Northwest of Jianning Mansion, north of Nanpu River.

Ye Liuzong was almost dumbfounded when he saw the officers and soldiers suddenly appearing in front of him, and said, "Why are they here?"

After the rainy season passed, Ye Liuzong began his own actions.

Although the general strategy of seizing all the Fujian lands, separatizing one side, and fighting against the imperial court, the general strategy was to advance and conquer the world, and to retreat and go into exile overseas.

But when it comes to actions, he is still very cautious.

If you want to return to Fujian, go west first. It seems that you will hit the southern Jiangxi area.

Wei Guogong is still chasing after him, but no matter how he pursues, he will always be half a beat slower. And the Beijing camp sent by the imperial court seems to be nothing more than that. It is not much stronger than Wei Guogong's troops.

As if everything was under control, he made a false attack on Fuzhou Prefecture, and then divided his troops into Wuyi Mountain.

He was extremely familiar with the Wuyi Mountains. He crossed over the Wuyi Mountains and returned to Jianning Prefecture. He even divided his troops to occupy Chong'an and other counties. These counties were briefly occupied by Ye Liuzong. He placed manpower here.

Here people and land are both familiar, like water from rain.

Jianning Mansion was shocked for a while, and it seemed that except for Jianning Mansion City, it was once again in the same situation as at the beginning of the year.

The imperial army is now north of Wuyi Mountain. With the capabilities of the official army, it will take some time to cross Wuyi Mountain. This period of time is enough for him to defeat the Fujian Ming army and march straight in.

After all, Ye Liuzong is no longer what it used to be.

He holds an army of 30,000 in his hands, and has repeatedly fought against the army. Through hard training, he is much stronger than the previous rabble.

He arranged everything very well.

But he never expected that just when he was about to prepare to attack Jianning Mansion, he would secretly hide artillery gunpowder in Wuyi Mountain and prepare to use it in the battle against Jianning Mansion.

More than ten thousand officers and soldiers suddenly appeared.

In terms of preparations, the number of officers and soldiers was not more than 10,000, but more than 13,000.

More than 10,000 of them were the subordinates brought by Guo Deng from Beijing. They strictly followed the principle of three steps and seven horses. There were 3,000 cavalry, 7,000 infantry, and 3,000 troops under Yang Xin.

He received reinforcements from Jiao Honglu one after another. Jianning Mansion gathered seven or eight thousand soldiers, but how many of them could fight? Yang Xin didn't quite believe it either.

Therefore, in this battle, Yang Xin only brought out 3,000 soldiers. Firstly, many of these troops had fought with Yang Xin in the last battle of Jianning Mansion and had more or less experience in fighting. Secondly, what Guo Deng said

We are all soldiers, and in many matters, we also need auxiliary soldiers.

And Guo Deng has been preparing for this battle for two months.

Guo Deng knew that Ye Liuzong would definitely return to Fujian and would not be too far away from his hometown, so he secretly made a circle and hid it in Jianning Mansion.

More than 10,000 troops could not hide, so Guo Deng pretended to be the reinforcements sent by Jiao Hong. There was also an army under Wei Guogong pretending to be under Guo Deng.

Only then did he hide it from Ye Liuzong's eyes and ears.

In fact, Guo Deng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the troops of Ye Liuzong's headquarters.

To be honest, it is not difficult to make a judgment. It is rare to stick to one's own judgment. While he was hiding in Jianning Mansion, news about Ye Liuzong kept coming.

He kept asking himself repeatedly, what would happen if he was wrong?

What should he do if Ye Liuzong did not return to Fujian as he expected, but went to southern Jiangxi? Then what he did was an out-and-out delay in fighting the war. Military law was inevitable.

Maybe he won't be executed, but he will probably end up like Shi Heng.

Therefore, in Guo Deng's view, the most difficult moment of this battle has passed.

It was just the final battle before him. Although there were many people on the opposite side, Guo Deng regarded them as nothing more than local chickens and dogs. Guo Deng gave an order, and three thousand Fujian soldiers fell behind. Seven thousand infantrymen spread out their formation, and the fire-gun soldiers were on the front line.

One column, followed by sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, formed an infantry square, and three thousand fine cavalry were placed under the flag of Commander Guo Deng as the final reserve army.

Ye Liuzong's palms were slightly sweaty at this moment.

In the past six months of fighting, Ye Liuzong has made rapid military progress, which can be seen from the Ming army's tight infantry phalanx.

What he has to face is not the sloppy Southern Guard Army.

But the real elite of Ming Dynasty.

"Can you escape?" Ye Liuzong's eyes focused on the thousands of cavalry, and he knew that he could not escape.

Overall, the Ming Dynasty lacked war horses.

Therefore, Ye Liuzong fought for more than half a year and never faced thousands of cavalry. Among all the cavalry, only Yang Xin's cavalry impressed him the most.

Although there are few plains in western Fujian, horse racing is possible in the river valley west of Jianning Prefecture.

You can't escape by running away.

Ye Liuzong was heartbroken and said to himself: "I'm going to have a meeting with the border troops this morning. Let's see how good the elites of the imperial court are today." He immediately passed the order and all the troops lined up.

Ye Xiba, as the most powerful general and confidant of Ye Liuzong, naturally led his troops to the front.

In fact, if you just look at the equipment, there is not much difference between the two sides.

There is no other reason. Most of the best weapons in Yeliuzong's army were seized from the army or the government. It is not that there are no blacksmiths in Yeliuzong's army.

It's just that there are too many weapons to equip the army, and it's simply not something that dozens or hundreds of blacksmiths can build within a month or two.

Therefore, the blacksmiths under Yeliuzong's department mostly repaired weapons.

When both sides formed their formations, the atmosphere became extremely solemn for a while.

The flags of Guo Deng's general and Ye Liuzong's flags were swinging at almost the same frequency. I don't know who gave the order first, and the infantry of both sides began to move forward slowly.

The sound of one person's footsteps is not loud, but when thousands of people move together, the sound of footsteps can even cover up the sound of drums.

The distance between the two sides slowly approached, and when they reached nearly a hundred steps, there was a bang, and Ye Liuzong's troops fired arrows one after another, and the Ming dynasty's gunmen also began to fire their guns.

Although firecrackers were able to dominate the battlefield in later generations, at this time, the appearance of firecrackers was only as a substitute for bows and arrows.

The firing range of fire blunderbuss is only a few dozen steps, and ignition and reloading are very inhumane. Since the Taizong period, fire blunderbuss can be equipped in large quantities with the Ming army, but they are mainly used to defend cities and replace archers.

Even so, a considerable part of the army still retains the archer system.

This shows how poor the firecrackers of this era were.

After all the big bright fire gunners fired their guns, they turned around without hesitation and got into the military formation behind them. The spearmen, sword and shield players took the place of the fire gunners and rushed towards Ye Liuzong's headquarters.

And the arrow rain from Ye Liuzong's troops could not last long.

The reason is very simple, one is physical strength and the other is arrows.

In this era, firecrackers have such shortcomings, but why is the trend of firecrackers replacing bows and arrows in the military still irreversible? That is, bows and arrows consume physical strength, while firecrackers consume gunpowder.

An archer can shoot thirty arrows within a certain period of time, which is already very valuable. As long as the gunpowder is not used up, the shooter can keep shooting.

Of course, the reality is that if you shoot hundreds of times intensively, a firecracker will definitely explode. I don’t even know if it is more than a hundred or five hundred times. Under normal circumstances, no one will use a firecracker like this.

But this also proves the advantages of Fire System.

Therefore, the archers under Ye Liuzong also retreated after shooting a round of arrows.

No matter whether it was fire blunderbuss or bows and arrows, not many people were killed. Only a few soldiers occasionally fell to the ground in the queue. Most of the soldiers remained calm and rushed forward with large strides.

"Kill." Countless shouts of killing collided together, and the two fronts locked onto each other. For a moment, swords and spears rang out, and blood and screams covered the entire battlefield.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a while. The place where the two sides fought was quickly covered with corpses. Soldiers from both sides fought on the corpses, and neither could force the other to take a step back.

In just a few moments, more than a thousand people were killed and injured on both sides, because in such a brutal fighting, there was no way to treat the wounded, and it was impossible to treat them.

As long as you fall to the ground, countless feet will step on you, and in a moment, you will be trampled into a ball of flesh.

This level of tragedy made Ye Liuzong frown. It can be said that compared with today's battle, Ye Liuzong's previous battles with the army were nothing more than child's play.
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