Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 209
The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying!
The two armies faced each other, the drums were beating loudly, and the four thousand green battalion pushed forward to the front of the Ming army. Wang Yan stood under the big flag and gave orders. Besides waving the order flag, there was a man with a colored flag on his back and an order hanging on his waist on the top of the mountain. The chess and card officer of the card, galloped down the hillside, came to the frontline school officer, and passed on the special military order.

boom boom boom~
A series of cannons sounded and exploded where the Qing soldiers were about to pass. This was not for futile work, but for positioning. Just like the two armies confronting each other, the archers need to shoot positioning arrows, and the artillery needs to fire a few shots to determine the distance , When the Qing soldiers entered the range, the artillery could fire all kinds of artillery.

Wang Yan looked at the Qing army advancing forward, calm in front of the battle, the team was clean-up, exuding bursts of murderous aura, he couldn't help admiring in his heart, it was indeed an elite army, and he could be called a veteran army, but Geng Zhongming only sent 4000 troops to defeat him The battle formation, but it is too rampant.

Geng Zhongming boasted that his men were not inferior to Manchuria's elite cavalry, but Wang Yan's more than [-] people had all fought against the real Manchuria.

Under the city of Yangzhou, whether it was Li Sutai's Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army or Duoduo's Inlaid White Banner, they were all under the hands of Yangzhou Jianer, and many troops were lost.

At this time, Geng Zhongming didn't put all his strength into it, so Wang Yan suddenly had a plan in his mind, which was to show his weakness to the enemy, and let Geng Zhongming play a tactic of fueling, so as to wear down his army, and finally set out in ambush to decide the situation of the battle in one fell swoop.

At this time, Dai Zhifan, who was commanding in the front, couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he heard the general order conveyed by the chess and card officer. He intended to use the powerful artillery to let the green battalion soldiers be defeated by the artillery fire during the impact, so as to fight. Make meritorious deeds in order to defeat the spirit of the Qing army.

Now he listened to Wang Yan's order, but he was surprised: "Show the enemy weak, let them charge up?"

Dai Zhifan was very puzzled, his face was a bit dazed, Chen Yujie, the commander of the artillery team at the side saw this, he could only try to say: "Since the Duke has an order, then let the artillery team shoot a little bit, okay?"

Although Dai Zhifan didn't understand the military order, he still nodded. After Chen Yujie retreated to order the artillery team, he turned around and transferred some of the bird commanders to reduce the firepower of the Ming army.

At this time, the Qing army had already stepped within the shooting range, and the Ming army's big and small Frang machine suddenly opened fire.

The chariot battalion has more than 3000 people per battalion. It should have been equipped with cavalry to fight, but there are few horses in the south, and Wang Yan only has [-] cavalry, so they all lay in ambush.

Che Ying's mobility is not good, it lacks the ability to take the initiative to attack, and also loses the possibility of expanding the results after the war, but the defensive ability and the scale of the firearms are very powerful.

Qi Gong's chariot battalion, each heavy car has two cannons, and is equipped with 120 soldiers, including ten soldiers, two horses, six cannons, a commander, and a helmsman.The other ten are called Raiders, including four Bird Slayers and Long Swordsmen, two Rattan Players, two Shogun Handlers, one Captain and one Fire Soldier.Light vehicles are equipped with ten soldiers.Each battalion has [-] vehicles and [-] officers and soldiers.

Wang Yan's car battalion was organized according to this, and even the firepower was strengthened.

"Boom~Boom~"

The four chariot battalions guarded the four sides of the hill. Although the Qing soldiers only attacked one side, they still faced the bombardment of nearly two hundred large and small Francois machine guns.

The Portuguese instructor was very puzzled by Chen Yujie's order to let the artillery deliberately miss the artillery, but he still implemented it seriously, causing some of the artillery to deliberately lose their aim, causing the shells to explode around the Qing soldiers.

It’s just that the firepower of the Ming army was really strong. When the Portuguese teacher first saw Wang Yan’s chariot camp, he was surprised and called out “God, Oumaiga”, because the West at the same time did not have such a powerful artillery army.

At this time, although some of the cannons were ordered to be distorted, there were too many artillery soldiers in the Ming army, and there were still shells that exploded in the Qing army formation, which immediately knocked down the Qing soldiers who kept advancing in the formation.

At this time, the Qing army was still at least [-] steps away from the Ming army. If they charged now, the soldiers would basically have no strength to fight when they ran in front of the Ming army, and would instead send food to the knife edge.

"Steady the formation! Don't panic, follow the banner of the general, and push up!" The Qing general Han You under the army, holding a knife in his hand, shouted to let the green battalion not to panic under the artillery fire.

Under the intentional release of water by the Ming army, the Qing soldiers finally rushed a hundred paces away after dropping more than [-] corpses.

Seeing this, Geng Zhongming, who was under the banner of the Chinese army, smiled slightly. It seemed that Wang Yan was not that powerful either.

At this time, he waved back with one hand, and a thick horn sounded from the middle army. Han You, a member of the front army, immediately waved his knife and shouted to charge when he heard the sound.

The remaining more than 500 people were green battalion soldiers, and they immediately ran wildly. Thousands of archers ran, bending their bows and drawing arrows, throwing arrow feathers into the Ming army formation.

At this time, Dai Zhifan also commanded the Ming army to start a counterattack, but Wang Yan deliberately released the water, and the green camp soldiers rushed to the front of the car camp without suffering many casualties.

The two sides fought each other with swords and guns, and the sound of killing filled the sky, but the Ming army's chariots joined each other end to end, like a fortress.

At this time, on the top of the mountain, Wang Yan saw that the fight had been fought for a while, and the purpose of seduction had been achieved, so he ordered the drums to beat fiercely, signaling Dai Zhifan not to hold back.

The Ming army had just held their breath a long time ago, but now that the order was issued, the Francophone on the chariot suddenly exploded. The Qing soldiers blocked the front of the chariot, and the Ming army soldiers lit the fuse. , All of them were killed in an instant.

The green battalion who had just rushed up, thinking that they could make a contribution, suffered heavy casualties, hurriedly got out of the chariot, and all retreated in defeat.

Seeing this scene, Geng Zhongming couldn't help frowning slightly, but he only thought that the number of troops was not too small, and he had no chance to break through the chariot formation, so he issued another military order to order the rout troops to detour instead of being in the front, and then ordered the Chinese army to mobilize 8000 people to go forward. out to fight.

At this time, the Qing army's king flag was lowered, and the yellow flag was waving. The two Qing troops followed the drums, left the brigade, and pushed towards the Ming army.

The 4000 green battalion was twice as much as before. Geng Zhongming felt that 8000 people could reach the front of the Ming army, and they fought for a quarter of an hour. There is no reason why [-] people cannot be defeated.

What's more, at this time, the artillery array of the Qing soldiers had also been erected. The Hongyi cannons could crush the strong city, but couldn't they break through the mere chariot camp?
At this time, in the wind of hunting, eight thousand Qing soldiers were divided into two battalions, one guarding Gao Shiqing for Wuchang, and the other guarding Huizhiguan for Xiaogan, slowly pressing towards the Ming army.

At the same time, the Qing army's artillery began to sound, and a solid shell hit the Ming army's chariot, killing everyone immediately.

The Qing army did not have many small Franco cannons, but they had heavy artillery for siege. The range of these cannons was far greater than that of the Ming army's small artillery, so the Ming army could not shoot at them at all.

(End of this chapter)