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As the Ming army showed its intention to move westward, the Qing army, which had no time to waste any further, began to slowly advance eastward. The two sides' probing horses fought back and forth on the vast land between Dingyang Creek and Ling Creek, just to obtain more information and to cover up their own army.

However, such a simple intention was that the two sides could not gain an overwhelming advantage in this area, and as the two armies continued to tighten the distance between each other, the confrontation between the explorers became more and more intense. The two armies, who were already a little afraid, tried their best to fight fiercely in the shrinking area. It was not until the two sides were approaching that they could no longer hide their direction and intentions, and they fought hard to ease their fight, because they both needed time to save and accumulate more strength for the subsequent bloody battle.

The vanguard of the Qing army crossed the Shentangyuan and built a large number of floating bridges there. Soon, when the Ming army learned about this information, it quickly accelerated to press westward.

The sky was getting darker, and the Qing army did not rush to cross the river and began to camp on the west bank of the stream. The Ming army stopped at the same time and camped more than ten miles northeast of the Qing army camp.

Just as the Qing army had already noticed that the Ming army had increased its troops, the Ming army also found that the scale of the Qing army's battalion seemed to be larger than expected. However, whether it was the Qing army that had to solve the Zhejiang problem before Fujian was completely decayed because of the capture of Zhangzhou, Fujian by Zheng Chenggong, or the Ming army that urgently needed to recover Quzhou to obtain more resources to roll the snowball, the two sides were carrying out the final rest. The atmosphere in the camps of the two armies, even the civilians who acted as auxiliary soldiers, could feel that tomorrow would be a bloody day.

On the sixth day of the nine-month year of the sixth year of Yongli, the staff of the Ming army had already completed their staff operations and formulated several combat plans based on the intentions of the Qing army and the terrain that had been clearly explored. Chen Wen thought for a while and then rushed to the west. At this time, the Qing army also came out of the camp, crossed the floating bridges that had been built long ago, and encountered them in the Yangtianlong area.

The Ming army had as many as 8,000 soldiers, and most of the civilians who acted as auxiliary soldiers were left in the camp and only carried enough auxiliary soldiers to transport military weapons. Chen Wen firmly believed that soldiers were more important than elite soldiers, so he was not very interested in driving auxiliary soldiers to fight.

At the same time, the Qing army that appeared on the battlefield still placed the auxiliary troops behind the formation according to the old rules, while the combat soldiers began to form a well-behaved formation on the battlefield. Among them, the Biaoying of the left general of Fujian, Wang Zhigang, and the reinforcements of the Green Camp of Jianning Prefecture, Fujian formed the right wing, the Green Camp of Quzhou and Chuzhou Green Camp of Wenzhou occupied the left wing in the northern part of the battlefield, while the central part of the formation showed the banner of Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi. Instead, the Biaoying of the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian was left behind as a reserve team.

Liu Guangbi was a member of the Han army's blue flag. He had already joined the Tartars in the era of Nurhaci, but his reputation was not obvious and he failed to stand out. Later, Jin Shengheng, anyway, Tan Tai, suppressed by the army, left him in Nanchang when he returned to the army and served as the admiral of Jiangxi. His troops were already one of the few elite troops in the generally weak Jiangxi Green Camp.

The Qing army's increase in troops was expected by Chen Wen, and it was confirmed by previous reconnaissance. But what he did not expect was that Chen Jin's reinforcements were actually the Jiangxi Admiral Biao Battalion, which was a large unit of up to 5,000 people. Although the unfavorable situation on the Huguang battlefield and the Fujian battlefield made it impossible for this army to be dispatched, if we look at the banner, we will all arrive except the back camp.

As a result, the Qing army's warriors suddenly rose to 15,000, forming a nearly two-for-one force comparison.

Chen Wen had no other choice in this regard, and he could never compare with the Qing Dynasty, which occupied seven or eight out of ten in China and had already formed a force to sweep the world. However, according to the military strategy, the enemy army did not leave this new force as a reserve force during the arrangement, but instead placed it in the central army. Could it be that he believed in the combat effectiveness of this Qing army so much?

Although he was not very clear about the opponent's idea, Chen Wen knew very well that the army under his command had just completed the division of land and the morale was the most prosperous. On the Qing army, except for the Super Biao Battalion, which had long been defeated by his defeated generals, and the Fujian Left General Biao Battalion and Jiangxi Admiral Biao Battalion, which had not yet fought, the rest were all local green camps. Chen Jin's formation must be strange, but he could not figure out where the problem existed for a while.

There was no need to hesitate anymore. With the previous response made by the General Staff, the Ming army quickly changed its formation. Soon, Nantangying took over the middle road, while Yiwu and Dongyang camps protected the wings on both sides. In addition, Chen Wen also supported the garrisons of the two bureaus to the Dongyang camp in the north of the formation. He left the garrisons of the town's direct battalion and the other two bureaus in his hands.

The commanders of both sides were the same as their surnames, and their mood was exactly the same at this moment. Without any hesitation, after completing the array, they took a little rest. With the sound of the war drum, the two armies, more than 20,000 soldiers of the soldiers stood up and began to line up to walk towards the other side.

On the battlefield, the fiery red Ming army battle formation and the gray-blue Qing army battle formation began to slowly approach the center of the battlefield. Both sides slowly marched against the sound of war drums. It seemed that no one planned to use any special tactical means, but they all planned to crush their opponents with the most direct collision.

Until the range of the Folang machine cannon was entered, the gunners of the Ming and Qing armies stopped at the same time and began to stuff the loaded sub-gun into the mother gun. Then, when the gunner pressed the torch on the fuse, the shells flew out from the mouth of the guns that were shot upwards, covering the formation of the two armies with lightning speed.

However, compared with the opponent, the Ming army's Folang machine cannon seemed to have a longer range, and almost no shell hit the Qing army's formation, but they all swept towards the front row of the Qing army.

Most of the Folang cannons used by Chen Wen were seized from the Qing army, while the Folang cannons of the Qing army were almost all made by the Ming court. Although no gun was all the same, the approximate range was not much different. The fundamental reason for all this was not artillery, but the Ming army used more powerful granulated gunpowder, which burned more fully, so that the gunpowder produced much more gas than ordinary gunpowder at the moment of ignition.

When the Qing army's first round of test-firing artillery shells only made the Ming army's journey more bumpy, and at this time the Ming army's artillery shells had already begun to bombard the Qing army's formation.

The sudden casualties caused a slight riot in the Qing army on the left and right wings, but under the strong suppression of the officers, the calm was quickly restored. Chen Jin, the commander of the Qing army behind the formation, found that the Ming army's artillery bombardment had begun to cause casualties, so he ordered the army to accelerate to preserve more morale and enter the hand-to-hand combat.

The gunners of both sides continued to bombard the opponent. Due to the superior firing rate of the Folang machine cannon, the Ming army always maintained a bombardment of the Qing army formation, and each time it could take away the lives of more than a dozen Qing army, causing more disabilities. The wailing sounds increased. The supervisory team behind the formation was hit by artillery shells while following the advance, causing almost fatal disability but not dead for a while to finish the blow, but welcoming more wails.

The Qing army's formation was still advancing, and the Ming army began to be bombarded by Qing army gunners. However, unlike the Qing army, the Ming army was either the Yuanyang formation killer team, the long spear formation killer team, or even the firearm team were moving forward in a vertical formation. This is a tradition that has been agreed upon since the Qi Jiguang era, and it is also a necessary means for this special Ming army to reduce casualties during the journey.

When the fourth sub-gun was released, the loaders of the two armies were still reloading the first one to use, and the sub-gun that had been cooled down at this moment. In this interval that seemed to have become a gap for long-range weapons to release, the musketeers of the Ming army were the first to break the silence. The Qing army, which was concentrated by the musketeers of the Ming army, was immediately damaged by lead bullets without exception, and fell on the way forward.

However, compared with cannons, the lead bullets in the musket only caused disability, but the painful wailing sounds began to affect the morale of the Qing army.

"How is this possible?!"

It is indeed impossible. The fire guns used by the Ming and Qing armies in this era were nothing more than bird guns and three-eyed ones. Among them, the three-eyed ones not only have a short range, but are not very accurate, but are generally used by cavalrymen. But how could the bird guns cause damage at this distance?

"Of course it is impossible for bird guns, but the Lumi gun, which has entered the category of heavy convex guns, can ignore the protection of cotton armor at this distance. Historically, the Qing army was forced to eliminate cotton armor after eliminating bird guns."

Squinted one eye, Chen Wen held the monocular lens in both hands and looked at the Qing army's battle formation from afar, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

But the combs are ultimately a combs, and the speed of the reload is a fatal flaw in an instant. After a long period of accumulation, except for the flintlock rifle, he has not made a few shots, and the Lumi guns that use the flintlocks have only completed the equipment for the Nantang Camp, while the other troops are still using bird guns. This is the result of Chen Wen inheriting the inheritance of Wang Yi and Yu Guowang. Otherwise, he would be afraid that even the bird guns of the war barracks will not be prepared according to the organization.

Therefore, when the musketeers in Nantang Camp were still loading, the bird gunners of the Qing army began to shoot, and the archers soon entered the range and shot against the archers of the Ming army.

The Qing army on the battlefield were all green camp soldiers. The hemisphere helmets were far less than those of the Ming army's lobsters, which could withstand the shooting bows by bowing their heads. However, the victory was that the troops were stronger, and the Qing army's arrows were denser. Even if the Ming army used the vertical formation, casualties would inevitably occur.

The two colors of fiery red and gray-blue are still approaching on the battlefield. However, the fiery red is still maintaining a certain degree of straightness, while the gray-blue in the center and right wings have to stop for a moment so that other gray-blue can keep up.

After a while, the Qing army, which had reorganized its formation during the shooting, began to advance again. Like the Ming army opposite, they all moved out the tiger squat cannons after entering the range of fifty steps. However, unlike the opponent, the Ming army used a large shield player to protect the gunners during the shooting, while the Qing army's gunners could only escape to the formation after igniting the lead.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the Qing army, which had re-compense the gap caused by casualties, rushed towards the Ming army with shouts and throwing javelins and flying axes, trying to destroy the front row of the Ming army.

At this time, the Ming army, who was already familiar with such tactics, still maintained the vertical formation. It was not until the Qing army rushed into about ten meters that the Yuanyang formation used the wolf hand to press the vertical formation to transform the vertical formation into the third-level formation, and the long spear formation killer team quickly moved closer to the center, filling the gaps in the two wings with the Mandarin Duck formation with the always wings behind the side.

In the middle of the battlefield, the oldest Nantang Camp of Jinhua Ming Army collided with the elite Jiangxi Admiral Battalion from Jiangxi. The infantry team of Nantang Camp used the spear formation killer team in the first and second games, while the other two games used the Yuanyang formation killer team.

The fourth infantry team in the first game is an old-fashioned infantry team. Although they are old, this does not hinder their use of the spear formation. At least when they forced their crossing to Lingxi, this army firmly protected the Ming army's battle formation from being crushed by the superior Qing army, and even cooperated with the killer team of the Yuanyang Formation to launch an attack on the Qing army's Supervisor Battalion.

As the captain of the Fourth Infantry Team, after the counter-raid several months ago, after the reorganization, he also used the spear formation more easily. Moreover, his old friend Wu Changshi Daniu had recovered from his injury before the war. He was full of confidence in defeating the Tartars in front of him who didn't know where to seek death.

It was difficult to quickly move the formation closer. Although it was not convenient to change the formation, from outside the first row of long players, several rows of five-meter long spears blocked any direction of the Qing army's attack like hedgehogs. Their opponents were just a group of green camp soldiers using primitive swords and shields and seven or eight-foot spears.

The war drums were ringing, and the Ming army, who was roaring with tigers, began to move forward slowly under the leadership of the long poker players in the first row. The dense spear heads posed a great threat to the Qing army. The spearmen not only could not reach their opponents, but even the long poker players in the front row of the Ming army could rarely attack. The sword and shield soldiers who had always used to break through the formation were attacked by the long spears that kept stabbing. Even if they tried their best, they could not escape the fate of being stabbed to death, because the spear was too dense!

"kill!"

"kill!"

Accompanied by two tiger roars in front and behind, a flexible Qing sabre shield soldier avoided the puncture of the first spear, the goddess of luck did not continue to smile at him, but sent another spear to pierce his lower abdomen.

The spear was retracted cleanly and threw down the sword and shield in his hand. The sword and shield soldiers fell to the ground and covered their wounds with their hands crying. At this time, the Ming army's battle formation was still moving forward. Shi Daniu, who had just recovered from his injury, squatted and slashed at the throat of the Qing sabre and shield soldiers. Then he ignored the corpse and continued to lead the team forward. As for this corpse, they would cut off their heads and put them into a big basket.

In this way, the entire infantry team is like a monster that harvests life. The spearmen with fangs and claws stabbing the enemy. The long card players can not only act as bone armor to defend against the opponent's attack, but also expose the spikes under the bone armor at the right time to kill the opponent who has not died. The remaining corpse will be cut off by the fire soldiers at the restraining level, leaving only a headless corpse.

As for the captain who is responsible for commanding the battle, it is the brain of this monster, which is responsible for coordinating and replenishing the movement of each fang, claw and bone armor.

Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi looked at his subordinates in amazement and began to retreat step by step the moment they took the enemy. Chen Jin had not reminded him before, but those five-meter-long spears were really useless to his army that still emphasized personal bravery. So he had to replace the new force through constant changes in formation and buy time for the killer weapon mentioned by Chen Jin.

The slow forward step of Nantangying on the middle road not only scared Liu Guangbi, who had just come to Zhejiang but didn't know much about the market, but also greatly exceeded Chen Wen's expectations.

As far as he knew, the Qing army in Jiangxi was mainly concentrated in three places, controlling Jiujiang, the Yangtze River waterway, the provincial capital Nanchang and the Nangan area with a very strong strategic position. The Jiangxi admiral battalion he faced was as high as 5,000, and was the backbone of the stationed in Nanchang and suppressing various places. Unfortunately, the Jiangxi admiral was not very clear that the Ming and Qing armies had begun organization competitions on the battlefield in Zhejiang, and the two sides targeted them in constant confrontations, thus gradually improving their combat effectiveness. The old version used by his army was long outdated, and it was not easy to rely on the advantage of military strength to support them.

As for the left and right wings, the Qing army on the left wing was all hesitant. The local green camp had been temporarily handed over to Chen Guobao to command the Yuanyang formation without any strength to fight back. The Qing army on the right wing relied on the Fujian Left General Battalion, which had already begun to learn from the Zhejiang Qing army, and struggled to maintain the front line.

The gap between the two sides can no longer be compensated by the huge gap in military strength. The Qing army can still rely on the overwhelming advantage of its military strength to support it. However, when the casualties reach a certain level, Chen Wen does not believe that the Qing army can continue to support it, and it is a meaningless support that cannot be won.

However, just when he thought the overall situation was settled, his old opponent Chen Jin could no longer bear it and threw his reserve team to the right wing where the Qing army was still struggling to maintain the front.

The wisest choice was to cast the reserve team at the critical moment and key location of the battle. However, when Chen Wen saw the Dubiao camp that he had repelled twice, which could be said to be the extremely familiar Dubiao camp, he saw not the Qing army like other green camps, but a copy of the Nantang camp under his command of the Qing army formed by the whole army consisting of the Yuanyang formation at the end of last year. However, at this moment, Chen Wen did not have the second Nantang camp in his hand to verify the counterfeit and shoddy opponents! To be continued.
Chapter completed!