Siming Lake is nearly twenty square kilometers in radius, but this refers to the area, not the distance. Dasu's ambush point is actually only four or five miles away from Chen Wen's general flag. For the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Manchurian Eight Banners can be regarded as riding infantry, and the Han army's Eight Banners also have a large number of pack horses, this distance can be said to be in a flash. Along the way, only the stream west of Liangnong Town can barely delay some collision time.

At this moment, Chen Wen's third battalion on the northern line was about to fight with Qibiao and Fubiao. The Qing army on that side had only Qibiao and Fubiao's Green Camp soldiers. Chen Wen simply delegated the right to command the battle to Ma Xin, the battalion officer of Tiantai Camp, who was responsible for commanding the battle on that side. He was concentrating on facing the upcoming Eight Banners Army.

"Duke, please transfer some troops back quickly. The Eight Banners Army came from across the lake!"

Holding a telescope, he continued to observe the movements of the Eight Banners Army that were rushing towards him. Chen Wen didn't even look back, but just replied lightly, "No need" and ignored Huang Zongxi and others who were still anxious.

Soon, after completing the last round of the entire team, the Ming army's northern line troops formed by Tiantai, Ruian and Huangyan Battalions broke out in a fierce collision with the only remaining elite troops of Zhejiang Green Camp, the Admiral Biao Battalion and the Governor Biao Battalion.

At the same time, the front of Dasu's Eight Banners Army had already rushed to the small bridge on the Daxi River leading to Liangnong Town. However, there were a large number of troops, but there was only one bridge. More Eight Banners Armys still needed to ride horses and wade through the river before they could pass through this stream. However, once they crossed the Daxi River, they were only one or two miles away from the Ming army's rear guard troops.

With the perfect military ratio of the Qing army composed of Manchuria, Mongolian and Han army Eight Banners when entering the pass, Dasu relied on this side. Relatively speaking, Chen Wen only had two battalions, Nantang and Feixiong, as well as some cavalry, who had already been arranged at this moment, and was stuck between Siming Lake and the gradually rising mountains and forests in the eastern part. He formed another steel jungle with long spears, wolves and other weapons.

Although Dasu did not have a monocular telescope that had gradually become popular in the command of the Ming army in Zhejiang, it did not prevent him from sending horses to observe the movements of the Ming army. Behind him, officers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria passed through the bridge, and lower-level officers and soldiers wade through the water from both sides of the bridge. The Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Army wade through the north and south of the Eight Banners of Manchuria respectively under the leadership of Wu Rujie and the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen.

To the north, after the Third Battalion of Tiantai fought with the Green Camp soldiers, as always, relying on formation tactics and more vigorous combat, the Qing army was unable to fight back. However, these Qing troops were as if they had taken medicine today, sticking to the front line, even if they knew there was no hope at a glance.

As time passed by minute by minute, the stream was not wide, and Dasu's Eight Banners Army quickly passed through all the way and quickly crossed Liangnong Town to start arraying.

The Qing army had a huge number of cavalry, but on the banks of Siming Lake, facing the Zhejiang Ming army, Dasu still came up with the old tactics of the Eight Banners Army - the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Han Army respectively set up war horses and pack horses, and fought in infantry battles. The cavalry left only the Eight Banners of Mongolia with their skeleton legs.

The Eight Banners Army of the brigade began to line up. The Qing army was centered with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the Eight Banners of the Han army were lined with two wings. On the Ming army, Chen Wen was the Feixiong Camp with mules in the middle. The oldest Nantang Camp was lined with two wings because it still retained the organization of the Mandarin Duck Array.

The infantry on the front of the Ming and Qing armies were less than 4,000, and they also had the idea of ​​breaking through the central government, so they placed the toughest and sharp side in the middle. The only difference was that the Qing army relied on the strong combat power of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, while the Ming army had a spear formation that was more suitable for formation battles.

But unlike the Green Camp, the Eight Banners Army had too many cavalry. Even though only the Eight Mongolian Banners were still fighting horses, they still had a huge number of nearly 2,000. After a little rectification, they were the first to fight. They rushed out from the connection between the flanks and the battle formation, and a large number of cavalry rushed over.

The two sides were only one or two miles apart, and the cavalry came roaring. Faced with such a large scale, Chen Wen did not release his pitiful hundreds of cavalry, but simply ordered the artillery and the musketeers in the front row and the archers retreated to the front three rows of long spear formations, and used the long card players to cover the long spearmen. The long spearmen half-squatted out to prevent these Qing cavalry from kicking the long spear forest directly.

While the horse's hooves splashed on the soft mud along the lake, the cavalry of the Eight Mongolian Banners arrived in an instant. Seeing that they were about to hit the jungle of long spears, these Mongolian Tartars suddenly turned at the last moment. While they were sweeping sideways, they could only hear the sound of bowstrings. An arrow hit the Ming army like a storm, hitting fiercely.

There were long cards in the front row of the Ming army, but the distance was too close. The eight Mongolian banners were also extremely proficient in riding and shooting skills. It seemed that the war horses under their crotch and the riding bows in their hands were all on their bodies. However, in this round of shooting, half of the arrows were nailed to the long cards and armor of the long cards, while most of them passed the long cards and shot at the long cards in the back three rows at a condescending angle. In an instant, the spear formation in the middle of the battle formation that was focused on being shot into a hedgehog.

The horse-riding and shooting of the Eight Banners of Mongolia was quite vicious, especially those warriors in their respective tribes, who often aimed at parts that could not be perfectly covered by armor or shot directly at the Ming army's armorless face. Even if Cao Dian had already lowered his head at this time, he only relied on the edge of the helmet, and in front of the arrows shot from strange angles, the effect could be extremely pitiful.

After a rain of arrows, the Ming army's spear formation immediately turned into a pockmarked face. The spearmen who were shot into the vital area fell down sporadically, most of them were shot directly on the face and killed with one arrow!

Looking forward from afar, Chen Wen couldn't help but frown. Although the Mongolians of this era had been beaten by the Ming army for two hundred years, they had not yet been castrated by the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years. Especially the tactics derived from the advantages of these Mongolian Eight Banners, riding and shooting skills really shocked him.

"It turns out that this is why the Iron Man Army in history wants to match armor."

Never encountered the Eight Mongolian Banners, especially the history of Qi Jiguang beating the Mongols, which made the Ming army of Zhejiang despise this powerful barbarian who had long since died of Yuan Dynasty. But at this moment, the cavalry of the nomadic people still possessed extremely lethal power in the era of alternating hot and cold weapons.

Chen Wen remembered that he had seen such a saying on the Internet before, saying that the Huang Taiji era and the Mongols were aligned, especially the entrance to the Yisi transformation, which provided the Qing Dynasty with a double horse on the chessboard. Just like Kong Youde's surrender to the Qing Dynasty and the fall of Jinzhou with a double cannon for the Qing Dynasty, it gave this barbarian tribe a more reasonable configuration of troops.

Now it seems that this is true!

The large group of cavalry from the Eight Banners of Mongolia roared by, and the Ming army in Zhejiang was not completely powerless to fight back. The long cards and armor were just defenses. Nearly half of the musketeers and archers in the Ming army's organization immediately launched a counterattack against them under the cover of the long spear forest, and it even started after they entered the range.

The range of the Lumi gun and the stair bow is much further than that of the riding bow. During the charge, these cavalry of the Eight Mongolian Banners were always under the shooting of the Ming army and could only rely on equestrians to avoid it. Some of the very strong equestrians simply borrowed war horses to avoid shooting.

But even so, after the first round of whistling, these Mongolian cavalry still left nearly a hundred lives.

It was not because of how accurate the Ming army's shooting skills were. Even long-term training could not avoid the hit problems caused by the high-speed running of war horses and the accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore gun. However, this area was too narrow, making the distance between Mongolian cavalry and the distance between them was extremely small, and they were densely swept through the Ming army's formation. Unless they were empty or aimed at the sky, there would always be a great chance to hit.

In the first round of confrontation, neither side gained any advantage. The Qing army lost nearly a hundred cavalry and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and dozens of spearmen on Chen Wen were shot and killed.

The entire army was wearing armor, which undoubtedly lowered the losses of the Ming army; and the shooting of such dense units at a closer distance by muskets and stair bows also caused casualties in the Qing army. Especially when the Qing cavalry rushed into the effective range, the Lumi gun immediately showed an amazing armor-breaking ability compared with bird guns, stair bows and cavalry bows.

The Ming army on the northern line is still suppressing the green camp soldiers at this moment, and it is only a matter of time to defeat them. However, such victory is something that Chen Wen does not want to see. What he needs is a victory that breaks the invincible myth of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and a victory that completely establishes that the Ming army in Zhejiang is no less than the Eight Banners of Manchuria in combat effectiveness.

"The real and fake Tartars are still slugging the embroidery, we won't wait for them anymore. Beat the drum, advance, rush up, and defeat them!"

"Tiger!"

The flag was leaning forward, and the war drums were thunderous. The Nantang Camp and Feixiong Camp of the Ming Army of Zhejiang Province were promoted, and the lost spearmen were able to complete the battle from the rear team and roll forward with firm and powerful steps. After a while, the battle formation of the Eight Banners Army, which had completed the entire team, began to face the Ming army with Dasu's order.

As the Dinghai Sword Needle for the Qing Dynasty to maintain the system of the Qing Dynasty, although the Eight Banners Army began to fall and become corrupt after entering the pass, just eleven years have passed, and there are still a large number of experienced officers and veterans in the army who had been in the army before entering the pass, and their combat effectiveness has not completely deteriorated to the point where they strongly rely on the Green Camp soldiers to quell the rebellion during the Three Feudal Rebellion.

The victory stems from the invincible reputation of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. They are full of confidence. Although there are only two thousand people of the Eight Banners of Manchuria here, the Mongolian and Han army are both present, and the complete Eight Banners of the Eight Banners of the Huang Taiji era is still there. At this moment, they are about to use this to fight against the Ming army of Zhejiang, which has been invincible for many years and has the reputation of being invincible.

As the two infantry battle formations continued to approach, like a river flooded the horse's hooves, the room for the Mongolian cavalry to move was getting smaller and smaller, and they barely carried out a round of cavalry. After suffering greater casualties, the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen retreated to the back of the formation with the entire cavalry to wait for pursuit.

At this moment, at the southern end of the shore of Siming Lake, two infantry battle formations were striding towards each other. Soon, the Ming army re-aligned the musketeers and archers to the front of the formation, and even some artillery members pushed the cannon carriages and barely followed the queue. The same was true for the Qing army.

After entering the range of artillery, the two sides began to fire, but the infantry's front did not stagnate because of this. Instead, they accelerated their pace and continued to move forward.

Until a hundred steps away, the Ming army took the lead in stopping. From the eight banners of the Han army who fled back to Hangzhou last year, Dasu and Wu Rujie knew very well that the range of the Ming army's muskets was farther than the bird guns equipped by the eight banners of the Han army, so while fighting back on the arch, they did not stop, but continued to move forward so that they could enter the effective range of the bird gun as soon as possible.

Soon, when the Qing army's bird gunner completed a round of shooting, he retreated to the formation, replaced the swords and shields, and jumped out, throwing flying axes, flying knives, javelins and other throwing weapons towards the Ming army's battle formation.

The Qing army's tactics, or the usual tactics of the Ming and Qing armies in this era, were already under the calculations of the Ming army. After entering the distance, the Ming army's musketeers had already completed two or three rounds of shooting, retreated directly to the formation, and the long card players in the front row could resist these injuries.

Due to the use of the long spear formation and the mandarin duck formation, the battle entered this stage, and the Ming army inevitably had an attack gap. After stopping, the projecting weapons like rain flew from various angles. The long card player, as required by Cao Dian, used regular tactical actions to resist the long card, providing cover for the soldiers behind him.

Until the projection was over and the Qing army rushed up, these long-distance players took advantage of the opportunity to adjust their fighting posture and used their swords to project the arrows nailed to the long cards and then blocked the long cards in front of them, and the arch arm of the right swords tightly clamped, making a move to fight. At the same time, the long spear in the back row was flat and rushed out from the gap between the long-distance players.

"kill!"

The shouts sounded, and the Ming army of Zhejiang and the Eight Banners Army collided with each other.

Shi Daniu of the Fourth Infantry Team of the First Armored Sent, the First Bureau of Nantang Camp, is now the captain of the team. At this moment, his team was close to Feixiong Camp. In the collision just now, he stabbed four Qing troops to death with the first advantage of facing the sword and shield soldiers with the 15-foot spear. But at this moment, the sword and shield soldiers who took advantage of the situation to break into the spear forest also began to slash these spears frantically.

Wherever his eyes were, the only recruit who had been added this year had just shot the Qing army's belly with a beard, and twisted it and brought out the intestines. But at this moment, his long spear was slightly slower, and he was immediately cut off by a Qing army next to him and chopped the gun down. Unexpectedly, the next second, the recruit took the gun away and stabbed it again, stabbing it directly into the neck of the Qing army.

Facing the armorless neck, even without the spear head, the sharp wooden stick was stabbed in smoothly. With the sound of vomiting blood, blood gushed out, but the length of the spear was really not short, so that the blood of the Qing army did not even splash the long player in front of the new recruits. It just dyed the front end of the spear red, and changed the splashing target to the ground as the Qing army fell to the ground.

The Ming army's spear forest was madly stabbed out, retracted, stabbed out again, and then retracted again. This was even more violent than when facing the Eight Banners of the Han army.

As a lower-level officer, Shi Daniu knows the feelings of these soldiers better than those high-ranking officers. Since he learned that his opponent this time is the Eight Banners Army, and it is also a true barbarian, the great reputation of the Zhejiang Ming Army's own strong combat effectiveness and the invincible myth of the Eight Banners of Manchuria continue to collide in the hearts of the soldiers, the survival of fear, the self-esteem produced by the glorious history of the Zhejiang Ming Army, either the desire to surpass the Qing Dynasty, or the sense of mission to maintain the Han world, all of which impact the hearts of the soldiers at all times.

After the guidance of the military supervisor, everyone knew that only by defeating the Eight Banners Army in front of them would there be a possibility of regaining all lost land and driving the Tartars out of China in the future. Therefore, they all used all their strength to try to further get closer to that happy future with the simple action of assassination.

"kill!"

Every assassination is accompanied by a shout. At this moment, the shouts and killings have been connected, and there is almost no gap between them.

The Ming army's spears were intensively assassinated, and for the Eight Banners Army, which still relied on personal bravery, had enough space for each soldier to wield weapons, it was really hard to resist. One shot was stabbed, with a shield, the second shot was stabbed, and a knife shot, but the third shot and the fourth shot followed at the same time. Even if it was flashing and moving as a monkey, it would inevitably be injured or even killed by a single shot.

However, even in the face of such a dilemma, the Eight Manchurian Banners in the center of the battle formation were still chopping, blocking, dodging, and rushing into the spear forest with all possible means, using the disadvantage of spear Yi Lao to break the formation.

The fierce battle on the southern line continued, but at this moment, a vague cheer came from the battlefield on the northern line inside and outside. The gray-blue turbid current that was struggling to stalemate with the fiery red seemed to be at this moment, as the embankment between the two collapsed to the north and was gradually driven northward, and the speed of this trend became faster and faster.

The Green Camp soldiers on the northern line have collapsed. From a distance, it seems that only the generals of the central army are still struggling to maintain in this torrent. What will the Ming army do next? Whether to draw some troops to reinforce the southern line, or to divide the troops around Siming Lake during the pursuit, it will take a long time to play a role. But the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for him. For the sake of the present, the only way is to fight to the death and try to defeat Chen Wen to weaken the Ming army's momentum, and there is no other way.
Chapter completed!