With the strong combat effectiveness of the tiger and leopard musketeers, Wei Zheng can confidently say that as long as the musketeers he sent have just left Datong Mansion. The Tartars, who have already occupied Zuoyun and other towns, and have suffered a lot in front of the musketeers under their command, will definitely choose to play hide and seek with themselves, and not fight a decisive battle with the musketeers they send.

even directly took the finances and people plundered in Zuoyun and retreated back to the vast Mongolian steppe.

Once this kind of thing happens, it is certain that without eliminating any Tartars and giving an explanation to the imperial court, he will definitely be condemned by the officials in the imperial court, destroying or obstructing all his layouts in Shanxi.

Therefore, as soon as the idea of sending musketeers to reinforce Zuo Yun and eliminate the Tartars came to Wei Zheng's head, he was vetoed by Wei Zheng without hesitation.

Since you can't send musketeers to reinforce Zuo Yun openly, you can only send them secretly

As a result, Zhou Yuhong's department, which had been living and training as a Tuntian soldier, entered the field of vision of Wei Zheng......

With 5,000 musketeers under Zhou Yuhong who had just completed training, they reinforced Zuoyun County.

But then another problem arises...

In addition to 5,000 musketeers, there are also 5,000 elite cavalry with white flags....If he only dispatched 5,000 musketeers, not only would he not be able to take any advantage in Dolgon's hands, but he would also be bitten back by Dolgon.

After all, in the upcoming battle, the initiative on the battlefield is still in the hands of Dolgon.

If the 5,000 musketeers he sent were used for defense, he would be able to double the strength of Dolgon, and he would not be able to help them. But. The battle that these 5,000 musketeers will face is not defensive. It's an offense. Even the choice of the battlefield is in the hands of Dolgon...

On the field battlefield without the slightest preparation, Wei Zheng did not dare to guarantee that the 5,000 musketeers commanded by Zhou Yuhong would not be flanked by the front and rear of the 10,000 cavalry of the Tartars.......

If it really encounters, the 5,000 musketeers commanded by Zhou Yuhong will face an unknown ending.

Therefore, only sending 5,000 musketeers under Zhou Yuhong's department can be unexpected. The purpose of covert engagement. However, with these 5,000 musketeers, they would never be able to change the entire situation of the battle and deal a fatal blow to Dolgon.

And the 5,000 musketeers commanded by Zhou Yuhong, if they want to make a difference on the battlefield in the Zuoyun area, they must find a way to transfer the 5,000 Tartar cavalry on the battlefield that poses the greatest threat to Zhou Yuhong.

If there was no threat of Tartar cavalry on the battlefield, Wei Zheng could also arrogantly and confidently say that he had sent 5,000 musketeers with superior flintlock muskets. Definitely on the battlefield, with overwhelming superiority. Defeat the 5,000 firearms troops that Dolgon had painstakingly trained.

However, how to transfer the elite of Dolgon's 5,000 cavalry out of Zuoyun?

Faced with this problem, Wei Zheng's head once again turned into a high-speed computer, and began to carefully analyze all the troops under his command to see which one was, in Dorgon's eyes, a bait that had to be eaten in one bite.

Soon, the five thousand cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun appeared in Wei Zheng's mind......

Although Dorgon had repeatedly failed in the face of the musketeers he had trained, he had never come into contact with the 5,000 cavalry he had just trained...

You can train invincible musketeers, but you can't train invincible cavalry.

Because, no matter how hard they try, the cavalry under their command is trained little by little from the beginning of learning to ride horses. The Tartars, on the other hand, grew up on horseback and had little training, and were very qualified cavalrymen.

More importantly, it takes at least a year to convert from an infantryman to a qualified cavalryman. And for this cavalryman to be proficient in cavalry archery, it will take one to two years of training.

And the 5,000 cavalry under his command have only been trained for less than four months, and they have just learned to control war horses, and they can't even talk about riding horses....

He knew the situation of his cavalry, and so did Dorgon.

Because, almost all of the equipment used by the cavalry under his command came from the capture outside Zunhua City.

As his opponent in Zunhua, Dolgon knew very well how long the cavalry under his command had been trained, what step had been trained according to the general training method, and what kind of combat level he had.

In Dolgon's eyes, even the five thousand cavalry under his command were well armed. In front of the elite Houjin cavalry, these tigers and leopards are all fat meat that can be swallowed in their mouths at any time.

Not only that, but for Dolgon, after destroying the 5,000 cavalry under his command, his dream of developing cavalry in a short period of time would be shattered, because the horses and equipment needed to form his cavalry were recaptured by the Tartars in the battle.

Therefore, the 5,000 cavalry under his command that has not really been trained is the best bait for Dorgon.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng made the decision to lure the enemy with cavalry at the first time, and the 5,000 musketeers under Zhou Yuhong's command secretly captured Zuoyun and blocked Dolgon and his 10,000-foot cavalry in Shanxi.

In the middle of the mighty musketeers, Zhou Yuhong, who was dressed in armor, was riding on a war horse, thinking about how to use the five thousand musketeers he had just trained in his hands to take Zuoyun County, which also had five thousand musketeers for defense.

At this moment, a string of horses' hooves suddenly reached the ears of Zhou Yuhong, who was contemplative.

In the case of the shortage of war horses in the Tiger and Leopard Army, although Zhou Yuhong has been promoted to the commander of 5,000 musketeers, and in the near future, he will become the commander of 15,000 musketeers. However, the entire army, at full capacity, only had more than a hundred war horses...

Except for the war horses assigned to all the officers above the thousandth general, the rest of the war horses were all concentrated in the scout team.

At this moment, after hearing the rare sound of horses' hooves in the troops, Zhou Yuhong's first reaction was that there was an emergency in the scout team.

A pair of eyes quickly shot out two rays of light, and quickly looked in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves came from.

Under Zhou Yuhong's waiting, the cavalry galloping quickly rushed over.

The very experienced grabbed the warhorse, stopped in front of him, and after jumping off the warhorse, he reported loudly: "General... The platoon leader of the last general scout team....was ordered to come and report... The elite of the 5,000 cavalry commanded by Dolgon the Tartar had left Zuoyun County an hour ago....So far, there are still 5,000 musketeers left in Zuoyun County, but all the muskets equipped by these musketeers were captured by the imperial court, and they are far inferior to us in terms of range and power..."

I finally heard the answer I wanted......

Zhou Yuhong's eyes quickly shot out two rays of light before he ordered loudly.

"I see... The general ordered: The troops should speed up their march, take Zuoyun County and destroy all the Tartar garrisons in Zuoyun County before the Tartar cavalry returns to Zuoyun County......"

Two hours later, when the 5,000 musketeers hurried outside Zuoyun City, the 5,000 Tartar musketeers stationed in Zuoyun County also discovered this dangerous force.

In just the blink of an eye, Zuoyun County, which had just calmed down, became nervous again.

The five thousand Tartar musketeers defending Zuoyun City quickly climbed the city wall and prepared for defense.

The 5,000 Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers, who hurried to the outside of Zuoyun City and had not had time to catch their breath, also quickly lined up outside Zuoyun City under the command of their captain and battalion commander, preparing for the attack.

Looking at the muzzles of muskets sticking out from the battlements of the city wall hundreds of steps away, and then seeing the orderly subordinates around him, Zhou Yuhong's body slowly exuded a trace of murderous aura that had not appeared for a long time.

After a pair of eyes quickly shot out two rays of scorching light, he asked loudly, "Commander Wang, are the demolition teams ready... Musketeers and artillerymen, who are responsible for providing fire cover, are they combat-ready ...."

As Zhou Yuhong's confidant, Wang Bo replied loudly: "Tell the general... The demolition squad and the musketeers are ready... You can launch an attack on Zuoyun City at any time..."

"Okay..."At this time, the hot expression on Zhou Yuhong's face became even stronger, and he ordered decisively.

"This general will order, immediately launch an attack on Zuoyun City, within half an hour, blow up the walls of Zuoyun City, and attack Zuoyun City... Within an hour, take Zuoyun City, eliminate all the Tartar musketeers in the city, and prepare to defend against the Tartar cavalry for a counterattack. ”

"The last general will obey the general's order..."The three regiment commanders standing beside him replied loudly with confidence on their faces.

Then, a series of earth-shaking explosions began to sound in the surrounding artillery positions.

Because the mortars just produced by the Equipment Division have not yet been officially finalized and installed in the troops, the artillery attached to Zhou Yuhong's department is still the light Franc aircraft captured by the Haw Par Army on the battlefield.

The sound of cannons rang out, and dozens of Franc machines arranged at a distance of one hundred and fifty steps outside Zuoyun City simultaneously spewed out a cloud of flames mixed with a large amount of black smoke. At the same time, the solid iron ball that had been burned hot also flew out of the barrel with a whistling sound and flew towards the wall of Zuoyun City.

"Bang bang...."

After the violent crash sounded on the city wall of Zuoyun City, dozens of solid cannonballs that whistled in, except for a few, crossed the city wall and flew into Zuoyun City. The remaining twenty or so shells, without exception, all smashed on the city wall, setting off pieces of flying rocks and gravel....

At the same time, the five thousand musketeers also raised their flintlock muskets at the same time, aimed at the battlements one hundred and fifty paces away, and did not hesitate to pull the trigger of the flintlock muskets in their hands......

As the sound of gunfire like bursting beans rang out outside Zuoyun City, five thousand rounds of lead bullets with a whistling sound quickly formed an impenetrable steel storm outside the city, sweeping towards the Tartar musketeers who were sticking to the city walls. (To be continued......)