Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 359 Wrong, why did you use Taizu's script? (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

Thousands of Wu and Zhou cavalry bypassed their large formation, and the thunderous hooves resounded across the battlefield, making the ground tremble.

Commanding the cavalry to launch the attack was Ma Bao, the most capable cavalry general under Wu Sangui's command.Since he was born in Chuangying, and Li Zicheng was his old man, he was sent by Wu Sangui to Wu Yingqi's command in the past few years, and became the latter's deputy.Before Wu Zhou fought against the Ming Dynasty this time, he was fighting against the Heshuote Khanate in Qinghai, and he was officially worshiped as the general manager of the Great Zhou Qingtang.On the Qingtang Plateau, he can be regarded as an invincible existence.

However, the invincible God of War on the plateau has never faced thousands of Ganshan cavalry charged by himself in the past, and he can unhurriedly deploy a thousand-man hollow square formation, and he is very calm at first glance. opponent.

Ma Bao, who is very experienced in the battlefield, knew that he could not charge hard, so he led his cavalry to run around these dozen battalion-level hollow phalanxes far away, putting himself in a state where he could launch an attack at any time.

Since the number of cavalry in Li Zhongzheng's hands was too small, less than [-], there was no way to expel Ma Bao's thousands of northwest cavalry, so he had to maintain the hollow phalanx first, and then find a way to advance when the opponent was tired from running.

Under the banner of Cai Jiapo's Great Ming General, Li Zhongshan was observing the battle between his right wing and Wu Zhou army's left wing. Li Fuchen had already retreated with his cavalry, and hid behind the eight hollow phalanxes in his No.12 town, dismounting to gather strength.

Luo Dawei No.11 Town, which was almost collapsed by the cavalry assault of the Wu Zhou Army before, has also completed its reorganization at this time, forming five battalion-level columns, and is advancing to support the No.12 Town.

However, the cavalry of the Wu Zhou army launched a round of attack on No.12 Town, which was repelled by the Ming army who drove out of the hollow phalanx, and now they have replaced seven or eight thousand Wu Zhou infantry on top to shoot at each other, and dragged a dozen artillery pieces. Help out.

However, the Ming army has huge advantages in flintlock guns, rifled guns, and mini bombs. Even if the infantry in No. 12 town retreated a little to defend against the sudden attack of the Wu and Zhou cavalry, they did not dare to change the hollow phalanx. Returning to the horizontal team, they can still use their firepower to overwhelm Wu Zhou's infantry, which is about the same number as them.

At this time, the sound of guns and shouts of killing came from far in front of his left, and the left wing of the Ming army and the right wing of the Wu Zhou army also fought together.Since Wu Yingqi drew half of the second and third lines of his right wing to form a line of defense on the side of the right wing, the front of the right wing became very thin.So Li Zhongshan seized the opportunity and immediately threw himself into one of the two second-tier towns on his left wing, smashing into a total of sixteen battalion-level columns, and launched a fierce attack on Wu Zhou's right wing.

However, Wu Zhou fought extremely tenaciously. Although the casualties were not small, they could barely withstand the battle with the support of their cavalry on the right, and the fight was a bit stalemate!

If Li Zhongzheng could get back to his position in time, today's battle would probably be won!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan turned his binoculars again and looked at Li Zhongzheng's troops who had already appeared on the battlefield, only to find that a large number of cavalrymen from Wu and Zhou were surrounding a hollow square formed by the infantry of the two towns under Li Zhongzheng. Traveling around.For a while, it seemed like no one could do anything to anyone.
"General, there is still a standard cavalry on the left wing of our army that has not been invested!"

When Yao Qisheng's reminder came, Li Zhongshan looked at his left flank with a telescope, and found a temporary cavalry mark made up of three cavalry battalions belonging to the town, which was nervously waiting for orders.

"General, the Model First Town is also on standby. Can the left-wing cavalry be sent to support the third master's detour troops, and at the same time, the Model First Town will be thrown in to attack the enemy's right flank?"

After observing for a while, Li Zhongshan said: "Let the cavalry on the left wing mark out to support Zhongzheng, but the first town of the model does not move! I have already invested [-] battalions in two towns on the left wing, and there is another town that can be invested at any time, no If necessary, join Mofan No. [-] Town. Momo No. [-] Town is the general reserve team, and must stay until King Li Zhong arrives before joining.”

Yao Qisheng received Li Zhongshan's order, and immediately hand-written the military order to the left-wing cavalry, and after stamping the seal, he immediately dispatched the cavalry to send it out, and then asked Li Zhongshan: "General, are you worried about Wu Guogui (Yao Qisheng is not here at this time?" I don’t know if Wu Zhoujun’s coach is Wu Yingqi) also turn around to our side?”

Li Zhongshan nodded after pondering for a moment: "The Wu army on the opposite side seems to have slightly fewer people than our army. If their total strength is really only this, then I just need to wait until Zhongzheng succeeds in making a detour, and then go to the No.15 town on the second line of the left wing. Then the enemy's right wing will definitely be destroyed. Model No. 16 Town and No.[-] Town on the right wing can be saved to the end to pursue and suppress the enemy. If possible, I will trap them in Laodao River, Liuyang River and Between the Xiangjiang River."

Yao Qisheng took a map, followed Li Zhongshan's train of thought, and quickly outlined it.Both Laodao River and Liuyang River finally flow into Xiangjiang River, and these two rivers and one river form a trumpet-shaped terrain that is wide in the east and narrow in the west.On the westernmost side of the trumpet, where the Laodao River and Liuyang River flow into the Xiangjiang River, it is really quite narrow, almost a long and narrow peninsula.Although most of the Laodao River and Liuyang River in this area have bridges to pass through.But it is not easy for a hundred thousand defeated troops to cross the river with a few wooden bridges!
Therefore, once the Wu army is forced into this peninsula, and at the same time unable to calmly cross the river and enter Changsha, the Wu Zhou Dynasty will suffer a devastating blow!

This abacus is pretty good, and whether it can be realized depends on whether Li Zhongzheng can defeat Wu Jun's right wing and when Li Laishun will arrive!
With Wu Zishuai's flag fluttering, Wu Yingqi stared intently at the front of his right wing.Although Ma Bao's cavalry entangled the roundabout Ming army brigade, Ma Bao only had a few thousand cavalry, and it was impossible to repel the enemy's brigade of at least 2 people.Moreover, Wu Yingqi has no reserve team in his hands, so it is difficult to give Ma Bao more support. It would be great if Wu Guogui's 5 people were still there!

This roundabout division of troops does not seem to be worthwhile!

"Cavalry! The Ming army's cavalry is coming up!"

Liu Xuanchu, who served as a military adviser beside Wu Yingqi, suddenly shouted: "The right wing, our right wing is in front."

Wu Yingqi quickly raised his binoculars to look. Through the faint smoke that filled the battlefield, he saw more than 1000 cavalry in red robes and red scarves, marching from the left flank of the Ming army to the vicinity of Ma Bao, which surrounded the detour troops of the Ming army.

Wu Yingqi muttered: "Oops. Ma Bao's troops are too small to stop them!"

Although Ma Bao has more than [-] cavalry, the Ming army has [-] infantry, including a large number of pure fusiliers and artillery, and more than [-] cavalry. It is impossible for Ma Bao to fight !

As soon as Ma Bao retreated, the right wing of Wu Zhou's army was about to fall into a hard fight!

But in Wu Yingqi's hands, there is no reserve team anymore!

Thinking of this, he could only look up to the east, as if he wanted to find the trace of Wu Guogui's troops in the eastern sky.Looking at it, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the sky in the distance seemed to be filled with smoke and dust!
This must be the smoke and dust caused by the rapid march of the army! Wu Guogui has arrived!
"dong dong dong"

Before Wu Yingqi had time to be happy, the Ming army on the opposite side heard the sound of drums urging the attack!He quickly turned his head to look, and saw one after another Ming army battalion-level columns pounced towards his right wing!

The fierce fighting also unfolded between the cavalry under Ma Bao's command, the Lancers of the Ming army, and the skirmishers who used rifled guns to snipe!
Although Ma Bao had twice as many cavalry as his opponent, he had to hold back the Ming army's infantry while resisting the Ming army's cavalry, and his strength was quite tense.What made him feel even more broken was that there were a large number of rifle soldiers in the infantry of the Ming army, and their cork bullets could hit far and accurately!Shooting in the hollow phalanx just now has already caused a lot of damage to Ma Bao's subordinates.Now they are even more courageous, rushing out in groups, and cooperated with their own cavalry to attack the cavalry group of Wu Zhou army running around on the battlefield.

Ma Bao's cavalry was very uncomfortable with this insidious style of play. Some cavalry even gave up chasing the Ming army cavalry and instead attacked the skirmish line composed of Ming army riflemen.But these Ming army skirmishers fought very calmly, and they didn't panic because the cavalry rushed towards them, but they were still able to shoot accurately.

At the same time, the hollow phalanx behind the Ming army's skirmishers boldly turned into a column, marching towards the Wu army's cavalry, watching the spear forest formed by long spears and bayonet-mounted rifles press against themselves. Coming, most of the cavalry of the Wu Zhou army had no choice but to retreat.There were several groups of really hot-headed cavalry, although they dispersed the scattered Ming army skirmishers, they were quickly shot by the Ming army column that came later.Because the smoothbore guns of the Ming army were also filled with cork bullets with excellent airtightness, their effective range was much longer than that of Wu Zhoujun's smoothbore guns.This made the Wu, Zhou, Shaanxi and Gansu cavalry, who were used to bullying the Heshuote, Junggar and Yeerqiang people who did not have many muskets in the northwest, very uncomfortable, and soon couldn't bear the loss and withdrew from the battle.

With the defeat of Ma Bao's cavalry, Wu Yingqi's right wing faced a major crisis. Li Zhongshan threw 24 battalions from three towns in front of Wu Yingqi's right wing and launched a fierce attack in turn!After Li Zhongzheng's detour troops arrived at the attack position, they attacked Wu Yingqi's right flank with [-] battalions.

This is a total of forty battalions of infantry, among which eight battalions are the pure flintlock team of Mofan Second Town, and their firepower is extremely terrifying!Under their oppression, Wu Yingqi's right wing could only fight and retreat. By the afternoon of September 22, the originally straight front of Wu and Zhou's army had been squeezed into a C-shape by the Ming army.Wu Jun is almost in a state of being half surrounded.

Even Wu Yingqi's central army had to be transferred because of the onslaught of the Ming army's detour!

In addition, the line of communication between Wu Zhou's army and their camp in Langli City should also be cut off by the outflanking and oppression of Li Zhongzheng's troops. Now they only have the precarious retreat route westward along the Laodao River. .

Faced with such an unfavorable situation, even Wu Zhoufu soldiers who "hold shares" began to be unable to bear it.The battlefield was full of soldiers of Wu and Zhou's army fleeing westward. Wu Yingqi had no choice but to send his own soldiers to stop them everywhere, but he could barely maintain it.

Looking at the Ming army attacking like a tide, Wu Yingqi seemed to have seen himself defeated and died, and the tragic end of Wu Zhou's death.

The emperor is at a loss!
But Wu Yingqi, who was on the verge of collapse, didn't know that his opponent, Li Zhongshan, was also on the verge of collapse at this moment!
Because Li Zhongshan had discovered that it was not Li Laishun who drove from behind him, but a Wu Zhou army with a number of [-] to [-]!

No matter how you look at this situation, it looks like the Nataizu of Waterloo!
Cold sweat broke out on Li Zhongshan's forehead!
He thought he was sure of winning just now, but when he turned around, a "Blücher" came from behind him!But Li Laishun's big Ming "Grushy" doesn't know where?

"General, please lead Model No. 16 Town and No.[-] Town to stop the enemy near Yongxing City!" Yao Qisheng loudly suggested at this time, interrupting Li Zhongshan's thoughts.

Li Zhongshan just woke up like a dream. His situation is better than that of Napoleon of Waterloo. His "Old Guard" and "Young Guard" have not moved yet!It can be used to block "Wu Luxieer", so that it will probably last until the [-] army of "Li Luxi" arrives.As long as "Li Luxi" arrives, everything will be fine.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan immediately turned his head to Yao Qisheng and said, "Master, call my father back immediately. Let him command the overall situation!"

After giving the order, Li Zhongshan immediately rode his horse and galloped down Caijiapo to Momo No. 16 Town and No.16 Town, which were waiting for orders beside Caijiapo. Now the town, which has been recharging its energy, was encouraged, and then Pegasus arrived in front of Wang An, the commander-in-chief of Model No. 16 Town, and Chang Wei, the commander-in-chief of No.[-] Town, and ordered loudly: "Model No. [-] Town, No. [-] Town. Now follow this general to attack!"

At the same time, "Wu Lingdun" Wu Yingqi, who was facing him, also realized that he seemed to be saved, and galloped to his son Wu Shicong, and asked him loudly, "Shicong, can your cavalry still fight?"

"Can fight!" Wu Shicong replied without hesitation.

His cavalry has been accumulating horsepower for a while, although they haven't rested enough, but now the situation is critical, and they can only be used as human beings by letting these horses work a little overtime, right?
"Great!" Wu Yingqi said, "You immediately take them and Ma Bao together to launch a counterattack against the Ming army behind the right flank, and push them as far south as possible to ensure that the rear road is unblocked!"

Wu Shicong was taken aback, "Father, shouldn't we attack the front of the Ming army now? The third uncle has arrived. Let's attack Li Zhongshan from front to back!"

Wu Yingqi's words are of course reasonable!

However, he was also a little afraid of being beaten by the Ming army. He was afraid that his frontal attack would not be able to take down Li Zhongshan, and the flanks would be completely surrounded by the Ming army. If Li Zhongshan also had reinforcements, the old Wu family would be wiped out.

"Do as I say!" Wu Yingqi didn't explain much, but asked his son to follow through.

"Yes, father!" Wu Shizheng didn't insist on his opinion any more, and he didn't dare to play luck with Li Zhongshan!Didn't Wu Shijue and Li Zhongshan lose all the girls when they gambled last time?

Just be careful!

So Wu Shicong got on his horse and called his cavalry to turn their heads to support the battle behind his right flank.

As soon as Wu Shicong's half-life force moves, Wu Yingqi, the "Wu Lington", has nothing to do here, and can only quietly wait for the performances of "Wu Luxieer", "Li Polun" and "Li Luxi".

In fact, the [-] troops of "Li Luxi" were not very far from the front line of Laodao River-Liuyang River.He almost collided with the army of "Ulucher" before!It's just that he saw that "Wu Luxieer" had more people than himself, so he didn't dare to fight head-on, so he let "Wu Luxieer" go first.

However, he didn't intend to run away first, but instead bit tightly behind Wu Guogui - he didn't dare to run either!His "grandfather" Li Zicheng is attacking Jiujiang City like crazy, and according to the latest information, there is Wu Yingxiong in Jiujiang City!

If Wu Yingxiong was beaten to death by Li Zicheng, would Li Laishun and Wu Sangui's family still be able to reconcile?It's impossible, so he can't let the Wu family win!
Just as he was rushing to the battlefield by the Laodao River with Wu Guogui's rear troops, the fierce battle between "Li Polun" and "Wu Luxieer" had already started.This time "Li Polun" also fought hard. The battalions of the eight model towns fought in field columns, and did not give "Wu Luxieer" a chance to form a formation at all.

And "Wu Luxieer" was also unambiguous, and directly invested in his own Lancers to lead the battle, and also invested in several of the most elite infantry battalions!Trying to force the opponent back and buy himself time to set up the formation. As a result, the infantry and cavalry of both sides launched the most intense and bloody battle from the very beginning!

(End of this chapter)