwise Wuchang Mansion was afraid that they would be taken first by Shandong officials and soldiers. However, now that the vanguard of the Shandong official army has begun to cross the river, the two discussed it and decided to go to war immediately, because the army will not be able to cross it in a while and a half.

After crossing the river, Hutong and Hu Yi immediately sent scouts to investigate the movements of the Western Army nearby, and led the soldiers to arrange positions. The current Shandong soldiers are familiar with digging trenches to build positions through new roads, and the soil around the river beach is soft, so it is also very fast, and the trenches will be dug well in less than half an hour, but the number of Shandong soldiers is too small after all, and in order to protect the beachhead, the trenches can only dig a semi-arc shape that protrudes outward, instead of the commonly used prismatic shape. At the same time, Hutong also distributed the current troops, sent more than 1,400 soldiers to garrison in the trenches, arranged the formation in the form of three consecutive shots, and left 300 people as a reserve force to supplement at any time.

Before the men and horses of the Western Army approached the position, they were discovered by the scouts of the Shandong Army, and they were also observed with a telescope, so the Hutong soon saw the men and horses of the Western Army.

Although the Shandong soldiers were well prepared, the Western Army dispatched 20,000 horses, which also surprised the Hutong and Huyi brothers, because the Shandong soldiers had only more than 1,700 combat troops, and there were no artillery, only 20 Thunderbolts.

Hu Yi took a breath of cold air and said, "There are a lot of thieves here!" There are about 10,000 people. ”

Hutong said: "What is there to be afraid of, when the Second Regiment was fighting Li Zicheng, it withstood the attack of more than 50,000 opponents for two days, how can we not be compared to the Second Regiment." During this time, hold your ground no matter what. ”

Hu Yi said: "That's right, but if there is artillery, now the thief army is only two hundred steps at most, if it is a Franc machine gun, you can fire shotguns, it must be a large sweep." ”

Hutong said with a smile: "Don't worry, the artillery is on the boat behind, Tang Hekuan will come over with the artillery soon, as long as we hold the position first, and when the artillery arrives, there will definitely be this group of thieves who look good." ”

The soldiers in the defense line were still busy with their own affairs, and some auxiliaries looked up from time to time, looking absent-minded, but some auxiliaries with combat experience were still doing their own work, as if nothing had happened. , and from time to time to reprimand those recruits.

"What to see, what to see, what to see, hurry up and get to work."

"There are a lot of thieves, can our people stop it?"

"What is this a lot, we have seen more than this, it's not a big deal, when I was in Suizhou, that person was called more? In all directions, surrounded by regiments, three layers inside and three layers outside, not even a fly could fly in, but after two days of fighting, the thieves were stunned and did not hit one of them. ”

"Really? Are you saying true or false? ”

"Of course it's true? Can this still be fake? What kind of team are we? We're called Shandong soldiers! When did you hear that the Shandong soldiers had lost a battle? ”

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After the Shandong soldiers arranged their troops, the attack of the Western Army also began. The Western Army first sent 5,000 men and horses to attack from the front. Although Zhang Xianzhong had more than 100,000 horses at this time, but in a short period of time the rapid expansion of the assembly, so the assembly could not keep up at all, more than half of the soldiers had no armor, weapons were also uneven, hoes, sickles, shovels and the like were also few, and the cavalry was not much, the whole army cavalry was less than 10,000 people, until the time of Guan Jian, Zhang Xianzhong was reluctant to take it out.

Of the 50,000 horses brought out by Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu this time, there were only 2,000 cavalry in total. And Zhang Xianzhong repeatedly instructed that you must use it carefully. Therefore, the first 5,000 men and horses were all infantry.

Because they knew that the Ming army on the opposite side had very few troops, the 5,000 Western Army, which was the first to attack, was also full of confidence, and each brandished their weapons and rushed towards the position of the Shandong soldiers with shouts of killing.

At this time, the Shandong soldiers were already ready to meet the battle, and the soldiers guarding the trenches also set up their muskets and aimed them at the front, while the soldiers who stayed outside the trenches were also ready to support at any time.

Hutong and Hu Yi stood on the edge of the trench, closely observing the distance of the Western Army's advance, and now the ranging method used by the Shandong soldiers has a large error, which is not suitable for muskets with a short range. However, when the Hutong was arranging the position, several distance markers were made outside the trenches, so it was possible to know the direction of the enemy's front very accurately. Until the Western Army came into the range of muskets.

"Fire!"

With an order from the alley, more than 400 muskets in the first row were fired almost simultaneously, spewing out tongues of fire, and a huge sound also shook the wilderness on the shore of the Han River.

Almost all the soldiers of the Western Army heard such a huge volley of guns for the first time, and they felt a huge shock in their hearts, and even Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu, who were watching the battle in the rear, couldn't help but tremble in their hearts. At this time, at the front end of the Western Army's attacking soldiers, a row of soldiers fell like mowing grass. Some of them were hit through the body by the projectile, and immediately fell to the ground on their backs or lying on their backs, and died of exhaustion, while others were not shot in the fatal part, but the severe pain caused them to lose their ability to move, and they fell to the ground, realizing the wound and letting out a painful wail.

There was an immediate uproar in the attacking ranks of the entire Western Army, but before they could react, the second volley of the Shandong soldiers began again.

The muskets in the first row of the Shandong soldiers were all Lumi guns and new style flare guns, as well as smoothbore guns, and the Western Army was just within the firing range. And then the third row of the Shandong soldiers began to fire again, so more people were shot and injured, the screams became more and more fierce, some people's faces were distorted and deformed in pain, some people bent their waists like a big one, some tears, snot, and saliva flowed out together, and some people rolled on the ground in pain. Anyway, there are all kinds of actions.

At this time, the other soldiers saw that they dared to continue to attack, and hurriedly turned their heads and ran, some of the lightly wounded people limped behind, and some of the seriously injured could only lie on the ground and shout: "Don't leave me!" "Take me!" Something like that. In the blink of an eye, they all retreated. Only two or three hundred corpses were left in the middle of the positions of the two sides, and some people who were not dead but were seriously wounded were struggling as hard as they could.

Neither Hutong nor Hu Yi expected that the thieves who seemed to be fierce and powerful would be so unbeatable, and they fled back in embarrassment with only three rows of shots. It seems that Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses are really bad.

Hu Yi muttered: "Why are these thieves so useless? So quickly went back. I heard that when Yang Dali beat Li Zicheng in Zhongmu, they desperately sent it like a gun, so how enjoyable it should be to fight. ”

And at this time, in the Western Army array, Sun Kewang was also angry, so the Western Army did not attack for a long time, and was beaten back by the Shandong soldiers, and the number of people killed in the battle was not much, only three or four hundred, so Sun Kewang did not feel how powerful the Shandong soldiers' firearms were, plus at this time, the ships on the other side were basically offshore, and the fast ships were almost in the middle of the river, and this attack was so fruitless, and it was delayed a lot, Sun Kewang was naturally very anxious in his heart.

Therefore, Sun Kewang pulled out his saber, urged him to step forward, and beheaded several retired soldiers in a row, slashing and scolding: "I told you to run, I told you to run, kill me again, kill back immediately." And more than 200 guards around him also started together, killing more than a dozen retired soldiers in a row, and finally stabilized the retreat.

However, at this time, Liu Wenxiu saw a little way, the Shandong soldiers' firearms not only hit far, but also the interval was extremely short, just three salvos, almost shot out in a row, it seems that it is really difficult to deal with, even if these 5,000 people attack again, I am afraid that they will not be able to bargain much. Therefore, Liu Wenxiu urged the horse forward, came to Sun Kewang's side, and said: "Big brother, I don't think it's okay to attack like this, you lead the army and then head it head-on, attract their defense, and I'll lead a team of men and horses to attack from the side." ”

Sun Kewang was busy retreating from the army and then killing back at this time, so he didn't have time to think about Liu Wenxiu's proposal, so he said helplessly: "Go, go, do whatever you like." ”

Seeing that Sun Kewang agreed, Liu Wenxiu immediately led 3,000 men and horses to move towards the flank of the Shandong army's position.

Under Sun Kewang's coercion, the defeated soldiers were also helpless, so they had to turn around and kill again. However, although the defeated soldiers came back to kill, they all learned to be clever, and the corpses left behind from the last attack also pointed out the distance to them, so after killing them one by one to the place where the corpses fell, they all stopped and lingered.

When Sun Kewang saw it in the back, he was angry and anxious, and immediately ordered to transfer out a thousand soldiers as a team of overseers, and rushed behind with spears and big knives, forcing them to move forward. And the attacking Western Army, under the pressure from behind, had to bend its waist, shrink its body, step by step, and slowly move forward.

Hutong and Hu Yi met behind the position, and they couldn't help but feel very funny, after so many battles, it was the first time they encountered such an enemy, and someone had to rush to advance, just like chasing a duck. However, they also calmed down when they arrived this time, and when the Western Army moved the marker point of the firing range, they did not give the order to shoot, but planned to let them go again, and let go of twenty or thirty paces before firing.

The soldiers attacking from the Western Army slowly walked past the location of the corpse, and they didn't see the Shandong soldiers firing again, because they didn't have much experience in fighting with muskets, and they didn't expect that the other party was deliberately trying to let themselves get closer, so they couldn't help but be a little more courageous, their waists were a little straighter, and their steps were a little more open.

But just then, gunshots rang out. Because at this time, the musketeers of the Shandong soldiers were all loaded with ammunition, so they fired three times in a row, almost continuously, and in a short moment, more than 300 soldiers of the Western Army fell. As soon as the other soldiers heard the gunshots, they were immediately frightened, and hurriedly turned their heads and ran, while the overseers behind were still rushing forward, so the two sides pushed and hugged each other.

I also saw that the soldiers of the Shandong soldiers laughed more than once, but because they had let go of the Western Army for a distance before, they couldn't retreat for a while, so the Shandong soldiers could also take turns to chase and shoot, and after each platoon of guns fired, the Western Army would at least fall more than 100 soldiers. Hearing that the gunshots were still ringing out, the remaining Western troops were even more nervous, and they couldn't take care of it much, picked up the weapons in their hands, and fought with the soldiers of the overseer team, and fought fiercely.

Hutong shook his head again and again, and simply gave an order, ordering the soldiers to escape from the trenches and pursue the enemy in the rear. So the soldiers of the Shandong soldiers climbed out of the trenches one after another, raising their guns to pursue, and the western army was forced to be anxious, and everyone was desperate, slashing and killing the soldiers of the supervising team. The two sides thought it was a scuffle, intertwined. At this time, the soldiers of the Shandong soldiers approached by the scriptures, and many of the soldiers of the supervision team were exposed to the muskets, and after several rounds of gun strikes, the soldiers of the supervision team also found that the situation was not good, and they themselves became the targets of the muskets. As soon as the overseer retreated, the retreating army naturally immediately followed and retreated like a low tide.

Hu Yi looked at the position, and he was also excited, and said, "Brother, let's just catch up, and one charge will knock them all away." ”

Hutong said angrily: "Is your brain in water?" There are less than 2,000 of us in total, and looking at them, there are at least 10,000 more horses? We are rushing out now to fight with them, aren't we looking for death? Your Excellency just let us hold our positions on the shore, there is no need for so many things. ”

Hu Yi muttered: "Brother, you are too careful!" Look at the bear-like appearance of this group of people, and the more than 10,000 people behind can be strong there, I can guarantee that only 1,000 people will be enough to beat them away. ”

Hutong was just about to speak, when suddenly a guard from the regimental headquarters rushed over and said, "Regiment commander, it's not good, the thieves are attacking from the left." ”

When Hutong heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and when he turned his head to look, he saw a thief soldier on the left, and Yi Jing rushed to a place only fifty or sixty steps away from the position, because they were all attracted by the enemy army attacking head-on just now, and they didn't notice that a thief soldier attacked from the far side. Hutong immediately said to Hu Yi: "Now you see it, who said that the thieves are easy to deal with, you guard here, hurry up and bring the soldiers back, and I will lead the reserve team to rescue the left."

Attacking from the flank was naturally Liu Wenxiu. It turned out that although the defense line of the Shandong soldiers was an outward semi-arc, there was still a gap near the river, although this gap was not large, but it was always a weak link in this defense line, so Liu Wenxiu decided to seize this weak link and break the defense line of the Shandong soldiers. He led 3,000 soldiers all the way around the Han River, and then along the river, launched an attack on the defense line of the Shandong soldiers.

At this time, most of the attention of the Shandong soldiers was attracted by the Western Army in front, and when they discovered the roundabout attack of the Western Army, the Western Army was only sixty or seventy paces away from the defense line by advancing through the warp. Although the Shandong soldiers have soldiers guarding on the left side of the defense line, this is a dead end after all, so there are not many soldiers who can defend here, only more than a hundred soldiers are enough, and the blow to the western army is not intensive. However, fortunately, the attack surface in this blind spot is not wide, and the troops that the Western Army can invest at one time are also limited, so it can support it without strength.

But as soon as Liu Wenxiu saw this situation, he immediately ordered a part of the Huishui soldiers to enter the Han River and swim in a detour to attack. And this trick really worked, and the soldiers guarding the left side immediately took care of one or the other, because the muskets could not see the water, so the soldiers of the Shandong soldiers did not dare to go into the water, so they could only shoot on the shore, so that the forces guarding the gap were further dispersed.

As a result, the Shandong soldiers held on for a while, but still could not stop the attack of the Western Army, on the side of the defensive line, the Western Army advanced to a dangerous distance of only 20 steps from the defense line, and in the Han River, there were also many enemy troops attacking in the water at this time, at this time they swam in a semicircle, entered the inner side of the Shandong army's defense line, and their feet were able to step on the bottom of the riverbed. The entire line of defense was in jeopardy.

Fortunately, at this time, Hutong led three hundred reserve soldiers to Zuoze, and when he saw that the situation was critical, Hutong immediately ordered half of the soldiers to hold the riverside, and lined up on the riverbank, like the enemy in the Han River shooting, because the density of the blow suddenly increased several times, so the enemy soldiers of the river died tragically in the river, facing the sky, with the ups and downs of the river, and finally sank into the Han River. There was not much left of those who swam to the shore, but they were all solved by the soldiers' bayonets.

The other half of the soldiers immediately joined in to plug the gap in the defensive line, because at this time the Western army had entered a dangerous distance, and it was too late to shoot with muskets, so Hutong ordered the use of grenades. So the one hundred and fifty soldiers divided into three rounds and took turns throwing their grenades. Some of the hand bullets landed on the beach, and some fell into the river, but one of the grenade leads was inside the handle, so even if it fell on the river, it did not necessarily fail to explode.

As a result, a series of explosions and whining sounded on the bank of the river, stirring up the sand and rocks, splashing in all directions, and the screams of the Western Army were blown up, and they fell on the beach one after another, and countless casualties were killed and injured in the river. After throwing the grenades, the musketeers of the Shandong soldiers fired three consecutive rounds of volleys of guns, only to make the Western army cry and call their mothers, and they were embarrassed.

Liu Wenxiu couldn't contain the defeated army when he came, and secondly, he was also shocked by the firearms and fierce firepower of the Shandong soldiers, knowing that it was difficult to break through from the side, so he could only follow the defeated army and retreat in defeat. The defensive line, which had been untenable, has finally stabilized again.

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