Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Cross, cross, cross," the infantry and musketeers in the distance also came, and when they heard the sound of the horn, they dispatched soldiers and horses to clean up the wounded and corpses on the ground, and then began to retreat to the main formation.

Everything is so orderly, advance and retreat freely.

With one arm hanging, Man Dahai's face was covered with blood. While reprimanding Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao, he whipped the two Manchu generals with leather whips. The entire army stopped five miles away.

This gave Feng Wuyu time to pack up the wounded and horses, and gather the troops.

Half an hour later, the entire team retreated back into the hastily rushed out fortifications, and a large camp was taking shape.

A large camp surrounded by heavy carts and spearmen's spears was formed in such a hasty manner, and surrounded the entire large army.

The small group of cavalry troops who had just guarded the camp outside wandered within two miles around the camp.

In the big camp, there was always a cavalry battalion of thousands of households guarding them, and they did not follow to attack, because this era was the era of cavalry, although the cavalry battalion of the field brigade was divided into two teams to guard the field brigade on the march, and the field brigade The guard cavalry battalion directly under the Central Government also attacked, but this cavalry battalion of thousands of households did not attack except for the first fight with the Manchurian cavalry, because there is another tactic in this world called "tune the tiger away from the mountain". All the cavalry were transferred out, so the main cavalry, the Qianhu Battalion, was not allowed to attack.

It just used the cavalry battalion in its own hands and the guards directly under its jurisdiction to alert the cavalry battalion to attack.

Let's put it this way, a field brigade has about 800 cavalry, divided into personal guard cavalry, about 200 people, guard cavalry battalion, which is dragoon cavalry, and cavalry battalion, which is ordinary cold weapon cavalry battalion, and others The cavalry equipment of the Ming army and the Qing army are the same, the difference is that there is an extra short-fire gun, but it is just a general matchlock gun short-fire gun, not equipped with sabers, matchlock guns, short-fire guns, etc. like the dragoon battalion Sharp weapons, and a cavalry battalion of 1000 to [-] people. The leader is Qianhu at the level of Qianhuchang. This is the main force of cavalry operations. They did not attack. Their task is to protect the militia and Engineers, supply soldiers.

Half of this cavalry unit is Lancers, that is, Lancers with waist knives and impact spears in their hands. This is what Zhang Qiang and his horses learned in the game of hacking and killing. Lancers with full-length spears, their impact Strength is undoubtedly very lethal in this era of cavalry. This is the trump card and cannot be used. Generally, it is used to attack the enemy's cavalry and main force during frontal combat.

After the violent collision, the two sides waited and watched each other from a distance, and then gathered their teams, preparing for another decisive battle.

At this time, the sun has only just risen, and the sun is not very hot yet.

Short and intense, this is the evaluation of the battle just now in the first confrontation between the two sides.

According to a rough estimate based on the numbers reported by the staff department that counted casualties, in this battle, the combat troops of the engineers and supply soldiers walking in the middle of the team, the archers and crossbowmen suffered a lot of casualties, and more than half of them were disabled. The spear battalion on the front line had a lot of casualties, about half of them, that is, the thousand-man robbing battalion, were disabled in order to buy time for the large troops.

The cavalry battalion was also disabled, half of them died in battle, and a small half were seriously injured.It is equivalent to more than half of the casualties.

More than half of the pro-guards also suffered casualties, leaving more than 60 people.

In this sudden attack of the 200-man pro-guard, in addition to the cavalry sent out to deliver the letter, more than 160 people died and more than 100 people died.

The dragoons killed more than 30 people, injured more than 60 people, and more than 500 people died.

In this battle, the Second Field Brigade of more than 9000 people suffered more than 1000 casualties, or one-eighth.

It hasn't reached the point where it hurts.

As for the enemy, Feng Wuyu estimated that the 3000 cavalry had at least [-] casualties, more than two-thirds of the casualties.

Three to one, this result is very fortunate to be able to achieve such a result in the case of a surprise attack.

Now the infantry army behind the enemy has arrived. From a distance, when the mist has dissipated, it can be seen at a glance, there are about 2 people.

"My lord, what should we do now?" A thousand households asked him.

"Fight a battle, and then retreat when the opportunity arises. I think this is just the enemy's vanguard. We were careless this time, and let the enemy touch us. We didn't wait for your lord's order, so we had to retreat to the capital city of Raozhou. After a while, the infantry will protect the militia and the people, and the artillery battalion will go first, while the other soldiers will fight bravely and slip away when they see the opportunity." Feng Wuyu said.

"My lord, maybe Master Huang's cavalry brigade is nearby, maybe it's hidden nearby."

Qianhu Road.

Feng Wuyu looked at the chief of staff, a promoted garrison Qianhu, "Under such circumstances, is there any way for you to deal with it?"

The guard said: "When you were fighting just now, we deduced it and thought we should move now, but the enemy has [-] troops. If we move, we will be very passive. We can only fight once, and then let the cavalry brigade come to help. Otherwise, when the enemy's large army comes, we will be surrounded by the enemy in the wilderness, we are a team that relies heavily on supplies, and may not be able to fight for a long time."

Feng Wuyu thought for a while, "No, we have to fight again. We can't run away from the enemy. There are too many wounded, probably hundreds of people, and they are all seriously wounded. If there is no carriage, they must die halfway. Only when we can fight a battle and defeat the enemy can we retreat. That’s the decision.”

Five miles away, Man Dahai was also hesitating, should he fight or retreat?

Thinking about Hong Chengchou's hesitation and dissatisfaction at the time, but seeing the power of the Huaxia Army, his heart trembled. It was really terrible just now. When did the Ming Army dare to fight the Qing Army? This feeling is only available to the Guanning cavalry at the time. The Guanning cavalry in its heyday was very powerful. It dared to sprint head-on with the Qing army without falling behind.

Then there is Li Zicheng's army of cavalry dead soldiers covered in iron armor, the Iron Armored Army, the Qing army will be defeated nine times out of ten battles. Fight with that army.

After a while he finally spoke, "Come here, send a letter to Hong Chengchou and ask him to bring a large army to help. I will hold back the Ming army here."

After hearing this, Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao looked at each other, their faces ashen. At the same time, they read impatience in each other's eyes, and read the common heartfelt voice, "Don't fight, retreat."

But Man Dahai didn't give them a chance. Instead, he ordered, "Zongbing Fan, take the Han army flag and attack from the front. Deputy General Ma, take the soldiers from the Green Battalion as the vanguard and attack the enemy's flank first."

Then he said to the Manchurian general who was in charge of monitoring: "You are in charge of supervising the battle. If you retreat without hearing Mingjin, behead it."

Suddenly, the drums of war were like thunder, and the horn of battle sounded again.

Behind the hills in the distance, several cavalrymen were half hidden in the bushes and observed the battlefield with binoculars.

Behind the hill, strands of cavalry lined up to attack.

Farther away, Hong Chengchou kept urging the troops to advance, but he was helpless, the distance they pulled was too far, and the [-] Qing troops were desperately on their way, and they could not go any faster.

They are still more than 20 kilometers away from the battlefield.

That's pretty much a day's journey for a soldier in this era.

The Musketeers had the least casualties, only a dozen or so were killed.

Chapter 3 Ten Another Battlefield

After Liu Liangzuo received Feng Wuyu's request for help, he summoned Brother Zhu to discuss it. Brother Zhu thought about it and said, "Send someone to check it out, let's send a cavalry battalion. Our task is to guard this place, and we can't lose the big because of small things." Besides, there is Huang Tao's cavalry brigade hiding on one side, his mission is to rescue Feng Wuyu, his lack of letter proves that the situation of Feng Wuyu's second field brigade is not the worst."

"Well, it's the same as the old man thought. General Zhu Shen is a great talent, and he is the person who has stayed with the governor the longest."

"Hehe," Brother Zhu smiled while drinking tea.

Liu Liangzuo went to the side and ordered: "No one is allowed to send troops without my order, otherwise they will be executed without mercy."

Then he smiled at Brother Zhu and said, "Does the Governor have any new edicts?"

Brother Zhu smiled, "You are the admiral, and if the commander wants to give it to you, he will give it to you first. How could he give it to me? Our Huaxia Army will not play the trick of giving orders by leapfrogging."

Liu Liangzuo laughed, then sat down and continued to drink tea. On the city wall next to him, a theater troupe was doing their best to sing an empty city plan playbook.

Liu Liangzuo and Brother Zhu still had the time to drink tea, but Zhang Qiang didn't have the time to drink tea.

After receiving news of the Qing army's invasion in succession, Zhang Qiang had already appeared in the area of ​​Guangxin Mansion with the army.

His army marched in concealment, so he was the latest to know the situation in the rear, and he was helpless. He could only leave it to the people who stayed in Raozhou Prefecture to deal with it.

After quickly issuing several orders, Zhang Qiang led his troops to approach Kong Youde's army.

Two cavalry brigades, one field brigade, one guard brigade, and an army of more than 1 people quietly approached Guangxin Prefecture. The Qing army of Guangxin Prefecture was confronting the Huaxia Army in Jianning Prefecture, Chuzhou Prefecture and other places. , I don't know why there is no battle.

"Hu Kui, haven't you done anything these days?" Zhang Qiang asked Hu Kui who was following him.

"Governor Governor, this is a minister who has been wronged. As a minister, he stays up all day and night, with his eyes wide open, watching the movements of these two big traitors all the time, and he dare not be lazy for a day." Hu Kui touched his face. The beard on his face, he said casually.