Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 336 What kind of army is this, Chen Jinnan, can you fight? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

At the foot of the Chashan Mountain in the north of Anji City, there is a relatively open flat land. On the third day of March in the third year of the Ming Dynasty, it became the battlefield for the decisive battle between the Ming and Dajing armies.

In the southern part of the battlefield, in the center of several phalanxes of the Dajing Army, one after another, the lookout carts erected lookouts.Since the Chashan highlands were occupied by the Ming army, the Dajing army could only form a large hollow square formation of [-] people on the lowland plain seven or eight miles south of Chashan.Because it is in a low ground, the main generals of each formation need to use the telescopic cart to observe the opponent's formation and movement.

The banner with the word "Jing" and a cyan dragon flag, Geng Jingzhong held a beautifully crafted binoculars and scanned the Ming army's lines.

The number of the Ming army does not seem to be large, only about 1 people, but they have launched a front that is several miles long.

Under the constant sounding of drums and suonas, accompanied by the sound of orderly footsteps, Ming army infantry in red robes and red scarves are entering the battlefield continuously from the tea mountain where they camped, and then changed from a column to a thin line. Three rows of horizontal formations or small hollow phalanxes cover the entire front line, but what's the use of such a thin formation?If it was attacked by cavalry, wouldn't it be scattered as soon as it charged?

Geng Jingzhong, who felt a little strange, stared at it carefully with his right eye again. In the lens of the binoculars, the infantry of the Ming army was neatly lined up and striding vigorously. The few black numbers on the top seem to be a bit of a rabble.

Geng Jingzhong, who was not sure whether his opponent was an elite or a mob, decided to take a closer look - for him, this battle was a battle between the rise and fall of the empire, and there was no room for mistakes.Otherwise, he, the Dongxing Emperor, might want to kill Emperor Gao, the founding ancestor of the country, and the last emperor of the subjugated country together!
He took a closer look and found something was wrong again!

The equipment of this Ming army is very wrong. First of all, all the officers and soldiers of the Ming army did not wear armor, and the armor rate is zero!Without even armor, this army should be a mob, right?

Second, they all carry guns!Oh, it’s not wrong to carry guns on the battlefield, but the problem is that these Ming soldiers all carry flintlock guns, no long guns, no swords, and it seems that there are no cavalry.On the contrary, more than a dozen small bronze cannons horse-drawn were drilled out of the small forest at the foot of the tea mountain, and placed in front of the first row of three rows of the Ming army.

When the small bronze cannons were pushed to the front of the Ming army's infantry line and deployed, the Ming army's large formation was considered ready.This is a simple large formation consisting of two thin horizontal formations at the front and rear and several small square hollow square formations. They were all equipped with bayonets, forming neat rows of steel jungles together.

Under the sunshine of spring, on the front of the Ming army, the neat bright red and the dazzling reflection of bayonets conveyed a strong visual impact. This momentum did not look like a mob!Even a few miles away, the murderous aura they exuded was still rushing towards their faces, which not only shocked Geng Jingzhong, but also made Yue Le feel quite bad.

Riding on a war horse, Yue Le, who was standing next to Geng Jingzhong's telescoping chariot, had experienced hundreds of battles. Just by looking at it, one could tell that the Ming army's momentum was three or four times larger than theirs. He is above the Jing army, and he is also puzzled, but looking at their equipment, it is too good. Could it be that they are all Chinese recruits who have just completed the queue training, and they have not had time to master spears and knives, nor do they have enough armor? Available, but at the same time, Chen Yonghua and Lu Sanhao happened to have a lot of flintlocks in their hands, so they built an army of infantry carrying flintlocks?

Yue Le suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart, and the firm will tempered by defeat and battle suppressed his uneasiness again. He raised his head and glanced at Geng Jingzhong who was standing in Wangdou. And now that he has been driven to this position, is it possible that he can withdraw in despair?If he really withdrew, then Liu Jinzhong, who was sitting on the sidelines watching success or failure, would definitely jump up and bite like a loyal dog of Ming Dynasty!
In addition, where is Zhejiang Province?
At least half of the reformers are from Zhejiang!
And because the literati in Zhejiang liked to go to Nanjing during the Ming Dynasty, and when the last Ming Dynasty was about to end, there were still many Zhejiang gentry who helped the unsatisfactory Nanming courts fight against the heavenly soldiers. In the end, when Nanming was over, they would not die. Xin, still dreaming of anti-Qing and restoring Ming Dynasty, but my fucking dream has come true!Therefore, many Zhejiang gentry regarded themselves as Ming Dynasty people after Prince Zhu returned to Nanjing, which was loyal to him!When the Nanjing Republic court sold out the identities of nationals and national scholars earlier, many Zhejiang people bought it.
Geng Jingzhong's foundation in Zhejiang was weak, and he didn't dare to risk his life to suppress the Ming people and scholars in Zhejiang, so he could only keep his eyes closed and deal with it temporarily.If he fled back to Zhejiang in desperation again, those Zhejiang people and national scholars would probably rise up and fight for a republic!
"Guo Zhang, what do you think of the Ming army on the opposite side?" Geng Jingzhong asked for advice at this time, "They shouldn't be the elite of the Ming army, right?"

"The elite is definitely not the elite," Yue Le pondered for a while, and then said, "The whole army has no armor, and it seems that there are no cavalry to cover the wings, so it doesn't look like an elite."

Geng Jingzhong patted the railing of Wangdou and said with a smile: "I think so too. Although the troops of the Ming army are well lined up, their equipment is too poor. They don't even have armor, they don't even have spears, and they don't even have cavalry. Herald, do you think we should send cavalry to charge first?"

Yue Le quickly shook his head and said: "Don't rush to attack, and then see if there is an ambush on the tea mountain."

He really thinks so!

Because in his opinion, the Ming army musketeers on the opposite side seem to be quite imposing, but they have no cavalry, no pikemen, no sword players, there is no way to form coordination, and they have no armor, and they are capable of close combat almost none.

Such an army could not withstand the cavalry attack at all, only a fool would arrange troops like this.Although that Chen Yonghua didn't have much actual combat experience, he was definitely not stupid.

So there is a high probability of fraud!

Geng Jingzhong nodded, looked at the low tea mountain behind the Ming army formation, and said to himself: "If that Chen Yonghua really doesn't know how to fight, then this underdog in front of him should be his bait!"

As soon as he said this, a few bright red flags suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the tea mountain, and at the same time there was a burst of rhythmic drums. An extremely passionate rhythm.

Then, those Ming soldiers who had already lined up actually started singing!

"Get up, Guishou who has been humiliated! Get up, slaves who are hungry and cold in the world! Full of enthusiasm, fight to the death. The old home and country have long been destroyed, and the new world is waiting for us to create. Don't tell me that we are worthless, from now on Let the world be united."

This is the latest version of "Song of Datong", which is the meeting song of Tiandihui and the military song of the new army of Ming Dynasty.Although the lyrics have been changed a bit, the melody is still the same, which is called a magnificent wave.Tens of thousands of people sang "Song of Great Harmony" together with military drums, and morale soared immediately.As for the tens of thousands of Jing troops on the opposite side, they obviously had a lot more people and their equipment looked a lot better, but they were all a little frightened all of a sudden.

At the moment, besides Chen Yonghua, who was given the nickname "Jinnan" by Li Zhongshan, there is also the general Li Zhongshan himself on the tea mountain.

After Li Zhongshan learned that Geng Jingzhong had sent troops to Anji, he rushed to Guangde Prefecture where Chen Yonghua stationed troops, and then he and Chen Yonghua took the model town trained by the Nanjing Jiangwu Hall to Chashan to seek peace with Geng Jingzhong. decisive battle.

And this model town is a new type of army established by Li Zhongshan according to the western line of the army in the infantry era, and the instructors of the Jiangwu Hall. There is only such a town in total. The head of the hall, Li Zhongxian.

This model town, together with the two newly formed Guoren towns brought by Chang Wei from Huaidong, combined into the Second Army of the Ming Army. Chen Yonghua himself served as the admiral of the army and was stationed in Guangde Mansion, preparing to face Geng Jingzhong or join the No. Liu Jinzhong, the admiral of the three armies, attacked Hangzhou together.

In addition to the two roads of Guangdefu and Huzhou, Li Zhongshan also led the army's first town expanded from the Shanziying and two Huaixi people's towns transferred from Anhui to form the first army, stationed in Ningguo Mansion, ready to launch an attack from Ningguo Mansion to Zhejiang, or to meet Geng Jingzhong's army at Ningguo Mansion.

In addition, Lu Sanhao was also appointed as the admiral of the Fourth Army, leading the army's second town reorganized by Ying Tian Tuanlian, plus two Guoren towns that also came from Anhui, and stationed in Huizhou. The mission was the same as Chen Yonghua's.Prepare to face Geng Jingzhong or join Li Zhongshan's troops to copy Geng Jingzhong's lair Jiande!

In other words, Li Zhongshan, Lu Sanhao, Chen Yonghua, Liu Jinzhong, and Zheng Jing, who were left in Nanjing to sit in town, mobilized a total of 12 troops and divided them into four groups in order to quickly deal with the scourge of Geng Jingzhong!
If Geng Jingzhong hadn't been fooled and hadn't delivered the goods to the door himself, then the four armies would have invaded Zhejiang soon!
The reason why Li Zhongshan wants to divide and use the superior force in his hands is actually because he is not sure where Geng Jingzhong will send troops. Until his alternate sworn brother (already agreed to be a brother) Liu Jinzhong sent someone to Ningguo Xingyuan, the general of the government, reported that Geng Jingzhong was going north to approach Nanjing via Anji and Guangdezhou.

And Liu Jinzhong's report is of course credible - he is the founding shareholder of Xin Daming, and he exists at the same level as Li Zhongshan, Li Fuchen, Li Laishun, Zheng Jing, Lu Sanhao, and Chen Yonghua.Properly one of the Seven Members of the Ming Dynasty!
According to the current situation, this seven-member group is likely to develop into seven top-level families in the future!
With such a bright future, what reason does Liu Jinzhong not follow Daming to the end?

Besides, even if Wu Sangui recruited Geng Jingzhong and Kangxi could gather an army of one million, Daming would not be afraid of them. Isn't it just an army of one million!Now there are more than 100 million national scholars, Chinese nationals, and alternate Chinese nationals in Daming!
Moreover, at least half of the more than 100 million nationals and candidates are concentrated in Jiangsu and Anhui, so the Ming Dynasty's mobilization and organization capabilities in Jiangsu and Anhui are very strong.

In addition, Li Zicheng and Li Laishun also have many supporters in Hubei, and it is not so easy for Wu Sangui to beat them to death!
This Wu Sangui is out of date!
The current Republic of Ming Dynasty is a country that he can't understand at all.

Its ability to mobilize the country's war potential is completely beyond Wu Sangui's imagination. This is not only about recruiting people to serve as soldiers, but also mobilizing finance and military industry!

During this period of time, the General's Mansion has raised as much as [-] million taels of military expenditure by selling the identities of national scholars and nationals and selling national debts!

This is the "special military expenditure" without additional levies and allocations, and without even taking into account the normal commercial and agricultural taxes!
So Wu Sangui felt that he had hundreds of thousands of troops, and it was absolutely impossible for him to lose.And Liu Jinzhong also felt that Daming had millions of people and tens of millions of military expenditures, and there were two military industrial bases in Foshan and Zhangzhou, so it was also impossible to lose.

Because of Liu Jinzhong's "betrayal" again, the four-way army on Daming's side is now all mobilized!

Lu Sanhao and Zhou Chang, the commander of the first army, commanded the two armies to attack Geng Jingzhong's old nest, Jiande. After the attack, they would immediately attack Quzhou and Jinhua, then Taizhou, Chuzhou, and finally Wenzhou—these two Lu can almost win half of Zhejiang.

After Li Zhongshan arrived in Guangde with Yao Qisheng's Pegasus, he immediately came up with a strategy of encircling Geng Jingzhong's tens of thousands of troops with 6 people!Now Chang Wei and Liu Jinzhong are leading troops to penetrate An Ji's back.He himself and Chen Yonghua set up formations in Chashan, waiting for Geng Jingzhong to come to die—he really did come, and he came out in full force!

Li Zhongshan was watching the formation while singing "Song of Great Harmony".

Geng Jingzhong's Dajing army formation is also quite spectacular, densely packed with black armor, and the armor is all green (Dajing is Mu De Shangqing), and there are five large hollow phalanxes laid out one word at a time.

These five phalanxes are all a bit thin-skinned and stuffed - there are a lot of infantry and cavalry hidden inside the phalanx.

In addition, in front of each phalanx, there are some cavalry from the Jing army. At first glance, they are old soldiers who bully the Ming army without cavalry, so they frequently ran to the front of the Ming army at the foot of the tea mountain to continue provoking.

Li Zhongshan said to Chen Yonghua who was beside him: "Geng Jingzhong's banner is in the square in the middle, why don't we concentrate our forces to attack it? As long as Geng Jingzhong is defeated, most of the other Jing troops will disintegrate. At that time, we will have a big fight." Total victory."

Li Zhongshan then pointed to Geng Jingzhong's left wing again, and said to Chen Yonghua: "Geng Jingzhong's left wing is Zeng Yangxing, Fufu, you and him are old acquaintances, right? You take three battalions and six cannons to feign an attack, and wait until Geng Jingzhong's reserve team has been dispatched to the left, and I will lead the remaining troops to break his central army!"

Chen Yonghua was a little confused by Li Zhongshan's words: "Shikai, they have several times more people than us! Is it so easy to defeat?"

"It should be possible." Li Zhongshan was actually not too sure.After all, there were so many opponents, and he hadn't seriously learned the tactics of line infantry.

"Should?" Chen Yonghua frowned, "Is it okay?"

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "Fufu, don't worry, after today's battle is over, no one will say that you, Chen Jinnan, can't fight anymore!"

"Would you know how to fight?" Chen Yonghua frowned again, "If I don't know how to fight, I can actually fight. I even defeated Wu Sangui's brother Wu Sanwei in Wenzhou!"

Li Zhongshan laughed and said: "That's no problem! Fufu, let's send troops, this general will personally beat drums and cheer for you!"

With the sound of drums and the guidance of the bright red military flag, more than 2000 Ming army infantry formed eight team-level square formations, covering six artillery groups, walked out of the large formation at the foot of Chashan, and began to attack Geng Jingzhong's left flank. Advance!

And Chen Yonghua himself, under the escort of dozens of personal guard cavalry and messengers, walked behind the eight team-level phalanxes.

In addition, these eight team-level phalanxes separated out a small number of skirmishers armed with rifled guns, dispersed their formation, and walked in front of the phalanx.

These skirmishers are good players with rifled guns and are responsible for repelling harassing enemy cavalry.

Seeing that Chen Yonghua personally commanded more than 2000 people to attack the Zeng Yangxing Department, which had more than [-] elite soldiers, Geng Jingzhong almost dropped his jaw. The risk of the enemy's cavalry breaking up, through a large open area, launched an attack on the superior enemy.

This is simply courting death!

This Chen Jinnan is indeed a scholar who can't fight!
"boom blah blah"

While Geng Jingzhong was still surprised, the stragglers of the Ming army had already opened fire on the light cavalry of the Jing army who approached them and wanted to harvest their heads!In-line flintlock rifles for miniature rounds and all veterans with good marksmanship!
Although the gunshots were sparse, the shots were "surprisingly accurate". In a blink of an eye, seventeen or eight Jingjun light cavalry were shot off their horses by the sharpshooters.

And the distance of the shooting and the accuracy of the marksmanship are simply unbelievable!
"Sure enough, twice!"

Geng Jingzhong took a deep breath, turned his head to Yue Le and said, "Patriarch, how do you think this is going to be fought? Are they going to have a fight with Zeng Yangxing, or send cavalry to charge one?"

"Send cavalry to charge!" Yue Le said with a confident smile, "Your Majesty, I will go in person!"

"Okay!" Geng Jingzhong immediately took out a command talisman and threw it to Yue Le who was under the watchtower, "Guo Zhang, now all the cavalry are at your command, you can fight as you want .As long as you can defeat Chen Yonghua."

"Yes!"

Yue Le took the token, agreed, and galloped to the formations to gather the cavalry!

At the same time, those Qingqi who harassed the Ming army before did not dare to approach the Ming army because they could not bear the loss of being "targeted" by rifled guns.

Without the harassment, the marching speed of the more than 2000 fusiliers of the Ming army increased significantly. In a blink of an eye, they had already approached less than [-] paces from the left wing of the Jing army, and began to deploy artillery.

At the same time, they were within the firing range of Jingjun's artillery!

As a result, the bombardment from both sides began quickly. As the artillery roared, the howling shells flew back and forth over the battlefield like this
(End of this chapter)