The sixth day of the ninth lunar month of the eleventh year of the Yongli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Xingpingbo, General Zhou Shixiang of Guangzhou, led more than 7,200 infantry and cavalrymen into Sanjiangkou.

The prince of the Southern King of Pingnan, Qing Dynasty, led the vassal commander Ban Zhifu, the commander-in-chief of Nangan, Kong Guozhi, Yingde General Song Rui, Nanxiong Deputy General Sun Yi, Zhaoqing Deputy General Tang Sanshui and other troops to form more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to meet the enemy.

From afar, the Taiping Army was finally arranged in three infantry formations, hundreds of cavalry flanked by hundreds of cavalry, and the flag was clear. Shang Zhixin looked at Kong Guozhi, the general of Nangan, with some concern, and said to him: "General Kong, you are the Jiangxi soldiers in the front line in this battle, are you sure to defeat the enemy?"

Kong Guozhi had already changed into a armor. When he heard Shang Zhixin ask him, he quickly turned his head and said confidently: "Don't worry, prince, he can fight against Taiping, and my sons under him are not vegetarians. Chaozhou City was the last one to take the lead in the first place!"

Seeing that Kong Guozhi was confident, the Jiangxi soldiers under his command seemed to be more morale than the Han army under his vassals. Shang Zhixin couldn't help but be happy. But thinking that he had suffered a great loss from the Taiping Army because of underestimating the enemy, he reminded Kong Guozhi: "General Kong is commendable, but be careful and do not underestimate the enemy." He raised his hand and pointed the whip forward. "There are many surrenders among the Taiping enemy. I see that my cousin is in the left formation, so the general will rush to the left formation first. I think my cousin will not sacrifice his life for the thief scholar. Just wait for the left formation to break, and our army will all suppress it, defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, and capture the thief scholar alive to sacrifice to my father!"

"Okay, I will be determined to avenge Prince Pingnan!"

Kong Guozhi didn't say much. This front was not forcing Shang Zhixin to force him to fight, but he asked himself, because Song Rui, Sun Yi and others had less troops than him, and this battle was a battle of life and death. Kong Guozhi was worried. In addition, he and the thief scholar also had a grudge against killing his brother. His younger brother Kong Guoliang was killed by the thief scholar in Luo Ding, so he also wanted to fight this front to avenge his brother.

Tang Sanshui, wearing armor, came over under the escort of his personal soldiers. He immediately clasped his fists at Kong Guozhi and said happily: "Brother Kong, this time you will have to exert the majesty of your Jiangxi soldiers no matter what. You will also exert the majesty of our Green Camp soldiers, and let the thief scholar know the power of our Qing soldiers!"

Ban Zhifu looked at Tang Sanshui in confusion, trying to observe his true intention from the other party's expression. However, Tang Sanshui's face was very sincere. His words were moving, making people unable to tell whether he had something in his words or implicit sarcasm. But the more this happened, Ban Zhifu's heart became more and more panicked. He always felt something was wrong, but the battle was about to be fought. He could not find out what Tang Sanshui was thinking, as long as he could participate in the battle in the Zhaoqing Green Camp.

Tang Sanshui suddenly changed his temperament, which made Shang Zhixin secretly wonder and feel awkward. But he didn't think deeply, thinking that he was afraid that Tang Sanshui would have a chance to win this battle, so he was willing to work hard, but this person would still settle the score with him in the future.

Shang Zhixin looked at Tang Sanshui calmly and forced a smile. After all, he led his troops to fight, so there was no reason for him to be a stern face.

"Brother Kong. It's rare that Brother Tang is also cheering you up. You have to show off your best." Yingde General Song Rui looked down on Tang Sanshui and did not look at the other party.

"Don't worry, brother Song, I'll see the might of my Jiangxi soldiers later." Kong Guozhi didn't take Tang Sanshui seriously, and said with a smile: "Can the Taiping Kou still fight the soldiers of Li Dingguo? I wonder when we went south, everyone knew what kind of morality the Ming army was. The Taiping Kou is really so powerful? I don't believe in this evil. This time, he will definitely know that there is heaven beyond heaven and there are people beyond heaven!"

In his sight, the Taiping Army's formation suddenly moved. Kong Guozhi was eager to return to the army to supervise the battle and said, "Your Highness, the Taiping Army has moved, and we will go back now."

Shang Zhixin waved his hand and said, "Go, be careful." After saying that, he added, "If the general cannot defeat the enemy, I will ask General Song and others to help you."

“Okay.”

Kong Guozhi immediately responded and led his personal soldiers to the town without looking back.

After the Confucius State led the people away, Shang Zhixin said to Tang Sanshui: "General Tang. You lead your troops to attack the right formation of Taiping Kou. General Song and Deputy General Sun and others will attack the central army of Taiping Kou with me. Just wait for General Kong to break the formation, we will take action together."

"The last general dares not obey the order!" Tang Sanshui said with a heroic look on his face: "Don't worry, Prince, Taiping Kou's right leaderboard is given to me Zhaoqing soldiers!"

"Then let's watch General Tang show his power." Shang Zhixin felt that he still wanted to inspire Tang Sanshui, and immediately said a few more words to cheer him up.

Tang Sanshui nodded, suddenly hesitated, and said with a little shame: "Your Highness, it was not that the Mo General was unwilling to attack Shunde that day, but his subordinates really had no strength to attack the city, which forced them to attack the city for fear of stirring up a mutiny. The Mo General did not receive the order, and he asked Your Highness not to remember this matter. This time, the Mo General also atones for his sins."

"Hey, how did you say this?" Shang Zhixin waved his hand and looked dissatisfied. He said, "It was my fault that day. The emperor is not a hungry soldier. Don't take this matter to heart. After killing the thief scholar, I plan to protect you as the general of Guangzhou from the court."

"Your Highness wants to protect me as the general of Guangzhou?" Tang Sanshui looked excited.

"I never talk nonsense!" Shang Zhixin said unambiguously.

"Your Highness!"

Tang Sanshui was so excited that he was about to burst into tears, and repeatedly expressed his determination to serve His Royal Highness wholeheartedly.

Shang Zhixin laughed and said kindly, and then encouraged Tang Sanshui. The latter patted his chest and led his troops to the town, and wanted to defeat the right formation of Taiping for His Royal Highness.

Kong Guozhi had more than 2,000 soldiers under his command. Although they were elite, they were all infantry. In order to prevent the attack from Taiping cavalry during the attack, Shang Zhixin ordered Ban Zhifu to order reliable guards and more than 200 soldiers from his family to cover them. The remaining unreliable Han troops were all left in the camp to prevent the Ming Navy on the river from landing on the river from landing and attacking the Taiping Army forward and backward. These Han troops did not dare to fight against the Taiping Army, but dared to be enemies with the Ming Navy. No matter how bad it was, they could always hold up the Ming Navy and prevent them from echoing the Taiping Army.

The formations of the Ming and Qing dynasties were moving at the same time, and the battle was about to begin

The Taiping Army is listed as the fourth formation, the infantry three formations, and the cavalry one formation.

The left formation of the infantry was composed of the three guards of the right camp of the Han army led by Shang Keyuan and the Han army of the Pingnan vassal and Guan Tianshui. The middle formation of the infantry was composed of the personal camp and the Han army of the Jingnan vassal and the Han army of the lower camp of the Jingnan vassal; the right formation of the infantry was composed of Hu Qili's troops.

The cavalry formation consisted of more than 100 soldiers from the cavalry camp of Shao Chengguo, the Manzhou soldiers of Suna, and more than 200 soldiers drawn from the Han army of Pingnan and Jingnan, with a total of more than 600 soldiers. The war horses were all captured by the Manzhou soldiers and horses in the Battle of Shenwan, which was better than the war horses of the Qing army opposite.

At this moment, although the Taiping Army's formation was launched, it still moved forward slowly. It seemed that it was about to wait for the Qing army to attack, rather than actively attacking the Qing army.

Seeing that the Qing army had moved, but no army took the lead, Zhu Qinglai asked Zhou Shixiang, "Master, what army do you think Shang Zhixin would send to fight the front line?"

The blind Li interrupted, "It must be the miscellaneous soldiers from Sanjiangkou. Could it be that Shang Zhixin dared to send his Han army from his vassal to attack our formation? It's a pity that he had not escorted all the Han army from his vassal to him, otherwise he would kneel in front of the formation and raise his big sword to see that the Han army opposite could not come." After saying that, he grinned again, "But it's nothing. They really want to come. I, the blind man, go and hammer them all."

After hearing this, Zhou Shixiang glanced at the blind man with a side face. He heard that this guy ran out of the city in a mess for only one day. Oh, it wasn't running out, but he asked someone to raise it. It was said that his legs were so weak that he couldn't walk, but he didn't know if his strength had recovered now.

Zhu Qinglai was dissatisfied with the blind Li Zhuo's words, glared at him and said in a muffled voice: "Of course I know it's those miscellaneous soldiers, but who will come first? Kong Guozhi or Song Rui, or Sun Yi and the others?"

"This?" The blind Li whispered, and he didn't know the question.

Zhou Shixiang pondered and said, "The most Qing army in Sanjiangkou is the Ministry of Confucius. If he takes the lead, he will be the only one."

Shao Jiugong nodded and said, "Biaoxia also thought it was Kong Guozhi's department who took the lead. Shang Zhixin's Han army was not worth worrying, but Kong Guozhi's soldiers could fight."
Chapter completed!