Compared with the Ming army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty who fought with the Mongol Yuan in a vigorous battle, the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be synonymous with a coward, losing battles and hitting walls everywhere. Even from the peasant army to the eight banners of Jiannu, they regarded the Ming army as a copy.

However, to be fair, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was actually higher than that of the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty. After all, more than two hundred years, technology was improving. The nine sides were replaced by full-time mercenaries, and the simple muskets and rockets were also replaced by bird guns imitating Western mesh guns and red barbarian cannons. The only sad thing is that this era no longer had the enterprising spirit of the early Ming Dynasty. The scholars and officials were greedy and ugly, and the emperor was suspected of being incompetent. They were a good Ming Divine Sword, which was covered in dust in their hands for nothing, and finally even fell into the hands of aliens.

Fortunately, in the early stage of the Battle of Songjin, the Ming army rarely did anything wrong. The imperial army that brought together the troops of Liao Town hugged each other under the command of Hong Chengchou, which eliminated the possibility of division of troops being defeated in the Battle of Sarhu. Moreover, Hong Chengchou was obviously more experienced than Zhang Chun, a military supervisor who blindly commanded the Battle of Dalinghe a few years ago. Even if he had heavy troops, he was not in a hurry to rescue the siege. Instead, he seemed like defense, and could not move a few miles a day. Every time he entered the army, he would build a carrot and a pit. The vanguard built a camp in advance, and the outer area was surrounded by heavy battlefields like the city wall. Then the army entered the cannons. The defense was rigorous and he wanted to really move the city wall.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou was like a later generation who studied financial management. He did not put eggs in a basket. On the front battlefield, he only placed about 30,000 soldiers from Wu Sangui. The eight generals were arranged like a pyramid. The distance between the 130,000 troops was more than twenty kilometers long. The last Datong general Wang Pu simply left Ningyuan City less than ten kilometers and protected the rear army's food route. The entire Ming army was like a spring, as if the Qing army fought and the Ming army retreated back to Ningyuan.

In short, Hong Chengchou showed it in just one word, cowardly!

But Hong Chengchou's cowardice is different from Liu Yuliang and others. He is aggressive in his timidity, but he also has a three-point attack with a seven-point defense, just like a stone thrown up and down, and he can be ruthless when he aims at the back of the Qing army at any time.

It doesn’t matter if Hong Chengchou is cowardly, Huang Taiji feels uncomfortable as he follows.

Although it was the Ming army who saved the city like putting out fires, Jinzhou had already started to lose food, the Qing army itself was the one who was really in a hurry.

God knows when Mao Jue came back from a trip to Japan, who knows if he would be happy to bring some souvenirs to Shengjing to see him. Although Huang Taiji was not fighting around Jinzhou City, his intention was to fight quickly and fight back. Like the last battle of Daling River, he quickly ate the reinforcements of Liaodong Town around Jinzhou City, and then led his troops south to capture Ningyuan Shanhaiguan.

Even Ningyuan and Jinzhou could not be defeated for a while. Twenty thousand troops arrived at Shanhaiguan, which was enough to resist the reinforcements in the Ming army. Five thousand troops were trapped in one city. If these two strong cities were trapped for a year, the stones would be trapped. During this period, Huang Taiji could comfortably bring his main force and a huge amount of spoils back to Shengjing to defend.

But when Hong Chengchou set up a snail formation, all Huang Taiji's strategic plans became empty, and he was in a dilemma. The 110,000 Qing troops were not allowed to retreat. Once he soaked mushrooms with the Ming army under Jinzhou City, the food consumed was exhausted. Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou would cooperate with Zu Dashou again. Zu Dashou delayed the Qing army, and Hong Chengchou came from the side. Even if his elite army of the Eight Banners would be defeated.

This time, Hong Chengchou was completely a snail. Jinzhou began to be surrounded in June. Emperor Chongzhen delayed for more than half a month to find the blame. Hong Chengchou gathered his troops and took another month and a half when the farthest Shaanxi soldiers arrived. He did not have Mao Jue's train. When he led his army from Jizhou to Ningyuan, it was already the end of September. In the early October, he marched from Ningyuan to Jinzhou. The Ming army walked for more than ten days on the 70-kilometer road. In the end, the Qing army was so eager that he could not wait and took the lead in responding.

The two armies confronted at the foot of the Kufeng Mountain in the south of Jinzhou City.

On October 17th, under the vast snow, Hong Chengchou led several generals to the camp in person and began to investigate with a telescope.

It has to be said that the time, place and people are harmonious, and the Qing army occupied a small half. At this time, the weather was already cold. Not to mention that Dongkai was originally more resistant to freezing than the Ming army. Next to Dongjiang, a large market for cheap industrial products, the Qing people's clothes were thicker than those of the border guards of the Ming Empire.

In terms of geographical advantages, the Qing army controlled the battlefield. The only way to Jinzhou from Rufeng Mountain was stationed on the mountain peak and on the road on the right side of the road. On the mountain peak in front of the left were heavy troops led by Tong Yangzheng, mainly composed of the Eight Banners of Han, and on the plain on the right were Dorgon's elite infantry cavalry. The two armies together had 20,000 people, slightly less than the Ningyuan soldiers who were Hong Chengchou as the vanguard.

Not to mention the difference in combat power, the advantage of this advantage of geographical advantage is enough to offset the gap in military strength!

Fortunately, the two armies were similar to each other. Needless to say, the Ming army, who had just left the pass, was also very strong.

Hong Chengchou was frowning when he saw this scene.

The attack delayed for more than a day, and it was not until noon the next day that Yang Guozhu, the general under Lu Xiangsheng, led more than 10,000 troops from Shanxi, and the first round of confrontation between the two sides officially began.

This time it has a bit of a cross-eracial significance for the Ming and Qing dynasties. The first to set up the stance was that both sides were cannons. Except for Mao Jue, the monster, this was the first large-scale artillery battle in the Ming and Qing dynasties in this era.

The heavy car camp was blocking the outside, and the Hong Bing pulled eight red barbarian cannons, and more than thirty generals. The second general cannon spit out flames at the Rifeng Mountain two miles away. Seven or eight taels of lead rubbed in the air and made a sharp and sharp sound, and it was shot hard on the mountain. The heavy guy dug out blood marks in the Eight Banners heavy camp like a plow.

However, the Qing army was not polite. It was not as good as Mao Jue, the nouveau riche, and had a small advantage over Liao Town. There were more than twenty red cannons, and they were bombarded from the mountain, which was also very lively.

The bombardment suddenly, imitating Qi Jiguang's side van, the heavy border chariot broke the axle, half of the wheel collapsed, and the bouncing wood chips knocked the Ming army everywhere on the car. Another artillery shell was smashed over, and another three-eyed gun soldier trembled suddenly, and the big hole was blown out of his body.

Standing for more than a hundred meters, the minced meat could even collapse to Hong Chengchou. However, this black-faced butcher, the cruel man who sold tobacco to pass the imperial examination without blinking his eyes. He was still staring at the mountain with a telescope. In his sight, the Qing army on the mountain was also a little embarrassed by the bombing. The war horses fell down screaming and the broken legs were sprayed with blood. The Qing army in thick armor could not resist the attack of lead and also vomited blood and died.

However, in this era, it is really unrealistic to decide the outcome by relying on artillery battles. The two sides did not add more than one hundred cannons. It was not as good as Mao Jue's shrapnel during the Civil War. It was just a shot put. If you were lucky, you could only get a shot and kill. One shot in four or five minutes could kill two or three people.

The artillery battle was in the evening and rested for a night. The next day, and the battle was fought again until noon. The two armies suffered only a few dozen casualties, and it was almost less than a hundred. The war was in the afternoon, and in the end, the Qing army could not hold back.

The earth suddenly trembled, and tens of thousands of horses trampled hard on their hooves even between two or three miles. A stream of smoke and dust suddenly emerged from the northeast like an old demon in Black Mountain. White evil dragons with fangs and claws appeared and disappeared in the smoke and dust.

The Dorgon cavalry still attacked.

Listening to the strange roar, the Ming army at the front line all showed a panic expression, but Hong Chengchou, who was watching the battle behind, finally showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The personal soldiers are in charge! The bird gunners come out to fight!"

"Abide by the order!"

Amid the roars of each general, the typical Ming army triassic formation was fully displayed by Hong Chengchou.

It was similar to when Qi Jiguang was in charge of Ji Liao. The musketeers were always walking together in battle. One was carrying a bird gun and the other was guarding him. Qi Jiguang's rules, those who were fired randomly before the enemy reached the range, the musketeers' ears were cut off by the knife hand, and after returning to the barracks, the earless ones were beheaded!

With a few ear-cutting screams, facing the overwhelming Eight Banners Cavalry, the soldiers of Jizhou Town could not withstand the psychological pressure and fired the gun first. Influenced by them, more than a thousand musketeers also fired fires a few seconds in advance. The effect of the bird gun strike was very average. Within a range of more than 100 meters, there were only a few Qing troops who fell down, which did not affect the rush at all.

As he shouted in panic, Bird Gun turned around and ran back to the chariot formation, but then some Ming troops holding a long-handled and weird hammer came out again. An officer with three beards and a large Northeast slap smell roared heart-wrenchingly.

"Three-eyed gun!"

The crackling sound of beans exploded, the effect of this strike was much stronger than the previous one. After all, the enemy cavalry had already run into a distance of more than fifty meters. The three-eyed guns of three-eyed guns were densely fired a row of bullets. The Qing army, who were preparing to shoot with bows and arrows, were swept down by more than 30.

The howling rain of arrows became dense, and the Ming army did not get what they wanted. More than a dozen three-eyed guns running back in panic were shot to death.

However, when the ferocious Qing army rushed to the front of Hong Chengchou's camp, the attack ended here!

In front of Hong Chengchou's army, there were heavy side vans. One side of the car was a large piece. The shooting wall built with thick wooden boards was almost impossible to overturn the cavalry hit this thing. It was so imposing that it reached the last ten meters. The running Zhengbai Banner had to slow down.

Some Qing army stopped on the spot, pulled the bow and shot the girl at the back of the side van, and some ran to the twisting and crooked the wooden board with the knife and spear. In the past, the light chariots used by the Ming army were really easy to open up a bloody road.

At this time, the Ming army was no longer vague. The muskets hiding behind the carriage were blocking them and became more courageous. They lit the fuse and sent out a long bird gun along the shooting port. They blasted towards Zhengbaiqi's head at close range. Once again, there were smoke everywhere in front of the Ming army's formation. With the crackling sound, dozens of cavalry were knocked off the horse.

The spearmen who had already crouched behind the carriage also emerged. Some Qing soldiers angrily chopped the carriage and stabbed it out of the side carriage. With a click, there was a transparent hole in the body of the unprepared Qing people, and they were stabbed off the horse with a scream.

There were more than a dozen spears guarding the gap. The Qing army had just pushed it over, but it was immediately pushed back by a dense hedgehog-like gun array.

With a firm foothold, the Ming army's strengths were fully demonstrated. For a moment, the brave Zhengbai Banner was killed in panic.

Finally realizing something was wrong. Seeing his subordinates holding sabers angrily following more than a dozen spears poked out from the side vans, Dorgon, who was anxious, finally took out his horns and blew a whistling horn. He was really well-trained and howling Zhengbai Banner cavalry went straight to beat the horse and fled back neatly.

However, around Hong Chengchou, a handsome and healthy young general who was only in his twenties, showed a bloodthirsty smile on his face.

Watching the back of Zhengbaiqi's head exposed, the man drew his sword and roared bravely.
Chapter completed!