The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 221 Yingqi
"There is an order from the military gate, please Chen Zongbing lead the troops of the headquarters to attack the formation of slaves head-on!"

"The right battalion in front of the bid and the left battalion in the back will be the support of the general soldiers on the left and right."

Chen Wang looked past Tang Ma who came to deliver the order, and looked in the direction of the Chinese army not far behind.

The position of the central army, representing Sun Chuanting's fiery red banner stands on the high slope, the banners are like a brocade, undulating continuously, the smoke and dust billowing from the left and right sides, and the rumbling drums have already sounded in the sky above the field.

The infantry of the two battalions on the left and right of the supervisor is beginning to assemble, and the soldiers and horses of the brigade are slowly coming across the grassland in the southern suburb of Zhending, and the banners one after another are slowly enlarged in Chen Wang's field of vision.

The combat power of Sun Chuanting's Supervising Biao Battalion is definitely first-class. Counting the 7000 soldiers and horses left behind in Shaanxi, there are a total of [-] people, and each small battalion has about [-] people.

The original standard supervision battalion was the soldiers recruited by Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, with only 3000 people, and it was also the basic set of Sun Chuanting's standard supervision battalion.

Later, after completing the preparations for the four guards of Xi'an and rectifying them, Sun Chuanting selected elite generals from the four guards and incorporated them into the standard supervision battalion, and expanded the army by 2000 people again, bringing the number of the standard supervision battalion to 5000. .

Sun Chuanting was extremely strict in running the army, and his training was ruthless. Some pacesetters were unbearable, so that in the first month of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Xu Zhong and Liu Yingjie, the pacesetters under Sun Chuanting's command, set off a mutiny and caused huge losses.

Now the Supervision Battalion under Sun Chuanting's command is not all composed of Shaanxi soldiers, but half of them are Sichuan soldiers who were transferred later.

Both the front right battalion and the rear left battalion are composed of Sichuan soldiers. Although these Sichuan soldiers have been with Sun Chuanting for a short time and have not been trained for a long time, their battles are not inferior to those of the original supervisory battalion under Sun Chuanting's command.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The Ming army chariot carrying the war drums moved forward slowly, and the high-spirited war drums echoed continuously on the field on the outskirts of Zhending City, impacting the chests of everyone in the army formation.

"mighty!"

Accompanied by the deafening mighty sound, it only took half an hour for Sun Chuanting's two battalions, the front right battalion and the rear left battalion, to step out of the central army formation.

The left and right wings converged into endless forests of spears and halberds, rolling towards the Qing army's formation.

The command of the attack was also handed over to Chen Wang by Sun Chuanting.

Chen Wang bowed his head slightly, and took the command flag sent by Sun Chuanting with both hands.

"Chen Gong, you lead the [-]st Cavalry Headquarters to the rear, as the supervisor of the battle, supporting the two wings."

Chen Wang took over the command flag, and the first order was for Chen Gong to lead the cavalry to lead the formation.

The Qing army's formation was heavily guarded, with spears and halberds like a forest, like a curled up hedgehog, it was difficult to speak.

Any sane general would not let the cavalry go directly to attack the infantry formation that was waiting in full force.

And up to now, Chen Wang has only saved such a few cavalry under his command, most of them are off-the-shelf, and the real training is very small.

Although the cost of maintaining and maintaining the cavalry is high, what is even more difficult is that it is difficult to replenish the cavalry.

In many cases, if one dies, one will be lost, and it is extremely difficult to replenish.

There are many people who can ride horses, but it is extremely difficult to find those who can also fight on horses.

"The gunners are in the front, and the gunners are in the rear. They line up according to the rules of wartime."

Holding the order flag in his hand, Chen Wang looked around and ordered in a deep voice.

Hu Zhili and Chen Ming both left according to orders and returned to their respective Qian headquarters.

Sun Chuanting handed over the command of the attack.

Chen Wang didn't think about any tricks or tricks, nor did he think about any weird plans, but divided the two infantry headquarters under the battalion into two formations, and laid out a thick formation with two lines of deployment in an orderly manner.

More than [-] soldiers were lined up on the field according to the number of rounds, and every two rounds of small formations were combined into a middle formation, with a little gap between the middle formations.

The front formation is a large line formation composed of a thousand musketeers holding sea oath guns.

They were composed of gunners from the two infantry departments, and each formation had four rows of gunners, forming four center formations, lined up across the field.

More than a thousand people are not many. Unlike the musketeers holding matchlock guns, eachother is a flintlock gun, so they can be arranged more closely.

More than a thousand musketeers lined up closely together, and the entire battle line was only more than 160 meters apart.

Behind them, a group of Hanzhong Army infantry armed with spears and shields.

On the further back and on the two wings, there are cavalry formations lined up, the cavalry of the Hanzhong Army slowly oppressing away like dark clouds, and the two battalions of supervisors under Sun Chuanting's command.

The rest of the Ming army infantry were also slowly coming from all directions.

With the mobilization and opening of the army, countless smoke and dust rose up.diffuse over the wilderness

Chen Wang held the command flag in one hand and reined in the other, reining in the advancing horse.

Over the years, he has commanded many battles, facing enemy troops ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people.

But even so, Chen Wang was still not at peace at this moment.

The soldiers under his command followed him all the way to the north and south, but the opponents they faced were basically rogues with outdated equipment, and they rarely encountered real fights with their lives.

Most of the time, the rogues escape with a single blow, instead of fighting with their backs and fighting to the death.

The intensity of the confrontation with the Qing army is by no means comparable to that of the gangsters.

But now that the arrow is on the string, it has to be launched.

Chen Wang raised his head slightly, and led the horse to move half a circle to the right.

He was located a little behind the formation, surrounded by more than a hundred cavalry guards.

The twenty three-pound cannons and four five-pound cannons in the army have all been assembled and lined up behind the pikemen.

The position of the array is still three miles away from the Qing army's large array, so these artillery have not been unloaded from the pack horses, and they are still being dragged.

The light is dim, and the sun is setting.

The blood-red sunset dyed the sunset glow in the sky into blood red, and everything seemed to be covered with a layer of blood.

Chen Wang took the rein in his hand, held the order flag tightly, and slowly exhaled the turbid air accumulated in his chest.

After a brief mood swing, Chen Wang had regained his composure, but for some reason, he felt a raging flame burning in his chest, beneath his heart...

"Slave killing!"

"Slave killing!"

In Chen Wang's mind, there was a voice that kept echoing.

It was his voice, but it was not his voice either...

Chen Wang slowly raised his hand, looked at the blood-red glow in his palm, and gave the first command in a deep voice.

"Should the flag!"

"Should the flag!!!"

Before Chen Wang finished speaking, the commander in charge of delivering the order had already repeated the order loudly.

Following the issuance of the military order, the messenger shouted loudly, and a blue banner was raised high.

"Chinese army blue flag, should be flag!"

At this time, Hu Zhili and Chen Ming, who were standing on both sides of the formation and commanded their own troops, both saw the blue flag raised by the Chinese army.

Hu Zhili and Chen Ming's attention was always on the position of the central army. The moment they saw the blue flag rising, they ordered the flag bearers of the headquarters to raise and wave the flag, and obeyed the flag.

The two divisions of Qianzong completed the flag to the Chinese army, and then the commanders of the two divisions also responded to the flag one after another. The general flags were slowly raised on all sides, and then began to greet the flag of Baizong. This time, a total of Twelve hundred flags.

With the raising of the twelve hundred general flags, the flag chiefs of each flag also ordered the guards to raise the flags, shake them and shout in response.

The last ones to answer the flag were the captains of the teams under their flags. They took off the flags they carried behind their backs, responded with solemn voices, and waved them in response.

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

"mighty!"

For a moment, the entire formation was full of orders and promises, echoing with deep voices.

A banner was flying above the array, and the horizon was bright red, and a sharp and murderous aura suddenly burst out, sweeping away in all directions.

Sun Chuanting's eyes were fixed and his expression was serious. He had seen Chen Wang's soldiers before when he was in Heishuiyu.

At that time, he just felt that Chen Wang trained his troops well, that the soldiers under his command could order and restrain them, and that they were brave and good at fighting.

But right now, he saw something different, a different place.

Before the battle, just looking at Yingqi, it has already revealed the clues.

More than [-] soldiers, more than [-] individuals, when they answered the flag, they seemed to be one body, as if they were one person.

As for the two battalions under his command, when they responded to the flag, they were either half a beat full, or a few minutes faster, which seemed quite chaotic.

"Raise the yellow flag, prepare the whole army for war, and check the equipment!"

With the raising of the yellow flag, the soldiers of all ministries, divisions and bureaus all received the signal.

The banner was conveyed layer by layer, and all the soldiers began to check their equipment.

The infantrymen with long spears and sword shields checked their armor again, tightened the Yanling Saber around their waists, tightened their grip on the long spears in their hands, and tied the top helmet on their heads again.

They tried their best to suppress the emotions in their hearts, calming the rising and falling chests.

The gunmen in the front line checked the oiled paper packets in their waist pockets. Each oiled paper packet contained a certain amount of gunpowder and lead bullets.

They took the oath guns off their backs and carefully inspected the condition of the fire door and flint.

After confirming that it was correct, all the gunmen held the butt with their right hand, held the body of the gun with their left hand, and placed it on the right shoulder.

One after another, the banners rose up again, and kept swaying, sending back the news that the preparations were completed to the Chinese army.

"The Chinese army blows the bugle and beats the drum!"

"Hold up the yellow flag, the whole army will move slowly."

"Tangqi sent an order, and lined up in three hundred steps before the battle!"

Chen Wang led the horses under his seat forward slowly, and at the same time continuously issued new orders. His gaze remained on the large formation of the Qing army not far away.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

Above the wilderness, the sound of war drums continued for a moment, and the undulating sound of horns echoed in all directions.

Accompanied by the sound of dull footsteps, under Chen Wang's order, three formations of more than [-] infantrymen all looked ahead, spread their legs, and walked towards the front without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)