"Soldiers!"

The battle was imminent, Wu Sangui looked at the morale of the soldiers under his command, stepped forward, knowing that all this must be changed, he rode out, followed by the guards to the front of the army, pulled out his saber, and shouted loudly:

"Soldiers of the three armies, this battle is related to the fortune of my Great Zhou Dynasty, all the soldiers should fight bravely to kill the enemy, protect the family and defend the country, and spread my will, whoever beheads one Xia army, rewards ten taels of silver, beheads two people, promotes one level, beheads five people, rewards ten acres of fertile land, beheads one enemy general, and seals ten thousand households!"

Wu Sangui Rong Ma all his life, how can he not understand that only money, grain, acres and beauties can mobilize the morale of the soldiers, so he announced the reward standard very bluntly, Wu Sangui's voice fell, and the soldiers who heard his voice in front cheered, and the cheers infected the soldiers behind, and soon, the whole army followed and cheered.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and the morale of the Zhou army was indeed mobilized, they swept away the previous tension, and looked at the Xia army on the opposite side with a look full of eagerness, as if the opposite side was not an enemy who could kill, but a silver pair that could walk.

The cheers of the Zhou army reached the Xia army's side, and Su Dingyuan, who was riding on horseback, frowned slightly, and asked the guards beside him, "What are they shouting?"

When the guard heard this, he slapped his horse out, and after a while, he rode back again, hugged his fist at Su Dingyuan and said, "Back to the superintendent, the Zhou army shouted to kill the enemy, and the momentum was like a rainbow, it must be the pseudo-Zhou Wu Sangui to inspire the morale of his subordinates with heavy rewards."

"Reward boosts morale?" Su Dingyuan let out a sneer, but didn't take it to heart.

His eyes swept over the army he brought, the soldiers of the third town in the army have been fighting with him in the north and south since Hunan, all of them are elite veterans of the war, Sun Kewang, who was once rampant, was driven to the east by them, what is Wu Sangui afraid of?

"Pass me the order." Su Dingyuan's thin lips opened lightly, his tone was flat, but it was full of killing intent, and said, "Blow the military horn, open the way with artillery, and the whole army will attack."

"The overseer has an order, and the whole army will attack—"

When Su Dingyuan's words fell, the herald beside him blew the horn of attack, and the passionate horn sound broke through the clouds, and in the sound of the horn, the attack order issued by Su Dingyuan gradually spread in the army with the roars of the heralds, and entered the ears of every soldier.

"Get moving! Move it! Load the artillery and let the Zhou army see what a real artillery strike is!"

In the artillery position of the Xia army, the officers shouted loudly, ordering their subordinates to load the artillery, the artillerymen were busy, they stuffed the black balls into the barrels, and compacted them with the black powder poured into them in advance, and after all the guns were loaded, the officer held high the colored flag, and under his command, the fuses of the guns were immediately ignited-

"Fire—"

Rumble –

Dozens of artillery pieces were fired at the same time, making the earth tremble, and after the artillery was fired, the huge recoil force flew backwards with a piece of snow on the ground, and the pungent smoke spread out together, almost enveloping the position.

In the infantry queue, Li Fang (the battalion commander who appeared in the battle of Qiancang Mountain), who had been promoted to the rank of general, walked at the front of the queue with a command knife in his hand, he suddenly felt the ground tremble violently for a while, and then there was a rumbling cannon sound like thunder in the middle of the day, he raised his head and looked at the sky, just to see dozens of black shells whistling overhead, smashing into the Zhou army formation opposite.

Behind the black cannonball, 32 rockets fired by eight rocket launchers dragged a long black tail flame in the air, the scene was extremely shocking, and the few newly replenished recruits in the bid watched the rockets fly by, and they also let out cheers, they all knew that the rocket represented destruction and death, and they also knew that once the rocket fell, the Zhou army would definitely be killed or wounded.

Li Fang did not scold the cheering recruits, he knew that those recruits were taking this opportunity to vent the tension and fear in their chests before the battle, and after the battle, they would face death and transform from recruits to calm veterans.

The Zhou army on the opposite side was not passively beaten, almost at the first time when the artillery sounded on the Xia army's side, the Zhou artillery followed and fired back, and the shells fired by both sides crossed in mid-air, and after a few seconds, the shells fell to the ground like hail, smashing holes on the ground and splashing a snowflake.

Some of the shells also fell into the crowd, plowing a bloody path directly in the crowd, even if it was just grazed by the shells, the fragile human body would be cut off a large piece of flesh, and the frontal hit would turn into a piece of minced meat, and the soldiers who had lost their limbs knelt on the ground with the severed place and let out a heart-rending wail, shaking the morale of the soldiers around them.

The shield cart prepared in advance by the Zhou army to defend against the sharp firearms of the Xia army failed to block the terrible cannonball, and the shell easily smashed through the shield cart that could block the rifle projectile, crushing the soldiers hiding behind.

Under the shelling, the bloody and tragic scene made the Zhou army's foot soldiers, who had just been inspired by the promised heavy reward, suddenly calm down, and many of them looked at the terrible scene, their eyes were full of fear, and even retched directly, their legs trembled.

Compared with the solid artillery shells that can directly kill infantry, the performance of rockets, which mainly kill by incendiary and shrapnel, is slightly inferior, and after the rocket lands, because the ground is covered with a layer of snow, it does not ignite a fire on the ground, only some unlucky people die under the flying shrapnel, or are ignited by the flames generated by the explosion, and turn into a burning man.

The Xia army was also hit by artillery, but compared with the Zhou army, the morale of the Xia army due to the shelling had almost no changes, especially the Chinese army, which suffered more shells, and the soldiers of the third town who were shelled did not move, filled the vacant position of the dead robe, and continued to advance.

In the rumbling cannon, the Xia army gradually approached, and finally entered the range of the Zhou army's bow and crossbow, the Zhou army fired thousands of arrows in unison, shooting at the approaching Xia army, the dense arrows fell from the sky, falling into the Xia army's formation like raindrops, although the Xia army's foot soldiers had armor to defend themselves, but there were still many soldiers who fell down with arrows, the blood stained the white ground, and the hot blood gradually melted the snow.

Su Dingyuan watched his infantry engage the Zhou army with the Zhou army in the back, he witnessed the Zhou army killing and wounding a large number of Xia troops with bows and crossbows, and witnessed the Xia army firing several rounds of volleys at the Zhou army with the power of thunder after entering the range of rifle fire.

The sound of the gun echoed throughout the battlefield, and the intensity was like a firecracker during the New Year, but its power and morale blow were not comparable to that of a soft firecracker.

The two armies fought, but Su Dingyuan never let go of his heart, while watching the whole battlefield, he was actually looking for an unguardable weapon in the Zhou army - Guanning Iron Cavalry.

The Guanning Iron Cavalry under the command of Wu Sangui is famous all over the world, and it is able to shake the existence of the Manchu Eight Banners in the field battle, even after Wu Sangui surrendered, the Guanning Iron Cavalry still retains the structure and is active on the battlefield against the peasant army and the Ming army.

But now, he didn't see the existence of Guan Ning's iron cavalry from beginning to end, and he didn't see those heavy cavalry wearing cloth armor and holding three-eyed guns around Wu Sangui's imperial banner.

It was precisely in order to guard against this prestigious cavalry that Su Dingyuan put all the cavalry in the general and waited for the appearance of the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

In Wu Sangui's style, it was impossible for him not to put the elite cavalry of the Guanning Iron Cavalry in the rear so that they would not participate in the battle, unless...... They laid an ambush elsewhere in advance.

Thinking of this, Su Dingyuan's heart sounded an alarm bell, his eyes began to scan around the battlefield, wanting to find a place where he could ambush the cavalry, his eyes were locked on the dense forest on the side of the battlefield, that dense forest He did not order anyone to explore, and he didn't know its depth, but from the outside, it seemed that a large number of people and horses could indeed be hidden.

Out of prudence, Su Dingyuan still decided to order someone to check, he sent a few scouts to rush to the dense forest, and for the sake of prudence, he also ordered Tan Hong, the Marquis of Xinjin, who did not participate in the battle, to lead the headquarters to guard the direction of the dense forest.

However, Su Dingyuan was still a step slower, seeing that the infantry of the two armies had already engaged, the Guanning Iron Cavalry ambushed in the dense forest finally couldn't hold it back, and showed their fangs to the Xia army.

Under the leadership of Wu Sangui's confidant Wu Guoying, the Guanning iron cavalry took off the white robes used for camouflage, rode out of the dense forest, and killed the Xia army's flanks and rear, followed by more than 1,000 iron cavalry in ambush.

The sudden killing of the Guanning Iron Cavalry instantly attracted the attention of Su Dingyuan, who had already set his eyes on this place, and he really had an ambush in his heart, and the heart that had been hanging was finally let go, and he was in a relaxed mood to mobilize all the cavalry in the army and order the Marquis of Tongcheng

Ma Tengyun and Nanzhang Bo Wang Guangxing respectively led their troops to meet the battle.

That's right, what human beings are most afraid of is the unknown, if Guan Ning Iron Horse has not appeared, Su Dingyuan will always worry about it, but after Guan Ning Iron Horse appeared, his heart was relieved.

Although Su Dingyuan sent all the cavalry, because the Xia army had been fighting in the southwest with complex terrain before, there was no large-scale cavalry in the army, and all the cavalry added up to only more than 2,500 people, and the war horse riding was still a short Guizhou horse in the southwest, how to compare with the tall Liaodong horse?

In any case, Ma Tengyun and Wang Guangxing bravely led the cavalry to meet them, and the two of them took the lead, holding spears, and slapped their horses under their crotches to meet the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

The cavalry of the two armies issued completely different slogans and battle cries, and collided head-on on the white earth, and before engagement, the Guanning Iron Cavalry lit the three-eyed gun and fired a dense salvo at the oncoming Xia cavalry.

In the deafening gunshot, the Xia cavalry were shot and fell off their horses, falling to the ground like dumplings, and then, in the smoke of gunpowder from the three-eyed gun, the Guanning iron cavalry picked up the three-eyed gun and smashed it towards the oncoming Xia cavalry.

Then, mixed with the crisp sound of broken bones and the shrill screams of people, the two sides passed by, and the people turned on their backs, and there were casualties among each other.