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Chapter 65 Blast (4)

Since he was attacked by Zhejiang Governor Biao Battalion two years ago and fled in panic, Wang Yi has been training troops with all his strength. For this reason, he not only delegated power to his old generals Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan, but also recruited Liu Yiming, who was once a general under Liu Mu through Chen Tianshu. This year, he even promoted Chen Wen, who was likely to become the new generation of famous generals of the country.

Huang Zhongdao was a Confucian general who knew military tactics and was well versed in the truth; Mao Mingshan was a brave general who was loyal, honest and honest, and brave. Liu Yiming was skilled in training and deployment, and was also well aware of various battle formations. When it comes to military tactics and martial arts, he was even more brave than the two before.

As for Chen Wen, although he was still afraid to rest assured, the scene on the school ground a month ago was too shocking. A new camp that had been in the army for only one month could destroy twice the opponent of the Central Camp. This person's ability is likely to be above the three generals under his command. Even if Chen Wen's glory is still covered by Qi Jiguang, Wang Yi still felt this way.

He has been training for more than two years. He thought he could get rid of the previous shame from the Tibiao Camp, but now it seems that this Tibiao Camp is much stronger than the Fubiao Camp two years ago. Wang Yi regrets that he did not transfer Chen Wen and Nantang Camp. Since there is only Tibiao Camp here, he can at least make a breakthrough on the front line of the battlefield with the mandarin duck formation of Nantang Camp, thinking that he will win.

However, in previous information, the Tartars participated in the war, and the Qing army on the southern front was also stronger. The strong force of the Qing army, coupled with the pressure created by the joint forces of the Simingshan King Division, and his concern about Chen Wen and the new recruit camp that had never seen blood, all of this led to the current situation.

Fortunately, in the plan that Chen Wen had previously formulated, although Nantang Camp was not present, Chen Tianshu's cavalry battalion was still in the predetermined position. Now, they will cooperate with the cavalry of the royal division who had moved to the right, who was at an absolute advantage in numbers, to directly attack the commander of the Qing army, Tian Xiong.

The victory or defeat is here!

Wang Yi strode to the middle army drummer, grabbed the two drumsticks, and then began to beat the drums to help the battle.

After the Ming army noticed that Wang Yi, who was already a mastermind, was motivated by the morale of beating drums for them to help fight. Although he was still suppressed by the Qing army at this moment, his decline at the beginning of the enemy was also reduced a little.

At this time, the Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong of the Qing Dynasty still stood under the central army behind the Thunder Camp, occupying the middle route. In addition to his personal soldiers, servants, and more than 200 infantry directly under him, there were also cavalry gathered from each battalion. All of these elite soldiers who were used to decide the victory and defeat were temporarily returned to the deputy general Ba Chenggong to command.

Ba Chenggong was a Mongol, and his name was transliterated as Zhu Chenggong in many historical books. This person was Tian Xiong's confidant general, and his skills in commanding cavalry were quite good. After the Battle of Zhoushan, this person became the deputy general of Zhoushan Association. In the ninth year of Yongli, Zhang Mingzhen and Chen Liuyu recovered Zhoushan. Ba Chenggong led his troops to surrender and was appointed by Zheng Chenggong as the former town of Xuanyi and the Iron Cavalry. However, at this time, Ba Chenggong was only the deputy general of Zhejiang Admiral Battalion, and also the cavalry in the central army.

From the beginning of the war, Tian Xiong was looking for the Ming army ambush mentioned in the information. Until just now, a group of birds were alarmed and flew away in the woods on the side of the battlefield. He was old at war and immediately determined his position.

No wonder the Ming army's whistle cavalry had always intentionally or unintentionally blocked the situation.

Tian Xiong looked at it and saw many Ming troops holding war horses walking out of the woods. Wherever he looked, the cavalry as reserves were moving towards the side away from the lake and near the woods.

Can't hold back now?

Tian Xiong looked at all this with a sneer. Out of caution, he pulled down some of the spearmen in the Central Camp with lighter combat missions, arranged them all under the banner of the central army, and cooperated with his personal soldiers to protect his own safety. The intention of the Ming army was already obvious, but it must be that he would rely on the superior number of cavalry to attack, and after defeating his own cavalry, he formed a double-team force to achieve the goal of a quick battle.

Obviously, the opponent has lost confidence and patience in continuing to waste, but fortunately he himself does not intend to continue wasting time.

"Ba succeeds!"

"The last one is here!" The Mongolian man who spoke in a muffled voice immediately responded to the commander's call.

"Take those bandits away."

Ba successfully glanced at the two Ming cavalrymen who were preparing to merge with his eagle-like eyes, and his heart was filled with disdain.

"The last general obeys the order." After that, Ba Chenggong did not rush to attack, but instead ordered his cavalrymen.

It was noted that the Ming army's cavalry was intended to come to the left wing, and the deputy general in charge of commanding the right battalion immediately ordered the flanks of the battle formation to form a dense array of guns with the spearmen in the rear team to curb the charge of the opponent's cavalry.

At the same time, Li Rong, who was in the middle lane and was in charge of the guerrilla guerrillas in the left battalion as the deputy general, also noticed this. Just as the Qing army was attacking, the performance of the left and right battalions, commanded by Liu Yiming, of the right wing of the Ming army, was obviously much stronger than the first two battalions he faced. Not only did he reduce a lot of losses due to faster reactions, but he also carried out a certain counterattack.

But that's all.

During this period, the left and right battalions of the Ming army were still pressed by the right battalion of the Raider Balance, and the casualties were much greater than those of the opponent. However, the Ming army's troops were stronger and the battle formation was heavy. In addition, Wang Yi's drum beat to help the battle, his morale was not too low. Although the loss of troops was not small at this time, it was far from the point of collapse.

Seeing that the gun formation had already been formed, Li Rong, who had always had no expression on his face, turned to continue to pay attention to the battle situation in front of him. It was not obvious how long it would take for the opponent of Tibiao's Right Camp to collapse, but it probably won't take long for him to do so.

On the battlefield, Liu Da, the sword and shield soldier of the Luang Camp, was still fighting bravely. As a veteran, he was not in a hurry to break through the opponent's formation, because he had seen too many of them over the years, and his opponent's troops were far more powerful than his own. The formation was so heavy that he would die faster when he rushed forward.

With a "dang", Liu Da used the shield in his left hand to shake off the spearman's spear in front of him, and then cut off the spear with one knife. The Ming soldier opposite Liu Da, who had just been forced to change from a spearman to a stick soldier, was stabbed to death by a Qing spearman beside Liu Da before he could adapt to this change.

Take your time, don't worry, these new recruits can't stand it in a while.

After careful observation, Li Rong knew very well that his opponent was not too far from the limit of suffering casualties. However, since the coach had not issued the order for the general attack, he did not mind at all trying to eliminate the opponent's fighting will, and fortunately defeating the opponent faster when launching the general attack.

Li Rong was not a famous general of this era, and he was not even famous during the Three Feudal Rebellion. However, it was this person who defended the key prefecture of Quzhou, which was from Fujian to Zhejiang when Geng Jingzhong attacked Zhejiang. The name of Quzhou's "Iron City" left behind in later generations was related to this person. Later, Zu Hongxun, the general general of Wenzhou Town of the Qing Dynasty, defected to Geng Jingzhong and recruited Geng's army to enter Zhejiang in large quantities. This person cooperated with Chen Shikai, Mou Dayin and others to recover the lost territory.

Although Li Rong is not as famous as the four generals of Hexi who were in the limelight in the Three Feudal Rebellion, this person was definitely not a good role to be able to steadily block the thunder attack in the early stage of Geng Jingzhong's rebellion and to recover the prefectures and counties occupied by Geng Jingzhong due to the decay of Zhejiang caused by Zu Hongxun's rebellion.

Compared to Huang Zhongdao, who was under the heavy pressure of the Li Rong's command, Liu Yiming, who was responsible for the command of the right wing of the Ming army, had a little better life.

The elite soldiers of Liu Yiming's left and right battalions were carefully selected by him from Wang Yi's original left and right battalions, supplemented by the veterans he brought from Liu Mu and the new recruits re-recruited according to his requirements. After that, he has been re-engineered for more than a year, and many of them have been in the army for five or six years.

In the past, when facing the Qing army's local green camp, both battalions could win more easily. Even though he could have realized before the war that this battle was not easy, he was far from expected to be suppressed so much now.

I should really call Nantang Camp!

Although I had never watched that school competition, after listening to Huang Zhongdao, Mao Mingshan and Fang Shoujie of the Central Camp as an eyewitness, Liu Yiming had to admit that the new recruit camp compiled by Qi Jiguang's method was probably much stronger than the two old camps he had in his hands.

Why haven’t I thought about using Qi Shaobao’s method to train troops?

Fortunately, as Wang Yi's confidant general, he also knew very well that the key to the decisive victory of this war was actually Chen Tianshu and the cavalry gathered from various units of the Ming army in Siming Mountain. Liu Yiming only needed to take the two battalions in his hand and friendly troops arranged on the right wing to withstand the attack of the Qing army's right battalion.

At this moment, he had made up his mind that as long as he could win this time, he would definitely discuss Qi Jiguang's military training methods with Chen Wen, and he would also practice the Lao Shizi's Yuanyang Formation in the future.

On the right flank of the Ming army where Liu Yiming was located, the Ming army's cavalry had completed the confluence. They did not hit the long spear forest on the side of the left camp, but went around directly, obviously preparing to attack Tian Xiong's central army flag. At this time, Ba Chenggong had already met, but he led the crowd to stop when he marched to a corner with the left camp.

The Ming army's cavalry is getting closer and closer...

Two hundred meters...

One hundred and fifty meters...

One hundred meters...

Fifty meters!

With Ba successfully ordered, the Qing cavalry immediately lit the three-eyed gun in his hands, holding the long wooden handle behind the gun in both hands, and calmly waiting for the moment when the projectiles sprayed out.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Since the fuse was ignited in turn and then fired, the three bullets of the three-eyed gun went from the three-eyed gun to the opposite side one after another, and the smoke from the combustion of the gun also enveloped the Qing army just like when the Ming army infantry was shooting.

"kill!"

Ba successfully roared, and the cavalry of Tibiao battalion hung three-eyed guns on the Desheng hook, picked up all kinds of weapons such as long spears, oars, big axes, long swords, and sledgehammers that had been hung on it, and rode their horses out of the smoke that blocked their sight.

What is much faster than these cavalry is the projectiles of the three-eyed gun they just launched. The maximum range of the three-eyed gun can reach about one hundred meters, but the effective range is less than fifty meters. However, at this time, the Ming army's cavalry, especially the front row, had already rushed into this distance.

**After the gas produced by the combustion was found that it could not break the thick wall of the three-eyed gun, it transmitted all the kinetic energy into the small projectile. These small projectiles flew out of the muzzle of the three-eyed gun without disappointing everyone's expectations. In a blink of an eye, these little things that were worthless passed through the distance between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties, hitting the Ming soldiers and their war horses heavily, and bursting out with blood mist.

The temperature in Zhejiang and the financial resources of the Ming army made their cavalry wear at most a piece of leather armor on their bodies, and more of them are just cloth armor, let alone war horses. In fact, even if they are wearing armor, they can be hit by a musket at this distance. The projectiles fired by these bore guns will break through the armor and release all kinetic energy on the human body protected by the armor, and then smash the muscle tissue, bones and organs in the injured area, thus creating a killing record.

After three shots, the Ming army in the front row was empty. The one who was hit by the key points immediately died. Those who did not hit the key points either fainted on the ground or slapped on the horse's back and wailed, even the war horses that were hit were the same.

The people in the front row fell to the ground and could not afford to rush to the ground, and there was no way to stop the cavalry from moving forward in the back row, but many obstacles suddenly appeared, and most of the war horses in the back row were tripped to the ground. As for those obstacles, they were more trampled to death.

The casualties of the Ming cavalry were not very large, but the impact was completely suppressed by the fire of muskets in the past. At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army rushed up and the two sides instantly fought into a group.

The cavalry was a clutch. Chen Tianshu and the leading officers dispatched from the central army wanted to entangle Ba with their number advantage several times, and then split some of the cavalry to attack Tian Xiong, but they were successfully seen through by Ba each time and could not divide the troops to attack Tian Xiong. Even if it was possible, Chen Tianshu did not intend to do this, because after he found that there were hundreds of spearmen around Tian Xiong, he had to give up the risk and continue to successfully fight with Ba on the side of the battlefield and fight in a melee.

With the impact force being curbed, and their riding skills and martial arts are far less sophisticated than their opponents, so even though the number of people is larger, the Ming army's cavalry still cannot open up the situation in a short period of time.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Ming army were still fighting hard with their opponents in front of them. Behind them, the commander wearing mountain armor, the military affairs of Zhizhe appointed by the Lu Jianguo, Wang Yi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the left deputy commander of the Ministry of War, was still waving the two drumsticks in his hand, and doing his best to boost morale for the soldiers.

As a civilian coach, Wang Yi was not able to fight ahead with a strong and held a sharp edge, nor did he have the wisdom of calculating his opponents as much as Yu Yunwen, and even the battle plan was done by his generals. However, this did not stop him from working hard for the cause of reviving the Ming Dynasty, just like at this time, although he could not kill the enemy with his own hands, he could also increase his morale so that the soldiers could continue to fight.

The battle has been nearly three quarters of an hour. Although the soldiers of the Qing army, especially the soldiers in the front row of the battle formation, have stronger martial arts and richer combat experience, the fatigue brought by long-term combat has caused their movements to make frequent mistakes, and the damage speed is gradually accelerating.

Their opponent, the Ming army, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, was inspired by the thin but majestic civil servant, and not only did not experience the expected collapse, but also tried to reverse the defeat.

The winner may not be as clear as before.

The battle continued, from the left wing along the Siming Lake, to the central army that was under the fiercest attack of the Qing army, to the left wing that tried to cooperate with the cavalry to surround the opponent, and the iron cavalry selected from various Ming troops, the Ming army units were fighting to the fullest, fighting to meet the moment of turning the situation around.

But at this moment, the commander of the left wing of the Ming army, the general of Xueao General Du Xingguo, was suddenly cut down to the ground. A sharp shout seemed to instantly stagnate the time, and also stagnate the breath of all the people who heard the shout.
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