Compared with the Battle of Nanjing in history, Zheng Chenggong was four years and two months ahead of schedule, but since Chen Wen entered Jinhua Prefecture in the fifth year of Yongli, the attacks he received from the Qing army were far lower than those in the same period in history. Tianlai Novel | 2

The lost land was recovered and the setbacks suffered. There was also a senior trainer named Geng next to him. Coupled with the maritime trade dealings with Zhejiang and the weapons and equipment ordered from Zhejiang, the strength of the Ming army in Fujian was far better than the same period in history, and was only slightly inferior to the army in the 13th year of Yongli.

In short, the number and combat experience of the Yanping vassal army heading north this time was slightly inferior, but in the exchanges between the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the improvement of tactics was faster and should not be underestimated at all.

After several days of rest, Zheng Chenggong personally led a large army into the Yangtze River. On the first day of April, Zheng Chenggong arrived in Jiangyin County, Changzhou Prefecture, and the Qing army resisted the city and defended. Zheng Chenggong continued to go west without fighting. On April 16, Zheng Chenggong attacked Guazhou Town, Yangzhou Prefecture, and killed the defending generals, defeated thousands of Manchu and Han soldiers in Yangzhou, cut off the Qing Dynasty's iron chains and ships to connect the river defense line "Rolling River Dragon", burned down three Qing army's floating camps on the river, seized dozens of Tanjiazhou cannons, and all the river defense fortifications that the Qing Dynasty had worked hard to disintegrate. On the same day, Zheng Chenggong captured Guazhou, and the Qing Caojiang Governor Li Ripeng committed suicide.

Five days later, Zheng Chenggong's army approached the city of Zhenjiang. This was the gateway to Nanjing. It took only a hundred miles west to be Nanjing. Infringements took only a few days, and the cavalry could arrive at it all at once. So when Zheng Chenggong's army captured Guazhou, Ma Guozhu hurriedly collected all the troops he could find and entered Zhenjiang east to the point of destruction of Zheng Chenggong to the east of Zhenjiang.

The Ming army in Fujian was tens of thousands of troops, including the governor of Jiangning Zhang Zhongyuan, who was responsible for leading reinforcements, and the general of Han soldiers of Angbang Zhangjing Jiangnan, Guan Qizhong, was forced to retreat ten miles to the camp, and planned to fight a decisive battle with Zheng Chenggong the next day.

"According to the horse exploration, the Tartars' troops were less than 15,000, half of them were cavalry. However, judging from the banner, this Tartars had a wide range of sources, including green camps from various counties, cavalry stationed in Shaanxi, artillery teams and cavalry of the Han army flag, but the only thing that is really worth paying attention to is the twenty Niulu from the Four Left Wing Banners of Jiangnan and Jiangning, which is the killer weapon of the Tartars!"

Zhou Quanbin is Zheng Chenggong's plan. Although it was not Zhou Quanbin's plan to attack Nanjing for thousands of miles, Zheng Chenggong still believes in the suggestions of this general on weekdays.

The Four Left-wing Banners of Jiangnan and Jiangning were the predecessors of the Eight Banners of Jiangning. They were stationed here in the second year of Shunzhi. They came from the Manchuria, Mongolian Niulu, which were from the Yellow Banner of the Enangbang, Zhengbai Banner, the White Banner of the Enangbang, and the Niulu, the current Angbang Zhangjing is called Sarhacha* Titicacamu, and the Yellow Banner of the Manchuria. However, the commander of the troops was a veteran traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty from Liaodong.

"The decisive battle was earlier than I expected, but the plan did not need to be changed. Before dawn tomorrow, the army will line up in the Silver Mountain to wait for the enemy's troops."

"King, should you wait for the back team to follow and then fight the Tartars?"

With more people, it is safer. Li Zhichun thought so, and Zhang Huangyan also had this intention. However, Zheng Chenggong had no intention of waiting, or he was full of confidence in victory, so he naturally refused to continue wasting time here.

"Last year, the Prince of Kuaiji defeated the Eight Banners in Hangzhou at Siming Lake. There were more than 3,000 Tartars alone. Now our army faces only two thousand left-wing four banners in Jiangnan, Jiangning, and there are many Mongolian Tartars mixed with them. The number of Han flags cannot be compared with the Eight Banners in Hangzhou, but there are several times the army of Kuaiji. I just ask you, will you be confident in a battle tomorrow?!"

"The last general and others obey the king's orders!"

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Zheng Chenggong claimed to be 170,000, but in fact, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers arriving in Zhenjiang, and almost all of them were infantry. In this way, half of the Qing army's 15,000 troops were cavalry. Even though the water network in the south of the Yangtze River was wide, the impact was actually very small in this area, and it can be said that it was almost zero, so the chance of victory was naturally much higher.

The next morning, Guan Xiaozhongti's army headed straight for Yinshan. Seeing that the Ming army's battle formation had not been arranged, he immediately sent an order, and the cavalry divided into five routes and attacked the Ming army's battle formation.

Infantry must be in line to fight, while cavalry need to destroy the infantry formation before they can start chasing and maximize the damage. Five cavalry teams were all out, and the largest number of people was the cavalry of the four left-wing banners of Jiangnan, Jiangning, personally commanded by Guan Xiaozhong, with more than 1,800 cavalry.

These Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army were good at riding horses and arching. When they rode their horses to reach the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows, they shouted loudly three times in unison to seek the effect of being ahead of the crowd, which put mental pressure on the Ming army. After the shouting, more than 1,800 cavalry were divided into three waves, and rode their horses to attack the Ming army's central army.

The two sides were about two hundred steps away. While riding a horse and attacking, these Eight Banners warriors were skilled in picking up bows and placing arrows like eating and drinking water on the war horses. They almost didn't need anyone to command them, and they started shooting against the arrows of the Ming army's infantry bow.

The rain of arrows in the sky cut through the sky, and there were few that were short of distance. Almost every arrow entered the Ming army's battle formation. Some passed through the gaps between the soldiers and inserted into the ground, but more were inserted into the body of one Ming army after another!

The Qing army's cavalry had the advantage and rode their horses to attack, and they were directly rushing through the battle formation by the cavalry. The front row of the Ming army's infantry erected a dense jungle of spears in accordance with the most orthodox formation method. However, the spearmen lacked protection, and the Qing army's cavalry shot on the armor was fine, but it inevitably shot to some key points, resulting in actual reduction of personnel.

While shooting, the degree of the war horses did not slow down. The distance between the two sides was not far away. The Qing cavalry rushed to the front without firing a few arrows.

The collision was about to reach, and the infantry of the Ming army shouted at the officer's loud command and pointed the spear at the Qing army. But at this moment, the first wave of Qing cavalry's war horses that were closest to the Ming army suddenly turned, and swept away from the Ming army's formation. The Qing army's cavalry once again took arrows, aiming at the Ming army's face and shot with an arrow.

In a blink of an eye, the infantry in the front row of the Ming army fell down, but the infantry that did not lead the rear team to supplement it. The second and third waves of the Qing army's cavalry continued, just as before, and the tactic of turning to rapid shooting in front of the formation was once again staged.

The first time I met, the Ming army was seriously injured, but the Eight Banners warriors moved on the war horses and avoided one Ming army's arrow after another. Even if they could not escape, they should bear it as much as possible with the thicker armor on their bodies to avoid those vital points.

The Qing cavalry, which had a disadvantage in range and number of people, easily achieved better exchange ratios with the high movement of the war horses and personal martial arts. Especially when the Ming army's spearmen lost a large number of troops, the entire battle formation began to no longer be as stable as before.

After the Qing army fired rapidly, it quickly left the range of the Ming army's infantry bow. Turning around, the Ming army's formation had begun to be a little confused. Guan Qizhong had not yet settled, and immediately led the first wave of Qing cavalry to rush towards the Ming army's battle formation again, and the second and third waves of cavalry were also closely followed.

If the first round is not enough to break the formation, the second round will come; if the second round is not enough to break the formation, the third round will come. As long as the horsepower is sufficient, the harassment of the light cavalry will not stop. There is no way, Zheng Chenggong has too few cavalry, which is so small that it is almost negligible, and the initiative on the battlefield naturally falls into Guan Qizhen's hands.

This Qing army has been stationed here since its arrival in the south, and even if it is rotated, it has selected elite troops. It existed as the Dinghai Shenjian that the Qing Dynasty ruled in the southeast. Similarly, there are the four right-wing banners in Xi'an, Shaanxi, which are organized by the Manchu and the eight banners of the Han army, and the value is slightly lower than that. In the early Qing Dynasty, the eight banners of Hangzhou, which were known as the eight banners of the Han army, was originally just the organization of the eight banners of the Han army, and it was much worse.

Such elite troops were rare even in the Qing Dynasty. As Hong Chengchou said when he recruited Jiangnan, the only thing the Qing court relied on to govern Jiangnan was the Manchu soldiers stationed in Nanjing. There were not many troops, but they were extremely strong. "The first to speak out is enough to seize the spirit, and the enemy is enough to destroy the front." And their commander Guan Guan was loyal to the Eight Banners, and he was also a long-time general who was called "extremely brave and strong". Otherwise, it would not be his turn, a Han army bannerman, to command the army of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia.

"This is the Eight Banner Army of the Four Left-wing Banners of Jiangnan and Jiangning, and it is indeed well-deserved."

The roar of iron hooves trampling on the land in Jiangnan came, and the vibration on the ground was like a temporarily dissipated nightmare returning again, becoming bigger and bigger. The front formation of the Ming army in Fujian was already ruined. Due to its own losses and the small damage given to the Qing army, the overall morale was already extremely low, and the replenishment of the battle formation was also extremely poor.

During this time, the Qing army attacked again, and the fear in the Ming army's heart suddenly rose in the front, only the last straw was missing.

The Eight Banners Army of the brigade roared, carrying the strong wind outside the pass, densely packed with the fierce rain of arrows, and the fierce rain of arrows hit again, as if straw was falling, instantly overwhelming the guards of the soldiers in front of the Ming army.

The collapse suddenly exploded when the first wave of Qing cavalry rushed to the front. The Ming army, who was panicked, shouted and fled, like a dam breaking. However, the torrent of the dam broke was in the direction of Zheng Chenggong's flag. They were immediately expelled, trampled, and even slaughtered by the wolves behind them.

The previous formation was defeated in just the second round, and a large number of defeated soldiers had been driven by the Qing army. The danger of the defeated soldiers swept the battle formation was about to appear, but Zheng Chenggong, who was under his command, was unmoved. After observing the moment, he immediately issued an order.

"Zhou Quanbin!"

"The last one will be there."

"It's your turn to come out."

"The last general will obey the order!" After saying that, Zhou Quanbin turned around and shouted immediately. "Iron Man Army, go out!"

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He only rode and shot two rounds and broke Zheng Chenggong's front line. From the beginning of the battle, he noticed that the Ming army was full of infantry, Guan Xiaozhong was very distracted.

The Ming army in Fujian had too few cavalry and too poor terrain, so they could not force the Qing army to enter the infantry battle, and were completely hung up by the light cavalry. Although Guan Qizhong had never learned the theory of military restraint, his decades of practical experience was also the reason why he was able to make many military achievements in the Qing Dynasty, command the Eight Banners Army as a Han Chinese, and able to suppress these Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

The front formation of the Ming army had collapsed, and the defeated soldiers would sweep the entire Ming army's battle formation under the intention of the Qing army, thus destroying the order of various units of the Ming army. Infantry without formations, the infantry whose formation was destroyed were nothing. The rest was just the thing that could catch a few big fish in this easy victory.

The cavalry was still driving away, but Guan Qizhong sneered. Chen Wen, who had been in Zhejiang in recent years, put pressure on the Qing army in the southeast in recent years, and now he is as strong as a tremendous pound of pressure. Guan Qizhong has never had the energy to fight the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, seeing that Hong Chengchou was defeated in both battles, his prediction of combat effectiveness was naturally higher. But today, the performance of the Ming army in Fujian is still as unbearable as the Ming army in recent years. The myth of the Eight Banners Army's invincible victory in the battle was awakened in his heart again, and even the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was immediately looked down upon by him.

"Hong Chengchou is only known for his name. Shi Tingzhu, Chen Jin, Jin Li, and Liu Zhiyuan are also a group of waste. If the emperor uses my loyalty, can he still make the Chen surnamed arrogant to this day?"

Thoughts flashed in a flash. Guan Qizhen was the old general. He knew that the fighter plane was only in a flash, so he had to concentrate on the battlefield. At this time, the Qing army had already pushed the first piece of dominoes. The chain reaction of collapse had begun, but there was no distraction at all, otherwise all previous efforts would be wasted.

Relying on the flags and horns, Guan Feizhong constantly commanded the Qing cavalry to drive the defeated soldiers to Zheng Chenggong's central army formation. But after a moment, the Ming army's defeated soldiers retreated like a tide, and a small army of only about two hundred people appeared in front of Zheng Chenggong's central army formation, and they were all infantry!

The Ming army had already started to line up when the front line collapsed. There were not many, but they were all tall and strong men. These strong Ming soldiers were wearing heavy armor, covering their bodies, iron gloves, standard iron boots on their feet, iron helmets on their heads, and iron masks on their faces, which were very terrifying. Behind them, a long rope marked the iron order of the army that "those who retreat to the ropes"!

Although the Ming army was small, it was resolutely unmoved in this torrent of defeat and could never be broken. When encountering a strong formation again, Guan Qizhong had to lead his troops to retreat a little, and then suddenly whip forward.

The arrows were once again blocking the sky and the sun, but the arrows shot by the Qing army hit the armor of the Ming army, either stared lightly on them or were directly bounced out, without any effect.

The Ming army infantry were separated by a distance from each other. Guan Qizhong did not hesitate and ordered the cavalry to attack directly without turning. The cavalry roared and rushed to the front, slashing with his waist and stabbing his lances, but they were like arrows, futile. However, the Ming army was suddenly attacked by the cavalry, but they were as firm as a mountain and did not retreat at all. The sabre of the lengthened blades in their hands flew up and down in the shouts.

Guan Feizhong in the distance looked ahead in a daze. One of his trusted officers, who was extremely convinced by his bravery, led the cavalry to charge, but they were chopped in half by the Ming army in front of him with a knife!

The war horse that broke from his neck fell to the ground. Niu Lu Zhangjing was not dead for a while, but was cut off in half. He just vomited blood and completely lost his life.

Guan Xiaozhong did not see such details, but with that knife, the horse head and the rider's upper body separated from each other, and the whole process of landing came into his eyes. For a moment, a vomiting sensation hit, and it was finally suppressed again.

He was not the first time he went on the battle. He had experienced many battles and saw too many familiar people being killed by the enemy, so the more he wanted to stand on the side of the winner. But now, Guan Qizhen has just emerged. The war has not ended in the hunting, it has just begun, and at this moment he has changed from a hunter to a prey.

The two hundred iron army remained resolutely, wearing the standard armor created by the Military Industry Department of the Kuaiji County Prince's Mansion, holding the saberatta made by the same arms dealer, waving it indiscriminately among the Qing cavalry. The Qing Dynasty's Dinghai Shen Needle in the southeast was flying in flesh and blood, and people were leaning on their backs and horses.

However, the Iron Man Army had too few troops, and more than 300 cavalry rushed through the gaps and edges. However, behind this Iron Man Army was still the Iron Man Army, and the number was more than several times that of the former. Another wave of chopping melons and vegetables was cut. The survivors of these horses were exhausted, just like the Qing army who took the lead, flying flesh and blood, and people were overturned!

Since the Qing army entered the pass, they have never encountered such an opponent. The Qing cavalry who fell to the end of the first wave were stunned by such a bloody scene. They turned their horses and were about to run back, but instead blocked the path of the Qing cavalry in the second wave.

Fortunately, these Qing troops were all rare elites. When they saw that the momentum was wrong, they quickly stopped the horse and stopped them, and under the command of the officers to reorganize the team to restore the state of cavalry and shooting, so as to disrupt the formation of the Ming army.

The Iron Man Army of the Ming army was all wearing thirty or forty kilograms of iron armor, holding huge sabers and wrists on their bodies, like weapons like human-shaped tanks. However, although the heavy infantry was strong, it had a fatal flaw, that is, it was slow to move, "it was impossible to catch up if you could defeat, but it was difficult to retreat if you were defeated." The Qing army immediately changed its tactics when it failed to attack, and relied on the maneuverability of the light cavalry to ride and shoot, and finally stabilized its position again.

The hundreds of cavalry that were attacking were cut down, and the Iron Man Army remained in the rain of arrows, and the arrows could not do anything to these iron armor.

However, the Qing army was not in a hurry. In addition to the quiver pots carried by the cavalry, there were also auxiliary soldiers loaded with arrows following up. In the Hunhe River, the chariot formation was broken, but the damage was too great in front of the Yuanyang formation and they were unable to attack. They also used arrow shooting to completely eliminate the newly built Qi family army. This tactic of "shooting arrows if you can't fight hand-to-hand combat" has long been integrated into the blood of the Qing army. It is just like this that he faces these slower infantry.

After a moment, the Ming army's commotion in the rain of arrows became increasingly fierce. With a command, a large group of iron men rushed over. The most terrifying thing was that these heavy infantry not only ran slowly, but also could be said to be steadily steadily.

The Qing army did not know that these Iron Man Army were all relentlessly selected by Zheng Chenggong from the entire army. There were as many as two times a day when they were wearing armor and were trained. Years of training made them as strong as cows, and even if they were wearing armor, their qualities were not slow at all.

The cavalry bow was extremely close, and they saw the Ming army wearing iron armor, in order to achieve the effect of killing, they unconsciously got closer. The Iron Man Army rushed over and rushed into the Qing army's cavalry formation like a ox knife. Three people were in groups, one was holding a rattan waist knife to protect it, and two people were holding a slashing sword to chop up the Qing army and the war horses were cut down.

The unilateral massacre reappeared, and these elite Qing army soldiers immediately turned into birds and beasts and fled for the death.

The Eight Banners Army was defeated two consecutive times in front of the Iron Man Army. Guan Qizhong realized that the cavalry bows and cold weapons were useless against these heavy infantrymen, so he quickly transferred the guns and cannons of the Han army flags. At the same time, he transferred several routes of Qing cavalry to the intermediate battlefield, and tactical harassment from the entire line to the middle breakthrough.

Cavalry has the advantage, and logic is that the two wings can better exert their advantages in their troops. However, now the middle lane is already crushed. If the tactics are not changed, the Ming army's middle lane will be achieved, and the left and right wings of the Qing army will be separated, and the defeat will be destined.

With the tactical maneuver of the cavalry, Guan Qizhong quickly gathered the cavalry of the Qing army again. However, the seven thousand iron cavalry at the beginning of the war have now lost one-third, and the elite troops of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners were not in the hands of the Iron Manchu and Mongolian Banners, which has been a great loss he has never suffered since he entered the pass.

The cavalry gathered again, and behind the formation was the bird guns and cannons of the Han army flags pressed the formation. With the order of Guan Qizhong, thousands of cavalry jumped up on horseback and rushed towards the direction of the Ming army's Iron Man Army.

The entire Ironman Army had less than 3,000 people, and only two thousand people participated in the battle this time. Thousands of cavalry of the Qing army did not want to rush up and chop them. As long as they rode their horses to hit these heavy cavalry, the subsequent infantry could be several, and more than a dozen people would clean up one, and completely deal with these heavy infantry.

The sound of horse hooves sounded, breaking through the silence just now, but at this moment, a white flag was raised behind the Ming army, and spread out in the wet wind.

"surrender?"

The one who was hung up and beaten just now was obviously the Qing army. Is the Ming army crazy?

Next, as the white flag was raised, the iron army that had just weaved the nightmare seemed exhausted and ran towards the wings, and even many of them fell to the ground without any escape!

First, the white flag was lit, and then the Iron Man Army gave up its formation and scattered. The Qing army's cavalry immediately became energetic and rushed towards the Ming army's battle formation. However, when the Iron Man Army completely dispersed, the Lumi guns made in Jinhua and the cannons purchased by Zheng Chenggong appeared behind the formation.
Chapter completed!