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Chapter 428 Chapter 338 Can Zhang Ru recognize this formation? !
Three days later, Shaopi battlefield on the west bank of Feishui.

The Ming army, which was marching steadily for [-] miles a day, finally blocked the main force of the Qing army's Abatai troops who were going south to meet in this area as scheduled.

Each side has more than 10 horses, and the banners are flying, and the momentum is so loud that it almost blocks the entire space between Feishui and Shaopi.

"My lord is really clever and clever. He actually managed to force the tartars to go south on their own initiative to fight a decisive battle with my army on the battlefield where the terrain is not very favorable for them. My Ming Dynasty will definitely win this battle!"

Cao Bianjiao and Huang Degong used binoculars to observe the approaching Qing army in the distance. Their confidence in Zhu Shuren's layout skyrocketed, and they expressed their admiration from the bottom of their hearts.

Zhu Shuren was wearing a plate armor forged from high-quality steel. He rode on a tall horse that was one in a million. He also used binoculars to observe the enemy's situation, but he only smiled lightly.

The magnification of his telescope is naturally better than that used by Cao Bianjiao and the others, which is convenient for viewing from a position farther away from the line of fire.

The equipment is so sophisticated and the behavior is so cautious. It's not that he is cowardly, it's all for the sake of explaining to his wife in the future——

He personally went out to supervise the battle in the village today, but he had already broken his previous promise to the princess.At that time, in order to comfort his wife, he kept saying that he was only in Hefei city.

After observing for a while, he calmly called the generals: "Military is the continuation of politics. The decision of today's decisive battle is not the best military solution for my Ming Dynasty, but it is the final decision after comprehensive consideration of politics and military affairs. Excellent solution.

But since the Tartars are also unable to fight, we are willing to give them the opportunity to fight quickly. Of course, the initiative to choose the battlefield should be in the hands of our army.Then continue to avoid fighting and procrastinate.

The Tartars obviously knew this truth, so when he chose the sky, he asked our army to choose the right place. Everyone felt that they had a chance of winning, so this battle was fought. "

The Qing army definitely hoped for a quick battle, because no matter whether it was the city of Shou County or the fortified camp on Bagong Mountain, the Qing army could not move it in a short time.
In time, the morale of the Qing army will only drop even more. It is better to take advantage of the fact that the war has only started for more than half a month, and the morale is still good.

There is another factor that is not conducive to the long-term war of the Qing army, that is, the money, food and materials of the Qing state are weaker, and the protracted supplies of the army cannot be consumed.And Daming already has an absolute crushing advantage in terms of money and food, so he is not afraid of wasting money.

The battlefield in front of us has a total length of nearly forty miles from north to south, and the northernmost point is Shaoshui, which flows into Feishui from Shaopi. The width from east to west is only six miles.The southernmost section is the southern edge of Shaopi, which is twenty or thirty miles away from Feishui.

The entire battlefield is trapezoidal or trumpet-shaped, wide in the south and narrow in the north, with an average width of fifteen miles, so the total area is six hundred square miles.

In terms of military strength, Ming's Hefei war zone has a total of 18 regular troops. Of course, it is impossible to have so many to participate in the field battle.Shou County and Bagong Mountain, which were besieged by the enemy in front, also had troops ranging from [-] to [-] to as many as [-] to [-] respectively.

Therefore, the field troops brought by Zhu Shuren were only in the early [-]s, including the reserve team in the camp next to the rear, about [-] to [-].

The Qing army on the opposite side is in a similar situation. They will also leave at least 5 people to surround Shouxian County, Bagong Mountain and other places, and they will also keep reserve troops stationed in key points such as Fengyang.Therefore, the total number of people that Abatai can bring to the Feishui main battlefield is also around 12——

Because the Qing army had to cross the six-mile-long Shaoshui River on its way to the battlefield, the Qing army did not have a strategic reserve team, and the entire army crossed the river at once.Otherwise, the reserve team will stay on the other side of the river, and it will not be easy to rush across the river.

At the same time, since the Qing army dared to cross the river with the whole army, the waterways of the Feishui and Shaoshui river mouths must have been completely destroyed by the Qing army in advance, so there is no need to worry about the Ming army's warships going around, because the ships can't go in at all, and they will definitely hit the rocks stranded.

The combined total strength of two hundred thousand people on both sides is more than enough to line up on a battlefield of 150 square miles ([-] square kilometers). The northernmost part of the battlefield is a large narrow area, and there is not even a Qing army deployed. Columns, all empty.

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Since the two armies encountered each other on the way of marching towards each other, they both wanted to fight for a relatively better geographical situation for their own side within the possible range——

The Ming army wanted to advance northward first, and completely blocked the Qing army between Feishui and Shaopi, preventing the Qing army from bypassing the south bank of Shaopi, so that the Ming army could concentrate on facing the frontal battlefield without worrying about being detoured.

The Qing army has the advantages of cavalry size and mobility, so of course it hopes to do the opposite.

For example, at the beginning, the Ming army "seemed to have time to block the front between Feishui and the south bank of Shaopi", and lured the Ming army into a decisive battle.

But when things came to an end, when the Ming army had left the camp and walked more than ten or twenty miles to fight, and was already in a dilemma and could not return, the Qing army suddenly increased its speed and tried to let some cavalry rush out of this area, along the south bank of Shaopi. Detour, threatening the Ming army's back.

This kind of posture where both sides are fighting for time makes it impossible for the two armies to stop and form a proper formation, and then call the generals to answer and scold the formation, and declare their righteousness.

When the middle armies of the two armies were separated by a few miles, Zhu Shuren sent out vanguard scouts with some scouts who were good at riding, and wanted to call the prince or coach of the Qing army to answer.

As a result, the Qing army on the opposite side ignored him at all, and just let a group of scolding soldiers scold and chase him away. It was extremely short, saying that it was because the two armies were not good at killing and envoys in the battle, so they would not shoot arrows for the time being. Beep beep will directly cover the shooting!

Zhu Shuren was helpless, so he had no choice but to lose such a short window period of delaying time and slowly lining up.

He made people scold him, but he still had an idea: after the development of Da Ming's scientific research and farming in the past three years, he has now produced the first generation of front-loading rifled sniper rifles!Also equipped with nitrocellulose smokeless propellant!The whole army is also fully equipped with hundreds of rods.

This kind of firearm is complicated to maintain and difficult to reload. At present, it can only be fired once before the battle, and it takes several minutes to clear and reload. At most, three or five shots in a battle have to be taken back for maintenance.

So Zhu Shuren didn't expect rifled guns to kill the enemy on a large scale, all he wanted was to snipe a few important generals and gain an advantage on the battlefield.

However, this is the first actual combat of this weapon, Zhu Shuren certainly hopes to take advantage of the enemy's lack of cognition of this weapon's performance, and take advantage of this suddenness to get a lot of votes as soon as he comes up—for example, if Dorgon Being able to supervise the battle in person, Zhu Shuren would definitely hold back all the sniper rifles to greet Dorgon, that would definitely be a lucrative business.

Even without Dorgon, at least a prince like Azig would be killed, and at worst a county king like Abatai would be killed.

However, the upper echelons of the Qing army did not fight with him at all, and no top general came to the line of fire in person. Zhu Shuren had no choice but to order the sniper team around him to hold back for the time being, and must not open fire in advance to expose his strength, otherwise the enemy will be alert next time.

Even if you want to fire and kill in the future, you have to wait for the front line to fight on a large scale and thousands of guns are fired. At that time, you can mix it with ordinary rifles to prevent the enemy from finding out that it is tricky, and try to hide this killer for a while.

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"The Tartars didn't even give time for scolding and verbal battles. This is clearly a race for time, and they used their right wing to outflank our army's left wing.

Let the left wing speed up and move forward. General Cao, you first take our cavalry to harass the slow-moving Tartar cavalry. The devious road forced the Tartars to fight us head-on! "

After Zhu Shuren figured out the enemy's movements and intentions, he was naturally unambiguous, and immediately issued a death order and fine-tuned the deployment of the troops.

Fortunately, before the Ming army came to the decisive battle, they had already roughly deduced the development direction and several main possibilities of the decisive battle, so the situation they are facing at this moment is also within the range of several sets of response plans of the Ming army, and each department can proceed step by step Respond in a targeted manner.

Cao Bianjiao was the number one cavalry general of the Ming army, and immediately he personally led half of the cavalry on the left wing to act immediately, with more than 1 cavalry, to meet and delay the Qing army.

The troops that Cao Bianjiao brought with them consisted of [-] breech-loading double-barreled guns and revolver pistols, their armor was also very good, and most of their troops were Ming army cavalry who had fled back from the north. Their combat power was absolutely reliable.It can be said that the combat power of individual soldiers is far above that of the Eight Banners cavalry.

Today, the strength of the Ming and Qing armies is composed. The Qing army wins because it has more cavalry. Because cavalry is not needed for the siege at the rear, they can be used in field battles. Therefore, the main forces of the three Manchu banners and two Mongolian banners are all here. More than 4 cavalry.There are still [-] to [-] infantry.

On the Ming side, the number of cavalry was more than 1 less than that of the Qing army, and less than 3. The number of infantry was basically the same as that of the Qing army, but the proportion of musketeers was frighteningly high.

Before the truce three years ago, the Ming army had only 2 new-style "Wuchang-made" rifles, and now there are 5000. Zhu Shuren brought nearly half of the army's size to the Hefei battlefield, and there are more than [-]. .Coupled with the old version "Made in Wuchang", the bird blunderbuss and Lumi blunderbuss that were supervised a few years ago, the total number of musketeers exceeds [-].

Of the [-] infantry, more than [-]% are musketeers, and there are also some crossbowmen.The number of pure melee soldiers such as pikemen has been reduced to one-third of the entire army.It can be shown that the composition of the infantry of the army is completely beyond the imagination of the Qing army on the opposite side.

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"The southern barbarians want to use their cavalry to delay time, and let their infantry extend to the northwest of the battlefield to buy time and block the space for our army to turn around!

Let Ekeqin and Bumbleshan work harder. The shame they inlaid with the white flag were caused by Prince Yu three years ago must be completely washed away today!Be sure to break through the obstacles of the Ming cavalry for this king!Let Sukesaha's Zhengbai flag also hurry up! "

After the Ming army responded, the coach of the Qing army on the opposite side could of course also see it.After Boluo and Yue Le reported to their father Abatai, the father and son made a quick calculation, and immediately accelerated the cavalry of the two white flags, trying to achieve a tactical breakthrough at any cost.

In today's battle, Abatai also had a clear priority in arranging troops, and he expected that the competition between the right wing of the Qing army and the left wing of the Ming army would be more intense, so he sent the soldiers who were sent away by Duduobai three years ago. The two white-flag cavalry that have only been rebuilt now are pressing in that direction.

Liangbaiqi is Dorgon's direct descendant, but Abatai is not considered Dorgon's faction. On the contrary, he had a good relationship with Hauge when he was helping suppress Manjiadong in Shandong three years ago.Since Dorgon hoped that the two white flags would have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds to wash away their shame, Abatai naturally had to do business, put the two white flags in the most difficult and easiest direction to make military achievements, and go all out to avenge their shame!
Suddenly, Cao Bianjiao's more than 1 left-wing cavalry of the Ming army collided with more than 2 white-flag-based cavalry of Banburshan and Suksaha.

The number of cavalry in the Ming army was small, but they had the advantage of strong armor and sharp soldiers. They collided straight and straight, and the first wave killed the vanguard of the Qing army!Forged soldiers and sabers made of fine steel were flying, and countless revolvers and double-barreled guns were fired at a distance of more than ten steps, and the explosive power was extremely amazing.

Hundreds of elite soldiers of the two white flags of the Qing army were shot dead the instant they met each other, and even wearing iron-coated cotton armor, they couldn't prevent the kinetic energy of the ten-step sprayer's face from penetrating through.

All of a sudden, the cavalry units of the Qing army were also somewhat disturbed. Subconsciously, they began to use old-fashioned tactics, detours to keep distance, and tried to harass with cavalry bows. Jump on and bite.

"Shoot arrows! Swim and fight with the southern barbarians! The southern barbarians are all steel-armored heavy cavalry with short muskets, so they can't stick to them and fight recklessly!" Many experienced Qing army officers subconsciously commanded like this, and the Qing army's impact momentum Also suffocated.

The iron cavalry of the Ming army came for close combat, and the wedge-shaped assault formation was relatively dense. This formation has amazing breakthrough power, but it is also relatively vulnerable to long-range attacks from Youdou.

Because the distance between the men and horses is relatively close, the enemy throws the long-range bow randomly, even if they miss the aimed target, it is easy to cover and accidentally injure the soldiers next to them.In contrast, if it is a loose formation of cavalry, archery, and combat, as long as you miss the preview target, it is basically impossible to accidentally injure others.

The soldiers of the Ming army were all protected by heavy armor, so they were not afraid of riding a bow, but after all, the horses could not be fully armored. At most, they had to wear some leather horse armor, and they could only focus on certain parts for protection, otherwise the horse would not be able to wear it at all. Just can't run.

After the cavalry of the Qing army briefly switched to fighting, the casualty exchange ratio immediately looked better. The casualty rate of the cavalry of the Qing army began to decline, while the iron cavalry of the Ming army on the opposite side had arrows from their horses from time to time, throwing the cavalry off their horses and falling into internal injuries.

This was the orthodox method used by the Qing cavalry to fight the Ming cavalry, but today, this tactic only lasted for less than a cup of tea, and it was stopped by Suksaha and Bumble in a fit of frustration:
"You are not allowed to ride and shoot, and rush forward to break through the entanglement of the Southern Manzi's iron cavalry! Now is not the time to worry about casualties, what is needed is to seize time, break through and circle back to the enemy's side! We can't let the Southern Manzi's follow-up infantry defend in place!"

The senior generals of the two white flags almost all roared like this, and whipped the middle-level officers they could meet with out-of-the-box tactics with riding whips.This kind of orthodox style of play, which is scruples about tactical losses, is absolutely wrong at this special moment today!

The two white flags of the Qing army fell into a short period of confusion, and then they reunified their thinking, and fought head-on with the iron cavalry of the Ming army, and no longer played any tricks.

And this just fell into the arms of the Ming army iron cavalry with poor mobility and high offense and defense!Cao Bian is like a mad tiger, fighting fiercely in the formation. The three thousand short-barreled jet firearms like this kind of close combat, and the output is much better than that of the Qing army riding a bow, which is good for long-distance combat.

After the fierce battle of Banzhuxiang, the cavalry of the Qing army suffered much higher casualties than the cavalry of the Ming army, which can be called the shame of the Eight Banners.

Once upon a time, the Manchus boasted that the Manchus were less than 2, and that they were invincible. Now there are more than [-] pure Manchu elite cavalry, but they have a tragic exchange ratio with the Ming army's iron cavalry, which has fewer numbers than them!
However, the Qing army exchanged their lives for time, which can be regarded as exchanged for time to a certain extent.

Although it was delayed at the beginning, the follow-up cavalry of the Qing army sparsely broke through Cao Bianjiao's pull, and finally came to the front of the infantry of the Ming army who came later.

The time it took was at least half an incense stick later than expected at the beginning, but it was not too late.

The infantry of Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng of the Ming army on the opposite side can only be regarded as barely in place, roughly opening a blockade.

But because the marching maneuvers were too hasty and time-consuming, Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng's various ministries were somewhat out of touch, and the formation was also loose.There are still many gaps between formations, which are much wider than normal corridors.

In other words, if the Ming army cavalry was given a little more time, the Ming army infantry who rushed to block the road in the back row would be able to complete the formation and make up for the gap.

From this point of view, it is definitely a good deal for the two white flag cavalry to pay more than a thousand casualties in exchange for shortening the time required to break through Cao Bianjiao!

Since it takes so much Paoze's life to win this little time, naturally it should not be wasted!

Bumbleshan had blood splattered on his face and looked at the infantrymen of the Ming army of Huang Fei's tribe with a ferocious expression, and immediately ordered sternly: "The whole army rushes up to divide and disperse them all while the southern barbarians are still in formation!"

Suksaha, who was a little farther away, also reacted in the same way. He was not as good as the whole team, so the cavalry of the Qing army who had just broken through Cao Bianjiao rushed directly towards Lin Chengcheng.

The more than 2 infantry on the left wing of the Ming army almost rushed to this battlefield just after running. They rushed to the front two phalanxes of the Huangfei tribe in the front, and they were able to rush to the shore of Shaopi Lake, only a few kilometers away from the lake shore. The position of more than a hundred feet.

However, although there is still some space ahead, I am not too afraid of where the Qing cavalry will detour for the last two or three miles.

Shaopi in the Ming Dynasty has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is not the kind of artificial lake with solid shores.The shore has long been muddy and wetland, and the boundary between the lake and the dry and solid land is not clear. The place closest to the lake is at least one or two miles away, and running a horse will cause the horse's hoof to sink into the mud.

However, the new muskets used by the riflemen of the Ming army can block the two or three hundred steps in front of them and cause certain casualties to the roundabout enemy when covering and shooting, which can still be easily done.If the Qing army really had to be careful and brave some muddy detours, they would definitely be flanked by the Ming army riflemen who came gradually and suffered huge casualties!
Therefore, the only chance for the Qing army is to stare at the disjointed gaps of the Ming army's infantry formations and cut through them directly!

Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng on the opposite side have also been fighting for many years and have a lot of experience. They have also undergone rigorous training in using new weapons and new tactics in the past three years.

Seeing Bumbleshan and Suksaha rushing, they also made the same choice:

"Close up on your own! Form a hollow phalanx with rifles! Bayonets on all sides facing outward! Don't expose your weaknesses to the Tartars!"

The ministries of the Ming army immediately began to fine-tune. It was too late for the formations to get closer to each other and form a larger and more solid formation, so they formed a group with hundreds of steps between each other, but at least they were solid enough. Like a hedgehog.

In each small formation, the musketeers aimed their bayonets before aiming, and the muskets were facing four directions, front, back, left, and right. There were [-]% of the soldiers in each, and [-]% of the soldiers were in the final formation as a reserve team. On one side, Paoze will suffer a lot of casualties and losses, and these reserve teams will fill in.

"What the hell is this? There is such a serious disconnect between the formations, how dare you resist my Qing cavalry?" Bumbleshan and Suksaha didn't understand, but they also knew that no time should be wasted, and the Ming army dragged on. The formation can be arranged better, so even if they can't understand, they just scornfully ignore it and hit it directly!

"Kill! Kill all the southern barbarians! Whoever stands in my way dies!"

(End of this chapter)