The general's battalion was indeed stronger than the battalion soldiers, but the front line of the Fuqing army was still indestructible. Rows of Fuqing soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder. Although most of their passion dissipated and no longer made violent shouts, they still repeated the stabbing movements silently. From time to time, Fuqing soldiers were hit by stray arrows or injured to the ground. Instead, they gritted their teeth and endured them until they were dragged down from the front line by fellow villagers. This amazing cohesion was absolutely impossible for Lin Feng's battalion.

During the battle just now, Qu Xiucai's men were replaced by other scholars, and Cao Xinmu also had the opportunity to rest after the round formation and take a sip of water. When the formation was adjusted just now, the Qu family was sent forward again. If it were other heroes' troops, they might quarrel because of how much effort it was and whether the task allocation was fair. Therefore, the lineup of heroes was not adjusted. They were all based on their destiny. If they were beaten, they would be beaten all the way to the end. If they had nothing to do, they would be idle to avoid disputes in the rotation, or those slickers would take the opportunity to avoid evasion.

However, the gentry troops did not have such concerns. Since it was the order of Xia Juren, the juniors like Qu Xiucai did not hesitate to implement it, and did not even have the idea of ​​bargaining. Besides, those who were ordered to replace Qu Xiucai, or those who came to replace him were all his fellow villagers and classmates, and they were all related to their relatives. There would be nothing to worry about, and no one would deliberately bully him.

For Cao Xinmu, this was the most difficult battle since he left his hometown. The battle had lasted for more than an hour, and the Qing army had not yet suffered a defeat or a large-scale escape. Now Cao Xinmu and his friends had no strength to shout. They repeated the stabbing movement over and over again. They used this set of movements when they snatched water and fought in groups. However, they were holding bamboo and wooden poles at that time, but now they were bright spears, which were improved by training and improvement by the teaching team.

No matter how strong the enemy on the opposite side was, he did not have the ability to cross the fence and disperse the dense spears. He had just now a very brave enemy soldier who looked like an officer. Not only did he successfully climb over the fence, but he also struggled for a long time without being stabbed to death by the spear. He also tried to cover his subordinates and turned over to help him drive the spearmen back.

But not everyone is as brave as this enemy. Most of his subordinates were stabbed back when they were overturning the fences - they might not suffer any serious injuries, but they just couldn't get over. The soldiers holding three-eyed guns not only used the guys in their hands as signal guns, but they occasionally walked up to the front row with the muskets and stretched the muskets under the nose of the enemy who was climbing the wall to open fire. With the cover of the fence and spear companions, the shooters of the three-eyed guns had time to aim calmly, and at this time the long handle of the three-eyed gun also played their advantage.

——Sawmen usually light the fuse first, hold the end of the long handle in both hands, slowly poke the enemy's face opposite the fence, and then point steadily between the opponent's eyes and the bridge of the nose, waiting for the fuse to burn to the head - if you dial the musket, don't think about climbing the wall, or stabbing it, if you insist on turning the fence over, don't blame the spray on your face and the deaf ears. It takes great courage to point at the three eyes that were hissing sound of the fuse, and continue to turn the fence. Anyway, Cao Xinmu didn't see anyone.

However, these three eyes also caused some trouble to the defenders, that is, they shot out a large amount of white mist, which made the commander Xia Juren of this team and his officers Qu Xiucai and others unable to see the enemy's situation. However, even though the whiteness in front of them did not have much impact on Cao Xinmu and the others, these soldiers still stabbed with all their might towards the fence. Since the boss did not let him stop, everyone would not be lazy.

I don’t know how long it took, but the atmosphere around seemed to have become a little abnormal. There was no three-eyed gun coming up to fire the gun for a long time. The machinery behind me who kept throwing stones for a moment since the war started seemed to slow down. Cao Xinmu and others no longer stumbled into the air, and the boss gave him the order to rest.

The Qing army once again retreated to the starting position. This attack cost Lin Feng a hundred people. Coupled with the losses from the last charge, the casualties of the 5,000 Green Camp had exceeded 10%, and hundreds of people took advantage of the chaos to escape from the battlefield. After knowing that things were not done, Lin Feng finally ordered a retreat and went east to find a county town for shelter.

When the retreat order was issued, the Qing army became even more chaotic. A large number of wounded soldiers reached out to wail on the ground, asking their companions to take them away, and more soldiers began to leave the team. Fortunately, the Qing army did not immediately pursue, which allowed half of the Qing army to calmly launch a retreat in front of the enemy.

It was not until some Qing troops had already withdrawn from the battlefield in an organized manner that the Qing army had opened several holes in their own fence walls and began to slowly advance again. Although this advancement was slow, it accelerated the retreat speed of the remaining Qing troops. They no longer cared about the wounded and baggage, hurriedly followed the pace of the front team and left the battlefield at full speed.

"victory!"

When the last Qing army soldier fled the battlefield, the position of the Qing army sent deafening cheers. Almost everyone's faces were filled with happy smiles. For the heroes, this was their first victory after countless field defeats, which was of great significance. For the gentry, it was a victory in the first battle and a brilliant victory in the first field battle, which made many people even have the idea of ​​"It turns out that it is not difficult to win a battle."

Even Deng Ming, the commander-in-chief of this battle, also encouraged the gentry and heroic commanders who came to express his merits to him with a smile, Gao Yunxuan, the nominal general of the Qing army, to be ignored by most people. Even if Deng Ming's outstanding identity is not mentioned, the role of this battle alone is simply incomparable to Gao Yunxuan. From beginning to end, Deng Ming is commanding the entire army.

But Deng Ming didn't think so, but he was embarrassed to say to the excited gentry and heroes that he actually had no command at all. According to the standards of the Sichuan Army, the commander completely gave up his responsibilities and watched coldly that the grassroots soldiers spontaneously waving their spears on a fixed front.

The Shandong general on the opposite side could not be compared with a commander like Deng Ming. Through five years of war, Deng Ming's combat experience was equivalent to the first-class general of this era. Needless to say, Deng Ming, even his guards could clearly see the clumsiness in the opponent's command and the endless formation flaws. In this short period of more than an hour, Deng Ming discovered at least five good fighter jets that could defeat his opponent in one fell swoop, but he still did nothing, just rode his horse and continued to watch the battle beside the wooden fence.

It was Qi Jiguang's invention to surround the cavalry in the middle of the chariot. He first used infantry to surround the cavalry in the middle, and then surrounded the chariots outside, but still fixed obstacles that could not be moved. This completely cut off the possibility of cavalry attacks, and it also means that the commander was unable to take the initiative to find fighter jets and use cavalry to establish a victory. Qi Jiguang's explanation in his military book was that if such a deployment was not carried out, the cavalry would escape at the front without hesitation, and the deployment of the chariot formation could ensure that their cavalry could not leave the commander and infantry brothers and escape from the battlefield before the war began.

Before today's battle, Deng Ming had no intuitive understanding of Qi Jiguang's problems. He just took the cavalry in the middle of the round formation, and watched the opportunity to break the enemy and win again and again pass by, but Deng Ming could only wait for nothing, so he had a personal understanding of Qi Jiguang's pain. As one of the best military geniuses in Chinese history, Qi Jiguang was able to handle everything from small team special operations to large corps operations, and was proficient in cavalry, infantry, and hot and cold weapons. Under what desperate situation should Qi Shuai completely give up his command ability and design a tactic of chariot camp?

Although he heard Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun introduced some views on military households, Deng Ming also knew that the Ming army households had no dignity and honor, and their daily main business was begging, so the Green Camp that was trained on ten days seemed to be sharp and unbearable compared to the Ming army. However, Deng Ming still had certain hopes for the most elite northern border army-although they also wanted to sell their children and daughters, and they were also composed of beggars and slaves. However, after personally commanding a battle formation similar to the Cheying Camp today, Deng Ming knew very well that this must be too beautiful. In Deng Ming's previous life, Zeng Guofan imitated Qi Jiguang's Cheying Camp and established the Hunan Army, and the combat power of the Hunan Army was undoubtedly much more powerful than that of Qi Jiguang's northern border army.

This was the case at the beginning, because Zeng Guofan dared to put the cavalry and commandos outside the formation without fear of running away without saying a word, while Qi Jiguang did not dare; Zeng Guofan and Deng Ming both dared to use shields and fences to simulate the chariots of the chariots, because they were thinking about carrying out some offensives, and Qi Jiguang must use heavy chariots that could absolutely not be moved to surround his army, completely give up his battlefield mobility, and concentrate on how to ensure that soldiers can stay on the battlefield. Compared with Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army and Deng Ming's regiments formed by Shandong gentry, Qi Jiguang's work focus was obviously more on how to prevent his own people from scattering. His mental state of military affairs was much more desperate than Zeng Guofan and Deng Ming.

"If one day we meet the Qing army and fight them head-on, how should we fight and win?" After returning to his tent, Deng Ming asked his subordinates. With time, as these scholars became more and more experienced and their tenants experienced many battles, the Qing army would show stronger combat effectiveness. They may not even need a tangible wooden fence to restrain them. This model of gentry and celebrity Jiaxiang Party was a strong army in the feudal army, and even had a place in the early modern army. For example, the Red Army of the British Empire, many infantry regiments had this structure. The nobles were school officials, gentlemen served as lieutenants, and soldiers were composed of peasants. Chinese gentry was not only respected among peasants like British nobles, but were idols and directions of efforts of the masses. As the incarnation of knowledge, they were even worshipped by a similar belief.

"They don't have any combat experience." A guard immediately said, "The training is not good either."

"They will keep improving," Deng Ming shook his head: "I will train officers for them."

"We can bypass their turtle formation." It can be seen that Deng Ming would not agree to pay too much casualties to break through such a position.

"There are always times when you can't get around it, right? What if you encounter it?" Deng Ming still refused to give in.

"They like three-eyed rags, we can shoot from a distance with bird guns and kill them all behind the fence," said a squad leader.

"This is a solution," Deng Ming nodded: "But what if they buy a large number of bird guns from us?"

Seeing that several officers were reluctant to speak, Deng Ming stopped them in advance: "Don't say that they don't provide correct training or refuse to sell bird guns. This is not a problem that is so difficult that they cannot solve themselves. As long as the House of Gentlemen realizes that bird guns will make their turtle formation better, even if we don't sell them, they will build them themselves. As long as they strictly follow Ji Xiao's new book, they can set up such turtle formations, and sooner or later the army formed by the township party will make them dare to keep their cavalry independent of the formation and try to catch fighter jets."

Many people proposed stone throwing machines, fire attacks, and water floods, but Deng Ming pointed out the shortcomings one by one and kept inspiring and reminding them. In the end, some people always felt that they should deal with the gentry's village army like siege. The siege was either blasting or cannons, but the cannons were too heavy and the firing speed was too slow.

"So we should design a light artillery that can be dragged and galloped on the battlefield by a horse or two horses. After all, this kind of turtle formation is not a real city wall. As long as we have a large number of light artillery that can detect shotguns, we will not be afraid of this slow-moving circular formation and rush in." The enemies that Deng Ming encountered before were mainly threats from their cavalry rather than infantry. However, with the emergence of the Qing army, it is necessary for western Sichuan to consider how to win at the minimum price if we encounter an enemy with firm infantry. "But this is just a plan ahead. The problem of this kind of rural party army is that the morale of guarding the countryside is high in fighting spirit and leaving the countryside to fight. But perhaps one day the Gentleman House will be hostile to us, we need to enter their territory to defeat their resistance, and a crushing victory is needed to shock people. At that time, we cannot be helpless."

The army relying on the clan is stable and cohesive, but there are many insurmountable shortcomings. As long as these shortcomings are difficult for the Qing court to overcome and western Sichuan can use them, Deng Ming would not have to worry that the House of Gentlemen would dare to stand on its opposite one day.
Chapter completed!