In the face of the decisive charge and attack on all fronts finally launched by the Qing army, the garrison of the Ming army in the Neihuang County Theater was naturally-for-tat, deploying all the reserves layer by layer, resisting to the death, and defusing the Qing army's swift offensive.

Neihuang County is the winter grain center of the Ming army, and its importance is roughly equivalent to that of Wuchao to Yuan Shao, so whether there is a Qing army to attack or not, the defense on weekdays is very tight, which can be described as a heavy gathering.

The Zhangshui Wharf Water Village in Huilong Town stretched for several miles of camps, and there were 40,000 heavy soldiers stationed in normal times. There are hundreds of cellars and silos in the village, and 300,000 troops are fed with military rations for one winter.

In the depths of the camp that the Qing army scouts could not see, in the previous stage of stalemate between the two armies, the Ming army dug trenches and built earthen walls when they were idle, so that even if the peripheral fortifications were broken one day, there would still be strategic depth and layer by layer fortification.

This kind of combat thinking was something that the Qing army had never dared to imagine before, because in the traditional ancient warfare ideas, whether it was a city or a strong fortress, it would be good to set up a few city walls, sheep and horse walls or rammed earth fence walls, no matter how many there were, it would only disperse the defensive forces, and it was better to concentrate on defense.

In addition to the 40,000 people in Dazhai in Huilong Town, the Ming army also has 30,000 horses in Neihuang County, which can be used as a reserve at any time to support the left and right, and the wharf water village will become a corner, and once it is attacked, it can increase its strength in place in a quarter of an hour.

Therefore, these points of information are all public, and before Haoge came to fight, the scouts he sent already knew clearly: The war zone around Neihuang County had to face at least 60,000 or 70,000 Ming troops, accounting for about a quarter of the 300,000 main force of the Ming army in the middle route. There were troops from other directions, about 200,000 men, who could arrive a day or two after the attack.

Hao Ge knew that this situation still dared to fight, naturally because he felt that he had gathered 110,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, and he was sure that he would break down at least Huilong Town's water village and burn all the grain in a day or two.

But alas, he clearly miscalculated.

As the Qing army launched a full-scale charge, they would soon find out that the Ming army on the battlefield around Neihuang County was far more than the 70,000 people known at the beginning!

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"Very good, it seems that Hong Chengchou's old traitor has really found out with his conscience, and he just wants to have a history book to cover up after his death, and the information provided is quite accurate, Haoge is indeed desperate."

Seven or eight miles away from the battlefield, on the tower of the West Gate City in Neihuang County, at the same time, Zhang Huangyan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty and the governor of Henan, was also personally holding a well-polished new-style binocular, overlooking the battlefield in the distance.

At this distance, it is hoped that with the blessing of the telescope, you can barely see the movement of the army, just like standing on the top of Horseshoe Mountain and looking at the airport island when you are eating chicken.

It turned out that Zhang Huangyan, who was usually stationed in the Daimyo, had to thank God for bless Daming in person, so that some old traitors who knew that they would not die well wanted to ask for a stigma to be washed away after death-

The evening before, that is, at the point when there was only one night left before Hauge's attack, a few fine works suddenly touched Zhangshui, surrendered to the Ming army, and said that there was important military information to betray.

After the Ming army patrol team thoroughly searched the body and confirmed that there was no threat, after Cao Bianjiao's general interrogation, they learned that the other party was Zu Dashou and Hong Chengchou's people, so they reluctantly brought it to Zhang Huangyan and confided the news that the Qing army was going to attack and burn grain in a desperate way.

The Ming army spent a total of half a night scouting, interrogating, and confirming, which was already very happy, and finally made a decision at the end of the day, and immediately quietly transferred the troops in the central and eastern parts of the theater to the west one by one to deal with the attack of the Qing army.

Zhang Huangyan actually didn't guarantee that what the people sent by Hong Chengchou was true until the moment he made the decision, but anyway, the Ming army had an advantage in strength, and some of the reinforcements would not be hit, so they should be prepared.

Moreover, the Ming army only had a total of midnight reaction time, and even if they wanted to mobilize too many troops and too far away, it was impossible to have time.

In a hurry, for the time being, only a part of the cavalry troops with rapid response could immediately rush to Neihuang County, and some of the infantry that were originally deployed between Neihuang County and Puyang County and patrolled along the defense line on the south bank of Zhangshui could be stationed in the nearby large battalions around Neihuang County.

The final result was that the Ming army relied on the time difference between the midnight and the enemy's attack in advance, and reinforced about 40,000 troops to the vicinity of Neihuang.

Among them, more than 20,000 are elite cavalry under Cao Bianjiao, and 20,000 are Li Dingguo's infantry who are responsible for patrolling Zhangnan in peacetime.

The remaining Ming troops were also notified as soon as possible, made urgent preparations, and dispatched westward movements one by one. Although these troops could not be mobilized before the start of the battle, they could guarantee that they would arrive at the battlefield four or five hours in the morning after the normal start of the battle.

In a word, all the reinforcements of the Ming army can get an additional five hours of response, which is precious in the Armageddon.

And Hong Chengchou's condition for Zhang Huangyan is that if he dies or is missing, I hope Zhang Huangyan can intercede with Zhu Shuren, and when sorting out Chongzhen's actual records, write about him Hong Chengchou, write about him Hong Chengchou, write about Chongzhen's fifteenth year, the emperor came to cry in person, and said that he Hong Chengchou died in Songshan, it's okay, and you don't need to write it later.

Although this kind of thing is difficult to hide, because after Hong Chengchou descended to the Qing Dynasty, after all, there were still so many high-level court officials in the Qing court who knew that Hong Chengchou was an official of the Qing Dynasty-

But Hong Chengchou felt that when the Qing court fell, with Zhu Shuren's temper, he could even have less than ten vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty. So, will Zhu Shuren still keep the civil official of the puppet dynasty in Beijing alive?

The magistrate may be able to live, and the military general can also survive if he fights back anyway to help kill the Tartars, although he may not be able to keep his military power and official position.

Only the civil officials and doctors, to put it mildly, Hong Chengchou has already seen through it. In the two hundred and seventy years of the Ming Imperial Examination, the scholars who studied literature have long been superficial, and Zhu Shuren's style is obviously to kill half of the rest, which is more than enough to be an official, and he doesn't need to keep two ministers at all.

If all the civil officials in Beijing were killed, or at least imprisoned, it would be possible to hide some things and give them a decent look.

Zhang Huangyan felt that this deal could be negotiated.

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The inside story behind the decisive battle, let's not repeat it for the time being, no matter how well the pre-war preparations are done, you have to give a kick to the door to determine the victory.

Li Dingguo, who had only rushed to the Neihuang camp last night, took his 20,000 former "Western Thief" veterans with him at this moment, and was once again responsible for the atonement and carrying the line, bearing the initial charge of Mandahai and Bolo.

However, because he has proved his reform in previous battles, Li Dingguo's equipment is now regarded as a shotgun change, and it is no longer like a few years ago when he fought Nanyang and Xinyang, and he could only carry a spear and be responsible for carrying melee damage.

Today, half of the soldiers in Li Dingguo's old department are equipped with "Wuchang-made" rifles, and the upgrading of equipment has also made the soldiers see hope in their hearts, knowing that as long as they work hard, sooner or later they will be able to completely wash away the shame of thieves and be treated equally by the imperial court.

Previously, because the Qing army's firepower preparation was too fierce, Li Dingguo did not want the soldiers to suffer casualties in vain, so he gave up the first wall, which had been bombed, retreated two or three hundred steps deeper into the camp, and successively formed multiple defensive lines to deploy.

The rammed earth wall and wooden fence could not be maintained at all under the bombardment of the Hongyi cannon, and the soldiers hiding behind the rammed earth wooden fence may also be killed by the big iron ball along with the wall, and even because of the flying wood, it further played a role in the killing effect of shrapnel.

After Li Dingguo's subordinates paid more than 100 needless casualties, Li Dingguo also realized this problem, and then he suddenly gritted his teeth and made a difficult and risky decision.

"Don't guard any wooden fences, just pull out the antlers in the trench, everyone hides in the trench to defend, and the lower body drills below the ground level, so you won't be afraid of the Hongyi cannon that shoots directly!"

Li Dingguo also adapted measures to local conditions, learned from his own teachers, and chose the method of trench warfare. When the soldiers heard this, out of trust in him, they also carried it out one after another, but they were still very afraid in their hearts.

After all, ancient warfare is a combination of long-range shooting and hand-to-hand combat, and hiding in a trench certainly has a huge advantage in evading artillery bombardment, but once the cavalry rushes in front of them, condescendingly trampling and slashing, then the soldiers hiding in the ditch don't even have a chance to counterattack.

Even if you wield a bayonet to resist the enemy desperately, at most you will stab the horse's leg and belly, and the length of the weapon is not enough to cause a fatal wound to the cavalry on horseback, and it is very good to be able to stab the cavalryman's ankle or calf.

However, Li Dingguo governed the army very strictly, and his old subordinates also followed him for many years, and the order was forbidden, so he actually carried out this order to put him to death.

As Bolo and Mandahai, with Curb Pilon and Ao Bai as the vanguard, rushed madly to kill, the Ming army hid in the trench originally used as a trap to resist horses, and shot at the outside with their heads on the ground.

"Bang bang bang-" The repeated random shots caused hundreds of thousands of Manchurian cavalry to fall down miserably, and blood splashed on the snow, causing the soft snow to melt immediately, but soon it condensed again because of the severe cold, and became more solid and slippery, melting the snow into ice. Dark red blood and ice, scattered on the ground one by one, slaughtering and weird.

"Are these southern barbarians not afraid of the trampling of horses' hooves? Actually hiding in a pit and firing? ”

Rushing to the front, he was also a little stunned when he saw the battle scene in front of him, he had followed Hauge for several years, and he had never seen such a battle.

But the arrow had to be fired, the Qing army came in anger, and in the process of approaching, so many robes had been shot by guns and cannons, how could they retreat? Seeing this, he didn't care about the horse and trampled on it.

Countless Manchurian cavalry bent down and brandished their spears and sabers, but it was equally difficult to slash and stab the soldiers hiding in the trenches, so they could only pin their main means of output on the horse's hooves.

"Kara-"

"Poof—"

The sound of broken tendons and broken tendons, and the sound of horses' hooves being stabbed and slashed and slashed into the flesh, were heard for a while.

Hundreds of soldiers of the former Western Army were trampled by the hooves of the horses and died tragically on the spot, but the legs of the Manchurian cavalry were also cut off by spears and bayonets from time to time, and the hooves neighed and threw the cavalry to the ground.

More front-line riflemen finally couldn't bear the pressure, and crouched in the trench with their heads in their hands, lest they be directly stepped on by the horses' hooves, and some of the antlers in the trenches that had not had time to be removed became their talismans at the moment - if the Manchurian cavalry had to let the war horse jump into the ditch and trample it, it was very likely to be directly tied to the antlers and killed even the war horse.

The front-line battlefield was once very chaotic and bloody, and the two sides were torn together like grinding meat, so that both Suppilon and Aobai had no way to quickly resolve the situation.

However, fortunately, the form of victory and defeat on the battlefield is not only determined by the fighting of front-line soldiers. Under the command of Li Dingguo, the Ming garrison had already formed a number of defensive lines, each of which guarded several trenches in the battalion.

The robe of the first-line trench formed a chaotic battle with the Qing army, and the soldiers in the trench behind were still firing at the front in an orderly manner, constantly harvesting the lives of the Qing cavalry.

Under the sound of gunfire, occasionally there are Ming infantry fighting to the death in the front row of trenches, and they are accidentally injured by stray bullets of friendly troops behind, but the proportion is definitely very low, maybe one or two of the twenty casualties are Ming soldiers who were accidentally injured, and the remaining seventeen or eight are full of casualties.

Moreover, this form of fighting lasted a little longer for a cup or two of tea, and the Ming troops in the front row of trenches also came back to their senses, and they hid more and more in the trenches without raising their heads, and did not give the rear allies a chance to be hit by stray bullets.

In this way, this kind of accumulation will only kill the Qing soldiers, and the Qing army will soon fall into chaos.

In order to avoid the endless deep musket fire in the rear row, some Qing troops had to jump directly into the trench, regardless of whether the horses would break their legs or be pierced by the antlers, regardless of whether the horses would turn over and dismount, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Ming riflemen in the trenches.

Another part of the Qing army was unwilling to abandon the horse, or it was reluctant to jump into the trench and be crippled, so they gritted their teeth and chose to continue to charge in depth, trying to break through the second and third lines of the Ming army's inner camp trench network.

In this way, regardless of the sudden advance of the pigs, the killing effect is not bad, but the price is that the Qing army's formation is becoming more and more scattered, and the troops are gradually dispersed, and it has become a separate battle that cannot be commanded in a unified manner.

Moreover, the Ming army did not completely adopt trench rifle tactics, after killing through the outermost part of the camp for more than a mile, they soon saw that there were still Ming troops in the rear relying on rammed earth walls, and they were waiting to list the dense musket formation, with a strict defense that was not afraid of melee charges, and the bayonets were unanimous with the outside, and they were handy with long-range shots and close-range stabs-

Li Dingguo made this arrangement, obviously because in the previous engagement, he had figured out the range limit of the Qing army's Hongyi artillery, and knew that as long as he gave up the dense array and stood on the outermost mile of the camp, and put the enemy into the depths of the camp to fight again, the Qing army's artillery would not be able to bombard so far and could not provide fire cover for its cavalry.

Therefore, what the Qing cavalry could break down was only the Ming defense line within the range of the Qing army's artillery in the first few rows.

Where there is no truth out of the range of the cannons!

"How can these southern barbarians be so tenacious! Obviously, the first few lines of defense have been broken through, why don't those southern barbarians hiding in the trenches flee or surrender, there are our Qing Dynasty's iron cavalry in all directions, and they still have to resist stubbornly! When did the Southern Barbarian have such courage! ”

Ji Bilong was furious and rushed to the death, but he still ran into Li Dingguo's main force of the Chinese army, and the repeated clashes were invulnerable, and the elite guards and cavalry around him were also killed one after another under the fire of the Ming army's riflemen.

Perhaps because of his conspicuous performance, after Li Dingguo noticed him, he ordered a small number of rifled gun snipers in the army who had been on standby to concentrate on firing at him. Under the intensive care of hundreds of rifled gunners, Suppilon was finally shot several times and killed on the spot.

On the other side, the situation is almost difficult, but after all, Aobai is the first warrior of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, strong and wearing multiple layers of heavy armor, after realizing that he was taken care of by the musket team, he reacted relatively quickly, after the first batch of henchmen around him blocked the gun and died, he quickly retreated, and finally was shot twice in the shoulder, dragging a crippled arm and out of the battle.

Ao Bai can retreat, but the cavalry of the Eight Banners, which has been stuck to death, is not so easy to retreat. In order to rush up, they have paid countless casualties, and now there are thousands of robes, divided into countless squads on the first mile of the camp after entering the camp, trapped in the trench net and the Ming army into a hand-to-hand fight.

If the Qing army completely retreats, then the full soldiers in the trench king will only have one end - they will be all killed by the Ming army one after another!

Haoge, who was far away from the battlefield, couldn't see the specific front-line battle situation at all, and only saw a steady stream of Manchurian and Mongolian iron cavalry rushing in, and the sound of killing in the Ming army camp shook the sky, and the fire also soared into the sky, and the battle was extremely stale. In such a scene, of course, the Qing army can only continue to invest and carry out the chaotic battle to the end.

The battle was bloody and blazing, because the two armies fought from dawn to dawn, and many of the torches used for lighting at night on the positions of the Ming army were not extinguished, and it was inevitable that the Qing army would set fire to them in the chaotic battle.

Moreover, there were cellars and temporary silos for storing grain in various places in the camp, and there were naturally also positions in the part of the position that was temporarily taken by the Qing army. Because the Qing army fought separately and lacked unified orders, fires were set in several places, burning thousands of stones of Ming army's winter grain.

Seeing that part of the granaries in the shallow camp was on fire, Hauge's confidence was further stimulated, although he did not know how large the proportion of the burning grain depot accounted for the total grain depot of the Ming army, but as long as the grain depot was on fire, it meant that there was hope, and the morale of the Ming army might also collapse.

"The whole army must use their lives! Yue Le, Er and the others also stepped forward with their foot soldiers and stepped up their support for Bolo Manda Hai! Today I vow to destroy those treacherous dog brutes! ”

Hauge's eyes were blood-red, and he didn't care about piling the last reserves into the meat grinder.

The number of casualties of the Manchurian cavalry on the front line is afraid that it has already exceeded 10,000, and the battle losses of the Ming army are definitely a lot, but the two sides are no longer fighting in formation, but you have me and I have you, fighting each other in the trenches, even if you want to break and escape, you don't know where to flee, you can only defend the place and fight to the death if the enemy dares to approach.

On Li Dingguo's side, batches of reserves also continued to rise with the casualties of the front-line soldiers, and the snow in the entire camp gradually turned into slippery blood ice.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and Li Dingguo also resisted until his energy gradually exhausted. However, he firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty would definitely win, and before the war, Governor Zhang told him that he was responsible for putting the enemy into the camp to resist, and as long as Haoge's reserves were also invested, Governor Zhang would definitely let General Cao take the Ming elite iron cavalry to counter the outflanking.

Sure enough, when the bloody battle lasted until the end of the morning, Zhang Huangyan finally ordered Cao Bianjiao to attack.

"I just got an urgent report from Tanma, the main force of our army's infantry army that set off from Daming County last night, and the cavalry under the command of Huang Degong, who was urgently transferred from Qingfeng County, will be able to rush to the battlefield in two hours.

Li Dingguo couldn't hold it anymore, after all, Haoge's number was several times that of him. You first outflank the Qing army from the left, threaten Haoge's home formation, make the Tartars unable to take care of each other, and relieve Li Dingguo's pressure. ”

Cao Bianjiao, who also just arrived in Neihuang last night, did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately expressed his order.

Just now, Zhang Huangyan didn't let him attack as soon as he came up, not only for fear of scaring away Haoge, or deliberately letting Li Dingguo carry the line, but considering that Cao Bianjiao's troops had traveled eighty miles to Neihuang last night, and they had just rested for less than half an hour before the war, and they didn't sleep at night and had no physical strength.

Therefore, let Li Dingguo resist for more than an hour, and gain some time to restore the physical strength of the cavalry troops, eat, drink and rest, and then attack after the state has recovered a little.

With Cao Bianjiao's recuperation and attack, Haoge's situation finally became dangerous, and the Boluo Department on the left wing of the Qing army had already lost its vanguard to curb Bilong, and now with Cao Bianjiao's thunderous intersperse, it was almost collapsed in an instant, and it was cut off from the rest of the Qing army.

Thousands of twin-barreled breech-loading smoothbore trolls and revolvers slaughtered groups of out-of-speed Qing cavalry on the intertwined battlefield.

Bolo was clumsy, and resisted to the death for about a quarter of an hour, and was finally broken to pieces by the Ming army, completely collapsed. Recently, the transcoding has been serious, so we are more motivated, and the update is faster, so please move your little hands to exit the reading mode. Thank you

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