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Chapter 347 Bloody Battle of the Yellow River in Shaanxi (21)

Although the old and young jackals were still fighting for their respective interests, the war between Hu Ming's army in the pursuit of the Hui army's Ma Deyi's army to reinforce the Ningxia Guards continued. Ma Deyi abandoned the tents and other supplies and marched towards the Ningxia Guards overnight. After the Hu Ming camp was taken over by Liu Chong's army, he also pursued the Hui army with all his might. Due to the loss of the Hui army's camp in the north of Lingzhou, the communication between the two armies of the Pound Army was smooth. After receiving the news of the Hui army heading north, Gu Xin sent Qi Heng to lead the troops to block the Hui army's reinforcements.

Thanks to the advantage of the entire army of the Po Nu Army being a cavalry, Hu Ming and Qi Heng met 170 miles south of Ningxia Guard and successfully surrounded the return army during the march. According to the tradition of the Po Nu Army, as the commander of the Po Nu Army, Hu Ming was the supreme commander of the pursuer unit without permission, and Qi Heng also cooperated very much to obey Hu Ming's command.

Hu Ming and Qi Heng came to a small mountain highland. They wanted to hold back the Hui army's attack and then eliminate the Hui army unit. Hu Ming, who was standing on the high ground, held a telescope in his hand to observe the Hui army formation. After being blocked by Qi Heng's troops, the Hui army formed an attacking army formation. Six double-grade characters from the north, the five thousand-man square formations were directly against the 10,000 cavalry formations of Qi Heng's troops in the Possess Army. The four five thousand-man square formations of the Hui army provided back protection for the entire army.

Hu Ming also noticed that the direction of the attack of the Hui army's army facing Qi Heng was tilted from southeast to northwest, and the Hui army formations on the back were arranged from southwest to northeast, and the Hui army's half-moon attack and defensive army formations were unfolded in sequence within a radius of ten miles. Hu Ming, who was old at war, just glanced at the war, and realized that the Hui army's weakest position was the weakest to the west. Ma Deyi, the general of the Hui army, was a mediocre person. When he saw that the Possess Army was pursuing cavalry appeared in the east, and he lined up his pursuing troops to meet the enemy in the southeast, without any concern for the cavalry's rapid march ability.

Hu Ming carefully observed the combination of the weapons and military formations of the Return Army. The more Hu Ming saw the more confident the military formations of the Return Army. Each five thousand men in the Return Army had swords and shields on the outside. Behind them, they were spear warriors and wings. Archers lived inside the military formations, and there were a few musket soldiers mixed in between. Hu Ming did not see the tiger horns and other artillery, which means that the Return Army was still mainly swords and guns, and these weapons did not cause much damage to the Po Slave Army.

Since the reality of the Hui army has been determined, as an old army who came from Ye Bucheng, Hu Ming immediately saw the way to win. So he turned to Qi Heng and said, "Brother Qi! We have made a lot of money today! Hahaha, the generals of the Hui army are going to give us military merits! I see this fight, I moved the troops to the west of the Hui army, and then rushed back to the central army, disrupting the Hui army formation. You will send five thousand cavalry to attract the Hui army in person and not turn back. In less than an hour, you can mix the Hui army into a pot of porridge."

Qi Heng is the kind of person who has an old face and a tender heart and a scheming face. His two-inch beard under his bronze face shows that Kong Wu is more powerful. He raised his hand and pointed to his own military formation in the northeast and added: "Brother Hu, what do you think I will move first? I will send troops to attract the attention of the army first, and you will be more likely to succeed when you act."

Qi Heng's brief words made Hu Ming clapper and say goodbye: "Brother, it's true that he is a talented man. No wonder the boss wants to support you as the commander. You are better than Guangcai! Just do as you can!"

Hu Ming praised Qi Heng for being stronger than Yu Guangcai, but Qi Heng dared not say anything. Yu Guangcai is the elder commander of Qi Heng. Hu Ming has a high status and can compare him like this, but Qi Heng cannot climb along the way. If it is spread out, Qi Heng disrespects the elder commander, he will not have to hang out in the army of Posses. Qi Heng saluted Hu Ming with a smile, turned his horse head and led his personal guard back to his military formation, and Hu Ming asked the staff to follow the army to convey his orders to attack.

Hu Ming's army of 15,000 cavalry changed formations. They formed a dense formation in the Possess Army. When the horse speed entered the fast running stage, a beautiful slanted penetration passed by sixty feet in front of the Reich formation. Ma Deyi, who was in the center of the Reich formation, felt extremely nervous and could not see it. The Possess Army tied up five thousand-man cavalry teams to pass through the horses from west to southeast. The Possess Army calculated accurately and even considered the wind direction very carefully.

Five thousand cavalry of the Pou Nu Army ran seventy feet in front of the Hui army formation, causing the Hui army archers to shoot rainy arrows, and dense arrows planted a large swaying reeds in front of the Hui army formation. Before the front, the Pou Nu Army had not finished yet, the Pou Nu Army began to act again on the southeast of the Hui army. The Thousand Cavalry Column of Hu Ming's troops of the Pou Nu Army landed in turn in front of the Hui army formation. As soon as they reached the pre-designated attack area of ​​a hundred feet away, they turned over and dismounted, forming two thousand musket formations, and under the protection of one thousand cavalry, the whole team was ready for the attack. Another 2,000 cavalry arrived at the west side of the Hui army's back, leaving a hundred people responsible for leading the horses. The musket soldiers took out the muskets and moved closer to the flag-holding soldiers, and there were also a thousand cavalry brothers to provide protection for them.

Hu Ming was very experienced. After the Po Nu Army was arranged in the southwest, the Po Nu Army launched an attack without waiting for the Po Nu Army to dismount. They arranged in an orderly manner under the guidance of the drum beats and advanced steadily. Once the Po Nu Army's musket soldiers approached 60 feet away from the Hui army, their muskets would definitely start. Compared with Hu Ming's experienced, the reaction of the Hui army's deputy general Ma Deyi was too far away.

When Hu Ming's army of the Pound Army rushed back to the west, Ma Deyi did not understand the intention of the Pound Army. When the Pound Army was invaded by the troops, the musket soldiers dismounted from the horse and arranged the formation, Ma Deyi woke up. He hurriedly drew troops from the east to intercept them. However, the Hui army was transformed from the farmers in the farming garrison. The Hui army usually did not pay attention to queue training. How could it be quickly changed into the formation in a short time? Ma Deyi was worried about arranging the formation to meet the enemy. It took two hours to turn the troops into what they are now. It was another big difficulty for Ma Deyi to change the formation, which was another big problem for Ma Deyi.

No matter how difficult it is, Ma Deyi must do it, otherwise the Po Nu Army would directly invade the Hui Army formation. This transformation of the formation caused chaos in the Hui Army formation, and this continuous chaos did not stop until the Po Nu Army began to attack the fire. The 5,000-man army formation, which was still neat, could make an effective defensive formation as long as it was moved a hundred feet away, but in just one hundred feet, the Hui Army would turn a square formation into a pot of porridge.

This chaotic military formation was attacked by the Muslim guns of the Pound Army. After each platoon of fire, the Muslim gun soldiers in the back row would advance five steps forward and raise their guns to shoot. The brothers who had just finished shooting half-squatted from the belt cowhide ammunition box, took out the cardboard bucket and opened the wax seal, took out the integrated ammunition and compacted it with a strip and took it out from the bottom of the paper bucket, and loaded it with * at the muslim cover door. The Pound Army, who were ready to load the ammunition, held the gun in the right hand and raised their left hand to signal the loading. The team led the general ruler to stand up and line up in the whistle of the Thousand General Officer, and prepared to shoot again. The Pound Army was like a wheel that could scrape out a metal storm and rolled forward. Each muslim gun shot could strip the chaotic military formation back to the army.

The formation of the Pou Nu Army's muskets crackled, and rolled white smoke rose, drifting towards the back army along the northwest wind. The Pou Nu Army, which was in the west of the Hui army, was one moment slower than the brothers in the southwest. After the entire formation was completed, they launched an attack without hesitation. Hu Ming led the main cavalry to line up behind to protect the back of the attacking muskets. The attacking Pou Nu Army's muskets did not advance quickly, and their continuous shooting caused the fear of death of the Hui army. The shields in the sword and shield hands in the front row of the Hui army became decorations, and the lead bullets flying at high speed were first made into leaking sieves, and then to pieces.

The Hui army lost his shield and comforted him, he had to move the bodies of his dead brothers to resist the attack of the lead bullets of the Ponu Army. What they did not expect was that the lead bullets fired by the Ponu Army's muskets were so penetrating that they could knock down the bodies of the soldiers behind them while tearing them apart. Every ten feet of the musket soldiers of the Ponu Army advanced, ten feet of bloody corpses left before returning to the formation. Gradually, the two musket soldiers of the Ponu Army formed a horizontal formation of more than one mile long. They happily used the muskets to reap the lives of the soldiers.

Forced to helplessly, Ma Deyi, the deputy general of the Hui army, ordered the left wing Hui army to attack Qi Heng's troops, which were arranged in the northeast. He himself led the remaining Hui army to hold his position and create opportunities for attacking Hui army. However, Qi Heng was extremely cunning in the war. When he saw the Hui army attacking 30,000 infantry, he ordered the troops to retreat one after another, without giving Hui army a chance to fight closely. Qi Heng was very clear that the formation of Hui army would change in the marching squadron, and the chaotic military formation was the best offensive target for the Ponu Army cavalry.

Sure enough, the Hui army's attacking army had only 50 feet out, and the entire army became chaotic. Qi Heng did not launch an attack directly, but sent two thousand cavalry to harass the Hui army head-on with crossbow arrows. The purpose was to incite the attacking Hui army and make the chaotic marching more chaotic formation. The Hui general responsible for commanding the attack was Ma Deyi's cousin general Ma Deyong. Seeing that the Ponu Army withdrew slowly, he thought that the Ponu Army would not dare to fight the Hui army. So Ma Deyong did not organize his formation and ordered the army to get as close to the Ponu Army as possible.

After the return army marched a hundred feet apart, the strong strength of the rebel army formed a 3,000-man pursuit group. They gathered together to chase the Ponu Army. However, the Ponu Army was extremely bad. They kept walking and stopping and mocking the return army behind them. From time to time, there were also the Ponu Army, who had excellent riding skills, deliberately provoked ten feet apart in front of the rebel army. They just bullied the archers of the Rebel army and failed to run ahead, so they had no scruples.
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