Dominate the Country

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"Boom boom boom... Boom boom boom..."

Chen Ming could clearly hear the roars. Thousands of horses trod on the ground. The sound of the horses galloping was really shocking.

"Order the cavalry battalion to prepare for battle."

Through the rising dust and smoke not far away, Chen Ming could clearly see the agile figures of the four or five hundred Qing cavalry. After suffering a big loss under Yancheng, the Guide Town cavalry, which suffered heavy losses, was merged into the Yunyang Town cavalry by Fode, and the number of troops was restored to four or five hundred.

The leader of this cavalry was Liu Yandong, the lieutenant general of the Yunyang Town Yunyang City Guard Camp.

Liu Yandong galloped in the middle of the team, with nearly five hundred cavalrymen following closely in front and behind him. This fighting force was formed by emptying all the mules and horses in Guide and Yunyang. Although the equipment was no different from that of ordinary Green Camp soldiers, Chen Ming was absolutely unwilling to experience the lethality of this unit with the power and speed of mules and horses. ,

"Ah...ah..." A series of screams suddenly came from the front army. Liu Yandong was startled and hurriedly shouted forward and asked: "What happened to the front army?"

As he asked, he heard several more screams.

"Sir, the enemy army has dug traps and horse pits in front, and General Wu Qian and several brothers are in them." A Qing army officer rode his horse to Liu Yandong and reported with a fist.

The warhorse galloped at an unimpeded speed. In a moment, Liu Yandong ran to the scene of the accident and saw his confidant Wu Youfu kneeling on the ground in dust and lovingly comforting a warhorse with a broken leg. Liu Yandong recognized that the warhorse lying on the ground was Wu Youfu's mount, a very ordinary, ordinary horse, without any extraordinary beauty. At this moment, his neck was broken and he was dying.

Turning his eyes to the front, he saw two large pits and more than a dozen small holes the size of a bowl on the flat surface, and bloody horse legs were left in some of the small holes.

"Damn bastard." Liu Yandong pointed at the gap where Chen Ming's troops were in the distance and cursed.

"Order, the cavalry will go around the edge to explore..." Liu Yandong did not hesitate and immediately issued the order. Originally, he wanted to lead four or five hundred cavalry to run a little, get close to scare the enemy, shock the Chen Ming troops on the opposite side, mobilize the artillery fire of the Chen family army, and then attack together when the infantry battalion in front launched a counterattack...

But now it seems that he can only change his mind. The thieves have controlled this area since yesterday afternoon. In one night, who knows how many pits they have dug on this land.

Liu Yandong always remembered what her mission was, which was to mobilize the attention of the Chen family's bandits and contain the bandits' cavalry, not to really stab the Chen family's army in the back. Therefore, slowing down is not a big deal. As for whether it can still cooperate with the offensive of the frontal forces, it depends on fate.

Ma Wenjie led the 3,000 green camp soldiers of Yunyang Town and the small 2,000 militia militia, pushing the cannons and coming aggressively. They relied on the two front-line stockades, and the rumbling sound of the artillery confrontation between the two sides resounded throughout the battlefield.

Chen Ming knew that the Qing army cavalry led by Liu Yandong had a greater role in containment, but he had to transfer the cavalry battalion to face the pressure of the Qing army cavalry. As for the artillery bombardment on the front battlefield, the Qing army did not launch an infantry attack at the same time as the bombardment. Obviously, the commander of the Qing army on the opposite side hoped to win more victories with cannons.

Chen Ming had at least 2,000 men on the front battlefield, not counting the cavalry camp. The camp of the Chen family army was behind the battlefield, and the Chen family army had been attacking for the past two days. Chen Ming used the tactics of artillery + infantry to remove three camps of the Qing army. Of course, this did not cause much actual damage to the Qing army, and the Qing army used the "turn back" tactics very skillfully.

Two days later, the Qing army actually built several solid military camps. These military camps with fences made of thigh-thick tree trunks outside and low walls one foot thick inside were not easily destroyed by the Chen family and artillery. However, the Chen family army, which had been on the offensive for the past two days, still had its own camp in the same state as two days ago.

The artillery battle lasted from morning until dusk, and the Qing army officially deployed the infantry for the attack.

"Order the musket battalion to push forward--" Chen Ming was not willing to avoid it at all. What was he afraid of? The Qing army on the opposite side dared to launch the first infantry attack only when it was dark. They were so timid and cautious. The generals leading the troops might be cautious, but didn't they still attach great importance to the Chen army?

The Qing army must be afraid of being defeated, so they chose to use troops at dusk. Even if the Chen army defeated them, they couldn't chase them and kill them, because it was getting dark, and there were more Qing troops in front of them.

"Ding ding ding..." In the whistle sound, with the musket battalion as the core, about 600 musketeers were neatly arranged in five rows. With the sharp whistle that was very penetrating on the battlefield, they marched forward in unison.

Opposite them, there were a full 1,500 Qing army musketeers, including not only the troops of Yunyang Town, but also some of the troops of Guide Town.

1,500 musketeers, also arranged in five rows, the width of 300 people was only one-third more than that of the Chen army. In order to pursue vitality and density, the Qing army even ignored the disadvantages of matchlock guns. The team's sequence density is much greater than that of Chen's army.

The artillery on both sides could only roar a few times. The bilateral artillery battle lasted for almost a day, and the firepower interval of the artillery on both sides had almost been "coordinated". At this moment, whether it was the artillery positions of the Qing army or the artillery positions of the Chen family army, the artillery on both sides were all rushing to cool down the artillery by pouring water.

Whether it was the artillery of the Qing army or the artillery of the Chen family army, it would take a sauna like this to fire eight or ten shots slowly. Idea, this still has to be slow. When it is really going all out, half a quarter of an hour, the artillery of the Chen family army, which is even better than the artillery of the Qing army, must stop for half a quarter of an hour to cool it down. As for how many shots the artillery of the Qing army needs for a major health care, only their own gunners know.

No matter how poor the accuracy of the artillery of this era is, it is still accurate to hit a large area of ​​infantry squares. Whether it was the Qing army or the Chen army, the musketeers on both sides had not yet exchanged fire, but they had already contributed several bloody roads under the enemy's artillery shells.

The Chen army was hit by three and a half cannons, one of which hit a corner, killing and injuring 23 soldiers. The Qing army was hit by five cannons, and Chen Ming didn't know the specific number of casualties. But he could see a faint commotion in the Qing army's formation through the telescope.

When the distance between the two sides was about a hundred steps, the Qing army opened fire first. One group of people stopped and fired, while the other group continued to move forward, and the rhythm was messed up, and the formation was also messed up.

Ma Wenjie's hand holding the telescope wanted to twist the copper monocular telescope into a twist, his mouth was tight, and his eyes were full of murderous intent. The performance of the Qing army's musketeers made him furious, and he wanted to draw his sword and chop people!

This group of useless things, look at the enemy army on the opposite side? They were just a bunch of thieves, but they were able to advance like a wall. On the contrary, they were soldiers, soldiers under the rule of the imperial court...