On the next day, as it was agreed during the previous military discussion, we had to make meals at the third update today and to set up camps at the fifth update to fight against the Qing army.

But today, making meals at the third update is not a problem for the auxiliary soldiers and chefs from Dalanshan, but the fifth update is absolutely impossible. Because by the fifth update, many friendly troops have not arrived yet, and some are still lying in bed, let alone sending troops after dinner.

All morning, Chen Tailun was always rushing to the camps of friendly troops outside Liangnong Town. He finally got them all up, had breakfast, and was fully armed to set off, and lunch was almost here. In this regard, he could only use this first time to mobilize many friendly forces to fight together. This experience was also an experience for Wang Yi to mobilize the army to recover lost land in the future.

Since the third update of the day, when many friendly troops were about to get up, Wang Yi was always suppressing his unhappiness. He had agreed to gather soldiers at the fifth update of the day, but the generals had basically arrived, but they had not seen many soldiers. If Liu Yiming had not suggested that he would not set up a temporary military platform before the assembly was completed, he would have been afraid that something would happen.

Since it was impossible to make rice at the third update and the fifth update was to set up camp, Wang Yi had to change his plan to go out after lunch. So many friendly troops, one by one, were of varying quality, which really made him unable to find the feeling of using his arms to fight when he was only commanding the headquarters to fight.

It seems that Liu Yiming and Huang Zhongdao's ideas are still very constructive, and they will not gather too many friendly troops in the future. They are really a little busy. Now I just hope that this experience of being refrigerated can teach Chen Wen, a young general who he always values, to get some lessons. In this way, I will no longer use it like I am now, but I am afraid of cultivating a demon king who will cause harm to the Ming Dynasty in the future.

However, the explanations of the friendly generals when gathering together made Wang Yi very angry, such as "The war will start tomorrow, and the soldiers are so excited that they can't sleep at night", "I'm sleeping late on weekdays, but I'm not used to getting up so early", "I'll set up the camp later and let the Tartars walk more roads, so it's also easier to save the men's physical strength" and other reasons. What's even more annoying is the general who came to beg for the meal, "I ate too much yesterday and my stomach was so swollen that I couldn't sleep."

Why don't you hold on to death?

As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, Wang Yi immediately suppressed it to prevent any displeasure on his face.

He knew very well that at this moment, the authority of the Ming Dynasty was far less than that of the past. His strategy could be dispatched and commanded various departments in name, but in fact, these people could come only for their own personal sake. If the coordination here is not good, it is likely to ruin state affairs, which makes him always restrained and uncomfortable when doing things.

This made Wang Yi very sad, but even if he was uneasy, he never chose to give up. This was the case when Master Jiang collapsed, and was chased by Fubiao Camp, even if he had just obtained this information.

As long as he is willing to work hard, state affairs will continue to improve. This belief supports him to the present, and the current war is the key to determining whether his efforts over the years have been effective. If he wins, defending Siming Mountain, or even cooperating with Zhoushan King's Army to restore Ning Shao will no longer be a dream; if he is unfortunately defeated, at least he will leave a seed, and he will be in vain what kind of seed will grow.

At lunch, the scouts heard that the Qing army had approached Dingshan, located on the shore of Siming Lake before noon.

After receiving the news, Wang Yi immediately ordered his troops to gather his generals after dinner. After inspiring morale with his loyalty to the emperor and generous material rewards, the troops participating in the war came out one after another and marched according to the previously formulated plan.

Since the Tibiao Battalion entered Yonghe Town, the whistle cavalry of both sides have always maintained contact. As the Qing army began to advance towards Liangnong Town today, the Ming army's whistle cavalry was squeezed and kept retreating, but the Qing army still maintained contact with each other without any intention of cutting off the information between them.

As the movements of the opponents of the whistle cavalry of both sides continued to feedback, about an hour later, the Ming army heading north and the Qing army heading south finally encountered each other in Houyu Village.

Compared with the rather bloated Ming army, the Qing army moved very quickly. They quickly occupied Houyu Village and began to line up along Siming Lake on the south side of the village; while the Ming army was not willing to be outdone. After discovering that their side could no longer seize the favorable terrain, they immediately stopped on the north side of a small hillside and began to line up along the lake according to the previously formulated plan.

At this moment, the two sides were far apart, and only the whistle cavalry could vaguely observe the opponent's movements. The Ming whistle cavalry, which was pressed south by the Qing whistle cavalry back against the main force, received support from the cavalry of the main force, and the Ming whistle cavalry began to try to expel the Qing army's scouts with their numerical advantage, which also facilitated the acquisition of more military information and suppression of the morale of the opponent.

Compared with the Qing army's first entry into the pass, several years have passed when the Ming army fled in various directions. The Ming army in Simingshan area captured Shangyu County twice due to the Ming army in Dalanshan, which caused the Qing army to take a defensive moment after the sudden increase in pressure on Shaoxing Prefecture. Of course, the Lu Jianguo's big fuss in Fujian was also a big reason why the Qing army in Zhejiang almost did nothing during that period.

Taking advantage of this period, even the Ming army's unit was full of self-disciplined short-sighted people who knew to train their troops well. In the small-scale conflict with the Qing army near Siming Mountain, the soldiers were also trained, and their combat capabilities were no longer comparable.

However, compared with those veterans from the Thunderbiao camp who had been under Huang Degong's command since the Chongzhen Dynasty and followed Tian Xiong, who was still the general of the Central Army at that time, and surrounded and suppressed bandits, although the Ming army scouts in the Simingshan area were all composed of prides in the army, they were far from being riding and martial arts, and experience. Even though the number of people was superior, they were just equal to the opponent, far from achieving the expected results, and drove the opponent's whistle cavalry out of the battlefield.

Standing on the hillside, Wang Yiyao, who was wearing helmets and armor, looked at the whistle cavalry on the battlefield, chasing and fighting like dog fights. Although the Ming army, which had the advantage in numbers, could only fight 55 with the opponent, Wang Yi was quite satisfied with this. After all, the soldiers on the Ming army had only been in the army for five or six years, while most of the opponents were veterans who had fought for more than ten years. It was not easy to do so now, at least the past two years have not been wasted.

"good!"

A cheer came. Wang Yi looked closely and saw that it was a Ming army's whistle riding on the horse and avoiding the opponent's arrow. He shot the opponent's arm with his backhand. Although the opponent had already left the battlefield with his horse speed, the performance of this whistle riding still made the Ming army's morale boost, and the key point was that the soldier was not a member of Dalan Mountain.

"General Ren's soldiers are very well trained."

The General Ren who Wang Yi praised was the general of the whistle cavalry. This general named Ren had served in Fang Guoan's army for more than 1,000 generals in his early years, and the captain of the second team of the Firearms Team in Chen Wen's army was still considered a colleague.

However, before this moment, Wang Yi had a very bad sense of this person, because this guy was the "beggar" general who had no weapons and armor in addition to his personal soldiers and servants.

In this joint battle, Wang Yi prepared a lot of spare weapons in advance, but now it seems that it is too delusional to arm all the Ming troops in Simingshan. Fortunately, some Ming troops did not come to the appointment this time, and after he took out his family's capital, he finally guaranteed the armor and weapons of the soldiers in the army. As for the remaining people, their weapons could not be found, and they were unexpected.

The Qing army on the opposite side had already been put on armor, and the entire formation began to slowly press forward. After the Ming army's whistle cavalry was squeezed again, they withdrew from the battlefield and rushed back to report the obtained information to the commander after summarizing it.

"The central camp of the qualifying camp is on the right wing? The right camp of the qualifying camp is on the left wing? The left camp of the qualifying camp is on the central army?"

Compared with the position change between the Lubiao Left Camp and the Right Camp, Wang Yi was even more strange about the Lubiao Middle Camp. As far as he knew, among the Lubiao Barracks, the strongest combat power of the Lubiao was the Central Camp, then the Zuo Barracks, and finally the Right Camp. Why did Tian Xiong place the strongest combat power in the position that is least likely to decide the winner on this battlefield?

Since the two sides fought along Siming Lake and approached the lake water, the soft and muddy land on the lake shore made the attacking party more difficult to move, and the relative defense side was more likely to block the gap under the advantage of the terrain. In addition, even if one side of the opponent was lake water and the other side was supported by the friendly forces of the central army, it was far less likely to form an encirclement than the side far away from the lake water, or forcibly breaking through the opponent's defense in the middle to win.

According to this principle, the Ming army did not have a thorough understanding of the combat effectiveness of friendly forces, so after discussing with Liu Yiming and Huang Zhongdao, two veteran generals who were old military affairs, decided to occupy the middle camp and front camp of the Ming army in Dalanshan, and some friendly troops occupied the middle road, and the left and right battalions in Liu Yiming's hands and some friendly troops occupied the right wing responsible for the encirclement. The left wing along the lake was all handed over to several relatively large friendly troops, including Feng Jingdi's subordinates.

As for the Qing army, they occupied the right wing along the lake with the central camp of the magnitude, mainly because this army had just returned from the Kuaiji Mountain area. Although it had been resting for a day, it was still far from being as replenished as the other two battalions. And the relatively weakest right squad was actually much stronger than the local green camps of the Qing army or the Ming army near Siming Mountain. Tian Xiong used this army to be responsible for the left wing in order to resist the attacks of the main force of the right wing of the Ming army with the cavalry. As for the magnitude, the left squad was even simpler, and it was just a normal central breakthrough tactic.

Whether it was the flank encirclement chosen by Wang Yi or the middle lane breakthrough designated by Tian Xiong, they were actually fighting plans caused by terrain restrictions. At this moment, both sides were like two thieves who had touched the same pocket, pressing all the key points of the victory and defeat on the side far away from the lake shore. Whether the Ming army completed the encirclement first, or the Qing army suppressed the left wing before completing the breakthrough in the middle lane. This was the key to the entire battle, so both sides gathered the cavalry together to prepare for emergency situations.

Compared with the Qing army, the Ming army had a stronger force, so the formation was relatively heavy. In addition to Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion with more than 300 troops, it was already hidden on the side of the battlefield at this time, Wang Yi had another killer move, which was the treasure under his box and would not be able to use it easily.

The central camp of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain was divided into four garrisons, three of which were composed of cavalry composed of infantry, personal soldiers and archers and musketeers; while the other garrison was different. This was a unit specializing in firearms. From the Folang machine cannon to the tiger squat cannon, there were not many garrisons opposite these things, but there were not none. However, this garrison had a red cannon, which was a rare thing in normal field battles.

The Red-Bai cannon originated in Europe and was introduced to China from Portugal in the late Ming Dynasty. The Red-Bai cannon is a typical front-mounted smooth-bore cannon. Compared with the rifled cannon, the range is relatively short due to the poor breached shells and the gunpowder gas leaking out, and the gunpowder thrust is reduced. However, when it was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, the rifle was difficult to pull and could not be popularized. Compared with traditional local firearms, it had a longer range and more amazing power. Therefore, it was deeply loved by civil officials of the Ming Dynasty. From purchasing, imitation, to self-development, and even technically surpassing the world's advanced level.

The Ming and Qing dynasties bought and cast an astonishing number of red artillery cannons. However, due to the bulky gun body and the excessive recoil after each launch, this kind of artillery will seriously deviate from its original shooting position due to excessive recoil, so that time is wasted on resetting and loading, resulting in its slow launch speed. It is even recorded that the most trained British artillery at that time also took up two minutes to complete a shelling, which is unimaginable on the ever-changing battlefield.

The red cannon in Wang Yi's hand originated from Shangyu. He discovered this rare object as early as when he first captured Shangyu County. However, before his butt was even hot, he was driven out by the Fubiao camp of the Qing army that night, and then chased all the way to Tiantai Mountain and defected to Yu Guowang.

Perhaps because it was too heavy, the Qing army did not take it away and remained there. The next year, after Wang Yi captured Shangyu County for the second time, the cannon was brought back to Dalan Mountain, and now it even appeared on the battlefield.

In fact, Liu Yiming had persuaded Wang Yi earlier that he had seen this thing when he was under Liu Mu's tent, and thought it was too bulky and slow to shoot at a slow rate, and field battles were completely useless. It would be better to keep it for siege or defend the city. However, like other civil officials of this era, Wang Yi valued more range and power than following the transportation speed and shooting speed of the field troops, so Liu Yiming was in vain.

After the Ming army was armored, it did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, the Qing army, which was only half of the Ming army, was always approaching step by step, and did not take the opponents with the advantage of the number of people seriously.

At this moment, a light cavalry rushed to the back of the Ming army's battle formation. After the identity was confirmed, the man was taken to Wang Yi and handed over the letter he was ordered to pass on to Wang Yi.

This knight was the messenger sent by Chen Wen. After reading the letter, Wang Yi also showed a hint of worry. Not only did the restraining action of Wang Shanchang and Zhang Qincheng completely failed, but the entire army was wiped out. The Qing army besieged them was composed of the Lui Biao Central Camp and the Green Camp of Shaoxing Prefecture.

At this moment, the Central Camp of Exiting Bill has appeared on the battlefield. So, where will the troops of the Shaoxing Green Camp be?

Although the Ming army still had an absolute advantage in number even if the Shaoxing Green Camp appeared on the battlefield, the feudal army had low adaptability, and the Ming army was even composed of armies divided into different Shangguans. Once a sudden change occurs, the consequences may be unimaginable.

He sent several unmobilized whistle cavalry toward Liangnong Town, which he had set out on his own. After Wang Yi received a report that the Qing army had entered the effective range of the Red Barbarian cannon, he immediately issued an order to fire the cannon.

On one side, there were more than ten years of army formation, with a total of 3,000 people, mostly Zhejiang Admiral Battalion composed of veterans who had lived for more than a hundred battles, and more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers formed by the Qing army controlled area; on the other side, there were coalitions composed of various units of the Ming army in Simingshan area, which were more than 8,000 combat soldiers and 12,000 auxiliary soldiers. Among them, there were the main force of the Ming army in Dalanshan, which had been rampant in Ningshao and occupied the hinterland of Simingshan in recent years.
Chapter completed!