After the Qing army retreated, they did not cross the Jiulong River, and Shang Kexi was also worried that Su Yan would chase after them, so they took advantage of the time when they crossed the river to attack in a wave and a half, so the Qing army directly killed under the city of Zhangzhou, built a siege camp outside the west gate, cut down trees, and built equipment.

In order to prevent Su Yan from attacking from behind, Shang Kexi built two walls in the siege camp, and sent scouts to keep an eye on the direction of Tianbao Town at any time, he didn't think about setting up another ambush to deal with Su Yan, but the same strategy can't be used twice in a row, Su Yan will definitely be cautious after learning the news of Zhu Chenggong's defeat.

And this is indeed the case, Su Yan's Jinyi guard detected the ambush that happened in Zhukeng, and came back to report it to Su Yan, Su Yan didn't expect Zhu Chenggong to give Shang Kexi such a big battle feat as soon as he came up, and less than half of the entire 10,000 troops escaped, so that now the pressure is back on Su Yan.

However, this does not mean that Su Yan is powerless.

He decided to directly lead his army to a dignified head-on decisive battle with Shang Kexi, and when his two armies fought, if Zhu Chenggong had not been killed, he would definitely take the initiative to attack and attack the Qing army with Su Yan.

So, the next day, that is, on the ninth day of the first month, Su Yan led the army to leave the Tianbao Town garrison with a large number of artillery and killed the Qing army camp that was still gratifying.

At the first moment of the Ming army's action, the scouts sent by Shang Kexi found out the news and quickly reported it to Shang Kexi, who immediately ordered troops, leaving only a few thousand soldiers to continue to guard against the defenders of Zhangzhou, and the main force lined up with their backs to the camp, waiting for the arrival of the Ming army.

At four o'clock in the morning, the Ming army passed through the ruins of the Zhukeng battlefield, where Su Yan paid tribute to the souls of the fallen Zheng Jun and vowed to kill the Qing army and avenge them. It was seven minutes before the Ming army arrived outside the city of Zhangzhou and confronted the Qing army from afar.

This area is all flat land, Su Yan could not find a favorable terrain to deploy artillery, and the Qing army was the same, the artillery of the two armies could only shell each other on flat ground.

"Inspector, our army has finished arraying!"

Under the handsome flag, Su Ci rode his horse to Su Yan and reported the deployment to him, Su Yan looked at the infantry of the Shenji Battalion who were standing at the forefront, and nodded, the deployment of the Ming army is to use the Shenji Battalion as the Chinese army, directly facing the Qing army, the Chinese military camp and the rattan battalion are deployed on the left and right wings respectively, and the cavalry of the Xiaocai battalion has no division of troops, all around Su Yan.

On the side of the Qing army, the army holding high the blue flag was deployed on the middle army and the left flank, the right army was in charge of the Chaozhou Green Battalion, and the cavalry belonging to the blue flag wandered on both wings.

Shang Kexi's Han army with a blue flag is a veteran of the war who followed him all the way south from Liaodong, and his combat effectiveness and morale are naturally higher than that of the green battalion, but the soldiers under Su Yan's command are not weak, after some comparison, Su Yan believes that the breakthrough of the Qing army is on the Chaozhou green battalion on the right flank.

Chaozhou general soldier Hao Shangjiu, although Su Yan has not dealt with him personally, but according to the evaluation of this person in history, Su Yan knew that this person was not reliable, descended to the Qing, rebelled against the Ming, surrendered to the Qing, rebelled against the Ming, and finally fell into the Qing army's large-scale crusade, was abandoned by Zhu Chenggong, and only symbolically sent some reinforcements, and the reinforcements were still returning halfway, completely capricious villain.

The main general is like this, and the Chaozhou soldiers under his command are naturally useless.

After deducing in his heart, Su Yan had an idea, and he ordered Su Ci: "Yuchen, you personally lead the Shenji Battalion to attack, and I will hit the military camp and the rattan battalion to escort the left and right, and advance with you, and be good at using the light infantry and grenadiers in the Shenji Battalion." ”

"The last general commands!" Su Ci clenched his fists and took orders, and then rode his horse away, and soon after Su Ci left, Su Yan ordered someone to blow the horn of attack.

With the sound of the distant horn, the Ming army began to advance slowly, and the artillery also drove the livestock, pulling the artillery except for the tiger squat cannon into the artillery range line.

Seeing that the Ming army began to attack, the Qing artillery deployed in front of the formation also loaded the artillery with ammunition amid the scolding of the general, and adjusted the orientation to aim at the enemy in red military uniform on the opposite side.

Soon, the Ming army came within the range of the Hongyi cannons.

"Ignition, fire!"

The colorful flags waved, the Qing gunners unhurriedly lit the artillery fuse, and after the sound disappeared, the twenty-five Hongyi cannons in the Qing army roared out, and the twenty-five shells roared out of the muzzle, and the huge recoil made the heavy artillery retreat one or two meters.

Whoosh –

Twenty-five shells smashed into the ground one after another, ten of which fell into the crowd, smashing the Ming infantry on its flight trajectory, the head of a line infantry armed with a rifle was directly cut off, and the headless corpse also took a few steps forward with inertia before falling to the ground with a thud, and the shell that cut off his head flew backwards again, smashed on the ground and bounced, and cut off the thighs of several soldiers before finally lying quietly on the ground.

Despite the enemy's artillery, the Ming infantry remained unmoved, and the line infantry of the Chinese army still marched at a neat pace, leaving no superfluous glances to the seriously wounded or killed comrades.

"The performance of this group of Ming soldiers is really amazing."

Shang Kexi looked at the Ming army that had been shelled but did not move, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, in the past, the Ming army he faced would be chaotic and shouting when they were shelled, to be precise, even the blue-flaged infantry under his command could hardly have such a good performance when they were shelled.

"Fire!"

Rumble –

The second round of artillery bombardment of the Qing army struck again, this time the accuracy of the Qing artillery was higher than the last time, more than half fell into the crowd, and killed and wounded dozens of Ming soldiers, but the Ming army was still unmoved, and the soldiers in the back bypassed the corpses of their comrades in front, filled the vacant positions, and continued to march at a neat pace.

Looking at the performance of the Ming army, not only is it gratifying, but many Qing army generals can't help but have a trace of fear in their hearts.

Is this really the weak Ming army in their impression?

After the second round of artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the Ming artillery finally stopped advancing, began to unload the artillery from the car, turned the muzzle, and headed towards the Qing army's main position, less than a minute later, the Ming artillery began to counterattack, dozens of shells rose into the air, half of which smashed into the Qing army's formation, causing a relatively slight commotion after killing dozens of people.

Compared with the two, the Qing army was slightly inferior.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties immediately launched an artillery battle, and in the rumbling of artillery, the Ming infantry finally arrived within two hundred paces, but they did not immediately stop firing, but continued to move forward until within a hundred paces, and at this time, they had also entered the range of the Qing archers.

Whoosh –

"Uh-"

Arrows rose from the Qing army's array, and after falling into the Ming army's column, they immediately shot and killed several unlucky people who were shot in the vital position - thanks to Su Yan's order to put the riflemen on armor, the Qing army's bows and arrows could not cause damage to the riflemen unless they hit the vital point.

"Raise your gun, aim!"

Hmmm-

In the face of the shooting of the Qing archers, the soldiers in the first row raised their guns one after another, aiming at the Qing infantry soldiers who were standing shields opposite.

"Put!"

Bang bang bang –

A series of deafening gunshots rang out, and hundreds of Qing troops on the opposite side were suddenly shot by the projectile breaking shield, and fell to the ground screaming - even if there was a gap of 100 paces in the middle, more than 2,000 riflemen fired at the same time still brought a great shock to the Qing army!

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