Early in the morning of 18 July, the Chizhuo battalion in the east direction used 12 cannons to bombard Li Dingguo's camp continuously, and the ferocious fire caused Li Dingguo, who had personally observed the new army the day before, to hide in the camp's hideout. After destroying all the arrow towers built by the breaking army, a large number of soldiers of the new army launched an attack, they quickly jumped to the side of the camp wall, Li Dingguo came out of the concealment, looked at the other party's camp flag and smiled: "The subordinates of Donghou of Zhenwen Town have never lost the battalion flag, and the company flag has not lost a single one, and today I am going to break this case." ”

The Ming riflemen aimed at the possible firing positions of the intruders at close range, and the sappers then rushed up to dismantle the low walls on the perimeter and fill in the last two trenches in front of the camp walls. On one or two occasions, Li Dingguo's carefully prepared counterattacks were repulsed, and his plan to throw brimstone at the Ming army was subsequently thwarted.

"This is the most vulnerable battalion of the New Army?" Li Dingguo looked at the Chizhuo battalion that came up one after another, and became a little impatient: "If the most vulnerable battalion of the new army can't be defeated, what should we do if we encounter a powerful one?" ”

In the prior assignment of tasks, Li Dingguo led a group of more combat-effective men in the western camp to attack the Chizhuo battalion head-on, while Sun Kewang was responsible for resisting the flank attack of the Shanlan battalion on the other side.

The soldiers of the Western Battalion who came out of the camp to counterattack lost hundreds of sharp soldiers, and the Ming army sappers had approached the camp gate to prepare for blasting. Li Dingguo suddenly pulled up from behind the camp wall, pulled the iron bow in his hand into a full moon at once, and before the riflemen in charge of covering the Ming army reacted, the long arrow shot like a meteor towards the flag-bearer who was holding the banner of the Chizhuo camp not far away.

The standard-bearer turned a blind eye to the sharp arrows fired at the front door, he was one of the veteran standard-bearers of the firefighting battalion, and was transferred to the Chizhuo battalion to serve as the battalion standard-bearer. When the feather arrow approached the standard-bearer, a sword suddenly swung from the side, and one of the flag-bearers standing by the battalion flag cleared the arrow for him. And the flag-bearer still stood motionless, as if he had not seen what was happening in front of him.

"What a soldier."

After shooting the arrows, Li Dingguo had to lie down to avoid the return fire of the Ming army, he sneaked a few steps against the camp wall, and at the same time took out three arrows from the pot and held them in his hands. Li Dingguo estimated the relative position of the camp flag of the Chizhuo Battalion, stood up from behind the wall again, and shot out three arrows in succession without looking.

The flag guards on the left and right of the standard-bearer drew their swords one after another, knocking the first two arrows to the ground in the blink of an eye, while the third arrow was too late to collect the arrows and slammed into the visor of the flag-bearer.

Li Dingguo saw the flag bearer's chest leaning back, and then recovered, during which the big flag in his hand still did not move, as if nothing had happened.

"What a hard armor, what a great soldier."

Li Dingguo once again had to lie behind the wall, and the guards behind him shrank a little slower, and two were killed by the Ming army's lead bullets. With a loud bang, the camp gate was blown open by the sappers of the Chizhuo battalion, and the Ming infantry rushed over the first camp wall with cheers. In desperation, Li Dingguo had no choice but to command the troops to retreat alternately, covering the main force to move behind another wall behind: "If this is the worst battalion of the New Army, what about the firefighting battalion?" ”

Li Dingguo suddenly realized that he and Sun Kewang might have made a mistake in deployment today.

Just as Li Dingguo's side was in a hurry, the Shanlan battalion launched an attack from the south, and bravely attacked Li Dingguo's flank, preparing to cut off his retreat in one fell swoop. Sun Kewang, who had been prepared for a long time, heard the news and immediately ordered his subordinates to enter the position, and when the covering troops of the Ming army swept the Qingming army appeared in front of them, they were immediately received by the soldiers of the Western Camp with a heavy rain of arrows. As Xu Ping had predicted, the bows and arrows did not inflict any noteworthy casualties on the Ming army, but they slowed down their assault slightly. The flintlock musketeers of the new army half-crouched down and began to shoot. Due to Xu Ping's repeated reminders, the soldiers of the Western Camp mainly used earthen walls instead of thin wooden walls to provide cover, but there were still many archers who were leaning out and were hit by muskets, and in the blink of an eye, the archers of the Western Camp were completely suppressed.

"When the fourth brother destroys the Chizhuo camp, he will come to reinforce me." Sun Kewang is still playing his wishful thinking - since the Chizhuo camp is vulnerable, he will defeat it first, and then gather the elite of the entire Western Battalion, Sun and Li are not trustworthy and unable to hold a new military camp of 3,000 people, maybe they can also fight a beautiful counterattack to defeat the Shanlan battalion, let that Xu Ping see how conservative the plan of only destroying one new military camp is.

After the Ming army rushed closer, Sun Kewang gave an order, and the soldiers of the Western Battalion jumped out of the hidden position and rushed towards the Ming army. The sudden appearance of the Xiying soldiers showed that the opponent had anticipated the second wave of feints of the new army, which surprised the Ming army a little, but they quickly adjusted their formation and lined up the spear formation, Sun Kewang's surprise attack team was a little worse, and the result was still unable to rush into the Ming army's formation, and after a few faces, they were beaten back and backwards.

Sun Kewang was anxious to see his subordinates retreating faster and faster, and the hundreds of people who rushed to the front were Sun Kewang's old base troops, quite brave, but in the blink of an eye, they were stabbed to death by spears from all directions. Seeing that these examples of martial arts and strong martial arts had died one after another, the morale of the soldiers of the Xiying who followed them and charged behind them suddenly suffered a great demoralisation.

At this time, a new situation appeared in the distance, several groups of Ming troops approached with artillery guns, and they were surrounded by the engineering teams of the new army, which kept putting pre-prepared planks under the wheels of the guns to help them pass through the complex terrain without roads.

With the continuous roar of the flickering firelight, the dense formation of the western camp suffered heavy casualties

"There is not even a road, and the cannon can still be pushed to fly...... Sun Kewang scolded more than once, and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to retreat under the artillery fire of the Ming army. Sun Kewang saw that his troops with high hopes began to flee back with their armor unarmoured, and even if they encountered Zuo Liangyu's troops, this could cause serious consequences if it happened.

Sure enough, Sun Kewang then saw the enemy rushing to the edge of the trench with the defeated soldiers of his own side, followed by the skilled sappers of the new army, several gunpowder packs were thrown over the wall, taking advantage of the opportunity of the soldiers of the western camp being stunned, the sappers of the new army took down the drawbridge with a surprise attack and began to attack the camp gate.

Originally, the strength of the western camp here was small, and after the situation was bad, Sun Kewang ordered the guards to counterattack the enemy soldiers who tried to cross the camp wall to buy time for his subordinates to retreat, and at the same time sent someone to inform Li Dingguo: "Tell the fourth master, Lao Tzu is almost unbearable here, if he doesn't withdraw from the front camp and can't run to the next wall within a quarter of an hour, he will be surrounded and killed." ”

When Li Dingguo received the news, he was struggling to resist the onslaught of the frontal Ming army. Everywhere there were whistling shells flying: "No need to say it, I've been kicked out." ”

Fortunately, there were sufficient psychological preparations in advance, coupled with Li Dingguo's calm command, the front-line sluggish troops finally fled back to the rear with rolling and crawling, and Sun Kewang also hurriedly ordered to retreat after learning that Li Dingguo was safe. As soon as he ran a few steps, there was a loud bang behind him, and the sappers of the Ming army had just completed the blasting of the camp gate on the opposite side, and huge smoke and dust rose into the air. Sun Kewang's ears were buzzing, and he stumbled to a dirt wall behind him, stumbling under his feet. While Sun Kewang was dragged into the camp gate by two soldiers, the Ming army was shouting to break through the first line of defense on the flank.

The soldiers beside him blocked the gate of the wall with large logs, and some climbed high places and returned fire with bows and arrows. Sun Kewang was half-lying on the ground, his ears were full of chaotic roars, and he felt his heart pounding, almost jumping out of his chest. Sun Kewang couldn't bear to look up to the sky and shouted: "Is this really a feint?" ”

……

Gao Chengcang held his arquebus and sat in the trench facing south. Xu Ping ordered the Guards Battalion to inform the soldiers of this mission in advance, and Gao Chengcang already knew all the details from Guo Chang: the most elite troops of the Ming Court were eyeing here in the shadows on the opposite side, and there was no need to think about anything else, just shoot with all their might, as long as they repelled today's attack would mean victory.

Gao Chengcang didn't know how the chief knew so much, but he knew that if the commander was not wrong, he and his companions would encounter the fiercest battle since joining the army today. Although Gao Chengcang didn't know the specific situation of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, the name of Huang Houye was like thunder - that was the first brave general of our Ming Dynasty, Wu Quxing who could kill the slave chief and come back safely alone! There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and I heard that even if it is a pus-filled person, as long as he follows Huang Houye, he will be brave, dozens of people can cut off the heads of hundreds of Tartars, and thousands of people can kill tens of thousands of captives.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Gao Chengcang raised his head and glanced at his companions in the trenches, they all lowered their heads one by one, without a trace of smile on their faces, and the fruit chief, who had always been happy, was also full of worries.

Before the start of the battle, Xu Ping ordered to report the battle situation step by step, not only the enemy's situation, but also some of his predictions about the progress of the battle. And the fruit commanders of the guard battalion also repeated it to the soldiers under him word for word.

“…… Hold your composure, you may hear one or several shots as the officers and soldiers begin to expel our alert troops. At this time, you must continue to hide in the trench, and the spearmen in the front row will stop the scouts of the officers and soldiers, and you just have to wait quietly for orders. ”

This sentence has just been emphasized again and again.

Gao Chengcang lowered his head and looked at his palms, and for several months he kept practicing raising the gun, pulling the trigger, clearing the chamber, filling the medicine, loading the ammunition, compacting, sprinkling the medicine, and blowing the ...... I practiced these 20 movements not 10,000 times but 8,000 times, and my palms were full of thick calluses, thicker than when I was doing farm work. Gao Chengcang has always been envious of those companions who can get flintlock pistols, they move much less than arquebuses, and they are much safer. Gao Chengcang clearly remembers the scene when the unlucky old Wang was blown up, when the old Wang accidentally forgot to blow up the loose medicine overflowing on the medicine pool and ignited it, and after being blown up, the sparks splashed into the gunpowder pocket on his clothes, and suddenly the person made a noise like a string of ignited firecrackers. When everyone got up from the ground with their heads in their hands, they saw Lao Wang lying there upright, half of his face was burned, his clothes were completely rotten, and the wounds all over his body were turned out like lotus flowers.

Gao Chengcang couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this. Since that incident, he couldn't help but shiver all over his body every time he lit the fire for many days, and it wasn't until half a month later that he was slightly normal.

"I'd love to have a flintlock pistol." Gao Chengcang thought silently in his heart.

The sudden sound of a row of gunshots made Gao Chengcang shiver in meditation again, and the companions around him also shook their bodies, and they were pulled back to the real world from their imaginations, but no one made a sound. The gunshots rang out once, and then fell silent, and for a moment there were shouts in the distance, followed by the sound of messy footsteps. Gao Chengcang looked at the row of brothers opposite, the trench was very dark, only a small amount of sunlight penetrated through the cracks in the hay overhead, and the row of soldiers on the opposite side also sat on the ground with guns in their arms like Gao Chengcang. There was silence in the trenches, with the occasional cough that was trying to suppress it.

Behind the low wall, Xu Ping was riding on a horse at this time, holding a telescope in front of him and looking at the battlefield with both hands, and let out a voice of surprise: "It's not the Xuanfeng battalion. ”

"It's not." Chief of Staff Zhou Dongtian was in Xu Ping's right hand position, holding the telescope in the same posture: "It's the Chizhuo Battalion." ”

"General Jia concentrated two battalions for this attack? Or a half-battalion? Xu Ping said to himself, a little strange in his heart: "If General Jia thinks that he can attract me to the east by a feint, then isn't he afraid that the Shanlan camp and half of the Chizhuo camp will be defeated by me?" If he doesn't think I'm going to go east, then what is he doing here? ”

"Maybe ......," Zhou Dongtian said, "General Jia thinks we are very vulnerable. ”

"Then why do you need to go through such a long detour to outflank us? Our whole army can't defeat one and a half battalions of the new army, and there is one of them that will collapse on its own......" Xu Ping was stunned when he said this, and muttered: "Maybe I was careless, don't be three days, you should be impressed." ”

"Xiying," Xu Ping suddenly felt that there was a major flaw in his plan, there were no firearms in Xiying, and the most elite cavalry was also transferred here by Xu Ping: "If Xiying suffers heavy losses, I still can't turn the tide of the battle." ”

The Chizhuo battalion on the opposite side seemed to have at least two teams of troops, and Xu Ping felt a trace of worry in his heart: "Compared to the new army on the opposite side, the Guards Battalion has no advantage in strength, can I still annihilate a battalion by attrition and counterattack?" General Jia, you won't come here in person, will you? ”

The faces of Zhou Dongtian and the other staff officers also became solemn: "My lord, do you need to let the cavalry urgently reinforce the western camp?" ”

Xu Ping pondered for two seconds, shook his head and said, "No need, if the Chizhuo Camp and the Shanlan Camp are stronger than I expected, then General Jia will be here, yes, it must be so." This is also very good, so what the West Camp encounters must be a feint. ”

……

On the opposite side of the western camp, the two Wei generals began to negotiate the battle situation, they had already broken through three defensive lines in a row, and the invasion of the army appeared even more chaotic.

"The Xu thief hasn't appeared yet," Wei Wu felt that the progress was a little fast: "If we really defeat the Xiying, the Xu thief may run away." ”

"Well, most likely." Wei Landu also felt that the evolution of the battle situation was a little beyond their original plan: "But he should be there soon, and we should turn to the defense to hold him back, and wait for Jia Shuai to attack back and forth." ”

……

Chi Shude's cavalry did a good job just now, and they relied on their numerical advantage to stop the small number of reconnaissance cavalry of the Ming army from far away from the defensive position of the intruding army. When the first detachment of Forces nouvelles infantry arrived, they began to retreat to defensive positions. Xu Ping strictly forbade the cavalry to engage in any combat that could lead to capture, so the cavalry kept swimming outside the range of the Ming army. After seeing the low wall of the camp, the cavalry of the Ming army stopped far away, and it was not until the dense Ming army appeared in Xu Ping's field of vision that more than a dozen cavalry of the Ming army began to approach again. When a large number of cavalry stepped forward to stop them, the Ming infantry fired a volley to deter rather than kill them.

Xu Ping covered the three long trenches with hay, and he knew that the Ming army would immediately notice that these hay were extraordinary, but he hoped that the Ming army would misjudge the defense mode of the camp, such as thinking that the trenches were filled with sharp wooden stakes or iron horns.

Until now, everything is still under Xu Ping's control. As more Ming troops approached along the path, Xu Ping believed that the opposing cavalry had seen his outcasts deployed on both flanks. Xu Ping arranged those troops and gave each of them a bamboo pole as a weapon, they did not need to fight and were not allowed to approach the battlefield, and their only role was to be seen by the enemy.

Under the cover of the infantry, the Ming cavalry rushed closer, this time until they were close to the first trench. The archers who broke into the camp hidden in the first trench stood up and fired, and the cavalry of the Ming army immediately retreated, and the hundred bows they used were soft bows that were not needed by the Western Battalion.

"My lord, I found General Jia's banner, and what else is the general's."

"Good." Xu Ping was a lot relieved: "The two battalion officers over there in Yifeng, the order they received must have been a feint to attract my attention, as long as I don't show up in the West Camp, I won't be under too much pressure." Xu Ping transferred a lot of elites from the Xiying to this side, and the firearms were not left for the Xiying at all: "And it is two battalion officers, they will inevitably wait, waiting for the other person to make up their minds." ”

"Let all the cavalry withdraw, and so will our ambushes." The new army on the opposite side was close to 4,000 and had a considerable advantage in equipment, and Xu Ping had already given up his plan to annihilate the new army.

The noon sun spread its brilliance on the land of Henan, and the new army that meandered in, the silver glow on their bodies even eclipsed the golden light of the sun.

Xu Ping heard the sporadic coughing sounds of the staff officers around him, and the cavalry generals who never knew what they were afraid of and always shouted were also silent, this was the first time they had seen the legendary Huang Hou's troops, the legendary legend of the legend, the invincible lone hero.

"Huang Hou, Huang Hou."

Xu Ping heard Chi Shude behind him on the left involuntarily whispering, his tone full of fear.

"Speaking of regulations." Xu Ping raised his horsewhip and pointed at the new army commander who drove over, and said in a loud voice: "I suddenly remembered that we don't have regulations on how to deal with prisoners of war. ”

The people around looked sideways at Xu Ping, but no one answered.

"Well, Huang Hou rarely keeps prisoners of war, and there are no certain rules for how to deal with prisoners of war in the new army, and it is all up to the battalion officers to live in themselves." Xu Ping no longer observed the new army, but leisurely patted his hand lightly with a horsewhip: "Gentlemen, what should we do with the prisoners of war?" ”

"Dog officers and soldiers, dissect their ......" Chi Shude just opened his mouth, but he was deflated again: "General, it's not too late to discuss after this battle." ”

"All things are foreseen, and nothing is planned." Xu Ping looked a little dissatisfied and shouted: "Since this is the case, then let me have the final say!" Anyone who kills a prisoner of war without permission will be given twenty lashes. ”

As soon as Xu Ping spoke, the eyes of the subordinates around him all looked at him, especially a few old subordinates from the new army, and some of them even had some horror in their eyes.

"General!" Chi Shude seemed to have forgotten that the new army was on the opposite side, and he shouted indignantly: "How many good people have been ruined by these dog officers and soldiers? General, what the hell are you talking about? ”

"That's why I said twenty strokes of the whip, not killing the head, and if someone is willing to resist forty strokes, he can go and kill two, and I will count."

"General!" Chi Shude is waiting to fight again.

"I'll talk about it after the fight." Zhou Dongtian hurriedly came out to relieve the siege, and there was also a trace of confusion in his eyes when he looked at Xu Ping.

"Good! After beating this group of dog officers and soldiers, it is not too late. Chi Shude was angry, threw down this sentence and looked forward again.

Zhou Dongtian shook his head slightly at Xu Ping, Xu Ping raised his binoculars and began to observe the movements of the new army as if he hadn't seen it.

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