In the previous artillery bombardment, the general situation of the Ming army's killing and injury to the Qing army has been summarized in front of Hong Chengchou.

The ones who were killed by the jump shot were the Qing army's left and right marks on the left wing and front battlefield were located in front of the front, and there were six battalions in total. Each cannon was penetrated into a flesh-and-blood alley. Although the damage caused was not too large compared to the overall soldiers of each battalion, these green camp soldiers were not very capable of enduring casualties, especially the tragic situation brought by the one cannon, which really made the soldiers unbearable, so that these six battalions were basically difficult to be the main force of hand-to-hand combat.

However, the Jingbiao Hou Town, which was spread along Jinsha Creek, had poor jumping and shooting effects because the land in the area was not hard enough. Especially for the Zuoying Camp, which was closest to Jinsha Creek, basically none of the shells that hit them could form a jumping effect, and the casualties were far lower than those of the battalions.

With the help of a raid of cavalry, the Ming army, which lacked cavalry, was forced to withdraw the artillery. Although during this period, the cavalry on the left wing of the Qing army also suffered a certain degree of casualties under the attack of muskets and insurgent bows, their tactical purpose was achieved. The Qing army used this period to withdraw several battalions that had suffered too much to be reorganized and replaced the subsequent battalions. The rear of the left wing and central army was the rear, and the right sixth battalion replaced the front and left sixth battalion, while the Jingbiao Houzhen on the ground on the river beach was only replaced with a back battalion, and the left camp, which had suffered less damage, continued to be on the formation.

This result was something that Hong Chengchou had not expected in advance. Not only Hong Chengchou, but no one in the Qing army thought that such a situation would occur. It was also artillery. They thought that only flat fire could achieve a series of killings. They realized at this moment that this artillery could still be used like this.

"The previous dynasty trained the Guanning Army and tried to defeat our Qing Dynasty on the battlefield with firearms. It was a dream. It has been proved many times before that the bandits are no longer the opponent of the King's Army in hand-to-hand combat. The lower officials thought that the boss of the strategy did not need to worry."

Hu Quancai's voice was not loud, which could not be heard clearly by Hong Chengchou, but not by too many people. What he heard here was Hong Chengchou, Zhang Dayuan, Wang 1 Fuchen and the few people closest to Hong Chengchou. However, after hearing this, everyone's original worries disappeared - as he said, after all, the battle entered this stage, and the Ming army could no longer use artillery. Without the rifle shooting, a tactic of targeting the Qing army's formation, and entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, naturally there was no need to be afraid of anything.

However, Hu Quancai's persuasion did not receive a response from Hong Chengchou. As Hu Quancai said, he could naturally understand that the Guanning Army's vehicle and artillery battalion cost a huge amount of money and even became a cause for the Ming court officials to increase their income. But in the end, it was completely useless. Once the Qing army was close to the front, these firearms would be useless at all.

This was what Hong Chengchou saw with his own eyes, and the Jesuit monk James had mentioned before that, on the battlefield of Thailand, although both the Ming and Qing armies were advanced in the battlefield today, they still rely on hand-to-hand combat to decide the outcome. It is precisely because of this reason that when he helped Hong Chengchou train the strongest green camp in history, he chose the Spanish square that had better effect in hand-to-hand combat, rather than the improved versions that are rampant on the continent now.

"As Mr. Daotai said, Mr. Jingli does not need to worry too much. Half of the bandits are still emphasizing the outdated idea of ​​the expensive and complicated soldiers. They may be useful in narrow terrains such as mountains and forests, but when fighting in an array, they are definitely not the opponent of the official army."

Hong Chengchou has been experiencing James' pride in the current Western tactical system for half a year. However, after thinking about it carefully, the previous drills in Nanchang and the battle on the Yulang River all proved that what he said was true. In fact, what he was worried about was not this, but another key to determining the outcome. Hong Chengchou had vaguely seen Chen Wen's general intention.

"Send the order to defeat the current bandits, and slaughter them all!"

The massacre of the city was the only recipe used by the Qing army to inspire morale. It was simple and practical. All the civil servants and generals present were shocked, but the face of the Jesuit monk was a little unnatural - it was not because of the mental cleanliness. The European army in this era was also very bad in military discipline, especially the kind of mercenaries he was born in, especially the kind of mercenaries he was born in. Only compared with the Qing Dynasty, especially with the old Han scholar in front of him, this barbarity actually made him, the former mercenary, feel a little uncomfortable to adapt.

However, once this order was issued, the Qing army would be very motivated wherever it was reached, and the momentum of the offensive became even more intense.

After receiving this order, the rear battalion, which replaced the front battalion of Jingbiaoqian Town, was just like the other battalions, and the attack of the Qing army, which had already begun to fight in hand-to-hand combat, became even more crazy. Not only the spearmen, but also the bird gunners who fought with rats under the forest became even more courageous.

"Occurrence! Defeat the opponent's Nantang Camp, our Zhongzhen Houzhang is the first achievement in this battle!"

The guerrilla Zhao Liangdong of Jingbiao Front Town and Back Battalion waved the sword in his hand and burst out with amazing shouts.

At this moment, he was not the first-class general in later generations. He was the famous general of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and one of the four generals of Hexi. Before he was transferred, he was just a guerrilla. However, the anti-Qing uprising in the northwest had generally subsided. It was really difficult to get promoted again, and it was far less than to fight the Ming army in Zhejiang that had become a great trouble for the Qing Dynasty. Even if the great achievements were shared, there would be countless vacancies waiting for him in the chassis of the eight eastern Zhejiang prefectures.

Fame and fortune are here!

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Liao Yiran could not count how many Qing troops had been stabbed to death in the Nantang camp opposite the front town and back camp of Jingbiao. After repeated assassination, his arms seemed to be filled with lead, becoming heavier, so that the stab just now was directly dodged by the tall Qing army.

The dense formation, the space for flash movement is very small, and the battle has been going on for a long time, and he could not avoid being cut by the spearmen and musketeers of the Qing army. In fact, if it weren't for the years of hard practice of martial arts, his body's reaction speed was far better than that of ordinary people, he would have fallen to the ground long ago. It would have been as if he were as slight injuries as he is now, but it would not have been fatal.

However, as his body fatigue increased, his reaction speed of moving his body to avoid the fatal attack began to gradually become less than usual. But at this moment, behind the Qing army who had just been stabbed to death by him, accompanied by the newly-filled Qing army's wolf-like eyes, a spear aimed at him and stabbed him!

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It has been a long time since the hand-to-hand combat, and the Ming and Qing armies started a flesh-and-blood mill on the battlefield, stabbing living people to death, and squeezed out more blood under the trampling of their big feet.

At the beginning, the land was still absorbing these feedings hungrily, but the battle continued until now. The two armies were in a straight line several meters wide from Jinsha Creek to the mountains and forests, from east to west. Blood could no longer penetrate into the ground like a stream flowing into the sea, but it gathered into blood flowing towards a lower area.

Every step, every time you fall to the ground, or even every time you exert force, the blood on the ground will splash blood and then fall back into the pool of blood. Of course, more will seep into the soldiers' shoes and pants, and these soldiers will soon contribute more blood.

"This is the strong army of the Ganzhou Green Camp. The Shaanxi Qin Army and the border army group with the strongest combat effectiveness from Hongwu to Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty."

The Qing army, who managed the standard battalions, had a combat quality and tolerance for casualties, and had far better combat quality than those green camp soldiers Chen Wen had fought with before. Whether it was Tian Xiong, Ma Degong and others, the old subordinates of Huang Degong led by them, or other green camps, they could not compare with them. Even today, they used brand new tactics, and even the two generations of Hangzhou garrisoned Eight Banners he had previously defeated were much inferior!

At this moment, the two armies have entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat for a long time. The Strategic Battalion, which was mainly composed of the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp, has always beaten the Ming army in hand-to-hand combat, and has even gradually begun to regain the previous casualties in the artillery attack.

The combat effectiveness of the Ganzhou Green Camp, coupled with the Spanish phalanx and the temptation of the massacre of the city, doubled the combat effectiveness of the Qing army.

Chen Wen believed that Hong Chengchou had probably seen that the reason why he came to fight him blatantly was that the Ming army had a stronger endurance of casualties, so that he could try to give the Qing army more damage in the use of artillery, so that he could pass through this embarrassing period of the Ming army faster, so that the Qing army could not withstand the casualties and collapse.

Under normal circumstances, this is indeed the case. This is also the best choice for the Ming army when the Qing army cannot achieve a breakthrough. If you support it, the feudal army of the Qing army collapses on its own, just like the previous battle in Yulangxi. Therefore, Hong Chengchou would temporarily dispatch cavalry to replace the formation that entered the hand-to-hand combat.

Forces are another major advantage of Hong Chengchou, so he would continue to spend time with Chen Wen with confidence, because he firmly believed that the Ming army could not break through the Spanish phalanx, and this was Chen Wen's breakthrough point!

Raised his right hand and waved forward. The two teams of Ming troops in the guard, one with more than 200 people and the other with only more than 100 people. They were all wearing heavy armor made by Zheng Chenggong, holding their own weapons and walking towards the two sets of mandarin duck formations between Nantang Camp and the right-wing Shentang Camp.

No one could recognize who among these sharp men in iron armor, because in addition to wearing a full set of iron armor, they also wore iron masks painted with evil ghost patterns. Only those cold eyes shot out from the ghost face's eyes would show some differences, but it was even more daunting.

After reaching the formation, the two iron-faced men immediately divided into two groups and matched with the other troops. From one group of more than 200 people, one group of more than 100 people, to each group of fifty or sixty people, after regrouping, the two troops rushed into the Mandarin Duck Formation that was converted into a vertical formation, one south and one north, facing the square formation of the two right battalions in the front of Jingbiaozhong Town.

Jingbiaozhong Town is the most powerful place in the Southeast Jingluo Biaoying. Later generations, Zhang Yong, the Marquis of Jingni, has now grown into the first famous green camp general in the early Qing Dynasty. All he has lost is the merits he received from the Ming army in the Southwest and Wu Sangui.

This is the hardest part of the Qing army. As long as it is defeated, the other Qing army will inevitably be affected. Before the battle, Chen Wen deliberately used a flintlock rifle to carry out an extra round of volleys, just for the present!

When the spear just now came, Liao Yiran had already expected to die, but the Qing army with wolf-like eyes was stabbed into the eye socket by his comrade on his left, and died with one shot. After losing the subsequent power supply from his master, the Qing army's spear also broke a piece of armor on Liao Yiran's body and exhausted its abilities, and only made a gap.

The location where he was was the seam with the right-wing mandarin duck formation, so the pressure he was under was still quite large. At this moment, the mandarin duck formation had changed from the defensive formation to the vertical formation, and a group of strong men in iron armor rushed over. Liao Yiran, who was shot and moved to the back, watched all this. When he saw the next actions of the iron-faced men, he was stunned.

The closest iron-faced man that Liao Yiran looked at was a veteran named Lu Yihao. He rushed to a position of only ten steps away from the formation. He could even clearly see the Qing army's sudden change of formation and thought that the Ming army was about to collapse.

At this time, like a dozen comrades around him who also came from a team of about 200 people, he took out a black ball the size of a small durian from the cloth bag straddling his waist with his right hand, and took out a fire snatch with his left hand. With a light blow, the flame rekindled, and then pointed to a slightly thick line protruding from the upper end of the ball.

The flame point was in a thick line, and immediately sparked out, and it was heading towards the ball at an unfast but never slow speed. The thick line was constantly shortening, and then, Lu Yihao picked up the black ball and threw it at the Qing army's square formation.

The black ball drew an imperfect parabola on the battlefield where the sound of killing sounds shook the sky, and directly hit a bird gun in the back row, pulled out its waist knife to squat and drilled through the crowd.

This thing was not light, and immediately hit him with a star and blood flowed. However, before he could react, a huge explosion directly overwhelmed the screams of killing around him, and a large area of ​​flames burst into pieces, including all the Qing troops within a few meters. What contained it even swept down a large area of ​​Qing troops around him with the sound waves! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!