"Recover the city of Beijing and capture Kang Mazi alive!"

"Destroy the Qing captives, be a countryman, and divide the fields!"

"Arise, those who do not want to be slaves, their blood is already boiling"

When the sky was light, the earth-shattering slogan, the blood-boiling "Datong Song" sounded one after another, and the piercing suona sound and the drum with a strong sense of rhythm also played together. Red teams walked out of the eight camp gates of the Ming army's camp, and thousands of soldiers followed their respective battalion flags and brigade flags to form a dense marching column and walked to the pontoon bridge on the Jinggou River.

Eight pontoon bridges had already been erected on the Jinggou River - the eight divisions of the First and Fifth Army Corps had a special pontoon bridge and a special camp gate. Between the gates and pontoons of each division, the route of march was marked with a small pennant with the number of the division.

The staff officers of the Military Command Department of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty were indeed very thoughtfully planned!

In addition to the cavalry, infantry, and artillery of the divisions that are now advancing, each division also has one of the most elite infantry battalions, an artillery team, and a light cavalry team, which have long been placed on the north bank of the Jinggou River, guarding eight bridgeheads while maintaining contact with the Qing army's front. The Qing army, which was originally deployed on both sides of the Beisha River, began to retreat in the direction of the Jiehe River, and it was they who discovered and reported it.

When the Ming army brigade marched to the front line, on the north bank of the Jinggou River, the cavalry and infantry of both sides had begun a small but very fierce battle, and there were bursts of musket shooting and grenade explosions in several small villages between the Jinggou River and the Beisha River.

These villages were used as key points to cover the retreat of the Qing army. Kangxi wants to lead the Ming army to the first line of the Beisha River, which can be crossed, and fight half-way and attack! Of course, it was necessary to pretend to be a real retreat, so horseback musketeers were placed in these villages, and they were allowed to rely on the villages to resist, and then run away on horseback when they could no longer resist.

However, the strength of the Ming army's attack far exceeded the imagination of the Qing army musketeers guarding these villages!

The troops placed in the bridgehead on the north bank of the Jinggou River were all the "seed battalions" of the Ming army, that is, the backbone infantry battalions that were retained as "seed troops" in peacetime, and they were all "Long March soldiers" who had served for a long time. Although most of the "Long Marchers" were sent out to serve as platoon commanders and squad leaders during the expansion of the army. However, there are still many veterans who remain in these "seed battalions" and continue to serve as "seeds". The recruits who are added are also selected from the boot camp and cultivated as "seeds of the future".

Therefore, the combat power of the "seed battalions" of the Ming army's brigades is not comparable to other ordinary battalions. In addition, the officers and men of these "seed battalions" are particularly eager to make meritorious contributions, and they are not only capable of fighting, but also particularly daring to fight, and are also very willing to take the initiative to seek war.

And this willingness to take the initiative to seek battle allowed them to display an astonishing and unexpectedly powerful combat power in night battles and melee battles that required officers and men from all levels to exert their proactive spirit!

In the outpost battle in the early morning of the seventh day of October, the "seed battalions" of eight of the eight bridgeheads who were left behind to strengthen an artillery team and a cavalry team showed a strong desire to fight, and all sent as many as three infantry teams and one cavalry team to participate in the battle for the four villages located between the Beisha River and the Jinggou River - this was allowed by the superiors, and the maximum force they could send before the follow-up troops came to take over!

In other words, the Ming army invested two cavalry teams and six infantry teams in each village, which was a full strength of two battalions, far exceeding the expectations of the Qing army, and much more than the musketeers that Kangxi left behind the temple in those villages.

These heroic elites of the Ming army braved the night that had not yet dispersed to advance quickly. And in the process of marching, they also scattered a large number of stragglers to cooperate with the cavalry acting in platoons, and cleared the Qing army's rangers while advancing. Despite sporadic exchanges of fire along the way, they quickly advanced to the vicinity of the four villages, which had long since been depopulated.

And when they arrived near the target under the cover of dim sky, the Qing musketeers guarding there did not even know how many enemies there were?

They thought they were some cavalry exploring the way, so they sent musketeers to the outside of the village to expel the light cavalry of the Ming army. As a result, as soon as they left the village, they were put down a lot by the elite infantry of the Ming army with rifled guns and mini bullets, and then they gave the light cavalry of the Ming army a burst of surprise slashing, and retreated to the village after heavy casualties.

And those light cavalry of the Ming army are also veterans who are extremely brave, where are they willing to let go of those "heads" who ride on horseback? Directly chased the Qing musketeers into the village, and while chasing back, he took a horse pistol and poked at the ass of the Qing cavalry!

Although they were later held in the village, a large number of Qing musketeers blasted out of the village, and suffered some casualties. However, the infantry of the follow-up Ming army had already figured out the reality of the Qing army through their cavalry brothers, and also took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army in the village to recover from the melee and blew the suona of the attack.

In a sharp and piercing sound of horns, the Ming infantry rushed in, and then began to fight with the Qing army with flintlock pistols and grenades, house by house!

The battle around the four frontier villages was decided in a very short time!

As soon as the Qing army's musketeers came up, they were stunned by the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Ming infantry and their grenades, as well as accurate shooting, and before they could even organize effective resistance, they were killed and wounded by the Ming army, crying "Defeat!" Defeated! Storm is powerful! Defeated all the way out of the village.

And the tragedy of the Qing army on the seventh day of October began with the defeat of the battle for these four frontier villages!

Just when the vanguard of the Ming army and the musketeers of the Qing army were fighting for these frontier villages, the battalion headquarters of the eight Ming seed battalions and a team of infantry and the artillery team assigned to them in the bridgehead finally waited for the troops who came over from the south bank of the Jinggou River to take over the defense.

After handing over the defense, the battalion headquarters of the eight Ming army seed battalions pulled an infantry team and an artillery team and advanced towards the village that was being contested.

And when they arrived, the "sun and moon flags on a red background" were already flying in the sky over these four villages!

The eight Ming artillery teams immediately began to rely on the village to establish artillery positions, and when the sky finally brightened, 48 6-kilogram cannons had been erected, which could be used to bombard the Qing troops who were crowded on several nearby shoals and wanted to retreat to the north bank of the Beisha River!

At the same time, four battalions of infantry, also under the cover of the cavalry of the four teams, began to approach the Qing army that was wading across the Beisha River.

The one who was thrown by Kangxi on the south bank of the Beisha River to lure the enemy was, of course, not an elite lineage, but the Manchurian miscellaneous army of Prince Kang Jieshu - since Kangxi engaged in the "feudal United States", then the Manchurian heavenly soldiers naturally had to be divided into Manchurian lineage and Manchurian miscellaneous cards.

Of course, the descendants don't necessarily eat meat, and miscellaneous brands don't necessarily have to be cannon fodder, it's just Kangxi's good wish, and it's really hard to say whether it can be realized. For example, Changning and Bahai, the two Manchurian miscellaneous brands, were originally arranged to be cannon fodder, but with good luck and Queen Yang's good fortune, they are now going to Dongpingzhou to "eat meat".

And Jieshu is a cannon fodder in his life, and the miscellaneous Manchuria that follows him is of course also cannon fodder Manchuria!

Most of these miscellaneous cards followed Jieshu from Jiangxi and Anhui all the way to the north. Among them, there are also some veterans of the real Manchurian and Han armies, but most of them are the original Baoyi minions, other households, account holders, green battalion soldiers, as well as Manchurian, Han army and Baoyi domestic slaves.

These people were always cannon fodder on the battlefields of Jiangxi and Anhui, and after arriving in the north, they followed Empress Yang for a few years to live a peaceful life, settled down in Tai'an Mansion, married a wife and had children, and they could spend the rest of their lives in peace. Unexpectedly, the rest of his life was insufficient, so he caught Kangxi on the battlefield again, and sent a cannon fodder to him.

And of course, this cannon fodder didn't know Emperor Kang's clever calculations, and these veteran soldiers Youzi thought that they were abandoned by Kang Mazi as a palace army, so as to cover the Manchurian lineage to run away, and they were immediately unhappy.

Originally, they lined up on the south bank of the Beisha River, preparing to fight and retreat, and lured the enemy to cross the river, the Manchurian veterans of the Jieshu Department were bombarded by the Ming army's artillery, and were shot accurately by the Ming army's rifled guns loaded with Mini bullets, and they immediately did not need to be defeated, because they were really defeated, and more than 10,000 miscellaneous Manchurians flocked to several shoals one after another, scrambling for fear of running slowly, and shouting loudly while running: "Defeated, defeated"

At dawn, when Emperor Kangxi crossed the Jiehe River under the escort of a group of guards and pro-army "white armor soldiers" wearing a well-made Western-style plate armor, and arrived at the position of the Qing army at the front of the Beisha River and the south bank of the Jiehe River, the Qing army on the front line of the Beisha River was encountering the enemy's "half-crossing attack", and it was already a bit of a rout.

From a high ground where he was guarded by a regiment of yellow flag infantry cavalry, he headed south. On the battlefield on the south bank of the Beisha River, the whistling shells of the Ming army flew everywhere, and some smashed into the crowd of Qing soldiers crowded by the river, and several soldiers wearing blue coats and warm hats fell when they saw it! Some smashed on the hard ground in front of the Qing army, then bounced violently, flew towards the panicked crowd, and then mercilessly harvested lives.

The infantry of the Ming army drew out thin "red lines" and fired round after round with flintlock pistols at a distance of 100 steps away from the Qing army on the south bank of the Beisha River. Although the distance is quite far, the marksmanship of the Ming army is accurate, and the Qing army is crowded on the side of the Beisha River, and the Qing army was killed and wounded by them.

The group of Manchurian miscellaneous soldiers were also firing back, but they couldn't fire a salvo, they could only fire sparsely, and they didn't seem to be accurate, and the "red line soldiers" over there only occasionally fell a few.

And more Manchurian miscellaneous soldiers, just taking care of their lives, running wildly, all squeezed to a few shoals that were not open, tumbling and wading into the water and fleeing, some soldiers were squeezed to the edge of the shallows, and sank with one foot in the air, and the water was okay, but the big deal was to throw a musket and swim across the river. Those who don't know how to water will be miserable, and after a few splashes, they will sink and lose their lives.

However, Prince Kang Jieshu, who had already taken the lead in retreating across the Beisha River, was still quite brave, and did not continue to flee - and did not dare to escape, Kangxi stared behind him! Therefore, he had no choice but to send out his own soldiers, and a line of people was discharged dozens of steps away from the bank of the north bank of the Beisha River where he was sitting. A few unlucky people who were officials were found out on the spot, corrected the law on the spot, and cut off their heads! Rao is like this, there are still more and more routs, although they are blocked, but they don't have the courage to go back and be shot, just shouting and scolding, and the sound is loud!

"Lord Wang! The brothers can't even get five coins of silver a month, and the emperor's Eight Banners New Army can have two taels of silver a month, and one or two pieces of silver from the Credit Suixin Hall are the same as the Qing soldiers, why! ”

"The New Army of the Eight Banners is all flintlock pistols, as well as cavity bullets and sleeve bayonets, but half of us still use arquebuses, there are no cavity bullets, and the gunpowder is insufficient, how can we fight the Dawn?"

"Lord, poor and poor us, these old brothers have followed you from south to north for so many years, and everyone is old before marrying a wife and having children, if you die here, what will happen to the wives and children in the family?"

"Lord Wang, give the order to withdraw! This battle can't be fought, and the faint king doesn't care if we live or die! ”

"That's right! The world is so corrupt, it is all due to the faint king. Originally, Ao Taishi ruled the world, the country and the people were safe, how good was the life of our flag people? Who knew that he was a little pockmarked and harmed our Ao Taishi"

I don't know who is so cheap, but he actually scolded the emperor and mentioned the miscellaneous Manchurian of Ao Taishi, and it is estimated that he is a genuine old Manchurian who came out of Beijing City with Prince Kang Jieshu!

After all these years of consumption, there is not much left in Jieshu's army.

When Jie Shu heard this person say this, he also knew his identity, and he also resonated for a while-he also missed Master Ao! When Master Ao was there, how comfortable was his life? He is a prince, eating, drinking and having fun every day

With his sadness, there are even more people who scold the emperor and want to worship.

"Our Qing Dynasty is the one who defeated the Mazi Emperor! Now he wants us guys to send the bullet to death. Is this human? ”

"He has no conscience, he can do the Yellow River, and he has to blame Prince Gong, he is so fucking despicable and shameless, he is not worthy of being a king!"

"Yes, Kangxi is not a person, we can't give him a funeral."

Okay, scold the emperor in front of the army!

Those who don't know think they are the republican Ming army on the other side!

Jieshu, who was still resonating with the officers and soldiers below just now, finally woke up at this time. The emperor is still supervising the battle in the future! If he hears this, should Jieshu, the prince of the Qing Dynasty, still be inappropriate? Oh, and it doesn't work if it's not! He is a prince who loves Xinjueluo, and Kangxi, a pit goods, also picked up the Yellow River before, can the other side spare him, Aixinjueluo?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly shouted: "Don't say it, don't say it. The emperor didn't run, the emperor was supervising the battle in the back! ”

But the people below have already scolded him, who cares what he, a prince like a mud bodhisattva, yells at?

For a while, there was a scolding on the north bank of the Beisha River!

And in this scolding, there are two words that have been shouted the loudest, "Kangxi" and "Duanjun"!

In the midst of this scolding, Kangxi came!

Kangxi's plan was to lure the enemy deeper, and then put on a formation of fighting against the water, and give the Ming army a half-cross attack!

The plan was good and the tactics were clever, but it seemed a bit complicated to execute.

It's not easy to lure the enemy deeper...... Hu was good at seducing one shot before. successfully lured Kangxi in!

Now it's Prince Kang's turn to lure ...... Jieshu doesn't seem to be tempted!

The Ming army brigade had just come out of the camp and was lining up to cross the Jinggou River, and it had not yet fully launched the offensive formation. Jieshu's army has already "turned defeat into reality", and it looks like it is about to collapse!

These tens of thousands of people were beaten by the vanguard of the Ming army, their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and they were beaten halfway across the river and half of them were beaten - they were half killed when they crossed the river while fleeing!

If this continues, there is no need to wait for Li Yat-sen's army to drive up, and these thousands of elite Ming troops in front of him will be able to drive the defeated army across the Beisha River.

This is good, more than 10,000 people "deceived and failed", and only a few thousand were lured by the enemy...... What's going to happen next?

Can't let Kangxi's tens of thousands of troops be "forced" to fight on their backs in a few days, right? This is too fake!

So Kangxi had no choice but to move forward with the cavalry with yellow flags and the white-armored soldiers of his own guards, trying to cheer up the defeated soldiers at the end with his imperial prestige, and let them turn back for a while.

As a result, he led the cavalry to approach the Wang Qi of Kang Qing and Wang Jieshu, and heard the shouts and scolding of "Kangxi" and "Duanjun"!

This can make Kangxi angry...... If the Ming army scolded him, why did the soldiers under Jieshu scold him like this?

Could it be that in the past few years, he has engaged in the princes to unite the people, opened up his views, and let the Council of Ministers of the King of Parliament discuss politics, and as a result, the princes and ministers under his command dare to scold the emperor casually?

If this continues, won't the Qing Dynasty want the country to become a country?

Just when Kangxi was about to have a seizure, someone suddenly grabbed his reins: "The emperor is angry......

"Still angry?" Kangxi turned his head and saw that the person you persuaded him to calm his anger was his henchman and eunuch chief Xiao Guizi.

Now the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty are relatively strong, and there are not many courtiers that Kangxi can absolutely trust.

As a result, the status of eunuchs like Xiao Guizi naturally improved. Although it cannot be compared with the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Guizi is now also wearing "white armor", and he was originally one of the commanders of the guards and pro-army.

Xiao Guizi came to Kangxi's side: "Your Majesty, the enemy is at present, it is rare to be confused......"

But they ...... "Kangxi is still angry."

And as soon as he is the emperor, he is scolded by the people below, and he is also majestic!

At this time, cheers suddenly sounded on the other side of the Beisha River: "General Ying, General Yingwang......"

It turned out that Li Zhongshan, under the escort of the Shanzi battalion, appeared in front of the Ming officers and soldiers who were forming the team.

Xiao Guizi heard the shout from the other side, and you raised your arms and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

As soon as he shouted, the surrounding guards and cavalry with yellow flags also shouted, and after a while, all the Qing troops on the north bank of the Beisha River followed the mountain and shouted long live...... Finally suppressed the scolding of a few people!

(End of chapter)