The Ming army is coming.

Hong Chengchou, who was lying on the bed recuperating, immediately sat up from the bed with a solemn expression when he heard the news reported by the scout.

He summoned all the generals in the middle of the army to his bed and told them the bad news, and the generals also found it troublesome, and Daniel Zhang, the right standard commander of Hong Chengqing's subordinates, said: "The Ming army is menacing, and the leading commander Su Yan has swept the people south of the Yangtze River in a corner, which should not be underestimated, according to the opinion of the last general, the army should withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River, and it is appropriate to use the Yellow River graben to resist the enemy."

"Withdraw to the north bank of the Yellow River? There is no reason to retreat from the wind before the enemy is encountered." Melerzhangjing Li Ruchun retorted, "According to the opinion of the last general, the strength of the Ming army is only 20,000, and there is no cavalry in the army, our army has troops, and there are thousands of Mongolian iron cavalry, so we should take the initiative to attack and defeat Su Yan in the field battle, Su Yan is defeated, and the morale of the Ming army around Jinan will naturally be greatly damaged!"

Hong Chengchou nodded, his weather-beaten face showing a look of approval.

Seeing him show this expression, the rest of the generals also put forward a proposal to take the initiative, in the end, Hong Chengchou still has his pride, he used to be the secretary of the Ming Dynasty's military department, and he made great contributions to the suppression of the peasant army and the fight against foreign races in the Ming Dynasty, he didn't believe that his face could not be beaten by this kid who was born out of thin air.

Therefore, under the invitation of the generals, Hong Chengchou patted his thigh with great effort and said, "The whole army is open, move to Changqing, and take the initiative to meet the Ming army!"

"Yes!" The generals responded in unison.

Subsequently, in order to prevent the Ming army of Wuli Mountain from taking the initiative to threaten the rear of the army, Hong Chengqian ordered Daniel Zhang, the commander of the right standard, to lead 8,000 soldiers and horses to camp outside Wuli Mountain to contain Zhang Huangyan's department.

Although the Manchurian banner soldiers broke away without authorization, withdrew to Jinan, and gave 8,000 to Daniel Zhang, Hong Chengqian's subordinates still had more than 46,000 horses, including 4,000 Mongol banner troops, 5,000 Han banners, and the rest were green battalion soldiers.

Although there are not many soldiers who are really useful, Hong Chengchou still thinks that he has a good chance of winning.

After arriving in Changqing County, he ordered his general Zhang Hu to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to set up an ambush on the road from Tai'an Prefecture to Jinan Prefecture - he set the ambush site on the eastern valley road of Shuanglong Mountain, not far from Changqing County, which was an excellent ambush location for both sides of the mountain.

He knew that this also meant that the Ming army would definitely know, so Hong Chengchou didn't expect this ambush to succeed, and he left a backhand.

Once the ambush was discovered, Zhang Hu was asked to retreat northward, and he would lead his army to set up a position in the plain outside the northern exit of the valley road, and divide his troops to set up an ambush on the Kaishan and an unknown hill on either side.

As long as the Ming army pursues it, it will fall into the trap set by him and be surrounded from three sides.

At the same time, Su Yan did not know that Hong Chengchou had already prepared his subordinates to wait for his arrival, and after he led his army to rest in Tai'an Prefecture for a night, he didn't care about climbing this majestic Mount Tai, and continued to lead the army to Jinan.

Even when he was in a hurry, he still did not let down his guard, and scattered many scouts along the way to explore the way in front, and when he marched all the way to the deserted Gushan Village, the scouts in front rushed back and reported to him that there was a suspected ambush ahead.

As soon as he heard that there might be an ambush, Su Yan immediately became alert, and he ordered the whole army to stop advancing, change their armor on the spot, and reload their rifles with ammunition to prepare for battle.

Later, more scouts were sent to investigate, and finally got a positive answer - the birds hovering over the distant mountains and forests did not dare to fall, which was a sign of an ambush in the forest.

After getting a positive answer, Su Yan decided to come and plan with one hand, deliberately fell into an ambush, led the Qing army to the open field, and shot him with firearms.

Immediately, the army continued to move forward, and when it marched to the rear of Shuanglong Mountain, around the defeated and unmanned Fanzhuang, only to hear a sudden cannon sound on the side of Shuanglong Mountain, and then countless arrows were shot out of the forest, shooting into the Ming army in the army, but fortunately, the Ming army changed into armor in advance, causing only a small number of casualties.

Seeing this, Zhang Hu in the forest immediately understood in his heart that their ambush was exposed in advance, so he sounded the horn of attack and personally led the team to rush out of the mountains and forests.

The Qing army's foot soldiers immediately followed the shouts and rushed out of the mountains and forests, towards the Ming army in the valley road

Launching a charge, the Ming Cossack infantry on the valley road had already prepared, lined up in a hurry, and in the roar of the officers, raised their guns and fired a round of thunderous volleys at the rushing Qing army!

Bang bang bang –

The Qing soldiers in the charge only saw countless sparks explode in front of them, and then their bodies seemed to be hit hard by an invisible fist in the air, and the whole person fell directly backwards to the ground, and after a few convulsions, they stopped moving.

Under the continuous volley of the Cossack infantry, the Qing infantry in the charge soon suffered heavy losses, and fell one after another, and no longer had the courage to continue the charge.

They didn't even wait for Zhang Hu to give the order to retreat, they scattered screaming first, these green battalion soldiers were not good at fighting, and their rout was faster than the Ming army imagined.

Seeing that the infantry in front of him collapsed, although Zhang Hu was frightened by the firepower of the Ming army, he still gave the order to retreat.

Su Yan didn't expect the Qing army to be defeated so quickly, he looked at the retreat of those Qing troops who looked chaotic, but actually maintained a certain degree of discipline, rolled his eyes, and said to Lin Xingzhu, who was guarding on his side: "I see that the Qing army must still have a back hand, there is no need to let the soldiers disarm, simply clean up the battlefield and continue to advance."

Lin Xingzhu, who had not returned to the battlefield for a long time, agreed to pass on Su Yan's order, and immediately divided a part of the soldiers who did not participate in the battle to take away some usable things on the battlefield, and then discarded the hundreds of corpses lying here and continued to move forward.

Zhang Hu and his subordinates quickly retreated to the place where the large army was arrayed, and he recalled the firepower of the Ming army, and was still a little frightened, and reported to Hong Chengchou what had just happened.

Although Hong Chengchou had seen many twists and turns about the firepower of the Ming army in the court before, and had a certain psychological preparation, he really listened to Zhang Hu's description, and his heart couldn't help but sink.

He looked at the several shield cars that had been temporarily built after being stationed here, and he didn't have much confidence in his heart, not knowing if these could block the projectiles shot by the Ming army, and he looked at the hundreds of cannons of all kinds arranged in a row not far away, and his confidence was a little more.

In any case, he set the battlefield on this flat terrain, and he had 4,000 Mongolian banner soldiers with skilled archers and horses and 5,000 cavalry of the Green Battalion, and there were so many cavalry, no matter how powerful the Ming army was, it should not be able to block the cavalry charge with their bodies in the field.

And in addition to cavalry, he also has more than 30,000 infantry and hundreds of artillery pieces.

"Ahem...... Get ready for battle." He said to his men.