Wan Qian refers to whether the peak can bear the fifty-third section of the red water (I)

On the 10th day of September in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, as the sky began to darken, the sappers had set up cords and brass bells in the surrounding woods, and had lit piles of bonfires forming columns on the roads where the enemy troops were coming.

Zhang Chengye thought that the enemy army also needed to rest, so it was not very likely that he would attack at night, but he still strictly followed the regulations and set up a number of guard posts, and the three teams of Funing officers and soldiers would also take turns on duty tonight, and a whole team of soldiers would be ready to meet the enemy's night attack at every moment.

At the feet of Zhang Chengye, from the south slope to the west road at the foot of the mountain, the slope of just a few dozen meters was covered with more than 700 corpses, these people were lying or lying, all of their bodies showed strange distortions, their eyes were round, the expressions on their faces were hideous, and they obviously experienced a painful and violent struggle before dying.

Farther afield, the stream had been clogged with corpses into small pools that had soaked the corpses in white and stained the grass and dirt on both sides of the channel pink and dark black.

The one-sided battle was fought two or three more times in the afternoon, the intensity of which can be seen from the woods opposite the Ming army alone. Many of the trees there are old trees that have grown for many years, and neither of them can hug each other. But they, like the young trees, were broken by the shells of the six-pounder guns, and they fell to the ground in pieces, and the shells grazed against the high temperatures, and they were stained with black burns.

There are many remains of Yongning Army soldiers in front of and behind these trees, from the depths of the woods to the front of the Ming army, the weapons and rattan cards of Yongning Army soldiers are scattered everywhere. Some of the shields and rattan armor had been powdered and splintered on the ground. This is mostly the effect of a six-pounder gun's shotgun, and its shot at a distance of tens of meters is enough to kill the person in charge.

The baggage team is still carrying over the material resources continuously, and the engineer team has already set up a temporary camp, Zhang Chengye smiled at Ouyang Xin: "This time thanks to your engineer team, otherwise we would not have walked through such a large forest in a few days, and dragged all the cannons here." ”

Ouyang Xin has long been accustomed to this kind of praise. He replied with a smile: "Our engineer corps has spent so much money, of course, it is worth the money." ”

As soon as Qian Zhang Chengye was mentioned, he remembered his last experience in Haizhou. On that occasion, General Pan under Mao Wenlong swept away the tools of the firefighting battalion engineer team, and as a result, after arriving in Funing Town, Huangshi spent money to re-equip the engineer team directly under the town and the three battalions, and the equipment was better and more luxurious than before.

"Well, last time in Haizhou, Mao Shuai and the generals under Mao Shuai were full of praise for the engineer team, and I heard that they were also going to form an engineer team. ”

Ouyang Xin laughed a few times. With a proud face, he said: "They have taken a lot of things, and it should be of great help to them, but they can only plane walls and dig holes, and the sapper team is not so easy to build." ”

"Yes, the marshal has a whole set of unique skills, just like our infantry. Zhang Chengye nodded approvingly, and after a while, he glanced at Ouyang Xin a few more times, and suddenly showed a look of sudden realization: "That's right." In the past eight years, almost all the feng shui gentlemen and tomb robbers who have committed crimes in the entire Ming Dynasty are in our Funing Army, and even if others want to form an engineering team, they don't have so many talents. ”

Hearing this, Ouyang Xin laughed. Before he was confiscated into Liaodong, he was a feng shui master during the day and a tomb robber at night. The army of the Ming Dynasty has always had many criminals. Duo is not ashamed of breaking the law, so Ouyang Xin does not feel that Zhang Chengye is offended by this: "Even if other people can collect so many talents, it is impossible to build an engineer team like Dashuai." ”

After laughing, Ouyang Xin walked up the ridge again and looked, today's battles were like a mold printed out, the Yongning army transported one or two thousand people through this road, and then braved the fire of the Ming army, and finally rushed out desperately, and then was repulsed...... In a few moments, another 2,000 people will come to their deaths.

Looking at the battlefield full of corpses in front of him, Ouyang Xin asked curiously: "It's easy to win, have we killed a thousand enemies?"

Zhang Chengye shrugged his shoulders. The face was full of lazy expressions of indifference: "There is no thousand." Eight or nine hundred are always available. ”

"In other words, we have already won four or five Ningjin victories today?"

"Haha. Yes. ”

The imperial court announced the world with the great victory of Ningjin, and the Funing army felt a little ridiculous when they saw the two hundred beheadings above, and those veterans who participated in the Battle of Jinzhou were even more dismissive of it. Zhang Chengye was also one of them, when he saw the 200 beheadings of the 70,000 Guan Ning army, he shouted indignantly: During the Battle of Jinzhou, the Lord brought 500 immortal soldiers who were not even worthy of armor, and they won two and a half Ningjin great victories; Gaizhou is another half-Ningjin victory; When we arrived at Nanguan, our two battalions of 4,000 soldiers fought five Ningjin victories; Even if we don't count our Immortal Army, Mao Shuai and General Chen have fought fifteen Ningjin victories over the years.

Since Zhang Chengye had already used the "Ningjin Great Victory" as a unit of weights and measures, Ouyang Xin also did what he liked, which really caused him to laugh, and the atmosphere between the two became more harmonious. Zhang Chengye smiled and pointed to the battlefield below: "It's all miscellaneous soldiers, there are really a lot of miscellaneous soldiers in the Yongning Army, we should be able to meet the real test tomorrow, and the elite of the luxury thieves should also come." ”

Spend the night peacefully......

In the early morning of the 11th, the Ming army's ground baggage team also dragged two nine-pounder guns, and after they got the pair out of the forest yesterday, the internal guard in charge of transportation let them transport them directly to the south. Because it was said that the offensive in the north was going well, Yellowstone estimated that it would not need two nine-pounder guns to take the universal office, so he let the two heavy guns go south immediately, saving him from running away in vain.

Since arriving in Funing, Huangshi's equipment has been rapidly strengthened, and now all artillery teams have reached full strength, each with eight six-pounder guns and two new nine-pounder guns. Although the larger ground cannon is also being tested, I am afraid it will not be equipped for the army. Because the weight of the nine-pounder gun, together with the gun carriage, was considerable. Larger twelve-pounder guns could not keep up with the infantry march anyway.

By noon on the 11th, the Yongning Army had launched several more attacks on the positions of the Ming army, and this time they were hit by the Ming army's ground artillery fire at a greater distance. Through the last few attacks, the Yongning army seems to have figured out the limit range of the Ming army's artillery, there are four mountains to cross within a straight line distance of more than a mile, and the Yongning army will swagger to the limit of the Ming army's artillery attack under the gaze of the Ming army, and then suddenly cross the hill and appear on the north slope. Running frantically to the south slope in front of you, hiding behind and resting for a while. Then make a leap to the next hill.

On the contrary, after a long period of test firing, the Ming army has become more and more aware of the artillery Zhuyuan, and as soon as the rebels jumped out of the top line of the mountain recently, they would be bombarded accurately and forcefully by the Ming army on the northern slope. The morale of the Yongning army seemed to be getting worse and worse each time, and by the time of the attack at noon, the Ming army had completed the expulsion with only artillery. The Yongning army had only crossed three hills and began to break up, and they had not even been able to rush down the last northern slope along the road for tactical development.

When the artillery of the Ming army roared, Zhang Chengye kept holding a telescope to observe the movement of the enemy's troops, and the team on the opposite side was cowering, and even the flag in his hand was weak, and every bombardment of the Ming army could cause a violent commotion. Zhang Chengye watched as several enemy leaders were slashing the retreaters, but to no avail, thousands of rebels scattered and fled into the dense forest. More than a dozen rebels lay in the middle of the avenue, and no one even bothered to put their bodies away.

"There are too many trash fish in Yongning thieves, right?" Zhang Chengye put down the binoculars and let out such an emotional voice.

"Why do they come up by thousands, thousands of people every time?" The person who asked the question was none other than Ouyang Xin. Now many engineer officers and baggage officers are also standing on the ridge of the mountain and looking south, their behavior has been suspected of violating the military regulations of the Funing Army, and their officers and men of non-combat units are generally not allowed to go to the battlefield, but now the Ming army feels that this is no longer a battle. So no one was abiding by this regulation, and they all came to see the excitement.

"The road is so narrow that they can get a few people out at a time. Zhang Chengye looked at the peaks opposite. Although the rebels were able to safely avoid the Ming artillery on the southern slope, the undulating terrain also extended their distance, and the rebels were bombarded by the Ming army every time they reached the northern slope. The movement of the Yongning Army was mainly on these visible roads, because it was impossible for them to climb the cliffs with sharp detachment from the road, and it was even more difficult for them to move at high speed in the woods for long distances.

An officer of the baggage squad laughed: "It seems that it is enough to replenish enough gunpowder and cannon pellets." ”

"Don't be careless," Zhang Chengye shook his head, and he said solemnly to a few lay officers around him: "These enemy troops may be rearguard troops. We could encounter the best of the thieves at any time. At that time......" Zhang Chengye said and raised his binoculars to look south, grinning in a deep voice: "There will be a real battle then." ”

Just after noon. A soldier of the Inner Guard galloped on horseback, and the white-helmeted soldier let go of the reins of his horse and raised his arms high into the sky: "The commander has captured the universal place yesterday, and the main force of the fire battalion is rushing here, and it will arrive before nightfall." ”

"Mighty!"

The soldiers of the Ming army also raised their arms one after another and let out excited shouts.

The internal guard soldier rode to the temporary tent of the Ming army and handed a note to Zhang Chengye, who handed it to Ouyang Xin after reading it. On it is the handwriting of Huangshi, he informed the whole army of the Funing army on this road, and the grain, grass and baggage in the city of the universal city are piled up, and now they have all fallen into the hands of the Ming army. The rebels from the universal to the state of Lin were already under siege, and they would soon lose the ability to block the line of communication between the state and the universal institute.

After Ouyang Xin read it, he handed it to an officer of the baggage team, and after reading it, the officer loudly ordered the soldiers to completely stop carrying grain and grass from the forest, and to go all out to transport the shells and gunpowder.

"How many miscellaneous fish have we defeated, are there 10,000?" Ouyang Xin looked ahead, there had been no Yongning army to attack for a long time, so he asked Zhang Chengye what his overall record was in the past two days.

"Not only that, the thieves are coming one team at a time and one team is down. There are almost 20,000 people coming before and after, and their casualties may be close to 2,000. Zhang Chengye looked at Ouyang Xin's stunned expression, and swept his hand across the mountains and woods to the south of them: "There are tens of thousands of rebels scattered into the woods, and according to the infantry regulations of our Funing Army, the troops that have lost their formation cannot be counted as combat effectiveness." ”

"So many?" Ouyang Xin was taken aback, because the captive said that there were only 30,000 elites of Luxury Chongming in front of him, and now Zhang Chengye had counted nearly 20,000 miscellaneous fish alone. Then it seems that a big fish has been caught in the net: "How many elites are among them? The captives said that there were only 30,000 elites." ”

"There are no elites, they are all trash fish. Zhang Chengye shook his head again. Still said with a serious face: "So we may encounter a bitter battle at any time." ”

On the 11th, after two o'clock in the afternoon, the internal guard once again sent a notice that the main force of Huangshi Land was already more than ten miles away, but because it was a mountain road, it would take a while to reach it.

It had been a long time since the enemy had come to attack, and most of the Ming troops were sitting on the ground resting. When I was in Liaodong before. After September, Changsheng Island will begin to freeze, but Guizhou is still very warm at this time, which is a comfortable time for the Liaodong soldiers, and those soldiers from Fujian Province are also very happy with this weather.

"What's that?" Zhang Chengye suddenly let out a strange scream.

Ouyang Xin followed Zhang Chengye's eyes, and saw a stream of people appear outside the seven or eight peaks in the south, so he took out his binoculars and looked at it: "Well, it seems to be cavalry." ”

"Yes, with horsemen in this terrain. What an idea. Zhang Chengye still squinted one eye at the Yongning army, but praised it: "And the number of people seems to be quite a lot, enough for a thousand ...... No, there were 1,500 horsemen. ”

Ouyang Xin asked as he looked at it, "Is this the main force of the enemy army?"

"It seems that there are so many horses, but why do you want to charge directly with horsemen? ”

"Maybe they don't have elite infantry. ”

"How is that possible? How can there be no elite infantry in the Southwest. Zhang Chengye was quite unimpressed by Ouyang Xin's words. He lowered his binoculars and shouted, "That's right, it looks like the thieves are planning to charge with cavalry." ”

The winding caravan of horses dragged for miles long, blocking the entire road, and when the nearest vanguard reached beyond the Ming firing range, their tails still falling behind two hills.

After looking at it for a while, Ouyang Xin also put down the binoculars, and he asked in surprise: "Isn't this a desperate gamble?

"It seems that the main force of the thieves is in Chishuiwei, and it is too late to transfer it back, so they want to use trash fish to recapture this road. Because the road was narrow, they could only come in teams of a thousand or two thousand. Seeing that the miscellaneous fish couldn't rush down, the cavalry who had just rushed back went up. Zhang Chengye made a thoughtful analysis. In his estimation. The transport capacity of the road in front of you. In a day, 10,000 to 15,000 people could be driven back from Manichae, not counting the transportation of baggage and grain and grass.

The Ming artillery began to roar. Zhang Chengye picked up the telescope again to observe the effect of the bombardment. From time to time, some people in the Yongning military horse team in the circular vision area fell off their horses, and smoke and dust continued to rise from their ranks: "The thief soldiers seem to have put on a very close formation in order to enhance the effect of the assault, which greatly aggravates their casualties, well, this army looks okay, and there is no sign of escape for the time being." ”

Ouyang Xin saw that the Yongning army was still moving forward bravely, and the men and horses who turned to the ground were quickly swallowed up by the dense queue behind, and the horse team of the Yongning army ruthlessly stepped on their wounded, and unswervingly moved closer to the Ming army.

"It's crazy to charge with cavalry in a mountainous terrain like this, but I'm not going to fight for my life with the thieves. Zhang Chengye finally observed the enemy's behavior, shook his head and sighed a few words, and then shouted loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, arrays, and sends out a hollow phalanx!"

......

"Chain-changing bullets. ”

The four guns were organized into a temporary provisional artillery team, and a senior artillery crew commander was the commander, who walked behind several guns with his head held high, and gave a loud and powerful order. By the time the Yongning Army crossed the last hill and stepped down the northern slope road opposite the Ming Army, the nine-pounder and six-pounder guns had already been replaced with chain shells.

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

First the nine-pounder, then the six-pounder. They launched a fierce attack on the horses that could not hide in the forest, and the silver serpents roared away and knocked the entire column of cavalry on the opposite side to the ground, stirring up a bloody storm on the road. The screams resounded through the valley and reached the top of the hill where the Ming army was, and even the strong wind here could not blow away the bloody sound.

Every time the horses were hit, a field of stumps and severed arms would be thrown into the air, and the artillery would bombard several rounds in a row. But it still could not stop the Yongning Army from advancing resolutely. They desperately controlled their crotch horses, and trampled their companions, who were still struggling and wailing, into the dirt. In the blink of an eye, they were at the bottom.

"Change the shotgun. ”

The artillerymen carried out a series of technical actions in an orderly manner, such as clearing, adding medicine, and loading ammunition. There was already a thunderous shout from the Yongning Army. The cavalry at the head was speeding towards the Ming army along the road, and the sound of the horses' hooves was as dense as raindrops falling to the ground, but none of this could distract the Ming gunners.

The marble-sized solid lead pellet was wrapped in a large ball of linen cloth, and the outside was carefully tied with a hemp rope net, and after the loader had compacted the gunpowder step by step, he stuffed this heavy mass into the barrel of the gun, and after completing all the procedures. The loader slapped the cannon lightly and strode back.

"Shoot!"

The cannon violently spewed out a thick puff of gunsmoke, and the whole cannon body also retreated a large part in the roar, and the cavalry of the Yongning Army in front of the cannon was rushing along the road quickly, and after the cannon sounded, they still rushed forward a few steps, and then suddenly there was a neighing of horses.

The close-range shotgun had disastrous consequences for the dense cavalry formation, and the sound of broken bones could be heard in the Yongning army's horse team. The sound was as dense as hail falling to the ground, and the Yongning soldiers in front of them were shattered in their armor and blood spurted from their mouths, and they fell into the dust with their mounts.

"Shoot!"

The second nine-pounder cannon was fired, and another clamor of men and horses was heard, but the Yongning horsemen rushed out of the narrow road, and countless pairs of horses' hooves trampled over the shallow stream. Splashing countless droplets of water, they once again let out a chorus of shouts and accelerated towards the Ming army's artillery.

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

The two six-pounder gun crews seemed to turn a blind eye to the Yongning cavalry that had rushed out, and they blocked the exit of the road and fired two more cannons, and then the soldiers of the four gun crews threw down their belongings and hurried towards the phalanx formed by the infantry with their helmets covered.

Ouyang Xin and his sappers had already stood in the center of the hollow phalanx of the infantry ground, and the baggage soldiers either retreated backwards or hid with them.

"Pikeman—squat!"

Ouyang Xin's team was the infantry team directly under Zhang Chengye's direct jurisdiction, and as he gave an order, the outermost spearmen fell to the ground on one knee one after another. Hold the spear on the ground in sections. Point diagonally forward. The speeding artillery rushed into the forest of guns, jumping over the heads of the pikemen brothers. Panting and rushing to the center of the hollow phalanx.

After the last artillery jumped into the phalanx, the first Yongning cavalry also rushed to the front of the Ming army......

"Shoot!"

Facing the fire guns in the south, the fire guns behind the pikemen in this row immediately fired a salvo, and more than a dozen Yongning cavalry who rushed to the front rolled and dismounted in the smoke of gunpowder, and the cavalry behind them rushed from both sides of the phalanx.

"Shoot!"

The musketeers on the east and west sides of the phalanx also launched a volley in the sound of the order, and dozens of people fell to the ground, and more horses of the Yongning Army rushed up the hill from behind them, drawing two arcs around Zhang Chengye's phalanx, all the way around the flank of this phalanx.

"Shoot!"

"Shoot!"

The other two infantry teams also listed the hollow phalanx, and they and Zhang Chengye's infantry formed a big "product" character, and the war horses of the Yongning cavalry ran between the gaps of the three hollow phalanxes. The three phalanxes of the Ming army stood still, and the Ming spearmen on the periphery were close together, stabbing the spears outward shoulder to shoulder, and hundreds of bright and flickering spear blades emitted a little cold light in the sun, brighter than the stars in the night sky.

"Free Fire!"

Zhang Chengye shouted again, and now he and Ouyang Xin both took out the flintlock handcuffs that the officers were attached to, and the two of them stood behind the firecrackers. Lines of white gunpowder smoke were shot out of the enemy cavalry galloping outside the formation.

The more than 1,000 cavalry of the Yongning Army galloped back and forth outside the three phalanxes, roaring and waving the sabers and short spears in their hands, but none of them could rush into the hedgehog formation of the Ming army. They just ran back and forth from outside the formation, slashing their knives in the air with great force, spraying their unsatisfying desire to kill the enemy and venting their accumulated anger.

From time to time, fallen landmen stumbled towards the phalanx of the Ming army, and if these people were not hit by their own horses, they would have been able to run in front of the pikemen of the Ming army.

"Kill!"

A platoon of Ming troops shouted at the same time. In front of the ten spears that stabbed diagonally from the ground at the same time, this Yongning soldier was suddenly cut into seven or eight big holes. When the spear was drawn from his body. His life also flowed out of his body with blood, and the Yongning Army soldiers opened their eyes wide, and their throats grunted but could not make a single word.

The soldier threw himself to his knees, his right hand propped up on the ground with his knife, but that was it, and he plunged headlong into the dirt. With a thud of his face and earth, the leather helmet slipped off the top of his head. It rolled to the knee of a Ming soldier, but the Ming soldier remained on his knees, holding his spear diagonally and motionlessly.

The Yongning army was still circling around the Ming army's phalanx, and the Ming army was still firing fire guns at them again and again, as more and more Yongning troops fell off their horses, there were more bloody enemy soldiers in front of the Ming army's phalanx. These men were lonely heroes, who marched towards the Ming army's phalanx in a haphazard manner, each time alone in the face of hordes of pikemen. So they also fell in front of the Ming army one by one.

The corpses of the horses, as well as the soldiers of the Yongning Army who died in battle, they were stacked layer by layer, and the corpses in front of Zhang Chengye and Ouyang Xin quickly accumulated into a wall, and Zhang Chengye, who had just loaded the ammunition, gestured a few times in a row, and finally raised the handcuff upright again: "Let's change places, there are so many corpses here that they affect my shooting." ”

Ouyang Xin also loaded ammunition at this time. After hearing Zhang Chengye's words, he also nodded, turned around and followed Zhang Chengye to the other side.

In front of Zhang Chengye's position, a Yongning army cavalry rushed straight towards the Ming army's line, and the Ming soldiers kneeling on the ground had already dropped the masks on their helmets, although their expressions could not be seen from the only remaining gap, but when the Yongning army soldiers rushed over, the Ming army he faced did not even shake a single person, but quietly held out their spears.

The cavalry rushed over...... It's closer...... The war horse under the crotch of the cavalry turned a corner outside the rows of spears and slashed diagonally in front of the Ming army's horizontal formation. The Yongning cavalry shouted angrily. With all his strength, he leaned out to the left, and his hips rose from the saddle. He also straightened his saber and rowed towards the Ming army. Although half of his body was tilted almost parallel to the ground, he desperately reached over and the waist knife did not even touch the blade of the Ming army's array.

By the time the Yongning cavalry retracted, the horse under his crotch had already run along the parallel line to the east side of the phalanx. Zhang Chengye had already walked to the edge of the phalanx at this time, he looked at the cavalry running from the right-hand direction, put down his handcuffs and quietly aimed, he never fired, but slowly turned his body, and waited until the cavalry rushed to the nearest point in front before pressing the trigger.

With a mournful roar, the horse that was hit by Zhang Chengye lifted the rider on its back, followed by two more steps, and fell to the ground as soon as the two front legs were weak. The Yongning cavalry rolled on the ground several times in a row, lying on the ground for a long time and still in a dim, he struggled to get up from his knees on the ground, blinking his eyes to drive away the countless Venus.

Bang!

There was another roar of handcuffs, and the head of the cavalry of the Yongning Army, who had just knelt up, was tilted, and the leather helmet on his head was knocked out, and the blood was splashed a foot high, and the soldier maintained a kneeling position for a moment, and then fell to the right with a bang, and in the direction where his head was headed, countless cavalry of the Yongning Army were still shouting and rushing through.

"I even missed one day! Zhang Chengye muttered dissatisfiedly as he pulled the boring stick out of the handcuff, squinted his eyes and aimed at another target, and then shot.

Although the roar on the battlefield was like thunder, Ouyang Xin, who was on the tip of his ears, still heard this complaint beside him, and he said with a smile: "Accept." Acceptance. After saying that, he also finished the loading work, put his arm straight down again, closed one eye, and shot out another white smoke out of the formation.

The musketeers in front of the two officers were also shooting non-stop, and a gust of mountain wind blew, rolling back the thick gunpowder smoke, choking Ouyang Xin's tears. He took a few leisurely steps back and coughed vigorously. Then he walked up again and asked, "Why didn't the other party fight our spear formation?" Even if we can't exchange human lives, at least we can change a few guns." ”

"They thought—" Mr. Zhang fired another shot. He blew the white smoke from the muzzle of the handcuff, and then tried it quickly with the back of his hand, and felt that the barrel was a little overheated, so he also took a few steps back to let it cool down first. Zhang Chengye held his handcuff in the mountain wind and said loudly to Ouyang Xin: "The thieves may want to exchange their lives for their lives, but their horses refuse. ”

Zhang Chengye pointed to the edge of the phalanx. There were rows of shiny white blades stretched out densely, like wild beasts with sharp fangs: "As long as we leave a passage for the horses to run through, they will surely go around our formation." ”

Ouyang Xin looked at the spears for a while, and then said to Zhang Chengye: "What if the other party is holding a spear?"

"That's useless!"

"Why? Aren't our guns nine-foot?"

"Ha, we're just holding a five-foot short spear, as long as the blade in front is bright enough, that's enough. ”

Zhang Chengye looked at Ouyang Xin's puzzled appearance, and laughed proudly: "Brother Ouyang, you want it." The enemy soldiers know that their spears are longer than ours, but their horses don't, haha, so as long as we take a stick and have a sharp and bright blade in front of us, then the horses will go around our phalanx. Ha ha. ”

After laughing, he tried the temperature of the barrel again, and Zhang Chengye began to pour gunpowder into it again: "Okay, let's go up and beat them again!"

......

The shooting drills of the Ming army continued for another time, and the Yongning cavalry running between several phalanxes became less and less, and soon some people began to turn around and withdraw from the battlefield. The rest of the horses slowed down, and they were tired from running back and forth in the mountains for half a day. The drums in the first Ming army phalanx suddenly sounded a few times, and not long after this drum sounded, a few drums also came from the two phalanxes behind.

After the drum beat, the sound of fire on the battlefield stopped suddenly, and after a moment of silence, the Ming army was full of drums. The pikemen stood at the sound. Under the command of the officer, they gradually walked out of the formation, and forced the cavalry of the Yongning Army with their guns in their arms.

Now there are only a few hundred cavalry left on the battlefield. Their horses slowed down. The infantry of the Ming army marched in close horizontal formations like a wall, and soon surrounded the Yongning army that remained on the battlefield in some circles. These circles were large or small, and the largest one contained dozens of Yongning cavalry, and some only had a few people.

The Yongning army in the small circle was quickly killed by the Ming army coming up from all sides, and the Yongning army in the largest circle was still resisting, their mounts were forced to retreat in small steps by the white-edged wall leaning against them, and finally dozens of cavalry were driven into a group by hundreds of Ming pikemen, their horses were tightly packed together, all of them were desperately ramming back, trying to avoid the tip of the spear that stretched out in front of their eyes.

A perimeter Yongning cavalry had to face at least eight or nine spears, and no matter how hard they wielded their sabers and short spears, they would be easily parried by three or four spears, followed by four or five spears stabbed into the belly of their mounts. After being overturned to the ground by their dying mounts, most of these Yongning soldiers would not even have a chance to stand up and resist again.

What's even more deadly is that behind these Ming army pikemen, there are also many musketeers who shoot from the back, directly beating the high knights into a sieve through the crowd.

At the same time, the Ming army's battle line slowly pushed down the mountain, and when the Ming army's pikemen advanced to the intersection, the half-hearted Yongning soldiers who had hesitated and refused to flee found themselves in a trap. Unable to resist the influx of Ming pikemen, these stragglers finally lost their fighting spirit after being forced to the edge of the woods, abandoned their horses and fled into the dense forest on foot.

After repelling the charge, the Ming sappers began to build further improvised fortifications, cutting down some trees and sawing them into sections, Ouyang Xin planned to collect stones and wood and build a low breastwork to fight against the elite of the Yongning army that might appear at any time.

When Ouyang Xin asked Zhang Chengye for his opinion on this field fortification, the Ming army had already completed the post-war clean-up work, and the wounded were all sent to the camp tents behind for treatment.

A soldier came over and reported to Zhang Chengye: "Nine of our soldiers were killed in this battle, and 21 were wounded. ”

After listening to the report, Zhang Chengye waved his hand to let the soldier retreat, and he sneered at Ouyang Xin beside him: "In the past two days, the total casualties of these three teams have been less than fifty, and since we sent our troops, the number of these three teams has been reduced due to illness has been more than seventy. ”

Before Ouyang Xin could talk, they heard a commotion behind them, and the two hurriedly ran up the ridge, only to see an army winding towards the distant mountain to the north......

Huangshi rode his horse to the front of the Ming army on the southern front amid the cheers of the officers and soldiers on both sides of the road. On the north slope, I already saw a lot of horses and the corpses of the soldiers of the Yongning Army, and when Huangshi walked up the ridge, there was a scene of a great battle in front of him, the entire southern slope was stained red with blood, and from the foot to the next mountain, the road was a miserable scene, filled with the corpses of people and horses, and the trees at the entrance of the road were also beaten to pieces.

"Mr. Zhang Qian, have you encountered the main force of the enemy army?"

"Back to Dashuai, I basically didn't encounter the main force of the Yongning thief, but the miscellaneous fish encountered one or twenty thousand. However, just now I encountered the Yongning thieves charging into battle with a group of cavalry, most of them are strong and not afraid of death, and they seem to be the main force. ”

"Cavalry charge, this kind of terrain?" Huang Shimian was surprised, so he asked carefully about the course of the war. After listening to this, he pondered for a while, and said, "Why does it sound like a dying fight?

"It's definitely just trash fish, they don't have any combat power at all. The humble position is to think that the main force of the Yongning thief must be in Chishuiwei, and it is too late to transfer it back. ”

"Well, it's possible, it seems that we have more thieves in the net than we thought. Huang Shi saw that it was not early, so he ordered the Ming army to rest on the spot and prepare to continue the attack to the south tomorrow, in order to join forces with He Dingyuan as soon as possible. The transportation capacity of this road is really limited, and Huangshi can only send a thousand-person advance battle group at a time, and the baggage troops must be followed behind, otherwise the supply of troops on the front line will not be guaranteed.

Huang Shi captured many prisoners in the universal office, and Yu Chongming left many people there, and Huang Shi organized all these people into his own grain transportation team, and also sent horse teams to monitor them. In addition to the horse team, Huangshi also left two infantry teams in the Pushi Institute, which not only shouldered the burden of defense to the north, but also had the task of opening up the communication line from the Pushi Institute to Lin Zhou, and of course, they were not the only Ming troops to carry out this task.

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September 12, 7th year of the Apocalypse, Lin Zhou

After receiving Huangshi's order, the two battalions of the Sichuan army stationed in Lin Zhou began to advance along the road to the universal place, and their task was to sweep away the stragglers on this road, and drive all these guys who lacked food and clothing to the deep mountains and old forests. At the same time, they will also send this good news to the Yongzhen Ming army camp, and the Yongzhen camp will send it to Guiyang after receiving this news.

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