North of Sanjiangkou Town, the sound of horse hooves and explosions on the battlefield were overshadowed by the sudden earth-shaking shouts.
Kang Mazi Fuquan, a high-quality imitation of Kang Mazi, had already started his battle. Just now, he had used 5,000 cavalry to defeat more than 1,000 Zhu Heji. Now he simply went on the field in person to supervise the battle. He also raised the remaining 5,000 infantrymen behind him, making it clear that they would all be sent forward.
At the same time, he also sent yellow mantles to convey orders to Zeng Yangxing, Zhao Desheng, Ma Weixing, Bai Xianwen, Wang Jin, Wang Jinggong, Liu Yan, and their immediate superior, Geng Zhaozhong, who were crossing the river slowly. .....Order them to attack Sanjiangkou Town immediately! There is no need to wait for all the troops to cross the Wuyang River before attacking, but to invest as many troops as they can across the river. The Ming army that crosses the river to fight must be blocked in Sanjiangkou Town at all costs!
The reason why Fu Quan issued such an order was because he had received a report from the horse scouts and many Ming troops had crossed the river!
Moreover, the Ming army that crossed the river did not stop in Sanjiangkou Town. They gathered a few hundred people (a battalion) to form a square formation and came to support the Ming army who were fighting the Eight Banners cavalry.
Although this is a tactic of adding more fuel, you can still win if you add more fuel!
There are only more than a thousand Ming troops crossing the river now, and they are already so difficult to fight. If there are another one or two thousand, the consequences will be disastrous!
The general soldiers under Geng Jingzhong who received the order were very active, and soon a loud drumbeat and shouting came from the west bank of Wuyang River.
"Kill the rebels, protect the Qing Dynasty, raise the flag..."
The cheers of Geng Jingzhong's old troops also reached the ears of Zhu Heji, who was leading a group of "Guards Grenadier Cavalry" to launch an attack.
He originally planned to lead his grenadier cavalry to follow up and drop bombs after the infantry led by the two fierce men Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zongjun repelled the first wave of the Eight Banners soldiers' offensive.
Unexpectedly, although these Eight Banners soldiers from "Beijing's Second Ring Road" were not very good at fighting, they still dared to risk their lives! With the strength of their numbers, Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zongjun were dragged into a hand-to-hand fight with at least hundreds of casualties!
Moreover, the group of traitors under Geng Jingzhong on the other side of Wuyang River started shouting again - it seemed that all the big traitors who led the troops had been won over by Kang Mazi.
Zhu Heji was a little anxious now!
And he didn't have any fake pockmarks. Fuquan led the team in yellow jackets to the battlefield. Because the battlefield was in chaos at this time, his attention was attracted by the fierce battle ahead.
There are thousands and hundreds of Ming army infantry carrying at least 5,008 banner soldiers. If they cannot withstand it, the situation will be dangerous.
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji said loudly to the left and right: "Hang the grenade hammer's fuse on the hook!"
As he spoke, he tore off the sealing paper at the end of the grenade hammer one by one, and carefully pulled out the zipper inside. The end of the zipper was tied into a tight knot, forming a loop. The cloth armor Zhu Heji wore (it was a thick cloth armor that could also be equipped with iron plates) had two copper hooks on the left and right. Zhu Heji carefully put the tail rings of the eight grenade hammers stuffed into the outer pockets of the armor into the hooks, and then used them to pinch the hooks and shape the hooks into a ring. In this way, when Zhu Heji throws thunder, he only needs to pick off a thunder and throw it directly, which is very convenient.
It's a pity that the number is still a little small, with few thunder and few cavalry.
"Let's go!" Zhu Heji shouted, raised his riding whip and pointed at the place where a fierce battle was breaking out, "Follow me!"
After saying that, he rode forward and quietly approached with a hundred or dozens of Chaozhou cavalry.
Although the number of these hundreds and dozens of Chaozhou cavalry is not large, their combat effectiveness is extraordinary. Because they are all riding Lusitano horses or mixed-blood Lusitano horses, which are the Portuguese brothers of the Andalusian horse.
The shoulder height of these horses is about five feet, which is more than half a foot taller than the horses ridden by the Eight Banners soldiers. Of course, they are also much stronger in physical strength, especially when sprinting over short distances, they are much faster than the Mongolian horses of the Eight Banners soldiers. valley
Unfortunately, the number was too small. Even though Zhu Heji paid a high price for the purchase, he only got three to four hundred horses. Among them, only a hundred or so were suitable for use as war horses. Now they have all been brought to Jiangxi by Zhu Heji.
These one hundred and dozens of horses, which looked particularly impressive, should have been very conspicuous, but at this time, the two warring parties on the battlefield were already close to killing each other.
Not only did thousands of Eight Banners cavalry appear in the north of Sanjiangkou Town, besieging more than a thousand Ming Army infantry, battle groups had also started here in Sanjiangkou Town.
The seven general soldiers under Geng Zhaozhong could not withstand the urging of "Kang Mazi" and Geng Zhaozhong, so they had to mobilize two to three thousand infantry and cavalry, carrying six general cannons, and drove to the northeast of Sanjiangkou Town. They did not dare to attack directly, but used six cannons to blast the town of Sanjiangkou, which actually "set the town on fire".
As for the Ming Army, Zhuge Zhengyang, the first town commander of the Ming Army, happened to board the dock of Sanjiangkou Town at this time, so he immediately took over the command.
Although he didn't have many troops at hand, he had twelve small-caliber mortars that could fire hammers.
So Zhuge Zhengyang asked the artillery to fire smoke-charged blooming hammers at the Qing army across the burning town. Then they sent death squads carrying grenades and hammers. Under the cover of fire and smoke, they sneaked in front of the Qing army and launched a wave of grenade hammer attacks. The explosion made several generals of the Geng family army feel ashamed, so they had to retreat to the Wuyang River to reorganize their troops.
The fighting here in Sanjiangkou Town has temporarily come to an end, but the fierce fighting in the north of Sanjiangkou Town has become more and more intense due to the arrival of reinforcements from both sides.
The Qing army came here with 5,000 Eight Banners infantry and ten cannons!
On the Ming army's side, two battalions of infantry and an artillery team equipped with small-caliber mortars came. In order to block the reinforcements, Fu Quan recruited two thousand Eight Banners infantrymen who had just arrived to engage in a gunfight with the Ming army. He also personally led the yellow jackets to suppress the formation - once these yellow jackets were "pressed", not only the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army Playing with their lives, they withstood the firepower of the Ming army's flower hammers and turtle-dove foot guns, and kept firing with shotguns. Even the two infantry battalions of the Ming army had no choice but to set up a large hollow square formation to "accompany" the Qing army in the fight.
After a while, the Qing army's ten cannons were deployed and began to bombard the hollow square formation composed of two Ming army infantry battalions with small-caliber solid bullets...
At this time, Zhu Heze quietly slipped behind Shu Shu, who was pressing down on Liu Jinzhong and Ling Zongjun's phalanx and attacking fiercely.
Shu Shu and his men were responsible for attacking the right wing of the Ming army's formation. He happened to have Fu Quan's yellow jacket and 2,080 Banner Infantry Armor behind him, so he never expected that an enemy would get in behind him... and He also sent dozens of mounted sentinels to watch the back and left side. But he never expected that his sentry cavalry would encounter the Chaozhou Grenadier Cavalry and be killed and dispersed without even being able to fight back.
After Zhu Heji dispersed a group of Eight Banners sentries, he immediately led the team to rush because he was worried that the latter would go back to report the news. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the back of Shu Shu's troops. He did not attack directly, but stayed close to them. The Eight Banners soldiers under Shu Shu ran parallel to each other from behind. While galloping on his horse, he threw a grenade hammer on the buttocks of the Eight Banners soldiers.
Now Shu Shu's Eight Banners soldiers were in dire straits, their butts were blown up with grenade hammers!
How painful it is! How can I bear it?
Moreover, they have been fighting hard with the Ming army in front for more than half an hour!
A group of "Eight Banners soldiers who clocked in to work within the Second Ring Road" could persist until now and still suffered so many casualties. They were already on the verge of collapse. Give it another "butt blow" and it will collapse immediately.
And these "Eight Banners Soldiers who clocked in" didn't know what they were thinking. They even collapsed, and they were still thinking about the emperor. So instead of running to the north to the Eight Banners infantry who were preparing to join the battle with the cavalry to attack the Ming army's formation, I ran to the side of the yellow jacket, shouting: "Your Majesty, help me..."
Zhu Heji had just completed a round of grenade hammer attacks at this time and had already turned a corner. When he was about to consider whether to blow up a group of Eight Banners infantry who seemed to be in a daze, he suddenly heard the Eight Banners who had just been bombed. The soldiers ran away crying.
These Eight Banners soldiers called "Emperor" in Manchurian. Zhu Heji couldn't understand it, but he still followed the direction in which these people fled and found a group of yellow mandarins and Emperor Kangxi's yellow dragon flag!
"Kang Mazi!" Zhu Heji was so excited that he almost exploded, "Where is Kang Mazi... follow me and catch Kang Mazi!"
