On February 25, the fifth year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty (the eighth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), in the morning, the Ming army arrived outside Qiancang Mountain.

Su Dingyuan, who was dressed in red cloth armor, stood in front of the army, he looked at the lush silhouette of Qiancang Mountain, raised his hand and ordered the whole army to stop, and the soldiers changed into armor, and only after the soldiers of the whole army changed into armor, did he continue to lead the army forward, so that the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties entered each other's field of vision.

Immediately, the Ming army set up a position under the watchful eye of the Qing army, and in addition to more than 15,000 regular troops, the Ming army that launched the attack also had more than 4,000 punishment battalion foot soldiers wearing uniforms, holding small round shields and spears.

Nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses lined up and surrounded the Qing army from three directions with their backs to the camp, Su Dingyuan did not forget the role of the punishment battalion, he deployed the latter at the front of the military formation, to consume the firepower of the Qing army.

The battle quietly began with the sound of war drums on both sides.

The artillery of the two armies was the first to attack, and the artillery of both sides roared and sent deadly projectiles into the air, passing each other in mid-air, and smashing into the crowd fiercely, and the punishment battalion at the front was immediately smashed to the ground, even the sturdy shields and armor could not stop the artillery bombardment, let alone their poor little wooden shields and thin uniforms.

Under the bombardment of the artillery of the Qing army, and under the supervision of the Ming soldiers behind them, the punishment battalion soon entered a position less than 200 steps away from the Qing army, and they immediately took the initiative to charge, shouting and rushing to the Qing army's formation, and the Ming soldiers with swords, shields, and spears also followed, trotting behind them.

The Qing army, who was waiting for the battle, didn't care whether the other party had been their own robe or not, and the bird-gunners and archers standing behind the shields immediately shot at the punishment camp, only to hear the sound of firecrackers-like gunfire accompanied by the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the running punishment camp seemed to have been hit hard by an invisible fist in the air, and fell one after another.

Seeing so many casualties, the rest of the people were also disheartened, and stopped running, they wanted to retreat, but behind them were the murderous Ming army, and in desperation, they could only continue to charge, and under the rotation of the Qing army's bird guns and archers, people continued to fall.

When the punishment battalion collided head-on with the Qing army formation and engaged the sword and shield men standing on the front line, the punishment battalion had already suffered heavy losses under the continuous long-range fire attack, and they also completed the task of blocking the Qing army's long-range fire for the Ming soldiers, so when they were routed shortly after engaging the enemy, the Ming soldiers who followed did not pay attention to them, but directly stepped on the corpse of the punishment battalion and killed the Qing army.

The Qing army was centered on 2,000 Manchurian heavy infantry with blue flags, resisting the offensive of the Ming army, and the Manchurian flag army was worthy of being the ceiling of the combat effectiveness of the armies of East Asian countries in this era.

Su Dingyuan didn't just let the sword and shield hand step forward, he saw that the blue flag heavy infantry of the Qing army was extremely brave, so he ordered the soldiers of the Chinese army to fight with the enemy to retreat in an orderly manner.

More than 800 line infantry shot nearly 100 heavy infantry with blue flags within 100 paces, and they were directly stunned in place, just when they reacted and intended to launch a charge to narrow the distance between the two sides and pull the line infantry into close combat, the second and third rounds of salvo fire followed, and three consecutive rounds of salvo fire directly shot nearly 300 Manchurian soldiers.

Such a high killing efficiency made all the Manchurian soldiers shocked, but they did not rout because of this, Niu Lu Zhangjing in the army shouted, about to take advantage of the Ming army is still loading to launch a charge, but as soon as Niu Lu Zhangjing's voice fell, everyone saw a bloody hole on his head, it turned out that the light infantry mixed in the crowd seized the opportunity in time to snipe the officer in the Manchurian soldiers.

When the officer was killed, the remaining Manchurian soldiers were immediately enraged, and instead of throwing them into confusion, they aroused the blood in the bones of these barbarians.

They roared and charged at the line infantry, which was still being reloaded, but the line infantry reloaded so quickly that seconds after they were charged, the fighters in the front row were already reloaded, and they fell to one knee and raised their rifles to shoot freely at the enemy in front of them.

After the soldiers in the front row had fired, they did not hesitate to draw their bayonets from their waists and stick them in the muzzle of their guns, turning their rifles into a short spear, ready to meet the charge of the men, and at this time, the soldiers of the two back rows were also reloaded, and they fired a volley of each one, and shot another hundred enemies.

This time, the Manchurians were really frightened.

They had never seen such sharp firearms, and being able to withstand six rounds of salvo fire was considered their bravery, but after these six rounds of volleys, they lost nearly 700 soldiers, and the Ming army that shot at them did not have any casualties, plus once the officers among them identified themselves, they would be shot by cold guns from unknown directions, and the two factors added up, directly making them lose the courage to continue the charge, and turned and retreated.

The Manchurian soldiers are the backbone of the 5,000-strong army, and their active retreat undoubtedly also affected other Qing soldiers who were still fighting with the Ming army on the front.

Seeing that Zhu Mala had joined the battle as a pioneer, the morale of the withdrawn Manchurian soldiers had rebounded to a certain extent, and they rallied around him to fight with the pursuing Ming sabers and shieldmen.

Despite the help of the Manchurian soldiers, the Qing army was still defeated in the battle, retreating into the camp and relying on the terrain and debris in the camp to fight the Ming army, and it seemed that the whole army would be wiped out at the foot of this mountain today.

However, at this moment, several scouts rode their horses all the way from the direction behind Qiancang Mountain, and came to Su Dingyuan, who was sitting in the rear of the Ming army, and reported to the latter that the Qing army reinforcements were coming here, according to the number and scale of the Qing army's military flags, there were at least more than 10,000 people.

After finishing speaking, the scout said with some hesitation: "General, the lowly rank and others saw that the Qing army raised a human head, and that person's head was scattered, it seems that I am a Ming person......

Before he finished speaking, he stopped, Su Dingyuan listened to his words, and couldn't help frowning slightly, this 10,000-strong army must be the main force of the Qing army in southern Zhejiang, they should have been outside Pingyang County at this time, but they appeared here instead, plus the head of the person who was not shaved and braided, it is difficult not to think in a certain direction......

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