The Ming army of the three battle barracks headed west from the official road north of Jinhua City, and soon encountered the cavalry of the Qing army brigade.

Facing the Zhejiang Ming Army, which was mixed with infantry and cavalry, the light cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Han Army only came forward to harass the horse speed, and they did not dare to have any other extravagant hopes, and even stopped to confront the Ming Army. It was not that they were not brave enough, and all those who could become cavalry among the Eight Banners of the Han Army were warriors in the army, but the range of cavalry bows was really pitiful compared to that of the archers. If they stood there and shot, the Qing army's cavalry bows had to be shot into a hedgehog by the Ming army's infantry bowmen.

However, even so, compared with the Ming army, the Qing army's cavalry had an overwhelming advantage in number. The three military battalions of the Ming army still had to slow down and turn to advance. In this way, the Qing army's cavalry could not even harass her, and could only watch the Ming army advance, but their goal had been achieved.

Taking advantage of the time difference caused by cavalry harassment, Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan retreated the siege army and retreated two miles to re-arrange.

This location is actually not good. There is a waterway of more than ten meters wide in the north and south sides, one from the Dongyang River to the east from west, and the other from the mountainous area to the left wing of the Qing army formation. This has a certain degree of obstacle to the use of Qing cavalry. However, the horizontal and horizontal water network of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is not conducive to cavalry mobility. Otherwise, the Qing court would not lower the infantry and cavalry ratio of the army here to the pitiful nine to one level.

However, the main force of the Ming army was coming at this moment, and the only place they could retreat to was the best. At least it was better than confronting the main force of the Ming army under the city, and on the other hand, they had to guard against the possible side attacks of the Ming army in the city.

After the Qing army set up its formation, it began its last rest and accumulated a last bit of physical strength for the decisive battle. Not long after, the Ming army's army also rushed to a mile away and began to rest there.

Jinhua Mansion is his base, and Chen Wen is very familiar with the terrain here. The current location of the Qing army is not very good, which is the truth. However, if you want to find another open area that is large enough and does not hinder the movement of the cavalry, you have to retreat four or five miles northwest. At that time, they were already caught up by the Ming army, and it is far from being so good.

Relatively speaking, the Ming army was not much better. Although it could cover the city behind it, there was a small forest in front of the south side of the Ming army formation, with a terrain higher than the surrounding area. There was also a mound slightly higher than the four sides in the north. The Ming army needed to go out from this narrow area to fully unfold the formation, which would undoubtedly affect the speed of the Ming army's advance.

It is impossible to keep consuming it like this. After the whole night under Dunbing City, the Qing army, which had no camp support, could not afford it, and the Ming army, who had been raiding more than a hundred miles, could not afford it.

Both sides were tired soldiers, and they had the same ambition to fight and decide quickly. When the infantry from two thunders and a cavalry team of more than 200 people arrived, Chen Wen issued an order to advance the entire army.

The infantrymen of these two posts were the defenders on the city walls on the north, east and south and the recruits assigned to them. Although they did not sleep all night, they were in better condition than the troops of the Dongyang Camp that were completely disabled at Tongyuan Gate and the gap, whether in terms of physical strength or the integrity of the system. The more than 200 cavalry were the cavalry teams of the Dongyang Camp and the officers who could fight in the martial arts school. They were the capital left by Yin Yue to make the final counterattack, and they were in better condition.

With the three battalions of cavalry and engineers, these soldiers formed Chen Wen's reserve team. However, the soldiers on both sides have not exhausted their strength now, and it may not be the turn of the reserve team to appear and fight will be over.

The Ming army of the brigade slowly walked out of the narrow area and quickly stretched out the formations of the three battalions. Nantang Camp occupied the central army, Shentang Camp was responsible for the left wing, and the Guards Camp left for the right wing. This arrangement was because Chen Wen knew that the waterway south of the Qing army was not straight east, and she would turn in another direction behind the temple several miles away...

This distance has reached the range of the Qing army's small-caliber Red Armor cannons. As the first round of test firing began, dozens of shells roared one after another, smashing craters within a hundred meters in front of the Ming army's formation, stirring up patches of plaster. Even the nearest one turned the Ming army in the front row of Nantang Camp like clay men.

The Ming army completed the entire team at an extremely fast speed. At the moment the drums sounded, a roar of earth-shaking tigers suddenly broke out. The Ming army of the three battalions did not advance step by step as usual, but instead jogged in the direction of the Qing army.

"Rebel Chen Wen, is this crazy?"

No matter how Liu Zhiyuan, Shi Tingzhu, who had never had a confrontation with this Ming army in Zhejiang, stared at everything in front of him in a daze. He really imagined that even other Qing army officers showed unimaginable expressions.

The army confrontation was not the gangster fights staged in the TV series of Chen Wen's era, and the formation was a crucial existence. Without formations, it was the iron rule of infantry. With the ability of the army in this era, you had to stop and complete the team after a distance to ensure the integrity of the formation. The difference between elites and waste lies only in the number of times and time of the whole team. It is simply unimaginable to run and advance like the Ming army.

"Shishuai, Liu Shuai, let the cavalry kill you. If you charge forward, these traitors will be finished."

Hearing the advice of the Eight Banners officer of the Manchurian Banners beside him, Shi Tingzhu shook his head and then explained to him: "Although the opposite side is running forward, the formation is never scattered, and the basic formation and flags are not chaotic. If there is any movement in the cavalry, they just need to stop and reorganize the team. If rushing up, it will affect the shooting of artillery. Moreover, the rebel Chen Wen seemed to be planning to weaken the effect of the artillery."

The predecessor of the Eight Banners of the Han Army was originally the artillery unit of the Qing Dynasty. It can also be seen from the organization of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners that only the Eight Banners of the Han were organized with artillery units, while the Eight Banners of the Mongolian focused on cavalry, and were all used as auxiliary troops of the Eight Banners of the Manchus on the battlefield.

Shi Tingzhu was the earliest leaders of Wuzhen Chaoha, and even a person who had been to Zhangjing of Wuzhen Chaoha. He was an extremely experienced artillery officer in the Qing army and could see the clues at a glance.

On the battlefield, the Qing army's artillery fired never stopped, but the distance calculation relied more on experience rather than scientific instruments. In addition, the movement speed of the Ming army was unreasonable, so their shells were often shot after the Ming army's formation. Even if there were a very few that could hit, they hit the Ming army behind the formation, which had no effect on the forward arrows.

Running is a compulsory course for the training of the Ming army. Each team formed a formation and ran forward in order to launch an assault faster. Originally, it would only be launched after a certain distance, but Chen Wen did not intend to complete this land in the dense artillery fire of the Eight Banners of the Han army. This was a loss of morale, and he had to send the Ming army into hand-to-hand combat with the highest morale. Only in this way can he have the possibility of defeating this elite Qing army unit.

In fact, Chen Wen also knew that if it were not for the veterans of these three battalions of super high, if it were replaced by other battalions, even if it was not a pure new battalion like Lishui battalion. Most of the veterans of these three battalions started to join the army since the restoration of Jinhua Mansion in the fifth year of Yongli. Even the Shentang Camp, which had the least qualifications, had also experienced the first confrontation between Shentangyuan and the Qing army's Mandarin Duck Formation. In a series of bloody battles and long-term training, it would be difficult to reach this level.

After running about a hundred steps, the Ming army stopped and started to reorganize the team. However, the speed of the entire team was still a bit too fast in the Qing army's eyes. It seemed that every soldier of this Ming army could automatically adjust his position in the queue by understanding the left and right front and back.

There are some people in the army who cannot tell the difference between the left and right. Although they don’t know how the Ming army did it, Shi Tingzhu began to feel the threat here, because the fewer the number of times the whole team carried artillery fire on the battlefield, the more casualties it could be reduced. The number of times the whole team was determined based on whether there was scattering in the formation.

One hundred steps, this distance was still coming. Shi Tingzhu couldn't imagine everything in front of him. He even suspected that he had read it wrong, but when he turned to look at Liu Zhiyuan, the guy was also full of shock, which further deepened Shi Tingzhu's inner shock.

"Let the cavalry go up, and they can't rush too fast. This Ming army seems to be not a weak brigade. It must cause them enough casualties on the road so that they can break the enemy faster after the battle!"

With Shi Tingzhu's order, the Qing cavalry of the brigade rushed out from the gap between the two wings and the central army, and roared towards the Ming army.

Seeing that the Qing army dispatched cavalry, the Ming army's brigade stopped and re-formed. Not only did the dense spears reveal like hedgehogs, the archers had also set up arrows to aim at them, preparing to use the range difference between the archers and archers to launch the first shot.

Surrounded by the Qing army, the Ming army did not stop moving forward, but continued to advance under the artillery fire and flanking harassment, and even the speed was only slower - from jogging to brisk walking.

The three battalions advanced together, and within a short while, they had approached the range of 120 steps, which had already reached the range of the archery bow. Since the weather in Zhejiang was not worn by armor, there was no problem of armor piercing, so when they arrived here, both sides could start shooting with archery bows.

However, after approaching this distance, the Ming army did not continue to advance, but stopped and transferred the archers and musketeers to the front of the formation, as if they were planning to shoot the Qing army here.

"This is impossible!" (To be continued.)
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