Long live shouted, and the Qing cannon fodder soldiers who were scolding the emperor knew that Kang Mazi was coming, and they were all intimidated. After all, Emperor Mazi didn't come alone, he came up with thousands of elite cavalry with yellow flags and more than 1,000 white-armored soldiers of the guards (in fact, well-defended plate armored cavalry), these cavalry were all elite who followed Kangxi through the Western Regions. Everyone has good armor and good horses, and they are also equipped with muskets and spears, and the cavalry tactics of martial arts are very outstanding, not the cannon fodder under Jieshu can be compared, so these soldiers immediately changed their words, and shouted "Long live the emperor" together - they are all good soldiers, it was not them who scolded the emperor just now, they were all scolded by others!

Jie Shu also knew that the emperor was coming, so he had to go to Kangxi to ask for peace, not for sin.

He didn't dare to ask for this sin.

The soldiers under him scolded the emperor in front of the emperor, this matter is also unique in the Qing Dynasty, right? However, he can't ask Kangxi for this matter. Scolding the emperor in the Qing Dynasty is a capital crime! When the Qing Dynasty was in prison, a little disrespect could be put on the line. Now scolding in front of the emperor, this crime is too big to rebel on the spot?

Kangxi saw Jie Shu looking at himself under the escort of a group of personal soldiers wearing cuirasses, carrying waist knives, and flintlock pistols, but he was actually a little afraid that Jie Shugou would jump off the wall and kill the king! Second, I am afraid that Jieshu will ask for guilt from himself!

Scolding the emperor's sin. For the time being, let's pretend not to hear it, and there will be a chance to settle accounts in the future!

"Prince Chenkang, Jieshu, respectfully invites Saint Ann!"

Hearing Prince Kang Jieshu's loud voice to say goodbye to him, Kangxi also breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was not satisfied. Conniving at his subordinates to scold the emperor, you don't take such a big sin seriously? You traitor!

However, although Kangxi was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to attack, and he had to be appeased with good words: "King Kang has worked hard, now that the soldiers have been deployed, let your brother retreat!" I saw that they had fought bravely, and I turned back and gave each of them a reward of one or two pieces of silver. ”

"Thank you for your grace!"

Prince Kang Jieshu thanked him loudly, looking like a lord and a loyal minister.

As soon as he finished thanking him, there were several roars behind him, and it turned out that the artillery of the Ming army was firing shells to bombard the miscellaneous Manchurian cannon fodder soldiers who were blocked on the north bank of the Beisha River. As soon as the shells fell, the cannon fodder soldiers cried for help, as if they had really been hit by the shells.

Although Kangxi hated it very much in his heart, he still said to Jie Shu with kind words: "King Kang, let your people withdraw quickly!" ”

"Huh!" Prince Kang said, "Your Majesty, it's dangerous here, go back quickly!" ”

Kangxi nodded: "I'll go back. Let's let the Ming army come over and fight! ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Prince Kang Jieshu hurriedly sent a compliment, and then watched Kangxi Kang Mazi leave under the escort of a group of Eight Banners descendants, and then turned around and yelled at the soldiers who were still trying to stop the rout: "Lao Tzu withdraw!" ”

With the evacuation of Prince Kang's men from the north bank of the Beisha River, the thousands of Ming troops who had been blocked by them on the north bank of the Beisha River could finally cross the river and establish a bridgehead.

Li Yat-sen climbed onto a command tower in a bridgehead on the north bank of the Jinggou River in the early hours of this morning, and watched as the more than 10,000 troops under his command who had taken the village first, and then crossed the Beisha River, and by the way, fought more than 10,000 Qing troops and attacked one and a half crossings. At the same time, he also saw the cuirassiers of the brigade and the cavalry with yellow flags escorting a man suspected of Kangxi to the edge of the Beisha River, and then saw the Qing army on the north bank of the Beisha River began to retreat.

"Kangxi, this is going to run? Or do you want to fight us in a decisive battle between the Beisha River and the Jiehe River? Li Zhongshan put down the binoculars and muttered.

He originally thought that Kangxi would rely on the Beisha River to deploy defenses, so he asked people to build a command tower by the Jinggou River. Unexpectedly, Kangxi actually put the Beisha River in danger and did not defend it, but retreated to the south bank of the Jiehe River to line up.

"General, Kangxi is fighting the idea of fighting a backwater!"

Kangxi's careful thinking, how could he hide from Li Zhongshan's military division Zhou Peigong?

"Last to the odds?" Li Zhongshan squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "It's kind of interesting. He also plans to learn from Xiang Yu and Han Xin! ”

Zhou Chang said with a smile: "He can't learn Xiang and Han, he will learn Dou Jiande at most, and send himself to our guns from afar!" ”

Li Zhongshan laughed: "I can't learn from Li Shimin, Li Shimin can defeat Dou Jiande's main force with a few thousand people. And now, I am using 200,000 people to beat Kangxi 100,000, and the advantage is mine! He paused, "Order the 1st and 5th Army Corps to cross the Beisha River and line up!" ”

"Yes!"

When Li Yat-sen ordered the whole army to cross the Beisha River to line up, in the wilderness between the Jinggou River and the Beisha River, eight highly organized crowds composed of the main forces of the eight divisions of the Ming army were advancing in the direction of the Beisha River under the guidance of their respective military flags. After receiving the new order, the Ming army brigade did not have to change direction, but only needed to continue to move forward, and drive across the river from the shallows that had been seized by the vanguard of the Ming army, and then open up with its back to the Beisha River.

In order to ensure that the troops would not be attacked by the Qing army when they crossed the river, the main forces of the Ming army's infantry battalions, artillery teams, and eight divisional cavalry battalions originally deployed in those four frontier villages were involved in the crossing ahead of the main army.

At the same time, the commanders of the eight divisions belonging to the First and Fifth Army Corps of the Ming Army, as well as Wang Quan, the commander of the First Army Corps, also crossed the river with the division's cavalry. Under the command of Wang Quanhe's eight division commanders, eight infantry battalions, eight cavalry battalions and eight artillery teams that had crossed Beishahe, with a total of 16,700 people plus 48 6-kilogram cannons, completed the deployment in the shortest possible time!

On the side of the Qing army, Kangxi's army entered the battlefield on the south bank of the Jiehe River from the camping on the north bank of the Jiehe River through a pontoon bridge. This time, the army brought by Kangxi to Zou County was a total of more than 70,000 people from the New Army of the Seven Banners, more than 3,000 people from the guards and pro-army, and 10,000 from the vassal army of Prince Kang Jieshu, with a total strength of about 90,000.

However, these 90,000 troops cannot all cross the boundary river, and Zou County and along the Baima River must also be defended by leaving troops. So Kangxi put Guerjia. The soldiers and horses with white flags commanded by Lang Tan stayed on the north bank of the Jiehe River, so the total number of soldiers and horses who followed him across the Jiehe River was about 80,000, which was slightly less than the Ming army.

In addition to the fact that there are fewer people, Kangxi's back road is not very stable. Because some or even all of the 100,000 Ming troops that were originally used to attack Jining and Ziyang are now likely to be advancing towards the Baima River. They are coming, then Kangxi will be attacked by the enemy, and no matter how hard he fights, it will be difficult to fight.

On the morning of the seventh day of October, 80,000 Qing troops first arrived at the position of the front on the south bank of the Jiehe River, and the fields on the south bank of the Jiehe River were all covered with red, yellow, blue, white and other colors.

The battle line of the Qing army was very long, showing a northeast-southwest trend, starting from Jiehe Town in the northeast and ending near Dushan Lake in the southwest. From Jiehe Town to the southwest, they are Zhenghong, inlaid red, inlaid yellow, inlaid blue, Zhenglan and Kangwangfu Domain.

And Kangxi himself was at the end of the army under the escort of 3,000 guards and white-armored soldiers.

All flags and armies were deployed in two lines, with infantry in front and in columns, and cavalry and horses in the rear. Among them, the infantry horizontal and vertical formations were divided into two columns. The troops that form a single horizontal formation and vertical formation are all at the battalion level (below the wing of the Eight Banners New Army, and below the Kangfu Domain Army Brigade are all battalions), and the interval between the battalion arrays is about 50 steps between the front and back, and about 20 steps between the left and right, so that they can support each other with firepower, and it is also convenient for the horses of the second line to enter and exit.

Before the infantry formation, there is artillery!

Now the Qing army has eliminated the sub-mother artillery, and no longer use the mortar cannon (Weiyuan general cannon) to fight field battles, the field artillery is all "long-barreled guns" (cannons), a total of two models, respectively, 6 kg of long guns and 12 kg of long guns, each flag, army has an artillery battalion, each artillery battalion is equipped with 18 6 kg guns and 4 12 kg guns, in the case of full formation, the Qing army in the south bank of the Jiehe River troops should have 126 6 kg guns and 28 12 kg guns, a total of 154 cannons, but today the actual artillery in place, there are only 134 guns, including 110 6-pound guns and 24 12-pound guns.

In addition, except for the infantry of the feudal army of Jieshu, which adopted a mixture of flintlock pistols and arquebuses, the rest of the banner army infantry were all equipped with flintlock pistols, and they also had socket bayonets and fixed cavity bullets (not all of them were fixed cavity bullets, but 5 fixed cavity bullets per person)!

As soon as the 80,000-strong army was unfolded, it was really a military formation like a wall, bayonets like a forest, cavalry like a sea, artillery in rows, under the sun, the cold light of bayonets, the golden light of the cannon barrel (all copper), and the white light of the cuirasse, intertwined, it was a dazzling and dazzling one.

The English lobster soldiers in the Opium War in history wanted to see this kind of Qing soldiers on the battlefield, and the biggest contributor to the Qing army making such great progress was none other than Li Yat-sen, which can be called the third most powerful army today!

A high-level enemy is sometimes the best teacher!

Of course, Kangxi is indeed a good student, and this year's Eight Banners, no matter what the content is, are much stronger than those who fled after seeing thieves, whether it is learning ability and hard work, it is not comparable to the latter.

Otherwise, no matter how good the teacher is, the students will pull their crotches by themselves, and no matter how much they teach!

At the same time that Kangxi's army completed the formation, the first or second in the world (it is difficult to say who is strong and who is weak in the Ming and France) powerful army, the first and fifth armies of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army, also completed the deployment.

Compared with the Qing army, their marching formation level is still a cut stronger, the Qing army is to reach the front line and then slowly unfold the formation, and the Ming army has now reached the level where it can carry out a large column march and quickly complete the deployment on the way!

If the Qing army and the Ming army arrive at the battlefield on the south bank of the Jiehe River at the same time today, I am afraid that before the Qing army completes its formation, the Ming army will attack!

However, because the Qing army adopted the tactics of retreating and engagement, they could have more time to complete the formation, while the late Ming army could only exert their ability to quickly deploy the formation, and under the cover of the vanguard team, quickly deployed a large formation of infantry in the center and left, and cavalry on the right flank (Dushan Lake on the left flank).

The direction of this large array is also northeast-southwest, and it is generally arranged with its back to the Beisha River, because the Beisha River is shallow and there are many shoals that can be crossed, so it is not a backwater.

The terrain between the Beisha River and the Jiehe River is very flat, with only a few low mounds, and the distance between the two rivers is five to eight miles, which is just used to arrange troops, which is almost a natural dueling field!

The current Kangxi can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, but at a glance, he knows that the Ming Army is still stronger than the Eight Banners New Army that he has worked so hard to manage, as for the reason, he actually knows it!

The training of both sides was actually similar, and the equipment also had their own strengths and weaknesses - the Ming army had better guns, the Qing army had stronger cavalry, and the artillery of both sides was about the same. In addition, the Ming army had a martial arts hall, and the Qing army also opened the Eight Banners Military Academy, and the teaching materials used on both sides were similar.

But there is one thing, Kangxi can't learn from Daming. Daming is a republic! The Qing Dynasty was a joint venture between the Eight Banners, Han warlords, and Mongol princes.

On the one hand, the people of the country are fighting for the country, and on the other hand, the flag soldiers and vassal soldiers are fighting for the emperor and the princes, can it be the same?

Kangxi suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart, after years of war, Kangxi's will has been much stronger, he looked at the guards around him, and shouted: "Alani, Karma, Ananda!" ”

"The minister is here!"

The people named by Kangxi are all the young men he has promoted from the Western Expeditionary Army in the past two years, and they are all ministers of the interior, ministers of the imperial front and commanders of the guards. Among them, Alani is a native of Manchuria with the Blue Banner, while Karma and Ananda are both Mongols, Karma is from Horqin Mongolia, and Mur is a relative of Bumu Butai. Ananda was a slave of the Mongol Zhenghuang Banner, his grandfather was a Mongol nobleman who had taken refuge in the Chahar tribe, and he himself was appreciated by Ao Bai and served as a first-class guard. After a few years of suffering, Kangxi finally came to his senses and began to think about Aobai in a national disaster, so he loved the house and Wu, and looked a bit like Aobai.

"Set fire! Burn the pontoon! Kangxi gritted his teeth and ordered loudly.

"Huh!"

The commander of the three guards agreed, and immediately took a team of white-armored soldiers and took the fire-burning things that had been prepared long ago to burn down several pontoon bridges on the boundary river.

Kangxi then said to Xiao Guizi: "Xiao Guizi, let people go and pass the decree to all banners and armies. I am determined to follow the example of the overlord of Western Chu, burn the bridge and sink the boat, fight against the water, and fight to the death of the tyrant! ”

"Huh!"

Xiao Guizi had already selected a group of white-armored soldiers with loud voices, and with a wave of his arms at the moment, these people immediately flew away to convey Kangxi's latest supreme will to all banners and armies - Mazi is going to fight!

"General, Kangxi burned the bridge!"

Zhou Chang saw the black smoke billowing behind the Qing army from a distance, and immediately understood what was going on, but he didn't take it seriously at all, and he smiled.

Li Zhongshan was holding a telescope to observe the formation of the Qing army, nodding while watching - Kangxi's Manchurians are still strong in learning!

It's only been more than ten years of war, and they have advanced to this level, and such an army can probably be regarded as a great power in Europe!

This is stronger than Xianfeng, who was still the same when the "first crow" was beaten to the "second crow", I don't know how much it is a pity, the opponent they encountered is stronger!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan put down the binoculars and asked Zhou Changdao: "Peigong, what is the plan to break the enemy?" ”

Zhou Chang said: "Kangxi even burned the bridge, this is the idea of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, then we can't fight hard. The subordinates suggested, we can come to a mountain without moving! ”

"Immovable as a mountain?" Li Zhongshan smiled, "Peigong, do you mean to let Kangxi attack us?" ”

"Yes, we're fighting against the odds." Zhou Chang smiled, "And we are not in a hurry, we have an army of 200,000, and now we are only 100,000, and there are still 100,000 troops who will arrive sooner or later." I don't believe Kangxi can calm down! ”

Li Zhongshan smiled: "Okay, just do it. Order, forward battalions, dig trenches, prepare for defense! ”

(End of chapter)