The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 633 Building an Array
At this time, their forward had just arrived at the Beiyang waterway, and there were still a large number of soldiers and horses who had not yet arrived. At the northern end of the Beiyang waterway was Qingshuibo, and the passage between Qingshuibo and the east coast was the only way they had to pass.

Originally, the Nushui River on the west side of the Beiyang Waterway was already frozen, but the Beiyang Waterway is an official post-transmission waterway, and there is no ice, and even if it is frozen, the ice layer is not thick enough to pass through the army, not to mention that they carry a large number of Cart of belongings.

Therefore, the road blocked by the Ding Yi Department of the Ming Army became their only passage.

When everyone heard it, is this going to be called?Someone screamed.

"If you don't fight, why go around? The Ming army followed suit, how do you get through?" You said humanely.

If you don't fight, you have to go west. It takes dozens of miles to go back and forth from Linzi, but the Ming army can wait for work and find a place to block in the north.

In the current situation, there is no other way but to fight hard and kill him.

Unless they don't want more than 2000 carts of wealth and 31 livestock behind them, then the whole army can ride horses, and with the advantage of cavalry, Ding Yi can be thrown off.

But Kong Youde's artillery battalion will definitely stay again.

So this is impossible, the only way is to fight.

Based on their experience with Ding Yi, it is best not to fight on the battlefield Ding Yi chose, but right now Beiyang Waterway is just such a ferry, and there is no choice.

Just as Dorgon began to concentrate his troops, Xu Fuzuo and Wang Weizhong on the opposite side were also rectifying their troops.

"Nunniang, I heard that there are 6 to [-] people on the other side." Xu Fuzuo looked at the other side in horror.

If it wasn't for Wang Weizhong and Ding Yi's troops who went with him this time, Xu Fuzuo would have brought his troops back to Dengzhou directly, and he came to fight Jiannu because of his mental illness.

But now that he came, he regretted it a little, because he heard that there were too many Qing soldiers, five to sixty thousand.

"No matter how many they have, we have to defend them. Master Ding is rushing over with his troops. When the time comes, it will be a great achievement." Wang Weizhong boasted to his death first.

He used to be a very honest person, but after following Ding Yi for a long time, he was not honest anymore.

In fact, he was jealous of the thousands of carts of wealth and supplies of the Qing soldiers.

But he couldn't say that, he only said that he wanted to be a slave.

"How many soldiers and horses does Brother Ding have?" Xu Fuzuo asked quickly.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are less, and I'm afraid it's useless.

"It's estimated to be five to sixty thousand." Wang Weizhong said in a panic without blinking.

Xu Fuzuo's eyes lit up and his expression became excited.

If you want other soldiers to tell him that there are [-] to [-] soldiers, he slaps them directly, but Ding Yi said that there are [-] to [-], he absolutely believes it, and believes that they are all elite soldiers.

Think about how Ding Yi used to win battles with thousands of soldiers and horses, but now that he has [-] to [-] soldiers, he is still not as good as flying to the sky.

"Okay, okay, okay, it's my good brother. If you want to wrap Dorgon's dumplings here, it will be so cool." Xu Fuzuo was overjoyed.

But suddenly his face changed slightly: "No way."

"What's wrong?" Wang Weizhong said.

"If I were Dorgon, divide up [-] troops to block Brother Ding's reinforcements first, and then gather troops to destroy us. I'm afraid we won't be able to stop them."

This Xu Fuzuo is actually a man who knows how to use soldiers, and he knows that he can fight like this.

Wang Weizhong thought, of course I know, but as soon as Lord Ding's troops arrived, Dorgon probably didn't want to fight, and would just leave at a faster pace.

After all, it must be in the territory of Ming Dynasty, and Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have a psychological advantage over him. If Dorgon sees Ding Yi's large number of soldiers and horses coming, there is a high possibility that he will not fight and choose to leave.

Of course, it is also possible, as Xu Fuzuo said, to send an army to block them first, and then destroy them.

But no matter what, he and Xu will face the mad attack of the Qing soldiers.

"So we have to guard well, Mr. Xu, let's start." Wang Weizhong smiled.

"..." Xu Fuzuo wanted to retreat at this moment, but he couldn't say it.

If it was another Ming army, Xu Fuzuo would have ignored him, turned around and left with his troops, but this is Brother Ding's troops.

"Forget it, after 30 years, he will be a hero again." Xu Fuzuo gritted his teeth and decided to stay.

After Xu Fuzuo said this sentence, he heard a lot of noise behind him. Looking back, Wang Weizhong's soldiers and horses were already building a position.

"How to fight?" Xu Fuzuo asked.

Wang Weizhong said solemnly: "They must cross the river, this is the only way to go."

"We will use artillery and firecrackers to teach them a lesson, but artillery and firecrackers always have to rest and fail to fire. At this time, I want Xu Zongbing and your troops to rush up and beat them down." Back to the other side."

"Okay, no problem." Xu Fu played.

Wang Weizhong was willing to fight with Xu Fuzuo because Xu had been stationed near Dengzhou for the past few years, and his troops were trained by Ding Yi's men.

Therefore, it is considered to be relatively strong in combat power. If it was replaced by other Ming troops, Wang Weizhong would not dare to be with them.

Xu Fuzuo's soldiers and horses were not only trained by Ding Yi, but also sold a large number of bird guns to him. Although they are not as good as Lumi guns, they are definitely stronger than other Ming armies. It can be said to be a low-profile version of the Dongjiang Army.

At this time, Wang Weizhong had a total of over [-] soldiers and horses, and Xu Fuzuo also knew himself, so he let Wang Weizhong command the whole army.

Wang Weizhong brought a total of 36 6-pound guns and 4 12-pound guns, all of which were placed east of Qingshuibo.

Qingshuibo is a large lake with two tributaries to the south, one is the Beiyang Waterway and the other is the Zinu River. One river leads to Qingzhou and the other leads to Linzi.

These two rivers are tens of miles long, and the Qing soldiers managed to get to the vicinity of Qingshuibo. Now it is impossible to turn around the Beiyang waterway and go to Qingzhou and then to Linzi. It would take a lot of backtracking.

And they brought a large number of people, animals and carriages.

The key point is that Ding Yi may be chasing after them, and it is easier for them to meet Ding Yi when they go south and turn back.

And the only way to the north is to the east of Qingshuibo.

This side is less than five miles away from the sea, and Wang Weizhong's troops are blocking the east of Qingshuibo.

Wang Weizhong has Laizhou Bay on his left, and Qingshuibo on his right. There are rivers and seas on both sides. Don't defend yourself, just guard the front.

The Lushun soldiers who have fought against Ding Yi for a long time are very good at choosing battlefields. In Ding Yi's words, if there is a river, use the river; if there is a sea, use the sea; if there is no river or sea, use the forest. No, you can only use your own cart.

As long as there is something to use, the defensive surface can be reduced.

If they were in the wild, their six thousand soldiers and horses would defend in all directions, and fewer soldiers and horses would be used on each side.

Now Wang Weizhong does not need to defend the left, right, and rear. All [-] soldiers and horses can be used for frontal defense.

This is the advantage of choosing the terrain first, and it is the method of selecting the formation that he learned from Ding Yi.

At this time, Wang Weizhong was constantly ordering and arranging troops, and Xu Fuzuo's people were also being mobilized.

Xu Fuzuo rode on a horse, watched and studied from the side, and his heart was deeply touched.

When Ding Yi first arrived in Lushun, he was a general, and Wang Weizhong was still a small general, and he didn't even have a chance to talk to him. Now, everyone can command him.

But he has fought so many victories with Ding Yi, no matter his experience or ability, he is better than him.

Now choose a place at will, as long as you face the enemy on one side, it doesn't matter if you refuse to accept it.

He saw that Wang Weizhong lined up all the carts first, and put them all on the front line. Wang Weizhong brought sixty carts, and there would be a gap between each cart. On the front line, the four 12-pound guns are 50 meters behind.

In this way, he used carts and artillery to pull up a line of defense more than 400 meters long.

In this way, the easternmost side is less than four miles away from the sea, and there are many slopes and unevenness. This ensures that the Qing cavalry can only charge within 300 meters, but the infantry can come around from more than 400 meters away.

Among Xu Fu's [-] troops, [-] were soldiers with swords, guns and shields, all of which were placed on the east side by Wang Weizhong to prevent Qing infantry from bypassing from the east.

Xu Fuzuo himself will go to the east side to supervise the battle with [-] cavalry.

He also has about a thousand bird gun soldiers following Ding Yi's gun soldiers.

All his bird guns were specially made by Ding Yi, and the quality was much better than that of the Ming army, but the range and power were not as good as those of the Lumi gun.

Wang Weizhong himself has 400 blunderbusses, and with his [-], that is [-] blunderbusses arranged on a defense line of more than [-] meters.

Wang Weizhong's entire army is equipped with Lumi blunderbuss, one person per meter, about 400 people in a row, a total of five rows, and the remaining hundreds are placed in the east.

Wang Weizhong also had [-] spear shield soldiers standing between them in two rows, and they could help block the arrows when shooting from the opposite side.

The rest of the artillery was at the end.

At this time, the gun and shield soldiers were busy recording. Xu Fuzuo saw many of them take out steel rods from their bodies, nail them to the ground with shovels, and then pull them up with ropes to form something like a horse rope. It is relatively short here, and every two steel rods are pulled by a rope, and the distance is about 20 meters.

30 meters behind the Ming army, there are everywhere, one by one.

It turned out that Wang Weizhong wanted to dig a hole. First, there was too little time, and second, the ground was too hard in winter, so he had to pull up the mixing rope first.

Each of his spear and shield soldiers carried three steel rods to fix their shields. Nearly two thousand steel rods were nailed to the ground to form a densely packed horse rope.

After a while, Qingqi broke through their car formation, and then rushed back, and it took a while to rush through the horseshoes.

Behind these horse ropes, about 50 meters away, the Ming army took down a lot of food, clothes, quilts and tents that were originally on the carts, and piled them up. Someone went to the back to cut trees and piled up a second row. The defense line is more than 400 meters long.

Once you can't keep the first one, go back to the second one.

Wang Weizhong also brought a large amount of kerosene. Xu Fuzuo found that he asked people to put kerosene on the second line of defense. The second one was burned, and it was used to stop Qingqi.

Sure enough, his team of 500 soldiers was arranged by Wang Weizhong to cut branches in the jungle more than 100 meters behind him, and he asked them to pile them up in the second one.

The second line of defense was longer, the first line was only over 400 meters long, and the second line was over 600 meters long, almost blocking the entire east side.

At this time, Wang Weizhong went to the artillery and said loudly: "When the fight starts, the cannon of the Qing soldiers must be fired first, and the opposite cannon must be bombarded first. If there is no order, no cavalry is allowed. In addition, there must be ten soldiers. Keep the cannon."

(End of this chapter)