At the foot of the tea mountain in the north of Anji City, there is a fairly open flat land, which became the battlefield of the decisive battle between the two armies of the Ming Dynasty and Dajing on the third day of the third month of the third year of the Ming Dynasty.

In the southern part of the battlefield, in the center of several phalanxes of the Great Jing Army, one after another lookout carts erected lookouts. Because the Chashan Heights were occupied by the Ming army, the Dajing Army could only set up a hollow phalanx of 50,000 people on the lowland plains seven or eight miles south of Chashan. Because it is in low ground, the main generals of each formation need to use the pole car to observe the opponent's formation and movement.

Under the banner of the word "Jing" and a cyan dragon, Geng Jingzhong held a beautifully made clairvoyant mirror and scanned the front line of the Ming army.

The Ming army did not seem to have many people, only about 10,000 people, but it spread out a front several miles long.

Under the constant sound of drums and suona, accompanied by a burst of neat footsteps, the red-robed and red-scarf Ming infantry is entering the battlefield from the tea mountain where they are camping, and then from the column into a thin three-row horizontal formation or a small hollow phalanx, covering the entire front, but what is the use of such a thin formation? If you are attacked by cavalry, it will not be scattered in one rush?

Geng Jingzhong, who felt a little strange, stared at his right eye again and looked carefully, in the lens of the clairvoyant mirror, the Ming infantry lined up neatly, the pace was powerful, and it looked a little well-trained, but their military flag was a little sloppy, and a red flag with a few black numbers looked a bit rabble.

Geng Jingzhong, who was not sure whether his opponent was elite or rabble, decided to look more carefully - for him, this battle was a battle for the rise and fall of the imperial kingdom, and he could not make any more mistakes. Otherwise, he, the Dongxing Emperor, was afraid that he would kill the founding Emperor Taizu Gao and the late emperor of the dead country together!

When he looked closer, he saw that something was wrong!

The equipment of this Ming army is very wrong. First of all, all the Ming officers and soldiers did not wear armor, and the armor rate was zero! Not even a single piece of armor, this army should be a rabble, right?

Secondly, they all carry guns! Oh, you can't say it's wrong to carry a gun to the battlefield, but the problem is that these Ming soldiers all carry flintlock pistols, no spears, no swords, and no cavalry. On the contrary, more than a dozen horse-drawn bronze cannons were drilled out of the small forest at the foot of the tea mountain and placed in front of the first column of the Ming army.

When those bronze cannons were pushed in front of the Ming army's infantry column, the Ming army's large array was set up. It was a simple large formation consisting of two large columns of thin horizontal formations and a few small square hollow phalanxes, and the officers and men in the entire large array stood solemnly and silently, and all the flintlock muskets were loaded with bayonets, forming a neat row of steel jungles.

In the spring sun, on the Ming army front, the neat bright red and the dazzling reflection of the bayonets conveyed a strong visual impact, and this momentum did not look like a rabble! Even from a few miles away, the murderous aura they exuded was still rushing towards his face, which not only made Geng Jingzhong feel frightened for a while, but also made Yue Le feel quite bad.

Riding on a war horse, Yue Leke, who was standing next to the lookout cart where Geng Jingzhong was, was experienced in a hundred battles, and at a glance, he knew that the momentum of this Ming army was far above the Jing army, which was three or four times more numerous than them, and he was puzzled, but looking at their equipment, it was too much to do, could it be that they were all Chinese recruits who had just completed their queue training, and they had not had time to master spears, knives, and cards, and there was not enough armor available, but at the same time, Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao happened to have many flintlock pistols in their hands, So you have an army of infantry where everyone carries flintlock pistols?

Yue Le suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart, and the firm will honed by defeat and battle suppressed his uneasiness again, he looked up at Geng Jingzhong who was standing in Wangdou, this is also considered to be the emperor's addiction and he is now driven to this one, is it possible that he can still retreat in disgrace? If he really withdraws, Liu Jinzhong, who is sitting and watching the success or failure, will pounce on and bite like a Daming loyal dog!

Also What is Zhejiang Province?

At least half of the bigwigs of the Restorationists are from Zhejiang!

And because the scholars of Zhejiang liked to run to Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, and later the last time the Ming Dynasty was about to end, there were many Zhejiang gentry who helped the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty to fight against the heavenly soldiers, and finally they did not give up after the Nanming Dynasty was finished, and they were still dreaming of restoring the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty and the dream of TM came true! Therefore, after many Zhejiang gentry returned to Nanjing, who were loyal to him, from the third prince of Zhu, they regarded themselves as Ming Dynasty people again! Earlier, when the Nanjing Republican Court betrayed the identity of Chinese and national soldiers, many Zhejiang people bought it.

Geng Jingzhong's foundation in Zhejiang is weak, and he does not dare to suppress the Ming people and Ming scholars in Zhejiang, so he can only turn a blind eye and deal with it temporarily. If he flees back to Zhejiang, then a group of Zhejiang people and soldiers will probably rise up and cause the world to make a republic!

"Guozhang, what do you think of the Ming army on the other side?" Geng Jingzhong opened his mouth to ask for advice at this time, "They shouldn't be the elite of the Ming army, right?" ”

"The elite is definitely not the elite," Yue Le pondered for a moment, and then said, "The whole army has no armor, and there doesn't seem to be a cavalry to cover the wings, so it doesn't look like the elite." ”

Geng Jingzhong patted the railing of Wangdou and said with a smile: "I think so too. Although the ranks of these Ming troops are very good, but the equipment is too poor, even if there is no armor, there is not even a spear, and there is no cavalry, do you think we should send cavalry to rush first? ”

Yue Le hurriedly shook his head and said, "Don't be busy attacking first, and then see if there may be an ambush on the tea mountain." ”

That's what he thinks!

Because in his opinion, the Ming musketeers on the opposite side seem to be quite imposing, but they have no cavalry, no pikemen, no sword players, there is no way to form a synergy, and their whole army has no armor, and their melee hand-to-hand combat ability is almost none.

Such an army simply cannot withstand the onslaught of cavalry, and only fools can arrange their troops in such a formation. Although that Chen Yonghua has no actual combat experience, he is certainly not stupid.

So there is a high probability of fraud!

Geng Jingzhong nodded, looked at the low tea mountain behind the Ming army, and said to himself: "If that Chen Yonghua really can't fight, then this weak brigade in front of him should be the bait he posed!" ”

As soon as he said this, a few bright red flags suddenly appeared on the slope of the tea mountain opposite, and at the same time, a very rhythmic drum sounded. An extremely passionate rhythm.

Then, those Ming troops who had already finished the formation actually began to sing!

"Arise, humiliated Qiantou! Arise, hungry slaves of the world! Full of enthusiasm, desperate to the death. The old country has long been destroyed, and the new world is waiting for our generation to create. Mo Dao and I are worthless, and we want the world to be the same from now on."

This is the latest version of "Datong Song", which is the song of the Heaven and Earth Society, and also the military song of the Ming New Army. Although the lyrics have been changed a little, the tune is still the same, which is called a wave of magnificence. Tens of thousands of people sang "Datong Song" with the snare drum, and their morale soared all of a sudden. And the tens of thousands of Jing troops on the opposite side were obviously much more numerous, and their equipment looked a lot better, but they were all a little frightened all of a sudden.

And at this moment, on the tea mountain, in addition to Chen Yonghua, who was given the title "Near South" by Li Yat-sen, there is also the general Li Yat-sen himself.

After Li Zhongshan learned that Geng Jingzhong had sent troops to Anji, Pegasus rushed to Guangdezhou, where Chen Yonghua was stationed, and then he and Chen Yonghua went out to Chashan to seek a decisive battle with Geng Jingzhong with the model town that was trained by the Nanjing Jiangwutang.

And this model town is a new-style army established by Li Yat-sen according to the army of the Western Line Infantry Era, and the instructors of the Jiangwutang, and there is only one such town in the Communist Party, and the general soldier is Li Zhongxian, the current head of the Nanjing Jiangwutang.

This model town, together with the two newly formed Guoren towns brought by Chang Wei from Huaidong, was cobbled together to form the Second Army of the Ming Army, with Chen Yonghua personally serving as the military commander and stationed in Guangde Mansion, preparing to meet Geng Jingzhong or attack Hangzhou with Liu Jinzhong, the commander of the Third Army.

In addition to the two roads of Guangdefu and Huzhou, Li Zhongshan also led the first army town expanded from the Shanzi battalion and the two Huaixi Guoren towns transferred from Anhui to form the first army, stationed in Ningguofu, preparing to attack from Ningguofu into Zhejiang, or meet Geng Jingzhong's army in Ningguofu.

In addition, Lu Sanhao was also appointed as the commander of the Fourth Army, leading the Second Town of the Army, which was reorganized by Yingtian Tuanlian, plus two Guoren Towns that also drove from Anhui, to be stationed in Huizhou, with the same mission as Chen Yonghua. Prepare to face Geng Jingzhong or join Li Zhongshan's troops to copy Geng Jingzhong's lair Jiande!

That is to say, Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, Chen Yonghua, Liu Jinzhong, and Zheng Jing, who was left in Nanjing, mobilized a total of 120,000 troops in order to quickly clean up the scourge of Geng Jingzhong, and the troops were divided into four routes!

If Geng Jingzhong hadn't been fooled and didn't deliver the goods to his own door, then the four-way army would have invaded Zhejiang soon!

The reason why Li Zhongshan wanted to split and use the superior forces in his hands was actually because he didn't know where Geng Jingzhong would send troops. Until his alternate eldest brother Liu Jinzhong (who had already said that he would be a brother) sent someone to report to the general Xingyuan of Ning Guofu that Geng Jingzhong was going to take advantage of Anji and Guangdezhou to go north and approach Nanjing.

And Liu Jinzhong's report is of course credible - he is the founding shareholder of Xindaming, and he is at the same level as Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Laishun, Zheng Jing, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua. One of the proper Ming Seven people!

According to the current situation, this group of seven is likely to develop into seven top families in the future!

With such a good future, what reason does Liu Jinzhong have not to follow Daming to the end?

Besides, even if Wu Sangui pulled Geng Jingzhong and Kangxi together to gather a million troops, Daming would not be afraid of them. Isn't it an army of millions! Now there are more than one million Chinese soldiers, Chinese people, and alternate Chinese people in the Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, at least half of the more than one million Chinese and alternate Chinese are concentrated in Jiangsu and Anhui, so the mobilization and organization ability of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangsu and Anhui is very strong.

In addition, Li Zicheng and Li Laishun also have a lot of supporters in Hubei, and it is not so easy for Wu Sangui to be killed!

This Wu Sangui is outdated!

The current Republic of the Ming Dynasty is a country that he completely cannot understand.

Its ability to mobilize the country's war potential is completely beyond Wu Sangui's imagination. This is not only to recruit people to serve as soldiers, but also to mobilize the financial and military industry!

During this period, the General's Mansion has raised as much as 40 million taels of military spending by selling the status of national soldiers, national people, and national bonds!

This is a "special military expenditure" that has not been levied and distributed, and has not even taken into account the normal commercial tax and agricultural tax!

Therefore, Wu Sangui felt that he had an army of hundreds of thousands, and it was completely impossible to lose. And Liu Jinzhong also felt that Daming had millions of people and tens of millions of military spending, and there were also two military industrial bases in Foshan and Zhangzhou, so it was also impossible to lose.

Due to Liu Jinzhong's "betrayal" again, the four-way army on the Ming side is now all in motion!

Lu Sanhao and Zhou Chang, the chief of staff of the First Army, commanded the two armies to attack Geng Jingzhong's old nest Jiande, and immediately after the fight, they would attack Quzhou and Jinhua respectively, then Taizhou and Chuzhou, and finally Wenzhou - these two roads can almost take half of Zhejiang.

And after Li Yat-sen rushed to Guangde with Yao Qisheng Pegasus, he immediately came up with a strategy of using 60,000 people to encircle and annihilate Geng Jingzhong's tens of thousands of troops! Now Chang Wei and Liu Jinzhong are each leading troops to Anji's back. He himself and Chen Yonghua set up a formation in Chashan together, waiting for Geng Jingzhong to come to his death - he really came, and he came out of the nest!

Li Yat-sen was singing "Datong Song" while watching the battle.

Geng Jingzhong's Dajing army array is also quite spectacular, a piece of black pressing, and the armor is responsible for all green (Dajing is Mude Shangqing), and five large hollow phalanxes are laid out in one line.

These five phalanxes all have a bit of a thin skin and big stuffing - there are many infantry and cavalry hidden inside the phalanx.

In addition, there are some Jing army rangers in front of each phalanx, and at first glance they are veteran oils, bullying the Ming army without cavalry, so they frequently run to the Ming army at the foot of the tea mountain to constantly provoke.

Li Zhongshan said to Chen Yonghua beside him: "Geng Jingzhong's Daxu is in the middle of the phalanx, we might as well concentrate our forces to break it, as long as Geng Jingzhong is broken, most of the other Jing armies will disintegrate, and then we will have a complete victory." ”

Li Zhongshan then pointed to Geng Jingzhong's left wing and said to Chen Yonghua: "Geng Jingzhong's left wing is Zeng Yang, Fufu, you and he are old acquaintances, right?" You take three battalions and six guns to make a feint, and when Geng Jingzhong's reserves are sent to the left flank, I will lead the rest of the troops to break his Chinese army! ”

Chen Yonghua was a little confused by Li Zhongshan's words: "Shikai, they have several times more people than us!" Is it that easy to beat? ”

"It should work." Li Yat-sen is actually not too sure. After all, there were so many opponents, and he hadn't seriously learned the tactics of line infantry.

"Should?" Chen Yonghua frowned, "Is it okay?"

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Fufu, don't worry, after today's battle, no one will say that you Chen Jinnan won't fight!" ”

"What will not fight?" Chen Yonghua frowned again, "I don't know how to fight, in fact, I will fight, I also defeated Wu Sangui's brother Wu Sanwei in Wenzhou!" ”

Li Zhongshan laughed and said, "Then it's no problem!" Fufu, send troops, General Ben personally cheers for you! ”

Under the guidance of drums and bright red military flags, more than 2,000 Ming infantry formed eight team-level phalanxes, covering six artillery groups, and walked out of the large formation at the foot of the tea mountain and began to advance towards Geng Jingzhong's left flank phalanx!

Chen Yonghua himself, escorted by dozens of personal cavalry and heralds, walked behind the eight team-level phalanxes.

In addition, these eight team-level phalanxes all divided into a small number of skirmishers armed with rifled guns, scattered in formation, and walked in front of the phalanx.

These skirmishers were good wielders with rifled guns and were responsible for driving away harassing enemy cavalry.

Seeing that Chen Yonghua actually personally commanded more than 2,000 people to attack the Zeng Yang Division, which had more than 10,000 elite soldiers, Geng Jingzhong almost dropped his jaw in shock. The infantry, still musketeers without pikes, dared to use such a thin formation, at the risk of being scattered by the enemy's cavalry, to attack the superior enemy through a large open area.

This is simply looking for death!

This Chen Jinnan is really a scholar who can't fight!

"Woohoo"

When Geng Jingzhong was still surprised, the stragglers of the Ming army had already opened fire on the light cavalry of the Jing army who were close to them and wanted to harvest the heads! Shoot Minnie bullets with in-line flintlock rifled guns, and they are all veterans with excellent marksmanship!

Although the guns were sparse, they were "surprisingly accurate," and in the blink of an eye, seventeen or eighteen light cavalry of the Jing Army had been shot off their horses by the sharpshooters.

And the distance of shooting, the accuracy of marksmanship, is simply incredible!

"Sure enough, there are two hits!"

Geng Jingzhong took a cool breath, turned his head to Yue Le, and said, "Guozhang, how do you think this is going to be beaten?" Do you let them go and touch Zeng Yangxing, or send cavalry to charge one? ”

"Send cavalry to charge!" Yue Le smiled confidently and said, "Your Majesty, the minister will go in person!" ”

"Good!" As soon as Geng Jingzhong heard Yue Le's words, he immediately took out a talisman and threw it to Yue Le under Wangdou, "Guozhang, now all the cavalry is at your disposal, you can fight as much as you want. As long as you can defeat Chen Yonghua. ”

"Yes!"

Yue Le took the token, agreed, and then flew to gather the cavalry!

At the same time, the light cavalry that harassed the Ming army before did not dare to approach the Ming army anymore because they could not bear the loss of being "targeted" by rifled guns.

Without the attack, the marching speed of the more than 2,000 Ming army's flintlock musketeers increased significantly, and in the blink of an eye, they had already approached less than 300 paces on the left flank of the Jing army, and began to arrange artillery.

At the same time, they are also within the range of the Jing army's artillery!

So, the artillery bombardment on both sides soon began, and with the roar of artillery, one after another whistling shells flew over the battlefield

(End of chapter)