The Ming army had no cavalry troops at all, and most of the Qing soldiers were armoured by cavalry, so Guan Qizhong prepared to encircle the two wings at the beginning, first surrounded the Ming army, and then eliminated them all. The two wings encircle is a traditional x-tactic tactic for cavalry to have the dominant side, and can give full play to its speed advantage.

More than 3,000 infantry were all managed and deployed in the central government, preparing to restrain the central army of the Ming army. It takes time to complete the encirclement between the two wings. Before successfully detouring to the enemy's rear, we must guard against the enemy, mainly infantry, to launch a full-army charge and conduct a central breakthrough to break the encirclement.

However, the Ming army did not seem to have the intention of the central government to break through. Zheng Chenggong's wings had a strong force, forming a continuous and thick line of defense. After seeing the dense heads and flags of Ming soldiers there, Guan Xiaozhong's two-wing cavalry did not launch a strong attack, but went further to the distance, trying to pull the Ming army's defense line away.

Faced with the sideways of the Qing army, the two wings of the Ming army continued to lengthen the front line. At this time, Guan Qizhong discovered that the forces deployed by Zheng Chenggong on the two wings were stronger than he thought. The Ming army's front line was much longer, but it was still tight and thick. The commander's control range was limited, and Guan Qizhong could not extend the front line infinitely. If the cavalry detoured too far, they would lose control and leave command.

"Zheng Ni also knows a little bit of military tactics." Guan Xiaozhong smiled. However, even if the battlefield control ability is limited, the cavalry is stronger than the infantry. After staying away from the central battlefield, the cavalry's return speed is definitely much faster than that of the infantry.

Seeing that Zheng Chenggong was so cautious in defending the two wings, Guan Qizhong launched some attacks on the two wings, which continued to attract the Ming army to two sections of the front line. The Ming army on the central front quickly became weak as the front line grew longer and longer. Soon Guan Qizhong discovered that the main force of the Ming army had moved to the two wings, and Zheng Chenggong's central front line was already weak and vulnerable.

"I don't know how to live or die." Guan Qizhong sneered. In his opinion, the Ming army, dominated by infantry, had only one way out, which was to launch a central assault as he expected, forcing the Qing army to give up its mobility and fight head-on with the Ming army. However, Zheng Chenggong did not honestly carry out the central breakthrough, but let the infantry run on the battlefield and compete with thousands of Qing cavalry to compete with the mobile capabilities, which was simply foolish.

As Guan Qizhong waved the flag, the Qing troops on both sides suddenly turned around and quickly gathered towards the Central Front, leaving only some cover troops to drag the Ming army along the footsteps. After the brigade of cavalry returned to the central position, Guan Qizhong immediately ordered the Qing army to charge in full, defeat Zheng Chenggong's central army in one fell swoop, and divide and eliminate the Ming army.

As Guan Qizhong expected, the thin central defense line of the Ming army was collapsed by the Qing army as soon as it rushed. Seeing the galloping horses in front and countless Eight Banners cavalry came, the central front of the Ming army quickly retreated on its own and then fled to both sides. Guan Qizhong's vision was blocked by his army and could not see the details on the front, but he could see the Qing army's flags were advancing rapidly, while the Ming army's flags were dispersed everywhere, which shows that Zheng Chenggong's front was rapidly disintegrating. Now Guan Qizhong tried his best to look beyond the army in front, hoping to see the scene of Zheng Chenggong's flag falling from the gaps of his own flags.

After rushing through the thin front of the Ming army, the Qing cavalry in the front row immediately saw a row of artillery appearing in front of him. Just now, after seeing Guan Xiaozhong constantly commanding his troops to pull his troops to both wings, Zheng Chenggong ordered the troops on the central front to move to both sides, dilute the battle formation in front of his commanding flag, and dragged twenty artillery pieces to the back of the front.

These cannons had already loaded ammunition. After the Qing cavalry rushed across the Ming army's front line, the Zheng Chenggong flag order waved, and these cannons launched a volley of shotguns at a close distance. The dozens of cavalry led by the leader were dismounted, causing the assaulting Qing army formation to stumble. Taking advantage of this pause, the Ming army gunners overturned the cannon carts and even crossed the large baggage carts to block Zheng Chenggong's commander's flag.

Today, the Central Admiral Gan Hui led the Iron Man Army to stay by Zheng Chenggong, waiting to initiate the order for the central government to break through. But he did not expect that Zheng Chenggong would give up the central government's breakthrough plan and temporarily adjust it to implement two-wing encirclement of the Qing army. However, although the plan changed, Zheng Chenggong did not ask the Iron Man Army to support the two-wing wings, but was still firmly controlled in his hands.

Just now, when Zheng Chenggong mobilized artillery troops to the central government, he had already told Gan Hui that he would take the Iron Man Army to prepare for the battle. When he saw the auxiliary soldiers behind the flag hurriedly pushing the baggage taxi up, the Iron Man Army had already guessed that this would be their battlefield today. After seeing the Qing army approaching, Gan Hui shouted and waved the flag to command the Iron Man Army to take two steps forward.

The heavy armored soldiers of the Ming army, who were already lined up behind the vehicles, raised their swords and walked forward in a short distance in one go, standing steadily in the gap or behind the vehicle, waiting to resist the attack of the Qing army.

When the Qing cavalry turned around and returned to the center just now, the Ming army's infantry would certainly not follow the running and return. The first is that the speed is not enough, and the second is that the infantry cannot withstand such back and forth. After seeing the Qing cavalry returning from both wings, Zheng Chenggong had ordered the infantry on both sides to press forward and use the two wings to detour to the side of the Qing formation. Although the time is not enough for the Ming army's infantry to return, it is enough for the Ming army's artillery deployed on both wings to turn around.

When the Qing army launched a central assault, the artillery on both wings of the Ming army also followed Zheng Chenggong's orders and each rotated ninety degrees towards the front of the Central Army. The Ming army's infantry stood in front and back, and these artillery headed straight to the Qing army, which was about to assault Zheng Chenggong's flag. After the Central Army's artillery opened fire, they also launched continuous shooting at the Qing army that broke into the Ming army's front.

The Qing army, which was blocked by artillery in front, had also resumed its assault posture. The cavalry running in front rode their horses away from their companions and their war horse corpses, and continued to accelerate toward the last line of defense of the Ming army.

The Eight Banners Cavalry, holding guns, kept accelerating, as if they had not seen the vehicles in front of them at all. They rushed to the position of two horses from the Ming army before suddenly retracting their horses. Although their mounts were almost raised by them, they continued to rush forward inertia and rushed forward all the way to the front of the Ming army's iron armored soldiers. The lancers tried their best to stab the nail guns in their hands at the Ming army to complete the final slowdown.

These nail guns stabbed the Ming army's iron armor and made crackling sounds. The sharp spear head not only failed to penetrate the Ming army's iron armor, but also broke the gun rods on it. The Ming army soldiers were hit by the gun rods. Although the armor was fine, people fell backwards. Many people were even hit with their feet flying away from the ground with the heavy armor on their bodies.

The iron man soldier who was not blocked by his companions behind him flew out one foot far away. After falling to the ground, his armor still looked intact, but the man lay on the ground and stopped moving.

Originally, a large number of Qing army's swordsman followed these lancers. If the Ming army's formation was loose, they would come forward to kill. However, although some of the Ming army's iron men were knocked out, the empty space they left was immediately filled by the iron men behind them, and they were still tightly blocked in front of Zheng Chenggong's flag.

The leading Eight Banners general observed and ordered to retreat without hesitation. The Eight Banners cavalry, who had just slapped the shore, immediately retreated like a tide. Gan Hui stared at the retreating Eight Banners soldiers, pricked his ears and listened to his back. There were three light and short golden sounds coming from there. Gan Hui spat the retreating Eight Banners cavalry heavily, and ordered the left and right to guard the positions and not to move rashly.

Before the Ming army's Iron Man Army left the position, they took down bows and arrows from their backs and shot a row of feather arrows at the retreating Qing soldiers. The retreating Qing soldiers either used guns to pick swords or blocked them with rattan cards. Not many of them were shot by the Ming army. Even if they were shot, most of them were not injured because of the armor on their bodies.

However, the Ming army artillery fire from both sides was always killing the cavalry. Zheng Chenggong, who was under the command, stared at these Qing troops and guessed the other party's intentions, hoping that they would attack the Ming army artillery on both sides, so that the Qing army's strength would be dispersed and the command would be in a certain amount of chaos. That was the time for the Iron Man Army to launch a counterattack.

But the Eight Banners soldiers did not make Zheng Chenggong do what they wanted. They stopped after retreating for a while, and quickly formed the array again with artillery shells from both sides. The spearmen were in front and the swords and cavalry were behind. After shouting in unison, the Eight Banners soldiers came to the ground for the second time.

Zheng Chenggong watched the Eight Banners soldiers rush to his last guard again, and the iron-armored soldiers who were hit by nail guns flew backwards one after another, but there was still no gap in the Ming army's front line. Almost at the same time, some Qing soldiers were also hit by the Ming army's weapons and fell off their horses. Before they could get up, they were stabbed again by the spears poked out of the Ming army's formation.

The Qing army quickly retreated again. Seeing that the other party still had no intention of launching a counterattack against the artillery on both sides, Zheng Chenggong ordered a short-term sound of gold for the second time, and did not allow the Ming army to try to pursue.

Zheng Chenggong kept the iron man calm, and the artillery on both sides continued to bombard the center, waiting for the Qing army to make mistakes. But before that, Zheng Chenggong first had to ensure that he did not make mistakes because of his rush to achieve success. The cavalry would repeatedly attack the infantry's front line. If the front line broke, the cavalry would surge in through the gap and tear the infantry's battle formation. If the infantry was eager to counterattack, they might be attracted and suffered a violent impact when the formation was scattered and lost the protection of obstacles.

Guan Qizhong, who was behind the army, saw far less than Zheng Chenggong's confrontation on the front line. He only knew that the Qing army's forces in the middle had accumulated, and a large number of cavalry trying to follow through the gap in the Ming army's front line were blocked. Although Guan Qizhong could see the Qing army's vanguard's flag and felt that the cavalry there was repeatedly rushing forward, the Ming army on both sides was constantly pressing over, and the guards' cover troops could not resist the advantageous Ming army infantry attack and were retreating step by step. Guan Qizhong was a little impatient, and beat three drums in a row, urging the army in front to quickly attack the weak links of the Ming army.

After receiving the order, the Qing army, who had been waiting behind the front army, no longer hesitated, but scattered to both sides and killed the Ming army artillery on both sides.

"Opportunity!" Zheng Chenggong was overjoyed, blurted out, and hurriedly ordered the drum to attack.

At this time, the Qing army had just launched another attack. Just as they were about to retreat and re-arrange, a large number of cavalry behind them began to drive, which immediately caused some trouble for the eight banners to re-arrange the front formation. The troops behind followed up and greatly squeezed the space used by the Qing army to accelerate and repeatedly rush the formation.

The Ming army's iron-man soldiers left the obstacle and walked towards the Qing army's cavalry with the central army's infantry. The Qing army generals wanted to take the opportunity to disrupt the Ming army's formation, but the Eight Banners cavalry had just finished arranging the formation, and the Ming army had already come closer. There was no sufficient distance between the two armies to increase the speed of the horse.

At this time, the artillery on both sides of the Qing army was attacking, and they also crossed the artillery carts to block the Qing army's way. Behind them were Ming infantrymen who were waiting for battle, and the cavalry on both sides had no chance to rush forward for a second time. The following troops had already filled the positions behind them. If they could not retreat two steps, they could have no choice but to retreat.

Zheng Chenggong waved the commander's flag repeatedly, and the Ming army infantry tried their best to shorten the distance between the two armies. Soon the Eight Banners soldiers began to fight with the Ming army infantry on the whole line - they rode on horses and fought with the Ming army infantry swords in front of them.

The proportion of soldiers with iron armor in the Fujian army was quite high. Although the iron armor on both wings and the sides of the central army was not as good as the Iron Man Army, many of them were also iron helmets, iron masks and at least half of the body. Although the iron armor on their bodies was lighter than the Iron Man Army, they could also effectively resist the attacks of the Qing sabers and swords. It was difficult for the Qing army's ring-headed single sword to destroy the Ming army's armor.

These soldiers generally have rattan cards and a long sword similar to a Japanese samurai sword. This Zheng family's modified long sword is very sharp, and can be used when holding a shield in one hand or holding it in both hands. Many Ming army light-armored iron armored soldiers will carry rattan cards on their backs and chop with all their strength after approaching the Qing army's battle. This long sword used on a large scale has a much higher power than the ring-headed sword of the Qing army. When they are slashed with all their strength, they can easily tear open the Qing army's cotton armor, and even cut off the opponent's helmet and neck protection.

The general under Zheng Chenggong was the commander of the right wing of the Ming army, Yu Xin, and the general under Zheng Chenggong. Like most of the Fujian generals in Yanping, Yu Xin had never rode a horse before the siege, and he had no chance to ride a horse for a long time. Generals like Yu Xin did not have the habit of riding horses, and riding horses was more regarded as an act of expressing identity. During normal combat, Yu Xin and Gan Hui liked to wear heavy armor and hold long swords like soldiers to cut and kill.

After the Qing army gathered in the middle, Yu Xin immediately received the order from Zheng Chenggong to attack. He was wearing half-armored armor like an ordinary soldier, holding a rattan card in one hand and a long sword in the other, shouting to kill him towards Guan Feizhong's central army.

There were not many Qing cavalry in front of Yu Xin. Yu Xin moved forward at full speed without any scruples, not worried about the opponent's repeated attacks, and the Qing army did not have this power. Originally, Guan Qizhong did not take Yu Xin's offensive too much into consideration. He believed that after the Qing army dispersed the Ming army's central army and completely divided the Ming army into two, Yu Xin's Ming army would be just a piece of meat on the chopping board.

But now the Qing army's offensive is not going well, and Yu Xin's impact puts increasing pressure on Guan Yizhong. He began to send more troops to try to block the Ming army's offensive. The Ming army, which surrounded the two wings, has greatly compressed the space for the Eight Banners Cavalry. Now the front line has been seriously bent to the center, resulting in most Qing cavalry crowding in the center and unable to participate in the battle on the front line. When such serious siltation of force occurs, the cavalry is more difficult to adjust than infantry.

Because the cavalry was difficult to get out of the center for a while, the only ones to stop Yu Xin were Nanjing infantry. Their weapons and armor quality could not be compared with Yu Xin's troops, and the number of people was at a serious disadvantage. The bending of the front line was not only not alleviated, but became more serious. Yu Xin shouted fiercely, and the Ming army followed him and bravely moved forward. The Qing army infantry opposite them were forced to retreat. Anyone who dared to stand up quickly cut the Ming army's long sword into meat sauce. These Qing army infantry retreated into the Eight Banners Cavalry formation, which was already crowded, even more irritating.

Guan Qizhong saw that the front line had turned into an arc and the central direction was basically stationary. After losing the acceleration space, the cavalry did not have any advantage in the large number of infantry. When fighting statically, the cavalry had to face three or four enemies on average; while the two wings were still bent towards the Qing army, especially the left wing of the Qing army and the right wing of the Ming army. Guan Qizhong saw that the Qing army was already mixed with infantry and cavalry and was crowded.

Zheng Chenggong's expression on his face was becoming more and more relaxed. The Ming army's troops were becoming more and more stretched. The front lines were always closely connected. The tired soldiers in the front could be replaced by the rear new force and rested a little behind. The Qing army on the opposite side seemed to have completely lost this ability to replace, which meant that most of the enemies were in a state of strength but could not be used. Only a small number of enemies could squeeze into the front line. What they needed to deal with was the wheel battle launched by the large and powerful Ming army.

Guan Qizhong made several more efforts to try to stop the continued defeat of the fronts on both wings. Only after gaining a foothold could he pull the central troops back and fight back against the Ming army after going out of the battle. However, all Guan Qizhong's efforts were defeated, and the soldiers on both wings continued to be squeezed towards the central troops, constantly blocking the way out of the central troops trying to retreat and reorganize.

Just now, when Guan Xiaozhong discovered that the central offensive was not going well, about a thousand cavalry were stuck in the front; now more than 3,000 cavalry were squeezed in the front row of the protruding central front and difficult to withdraw; the Ming army was still ruthlessly squeezing towards the center, trying to wrap more Qing troops to the center.

"Ming Jin! Retreat!" Guan Qizhong's face was pale and gritted his teeth to issue an order to retreat. Now almost all the Qing army's armored soldiers were put into battle. As more armored soldiers were oppressed by the Ming army to the center, the armorless soldiers on both wings began to be exposed. Guan Qizhong could no longer provide more troops to maintain the front line.

Once the Ming army cut into the Qing army's rear formation, these armorless soldiers could not resist the Ming army's iron armored soldiers for how long. If they were also compressed into a group towards the center, they would block all the Qing army's armored soldiers in front and unable to retreat.

After receiving the signal of retreating, the generals of the Qing army began to work hard to turn back and advance towards Guan Xiaozhong's position or the rear. Everyone knows that the entire army has begun to retreat, and if they cannot leave at this time, they will become an isolated army.

The Ming army also realized the intention of the Qing army. Zheng Chenggong's messenger rushed to inform Yu Xin, asking him to enter the Qing army front as soon as possible, join the Ming army on the other side, and encircle all the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army's front army in the Ming army formation.

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