An hour later, almost at 8 o'clock, the Chinese army led by Sonny also rushed to the Bali Bridge, and Kong Youde had already led a group of generals to stand at the bridgehead to greet him.

"The last general will knock on the general of Dingguo."

Kong Youde and a group of generals asked Sony to say goodbye.

"Get up." Sonny looked down at Kong Youde condescendingly from his horseback, and asked, "Where has the Ming army arrived?" How far is it from Bali Bridge? ”

Kong Youde said: "The Ming army has already passed thirty miles, and it is less than ten miles away from the Bali Bridge. ”

"The Ming army has already passed thirty miles?" Sony's face sank slightly, so it seems that there is not enough time? The last 200,000 Lian Yong is afraid that it will be too late to cross the bridge.

"Don't worry, general." Kong Youde continued.

"The Ming army is timid, and they don't dare to go any further, and they are now busy arranging troops."

After a pause, he said, "So our Qing soldiers have enough time to pass through the Bali Bridge." ”

"Really?" Sonny said with a relaxed expression, "So Chongzhen is nothing more than that, if he takes the Ming army to go five miles further, our Qing soldiers will be very troublesome." ”

Because the Ming army went about five miles further, they could block the Bali Bridge with red-coated cannons.

As a result, the Qing army's training bravery, people's husbands and military supplies could not cross the Bali Bridge.

In this case, the pontoon bridge can only be temporarily built to the east of the Bali Bridge, and the time is much slower.

If the Ming army took advantage of the Qing army's baggage to launch a rush attack before crossing the river, the situation would be very passive.

Even if the Qing soldiers were able to successfully gain a foothold on the north bank of the Tonghui River in the end, they would have to pay a lot of price.

But now, the Ming army stopped early near Thirty Mile Pu to form a formation, but it was a good opportunity in vain.

At that moment, Sonny shouted again: "Order, the Eight Banners Han Army, the Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Manchuria, the Green Battalion, Lian Yong and the Minfu hurry up and cross the bridge, and immediately form a formation after crossing the river, and after the Minfu crosses the river, cut down all the birch trees nearby, set up two wooden fences outside the big array, and then build a watchtower arrow tower!" ”

Seeking defeat before winning is a strategy in Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Although Sony was a Manchurian, he was fluent in Manchu and Mongolian languages, and he was familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War.

So before attacking the Ming army, the first thing Sony did was to set up a fence, which could provide protection if the Ming army wanted to take advantage of the Qing army's unstable foothold to launch an attack.

However, Sony was too worried, and the Ming army did not plan to attack at all.

Because it is Jiannu who is in a hurry to attack now.

……

At this moment, the Ming army was busy arranging troops and digging trenches.

The seven infantry towns of the Ming army have been arranged in order from south to north, of which the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th towns each have a hollow phalanx with a side length of 400 paces.

A hollow phalanx with a side length of 400 paces (640 meters) can hold about 5,000 people on each side, just enough to stand in three rows of nearly 1,700 people each.

The reloading time of the Ming flintlock pistol has been reduced to five or six seconds.

Therefore, the three-row line formation is actually a bit redundant, and two rows are enough to ensure the continuity of firepower.

However, for the sake of insurance, Xu Yingwei still made each infantry town adopt a three-row line formation.

The 7th and 8th towns, which are in the center, have a hollow phalanx with a side length of 800 paces.

The infantry of the seven towns were busy digging trenches, and the artillery of each town was busy building artillery positions, and of course, the artillery of the five mountain artillery brigades had to assemble the 2.5-inch mountain guns first.

Even the civilians and medical soldiers who accompanied the army came to help.

The only thing that doesn't have to work is the cavalry town, which is located on the northernmost side.

Instead of having to work, the soldiers of the cavalry town could eat and drink.

At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see the Ming army's one-line formation, which is more than 4,000 steps from south to north and seven kilometers long.

But the depth from east to west is shallow.

The Chinese army, which has the largest depth, is only 800 steps, less than 1,300 meters!

If it is in the era of cold weapons, putting on such a long snake formation is basically no different from suicide, because as long as the enemy army concentrates its forces to scuttle through your Chinese army, you will die.

Don't expect armies on both flanks to stand still.

After the fall of the banner of the Chinese army, the entire army will collapse in an instant.

But the logic of the firearms age is different from that of the cold weapons age.

In the era of firearms, this kind of shallow, deep, and large-frontal line formation was easy to give full play to its firepower advantage, and if it was a one-line array composed of independent hollow phalanxes, it would be even more offensive and retreating.

Chongzhen was not idle, with Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and other eunuchs, they were also helping to dig trenches, I have to say that Chongzhen's example is really not talking, but serious.

Even eunuchs such as Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude were used to working.

In other words, following such an emperor, you can't get used to it.

Xu Yingwei ran around from south to north, and after demarcating the territory of each town, he returned to the main position of the Chinese army, and saw Chongzhen digging trenches with a group of eunuchs, and hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him.

"Holy Lord, you better rest, there is no one left and right."

"If you have more strength, you can dig the trenches in a second faster, and you can also provide more security for the soldiers."

Xu Yingwei couldn't persuade Chongzhen, so he had to jump into the trench, pick up the shovel and work together.

With the concerted efforts of more than 100,000 soldiers and soldiers of the Ming army and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, a trench with a length of more than seven kilometers and a width that could accommodate three rows of soldiers was quickly dug and formed.

However, the depth of the trenches is still a little insufficient, so it needs to be deepened.

Of course, the trenches were not continuous, and there was a specially set aside passage for gun carriages in the middle.

Zheng Sen's air force was not idle, and all 19 flying cars had been assembled.

Today's weather is not bad, the sky is clear, the wind is not strong, and it is very suitable for air force operations.

Facing the breeze blowing on his face, Zheng Sen couldn't help but sigh, this is really the same force of heaven and earth, even if God also helps Daming, how can he not win today's decisive battle?

……

At Chaoyang Gate, the urn city was already crowded with cavalry with two white flags.

However, there were 20,000 cavalry with two white flags, so an urn city could not accommodate it at all, and more cavalry could only stand by on Chaoyangmen Street in the city.

Among the Eight Banners on standby is Bada Hai.

These days are like a roller coaster ride for Ba Dahai, first from Niu Lu Ezhen suddenly became the white flag of Baya Lama Zhangjing, but after less than ten days of being Baya Lama Zhangjing, he was relegated to a step armor, and the reason was that the regent of the imperial father, Dorgon, suddenly died.

Just when Badahai thought that he was likely to be a step armor for a lifetime, good luck fell on his head again.

Last night, the emperor suddenly went to Prince Rui's palace to worship the regent, and it was worshiped with the ceremony of the imperial examination, and after the worship, he also gave the regent a posthumous name and a temple number.

Immediately after that, there was the reward for the two white flags.

Ba Dahai became Niu Lu Ezhen from Bujia again.

Although it is only Niu Lu Ezhen, it can't be compared with the previous Baya Laqi Zhangjing, but Ba Dahai is already very satisfied, at least it is much better than Bujia, if he can still win a few heads in this war of annihilation, maybe he will be able to be promoted to Jia Lae Zhen, because the Zhengbai Flag is still lacking several Jia La Ezhen.

Badahai felt that his hope was very high.

Thinking of this, Badahai was suddenly full of energy.

In this war of annihilation, we must fight bravely to be the first.

Just as he was looking forward to it, a fast horse galloped in.

"The general has an order, and the two white flags will be pulled out of the city immediately!"

Fast horses galloped past, leaving only the crisp sound of horses' hooves in the street.

The Eight Banners soldiers who were originally sitting on both sides of the street to rest got up one after another.

Ba Dahai buckled the bowl stomach his head, tightened the leather belt on his body, and made sure that the armor stomach was not loosened, so he turned over and rode out of the city gate with a Niu Lu Eight Banners under his command.

Although there are three city gate holes in Chaoyang Gate, it is still a little crowded.

While he was waiting, another horse galloped over, shouting, "Get out of the city through the gap......

"Let's go, go to the gap!" Ba Dahai decisively took the Eight Banners of Ben Niu Lu to the gap on the right side of Chaoyang Gate, and the gap that was collapsed by the red-clothed cannons of the Ming army did not have time to be repaired, and now it is convenient for the Eight Banners to go out of the city.

After walking a short distance after the gap, Badahai saw the Baiyin map at a glance.

The Baiyin picture is topped with a two-foot-high tassel spear, and the white tassel on the tassel is particularly eye-catching.

Beside Bai Yintu, there was Hong Chengchou, who was talking to Bai Yintu.

Bai Yintu waved his hand very disdainfully, as if he rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion.

When passing by the two of them, I vaguely heard Hong Chengchou saying: "General, it seems a little early to go out of the city at this time, because the decisive battle between the main force of the Qing army led by the general of Dingguo and the main force of the Ming army will not enter the decisive moment so quickly, so the army of the two white flags went too early, and it was difficult to do anything. ”

"General Ben has made up his mind, don't say more."

Bai Yintu decisively rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion.

Ba Dahai vaguely felt that what Hong Chengchou said was reasonable.

But if he doesn't take it, he can't help it.

He could also vaguely guess what Bai Yintu was thinking.

It's nothing more than the fear that I will be late and won't be able to catch up with this big war.

If that's the case, this great achievement will go to Sony alone.

In a short time, the Eight Banners led by Ba Dahai had already merged into the rolling torrent of two white flags, filled with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and as far as the eye could see, there were all moving horses' heads, as well as tassels on the top of the tasseled spears, and then a pure white or white cloth armor with red edges.

Many of the Eight Banners generals were draped in armor.

Badahai was covered with a set of iron armor.

Moreover, this set of armor is made of more than 2,000 pieces of iron.

Such a set of armor was worth a thousand gold, and was given to him by Dorgon.

Thinking of this, Ba Dahai felt a little regretful in his heart, the regent actually died young, which is really a sigh, but he Ba Dahai will never live up to the expectations of the regent.