August 29th, early morning.

When the sky began to darken, the open plains on both sides of the Neijing River were covered with soldiers. Two highly organized armies were marching toward each other under the guidance of their respective military flags...

Although they are walking towards each other, the postures of the two sides are completely different.

The Qing army, which had been attacking for dozens of miles, still maintained a large column. One hundred and twenty staff-level columns were divided into three lines, marching together in a mighty manner. Groups of cavalry were also scattered in front and on the left and right of the army -

-Although this area is densely covered with paddy fields, it is not very conducive to cavalry attacks. However, four legs can always run faster than two legs, and the cavalry soldiers currently sent by Yue Le as light cavalry retain the skills of riding and archery, and their martial arts are also quite good.

If you are familiar with it, even if you dismount and fight, you can still defeat the skirmishers of the Ming army... If the Ming army had a little martial ethics and wouldn't always fight with people with loaded flintlocks!

However, when these Qing army cavalry soldiers approached the Inner Jingjiang River, their bravery and fierceness immediately ran out of room. Because they suddenly encountered a joint blockade by the Ming army cavalry and musketeers (skirmishers). Just within a distance of the Jingjiang River,

In a circular area of ​​2,000 steps, the cavalry and infantry of both sides were fighting. There were crackling gunshots, the sound of people shouting and neighing, and rumbling explosions. It was so lively that it sounded like something was going on from a distance.

What happened was not a battle between the scouts of the two sides, but a battle between the main forces.

In fact, these cavalry soldiers of the Qing army really encountered the main force of the Ming army! It’s just that they didn’t know it very well. If they could climb up and look far away like Fang Shiyu, they would have discovered that the Qing army had not yet deployed.

, the Ming army had already deployed a pocket formation with its back to the Neijing River, and there was also a mixed infantry and cavalry force with more than 20,000 people, marching in a column (not a large column) along the south and west banks of the Neijing River towards the Qing army.

Detour from side to side!

What these Qing army vests accidentally bumped into were the grenadiers (skirmishers) sent by the Ming Army infantry battalions that formed the pocket formation and a small number of Ming Army cavalry responsible for security and reconnaissance missions.

Of course, the Ming army did not have many cavalry, but there were many grenadiers (skirmishers) with them! Moreover, they relied on the rice and field ridges in the fields to shoot, catching the Qing cavalry soldiers off guard.

However, there were still some relatively fierce Qing army cavalry soldiers who broke through the blockage of Ming army grenadiers and cavalry, and discovered a large group of Ming army infantry lurking in the rice fields on the banks of the Neijing River!

But what they saw were only a few "dots", not the entire "surface", and they didn't have much time to look carefully, because the lead bullets fired from the opposite side were deadly!

So when these bits and pieces of information were sent back to Yue Le, the battle-hardened General Ning Yuan Ping Kou still made a fatal misjudgment.

He never thought that his every move was completely controlled by the enemy - he had so many cavalry to protect the army, and from the time the army left camp until now, not even a single Ming cavalry had approached his marching column.

Maybe there were lurking Ming army secret sentries that had approached his army, but if these secret sentries couldn't gallop on horseback, they had to send the news to the Ulin Ming army camp on foot. By the time the news arrived, the day lily would be cold!

Therefore, Yue Le concluded that the Ming army had deployed defenses near various bridges on the Inner Jingjiang River, and his cavalry might have encountered the Ming army guarding the bridges.

However, he still ordered the army to temporarily stop moving forward, and ordered his Zhenglan Banner Army Gushan, who was serving as the vanguard, to first launch a large horizontal formation directly in front of the army, and then summoned all Gushan troops to set up a burned-out

The Chinese army from the village came to hold a military meeting.

To be fair, there is no big problem with his arrangement...it's just that times have changed!

Now the enemies are not only on the ground, on the water, but also in the sky!

Looking down from the sky, isn't it a panoramic view? Besides, people on the ground have nothing to do against the enemies in the sky except to look from the sky.

The first person to see the great soldiers who had ascended to the sky was the dim-sighted Zhang Zhongqi. Although he had been a flag slave and flag soldier all his life, he had never been able to hold an official position. After joining the army this time, he was still a shotgun.

Soldier - He originally served as a shotgun soldier in the old Eight Banners Han Army, but now he just changed to a flintlock rifle. Because he is a veteran, he was not nervous after lining up and looked around with a smile.

When I took it, I saw a gray ball floating in the sky!

"Hey, why is there another ball in the sky?"

A child soldier named Dequan next to him felt strange when he heard this. He quickly looked up and asked: "Where is the ball?"

Zhang Zhongqi pointed the flintlock gun in his hand into the sky: "Um, is that a ball?"

"It seems like it's really a ball!" Dequan was still laughing. "It's so fun. Why is there a ball in the sky? Why doesn't it fall down?"

"Yeah, why doesn't the ball fall down? This is unreasonable. What's the reason?"

"Is this ball particularly light? Lighter than the clouds in the sky?"

"It's possible...but what is this ball that's lighter than a cloud made of?"

Well, these two men were still discussing advanced physics issues on the battlefield...

As these two Qing soldiers who are very talented in "physics" began to discuss the "flying ball problem", the Qing soldiers around them also discovered that there was a ball in the sky!

This thing is so rare, no one has seen it before.

As more people started discussing, the originally quiet battlefield became lively, almost as if it were a vegetable market.

The person in charge of this Gushan led by Yue Le is his eighth eldest son, a young man named Seleng'e - all the previous seven eldest sons died in infancy! He was the toughest, and he actually lived to be twenty-one years old, and

I was also lucky enough to be one of the first Qing soldiers to witness a hot air balloon.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He saw the celestial sphere, and he could see it more clearly than others - he had a telescope, so he saw a basket hanging under the "celestial sphere", and inside the basket

There are also two or three "fairies"!

"Gods! There are gods. There are gods in the basket under the celestial ball... This celestial ball is the magic weapon of the gods!" Seleng'e, who was on the battlefield for the first time, was dancing for joy. He has grown so big,

This was the first time I saw gods! I don’t know if these gods came to “enlighten” him. If so, would it be better for him to stay in the human world and become a high official, or to follow him to cultivate immortality?

When he was thinking about whether to pursue the path of immortality or to stay in the human world and serve the Qing Dynasty, the cavalry soldiers on guard in front of his formation and on the left and right sides suddenly rushed towards him together, and at the same time, there was a messy sound of gunfire.

, screams and neighing.

The sound of fighting between the two sides suddenly brought Seleng'e back to reality, but before he could figure out what was happening, the Goshikhas around him started shouting.

"The enemy... there is a large group of rebel infantry right in front!"

"There are also rebel infantry on the right!"

"There's also one on the left..."

While the people below were shouting, Seleng'e also heard the Ming army's war drums and the slogan "Kill the demons and restore China"!

This is not just one or two people shouting, but countless people!

Seleng'e was completely stunned when he heard the shouts and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, his father, Yue Le, knew that he could not shoulder the responsibility of commanding tens of thousands of troops, so he sent veteran generals Laita and Zhao Guozuo as deputy commanders.

The two deputy commanders were still online. They were not confused by the sudden appearance of the "gods" in the sky. Instead, they immediately issued the order to shrink the two wings inward, trying to turn the horizontal formation into one that could face the enemy on three sides.

The enemy's three-sided formation.

But before the Qing army's change of formation was completed, the Ming army's grenadiers, who were approaching the Qing army's horizontal formation under the cover of the already tall rice, had already thrown grenades and smoke bombs!
Chapter completed!