Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1335

The Ming army had a lot of firecrackers, and the entire front row of the horizontal formation was full of firecrackers, while the Jin army had few firecrackers, so it was inevitable that they would suffer in the duel.

After two rounds of platooning, the Ming army saw that the formation of the Jin army was loose, and the general gave an order, and the soldiers inserted their guns one after another and lined up to stab.

In an instant, the soldiers of the Ming army, like a wall of red walls, quickly rushed towards the black golden army, and the cold weapon squad in the golden army array immediately came up to meet them.

Soon the soldiers of both sides rushed through the dense gunpowder smoke, and they could already see each other's faces clearly. The soldiers of the Ming army marched along the wall, while the soldiers of the Jin army were divided into nearly a hundred teams with cold weapons, basically imitating Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation.

The distance of fifty paces was very short, and the first row of gunmen of the Ming army had already raised their fire guns. The thorns shone coldly in the sun, while the soldiers in front of each squad of the Jin army folded their shields and put them close to their bodies to cover themselves. Also cover the spearmen behind.

With a bang, the two armies collided, and as soon as they met, the Ming army fell into a disadvantageous position.

The Golden Army only uses the musketeers in the front line, and the organization of the cold weapon team is like the keys of a piano. When shooting, the musketeers go forward, and the cold weapons fall behind. Step forward to melee.

Although the firepower output of the swords, shields and spearmen retained by the Jin army was not as fast as that of the Ming army, they immediately took advantage of cold weapons for close combat.

The front of the Golden Army squad is the sword and shield hand, the middle is the spear, and the musketeer retreats to the end.

Each of them is a small team of about ten people, and there are gaps between each small team. The Ming army's firecrackers hold firecrackers and use their thorns to attack the front. Between the gaps in the team, there were spears piercing from both sides.

The Ming army, which gained the upper hand in the shooting, fell into a disadvantage after rushing close. The Ming army musketeers in the front row lost more than half of them immediately, especially the Ming army who rushed into the gap between the Jin army squads, and were almost quickly defeated by the spearmen. stabbed to death.

"Don't rush in!" Seeing this, a hundred households of the Ming army shouted sharply.

He is an old soldier of more than ten years. This is the Ming army's tactics a few years ago. He knows it very well, and quickly reprimanded his subordinates not to rush in.

In the formation of the Jin army, Sheng Jiading saw the red Ming army, as if he had hit a black wall. Under the traditional tactics of advancing in front of the Jin army and luring the enemy in to strangle the Ming army, Sheng Jiading was killed and retreated steadily. He immediately He slapped his hands and said happily, "Junmen, we won!"

As if to confirm his words, a golden sound suddenly sounded from behind the Ming army, and the Ming army who collided together began to retreat.

With the sound of gold ringing, Li Laiheng, who was behind the battlefield, led his guards and retreated northward holding the big flag.

The first to turn on the battlefield were the pikemen behind, followed by the musketeers who had little contact with them, and then the Ming army who was caught in the fight, also retreated in a hurry.

The morale of the three thousand gold army was greatly boosted, how could the Ming army retreat, they rushed forward one after another, chasing the Ming army and heading north.

"Hahaha..." Seeing this, the generals of the Jin army laughed excitedly. Sheng Jiading immediately clasped his fists and said, "Junmen, let's pursue the whole army! Let's go all out and take the ferry directly."

Zhao Liangdong smiled, "Of course we have to chase, but we can't go together! Lieutenant General Sheng, you bring 2000 people and join the pursuit immediately. Remember, no matter what happens, don't worry about the back, just rush forward and kill all the way Wubao Ferry is considered a great achievement."

As he spoke, Zhao Liangdong looked down the hillside, then stared at him, and said seriously, "Do you understand?"

Sheng Jiading was taken aback for a moment, and then he reacted in a moment, and then solemnly clasped his fists, "Don't worry, the military gate, the general will understand!"

After they finished speaking, they rode away, and not long after, more than 2000 Jin troops followed the Yanchuan camp, chasing the Ming army.

Zhao Liangdong has been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. For him, Jin Junsheng is a bit strange.

The best artillery of the Ming army did not appear. It is too strange that the Ming army, which has the advantage in shooting, gave up the advantage and directly hedged when the soldiers of the Jin army were a little confused.

Most of the generals of the Jin army have studied the tactics of the Ming army. During the Great War in the Central Plains, the Ming army bombarded the enemy with artillery. After the enemy army collapsed, they launched an attack. The spearman should have stepped forward decisively, but this time he didn't participate in the battle the whole time, just running around, as if acting again.

Zhao Liangdong has concluded that the Ming army must have ambushed the soldiers and wanted to lure him into pursuit.

Then he followed the Ming army's wishes and sent 5000 people to pursue it, leaving 4000 people to see what the Ming army would do.

If the Ming army's ambush does not come out, the five thousand gold army will drive the Ming army to seize the Wubao ferry. If the ambush comes out, then he will immediately attack with the whole army to hold back the ambush, and let the five thousand gold army seize the Wubao ferry first. .

Thinking of this, Zhao Liangdong couldn't help showing a smile on his face. He already had a [-]% chance of winning this battle.

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On the top of the hill, Wang Guangtai narrowed his eyes when he saw that the Jin army still had 4000 troops.

The [-] Ming army was divided into three groups, [-] were used to lure the enemy, and [-] were deployed ten miles to the north to prevent the Ming army from luring the enemy from being able to stabilize their position and being rushed all the way to the ferry.

Another 4000 people were led by him, lying in ambush behind the hillside.

The Ming army is [-], and the Jin army is also [-]. They are not afraid of confronting the Ming army head-on, but the Ming army is afraid that it will be a protracted war, a tug-of-war.Once the entrustment is too long, the Jin army in Hetao and Ningxia will kill, and the Ming army will be finished.

Therefore, the Ming army chose to ambush, which is a method that can quickly defeat the opponent.

"General, what should we do now?" A thousand households of the Ming army couldn't help anxiously seeing the two thousand gold troops passing under the hillside.

Wang Guangtai was very calm, "It's expected!" After he said something, he turned to look at the thousand households, and ordered: "I was going to fire a round of cannons to bombard the golden formation, and you led 2000 people to rush down the mountain immediately to attack the two thousand gold formations." military!"

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Zhao Liangdong tightened his grip on the horse's reins, and his eyes were fixed on the hillside. He didn't believe that the Ming army's ambush could hold their breath.

At this moment, several bronze cannons were suddenly pushed from the back of the hillside to the top of the hill.

These cannons had been loaded in advance, and as soon as the Ming army pushed them up, the moment the Jin army discovered them, they ignited the gunpowder, and there was a "boom" on the top of the mountain, and a few clouds of white smoke rose up, and the shells shot directly into the formation of the four thousand Jin army. Suddenly there was a scream.

Zhao Liangdong's war horse was frightened, and it was spinning around restlessly. He quickly tightened the reins and controlled the horse, but at this moment, there was a commotion behind the hillside, and more than 2000 Ming troops roared, and rushed to the more than 2000 Jin troops led by Sheng Jiading. rush away.

Sheng Jiading was startled, and Jin Jun was flustered for a while, but he got Zhao Liangdong's order, and he immediately shouted: "Don't pay attention to them, let me rush forward, and don't stop until I reach the ferry."

The Two Thousand Golden Army ignored the two thousand Ming Army ambush soldiers who rushed out, exposed their backs to them, and continued to chase the Yan Yan Battalion in front.

Zhao Liangdong, who had stabilized his horse, was overjoyed when he saw the Ming army's ambush rushing out. While charging forward with his horse on his back, he shouted loudly: "The whole army is attacking!"

The four thousand golden troops followed Zhao Liangdong closely, rushing towards him. The golden troops charged forward one after another, roaring, and killed the two thousand ambush soldiers of the Ming army.

4000 troops rushed to the foot of the hillside. Zhao Liangdong pointed his saber at the hillside. A golden general led three or four hundred men and left the brigade to climb up the hillside to take down some artillery pieces of the Ming army. He then led the brigade to kill the ambush soldiers. .

The entire station suddenly became like a sugar cane, with four thousand Ming troops fleeing in front, followed by five thousand Jin troops chasing and killing them, and then another two thousand Ming troops chasing and killing the five thousand Jin troops. Army, like a wafer biscuit with several layers.

But this was not over yet, there was another "boom" on the top of the mountain, and Wang Guangtai led 2000 people, roaring down the hillside, smashing hundreds of climbing Jin troops in an instant, and then killing Zhao Liangdong.

Zhao Liangdong hastily reined in his horse. He didn't expect that there were still Ming troops, but fortunately there were not many people, only about 2000. He waved his hands quickly and said, "Quickly line up! Defeat them first!"

The battlefield was a mess, nearly 2 people fought together on the nearly ten-mile-long road along the Yellow River.

Sheng Jiading led 2000 people to catch up with Yan Yanying, and 5000 people drove [-] Ming troops for nearly ten miles. Suddenly, [-] Ming troops in neat formation appeared in front of them.

Li Laiheng took the lead, and galloped into the Ming formation from the gap left by the Ming army. The Ming army behind him also passed quickly.

Zhao Liangdong was charged condescendingly by Wang Guangtai, and the two sides strangled and fought together again. A large number of soldiers on both sides died, but the number of Jin soldiers gradually gained the advantage.

Zhao Liangdong secretly rejoiced that there were not many Ming troops, and at the same time he was very impatient, wanting to defeat Wang Guangtai as soon as possible, and then rush northward to prevent Sheng Jiading from being attacked on both sides.

Riding on his horse, he slashed left and right, stabbed a Ming soldier to death, and shouted angrily: "Quick, kill them all!"

At this time, there was a faint muffled sound of thunder in the southern sky, the dust covered the sky in the distance, and the earth began to tremble.

The fighting Jin Jun looked at each other in blank dismay, everyone's eyes showed fear, it was the cavalry who came to kill, and the Jin Jun was most familiar with this.

"Junmen, there's a force coming from behind!" A soldier slashed and killed a Ming soldier, rushed to Zhao Liangdong's side, and shouted in horror.

Zhao Liangdong's complexion changed drastically, as if his heart had been hit hard, but he immediately understood that it must be Suide's rebels who pretended to raid Yan'an, but actually came behind him.

At this moment, four or five hundred cavalry, followed by a brigade of infantry, had appeared behind the Jin army.

Wearing his Ming Dynasty armor, Wang Yongqiang took the lead, waving a large sword in his hand, and shouted wantonly: "Kill! Wang is here!"

Zhao Liangdong was so shocked that his face turned ashen, regretful, he shouted in a trembling voice: "Retreat, quickly follow me to break through!"

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