"Master, why don't you immediately send someone to Jinan City to ask Prince Rui for verification, how many scouts are there in this batch of white flags?"

"Confused!"

Du Du reprimanded: "These people don't even have their heads, only a nameless waist card, how do you verify!" ”

"How's that good?"

Du Du thought for a moment and said, "If Liu Yan knew in advance that our army was ambushing here, what would he do?" ”

Buyandai said: "If it is a slave, I will definitely take a detour to Jinan Fucheng." ”

Du Du pondered for a moment and said, "I don't think so! Liu Yan: What will he do? ”

At this moment, a roar suddenly came, and the piercing sound of breaking the sky crossed the sky, and dozens of scorching cannons fell from the sky and smashed into this dense forest.

In order to set up an ambush here, Du Du concentrated 12,000 people with red flags from Manchuria and 8,000 people from Mongolia with red flags in the dense forest in the northwest, where the trees were more dense and easy for the army to hide.

But it was precisely for this reason that 20,000 people were crowded in a forest, and they were suddenly covered by dense artillery fire, and dozens of cannons continued to catapult in the crowd, forming ricocheting bullets, and blood and flesh flew everywhere they passed, taking away the Qing soldiers one by one.

Those Qing soldiers were hit by cannonballs, or even just carried by cannonballs, they screamed and flew up, stumps and broken arms flew up and down, and even Du Du was horrified to see a split head flying by, it seemed that it was still a Niu Lu Zhangjing under his command!

"Ming Army!"

Du Du shouted, pulled over Bu Yandai, who was already frightened stupidly, and reprimanded angrily: "Go and gather your iron cavalry, immediately attack the Ming army's artillery fire, and kill the Ming army's artillery for me!" ”

Buyandai's face suddenly turned red, and he shouted: "Master, the slave thinks it's better to withdraw, so as not to suffer too many casualties!" ”

"Bastard!"

Du Du angrily reprimanded: "Retreating now is a big defeat!" How many people can Liu Yan have? Just rush up and you can destroy him! ”

"You go and kill Liu Yan's artillery, I will reorganize the army and fight Liu Yan's main force head-on!"

Buyandai panicked to mobilize the iron cavalry, Du Du was in a trance, a well-deployed ambush turned into an ambush by the Ming army in a blink of an eye, can this battle really be won?

At the same time, on a high ground two miles south of the Qing army, the artillery commander Qian Liang was shouting excitedly, and all the four sentry guns of the surrounding artillery were deployed, and twenty Lingshanwei's self-made Franc machine guns were firing in a salvo.

According to Liu Yan's order, this salvo did not shoot one by one in turn as the Ming army had done in the past, but used a gun with good accuracy and a high level of gunner as the "base gun", and all the artillery was based on this standard gun, and fired at the same time.

This not only creates instantaneous fire coverage, but also greatly improves the accuracy of artillery strikes.

Qian Jian looked at the landing points that kept flashing in the dense forest in the distance, and there were not only gray-brown dust splashes around those landing points, but also faintly saw bursts of blood-red mist, that was the killing Qing soldiers!

"My lord is really a god, and the artillery can still fire such a salvo!"

Not far away, the battalions of the Lingshan Wei New Army had already completed their formations, Chen Xun led the front battalion in the front, Zhang Yi led the left battalion in the front and left, Wang Bo led the right battalion in the front and the right, and more than 3,700 soldiers from the three battalions formed a huge defensive line.

Shen Tuo led the middle battalion as the left flank, Wang Yue led the rear battalion as the right flank, and the two battalions of Miao Shao and Xu Ming as the central army, deployed behind the defensive line.

More than 9,000 officers and men of the New Army were in full swing, occupying a large area of wilderness on the high ground, which looked very spectacular from a distance.

At this time, Liu Yan looked down from a distance, and saw that the Qing army was constantly rushing out of the dense forest in the distance, looking at the flag and armor style, it should be a Mongolian Tartar with red flags.

"The thief can't stay in the woods!"

Miao Shao and Xu Ming only knew at this time what Liu Yan meant by artillery coverage, twenty artillery pieces were aimed at one place at the same time, and it could cause such a big momentum. Even though the actual casualties of the Qing army may not be very large, the blow to the morale of the Qing army was fatal.

Miao Shao said excitedly: "If my family has a hundred or two hundred heavy artillery, and it is so aimed at the enemy's military formation to cover and bombard, let alone the slaves, even if the Jade Emperor comes, he will be defeated and flee!" ”

Xu Ming said with a smile: "Don't dream, hundreds of heavy artillery? How can there be such firepower in the world? ”

Liu Yanhao said angrily: "Who said no? One day, our new army will have such firepower, and even better! ”

After speaking, Liu Yan pointed to the distance, where the eight thousand Mongolian iron horsemen with red flags had all come out and reorganized the military formation outside the dense forest.

"Order the front battalion, the left battalion, and the right battalion to prepare for battle, and the artillery chief tiger artillery, rocket artillery, and small-caliber Franc machine guns are ready to shoot!"

"The cannon gun whistle continues to shoot at the dense forest in the prepared cover, don't stop!"

"Order!"

The heralds of the Chinese army quickly passed the order in place, and the battle flags of the front, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the artillery commander waved one after another, indicating that they had received the order and were ready.

"Woo~Woo~Woo!"

At this moment, a trumpet sounded, and Buyandai led eight thousand Mongolian iron horsemen with red flags and began to charge.

There was a distance of about two miles between the dense forest and this highland, and there were some trees and shrubs scattered during this period, blocking the view of the Buyandai and the Qing scouts.

When Bu Yandai clearly saw the 9,000-strong more than 9,000 Lingshan Guard's new army on the high ground, and saw Liu Yan's battle flag fluttering in the wind, he was immediately frightened.

"Didn't Liu Yan's soldiers lose more than half, and there were only more than 1,000 people left? There are tens of thousands of elites here, and they all came out of nowhere! ”

At this time, the 8,000 Mongolian iron horsemen had already begun to charge at high speed, and these Mongols were able to maintain a high-speed charge without chaos by constantly dodging the trees on the road with their superb riding skills.

But Byan didn't have the heart to appreciate the horsemanship of his soldiers, because the ballistics of more than a dozen cannons had risen from the high ground, and they were smashing towards him!

As the cannonballs fell, the dense cavalry formation suddenly turned over on their backs, forming a ricochetic cannon like a ghost, constantly harvesting life in the high-speed charging cavalry array, countless blood mist spread, mixed with countless screams, so that Bu Yandai's heart was like a knife.

Qian Qian only mobilized eighteen small-caliber Franc cannons to open fire, but the chaos caused caused by the 8,000 Mongol iron cavalry trampled on each other, and at least half of the cavalry killed and wounded were tripped by the corpses and stumps of their companions, and then trampled to death by their companions who rushed up from behind.

Byan Dai looked at the new army formation that was waiting in the distance, and immediately ordered the whole army to turn around, make a detour to the right flank, and try to rush to the high ground, and melee with the artillery commander.

But Buyandai never dreamed that although he was not greeted by a sharp flintlock bird, it was even sharper than a flintlock bird.

"Put!"

Qian Yan's excited roar sounded on the artillery position, and twenty rocket artillery vehicles began to wield power, and the continuous rockets smashed into the Mongolian army, although these skilled iron horsemen also began to fire back with arrows, but where are the arrows shot by manpower are the opponents of gunpowder boosted arrows?

After a period of confrontation, Buyandai watched as hundreds of elites of the front army were all shot into a hornet's nest. The hundreds of elites were all heavily armored, almost all of them were horse armor and infantry armor in their own banners, and there were even more than a dozen Hongbaya soldiers who had survived a hundred battles.

In previous battles, these hundreds of heavy armor alone could easily defeat thousands, or even tens of thousands of Ming troops!

But at this time, hundreds of elite heavy armor died on the way to charge, and they didn't even see the face of Liu Yan's Ming army, so they died in vain, which made Bu Yandai's heart like a knife, and at the same time, a burst of anger rose.

"Accelerate! Kill, kill! ”

At this time, Buyandai just wanted to rush forward, at least destroy all the artillery of the Ming army, otherwise his big losses would all be in vain.

"What's that?"

Soon, after paying the price of more than 1,000 casualties, the Mongolian Red Banner Army rushed to the place where the artillery position was 200 paces, but then saw a row of small cannons.

"Yes, the Tiger Zun Cannon of the Ming Army!"

"Put!"

Qian Jian and Buyandai shouted almost at the same time, followed by a salvo of twenty Huzun cannons, and the dense scattershells formed a large net, covering the Mongol cavalry that rushed to the front.

Countless scattered bullets swept by, and those cavalrymen could not stop them no matter how many sets of armor they were wearing, and in the blink of an eye, many bloody holes were hit on their bodies, and the front end of the army was suddenly swept away!

"Haha!"

Qian Jian laughed when he saw this scene, and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to retreat.

The artillery and ammunition of the artillery headquarters were abandoned on the spot, and all the officers and men of the artillery headquarters quickly retreated. At the same time, the left battalion, which was closest to here, advanced three hundred paces and arrived at the battlefield just in time for the critical moment.

Zhang Yi, the general manager of Qian, looked at the Qing army's iron cavalry that had been disrupted by the Huzun cannon, and shouted, the soldiers of the whole battalion stopped advancing, and the bird gunners of each outpost immediately prepared to fire a salvo.

"Raise the gun!"

"Put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Raise the gun!"

"Put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

Hundreds of bird-gunners in the left battalion began to fire round after round of volleys, making it difficult for the Qing iron cavalry to move an inch, and the panicked Tartar soldiers were scurrying back and forth about a hundred paces in front of the soldiers of the left battalion, and no one could rush within sixty steps!

Buyandai's eyes widened when he saw it in the back, and he knew in his heart that the Mongolian red flag in this battle was probably going to break his muscles and bones.

"Retreat!"

Buyandai didn't dare to fight, Liu Yan's new army was all here, there were tens of thousands of elites, how could he fight? Do you want to throw all the 8,000 Mongolian warriors with red flags here?

So Buyandai took the lead and led the remnants to retreat northward, and the Mongol iron horsemen all over the mountains retreated like a tide.

Liu Yan condescendingly found that the Qing soldiers were retreating, and immediately ordered: "Order the cavalry battalion to pursue immediately, the front battalion, the left battalion, and the right battalion advance one hundred steps forward and stand by, and the artillery commander immediately reload all the Franc machine guns and stand by!" ”

"Order!"

Soon the various departments of the Lingshan Wei New Army began to move, Chen Xun, Zhang Yi, and Wang Bo roared loudly and led their troops forward, and 3,000 and hundreds of soldiers of the New Army marched forward with neat steps, accompanied by the sound of war drums, the song of "The Final Army of the Han Dynasty" sounded, and more than 3,000 soldiers of the front battalion, left battalion, and right battalion sang in unison, followed by the soldiers of the rear battalion, the middle battalion, the personal guard battalion, and the artillery general also sang one after another, and the morale of thousands of new army officers and soldiers was greatly boosted!

Xu Ming and more than 1,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion could hear the "Han Final Army" coming from behind them even with the deafening sound of horses' hooves, and their hearts were all boiling, roaring and charging at the retreating Mongolian Red Banner Iron Cavalry.

"Accelerate! Kill the Tartars! ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The officers and men of the cavalry battalion were like tigers descending from the mountains, biting the tail of the Mongolian Red Banner Army, and in a short period of time, they "bit to death" no less than 200 people.

"Whew!"

Suddenly, a low horn sounded ahead, and a triangular white-edged red flag appeared in the north, and it was Du Du who led an army of 12,000 Manchurian red flags to arrive.

Some people died, but not completely......