The Qing Dynasty's new army is now only one, with a total force of 17,000, but the infantry is only 10,800, and there are 5,000 cavalry and units such as officers, drummers, commanders, and personal soldiers of officers. Compared with Wu Sangui, there are twenty battalions, the Spanish phalanx is as huge as 20,000, and it is only infantry, and it is really at a disadvantage in terms of force.

Liu Cheng had this confidence, Jidu and Oboi were fine, but Fushou was much worse. He had only arrived in the past few days. After hearing about the situation of the battle in Tongguan and the tactics of the Tongguan defenders, his understanding of the combat effectiveness of the new army has improved, but he is far from optimistic that he can defeat the Spanish phalanx by one against two.

Fu Shou was skeptical, but Jidu was the commander of the rebels. Oboi and Liu Cheng were both confidants of Shunzhi. He, the deputy commander who commanded the 5,000 Eight Banners Army and 4,000 Green Camp soldiers, did not dare to make any assertions without being sure of it. After all, in terms of military experience, let alone these three ranks, even the station of the northern Shaanxi division is much richer than him.

"Prince Zheng, the imperial court cannot withstand any defeat, so it should be carefully planned before it can send troops to fight against the rebel Wu Sangui."

"Prince Xian is a successful national plan, and the reason is correct. However, in the current situation, it is better to resolve Wu Sangui as soon as possible so that he can gain more time for the court."

As soon as Oboi said this, he only sighed. The Qing Dynasty, which was sweeping the world, no longer existed. There was still half of China on the territory, but it was just a lingering life in the north. Otherwise, with Wu Sangui's temperament, he would not have jumped out so quickly and wanted to get the chestnut from the fire.

Now, all local forces, whether they are the troops in northern Mo, southern Mo, and even western Mo, or the generals, deputy generals, generals, guerrillas, and even civil servants at all levels, are all watching the outcome of this battle. If Wu Sangui was defeated, it would be fine, but these local forces would still be ministers of the Qing Dynasty; but if the new army was defeated, even if it was only delayed in Shaanxi for a long time, there would be wars everywhere. Before Chen Wen could attack the Qing Dynasty, he would fall into a desperate situation that would never be restored.

The victory of the Battle of Tongguan did not turn the Qing Dynasty into danger, but only slightly continued a wave of life. If you want to seek a stable internal environment before Chen Wen’s Northern Expedition, you must first resolve the rebellion in Shaanxi. Only by destroying Wu Sangui’s Guanning Army Group can you have a future.

Jidu, Liu Cheng and others planned for several days, and waited for the Green Camp soldiers. The army immediately advanced west along the Wei River. The distance of a hundred miles was only a few days. The new army approached Huazhou, but Wu Sangui was in Weinan but before he could fully take up his position, the defenders gave up here because they were unable to resist.

Huazhou occupied Huashan in front, and was in Jingwei in the back. It controlled Tongguan on the left and Lantianguan on the right, and was a military important place in Guanzhong. Wu Sangui gave up Huazhou, not only to better cover Xi'an nearby, but also clearly wanted to fight the new army in Weinan. In this regard, the new army was also well aware of this, especially when the partial division in northern Shaanxi could not open up the situation. They also had to rely on their own strength to deal with Wu Sangui's main force as quickly as possible.

With this tacit understanding between the two sides, the Ranger began to frequently clash between these dozens of miles. In the area of ​​Explosive Horse, they tested each other's strength and also understood the opponent's background as much as possible. It was not until a few days later that Wu Sangui's preparations were completed, and the Shanxi Green Camp on the New Army also controlled the city from Tongguan to this line, ensuring the safety of the food route, and the two armies launched the final decisive battle.

The Weinan County was first built in the ninth year of Daye, and has been expanded since then. During the Ming Dynasty, the scope of the city wall was determined with a circumference of seven miles and three hundred and twenty-four steps. This is why the Qili City was said to be.

After the largest expansion of Weinan County during the Longqing period, it was once called "magnificent and dangerous, and a huge defense in Guanzhong". The wall was three zhang high, the wall foundation was four battlements wide, and the top was two zhang wide, and the battlements were built with bricks. The east gate was called "Wanghua", the west gate was called "Jingfeng", the south gate was called "Baofeng", and the north gate was called "Daiwei". It was surrounded by moats with a width of one zhang and five feet, and was even more complete.

However, the steep and solid places like Tongguan have never been able to defend. Wu Sangui's army, which has always been weak in the offense and defense of the city, was also very afraid of making such progress in this short period of one or two years. Because of this, Wu Sangui did not intend to rely on the battle to defend the city to defeat the spirit of the Qing army and then fight back to win. Besides, once he enters the street fighting stage, his Spanish phalanx will become useless. Only by winning in the field is the way to victory, and there is no other way.

Weinan County, as the name suggests, is located south of the Wei River. The new army slowly walked along the Wei River from east to west, passing through the gap between the Wei River and the southern mountainous areas. It was clear that it was ten miles away from the city. This area is a typical Guanzhong Plain, without any terrain obstacles, and is a good place for large-scale battles.

As the new army approached this time, Wu Sangui was not showing any weakness. After a small-scale cavalry test, the army emerged from the city and soon formed a decisive formation.

On Wu Sangui, the 20,000 Spanish phalanx was his core force. Out of fear of the combat effectiveness shown by the new army, Wu Sangui did not reserve at all. These twenty battalions were lined up east of Weinan County. In comparison, the formation of the new army was much thinner, with a 10,000 new army phalanx, two towns were in the central army, two towns were on the left wing, and the other town was responsible for the right wing of the army together with the old Eight Banners Army brought by some of the wealthy Shou.

Both sides placed the cavalry behind the formation as a reserve team, with a total of no less than 8,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry and Shaanxi Rebel Cavalry, and the ones facing the five thousand New Army Cavalry and two thousand Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

Seeing that the Qing army had the same thoughts as him, Wu Sangui looked at his Spanish formation. His military strength was unquestionable, and even the proportion of shooters was far higher than that of his opponents. Even the new army's tactics might cause greater casualties, but he was still full of confidence in victory, just as he decided to raise an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

Three miles away, under the Jidu flag, Liu Cheng had no right to command the battle independently even if he was a minister. Because of the five new army towns, the generals of each town were Meilezhangjing of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. He, Meilezhangjing of the Han army flag, was not qualified to command the battle in the Qing Dynasty.

At this moment, as Ji Du's deputy, he also acted as a staff officer in the sense of the Ming army in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces. His task was to make careful plans and fill in the gaps.

From the beginning of Wu Sangui's formation, Liu Cheng noticed the difference between this Spanish phalanx. He had read the archives before, and also learned from Hu Quancai, Li Benshen and others that the spearmen ratio of the Spanish phalanx compiled by Hong Chengchou was one to one, which was no different from the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, the proportion of the archers in Wu Sangui's army was much higher, and it was more strange that the archers were mostly archers, not musketeers.

"Prince, it seems that the traitor can't get so many bird guns."

"Hmph." Hearing this, he looked at Ji Du in the distance through the telescope and snorted coldly, and then said to Liu Cheng: "The court has been very hard to train new troops in the past two years. With Wu Sangui, in just a few months, he can't get so many muskets out. But"

Speaking of this, Ji Du seemed a little hesitant. Seeing this, Liu Cheng naturally understood what Ji Du thought. The new army had only 10,800 infantrymen, two-thirds of them were musketeers, only 7,200. Wu Sangui had a 20,000 army. According to their observations and the rewards of horse exploration, the musketeers and stair bows combined together seemed to be three-quarters of the soldiers who were archers, which was a 15,000 archers, more than twice, and the gap was quite large.

"Prince, please have enough confidence in the new army. We are the royal army of the court, while Wu Sangui is a rebel. He will be invincible to fight against rebellion with the right to do so."

As soon as Liu Cheng said this, Ji Du couldn't help but nodded. It was not because of the right to seek rebellion. He did not believe in this, and his background decided to do so. However, even if he, the general secretary, only managed the overall situation, had a much lower understanding of the practical level than that of the two slaves, Oboi and Liu Cheng, he still had enough confidence.

"No need to talk nonsense to Wu Sangui. The whole army attacked and suppressed the rebels in one fell swoop."

"Slaves obey the order."

Wu Sangui made it clear in the manifesto that the Qing army was also the Eight Banners Army, and both sides did not have any nonsense to persuade them to surrender. After encountering it, they just waited for a short rest and attacked the other party.

In Weinan, Wu Sangui did not have such a long food route, and he also spent time with the Qing army. The army lined up in the east of Weinan City, and everything was ready and just waiting for the new army to attack.

Jidu, Oboi, Liu Cheng and others all understood Wu Sangui's thoughts. Jidu's general flag was swinging, Oboi on the left wing and Fushou on the right wing echoed each other. The new army and the Eight Banners Army advanced side by side, and went towards the Spanish square with a thin battle formation of only six people in depth, with a full 20 people in depth.

Wu Sangui's army remained as mountains, and was arranged in front of the camp. Its thick square formation was like mountains, blocking the new army and Wu Sangui's commanding flag.

From a distance, the new army came in line, and Wu Sangui had expected the thinness of the new army. This was all the experience Hu Guozhu had exchanged for his life.

The formation of the new army was as follows: it was like that under Tongguan. Putting aside the wings to cover the start, taking the battalion as a unit, the spearmen were in the middle and the musketeers were on both sides, but Wu Sangui felt very awkward that the four battalions in each town of this new army did not advance side by side, but one battalion in front and three battalions in the back, especially because the battalion in front was not like other battalions, but the spearmen in front and the musketeers in the back, and it was inserted into the two battalions.

The front camp head protruded out of the depths of the two square arrays, which made Wu Sangui feel particularly uncomfortable, because in this way, the observation distance of the artillery will be affected, and the frontal harassment of the cavalry will be difficult to have a good effect under this cross-fire attack.

"Isn't Liu Cheng the unsuccessful little officer under Chen Wen? Where did he get so many tricks?"

Wu Sangui didn't understand how all this happened. It was not that his spies in the capital were careless, but that the Qing court had done too well with the confidentiality of the new army. Even the Beijing Station of the Ming Army Military Information Department of Jiangsu and Zhejiang could not get too detailed information, let alone him.

Seeing the new army lined up forward, Wu Sangui was puzzled, but he did not dare to hesitate at all. After the new army entered the range of the Red Armored Cannon, Wu Sangui issued an order to fire the cannon. Although the number of Qing troops was small, they could kill and injure the opponents as much as possible before hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield. Only by entering the hand-to-hand combat stage could the breakthrough be better completed.

The red artillery fired first, and huge roars rang one after another. The shells drew a series of parabolas in the sky, slamming the new army's formation at a speed that could not be reacted at all, stirring up pieces of loess and sand.

After the first shot, the Red Barbarian cannon began to reset and clear the slag to facilitate reloading. This took time, but the new army did not touch the huge vibration of the shells hitting the ground, and still formed a formation at the speed of training, as if nothing had happened.

The new army continued to advance, but Wu Sangui still had to wait for the red artillery to load. After a few minutes of fire, the new army and the Spanish phalanx of the Guanning Army were getting closer and closer. However, at this distance, the other attack methods of the Guanning Army were still far from reaching.

"I don't believe it anymore, they are really not afraid."

The second round of shooting sounded, and the shells roared away, mostly either hitting the front or landing behind the formation. The convex head of the camp affected the artillery observation, but several shells were also slammed into the new army's battle formation.

Wherever the shells went, there was an instant that a group of people were overturned. The straight spear jungle was sunk by the existence of the sky fire meteor, and the neatly arranged square musket array was even more so. From the day the cannon was born, it was by no means able to withstand human power. Not to mention human power, even the largest land creature elephant could do.

However, when the new army was bombarded, although the human body could not resist this power, the new army's battle formation was like a soft monster, with a little squirming. As the soldiers in the back row filled the queue, the battle formation returned to the original knife-cutting and axe-cutting. At least from the perspective of the Guanning Army, it was still like before the shelling.

The new army selected the elite of the Eight Banners Army left behind in the capital, all of which were old soldiers who had experienced many battles. Not to mention the further away, they had encircled and suppressed the Seventh Rebel Army in Shandong more than a year ago. In addition, the training period lasted for more than a year and nearly two years, and they were highly expected by Shunzhi, which was unusual, and they even had a bit of the atmosphere of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The army continued to move forward, over the sparse and long-interrupted Red Armored Cannons. Although the small-caliber copper syringe was not superior in range, it was better than the number and the frequency of the shelling was denser. It finally had some reaction when it hit the new army's battle formation.
Chapter completed!