The Ming army's cavalry rushed to the edge of the Qing army's tent without any effective resistance. When they saw Deng Ming and others coming over, most of the Qing soldiers who had just got out of the tent were at a loss. The fastest-reacting ones had only time to shout warnings.

The knights of the Zhejiang Army were excited to rush into the enemy's camp and easily cut down the bare-handed enemy. After seeing the enemy in front of them, they naturally began to pursue them. However, Deng Ming and others were different from these Zhejiang Army. They had conducted many attacks. In the past, Deng Ming would summarize his experience after each war and found that those who could pose a threat to their side were those enemies who had not yet lost their organization.

Although the Ming cavalry was divided into several teams today, the leaders of each team were Deng Ming's guards. After they rushed into the enemy camp for a distance, they no longer continued to pursue the fleeing enemies, but turned back to look for the Qing soldiers who were still trying to resist. This was also the precautions that Deng Ming repeatedly explained before the war.

When the Ming army set up a formation outside the camp, it deployed hundreds of armored soldiers in the front row, but after launching a charge, the first ones to follow the cavalry into the camp were some armorless soldiers who were relatively in front and running very fast. When they arrived in front of the Qing army's camp, Deng Ming and other cavalry had already rushed over and drove away the Qing soldiers who had first crawled out of the tent. At this time, some Qing soldiers were awakened by the noise and came out to see what happened. Many heads had just poked out of the camp, and a stick came forward with the sound of breaking through the air, knocking heavily on the cover of the sky.

Many Qing soldiers were startled from their dreams, and their eyes were still confused when they were hit. "Dong", the Ming army poked down with a crisp sound. After the stick was bounced from the enemy's skull, the enemy soldiers were still confused. The Ming army who attacked them was also a little nervous: Could it be that the enemy was hit by all the sticks, and the enemy was as if nothing had happened? Are they the indestructible body of Vajra?

Many Ming soldiers saw this scene. Some of them were already thinking about raising the stick and hitting it again to see the reaction. Almost as the attacker had this idea, the person who was hit would suddenly change his color, let out a "Oh" scream, and fell to the ground. Some people could no longer stand up without saying a word, and some people still had the strength to struggle and rolled on the ground with their heads in their arms.

At this point, the Ming army also understood that it was not that it was too light in its actions, or that the other party had magical skills such as the Golden Bell Cover, but that the enemy was slow to react and did not enter a combat state at all. The Ming army, who was calm in his heart, did not hesitate. Some people continued to move forward and hit the heads that were more protruding out of the tent in front; some people beat the dogs in the water, and fell like raindrops, and greeted the Qing soldiers on the ground with all their strength.

Before, whether it was Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi, and He Zhen, they often explained tactics to Deng Ming, and there were also issues of cooperation between infantry and cavalry. Deng Ming recorded the other party's conversation every time and then studied it slowly. At this time, Deng Ming would often call the guards up, and if there was anything I didn't understand, they could also discuss it together.

Several generals each have their own cavalry experiences, and their tactics are very different, and they even look down on each other. Even friends like Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi, although their tactics come from the camp, they all think that their tactics are better in private. If Deng Ming took Yuan Zongdi's tactics and asked Liu Tichun about it, the other party would definitely suggest that he should not study Yuan Zongdi's tactics anymore. It is to learn Liu Tichun's advanced method in full. In Deng Ming's view, it may be that the new military technology of blasting is to discuss it openly, but it is estimated that each will develop very soon, forming multiple sects, each with its own unique skills. Deng Ming did not know that Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun had already hidden some of the blasting techniques. The reasons are both because of the inconvenience of information transmission in this era and the natural behavior of various factions in the feudal army.

After meeting Li Laiheng, Deng Ming discovered that Xiao Laohu also had similar conceits. Li Laiheng believed that his coordinated tactics against cavalry and infantry were the most authentic direct descendants of the camp. Although Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun were Li Laiheng's uncles and elders, they could not represent the highest military level of the camp.

When discussing various camp tactics with the guards, Zhou Kaihuang was the most staunch supporter. He believed that Yuan Zongdi's various methods were particularly exquisite, while Zhao Tianba was disapproving, and often quoted some tactics from the Jin King of Xiying to attack the camp ideas. The most numerous of Deng Ming's guards were the Old Sichuan Army. The leader of this faction, Li Xinghan, believed that in terms of tactics, neither Zhou Kaihuang nor Zhao Tianba could get rid of the consistent style of bandits. Other tactics, such as the cooperation of infantry and cavalry, Li Xinghan believed that Deng Ming should most believe in the experience of the Sichuan Army. After all, this is a regular tactic. In terms of dignified battles, the Sichuan Army's methods are obviously much better than the wild paths of bandits.

For this reason, Li Xinghan and Zhao Tianba and Zhou Kaihuang often fought for red faces and thick necks, and shouted in front of Deng Ming. This was the accumulation of three hundred years of Ming officers and soldiers and a priceless intellectual wealth.

Although Li Xinghan's words caused a buzzing cheer from Deng Ming Guard, they also led to Zhao Tianba and Zhou Kaihuang shared the same hatred for the enemy. Zhou Kaihuang immediately sarcastically: After three hundred years of accumulation, the Western Battalions were attacked and the Western Battalions were full of teeth. It would be better to not want such useless knowledge; while Zhao Tianba sarcastically said: I am not afraid of not knowing the goods, but I am afraid of comparing goods. The Ming army that insisted on tradition was eliminated by the Tartars. Now the rest are all the troops of the Western Battalions.

In the end, Deng Ming came out to smooth things over, and at the same time, he strictly prohibited criticizing each other - Deng Ming found that if he allowed to criticize each other, it would eventually become endless mutual belittlement. People from each faction would hold microscopes (if they had) to find the tactical shortcomings of other factions, and then magnify infinitely, outline the limit, generalize it with a single point, and call it worthless; and when maintaining the tactics of this faction, even if it is a mistake, they must firmly defend it, make a point of reasoning, and try their best to make the theory of this faction a perfect one... Although the generals of Kuidong and these guards were not literati, Deng Ming found that their ability to decorate the tactics of this faction was actually not bad at all.

Therefore, Deng Ming's tactical seminar only studies the common points of each faction and never involves differences. Deng Ming thinks that as long as it can be adopted by all factions, it means that there is a reasonable point. Of course, if it is contrary to science, it can be falsified in common points, such as monks who can greatly increase the power of gunpowder, Deng Ming also abandoned it without hesitation.

Assault involves cavalry and infantry tactics. Deng Ming found that all factions seem to emphasize a cooperation issue, that is, in principle, cavalry and infantry must fight together and cover each other. Of course, this is not absolute. The Sichuan system of the Ming army, the Jin king system of the Xiying, and the Chuangbastion camp have given a large number of exceptions. It is difficult to verify whether these exceptions are correct, because once this theoretical difference is discussed, the guards will have fierce debates and are all attitudes towards people and things. Even if they belong to the Sichuan army system, there are many different voices within the Li Xinghan camp, and water and fire are incompatible. Therefore, Deng Ming can only believe that under normal circumstances, the coordination of stairs and cavalry should be regarded as the most important combat principle, and the specific tactics should be implemented around this center.

Today, Deng Ming had this plan. Before the attack, he would rather sacrifice some cavalry attacks to ensure the speed of the infantry to follow up. After the cavalry entered the enemy camp, the Ming army's cavalry repeatedly turned back to assist his own infantry in combat. Every Ming army knight opened his eyes wide and looked for the organized enemy troops on the battlefield. If he found that these cores of resistance were formed in front of the Ming army's infantry, the Ming army's cavalry would immediately launch an attack, attack on both sides of the infantry, and destroy it before it was formed; and if it was formed in front of the Ming army's cavalry, it could be let go a little. Deng Ming believed that the main task of dozens of cavalry of the Ming army was not to defeat them alone and eliminate all the enemy troops, but to ensure that the Ming army's infantry could continue to advance and overwhelm the opponent smoothly.

With the cooperation of the cavalry, the Ming army's infantry progressed very quickly. The Qing army, which was trying to resist sporadically, not only had to face the Ming army infantry with an absolute advantage in numbers, but also would be immediately raided by the cavalry behind them. Every time they saw people who looked like Qing army officers gathering the soldiers around them at the top of their lungs, the Ming army's cavalry would take him as a key target and come to attack as soon as possible, and break up these Qing soldiers before they formed a group.

When the Ming army advanced forward, the infantry behind was fighting against the remaining enemies. Unlike the cavalry, Deng Ming did not make much planning for the infantry operations. The general idea was to shout and then the entire army launched an rush. This idea was not much different from when ambushing Tan Hong on the Yangtze River. The current situation of the Zhejiang Army was similar to that of the army around Deng Ming at that time. It lacked weapons, equipment and officers, and its combat experience was worse than that of the Ming army at that time.

Due to the terrain, the enemy's lack of defense, and Deng Ming's example, the speed of the Zhejiang Army's attack today was stronger than the time when they ambushed Tan Hong, but their performance after rushing into the enemy camp was almost the same. The Zhejiang soldiers in front rushed forward bravely, following closely behind the cavalry, and even had no time to check whether there were any enemies in the tents left behind. After the Ming soldiers in the back rushed into the enemy camp, they began to lift up their tents to check whether there were any remaining enemies. As the front line quickly advanced forward, the Ming army following along also found more and more enemies landing behind the front line.

The Ming army began to fight with these enemies, and some of the Ming army came up to help, and some did not take these scattered soldiers and roamed with sticks and shouted to chase the front line. The current situation is that the vanguard continued to advance at high speed, and a large-scale melee occurred in the rear. After entering the camp, the generals of the Zhejiang Army quickly lost control of their subordinates. They could only make their own judgment on the situation, or call on the soldiers around them to continue rushing forward, or stop to clean up the enemy soldiers hiding in the tent. No matter what decision they made, the number of soldiers that these generals could control was rapidly decreasing, and soon the subordinates they could command were limited to the scope within their sight.

Because he did not know the location of the enemy's central tent, Deng Ming did not plan to raid the enemy's head today. He originally estimated that the Qing army would soon begin to form a line of resistance to block the rapid advancement of the Ming army's front line. As the Ming army's front line was blocked, more Qing troops were able to organize and further slow down the advancement of the Ming army. Deng Ming believed that this would inevitably happen, especially he emphasized that the cavalry's first task today was to cover the infantry.

During the pre-war discussion, the Ming army officers all believed that this line of resistance would block the Ming army from far away from the Qing army's central tent. If the tent of the Qing army's chief general was located in the middle of the camp, it was optimistic that the Ming army could successfully break through the outer camp of one-third to half the distance. At this time, the Qing army's personal guards should have already been wearing armor to join the war. The Zhejiang army lacked military armor, and these well-equipped general guards could gain a lot of time to organize the Qing army's defense line, and finally form a solid front to protect the main camp behind them.

Therefore, before the war, the Ming army also expanded as much as possible to form a larger encirclement arc, hoping to make the Qing army's resistance line turn into a protruding arc. After the stalemate was formed, the Ming army's cavalry would of course no longer easily break into the enemy's back and attack the enemy with the infantry. At that time, the Ming army's cavalry would encircle the two wings, striving to surround the Qing army, or put enough pressure on the enemy to force the opponent to retreat voluntarily, giving the Ming army the opportunity to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

But to Deng Ming's surprise, the Qing army's resistance line had not been established for a long time. Now the Ming army's front line has swept across one-third of the entire Qing army camp. The Qing army's resistance still seemed very messy. There was no solid front in front of him, but loose and messy groups of enemies. Although these enemy soldiers who were grouping had a certain organization, they were still fighting on their own, and there were huge gaps between them. The Ming army's cavalry could still break in from the organized enemy soldiers, chased the scattered enemy soldiers so that they could not turn around, and then turned around to assist the infantry to attack the group of enemy soldiers.

Since the Qing soldiers did not form a line of resistance, the Ming army's arc-shaped encirclement could not be formed, and the melee situation made the Ming army more and more disconnected. After many Ming soldiers eliminated the enemies in the tent, they couldn't wait to find their armor to put on. When the other Ming soldiers saw it, they didn't care about chasing the front line, but looked around for weapons and armor, and at least they had to replace the stick in their hands with a steel knife.

At this time, Deng Ming had crossed the center line of the Qing army camp. At the center of the camp, Deng Ming had just seen several Qing soldiers wearing armor coming out to fight. The military uniforms of these few armored soldiers were also very messy, and the helmets seemed a little crooked, obviously tied up in a hurry. After seeing these armored soldiers, Deng Ming hesitated for a moment, gave up the urge to rush in and look for the traces of the opponent's general. Instead, bypass the center of the Qing army camp according to the previous plan and continue to disturb the enemy camp. Since the situation was so chaotic, let it become more chaotic. Deng Ming felt that the current situation was becoming more and more like an ambush of Tan Hongshi, and the two armies were chaotic. If more chaotic enemy troops could be dispersed at this time, the Ming army could finally crush the opponent by relying on the number of people.

When a horse was riding past a camp tent, a Qing soldier came out from inside. Deng Ming's horse sword fell down, and the enemy fell backwards. Deng Ming noticed that although the killed enemy was not wearing armor, he was wearing good horse boots, he should be an officer. Now he has entered the center of the Qing army camp, and many of the camp tents around may belong to officers or personal soldiers. During this chaos, Deng Ming also heard a woman's scream.

Deng Ming's suspicion was soon confirmed. When he continued to rush forward, his mount almost hit a woman. The woman had just crawled out from behind a tent. Deng Ming's war horse rushed towards her forehead. At that time, Deng Ming's horse sword was raised in the air and instinctively slashed off when he saw the figure queen, but at this moment he saw the woman's long hair and her raised face.

It was a young woman. Although she had only a moment of looking at each other, Deng Ming still saw strong fear and tears in her eyes. He also saw that the woman who had just crawled out of the tent had her upper body that was already exposed.

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The war lasted for more than half an hour and ended much faster than the Ming army expected. The Qing generals' dying struggle in the central army's tent failed to last long.

"These Tartars are the green camps in Yangzhou. They arrived in Nanjing five days ago. When they arrived, the Prince of Yanping had already withdrawn. After learning that there was an alarm in Wuhu, they set out from Nanjing and rushed to the downstream direction." After interrogating the prisoners, Deng Ming summoned the generals together and introduced the situation to them: "They were going to deal with us, but they were beaten by us here."

These green camps hoped to take a boat to Wuhu, but the navy had just transported another wave of green camps to the downstream, and there were no ships for a while. They set up camp at Dasheng Pass and wanted to wait for the navy to return to talk, so as to save themselves from walking.

"The Yangzhou Green Camp has 1,200 armored soldiers, about two and a half times that of our armored soldiers. There are 1,500 auxiliary soldiers in the camp, of which 300 were allocated by Lang Tingzuo after he arrived in Nanjing. Today we wiped out about 2,000 Tartars and fled 600 to 700... The prisoners confessed that they had 200 military horses, including 100 war horses. Now the number we seized is 188, and the rest may have been taken away by deserters." Now the Zhejiang Army is counting and seizing. Although hundreds of Qing soldiers have escaped, most of their armor has not had time to take them away. Deng Ming estimated that the number of seized should be almost the same: "This is a relatively powerful green camp, so Nanjing will send them to Wuhu. Whether they need to be prepared or waiting for an opportunity to regain Anqing, it can play a big role, at least it is much stronger than the green camps that intercepted us in Huangchi."

After pausing, Deng Ming said to everyone: "The Tartars who intercepted our green camp in Huangchi may only be a few hundred armored, and there are definitely no cavalry, but when we fight with them, even if we win by chance, we will suffer heavy casualties; but today we will eliminate the Yangzhou green camp, and we are easily defeated. This is the difference between being prepared and being unprepared. Even if we have a weak army, we can still make the strong enemy afraid; if we are unprepared, we will be strong and strong. Everyone, in the future, we will lead troops, even if we are in a safe place, we must never forget to build the walls and dig trenches, and we should not walk less every day, and do not neglect the fortifications, so that we regret it."

Everyone was like this, but Mu Tan thought of the more than 100,000 elite soldiers and generals of the Fujian Army and sighed secretly.

After the war, the Ming army also discovered many women, many of whom were from Zhenjiang. After Zheng Chenggong retreated, the Qing army "recovered" Zhenjiang, Guazhou and other places, Guan Qizhen. Jiang Guozhu rewarded the women in the city to soldiers in the name of restoring the city. The Green Camp in Yangzhou happened to be the same, and a group of them were separated. Jiangnan's admiral Guan Qizhen and Governor Jiang Guozhu sold women in Zhenjiang, Guazhou and other places on the way to follow Zheng Chenggong eastward, and then kidnapped the women in Wuxi and other places; now they are in Suzhou, and they plan to sell these women when they leave Suzhou. Every time the Qing army passes, a large number of people from "recovery" cities come to the city, posting a list of the abducted wives and daughters, and wanting to spend money to redeem their relatives.

The Yangzhou Green Camp originally planned to handle this, but Nanjing is the provincial capital and has not been captured by Zheng Chenggong, so there is no question of regaining it, so the guest army is not allowed to plunder. The Yangzhou Green Camp planned to take these women to Wuhu first and sell them before the war. After the Anqing is regained, new ones can be plundered. These women will eventually be sold in Nanjing or Yangzhou.

After hearing what happened to these women, Deng Ming just shook his head and sighed, ordering that a female camp was established for them, and soldiers were not allowed to harass them.

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