Lai'an County.

Ahead is a low mountainous area, the northeast side of the whole Lai'an is the flattest area nearby, and it is yearning across the river from Nanjing, which is equal to close at hand. Jiannu's army had already entered a difficult area of Zuihou, as long as it went north past Baitaji (Banta Town, Lai'an County), where Zhou Yuji's army had strongly blocked the Duoduo Division, and then to the northeast of Jinhu County. In other words, the Jiannu army only had to cross the Huai River.

After a day of slow follow-up, Liu Qibu and Huang Degong's cavalry, who had basically recovered, had to carry out a major operation.

This place is called Shiguan Town, and it is also a typical hilly area, the west side of Shiguan Town is a low mountainous area, the east side is a water town, and the area that can be easily passed is twenty miles, and the cavalry of Jiannu is now stuck in this position, and the tactics are very clear, using the terrain to block the pursuers to buy time for their foot soldiers.

It is the hottest season, the heat of the scorching sun is getting bigger and bigger, and Liu Qi and Huang Degong can be said to be sweating.

The Ming army was uncomfortable, and the Qing army was even more uncomfortable, almost all of them were northerners living outside the Guan, and this kind of scorching heat that almost roasted acquaintances made it difficult for the Qing army to bear. For the sake of the future, the prince of the Qing Dynasty and Shuoying, Azig, personally cut off the queen this time. He was ready, he was ready to stay in this position for three days, and it would take only three days for the foot soldiers to reach the intended place; The Huai River waterway near Jinhu County, as long as the Huai River is crossed and then Huai'an, the northern land will be its own world.

The strength is in an advantage, and besides, Huang Degong's cavalry is really not very good, as for the cavalry of Zhou Yuji's army, although it is not weak, it should be three times as many as them, and Azig is confident that he will hold it, even if he defeats them, there is no problem.

The first wave of attacks came in a blink of an eye, and it was the first time that Azig had seen these invincible Zhou Yuji troops in tawny clothes.

Field cavalry clashes except for the occasional use of bows and arrows left a powerful slash, and mounted spears are now used very rarely, as mounted spears are equivalent to disposable weapons. It can be very dangerous when a cavalry loses its weapon. The riding spear is far less pleasant than wielding a saber, nor is it as frequent as the saber, so the use of the riding spear has lagged behind, and the current cavalry combat is almost all with a knife.

Although it was a long distance, Azig, who was riding a horse on a high slope, heard the sound of fire.

Sure enough, as those who surrendered to the army said, Zhou Yuji's army was very good at using firearms, and even used firearms in cavalry battles.

Due to the distance, Azig could not see the details of the battle, but he knew that the first cavalry did not have any advantage over his side. In less than two quarters of an hour, the first echelon of the Ming cavalry withdrew. The second wave of cavalry quickly rushed up.

At this time, a cavalryman in white armor ran over: "Report to the prince, the battle is better than four or six." ”

Forty-six means that the enemy lost four people, and his own side lost six, and Azig's face was very unsightly. This is not a battle between ordinary cavalry, Azig dispatched the most elite Eight Banners cavalry, these battle-hardened Eight Banners soldiers have always been the pride of Jianzhou people, in recent years have always been invincible, all the enemies are swept away, even five or five have never been seen.

This kind of battle is too terrible than in cavalry battles. is equal to an overwhelming advantage, Zhou Yuji really deserves his name! It seems that it is not luck to be able to completely annihilate the Duoduo Division, it is not all the sharpness of firearms, it depends on strength! Even if the Qing Dynasty is defeated, it will also be defeated in the hands of this Zhou Yuji. The rest of the Ming army, as well as the remnants of Li Zicheng, are not to worry about at all, and Zhou Yuji is the confidant of the Qing Dynasty.

The second wave of confrontation came quickly and ended quickly. The cavalry Baijia ran over again: "Back to the prince, the battle ratio is still four or six." The Ming army used a kind of short fire, with two guns. Moreover, their swords are so sharp that they have repeatedly cut off the swords of our warriors. ”

The strength of refined steel knives and ordinary knives is not understandable to Azig, and the cavalry knives forged in Zhou Huchen's workshop are all hundred-for-steel knives without exception, and they are tailored according to the habits of each cavalry. Coupled with the lethality of the short fire, in fact, with the advantage of going out of the weapon, Zhou Yuji's cavalry is equal to the cavalry of the Qing army.

The third echelon of the Ming army appeared, and the military uniforms showed that this was obviously Huang Degong's cavalry, these cavalry were much weaker than Zhou Yuji's cavalry, not only did they not have a short firearm to use, but the combat ratio was also completely reversed; Seventy-three, Huang Degong's cavalry can be said to be weak, similar to Li Zicheng's cavalry.

The fourth wave is still Huang Degong's cavalry, and the battle ratio is still the same. The fifth echelon was replaced by Zhou Yuji's cavalry, and the battle ratio was still the same, and the Ming army pulled back

For almost a whole day, the cavalry of both sides kept moving, and the battle ratio was almost fixed. Azig thought of sending out the whole army to defeat the enemy cavalry in one fell swoop, but after thinking about his purpose, he could afford this kind of war of attrition, as long as he held this line of defense and did not let the Ming army pass, Azig gave up his idea.

As the scorching heat slowly subsided and the sun set in the west, Huang Degong and Liu Qi stopped their attack, and soon retreated some distance, and some cavalry on both sides dismounted and walked to the battlefield to begin to collect their wounded soldiers and the corpses of their soldiers.

At this moment, no one needs to move, this is a silent tacit understanding, and they can't let their warriors be in the wilderness.

There was no major change in the battle situation the next day, Liu Qi and Huang Degong could not attack, and Azig did not attack. In the evening, Huang Degong's infantry army finally came up.

Artillery, Huang Degong's army had two hundred mortars given to him by Zhou Huchen. When the third day came, when these mortars were slowly advanced by the gunners, Azig was reluctant and had to retreat, he had learned the power of this seemingly inconspicuous small artillery in Shucheng, in addition to the amazing power, the war horse is too sensitive to explosions, once caught in the artillery fire, it will go crazy, Azig has nothing to do with this artillery.

At this time, the large army led by Zhou Huchen had entered the territory of Chuzhou Mansion while singing the melody of the motherland.

Zhu Dadian, He Tengjiao and others finally knew what the gap was, and only an hour later, the army they led couldn't even see the shadow of Zhou Huchen's army.

Two days, two hundred miles, that's speed.

At noon on the third day, Zhou Huchen caught up with Huang Degong and Liu Qi, and also saw the shadow of Jiannu

Jiannu did not choose Jinhu, but chose the vicinity of Huzhuang in Xuyi County. Jiannu's guide was obviously very familiar with this area, and Huzhuang in Xuyi County was located at the outlet of Hongze Lake, which is the upper reaches of Jinhu County. It is also the narrowest section of the entire Huai River waterway, and it is much easier to pass through than other places.

Now is the time period when the lake water rises, and Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang's water army are now stuck in the Huai River waterway.

originally wanted to go ashore to fight the Qing army, but when they found an overwhelming Qing army, this number made Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang decisively return to the water.

Coming to the river, the Qing army immediately began to prepare for the construction of a pontoon bridge without any delay. It was a battle for time, the Qing army wanted to build a pontoon bridge, and Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang were sabotage, and they wanted to make this Huai River waterway a grave for the Qing army.

The battle for the water began.

Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang's warships had mortars. Although it was not much, whenever the Qing army had just built a pontoon bridge, they immediately began to shell it in the water.

The gunners were professionally trained, and their accuracy was unquestionable, and after several tug-of-wars, the Qing army finally understood that they would never be able to erect a pontoon bridge without stopping the harassing attack of these fly-like Ming sailors.

Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang's subordinates still made mistakes, they were too rigid, and it was right to abide by military discipline. But there is a lack of flexibility. There are boats in Hongze Lake, and there are too many civilian boats, although these civilian boats are all small boats, but the Qing soldiers are overwhelming. When the boats were driven by the Qing army in the lake, Yu Dahu and Xu Ziqiang's men began to struggle to cope. After all, the number of mortars is limited, and in order to survive, the Qing army is desperate. Mortars work well against this tactic of crowds. It's a pity that it's only good, and the difference in the number of people is more than ten times that can't all be used on water. But it is difficult to deal with two or three times as many people as if they swarmed up the river, these troops are Zuo Mengeng's people, these people are very familiar with water warfare, and the two sides fell into a melee in an instant.

Building a pontoon bridge is very simple, just pull a thick rope to the opposite bank, tie various boats together and tie them to the rope, and then lay wooden planks on the boat.

This section of the river is very narrow, only less than 200 steps, this year's rainfall is very small, the river is not too fast, it has little impact on the construction of the pontoon bridge, when the pontoon bridge is erected, the foot army of the Jiannu army immediately began to rush to this pontoon bridge like a tide

After the second day of the White Tower Collection, Azig finally knew that Duoduo Weishenme had been defeated so completely, and Zhou Yuji's cavalry had seen the fierceness, and now it was the turn of the foot soldiers. When Azig tried to attack Zhou Huchen's rushing infantry, the massive mortars that were deployed in an instant made Azig immediately dispel the idea of counterattacking.

It's a sea of artillery, and you can imagine what it will be like when the massive number of projectiles fired from these guns start to explode, and Azig doesn't want to try it.

Zhou Huchen's foot soldiers are pressing, constantly pressing, this is simply a spectacle, tens of thousands of foot soldiers are chasing 30,000 cavalry, and these cavalry are extremely embarrassed.

Liu Qi and Huang Degong's cavalry led by Ma Deli followed up step by step in a fan-shaped shape on both wings, and tens of thousands of foot soldiers have been rushing forward like tigers under the cover of the cavalry, and these soldiers are Huang Degong's infantry army a few miles behind, and the gap between Huang Degong's foot soldiers and Zhou Huchen's foot soldiers is too obvious, and they have been thrown off and can't run.

"What kind of dry food do you let your men eat?"

Huang Degong, who was chasing closely behind, was not dissatisfied, but sighed, this Zhou Huchen's soldiers were simply unreasonable, they could run like this just by eating dry food and drinking hot water, and they ran for more than a thousand miles with high morale without any chaos, is this still a person? Huang Degong didn't understand.

Having penetrated deep into Xuyi County, dozens of miles away from the Huai River, Azig finally began to evacuate with all his might, because the scouts came to report that the pontoon bridge had been erected.

The pontoon bridge was erected, but Azig appeared by the Huai River, and he found that the situation was not optimistic. In addition to the evacuation of Zuo Mengeng's army in the water, it is relatively simple, this is more than 100,000 foot soldiers, and more than half of these foot soldiers who have not crossed the river have not crossed the river, how wide can the pontoon bridge be, Zhou Huchen is behind him, and time is simply urging his life.

In front of him were his own foot soldiers who were desperately crossing the river, and behind him were the pursuers, Azig was not afraid to fight the cavalry of the Ming army, but Azig knew that once the foot soldiers of the Zhou Yuji army followed, it would be devastating to him, because he had nowhere to escape. The formation of the army has been chaotic, and Azig does not think that he is the opponent of Zhou Yuji's army in this situation, not to mention that there is still a Ming army's water army in the water desperately fighting back. Once Zhou Yuji's foot soldiers defeated his own foot guards and blocked or destroyed the only bridge of life, Azig believed that he would become another of Zhou Yuji's best offers. (To be continued......)

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