Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1334

After the threat from Suide's side was lifted, Zhao Liangdong lost his worries and began to let the Jin army march faster, but he still sent dozens of scout teams to spread out to investigate and prevent being ambushed by the Ming army.

Dozens of scout teams were divided into two groups by him. The first group had a small number of people and conducted a general search within a radius of ten miles. The other group conducted a careful search within a radius of five miles to ensure that no one would enter The Ming army's ambush circle, and the enemy outside the range, you don't have to worry too much. Once discovered by the scouts, he will have enough time to gather and fight.

If the enemy is not strong, then he will defeat the enemy, break through the obstacles and continue to march towards Wubao. If there are too many enemies, then he will choose a suitable terrain to defend himself, and wait for Yan'an to send troops to support.

It has to be said that the training and equipment of the soldiers of the Jin Army have been greatly improved with the large amount of military expenditure invested by the Kingdom of Jin.

The Nine Thousand Gold Army wore black cotton armor, iron helmets, self-igniting firecrackers, spears, and waist knives. A roll of blankets, grain bags, and sometimes a cauldron were all neatly inserted into the back. The flag officer stood on the side of the road and kept punching the soldiers, urging the army to move quickly.

On the road, only the footsteps of the army and the shouts of the army were heard. All the soldiers of the Jin Army followed the battalion flag and ran silently.

At this moment, there was a sudden "咻" in the sky ahead, and a sentry arrow pierced the sky, leaving a trail of blue smoke, and then exploded suddenly.

This meant that the scouts had discovered the enemy's situation, Zhao Liangdong immediately reined in his horse, raised his hand and shouted: "Stop moving forward!"

At this moment, a group of scouts came galloping from the front, and the knights on top jumped off to stop, knelt down on one knee, pointed to the front with one hand, and said anxiously: "Junmen, ten miles ahead, the Ming army The formation blocked the way of our army!"

Zhao Liangdong grasped the reins tightly, "Ming army lined up to meet me?" He hesitated slightly, "How many troops are there, and are there ambushes around?"

"There are more than 4000 people, and no ambushes are found around!" said the scout, clasping his fists.

Zhao Liangdong frowned, waved his hand and said, "Explore again! Increase the scope of the search!"

As soon as the scout clasped his fists, he got on his horse and galloped away.

Zhao Liangdong thought for a while, and thought, "Wubao Ferry is easy to defend and difficult to attack for the Ming army in the direction of Shanxi, but there is no such problem for me. I don't need to attack Wubao County, I can directly attack the ferry, or even Setting up cannons near the ferry can prevent the Ming army from continuing to deliver supplies, and the Ming army may be out of this, and they don’t want me to approach the ferry, so they went south to stop the attack.”

Zhao Liangdong snorted coldly, since he came to seize the ferry, and the Ming army lined up to wait for him, then he has no reason to retreat!

Immediately Zhao Liangdong waved his hand and said: "The army rests on the spot, the soldiers check their equipment and prepare to eat. After an hour, continue to advance and defeat the enemy!"

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Thirty miles to the south of Wubao Ferry, in the open area beside the Yellow River, when the Jin Army, after a little rest, continued to advance here, a large crowd of people appeared in front of them, as if a red carpet had been spread on the ground.

Thousands of Ming soldiers sat on the ground, and there was no sound, only the sound of hunting and hunting made by the autumn wind blowing the flags.

Li Laiheng was standing on a horse under a banner of a large flag, and he was watching the Jin army appearing with stern eyes. When he saw the soldiers of the Jin army appearing in his field of vision, he immediately raised his hand, and the generals around him immediately turned around and shouted: "Get up!"

Thousands of Ming soldiers who had been sitting on the ground "waiting for a long time" heard the general's voice and saw the chess and card officials waving the command flags to the left and right.

In an instant, when the four thousand Ming troops stood up, a red forest appeared in the wilderness, and a huge infantry formed immediately.The Ming army, who had been waiting for a long time, each held their weapons. At the front of the infantry formation, a large number of self-produced musketeers, carrying medicine bottles and projectiles on their bodies, were quickly reloading, and then filled the ammunition with wooden poles.

Three miles away from the Ming army, the advancing Jin army stopped, and the soldiers quickly lined up.The terrain in northern Shaanxi is mostly ravines, which are not suitable for cavalry combat. Both sides are mainly infantry, with a small amount of sentinel cavalry.

Zhao Liangdong rode his horse to the front of the formation and took out a binoculars to observe the formation of the Ming army. It was a rectangular horizontal formation one by one. A large number of musketeers were in the front row, and there were a small number of spearmen and sword and shield soldiers behind them. No Ming army was seen. The artillery, which made him a little unbelieving, he used the binoculars to scan again, and after confirming that there were no omissions, he was sure that there was indeed no artillery.

"Junmen, the Ming army has no artillery, and there are gunners in front of the formation. Let's bombard him a few times, break up the formation and charge forward, and we will surely crush them!" Sheng Jiading, the deputy general of the Jin army, also noticed the situation of the Ming army. He ran to Zhao Liangdong and said.

Zhao Liangdong didn't reply, thinking, could it be that the Ming army's artillery hadn't been transported across the river yet?You must know that the Ming army is good at artillery, and there is no army without artillery.At that moment Zhao Liangdong picked up the binoculars again and scanned the bright array, but found nothing wrong, so he looked to both sides of the bright array, the Yellow River was on the left, and a hillside was on the right.

"Have you checked behind the mountain?" Zhao Liangdong put down the binoculars, suddenly pointed to the hillside on the side of the Ming army, and turned his head to ask.

A golden general clasped his fists on the horse and said, "Report to the military gate, not yet, the Ming army scouts won't let us approach!"

Zhao Liangdong immediately ordered: "Go and find out yourself!"

Hearing the words, the golden general clasped his fists at the command, and led more than a dozen cavalrymen with his horse's belly, rushed past the golden formation, and went around to the back of the hillside. Go, gather into a cavalry of 80 people, but the Ming army's sentry cavalry immediately greeted them, preventing the Jin army from approaching.

The two cavalry began to fight on the right side. The cavalry of the Jin army tried to rush over several times, but they were blocked by the sentry cavalry of the Ming army. The elite cavalry on both sides kept falling off their horses.

Seeing this, Zhao Liangdong already knew in his mind that there was probably a Ming army ambushing behind the hillside.

Li Laiheng, Wang Xu and others were stationed on horseback under the flag of the Mingzheng. Seeing Jin Jun's response, Wang Xu couldn't help sighing: "This Zhao Liangdong is really very cautious."

Li Laiheng smiled, and suddenly waved his hand: "Blow the horn, the army is advancing!"

Zhao Liangdong was watching the confrontation between the sentry cavalry of the two armies on the right, when the Ming army's formation suddenly sounded a horn of "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".In the formation of the Ming army, the musketeers took up their muskets one after another, and marched forward in neat steps following the drumbeat of the army.

The Ming army's large formation actually moved first, which surprised many golden generals, and at the same time, they were a little unhappy. Did the Ming army look down on them?
"Military Gate! The Ming Army is moving!" Sheng Jiading reminded.

Zhao Liangdong naturally saw the actions of the Ming army, and he was sure that there was an ambush from the Ming army behind the mountain.Could it be that he was afraid that he would discover the ambush and not give him a chance to think, so the Ming army took the initiative to attack at this time?The opponent's main general is Li Laiheng, who has been in the army for decades, how can he be at such a level?
At this time, the Ming army's phalanx was advancing with murderous aura, and he had no time to think about it.This Li Laiheng probably looked down on the Jin army. The Ming army wiped out the Manchus, and he was a little complacent and had no one in his eyes.

When meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins. Since the Ming army dared to charge forward, he would teach the Ming army a lesson.

Seeing the Ming army approaching, Zhao Liangdong finally ordered loudly. "The artillery bombardment is ordered, and the extension battalion is ready to meet!"

After finishing speaking, the flag drums behind him waved their command flags, and more than a dozen cannons dragged by war horses were pulled to the front of the formation, and the Golden Army artillery team quickly fired.

Another battalion that received the order to attack also loaded ammunition one after another, their swords, shields and spears were ready, and Zhao Liangdong led the people back to the formation.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Dozens of cannons roared at the same time in front of the Jin army's formation, and the battle line was immediately filled with gunpowder smoke. dust.

The general of the Jin army, who commanded the artillery team, set up an awning, looked forward, and found that the shells had landed in front of the Ming army, and immediately turned his head and shouted: "Raise the muzzle half an inch, and then fire!"

The soldiers of the Ming army marched forward in several long square formations. The soldiers followed the rhythm of the drums. Suddenly, white smoke rose again in front of the golden army formation. In the phalanx, blood, minced meat and mud were immediately splashed together.

The artillery shells caused clouds of dust in the formation of the Ming army, but the formation of the soldiers of the Ming army was not chaotic, just holding the weapons in their hands, passing through the dust and smoke, and continuing to move forward.

At the same time as Jin Guo's artillery bombarded, the chief general of the Yanchuan Battalion pulled out the knife from his waist, pointed forward, and shouted amidst the rumble of cannons, "Yanchuan Battalion, attack!"

Most of the new army of the Kingdom of Jin was organized into one battalion in the same county or several nearby counties. Yan'an had four battalions, and the designation was directly named after the county name.

The soldiers of the Jin Army immediately held up the firecrackers in their hands, held their spears and sabers tightly, and, like the Ming army, stepped forward to meet them with neat steps.

In the formation of the Ming army, the gunners are relatively concentrated. More than 300 people like to form a square formation of pure firearms, and then separately form some small units of pikemen to accompany them. However, the formation of the Jin army is composed of both firearms and cold weapons. The squad, the squad is forming a brigade, and the proportion of cold weapons is higher than that of the Ming army.

The two armies took steps and approached quickly, but the Ming army had to risk artillery fire, while the Jin army was more calm.

Two hundred paces, in the advancing Jin army squad, the gunmen suddenly opened fire, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the formation. Walking by, without stopping.

After raising the gun and firing, the loading was confused, and the advance was stopped immediately. The golden army shot down continued to move forward, and for the next distance, the two sides did not fire.

At fifty paces, the gunners in the front row of the Ming army finally raised their self-generated guns and fired suddenly, firing two rounds of platoon guns. The soldiers in the front row were beaten to the ground, and when the Ming army gave an order, the soldiers in the front row loaded their guns one after another, and lined up to push towards the Jin army.

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