Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 574

Qing soldiers used ridicule to express contempt in their hearts, and they were indeed qualified to laugh. Refugees are useful, so why do you need the army for war?
Man Dahai did not realize that the people from the south were not refugees. Manchurians used to touch bird eggs and pick wild fruits in the deep mountains and wild forests. Their production level was low and their organizational structure was backward. They were similar to primitive people and could not understand the Central Plains. It is also incomprehensible to organize tens of thousands of large mines to mine. These miners have formed mutual cooperation after long-term labor, which is not comparable to refugees.

"Order, let Bu Congshan lead 5000 people to defeat them!" Full of confidence, Man Dahai dispatched Pu Congshan who had just suffered a defeat.

But before he could finish his sentence, exclamations suddenly came from around him: "The east side is coming again."

Man Dahai suddenly turned his head to look, and in the east of the army, a large cloud of dust was raised. He quickly picked up the binoculars and saw about two thousand Ming army cavalry galloping in the smoke and dust, and behind the cavalry, countless Ming troops spread out. Come.

Different from the enemies from the south, this Ming army had distinctive armor, armed with swords and guns, and flew with flags.

From the circular vision in the telescope, Mandahai saw a big flag in the center, with the sun and the moon painted on it, and the book "Admiral Jiangxi Military Affairs, General Guard of the Military Guards", on both sides of the big flag, there are several military flags, each book "Wuwei Zuojun chooses Fengying Xu", "Wuwei Zuojun Panshi Camp Zhang" and so on, the banners are flying and the momentum is magnificent.

This is Jin Shengheng coming!

At this time, to the west of the Qing army, the Ming generals Sun Shoufa and Wang Deren and the right wing of the Qing army, [-] Han and Eight Banners, and [-] green battalion soldiers were engaged in a circle. To the east of the Qing army is the [-] Wuwei Zuo Army that just appeared. There is no movement in the north, but it is Poyang Lake.

Now the Qing army was besieged on three sides. If they failed, they could only jump into the lake. Only then did Man Dahai feel that the situation seemed a little serious.

In the left army of Wuwei in the west, Jin Shengheng galloped out on horseback, before coming to the main army, he asked Xu Qiren who was watching the battle: "How is the battle going?"

Xu Qiren was riding on a horse, pointing to the west with his spear in his hand, and said solemnly: "Look at the governor, Sun Tongzhi and General Wang have completely restrained the right wing of the Qing army. To the south is the rebel army brought by Zhang Canzheng. The Qing army , there are still [-] cavalry on the left flank."

Jin Shengheng looked far away, and saw that the formation of Sun and Wang basically kept its shape, and the soldiers in the formation fought hard, but they were not as optimistic as Xu Qiren said, but were obviously at a disadvantage.

"Here's an order to attack the right flank of the Qing army, and the cavalry retreats temporarily." Seeing this, Jin Shengheng made a decisive decision, but just after he finished speaking, he found that the rebel army in the south moved first.

The miners who came from Fuzhou were full of enthusiasm for this battle, and the most active one was Li Chengdong's remnant.

This was due to the official propaganda of the Ming Dynasty. In order to boost morale and mobilize more green camp generals, anyway, the cause of Li Chengdong's death became that he was an internal response to the Ming army and was killed by the Qing soldiers.

In this way, Li Bu became a rebel in the eyes of the Qing court, and could only follow the Ming Dynasty to the dark.Originally, they still had to dig mines for a few more years, and that work was more tiring than fighting. Now that they have the opportunity, everyone will naturally fight for it.

These 4 people had arrived on the battlefield, relying on them, they naturally did not dare to confront the Qing soldiers, but when Li Yuanyin, Yan Keyi and others saw Jin Shengheng's soldiers arriving, they lost their scruples and pressed decisively.

When many miners saw someone taking the lead, they also stepped up to keep up. As a result, tens of thousands of people pressed towards the main formation of the Qing army.

Seeing this, Man Dahai became very angry, and he could no longer calm down.At this time, the Qing army lined up facing the south, but it was obvious that Jin Shengheng in the west was a greater threat to him.

At this time, the Qing army had changed their formation again, preparing to turn around and meet Jin Shengheng, but the mud legs from the south pressed up. Although he was not afraid, there were many people after all, if the mud legs came up, they would mess up the formation and lose. In the hands of a group of mud legs, he might be ashamed and angrily find a piece of tofu and smash himself to death.

"Instruct Bu Congshan to stop them quickly." The enemies he faced in this battle were not only the rampant Ming army, but also a group of mud legs. Man Dahai felt insulted, he waved his fist vigorously and roared loudly.

While the Qing army was changing formation, Bu Congshan led [-] infantry slowly away from the main formation, which caused a panic in the main formation. They trotted up to meet them with weapons.

Bu Congshan was ambushed, and there were only more than 1000 people left in the headquarters, and nearly 4000 people were allocated by Man Dahai. Everyone lined up in a neat queue and marched forward with their guns drawn.

Man Dahai didn't have the time to pay attention to the difference between the mud legs, his eyes were all focused on the east, he despised Jin Shengheng on the lips, but he still paid attention to him in his heart, and regarded him as the main threat.

He jumped to the east and saw banners all over the sky, and Jin Shengheng's troops swarming in. Man Dahai's expression became serious. At this time, his [-] infantry was entering the final moment of changing formation, and the Ming army must not be allowed to approach.

At this time, Man Dahai only had five thousand red armored cavalry on the left wing. Without any hesitation, he immediately issued an order, "Fight the red flag, repel Jin Shengheng."

In the formation of the Qing army, the green battalion soldiers hurriedly adjusted their formation, while the cavalry slowly moved out amidst the sound of horns.

Following the drumbeats in the east, the Ming army advancing like a wall saw cavalry rushing out from the Qing army formation. Jin Shengheng, who was at the front, suddenly waved his hand back.

There was no sound in the big formation, and bursts of murderous aura emanated from it. Just by looking at this move, one could tell that it was definitely a rare and elite soldier.

At this time, only the soldiers in the Ming army were silent, but the shouts of the generals were heard one after another.

"Array!"

"Like the front!"

"The bow and gun are in the middle!"

"Riding to cover the wings!"

"Suppose the horses are rejected, and the Frang machine is stopped and ready to go!"

The Red Armored Eight Banners cavalry from Manchuria came to attack, Jin Shengheng had 3 troops, less than [-] cavalry, naturally they couldn't resist the [-] Eight Banners cavalry, the army could only stop and line up, but Jin Shengheng lined up in stacked formations.

For this battle, the Ming army first made sufficient preparations, and conducted drills for most of the situations that could be encountered, especially how to resist the impact of the Qing cavalry on the plain.

At this time, the cavalry came to kill, but the Ming army arranged in an orderly manner.

The circular formation is a completely passive formation. The reason why Sun Shoufa set up this formation is because he wanted to attract the Qing soldiers to attack. Only the circular formation could make him last longer. Second, he faced nearly ten thousand cavalry at the beginning. , It is easy to be outflanked by cavalry if you don't form a circular formation.

On the plains, the cavalry had enough space to maneuver. It was because they wanted to attack the front and the rear, and there were also reasons for Jin Shengheng to set up a defensive frontal formation.

Because the Qing army was restrained by the Ming army in the west and south, he only had to face [-] Qing cavalry, and he had [-] cavalry himself, which could protect the formation.

The Qing army naturally knew that the frontal defense of stacked formations was strong, so after the Qing cavalry left the large formation and gradually increased their speed, they immediately divided into two groups. The Ming army was cut through the middle, and the division and encirclement were carried out.

If Qingqi succeeds and the infantry loses its formation on the plain, then the plan to encircle and annihilate Mandahai will basically be over, but how can Jin Shengheng be a simple person!
(Thanks to Yuedong Woxin for the reward, and to Wufa Mobei for the two monthly tickets.)
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