In Zhangde Mansion, Wang Pingfan, the general of the Wu army, and several of his generals gathered around the military map spread out on the table, and a military meeting against the Xia army was being held.

Since the Xia army crossed the Yellow River, it occupied Weihui Mansion almost without any obstacles, threatening the rear of the Wu army.

In addition to Wang Yi, the Marquis of Beixi of the Xia army, the Xia army who crossed the Yellow River also had Xu Tianzhong, the former governor of Henan of the Qing court, who was reorganized after the surrender.

As mentioned above, in order to avoid being attacked at both ends, Wang Pingfan had to turn around and stick to Zhangde Mansion, with 10,000 elite soldiers against Wang Yi and Xu Tianzhong's army of more than 40,000.

Among the more than 40,000 Xia troops, Wang Yi directly commanded more than 10,000 elite soldiers in battle, and Xu Tianzhong commanded more than 30,000 Henan Green Battalions that surrendered with him.

Although the Xia army did not have many real elite soldiers, the strength of several times its own still brought some pressure to the Wu army.

However, Wang Pingfan still has a little reliance, and he also has a thousand cavalry based on the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which can easily crush the weak green battalion soldiers under this flat terrain.

Therefore, Wang Pingfan in this military meeting set the first to break Xu Tianchong, and then turn around with the power of the victory to attack Wang Yi, at this time Xu Tianpet from Kaifeng Fu after crossing the river has been into the Daimyo's Mansion, even under Changyuan, Dongming, Slip, Jun four counties, continue to approach Zhangde Mansion.

Perhaps because of Xu Tianzhong's meritorious service, his soldiers and horses advanced faster than Wang Yi, Wang Yi was still in Weihui Mansion City at this time, and there was a two-and-a-half-day distance between him and Xu Tianzhong, which gave Wang Pingfan a chance.

Subsequently, Wang Pingfan only left a small number of soldiers and horses to stay in Zhangde Mansion, and he personally led the army to leave the city and go straight to Jun County.

At this time, Xu Tianzhong did not know that he had become the target of the enemy, and after he conquered Jun County, he reported to Wang Yi and waited for the latter's commendation, while stationing troops here, waiting for Wang Yi to go north.

However, two days later, Wang Pingfan's soldiers and horses arrived north of Jun County first, and Xu Tianzhong's scouts reported the news to him as soon as possible, so that he hurriedly reorganized his army and went out of the city to line up.

The city wall of Jun County is low and the space is relatively narrow, Xu Tianzhong's 30,000 troops cannot be stretched out in this small city, and the Wu army facing only 10,000 troops, so he decided to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle.

He had never heard of the name of Wang Pingfan, so he preconceived that this person was just an unknown person, and he did not want to worry, and intended to use Wang Pingfan as a stepping stone for him to climb up.

Moreover, more importantly, the soldiers and horses of Beixi Hou Wang Yi are also coming north, and he can be regarded as fearless.

In any case, under Xu Tianzhong's order, the 30,000 green battalion soldiers who changed their banners slowly went out of the city, crossed the Wei River around the west and north of the county, set up a position with their backs to the Wei River, and took the initiative to meet the Wu army.

Wang Pingfan did not order the Guanning Iron Cavalry to advance with the infantry, so in Xu Tianzhong's opinion, his army was composed of pure infantry troops, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry followed a mile away, and would not join the battlefield until the battle began.

Two hours later, the infantry armies of the two sides met on the plain, Xu Tianzhong looked at the opponent's army formation composed of only infantry, and couldn't help but smile at the generals on his side: "The Wu army only has foot soldiers, it's really pitiful, my army can easily defeat it!"

"What the commander said is extremely true, the Wu army is just a group of clowns jumping off the beam, how can they resist the attack of the adults, and the last general is willing to personally lead the troops and horses to launch an attack and win a good start for the adults." The general beside him clenched his fists and said.

"Good!" Xu Tianzhong looked at this general from Chen Zhou with satisfaction, and said, "General Chen, this official will divide your five thousand elite soldiers to attack the middle army of the Wu army."

After that, he named the other two generals and ordered them to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to surround from the left and right flanks, and cooperate with General Chen to attack together.

After the order was issued, the war drums on the Xia army's side sounded rapidly, the military flag surged, and the Xia army was divided into three main army formations, and under the leadership of three generals, it pressed towards the Wu army on the opposite side.

Wang Pingfan was not afraid of danger, he calmly commanded the infantry to line up to meet the enemy, set up a series of light and easy-to-carry tiger squat cannons at the front of the military formation, and filled them with gunpowder and projectiles.

In addition to these tiger squat cannons, his army also carried a small number of Fran cannons and sub-mother cannons, which he deployed on both sides to bombard the Xia army on the opposite side amid the rumbling cannons.

There is a lack of firearms in these Xia army composed of the original Henan Green Battalion, not to mention any Franco machine guns, sub-mother cannons, and even the tiger squat cannon has only more than ten guns, and there are quite a lot of individual light weapons such as bird guns, but before entering the firing range, they can only passively be bombarded by the Wu army's artillery.

"Speed up! Speed up!"

The general named Chen Xiancun shouted loudly, encouraging his soldiers to speed up, but at this moment, a cannonball whistled and smashed over, falling into the crowd accurately, plowing a bloody path in the crowd.

After only being bombarded by a few shells, there was commotion and confusion in the advancing Green Battalion military formation, but fortunately, it was suppressed by the generals in time to stabilize their morale.

Xu Tianpet naturally would not watch his soldiers being wantonly shelled, he immediately counted two thousand cavalry to attack and killed the two wings of the Qing army, what he didn't know was that the movement of these two thousand cavalry was a good way to cover up the movement of the Guanning iron cavalry that was rushing towards this side in the distance.

Bang bang bang –

As the infantry formations of the two sides gradually closed the distance, the two sides began to exchange fire, and the earth-shattering gunfire and the smoke of gunpowder added a bit of tension to the battlefield.

The deafening sound of cannons and the screams of people before they died, as well as the blood splashed after being shot, caused the adrenaline rush of the soldiers who participated in the battle, and the fear was forcibly suppressed at this moment, replaced by the excitement of the adrenaline rush.

The two sides did not enter the phase of firearms firing each other, and the birdmen of both sides fired only one volley, and then left the main battlefield to the melee infantry behind them.

In the midst of shouts of killing, the Xia Army's melee infantry shouted and slaughtered the opponent's military formation, and the archers deployed in the rear shot arrows to kill the enemy at this time, and a round of arrows fell from the sky, shooting some of the unlucky ghosts who did not wear armor or wore shields.

"Kill!"

Chen Xiancun, who was bald, shouted, swinging his knife to cut off an arrow flying towards him, and in his sight, the Wu soldiers who were waiting for the shield on the opposite side suddenly withdrew their shields, revealing the muzzles of the tiger squat cannons behind them that were covered by the shields.

Then in the next second, several deafening cannon sounds sounded in front of the Wu army's formation, and countless stones and lead were sprayed out from the black hole of the tiger squat cannon, sweeping the oncoming Xia army.

"No!"

Chen Xiancun watched this scene and shouted loudly with tears in his eyes, but the foot soldiers in front of him had been sprayed with stones and lead directly shot into a sieve, and the shield in front of him and the armor on his body could not stop such a close shot at all, and many foot soldiers lost their lives before they even had time to scream.