On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I greeted my friends. I wish my friends all the best of luck, a happy family, a wide range of financial resources, and happy events.

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If the Manchus misjudged the Ming army's roundabout landing on the side of the sea after the Ming army's frontal victory, then the speed of the pursuit and advance of the frontal Ming army also shocked the Manchus.

In the first few days, the speed of the Ming army's advance was not very fast, because it miscalculated the Qing army's will to resist. In the case of collapse at the touch of a button and low resistance, all departments of the Ming army adjusted their deployment one after another, taking the general flag as a unit, letting go of their footsteps, and marching lightly.

The soldiers of the Ming army abandoned their armor and left the baggage of the brigade, carrying only guns and ammunition, dry food and a few cauldrons, not afraid of fatigue and casualties, and rushed forward bravely towards Beijing. Wherever there is a battle, the nearest troops follow the sound of gunfire, so that they are not left alone and do not have to be slowed down by the brigade.

According to the law of marching, the speed of the advance of the troops depends not on the fastest one, but on the slowest part. Countless lightly armed teams are now better organized and organized, and they can take great strides and rush to Beijing one by one.

Among them, in terms of marching speed, the forward troops of the Shuo Army, which pursued from Tianjin to Yongping Mansion (now Tangshan) in Zhili Province, were the fastest. When formulating the plan for blocking the front and chasing the rear, Wei Junzhong, Ma Zide and others took into account the difference in the speed of the army's troop transportation on foot and at sea. After estimating, they believed that it might take time to achieve a pincer attack in Funing County, which would increase the pressure on the Poshuo army to block the attack.

Therefore, the Poshuo army intercepted near Funing, and the Shuo army set the goal at Qian'an. Strive to form two blocking lines and reduce the number of Qing troops attacking Funing's Poshuo army. In Qian'an, the Shuo army could not only intercept the Manchus who fled east from Beijing, but also attack the Qing army between Funing and Qian'an with the Poshuo army.

That is to say, the Poshuo army and the Shuo army are like two steel knives, one after the other, blocking the Manchu retreat road of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Jingshi, Jizhou, Yumen, Qian'an, Funing, and Shanhaiguan, and cutting the Manchus who followed them into three sections. So. The number of enemies faced by each army will not be too great, and the pressure will not be too great.

The boat ride from Tianjin to Daihe and Yanghekou was calculated as three days, while the rush of the Shuo army from Tianjin to Qian'an was planned to take four to six days, more than 260 li. It is more than 100 miles from Qian'an to Funing, and if they all arrive on time, at least the people on this section of the road will not be able to escape. Funing is the first to start the war, which will attract a considerable number of Qing troops, and the results of this annihilation war may be even greater.

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Shots were faintly heard miles away, and the detective rode back. Shouted: "Whole team, whole team forward, ready to fight, ready to fight." ”

The galloping infantry began to slow down, and the soldiers gathered towards their own banners, and a phalanx of general flags was formed, and they advanced first on the official road; The strength of a general banner completes the whole team, which follows; The other two soldiers of the general flag went down the avenue. Traveling through the field, guarding the flanks of friendly forces in a more dispersed formation.

A thick white mist erupted. The familiar battlefield felt like it was back to Yang Jinxin, but he was very calm in his heart. Fighting seems to him to be a normal job now, and if he doesn't do it for a long time, he will be a little uncomfortable. And, overcome fatigue and keep fighting. Because it is the only means to achieve his goal in life.

Footsteps rang in his ears, and his comrades, his robes, and his brothers who fought side by side surged in front and back. The gunfire was getting closer and closer, and the atmosphere of killing was getting thicker and thicker. Everyone's face showed solemnity and solemnity.

From south to north, most of these soldiers went through several battles. Under the strict military discipline, in the harsh training, and in the brutal battles, experience plus discipline, honor and hope, treatment and status, and the encouragement of victory, are gradually turning them into sophisticated killers.

At the front, the first to engage were the dragoons. They were lagging behind the hussars, but when the hussars detected the enemy, they immediately retreated slightly to recuperate their horsepower, and sent scouts to inform the dragoons behind them. 1,000 dragoons dismounted three miles away on the south side of the official road, leaving behind the "horse piles" (soldiers guarding the horses), and then formed three phalanxes with the general flag as the unit, and the finished glyph was killed on the official road.

Obviously, the Qing army had taken precautions after receiving the news of the defeat of the Nanhai battalion. It's just that there is no large army in the vicinity, just a small group of men and horses who are responsible for patrolling and guarding along the way. They sent out heralds and notified the other troops to come and rendezvous, of course, they did not expect the Ming army to come so fiercely and quickly.

After discovering the Ming army's sentry cavalry, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners who had been hastily assembled came head-on and waited in the field, preparing to block the advance of the Ming army first. Although they were not many in number, they were all cavalry, and the long official road behind them were full of large carts and small cars, all of which were about to withdraw to the family members, clothing, and even officials outside the pass.

"Check the ammunition, raise the bayonets in the front row, and prepare for battle." The infantry phalanx of the Ming army slowed down and made final preparations.

The sky was gloomy, and the sound of crying came from a mile behind the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners, and they could not retreat.

"The front team dismounted and put on armor and prepared to rush into battle on foot." Ala's real roared loudly, giving orders.

"Slow on!" The Ming army also made adjustments to the sound of drums, the bayonets in the front row were extended, and the back row was raised diagonally upward, ready to shoot.

As soon as the banner of the Qing army moved, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves came from both wings, and more than 100 cavalry rushed out from each side, rushing to the opposite side, and advanced to 100 steps, but the Ming army on the opposite side still did not respond. The Eight Banners cavalry shot a rain of arrows, and then swept past the Ming army.

Jia La's face showed a strange look, and the composure of the Ming army made him feel a little surprised. As an officer of the Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade, he has been stationed in the Beijing Division since he entered the customs 20 years ago, and his combat experience is still based on his previous understanding. In his impression, the Ming army had a lot of firearms, but he liked to shoot and fire guns from a distance. The battle was very lively, but there was a chance that they would be crushed by charging with sharp soldiers or elite cavalry when they reloaded or ran out of ammunition.

Although there was no result in the first round of testing, although Jia La'e Zhen felt that the army on the opposite side was stronger than the Ming army he had seen before, he did not think that the Ming army could withstand the hand-to-hand combat impact of the Qing warriors.

Orders were given one after another, and the cavalry that swept in front of the Ming army gathered again, and the Qing soldiers in front of the army dismounted and armored and fought on foot pressed forward, preparing for a melee attack.

First, a small number of cavalry were used to charge the formation at a closer distance, luring the Ming army to fire muskets, and the armored infantry stepped forward, shooting at seventy or eighty paces, and then approaching forty or fifty paces to shoot flat, and then the armored soldiers armed with spears and swords broke the formation in hand-to-hand combat. There is nothing out of the ordinary. But he's confident because it's a winning style.

Cavalry appeared behind the Ming army's phalanx, row by row, and began to line up. Ala's face was gloomy, and he had to do everything he could to defeat the enemy in front of him, because the enemy's reinforcements were constantly coming, and the more they dragged on, the more unfavorable they became.

Zilha followed the other lightly armored archers to the front, and he was in the second column of the lightly armored archers, followed by several layers of armor. Finally, the elite Bayala, led by Kala Ezhen himself, will enter the battle at the most important moment and deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

The drum sounded, and Zilha, holding the bow in his left hand, walked forward with his partner, and after they had walked out of a section, the armor soldiers in the back row began to advance, and the clanging sound of iron armor and armor colliding with each other sounded.

The sound of horses' hooves roared, and a hundred cavalry galloped on horseback, rushing diagonally towards the Ming army's formation. This time, they were ready to rush to a distance of fifty paces and then sweep sideways, and lure the Ming army into fire with diffuse fire.

The drums beat continuously, dull and rapid. The Ming army formation stopped, squatted in the front row, stood in the back row, and two rows of bright bayonets stretched forward. As the Qing cavalry approached a distance of fifty paces and began to turn, a swan sounded, followed by a roar, completely drowning out the hum of the bowstring vibration.

The light arrows were still flying in the air, and the Qing cavalry was already screaming and neighing. The firelight in front of the phalanx of the Ming army was connected, accompanied by the explosion of heavy white smoke, and from the air, it seemed like a white smoke dragon had been conjured out of thin air. Lead bullets shot out of the white smoke, round after round, bursting countless blood sprays on people and horses.

The Ming army opened fire! When he heard the gunshots, he ordered the drummers to beat and wave his flags, urging the infantry to hurry forward and seize the opportunity. But this was not an opportunity, and for the charging infantry of the Qing army, their joy was fleeting.

The muskets of the Ming army were fierce and fierce, and nearly half of the more than 100 cavalry were defeated, and when the survivors swept past the front and rear of the Ming army, the infantry of the Qing army had just run into a hundred steps.

The corpses lay in front of the Ming army, which made the charging infantry hesitate slightly, but under the urging of the war drums, they could only speed up their pace and continue to rush forward.

Zilha trotted forward, and skillfully picked up a sharp light arrow, clamped the tail of the arrow in the tiger's mouth, the thumb of the right hand buckled the bowstring with the wrench, the index finger and middle finger pressed on the thumb, the left hand was raised, the arrow pointed obliquely into the air, the right hand began to slowly pull the bowstring, and the other light armor archers around him also took the same posture, and the bamboo tire of the composite bow body made a continuous creaking sound......

Seventy or eighty paces, Zilha estimated the distance, tilted his ears sideways, and waited for the desolate sound of the trumpet. Then, he could imagine the dense arrows rising into the sky and falling in the Ming army's formation, causing chaos...... But what he heard was-

The sound of swans sounded, the fire flashed in front of the Ming army's battle array, and white smoke rose. In the face of more and denser charging infantry, the first round of the Ming army's fire was actually two rows in unison, which was more violent than just now, and the bullet rain was more intensive.

The Qing army's lightly armored archers eighty paces away suffered heavy casualties from the intensive fire, and the lead bullets instantly flew over a distance of seventy paces, easily tearing through their light armor, deforming and disintegrating in their bodies, forming a cavity effect, and the blood of the wounded spurted out of the body along those holes, turning into streams of bloody arrows. (To be continued......)