Zhou Shixian stood at the head of Fengyang City, surrounded by a group of officers and guards, after the fog dissipated, he was condescending, and the scene on the battlefield could be seen clearly.

As the saying goes, "the defeat of the army is like a mountain", this sentence is also applicable to the Qing army.

As the front of the Qing army was hit by this heavy blow, the green battalion soldiers who were shocked by the sound of gunpowder explosion and their minds were almost completely uncommanded, and they were in groups of three or five, engulfing each other, and exploded into countless routs and fled backwards, so that the soldiers behind them were also coerced and lost the ability to counterattack.

You must know that the military formation is certainly the standard configuration of field warfare in this era, and it is also a tactic for defeating the enemy, but it must be built on strict discipline and soldiers who carry out orders to the letter, so that it can be effective, otherwise it will shrink into a ball, coerce and squeeze each other, and let others cut and kill.

These green battalion soldiers are the Ming army in the traditional sense, and the Manchurians don't treat them as human beings at all, but they can eat enough and have weapons to compete.

But in peacetime, he is still cannon fodder, expanding the results of the battle when the wind is down, and when he picks up people's heads, fights against the wind, and survives to death, then he may become an uncontrollable rout like when he served the Ming court in the past.

What happened to the Ming army - the rout in front of the army enveloped the entire army formation, causing the battlefield to collapse, and now it only happened to the Qing army with a large number of Ming troops surrendering to the Qing army.

And at this time, as the flag order of Xue Lao Er's middle army came out again, a military horn sounded, and a sound of bowstring vibration sounded in the Ming army's military array, and dense arrows rose into the air at the same time, making a "whoosh" sound, and then poured down towards the center of the Qing army's military array.

After withstanding the repeated attacks of artillery and muskets, the remaining four or five thousand green battalion soldiers withstood the volley of nearly a thousand arrows, where can they have any combat effectiveness, let alone the will to fight, and now they are just helpless villains who are fleeing for their lives.

Although for the green battalion soldiers who were covered with a layer of armor, the damage of the bow and arrow salvo was far less than that of artillery and muskets, but the panic that aggravated it was real, making their rout more rapid.

The battle situation on the south bank of the Huai River was gratifying, and the Ming army occupied a slight advantage in strength, but with the combat effectiveness beyond the expectations of the Qing army, it gave the opponent a heavy blow.

It's just that Duoduo on the north shore looked at the battle situation in the south and reacted immediately. Originally, he had to wait for these landed soldiers to transfer and vacate their positions before he could send troops to continue crossing the Huai River, otherwise it was very likely that the Ming army would take advantage of the chaos to attack because the army was crowded together. But in today's situation, Duoduo can no longer care about this.

At this time, either Nikan was allowed to withdraw and then slowly try to figure it out, or he sent two or three thousand armor soldiers over. The former is certainly safe, but for the Manchus in this period, it is not considered at all, and Duoduo at most thinks that the newly recruited Ming army is not good, where will he think that the Manchurian army is weak?

Therefore, there was almost no controversy, and the Manchurian generals of this southern expedition army all agreed to continue to send troops across the river to annihilate the Ming army that dared to fight with the Qing warriors in one fell swoop.

After all, in their opinion, the so-called Ming army, which in close combat is synonymous with human head and combat exploits, is simply impossible to defeat the Manchu army.

On the tower of Fengyang City, Zhang Huangyan has been keeping a close eye on the movements of the Qing army in the north, and Zhou Shixian has not told him what the backhand preparation is, which makes Zhang Huangyan very nervous, for fear that the main force of the Qing army will cross the river and defeat the main force of 10,000 people under the city.

Although he was the second-in-command second only to Xue Changfu in the new army of the Ninth Battalion, he had not experienced such a battle of 10,000 people, and it was the first time he had seen a real Manchurian soldier. Moreover, how could Zhang Huangyan not know that Zhou Shixian gave him such a big official position in order to win over the officials of the Zhejiang family and take himself as an example?

"Donkey, the Qing army has started to cross the river again!" Zhang Huangyan saw that the north shore was dense, and the ant-like villains began to gather towards the ferry on the shore, and said with some trepidation.

"It's finally here!" Zhou Shixian smiled indifferently, not taking the Qing army who was preparing for a new round of river crossing in his eyes.

"Donkey, if the main force of the Qing army crosses the river, I'm afraid the army under the city will ......"

Before Zhang Huangyan finished speaking, Zhou Shixian continued: "Don't worry, Xuan, the Tartars can't cross the river, Zheng Chenggong has already come." ”

"Zheng Chenggong?"

Zhang Huangyan was surprised, but he suddenly realized, why didn't he think of this Nanjing Navy Admiral who was promoted by the firing line.

However, compared to Zhang Huangyan, Duoduo, Tunqi and others are really terrified!

Their ships had just left the shore, and at the bend of the Huai River in the east, countless huge warships suddenly appeared.

This is by no means an exaggeration, compared to these small boats that can only carry a dozen or dozens of people, Zheng Chenggong asked for it from his father in Fujian, which can carry hundreds of people, and the bow is also equipped with an artillery, a battleship two or three stories high, it can really be described as a "giant ship"!

Duoduo looked at the intersection of water and sky in the east, the huge sail that covered the sky and the sun, and the Adam's apple squirmed, even if it was him, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart - Nikan was afraid that this time it would be more than auspicious.

"Okay, it's really timely, Zheng Chenggong really didn't disappoint this horse!"

Zhou Shixian looked at the fleet that suddenly appeared, and laughed happily, and the rest of the generals who were originally a little worried because of what Zhang Huangyan said, at this time, their hanging hearts were immediately put down. Gao Jie on the side admired the young colt in front of him even more.

Standing on top of the city tower today, he finally really saw the strength of Zhou Shixian's new army, he knew the level of the army under his command, and he could fight with those green camp troops, but the new army of the horses was far superior to this.

The most important thing is that the horse master in front of him can not only fight and train by himself, but also gather all his strength to achieve his own goals. This is what Gao Jie admires most about people from reckless backgrounds - this is the boss he Gao Jie wants to follow.

Without waiting for Gao Jie to think more, the war drums in the army formation of Xue Lao Er's army under the city sounded again, and the eyes of everyone above the city tower were attracted to the past, and they raised their eyes to see the three lines of musketeers in front of the army quickly changed from horizontal formation to vertical formation, and many two-person wide passages were immediately vacated in the middle of the queue.

Under the cover of arrows, Wu Xingye had personally led the cavalry battalion under his command to attack bravely from both wings, and the pikemen, sword and shield bearers in the center of the army formation also attacked in a vertical formation.