In Nanjing in October, the northeast breeze was blowing, and the temperature of about ten degrees was very suitable for the Qing army heading from the north and south. However, this solemn aura had already filled it. There was not even a bird in this huge area of ​​the battlefield. These wild animals obviously had already smelled the smell of killing and did not dare to approach this area.

In the southern part of Lishui County, the main forces of the Ming and Qing armies began to set up formations on the battlefield, and the army continued to extend to the two wings to ensure the safety of the flanks as much as possible. This was not difficult for the two armies with about 50,000 soldiers alone, but tens of thousands of people were boundless. Both the Ming and Qing armies all divided the troops into three parts: the central army, the left wing and the right wing, and the responsible officers were in charge of the battle.

The Qing army faced north and south, and the central army commanded the Manchurian Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Tong Jia* Lanbai. The Manchurian Blue Flag was the one of Jiergalang's flags. Lan Bai was his old subordinate, and he used the most convenient way. This time he took over the central army. On the west, the right wing was responsible for commanding the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen Irgen Juelu Aljin. After Chen Tai's death, he took over the position of General Kou of Ningnanjing and was responsible for Huguang. Now, due to the sharp increase in pressure in the southeast, Jiergalang was transferred into this army in advance; and on the east, the left wing commander was the Gushan Ezhen Shumulu Yild of Gushan, the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner. In history, he was the commander sent by the Qing army to fight after Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, and Chen Liuyu recovered Zhoushan.

The three generals responsible for the responsibilities were Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. However, these three Qing troops were not all Eight Banners, but were assigned to 10,000 Northern Green Camps, as well as the Three Thousand Eight Banners as the backbone, and the other troops were unified as reserves under Jiergalang.

In this way, using the Green Camp as cannon fodder to consume the vitality of the Ming army, and finally using the Eight Banners Army to finalize the victory, which was something Jiergalang had already calculated.

While the two armies were aligned, the cavalry of both sides were also chasing and fighting on the battlefield, not only to cover the infantry array, but also to effectively harass the opponents and at the same time to explore the specific situation of the enemy.

Holding a sabre, Li Huanxiang rode his horse to the Qing army not far away. A few months ago, he was still in the special operations team to attack Hangzhou, but it was too long that he could not ride the horse, which really made him feel uncomfortable. So after the war, he submitted an application to transfer to the cavalry battalion, and after obtaining approval, he had today's fight.

"kill!"

He slashed down with a knife, but was shaken by the Qing army wearing armor with the shield in his left hand. The Qing army killed a Ming cavalry in the moment of the confrontation just now, and then took advantage of the chaos to hurt another Ming cavalry. It was very brave.

The injured cavalry was Li Huanxiang's subordinate. He was very good at speaking on weekdays. Seeing that he was injured, he rushed up. The injured Ming army rode away and retreated towards the Ming army's phalanx. However, Li Huanxiang's sword did not hit the warrior with one knife. Instead, he slashed and headed straight for his neck.

In the flash of lightning, Li Huanxiang quickly became an iron bridge. Qiangqiang avoided the knife. Then he exerted his waist and suddenly he stood up and slashed at the Qing army again.

At this moment, the Qing army cut the air with a knife, as if they had known that Li Huanxiang had this move, so they quickly raised their shield to block it. However, when they saw the moment they really used the sword to block it, they realized that it was impossible to block it with a shield, so they had to use the skill of hiding in the stirrup to avoid the sharpness of the sword.

However, the speed of this knife was really not slow. Although it failed to achieve the expected effect after one knife, it cut off the "lightning rod" on the Qing army's helmet with one knife.

The war horses were staggered, and Li Huanxiang failed to hit the target with one blow. Both sides were prides in the army in terms of martial arts, but failed to kill him, Li Huanxiang's anger still arose. Especially when he saw the Qing army turning his head and glaring at him viciously, the anger was about to burst out.

However, when he had just turned a corner and wanted to rush up again, the Ming army took the lead in calling out the gold medal and signaled the cavalry to withdraw for the time being.

This Qing army's cavalry was a temporary choice in terms of quantity and quality. Compared with the cavalry units trained by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such light cavalry fighting was mostly with war horses, and at least seven or eight years of cavalry, it was far stronger than the cavalry of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that had only been in contact with cavalry for one or two years.

Martial arts and cavalry can be enhanced by acquired training. The training intensity of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is extremely high, but the accumulation of experience, especially the chance of fighting on the battlefield, is too few. In addition, the number of Qing army probing horses this time, the Ming army's whistle cavalry has always been at a disadvantage. Not to mention the suppression of the Qing cavalry and then harassing the Qing army's formation, it is not easy to get closer to see the Qing army's formation and then bring it back so that the commander and staff can analyze it.

"You wait for me!"

After abandoning this, Li Huanxiang angrily rode his horse to cover the other Ming troops' retreat. Soon, the Qing army's arrogant sarcasm and laughter sounded on the battlefield, but when they saw the Ming army's square formation clearly, the laughter stopped.

"So fast?"

Jiergalang listened to the report of the horses in disbelief. After a short while, the Ming army had already put on armor and lined up. When the Qing army's horses chased the Ming army's whistle cavalry and came forward, they saw a group of long spears pointing at them. Once they dared to get close at all, or even just entered a range of hundreds of steps, the musketeers in the front row would fire their guns and drive them away.

The most terrifying thing is that at this distance, the Ming army's muskets can not only hit them, but also easily defeat the armor on the Qing army, thus causing actual killing. Especially those muskets that need support to be fired, the Qing cavalry in front of them were obviously far away enough, but they were still unable to escape, even after the war horse was shot.

"This is probably that turtledove-legged gun."

Jirgalang heard from Liu Cheng that the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had a powerful musket in his hand, which required a bracket to fire. Originally, he had not paid special attention to it because it had not been carried out on a large-scale installation, but now Jirgalang found that Liu Cheng had obviously lagged behind in this information.

Jiergalang never thought that firearms could be used. In Liaodong's battles, the Guanning Army's firearms were far more powerful than those of the Ming Army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the Vehicle and Artillery Battalion was a complete firearm unit, but it was not a group of croakers who gave heads and equipment. Once they entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the power of the firearms would drop significantly. In the end, it depends on which side has a stronger ability to endure casualties and a faster killing speed to the enemy.

However, the current information clearly told him that this Ming army had obviously undergone extremely rigorous training and the speed of the armored formation was so fast that it was not a result overnight.

"Report to the prince, I saw that the Zhejiang bandits' central army's banner is called Yongjia Division, the Jiangqi is the character Li, the left wing's banner is called Dalan Division, the Jiangqi is the character Chen, and the right wing's banner is called Siming Division, the Jiangqi is the character horse..."

The central army of the Ming army was naturally against the central army of the Shangqing army, while the left wing of the Ming army was in the west and the right wing was in the east, which was exactly the opposite of the Qing army.

In the Yongjia Division of the Central Army, the general flag is still the character Li, and it is obviously Li Ruixin, a general under Chen Wen. This general Jier Harang has heard of it and has had complete information. Huang Degong's personal soldiers and Chen Wen's cavalry captain when he was in Dalan Mountain were famous for his offensive style and bravery in Jiangnan. He is two sides with the name of the general named Yin.

The left-wing Dalan Division and the right-wing Siming Division are both new troops. At least when Yue Le was still alive, the information sent to the Qing court did not mention these two divisions in the information they kept sending to the Qing court. Even after Jiergalang arrived in Nanjing, the Han army flag brought back by Liu Liangzuo did not mention these two divisions. Instead, the Yongjia Division and the Jinhua Division participated in the attack on Hangzhou, and the Jinhua Division even won the great victory to kill Yue Le. The intelligence showed that the Jinhua Division had set out and did not line up in front of the line. It was obviously left by Chen Wen as a reserve team.

"The person surnamed Chen should be Chen Guobao, the second cavalry general under Chen Wen. After being left in Yanzhou for two years, he was indeed taken out. As for the person surnamed Ma, it could not be Ma Xin!"

Titicacum and Guan Qizhen were responsible for staying in Nanjing in this battle, as the backing of the army, and the other was responsible for the military affairs beside Jirgalang.

Under the shooting of the Ming army, the detectives could not get close to observe. They could not see the official position above, so they could only see the largest word clearly. However, in terms of intelligence, they could still keep up with it.

Chen Guobao could easily guess that after all, this was a general who threatened the flanks of the Qing army in Yanzhou Prefecture for some time, and his name was not unfamiliar to the Qing army. Ma Xin made many military achievements after all. Since Chen Wen was willing to hand over Nantangying to this surrendered general, he naturally would not care about handing over the division under Nantangying to Ma Xin for command.

This is a very bad signal. Chen Wen has the practice of reusing surrendered generals. Jiergalang has heard of buying horse bones with a wealth of money. If this battle cannot be won, then the Qing Dynasty will face a more difficult situation in the future, even a hundred times more difficult than he had expected before.

The Ming army had already completed its array of armor, and the Qing army's cavalry was still trying their best to harass the Ming army to delay the time of the Ming army's attack. However, the Qing army's cavalry and shooting were too big under the Ming army's firearms' counterattack. The range was too big, and the exchange ratio was too big, so it would not take long.

Fortunately, the Ming army was very fast, and the Qing army did not delay long before it completed the armor, and the battle formation entered further adjustments.

Jiergalang is close to the Eight Banners Army with hundreds of people. These sharp men are selected from thousands of people. The armor they wear is not the Qing army-style cloth armor or chain armor, or the like, but the iron-man army-style armor.

This was the capture of the Battle of Nanjing. Zhang Tianlu, who collected these armors, presented them to Jiergalang's Manchu soldiers without hesitation. Jiergalang liked this armor very much, and his protection was really strong, even if a bird gun was fired at a normal distance, it might not be able to break the armor. But there was a problem, that is, according to the captured Fujian Ming army, this armor was made by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army. Zheng Chenggong spent a lot of money to buy it. From Liu Cheng, he also obtained information about large-scale arms transactions between Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Fujian Ming army.

Jirgalang picked up the telescope presented to him by Liu Cheng. It is said that this was the standard equipment of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Many officers from the middle and senior officers, artillery, engineers, cavalry and many officers from the navy were distributed.

The telescope stretched Jirgalang's vision to the distance. Even when he was young, he couldn't see clearly. Now, he was already a little dizzy in his eyes, but he could see clearly from this small object. But today, and even at this moment, he really saw how big the equipment gap between the two sides was.

The square formation of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the artillery and musketeers in the front row were all wearing half-body armor without sleeves, and were using the huge advantage of range to shoot against the Qing army. The helmet, iron mask and half-body armor were effectively protected. The Qing army could only kill them with limbs. But the real fatal ones were the spearmen in the back row, one by one, from head to toe, wearing heavy iron armor that he regarded as treasures, and it seemed that the whole army was like this.

"Just the territory of two provinces, where did he get so many blacksmiths?"

Jiergalang wanted to ask Liu Cheng, but this guy seemed to be a little unknown fear of Chen Wen. After making several remarks that were almost afraid of war, he was thrown into Nanjing. If he hadn't planned to use this person to surrender Ming generals after defeating the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as An Youfu, who claimed to be in close contact with him, Wu Dengke and others, he would have already pulled down to sacrifice the flag.

"Send the order, the entire infantry army will attack, and the cavalry will withdraw and wait for the next life."

"Master, let the cavalry harass you for a while."

It is related to life and death. Although Guan Qizhong knew that he was no longer favored by the Manchus, Jirgalang suddenly changed his established tactics and he had to make some suggestions.

"Are you a dog slave blind? Take it to take a look!"

Jirgalang viciously threw the telescope to Guan Xiaozhong. The latter had seen the former play with it many times, and had never eaten pork, but had always seen the pigs leave. He quickly understood the method of using it. But when he really used this thing to look at the Ming army's battle formation, Guan Xiaozhong immediately closed his mouth. The iron army had already made him feel bloody when he was touched. Unexpectedly, this Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming army was even more cruel. It had already popularized this armor. How could he fight this battle?

"Prince, if you don't have it, just withdraw your troops. If you retreat to Huaibei, the cavalry can play a greater role and can always drag these iron turtles to death."

"fart!"

As he said that, Jiergalang whipped Guan Xiaozhong's face with a whip, pointed at the Han army flag general and cursed: "You dog slave are scared by Han dogs, right? If you dare to make such fearless remarks, you will definitely be killed!"

Jiergalang had made up his mind and once the order was issued, the commander's general was pressed in front of the general. Next, the central army's Lan Bai, the left-wing Ild, and the right-wing Alzin also echoed one after another, and the army began to slowly move forward like a finger. When the conch sounded, the Qing army's probing horse began to slowly retreat, turning from raindrops into thin streams, integrating into the Qing army's battle formation.

The smoke of the cavalry dissipated, and the Qing army's battle formation that was slowly advancing was completely revealed in front of the Ming army. However, the front line of the army was neither the spearmen who were pressing the formation nor the sword and shield soldiers who broke the formation, but one thick shield chariot after another slowly moved forward.
Chapter completed!