Huaibei, Fu Liji.

The sound of gunshots, shouts of killing, and horses' hooves resounded in the early morning when the sky was just bright.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves when the Manchurian iron cavalry charged swept out from the Fuli Jicheng to the west, and the sharp arrows thrown by the cavalry rained down on the chariot formation of the Huaixi regiment, and the sound of arrows inserting into the wooden planks was everywhere.

The Huaixi regimental training, which relied on the vehicle formation to fight, counterattacked with bird guns and bows and crossbows, and also fired a rain of bullets and arrows, and the Manchurian iron cavalry who fought bravely and killed was unexpectedly suffering heavy casualties.

Before the Huai army's chariot array, there were dead men and dead horses

Li Yat-sen rode a horse and stood behind the car formation in the west of Fu Liji, looking intently at the battlefield in front of him, surrounded by all the elite soldiers of the Shanzi battalion, one by one, eager to rush out of the car formation, kill into the enemy group, and cut off ten or eight of his heads to repay the merit!

However, the two thousand mountain-shaped battalions in Li Yat-sen's hands cannot be rashly thrown into the battlefield - they are the backbone of the whole army, both used to supervise the formation, and used to plug the gaps, in case they can't win, they still have to be the palace army!

There were 10,000 Huai troops who followed Li Zhongshan to the north, and there were also 5,000 Yingtian regimental training borrowed from Lu Sanhao. However, because the situation in Huaibei was gratifying, and Yingtianfu was a little tight, Lu Sanhao sent someone to cross the river to ask Li Zhongshan for the 5,000 Yingtian group exercises a while ago. Therefore, Li Zhongshan only had 10,000 Huai troops left, in addition to the 2,000 "Huaiyong" who spoke Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew and Northwest accents, there were about 8,000 Zhen Huaiyong with extremely high "Huai content". One of the battalions, that is, 1,600 men guarded the old camp in Suzhou, and the remaining four battalions were split into "soldiers" and scattered to the "group army" in various parts of Huaixi as pillars.

By the way, there are soldiers for generals, and soldiers go with generals, of course, there are some in Li Dazhongtang's Huai army, but it is not a fundamental rule. In the various battalions below the Huai Army, there is a team of 200 people who is the old Huai Army.

Before crossing to the north, the old Huai army of this team practiced a set of simple and practical "chariot warfare methods" - that is, using a cart to load a wooden shield with a horse gun and a straw bag (filled with soil) to quickly build a simple fortress on the battlefield to protect themselves from being defeated by the enemy.

Although this style of play is very inflexible and cannot be compared with the tall "long gun plus queue shooting", it is easy to achieve quickly. Those new battalion leaders in Huaixi who had just joined the gang could not grasp the cooperation of musketeers, pikemen, artillery, and cavalry at all, and if they encountered the assault of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, it was easy to break up. And with this kind of barricade tactics, at least the hard village can be repaired under the nose of the enemy.

And in this battle of Fu Liji, the car base tactics came in handy.

The battlefield of this Fuliji was picked by Luo Dawei for the head snake in Huaibei, which was naturally not conducive to the movement of the Manchurian cavalry - Fuliji was just sandwiched between the two rivers of Suishui, and it was a long and narrow river plain.

The Ming Huai army can first rely on the defense of the South River, and wait for the Qing army to concentrate around Fuliji, and then dispatch the temporary naval army to march along the middle river of Suishui (there is a north river channel to the north of the middle river) to cut off the pontoon bridge on the middle river, and form a north-south flank attack on the Qing army of Fuliji.

Then, according to the plan formulated by Luo Dawei, the Huai army marching along the middle river channel should deploy defenses and block the middle and north rivers. Huaiyong, who drove from the direction of Suzhou, had to wade through several shoals on the Nanhe River in the evening of the same day—these shoals were not easy to find, only the snakes on the Huaibei side could find them, and the Qing army did not know about them at all.

After the completion of the crossing, the Huai army's entrapment of Fu Liji changed from a north and south to a four-sided encirclement - these shoals were located on the east and west sides of Fu Liji.

Now Gustek is a little anxious. Even if the north and south are attacked, there are two rivers blocked anyway, and he really can't bear it and can still escape upstream along the river, that is, in the south direction of the river.

But that Wang Datou is too lacking in morality, not only blocking the front and back, but also blocking the left and right. Don't give a way! Why don't you have a fence? Why are they surrounded by the south, south, and northwest?

So as soon as the next day dawned, Geste gritted his back molars and sent cavalry to launch a counterattack against the Huai army west of Fuliji. And the reason why he wanted to bite his back molars was because he was confused for a while and regretted not launching a breakout battle last night!

Because in just one night, the Ming Huai Army built two deadly fortresses on the east and west sides of Fu Liji!

As soon as the base is blocked, it will be a little difficult for the 10,000-Eight Banner Horse Team of Gustai to stand out.

But now, regret is useless, and the brave can only meet in a narrow way. So from this early morning onwards, the west side of Fuliji became a battlefield for cavalry against the chariot base.

And the first round of attacks organized by Geste hit the opponent's "granite defense" head-on, and it directly broke the blood.

Although the barrier looks quite thin, it doesn't seem difficult to break through. But when the Eight Banners of a battalion (staff leader) rushed up, they knew that it was powerful. The archers, crossbowmen, and musketeers of the Huai army hid behind the barricade, and as soon as the Eight Banners approached, they were indiscriminate with arrows and guns! Although the fight is not very accurate, and the lethality of the bow and crossbow is limited, it is difficult to take down an Eight Banners soldier at once. But I can't stand the arrows of others! Besides, the rain of arrows is mixed with bullets, and they are all the kind of bullets that hit quite accurately! The Eight Banners vest that ran along the base while releasing arrows, and at the same time had to look for the weak point of the Huai Army's defense, suffered heavy casualties, and people constantly fell from their horses and fell heavily to the ground, and some of them were trampled by the war horses running up behind them with their hooves a few times, and they were injured and wounded, and there were dead and alive.

However, the current Eight Banners are still much stronger than when they were beaten by Wu Sangui in southern Sichuan two years ago, Rao was killed and injured by the enemy's rain of arrows and bullets, they still insisted on running back and forth in front of the Huai army, and even found the weak point of the Huai army's chariot base - this weak point is located near the Suishui River, there is no horse gun in front of the chariot base, and the chariot base is also sloppy, that is, more than ten short grain trucks, and there is no shield on it, just a few straw bags to deal with it, and the war horse can even jump over!

The leader of one of the Eight Banners who led the team felt that the opportunity had come, pointed the waist knife in his hand to that place, and shouted: "Eight Banner warriors, rush to Lao Tzu!" ”

"Rush!"

The Eight Banners soldiers who followed closely behind him also roared, and they were all holding back the fire in their bellies!

The majesty of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers was defeated by Wu Sangui's old traitor in Sichuan, and their Eight Banners soldiers were really old and aggrieved, they originally walked sideways everywhere, and the Heavenly Soldiers were invincible!

Now when they see that everyone is going around and they are stationed in Jingzhou, there is a "bear" in Xiangyang in the north that is powerful in the world, Wuchang in the east has a "Chuang" to dominate Sanjiang, and there is a Wu Guogui in the south who is fierce and abnormal, and none of them can beat it!

Later, when I came to Jiangnan, I thought I could bully Jiangnan people, but I didn't expect that the Jiangnan people who were easy to bully had not rebelled, and the Jiangnan people who were on the contrary were entrenched in Jinling, which was not easy to provoke. Although they didn't let them use their heads to knock on the Jinling city wall, they watched their allies fall under the artillery fire, bullet rain, and arrows of the thieves every day, and they didn't feel good in their hearts!

Now that the opponent in Huaibei has been replaced by the peasant soldiers of Huaisi, you can always chop melons and vegetables, right? Who knew that these Huaisi buns not only have a large number, but also set up a large car formation! However, because they were in a hurry, they left the artillery team that specialized in breaking the car formation behind and did not bring it to the Fu Li Ji, and as a result, they were not careful and let people block both sides of the Fu Li Ji with the car formation!

And the north and south of Fuliji were blocked by those Huaisi farmers relying on the river!

This. It's the rhythm of being surrounded and hungry!

This time, they are light soldiers, and the light soldiers have no food! Of course, it's not that there is nothing at all, but it is not much, and it is enough for a few days for people to eat and chew. As soon as these days passed, the horses had to be killed for food.

And once the cavalry is out of horses, then they can only wait for the rear infantry led by Mu Zhan to save this Mu Zhan, he is the descendant of Jin Taiji's long house!

Jin Taiji's descendants of the long house looked at Nurhachi's face to pull the Qing Dynasty?

It's not reliable to think about, you have to rely on yourself!

Because they knew that Mu Zhan was unreliable, these Eight Banners uncles in Beijing City could only save themselves, and they scolded and scolded one by one and launched a charge with a dancer spear!

"Wang Datou, you are a slave with three surnames, and the master will fight with you!"

"Wang Datou, bring the big head!"

"Wang Datou, if you have a kind, you will come to fight with the master for three hundred rounds!"

"Big head, your grandma."

Not to mention, scolding Wang Datou can indeed improve a little spirit, not only the spirit of the people, but also the spirit of the horses, and really jumped over the more than ten short grain trucks one after another, and after a while, two or three hundred horsemen jumped over the low grain carts and rushed into the position of the Huai army!

"It's in, it's great to finally get in!" Gustai cried a little with joy when he saw this scene.

"Dutong, hurry up and let the second battalion of the strikers press up!" A Goshkha leader hurriedly came forward to make a suggestion.

"Good! Drumming and marching." Geste waved his arm vigorously, "Bring a drum to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will beat the drum himself!" ”

"Huh!"

Before the snare drums could be brought over to Geste, one of the leaders watching the battle screamed: "Oh no, there is an ambush. There are pikemen behind the formation! ”

It turned out that this flaw was deliberately arranged by Luo Dawei, the head of the Luo Jiaji big-character battalion, who had a curtain behind the low grain cart, and many flags were planted in front of the curtain, and behind the curtain was a ten-column horizontal formation composed of hundreds of spearmen. There was also a row of repulsion pistols to prevent the Eight Banners from rolling to the side of the barrier.

When the vests of the Eight Banners jumped over the grain carts and rushed into the car formation, the banners that were originally standing and the curtains that were pulled were all lowered, revealing rows of spear heads exuding cold glow under the morning sun.

And behind these pikemen, there are hundreds of Pu Daomen brought by Luo Dawei, the patriarch of Luo Jiaji, and his brother Luo Youwei.

The two brothers of the Luo family put a big leather drum in front of them, and they both carried drum hammers in their hands, and when they saw the curtain lowered, Luo Dawei yelled: "Pierce the tartars to death!" Glory and wealth, just look at the present! ”

His brother Luo Youwei also shouted: "If you want to be rich, fight with your life!" ”

After the two brothers finished yelling, they threw off their arms and began to hammer the drum!

They are known to be prestigious in Luojiaji, and now the people who put big guns in front of them are also the children of Luojiaji, the real father-son soldiers, the brothers who fight, and the patriarch behind them. And there is glory and wealth ahead!

And the patriarch of Luo Da and the second patriarch of Luo both said that if anyone takes half a step back and cuts off his head, he will be expelled from the family tree!

All the children of the Luo family could only grit their teeth and hold their spears at this time, and they didn't move as if they were rooting under their feet.

And the Eight Banners who found out that they were fooled had no choice, they couldn't stop the horse anymore, so they had to bite the bullet, crying and slamming into the gun array, at most retracting the back of the horse's neck - let the horse die if you want to die!

I only heard a terrible sound of "bang bang bang", and the horses, cavalry, cavalry, spears, and pikemen all collided into a ball!

Some were stabbed through the body, some were knocked out by a huge momentum, some were lifted off the back of a wounded warhorse, some died on the spot, some were seriously wounded, and let out a terrible scream. There are also people who are lucky enough to just fall from the back of a dying horse, and they can also draw their waist knives and slash wildly. The cavalry and their horses in front suffered heavy casualties, while the cavalry behind continued to climb over the grain carts and plunge into the meat grinder-like battlefield. However, because there were too many fallen horses and soldiers in front, they were all crowded together layer upon layer, and the cavalry that came up behind had no way to attack, so they had to dance their spears, or slap, or stab the Luo family gunners below. The cavalry assault gun array quickly turned into a bloody hand-to-hand fight!

Because most of the sons of the Luo family did not wear armor, they did not have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, but the market towns in the Huaixi area were often fought. Therefore, their martial arts and strength are no worse than those Eight Banner Lords, plus they feel superior in numbers, and they fight side by side, and they do not retreat to the death, and they go forward one after another, so there are more and more dead people in front of the spear array. People on both sides are constantly falling, and at this time, it depends on who is stronger-willed, who is more willing to bear losses, and who keeps filling people in.

"There are too many of them, right?" In the distance, Gustairt's voice trembled.

Although he was a veteran of Dorgon Dorgon, he had never seen a battle in which a large area of his own family fell in a pool of blood. And the other party is just some unarmored pikemen and Pak swordsmen!

"Dutong, is Mingjin retreating and letting our brothers retreat and take a breath first?"

"All of them, it's not going to work, the cavalry behind can't rush in, don't dare to rush in!"

"Withdraw."

Gustaine's ears were full of defeatist rhetoric, and he himself knew it was wrong!

What he has under his hand is the Eight Banners vest, and he can be regarded as an elite soldier among the Eight Banners. If you want to change to the generation of horse armor soldiers who entered the customs back then, all of them are warriors with high martial arts, how can they be inseparable from a group of Huaixi Han farmers. Oh, it seems to be pressed and beaten by the enemy, and it is still being defeated and retreating?

This shows that the force of the Eight Banners has declined to the point that they can only practice shoulder to shoulder with the Han regiment, and even slightly inferior, this battle is still like this?

It's not just that Fu Liji didn't have to fight, but the entire "Second Ming and Qing War" didn't have to fight

Thinking of this, he looked a lot sluggish, and said to the people around him in a hoarse voice: "Mingjin. Mingjin retreats! Let everyone withdraw and stop fighting today! ”

"Don't fight? How can we break through without fighting? One of the staff leaders on the side was taken aback.

"If we don't break through, we will wait for Manager Mu to come to the rescue, we will stick to and wait for help, Manager Mu will not ignore us. He is a Manchurian nobleman! ”

At this time, Mu Zhan didn't mention anything about Jintaiji.

"Governor, you can save Gtutong and his 10,000 Eight Banner Soldiers!"

"Minister in charge, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, you must unify all the lags!"

is blocking the governor of the camp in the north of the Yangtze River. What Mu Zhanma cried to him before the horse was the two living treasures of Shang Kejiao and Nian Yaoling. Didn't they have been left behind by Gustai with three thousand infantry before? It's a blessing in disguise. They were walking too slowly to enter the encirclement.

Although they didn't have time to enter the encirclement, they didn't dare to go back to the mansion, and that unlucky guy led 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers to die in front!

Now that I am surrounded by Wang Datou, how can this be good? Do you want them to carry the black pot? They can't carry it. What can I do?

When he was in a hurry, Mu occupied 20,000 banner troops and the infantry of the green battalion finally arrived.

With the two combined, Mu Zhan now has 23,000 soldiers to fight, which is a lot, and he can go to save Geste.

Although he doesn't think much of the old guy Gustai, he can't look at tens of thousands of Eight Banners and fold in Huaibei Fuliji!

Otherwise, the regent and the emperor would be furious together, what should he do?

But the question is, he has 23,000 on hand, can he save Gustai? Don't get in on it yourself.

"How many Han people are there who surround Fu Liji?" Mu Zhan decided to inquire about the number of people on the other side first.

"One hundred thousand! At least 100,000! Shang Kejiao gritted his teeth and reported a number.

"What? One hundred thousand." Mu Zhan was taken aback.

The Qing Dynasty used very few soldiers to fight wars, 10,000 or 20,000 was a large army, and 100,000 really had to be at the level of a regent to bring so many soldiers.

"Can't be wrong, there are really 100,000! Even if it's less, it's not much less," Nian Yaoling said, "Although it's just a regimental exercise, not an army of the imperial court, but an army of 100,000 thieves is still not to be underestimated!" ”

"Chief, why don't we withdraw first, take a look, and then make a decision?" Shang Kejiao didn't want to fight at all, so he thought about discussing peace, not to mention dividing the river and ruling the river, even if it was to divide the Huai and rule, it would not have much impact on his personal interests.

"No way!" Mu Zhan shook his head, "Must be saved. Even if there are a million enemies, we can't die without help! If the emperor and the regent blame us for not saving us when we die, what can we do? ”

"But there are 100,000 enemies!"

Mu Zhan sighed: "Do your best and listen to the destiny of heaven. Command the three armies, speed up! “

"Huh!"

The generals below shouted together.

(End of chapter)