8,000 Taiyuan soldiers and 20,000 merchant coalition troops were divided into two routes, marching in unison, and slaughtered towards the county seat of Jizhou.

The merchant alliance army is headed by the eight major families, and the chamber of commerce is composed of all the large and small merchants in Taiyuan Prefecture, referred to as the merchant alliance army, and it is also the private army of the eight major families, and the weapons and equipment and food treatment are much stronger than the Taiyuan Mansion army.

Because it is the private army of the eight major families, the matter of losing their heads in the war must be handed over to the Taiyuan army, and the Shang Alliance Army is just to give the Taiyuan Fu Army a strong momentum and intimidate the people's army, so after entering the jurisdiction of Jizhou County, the Shang Alliance Army intentionally or unintentionally slowed down the speed of the march, and it became a marching posture of the two armies one after the other.

Chen Tang, the chief officer of the Taiyuan Mansion Army, knew this, and he was unhappy and helpless, who let the eight families have so much money that they can't spend it all, and there are N high-ranking officials behind him, and the governor has to be polite for three points, besides, the eight thousand soldiers under his command, the military rations, salaries, and even weapons and equipment are all donated by others, what reason does he have to complain about others?

However, Chen Tang is still quite confident in this battle, 8,000 government soldiers, plus 20,000 well-armed and well-equipped Shang Alliance troops, the time and place are favorable, and the crowd is outnumbered, even if he can't crush the thousands of civilian troops with tattered weapons and equipment, he should win the battle, so he didn't care much about it, and waved his army to Jizhou County.

When approaching the county seat of Jizhou, the scout came to report that there was a civilian army blocking the road in front of him, and he also put up a decisive battle formation.

Chen Tang is over fifty years old, he is a veteran, and knows the art of war, he inspected the surrounding terrain, couldn't help laughing, the surrounding terrain is open and flat, not suitable for ambushes, the people's army does not hold the city, dare to go out of the city to fight, it is simply looking for death.

The Taiyuan army set up a formation, set up the Franc machine gun, and bombarded the people's army's phalanx, and the people's army also responded with the Franc machine gun, and for a time the cannon rumbled, and the gunpowder smoke was filled.

There are only three Franc machine guns of the people's army, which were captured from the county seat of Jizhou, and they were transported here to be erected in the middle of the night, waiting to bombard the official army, while the Taiyuan army had as many as six Franc machine guns, and the two sides launched an artillery battle, and the people's army was obviously at a disadvantage.

Subsequently, the people's army launched a charge, and more than 100 backward muskets were shot in a ping pong, and only a dozen unlucky government soldiers were shot and fell.

Chen Tang laughed, ordered a counter-charge, a team of officers and soldiers rushed out of the big formation, with bows and arrows and birds, Lumi guns and other sophisticated muskets to fight back, the ping pong bombardment was very happy, several rounds of shooting, the people's army fell more than 100 people, and was immediately defeated, Chen Tang waved his army to cover up and kill, and pursued closely.

When the soldiers and horses were assembled, Chen Tang gathered all the war horses and made a cavalry force of nearly 500 people, and now, this temporary cavalry force rushed the fastest, and soon caught up with the fleeing people's army, and the soldiers on horseback brandished their swords and fiercely slashed those slow people's soldiers, and more than a dozen people were cut down in an instant.

The cavalry who rushed to the front was screaming and cheering, happy for the battle he was about to achieve, and suddenly lost his balance when he stepped off his horse, fell down with a bang, and threw the cavalry on his back out, breaking his hands and feet.

The second horse that rushed immediately after him also lost his balance and fell, then the third, the fourth, and the Nth......

The cavalry who was thrown out basically broke their hands and feet, lay down on the dirty mud and howled, and the unlucky ones broke their necks and died on the spot.

It is normal for war horses to occasionally stumble and break their legs during galloping, but so many war horses have lost their hooves one after another, then there is a problem.

The cavalry behind found that the situation was not good, and hurriedly reined in the reins, stepped off the war horse and let out a long neigh, and stopped the iron hooves, but the inertia of galloping at full speed made it stand up, and some cavalry with poor riding skills although they strangled the war horse, but they were thrown to the ground by the war horse that was erected, broke their hands and feet, and howled miserably.

This will, someone noticed that the ground is potholed, uneven, just covered by thatched leaves, etc., if you don't pay attention to it, it's really difficult to find, and these artificial, uneven pits are a deadly trap for war horses, as soon as you step into it, you will stumble and fall, every fallen war horse basically broke its leg, all of it was scrapped, and a small half of the cavalry battalion of nearly 500 people was scrapped.

"Stop the pursuit."

Chen Tang received the report from the soldiers, he was slightly shocked, and decisively gave the order to stop the pursuit, he was worried that this was a trap set by the people's army.

As soon as the army stopped, an earth-shattering sound suddenly erupted on the left, and a cavalry of more than 200 people slaughtered out, crushing like a torrent of rolling steel.

Chen Tang hurriedly ordered his subordinates to assemble and discharge a dense array of spears, and at the same time ordered the remaining more than 200 cavalry to attack and disrupt the cavalry of the people's army. In the field, the method of dealing with the cavalry charge was either to use shield carts as fortifications, or to deal with dense spear formations, bows, arrows, muskets, and artillery to escort the formation.

The scum of the local government's combat strength, if they want to meet the fierce Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, a fierce charge, basically collapse, and it is useless to have any formation, but in the face of the cavalry of the people's army, they are not very afraid, and they can still hold out for a while.

The two cavalry took the lead in colliding, the ping-pong pong was cut into a ball, the two sides had each other's casualties, and then turned back to kill back, the cavalry of the people's army paid more than 100 casualties, and the more than 200 cavalry of the official army were only left less than 100 cavalry, and the cavalry battalion was abolished.

Chen Tang was distressed that the only cavalry unit was abolished like this, and the sound of an earth-shattering roar suddenly sounded on the right, and a civilian army was killed from the woods far away, and the distance was far enough to the officers and soldiers to calmly set up the formation, and the rushing civilian troops just ping-pong and released dozens of shots, and quickly withdrew without waiting for the officers and troops to counterattack, and disappeared into the woods.

What the hell are you doing?

Chen Tang and his generals wondered, this is an ambush by the people's army?

The people's army on the right has not yet been withdrawn, and another people's army has been killed in the left front, and the roar of killing is earth-shattering, but it has also released a few shots, shot a few arrows, and then retreated after a bluff, and then another people's army was killed on the left flank, and retreated after only a slight contact with the official army, and then another people's army was killed, giving the officers and soldiers an illusion that the ambush was endless, as if they were under siege.

Wang Ziyong and other leaders of the people's army played a ten-sided ambush strategy, but the purpose was only to harass and confuse this Taiyuan army, and the real ten-sided ambush was used on the 20,000 merchant coalition army.

The reason why the leaders of the people's army chose to fight the Shang Coalition Army, which has a large number of troops, is because although the combat strength of the officers and troops is scum, they have received a certain amount of military training, and the battle formation is still well placed, and it is a little difficult to forcibly break the formation, and some troops have even fought and experienced the test of blood and fire, and they still have some combat effectiveness.

Judging from the marching route alone, the Shang Lian army wants to think of Jizhou County, and has to pass through a small slope, on both sides of the small slope is a continuous forest, suitable for ambush, this is one, the other is that the Shang Lian army is composed of eight major chambers of commerce federation Ding Hu Yuan, personal force may be strong, but there is no formal military training, not to mention the battle array, in the big duel of thousands of troops, the personal force value seems very small, not to mention morale, in the eyes of the leaders of the people's army, the Shang Union army is the real five scum, Of course, persimmons have to be picked up and pinched softly.

Third, the Shang Alliance Army is well-armed and well-equipped, so good that it makes people drool, which is equivalent to a transport brigade that sends sophisticated weapons and equipment to the People's Army.