Almost all people who have a little basic understanding of modern military affairs have a doubt:

Why in ancient warfare, the well-equipped nomadic cavalry and archery troops could always suppress the agrarian civilization that relied on spear phalanxes, bows, crossbows, and muskets.

It can be entered after the 18th century, when bayonet musketeers appeared on a large scale. When the cavalry units were in close combat with the infantry in dense formations, they suddenly fell to the upper hand.

When Shen Shuren himself read this military history in his previous life, he was also puzzled at first.

Because although he can understand that "bayonets are indeed very suitable for melee combat against cavalry", no matter how good he is, it is not as good as a professional extra-long spear, right?

The full length of the bayonet musket was only seven feet at most. Spears and spears can easily be more than one zhang. Compared with the strength and lethality of cavalry stabs, bayonets and muskets are not as good as professional anti-cavalry halberds.

And then more than defensive equipment. Historically, after the appearance of bayonet musketeers, they quickly abandoned heavy armor and dared to go to the battlefield directly in a military uniform.

And those heavy anti-cavalry infantry before the 17th century, look at the Swiss halberd soldiers, the Southern Song Dynasty infantry armor spearmen, and the excellent armor.

Therefore, no matter whether it is compared to melee attack power or defense power, the bayonet musketeers are completely exploded by the predecessors of the heavy armor spear and halberd soldiers in all directions.

But after being pieced together into an organic whole, the overall combat power of the anti-cavalry brought into play showed a qualitative leap, grinding the cavalry to the ground and rubbing it.

It wasn't until the end of the Ming Dynasty that Shen Shuren really saw the infantry and cavalry confrontation of this era, and combined with reading Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao Xinshu" and other military books, he finally practiced his true knowledge-

The qualitative leap in the combat power of the bayonet musketeer phalanx against the cavalry is not because the melee ability of the bayonet musketeer phalanx is stronger than the armored spear and halberd soldiers.

Heavily armored spearmen and halberders, until the moment they were crushed by the rolling wheels of history and eliminated into the garbage heap, their hand-to-hand combat power was still very terrifying-

Just like the moment when Nokia's mobile phone was eliminated into the garbage heap of history, its hardness and drop resistance are still the same as those new mobile phones that eliminated it.

The phalanx of heavily armored spearmen and halberders only lost in "forcing the enemy cavalry to have to fight them in close combat", which was far inferior to the bayonet musketeers.

Even the strong crossbows and even muskets that can be matched with the heavy armor spear and halberd soldiers, as a long-range output, when the cavalry tries to ride and fly kites, shoot at the cavalry, forcing the cavalry to switch to melee combat after suffering heavy losses in the fire.

However, the efficiency of this "forced battle" is still far inferior to the bayonets and muskets of all personnel.

Because war is not an RTS game, it is not an ideal state of "the front row of tanks can be carried, and all DPS in the back row can have output positions".

In actual combat, the depth of the battlefield is very large, but the range of weapons is very short relative to the area of the battlefield.

At any point on the battlefield, the long-range firepower that can be put into it is very slim, and it is impossible to concentrate the firepower.

In the "New Book of Ji Xiao", even if Qi Jiguang attaches great importance to firearms, he will only suggest when it comes to the tactics of using infantry against Tatar cavalry

"A battalion of 3,500 men can be equipped with 700 guns. When encountering cavalry, the infantry was lined up in a phalanx, with 700 spears on each side, facing outward on all sides, and 700 musketeers in the center.

In the event of cavalry harassment from any side of the phalanx, that is, the side of the enemy cavalry attacked and disturbed by the enemy cavalry through the support of the road with all the firearms, and the enemy cavalry did not dare to shoot at each other, so they could only rush into hand-to-hand combat."

In other words, cavalry has a mobility advantage. When a battalion of 3,500 men on both sides fights against each other, the side with high cavalry mobility can concentrate its forces on one side of the battle formation and form a local superior force to fight more and less.

The infantry was less mobile, so they had to meet the enemy with 700 melee pikemen and musketeers on the opposing side, and when the enemy rushed up to hand-to-hand combat, the musketeers could only retreat, leaving the pikemen alone to carry the line.

It is precisely because of this that there is a striking consistency in the art of war in the Eastern and Western worlds in the early ratio of pikemen and musketeers-

The "New Book of Ji Xiao" believes that two musketeers and eight long spearmen are optimal. Coincidentally, the early Spanish phalanx at that time also felt that muskets and spears were one to four, which was the most efficient golden ratio.

Later, with the improvement of musket technology and the advent of bayonets, the ratio of musketeers to pikemen gradually became one to one, and finally evolved to full musket bayonets.

The appearance of muskets and bayonets actually reduced the infantry's melee ability against cavalry, but greatly strengthened the opportunity cost of "forcing cavalry to fight infantry in close combat".

This simple truth, Shen Shuren has long figured it out,

Zheng Chenggong hadn't figured it out yet, but after today's battle, it is estimated that he will figure it out completely.

And the Tartar cavalry officers opposite Zheng Chenggong are afraid that they will not have a chance to figure it out in this life.

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With the death of the Tatar Jialazhang Jingyonggui, in the bloody battle just now, the Qing army of Beacon Mountain had at least one more Niu Lu troops, which were killed and wounded by the Ming army in the initial raid.

This kind of dead stumbling where both sides have no way out is always the bloodiest.

Although the follow-up three Niu Lu have been turned around, the total strength of the total strength is already less than four Niu Lu, plus the previous battle losses have been dissatisfied with the editor, in fact, there are only more than 900 horses.

The remaining Han army banner and Mongolian army banner miscellaneous soldiers gathered a total of four or five hundred, and the entire army strength of the Tartars in the port of Beacon Hill was less than 1,500 people.

The cavalry units of Jialazhangjing also had the problem of not being subordinate to each other and lacking a unified command of the whole situation.

The IQ and art of war of the various Niu Lu officers are not very high.

Generals of this level basically only know how to strictly implement the orders of the upper peak, lead the team well tactically, and resolutely fight and rush, and the overall strategy is not a problem they need to think about at all.

Countless Qing cavalry only mechanically carried out their usual tactical habits, patrolling and harassing in front of the formation, pounced on bloody hand-to-hand combat when they saw a gap, and once they found that the enemy's melee forces were well prepared, they pulled away and temporarily retreated, looking for the enemy's weak point again.

It's a pity that this time, they didn't find the weaknesses of Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong at all.

Shen Shuren has been in Huangzhou for two years, and at the end of last year, he also occupied Wuchang Daye Iron Mountain, and the military industry and industry have flourished. Last year he was able to muster nearly three thousand musketeers, and now it will only be more.

This time, in order to let Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Cheng have a certain ability to deal with the Tartars, Shen Shuren also made a bloody investment, and the musket equivalence rate of these 5,000 "family members" directly reached 50%! And every musket had a bayonet.

This situation made the Qing army, which had never seen such a high ratio, very uncomfortable.

The Qing army has been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and has become accustomed to "the enemy's hand-to-hand combat is strong in the direction of firearms, bows and crossbows are weak, and it is enough to open the distance and shoot at the Ming army to hit the morale of the Ming army." After the enemy's firearms team is transferred to this direction to reinforce, they will rush forward to fight hand-to-hand with the firearms soldiers, and use the firearms soldiers to timidly retreat to disrupt the front, and take the opportunity to rush and kill to expand the results of the battle."

Zhang Mingzhen's performance at the moment is like a combination of a hedgehog and a porcupine,

Far away, the porcupine's spikes flew out, stabbing the enemy in agony. approached to bite, and it was like biting a hedgehog, a spike in a mouth.

Advance is also worried, retreat is also worried.

"I can't care so much! Charge the whole army! Don't go back and take a detour, and fight directly with those barbarians with strange short guns to the death! These short guns are only seven feet, what's the big deal! For the master, the pile of human lives must also rush through the enemy formation! ”

Several Niu Lu officers finally completely aroused the ferocity of swearing to die, and they had no regard for their lives.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The Shen family under Zhang Mingzhen's command was also as immobile as a mountain, allowing the turbulent Qing cavalry to kill red-eyed, forget all tactical and roundabout tricks, and rush straight to the bayonet array.

"Poof! Poof! The hearty and bloodthirsty sound of a bayonet piercing flesh and blood was intertwined with the muffled sound of the massive impact of broken tendons.

The miserable howls of the soldiers and the neighing of the war horses resounded throughout the battlefield.

The bayonet, which is no more than seven feet long, can only make the infantry and cavalry exchange lives after all, and this level of weapon length is not enough to use its own breaking to unload the huge force of the war horse's full charge. Many Shen family members were immediately knocked away after stabbing a Tartar cavalry to death, and even a few brave Qing cavalry could fly two or three Shen family members before they died.

However, the battle turned out to be such a fancy-free change of life, and the Ming army was less fearful - fear and low morale were often due to the inability to fight back, to be unilaterally attacked, and to fly kites.

If you can change your life steadily, once the ferocious bloodshed of human beings is stimulated, the idea of "changing one is enough" is generated, and you are inspired by the sound of bloodthirsty killing, you will soon enter an unconscious rage, and fear will be thrown out of the clouds.

Many of the Shen family members are also stubborn people fed with silver, and many of them have also heard of the cruelty of the Tartars, and they want to vent their anger that has been accumulated for many years.

After a bloody battle of just a cup of tea, as several Niu Lu officers of the Qing cavalry killed their heads and personally rushed to the front line, they were greeted by the Ming army's muskets and bayonets in turn, and all of them were killed, and the remnants of the Qing cavalry finally had to calm down.

One for one for one life, they can't change it at all! There are thousands of Ming troops, and they have no intention of retreating at all, as long as they take out less than 900 lives to exchange with them, they can be all replaced!

What's more, the Ming army also has the Hongyi cannon, which has been pouring fire behind the formation, although it takes several minutes for each artillery to fire one cannon, but several cannons take turns to fire, but it can do two or three cannons every minute.

The loud sound of heavy artillery was like a jack of hammers, bombarding the hearts of the Qing cavalry again and again.

Although a few people can't be killed every time, and even sometimes empty cannons are fired, but this kind of Grim Reaper's alarm clock, regular lottery will definitely draw a few people, completely gamble on luck and luck, no matter how high the martial arts are, as long as they are drawn, they will die.

This kind of deterrence gradually made the Qing cavalry, which thought they were invincible in the world, gradually timid and collapsed, and with the last Niu Lu officer being stabbed into a hedgehog, the remnants of the three or four hundred cavalry of the Qing army finally completely collapsed and retreated like a tide.

"Kill! Storm the camp! Leave no mouth alive! Zhang Mingzhen shook his sword, and the Ming army saw that he had repelled a fraction of the Qing cavalry on his side, and his morale was also greatly boosted, and he rushed forward with a tsunami.

Not to mention the hundreds of traitors and Mongols who were left in the camp to guard the wall, they were immediately submerged and slaughtered.

"We have annihilated the main force of the Tartars! What a victory! What's wrong with the Tartars! It's the same with a head and two arms! If you are stabbed with a bayonet, you will die! ”

The excited soldiers of the Ming army were frantically and excitedly cleaning the battlefield, and the soldiers who did not get the merits of killing the enemy were also excitedly carrying bayonets and rifles, as if to test the actual combat effect of the new weapons.

In the face of the Tartar cavalry who were still lying there or dying, or already dead, whether they were dead or not, they were fiercely re-stabbed with a few more bayonets.

Even if it is a dead corpse, it has not been dead for a long time, and it can still bleed after being stabbed. This kind of response feedback can stimulate people's desire to try, and the soldiers of the Ming army mechanically repeated the action of mending the knife, shouting in their hearts:

"Tartars are people, too! If you are stabbed, you will die! One Knife One Hole! One hole, one blood! You can also poke it in with a cotton armor! ”

No bullying!

The corpses of more than 800 elite cavalry of the Qing army before and after were stripped of their iron and cotton armor one after another, and then all of them were stabbed into hedgehogs to practice their courage.

About a quarter of an hour after the battlefield was cleaned, and the time came to the end of the hour, there was a sudden noise and noise on the battlefield in the southeast. Zhang Mingzhen hurriedly formed the team, let the troops occupy the Bijia Shan Shui Zhai and be ready for battle.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the scouts on the opposite side to venture over and make contact, playing the banner of Li Fuming, the defender of Tashan.

Zhang Mingzhen also indicated his identity, saying that he had captured the water village of Tartar, and asked the other party to send officers to enter the camp alone to verify his identity.

The Ming army on the opposite side did not contain a lake, Li Fuming trusted this news very much, and directly brought only a few horsemen into the camp, and after meeting Zheng Chenggong, it was confirmed that it was indeed a friendly army, and then all of them were put into the camp in an orderly manner.

Zheng Chenggong didn't forget to joke a few words: "Li Junmen is bold, isn't he afraid that General Zhang is a Tartar pretending to deceive you?" This dares to enter the camp alone. If there are still Yonggui's soldiers and horses in the camp at this moment, you will not be able to die for a few lives. ”

Li Fuming's expression was solemn and sad: "What kind of 'guts' am I?" There's no shame in saying it. On the way here, we also met the Tartar rout who had escaped from here just now, and fought a bloody battle, killing more than 200 horsemen, but unfortunately they were still broken through the blockade by the remnants of the enemy and escaped.

That's why I know that the Beacon Hill side must have succeeded, and there is nothing to worry about, otherwise Yonggui's soldiers and horses would not have been so scattered.

I'm sorry for my brethren! Li Tongtai Li Garrison, whom I sent out to the bureau the night before yesterday, had been martyred, and I later learned that he disguised himself as my banner before his martyrdom, which made the Tartars relax their guard, and also transferred several Niu Lu's troops to the south between Tashan and Gaoqiao to intercept our army from escaping back to Shanhaiguan by land.

Tonight, we have to deal with a few fewer enemy troops, and the other departments are also slower to react, otherwise I am afraid it will not be so easy to succeed. ”

After Zheng Chenggong listened, he was also in awe, and at the same time a little unpleasant. He thought that when he infiltrated Tower Hill City that day, if he hadn't been bumped into by the Tartar scouts and hadn't killed all the Tartar scouts, maybe he could have done this more secretively.

Let Li Tongtai go to the idle chess of doubting the soldiers, maybe it can be saved. In that way, the Ming Dynasty could die one less hundred elite warriors and one less garrison officer who fought loyally and righteously.

But how can everything in the world be perfect, as soon as the battle starts, everything will be messed up, and you can only improvise and see the moves.

He and Li Fuming punched each other, thinking that it was encouraging: "Li Junmen, now is not the time to be ashamed!" Li Shoubei died a heroic death, so we will kill a few more Tartars to avenge Li Shoubei!

In a while, we will have to answer Cao Junmen, and we will also ask your brothers to do more! Just now I caught a few live Tartars, and I have already tortured them, just now this Yonggui sent three Niu Lu out of the camp, it was to intercept Cao Junmen! Cao Junmen was half an hour ago, and I am afraid that he had already fought a bloody battle with Beitun's Erer. ”

Li Fuming said: "This is naturally what it should be!" However, we still load all the wounded and sick numbers of our two armies on the ship first, and wait for them to drift on the sea, and we only leave the elite soldiers to break off, and give the friendly troops time to board the ship one by one!

Also, let's immediately light all the torches that can be lit in the camp, and give Cao Junmen guidance from afar, and when we divide an army to attack and respond in the retrograde along the road, we must also shoot more torches to attract the enemy's attention, and once we meet the enemy, we will immediately turn to the defense, and fight and retreat-

General Zhang, Zheng Tiju, what do you think of the arrangement I suggested? After all, we only went out of the camp to respond, not to take the initiative to attack.

As long as we bluff and attract some of the enemy's attention to us, we can relieve the pressure on Cao Junmen. In the dark night, we can't go out of the camp to meet too far, otherwise I'm afraid it will be chaos. ”

Zhang Mingzhen nodded immediately: "This method is very good, the retreating troops who break through the siege should try their best to be as close as possible, quietly, and the troops who should break through should be fanfare, attract the attention of the enemy, and it is also convenient to attract the attention of friendly troops, and it can also boost the morale of friendly troops, let them know that the way to live is ahead, so they should do what Li Junmen wants." ”

After the two sides made calculations, Li Fuming divided 2,000 soldiers whose physical strength was still relatively intact, went out of the camp to the northeast five miles, took up a high ground with more torches, and held on to the spot.

Zhang Mingzhen divided the 2,000 new forces in the Shen family who had not participated in the land battle before, and then the first five miles, and also lined up by the sea in the field, and then asked Zheng Chenggong to divide a few warships, and detoured back there, using Hongyi cannons to be ready to support the shore at any time-

With the exception of Beacon Hill Wharf, the other nearby shores are shallow, and large ships cannot dock for loading and unloading, but it is no problem to sail to a mile from the shore and park. Therefore, it is completely possible to use the range of the heavy Hongyi cannon up to three miles to support the shore from a distance.

And Li Fuming was in Tashan City, and there were originally more than 8,000 elite soldiers left, but this time he brought more than 6,000. The rest were either killed or wounded in the bloody battle with Yonggui just now, or they were scattered and left behind, and there were those who were seriously injured and could not retreat in Tashan.

Among these 6,000 people, those who had contributed a lot in the previous bloody battles, those who were lightly or seriously wounded, and those who carried a lot of materials and were physically exhausted, 4,000 people were selected and hurriedly loaded on the ship first.

Among the Shen family, as many as seven or eight hundred people were killed or wounded in the bloody battle just now, and nearly four hundred were killed or seriously injured in the battle.

I have to say that as the main Eight Banners cavalry of the world's strongest army, the lethality is still very huge when fighting for people's lives, and it has caused so many casualties to the Ming army.

Of course, these wounded soldiers and family members who had been physically exhausted were also among the ones who boarded the ship in advance and retreated, and after some rectification, the total number of family members and sailors who remained on the shore was reduced to 4,000 people.

In addition to the 2,000 men left on the shore by Li Fuming, the two armies totaled 6,000 men, and they continued to respond in three echelons and hold the wharf.

……

At the same time that Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen were fighting at the Beacon Hill Wharf, another even more tragic bloody battle tonight was actually just about 20 miles away, continuing to fight bloodily.

The protagonist of that battle was none other than the blue flag armor Lazhang Jing Erqiu, and Cao Bianjiao, the chief soldier of the Ming army.

Cao Bianjiao's remnants in Xingshan were actually a lot more than Li Fuming's in Tashan, even after so much attrition, he could still bring out more than 12,000 troops.

It's a pity that the encirclement force encountered by these 12,000 people is much stronger.

Although Erqiu only has 500 Manchurian cavalry, he can fight Cao Bianjiao in the first place, but he still has three Niu Lu, and he can rush to arrive in an hour and a half.

It's nothing more than that these troops have run sixty miles to get here, and they will be physically exhausted and their combat effectiveness will be sharply reduced, but after all, they are all fierce and genuine full-fledged cavalry.

The main force of his master, Azig, with the blue flag, could also rush to the battlefield in two hours.

In addition, the two Jialas of Prince Jierharang, who besieged Jinzhou in the rear, were also deployed halfway between Jinzhou and Xingshan. You can also get to the battlefield in two hours.

The total strength of the Qing army is definitely quite a lot, but it can't be cohesive in a hurry, and in order to delay Cao Bianjiao, it will have to fight to add fuel tactics.

Cao Bianjiao is also a general of the Ming army, and among the eight general soldiers under Hong Chengchou, his fighting spirit and firmness are at least in the top three. Since the encounter at the end of the ugly hour, Cao Bianjiao has been aware of this situation and is mentally prepared.

"Brethren! Tonight, the Tartars will definitely divide their troops into several waves of madness to intercept our army! But because of this, our army must not be chaotic, and must march in formation! There aren't many people coming every time the Tartars come! This is a gift of war exploits to us for nothing!

If it's messed up, no one will survive! Hold the line! If you go to Beacon Hill, you will be prosperous and prosperous, and you will be able to live in peace! ”

Between several fierce battles, Cao Bianjiao was so motivating his morale, running back and forth on the front line. When he encountered hundreds of cavalry harassment from the Eight Banners, he ordered the crossbows to shoot back resolutely, and if the enemy was a little far away, then let the crossbowmen and firecrackers line up on both sides of the military formation, always on guard and slowly retreat.

That posture is just like when Liu Bang withdrew from Baishan Mountain, so that all the crossbowmen of the Han army also pulled their bows and aimed at both sides of the road anytime and anywhere, lest they take the plunge and pounce on them.

This will be a slower march, but it will be most effective when the enemy is biting.

Seeing that such harassment could not make the Ming army run away wildly, nor could it allow the Ming army to line up on the spot, as time went by, Erqiu finally couldn't bear it anymore and had to launch a short and heavy charge with heavy casualties.

Every charge was not to kill many Ming soldiers, but to interrupt Cao Bianjiao's plan to march and delay him to switch to a battle formation for a moment and a half.

And every time he charged, Er'er's subordinates had to immediately pay the price of at least dozens of the lives of the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners.

The Ming army was consumed several times, and although they also killed more than 200 horsemen, they were moving slower and slower, and their morale was a little low.

Some officers couldn't help but start questioning Cao Bianjiao: "Military Gate! Are those Southerners reliable? Zheng Chenggong is just from the Haikou family, do they have faith at all? If it drags on any longer, our army will not be able to reach Beacon Hill for a long time, will they be able to take down the Beacon Hill wharf? You won't withdraw after a slight setback, right?

If we were so tired and hurried to Beacon Hill before dawn, only to find that we were to attack the camp and take the dock in person, then when the sky dawned, the Tartars would be flanked back and forth, and we would be finished! It's better to stay in Xingshan Jiancheng to live a few more days! ”

Cao Bianjiao was furious: "Those who dare to shake the heart of the army again will be killed!" Fight with a large army and trust your allies! What's more, now that our army is not effective in breaking through the encirclement and fighting, what good is it to wonder if the friendly forces can take the dock! At this point, there is only one way to live, and it all depends on the efforts of the kings to kill this way of life! ”

Cao Bianjiao was like the third repeater, walking and stopping within an hour, and then approached Bijia Mountain for ten miles. He felt that this was a little too late, and he was afraid of being overtaken by enemy reinforcements, so he finally decided to take a temporary risk, leaving a force behind the palace to remain on alert, and then let the main force relax a little and advance at full speed.

Obviously, he is trying to put on an appearance that he can't wait, and lure Erqiu to put on a strong attack when the troops are insufficient - if you don't attack, I will really run, and I will no longer be impersonating the slow and vigilant posture when the "Han army left Baideng"!

Erqiu really had no choice, seeing that Cao Bianjiao was impatient to escape, he didn't care that he only had three hundred horses left, and all of them pounced, wanting to cover up Cao Bianjiao from behind.

As long as the morale of the Ming army is low, it is possible that 10,000 people will be killed by 300 horsemen in the dark until they collapse!

However, he underestimated Cao Bianjiao.

Erqiu's all-out charge did temporarily cause heavy casualties among the Ming army, and even caused the Ming army to pay casualties two or three times more than the total number of cavalry of the Eight Banners.

The remnants of more than 300 horsemen actually rushed to kill several formations, killing and wounding thousands of people under Cao Bianjiao!

But the casualties of the Erqiu troops should not be underestimated, and more importantly, after entering the melee and rushing to kill, the Erqiu troops were gradually sticked.

And the Ming army was not completely chaotic, the elite main force left by Cao Bianjiao immediately accelerated to block the mouth, and fell into melee grinding with Erqiu, when more than 300 horsemen fell into the encirclement of 10,000 people, and 10,000 people did not collapse, the outcome was already obvious.

After a bloody battle, although Cao Bianjiao paid four times the number of casualties of the enemy, he killed Erqiu in the chaos, and Erqiu brought the two Niu Lu, which were almost completely annihilated, and only a few stragglers who were not organized bravely broke through the siege.

After paying a huge price to deal with this fly, Cao Bianjiao didn't have time to count the losses of the Ming army, and he estimated that after the battle just now, his 12,000 people would be just over 10,000 at most.

But fortunately, without the close harassment of the enemy, the whole army could speed up, and some soldiers even abandoned their heavy armor and ran straight forward, and finally saw the continuous lights near the port of Beacon Hill ahead.

The spread of the lights is not only in the port area, but also extends to several miles outside the port, and even the sound of shouting and killing can be heard.

Fortunately, because there were a lot of torches, Cao Bianjiao saw that in the middle of the pile of firelight closest to him, there was a battle flag made of Ming shape, although he looked down on the words on it, at least it could be confirmed that it was friendly reinforcements.

"The Sword Comes"

And the other party had already recognized him, and sent a scout to shout in response: "The person who came is Cao Junmen!" My general and Li Junmen have been waiting for a long time! My general is still in line outside the port to respond, and help you carry the three Niu Lu who were transferred back from Takahashi! Hurry up and fight off the enemy army together before you can board the ship! ”

Cao Bianjiao's spirits were greatly lifted, and for the first time tonight, he shouted behind his back with confidence: "Brothers! Kill the Tartar in front of you! Have you seen the fire in the water village? Once there, you can get on the ship and retreat, and you will have your life! ”

The 10,000 Ming troops, who had been exhausted after a night of walking, saw the brightly lit port in the distance, and heard that the port had been taken and that the ships were waiting to take them for retreat, and suddenly their morale rose wildly, and they rushed towards the three Niu Lu who had been transferred back from the south by Erqiu like a mad tiger.

These three Niu Lu, now led by the left leader under the command of Erqiu, are actually more than 600 horsemen in total, because when they fought with Li Tongtai the day before, they killed dozens of horsemen, and dozens of scouts died in the previous battle, so the establishment is very lacking.

He originally fought back and forth with Zhang Mingzhen's 2,000 people who were closely arrayed and had Hongyi cannons behind him. It is said that with the elite of the genuine Eight Banners cavalry, it is not difficult to suppress four times the number of Ming infantry.

But Zhang Mingzhen's flanks and Li Fuming were responding, so that Lu Lu couldn't go all out. Moreover, he rushed to the battlefield from between Tashan and Gaoqiao, and it was inevitable that people would be sleepy and lacking, so he was dragged into a situation of chronic blood loss, and he could not form a breakthrough at all.

At this moment, Zhang Mingzhen was intercepting in front, and Cao Bianjiao was rushing in with 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army who had no physical strength but a very strong desire to survive. Under the front and back attacks, the three Niu Lu, who were lost and brought by the reckless, finally fell into the situation of rolling soup and snow, and were directly broken and scattered.

In the bloody battle, when he tried to pull away and retreat, he was targeted by Zhang Mingzhen, and commanded the musket team to shoot at this big fish, and he was shot several times and killed on the spot.

Zhang Mingzhen killed and scattered the enemy army, stepped forward to cut off the head of Lu Hu, and then saw Cao Bianjiao's banner among the comers, and stepped forward to greet: "Cao Junmen, hurry up to the port, let the wounded and the brothers who contributed a lot just now get on the boat first, in addition, you have to leave the fresh army to guard the dock for an hour." We've done so much for your army, it's enough to contribute, and we didn't use it in the first place. ”

Cao Bianjiao was grateful, and hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "That's nature!" Your army is righteous and cloudy, and it has come thousands of miles to meet the retreat of our army! In the end, after the dock was broken, to gain time, of course, our army and Li Junmen were responsible!

You brothers from Jiangnan cannot be allowed to take this risk again. However, I just heard that you actually have Hongyi cannons on your ship? We'll be guarding the docks for a while, and we'll be waiting for a while, and we'll hope to continue to use Hongyi cannons to support us from the sea.

It is estimated that it will be impossible to pass through an hour safely, and the main force of Azig and the two Jialas of Zilharang will definitely be able to arrive within an hour. We fought to the death tonight, but in fact, we only defeated the two Tartars. ”

Two armor la, the full formation is only 3,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, in fact, these troops are not under the formation, there are more than 2,000 cavalry. So tonight, Zhang Mingzhen, Li Fuming, and Cao Bianjiao fought together for a night, and they defeated more than 2,000 Eight Banner cavalry, killed more than 1,000 enemy cavalry, plus more than 1,000 traitors and Mongolian soldiers.

Azig can bring at least 4,000 cavalry from the Eight Banners, and Zilharang can also send more than 2,000. Together, there are six or seven thousand cavalry of the Eight Banners.

If you really fight to the death with the elite cavalry of the 7,000 Eight Banners, Zhang Mingzhen, Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao add up to more than 20,000 Ming troops, which is not enough for the other party to gnaw, so they must not have any field battles with the other side.